"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

[ateji.livejournal.com]

Whoa. TBS is anti-product placement? I should watch more of what they show if I turn on the brain draining machine.

XD

On a similar note, I saw someone with my brand of laptop on an episode of CSI.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I think a previous comment probably caught what happened: Turner wouldn't give Coke a spot without them paying for it.

It's always cool to see something that you own used on the telly or the big screen! Meself, I like identifying cameras. The challenge is when they black out the manufacturer.