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two-character poster — Oversized Title, Diagonal

L2185 · two-character poster — Oversized Title, Diagonal. Explore the reference image and prompt, then open this composition in the layout tool.

L2185 · Oversized Title, Diagonal

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L2185

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A film-noir crime movie poster looms a giant fedora-wearing adult man over a diagonal yellow "TITLE" and two small gunmen against a blood-red background. In the upper-right quadrant, an oversized head and shoulders of an adult man in a dark fedora dominates, his face half swallowed by shadow. He holds a lit cigarette to his lips with two fingers, a thin curl of smoke rising past the hat brim. His eyes glance sideways under the brim with a grim, wary expression, and a hard highlight traces the edge of the hat. Stubble shadows his jaw, and the cigarette tip glows faintly. Across the center, the "TITLE" runs diagonally from lower-left to upper-right in large yellow three-dimensional block letters with red extruded sides. The letters overlap the giant figure's dark coat, floating forward of him. In the lower-left corner, two adult men in dark suits stand close together at small scale, both staring off-frame to the left. The nearer of the two grips a small pistol at waist level, the gunmetal catching a glint. Their faces are lit starkly, with deep shadows under their cheekbones. Across the bottom, a jagged black city skyline silhouette stretches edge to edge, a few tiny windows glowing. A faint red glow rims the rooftop antennas. The background is a deep crimson red that darkens to near-black at the frame edges. The lighting is harsh low-key noir lighting, with a single hard source from the upper right carving the giant face out of darkness, long black shadows swallowing the coat, and a smoldering red haze glowing behind everything. The composition counterbalances the massive shadowed face in the upper right against the small armed pair in the lower left along the title's diagonal, while the blood-red, sulfur-yellow, and black palette and the hard-edged painted noir style sustain a mood of paranoid, smoky menace.