Face to Face: Does Latest Dragon Tattoo Image Owe a Debt to Apple?
New images and behind the scenes peeks are steadily emerging over at The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's Tumblr Mouth Taped Shut, including a new piece of maybe-poster art for the December 21 thriller. But there's something familiar in the way Daniel Craig's face is split by Rooney Mara's shadowy profile. Was someone over at Sony marketing borrowing from the Apple playbook?
Take a look at the new Dragon Tattoo art, in which Craig's (as Mikael Blomkvist) face is bisected by the profile outline of Mara's Lisbeth Salander. Even her nose piercing makes a perceptible shadow on his stubbly mug:
Now, where have we seen something like this before? Old school Mac users, you'll know what I'm getting at here...
Bam!
Uncanny, no? Weigh in on the resemblance below.
[Mouth Taped Shut via Cinema Blend]
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Well that would be consistent with her hacker image.
Why does she have an adam's apple and when are we going to have the poster of Daniel Craig naked? The boys get the naked Rooney Mara, what about us girls? Calling out double-standard on Fincher.
Fincher is not responsible for the add campaign. That would be the studio.
More like borrowing a page out of Bergman's PERSONA (or from frequent Bergman-borrower Woody Allen's LOVE & DEATH)
that's not an adam's apple, it's the area between where her neck/head begins and his shirt ends
So I included a link in my original post, so I guess it was banned to Moderator Limbo.
Basically, not everything moderately artsy or creative comes from Apple. You can go all Art Appreciation 101 on these concepts and recognize that Picasso regularly combined full face and profile in his images. As it is, it was pointed out this year that the Mac Finder logo looks very much like it was "heavily influenced" by Picasso's "Two Characters"
Rent "Love is the Devil" if you're desperate to see him naked.
You can find something similar even earlier (1932), in many variations of paintings/photos of Rene Magritte - http://chagalov.tumblr.com/post/3555175191/lombre-et-son-ombre-rene-and-georgette-magritte