Cool Ad?
By Dan Long on September 14th, 2009Posted In: Front Page
Sep 14
Okay, so I realize that many may not appreciate a Walt Whitman poem being used in a corporate advertisement, but that aside, I am really digging this composition. The man reciting the poem just does a great job, and the video that it plays over really gets across the “next generation” message they’re going for. If you know me, you know that one of my pet peeves is horrible commercials (e.g., the Safe Auto “it’s not rocket science” campaign, Head On commercials, etc.), so I appreciate when something of quality is produced for an ad rather than stupid slogans or annoying jingles. I also like Jack in the Box commercials. Like all YouTube videos, the comments are full of garbage, here discussing whether or not a girl does a Hitler salute and whether or not the ad is making a statement about homosexuality, but I’m not digging that deeply into it. I like poetry, I like good video editing, so I appreciate an attempt at making something “artsy” for an advertisement rather than an annoying jingle telling you to buy Levis jeans because Paris Hilton does. Anyway, here is the ad:
Do you like it? I do.
I love this commercial. Levi and Wrangler used to have good commercials, but they started to suck. Good to see one of them has remembered how to do it right.
If Levi’s didn’t cost $30 a pair, I’d go out and buy some, that’s how awesome this commercial was.
Hm, I don’t remember the old commercials. Maybe YouTube has them…
Nicely filmed and set to the voiceover and mood music. Not so happy about the nazi salute half way through though
Yeah, I can see that, but I took it as the girl was just mimicking the angel statue she was standing underneath. I figured if Levi meant to make some kind of pro-Hitler statement, they wouldn’t have contradicted it with the apparent boys kissing afterward.