This weekend, we reported on a narrative that shortly went fairly viral. In a tragic signal of the instances, Amazon Prime Video posted model new James Bond digital posters, celebrating James Bond Day, however the entire posters have been digitally manipulated to take away weapons from them. Learn all about it in our earlier story.
After a lot fan backlash, Amazon shortly restored the older thumbnails that had been featured on the service for months now. Appears like a victory for followers, proper? Nicely, not fairly, as a few of these photos have been censored as effectively. Test it out:
It’s fairly wild that Amazon would alter one among Skyfall’s signature photos, however I assume that’s the place we’re at. What’s so unusual about this complete factor is that Amazon Prime definitely doesn’t shrink back from that includes weapons of their thumbs in any other case. Try this display screen seize I took of my Prime queue:
Actually each different motion film poster has weapons on it apart from the 007 ones.
So, what provides? Who made this determination? May it’s that Prime is attempting to market James Bond to a youthful viewers, and it’s cautious of together with weapons in them? I’ll say that exterior of the Skyfall abomination, I’ve much less of a problem with the brand new posters as most of them are simply cropped photos from the movies, which is ok. However, I don’t get why Amazon is so frightened about James Bond, the character they actually paid a billion {dollars} for, being seen with a gun. When the brand new 007 film lastly comes out, will not one of the promoting function the character brandishing a Walther PPK? Prefer it or not, weapons (and women) are a part of the character’s cinematic legacy, and scrubbing them is a thumb within the eye of followers who’ve made this sequence probably the most profitable and long-running one in cinematic historical past. What do you consider Amazon’s reversal? Tell us within the feedback.
