To be fed up with the Audrey Hepburn chocolate advert........?

[AGreatBigWorld]

I am a massive AH fan but that advert drives me up the wall. I have completely gone off Moon River now and that CGI of her doesn't look anything like her at all!!

[MisshapesMistakes]

Having two dead people CGIEd into an advert for chocolate is just morbid and weird and horrible.

[IcedVanillaLatte]

The problem with that ad is the uncanny valley effect i.e. she looks human but not quite right.

The blinking is what does it. A natural human blink is instinctive, has flickers in it, is very quick, has an effortlessness in the muscles. A deliberate blink is slightly different. Longer. The muscles are more decisive. The eyes open all the way immediately.

Hers are like that, but more so. The length of time the eyes are closed, the decisiveness, the effort used - not quite right. They look robotic. In fact, every time I see the advert I do a little "zzzt…zzzt" noise for the servos.

I'm not sure if it's the CGI, the way the actress is doing it (trying to mimic Hepburn's style of blinking), that the actress used is actually a robot, or that Hepburn was actually a robot.

I just know that that blink is Not Right.

[Sparklingbrook]

What? Give up ITV? I wasn't allowed to watch it as a child, so I am making the most of it now.

Today I am planning to tut at Loose Women and the adverts.

[AGreatBigWorld]

BigGreenOlives That will really sort the problem out the problem won't it!!

[BigGreenOlives]

Just stop watching ITV or whatever channel it's on. They don't have any decent programmes anyway.

[Sparklingbrook]

Spice the whole ad makes me cross. When the woman turns round and holds the bottle aloft...

I also bristle a bit when G Tech man appears with his'What do you hate about vacumming?'. Um, doing it mainly. I don't care if there are 'tidy bales' or whatever.

[SpiceLinerandHoneyLove]

YY sparkling, especially when the dog stands in front of a bookcase. Did that poor cow take each book from the shelf and lovingly Flash clean each page, which would also have been covered in mud?

[Sparklingbrook]

The chocolate would be melted in the heat. I hate that advert too.

However 'Where the hell has all the mud gone?' dog in the Flash as makes me want to put my foot through the TV.

[LarrytheCucumber]

I have not bought any Galaxy chocolate as a result of this advert. AIBU?

[Broken1Girl]

I agree, hate this.
Tbh I hate most ads, and generally mute them.
If only the energy and time devoted to advertising went to, say, the NHS...
Also both Cadbury and Galaxy taste like cheap sugar and fat and generally crap now. I don't buy Nestlé. I only buy the proper stuff now. Co-op own brand or from Holland and Barrett or preferably independent shops.
SIGH

[BillSykesDog]

YANBU. No offence to Audrey herself, who was apparently a very nice person - but I hate the characters she created. They just seemed so twee and insipid and never really transcended two dimensions.

[Trashbox]

I want to see Harambe get his own advert.

[Tartyflette]

I think despite all the technical waffle about melding CGI and real images etc on the links above it still looks weird and faintly creepy.
I don't think it looks like her, when I first saw it I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong with her face but i knew something was.
I've always disliked the ad, I mute it or change channels.
As for the irony of using her image to sell chocolate...

[LauderSyme]

Worra

Yes yes yes to all of the above.

I've always hated Galaxy ads, they are all sexist drivel implying all sorts of unpleasant female character traits.

[MistressDeeCee]

I don't like it, it seems disrespectful somehow. & they've cast her sitting there as a wordless birdbrain,, just there as a pretty decoration.

I just read the CGI how the add was made article in link - its so technically smug, creators obviously think theyre the 8th wonder of the world "CGI is hear to stay". Give yourselves a big pat on the back, why don't you

I don't want to see a load of dead actors flogging stuff. Give the parts to live actors who need the work

[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

I'm in love with the song moon river. I could listen to it all day.
I agree the advert Is annoying though.

[BettyCrystal]

Remember when Galaxy actually used to be nice... (Dreaming of the chocolate of my childhood) 🍫

[Bragadocia]

"Still, the taste of chocolate for her was connected with liberation," says her son. "It was the real taste of freedom." [after a serviceman gave her chocolate bars, when the occupation was ending]

So you can use that idea to justify selling her image to the Mars company to make some dosh for yourselves...

[missingmumxox]

they are fucking taking the piss! me and my husband have hated that advert since day one moaning that the looky likie was shit, if it is CGI then they wasted their money because now not only do I think the lookie likie was shit and find out it was not, I am bored to death with it.
the face was too wide and square what where they thinking?

[mumoseven]

Aw but she looks just like my dear late mum as a young un! My dad (85)loves the ad!

[BonnieF]

Annoying advert.

Shit chocolate.

Why is nasty crappy muck like Galaxy invariably marketed at women? Do they think we are all idiots with no taste who won't like the decent stuff which actually tastes of chocolate rather than cheap fat & sugar?

[bearleftmonkeyright]

Its a really stupid advert!! And Worras comment about teenage girls and their groucho marx eyebrows has made me snort wine out of my nose.