Movie Poster a Day with JayDee

Well with it being just one week until the big day I guess it's time that I started featuring some Christmas movies. And inspired by just seeing Vicky talking about it in her thread I've decided to kick off with The Nightmare Before Christmas. There were a couple of options which featured great illustration but I decided on this one with its emphasis on a clever concept; constructing the face of Jack Skellington from a couple of classic Christmas symbols (namely some baubles and Santa's sleigh)

I've decided to stick with Miss Vicky's review thread for my inspiration. So today it's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Now you did check every bulb didn't you?

For today we go to my own personal favourite Christmas film, it's Home Alone. I'm not even entirely sure why I like this poster but there's just something about it that makes me love it. Maybe it's just the unique nature of the design. Or maybe it's the cartoonish nature of the silhouettes and the scene evoking a bit of a Looney Tunes vibe which fits with the film's farcical nature; especially once we get to all the traps and it becomes a sort of live-action Wile E Coyote vs Road Runner





And then once again, just because it's Christmas, a little bonus poster; this one just makes me smile because of how fun it is to have the Statue of Liberty recreating one of the first film's iconic moments

So far we've had two farcical comedies and one very offbeat take on Christmas. So this one is for the tradionalists out there. I give you It's a Wonderful Life (a sentiment I personally have never subscribed to!). And it's that man again, Laurent Durieux. While it may not have a clever concept or lots of little easter eggs like many of his prints, it is once again a beautiful piece of fine art.

You know what, as I missed yesterday, and as it's almost Christmas, I'm just going to throw a whole host of posters at ya today and tomorrow.

First up something a little different, not actual films as such but two Christmas classics none the less, certainly for American audiences.

And then another big one for the Americans; it almost seems to be something of an institution over there even if I really don't get it.



And then to finish off today's batch is a film I wasn't going to go with; I'd been planning on doing strictly films I considered to be actual Christmas films and not films just set at Christmas, but what the hell! The poster itself is kind of Christmassy

As it turns out there's a limited number of Christmas films available for me to feature really. So today we have a number of duplicate films that have already appeared over the last week or so. The first few once again go out to Miss Vicky

All of you, break out your James Stewart impersonation (he's like Christopher Walken, everyone's got one) - "What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."

And to finish off, another couple of Home Alone posters. Now I'll admit that this first poster makes the film look more like a horror flick but I still really like the concept; the house taking the place of a piece of cheese in the trap, just luring in the Wet Bandits.

And then this one is just chock full of little details from the movie; the departing plane with Kevin's family on board, the cardboard cut-outs at the window, the statue that is forever being knocked over, the Wet Bandits' van, the South Bend Shovel Slayer lurking etc.

So there we have it, that's your lot. Merry Christmas everyone, particularly to those who have followed and shown an interest in this thread - Vicky, Amanda, Mark, Tongo, Sexy, Gunslinger, cricket, Fabulous, Chypmunk, MonnoM, Sean, GBG, Camo and all the others I have undoubtedly forgotten (sorry!)

Ok I've just concocted a new theme - The 12 Days of Christmas! Now I've not thought this through so I don't know for sure it will work. And I'm thinking it's going to include some silly, cheesy humour and possibly a number of painful puns. But it's Christmas after all. There's no better time to get away with cheesy, roll-your-eyes humour; like cracker jokes. So....


I'll allow the artist himself to introduce the poster - "There's a short and beautiful sequence in the film where the three brothers are shot underwater; their heads above water, so we only see these dancing tangled bodies. It felt like a concise metaphor for the idea of teen-hood, floating in an abyss before emerging fully formed— which ties with the more abstract parts of the film depicting evolution of microscopic organisms. From cell to fish then to the land and air."

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, two Ninja Turtle doves
and a partridge in a pear Tree of Life