{"id":13177,"date":"2021-08-09T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=13177"},"modified":"2021-08-09T15:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:45:50","slug":"drew-struzan-interview-first-blood-star-wars-indiana-jones-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/09\/drew-struzan-interview-first-blood-star-wars-indiana-jones-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Struzan Interview! (&#8220;First Blood&#8221;, &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;, &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; and More!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z080921drewstruzan_1stblood_interview.png?resize=500%2C759\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drewstruzan.com\/\">Drew Struzan<\/a>, one of the legends of movie poster art, was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/legendary-poster-artist-drew-struzan-on-honing-his-craft-his-favorite-star-wars-film-and-more-interview\/\">interviewed by Erik Sharkey for \/Film.com<\/a>.&nbsp; The interview is well worth a read.&nbsp; If you click over you&#8217;ll find out about Drew Stuzan&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>documentary<\/li>\n<li>love of <em>King Kong<\/em> (and his take on who the real villain of the film is)<\/li>\n<li>approach to poster art<\/li>\n<li>favorite <em>Star Wars<\/em> movie<\/li>\n<li>early art career<\/li>\n<li>thoughts on the<em> Indiana Jones<\/em> films<\/li>\n<li>plans for retirement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/legendary-poster-artist-drew-struzan-on-honing-his-craft-his-favorite-star-wars-film-and-more-interview\/\">you click over<\/a>, I want to highlight this exchange about Drew Struzan&#8217;s <em>First Blood<\/em> poster:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erik Sharkey:&nbsp; I always thought your artwork for the movie <em>First Blood<\/em> was a powerful poster of a single figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drew Struzan:&nbsp; Well, thank you. It\u2019s a guy with a big gun, and the first thing we know is that he was in a war of some kind, but I want the image to be beautiful. I want it to be kind. I want it to be loving. Big tough guy with a big gun and bullets, how does that relate to what I\u2019m saying? What\u2019s the color in it? It\u2019s basically a blue picture. And blue is the most comforting and loving color you can paint. Does it not look peaceful? I could have painted blood dripping from them, which a lot of movie posters have done, but that\u2019s not what I paint. I want to make the world a better and more beautiful, peaceful, and kind place. So, you\u2019ll see that in every picture I paint.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Struzan, one of the legends of movie poster art, was recently interviewed by Erik Sharkey for \/Film.com.&nbsp; The interview is well worth a read.&nbsp; If you click over you&#8217;ll find out about Drew Stuzan&#8217;s&#8230; documentary love of King Kong (and his take on who the real villain of the film is) approach to poster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-194","category-celebs","category-first-blood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-3qx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13178,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177\/revisions\/13178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}