North Country is STILL ripping off Dogville
I remember when Nathaniel pointed out on his blog that the North Country poster design was a blatant ripoff of Dogville's. Well, the stealing continues. Here are the two DVD covers side by side:
Notice how the North Country people have not abandoned their blatant ripoff of the Dogville font and "heroine pose"... in fact, with the DVD covers, Kidman and Theron's stances are even more similar. Sigh.
Of course, even more bothersome is that North Country as a film steals from Dogville's "saintly put-upon heroine" motif, losing Von Trier's nuance and subversiveness in the transfer. That the poster so clearly reflects said theft is just icing on the clepto-cake.
btw, how great is it that I finally learned how to post pictures!? I will be doing more of this. It's fun.
posted by adam k. @ 4:09 AM
2 Comments:
whoa. I remember the original post and thinking they were similar and now this is crazy. All Charlize needs is a headscarf and the transformation would be complete.
Man, Dogville was brilliant.
Yes, yes it was.
You know, I think they may have deliberately removed Theron's headscarf in order to avoid suspicion... but unfortunately they give themselves away by putting her in Kidman's exact pose... it almost looks to me like they lined up Charlize exactly to get it right. I can just see her being all, "right here? like this?" and them going, "eh, a little bit to the right... tilt your torso THAT way" until it was perfect. And then they remove her headscarf.
Pretty funny.
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