Grown Up Gossip & Internet Villainy
Product placement has become the bane of moviegoers lives. Nowadays you’re never sure if what you’re seeing is the choice of the director, or of the producer or the marketing girl named Joan who’s managed to wangle a deal with Motorola to make sure that the movie star’s mobile phone is provided by the company.
Sadly, that’s how our world is nowadays. We’re supercapitalist in every way, even if it means compromising the quality of movies. And James Bond is no different.
Dates may well be something of an American construct, but the world has embraced the notion of them, going out for dinner, watching a film or indeed, simply standing in a celebrity’s garden until they call the cops.
The ubiquitous date is a thrilling, fraught experience. It could be the start of something wonderful! The greatest love story ever told! Or indeed, it could be horrible. It could show you your dream partner and then snatch them away from you forever, seeing you vowing to an angry sky that you’ll never love another!
Tricky things aren’t they? So how best to navigate them? Well, as ever, we look to fiction for help.
Music on adverts is, sometimes, the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone, ever. Worse than being in a concentration camp for 10 years. Think we’re hamming it up? Let us remind you of the jingles from the Go Compare adverts. Or the We Buy Any Car one.
Wishing you didn’t have ears now?
Well, not all music on commercials is woeful. In fact, sometimes, it is really, really cool. Old hits are given new leases of life via TV and new bands break vital ground with a well placed piece of music.
