It was one of the best things I've seen."Ĭostello says he designed the font when he just was 23 years old. "I took a look at it and me and my wife were like cracking up, I mean we couldn't stop laughing. "I woke up this morning Sunday and my email was full," said font artist Chris Costello. The riff went over well - the video has already racked up 1.7 million views - but how does the creator of the Papyrus font feel? CBS actually tracked him down and asked. With news that Cameron's long-gestating Avatar sequels would finally begin shooting, you can see why Torres felt the need to vent his feelings ASAP (and with the help of a committed thespian like Gosling). The sketch comes from Julio Torres, who previously wrote last year's masterpiece "Wells for Boys," and as clearly not stopped thinking about Avatar. "Like a thoughtless child wandering in a garden, yanking leaves along the way." "He just highlighted Avarar, clicked the drop-down menu, and then he just randomly selected Papyrus," Gosling's character tells his therapist. And he can't shake the thin, scroll-like title treatment from his mind. In this guy's mind, there's no greater crime than typographical laziness. "Papyrus" starred host Ryan Gosling as an everyman stricken with a debilitating infatuation: he can't get over that the Avatar logo was just the word "Avatar" converted into the Microsoft-Word-issued Papyrus font. But clearly some people are thinking about it. The science-fiction epic Best Picture nominee and the highest grossing movie of all time, and yet between Marvel mega-franchises and the Netflix takeover, it's rarely brought up. Then there was the second-to-last sketch of the night, a pop culture fanaticism and obsession disorders that probably went over the head of anyone who hasn't thought about James Cameron's 2009 blockbuster, Avatar. We’ll have to wait and see if the nerdy sketch will have any influence on the Avatar PR team over the next 3 years.Saturday Night Live's Season 43 premiere was filled with the staples: a Trump-skewering opening, a mock commercial, Keenan singing songs like a pro, and excuses for Kate McKinnon to act like a lunatic. As of yet, the Papyrus font, or near lookalike, still stands. As a final parting jab, the closing card featured the word “avatar” in the ultimate sin of all fonts, comic sans, which is both hilarious and unforgivable.Īvatar 2 has an expected release date of December 18, 2020. There’s no escape for Gosling who will live to see at least four sequels in the fantasy franchise. Gosling’s character was haunted by the design choice and became obsessed with the man who did it. Among the final category is Papyrus, the font of choice for James Cameron’s blockbuster hit Avatar that cost $237 million to make. Gosling channeled his mysterious character from 2011’s Drive who had only one thing on his mind – Papyrus.Īnyone who has had an introduction to graphic design knows there are legible fonts, fonts that help tell a story, passé fonts that ought to be retired, and then there are the fonts no one should ever use. The cast revisited the alien abduction sketch that featured Kate McKinnon and was a runaway hit the last time Gosling hosted, but the highlight of the night was Gosling’s Avatar font digital short. Gosling kicked off the year with a star studded show featuring musical guest Jay-Z, Alec Baldwin reprising his role as President Trump, and special guest Emma Stone. No one does modern day melodrama better than Ryan Gosling, and he got to show off his talents in Saturday Night Live’s season premiere this weekend.
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