Can anyone top the product placement in Zoom?

[ChrisRMeyer]

Re: Can anyone top the product placement in Zoom?

Pulp Fiction - though I don't know how well it worked because I haven't been able to track down a pack of Red Apples (either filtered or unfiltered) any where! Worse, the clerks calling me stupid for asking.

[warrenP]

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Minority Report had tons of product placement. I'm sure there was more, but the ones that stood out there were: Lexus, Guinness, Gap, Reebok, Pepsi, Century 21... (OK, I looked it up, here are a few more from that flick: Aquafina, American Express, Revo, Nokia). So Minority Report had at least 10 companies with advertising in the film.

[Signal30]

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The Island had the stupidest examples of product placement...branded goods for a society of people that didn't buy goods. What, advertize Aquafina, X-Box and Puma so that when an organ goes out in the real world, it impells the donee to purchase same?

[Republic of Stephen]

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From Blue Velvet:

Frank Booth
What kind of beer do you like to drink, neighbor?

Jeffrey Beaumont
Heineken.

Frank Booth
Heineken? **** that ****! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

Oh, I love that scene. Still tickles me.

[jillybob]

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According to IMDb, all those product placements in "Josie and the ...Cats" -- and there were 73 of them -- were unpaid, and brought no money at all into the production. So they actually mangaged to be satirical without being hypocritical. Which is kind of cool, even if they had to give free advertising to a bunch of corporate giants in order to pull it off.

I have to agree that "I, Robot" had some painfully blatant product placement. It's always more glaring in futuristic films, and "I, Robot" was particularly bad, because they made the protag obsessed with "vintage" items. So it felt like the plot came to a screeching halt every so often so he could say crap like, "At last, my very own pair of 2004-issue, Special Edition Nikes. Do you know how precious and rare these are?" And I, personally, found it to be really dumb. Then again, I also find it really dumb that in the future, or any future-set movie that contains robots, humans can apparently master every kind of technology imaginable except the ability to make robots that don't make noise whent they walk. You can have your flying cars, sure, but if you want a robot that walks without going zut, zut with every step, you're SOL.

But that's a discussion for another thread.

I'm also bothered by that dumb, generic "give me a beer" thing. Even in Springfield they ask for Duff, specifically, and they're cartoons!

[Signal30]

Re: Can anyone top the product placement in Zoom?

According to IMDb, all those product placements in "Josie and the ...Cats" -- and there were 73 of them -- were unpaid, and brought no money at all into the production. So they actually mangaged to be satirical without being hypocritical. Which is kind of cool, even if they had to give free advertising to a bunch of corporate giants in order to pull it off.

So no money was exchanged...but I'm willing a buttload of "free" corporate swag went around to everyone involved.

The only way I'll believe otherwise is if Rachael Leigh Cook assures me personally that this was not the case.

[Mr. Helpmann]

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So no money was exchanged...but I'm willing a buttload of "free" corporate swag went around to everyone involved.

The only way I'll believe otherwise is if Rachael Leigh Cook assures me personally that this was not the case.

And I want corroboration from Rosario Dawson.

[Architeuthis Dux]

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Now wait just a second here . . .

Does this mean I can increase my chances of selling a screenplay if I come up with an idea that shows a product in a favorable light, or that I could use potential product placement dollars as a selling point?

JOANIE:
Oh, Agent Wade . . . Thank
you for saving my life.

WADE:
All in a day's work, babe.
And did I mention these
Trojan Brand Condoms
in my wallet? I always carry
them for occasions like these.

JOANIE:
Come here, you stud!

[vig]

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terminator three was the worst. absolutely the worst example of product placing ever. it actually infuriates me to this day. the crane and advil truck is just simply pissing me off.

i'm seriously roasting still. fauck them.

[Signal30]

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One day I was mulling over the product placement pureness of writing a script about college students trolling the Safeway aisles late at night at the local supermarket, and the shenanigans of the clerks behind the scenes. Meet Market seemed like the perfect name.

It was: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366762/

I don't know if they really pursued the possibilities, though.

[Biohazard]

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Anyone remember Peter Parker snagging himself a Dr. Pepper can when learning to use his webs? Like that couldn't have just been a picture or something.

I was watching this at work last night on Fox or whatever station it was on. They changed the can in that scene to a red can with the word COLA on it in white lettering. It was quite obvious that it was digitally editied.

I don't mind product placement as long as it's not obviously intentional. The Pepsi machine in T2 actually fit the scene and didn't seem like it was just thrown in for the sake of advertising. But the car in I, Robot driving up to the camera so the 4 Audi rings come into clear view was just soulless.

PS: The Blue Velvet scene is priceless. Hopper was tremendous in that film.