De Niro movie poster at Stockwell breached decency guidelines
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7786462.stm
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The Righteous Kill advert placed at Stockwell Tube Station where Charles de Menezes was shot dead after being mistaken for a suicide bomber has been ruled as breaching decency guidelines.
Its tagline read: "There's nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right person gets shot."
The Advertising Standards Authority said: "We understood the siting of the poster at the station was unintentional, but nevertheless considered that the text... had the potential to cause serious offence in that location,"
Although the poster was eventually removed at Stockwell it was still there when members of the inquest visited the station in September.
Film distributors Liongate said "We considered that most people were likely to understand that the poster reflected the content of the film and the quote was intended to be wryly humorous,"
In the light of everything that happened at Stockwell it seems amazing that the poster was ever put up there. I'm sure the advertisers bought the ad space of a whole line, but CBS should flag up particular stations which have violent associations. Considering the Tube have a rather prudish attitude to posters in general & have banned ads that show a bit of nudity it's amazing this happened.
Its tagline read: "There's nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right person gets shot."
The Advertising Standards Authority said: "We understood the siting of the poster at the station was unintentional, but nevertheless considered that the text... had the potential to cause serious offence in that location,"
Although the poster was eventually removed at Stockwell it was still there when members of the inquest visited the station in September.
Film distributors Liongate said "We considered that most people were likely to understand that the poster reflected the content of the film and the quote was intended to be wryly humorous,"
In the light of everything that happened at Stockwell it seems amazing that the poster was ever put up there. I'm sure the advertisers bought the ad space of a whole line, but CBS should flag up particular stations which have violent associations. Considering the Tube have a rather prudish attitude to posters in general & have banned ads that show a bit of nudity it's amazing this happened.
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- credits:
- Beta_Boy clipped earlier story
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AnnieMole
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Beta Boy's earlier clipping when the poster placement was first noticed.
- 3 years ago
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AnnieMole
