Posted on 06/08/2004 9:29:56 AM PDT by Exigence
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Some people are saying the way Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice are portrayed in an ad for the new "Stepford Wives" film is distasteful, even outrageous.
'Stepford Wives' Ad Shows Hillary, Condoleezza In Strange Light
The spot shows an image of Rice made to look nude from the waist up, and a picture of Clinton that morphs into what looks like a cookie-baking Stepford wife.
The pictures move across the screen very quickly, but they caught the eye of a Kansas City woman, who recorded the spot to make sure of what she was seeing.
Becky Reynolds said when she taped and watched the ad again, she "realized it was even worse" that what she'd suspected.
"It's just inappropriate, and it needs to be stopped," Reynolds said.
For those who haven't seen the 1975 thriller by director Bryan Forbes, the 2004 version is pretty much the same, but with a dash of technical wizardry. Both films are based on a book by Ira Levin about a small Connecticut town where the women act too perfectly -- because their husbands have replaced them with robots.
But Reynolds says the less-than-perfect images in the advertisement for the new film will keep her out of the theater. Pat Gray, who works with Northstar Marketing Group, said the ad shows bad taste toward Rice and Clinton.
"In today's media environment, I don't know whether it's unacceptable morally or not -- distasteful, for sure," Gray said. "If I were them, I'd probably sue."
Gray also said the ad wouldn't drive him to the theater.
"That certainly wouldn't stimulate me to go see the movie," he said.
Nancy Kirkpatrick, a spokeswoman for Paramount Pictures, said the film studio hasn't received any complaints about the spot. Paramount hasn't heard from Rice or Clinton, either.
At least the "roles" weren't reversed.
Hillary "Lucrezia" Clinton baking cookies? Yeah, that's a pretty good basis for a horror movie all right...
I agree. Dr. Rice has done nothing except do a great job. I'd rather they show billyblythe-clinton as a Stepford Wife. THAT might be funny.
The story stank. The movie was just awful.
Why are all these producers rehashing old movies, storylines and sequels and not coming up with something new?
Just becaue you have new technology doesn't mean you can take a completely lame story and make it better. If the plot and story stinks...it will stink the second time around.
Trying to generate some audience by insulting Secretary Rice is stupid.
Hillary is good at baking cookies!
So, Hillary is a dried up old hag and Condi is hot babe. Really hot babe! Hot hot hot! Babe-a-licious! Woo hoo! Youza! <-- I mean this in an intellectual and non-sexist way. Really....
AHHHHHHH! These guys have a great sense of true horror!
As I said on the other thread, the only accurate thing about this photoshop gif is that Rice is in as good a shape as the picture makes her out to be. She is a physical specimen. Hillary, otoh, will never look that way again. (/catty remarks)
Be Seeing You,
Chris
I haven't seen the movie but I have seen the trailer. You can often tell when a movie is going to be bad, the trailer seems overlong. I had that feeling when I saw that trailer.
I don't think I'd mind so much if I was Condi. At least they make her look attractive, sexy and thin. She seems to have a sense of humor and can spin it to be a positive thing.
That's the defense they use. Condi maybe nude but at least it wasn't "Hillary".
Obviously not Hillary...the woman in the ad actually has breasts.
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