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Would that costume have fitted a man of... oh, dunno... about 5' 9"? Asking for a friend, like.
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Many people 'perform a task and get paid', that's just 'working' - my point there was obviously that commercials pay extremely well.
I was once offered ten grand to dress up as a Pot Noodle for a fifteen-second ad. I didn't do it because I have principles. (Well, I was too tall for the costume.)
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post'For the money' - whether needed or otherwise - is the reason why most people do commercials, famous, or not.
But I'd venture that there are reasons beyond the money that would cause a celebrity to endorse a product; belief in it, or its principles, for example. Paul McCartney might endorse a vegan product, say. Granted that's probably the exception, but my objection was more to the 'needing' the money vs 'for' the money. Even people with pisspots full of money continue to work.
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'For the money' - whether needed or otherwise - is the reason why most people do commercials, famous, or not.
Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View PostAs Jah suggests, it has been used so much that it doesn't make a great deal of difference in most people's minds whether he took the multi-grain dollar or not. I always thought 'In The Morning' by The Coral was a fairly transparent attempt at opening up commercial opportunities (from an otherwise credible act) and a quick search reveals Tesco took the bait eventually.
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That's a fair point and assuming he still gets asked, which he probably is given it's a daytime radio staple, maybe he should take that shilling. Who would begrudge him.
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Originally posted by Greenlander View PostHe could have earned six-figure sums, had he allowed Wake Up Boo! to be used to advertise a breakfast cereal, a washing powder - "anything to do with getting up in the morning." Carr wasn't interested. "I could never do it," he says. "You would get the money, spend it, and then for the rest of your life you would be known as the bloke who did the music for the Cornflakes ad."
https://www.theguardian.com/friday_r...349977,00.html
Although this is an old interview, I'm pretty sure it still applies.
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Isn't this a reflection of the fact that McCartney still controls his solo back catalogue, whereas the Beatles' were sold on (to Michael Jackson, then Sony) decades ago?
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He could have earned six-figure sums, had he allowed Wake Up Boo! to be used to advertise a breakfast cereal, a washing powder - "anything to do with getting up in the morning." Carr wasn't interested. "I could never do it," he says. "You would get the money, spend it, and then for the rest of your life you would be known as the bloke who did the music for the Cornflakes ad."
https://www.theguardian.com/friday_r...349977,00.html
Although this is an old interview, I'm pretty sure it still applies.
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Wasn't that hijacked shedloads of times around the time of its release?
Can certainly remember This Morning using it (in edited loop version) for one of their competitions. Possibly without Carr's permission, I guess.
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Going back to musicians holding out against adverts, Martin Carr is still getting offers and refusing to licence 'Wake Up Boo!'
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It's a schtick that only works when other funnier people are around him and he's forced to raise his game a bit. Therefore it can't work in serious roles at all.
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Other people seem to have a deep love for Bill Murray basically acting as himself in every movie he does. Oh look, he's doing something funny but he looks miserable, how hilarious! Leaves me totally cold.
And Lost in Translation was utterly dire, don't think I made it past halfway through.
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I watched a pre-release cut of Lost in Translation and thought it was boring dire bollocks. The way other people talk about it I think the film must have been heavily edited in the few weeks before it went on cinema release. Either that or people really love boring dire bollocks.
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I can't find Kenny Dalglish's japanese whisky ad anywhere. Only articles referring to long dead videos. It was glorious.
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Isn't the opening premise of Lost In Translation that Bill Murray's character is off doing one of these commercials for a Japanese whisk(e)y? So it's lucrative, 'out of sight' so doesn't really matter how he comes off doing it (and his star is fading regardless back in the US so what the heck) but fundamentally soul-destroying and part of a more general dislocation he's experiencing – thus setting him up for encountering Scarlett Johansson's character and all that goes along with that.
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I see what you mean but I was referring to this strange naivety that they seem to have about "oh, no-one will ever see them outside Japan, so it's OK that I strip myself of every last bit of dignity I have", whereas some underpaid researcher with a satellite dish the size of an Olympic swimming pool is getting all these on tape ASAP in the hope that a few million people may find them vaguely amusing.
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Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View PostHas that ever really been true? Shows like Clive James on TV and Carrott's Commercial Breakdown were dragging them out decades ago, and you can find pretty much all of them on YouTube.
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The ads with Darren Gough and Shane Warne for Advanced Hair Studio bring a new meaning to the phrase "wooden acting".
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