Please Don't Shoot Me! Don't point movie guns at audience MPAA says!


	Please Don't Shoot Me! Don't point movie guns at audience MPAA says!

ratilfar

7-19-2008 8:48 AM

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movies, guns, watchmen, advertising, trailers

ratilfar says:

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Still, the Motion Picture Association Of America doesn't want to take any chances, which is why they told the director of Watchmen, Zack Snyder, that he couldn't have a guy pointing a gun at the audience in the trailer. Snyder replaced the gun with a walkie-talkie. This way, if anyone from 1903 watches the trailer, instead of ducking and/or running for their life, they'll just drop their bowler hat, curl up into a ball, rock back and forth, and mumble into their shirtwaist, "What world is this? What is happening to me? Where am I?"

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