Welcome everyone to the weird and wonderful world of hand-painted movie posters. When videocassettes reached Ghana (West Africa) in the early 80s, mobile cinema operators began to set up TVs and VCRs in neighborhoods and screened the latest videos from America and elsewhere. The movie posters they used are amazing (hand painted on flour sacks!) and here are some of them. Writer/director Walter Hill nailed it dead-on when he said, “To be brutally honest, many of these posters are more interesting than the films.”
there is nothing special about being born. not a thing. most of the universe is just death, nothing more. in this universe of ours, the birth of a new life on some corner of our planet is nothing but a tiny, insignificant flash. death is a normal thing. so why live? NAOKI URASAWA | MONSTER
so stanley pain is an oc that i love to pieces but i have to be really really careful getting into that headspace, it’s rly dangerous bcus of all the themes of suicide present in his arc and i tend to get immersive when i draw certain characters. eventually i’ll write up a big thing for him here. bonus points if you catch the reference on the name lol.
altho one thing i think is rly cool is bottom left and middle i liked how they both came out, esp since that’s supposed to be water under the platforms of his burned corpse. anyways so this character has a lot of self-immolation instances because combustion is supposed to represent emotions reaching such a high peak symbolized by fire and his rampant need for self-destruction, thinking it’ll give him a way out of all the shit he’s going through which is mucho sad but i love the symbolism behind his burning fits. the body unravels as it burns and gravity has no bearing on his melting skin and muscle tissue. everything is so much for him and it hits close to home :(((
You know that people have a morbid curiosity about murder. And they’re going to line up for blocks to see a show in which one of the actresses has been murdered by the real-life maniac in the plot!
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