This is an actual commercial for an actual soft drink. I've seen it several times in the local cinemas before the feature, but a short version is also on TV. Warning: despite the cast of cute fuzzy animals, to call this ad "suggestive" would be to wildly understate the case.
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WTF?!?!?!
An unworldly North American
One answer: French advertisers do too many drugs.
My roommate's answer (who happens to know somebody who works at the agency that did the ad): Sex sells, Animals sell, so mixing both must sell. The question is "how did the client (Orangina) accepted it?"
I think the only possible answer is: too many drugs.
I believe we discussed the posters of this campaign, and arrived at the conclusion that they were targeting practitioners of bestiality, the thought being I suppose that 1) this was a previously totally unexploited demographic, and 2) they must get very thirsty.
Apparently, the French say "Orangina" when they want to be disturbing. Sex may sell, and animals may sell, but--some how--equating Orangina with rutting and animal effluence equals me no drink ever again.
As disturbing/drug induced as this is, I must say it does work: Orangina is forever burned into my mind, thanks to these ads.
Birds do it, bees do it. Even deers with big boobs do it...
Actually I had no idea this was for Orangina. I was too mesmerized by the... well, everything else.
On an unrelated note, three guys just walked by our apartment clutching a blow-up doll.
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