How to Get Ahead In Advertising
by Bruce Robinson
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Actor: Jacqueline Tong, John Shrapnel, Rachel Ward, Richard E. Grant, Richard WilsonDirector: Bruce Robinson
Brand: MGM (Video & DVD)
Cinematographer: Peter Hannan
Writer: Bruce Robinson
Editor: Alan Strachan
Producer: David Wimbury
Producer: Denis O'Brien
Producer: George Harrison
Producer: Ray Cooper
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Summary: 5 Stars
Imagine a world where corporations pay lots of money to men who in turn advertise their products by deceiving and manipulating people. In the city where I live alongside every major street or highway are so many billboards they crowd out the sky. Privately owned television stations run almost as many ads as they do programming, and even then the programming is often just another form of advertisement. History, art, and genuine cultural expressions are appropriated to sell products or "entertainment", i.e. profit-based fun. Game shows promote and exploit greed. People are turned into consumers. Culture(or lack of it) is manufactured, identities can be bought in malls, and ideologies become bumper stickers. Anything meaningful is transformed into an accessory with a price tag, and if it can't be sold is discarded. This movie is not a fairy tale that will make you feel secure, and it doesn't come with a happy ending to comfort you. Instead it strips that fantasy of it's glossy image and tells you that reality is not a commodity to be owned, it tells you that it's the way we interact with the world that makes us who we are, and that if it's just about keeping it all for yourself then it's a very shallow existence. It encourages us to examine the way in which a profit-based economy and consumerist mindset dictate the way we live, and how the freedom to choose between products is not the same as freedom. In doing so it gives you something much more meaningful that can't be made into a possession, and it does so in a way that is sincere, funny, and powerful. But it's not without hope, it makes clear that rejection of greed-driven philosophy can allow us to pursue a vision of a "better" world.
Summary of How to Get Ahead In Advertising
Two heads are not necessarily better than one in this "highly entertaining" (The Hollywood Reporter) "blistering" (Los Angeles) satire about a man brought to the edge of insanity by a rival out for control of his career and his body!To hotshot ad exec Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) people are pathetic sheep to whom he can sell anything except a brand-new pimple cream. Creatively blocked Dennis becomes so stressed that he sprouts a pimple of his own a pimple that eventually grows into a huge head...with a mind and a voice! Before long the sassy carbuncle takes over Dennis' life revealing to him a diabolical plan to control the masses. Now Dennis must find courage deep within himself to save society and himself from the beastly blemishSystem Requirements:Running Time 94 MinsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY Rating:?R UPC:?027616884442 Manufacturer No:?1004364Similar DVD Movies
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