Movie Posters

[cjdog23]

I don't know if anybody has mentioned this yet, and if they have a mod can delete this thread, but I noticed that the poster for Faust in Kino Der Untoten has more writing on it. Here is a pic:

It says something along the lines of:

Herzog von Perme

Faust

Gretchen

Erzengel

Mephisto

Translated to:

Duke of Parma

Faust

Gretchen

Archangel

Mephisto

Now Faust is a 'Classic German Legend' about a man named Faust. He is a succesful scholar but he is not satisfied. He makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The devil sends a representative, Mephistopheles (Mephisto for short) to serve Faust with magic powers for [24] years. Mephisto helps Faust seduce a girl named Gretchen, who's life is destroyed but through her innocence still enters Heaven, while after [24] years Faust is damned to hell per their agreement. (Information via Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust)

I don't know how this applies to the zombie story, but it does kind of tie into the good vs evil theme that zombies seems to hold. And i would think it ties in someway being that treyarch put in the effort to create a custom poster for the movie.

There are also two other posters, one o Pygmalion and one of Die Bismark, here are pictures:

Please discuss!

[Xieon]

I actually posted this earlier in the Kino thread.

They can all be looked into deeper. I think the Bismarck one isn't that important, but depending on how you look at it Pygmallion can be seen as much more sinister.

It's all about powerful elites controlling everything, and influencing and perpetrating them with an outsider. If you closely analyze it there are obvious links to the Nazi idea of the Aryan's, and the Illuminati, as well as the story of Peter being stuck behind enemy lines.

[FreakyStyler]

hi everyone! (first post )

fyi: English is not my first/native language, trying my best - hopefully not too confusing

i find it quite astonishing that nobody looked deeper into this (haven't found your post Xieon, currently no search-function - sry), so i did it myself

Faust: cjdog23 already posted all i know about the "faust" poster, but i would like to highlight that some sites say its Faust by Gounod but its actually Faust by Goethe! It's obvious if you look at the characters... Sadly i found no connection to berlin or any kino (=cinema) in berlin. There's just a silent movie from 1926, but wikipedia mentioned the UFA (which makes me stick to my THEORY that the actual "kino der toten" (the actual cinema) is at least inspired by the "UFA Palast am Zoo" (german)/(english by Google-Trans.))

Pygmalion: This thing is really off. I'm almost sure the picture is a "treyarch"-version of a Metropolis poster. But still it says Pygmalion?! There is a writing on the left (btw thx cjdog23 for the pix ) saying:

Er schu(f)

eine frau(,)

aber er gab

ihr einen

freien

willen

which translates to:

He created

a woman,

but he gave

her a

free

will

-> totally sticks to the story of metropolis. (support for my THEORY: Metropolis had its premier at the UFA-Palast - 10. January 1927: Metropolis (fact), not the right time if we are right with assuming kino takes place around 1970, but still...)

I think pygmalion refers to the legendary figure of Cyprus because metropolis and this myth share the same basic story - man rejected by women trying to create his perfect wife(?) but it ends bad. There is also a direct refernce to metropolis in the pygmalion article ("[...]carry the Pygmalion theme as does Fritz Lang's Metropolis.")

Feel free to share your ideas and thoughts - i'm kinda stuck...

"Die Bismarck": This one is a little bit weird too. The poster makes you think its about the battleship and of course not about Otto von Bismarck (there is a movie about him from 1944!). Weird thing is i found no movie about the actual battleship (except of james camerons docu-movie from 2002 - "battleship bismarck"/"schlachtschiff bismarck"?!). The ship was built 1936 and sank 1941. So the kino time being 1970 sounds comprehensible... The text on the top is really hard to read but i think i can read: "_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Feind, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Freundschaft" (Feind = Enemy, Freundschaft = Friendship). Would love to hear what you think. In a review of james camerons documentation i read that the survivors and participants of this battle (where the bismarck sank) said in their interviews something along the lines "the enemy of the past is a good friend today"... Pretty close to what i think the poster says.

The movie posters are so obvious there must be a hint to the zombie story somewhere, maybe timeline maybe something else...

i hope this helps, hopefully not a repost, cya

FS

PS: i found some pieces of text in the pap-room and i have a theory why the characters are these 4 from 4 different nations, so sty tuned

EDIT: corrected typo. btw no one cares?