This broadcast and cinema :60 directed and shot by Lance Acord of Park Pictures for agency David&Goliath opens on a boy asleep in his car-shaped bed. His closet doors throw open to reveal a city glowing like Oz in the distance. Now awake and beaming with wonder, the boy and his car bed depart the bedroom for the road to town.
En route, he passes rockets launching, buzzing airplanes and darkened forests. The boy then reaches the city, zooming past trolley cars and adults seemingly frozen in time. Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, he’s accompanied by white stallions and medieval knights, followed by a snow-kissed mountain pass. In the mountains, the boy travels parallel to a train occupied by animals sipping tea in tuxedos and a golden-haired girl. The boy and girl exchange waves, then he speeds headlong into a tunnel, exiting the other side a full-grown man in a 2011 Optima.
As the man races through a real city, the voiceover declares, “No one ever dreamt of driving a midsized sedan– until now.” The man watches a rocket ship blast up into the cosmos as the supers appear on screen for Optima and Kia.
Visual effects house on this surreal trip through San Francisco was d train fx, with music composed by Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau of Beacon Street Studios.
Disney Pledges $15 million In L.A. Fire Aid As More Celebs Learn They’ve Lost Their Homes
The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of "This Is Us" star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be's newly installed crib.
CBS cameras caught the actor walking through his charred house for the first time, standing in what was once his kitchen and looking at a neighborhood in ruin. "Your heart just breaks."
He and his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, evacuated Tuesday with their dog and they watched on security cameras as the flames ripped through the house, destroying everything, including a new crib.
"There's a kind of shock moment where you're going, 'Oh, this is real. This is happening.' What good is it to continue watching?' And then at a certain point we just turned it off, like 'What good is it to continue watching?'"
Firefighters sought to make gains Friday during a respite in the heavy winds that fanned the flames as numerous groups pledged aid to help victims and rebuild, including a $15 million donation pledge from the Walt Disney Co.
More stars learn their homes are gone
While seeing the remains of his home, Ventimiglia was struck by a connection to his "This Is Us" character, Jack Pearson, who died after inhaling smoke in a house fire. "It's not lost on me life imitating art."
Mandy Moore, who played Ventimiglia's wife on "This Is Us," nearly lost her home in the Eaton fire, which scorched large areas of the Altadena neighborhood. She said Thursday that part of her house is standing but is unlivable, and her husband lost his music studio and all his instruments.
Mel Gibson's home is "completely gone," his publicist Alan Nierob confirmed Friday. The Oscar winner revealed the loss of his home earlier Friday while appearing on Joe Rogan's... Read More