Thanks for the information. I've actually seen some interesting work done by major filmmakers as fashion ads, although I've never seen any of Lynch's.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ditzyklanmail <carc108@> wrote: > > > Dear Turq, > > Upcoming work? in china? your below link from IMDB. Must be someone > willing to finance? [:-?] > Lynch's Lady Blue is a fashion film, the third film in the "Lady Dior" > series of film noir mini-features, as usually oblique, enigmatic, weird > crammed with Lynchian leitmotifs flashing lights, flashbacks and > a haunting soundtrack. > It launches on the Dior website this weekend-plot/topic ( Moira > Benigson, managing partner of the MBS Group, ) on demand, > > * to show the handbag, > * the Pearl Tower and > * some old Shanghai > and falls IMHO between a regular film and a commercial. > watch: > http://www.ladydior.com/ > > Those who log on will see French actress Marion Cotillard, who has > starred in all the Dior films, tiptoeing along a deserted corridor in a > deserted Shanghai hotel. As for the actors, cue a natural segue from > still adverts and acting as opposed to modeling. Music is blaring from > her room. She opens the door, terror etched across her face, to find a > bag (yes, it's the Lady Dior!) blue, square, on a pedestal, a > light beaming behind it. Two security guards arrive to investigate and, > as Cotillard describes the scene, she slips into a dream-like state. > The bag has triggered the memory of febrile kisses exchanged between > her and a Chinese paramour in front of Shanghai's Pearl Tower, and of > his hurried escape, handing her a blue rose as he flees. She awakens, a > tear trickling down her powdered cheek. She inches towards the bag, > opens the clasp, looks inside and finds the blue rose. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Blue_Shanghai > > The commercial aspect of the film has been may be diluted (the word > Dior is notably absent), but this may enhance the brand's artistic > credibility, merging and blurring of what is art, what is film, and may > confuse some.(!) > But what better way to expose a brand's sensitive, intellectual, artsy > side? "Savour"! appreciate the art! (and then buy the perfume) TM brand > artsy will coming, soon, you bet. > > Pearl Tower was inspired by a poem by Bai Juyi about " pearls falling > on jade, two dragons playing with pearls falling from the sky over a > plate of jade." > > http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php?title=Eastern_Pearl_Tower > and the sound of a Pipa. > pipa: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCXzOsKn3Po&feature=related > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZT5-W_vPFY&feature=related > > (*Part one "Lady Noire", directed by Olivier Dahan (La Vie en > Rose).Part two appeared in January: Lady Rouge, directed by music video > and film director Jonas Akerlund) > BTW Chanel has also lured a roll-call of directorial greats to create > its own fragrance advert trilogy: > Baz Luhrmann, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (of Amélie) and Martin Scorsese !!. > > > > Lynch may be known for edgy, unorthodox films such as "Mulholland > Drive" and "Blue Velvet" but he seems to have explored a lot, for the > past few years, a sideline in fashion films. He has worked with Gucci, > (Gucci By Gucci (David Lynch) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2QFZ-Njmjo&feature=related) > > Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent on the filming of the Gucci, > Obsession and Opium fragrance adverts respectively, as well as with > shoemaker Christian Louboutin on a photographic exhibition about > fetishistic shoes. > > see also > obsession by Calvin Klein Ad 2 - David Lynch > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vagl2g3BB7Q > David Lynch's opium commercial > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nni-CGgHlZE&feature=related > David Lynch Playstation Commercial > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msMehuZo3x8&feature=related > David Lynch's pregnancy test commercial > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcUaVHi9Qgg&feature=related > > David Lynch ps2 commercial - blind > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-i__nfVdGI&NR=1 > and other D.L.'s commercial at youtube > intesting to compare > Baz Luhrmann for Chanel No 5 (2004) > Nicole Kidman's Chanel No. 5 > "Chanel works with movie directors because they bring depth, emotion > and what we call in French, `a supplement of soul,'â" says > Andrew d'Avack, president of Chanel fragrance and beauty. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C525FnMFSBI&feature=related > making of chanel no.5 nicole kidman - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaSsLH3B8ng > > > THE LADY NOIR AFFAIR / BY LADY DIOR / CHAPTER ONE / DIRECTED BY OLIVIER > DAHAN FEAT. MARION COTILLARD > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL5Nnay5sKY > > Dior's cinematographic fashion campaign for the Lady Dior Handbag. Art > direction by John Galliano, directed by Jonas Akerlund, starring by > Marion Cotillard singing "The Eyes Of Mars" with Franz Ferdinand. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj2yzpbWquA&feature=related > > > Have a good time watching and forget the rational side in You! [:D] > "Washing your eyes" - Xi YanJing - as the Chinese saying goes >
