Re: Delissio Garlic Pizza Vampire Commercial
KalElFan
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> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:50:34 -0400, "KalElFan"
> <kale...@yanospamhoo.com> wrote:
>
>> "Taylor" <lukeb...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:c275e589-57b0-4d4e...@o7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>> On Jul 21, 11:53 pm, "KalElFan" <kalel...@yanospamhoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Probably not enough to detox from Meteor Part Deux, but 30
>>>> seconds you might find entertaining...
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjKXM1YPEiw
>>>>
>>>> Delissio is made by Kraft. The commercial airs in Canada.
>>>> DiGiorno is the name of the equivalent Kraft brand in the
>>>> U.S., but I'm not sure if they have a version of the ad.
>>>
>>> I see it a lot. Kind of cute.
>>
>> I've seen it a lot too and saw it last night, sometime during the
>> news on CTV from 11-12 I think it was. So I did a quick
>> Google to see if it was getting buzz, and it was including one
>> post lamenting it wasn't on YouTube. Finding that difficult
>> to believe because everything else seems to be, I'd done a
>> youtube.com-specific search and found at least three or
>> four people had put it up. I just picked the one I posted
>> the link to.
>>
>>> Yeah, I don't think Americans have a version of it.
>>
>> Since making the post I did a search on DiGiorno and I
>> couldn't find any reference to the commercial. It's a
>> great ad though and I don't know why it wouldn't work
>> in the U.S.
>
> Well they'd actually have to have the product being advertised.
Again, Kraft has the product in the U.S., it's just that the brand
name is different and it's called DiGiorno Garlic Bread Pizza
instead of Delissio Garlic Bread Pizza.
http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/Products/ProductInfoDisplay.aspx?SiteId=1&Product=7192102528
To add a few comments to the rest of what I wrote starting
with what you clipped...
>> ... It'd obviously have to be reshot at least the
>> parts with Delissio in it and perhaps the whole thing.
Looking at the commercial again, there seem to be only two
points where the brand name appears. One is at the end and
easy to substitute because it's just the box not the actors. But
the other is where the father says the word Delissio and that'd
probably require a reshoot, though a dub might work because
it's a long shot as he says it.
>> If the Hugo or Saturn or other SF genre awards had a
>> category for commercials I think it should be nominated.
>> Likewise if the commercial or ad awards had a genre
>> category. It's like a 30-second SF Really Short Short. :-)
>>
>> The father with his expression when he says "Oh, you
>> can *taste* the garlic alright..." and the whole theme of
>> him being intent on dispensing with the real-vampire-not-
>> Goth boyfriend, all in 30 seconds that's quite a creative
>> achievement.
I'd add as well the ambience, nighttime and the doorbell
ringing twice. The scenario also evokes or at least fits with
the Buffy/Angel or any prior mythology of a vampire having
to be invited in, which he isn't here so he flies off after his
head explodes into his vampire bat form.
It's just a neat little commercial and offhand I can't think of
any better SF-themed one. Maybe there just haven't been
that many so this one was more noticeable. Kraft does
have those Philadelphia Cream Cheese angel ones as
well. Laura Vandervoort (Supergirl in Smallville) played
an angel in one of those.
KalElFan
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> Looking at the commercial again, there seem to be only two
> points where the brand name appears. One is at the end and
> easy to substitute because it's just the box not the actors. But
> the other is where the father says the word Delissio and that'd
> probably require a reshoot, though a dub might work because
> it's a long shot as he says it.
Ha! I looked at it again just now and it already seems like they
looped the dialogue. The word Delissio doesn't even appear to
be mouthed if you look closely. It looks intentionally ambiguous,
preserving the possibility of a DiGiorno version.