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Author of the most WTF Star Wars posters dies at 68

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11 Feb 2014 08:29 #171732 by wice

Tibor Helényi, rest in peace.
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11 Feb 2014 09:31 #171740 by Columbob
Hungarian huh? Cool stuff.

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11 Feb 2014 09:48 #171742 by wice
I saw the first poster when I was 7 years old. The next summer we went to see the movie. Throughout the whole battle on the Death Star I was waiting for Darth Vader to turn into a giant.

(Also, his shoulder is R2-D2, for some reason.)

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11 Feb 2014 10:03 #171744 by wice
OK, here's another one:



(Notice the "I.-II." at the end of the title. Yes, they were showing it in two parts (the first part ended when Alderaan was destroyed). Back then two hours were considered to be extremely long, so there was a ten minute buffet/bathroom break in the middle of the screening.)

Also, I was lying when I said these were the most WTF Star Wars posters.

Look at this. Look at this fucking thing:



Or this:



Or this:



Compared to the Russians we, Hungarians, are the paragons of sanity.
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11 Feb 2014 10:07 #171745 by Columbob
Those Russian posters have nothing recognizably SW about them! Hilarious.

Love what Tibor did with Chewie's eyes there.

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11 Feb 2014 11:17 - 11 Feb 2014 11:19 #171749 by Schweig!
I wonder how many very subtle state-critical messages are contained in these.

Edit: I really like the first one of the Russian posters.
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11 Feb 2014 11:34 #171751 by Gregarius
I hope you don't mean "WTF" as a negative, because I definitely want to see all of these movies.

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11 Feb 2014 11:40 #171752 by Black Barney
I love the third one with the Death Star under construction in Vader's eye. It's just funny cuz the stuff in the top (vader, death star, star destroyer) is all epic stuff and at the bottom you had a stupid rebel scout on a speeder and one of Jabba's guards, total inconsequential SW stuff. What a weird mix.

The first one is so weird. Vader's face plate being held together by dentist-like machinery. But I love how the x-wing is drawn and rendered. He should put a spoiler warning on the Death star image starting to blow up.

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11 Feb 2014 11:47 #171753 by jeb

wice wrote: (Also, his shoulder is R2-D2, for some reason.)

If you saw Episode I, you know why! He was Anakin's wingamn 40+ years earlier. The artist is clearly prescient. let's look for Episode 7+ clues.

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11 Feb 2014 12:01 #171755 by wice

Schweig! wrote: I wonder how many very subtle state-critical messages are contained in these.

Edit: I really like the first one of the Russian posters.


Sorry, but I think the only subtle message here is "They've let me see the movie only once and ignored my request for still photos, so fuck them, I'm doing it freestyle!". And the message of the second Russian poster is "For fuck's sake, they haven't even let me see the movie! Anyway, I was told it was about a big black guy who's a cross between a robot and a bear, and there were laser beams everywhere. OK, I think I can do something like that."

BTW, I love all these posters. They are much more creative and interesting than the vast majority of contemporary official movie posters, that look like they all use the same six templates.
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11 Feb 2014 21:21 #171780 by Schweig!
I think the electro-cowboy is a critique of high tech America.

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11 Feb 2014 22:49 - 11 Feb 2014 22:49 #171781 by Gary Sax

wice wrote: BTW, I love all these posters. They are much more creative and interesting than the vast majority of contemporary official movie posters, that look like they all use the same six templates.


There is something so much more compelling about original artwork. It makes you wonder if things were better off years ago, when individual artists may or may not have had any idea what others were doing at the time. Room to be completely, unselfconciously, creative. No reference to others. Smaller world now.
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12 Feb 2014 09:20 #171789 by SuperflyPete

Schweig! wrote: I wonder how many very subtle state-critical messages are contained in these.

Edit: I really like the first one of the Russian posters.


Funny, Komrade, I was thinking this exact same thing. "Space Cowboy American" is what it screams to me.

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12 Feb 2014 09:32 #171790 by Erik Twice
Simply not having a lot of dissembodied heads makes these posters much better than anything we can see now in theaters.

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12 Feb 2014 10:44 #171798 by word_virus
That space cowboy poster is fucking amazing. I want one. Too bad it's 3500 bucks on Amazon.

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