When director Zack Snyder was working on the Watchmen movie (which opens this Friday), he decided to hold a contest. Contestants would create product advertisements for Veidt Enterprises (and what that is, exactly, I don't know — maybe there's a Watchmen fan who can comment?), and the winning entries would be seen playing on TVs on the film sets. Among the products was a fictional fragrance called Nostalgia. Here is one of the winning entries. (by hypnosavant, with thanks to Jessica for the link!)
16 Comments
Leave a comment, or read more about commenting at Now Smell This. Here's our privacy policy, and a handy emoticon chart.
Leave a reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
I am posting this for Karin, who doesn't have a reader account:
Veidt Enterprises is a megacorporation run by one of the main characters of “Watchmen”, Adrian Veidt aka Ozymandias. The “Nostalgia” perfume is one of their many products and pops up several times in the comic (and is featured in a key moment in the story). This ad amuses me greatly — very Calvin Klein Obsession, which of course came out in the mid-1980s, and “Watchmen” takes place in an alternate 1985.
Thanks Karin! And agree they have the idiom of a 1980s CK commercial down pat!
Thanks so much for sharing this! “Watchmen” is one of my favorite books of all time and I've been eagerly/nervously awaiting this movie. In the graphic novel the perfume actually carries a decent symbolic meaning and is featured fairly prominently in a few scenes. I think they captured the feeling of it pretty well in this ad, especially since the book is so dark.
Hopefully the movie is great!
Thanks Katich! Sorry to say I never read it.
Wow. I'd buy that!…..
I read the Watchmen many years ago. My husband owns a copy, and it is still pretty well read, given how many times the copy has been stolen from the library where I work….I expect to enjoy the movie, but it's hard to say if they can really convey the bitterness, disillusionment and irony of the graphic novel. It is a graphic novel masterpiece that should be required reading.
Excuse me. I'm elderly. What is a “graphic novel”?
In the simplest terms, it's a comic book, but “graphic novel” usually implies that it's something grander (and with a more involved story line) than say, Archie & Betty. Actually, there are some really great graphic novels being created these days for kids. There probably always have been, but when I was a kid I didn't know much past Archie…
Ann, the words “required reading” make me nuts these days. I am pretty well-read, but I'll never catch up to everything that is required reading!
My apologies..
. . No pressure from me! I'm a librarian, and I don't get the chance to read anything good these days! The only things I read are budget statements, grant applications, junk mail, this blog, and safety instructions for childproofing… I have a very dusty pile about 10 feet big of books I want to or should have read in my life. I suppose what I meant to say is that this should be a piece of material that's “required reading” in high school or college. I used the RR term to give it “value”, like the same as I'd give 1984, or Brave New World, etc….And you don't actually have to read it all at once. My husband gives me grief to no end that I read the sections that I liked the pictures in first. So I read it all broken up over a period of about 2 months. But I still liked it!
That's funny…my dream librarian job (and I meant to get a library degree, but other things intervened) mostly involved reading, and having really interesting conversations w/ patrons about books. HA.
It does make me very happy to see that schools are now using graphic novels, in fact, my son's school librarian recommended the Bone series for him, although they're still sitting in HIS huge dusty pile of things to read. We have lots of piles of books in my house.
Right now, I'm reading Cornelia Funke's Inkdeath — we started the series together, and even though he reads them on his own now, I got hooked and had to know how it all turned out.
Adding for anyone who wants to see it…they've done another Hitler remix, this one called “Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending”. You either find these funny or you find them offensive, so watch at your own risk, and it also has a spoiler alert:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/04/hitler-finds-out-abo.html
And all kinds of bad language, although that's pretty much par for the course w/ these remixes.
Graphic novels are an excellent way to bring young people into reading, and yes, much more interesting than Archie & Veronica…I mostly spend my time making lists of what other people are telling me I should read! It is pretty funny when I have to do the quarterly book reviews. Most people think librarians get to sit around and read as much as they want, which is about as far from the truth as it gets, although for sure many library workers do read a lot. I've seen many a new library hires look like deer in headlights for the first few weeks working their “dream job”. It is a real funny moment when they finally snap out of their idealized library land. But I do love my job….I've been trying to read Henry Miller's “Airconditioned Nightmare” for the past three months! I think the last book I read in full is Eric Hill's “Spot goes to the Park”….
LOL! It is ok with me that we are done with Spot.
Maybe some new titles are in order – Spot samples Les Exclusives…. Spot visits Caron ….. Spot rescues vintage Guerlain from the estate sale…..
Spot visits Caron! I love it.
Appreciate the erudition, Robin, thanks. Speaking of Archie, et al, I was ALWAYS a Betty!
Me too. I'm sure I wanted to be Veronica though.