Here you can see the two versions of the Couples Retreat poster (click to enlarge), the UK version on the left, the US version on the right. Notice anything different? Oops, where’s my black people! Naturally, some folks are calling racism. The studio, meanwhile, has a perfectly logical explanation:
The studio said it regretted causing offence and has abandoned plans to use the revised poster in other countries… A Universal spokesman said the revised advert aimed ‘to simplify the poster to actors who are most recognisable in international markets’. [via DailyMail]
What, Faizon Love isn’t a bankable star? …Okay, yeah, I guess that sounds sorta plausible. Still, no word on why they felt the need to add in all those clouds and palm trees in the background. Oh I’m sorry, was the mountain too uppity for you? Either way, you have to admit both posters are an improvement over the original tagline, “It may be paradise… But it’s no vacation… Because there are black people here.”
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The Mighty One tells ya what, Lince, He seen racist, and this sure as deermeat-pie ain’t it. *spittoo*
*wipes mud off of workboots, opens pickup truck tailgate for the dog to jump in, and tosses pillowcase in crew-cab while humming “Like a Rock”*
COUPLES RETREAT IS INCONSEQUENTIAL IN ALL MEANINGFUL ASPECTS!
Now that’s how you supposta piss off customers for no foreseeable benefit!
To be fair, in the American version, it looks like the black people are being shunned from paradise.
They all look horribly uncomfortable because they have no car doors to lock in that picture.
Faizon Love’s, uh, prominence in the American poster scares me. Next time put the brown man in a blue shirt in water in front of a dusky mountain. Wait…
The only thing I noticed is that the UK lady is still in possession of her luggage.
How come only the men get top billing? Isn’t this about a “couple”?
Faizon Love: No, no…really…I’m fine…please don’t put me back on the poster for this shit. Seriously…don’t.
Sonofabitch? Oh, I’m a sonofabitch?
RT @FredCouples: I just shot par on the ninth.
That’s my Couples Retweet.
*puts shot gun in mouth, pulls trigger with toes*
The UK is keeping it real. The blacks don’t want to be in the water at all.
Bullshit the black people are there. It was just more realistic that they would be made to take the picture.
When asked for comment, Faizon Love simply pulled out his glock and shot up the poster designer’s car.
There are no black people in the trailers either. Except the one cleaning mine. Giggity giggity
As long as there aren’t any gays there