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01/24/2005 02:50:15 PM · #1 |
... this may not be your choice of vehicle.
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01/24/2005 02:53:43 PM · #2 |
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01/24/2005 02:55:52 PM · #3 |
Is this an actual commercial put out by Volkswagen!?
If so, I must ask who was the marketing-genius that approved such a terrible campaign. Why would any company want to be even remotely associated with war, terror, and death. The person in charge of the campaign should be fired for lack of any marketing-sense.
I understand that wannabe "funny" aspect, now, as a consumer, I associate that product with the terrible turmoil in that part of the world.
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01/24/2005 02:55:58 PM · #4 |
| Even as a Volkswagon fan/owner I gotta say- that's pretty bad. I'm not even one of those PC types either. Truly, truly tasteless and disappointing from the folks tha brought us some great ads in the past (the Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" ad was actually good, considering the fact that I NEVER thought I'd hear him in an advert). |
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01/24/2005 02:57:33 PM · #5 |
| Apparently it was mysteriously funded (about $70,000) and was produced using 35mm film - not an amateur choice really. Most likely an effective self promo for commercial producers. |
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01/24/2005 02:59:07 PM · #6 |
| Saw this on the news yesterday and VW has apparently filed a lawsuit against the people that have made this. |
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01/24/2005 03:03:59 PM · #7 |
I couldn't get it to play.
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01/24/2005 03:05:08 PM · #8 |
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01/24/2005 03:16:14 PM · #9 |
Can someone please describe the commercial, I can't see it either...
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01/24/2005 03:17:34 PM · #10 |
Download the Quicktime Plugin from www.quicktime.com
Firefox will probably offer you to download the plugin by itself if you don't have it.
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01/24/2005 03:18:52 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by gloda:
Download the Quicktime Plugin from //www.quicktime.com
Firefox will probably offer you to download the plugin by itself if you don't have it. |
I'm at work and I can't download nothin...can't someone describe it, I can't wait til I get home!
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01/24/2005 03:20:48 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
Can someone please describe the commercial, I can't see it either... |
guy wants to blow himself up infront of a busy cafe while in his car, he presses the button, and the explosion is completely contained inside car. it ends there with the slogan "small but tough"
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01/24/2005 04:06:33 PM · #13 |
oohhhh...that's not good! There are constantly examples of commercial producers putting a commercial together 'on behalf of' a company without the company's consent...commercial finds it's way onto the internet...marketing company gets sued...
I'm guessing that, most of the time, everyone wins...marketer and company/brand.
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01/24/2005 04:47:17 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by longlivenyhc:
guy wants to blow himself up infront of a busy cafe while in his car, he presses the button, and the explosion is completely contained inside car. it ends there with the slogan "small but tough" |
Sounds cute to me. But then I've been told I have a sick sense of humor.
Btw the guy is in the car when it blows up? You see like chunks blowing up against the side windows?
Message edited by author 2005-01-24 16:48:06.
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01/24/2005 04:56:29 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by nsbca7:
Originally posted by longlivenyhc:
guy wants to blow himself up infront of a busy cafe while in his car, he presses the button, and the explosion is completely contained inside car. it ends there with the slogan "small but tough" |
Sounds cute to me. But then I've been told I have a sick sense of humor.
Btw the guy is in the car when it blows up? You see like chunks blowing up against the side windows? |
yes, suicide bomber. u see splattered blood and stuff against the window.
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01/24/2005 05:19:37 PM · #16 |
I downloaded quicktime. Cool video. I,m saving that one.
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01/24/2005 06:45:14 PM · #17 |
NO blood and guts, just the bright ornage of the explosion. Perhaps the most offensive part of it is that the "bomber" is stereotypically "palestinian" looking.
Robt.
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01/24/2005 06:48:58 PM · #18 |
I thought he looked french or italian, kinda meditteranian, rather than palestinian. Who's that french actor in Godzilla and Ronin? Looks a bit like him to me.
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01/24/2005 06:53:20 PM · #19 |
Hehehe
almost sounds like an Israeli sense of humor...
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01/24/2005 06:54:34 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Konador:
I thought he looked french or italian, kinda meditteranian, rather than palestinian. Who's that french actor in Godzilla and Ronin? Looks a bit like him to me. |
Jean Reno?
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01/24/2005 06:57:34 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by Geo_Griffin:
Originally posted by Konador:
I thought he looked french or italian, kinda meditteranian, rather than palestinian. Who's that french actor in Godzilla and Ronin? Looks a bit like him to me. |
Jean Reno? |
Yeh that's the one :)
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01/24/2005 07:01:10 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by Konador:
Originally posted by Geo_Griffin:
Originally posted by Konador:
I thought he looked french or italian, kinda meditteranian, rather than palestinian. Who's that french actor in Godzilla and Ronin? Looks a bit like him to me. |
Jean Reno? |
Yeh that's the one :) |
Sorry if I ruin any theory but Jean Reno is of a morroccon origin rather then European French.
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01/24/2005 07:01:54 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Perhaps the most offensive part of it is that the "bomber" is stereotypically "palestinian" looking.
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Or more broadly Semitic. But honestly, would it have hit it's mark had they used an Eskimo instead? Sure some people of any race are sometimes responsable for blowing something up from time to time. If this had been 1945 they would have used a Japanesse in a Mitsubishi bomber instead of an Arab in a VW. This is 2005 though, and we see things like this happening on an almost daily basis.
So in my oppinion this mock ad is no more stereotypical then the acts that inspired it.
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01/24/2005 07:05:31 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by Jinjit:
Originally posted by Konador:
Originally posted by Geo_Griffin:
Originally posted by Konador:
I thought he looked french or italian, kinda meditteranian, rather than palestinian. Who's that french actor in Godzilla and Ronin? Looks a bit like him to me. |
Jean Reno? |
Yeh that's the one :) |
Sorry if I ruin any theory but Jean Reno is of a morroccon origin rather then European French. |
Ahh, he always plays french people in films tho, that's what got me confused :) Still, it's in the mediterranian area :)
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01/24/2005 07:11:14 PM · #25 |
it was a bad explosion at the very least, and the producer made sure to place a mother with infant in the patio of the cafe where the car supposedly blows up.
Wasn't even a thrilling blow up just an excellent use of lighting and computer generated effects to stimulate the bomb. |
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