This :60 opens on a man driving his VW Golf GTI down a road with an emergency vehicle fast approaching from the opposite direction, its red lights flashing. Turns out the man is dreaming about motoring about in his GTI as the camera reveals him to be asleep in bed, the flashing red light coming from his digital alarm clock. His wife/girlfriend gets out of bed, and takes a shower. The water pouring out of the shower head segues to the guy in his GTI driving through rain. Similarly when she’s using the hair dryer, his GTI is whipping up wind as it speeds through a tunnel.
Nothing still seems to rouse our guy from slumber–or from the GTI ride he’s dreaming about. Sun pours in from a nearby window, causing him to turn over in bed and the GTI to similarly swerve and rechart its course.
The woman then hops onto bed in an attempt to wake her man. This causes the man’s body to pop up at the impact–but he remain asleep as his car jumps over a bump.
She then pulls his blanket off, making him cold. This translates into his driving through the snow.
Finally she takes his car keys off the night stand, the resulting slight jingling noise being enough to wake him. She throws him the keys as an end tag reads, “Its a GTI,” followed by the VW logo.
Titled “Dream,” this :60 was directed by Greg Gray of Velocity Films, Johannesburg and Cape Town, for Ogilvy Cape Town.
Helena Woodfine produced for Velocity with Paul Gilpin serving as DP.
The agency creative team included creative director Gordon Ray, senior art director Jamie Mietz and producer Emmy Laundy.
Editor was Ricky Boyd of Deliverance, Cape Town.
Music company was B&S Studios, which rearranged the rock hit “Sweet Dreams.”
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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.
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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.
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