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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Death / Celeb Zombie Audrey Hepburn Stars in Awful Candy Bar Commercial

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:02 PM

The Verge explains how a candy company hired some very smart people to build a phony-looking simulacrum of a long-dead movie star to hawk their wares in a terrible commercial:

Everyone involved in the making of this thing should feel ashamed.

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That was very creepy.

Posted by Mittens Schrodinger on February 28, 2013 at 3:16 PM

Weird commercial. Why is Audrey Hepburn sacred?

Posted by Clara T on February 28, 2013 at 3:20 PM

@2, Because Audrey Hepburn is perfection.

Posted by brian on February 28, 2013 at 3:38 PM

I don't get the outrage. Don't you all have a chauffeur like that? I wear that dark color of lipstick as well. Chill people, it's just an ad for Italy, right?

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on February 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM

I wanted to be all "hey, didn't she just die a few years ago?" Turns out, I'm just getting old.

Posted by Dougsf on February 28, 2013 at 3:51 PM

I'm glad they seated this so firmly in the uncanny valley.

Posted by Rhoda Skidmark on February 28, 2013 at 3:54 PM

I'm not especially worried. The dead have no use for their own image.

Unless they are a zombie actor, in which case they should totally sue.

Posted by Zebes

on February 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM

Galaxy is way better chocolate than Hershey's. Everyone who makes Hershey's should be ashamed.

Posted by originalcinner on February 28, 2013 at 4:01 PM

I don't know what the rest of you are talking about.

Looked fine to me.

And who gives a shit if a hollywood actress - alive or dead - is used in mass media?

Posted by Urgutha Forka on February 28, 2013 at 4:09 PM

Audrey Hepburn™

Posted by Ipso Facto

on February 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM

When can we expect a Zombie Audrey Hepburn™ / Zombie Tupac™ duet?

Posted by Ipso Facto

on February 28, 2013 at 4:18 PM

Unfortunate. The ad would have been effective and far less distracting if they had simply filmed a Hepburn look-alike without the CGI

Posted by yelahneb

on February 28, 2013 at 4:20 PM

Mmmmmm...spokescorpse. James Dean in a Posche ad. Natalie Wood for toddler floaties. Rock Hudson for Trojan. John Ritter for Vastril. The possibilities are endless.

Posted by BornAgainInBellevue on February 28, 2013 at 4:24 PM

I thot it was cute. What's all the drama about?

Posted by lalilolly on February 28, 2013 at 4:40 PM

@11:

The late Ms Hepburn was noted for many things - singing, so far as I can recall, was not one of them.

Posted by COMTE

on February 28, 2013 at 4:44 PM

Nice car.

Posted by sperifera on February 28, 2013 at 4:49 PM

Creepy to the max. If I believed in an afterlife, I'm sure Audrey Hepburn would be rolling in her grave at the thought of this abomination.

Also, what, they couldn't find a single living actress to do a stupid candy bar commercial? Out of 7 billion people on earth? They have to bastardize old movies and the memory of long dead actors/actresses?

Just gross.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on February 28, 2013 at 5:07 PM

@15 -- Yeah, cause no one likes Moon River.

Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini just toss off Oscar winning songs for talent-less hacks every day.

Posted by six shooter on February 28, 2013 at 5:16 PM

Why'd they get a 12 year old to portray Audrey Hepburn?

Posted by TreGibbs on February 28, 2013 at 5:17 PM

Welcome to the future. Eventually the vast majority of what you see on screen will be all CGI, even for talent that is still alive.

Posted by Sam Levine

on February 28, 2013 at 5:18 PM

Oh please, all you phony purists. All this morphing of great movies, great stars, great songs with commercialism (no matter whether it's CGI or the muppets) only makes folks think about watching Roman Holiday again. And isn't that a good thing?

It's been going on for years. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford on February 28, 2013 at 5:30 PM

Ok, now can they use the same technology to replace Mickey Rooney's character in "Breakfast At Tiffany's" with a Wookiie?

Sure, having a Wookiie live upstairs would be odd and preposterous, but no more so than a white guy in yellowface who spends his days perfecting a racist pantomime and practicing it at his neighbors.

Posted by Gus on February 28, 2013 at 5:49 PM

CGAmelie!

Posted by dangerousgift on February 28, 2013 at 5:53 PM

This is an abomination.

Posted by Charlie Mas on February 28, 2013 at 7:09 PM

@22 I think I might be able to get behind that.

Posted by yelahneb

on February 28, 2013 at 8:12 PM

@20 - yeah, you are probably right and worse. Read Connie Willis' 1995 novel "Remake" about that very same thing. Pray we all do not live long enough to see it.

Posted by Bugnroolet on March 1, 2013 at 7:38 AM

@22 - I'm totally with you on that.

Is the guy in the silver car CGI? Cause he was the best thing about that commercial - I'd much rather get a mouthful of him than some non-Cadbury British chocolate.

Posted by ignatz ratzkywatzky on March 1, 2013 at 3:01 PM