According to recent reports, Angelina Jolie latest movie “Wanted” promotional posters are banned in the UK. Two posters have been banned by Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority after the public interest group received seventeen complaints from citizens taken aback by several promotional posters that featured a Angelina Jolie glamorize gun violence.
We considered, that because the ads featured a glamorous actress, action poses, several images of or related to guns and aspirational text, they could be seen to glamorize the use of guns and violence.
- the authority claims -