The Coen Brothers released the poster for their upcoming film Burn After Reading (trailer here). The retro style poster is an obvious homage to legendary poster designer Saul Bass. Obvious to anyone who’s not a total idiot, anyway. Honestly, if you couldn’t tell that was a Saul Bass homage you should probably just kill yourself. Or at least send all your friends a bouquet of flowers for ever deigning to hang out with you. They should all be recommended for sainthood.
Also important to note: An "homage" is an optical phenomenon that occurs when a gay man is walking through the desert and sees a vision of a shirtless, strapping young man who’s not really there.
[via Cinematical]
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Shouldn’t this thing be retitled Burn After Watching? Who reads a movie?
Theater seems pretty flamable.
So…The Mighty Fek’lhr is supposed to like this because it is a Coen Bros. film?
Didn’t one of them cut off their dick?
Insert a Spike Lee "fromage" joke here.
In a woodchipper accident Fek, not to become a laaaday.
I thought homage was cheese.
Oh, that’s fromunda. Beggin’ your pardon.
Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg make their posters as an homage to Hitler.
So Lince, did someone give you a book of bad puns? If so, why does that person hate us?
Is this a sequel to Fahrenheit 451 ("Burn before reading")?
Burn after reading? More like Black to the Future.
This is a blatant rip off of the Wayan’s Brother’s movie ‘Burn After Waking’.
Feel the Burn.
More like "Burn After Peeing"! Is He right, or what? Dor sho gha!
I burn after reading the paper on the shitter. Burn my nose hair, that is.
I’m more xenophobic, I prefer to Burn NAFTA treaty
Yeah, it’s a shitty work day.
new up, more head
yo thats what im talkin bout we wanna burn one B.
I thought this was supposed to be Oceans 75.
Lots of things should be burned after they’re used. Like hookers. And bad jokes.
Tell me when hip indie filmmakers haven’t tried to riff on Bass. This has been going on since Bass was contemporary.
Remember when that Leo DiCraprio (see what I did there?) and Tom Hanks movie came out and then everyone started using the fake 60′s imagery and fonts for the promotional material?
If that happens again i swear to God I will never use Verdana again. Dont’ worry though sans-serif, I’d never hurt you…