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YESSYDO EHT (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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Seen in the wild, in Saudi Arabia, on some movie posters the text is written backwards.

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[–] 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Every other movie poster with this image has the horse and Odysseus facing the other way. I'm pretty sure this was just placed backwards and no one noticed because they don't use that alphabet.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It doesn’t look like a transparency to me. All the movie posters I have seen are white on the back, I would think it would be obvious if this were in backwards.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Most movie posters you'd backlight like this are actually two-sided, where the back is a really dark, deep version of the poster (backwards), and the front is what you'd expect. It gives a richer color when backlit. Most posters you've seen were designed for retail/walls where a white background gives a brighter picture.

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    • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Arabic is RTL after all

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    • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    And I’ll fucking do it again!

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