If I could buy any car I wanted to, right now, it would be the 2005 Mustang GT. Damn, I want that car.
I'm not sure I'm diggin' the commercial for it, though. Have you seen it? They aired it during last week's "Lost". A voice whispers, "If you build it, he will come." The guy in the ad gets on his tractor and plows a race course through a cornfield. As he looks down the road he just made, a man walks out of the corn and starts toward him and the car. Close-up on the guy from the corn reveals him to be "Bullitt"-era Steve McQueen, in all his CGI-zombie glory. It's a cool ad, but creepy, you know?
Awesome, awesome car, though.
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Yep.
Couldn't agree more, Gina.
The cornfield scene was filmed in Chilliwack BC. here's the website
http://bradbarnett.net/mustangs/ads/05/cornfield.wmv
also there's a new ad coming out that has the Mustangs' exhaust notes playing the Star Spangled banner.
I'll take one, please. Mmmm...
I think the only thing that elevates the McQueen/Mustang ad above the other ones featuring dead celebrities is that he's supposed to be a ghost, like Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams. At least I think that's what they're implying.
Still creepy, though.
Creepy huh? I didn't get that....
What you maybe don't understand is that for Classic Mustang afficianados, Steve McQueen as "Bullitt" is like the KING of Mustangdom. He drove a '68 Mustang in one of the all-time best car chases ever, in that movie. In fact the scenes in the commercial are FROM that movie.
http://www.geocities.com/crusah/bullitt.html
So to have Shoeless Joe McQueen come out of the cornfield
is like a stroke of genius to most Mustang guys...
I thought it was really, really cool. And my last Mustang was in 1979.....
Creepy huh? I didn't get that....
What you maybe don't understand is that for Classic Mustang afficianados, Steve McQueen as "Bullitt" is like the KING of Mustangdom. He drove a '68 Mustang in one of the all-time best car chases ever, in that movie. In fact the scenes in the commercial are FROM that movie.
http://www.geocities.com/crusah/bullitt.html
So to have Shoeless Joe McQueen come out of the cornfield
is like a stroke of genius to most Mustang guys...
I thought it was really, really cool. And my last Mustang was in 1979.....
Oh, I totally get the whole McQueen/Mustang connection and that's why I said it was cool, yet creepy. Creepy because he's dead and it makes me uneasy to see his likeness manipulated in such a way as to make it appear that he his alive.
That said, I was hoping they were going to show it again last night during LOST, lol. Alas, they did not.
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