Stella Artois ad on Ch4, and SARS. Straffo – please help

[beet1e]

Watching the Film on Four last night (as a break from furballing in my Dora) I noticed that the programme was being sponsored by the French beer company and producers of Stella Artois™. The theme of the ad is that a young man has assisted a young woman who has collapsed having succumbed to some sort of infectious disease, and carries her away to get medical help. Her father is grateful to the man, and as a reward buys him a large glass of Stella Artois at a hostelry. (The ad is set in the period 150-200 years ago) The young man wants to go forward to get his beer but an old codger in there tells him to back off. ”Vous êtes contaminé!”, comes the warning, the old codger being concerned that the young man has himself fallen prey to the illness. To which the father replies ”Il n’est pas encore contaminé!”, which could mean he is not YET contaminated or he is not STILL contaminated, the French word encore meaning still, yet, or again. Straffo!! Please advise...

Anyway, the old codger gets offered a sip of the beer, from whose vessel our young hero has already taken a few sips. He accepts, the marketing message being that so good is the Stella Artois, he’s willing to take the risk of drinking from the same vessel as our hero. After he’s done so, the young man coughs a chesty cough! All eyes shift to him, and the ad ends abruptly... ;)

Hehe, a somewhat curious theme for a beer ad – especially at a time of the SARS outbreak. I wonder if the Advertising Standards authority has received any complaints for being insensitive. Or maybe “Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells” can’t speak French.

[straffo]

hehe

"he is not YET contaminated" is the correct translation in this context IMO.





btw I think you've pissed Saw with this post
Stella Artois is a belgian beer from Louvain/Leuven  

[Furball]

who cares what saw thinks

[beet1e]

Originally posted by straffo
btw I think you've pissed Saw with this post
Stella Artois is a belgian beer from Louvain/Leuven  

 LOL!  So it is. I was confusing it with Kronenbourg 1664. Hehe, THAT will probably piss him off even more!

[Fuzzy]

hate to derail the thread, but interesting avatar furball, what is the guy trying to get to?

[Furball]

its a stick man stuck in a room. he pulls the plug out of a pipe and the room fills with water. he tries to escape but sadly fails

[Revvin]

That ad has been doing the rounds for some time, at a guess I'd say easily 6 months old maybe more. My personal favourites at the moment is two John Smiths ad's I've only seen on Sky News channel. The first is a snooker player cueing up and taking some time, the ref taps his foot and looks at his watch, the player continues to take his time cueing up then the ref walks over and hits the butt of his cue and forces him to shoot The second ad is the same scenario except the player takes the shot and pots a red "One!" calls the ref in typical snooker referee fashion. The player then smacks the black ball into the corner pocket and the ref sigh's and calls "Another one" the player looks at him waiting fop the ref to take the ball out of the pocket and the ref just stands and looks at him.

[Revvin]

Found a .MOV of one of the ads here

[Curval]

Originally posted by Furball
its a stick man stuck in a room. he pulls the plug out of a pipe and the room fills with water. he tries to escape but sadly fails

I showed that to a friend of mine who is an avid cave-diver.  He didn't like it...in fact I think it gave him nightmares.

[Furball]

Originally posted by Curval
I showed that to a friend of mine who is an avid cave-diver.  He didn't like it...in fact I think it gave him nightmares.

just tell him to leave the plug in if he finds one