Thread: Movie posters

Hi.

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Why does it say "the names of the actors are a soviet adaption" under the Star Wars poster(which is pretty humorously painted)?

Originally Posted by Pravit

Why does it say "the names of the actors are a soviet adaption" under the Star Wars poster(which is pretty humorously painted)?

I think - Ewan McGregor writes like "Эйван Макгрегор", а не "Еван" as that poster read. May be athours of the article decided "Еван" is the same as "Иван" (Russian name). "Soviet" - because that poster uses Ukrainian language, often all the countries of exUSSR called as "soviet".
Another funny side - this poster is not about the Star Wars movie, it's about first flight of Gagarin (his face is inside of helmet and a rocket at the background is "Vostok"), fisrt cosmonaut of the world. So first flight of the soviet cosmonaut can be considered as space threat (soviet threat) - Star Wars in reality .

The ex-USSR countries are often called ex-Soviet, but not Soviet. And I still didn't quite understand. Is the movie about Gagarin or Star wars? Why is there "Ewan Macgregor" on there if it's about Gagarin?

Originally Posted by Pravit

Is the movie about Gagarin or Star wars? Why is there "Ewan Macgregor" on there if it's about Gagarin?

This poster was, I guess, on a cinema poster-desk (or how to call it?) - and it announced "Star Wars - first threat" movie. But painter was stupid or lazy - may be he took Gagarin's poster ready (or he made a copy of it's original) and wrote "Star Wars" on it - I guess, painter never heard about Star Wars series and never seen it in his life. So easest way - to take something, what has context of space-and-rocket and to make a sign of "Star Wars".

Which is indeed rather humorous

LOL
50 first "kisses"/dates - she'd be lucky to get 1. That is one SCARY face!

and the guy's not much better - look at his ear!

Originally Posted by Pravit

Why does it say "the names of the actors are a soviet adaption"

Most likely, the writer wasn't sure if it was Russian or Ukranian

These hand-painted posters remind me of my childhood when I lived in a small township -- yes, the local "club" had an in-house "художник-оформитель" whose main dutie was to paint this posters...