ronnie@mit-eddie.UUCP (Ronnie Schnell) (07/12/85)
I have noticed that in all movies that involve Steven Spielberg in a production capacity, there seems to be a lot of blatant commercialism, especially for a certain cola manufacturing company mentioned in some previous articles. In back to the future, there was about 5 minutes of commercials for a certain department store. They were in a shopping mall and this department store was all you could see the whole time. It is certainly conceivable that these companies were ``sponsors.'' Does anyone know anymore about this? #Ron ...mit-eddie!ronnie ronnie@mit-mc.arpa ronnie@mit-eddie.arpa ronnie@suhep.bitnet (315) 422-1187
mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) (07/14/85)
It isn't uncommon for companies to actively seek to get included into movies. By wining and dining producers, offering to supply thew production with materials (how much <your brand here> colas could a crew/cast drink in a 2 month shoot, nice to get it free... My favourite answer was the generic food/drink in REPO MAN, The sin isn't peculiar to Spielberg, check out TV shows etc. How many firebirds to Rockford go through? -- Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts)<University of Waterloo> ihnp4!watmath!watarts!mupmalis