# Movie Poster -- Word Picture **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713 "2005-07-01T16:20:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/1 "2005-07-01T16:20:47Z")
This idea just came to me and I haven’t attempted to find any previous threads that may deal with the notion. That said, here’s the deal: Visualize those big posters in theater lobbies. Crammed with images of the stars, the setting, some big action still. You know the type. Limit yourself to one picture, but give as much descriptive detail as you can to narrow that image down to _just one movie_ so that your description will make anybody know just what movie you mean. Here’s the example I have thought of: The deck of a WWII naval vessel. An officer is standing near the railing of an upper deck with a potted plant, like a fern or a plam tree, held high over his head, obviously in the midst of throwing this thing overboard. Name the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/2 "2005-07-01T16:52:35Z")
The would be the Swedish classic [_Tosse Bark_](http://www.all2know.com/sv/wikipedia/t/to/tosse_bark.html). Just kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/3 "2005-07-01T17:07:28Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > The would be the Swedish classic [_Tosse Bark_](http://www.all2know.com/sv/wikipedia/t/to/tosse_bark.html). > Just kidding. Love it! There is at least one other movie, though: the one I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/4 "2005-07-01T17:19:14Z")
_ **Mister Roberts** _ I love that movie! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/5 "2005-07-01T17:22:12Z")
> [@Desperate Welfie](#): > > _ **Mister Roberts** _ > > I love that movie! Excellent! I love it, too. One of those “to hell with authority” messages in the midst of the military machine. Somebody come up with a new picture; possibly from more recent times. Just don’t go for the car chase or the explosion or the liplock. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/6 "2005-07-01T17:30:54Z")
Okay. Twist my arm. It’s night. A drunk is using a pipe cutter tool to cut the heads off parking meters. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/7 "2005-07-01T17:57:53Z")
**Cool Hand Luke** Frogs fall from the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/8 "2005-07-01T18:01:26Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **Cool Hand Luke** > > Frogs fall from the sky. Magnolia People crawling around on the Mt. Rushmore faces. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/9 "2005-07-01T18:18:48Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Magnolia > > People crawling around on the Mt. Rushmore faces. North by Northwest. An unoccupied expensive sports car crashes backwards out a glass window of an expensive house. Three teenagers look on in horrifed astonishment ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/10 "2005-07-01T18:23:34Z")
> [@Larry Borgia](#): > > North by Northwest. > > An unoccupied expensive sports car crashes backwards out a glass window of an expensive house. Three teenagers look on in horrifed astonishment **Ferris Bueller’s Day Off** A man whose facial features and stance would indicate limited mental capacities with his pants legs reaching well above his sock tops is standing in a fast food window gazing at the menu while the clerk looks at him quizzically.l ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/11 "2005-07-01T20:29:22Z")
**Sling Blade** A giant stone nearly runs down our hero. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/12 "2005-07-01T20:33:23Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > **Sling Blade** > > A giant stone nearly runs down our hero. **Indiana Jones** Is it the Temple of Doom? Three men sit in the interior of a tugboat showing each other scars and wounds ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/13 "2005-07-01T20:38:09Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > **Indiana Jones** Is it the Temple of Doom? > > Three men sit in the interior of a tugboat showing each other scars and wounds Make that **Raiders of the Lost Ark** ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/14 "2005-07-01T20:38:23Z")
Close, it’s **Raiders of the Lost Ark**. > [@](#): > > Three men sit in the interior of a tugboat showing each other scars and wounds **Jaws** A little boy uses Resse’s Pieces to make a new friend. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/15 "2005-07-01T20:39:58Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > Close, it’s **Raiders of the Lost Ark**. > **Jaws** > > A little boy uses Resse’s Pieces to make a new friend. \*\* E.T. The Extraterrestrial\*\* A large number of men are running in the surf ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/16 "2005-07-01T20:56:46Z")
**Chariots of Fire** An early hominid throws a bone. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/17 "2005-07-01T21:00:00Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > **Chariots of Fire** > > An early hominid throws a bone. **2001: A Space Odyssey** Two androids visit an Asian man in a deep freeze room and play with some artificial eyes ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/18 "2005-07-01T21:16:08Z")
**Zeldar** yours was **Bladerunner**. A strange humanoid with a joyous expression is holding up a cat out of some wreckage, amongst the wreckage are kittens, in the background is tremendous upheaval and wreckage. There are tears on the humanoid’s face. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/19 "2005-07-01T22:06:23Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > **Zeldar** yours was **Bladerunner**. > > A strange humanoid with a joyous expression is holding up a cat out of some wreckage, amongst the wreckage are kittens, in the background is tremendous upheaval and wreckage. There are tears on the humanoid’s face. Just so you’ll know, **Zabali\_Clawbane** , if I saw that movie I can’t remember the scene. It sounds like one of the disaster movies involving an earthquake or some other natural disaster, or else an Armageddon type sci-fi futuristic post-apocalyptic thing. Is there some mischief in using the term “humanoid”? ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-poster-word-picture/310713/20 "2005-07-01T22:45:47Z")
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