A bespectacled audiologist named Dr. Smith introduces himself to us. He comes out from behind his desk and walks to an examination table. He points to a nearby watermelon, noting that a person is “a soundaholic” if he wonders what the melon would sound like if dropped from a 36-story building, or if he hears a skidding car and identifies the noise as registering as a B flat musically. For the latter example, Dr. Smith points to a tire.
A soundaholic, says Dr. Smith, sees a rooster and a bird and wonders if one thinks the other can’t sing well. Pointing to a flip chart containing drawings of different people, Dr. Smith notes that soundaholics “are everywhere.” He hesitates momentarily when one of the pictures resembles him. Dr. Smith then identifies the definitive sign someone is a soundaholic–the wearing of a Sony MP3 Walkman. Consider the soundaholic the way you would a relative, for they’re human too, says the compassionate doctor. With a shot of Dr. Smith dancing to the music on his Walkman, the website address www.feeleverysound.com is supered on screen.
Eric Steinman of Trio Films, Los Angeles, directed “Doctor”–one of three virals which gained airtime in Southeast Asia–for Young & Rubicam, Singapore. “Doctor” and a second spot, “Calvin,” have created a buzz, gaining fans in the U.S. on YouTube.
The agency team included creative director Rowan Chanen, art director Rudino Bin Kassim and producer Kim Lim.
Taylor Ferguson and Erin Tauscher executive produced for Trio, with John Marx serving as producer. The DP was Kip Bogdahn.
Editor was Ira Kline of Union Editorial, Los Angeles.
Netflix Series “The Leopard” Spots Classic Italian Novel, Remakes It As A Sumptuous Period Drama
"The Leopard," a new Netflix series, takes the classic Italian novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and transforms it into a sumptuous period piece showing the struggles of the aristocracy in 19th-century Sicily, during tumultuous social upheavals as their way of life is crumbling around them.
Tom Shankland, who directs four of the eight episodes, had the courage to attempt his own version of what is one of the most popular films in Italian history. The 1963 movie "The Leopard," directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme d'Or in Cannes.
One Italian critic said that it would be the equivalent of a director in the United States taking "Gone with the Wind" and turning it into a series, but Shankland wasn't the least bit intimidated.
He said that he didn't think of anything other than his own passion for the project, which grew out of his love of the book. His father was a university professor of Italian literature in England, and as a child, he loved the book and traveling to Sicily with his family.
The book tells the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, a tall, handsome, wealthy aristocrat who owns palaces and land across Sicily.
His comfortable world is shaken with the invasion of Sicily in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was to overthrow the Bourbon king in Naples and bring about the Unification of Italy.
The prince's family leads an opulent life in their magnificent palaces with servants and peasants kowtowing to their every need. They spend their time at opulent banquets and lavish balls with their fellow aristocrats.
Shankland has made the series into a visual feast with tables heaped with food, elaborate gardens and sensuous costumes.... Read More