Adventures in Movie Marketing, Part 1: That Michael Moore is so controversial, The Man's always trying to silence him -- even when it's not his movie!
The "Fahrenheit 9/11" director merely offered up a blurb to promote "The Road to Guantanamo," a documentary about three British men imprisoned at the U.S. prison -- calling it "a film every American should see."
That quote was slated to run in newspaper ads for the movie, which opens Friday. But the Motion Picture Association of America told distributors they can't use that line: Since the film's rated R, not "every" American can see it!
It's the second such slap-down for the film: Last month, the MPAA vetoed a poster depicting a man hanging from handcuffed wrists with a burlap bag over his head. Ho ward Cohen , of distributor Roadside Attractions, laughed at the objections to the Moore quote. "Who would see that and think we were trying to lure children, next to a picture of handcuffs and a discussion of a serious political film?" MPAA spokeswoman Gayle Osterberg said that statements in ads "must be consistent with the rating." Compromise: They'll amend the quote to "every adult American."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062000081.htmlSomeone needs to go over and smack the MPAA in the head. :eyes:
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