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So, video presents following vehicles next to each other: luxury sport-sedan, some lambo-styled ultra-car, quarter-mile redneck classic, Tron-inspired super bik

• hannasanarion 5y ago
  Would you accept such a violent and criminal fantasy for literally any other product? A gunman stands in a hallway, aiming down sights. "What do you get when you buy an AR-15 chambered in 5.56 with a full bump stock and 500nm laser sight?", a laser dot appears on a child's crying face, it explodes into a ball of confetti. "You get the fuck out of the way" A cop enters, is rapidly shot eight times in the chest while he fumbles with his holster, he falls to the ground. Superman appears, the gunman quick-swaps to a kryptonite mag and draws an S of bullet holes on his chest. subtitle: [professional shooter on closed range, do not attempt] Smith and Wesson: Empowering Americans since 1852
  • nitrogen 5y ago
    Your example is basically describing every action movie where an off-duty cop needs to save the world.
    • hannasanarion 5y ago
      Movies aren't the same as advertisements. Do you think it would be totally normal and tasteful for such an action movie to end with instructions and a limited time offer on how to purchase the guns that were used by the terrorists and vigilantes in the movie?
      • olyjohn 5y ago
        Please... A 10 second search on the internet will tell you where to get those guns. I guess action movies don't make any profit from promoting violent behavior. I forgot that movie studios are non profits who donate their money to charity. Do you also think that Doom and other video games are making kids violent and making them shoot up schools? Do you think rap music will turn everybody into a violent gang member? Will watching Elvis shake his hips on TV turn you into a sexual deviant? I think what it comes down to is, you don't like cars because it's trendy these days to say cars are evil. But you like action movies, and video games, so it's all good.
        • hannasanarion 5y ago
          Advertisements are not the same as fiction media. The entire point of an advertisement is to display the product and make it appealing to the consumer, and they you do that is by demonstrating its use. If you don't want people to use your car for street racing, you don't show tens of millions of people your car street racing as an incentive to get them to buy it. What other product category advertises with felonious lawbreaking in the same way that car ads do?
      • nitrogen 5y ago
        Movies aren't the same as advertisements. There's an entire industry devoted to product placement and promotional consideration. Evolution was an ad for shampoo. Fast and the Furious was an ad for cars. Independence Day was an ad for computers. Beyond direct product placement, movies are vehicles for inculturation and promoting or demoting certain values.
        • hannasanarion 5y ago
          Product placement in a movie is not the same as advertisement. Vin Diesel doing stunts in a Dodge in a movie is not comparable to a Dodge ad that interrupts your TV show or football game extolling you to UNLEASH THE DEMON showing their car breaking 100mph and doing donuts on city streets, totally demolishing a "share the road" sign, buy now!
  • s1artibartfast 5y ago
    >Would you accept such a violent and criminal fantasy for literally any other product? It seems like you jumped a step. The fantasy wasn't a driver mowing down people. I want pedestrians to get out from in front of my vehicle in just about every setting.
    • hannasanarion 5y ago
      So as long as it's street racing, drifting through intersections, breaking 100mph in crowded downtowns, and revving your engine loudly in order to menace pedestrians without ever hitting them, then it's fine? For real: what other product is regularly portrayed in advertisements being used in such criminally reckless ways?
      • s1artibartfast 5y ago
        >What other product is regularly portrayed in advertisements being used in such criminally reckless ways I would say that this is common in advertising for movies and video games. Both regularly depict fantasy behavior that would be illegal if anyone did it in real life.
        • hannasanarion 5y ago
          I didn't ask for movies and video games that have crimes in them, I asked for advertisements, pieces of media that intrude into people's lives whose sole purpose is to tell people to buy and use a product, which demonstrate the use of that product exclusively by depicting criminal (and often violent) behavior.
          • s1artibartfast 5y ago
            So I went back and rewatched the video and didn't see anything violent or illegal at all. I guess some of the vehicles depicted like the drag car are not street legal. If you exclude product placement in fiction then I can't think of any commercials with illegal Behavior. What is the central point that you are trying to make? You don't like cars that go fast or the depiction of them in commercials?
• jfrunyon 5y ago
  They are selling this car to people who want to make others to "get out of the way". This is not a fantasy, it's an advertisement. You don't put something unless an ad unless it resonates with your target audience.
  • exo762 5y ago
    Mercedes is a car for aging rich liberal men and women. There are tons of cars with way more masculine, aggressive vibe to them. BMW and Audi, for instance, have took over this market in EU - nobody is buying Mercedes anymore. People perceive Mercedes as "satiated" and "lazy". So, even if authors of this advert are trying to do that, they are failing.