Sattelite view of a powerful hurricane building up in its slow cyclic motion. “gathering storm alert” slides accross the lower portion of the screen, CNN news-style in bold red lettering. Ominous music plays. The camera zooms slowly out to reveal a perfect, white ring surrounding the storm, which as we zoom out further, is revealed to be a tea cup with swirling milk, sitting on a perfectly set table. Ominous music fades and is gradually replaced with Doris Day singing “Tea for Two”. As we pull out to the final frame setting, the scene is revealed to be two teenage boys playing tea on the grass, on a perfect summer afternoon.
[Voiceover]- “How do you take your tea? Straight, lemon or with a little cream and sugar?”
The camera cuts to the two boys smiling at eachother.
[voiceover] “In a civilized world, we don’t judge eachother for our preferences.”
Armageddon was, of course, abysmally terrible, but Deep Impact was actually pretty good. I can’t speak to the bug movies, though, having never seen either.
There was a case that was settled earlier this year where a California fertility clinic refused to give treatments to a lesbian. IIRC, they specifically refused because she was an unmarried woman, ignoring the fact that she was in a long-term relationship with another woman. The California supreme court decided that the clinic was in violation of California’s equal protection laws.
Well… that at least makes some degree of sense. How many people watching the commercial would even know that? Including it without explanation just makes you think “wtf?” and makes it seem even more pathetically vague.
I think the people watching the commercial are supposed to think about pro-life pharmacists being forced to give women morning after pills. That ad is a whole lot of misdirection.
Yeah, the only other thing I could think of is that a gay or lesbian husband or wife would have more choice in the medical care of his or her SO. 'Course, if someone finds it horrifically abhorrent to allow a loving companion access to their beloved in trying times…
This is very subversive. It’s such a bad argument that it will actually turn a good number of swing votes away from its ostensible position. And I suspect that’s the real intent.
Except the news release says that their bit was parodied on the Colbert report. In the first line.
They just say thanks for the publicity.
Anyway, my main reason for entering the thread is this: how do we know that the HRC didn’t just film their own “auditions”? Easy enough to staffers to mumble the dialog from the commercial in front of a green screen.
Well, some of the actors in the tapes are recognizable from the commercial, firstly. Second, NOM could easily refute that simply by releasing the real audition tapes, making the HRC look dumb and dishonest.
Uh, yeah, and the point I made–and make again–is that when the ad is so ridiculous that it’s its own worst enemy, the publicity works against them, not for them.
If you’re the NOM, your position is that they’re concerned citizens, not actors, and hence there are no audition tapes. Now, just to be absolutely clear, I think that position is bullshit, and that every single other thing about the ad is bullshit, including the message.
Anyway, I though that was why the mere existence of the audition tapes made them worth airing on the HRC website.
I didn’t recognize any actors from both ads but I didn’t really watch that closely.