I suppose we could call it homage, in a respectful French sense. Those wacky folks over at BYUSA have put together this most inspiring piece of work to persuade students to be more overtly kind/neighborly on campus. Thats nice and all, but I'm not sure I'm going to start talking to strangers. However, please note:
This ad was ripped off. Ripped clean off from another commercial. This commercial.
It's one of my favorite ad campaigns. It pulls me in like a sucker every time, it's just so poignant and sappy. Very effective, and interesting storytelling (David Bordwell talks about it here). So how could I miss a stright up copy?
Thematically identical, exactly the same execution, full circle story. The differences are there, but the similarities are glaring.
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I almost copied and pasted this post onto my blog (like I normally do) but then I noticed the title.
By all means, feel free to use it. It's not stealing if you cite the author. Then it's "research".
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