Over the weekend, I was casually surfing YouTube, and I came across a video claiming Amazon was airbrushing out the guns in classic James Bond posters used as the thumbnails for the James Bond movies on the streamer. The controversy grew online, and though Amazon removed the posters as the thumbnails, they were replaced by a screenshot of Bond, all sans firearms.
This all reminded me of a similar circumstance from a couple of decades ago, when Steven Spielberg seemingly spent a fair amount of money replacing all the guns in the hands of law enforcement officials with walkie-talkies in his classic, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which is available with a Netflix subscription, for that movie’s 20th anniversary version, released in 2002. Amazon should maybe look back on how Spielberg later felt about the decision.
