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Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph
What about the films that have a character who smokes? I have more of an issue with that than with product placement.
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I have issues with that, too. I don't agree with glamorizing smoking in films. I mean the films in the 30's, 40's and 50's... wow! That's a lot of smoking going on. Not to mention the numerous takes from shot to shot. Yikes. But at the same time, they aren't wearing Marlboro t-shirts while they do it.
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Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph
Sure, but why waste the time when you have something that is so ingrained in our culture that we immediately know what it is and what it represents? I'd rather get more into the meat of the story than have several pages of contextualization of Company X.
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There are worse things that they spend time on. You could explain a company that someone works for in a sentence or two. If you show someone working in their environment, based on how frantic they are working you could convey the message that this is a big, successful monster of a company. Think about sci-fi movies, they have to explain a planet, a culture, just about everything. But let's not waste time on that? Let them just work on Earth, in America, at Walmart but have them carry laser guns. (I'm being silly, I know, but I think you get my point?)