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- Hitman Posters Blown Out of Philly
- Posted About 1 year ago by Coop
Philadelphia has one of the highest murder rates in the country and now, thanks to the sensationalist news, we know who to blame. According to an article in the Philadelphia Daily News, posters promoting the upcoming movie based on the game Hitman have been taken out of subways. The writer has penned an entire article in which she lessens the problems of the city and puts the blame on, what else, advertising.
HITMAN OFFED
IN A CITY with a real-life gun problem, ads glorifying gun violence to sell movies can be particularly sickening. So we're glad to report that some in City Hall are taking it personally and saying, "Enough is enough."
Billboards and SEPTA bus ads for the movie "Hitman" went up a few weeks ago. They show a man pointing a gun, with a nearly naked woman draped over him.
According to Mayor Street's office, some police officers who saw the ads cried foul. Understandable, since many of them had probably just come back from the funeral of Officer Chuck Cassidy, killed by gunshot.
The mayor made some calls, asking that the billboards be taken down. SEPTA says the contracts were up anyway. But the billboard company, Clear Channel Outdoor, says it started taking them down before the contracts were up. It naturally doesn't want to broadcast this, since its business is keeping advertisers happy.
But we think the mayor and Clear Channel deserve credit for pushing back against the cultural tsunami of images that romanticize and sexualize gun violence - and leave the rest of us to clean up the real-life blood.
The case against these posters is really pathetic. A movie poster with a woman in a dress (aka, according to the article, nearly naked) and a fictional character with a firearm (aka, according to the article, glorifying gun violence) shouldn’t be tied to something unrelated. Acting like the poster above is really related at all to the gun deaths is just, well, wrong. If this had been the only poster that had Agent 47 wielding a firearm and the movie company only put it in Philly there would be a case, albeit a bad one.
It seems that this is just an example of City Hall trying to scapegoat their lack of control on the citizens they are supposed to protect. Instead of addressing the real problem they are censoring unrelated material. Wagging the dog much?
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I actually saw this on the news earlier this week and already posted about it....Philly is not going to clean up just because they remove this poster.......
Why not tear down the DieHard 4 posters I saw everywhere? Tearing down posters of Hitman is not going to stop 13 year old kids from shooting each other over their sneakers, if they can still get the guns from the street. This city needs to come down hard on gun laws, and work on getting the economy back up so that unemployment is not rampid throughout. This poster aint killing anyone, and no one can blame another person's murder on it.
Some one complained about Santa's "ho,ho,ho" being offensive to women. People need to stop constantly searching for reasons to get upset over stupid things. I miss the days where people had the common sense to shoot each other because they had the capacity to kill rather than "hitman told me to do it."
Also am I the only one actually seeing this movie haha?
are you kidding me its a poster. The poster enver told anyone to go kill someone in philadelphia. The poeple that are shooting other poeple are doing so becuase something is not right with them from the start.
yeah, as far as censorship goes, it shouldn't have caused as much outrage as you're feeling, Coop. Even though I feel that them taking down the posters because a cop got shot feels like special treatment to me, I for one don't feel at all upset over it. Thats just my opinion....btw, the cop got shot at a Dunk'n Donuts near Tyler:)
I didn't say it was the answer, just said it's understandable, though incorrect. You seem to paint the people in City Hall as complete bumbling fools who can't even keep the city under control. In reality, they are simply at their wits end as they've done pretty much everything humanly possible, short of martial law.
And the answer is censorship of a movie poster? Sorry, I’m not buying it.
I dunno, it's not so ridiculous to me. Granted, I live in Germantown and hear about kids as young as 13 shooting people. Now, I'm not saying that movies and games are the reason, but these kids definitely do idolize shit like this. So in desperate times, you do desperate things. I'm not saying their outrage is correct, but it's understandable. Coop, until you move out of a place like Doylestown and into the city you could never understand just how bad it is and just how much these kids really do wanna be Agent 47, Tony Montana, Neo, etc.
well coop, when and if i get shot while living in Philly, you know who i'm gonna blame???? the fucker that shot me:P
yeah, this was a good idea on the city's part. I was kinda getting peeved at seeing these every day.
This is good, the Hitman movie is going to be horrible.
HAY GUYSES LETS TAKING SOMETHING AWRSUM AND ORIGINAL AND TURN IT INTO MAINSTREAM BORING BEEN DONE BEFORE HOGWASH!
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