De Niro movie poster criticised

De Niro movie poster criticised

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A film poster sited at Stockwell Tube station during the Jean Charles de Menezes inquest could have caused serious offence, a regulator has ruled.

The poster for Righteous Kill was displayed at the station where Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot dead after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.

Its tagline read: "There's nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right people get shot."

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How insensitive are the people producing these posters.

It's a disgrace.

Consider the location of this. I certainly hope that none of these posters appear in Croxteth in Liverpool following the Rhys Jones verdict yesterday.

Advertisers really need to take into account current events and people's feelings before releasing these posters.

And to put it up in Stockwell Tube station.

Beggars belief.

These people should hold their heads in shame.

Peace.

MGGG

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People are so insensitive and de-humanised that no-one really cares about anyone except themselves as an individual these days.
Bu all I can say to this particular story and I will probably be flamed but I don't care .


FFS, get over it , it happened and yes it was a tragedy, we can't change the past , and if this is the attitude we're going to have to try and pussyfoot over 'sensitive' issues then please lets stop ALL advertising because someone somewhere is going to be upset by it.
I mean theres an advert telling people to get in debt by getting themselves on the Electoral roll for the Lambeth council in London , on the Wandsworth Road , and its basically a hand holding 3 credit cards and it says " Want one of these?".
then get on the electoral roll.
I'm outraged by this but will they take it down? will it be in the media?
No
so please get over yourselves, its an advert not a statement of events that happened there.
If its going to be like that I suggest NO MORE WW2 FILMS made as the adverts will upset the Old folk who lived during the Blitz.
No more Drug / Gangster film adverts coz drug addicts families might get upset.
No more kids films adverts as peados might get excited.
No more ROMCOMS as its' bad for your mental health.
No more science Fiction film advert as its a flight of fancy and nostaglia fans might get upset and end up with 'futureshock'
The list goes on
Like the TV advert says " Calm down dear, its a commercial"




[edit on 17/12/08 by DataWraith]

I'm not saying let's ban commericials. What I'm saying is that more thought needs to go into the positioning and location of these posters.

A few years down the line maybe it would be fine - when the family have moved on a touch - not just after an open verdict being reached.

Time is a healer, after all.

All I'm asking is whether or not as a society we care about the impact that some things have on others.

And I won't be flaming you - we are entitled to our viewpoints.

Peace,

MGGG

reply to post by DataWraith


Thats exactly what i wanted to say

Just a bit more eloquent than i would have been

Many people are TOO sensitive these days, and can't find the funny side in life (not that a man getting killed wrongfully is funny, mind you). Like in that thread about the substitute teacher who told the 7 year olds that Santa isn't real. The people who were for Santa pretty much said they have to have magic ie. bull# to feel happy in this world. Some people can't find anything happy about reality. If that was a relative of mine, and I saw that the poster was there, I might have laughed, and remembered other funny stuff I did with that person.

Today's world is too PC, with the changing of words with the same meaning every few years if not months.

reply to post by flyindevil

If that was a relative of mine, and I saw that the poster was there, I might have laughed, and remembered other funny stuff I did with that person.

The world is often too obsessed with political correctness today, I agree, but that statement of yours is the most insensitive thing I have ever seen.
Moreover, any poster actually advocating killing people for any reason aught to be banned IMHO.

Caring about yourself and not caring about others is an oxymoron.
That is the most stupid and backfiring thing of all.

I could understand if such a message was meant to be ironical, but using it just to promote a consumers product like a movie, is beyond any shame.

The whole world has been turned into a pornographic experiment.

Creating controversy is probably just what they intended on doing for publicity for this movie. Humor might also be the irony and satire mockery that some believe what they're doing is right. Comercials of 'Truth' against smoking also does something like this for "Shock value"

SNL also did this with a recent parody on the blind governor Paterson.The controversy has had several hits on Youtube etc. Marketing tools and political/goverment public relations have strong similarities.

The shock humor we have today does cross the lines more these days as if in desperation. Any fines may be well worth the money and give the system a kick-back. Aren't we all be played anyway?

Paparazzi tactics have been even more desperate in competing for money by abusing celebrities through humiliating exposure by goading them to overreact and than even sue them? This to me is an extreme abuse of rights through loopholes of freedom of the press etc. for money. Dead people are than also celebrities. (Princess Diana)

Typical marketing in our land of freedoms for democracy. The victims are outnumbered. Is this really not much different from the Roman coliseum?



[edit on 17-12-2008 by aleon1018]