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Movie Poster Whitewashed Award

posted 14 years ago by napierslogs
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Apparently the producers thought it was OK to whitewash the movie poster!

http://www.impawards.com/2009/sillyawards.html - scroll down to whitewashed award.

The first one featured the 4 couples standing in the water (the one IMDb shows), and then they re-released the almost identical poster minus the black couple.

People have commented on the fact that the black couple shouldn't have really been in the movie, but it seems a bit much to have them in the poster, and in the movie, and then just erase them from the poster. Why would they do that? they think the black couple in the poster is going to scare away audience members?!

I was shocked when I saw that. I didn't think this kind of whitewashing was still occuring today.

[–] jacksvoice 14 years ago

that might be the reason, black people can be scary... and annoying, oh and crazy, oh and dark

[–] cdguerra-1 14 years ago

Isn't there a cross-burning that you should go to?

[–] jacksvoice 14 years ago

thats funny...

[–] martin-669 14 years ago

oK, oK, oK ... I'm going :D

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[–] cvsandstuff 9 years ago

some find talking mr. potato head mouth-slits macabre.
look closer...

[–] jacksvoice 14 years ago

see someone agrees

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[–] jacksvoice 14 years ago

damn right. thanks for your pointless comment

[–] cdguerra-1 14 years ago

No, thank YOU for YOUR pointless comment, teabagger!

[–] jacksvoice 14 years ago

ok ya teabagger is reaalllly insulting....

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[–] tobymay 14 years ago

"teabagger"?

Better to be a "teabagger" than an impotent childish illegal-alien apologist and racist hater of white people.

So funny that you white-hating people think you're actually helping yourselves by actively alienating yourselves from the very group of people most able and willing to actually provide you with a country WORTH sneaking into ;-).

You just keep whining and name-calling; we "teabaggers" will, in the meantime, systematically destroy your weak-willed political agendas.

All you do with your ignorance is make our job easier!

Keep it up, hater...

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[–] aciago 10 years ago

you can´t play the racist card here, they where the only couple unfamous, if the black guy was eddie murphy or chris rock nobody would take them out of the poster.
favreau, vaughn, sarah marshall, ackerman and charlotte where known, nobody knows the other couple.
in one poster was jean reno, they took him away because he was french? that´s xenophobia

[–] avortac4 (3751) 4 years ago

Interestingly, the word 'whitewashing' used to have a completely different meaning before all this race hysteria was created.

Hijacking words that already have a different meaning to use them in a more simplistic manner (because that meaning is too difficult for the simple-minded to understand) to advance your race agenda seems to be the norm today. The old, civilized, elegant world that created these words is dead.

[–] TMC-4 (20268) 4 years ago

Couples Retreat actor Faizon Love sues Universal Studios for intentionally scrubbing him and a black actress from the international version of film poster

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8982081/Black-actor-sues-makers-Couples-Retreat-scrubbing-movie-poster.html