# Leonardo Life in Roles Poster

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Explainers (@library.explainers)](/@library.explainers.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Posters and type
- AI keywords: portrait, poster, illustration
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Goal: Create a gritty cinematic poster-style infographic celebrating {actor_name} and his evolving film roles, titled like a prestige movie retrospective.

Canvas: Landscape 4:3 poster, dark sepia and charcoal palette, aged paper texture, smoky grunge background, subtle scratches, dust, blood spatters in the lower left, dramatic film-poster lighting, high-contrast realistic digital painting / photobash style.

Layout: Place a large realistic right-facing side-profile portrait of the actor on the center-right, occupying about one third of the width. On the left half, create a collage of exactly 12 smaller role portraits of the same actor at different ages and in different costumes, arranged in a loose pyramid around the large profile. The 12 visible role portraits are: 1 young clean-cut teen in a dark jacket, 2 aviator wearing leather flight helmet and goggles with shearling collar, 3 wet-haired romantic young man in scarf and coat, 4 slick-haired man in a black suit and tie, 5 bruised rugged man with blood and dirt on his face, 6 intense man shouting in a rain-soaked combat scene, 7 tuxedoed wealthy man holding a champagne flute, 8 exhausted fur-cloaked frontiersman, 9 drenched grim man with messy hair, 10 bearded man in a wide-brim hat, 11 stern modern man in a blue work jacket, 12 mustached man in a dark coat. Add exactly 2 prominent foreground props at bottom left: an antique pocket watch with chain and a hatchet/axe lying diagonally over a blood-stained surface.

Right-side typography and timeline: At the top right, set a huge distressed serif headline reading {headline_text}. Beneath it, centered small caps subtitle: {subtitle_text}, with thin horizontal rules on both sides. Under the subtitle, create a vertical gold timeline with exactly 8 dot markers and text entries in condensed uppercase lettering: 1993 / THIS BOY'S LIFE / TOBY; 1997 / TITANIC / JACK DAWSON; 2002 / CATCH ME IF YOU CAN / FRANK ABAGNALE JR.; 2006 / THE DEPARTED / BILLY COSTIGAN; 2010 / INCEPTION / DOM COBB; 2013 / THE WOLF OF WALL STREET / JORDAN BELFORT; 2015 / THE REVENANT / HUGH GLASS; 2023 / KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON / ERNEST BURKHART. To the far right of the timeline, include exactly 4 era labels stacked vertically in gold: YOUTH / 1990s, ASCENT / 2000s, EXCESS / 2010s, SURVIVAL / 2020s.

Bottom text: Add a centered quote in uppercase with large quotation marks: {quote} Beneath the quote, place exactly 2 laurel award badges: left badge says ACADEMY / AWARD / WINNER, right badge says A CAREER / FOR THE AGES. Along the bottom edge, add spaced-out gold text reading {tagline} with thin lines extending left and right, plus a small cursive signature beneath.

Visual style: Serious, epic, award-season promotional poster; realistic faces, weathered costumes, cinematic chiaroscuro, muted gold typography, distressed vintage serif fonts, condensed sans-serif timeline text, smoky vignette edges, no bright modern colors.

Constraints: Keep all text legible and in English, preserve the exact counts of 13 actor depictions total including the large profile plus 12 collage portraits, 8 timeline entries, 4 era labels, 2 foreground props, and 2 laurel badges. Do not add extra characters, logos, watermarks, or unrelated text.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{actor_name}` | actor name | LEONARDO |
| `{headline_text}` | headline text | LEONARDO |
| `{subtitle_text}` | subtitle text | A LIFE IN ROLES |
| `{quote}` | quote | HE DOESN'T JUST PLAY CHARACTERS. HE HOLDS UP A MIRROR TO THE CENTURY. |
| `{tagline}` | tagline | SAME MAN. ENDLESS TRUTHS. |

## About

A gritty cinematic retrospective poster showing Leonardo DiCaprio-style role portraits, timeline milestones, awards, and vintage movie-poster typography.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.explainers on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/leonardo-life-in-roles-poster-jzqm0x
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