‘WE ARE PRESERVING A TRADITION’: HOW GHANA’S SENSATIONALIST FILM POSTERS BECAME COLLECTIBLE ART
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Hand-painted works are often wildly unfaithful to the movies they portray – reinterpretations that sometimes resulted in threats, insults and even physical attacks from viewers who felt duped Sitting on his porch in… Higher on the canvas, he had started on an outline of a skull.
Heavy J was creating a poster, but not as you might have expected for a horror film. Instead, it was for the animated fairytale The Little Mermaid. The man with the knife wasn’t a killer but the film’s kind-hearted prince, Eric.
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- World news | The Guardian: Hand-painted works are often wildly unfaithful to the movies they portray – reinterpretations that sometimes resulted in threats, insults and even physical attacks from viewers who felt duped Sitting on his porch in…
- World news | The Guardian: Higher on the canvas, he had started on an outline of a skull.
- World news | The Guardian: Heavy J was creating a poster, but not as you might have expected for a horror film.
- World news | The Guardian: Instead, it was for the animated fairytale The Little Mermaid.
- World news | The Guardian: The man with the knife wasn’t a killer but the film’s kind-hearted prince, Eric.
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- Original feed: World news | The Guardian.
- Published: 18 Jul 2026, 05:00 UK.
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