Posted on 02/15/2016 8:58:20 PM PST by Morgana
Culture surrounding the annual Super Bowl usually isn’t complete without some haggling over controversial advertisements as companies try to make the most of their $5 million half minute. But NARAL brought political correctness to a new low while live tweeting the football game…
#NotBuyingIt – that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 8, 2016
(Cassy Fiano has extensively documented this and other absurd anti-life outrage that occurred in reaction to Super Bowl ads here.)
This cute, funny spot wasn’t the invention of a Doritos executive, however. For the past decade, Doritos has left their Super Bowl commercial fate to an audience-participation contest that challenges the wit and skill of many an independent filmmaker. Super Bowl 50 marked the finale of the Doritos contest tradition, and among the finalists whose ad made it to the screen was Peter Carstairs of Melbourne, Australia. Carstairs is a commercial filmmaker with Hollywood aspirations, and he saw Doritos’ Crash the Super Bowl contest as an opportunity to expand his horizons.
According to the official website:
Peter recently had his second child, Freddy, who’s now nine months old. When he was with his wife getting an ultrasound during the pregnancy, an idea popped into his head – wouldn’t it be funny to have a little fun in the hospital room, where everyone is supposed to remain poised, calm and collected. The baby in the ultrasound image is Freddy himself – of course with the help of a little camera magic.
Just like some commercials use post-production effects to make babies appear to talk and do other grown-up activities for comedic effect, Peter’s studio friends used animation tools to make preborn baby Freddy appear to chase after Doritos. Here is a video from behind the scenes:
Humanity is endowed by the Creator, not computers. Freddy was not “humanized†by the post-production effects, he was simply portrayed to have a precocious taste for Doritos chips! Let’s not presume Carstairs was using any sort of political “tactics†when having fun with his craft in a filmmaking contest. How cool is it that Freddy can say his acting debut was in utero?
It was a great ad.
I loved it.
It was dynamite.
All I watched of the SB was a few of the ads on youtube.
They were all pretty lame, but this one I thought was GREAT!
And that’s not even looking at it as pro-life.
They did a pro-life ad and it didn't get censored!
BRAVO!!
The comment complaining about the ad “humanizing fetus” did the same thing by referring to the husband and wife as a mom and a dad.
Even they “humanize” the babies in the womb...they just don’t care. Evil and disgusting.
It’s okay to humanize penquins and ponies and planets but humanize a human? Well, we have to draw the line somewhere!/ sarc
Abortion requires that the baby in the womb be dehumanized in order for all involved to kill it without second thought.
If the mother herself had to strangle the just born baby to death with her own hands instead of a late term abortion it would be just as tragic as a late term abortion. But fewer dead babies would be resultant as the bare naked sin of abortion would be exposed for all to see.
Abortion and urbanization go hand in hand as the disconnect of where meat comes from ( the supermarket ) is just as pervasive as myth that a fetus is just “tissue”. This disconnect from the basic nature of life in urbanites is a main reason why in general most city dwellers are idiot liberals living in la la land like kindergarten as adults.
They never have to see REAL life and death growing up and instead see only immature imaginings of it on a flickering screen.
Once you have been elbow deep in a cow helping it give birth to calf or having to move a dead half decomposed cow in all it’s gory awfulness do you fully appreciate nature’s balance of life and death. You also learn to treasure life very much. Take it from a farmgirl who grew up seeing it all.
On the CBS television series Good Times, (1974–1979.)
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