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Blade Runner inspired product placement

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@mattberg
mattberg started a discussion

I watched Blade Runner at the weekend for the first time in about 10 years.. awesome creative film set..... in one of the scenes Harrison Ford is inspecting a video of one of the replicants he is pursuing while sipping a silky-smooth scotch in a space-age glass .... whilst Harrison is inspecting frame by frame of the video... I noticed a Johnnie Walker Blue Label bottle is placed several times at critical points whilst Harrison is intensely scrutinizing the frames drawing the viewer into the scene........ how powerful is subliminal marketing?

12 years ago

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Peatpete replied

Product placement is supposedly a powerful advertising tool. Of course you could always look at it the other way... by 2019 (dont you love it when sci-fi dates stop being futuristic?) Johnnie Walker Blue will have slipped so far that it is the daily drink of an out of work cop!

12 years ago 0

@mattberg
mattberg replied

ah ha, I didn't pick up on that in that particular scene... I'm convinced they used Blue Label in the scene I was referring to when Decker was alone in his apartment forensically reviewing video and images frame by frame, check it out.... Whisky Anorak time!

12 years ago 0