"The Thomas Crown Affair" -- they removed a product placement shot!

[thewayne]

I remember seeing the 1999 version in the theatres, I'm a sucker for Pierce Brosnan, and, of course, Rene Russo is definitely easy on the eyes. There is a scene where Russo is in the police station, I think before they question the people caught in the robbery, and she gets a Diet Coke out of a machine and downs it in one drink. It was a blatant product placement shot.

Well, they're showing it on TBS right now, that scene came up, and no Coke can! They had silvered out the can, so it looked like she was holding a burnished aluminum can.

I wonder why the change?

Comments

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

I would guess it's got something to do with TBS having certian advertisers and Coke not being one of them. TV stations particularly have been getting really really anal about things like that lately. They don't want to advertise anything that hasn't given them money to do so.