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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

David Mamet Directs Car Commercials

posted by on April 17 at 14:52 PM

Really?
Really.
Pulitzer Prize–winning David Mamet?
Yes, Pulitzer Prize–winning David Mamet has directed TWO commercials for Ford.
Car commercials?
Car commercials.

Mamet only directed the commercials. The “dialogue” was apparently written in Mamet’s trademark style by an ad agency.

Watch them at your own peril:

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1

Always
Be
Cobbling

Posted by Chris | April 17, 2007 3:20 PM
2

Isn't the Ford Motor Company dead yet?

Posted by Sean | April 17, 2007 3:53 PM
3

(Two men, played by Alec Baldwin and William H. Macy, are in a Ford Whateverthefuck. Their hands and shirts are covered in blood. Baldwin is driving. He is trying to beat a stoplight; at the last second it turns red and Baldwin slams on the breaks.)


Baldwin: Fuck.


Macy: Fuck?


B: You heard me.


M: (understanding) Fuck.


B: This car can go faster than a ten-dollar hooker working outside a donut shop.


M: (impressed) Fuck.


B: But, as you can see, it can stop on a dime, too. A--no, not a dime. A nickel. Two pence. A farthing.


M: A farthing. (pause) The fuck's a farthing?


B: Some cocksuckers at Car and Driver tested it; they say it holds up pretty well.


M: (looks at his hands) Just like my poor mother's heart.


B: True story.

Posted by jake | April 17, 2007 4:25 PM
4

muted trumpet makes me run the other way.

Posted by Max Solomon | April 17, 2007 4:56 PM
5

Say what you want about the commercials, but at least they don't have Rebecca Pidgeon in them.

Posted by dirge | April 17, 2007 8:17 PM
6

I guess he needed the money? (pretty spot on, jake!)

Posted by Bauhaus | April 18, 2007 4:50 AM
7

and up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong while watching how his penis patches got wet at http://www.averagepenis.mysize.ws

Posted by penis patches | April 30, 2007 12:15 PM

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