Posted on 06/14/2012 8:38:40 AM PDT by pabianice
LOS ANGELES -- HBO has apologized for using a model head of former President George W. Bush in a grisly decapitation scene for its hit drama "Game of Thrones."
The tenth episode of the first season of "Game of Thrones," now out on DVD, features the younger Bush's head on a stake. Commentary on the DVD notes that his head appears in a "couple of beheading scenes."
The show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss stated that George W. Bush's was used as physical inspiration to create a head for a scene in which King Joffrey shows Sansa Stark her deceased father's head on a stick.
"It's not a choice, not a political statement!" one of the writers insisted during the DVD commentary. "We just had to use what heads we had around."
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You know; I feel that way about the Republican party.
Fast & Furious is a perfect example of how horrible they handle things, there is more than enough warranting serious swift and terrible punishment.
Romney [spit] is another prime example. For all intents and purposes he is Obama. (He, too, has a legitimate issue/problem with NBC qualification.)
People need to get over it. It’s not like anybody noticed. The episode aired over a year ago, the DVDs have been out for 4 or 5 months and NOW somebody finally paid attention to the commentary and found out. Should John Carpenter apologize to Bill Shatner? Sometimes a mask is just a mask.
Take a look at Fast & Furious, especially Bohner, and I've got to admit the party doesn't deserve respect and does deserve getting slammed.
Being a hit doesn’t revolve around being good it revolves around being popular. And frankly I liked it, as did many others.
I was annoyed that they killed off that Mongolian king (the new “Conan”, I can’t remember his name). He was cool as hell.
Marketing hype for what? The DVD that reveals this came out months ago and season 2 ended weeks ago. Random junk gets used all the time in shows. Somebody says “we need more heads on sticks” so they dig in the closet and walla, heads on sticks. That’s how the Star Wars Cantina scene happened, every random mask they could get a hold of.
I canceled a about 3 months ago over the Margaret Thatcher show. I’ve enjoyed many HBO series. I signed up for it because of Band of Brothers, then Rome, the Pacific and now Game of Thrones. I had read the entire series of books and was quite excited by it.
When I first saw that head on a pole it was vaguely familiar. I was thinking Mel Gibbs from Braveheart. I think its interesting that the explanation is that they had a head modeled after George Bush’s, “just laying around.”
They said they got it from a prop company. I would be interested in knowing the provenance of that head. Who made it? When? Why? Where else has this head appeared? Because, if its never been used then it was just one of those cute little “FU” jokes that the left likes to play on us.
I read elsewhere that the show is the #1 piracy target. I still want to watch it. I just don’t want to pay for it.
I canceled a about 3 months ago over the Margaret Thatcher show. I’ve enjoyed many HBO series. I signed up for it because of Band of Brothers, then Rome, the Pacific and now Game of Thrones. I had read the entire series of books and was quite excited by it.
When I first saw that head on a pole it was vaguely familiar. I was thinking Mel Gibbs from Braveheart. I think its interesting that the explanation is that they had a head modeled after George Bush’s, “just laying around.”
They said they got it from a prop company. I would be interested in knowing the provenance of that head. Who made it? When? Why? Where else has this head appeared? Because, if its never been used then it was just one of those cute little “FU” jokes that the left likes to play on us.
I read elsewhere that the show is the #1 piracy target. I still want to watch it. I just don’t want to pay for it.
keep their tills full of money and they just keeping attacking us....makes no sense to me...
>”Just a mistake.” Uh-huh. I just canceled HBO. <
I wonder what would happen if people not only cancelled HBO, but if they called up their HBO provider and read them the riot act?
Mistake my foot.
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