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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by pan6467
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There's a difference between product placement and product produced.
We've already had some heavy duty product placement in shows like 24, The Sopranos, and Seinfeld.
One of the problems with this kind of producing is the fringe things may not get produced as the adverstisers may not allow their products to be used within the confines of the questionable show.
But the more notorious kind of product placement is something wherein the story is the adverstisement ala Mac and Me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_and_Me
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The film is infamous for its numerous and blatant product placements, including Coca-Cola, Skittles, Sears and McDonald's, to name a few. The main character's name, Mac is a reference to McDonald's Big Mac sandwich. The only food the aliens require are Coke and Skittles. A ten-minute-long impromptu dance number, featuring Ronald McDonald, takes place in a McDonald's franchise which led Leonard Maltin to call the film "more like a TV commercial than a movie".[2] However, according to Seth Stevenson, "there was no quid pro quo between the filmmakers and these companies."[3] In spite of the latter statement, during the scene where Mac is drinking a Coca-Cola, director Stewart Raffill comedically holds up four $100 bills in the background.
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pan are you saying so what and accept that this kind of crap would be fine with you? what about shows about drugs and alcohol rehabilitation, if the sponsors and product placement were products like Xanax and Budwieser and they put the little tag, "use responsibly"?
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