Diesel – “Common” – Fred & Farid Paris
May 5, 2009
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Brave countdown…Excerpt from synopsis- “These spots are set in a context that is halfway between Fight Club and an epic narrative. It is an invitation to listen your heart, to live your ideals, to realize your dreams…”

Agency: FRED & FARID

City: Paris

Advertiser: L’Oreal

Brand Name: Diesel

  • Emi
    Huh?
  • Oguz Icsoz
    Design of the bottle is very inspiring. Not to use this is a pity. A fist for a fragrance from Diesel is so great; but what it comes out as a work is more than disappointing.
  • Julie
    I agree with everyone else - this ad has no direction, no proposition, no single minded idea and NOTHING TO DO WITH fight club. perhaps creatives need to steer away from movies as inspiration - like what BOOM said - why is tinkerbell here - and what makes you think this ad would make any man buy the fragrance with fairy dust - unless they are gay (nothing wrong with that) is the target market for homosexuals? If so, it should be made clearer i think.
  • Sooze
    This ad appeals to a specific target audience and if Diesel is willing to spend big bucks for a singular demographic, then more power to them.
  • This ad sucks, like FF...
  • heidi
    Nice production values...but

    If by '...fight club and an epic...' they mean 'self-conscious and derivative' then bingo.
  • Paritosh Joshi
    Pretentious rubbish, that's what this is. Or else I am not the target audience by a huge margin and so I just 'don't get it'
  • Piet Miller
    Only the uncool.
  • John Burnap
    hmmm. find something nice to say? ok, I liked the music. but only 'cause I like percussion

    didn't mind the images. and the bottle design is interesting. but as a way to promote a fragrance product? nope. boring, boring, and, uh, boring. even dumb fragrance ads are usually sexy. not this one. in fact I thought the ad was interesting until I found out it was for a fragrance.
  • blazer
    Yawn!
  • Boom
    ...brief has nothing to do with the commercial...

    who is that dude? a teacher, a theater performer, a boxer, a rapper or tinker bell???

    the bottle design is different... but the Diesel Ring and the whole works just makes it very stereotypical.
  • Geoff
    I think the concept is deep and powerful. people who know the subject (common) will appreciate and understand what brave is, breaking away from a brad pitt character to a man of the streets who fights different battles, mental and emotional from the heart.

    Using common is genius and iconic in this generation we live in and not using a steriotipical (literal) battered and broused character
  • TomP
    Typical fragrance spot -- they never have an ideas except that the frangrance will overwhelm your heart
    s desire. Dopey. And so bling era.
  • Dumb. Lame. No idea. Trying to be cool instead of actually being cool. Nothing brave about the idea. Ironic, for a product called Brave. Diesel has apparently fallen a long, long conceptual way. Known mostly for their pants, their pockets were picked by Fred and Farid.
  • Jim Mathis
    Huh?
    Makes me want to NOT buy the product. The person who the synopsis needs to be beaten with his own creative brief.
  • I did not get any of that:

    “These spots are set in a context that is halfway between Fight Club and an epic narrative. It is an invitation to listen your heart, to live your ideals, to realize your dreams…”

    paceless
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