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Angelina Jolie Billboards Banned In UK
September 3rd, 2008
Billboards promoting the Angelina Jolie movie ‘Wanted’ have been banned retrospectively by the British Advertising Standards Authority, because the promotional posters glamorize gun violence.
Jolie and co-star James McAvoy are featured in a variety of poses holding guns with the words, “Six weeks ago I was just like you… and then I met her… and my world was changed forever,” which the authority deemed as glamorizing assassins.
The posters, used to promote the film in the lead up to its release in June, have been banned from any future use, however, Universal Pictures has said that they are no longer in circulation and the company wasn’t planning on using them again anyway.
Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures.
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September 4th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
The truth is now clear to all and sundry that the film companies must be bankrolled by the arms manufacturers who fund these hour or so long adverts for their wares. In the same way that we witness one senseless murder after another, so the making of these films only serve their designed purpose. i.e, exporting violence, murder and gun crime to all corners of the planet.