Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

Mutiny on the Bounty edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Jan 2012 at 15:19:52 (UTC)

Original – Original film poster for the 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty

Reason: Well, after the previous successful film poster nomination I decided to look for high quality, inarguably PD movie posters (i.e. American posters from before 1977 with no copyright notice). I've found several, which I will be nominating here. This beauty is from the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Harris, and Trevor Howard.
Articles in which this image appears: Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: Employee(s) of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; restored by PawełMM

Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:19, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose (composition). Not meant to be malicious. I totally support you grabbing film posters...is a big boon to Wiki. And I want people to have lots of stars. I don't begrudge that and appreciate the work to go after them. Just being critical, sorry. That poster is not as useful an illustration because of the very detailed crowd scene at the bottom (I'm not crazy about a two-panel view itself either, but especially the small faces in crowd). In comparison, the previous awarded poster was simpler and clearer. The non-free cover art from the Nordhoff book (see article) is also very well composed. That little boat...being sent away from the big ship. What an image and one that makes us feel the story.TCO (Reviews needed) 15:40, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The EV is not for the story itself, but for the film. The only way you could have higher EV for the film is to have the film itself. An original poster is good enough EV for the film it represents. As for its design, that is their creative choice (like the below nomination). As an aside, I was actually considering this poster for another film as well, but I'd only be able to give it a weak support due to its size; it has a much simpler composition. Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:48, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is an illo crit more than an EV one. It may not be possible to have an FP for every film if the only artworks produced were poor compositionally. Given this is not a famous artwork on its own, I rate it by how well it illos the film. If one of us had made that poster, I would have the same crits about composition.TCO (Reviews needed) 15:53, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

When it comes to faithful reproductions of movie posters, paintings, or any 2D artwork, as for a FP candidate you shouldn't judge the quality of the painting/poster as much as the restoration/scan of the artwork. If the movie is notable enough to have an article than the poster that promoted that movie, even a poorly done poster, has about the maximum amount of EV possible for the article. For the high technical standards part of the criteria that is where you judge the restoration/scan quality NOT the original artworks quality. This is again one of those exceptions to our normal rules. — raeky t 09:55, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I second raeky's view. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 14:28, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose jpg artifacting around the black text/ Clegs (talk) 06:04, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose (per Clegs, not TCO). Great to see high resolution PD movie posters on wikipedia. This one have a bit to much jpg artefacts though for me to support. P. S. Burton (talk) 16:42, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 18:19, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]