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2012 What Do You Think About the Sarah Palin Movie Poster?
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:49 PM
Here, via Big Hollywood, is the poster for the Sarah Palin hagiography, Undefeated. Click to enlarge:
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It looks like she's reeling back after being punched in the nose by the microphones. There were cartoony stars and everything.
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It looks like a piece of pinko propaganda ... which is appropriate since she was half-term guvner of the most ironically red-yet-socialist-state in the nation (gotta get me that OIL MONEY). Not only does that state hand out annual checks totaling $1500-$2000 per person (depending on the price of oil - it's the "people's revenue share" - COMMIE MUCH?) and then she had the stones to hand out additional checks worth $1500 per person in 2008 as a "stipend" to offset the high cost of energy resultant from high energy prices. $3500 for eating, sleeping, pooping, breathing, LIVING. Redneck socialism for everyone, forever. President Palin 2012! The end.
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Graphically it looks like an old timey book cover that sat out in the sun for too long, and the image of Palin is reminiscent of the horribly misogynist "3 invisible dicks"-captioned pic of her that floated around the intertubes a while back. It's almost like they're inviting mockery.
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@14: Just you.
The rest of us see her squirming away as a pair of giant microphone testicles tries to tea-bag her.
The rest of us see her squirming away as a pair of giant microphone testicles tries to tea-bag her.
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Of all the people who have been completely trounced in recent elections, Sarah Palin is easily the most undefeatedest!
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It makes her look like a paper person cut-out and crudely pasted over an idyllic American landscape.
Which is exactly what she is, but you wouldn't think they would want to emphasize that fact.
Which is exactly what she is, but you wouldn't think they would want to emphasize that fact.
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I had to vote for any mention of Firestorm, because he is my favorite, even though he is stupid and awful.
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@ 26 dammit I was so close to saying the same thing...and rules 1 & 2, you just lost the game.
Also, did somebody use the fucking magic wand tool when designing this? I sense a lot of magic wand bullshit in this design.
Also, did somebody use the fucking magic wand tool when designing this? I sense a lot of magic wand bullshit in this design.
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Call me an ignorant commie European but the stylized big dipper on an blue background I only know as the flag of the hardline communist Irish Liberation Army (INLA) an dissident republican terrorist group in northern Ireland.
Not really sure that's the symbolism she wants to be going for.
Not really sure that's the symbolism she wants to be going for.
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1) The background is tilted to the right. Nice.
2) The big dipper and giant star are a little hammer-and-sickle-esque, no? That has to be an inside joke.
3) The literal fire in the belly is kind of amusing, but makes her look pregnant. Maybe that's intentional too.
2) The big dipper and giant star are a little hammer-and-sickle-esque, no? That has to be an inside joke.
3) The literal fire in the belly is kind of amusing, but makes her look pregnant. Maybe that's intentional too.
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(Confidential to dutchie@29: that is also the flag of the state of Alaska, where she was briefly governor for a half term before she quit. To be fair, when I Googled the INLA flag, it is remarkably similar to the Alaska flag.)
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did anybody else automatically rotate the microphone 180 degrees? My mind tells me that microphone could be even more phallic with a little help.
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The flags are her giant distended labia from giving birth to here daughter as she gave birth to the prop-baby.
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You know, although I disagree with Sarah Palin on just about everything, I do feel some solidarity with her when the jibes against her take on a misogynist edge. (I feel the same way about Hillary Clinton.)
Before you all get your defensive hackles up, I'm not saying any commenter here is a misogynist person. I am saying your comment is a misogynist comment if it combines (a) scorn with (b) sexualization. Neither element is necessarily misgynist on its own, understand, but when combined they definitely produce a certain "ick" factor.
I'm sure no one means any harm. Please just be a little more thoughtful next time the temptation arises.
Before you all get your defensive hackles up, I'm not saying any commenter here is a misogynist person. I am saying your comment is a misogynist comment if it combines (a) scorn with (b) sexualization. Neither element is necessarily misgynist on its own, understand, but when combined they definitely produce a certain "ick" factor.
I'm sure no one means any harm. Please just be a little more thoughtful next time the temptation arises.
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@37
Palin uses her womanhood and her motherhood and her highly-fuckable for a certain demographic looks as political ammunition. What you're perceiving as misogyny is just people who disagree with her fighting against her on the terms she herself has set.
Palin uses her womanhood and her motherhood and her highly-fuckable for a certain demographic looks as political ammunition. What you're perceiving as misogyny is just people who disagree with her fighting against her on the terms she herself has set.
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@2, she could see soviet propaganda posters from her house.
Um, didn't she actually get defeated in the presidential election?
Um, didn't she actually get defeated in the presidential election?
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@39 I agree that she uses her motherhood for political purposes (to put a finer point on it, she uses her children as political props), and her attractiveness is also an asset for her (as it is for any not-ugly politician, or human for that matter). But this is not the same thing as Palin using her sexuality in graphic and vulgar terms to advance her political career, in the same manner as people use to degrade her. Surely you are smart enough to understand the distinction there.
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There are 9 separate graphic ideas in this poster. Count'em - NINE!
1- Mountain (alaska! inspirational peak!)
2- Star (Lone Star? Star of bethlehem?)
3- Prairie (Real Murka)
4- Pipeline (Drill Baby Drill!)
5- Stars (more stars!)
6- Portrait from below (I'm someone to look up to, I'm powerful, I'm gazing into the distance because I have 'vision')7- Explosion (Fire in my belly, and subtly militaristic)
8- Flags (I'm patriotic! and subtly militaristic)
9- The title (Declarative, absolutist, and subtly militaristic)
Thats Graphic Design FAIL
1- Mountain (alaska! inspirational peak!)
2- Star (Lone Star? Star of bethlehem?)
3- Prairie (Real Murka)
4- Pipeline (Drill Baby Drill!)
5- Stars (more stars!)
6- Portrait from below (I'm someone to look up to, I'm powerful, I'm gazing into the distance because I have 'vision')7- Explosion (Fire in my belly, and subtly militaristic)
8- Flags (I'm patriotic! and subtly militaristic)
9- The title (Declarative, absolutist, and subtly militaristic)
Thats Graphic Design FAIL
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