{"id":28039,"date":"2021-08-09T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28039"},"modified":"2021-08-09T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:46:08","slug":"drew-stuzan-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28039","title":{"rendered":"Drew Stuzan Interview!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z080921drewstruzan_1stblood_interview.png\" 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>.\u00a0 The interview is well worth a read.\u00a0 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:\u00a0 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:\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[58,17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28040,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28039\/revisions\/28040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}