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Courrier international newspaper: Kennedy

Courrier international newspaper: Kennedy
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Learn to anticipate
Courrier international

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, France
Creative Director: Cristophe Coffre
Art Director: Arnaud Van Den Abeele
Copywriter: Timothée Gaube
Published: September 2010

33 Comments

Jaap Grolleman's picture 6401 pencils

Sensitive subject again, surely it'll offend some people.

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France showing its lack of class again, surprise.

Shawali's picture 5436 pencils

One more anonymous troll, surprise...

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yeah, USA look good in the world today too...

Martijn's picture 1884 pencils

Good work, good insight.

AdsofChina's picture 99 pencils
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Nice work, but almost certainly going to upset some people. Maybe they were going for the publicity?

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Best of the series, but I still have to ask the question if there's an insight to this campaign or if it's just advertising hyperbole for the sake of it. Ps. Nice retouching on the car roof. I know my agency would've fucked that one up (along with everything else. ;) )

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Actually, I find the ads moronic...
I suppose you could anticipate that riding around in an open car could be dangerous, but what would it have mattered if the Twin Towers were smaller? The point was to strike against the symbol, so it wouldn't matter how tall they were anyway. There's no logic there. Make your building shorter and muslim extremists won't be mad at you... WTF?
And the landing on the moon doesn't make much sense either, both russians and americans were in an open race to put the first man on the moon, what was there to anticipate?
Sorry, but the entire campaign fails in an epic scale if you ask me.

Jotacef's picture 219 pencils

ha ha ha haa! hey man, i hope you got the message.

Roger Keynes's picture 4088 pencils

Some people just aren't meant to get messages. ;)

Will Think for Salary

Roger Keynes's picture 4088 pencils

Look on the bright side Guest | Wed, 2010-09-08 08:00.
It's not too late to get back into Accountancy.

Will Think for Salary

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You are poor at Photoshop

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You fail at Photoshop

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Seriously?? Looks great to me.

Cheerriiee's picture 956 pencils

why is it poor in photoshop? i really dont thinks so

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ah, the French...will they ever learn some class?

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ahah.
USA is DEFINITELY the very last country than can talk about class, please ...
Ad funny but too much, I agree, cause can hurt some.
If you will just stop with your obvious inside job, the rest of the world wouldn't hit on you so bad ....

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Who's saying such a cliche ? An Englishman with a class ?

Anonymous Author's picture 1549 pencils

Dear Timothée, whatever it is you anticipate learning from reading this comment, there is no way I can know what that might be at the time of writing.
I'll hazard a guess: that you are looking for semantic insight and lexical inspiration to help turn your campaign around.
If that is correct, I find it too heavy a burden, so will provide neither.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever – Anonymous.

http://www.anonymousauthor.co.nz
www.twitter.com/@anonauth

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I lime these, people need to understand that history can easily be joked about without causing massive offence

dthlb72's picture 508 pencils

Good retouching! esp the reflection of the front windshield

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how does Saatchi & Saatchi sign off on this crap. The team should be kick out of advertising.

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Enough said but how are they going to get out of this cage? Crawl under the glass through the door?

Billoughsby's picture 5127 pencils

As a historic aside: the bubble top that could have been in place on this limousine (which you see in the picture) was a rain top. Plastic. Bullets could still have penetrated it, and it's use likely would not have prevented the assassination of JFK.

Urban legend has swirled for decades around the question of who had it removed and why JFK wasn't more strongly advised to use it, but the fact is it wouldn't have made a difference. -- And being a rain top, it was removed on that sunny day in Dallas as a mere practicality.

There may have been a conspiracy against JFK, but the bubble wasn't part of it, and would have prevented nothing. Am I repeating myself? It's because the paths of thought that flow throughout this series and inform it are so flawed. Clearly, they issue from an agency conference room full of lazy broke-dick comedians who can't be troubled to get up off the couch and learn anything about the real world.

The flag one was cute/silly; the wtc was in dubious taste; this one is just uninformed. That's looking like 1 for 3.

"Ubi hubave lubearned thubat ubanuby fubool cuban wrubite uba bubad ubad, bubut thubat ubit tubakes uba rubeal gubenubiubus tubo kubeep hubis hubands uboff uba gubood ubone."
-Lubeo Buburnubett

JavierGarza's picture 139 pencils
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Bad bad bad.....

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Lol ...
good advertsiment!
Stop whining you big fat americans! ( that's an offence ;0 thougth i would be nice too give a example! )

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Where's the concept of a Frenchman bending over with his lubed ass for Hitler?

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Where is the one of de Gaulle bent over for Hitler?

Billoughsby's picture 5127 pencils

Let's be honest about this series: Chinese campaigns for sunroofs have been better thought-out.

"Ubi hubave lubearned thubat ubanuby fubool cuban wrubite uba bubad ubad, bubut thubat ubit tubakes uba rubeal gubenubiubus tubo kubeep hubis hubands uboff uba gubood ubone."
-Lubeo Buburnubett

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I suppose the idiots that designed these ads would not think them so wise and funny if their wife, husband, son, daughter or parents had been in those buildings. Offended? You bet! The French haven't been around to help anyone but themselves on anything. Too busy drinking, smoking and making cheap, overpriced perfume I guess. Killing innocent people is never funny, wise, strategic or anything else. Get the lead out and do some REAL work will ya?

PO'd American

Roger Keynes's picture 4088 pencils
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Children!!!
Great to see ads still pushing the envelope.

Will Think for Salary

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Bad Photoshop work! A car roof without any shadows...

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