October 1, 2002: Dorm Poster Quiz
Jen's brother is just starting up at one of those posh co-ed boarding schools in New England, and he's trying to find posters to decorate his room. Knowing that dorm poster choice sends very important signals to his fellow students, I put together this quiz. Identify which of the following nine posters signifies that the owner is a normal sort of fellow, and which signify a deviant desire to chloroform roommates and take advantage of them while they sleep:
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i would say the correct answer is the one that appears to be a japanese apocalypse now poster. it conveys no specific message of oozing creepiness, and the fact that its drawn and not a photograph sets it that much apart from your roomate's poster of The Matrix. or you could always take the taxi driver poster on the "compared to that guy, i look pretty fucking sane" angle. "The fluffer" didnt over too well when i was a freshman.. i'm not making that mistake twice.
Of course, my brother *is* thinking about getting a Taxi Driver poster.
I suggested Seven Samurai and Blow Up, plus I was thinking about getting him Belle du Jour but Catherine Deneuve might freak out all the little prep school boys with her sensuality.
Are these all posters from your apartment?
Ha! I say go with the Fluffer one. And you can't go wrong with Divine!
I recommend some Polish posters actually:
http://polishposter.com
Polish film posters are quite wacky, far more conceptually sophisticated than anything Americans will ever see on a billboard in this lifetime. Take a look at their renditions of US movies. A Polish law stated that any film distributed in Poland had to give the local artist guilds the advertisement designs... that is unfortunately changing...
You are all wrong- the acceptable posters are Apocalypse Now, Lolita, Taxi Driver, Rififi, and Easy Rider. The unacceptable posters are BiSexual, Pink Flamingos, Cruising, and the Fluffer.
Bisexual is unacceptable for obvious reasons. Pink Flamingos and any film by John Waters sends a bad message up in Connecticut. Cruising is an Al Pacino film about gay sex clubs that D.A. Miller used as part of our final in our gay studies film class at Columbia. The Fluffer is a great poster, but be careful to verify that your roommate loves Morrissey and the Smiths before tacking it up. Other positive signs: the extra large bottle of Astroglide in his trunk, the complete works of Truman Capote in his bookshelf.
Exeter is in New Hampshire.
One could argue that Cruising is okay, because it equates gays as killers, a homophobic opinion. But then again, you'd just be saying you were latently gay. Other gay signifiers: Ethel Merman records, complete works of Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim, and extreme interest in fashion labels.
If Stephen Sondheim fought Stephen Soderbergh, who would win? I'm talking a straight up fist fight- not a witty bitch out.
How the hell did this tyurn into a free for all gay discussion?!
A good question! I guess when the three of us are in the house, gay themes are never that far from our lips.
Gay is the new black.
damn, i want that japanese the taxi driver poster! i can't find a decent blow up of that picture, it's the best.
Look at this gender bender. cool andy warhol:
http://www.impawards.com/1976/taxi_driver_ver1.html
or
http://www.moviepostershop.com/display.php/_____1-35418.html
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