Comments on: 50 Cent vs 007

By: ILLICIT

ILLICIT — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:04:38 +0000

By: ILLICIT

ILLICIT — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:00:16 +0000

It’s all true. Double standards to the maxx right there. I suppose they thought that because the film focuses on the violent past that most rappers came from, they thought that the poster glorified it or something, which is bullsh*t.

A gun in one hand, Fifty in the middle, and the microphone in his other hand could be seen as symbolising the connection between rap and violence. I mean think about it:

The gun symbolises violence, the microphone symbolises music (more specifically; rap), and Fifty is the medium betweeen the two.

BTW, I never realised that was the poster they were talking about. I thought they were talking about the picture of his back, holding his child, with his 9 in his waistband. Anyone with the album knows which one I’m talking about

By: Ken Peggs

Ken Peggs — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:04:23 +0000

Why assume it’s a race issue? My first thought was that despite what the MPAA said, the key factor in the “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” poster was the title. That title *combined* with the gun seemed to be exhorting poster-viewers to consider violence. I expect the actual film’s message was more complex (although i don’t know, maybe not).

If you kept the gun in the 50 cent poster, but *changed the title* to, I dunno, “Harry Potter and the ennui of the lost tundra”, I bet no-one would have complained, except JK Rowling.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:01:49 +0000

Thanks for the correction — I’ve changed Dirty Harry’s gun caliber.

By: des merrion

des merrion — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:45:38 +0000

The gun Clint Eastwood was pointing in the poster for Dirty Harry was a Smith and Wesson .44 magnum, not a .357 as stated.
A small correction, but necessary.
The whole hype of firearms in posters is rubbish.
Almost every programme on tv openly shows firearms.

By: Clay

Clay — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:56:08 +0000

I’ve noticed that in the poster for City of God, the guns held by a row of children and teens have been airbrushed out. Perhaps because of their age?

Also, in publicity still for The Departed, a shot of Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio on the roof looks as if they’re in the middle of a fistfight. In fact, DiCaprio is holding a gun to Damon during that hold scene. I believe it has been airbrushed out.

By: Kaonashi

Kaonashi — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:36:53 +0000

The second commenter is spot on. There’s totally a double standard. If a black actor is holding the gun in a poster, oooh he looks scary, he’s a gangster. But if a white actor is holding the gun, he looks cool, like James Bond. And it’s ok for female actors to hold two guns, since who would take women seriously as badasses anyway?

By: Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:43:41 +0000

There’s all sorts of rules that vary as the situations arise:

- you can’t have more than two guns.
- you can’t point the gun out at the audience.
- you can’t show an open barrel

All in the name of protecting the public.

Imagine how boring comics would be if they had to follow these rules…

By: Bobby Dragulescu

Bobby Dragulescu — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:19:23 +0000

I never thought I would utter these words, but Fiddy is exactly right!

I’m going to chalk up the logic to this: Black actor holding a gun, who has actually USED a real gun = scary and offensive. Hey, I didn’t say it was right, but you know it was what they were thinking.

By: Rob Weychert

Rob Weychert — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:31:06 +0000

Double standards will exist as long as censorship exists. Neither the MPAA nor the FCC has any hard and fast “code” which artists can refer to, because even if such a subjective document could ever be completed, it would take a lifetime to read it. Maybe they should put something like that together. It might cripple the imagination and homogenize everything in its path, but it would sure create a lot of jobs.