Find the Subliminal Messages Hidden Within the New Larry Crowne Poster
Director-star Tom Hanks is trying to tell us something in the new poster for his summer star vehicle. Just take a look at the visual messaging within the new poster for Larry Crowne, which follows a Navy veteran (Hanks) who goes back to community college and falls for a professor (Julia Roberts). Powder blue Vespas! Slightly off-center title placement! This is the summer cure for the middle aged blahs!
1. Larry Crowne = Youth! The powder blue palette washes over the poster with the calming, blissful color of childhood. It's a baby boy blue. Coincidence? I think not!
2. Larry Crowne = Offbeat! That title placement, just a little right of center? It's a metaphor for Larry himself and his oddball lifestyle.
3. Larry Crowne = Hip! Why else drive a powder blue Vespa?
4. Larry Crowne = Delight! He's smiling, but Julia Roberts -- the Pretty Woman herself -- is absolutely, orgasmically thrilled by Tom's youthful offbeat hipness. She's so carefree she lets her scarf blow in the wind!
5. Larry Crowne = A leader! Either that or he's being chased by an army of scooter riders, but we'll assume he's merely leading them to mid-life salvation. Just like he'll be doing with ticket buyers this July 1, when Larry Crowne hits theaters!
[via Cinema Blend]
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Larry Crown = Photoshopped!
I wonder if anyone is going to give Hanks the same amount of grief as the SATC gals. I know he probably had nothing to do with the poster (or at least the photoshopping), but that didn't stop anyone from blasting SJP et al.
The only thing this screams to me is THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT POSTER.
the poster looks terrible, yes, but i think the movie will be fun.
It's not a Vespa, powder blue or otherwise.