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Animal companions
I see a lot of movie posters, and I’ve noticed an increasingly large number of the ones that show cast ensembles also show animals that act as important plot points. For instance, in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Simon Pegg (as Toby Young) pretends to bring Babe the Sheeppig to a party. Hence, the pig is important enough to be in the poster.
These film-poster animals got me looking around the internet to see if any really great movies of the past twenty-five years employed the same tactics in their marketing — putting important animals into the posters. Do you know, I found quite a few.