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In this case, the film’s title is set in a font that looks very close to Bindlestiff NF, a commercial display typeface designed by Nick Curtis.

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The movie poster is pretty famous too, portraying the white-as-death face of Jodie Foster with a death’s-head hawkmoth covering her mouth.

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I should also mention that alternative movie posters have amazing examples of typography, so if you get a chance, check out that genre as well! 2) The Silence of the Lambs & Bindlestiff NFĪre we talking about iconic films? The Silence of the Lambs is a thriller, no doubt, and one of the defining movies of the genre too.īased on the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris, the film shows the beginning of the problematic relationship between FBI trainee Clarice Starling, and the cannibal serial killer Hannibal Lecter, while they work together to catch another serial killer, known as Buffalo Bill.

Then all through the film, you get intertitles set in ITC Bookman because the International Typeface Corporation rarely fails you, and that same typeface is used at the end credits.Īll the typography in the film is both slightly nostalgic and quirky, always in the middle of the line that separates the vintage from the modern. It is clear enough for typography lovers that the makers of Pulp Fiction knew what they were designing: the movie opens with a text, using Times New Roman to evoke the kind of authority that a definition from a dictionary needs.Īfter one scene, the film shows a slow title sequence, with titles set in ITC Busorama and names set in ITC Benguiat. This font seems to be a variation of the commercial typeface Aachen, a slab serif designed by Colin Brignall and Alan Meeks in 1969. The font that was chosen for the movie title that hangs on top of her on the poster represents precisely that same concept: it is retro enough to refer to the original genre of Pulp Fiction, but it’s also kitsch enough to show the audience that there’s something new to see.

She’s something different, even if she lays down in a typical pose from the cover of a pulp novel. The movie poster for the movie called after those magazines subverts that trope completely: Uma Thurman appears there as Mia Wallace, and she’s clearly too strong to be anyone’s slave and too authentic to care about being desirable. They were stereotyped female characters whose sole existence revolved around men. Most of the women portrayed in these stories were Femme Fatales or sex slaves, either cunning or weak. “Pulp Fiction” used to be a genre on its own, a kind of cheap magazine that was accessible to many people but didn’t have great content. If we talk about the font selected for the title, we first need to know what the title means. I should note that Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movie posters but if you are curious about some of the worst movie posters of the 80s, then check out this link. So I’ll jump into the “Sure, Pulp Fiction is a thriller” wagon, and not only because the poster is one of the most iconic movie posters of all time and has fantastic typography, and I really want to be a nerd about it… okay, sue me.

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And I mean, the movie is indeed full of cliffhangers that leave you guessing, characters with a hidden agenda, and A LOT of crime and danger. Nonetheless, most critics and fans agree to call it a thriller. So what kind of typography are these posters using? Let’s find out! 1) Pulp Fiction & Aachenįrom the more abstract categorization of Tarantino himself, who calls it a “modern western,” to the oddly specific article from Wikipedia that says it is a “neo-noir black comedy crime film,” Pulp Fiction has been pushed around for decades from one movie genre to another because it doesn’t seem to belong to any of them entirely.

Now, the movie posters of this genre need to be just as intriguing and captivating. These movies are designed to have you biting your nails at the edge of your seat, desperately trying to outsmart the writers and figure out the ending. Often when you watch a thriller, you get the feeling that you haven’t been given all the needed information to understand the story entirely, or you are not confident that you can trust the narrator.

The thriller movie genre is defined by the feelings it generates in the audience: feelings of anticipation and anxiety, suspense and surprise.Ī thriller can be very similar to a horror film, as both of them can create strange atmospheres with a sense of imminent danger, though the main ingredient of a thriller is not jump scares, but plot twists and mysteries instead.

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