![\"Eric](\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/Indy.poster.1.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n These are retro-styled concept posters by a very talented guy named Eric Tan<\/a>. I love his work, which draws inspiration from both vintage movie art and those great old Disneyland attraction posters<\/a> you see in the entry tunnels into The Happiest Place on Earth\u2122. His WALL-E<\/i><\/a> and X-Men<\/i><\/a> items are gorgeous, and these Indy posters in particular really appeal to me. (Even if he did buy into Uncle George’s revisionist tendencies on the first one. Sorry, but I just can’t bring myself to call that movie Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/i>, which is a ridiculously inelegant mouthful. The movie I<\/i> saw in 1981 was called simply Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/i>, just as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope<\/i> will forever be known, to me anyway, as nothing more than Star Wars<\/i>. Call the prequels whatever you like, George, but the first movie in ’77 had only a two-word title.) I especially like the Temple<\/i> style, and the little “filmed in color” tags are a nice touch.<\/p>\n Both Indy posters and the WALL-E ones are available from Acme Archive Direct<\/a>, although, at $150 a piece for the Indys and even more for the others, they’re sadly outside my price range. Perhaps some kind philanthropist out there might consider a donation to a poor, struggling blogger with an eye for collectible pop-cultural artifacts? I don’t know for sure, but I’d imagine Tan intends to do a Last Crusade<\/i> and possibly even a Crystal Skull<\/i> poster as well…<\/p>\n If you happen to follow that link over to Eric’s blog, be sure to check out this entry<\/a>, in which he recounts his encounter with a boyhood hero, Sadao Miyamoto, the animation director on the classic anime series G-Force<\/i><\/a> (a.k.a. Battle of the Planets<\/i> and Gatchaman<\/i>). It’s one of those genuinely heartwarming tales that will leave you thinking maybe there are still some genuinely nice people out there in the world after all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speaking of Indiana Jones, here are a couple of items I meant to post a month ago but didn’t get around to:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n