Anaylsis of Inception Posters

Above are two established Magazine front covers featuring Inception, both focus on the main character Leonardo DiCaprio as the centre point aswell as focusing on the movie itself. Both set their layout of the cover in an inception theme and everything that has nothing to do with the movie is still incorporated with the theme as the 1st picture shows, the features in the magazine follow the theme of the front cover. Total Film use the title as the architecture of the film which i think makes the cover so good, it does however take some of the focus of the character where as Empire focuses more on DiCaprio

The two pictures above shows the intertextuality between the "Inception" and "Dark Knight" movie posters, they both share similarities down to the auteur theory as both films where directed by Christopher Nolan and produced by Warner Bros. Inception features Leonardo DiCaprio the main character in the movie in the centre of the poster with buildings to the side of him, Dark Knight features similar buildings to the side of the Main Villain Heath Ledger which again is the main focus of the poster. Both posters have rather dark and grim colours and both actors in the posters have their back to the audience showing that they are focusing on the architecture of the city.

Above are the various posters for the movie inception, as you can see they are quite similar and have a similar layout continuing throughout the posters. The three posters all follow a comparable theme for example, there is a blend of blue in all the posters and each has a bizarre scenery which is relevant to the movie. This will grab the attention of the audience and will make them interested in the movie with these unusual posters. The main character in the film, Leonardo Dicaprio is the main focus in all the three posters aswell as his name appearing at the top of each poster, this lets the audience aware of the main actors in the movie. In all 3 of the posters a gun is featured in the hand of an actor weather it's Dicaprio or another character, this gives off a feeling to the audience that there may be a lot of action in the movie. All 3 of the posters have the title of the film "Inception" near the bottom of the page and in the colour red, the main actor in the film is always at the top too in a bolder font from the rest of the writing on the posters. Their is also a tagline in each of the posters saying "Your mind is the scene of the crime" this gives a suspense to the film aswell as as leaving the audience puzzled to what this could mean.