tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post5029733093443376058..comments2023-11-05T04:01:12.146-05:00Comments on Ad Aged: Irony.george tannenbaumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974259094860905139noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post-1727022312365051272010-12-27T10:11:29.508-05:002010-12-27T10:11:29.508-05:00I watched Truffaut's "The Last Metro"...I watched Truffaut's "The Last Metro"about a year ago, a complicated story that takes place in Paris during the Nazi occupation. There was one scene in the movie that really stuck with me and it had nothing to do with Catherine Deneuve being in a state of deshabille.<br /><br />In this scene Deneuve is reading aloud a theater review by Daxiat (Jean-Pierre Richard), a Jew-baiting collaborationist stooge who is an influential theater critic. Deneuve reads the review and concludes: "He signed it but it reads like an anonymous letter."george tannenbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974259094860905139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post-15818594321633114692010-12-27T09:16:26.715-05:002010-12-27T09:16:26.715-05:00So let's see, you're so sure of what you w...So let's see, you're so sure of what you write you're embarrassed/ashamed/insecure enough to put your name to it, right?<br />Yeah, people who sign themselves anonymous are always worth listening to.Dave Trottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post-38979421492518071582010-12-26T18:02:23.359-05:002010-12-26T18:02:23.359-05:00Class? Nonsense.dude, you need to wake up and smel...Class? Nonsense.dude, you need to wake up and smell the pixels. It's generational but class? Even Orwell is laughing at you. Did u read the original post? Christ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post-60901061581568425332010-12-24T06:13:46.444-05:002010-12-24T06:13:46.444-05:00For me it’s more of a class issue.
Working class/m...For me it’s more of a class issue.<br />Working class/middle class (what you’d call in the US blue collar/white collar.)<br />I’m from the working class, but my children are middle class.<br />There are good and bad things about both.<br />The middle class read the Guardian (NY Times) the working class read The Sun (NY Post).<br />The middle class are more thoughtful, the working class more spontaneous.<br />The middle class laugh only at what they think they ought to laugh at.<br />They working class laugh at whatever they find funny.<br />(The best guide for me is what comedienne Dawn French said “If it’s bad taste it’s not funny, and if it’s funny it’s not bad taste.”)<br />IMHO the main problem is that advertising (in the UK at least) has become almost exclusively middle-class.Dave Trottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072420181476584961.post-83897134657437951342010-12-23T09:37:52.636-05:002010-12-23T09:37:52.636-05:00George, you're so right. The reality in our of...George, you're so right. The reality in our often unrealistic world of advertising is that although some of us come from more humble backgrounds, most of us don't know a yota about what makes the majority of the so called consumer tick. Compared to another industry we think of as insular and sometimes compare ourselves with; the TV world; we seem to be totally ignorant. At least the TV people get the reality served to them. If people don't watch what they make they're dead rather quickly. Only the successful TV series goes on to win awards. The unsuccessful ones die and get forgotten. Success comes before awards. Not so in our industry. Because the only audience we play to is our own. And we have as an industry largely forgotten, or worse; we ignore, what most peoples lives are like and about.Tore Claessonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04978163002830730401noreply@blogger.com