Posts with tag "JoeStrummer"

The Most Scandalous (Mis)Uses of Dead Celebrities to Push Product

Posted Nov 24th 2009 at 01:02 PM by Shelley White

It's clear that clever CGI techs can make anybody do pretty much anything on film. Though that could be seen as a good thing -- the ultimate hot-guy flick starring James Dean, a young Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp perhaps? -- it has also ended up producing some of the most crass advertisements in recent memory. The ethics are murky. It seems okay to reproduce a famous dead person for artistic ...