One of those parents was a truck driver who was able to cross the Iron Curtain and always smuggled something interesting back.
Quality hardly matters when the real treasure was getting the movie in the first place.
[0] https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d5cc5f_5c451a5882264776a4...
https://deadly-prey-gallery.myshopify.com/cdn/shop/files/D18...
The net effect of this is that, while I can look at the pictures and admire them (if that's the word) I have no idea whether I can trust anything in the actual text, since any given claim might just be an LLM confabulation.
(Which is too bad, since on the face of it it seems quite interesting, and probably many of the things the LLM has generated are in fact true.)
Less of this, please.
The single live link suggests that they do.
> The posters were typically painted on used flour sacks, sewn together and primed for colour. These weren’t just any flour sacks either — they were durable, easy to roll up, and ready for reuse.
> And the designs? Let’s just say they didn’t rely too heavily on accuracy.
LLM writing tropes that are so bad, they're good.
Anyway, those are usually avoided in comments unless they are particularly egregious, because as per the guidelines:
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
(the bbc seem to have lost the body of their original article)
The clickbait title is about "Africa" and "bad", but it's specifically about Ghana and awesome.
Anyway, I'm Ghanaian, and you can AMA. There's a lot of such art, many on walls of the erstwhile movie houses. Most of them are very realistic and collectible, but I guess only the garish ones command attention and so are easier to make into a story.
As a kid I once watched an artist paint one of these on a wall in a few hours, was very cool.
billions must die.
I like this movie poster art. I think it conceptually reflects what you will see in the movie. It also looks genuine and authentic.
alephnerd•2h ago
When will Westerners stop treating Africa as a monoculture.
TheCraiggers•1h ago
zdragnar•1h ago
Barbing•1h ago
Either of these better titles or no?
“…from Ghana, Africa…”
“…from Africa’s Ghana…”
(China, Asia & Asia’s China don’t really fit so probably not?)
em500•1h ago
cogman10•1h ago
The Asia comparison would work better if instead of talking about China we were talking about Laos.
prmph•13m ago
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exFAT•49m ago
sometimes_all•45m ago
No need to cherry-pick some random metric and try and justify a point that's not worth justifying.
exFAT•34m ago
I'm not justifying anything. I also think it's more polite to say "Ghana" rather than "Africa". I just don't agree with the arguments.
sometimes_all•22m ago
This goes beyond mere politeness; that you used this word is a bit suggestive. Refusing to acknowledge an identity is far more than just a lack of politeness.
f17428d27584•58m ago
Asia is only ~50% larger than Africa.
croes•1h ago
I expected different posters for the same movie from different African countries.
Imagine buying a cook book of European cuisine only listing UK dishes.
Elidrake24•1h ago
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croes•1h ago
Like a tour guide for the US and you only list places in Texas.
cogman10•1h ago
The only debatable part is that it's not all of Africa. But otherwise it's a very accurate description of the whole article.
Clickbait is "You won't believe the art that came out of this continent!" or "Look at the wild things artists did to attract an audience!".
sometimes_all•1h ago
A sample from the website's About page:
> this site is my attempt at creating something that’s dedicated to discovering the hidden gems of the online realm (whether they be in the form of academic discourse, cutting-edge technology, cultural commentary, or artistic expression) and sharing them with care and consideration.
How is treating a country in the second largest continent in the world - which contains more than 50 countries, most of which have very distinct cultures - as representative of that continent showing care and consideration? Ghana is not an unfamiliar country, and most people, at the very least, know it's in Africa. If I confused Mexico with Canada, or Germany with Albania, I'd be treated as a dimwit, but somehow it's totally fine if I don't know the difference between Ghana and Kenya.
I agree with the parent comment; this "unfamiliar country" business needs to stop.
hiccuphippo•1h ago
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fart-fart-FART•12m ago
a shit stirrer shows up and now 2/3 of the comments in the thread are offtopic. is that the kind of commentary you seek?
Razengan•7m ago