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May 31, 2007
"En Cloque, Mode d'Emploi", fertile en pubs furtives / "Knocked Up" fertile in stealth ads

Cette comédie potache est tordante (voir cette critique de Kyle Smith + la page compilée manuellement par le nouveau moteur de recherche Mahalo) et offre en prime des cameos du génial Harold Ramis et de Paul Feig (ici avec Cathy at à la petite fête du Club de la Presse de L.A. en son honneur il y a deux ans.) En revanche, je me serais bien passée du déluge de publicités inscrites dans les dialogues, encore plus sournoises que les placements de produits à l'ancienne avec des marques en évidence à l'image.

This "freaks and geeks"-inspired comedy is hilarious (see the Kyle Smith's review + the page manually compiled by the new search engine Mahalo) You also get as a treat cameos by the wonderful Harold Ramis and Paul Feig (here with Cathy at the L.A. Press Club celebrating him two years ago.) Still, I would have fared better without the deluge of stealth advertisement embedded in the dialogue, even more devious than old-fashioned product placements on screen.

Dans Knocked Up des studios NBC Universal (sortie demain aux USA, le 10 octobre en France sous le titre En cloque, mode d'emploi), les personnages chantent les louanges de produits NBC Universal comme la série télé Everybody Loves Raymond. Le film Spiderman 3 est évoqué au moins à trois reprises dans les conversations et l'acteur James Franco surgit à un moment dans le rôle de... James Franco en train de donner une interview sur son rôle dans Spiderman 3. Le plus curieux là dedans, c'est que Spiderman 3 est le blockbuster d'un studio concurrent, Sony. Lou Lumenick du New York Post se demande quel genre de services les deux studios se sont échangés et remarque que le film entier "est, quelque part, une campagne furtive et lubrique pour le mouvement anti-avortement."

In Knocked Up, made by the NBC Universal studios (out tomorrow in the U.S., on Oct.10 in France under the title En cloque, mode d'emploi), characters sing the praise of NBC Universal products such as Everybody Loves Raymond. The movie Spiderman 3 is mentioned at least 3 times in the conversations and actor James Franco pops up at some point in the role of... James Franco giving an interview about his role in Spiderman 3.The weirdest thing of all is that Spiderman 3 is a blockbuster by a competing studio, Sony. Lou Lumenick of the New York Post wonders which type of agreement the two studios may have reached and notes that the entire movie"is also basically a raunchy stealth ad for the anti-abortion movement."

Posted by Emmanuelle at May 31, 2007 1:39 PM | TrackBack
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NY Times repoeter makes a similar point: "Both of the films Apatow has directed offer up the kind of conservative morals the Family Research Council might embrace — if the humor weren’t so filthy" and writes himself into the Jude Apatow experience

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/magazine/27apatow-t.html?ei=5070&en=601fdad0fa64fc4a&ex=1181102400&pagewanted=print

Posted by: Dr. Crown at June 4, 2007 11:03 PM

I'm guessing James Franco showed up because he played a major character on the Freaks and Geeks tv show. If Spider-Man 3 is a competing studio, then for sure it was because of Judd Apatow's penchant for working with the same people.

Posted by: Liz at June 19, 2007 6:04 PM

Sure, they're all friends, and one James Franco cameo is fine but why all the other mentions of Spiderman 3 that felt really like heavy product placements?

Posted by: Emmanuelle at June 25, 2007 9:40 PM


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