Most Iconic Movie Posters

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What do you consider the most iconic and instantly recognizable movie posters?

I need to do a campaign and am trying to be creative. Please help me, it’s been a long few weeks :slight_smile:

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Star Wars

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MAS*H

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Yep, *Star Wars *was my first thought. My second was Gone With the Wind. Jaws and A Clockwork Orange are early ideas, too.

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“Jaws.”

Heck, it was on Gord Downie’s t-shirt!

ETA: https://www.google.ca/search?q=jaws&client=ms-android-motorola&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikleya-fDXAhWl0YMKHVqlBHQQ_AUIESgB&biw=360&bih=568#imgrc=Lnbt6Xc27fpYUM:

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Here is the MASH poster

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Star Wars, for certain, though there are several different versions, including:
The original Brothers Hildebrandt art
A revised version, in which Luke and Leia look more like Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher
Another well-known version
A few more suggestions:

The Silence of the Lambs
The Terminator
E.T.

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Star Wars and E.T. were the first to come to mind.

Going back a bit, the King Kong (1933) poster is pretty well known:

https://www.allposters.com/-st/King-Kong-1933-Posters_c466_.htm

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A few more:

Alien
The Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction

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I think the “Rocky” poster was quite recognizable back in the day.

https://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/img/posters/rocky-movie-score-arms-up_u-L-F4TCGS0.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.allposters.com/-st/Rocky-Movies-Posters_c9060_.htm&h=450&w=300&tbnid=SA_sTeMR10uRGM&tbnh=275&tbnw=183&usg=__QHhKo-N_Lgd097Y06ajDT2fB7-c=&docid=z23J_8r4x9kKsM

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Hamill really hit the gym, didn’t he?
:smiley:

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

the Shining

Rosemary’s Baby

Gone with the Wind

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Thinking about what I consider iconic movie posters, I realized that a couple of them were by the same artist, Saul Bass:

In addition to The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder, he did the Shining and Vertigo as well.

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Vertigo
Anatomy of a Murder

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This one from Le Mans

And this one from Blazing Saddles

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Lots of working out on the Soloflex. :wink:

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Young Frankenstein

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Great minds think alike! :smiley:

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For E.T., I was thinking more of this one, the “ouch” one. That was certainly the first one I saw, back when the movie was new.

A couple I bet you can picture before you even click:
Scarface
The Exorcist

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And, of course, since this is the SDMB: Airplane!

https://www.google.ca/search?q=airplane+movie+poster&client=ms-android-motorola&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiP8oXtjfHXAhVl64MKHSH6AtIQ_AUIESgB#imgrc=Adpj2JKVy0o63M: