The Iceland christmas advert scares me

[brokenbetty]

It has "Mums" dressed as fin de siecle prostitutes being wrangled by Jason Donovan as a mustachioed ringmaster (not gay) into hysteric celebration of beef n yorkshire pud canapes

Does no one else find this a bit weird?

 

[snorri]

Woops, I thought this was a thread about Christmas holidays in the northern latitudes.

 

[Ajay]

I don't know what they're paying you Jason, but really, is it worth it?

 

[dellzeqq]

I don't know what they're paying you Jason, but really, is it worth it?

perhaps he's fresh out options.....

I quite like this ad. It has a simple premise. It says that if you want to buy stuff that you don't want to make yourself, for not much money and you're not that fussy about the ingredients, Iceland is the place to go. It's an expensive piece of work made to look inexpensive - the waiter's haircut is deliberately crap.

It's not complicated, it simply offers you a pleasant sixty seconds - well, apart from Jason in suspenders which is, to my mind, not very tasteful.

Of course this opinion has nothing to do with the presence of Moulin Rouge in the all time Dellzeqq top 20 films....

anyway, judge for yourself... http://www.youtube.c...h?v=8Z2nLwEfAoo

 

[Eurygnomes]

I saw it last night and have to admit to a fit of shuddering. Ugh. I'm even less likely to purchase a prawn ring now.

Although; have you seen this?

 

[Baggy]

I don't know what they're paying you Jason, but really, is it worth it?

...well, he couldn't do an ad for L'Oreal

 

[ttcycle]

Not seen the ad as don't have a tv and don't have the inclination to either but slightly off topic..

A good friend of mine was a background actor for this ad - they filmed 3 and a half months ago and the ad is showing on TV -none of the background actors have yet been paid for the hours they put in.

That's just disgusting.

 

[dellzeqq]

Not seen the ad as don't have a tv and don't have the inclination to either but slightly off topic..

A good friend of mine was a background actor for this ad - they filmed 3 and a half months ago and the ad is showing on TV -none of the background actors have yet been paid for the hours they put in.

That's just disgusting.

that's extraordinary. I'd expect Equity to simply ring up BECTU and have the thing pulled........

 

[Arch]

I saw it last night and have to admit to a fit of shuddering. Ugh. I'm even less likely to purchase a prawn ring now.

Although; have you seen this?

<remembers 12 years working for Bejam/Iceland, and has prawn ring flashback>

<rocks on chair>

It wasn't just the prawn rings - each November we'd have a whole pallet of prawn cocktail sauce delivered. That's a lot of prawn cocktail sauce, I can tell you.

 

[TheDoctor]

Pffffffffft!!
'prawn ring flashback'
That sounds incredibly dubious...
*snork*

 

[biggs682]

so lets get this right its nearly xmas already ???

 

[sheddy]

Not seen it, but please tell me that the word 'Christmas' is actually used ?

 

[gavintc]

Well, as I do not get ads out here (well not the UK versions) I had to do some youtube searching. I actually quite liked it. I thought it made Iceland look a bit better than I remember it.

As for Christmas - last posting date is drawing (for me) closer by the day. I just have to wrap the pile at the end of the sofa and put them into the mail.

 

[ttcycle]

that's extraordinary. I'd expect Equity to simply ring up BECTU and have the thing pulled........

It's hard for background workers to get into equity,bectu is an option but I think majority may not be members.

What complicates this is the agency that got the actors is probably the people delaying the payment.

Still, if it were me, I'd rally everyone together and embarass the hell out of Iceland to get teh monies due wherever the bottleneck appears to be...

 

[Corvette chic]

Bloody hell no I hadn't seen it and now I'm going to have nightmares... thanks for that