AIand the kidsBU to not get the Bleu de Chanel ad?

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Every time the guy says "I'm not going to be the person I'm expected to be any more" we chorus "but we don't get who you are anyway and why is that woman crying?"

We don't get what question the woman is rephrasing and is she a model or a journalist anyway? Or was she an undercover journalist?

"It really doesn't make me want to wear the perfume at all. I'd like to be able to surf though (but last time I went surfing I had a massive wipeout & nosebleed)."
LOL, I am imagining that in the ad now..

Hmm, the surfer's dilemma would be more convincing if she was choosing between surfing with the daughter and working.

Is the man babysitting the daughter while she surfs?

DH and I get the rage too. The only thing that can vaguely^ be said in favour of Chanel is that it is marginally better than the Nicole Kidman 'I Love to dance' one.

In the surfing one, there is a nanny. I think she was having and affair/tempted by the photographer bloke

You are not supposed to 'get' Chanel ads. They don't want riff raff wearing their smellies, that's why they went all jazz in the 80's (common folk didn't like it apparently).

I've just watched the Chanel 5 one for the first time.

It seems the man lives by the sea with dw (an advertising model for Chanel 5?) and dd. Dd seems to have a nanny (or dgm) Man looks pissed off at dw having a surf. He leaves her a cheerio note. She reads it and decides to change into Mrs Sophisticated. She has a makeover and puts on jewellery (Chanel stuff?) and drenches herself in perfume until she smells like that same tart's parlour. She trails all the way to the Big City, having listened to the song which tells her she'd 'better shape up' (in funereal slow motion, not like John Travolta) Enters the opera house waving the cheerio note and is reunited as he decides he wants her after all, (as long as she makes sure she keeps on smelling like a tart's parlour of course.) He's ripped off his bow tie and undone his shirt, so the air-con in the theatre must be on the blink.
Maybe he's fed up with having number fives plastered all over their possessions? Maybe he's sick of them all being dressed in white? Maybe he's a knob and only likes women who 'shape up'? (Bollocks to that, mate!)

Is this the gist, or have I got it all wrong?

Not sure if it a cheerio note, think she has the hots for the photographer chap who runs after her and hubby wants her to be faithful?

That Nicole Kidman one gives me the rage

Hang on, I get it!
He's pissed off cause she's always surfing (like equivalent of a golfing habit).
That's why they have to live by the sea.
This makes far more sense than the unexpected one

For all you connoisseurs of chanel ads, have you seen this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO4-TV6Zckc

A long ad /short film to publicise a recent Austria fashion thing. It's erm, really really great. Honest.

Yes, I've just seen it. She is spending time surfing and being with her children and having fun, and she has to go and find her man and submit to his wishes instead, and perfume makes you do that. She's crying because she realises she's trapped in a marriage where having her own life is resented.

It does seem as though he was being petulant because he's rubbish at surfing so he goes a long way away and makes her leave her well paid job early on order to find and placate him.

The moral: unless there is a directors's cut in which he is wearing a wetsuit and reading Surfing for Dummies, he is the least cool thing in her life. She needs to dump him.
Unless he has ear issues that prevent surfing.

I get that for once he'd like her to go to something with him.

And when she does she's still advertising Chanel...

I think he's secretly in love with the chap who's playing the fiddle ("to my heart I must be true") at the opera house, as he's actually bi. He also has a strange disease which makes him write sentences the wrong way round. She's always in the sea trying to wash off the pungent pong of Chanel no 5, but it's very clinging. The poor little girl stands well back while Mummy sprays yet another gallon of the stuff over herself. They aren't reunited at the theatre; she's there to tell him she's got am OM who prefers her to use Yardley's Lily of the Valley at only £5 a bottle.

I quite like Yardley's Lily of the Valley...

He's very handsome though so I can see why she's conflicted.

EBearhug, so do I. I've got some on my dressing table right now!

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Gosh that Austrian one is worth the 7 minutes just for the sheer horror of it.

Can one surf with one's arse hanging half like that? I'd think you'd get sand, or crabs in your unmentionables.

I don't think Bleu man is attractive. He has unsexy lips

LittleDonkey

Me too

Aactually, any advert or programme where a woman wears a man's shirt post rumpy gets on my nerves

I am so glad this thread exists, YANBU, DH and I hate this ad too! It doesn't make any sense and the way the first voice goes "Would you like her to rephrase the question?" sounds like a zombie, or just very thick!!

I quite like the J'Adore Dior ad and the Black XS one. They're all a pretentious bunch of waffle though

and I am laughing at Hatespiders take on the ad as well

Surf ad is about a Rebecca Adlington lookalike who is shocked to see her exH hanging round her fabulous beach house. He leaves threatening notes such as "you better understand", which interrupts her routine of stropping around in a wetsuit that looks like it's going to disappear up her buttcrack. She then hangs round a warehouse in a gold foil dress and trainers where exH leaves more threatening notes, so she goes off to confront him while he's watching a crap karaoke night where people do slowed down covers of shit musicals. Luckily, she's sprayed on some Chanel to cover up the sea smell.