A man takes his bag of golf clubs out of his Lexus SUV and hits the links. He sees other similarly attired men practicing their drives at an upscale country club golf course.
However, we don’t see the other guys’ faces until our protagonist tees up the ball and looks back to see a line of familiar faces–all his. One guy shanks his drive to the left, another bounces it but a few feet off the tee. As our main man lines up his shot for what proves to be a long drive onto the green, a super appears on screen which simply reads, “Which golfer will you be?”
This is followed by another super, which toasts the quest for perfection: “To the pursuit.”
A Lexus end tag carries the long-running slogan, “The pursuit of perfection,” noting that Lexus is a proud sponsor of the U.S. Open golf tournament.
Rob Groenwald of Boxer Films, Los Angeles, directed “Best” as well as two other post in this Lexus campaign for Team One Advertising, El Segundo, Calif.
The Team One ensemble consisted of executive creative director Chris Graves, associae creative director James Hendry, executive producer Jack Epsteen and producer Leah Bohl.
John Clark executive produced for Boxer, with John Quinn and Maeliosa Tiernan serving as producers. The DP was Seamus McGovern.
Editor was Pedram Torbati of B17 Editorial, Los Angeles. Visual effects house was The Orphanage, San Francisco. Music was composed by Nate Morgan of Elias Arts, bicoastal.
James Earl Jones, Lauded Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies At 93
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, "The Lion King" and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home in New York's Hudson Valley region. The cause was not immediately clear.
The pioneering Jones, who was one of the first African American actors in a continuing role on a daytime drama and worked deep into his 80s, won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor.
He cut an elegant figure late in life, with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious work habit. In 2015, he arrived at rehearsals for a Broadway run of "The Gin Game" having already memorized the play and with notebooks filled with comments from the creative team. He said he was always in service of the work.
"The need to storytell has always been with us," he told The Associated Press then. "I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn't get him."
Jones created such memorable film roles as the reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams," the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots: The Next Generation" and a South African minister in "Cry, the Beloved Country."
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader ("No, I am your father," commonly misremembered as "Luke, I am your father"), as... Read More