Best Commercial Ever, period.

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, it was the wine???


Um, sorry, bad commercial then. I had zero idea.


Perhaps because the name sounds like some internet news service and not at all like a winery.

I don't know if it's that or somethine else, but if you can't sell me champagne with a Scorcese tribute to Hitchcock, you're doing something seriously wrong.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Oh, it was the wine???
Um, sorry, bad commercial then. I had zero idea.

See? I got it, I know the wine. Formerly ultra cheap champagne in a black bottle.

I still think, fabulous commercial and fabulous take on Hitch.

References I caught were, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Birds and Rear Window.

Loved the small details, the hankie, exact duplication of Eve Kendall's gown.

It may be arcane for people not familiar with Hitch or the wine, so iSm, you are right, as a commercial this can fail on many levels. But, I got the joke and it made me want to but the wine.

I also loved the reference during the final shot with Scorsese declaring "We can do Greed, we have the stills."**




**famous silent film by Erich von Stroheim, meant to be ten hours by von Stroheim, ruthlessly cut by MGM to 2 hours. It's a grim film, but the full version has long been the holy grail amongst film geeks. Negative elements are gone, the film was reconstructed with stills and it's agonizing in the grimness and agonizing in the sheer detail von Stroheim shot. Too much, way too much.[/size]