I think it’s not one of his best, but Glazer on ‘B’ form is still better than most others on the very top of their game.
It’s got the right vibe and the look is fantastic, I just think you’re waiting for something to happen that never quite happens.
The ending is a bit of a damp squib, too.
File under Live With Me, rather than Street Spirit or Rabbit In Your Headlights.
UPDATE: interview with Glazer.
You know how you can tell it’s not an ad? No shots of anyone pointing, as if to say ‘Look at that great thing that’s going on there’. Although there are shots of people genuinely filming it on their phones, so that really does happen.
If you owned 70 Porsches and were revered the world over for producing one of the greatest TV shows in history, would you do this?
Neither would I.
Have a good weekend. The weather (in London) is due to suck.
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I don’t want to bias the poll in that FHM way, but here’s an amusing Droga 5 ad for an Australian beer that is all of the things beer advertising should be: meaningless, funny, rewatchable and…who needs anything else?
NIce one, C.
PS: if you go on the website, you can choose which banner to march under. I can’t help thinking of myself as a cashed-up Bogan, but actually, I’m a bloke who has done the ‘phantom’ on many occasions.
Bonjour, tout le monde.
Le photographeur Anglais, Brian Griffin, a gagne un pris formidable en France.
Si vous voulez travailler avec lui, appellez Stephen Gash a QI (0207 287 9215)
Nice touches, nice twist/reveal, good work for a reconstituted potato product.
And I’d watch it again by choice.
In fact, I think I’ll do just that.
The poll (results to the right) of the week was inspired by an anecdote I heard recently.
One night, before they were due to go on stage, Led Zeppelin were bored. To pass the time the drummer, legendary booze dustbin John Bonham, decided to see how many bananas he could eat. He managed 27, went on stage and passed out.
With that in mind, whoever of you believed they could manage 30, I will happily pay for those bananas if you let me watch.
Also, I think it would be kind of fun to have a competition along these lines. If anyone fancies having a go, drop me an email and we’ll make a time to eat bananas.
The other thing that you probably thought I’d forgotten about was that Creative Director of the Year thingie I posted a couple of weeks ago.
Well, there was a range of nominations that included Davidson/Papworth, Waites/Saville, Collins, Gill and Beattie (and one for ‘The Client’), but almost all the votes were cast for Jeremy Craigen and Dave Droga.
I did weight Dave’s slightly because this blog is UK-centric and I only know one person who actually works for him, but even so he did very well (there may also have been an element of the FHM 100 sexiest women factor at work: if a trashy cast member of Hollyoaks has done a ‘spread’ in the magazine just before the votes are cast then they will shoot up the rankings. Likewise, if a CD has just been responsible for two Black Pencils then that may be the advertising equivalent of the thumb hooked suggestively in the waistband of the g-string.)
So when I get around to it, that’s going to be the poll of the week: Jeremy or Dave. And don’t forget: you’re both winners. It’s just that one of you has to be deemed a little bit more of a winner than the other.
Well shot and full of great touches (I especially liked him walking over the subway steps) that brought to mind a mini-Hitchcockian paranoid dystopia.
Dunno if I buy the Barclays shit at the end, but I don’t really care: there’s no chance I’m leaving HSBC anyway.
Not the best, not the worst.
UPDATE: I dashed the above off quickly so I didn’t explain that it’s not the best because it’s difficult to reach the heights of Touch, Pinata and Sour, and it’s not the worst because Skittles has been a bit patchy of late, but this is definitely a step back in the right direction.
It’s not the billboard I object to.
It’s that caption at the end which suggests that there were no deaths on the roads in that part of NZ because of the billboard.
It’s like a caption coming up at the end of The Big Schlep that says ‘Later that year, Barack Obama was voted President of The United States of America’.
Actually, if that caption came at the end of TBS, you’d think it was somewhat tongue in cheek.
Unlike the NZ one.