Best Commercial Ever, period.

[Not Afraid]

The guy getting up on the chair was Vertigo-reminiscent. Just a flash of Jimmy Stewart getting up on a chair in Midge's apartment.

[Not Afraid]

All I know is that I don't want to go back to work. I want to stay at home and watch Hitchcock films.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Now I think the fall was North by Northwest.

The stabbing is Dial M for Murder.

The strangulation is familiar but I'm not placing it.

The cheers/kiss is To Catch a Thief? (No fireworks).

I think the strangulation is also Dial M for Murder.

[innerSpaceman]

Ah, the flash was Rear Window! Thanks, I couldn't quite place it.

And yeah, the way the fall was filmed was pure Vertigo ... but of course the situation of man falling from concert-house opera box was total Man Who Knew Too Much. Great combination.


In fact, the ten seconds combining North by Northwest, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Vertigo are like the most freaking awesome 10 seconds of film EVER!

[Not Afraid]

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0052357/5.html?seq=12


Check out the photo from Vertigo or the fall.

And, of course, the fact that we don't see the actual stabbing happening is a Psycho reference.

I could just watch this over and over. I've seen enough Hitch ot make this a fun treasure hunt.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Heh - Snowflake, you metioned the exact two things I was going to post. "Thelma! And von Stroheim!" We saw the version of Greed with the stills cut in. It was pretty incredible.

Definitely brilliant. I'm not sure how you could miss that it was a commercial for the wine... but even if you didn't know, I think out-of-the-box advertising is so much better than standard dreck. I'd much rather not know what something is advertising and be drawn in by what it has to say; for me, it drums up more interest in the product itself than "buy this product" would.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Who wrote it? They very cleverly folded in all of these references.

[Not Afraid]

Of course, the music is from North by Northwest.

[Strangler Lewis]

Now we know what was in Marcellus Wallace's briefcase.

[Snowflake]

I've said it before and I will say it again, I absolutely love the people on LoT. Where else can I go and people can dissect a commercial by Scorsese and find all the Hitch references and discuss them? At least with such bonhomie and good fun, nothing like some of the geeky film people I talk to who have no humor about film.