Comments on: ‘Couples Retreat’ Poster Outrage? https://staging2.theplaylist.net/couples-retreat-poster-outrage-20091116/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:02:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: rodrigoperez https://staging2.theplaylist.net/couples-retreat-poster-outrage-20091116/#comment-12920 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:12:02 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5513#comment-12920 @goldfarb.

You obviously can't tell photoshop then. It's different posters, but from the same photoshoot, different backgrounds made. Their all wearing the same clothes, it just has been composed and put together differently… yes, in photoshop.

]]> By: cirkusfolk https://staging2.theplaylist.net/couples-retreat-poster-outrage-20091116/#comment-12882 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:41:36 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5513#comment-12882 How about this…they aren't as big of actors as the other people. I've never heard of either of them, hence they don't need to be on the poster. If Denzel Washington was in the movie, are you saying he would be in the back, or taken completely off?

]]> By: goldfarb https://staging2.theplaylist.net/couples-retreat-poster-outrage-20091116/#comment-12868 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:18:11 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5513#comment-12868 strangely I perfer this simple removal to the 'whitening' that some (mostly female) black actors get…see Rosario Dawson in clerks 2 ads…

oh and has the meaning of the word 'photoshopped' broadend to include what is clearly a completely different picture?

]]> By: bonzob@earthlink.net https://staging2.theplaylist.net/couples-retreat-poster-outrage-20091116/#comment-12864 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:54:59 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5513#comment-12864 Actually, there was a fuss made about the black actors being pushed to the back of the US poster. Not as big as this fuss, but I definitely read an article or two on it at the time.

]]> By: Craig Kennedy https://staging2.theplaylist.net/couples-retreat-poster-outrage-20091116/#comment-12857 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:44:01 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5513#comment-12857 Pretty soon, all movie advertising will be homogenized to appeal to a target demographic…

The horror.

]]> By: gabetoro https://staging2.theplaylist.net/couples-retreat-poster-outrage-20091116/#comment-12856 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:29:25 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=5513#comment-12856 In many of the American ads (some newspaper, I believe) the black couple were also completely removed. Not a huge surprise.

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