This promo thrusts us into a home shopping channel-style segment in which two hosts are hawking a deep freezer. The only twist is that the Freezzz 2000 is good for more than just storing food–it can also hold two full corpses.
We then see two bodies in the deep freeze, with enough room left over to accommodate some frozen desserts, veggies and fries. The treats make the freezer a great kids’ raiding place for snacks, says the cheerful male host.
His female companion then introduces us to a satisfied customer as we cut away to a street wise hoodlum-type, who relates, “Bodies are a real hassle. But with the Freezzz 2000, I can quickly freeze a body until I have time to throw it into a lake.” All the while, we see the guy’s cohort pulling a corpse out of a car trunk and dumping it into the deep freeze.
Back to the studio, where the Home Buying Network program informational screen borders contain a toll free phone number, a reduced price ($899.96) and a recap of the product’s virtues (capacity for two full corpses, energy efficient, freezes quickly). The spot then cuts to a supered message against a black backdrop: “If we had to make a home shopping show, this is how we’d do it.”
A logo appears for 13 Eme Rue, a French suspense and action channel.
“Freezer” was directed by Trevor Cornish via Spy Films, Toronto, and Hamster, Paris, for Euro RSCG, Paris. (Cornish is repped stateside by TWC, Santa Monica.)
The Euro RSCG team included copywriter Oliver Couradjut, art director Remi Tricot and producer Virginie Chalard.
Luc Frappier executive produced for Hamster, with Peter Oad serving as line producer. The DP was John Lindsay.
Editor was Andy Ames of Panic & Bob, Toronto.
Principal actors were Ryan Kristy, Wolfgang Guembel, Brian Suke and Simon Smith.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
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