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Apple Says to 'Open Your Heart to Everyone' in Festive 'Frankie's Holiday' Ad
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Was expecting that box to contain a Lightning dock.
Then Frankenstein would sit back down and be able charge his iPhone and listen to music at the same time.
Then Frankenstein would sit back down and be able charge his iPhone and listen to music at the same time.
Open your wallets to Apple America it's going to be a very expensive holiday for a lots of people!
Perhaps this is a new nightmare before Christmas.
I too don't get this ad. I never would have associated Frankenstein's monster with the holidays. Why is he singing "Home for the Holidays" when he just left his home? Why not "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" or "White Christmas"? I'm all for the idea of inclusiveness, but this is one of the strangest ads I've ever seen.
I too don't get this ad. I never would have associated Frankenstein's monster with the holidays. Why is he singing "Home for the Holidays" when he just left his home? Why not "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" or "White Christmas"? I'm all for the idea of inclusiveness, but this is one of the strangest ads I've ever seen.
I'm not sure how singing one of those two songs you suggest would have made this any less strange.
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I've just re watched it and it's quite clever. Frankenstein Monster was a functioning being made from the amalagamation of various bits and pieces of other people. It worked but was very cumbersome.
A bit like the new MacBook Pro. Which requires many many addtional dongles just to be useful and even then it doesn't have many advantages of its functional cousins.
Nice comparison Apple.
A bit like the new MacBook Pro. Which requires many many addtional dongles just to be useful and even then it doesn't have many advantages of its functional cousins.
Nice comparison Apple.
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The ad is pretty meh, but that kind of fits right in with gradual decline of Apple.
I thought it was a good ad until the words and the apple logo at the end. It's obviously an iPhone just leave it at that.
Frankie is a metaphor for all the "tim cook sucks" forum posters. Tim is trying to say he loves you anyway.
Sure but remember the scientist was named Victor. Frankenstein is his last name so while we don't have a first name for the monster it is still frankestein since he was the adam of the creator victor. In short I will call him Adam frankestein. Kinda like Apple creating the iPhone. It's still an apple product. Apple=Frankestein and iPhone=monster.When are people going to realize Frankenstein is the scientist, not the monster.
last year's or the year before with the teen making the iMovie on the phone was better...
I'll write more if I stop vomiting. Is there an app that will help me un-see this?
OPEN UR HEART APPLE. stop making us pay for repairs that you created!
according to the article that followed the advert, it is.
When are people going to realize Frankenstein is the scientist, not the monster.
In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein's 'monster' was obliquely referred to as Adam. Shelley later referred to him as Adam.
But whether you consider his first name to be Adam or not, the begotten of Victor Frankenstein could certainly still be a Frankenstein, no?
Whether Adam Frankenstein or some other (or no other) given name, calling the 'monster' Frankenstein would be hard to refute using any sort of objective argument.
YOU may disagree that he was an offspring of Victor Frankenstein. But it would be impossible using the source material to argue objectively that that is the only interpretation. Quite the opposite actually.
So, if you can consider the 'monster' to be a sort of offspring of Victor Frankenstein, then calling him by the 'family' name Frankenstein is perfectly apt.
Only in the Hollywood version. The creature is very different in Mary Shelley's novel: Highly intelligent, deeply emotional, lost, abandoned and very tragic. Shelley's work should be required reading not only for all scientists, but for everybody.
Rather than being bold or why not just not buy Apple products and not frequent websites about Apple?
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The PRSI discussion has been moved to the Apple Festive Holiday Ad. Why so politically correct and not call it Christmas? thread and all posts on this subject should be directed there.
The PRSI discussion has been moved to the Apple Festive Holiday Ad. Why so politically correct and not call it Christmas? thread and all posts on this subject should be directed there.
I'm sure some ad execs are very excited to nominate this for an award. However, it fails to live up to the Misunderstood ad which celebrated the holidays and where the phone was a "character" in the short.
WTF was that. Worst Apple Ad I've seen for a while.
aaaah, when it takes the unbiased love and wonder of a child to reach out to the unwanted -
you start to wonder if teens and adults will ever be that way....
great video...
my point proven...
you start to wonder if teens and adults will ever be that way....
great video...
my point proven...