On Visual Arts

Check this out: I that poster for Star Wars on Twitter earlier today, and I wanted some more information: was this an actual poster used to advertise the movie in Japan, or was this one artist’s flight-of-fancy? Many artists create “unofficial” movie posters for favorite films, so I wondered if that’s what this was. No, it was not. Artist Noriyoshi Ohrai made these three posters for Japanese dubbed versions of all three Original Trilogy movies, and they are glorious: I wonder what made the artist opt for a more “minimalistic” approach for Return of the Jedi, only choosing to show C-3PO andDown the rabbit hole….