Warner Bros. Eliminates Peace Image from 'What A Girl Wants' Film Ads

Sacremento Bee ^ | April 1, 2003 7:32AM | wire staff report

[ewing]

'What a Girl Wants' is to avoid making a political statement.

Print advertisements for the teen comedy orginially featured a photograph of star Amanda Bynes wearing an American flag T-shirt and flashing the peace sign with her fingers as she stands between two Royal British Guards.

With the war in Iraq sparking anti war protests in the United States and abraod, however, Warner Brothers quickly changed the ad. The studio Monday said it feared the peace sign would be viewed as a political message.

New versions of the image feature Bynes with her right hand at her side, although many of the original posters had already been placed on billboards and buses before the change.

[Anamensis]

And Hollywierd is scared out of it's mind with 75% of the public supporting the Presdient (even in the See-BS polls)

Good. I hope they are trembling in their Pradas. I hope their Gucci sacks are full of Zoloft and Prozac, which they stuff into their Botoxed faces with shaking hands and wash down with French wine. I hope they jump everytime the illegal alien who cleans their house makes an unexpected noise. I hope they tuck in their little starlets at night and tell them, "Be good and go to sleep, or the VOTERS in Mainstream America will come for you!"

[Cheapskate]

I don't have a problem with the poster as it is.putting up with the bags of dirt would be a lot easier if they all looked like she does. "smokin"

[N. Theknow]

Isn't it a sign for victory as well?

It was in World War II when Winston Churchill was most prominently photographed flashing it.

Then it became the right-of-passage-great American-chicken-foot sign for the Peace movement during Viet Nam.

Now it stands for victory for anyone who opposes American forces when a Republican is President.

[ewing]

I like the backwards sign of Churchill with the victory.

[xp38]

Notice the flag on her t shirt has only 13 stars. Maybe she is saying to the two guards we beat you in the revolutionary war and I'm here for another round.

[AnAmericanMother]

see posts 13 and 19. Apparently Mr. Churchill employed both methods at different times -- but he could be a somewhat salty character, so who knows what he was saying (or gesturing)? :-D

[KneelBeforeZod]