Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Clint Eastwood vs. Shakespeare vs. Ronald Reagan

In a previous post we discussed the great inspirational speeches of film and their similarity to what Shakespeare wrote in Henry V.

The Super Bowl has the most expensive commercials per minute in the world (at $3.5 Million per 30 second spot), and all of them are geared to alter our emotions.

Advertisers often argue over which commercial was the best, but this year the seeming winner was Chrysler's "Halftime in America" ad as seen below.





Watching this ad, advertisers cannot help but notice the resemblance of this commercial to another famous commercial run by Ronald Reagan, entitled, "It's Morning in America."




Do you notice the similarities? Do you think they're coincidental?

1 comment:

  1. Yah, I see it. I really think you should deepen that post you did about pep-talks. I really like all of these connections you are drawing.

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