Walking Around the World: A True Story

[kevin_standlee]

Courtesy of debgeisler, an amazing and wonderful ad.

This is one of the nicest feats of cinematography, not to mention acting, that I've ever seen. Deb's post pointing us to it also includes a reference to the director talking about it. Keep in mind that this turns out to be just about the last chance they had to get it right -- take 40 on the second and final day they had for shooting -- but they did it.

Alas, it still doesn't make me want to take up drinking. :)

Comments

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Sadly Diageo, the company that now owns Johnnie Walker is in the process of gutting the local workforce in the bottling plants in Kilmarnock and Glasgow, making nine hundred folk redundant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8226179.stm

It's a nice advert but JW was a Lowland company, blending whiskies rather than being a distillers in their own right. The Hieland coos and the scenery in the ad have little to do with the branding of the city gent on the label. It would have been more accurate to do the same thing in, say, Govan or perhaps Edinburgh Old Town, but it's not aimed at selling the brand to Scots folk who are up in arms about Diageo dumping their workforce, it's for overseas customers.