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Lastrova
Joined: 30 Dec 2010
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Thailand. Even the people look Thai--albeit Thai-Chinese as is the usual for Thai commercials. The very first word spoken is poo ying, woman/women in Thai. Yes, touching. |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Didn't find it touching. Especially when I knew it was going to be an advertisement. I find these types of ads cheesy and annoying. |
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Lastrova
Joined: 30 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| WadRUG'naDoo wrote: |
| Didn't find it touching. Especially when I knew it was going to be an advertisement. I find these types of ads cheesy and annoying. |
Tis true. An advertisement is basically telling you "we're gonna manipulate the hell out of you, press every emotional button, and fill in the missing pieces with lots of subliminal messages." Hey, that sounds like a lot of movies these days! |
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Old fat expat
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
Location: a caravan of dust, making for a windy prairie
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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As the butterfly lifted off the meadow of grain I imagined a bird swooping down and eating the insect.
When it didn't happen, I cried for the bird. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought her hair looked bad while she whipped it around. That's enough to get me to not buy a product. |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:11 am Post subject: |
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| Old fat expat wrote: |
As the butterfly lifted off the meadow of grain I imagined a bird swooping down and eating the insect.
When it didn't happen, I cried for the bird. |
If the dog hadn't stopped to crap, it would've caught the rabbit.
What? |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Too sentimental. I prefer the Allstate 'Mayhem' series. |
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conrad2
Joined: 05 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Thailand has flowing wheat fields? Who knew. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| The advert worked despite the fact the deaf girl was pretty, if she had been a plain jane it would have added more emotion and more gravitas to the story in my opinion. |
Well, it is a beauty product being advertised. I don't recall seeing too many "plain janes" in beauty product commercials. |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
Here's my music snobbery at its most basic...
What the girl played on the piano could never be beaten by Pachelbel's sh*tty canon, no matter how deaf or limbless.
Especially if she was playing it solo like that, rather than with a string orchestra as the backing track implied. She could be doing pole vaults over bears and I still wouldn't give my vote.
Saying that, I still cried a little before my irritation set in on the final performance.
Man I hate Pachelbel.
Pachelbellend, more like. |
This is one case where popular opinion is dead right: the Canon in D is beautiful. Yes, it's routine these days. That's not Pachelbel's fault, it's yours, and everyone else's, for not exploring his oeuvre. He wrote way more than just the Canon in D. Study up; you have no excuse for this snobby and frankly philistine outburst. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| WadRUG'naDoo wrote: |
| Didn't find it touching. Especially when I knew it was going to be an advertisement. I find these types of ads cheesy and annoying. |
I would have called it "trite emotional button pressing that's about as subtle as a Michael Bay film", but "cheesy" works just as well.
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| This is one case where popular opinion is dead right: the Canon in D is beautiful. Yes, it's routine these days. That's not Pachelbel's fault, it's yours, and everyone else's, for not exploring his oeuvre. He wrote way more than just the Canon in D. Study up; you have no excuse for this snobby and frankly philistine outburst. |
Opinion is neither right nor wrong, popular or otherwise. Glob is entirely entitled to hate Pachelbel as much as he wants, and I hardly think it's his fault that Canon in D has been recorded, rearranged and remixed 8 million ways from Sunday and is constantly assaulting our ears. |
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Kaypea
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
Especially if she was playing it solo like that, rather than with a string orchestra as the backing track implied. She could be doing pole vaults over bears and I still wouldn't give my vote.
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I agree. The muscial performance was crap, and it's a terrible shampoo. Boo. |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Opinion is neither right nor wrong, popular or otherwise. |
If opinions aren't right or wrong, why are you trying to correct mine?
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| Glob is entirely entitled to hate Pachelbel as much as he wants, |
Like anyone else he's entitled to embarrass himself by calling a great composer "Pachelbellend". No argument there. But he's a composition major, so I expect more from him.
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| and I hardly think it's his fault that Canon in D has been recorded, rearranged and remixed 8 million ways from Sunday and is constantly assaulting our ears. |
"Constantly assaulting our ears"? Please. If only. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Koveras wrote: |
| If opinions aren't right or wrong, why are you trying to correct mine? |
I'm stating my opinion. Not everything is about you.
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| Like anyone else he's entitled to embarrass himself by calling a great composer "Pachelbellend". No argument there. But he's a composition major, so I expect more from him. |
You expect him to share your opinion about Pachelbel. Facist.
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| "Constantly assaulting our ears"? Please. If only. |
Amazon has two separate full-length CDs entitled "Pachelbel's Greatest Hit", emphasis on the singular. If there were some kind of statistics on most heard music, I'd bet money it'd be damn near the top. I've heard a Family Mart's doorbell squawk it out! "Constantly" is only just barely a hyperbole. |
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Panda
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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As for 'Canon' how can you get sick of it?  |
I am not talking about Canon in general, I am talking about the very piece played in this ad...
It first appeared in a Korean drama a few years ago, suddenly it became so popular and every drama and movie (now the ad) was using it.
It has been enjoyed by lots of people who don't really appreciate classic music (who have no idea what Canon actually is) who pretend to be classy ...
I also have an issue with that many Korean told me they like Chinese music, and when I get excited and ask which one, everyone tells me they know <Ye Lai Xiang>, because a Korean movie used this song, and its all.
I get very sick when people make crappy remix or fusion music from the original classic pieces.
Maybe I shouldnt have an issue with it, I am just getting old and angry at everything... |
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