Orangina advert 'too sexy' says UK newspaper
Farry
weeks, several times a night it seems to me. Finally, a slight rumble of
complaint has surfaced in a newspaper.
http://tinyurl.com/4a5kng standing in for:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2612657/Orangina-advert-too-sexy.html
I'd say that Orangina have pitched it just right if they've got people
talking about it -- and yet it's not quite provocative enough (by UK
standards) to get the advert regulation authority to even think about
whether they need to think about it until after the advert has run its
course.
Here's the full version on YouTube. The version on UK TV is edited to
shorten it a bit but not to censor it because the most racy imagery is
still in there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHA9Ig7HOGA
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Farry
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> The infamous Orangina advert has been showing on UK TV for the past three
> weeks, several times a night it seems to me. Finally, a slight rumble of
> complaint has surfaced in a newspaper.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4a5kng standing in for:
>
>
> I'd say that Orangina have pitched it just right if they've got people
> talking about it -- and yet it's not quite provocative enough (by UK
> standards) to get the advert regulation authority to even think about
> whether they need to think about it until after the advert has run its
> course.
>
> Here's the full version on YouTube. The version on UK TV is edited to
> shorten it a bit but not to censor it because the most racy imagery is
> still in there.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHA9Ig7HOGA
>
> --
> Farry
shattering their fragile eggshell minds. Is "How To Look Good Naked"
something that a lot of children watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4on6XQz9kI
Worth watching if only for the storyboard art.
Joe Strike
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4on6XQz9kI
>
> Worth watching if only for the storyboard art.
-- and especially the drawing of the bunny getting splashed. Man, some
people actually get paid - real money in real jobs - to draw this
stuff!
Oliver
Ora, which declared it to be "too orangey for crows." (Don't know if
it was only shown in the UK. Some quite surreal moments, though the
crows verged on 'Dumbo'-style black stereotypes.) Now it seems there's
a furry/cartoon commercial for a fruit drink which has been
declared..."too Orangina-y for kids."
On Sep 1, 4:31 am, Joe Strike <joestrike...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Man, some people actually get paid - real money in real jobs - to draw this
> stuff!
At yet, just as Ward Kimball would subsequently say that his animation
for 'Alice in Wonderland' wasn't intended to invoke or enhance
tripping, and John Inman claimed with a straight face that he never
regarded the character he played in 'Are You Being Served?' as gay,
I'm sure plenty of the Orangina animators will insist on their
ignorance of the fandom. (Furry denial is a powerful thing; I should
know. :-)
Joe Strike
> At yet, just as Ward Kimball would subsequently say that his animation
> for 'Alice in Wonderland' wasn't intended to invoke or enhance
> tripping,
Well, seeing as how Disney's 'Alice' came out in 1951, I'd take Ward
at his word - there was no 'tune in, turn on, drop out culture' back
then, or media fascination over 'mind-expanding' drugs. The Diz
artists probably were more influenced by surrealist artists & just
their own imaginations. (That's right kids - get high on life!)
>and John Inman claimed with a straight face that he never
> regarded the character he played in 'Are You Being Served?' as gay,
Now that one I don't believe for a second. ('Straight' face? Haw haw
haw, I get it - 'straight' face, wink wink nudge nudge... ;-)
Oliver
Results of some v. quick Googling:
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2007/s1868089.htm
"During the show's successful run, John Inman's portrayal of the
wildly effeminate sales assistant was attacked by gay groups. They
accused the actor of stereotyping homosexuals but Mr Inman always
insisted his character's sexual orientation was never stated."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20070309/ai_n18718941
'He played the role with blatant homosexual overtones and as a result
was criticised by gay rights groups but Inman insisted that "there are
people far more camp than Mr Humphries walking round this country".'
Denial can be a powerful thing, don't deny it...
Oliver
many of the Orangina actors, animators and artists wouldn't
necessarily consider themselves furries or be aware of the fandom,
such is the mind's capacity for compartmentalization, denial and
ignorance. But anyway...
Here, as an aside, is an example of a British commercial which *was*
pulled for being too disturbing (also, they stole the concept from a
Clive Barker short story). It attracted a lot of complaints and
personally I find it a million times creepier than Orangina's
cavorting creatures.
(And oh God, the one for anti-perspirant where the guy gets turned
into chocolate and chunks eaten out of him, don't get me started on
that!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9yZxZSBeM8
"I am writing about the new advertisement for digital TV showing
severed heads floating in the air and coagulating into one large
talking head. As a registered psychotherapist, I wish to protest that
this image is disturbingly psychotic. Its unacknowledged aggression
could make a fragile viewer ill. I think you should withdraw it at
once."
http://www.rllmukforum.com/lofiversion/index.php?t110265.html
Chris Sobieniak
Some people never understand art!