In article <GsNVj.2827$T1.2420@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Tim Wright <tlwright6x@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hactar wrote:
>
> > I just watched "Der Lauf der Dinge" (English title: "The Way Things
> > Go"). It's a Rube Goldberg-ish sequence (rather, lots of sequences
> > spliced together in a half hour) involving a lot of fire, fuzes, and
> > electricity. About 18 minutes in, there is a bit with piles of black
> > powder that tinkles as it burns. What could it be? Something
metallic?
>
> The group that did that video also did the Honda Accord commercial.
>
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4961984052522110297&q=honda+ad&ei=pqE
> nSJXoE5SC4AKMpKXlCQ
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6r7d7c
No, they didn't, not according to Wikipedia:
> In May 2003, Fischli and Weiss threatened legal action against Honda
over
> similarities between the Cog commercial and The Way Things Go. The
artists
> felt that the ad's creators had "obviously seen" their film, and should
have
> consulted them. They had refused several requests to use the film for
> commercial purposes.[3] Honda's advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy
eventually
> admitted to copying a sequence of weighted tires rolling uphill. The
> controversy was blamed for denying Cog a Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes
Lions
> International Advertising Festival.[4]
[footnotes omitted]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Lauf_Der_Dinge>
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