BAD LIEUTENANT poster is awesome, but rejected by MPAA
Rules, rules, rules… They ruin everything, don’t they? Well, no. But they do ruin some things, and this new poster for Werner Herzog’s BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS is a fine example of that. The team behind this MPAA-rejected poster did a cool job of taking a scene from the film and making it into an animated still – the same look Linklater gave to WAKING LIFE and A SCANNER DARKLY. What does this poster boast that has them in such a hissy fit?
A gun.
The MPAA has a long list of no-nos when it comes to ratings, but it also has lists for trailers and posters as well. The new BAD LIEUTENANT poster violates one of the rules concerning weapons: a gun can be present on a poster, but cannot be pointed at a person. Wow. So, the SAW posters can bring on the hacked body parts and bloody stumps, but point a gun at someone and bang! – you can kiss that sucker goodbye. The MPAA’s regulations seem very hypocritical and very muddled. What a shame this won’t make it to theaters.
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