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Africans Used To Hand-Paint Movie Posters To Draw People Into Cinemas And They’re So Bizarre, They’re Wonderful (100 New Pics)
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Art traditionally is valued by its technical brilliance, the difficulty of execution, the composition and fundamentals of aesthetics. But some art circumvents all of these principles and criteria, and they're no worse for it than the former. Sometimes, a "bad" piece art can be more valued than the "good" one, and not just for reasons of bad taste. Enter the African (mostly from Ghana) bootleg movie posters, which have, as a matter of fact, a very rich tradition. Why? Well, because of the perennially poor economy, Africans were forced to create the means for their entertainment. Of course, there were no fancy printers or presses, and even if there were, they wouldn't bother with something as silly as posters for bootleg movies. And so came a tradition of artists who created posters to create interest in these movies, even if they had to hand-paint them on flour bags. Though the means of printing became much more accessible, the tradition survives because of its extremely unique entertainment value.
here. As you can see, the skill of the artists advanced by leaps and bounds, but their own unique culture is still (thankfully) very clearly discernable.
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This doesn't describe anything in the film but IT SHOULD. I'd pay to see Don Felix take on the five families
Nice to see the toilet get the prominence it deserves, but I'm struggling to find a name for the fetish depicted in the lower right corner
Oh please, the Czechoslovak poster takes the cake here! GB1PosterF...0e-png.jpg 
Not sure the artist actually saw the film, but it stands on its own merits
So they saw this one before painting this. Kinda seems like cheating.
Batman's most deadly adversary, the Man With Sausage Rolls in His Hair
Tell you what, cats and kittens - if the artist could just keep his decapitation fetish under control he'd be pretty good
With a side of The Butterfly Effect, Anaconda, Isle of Dr. Moreau....
I said I wanted frikkin sharks with 'laser' beams attached to their heads. These are dolphins 🤦♀️
I haven't seen this and now I desperately want to, so the poster has served its purpose
Get on the wrong side of Biker Dad and you'll end up drowning in porridge
This must be the sequel to Death Proof where Kurt gets to kill singers
You cannot deny the truth of that statement, although I doubt if it was in the script
Mary Stoker's classic tale of two feline scientists and their quest to create a green vampire. "It's alive!" - Dr Tiddles
I think the artist could have done a better job of rendering Freddy's iconic stripy sweater
