Inglourious basterds is the new Quentin Tarantino movie from which he considers it his "masterpiece". He also claims that this movie has "some of the best writing he's ever done".

Aside from the monumental success of the movie, the poster of this movie seems to be a piece of art within itself. The amount of time and effort that has gone into this poster seems to show quite a alot and its quite apparant of how many ideas went into this poster.

The colour on this poster seems to say a lot to the viewer. The primary colours in this poster seem to be red and white. The title is coloured in white against a red background which clearly makes it stand out. In a way, the red and white colours contrast to make even the characters stand out more. Another thought would be that the red colour connotes violence and anger seeing as many people associate red with anger and frustration.

The pose of all the characters on the poster seems to connote that they're all getting ready for action. These poses also seem to hold viewer interest and show them which actors are in it and (in more depth) show character roles.

The framing and composition on this poster is interesting. The title is superimposed right in the center to show us what the movies called. On the top-right side of the poster, we see a list of the actor's names. With the list of names placed here, we can clearly see that the artists intention was to attract our attention to thise list so we can see what actors are in this film. Where the characters are placed also seems intriguing. Brad Pitt (being the main star) is placed at the front while there are two other men on both sides of him. They seem superimposed in front of a thick red line (most probably representing blood) and within this line are two women and what seems to be a general of some sort. The composition of these characters seems to give us an idea of what the movie is going to be about.

The sizes of the characters are from a medium range so that we can see the actor's full bodies. As for the three characters in the red line at the bak, we can only see them from the shoulder up. Seeing these characters from the shoulder up connotes a little mystery. The size of the title is an average size and is not too big and not too small that it cant be seen.

The type of shot in this poster seems to be a close-up. We can see all the characters clearly and because of this shot, the poster seems to really give out a Holloywood vibe.

This poster seems to say a lot to the viewer about the subject at hand. The character poses combined with the colour seem to speak for itself. From seeing this it immediately connotes that this film is going to be quite violent and there’s going to be a lot of action. We also see the nazi sign on the title which obviously connotes that this is going to be about Nazis.

The ambiguity of the setting in this poster is nil. Right when we see the title, there is a Nazi sign on it which immediately connotes that this movie is going to be set in World War 2.

The lighting on this poster seems very light and at the same time very dark and murky. With the white colour, this colour connotes hope while with the red colour, this connotes death. With these effects, the lighting seems to have a powerful influence on the viewer and may even subconsciously effect the viewer.

In conclusion, the Inglourious basterds poster seems to complete its objective of hooking its viewer while displaying a lot of information about the movie at the same time.

This poster gets .........5 Stars out of 5