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By: Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie » Blog Archive » MPAA Bans Poster of Soldier

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:13:07 +0000

[...] popstalin designs: What’s offensive about this image? The detainee in the hood. Well, actually just the hood. An [...]

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The Groundswell Blog: MPAA Bans Taxi to the Darkside Poster — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:52:35 +0000

[...] for all audiences it will not be approved by the advertising administration.” However, as many others have been apt to point out, posters for The Hills Have Eyes 2, Saw IV, Hostel Part II and [...]

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Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:11:52 +0000

[...] (Hat tips to ldragoon and Pop Stalin Designs.) [...]

By: Pop Stalin

Pop Stalin — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:32:13 +0000

Martin: I fixed that link, thanks for letting me know about it.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:21:06 +0000

I only get the green on black text ad.gif if I press any of the mentioned poster links.
Any idea why? Using Fx, allowing popstalin.com on NoScript didn’t solve it.

Still weird that it’s banned, I didn’t even recognize the hood when I first saw it.

By: Pop Stalin

Pop Stalin — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:32:56 +0000

Sean:
I would guess the whole thing is that compared to the images linked (and I am aware of their stance on the other documentaries) in my opinion the hooded “torture” image is tame in comparison. Of course, that said, what’s that say about us as a society when we view somewhere being “hooded” as tame?

Sam S:
I think the MPAA has a warped sense of right and wrong. It’s as though if it isn’t on a poster then it either didn’t happen or we can’t handle the realities of reality or some such nonsense.

It’s just a shame that some designer did a really good job putting the above poster together and it was all for naught… or was it? I for one am getting tired of being told what we can handle as a society, especially when there are such discrepancies in what we are allowed to see.

By: Valontuoja

Valontuoja — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:08:27 +0000

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By: Sam S.

Sam S. — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:05:29 +0000

Schindler’s List link didnt work- http://www.impawards.com/1993/schindlers_list.html

By: Sam S.

Sam S. — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:03:50 +0000

Or, to bring this away from **The War on Terror,** what about these: Amistad poster which depicted chains, but not the people attached to them, or slaves, without chains that joined them in each of the two posters. Schindler's List poster which showed the hand of the girl in the red coat who either was dead at the time or would have ended up dead later in the movie.

By: Sean Foushee

Sean Foushee — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:40:45 +0000

If you re-read that Vanity article linked above you’ll find that the reason the MPAA banned the hooded image had nothing to do with some ultra-right conspiracy to cleanse our memories of any atrocities, but rather due to the Association’s assertion that placing a hood on a person’s head depicts torture. They’ve rejected artwork in the past, as mentioned in the before mentioned Vanity article, with similar depictions, so this isn’t an isolated incident. In fact, two of the movies you linked to as illustrations of the MPAA’s ridiculous stance, SAW and Hostel, were also snared in the MPAA’s decision to axe any images of hooded individuals. I think the outrage here should be towards the MPAA’s warped sense of reality wherein a severed head isn’t torture, but a piece of cloth over someone’s head is, which brings up an interesting observation, would the MPAA consider illustrations of women wearing a Hajib deceptions of torture?