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| Star Wars |
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| The Empire Strikes Back |
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| The Return Of The Jedi |
Brilliant. Bizarre. These amazing, awesome, Hungarian
Star Wars Trilogy posters were painted by artist
Tibor Helényi. I don't know if they accompanied the original theatrical releases or later cinematic or video re-issues, but they are just delightfully insane.
I discovered them over on Michael May's
Adventureblog Annex - and he discovered them on the
Monster Brains blog (a couple of cool sites that I highly recommend visiting, by the way). In any case
, once I saw them, I had to raid those guys and share the scans here at
Space: 1970.
How friggin' wild are these?!
He loves that green lizard monster !
ReplyDeleteWow, that kinda reminds me of the liberties that they took on the Battle Beyond the Stars poster. Which may not be a bad thing to post, by the way...
ReplyDeleteOutstandingly bombastic. I need to borrow these for a while to put on my blog. Great find!
ReplyDeleteSteve: If you have a scan of the Hungarian Battle poster (I assume that's what you mean), send it along. I've been compiling other foreign Battle poster scans for an upcoming post, and I haven't seen that one yet.
ReplyDeleteThey were made for the original theatrical releases. I live in Hungary, but I only first saw them when they were put on display in a cinema at the showing of one of the prequels. We thought that they were hilarious. :)
ReplyDeleteWeird, but I like them a lot! Originality beats uniformity any day.
ReplyDeleteThat middle SW poster sure reminds me of some of Philippe Druillet's artwork. I don't know if he did it, but brilliant nonetheless: http://www.druillet.com/
ReplyDeleteThank you. As a Hungarian I met these for the 1st time here! They made three Hungarian comic books at the time Empire was presented in the early '80-s(SW vol. I-II. and TESB). They were made by heart, the drawers watched the movies a few times, wrote notes in the theater, got some pictures and they remade the story pretty well. I guess these posters were painted in a similar way after some photographs.
ReplyDeleteBy the way these are movie posters with the logo of the state-owned releasing company, there was no such thing as VHS in Hungary up till 1985-86.
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