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Czech Dream
Dec. 28th, 2007 12:55 amInteresting and amusing study on advertising and consumerism. Set in a former communist country it applies pretty much anywhere these days.
Czech Dream
The film makers hire a major advertising agency to build demand for their new hypermarket (something like a Walmart/Tesco/Fred Meyer/etc) - Czesky Sen (Czech Dream). See how they do consumer research and develop a logo, stirring theme song, tv commercials, billboards promoting opening day - for a store that is merely a facade in a meadow.
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Oh and Fri night I got some more people to watch Atarnajuat (Fast Runner)
spoilers
If you missed my posts a couple years ago, this is a fascinating film - set in northeastern Canada anytime in the last few thousand years. The people in it are all Inuit, and the language is. The props are all authentic - the dialogue is not expository - the tale is one passed down in the community.
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Feel like I should make a trio of cool foreign films in the post since I have two mentioned... but do I gratuitously mention Totoro which many of you already know since it's just so adorable? or Goodbye Lenin! which more of you may have missed?
Czech Dream
The film makers hire a major advertising agency to build demand for their new hypermarket (something like a Walmart/Tesco/Fred Meyer/etc) - Czesky Sen (Czech Dream). See how they do consumer research and develop a logo, stirring theme song, tv commercials, billboards promoting opening day - for a store that is merely a facade in a meadow.
-*-
Oh and Fri night I got some more people to watch Atarnajuat (Fast Runner)
spoilers
If you missed my posts a couple years ago, this is a fascinating film - set in northeastern Canada anytime in the last few thousand years. The people in it are all Inuit, and the language is. The props are all authentic - the dialogue is not expository - the tale is one passed down in the community.
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Feel like I should make a trio of cool foreign films in the post since I have two mentioned... but do I gratuitously mention Totoro which many of you already know since it's just so adorable? or Goodbye Lenin! which more of you may have missed?
