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Why Polish Star Wars posters look nothing like Star Wars

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Bypassing Hollywood's strict marketing chokehold during the Cold War era, Polish graphic designers were handed mere snippets of movie plots and given total creative anarchy. The result for Star Wars wasn't a heroic montage of Luke and Vader, but a wildly unauthorized, terrifyingly surreal poster by Jakub Erol featuring a giant cosmic leopard masquerading as C-3PO, proving that vibe beats accuracy every time.

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