• Sainsbury's Christmas 2014 Ad (Based on the Christmas Truce of 1914)
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[video=youtube;NWF2JBb1bvM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM[/video] Really lovely advert in my opinion.
right in the feels
god damn those Christmas truces always made me feel sad for how the next day they would have to try and kill each other again real fucking sad
And the youtube comments from some of these people are talking about how Sainsbury is the devil for making a heart warming ad from that day of war in 1914 for making a one day truce for profit gains hell even at the end of the video it says donations towards the royal British legion holy hell.
[QUOTE=Shotz;46482119]god damn those Christmas truces always made me feel sad for how the next day they would have to try and kill each other again real fucking sad[/QUOTE] If I remember correctly their officers were afraid they wouldn't fight each other so both sides moved their troops to different trenches against soldiers they didn't know.
[QUOTE=sethcaron;46482533]And the youtube comments from some of these people are talking about how Sainsbury is the devil for making a heart warming ad from that day of war in 1914 for making a one day truce for profit gains hell even at the end of the video it says donations towards the royal British legion holy hell.[/QUOTE] This is what happens when you gave stupid people a voice.
I love Christmas :')
It's said that the twentieth century started in 1914 because that was the last year something as heartwarming and humane as this happened
[QUOTE=Hogie bear;46483163]This is what happens when you gave stupid people a voice.[/QUOTE] Snipped, getting tired today don't know if that was towards me or was a mistake in the sentence. Anyways this ad was pretty good I am gonna wonder what other Christmas ad will top this one this year.
Much better than the John Lewis one this year imo.
[QUOTE=seba079;46483225]It's said that the twentieth century started in 1914 because that was the last year something as heartwarming and humane as this happened[/QUOTE] The 20th century, even with all its atrocities such as the holocaust and genocide of Rwanda, was still the least violent century of any up to that point. I find it rather hard to believe that's true.
[QUOTE=Hiccuper;46482981]If I remember correctly their officers were afraid they wouldn't fight each other so both sides moved their troops to different trenches against soldiers they didn't know.[/QUOTE] Soldiers who weren't moved didn't really shoot at each other. They fired rounds wildly above the trenches and didn't really do all that much for a while. Soon enough, the new guys came in and the trucers moved on to different trenches or died.
Of all mankind's evils, war is perhaps the greatest. We have, it seems, an infinite capacity for killing. An unending imagination of death. Spear, sword, musket, rifle, Vickers gun, atom bomb, death camp. How many millions of grieving mothers have we created, how many billions of fathers who buried their sons? How many sweethearts left with nothing but a letter and a flag? How many brothers lost to each other? How many pals, all dead in some foreign field? How many shattered towns, shattered hearts, shattered lives? The weight of warfare lies heavy on us all. And that is why Christmas endures. It has endured where Michaelmas hasn't. It stands stronger than Easter. It stands up to the assaults of gods older than it, and newer. It can even, when good men rally around it, resist the tempting brilliance of Mammon, with his trinkets, his advertisements and his "holiday specials". Over the next three months, all around the world, there will be celebrations of Christ's birth. Not just in the homes and churches of England, but all around the world, even in desert hideaways in the Yemen, or crumbling basements of North Korean flats. Even in the face of death, these people choose to celebrate Christmas. And why? Because of that beautiful, wonderful Christmas promise: [I]Peace on Earth, and good will to all men.[/I] Men have immense capacity for evil. But we also have a tremendous capacity for good, if we let ourselves. Everlasting peace may not come before the next world, but that doesn't mean we can't strive for it. If we take our eyes away from the iron-sights, and look at our enemies not as villains, as Left or Right, black or white, this thing or that. But if we look at their faces and see our brothers. See our friends. See men. See mothers' sons. Maybe we could, just briefly, fulfil that great promise a little early, just for a little while. Just for a day. It happened a hundred years ago. Can we make it happen again? I'd like to think so. It's a little early yet, but -- Merry Christmas, to one and all.
Dammit who's cutting the onions
As nice as it is, it's already received 137 complaints and will be investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority
[QUOTE=matt.ant;46487056]As nice as it is, it's already received 137 complaints and will be investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority[/QUOTE] people are fucking assholes this ad is incredible and anyone who thinks otherwise should pull their head out of their ass and take the shit out of their eyes and ears
[QUOTE=matt.ant;46487056]As nice as it is, it's already received 137 complaints and will be investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority[/QUOTE] I can't understand how people can complain about it. Probably some 'hurr making money off WW1' or 'Not doing enough realism' or something like that. But still what the hell is there to complain about. I swear, the UK is always filled with complains about shit on TV.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46487332]I can't understand how people can complain about it. Probably some 'hurr making money off WW1' or 'Not doing enough realism' or something like that. But still what the hell is there to complain about. I swear, the UK is always filled with complains about shit on TV.[/QUOTE] Nah it's just we love to complain about anything. So for the people that have retired and just watch TV all day, that's all they have to complain about :v:
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46487332]I can't understand how people can complain about it. Probably some 'hurr making money off WW1' or 'Not doing enough realism' or something like that. But still what the hell is there to complain about. I swear, the UK is always filled with complains about shit on TV.[/QUOTE] "oh no guns"
The commercial reminds me of this video; [video=youtube;d8stkqssLYc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8stkqssLYc[/video]
to be honest this video made me want to cry this was so wonderfully done
I wish we had commercials like this airing in the US.
It's incredibly well made but I can't get rid of the feeling that this isn't something that should be an advert, maybe im just a cynical asshole
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;46491448]The commercial reminds me of this video; [video=youtube;d8stkqssLYc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8stkqssLYc[/video][/QUOTE] This was actually remade in 1955 by Will Hanna and Joe Barbera. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBRkJBHpQ-I[/media] (Unfortunately, this is the best quality I can find that doesn't have a Russian man talking over it) Personally, I prefer the original. That image of the last man on Earth's hand sinking into the mud, still clenched in rage, is just too powerful.
[QUOTE=lazyguy;46492075]This was actually remade in 1955 by Will Hanna and Joe Barbera. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBRkJBHpQ-I[/media] (Unfortunately, this is the best quality I can find that doesn't have a Russian man talking over it) Personally, I prefer the original. That image of the last man on Earth's hand sinking into the mud, still clenched in rage, is just too powerful.[/QUOTE] I agree. I knew about the re-making. Quite the coincidence though the year the first was released. Perhaps not though.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;46492301]I agree. I knew about the re-making. Quite the coincidence though the year the first was released. Perhaps not though.[/QUOTE] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Versailles_cannonfodder.jpg[/img] Made in 1919... eerily close. Of course, by 1939, the Japanese were occupying Manchuria, and Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia. The Spaniards had just finished a civil war, while Communist and Fascist revolutions occurred in many European states. War's grim fist had been knocking on our door for some time before the invasion of Poland.
I wish everyone could see it this way, we need to unite as humans and stop this bullshit, but I don't know if it's ever possible
[QUOTE=lazyguy;46485111]Of all mankind's evils, war is perhaps the greatest. We have, it seems, an infinite capacity for killing. An unending imagination of death. Spear, sword, musket, rifle, Vickers gun, atom bomb, death camp. How many millions of grieving mothers have we created, how many billions of fathers who buried their sons? How many sweethearts left with nothing but a letter and a flag? How many brothers lost to each other? How many pals, all dead in some foreign field? How many shattered towns, shattered hearts, shattered lives? The weight of warfare lies heavy on us all. And that is why Christmas endures. It has endured where Michaelmas hasn't. It stands stronger than Easter. It stands up to the assaults of gods older than it, and newer. It can even, when good men rally around it, resist the tempting brilliance of Mammon, with his trinkets, his advertisements and his "holiday specials". Over the next three months, all around the world, there will be celebrations of Christ's birth. Not just in the homes and churches of England, but all around the world, even in desert hideaways in the Yemen, or crumbling basements of North Korean flats. Even in the face of death, these people choose to celebrate Christmas. And why? Because of that beautiful, wonderful Christmas promise: [I]Peace on Earth, and good will to all men.[/I] Men have immense capacity for evil. But we also have a tremendous capacity for good, if we let ourselves. Everlasting peace may not come before the next world, but that doesn't mean we can't strive for it. If we take our eyes away from the iron-sights, and look at our enemies not as villains, as Left or Right, black or white, this thing or that. But if we look at their faces and see our brothers. See our friends. See men. See mothers' sons. Maybe we could, just briefly, fulfil that great promise a little early, just for a little while. Just for a day. It happened a hundred years ago. Can we make it happen again? I'd like to think so. It's a little early yet, but -- Merry Christmas, to one and all.[/QUOTE] Because ISIS is totally going to put down their guns and be friends with the Peshmerga because of a holiday neither of them celebrate.
Found this gem on reddit. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/xjAiyU2.jpg[/IMG]
I see a similar event to occur between Russia and Ukraine!
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