Yes, sure enough, my Mum had The Sound of Music album on vinyl, just looking at the poster again now, it is wonderful!
Interesting that they went for a painting, which I think suits the film well, the use of pinks & yellows add that 'wholesome' swiss alps 'spring like' feel to the proceedings, though I never thought the Julie Andrews character actually looked like her, but yes a wonderful poster :o)
Jaws for me though gets the nod, it's just the simplicity of it, it's truly brutal, the colours, red with the oposing cyan/blues work so well.
E.T. had an excellent poster also, mainly because it was such an 'other worldly' image, a boy riding a bike 'over the moon!'
I don't mean to sound cynical, but many of today's posters remind me of 'straight to DVD' - imagination has left the building.
Much of this is simply due to the over saturation of the market, as more movies are made, more posters become derivative - but I also think the change in format hasn't helped, as movie posters were predominantly designed 4:3 landscape ratio, as this is how they were displayed outside the movie house, a ratio which I prefer as it's closer to the widescreen dynamic of the movie itself.
The change predominantly to portrait mode already makes the film look like a dvd/Blu-Ray cover, whereas landscape allows for wide shots & gives it that cinematic feel, though ironically the Jaws poster is most famous for it's portrait mode, and in-fact works better, so what do I know, haha! :o) *
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