Friday, 30 April 2010

Annoying Adverts

I have a question - is the woman in this advert...


...the same as the woman in this one...


- they seem very similar to me.

and is there anyone else out there who finds both adverts annoying?

The new John Lewis ad is very clever


It depicts a woman aging from babyhood to 70 years in 90 seconds. There is a lot of detail in it, and it is quite intriguing to watch.

But don't study it too closely or it will start to irritate you because of the little inconsistencies.

A woman who is 70 now will not have had a nylon play tunnel as a baby in the 1940's. Or a fibre tip pen on her desk when she was 10 - they were not invented till the 1960's. And the fashions aren't quite right either as the ad progresses. And she seems to have a laptop remarkably early too.

But I do like the Billy Joel song!

4 comments:

  1. And doesnt she look young for '70'!!

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  2. I can't tell if it's the same woman or not in the first two ads, but they do definitely look alike.

    Probably because our ads are so dumb here, I don't find yours irritating at all! Maybe I just like the accents ...

    frances

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  3. I'd not seen the John Lewis advert before. I do love the song.

    And yes those other two adverts are so annoying. It could well be the same woman in the two adverts, I'm not sure.

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  4. I've just posted my two favourite adverts from the past.

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