You Look Like You Need a Guinness 226
prestidigital writes "This is a great fictional advertisement (high bandwidth) for Guinness. I say "fictional" because it is from the movie Minority Report. You may recall that Steven Spielberg is known for heavy branding in movies ala the opening scenes from Back to the Future (Burger King and Pepsi plastered all over). Well, apparently he has taken it a step further by weaving it into the very fabric of the plot in Minority Report. Cool ads if you can afford to wait for them. Lexus is good."
Personal Ads? (Score:2, Insightful)
How about walking into a store, and having a big ad greet you? I don't think so.
Anyone agree?
Manipulating the mindless masses (Score:3, Insightful)
1) Employ psychologists who don't have an ounce of ethics in them
2) Have music in their adverts
3) Advertise over and over again when we all already know about their product
4) Spend double-digit percentages of their company's money on advertising
5) Have little in the way of actual information in their adverts, and instead just try and sell an image
The reality is, people are ignorant and highly controllable. Society is a socio-economic machine; there is no rationality nor any real understanding of how it works. Each individual mindlessly functions in relation to the little corner which they face on a day to day basis, and will decieve themselves into accepting and doing whatever they're tricked or pushed into thinking will make them personally more secure.
"Microsoft". Need I say more.
Wow, way to 'date' a movie. (Score:1, Insightful)
In another 50 years when Pepsi is called Hypermegaglobaldrink and Lexus are the cheapest brandname on the planet, we'll have a good old laugh, just like we do at PanAm being in '2001'.
Who cares (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Manipulating the mindless masses (Score:3, Insightful)
Look up advertising in the dictionary some time: "to call public attention to especially by emphasizing desirable qualities so as to arouse a desire to buy or patronize". Hell, even ad agencies don't pretend like they are trying to spread the truth or inform the public. They know what they are doing: selling products.
As to the rest of your rant, take a psychology class or three.
It amazes me that this sort of thing gets modded up.
Re:Manipulating the mindless masses (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know about you... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Personal Ads? (Score:1, Insightful)
Considering what a long tradition pushy and loud advertising (as well as salespeople) seem to have, there must be a target group that responds to this type of thing.
In fact, maybe I'm a freak, because I consider all of the methods of influencing people suggested by Dale Carnegie obnoxious. Then again, I'm not an American, and I find typical American social customs extermely uncomfortable, so it may be a cultural thing.
While I hate the privacy implications of targeted advertising, at least it would keep advertising directed towards me subtle and informative.
Shoudn't submitters have Karma? (Score:2, Insightful)
Just so it isn't totally off-topic, seen the new singular wireless commercials? Shamu? MiB2 worms? I think they're opening up a new trend in cross brand commercialization... Surely I can submit that as a story and it will get accepted. Nah...
Re:Ads are proof of Spielberg's fear.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Taco Bell in Demolition Man (Score:3, Insightful)
Minority Reports, but no Minority Focus Groups (Score:3, Insightful)
I found it strange that Washington D.C. of all places ... one well known for its large black population and its folks from other races would have 99% white people in it. Take a look for yourself, around the pool, in the mall, in the cars, in the jail, everywhere public ... white people.
Go ahead and make up scenarios for yourself to explain this phenomenon.