The new poster for the upcoming Fast and Furious 6 movie is
really basic. The movie is the sixth and final installment of hugely popular
franchise. The movie stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
and Michelle Rodriguez. The teaser trailer was first shown on the half time
SuperBowl spot along with the new IronMan 3 and the new Star Trek: Into
Darkness.
The 2 poster shows both Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, standing
next to their car on an empty and deserted
highway looking into the horizon. Right next to them, there is the
caption 'All roads lead to this', this concretes the fact that this is the
final movie. In the poster, the camera seems to be on the floor with Vin Diesel
and Paul Walker in the centre of the poster. Their clothes are very casual, and
also their body language. Paul Walker seems to be leaning on his car with his
hands in his pockets, whereas Vin Diesel seems to be more serious, almost seems
to be walking towards something or even someone. There have been speculations
that Vin Diesel's characters "Dom", his girlfriend, who seems to have
died in the fourth movie, she returns but against Dom. Maybe she is the person
that Vin Diesel is going towards and Paul Walker is just leaning back and just
observing.
The cars the two are leaning on are muscle cars, Paul
Walkers car is Blue and Vin Diesel's car is red. Blue is associated with trust
and peace and loyalty and integrity, this is very much like the character of
Paul Walker, Brian who was an ex-cop (suggesting the peace and integrity) and
has been with 'Dom' since the beginning and is always helping him out (matching
with trust and loyalty). Vin Diesel's car is coloured red, which may indicate
they are ready to take action, or they may be passionate about what they are
going to be doing, or again it may mean that they are feeling angry. This
definitely matches 'Doms' character, he feels passionate about knowing his
girlfriend is still live, he is ready to take action (his body language shown
in the poster) and also feeling angry for what his girlfriend (who is played by
Michelle Rodriguez) 'Letty' is still alive.
The background of the
poster is very basic, it is very bright sunny day with the blue sky with only
white puffy clouds there. As the sky and the ground join, the horizon is
practically white and you can't see it, this is maybe a connected to the movie
as the people don't what will happen with the situation of 'Dom' and 'Letty'.
The reason the poster works well is because of the
simplicity of it, there are only the main character(s) and their cars on an
empty road. I was thinking that we could do something like that for our film
poster, for example, we could do something like our two main characters (me and
Ainsley) just on an empty road to symbolise their tight friendship or their vast
complex simplicity of their situation.