Why do Movie Stars need to do commercials?

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You have former senator and movie star Fred Thompson trying to get us to buy something called "reverse mortgage". Bob Wagner pitches the same thing. Big star Al Baldwin makes unfunny airline commercials and Bill Shatner sells vacations. Jamie Lee Curtis pitches stuff that makes your bowls move. The point is that these people are stars and presumably richer than most small countries. Why do they need to pitch stuff that we don't want and they don't use? Let somebody else get some work. I think some congressman should submit a bill that forces the Ad-agencies to indicate how much these stars are compensated for selling the product and if and if they actually use it as they claim and if the product doesn't work we can sue them directly as well as the company.
 
Where did you get the idea that rich people don't want more money?
 
It's about artistic expression!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfmdsGrjW7M]Arnold Schwarzenegger in Japanese Commercial - YouTube[/ame]
 
It's about expanding their reach as thespians


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bW_cHfnOXM&feature=related]Ben Stiller Japanese Commercial - YouTube[/ame]
 
It's about drama and pathos


 
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It's about good times with good friends


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMy5yTghi2w&feature=related]Harrison Ford commercial Kirin lager beer - YouTube[/ame]
 
Really good friends


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwxk9UibZZg&feature=related]Harrison Ford commercial - YouTube[/ame]
 
It's about universal themes


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08foUOtIVyg&feature=related]Tommy Lee Jones Japanese Suntory Commercial - 80's Cop - YouTube[/ame]
 
Ok, maybe it's about making some $$$

The old masters would never have stooped to such a thing


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GveTzOQNCrM&feature=related]Orson Welles in a Japanese Whiskey Commercial - YouTube[/ame]
 
What do you think we should do? Buy the crap because we have been taught that actors are really celestial beings or take a second look at tinseltown's influence in pop-culture? I think congress should take a look at truth an advertising. I recall years ago that a little soap-opera depicting a patient and a doctor had a little disclaimer that said "a dramatization". In other words the scenario wasn't true. It would be fair to the public if they understood that their favorite movie stars don't really use the crap they are selling but they are using their fame and recognition to make big bucks by lying about the product they are peddling. If the Ad-agency showed how much the stars were compensated for selling the stuff it would go a long way towards protecting the consumer.
 
What do you think we should do? Buy the crap because we have been taught that actors are really celestial beings or take a second look at tinseltown's influence in pop-culture? I think congress should take a look at truth an advertising. I recall years ago that a little soap-opera depicting a patient and a doctor had a little disclaimer that said "a dramatization". In other words the scenario wasn't true. It would be fair to the public if they understood that their favorite movie stars don't really use the crap they are selling but they are using their fame and recognition to make big bucks by lying about the product they are peddling. If the Ad-agency showed how much the stars were compensated for selling the stuff it would go a long way towards protecting the consumer.

It doesn't matter. Those that know something is fake or a scam will ignore it, and the rest probably wont listen ethier way. I actually had to sit down and have a half an hour conversation with one of my employees on why penny stocks were a bad investment. At the end I was still unsure if I had convinced him.
 
Those are all good Unko! My two favorite "Gaijin" Japanese commercials are Lee Marvin in "Speak Lark" and Kiss sitting at a Kisaten pointing out all manner of Japanese "weirdness"! :lol:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq13Tlsol3U"]Kiss (Japanese Commercial) - YouTube[/ame]
 
You have former senator and movie star Fred Thompson trying to get us to buy something called "reverse mortgage". Bob Wagner pitches the same thing. Big star Al Baldwin makes unfunny airline commercials and Bill Shatner sells vacations. Jamie Lee Curtis pitches stuff that makes your bowls move. The point is that these people are stars and presumably richer than most small countries. Why do they need to pitch stuff that we don't want and they don't use? Let somebody else get some work. I think some congressman should submit a bill that forces the Ad-agencies to indicate how much these stars are compensated for selling the product and if and if they actually use it as they claim and if the product doesn't work we can sue them directly as well as the company.

It's just another source of income. Many movie and tv stars treat their profession as a business. They have a shelf life just as all of us do and you try to earn as much as you can for as long as you can.
 
You have former senator and movie star Fred Thompson trying to get us to buy something called "reverse mortgage". Bob Wagner pitches the same thing. Big star Al Baldwin makes unfunny airline commercials and Bill Shatner sells vacations. Jamie Lee Curtis pitches stuff that makes your bowls move. The point is that these people are stars and presumably richer than most small countries. Why do they need to pitch stuff that we don't want and they don't use? Let somebody else get some work. I think some congressman should submit a bill that forces the Ad-agencies to indicate how much these stars are compensated for selling the product and if and if they actually use it as they claim and if the product doesn't work we can sue them directly as well as the company.

You're asking for the federal government to further regulate the ad industry?
 
You have former senator and movie star Fred Thompson trying to get us to buy something called "reverse mortgage". Bob Wagner pitches the same thing. Big star Al Baldwin makes unfunny airline commercials and Bill Shatner sells vacations. Jamie Lee Curtis pitches stuff that makes your bowls move. The point is that these people are stars and presumably richer than most small countries. Why do they need to pitch stuff that we don't want and they don't use? Let somebody else get some work. I think some congressman should submit a bill that forces the Ad-agencies to indicate how much these stars are compensated for selling the product and if and if they actually use it as they claim and if the product doesn't work we can sue them directly as well as the company.

Like having enough money prevents people from wanting still more?
 

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