Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film.
It was 48 years ago this week that the worlds of cinema, science fiction, and pop culture in general were forever changed with the premiere of George Lucas’s Star Wars (now and forever saddled with the unwieldy retitling Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope). The studio heads at 20th Century-Fox weren’t entirely enthusiastic about the writer/director’s “old-fashioned space opera.” In fact, they initially coaxed exhibitors into running the film by making them book it if they wished to later show a “more promising” picture, the steamy melodrama The Other Side of Midnight.
As everyone now knows, their fears were quickly erased as Star Wars–which debuted in all of 32 theaters—went on to dominate the summer box office. It broke the record-setting take of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws just two years earlier and was still playing on screens across the country a full year later. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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Now we at MovieFanFare would like to hear from you. Which of the six posters displayed above most says “Star Wars” to you? Was it one from when you first saw the film in 1977, or was it from a later discovery of the sci-fi classic? Tell us about your choice and your reasons in the comments below…and may the Force…well, you know.