Dec 28, 2008

Caught in traffic: What's up with that cover?



"Check out some of the original movie poster art (shown above, below) for Perfume:




Artistic, sexy, seductive, erotic...whatever adjective you want to put here, the poster art was fantastic.
Witness now, its DVD cover:



'Hey guys, I have an idea; for the DVD cover, why don't we take the original, fantastic poster art, butcher it, shrink it, and then paste a bunch of giant apathetic heads at the top?'

That's the ticket. Terrible."


Point of origin:
More Than Fine
(Check out more in this series: DVD Cover Ruination)

And, for people who like to watch, the trailer for the flick, based on the novel by Patrick Süskind:




Kiss, Kiss: Source/Photo cred

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