'Game of Thrones' uses George Bush bust in grisly scene -- HBO apologizes. - Polidicks

[url]http://www.mercurynews.com/tv/ci_20857953/people-game-thrones-uses-george-bush-bust-grisly?source=most_viewed[/url] [quote]Did "Game of Thrones" put the head of former President George W. Bush on a stake in its fantasy hit "Game of Thrones"? A prosthetic head of the president was used in episode 10 of Season 1. That left HBO scrambling to emphatically apologize. "We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste," HBO said in a statement. "We made this clear to the executive producers of the series, who apologized immediately for this inadvertent, careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production." Producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss said they rented prosthetic body parts for the scene in which King Joffrey takes Sansa Stark to see the head of her dead father, Ned Stark. On the Season 1 DVD commentary, Benioff and Weiss acknowledged, "The last head on the left is George Bush. George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes. It's not a choice, it's not a political statement. We just had to use whatever head we had around."[/quote] [img]http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2012/0614/20120614_012140_bush_GALLERY.jpg[/img] Stupid if you ask me, I didn't even notice this until the news outlets decided to make a big deal out of it.

-snip i apologize to the fp and best president who ever lived-

Regardless of what your opinion on the man is, it's incredibly tacky to do such a thing.

"The last head on the left is George Bush. George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes. It's not a choice, it's not a political statement. We just had to use whatever head we had around." I find it kind of hard to believe they couldn't stretch the budget for another prosthetic head.

If they were to use Obama's head, the world would be enraged

[QUOTE=Ridge;36334368]Regardless of what your opinion on the man is, it's incredibly tacky to do such a thing.[/QUOTE] It wasn't intentional. They say it right in the article, hell they even mention it in the DVD commentary. They just had some prosthetic heads laying around and one happened to be of George Bush, it was nothing political or anything like that.

[QUOTE=Ridge;36334368]Regardless of what your opinion on the man is, it's incredibly tacky to do such a thing.[/QUOTE] Says the guy with the MLP avatar. [editline]14th June 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Bryanrocks0;36334390]It wasn't intentional. They say it right in the article, hell they even mention it in the DVD commentary. They just had some prosthetic heads laying around and one happened to be of George Bush, it was nothing political or anything like that.[/QUOTE] It would have been a cooler easter egg if it was intentional.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;36334408]Says the guy with the MLP avatar.[/QUOTE] who cares

I doubt it was unintentional with the huge media bias, although I really don't think it's that offensive. Not much to get worked up over.

From the sounds of things they just choose from a bunch of prosthetic heads they had laying around, doesn't seem like a big deal.

Seriously, this is [B]not[/B] a big deal. Nobody would even know if the producers hadn't said it in the commentary.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;36334408]Says the guy with the MLP avatar.[/QUOTE] what does this have to do with anything

My question is, Where can [I]I[/I] get one of those?

I don't really see a resemblance. And I'm surprised anyone was able to. It's at such an angle that there are no real facial features to be seen. And with the hair being as it is, makes it more difficult to piece two and two together. I see a resemblance now that I look at it, but only slightly. Again, because of the angle it sits at.

I'd see there being a problem if they just used it as is, but they clearly tried to make it non-Bushlike by roughing it up a bit and throwing on a Conan hairdo. Taking offense at this as it stands now would be like taking offense at the original [i]Halloween[/i] film, because a merciless serial killer sociopath was technically represented by the face of William Shatner.

[QUOTE=Jurikuer;36334672]I don't really see a resemblance. And I'm surprised anyone was able to. It's at such an angle that there are no real facial features to be seen. And with the hair being as it is, makes it more difficult to piece two and two together. I see a resemblance now that I look at it, but only slightly. Again, because of the angle it sits at.[/QUOTE] It's more than one image in the episode, so there's probably some frontal shot as well.

Holy shit who fucking cares It's a slightly funny quirk related to a president, why does this matter?

[QUOTE=KirinoKousaka;36334375]"The last head on the left is George Bush. George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes. It's not a choice, it's not a political statement. We just had to use whatever head we had around." I find it kind of hard to believe they couldn't stretch the budget for another prosthetic head.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure they didn't think they would need to considering you have to be a fucking moron to get offended over this. They saw his head lying around so they used it. It's a question of convenience, not funds. [QUOTE=Jurikuer;36334672]I don't really see a resemblance. And I'm surprised anyone was able to. It's at such an angle that there are no real facial features to be seen. And with the hair being as it is, makes it more difficult to piece two and two together. I see a resemblance now that I look at it, but only slightly. Again, because of the angle it sits at.[/QUOTE] The only reason anyone noticed it was bush was because they mentioned it in the DVD commentary.

It'd be great is Bush was a fan and was cool with it.

You can't get ONE more prosthetic head? But in all honesty, I don't care, and people didn't notice till the DVD pointed it out.

Shit, there was a spoiler in the article. I'm only on S2E4 damn you!

I really don't see the big deal with this sort of thing. I mean, fuck, have you seen the past ten years of the internet and politicians portrayed in nearly every way possible?

[QUOTE=Zambies!;36335262][b]You can't get ONE more prosthetic head?[/b] But in all honesty, I don't care, and people didn't notice till the DVD pointed it out.[/QUOTE] They didn't count on Republicans having a hissy fit over it. Which ironically is the party that complains about political correctness all the time.

[QUOTE=Melkor;36335366]They didn't count on Republicans having a hissy fit over it. Which ironically is the party that complains about political correctness all the time.[/QUOTE] It's funny because of how they portray Obama.

[QUOTE=ManningQB18;36335279]Shit, there was a spoiler in the article. I'm only on S2E4 damn you![/QUOTE] Uhhh, this happened in Season 1. So if you're in season 2....nevermind.

Satire is satire. Who cares in the end?

[QUOTE=Chicken_Chaser;36335251]It'd be great is Bush was a fan and was cool with it.[/QUOTE] "...Is that my head on a pike?" "Yes Mr. President, I believe that is." "This is terrible!" " Do you wish me to lodge a complaint on your behalf Mr. President?" "Yes! Tell them they should've turned my head more towards the camera, they're getting my bad side!" ".... Yes Mr. President."

Hodor!

[QUOTE=Chicken_Chaser;36335251]It'd be great is Bush was a fan and was cool with it.[/QUOTE] He'd probably make a joke out of it, he's not the kinda fellow to get worked up about something like this.

Would be sort of a neat easter egg thing if they used fake heads of various famous people. [editline]15th June 2012[/editline] If I was a famous person I'd totally let them use my head.