For lovers of romance fiction...

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Er, don't know whether there will be some here who haven't got the sense of humour to accept this for what it is, but, if there EVER was a better example of the classic romance fiction depicted as a short film I've yet to see it.

Here is the latest Shalimar perfume film advert that came out late last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL6XJw8Oe5M

Frankly, I even think it's BETTER than any romance ficton I've ever read.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I was yawning right up to the point when the naked blond appeared. Then it held my attention until she was only in distance shots and clothed.

That being said...Yawn.

So Shalimar now goes for $300+ an ounce.

When I first became enthralled by that scent, the girl next to me in home room wore it, you could pick up an ounce for $2.50. Of course that was a long time ago, back when I was in love with that young lady in home room. We did go out for a long time. Then poof, it ended. She went on to get married, then divorced, then married, then divorced, then married. She now looks exactly like her mother. Plump, yet pretty.

Shalimar.

 

[StrangeLife]

Wow! It's not like they're pouring it on thick or anything. And with the music from The Da Vinci Code no less.

I'm happy I don't smoke - otherwise I might have needed a cigarette after watching it...

 

[sr71plt]

I'm sure there are some national security uses that perfume could be harnessed for.

 

[Handley_Page]

Wow! It's not like they're pouring it on thick or anything. And with the music from The Da Vinci Code no less.

I'm happy I don't smoke - otherwise I might have needed a cigarette after watching it...

It does go on a bit.
I needed waking up.

 

[sr71plt]

The "going on a bit" impressed me. Can you imagine a 5.46-minute commercial on nearly anything being watched to the end to reveal an actual product on U.S. television?

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

I know this is possibly asking for trouble on account I can sort of see why sr71plt is probably fairly proud of his work - but I just read one of your stories dude, and er, rather good really. A bit like a work of serious classical (painted) art, all careful brushstrokes and style surrounding/wrapping the plot.

As for the advert, hey once they had the rider encounter the elephants across winding snow-covered mountain passes, they had me.

Who the fuck takes elephants across taliban-infested (or predator drone swarmed) mountain ranges these days? What a sad and sorry unromantic lot we are now.

Me, personally, I drink Russian Caravan tea because I think there still is a russian caravan somewhere, taking tea, across difficult terrain...!

 

[sr71plt]

As for the advert, hey once they had the rider encounter the elephants across winding snow-covered mountain passes, they had me.

Who the fuck takes elephants across taliban-infested (or predator drone swarmed) mountain ranges these days? What a sad and sorry unromantic lot we are now.

That's where I began laughing and realizing what a runup it was. He was passing Hannibal's army meant to invade Italy but having taken a wrong turn somewhere in the Bavarian Alps.

At the end I was expecting a Fiat 500 to rise out of the lake waters rather than finding it was a perfume ad.

 

[R. Richard]

That's where I began laughing and realizing what a runup it was. He was passing Hannibal's army meant to invade Italy but having taken a wrong turn somewhere in the Bavarian Alps.

Could have been Hasdrubal's army.

 

[sr71plt]

Could have been Hasdrubal's army.

Coulda been. But I'll have to go look "Hasdrubal" up.