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Movie Poster Parody - Options & Sketches

Sketch options! I got carried away in some of them. This term, the poster parodies are about action movies, c. 2010-now.

The first one was about this war-something movie called '71. I wanted to move the apostrophe and make it 7"11, as in 7 inches and a lil' bit more, if you know what I'm saying. Fine, penis size. The idea was everyone would be so shocked by his penis size. I really liked this one because the change was pretty subtle. The flaw, though, was that this movie isn't very well-known (even I hadn't heard of it until this assignment) and people wouldn't get the joke.

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And then this little "Iron Man 2" number. "Iron Man 2" becoming "Iron Hand 2", trying to play on Indonesian street culture, and by street culture I mean crossing the street without looking right or left. The outstretched hand does it all. Call it the Hand of God. Call it the Iron Hand. Also one of my favourites, though there are a lot of components involved. Still, I was willing to do it anyway.

"Kingsman" was also one of my favourites. "Kingsman" > "Kinksman", geddit? Reminiscent of the whole Fifty Shades of Grey. Subtle humour. Plus the movie posters are SO LIKE THAT it's like they made them with parodies in mind. They're practically begging to be misused!

Another favourite, "Insurgent" becoming "It's Urgent". As in, diarrhoea and nasty bowels. Perhaps a bit simpler than the Iron Hand one above, but the broken glass bits can be a bit hard, plus the neon strobe and cloudy background and excessive lighting. Still, I could replace the broken glass with water splashes (to strengthen the flushed toilet look).

And a few stray ones, including "The Raid Redemption" becoming "The Maid Redemption"---featuring a pile of mess and a broom. "The Maze Runner" becoming "The Mesjid Runner", "Suicide Squad" becoming "Sholat, Cak", both featuring peci and sarung. "Jason Bourne" becoming "Jomblo Dong", "SPY" becoming "PSY", as in the Gangnam Style kid PSY. Only this is probably a failed idea since we have to incorporate our friends/family/people we know in the project, though I could probably dress Gaudi up or something. He looks like PSY. Kind of. "The Last Witch Hunter" becoming "The Last Bitch Hunter", featuring a female dog and not a, well, deragatory term for female human. "John Wick" becoming "Jones Wick" featuring Tinder. And then, finally, "13 Hours - The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" becoming "13 Whores - The Secret Sluts of Bekasi" featuring, well, sluts. This post should be R-rated.

In the end, I decided to go for the "Insurgent" > "It's Urgent" one because I preferred it over the others.

Th-th-th-th-th-that's all for now, folks!

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