close-up portrait composition — multi-line title, serif type, tagline

A historical epic movie poster in gritty cinematic photography presents an extreme close-up of a battle-worn adult Viking warrior gripping a sword upright before him. The background is a dark smoky brown-black haze with faint glowing embers drifting in the upper-left and upper-right corners, fading to pure black at the edges. The warrior's face fills the center of the frame from the top edge to the middle, his pale eyes locked directly on the viewer with grim resolve. His long dark blond hair is shaved at the sides and gathered into a topknot, loose strands whipping across the upper-left corner. His weathered skin is smeared with dirt and dried blood, scratches marking his forehead and cheeks, a dark mustache and stubble framing his mouth. He wears a heavy dark fur cloak whose coarse pelt texture masses around his shoulders in the lower-left and lower-right corners. Directly below his chin, at the exact vertical center, his hands grip the hilt of a sword held upright, its round pommel set with a cracked amber stone catching a warm glint. Across the lower third, the words "TITLE" appear in two lines of large metallic silver serif capitals with a chiseled stone-like bevel, centered and spanning nearly the full width. Above them in much smaller widely tracked silver capitals reads "TAGLINE". The lighting is dramatic and low-key: a warm fire-like key light rakes across the warrior's face from the upper left, carving deep shadows into the eye sockets and under the cheekbones, while the background falls away into darkness. The color palette is dominated by near-black shadow and cold ash-gray skin tones, broken by warm amber embers, the golden rim light in the hair, and the silver title lettering. The overall composition centers the monumental scarred face in imposing symmetry with the sword as a vertical axis, in a dark textured cinematic style that feels brutal, solemn, and epic.