Yesterday was James Bond Day, however 007 followers have been left scratching their heads when Amazon Prime Video showcased all their legacy titles within the collection with spiffy new digital posters:
Discover something unusual? That’s proper – they took away James Bond’s basic Walther PPK! The entire posters, which largely appear to be primarily based on basic art work from the collection, had the weapons 007 was posing with eliminated. Right here’s a earlier than and after for Dr. No:
A number of the posters are extra egregious than others. Some have James Bond along with his arms hanging unnaturally at his sides, akin to within the bizarre trying Spy Who Cherished Me and A View to a Kill posters. Others clearly had weapons airbrushed out, akin to within the Goldeneye poster:
Contemplating Amazon very famously purchased the rights to the franchise for a staggering quantity, it’s unusual that they opted to take away weapons, contemplating how intently related the character is along with his basic firearm. I imply, every film even begins with a gun barrel brand. What’s particularly unusual is that the basic 007 brand they’re utilizing nonetheless has a gun barrel drawn in. It looks like an excessively delicate transfer for a corporation whose movies definitely don’t shrink back from firearms. Their newest film, Play Soiled, is loaded with them, as are two of their greatest latest hits, Heads of State and The Accountant 2. Over on iTunes, for the time being, some – however not all – the art work has weapons. Might this be a harbinger of issues to return? Will Amazon/MGM strip away all the weather that make James Bond so iconic, akin to his weapons and, after all, the Bond women? I wouldn’t fear an excessive amount of, although. Even when this batch of 007 posters options an unarmed James Bond, the flicks nonetheless look nice in 4K on Prime and pack as a lot firepower as ever.
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