04-28-2008, 08:40 PM
Hi
Given the recent interesting debates on the use and sensitivity of the swastika or even eagles I wondered what RAT's German readers would think of an advert currently running on British Television?
It is by Citroen which depicts a new car regarded as 'typically German' although it is made in France. What follows is what some Ad person either from France or Britain has regarded as typically 'German'.
A tall thin, slightly sinister, blond haired gentleman, dressed in black complete with dueling scar has a sword fight with a Bavarian and slices the feather off his hat with his sword. He then gets into the car driving past a building with a large stone eagle, wings only slightly outstretched. He stops at a guest house were he is served sausage by a typical buxom blond waitress dressed in traditional Bavarian style. After eating he gets back into his car and drives to Berlin signposted in Gothic lettering. He drives past the Brandenburg Gate and stops at the Berlin Olympic stadium. All to the soundtrack of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in the background and a voice over from the German actor Wolf Kahler, familiar to British viewers for appearing as 'The ambassador' in a long running chocolate commercial but most often as any number of German officers in WW2 movies!
Do RAT 's German readers find this amusing or even offensive? Well someone must have found something they disliked because the Advert now appears in an edited version. Any guesses as to what has been cut out from the above?
Graham
Given the recent interesting debates on the use and sensitivity of the swastika or even eagles I wondered what RAT's German readers would think of an advert currently running on British Television?
It is by Citroen which depicts a new car regarded as 'typically German' although it is made in France. What follows is what some Ad person either from France or Britain has regarded as typically 'German'.
A tall thin, slightly sinister, blond haired gentleman, dressed in black complete with dueling scar has a sword fight with a Bavarian and slices the feather off his hat with his sword. He then gets into the car driving past a building with a large stone eagle, wings only slightly outstretched. He stops at a guest house were he is served sausage by a typical buxom blond waitress dressed in traditional Bavarian style. After eating he gets back into his car and drives to Berlin signposted in Gothic lettering. He drives past the Brandenburg Gate and stops at the Berlin Olympic stadium. All to the soundtrack of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in the background and a voice over from the German actor Wolf Kahler, familiar to British viewers for appearing as 'The ambassador' in a long running chocolate commercial but most often as any number of German officers in WW2 movies!
Do RAT 's German readers find this amusing or even offensive? Well someone must have found something they disliked because the Advert now appears in an edited version. Any guesses as to what has been cut out from the above?
Graham
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
