Week 5 B -Graphics, Typography & Package Design
Week Ten Graphics, Typography & Package Design
9. Film Posters
9.10. Canadian Bacon, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, 1995
John Candy, Dan Akroyd and Michael Moore
This Michael Moore (Ferenheit 911) movie starred Canadian actors John Candy and Dan Ackroyd with Rhea Perlman, Alan Alda and others.
Like so many movies concerned with Canadian content, the production and acting team consisted of both Americans and Canadians.
The film is about the U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada.The poster imploys classic Canadian motifs; maple leaf, moose and Niagara Falls.