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  • Scaramanga1974Scaramanga1974
    Posts: 923
    Why are guns being removed from the promo materials?
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    edited 10:21am Posts: 4,511
    In the very early 90's i do know that film posters in the UK were not allowed to show guns, thanks to the moronic censorship from the BBFC at the time. (Reservoir Dogs was even banned on video)

    The film poster for One False Move featured a character shooting a cop on a highway. With the gun removed it just looked ridiculous.

    Not sure what the thinking (or lack of) was with the Bond pictures, but they were rapidly removed.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited 2:01pm Posts: 3,363
    UK censorship was at its most crackpot in the '80s. Spycatcher, the memoir of an ex-MI5 agent and former Assistant Director, was available everywhere in the free world, but was banned from publication in England. English newspapers were not only banned from printing excerpts, but even from reviewing it - The Economist famously and pointedly printed a blank space where the review should have been. Hilariously, you could just hop over the border and buy Spycatcher anywhere in Scotland, though...
    Most bizarre stunt was when Thatcher banned Gerry Adams's voice from being broadcast in Britain - an actor could re-dub what he said and it was fine to show that, but you weren't allowed to hear his actual voice... :-O
  • K2WIK2WI Europe
    Posts: 68
    Venutius wrote: »
    UK censorship was at its most crackpot in the '80s. Spycatcher, the memoir of an ex-MI5 agent and former Assistant Director, was available everywhere in the free world, but was banned from publication in England. English newspapers were not only banned from printing excerpts, but even from reviewing it - The Economist famously and pointedly printed a blank space where the review should have been. Hilariously, you could just hop over the border and buy Spycatcher anywhere in Scotland, though...
    Most bizarre stunt was when Thatcher banned Gerry Adams's voice from being broadcast in Britain - an actor could re-dub what he said and it was fine to show that, but you weren't allowed to hear his actual voice... :-O

    The Economist also printed this lovely little explanation:
    In all but one country, our readers have on this page a review of 'Spycatcher,' a book by an ex-M.I.5-man, Peter Wright. The exception is Britain, where the book, and comment on it, have been banned. For our 420,000 readers there, this page is blank – and the law is an ass.

    Side-note, I was quite surprised to learn Spycatcher was co-authored by Paul Greengrass. Guess he was going to be telling spy stories no matter what.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    Posts: 3,363
    Oh, yeh, I'd forgotten about Greengrass co-writing it - excellent!
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