Why was this poster banned?
This is the poster for Michael Winterbottom's award-winning docudrama THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO. The MPAA banned this one-sheet for the upcoming film. According to the WASHINGTON POST it was due to the poster "depicting acts of torture." Yet, they will allow for the devices explicitly used for torture to be shown on the HOSTEL one-sheet or the dismembered body parts to adorn the SAW movie posters. Hmmm...
Any thoughts?
posted by jason.jackowski | Wednesday, May 17, 2006
3 Comments:
I can't imagine there's any political rationale behind banning the poster? Nah.
Wait, I thought the MPAA was not a censor. They only offer optional ratings to film distributors. But if they can BAN a poster, isn't that censorship. It's all so confusing. It's a similar situation to the illegal monitoring of all my comments by you.
Ha ha. Bet ya thought I was gonna say something else.
Anyway, lemme see, there's the misleading chainsaw boner poster and the torture device poster from HOSTEL. The severed feet and digits from the SAW movies. What else? Those weird disturbing airbrushed faces on the Sideways video poster, maybe?
Of course, the MPAA is not a government body. Did I imply that it was in my previous post? I don't remember and now I have to wait for you to moderate the damn thing.
Anyway, nice article from the Post. I am looking forward to the Kirby Dick movie.
You're right. The MPAA is not a government body. They just so happen to have their headquarters located in Washington, DC.
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