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- Artists
- Jones, Robert
 - Manufacturer
- DL Screenprinting
- Edition Details
| Year: | 2010 | | Class: | Cinema | | Status: | Official | | Run: | 55 | | Technique: | Screen Print | | Paper: | 100 lb white cover stock | | Size: | 14 X 36 | | Markings: | Signed & Numbered |
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- Venues
- Alamo Drafthouse - Austin, TX
- Event
- Fantastic Fest 2010 Austin, TX Sept 23 - 30
- Series
- Alamo Drafthouse Fantastic Fest 2010
- Comments
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Movie: X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes
Venue: Fantastic Fest at Alamo Drafthouse
City: Austin, TX
Colors/inks: 3 color (blue, black, & translucent white)"I also got to make a poster for one of my favorite films, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes. Earlier in the year I based a Dead Weather gig poster on ideas found in this film, or more specifically the comic book adaptation that Gold Key put out. In the comic version, Professor Xavier sees a malevolent eye at the center of the universe sending out ravenous shades into the void. At the tent revival meeting he stumbles into, Xavier warns, "They are coming to devour us all! Larger than the stars, than the galaxies of stars! They are coming!", and then, as in the film, he tears out his eyes at the exhortation of the preacher.
The whole thing reminded me of the new Dead Weather stage backdrop designed by The Silent Giants. I imagined the eye Xavier screams about being the one glowing in the center of the backdrop sending out bad vibes with the band silhouettes standing in for its shadowy minions.
For the movie poster though I reworked it to better reflect the actual film. There Xavier only mentions the eye at the center of the universe watching us all. Even if you believe in a ubiquitous and omnipotent deity, imagine the insanity you'd suffer if you physically saw that deity watching you, each and every cell of your being with nothing hidden, at all times. You can believe that a deity does this, but actually seeing it happen all the time surely carries the soul-shattering force of a million Panopticons. Hopefully I managed to capture this unique and chilling situation in the poster for Alamo Drafthouse.
Oh, I was told Lars at Alamo presented Corman with one of the posters onstage during his Q&A for the film. They said he lauded it, but he could have just been put on the spot and felt obligated towards politeness."
- Rob Jones
http://www.fantasticfest.com/
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