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Imagine what would happen if this became a thing for TV and movies. Whenever Iron Man would pull up to the Avengers head quarters, you'd get a message "This sce
by tinco 6y ago
Imagine what would happen if this became a thing for TV and movies. Whenever Iron Man would pull up to the Avengers head quarters, you'd get a message "This scene is sponsored by Audi AG". Every war movie would have a "Vehicles and props kindly provided by the US Armed Forces".
And those are just the obvious ones. It would be super funny if they'd have to do it retroactively.
- pydry 6y agoThey'd just tack it on the credits at the end.
- LordDragonfang 6y agoThey already do, the video actually shows that. The video is arguing that they should have to do it the way social media "influencers" have to, either while the product is on screen, or clearly up font at the beginning (the way TV ratings are shown)
- tsimionescu 6y agoIt would hopefully reduce the value of those ads, so it may turn at least a few away. That would be a great thing!
- walrus01 6y ago> Every war movie would have a "Vehicles and props kindly provided by the US Armed Forces". There's a whole bunch of war movies that are absolutely NOT approved by the US DoD, because they show things in an unfavorable light. Generally this means no access to actual equipment like M1 tanks or 'real' aircraft, which must be substituted using somebody else's b-roll, or CGI. It is generally pretty easy to tell the difference between movies that were filmed with DoD filming office cooperation (Battleship), and ones that might show something about the military in an unflattering or unprofessional light (Three Kings). One very famous example is Apocalypse Now, the helicopter scene and a lot of the rest of it was filmed in the Philippines, after making a large payment to their military for use of the Hueys.
- JacobAldridge 6y agoI watched “Kelly’s Heroes” (1970) for the first time last weekend. Turns out the film was made in Yugoslavia (Croatia today) because the Yugoslav army still used WWII-era Sherman tanks, which were part of the plot so could be cheaply accessed. (There were also some tax or funding reasons I believe.) (Side note - holds up well for a 50 year old movie; and one of the best Donald Sutherland performances, in the same year he did MASH.)
- deathlight 6y agoAnother to the pile of movies filmed in Yugoslavia for interesting reasons is Transylvania Six Five-thousand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_6-5000_(1985_film)#Production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_6-5000_(1985_film...
- jimmaswell 6y agoSounds like a disaster that would be completely unnecessary.
- pornel 6y agoI would like to know which movies had to be edited to please US Armed Forces.
- tobylane 6y agoIt's more along the lines - the US military only helped films if the story was good to the military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-entertainment_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-entertainment_complex I'm not aware of exactly what you ask for, probably because the military is that good at ensuring nothing bad would be filmed.
- xg15 6y agoIn some ways this was the case in Germany (and I'm sure other countries as well) until a few years ago. "Product placement", i.e. making sponsored content an integral part of a movie or article (as opposed to interrupting the media with ads or commercials) was illegal. I believe at some time in the recent years, the rule got softened, so today, you're only required to show a rather useless warning before the movie. I have no idea why this was done, but I suspect studio pressure playing a role. Something like, the latest Bond movie will have sponsored content whether German government wants it or not, so the only choice is between allowing it or banning major blockbusters and pissing off a large part of the population.