I’ve Just Discovered This Blog Post I Wrote In 1983:
Hey everyone.
Wow, there’s was a fair bit of disagreement about that Paul Arden Alexon stuff, eh? What’s the idea? Who knows? Does it Matter?
I suppose we’ll never really resolve it, so let’s move on.
There’s a new one I quite like from GGT for Holsten Pils:
I know it’s a little like Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, but it seems pretty cool to me (might be Griff’s 814th ad of this year, though!).
COMMENTS
Anonymous said…
Fuck me! What a bloody rip. They should hang their heads in shame.
Anonymous said…
This is so lazy. Is this what people are going to do for ads now? Just trawl about in the cinema looking for scenes to pinch?
Derek Hass said…
I like it.
Anonymous said…
Do they think we haven’t seen DMDWP? Just shows how uncreative Henry and Chaldecott are. I bet this is the last ad they ever make, the talentless bastards.
Mr. M. Denton Esq said…
Very funny. Hats off to ’em all. Guffaw, chortle, snigger.
Anonymous said…
Who’s the blonde with the big tits?
Anonymous said…
Yawn. Lazy.
Anonymous said…
I guess the stupid public will love it. It won’t win anything though.
Charles Saatchi said…
Vote Tory!
Anonymous said…
How can these guys call themselves creative? What’s creative about nicking a scene from a movie?
Anonymous said…
This is the kind of thing that makes the public think we’re a bunch of lazy, thieving cunts.
Ben said…
But it’s an homage, isn’t it? They took the original and added something to it. Anyway Steve Martin’s about as funny as missing the plug hole and pouring a gallon of drain cleaner down your jap’s eye. This makes the whole conceit much better, doesn’t it?And what are we saying now, that we can’t be influenced by anything else? Where’s that going to end? If someone does an ad in, say, 24 years time with a drumming gorilla, I bet someone else will dig up a bit of film that it’s a tiny bit similar to and start whinging about it. Anyway, fuck this. I’m off to watch Jim Davidson. He does a really funny black man character called Chalky White.