‘127 Hours’ Poster Analysis

The dominant colours that we first notice present in the poster are the dark red fiery walls on both sides of the image, the colour red connotes danger and maybe even death.
The poster shows us where the movie is set which appears to be the Grand Canyon, showing us this extravagant scenery.
The suggested diagonal lines coming from the corners of the poster immediately draws our eye to the man and the round boulder jammed between these two giant walls. This again signifies danger. This could also tell the audience a little bit about the character, we immediately become to understand that he is the main character and the fact that there is no one else present in the picture could tell us that he is quite a lonely character and that maybe he goes through this experience by himself.
The first line on the poster reads ‘a triumphant true story’ this immediately grabs the reader’s attention as we instantly become aware that this actually happened to someone, and we are intrigued as to what he went through and how he managed to live to tell the story.
‘From the academy award winning director of Slumdog Millionaire’ – this educates the audience as to who created the movie and referring to a popular movie that most film lovers will be aware of, leads us to believe that this will also be an award winning film and we should definitely watch it.
The slogan ‘Every second counts’ tells us that something goes wrong, yet again suggesting that danger is just around the corner.
In my opinion we are led to believe that the genre of this film is a thriller type thing.