The first official poster for Mad Men’s season 5 return has been released on Twitter the other day. Not a lot of people had something nice to say about it. In fact, the poster is drawing a lot of criticisms saying that it does look like a copy of a poster done for 9/11 and that seemed to show disrespect.
Here’s the Mad Men poster, which, interestingly enough, did not came with the show’s title. AMC is perhaps trusting the show’s loyal viewers to recognize this instantly, even when it only had the date of its return in the text.
The show also hints about the continuing decline of characters into depression, as that is what Mad Men is about.
Now, here’s the poster from which it was supposedly copied from:
This is the image of The Falling Man, which is an actual photo of a person who jumped of the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks.
The Mad Men poster is offensive advertising, as it depicts suicide in a way. And its actual ad people who have reacted to this. So, the poster is not only offensive to 9/11 victims and their families. It’s giving advertising a bad name, so to speak.
What do you think of the poster?
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