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Your example is basically describing every action movie where an off-duty cop needs to save the world.

hannasanarion 5y ago
Movies aren't the same as advertisements. Do you think it would be totally normal and tasteful for such an action movie to end with instructions and a limited time offer on how to purchase the guns that were used by the terrorists and vigilantes in the movie?
- olyjohn 5y ago
  Please... A 10 second search on the internet will tell you where to get those guns. I guess action movies don't make any profit from promoting violent behavior. I forgot that movie studios are non profits who donate their money to charity. Do you also think that Doom and other video games are making kids violent and making them shoot up schools? Do you think rap music will turn everybody into a violent gang member? Will watching Elvis shake his hips on TV turn you into a sexual deviant? I think what it comes down to is, you don't like cars because it's trendy these days to say cars are evil. But you like action movies, and video games, so it's all good.
  - hannasanarion 5y ago
    Advertisements are not the same as fiction media. The entire point of an advertisement is to display the product and make it appealing to the consumer, and they you do that is by demonstrating its use. If you don't want people to use your car for street racing, you don't show tens of millions of people your car street racing as an incentive to get them to buy it. What other product category advertises with felonious lawbreaking in the same way that car ads do?
- nitrogen 5y ago
  Movies aren't the same as advertisements. There's an entire industry devoted to product placement and promotional consideration. Evolution was an ad for shampoo. Fast and the Furious was an ad for cars. Independence Day was an ad for computers. Beyond direct product placement, movies are vehicles for inculturation and promoting or demoting certain values.
  - hannasanarion 5y ago
    Product placement in a movie is not the same as advertisement. Vin Diesel doing stunts in a Dodge in a movie is not comparable to a Dodge ad that interrupts your TV show or football game extolling you to UNLEASH THE DEMON showing their car breaking 100mph and doing donuts on city streets, totally demolishing a "share the road" sign, buy now!

Movies aren't the same as advertisements. Do you think it would be totally normal and tasteful for such an action movie to end with instructions and a limited time offer on how to purchase the guns that were used by the terrorists and vigilantes in the movie?

olyjohn 5y ago
Please... A 10 second search on the internet will tell you where to get those guns. I guess action movies don't make any profit from promoting violent behavior. I forgot that movie studios are non profits who donate their money to charity. Do you also think that Doom and other video games are making kids violent and making them shoot up schools? Do you think rap music will turn everybody into a violent gang member? Will watching Elvis shake his hips on TV turn you into a sexual deviant? I think what it comes down to is, you don't like cars because it's trendy these days to say cars are evil. But you like action movies, and video games, so it's all good.
- hannasanarion 5y ago
  Advertisements are not the same as fiction media. The entire point of an advertisement is to display the product and make it appealing to the consumer, and they you do that is by demonstrating its use. If you don't want people to use your car for street racing, you don't show tens of millions of people your car street racing as an incentive to get them to buy it. What other product category advertises with felonious lawbreaking in the same way that car ads do?
nitrogen 5y ago
Movies aren't the same as advertisements. There's an entire industry devoted to product placement and promotional consideration. Evolution was an ad for shampoo. Fast and the Furious was an ad for cars. Independence Day was an ad for computers. Beyond direct product placement, movies are vehicles for inculturation and promoting or demoting certain values.
- hannasanarion 5y ago
  Product placement in a movie is not the same as advertisement. Vin Diesel doing stunts in a Dodge in a movie is not comparable to a Dodge ad that interrupts your TV show or football game extolling you to UNLEASH THE DEMON showing their car breaking 100mph and doing donuts on city streets, totally demolishing a "share the road" sign, buy now!