Wild Rabbits
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I was sent this rather nicely shot, NSFW ad the other day (thanks, S).
It’s a spoof of this campaign from Hennessy, which is a load of old poo.
Here’s what the director, Andrea J Colomb has to say about it:
I guess I’ve always wondered why no one has ever taken the piss out of ‘What’s Your Wild Rabbit?’. Asking for trouble… and why not poke fun at a 70 million dollar, pretentious ad campaign and a billion dollar corporation with my 5 dollar (and a lot of favours) film?
…or maybe I have a little dirty mind too (it’s the first thing I thought of when I first read the scripts all those years back (I worked on Johnny Green’s treatment for the Manny Pacquiao – why I’ve become attached to the films in the first place).
I suppose I am also trying to give a little hope to us all too.
Uh… consider hope received.
I think.
I get it, cause a rabbit is also a vibrator. That’s clever.
Really
What are your thoughts on the death of that young copywriter Ben?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/copywriter-dies-working-30-hours-row-article-1.1551317
Does the industry need to address this on a wider level?
Well, that’s the first I’ve heard of anyone dying from working too hard (and drinking loads of Red Bull).
I think we could all do with taking responsibility for the situation (employers and employees). We’re all grown ups: if you’re working someone that hard you’d have to be blind not to notice, and if you’re working that hard you’d have to be crazy to think you weren’t doing yourself substantial harm.
Hi dickhead. I work for an Asian company, albeit in London. They are totally mental, have no regard for human life and are obsessed with status (hence the buckets of scam awards they crave). It probably wasn’t the 3 days straight that killed the poor fucker but rather the years of abuse leading up to it. Look at the education league. Korea top for education and child suicide. What matters?
And the yanks aren’t much better. Our industry lacks humanity, warmth, originality, spontaneity, risk. Basically anything that might turn out wrong because we all want to be right.
The world is becoming an indistinct mush. A hodgepodge polyglot if consensus. The brain drain has long gone and you and I are what’s left.
Merry Christmas by the way.
Maybe I’ll do a post next week.
For Christmas.
@ben
Not the first one either: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325364/Advertising-man-Li-Yuan-24-dies-heart-attack-brought-overwork.html
Seems to be a trend in Asia.