Maybe it's just me, but when I first saw this poster -
- I was immediately reminded of this one.
Maybe it's the way the maroon scarf playfully tugged by Ms. Garner in the Ghosts of Girlfriends Past poster performs the same compositional function as the white scarf or white turtleneck or whatever-it-is in The Thing With Two Heads poster, i.e., joining the heads of the two leads. Designers of commercial art love their phallic symbols. Hence, the prominent role of the scarf in Poster A, and the prominent role of the gun in Poster B.
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sometimes a scarf is just a scarf. But not THIS time, Anna. I espec. dig the cigarette trick (Rosie blowing out the smoke from Milland's ciagarette and over the pistol as if it's just been fired at the same time. But now is that the poster from the original release or just the MGM Midnite DVD.
That film used to be on the old UHF creature features all the time, along with the other two headed movie, which was too vile and nightmarish for kids but was always on anyway: The incredible two-headed transplant. Oh my god, why do I feel like running and buying this right now. I haven't seen it since I was knee high to a grasshoppa.
Both of these posters are partly redeemed by Mad-Magazine-style visual gags that you discover if you examine them more closely - like the one you pointed out, Erich, of the cigarette smoke coming out of Rosie's mouth from Ray Milland's cigarette. In Ghosts, there's the girl trying to crawl out from her picture frame at the top of the poster. Also, if Rosie's gun is consciously intended to be a phallic symbol in the Two Heads artwork - which I believe it is - what does that say about the comparative size of Ray's cigarette?
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