# No more Logo Walls! Enough! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777 "2022-05-01T23:17:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/1 "2022-05-01T23:17:48Z")
As a Major Hollywood Star, I get paid millions every picture. I get why I have to do promotions; it’s in my contract. Interviews, festivals, red carpet events, ho hum. But I refuse to pose in front of those damn Logo Walls! Who came up with that one? It’s demeaning! Humphrey Bogart never had to do that, Garbo, Gable, the Hepburns, heck even Michael J. Pollard would not have been subjected to such humiliation. Why should I? [![](https://i.postimg.cc/ZnFJBSrJ/logo-wall.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/ZnFJBSrJ/logo-wall.jpg) Remember all those websites from 20 years ago, those cheap-looking splash pages where some bozo made a “wallpaper” background with a photo of his dog or his car or something, repeated over and over? That’s what this looks like! Cheesy, and twenty years from now people will look back on these Logo Walls and snicker at how anyone ever thought this was a good idea. To put a fine point on it: I am not for sale! I mean, yes, I’m for sale, everybody has a price, that’s just how the world works, and if you want to take my picture, go ahead, I’ll smile and I’m glad to do it. But please don’t ask me to stand in front of a piece of cardboard with Nike or Lexus or Chik-Fil-A plastered all over it. (Well at least I should get a car out of it - is that too much to ask?) When did these things first arrive? I assume large-scale digital printing is to blame. How long before they start tattooing brand names on people’s foreheads? Hopefully I’ll have made a pile and gotten out before that sad day. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/2 "2022-05-01T23:47:58Z")
“I’m Secretary of State, brought to you by Carl’s Jr.” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/3 "2022-05-01T23:56:16Z")
I don’t know who these people are. The bottom right looks a little like Willem DaFoe, but none of the others look at all familiar. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/4 "2022-05-02T00:06:27Z")
But the key question is: Do any of the logos look familiar? ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/5 "2022-05-02T00:07:03Z")
You got Willem Dafoe right. Zoe Kravitz and Wes Anderson are also in there (Wes, we need to talk). The others, I don’t know. It’s insanely easy to find millions of these pictures on IMDb, everyone just gets herded into these situations, but we need to draw the line somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/6 "2022-05-02T00:13:42Z")
A Lego Wall would be much better. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/7 "2022-05-02T00:17:55Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Lego Wall Like so? 😃 [![](https://wp.dailybruin.com/images/galleries/lego-movie/web-ae_-2-3-lego_-picj_.jpg) ](https://wp.dailybruin.com/images/galleries/lego-movie/web-ae_-2-3-lego_-picj_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/8 "2022-05-02T00:18:56Z")
Exactly! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/9 "2022-05-02T00:27:27Z")
It’ll cross a line when stars wear clothes stamped with a prominent logo of whatever company’s financed or bought advertising rights for the movie or TV show, like prostathletes. [Or maybe not](https://productplacementblog.com/tag/clothing/). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/10 "2022-05-02T00:34:56Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > As a Major Hollywood Star, I get paid millions every picture. I get why I have to do promotions; it’s in my contract. Interviews, festivals, red carpet events, ho hum. Wait, that was you!? I loved you in that one role, you know, in that movie! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/11 "2022-05-02T00:37:59Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I don’t know who these people are. > [@penultima\_thule](#): > > But the key question is: Do any of the logos look familiar? The people are just the “content”, the stuff between commercials. They are of little import. This post bought to you by Pepsi, the Choice of a New Generation ™ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/12 "2022-05-02T00:38:13Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > As a Major Hollywood Star, I get paid millions every picture. I get why I have to do promotions; it’s in my contract. Interviews, festivals, red carpet events, ho hum. It’s not just a Hollywood thing. My company has those things in most locations, in case someone from the company is being interviewed. And if the network news is interviewing some professor from State University about COVID or whatever, he/she will be sitting in front of such a wall. For those Hollywood events, some marketing accountant is assigning a value to every appearance of their logos against the cost of sponsoring the film festival or other event. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/13 "2022-05-02T00:40:40Z")
_\>Wait, that was you!? I loved you in that one role, you know, in that movie!_ Thank you. Always nice to hear from a fan. Yes, that was one of my early ones, when I was lean and hungry, and I was thinking I’ll never go back to doing soaps. But you know, there’s always that cushion, and it keeps you humble. The stories one collects, my God. ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/14 "2022-05-02T00:45:40Z")
Bro, you’ve done better. 8/10 ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/15 "2022-05-02T00:55:20Z")
I thought it was called a “step and repeat.” ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/16 "2022-05-02T01:08:55Z")
Yes, “step and repeat”, thank you, that seems to be the proper name for it. You sure you didn’t invent it? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/17 "2022-05-02T16:31:17Z")
In a world where advertisement is inescapable the OP seems oddly specific. Like looking at a teeming anthill and yelling, “That one ant, right there! Kill it, it’s EVIL!” specific. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/18 "2022-05-02T17:16:04Z")
We’ve all got that one thing that rankles. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/19 "2022-05-02T17:28:02Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > the OP seems oddly specific Well I HATE these shots not for the logos (or even LEGOS) but for the fact they all use super wide-angle lenses close up, so the upper body and face look normal, but you can also see the tops of their feet. It’s weirdly disconcerting. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777/20 "2022-05-02T17:44:54Z")
I’m guessing that’s partly because the intent is to show what the celebrity is wearing, including their shoes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-logo-walls-enough/963777.md?page=2)