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dsneybuf Since: Jul, 2009
#1: Feb 6th 2013 at 10:02:27 AM

The image in question:

Scandal, maybe. Truth in advertising, not so much.

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#2: Feb 6th 2013 at 10:26:59 AM

Fixed the link, you misspelled Billing. Not sure how to go about doing this...maybe a poster for Scream with the caption "Guess which one dies in the first 10 minutes."?

edited 6th Feb '13 10:32:29 AM by Willbyr

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#3: Feb 6th 2013 at 10:42:27 AM

I think coming up with an image for this that is not subject to fan myopia is going to be basically undoable, but I think there are maaaaybe some better known actors in more watched movies that could be chosen. Jack Nicholson in Little Shop of Horrors, maybe, or Stallone in Death Race 2000.

The image of Nicholson retro-activly used on covers of Little Shop of Horrors is not even from the movie itself, his role was so small. They just slapped a pic of him in The Shining on there.

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#4: Feb 6th 2013 at 11:27:27 AM

Never heard of them.

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#5: Feb 6th 2013 at 11:35:15 AM

^ of the movies or the actors? >.<

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#6: Feb 6th 2013 at 11:36:01 AM

Neither.

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#7: Feb 6th 2013 at 11:38:02 AM

^ Weird. I mean, the movies, yeah, whatever, but Sylvester Stallone?

Maybe I am just getting old.

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#8: Feb 6th 2013 at 11:40:46 AM

Especially not that person.

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#9: Feb 6th 2013 at 11:58:51 AM

I like 3. That image from The Shining is pretty infamous (and it doesn't even look like it matches the rest of the cover); at the very least it's better than the original.

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#10: Feb 6th 2013 at 12:02:00 PM

3 seems more like Covers Always Lie to me (I mean, that shot's not even from the right movie!).

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#11: Feb 6th 2013 at 1:23:22 PM

[up] Agreed; it's intentionally misleading.

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#12: Feb 6th 2013 at 4:00:31 PM

[up][up] It's both, really. They're using the actor's fame from The Shining, supplemented by an image to make sure he's recognised, as a false selling point for the promotion of Little Shop.

edited 6th Feb '13 4:01:14 PM by Noaqiyeum

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#13: Feb 13th 2013 at 4:34:54 AM

I think two covers or posters would work, one of the original release and one of the later release possibly labelled "then" and "now".

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