Hollywood in The Gallery

I’m a big fan of the Guardian’s ‘The Gallery’ series a user generated parade of humorously photoshopped football pics. The imagination of the readers who submit the pictures is unbelievable some going for simple puns whilst others go for elaborate or obscure references.

One thing I have noticed popping up almost weekly is the redesigned Film poster and it made me contemplate the psychology behind this. Is it because there are so few films about such a massively popular world sport or is it just the fact that we love to ridicule the pomposity and grandiosity of Hollywood’s aggressive marketing machine.

It is obviously the latter as film posters are continously parodied by all and sundry across the interweb. I believe that people subconciously accept hollywood advertising as the norm for the medium but harbour a deep resentment towards it due to the misrepresentation of the product and often the blitzing of the media to sell us their latest turkey.

People are now aware of how seriously Hollywood style advertising takes itself and are quick to parody or even reject it outright. The Gallery is one such place where this is prevalent but it works so well as the players and the business of football take themselves so seriously too. So enjoy some propaganda from the football fans who take aim at Sven, the Ibrahimovic Eto’o swap deal, the governments swine flu ads, those Manchester poster wars and of course those over the top Hollywood film posters.

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Posted: August 7th, 2009 under Film, Sport.