HBO Max Removed Cigarettes And Cigars From Classic Movie Posters On Its Streaming Platform

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There was a time when seeing tobacco products on movie posters was normal but
not any longer; they've come for the cigars, cigarettes, and cigarillos --
even if those were there virtually forever.

HBO Max isn't the first corporate entity to crack down on displays of tobacco
in their films and accompanying imagery, but they've joined a crusade akin to
Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

Subscribers like Pete Salisbury(@Tuckerpete) noticed lately the streaming
platform is scrubbing cigarettes from old posters for Westerns starring
Warren Beatty and Paul Newman.

No Smoking!Twitter users report HBO Max removed Warren Beatty's and
Paul Newman's cigars from movie poster art used on its home page:
McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

The Life and Times of Roy Bean. pic.twitter.com/QLPz0olJz1

-- Pete Salisbury (@Tuckerpete) September 13, 2022

The social media user tweeted standard and altered versions of posters for
McCabe & Mrs. Miller and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean with the
comment "No Smoking! Twitter users report HBO Max removed Warren Beatty's and
Paul Newman's cigars from movie poster art used on its home page."

Eric Vilas-Boas, a writer for Vulture, shared more examples he found of
cigarettes being omitted digitally from a poster for the 1970 Kirk Douglas
adventure There Was A Crooked Man and from a still from Hong Kong director
Wong Kar-Wai's 1995 film Fallen Angels.

The writer labeled it a "bizarre" side-by-side to behold in his
Twitter thread.

Wong Kar-wai!!https://t.co/GthFqibZZK pic.twitter.com/Fs3PVPfc2l

-- Eric Vilas-Boas (@e_vb_) September 13, 2022

Vilas-Boas also found there is the occasional exception, providing a few
examples to back his claim, indicating "there doesn't seem to be a ton of
rhyme or reason to it."

also odd that there doesn't seem to be a ton of rhyme or reason to
it. none of these were photoshopped out...https://t.co/GthFqibZZK
pic.twitter.com/whJXoRbEFh

-- Eric Vilas-Boas (@e_vb_) September 13, 2022

Vilas-Boas's coverage for Vulture added further, "Cigarettes and pipes dangle
from the lips of characters in posters for 'The Nitwits', 'A Story of
Floating Weeds,' and 'The Man Who Knew Too Much.' On a more recent, HBO-
produced film, Alessandro Nivola is seen lighting up a cigarette in the image
for 'The Many Saints of Newark.'"

HBO Max has yet to respond to outreach for comments so everybody is left
wondering why they'd be so picky and choosy about the posters they erase
tobacco and smoking from when there is smoking on top of bloody violence and
hard drug use in many films they have in their library.


If their prejudice applies to marijuana in stills or posters is another
story.

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Let's go Brandon!

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Post by Ubiquitous
There was a time when seeing tobacco products on movie posters was normal but
not any longer; they've come for the cigars, cigarettes, and cigarillos --
even if those were there virtually forever.
HBO Max isn't the first corporate entity to crack down on displays of tobacco
in their films and accompanying imagery, but they've joined a crusade akin to
Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

A much better reference would be Arthur C Clarke’s “Ghost of the Grand
Banks” where there was an entire industry set up to digitally remove
cigarettes from old movies.

Post by Ubiquitous
--
Let's go Brandon!

[Ubiquitous]

Post by Ubiquitous
There was a time when seeing tobacco products on movie posters was normal
but not any longer; they've come for the cigars, cigarettes, and
cigarillos -- even if those were there virtually forever.
HBO Max isn't the first corporate entity to crack down on displays of
tobacco in their films and accompanying imagery, but they've joined a
crusade akin to Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

A much better reference would be Arthur C Clark's “Ghost of the Grand
Banks” where there was an entire industry set up to digitally remove
cigarettes from old movies.

I did not know that!

--
Let's go Brandon!