Sunday
20Jul2008
'Sukiyaki Western Django' Poster Heavy on the Western
Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 9:13AM
You can take one look at this poster and incorrectly
identify the setting of
Sukiyaki Western Django. You'd think, judging
by the appearance of the characters that this is either an punched up Old West
story or that it takes place in the here and now. Well, I don't know when the
Old West would have been in Japan, but you wouldn't ever say to yourself, "Oh
cool, a story about The Genpei Wars of the 1100s!"
There are a couple reasons for that:
1) Just look at the characters
2) You've never heard of the Genpei Wars
But the battle for land control by rival gangs is more
or less the same concept we would use in some American Westerns, so this detail
works just fine for me. And yes,
Quentin Tarantino does play a character named
Ringo, which adds to the whole anachronistic environment.
Because of the concept, I'm a little surprised that we
don't get more out of the poster. I like it, but there's no real dazzle to it.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Foreign Film, Posters, QT, Westerns | Print Article | Email Article | Post a Comment | Share Article
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