Wednesday 17 December 2008

De Niro's Faux Pas

While scanning the BBC News website, I came across an article about a poster for the film Righteous Kill starring Hollywood greats Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

These posters have been splashed all over the Underground but until this article pointed it out, I've never really put much thought into the tag line: 

"There's nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right people get shot"

Now, that's a pretty stupid thing to have printed on sheets of paper all around a city where gun crime is on the rise and 26 teenagers have been murdered in just one year.

But it's even stupider to hang this poster proudly on the platform at Stockwell Tube Station, where Jean Charles de Menezes was shot by police in 2005, after being mistaken for a suicide bomber. 


Silly, Silly People! 

Photo Courtesy of flickr.com (user coconinoco)

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