I once read about a South American TV ad that used, I swear, an actor playing Hitler as a spokesman. The ad was for potato chips called “X Chips”, and the ad apparently included Hitler munching some chips, then becoming a jolly old soul as the swastika morphed into the X Chips logo. Apparently they wanted to imply that you just can’t be a nasty person when you’re eating their chips.
Wait, so are you suggesting that the corporate empire is trying to manipulate us? Are you suggesting that companies don’t have our best intentions in mind?
Fuckin’ commie.
It was thailand I believe. Taiwan has also done some of this stuff. really bizarre.
And I’m sure Marlene Dieterich would have appreciated having the opportunity to at least VOTE on whether her voice should be used as the background music on one of those M-B commercials . . . I HATE it when they use films/recordings of long-dead artists to pitch goods!
Thanks to you, Eve, I get the song from the thread title stuck in my head every time I visit the Pit. A fitting punishment, I suppose.
Did Cecil do a column on the M-B Nazi connection? I thought I remembered one on the VW thing. (off to search)
THANK you, pug, that drives me mad—Marlene’s evil bitch trog daughter from hell, Maria Riva, purposely sold her mother’s voice to that company because she knew Marlene had fought the Nazis and would rotate in her grave at that!
Note to actresses: Never Have Daughters.