A dog picks up an errant ball during a street soccer game and takes off, as the players scramble after the canine but to no avail. The dog has his prized soccer ball and takes it inside a house to present to his mate, a disinterested dog.
Undeterred, the male dog goes outside to find something that will spark his intended beau. He eludes a pack of dogs after taking their stuffed animal. Again, the lovely lass isn’t impressed.’
A succession of gifts then follows–a baseball glove, a slipper, a squeeze toy–with the same result. This lady dog isn’t easily won over.
Finally our courting dog digs up a ratty old bone from a backyard and brings it to the picky canine. Finally, she’s impressed, perks up and picks up the bone.
This courtship underscores the importance of finding the right gift, paralleling that to the precision of State Street Global Advisors’ SPDR ETF financial investments.
Shot in black and white, the spot pays homage to the French film Breathless, with appropriate music to boot.
The spot was directed by the Guard Brothers of bicoastal/international Smuggler for agency The Gate Worldwide, New York. The DP was Joost Van Gelder.
The Gate ensemble included agency executive creative director/writer David Bernstein, creative director/art director Bill Schwab and producer Bob Samuel.
Editor was Chuck Willis of The Cutting Room, New York.
Visual effects house was Absolute Post, New York. Dirk Greene served as VFX supervisor/lead Flame artist for Absolute.
Composer was Darren Solomon of Big Foote, New York.
Review: Director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” Starring Robert Pattinson
So you think YOUR job is bad?
Sorry if we seem to be lacking empathy here. But however crummy you think your 9-5 routine is, it'll never be as bad as Robert Pattinson's in Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17" — nor will any job, on Earth or any planet, approach this level of misery.
Mickey, you see, is an "Expendable," and by this we don't mean he's a cast member in yet another sequel to Sylvester Stallone's tired band of mercenaries ("Expend17ables"?). No, even worse! He's literally expendable, in that his job description requires that he die, over and over, in the worst possible ways, only to be "reprinted" once again as the next Mickey.
And from here stems the good news, besides the excellent Pattinson, whom we hope got hazard pay, about Bong's hotly anticipated follow-up to "Parasite." There's creativity to spare, and much of it surrounds the ways he finds for his lead character to expire — again and again.
The bad news, besides, well, all the death, is that much of this film devolves into narrative chaos, bloat and excess. In so many ways, the always inventive Bong just doesn't know where to stop. It hardly seems a surprise that the sci-fi novel, by Edward Ashton, he's adapting here is called "Mickey7" — Bong decided to add 10 more Mickeys.
The first act, though, is crackling. We begin with Mickey lying alone at the bottom of a crevasse, having barely survived a fall. It is the year 2058, and he's part of a colonizing expedition from Earth to a far-off planet. He's surely about to die. In fact, the outcome is so expected that his friend Timo (Steven Yeun), staring down the crevasse, asks casually: "Haven't you died yet?"
How did Mickey get here? We flash back to Earth, where Mickey and Timo ran afoul of a villainous loan... Read More