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Meet The Two Minds Behind That Creepy Jack Nicholson Spot For Team Hillary
Posted by Seth at 7:56 AM on March 4, 2008
If you haven't yet seen the bizarre Jack Nicholson ad for the Hillary campaign, well, feast your eyes on the video above, sure to be studied as the ultimate example of celebrity endorsements gone wrong by generations of poli-sci majors enrolled in "Hillary '08: Sketches In Failure." In it, a variety of trademark Nicholson psychopaths mumble vaguely pro-Clinton lines of out-of-context dialogue. (Good thing, too, as the line pulled from A Few Good Men, Gawker point out, is followed by the very un-presidential rumination, "Promote 'em all, I say, 'cause this is true: if you haven't gotten a blowjob from a superior officer, well, you're just letting the best in life pass you by.")
If you haven't yet seen the bizarre Jack Nicholson ad for the Hillary campaign, well, feast your eyes on the video above, sure to be studied as the ultimate example of celebrity endorsements gone wrong by generations of poli-sci majors enrolled in "Hillary '08: Sketches In Failure." In it, a variety of trademark Nicholson psychopaths mumble vaguely pro-Clinton lines of out-of-context dialogue. (Good thing, too, as the line pulled from A Few Good Men,
From where could such a misguided act of campaign desperation have originated? Why, Hollywood, of course! Towleroad spoke to the "two gay filmmakers" responsible for it, screenwriter/director John Krokidas and producer Bruce Cohen:
Towleroad: How do you respond to those who might twist it into a negative thing?While the piece does profess real reasons we believe Hillary to be the stronger Democratic candidate for president, it is also a satire of your typical politics-as-usual campaign endorsement ad. We have Jack Nicholson, the iconic bad-boy of Hollywood, standing up and voicing his support for a presidential candidate. How can you not make a spot with him that doesn't reflect all of his devilish charm and wit?
While the Nicholson ad probably sounded more fun on paper than in execution, an increasingly desperate Clinton campaign is thrilled with the attention it has received. Hoping for more unsettling celeb endorsements, they've reportedly been courting Ellen Page aggressively to tape a spot in which she expresses her long-held desire to hug the first female candidate for President of the United States with her legs.
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nick_r
Posted 10:06 AM 4/3/08
That was so misguided, I'm surprised they didn't include the line from As Good As It Gets where Nicholson's character explains how he writes women: "I think of a man... then I take away reason and accountability."
nick_r
Cacafuego
Posted 10:06 AM 4/3/08
Jesus. H. Christ.
FYI I saw this in a bar with the sound off and thought Nicholson had died and they were showing his obituary on the news.
Cacafuego
metroville
Posted 10:06 AM 4/3/08
All that ad convinced me of is the fact that Jack Nicholson is aging in dog years.
metroville
Cacafuego
Posted 10:56 AM 4/3/08
How about suggesting even more wildly inappropriate Jack-quotes?
Here's my selection:
"You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful, but you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn. I know you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath but the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautiful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem."
"Men are such cocksuckers aren't they? You don't have to answer that. It's true. They're scared. Their dicks get limp when confronted by a woman of obvious power and what do they do about it? Call them witches, burn them, torture them, until every woman is afraid. Afraid of herself... afraid of men... and all for what? Fear of losing their hard-on."
(Drinking Jim Beam) "Here's the first of the day! To old D.H. Lawrence. (flaps arms like chicken) "Neh! Neh! Neh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Indians."
Cacafuego
disinterested 3rd party
Posted 11:21 AM 4/3/08
Perhaps they should included his "I'm am the fucking shore patrol!" rant from The Last Detail. That would really fire up the base.
disinterested 3rd party
BoHan
Posted 11:21 AM 4/3/08
+ Watch video
I pointed this out on that other coast's blog, but I guess it bears repeating that all of these mash-ups are a bad idea, with offenders on both sides. For example, draw the usual stupid, self-evident comparisons between "Election's" Tracy Flick and Hillary Clinton, but you also really shouldn't forget that Tracy Flick won in the end.
BoHan
ky-jellydonuts
Posted 11:46 AM 4/3/08
@Cacafuego: How about this?
+ Watch video
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Miss d
Posted 1:13 PM 4/3/08
Well - Hillary can take comfort in the fact that Bad Jack will beat Obama to death with a dildo if all else fails...
Miss d
DumpDolan
Posted 12:21 PM 6/3/08
If they had showed the "this use to be a hell of a country" monologue from Easy Rider, Bill O'Reilly would have Hillary lynched.
DumpDolan