Inspector Hammer!
Senior HTF Member
Those in the dvd announcement thread know my position on this, but I will happily add to this.
Paramount, please, PLEASE, reconsider that revised artwork! :frowning:
Can't you see how Cameron's picture completely destroys the graceful beauty of it!? That pic should be on the back of the case, not the front, it throws off the composition and is intrusive in the extreme. Further more, there is another thing about that new cover that stands out too much in my opinion, having Cameron on it undermines the film's emotional impact and realism.
With that pic on the cover, it now becomes "the big budget Hollywood film directed by James Cameron that is known the world over and won 11 Oscars" because it introduces the technical side of making it. Without that pic, the film returns to it's original state, "the story of two young people who meet and fall in love on the ill fated TITANIC".
As far as the general public is concerned, they don't care, and most likely don't even KNOW, who made the film so showing a pic of him isn't necessary, the only people who would know and care about such things are people like us here, and we don't want it. Although as others have stated elsewhere, his signature can stay, it looks very elegant there.
I just feel that the cover's emotional context is corrupted with that pic there, and the real life filmmaking world is jarringly introduced to destroy the illusion. In short, it's the dvd cover art equivelant of a boom mike or dolly track showing up in a film, it's an eyesore.
If you will, imagine the dvd covers of pretty much ANY film featuring a picture of the director on it. Curious, isn't it?
Please, Paramount, be smart, remove Mr. Cameron, he may have been the one that brought us this great film, but he doesn't represent it in the minds of countless millions around the world. All they know and care about are Jack, Rose and TITANIC.
Paramount, please, PLEASE, reconsider that revised artwork! :frowning:
Can't you see how Cameron's picture completely destroys the graceful beauty of it!? That pic should be on the back of the case, not the front, it throws off the composition and is intrusive in the extreme. Further more, there is another thing about that new cover that stands out too much in my opinion, having Cameron on it undermines the film's emotional impact and realism.
With that pic on the cover, it now becomes "the big budget Hollywood film directed by James Cameron that is known the world over and won 11 Oscars" because it introduces the technical side of making it. Without that pic, the film returns to it's original state, "the story of two young people who meet and fall in love on the ill fated TITANIC".
As far as the general public is concerned, they don't care, and most likely don't even KNOW, who made the film so showing a pic of him isn't necessary, the only people who would know and care about such things are people like us here, and we don't want it. Although as others have stated elsewhere, his signature can stay, it looks very elegant there.
I just feel that the cover's emotional context is corrupted with that pic there, and the real life filmmaking world is jarringly introduced to destroy the illusion. In short, it's the dvd cover art equivelant of a boom mike or dolly track showing up in a film, it's an eyesore.
If you will, imagine the dvd covers of pretty much ANY film featuring a picture of the director on it. Curious, isn't it?
Please, Paramount, be smart, remove Mr. Cameron, he may have been the one that brought us this great film, but he doesn't represent it in the minds of countless millions around the world. All they know and care about are Jack, Rose and TITANIC.