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Old 07-09-2006, 04:02 PM
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Honda Commercial



There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film.


Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as you see it.


The film took 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something, usually

very minor, didn't work.


They would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent

weeks shooting night and day. By the time it was over, they were ready to

change professions. The film cost six million dollars and took three months

to complete including full engineering of the sequence.


In addition, it's two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film

on British television, they're shelling out enough dough to keep any

one of us in clover for a lifetime.


However, it is fast becoming the most downloaded advertisement in

Internet history.


Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in

"free viewings" (Honda isn't paying a dime to have you watch this

commercial!). When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they

signed off on it immediately without any hesitation - including the

costs.


There are six and only six hand-made Honda Accords in the world. To

the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them

to make the film.


Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and

complete Honda Accord) is parts from those two cars. The voiceover is

Garrison Keillor. When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they

liked it and commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten.


They fell off their chairs when they found out it was for real.


Oh, and about those funky windshield wipers. On the new Accords, the

windshield wipers have water sensors and are designed to start doing

their thing automatically as soon as they get wet. It looks a bit

weird in the commercial.


Click the link below


http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php
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Repost X 20, but still cool.

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didnt this commercial happen about 4 years ago. hmmm. someone has just come out of the cave.
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Welcome to the year 2001.
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every repost is a repost repost
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No sense wasting more space telling everyone this is a really old repost. Locked up....
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