Movie posters Do they really catch my Eye?

One of my favorite movies that I enjoyed watching when I was a child was this movie:

Yes King Kong. I did not know at the time when I first watched this that there had been an earlier make of this movie. Just looking at this poster, it sucks me in. The biggest gorilla in the biggest city on top of the tallest towers with Army helicopters and him holding a girl, this poster says everything about the movie that I liked. I remember that I would draw or doodle during classes at school using the same design of airplane that was drawn in this poster, over and over again. This poster is designed to draw in the men that enjoy action based movies.

Now I said I didn’t know at the time that this was a remake of the original and to tell you the truth I still haven’t seen the original movie in its entirety. And it’s not likely that I ever will. The movie poster that I found though looked like the cover of a Conan comic book that I had as a kid, and because I had such a nice collection of them when I first looked at the poster for the original movie I automatically found a connection between them.

Even though my collection consisted of pretty old comics I think that this poster was aimed directly at teens and men in general. You know, the hero saves the girl from the bad guys and the monster.

The last movie remake of King Kong I feel through this poster tries to bring the emotional part back to the movie, by trying to bring the attachment we all had for the death of Kong.

From the first movie to the last, you see a definitive change in what direction the movie is going. I see that the last movie poster draws my attention more because of the realism of it and that it shows the heart touching part of the movie the “beauty and the Beast” ideal, and I enjoyed that part of the movie a lot. This poster did exactly what I felt it was trying say but to be completely honest the level of death in the action sequences just overwhelmed my feelings and I don’t watch that movie anymore. The second movie I have watched many times. Through that remake I get the good feelings and not all the close-up death of characters that the last remake does.

As for the layout of words I can see that in the first two movie posters the words are larger and represent the background that’s in the poster. For instance the poster for the original movie is still set in the jungle, and the words have sharp points and seem to grow bigger from the start to the end. It is also not straight, it grows at angel like plants and trees grow.

The second movie poster depicts the large writing of King Kong also, but the font is straight and fits more to the right angle of the background setting, words that fit the city of course. The picture also consists of Kong destroying something and planes and helicopters close enough for him to grab. I feel that this gives the viewer a little leeway towards the thought that he might have a chance or maybe his death is not set in stone.

The last is different I many ways, the biggest difference is that the words are smaller. That already gets the viewer looking more at the picture and getting the emotional attachment. The fount also fits both the jungle that he comes from and the city he is in when he dies. I believe it was the best of the three to tell the story.

I love this story, and enjoy parts in both remakes. I would say though that neither of them falls into the category of "this is the best of the three."