Comments on: Apocalypse Now! http://www.marklives.com/wordpress/2009/09/apocolypse-now/ Media, marketing, design and advertising translated for the rest of us Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:08:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: eugenie banhegyi http://www.marklives.com/wordpress/2009/09/apocolypse-now/comment-page-1/#comment-5084 eugenie banhegyi Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:36:16 +0000 http://www.marklives.com/wordpress/?p=806#comment-5084 Great articles, Mandy and Fanny. This is not just one person's fantasy gone wrong, though. Agencies always do things collaboratively, so this must be the agency's collective idea of how to make a connection between themselves and their clients; and to show off their creative ability... As we know, if you lack inspiration or direction, resort to T&A. Great articles, Mandy and Fanny. This is not just one person’s fantasy gone wrong, though. Agencies always do things collaboratively, so this must be the agency’s collective idea of how to make a connection between themselves and their clients; and to show off their creative ability… As we know, if you lack inspiration or direction, resort to T&A.

]]> By: Gio http://www.marklives.com/wordpress/2009/09/apocolypse-now/comment-page-1/#comment-4992 Gio Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:52:58 +0000 http://www.marklives.com/wordpress/?p=806#comment-4992 Bravo to both you ladies - Mandy and Fanny. You're both really funny - and cutting. "Blood on the dance floor" "I have no doubt he/she has regular conversations with the Telly-Tubbys." Poetry. Bravo to both you ladies – Mandy and Fanny.
You’re both really funny – and cutting.
“Blood on the dance floor”
“I have no doubt he/she has regular conversations with the Telly-Tubbys.”
Poetry.

]]> By: Fanny Lee-Knott http://www.marklives.com/wordpress/2009/09/apocolypse-now/comment-page-1/#comment-4982 Fanny Lee-Knott Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:34:39 +0000 http://www.marklives.com/wordpress/?p=806#comment-4982 I was there too. I wish I hadn't gone. I wish I could erase the experience from my memory...It was like watching a car crash... The theme tune that (I guess) the "creator" came up with in his head, the guiding theme, was one stolen from an Austin Powers movie...OH, BEHAVE!....psychedelic 70s music interspersed with monkey shreeks set the funky mood... Oh, grow up! Go jerk off under a table in Teazers, you freak! Utterly desperate, derivative and devoid of originality or vision. A shot in in a dark room, a hedonistic death-shudder from an industry on the precipice. A teenage boy's fantasy come to life. The stuff of a Wayne's World movie. Decidedly B-grade. Everybody is repulsed but too afraid to call the emperor naked. The guy who organised the party must be one of those simpletons who never realised that the Austin Powers movie was a spoof. Maybe he took too many drugs last year when he turned seventeen and fried his brain in the process. I have no doubt he/she has regular conversations with the Telly-Tubbys. One wonders how any serious corporate company would want to hire this agency after THAT shameless display of debauchery. It leaves one utterly devastated at Johannesburg society's tolerance for all that is unholy; money making at all costs. Is THIS what we have become? Is this the best we can deliver? Sad. Where IS "the line" and once we crossed it, did anyone notice...It says more about ourselves for playing along than the twat who came up with/stole the concept. Maybe we should pinch ourselves and realise that we aren't living in LA-LA Land. Then, another tune, perhaps more true to the actual event, is one from Little Britain...The Dennis Waterman character: "Oooh that's nice!" "So they want me to star in it, write the feem toon (i.e. "theme tune"), sing the feem toon..." I was there too. I wish I hadn’t gone. I wish I could erase the experience from my memory…It was like watching a car crash…

The theme tune that (I guess) the “creator” came up with in his head, the guiding theme, was one stolen from an Austin Powers movie…OH, BEHAVE!….psychedelic 70s music interspersed with monkey shreeks set the funky mood…

Oh, grow up! Go jerk off under a table in Teazers, you freak!

Utterly desperate, derivative and devoid of originality or vision. A shot in in a dark room, a hedonistic death-shudder from an industry on the precipice. A teenage boy’s fantasy come to life. The stuff of a Wayne’s World movie. Decidedly B-grade. Everybody is repulsed but too afraid to call the emperor naked.

The guy who organised the party must be one of those simpletons who never realised that the Austin Powers movie was a spoof. Maybe he took too many drugs last year when he turned seventeen and fried his brain in the process. I have no doubt he/she has regular conversations with the Telly-Tubbys.

One wonders how any serious corporate company would want to hire this agency after THAT shameless display of debauchery. It leaves one utterly devastated at Johannesburg society’s tolerance for all that is unholy; money making at all costs. Is THIS what we have become? Is this the best we can deliver? Sad.

Where IS “the line” and once we crossed it, did anyone notice…It says more about ourselves for playing along than the twat who came up with/stole the concept. Maybe we should pinch ourselves and realise that we aren’t living in LA-LA Land.

Then, another tune, perhaps more true to the actual event, is one from Little Britain…The Dennis Waterman character: “Oooh that’s nice!” “So they want me to star in it, write the feem toon (i.e. “theme tune”), sing the feem toon…”

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