the other day I went to see 25th Hour, Spike Lee’s recent film starring Edward Norton. As I often do, I went to Salon to read the review after having seen it. So the article loads and instead of waiting, I start to read before the photo appears. By the time it does, I’m at the end reading, “Lee is a pro, and he knows how to work with reference, allusion and metaphor: There’s a “Cool Hand Luke” poster in Monty’s apartment…” and then 20 seconds later I scroll to the top, only to find that the photo I skipped should feature that very poster – but it has been blanked out! And blanked out artfully enough that if you weren’t looking for it you wouldn’t know that the photo was NOT true to the film itself. This isn’t that big a deal, but it does make you wonder how widespread this practice is.
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brent says
Yea I noticed that too, I’d guess it just conflicts with copyright nastyness, but yea I wonder how often that goes unoticed. I’m actually looking for that poster but can’t find it anywhere. I figure that it simply hasn’t been reproduced and thats a original featured in the movie. I can find a wide spread version thats largely white, but not that design. Does anyone know where you could find something like that?