Hey, isn’t Natalie Portman married with a toddler now? Oh,
but for shame: she is having a very public affair already, rolling around on a
bed with some other man! For this young hunk is not her husband, now is it? Well,
I never! Wow, I guess Hollywood marriages really don’t last, huh?
Of course I am joking here: this is a wonderfully romantic
ad that manages to be very sexy without being too risqué or obscene, something
that’s extremely rare and tasteful for this type of commercial. I’m just
worried about the very real issue of how this will look to her child, who will
invariably see this some day and ask her mommy: “Mommy, who’s that? It’s not
Daddy, is it?” And then she might begin to wonder who her father really is. (This sort of thing probably actually does
happen with relative regularity to celebrities’ children, because they see
their parents in love scenes with other actors in movies, and that could be
kind of confusing.)
But one thing I really admire with this ad is its honesty.
Because, after all, it’s definitely the perfume that’s enabling her to entice this hunky young man here. (She’s a
married mom, after all! With a baby crying in the background and a
ballet-dancer husband {they are stronger per pound than any man on Earth! And
they’re extremely coordinated to boot!} pounding angrily on the door, surely
only an intoxicating fragrance could keep this guy’s libido up through all of that!) And a television commercial is the perfect medium
in which to communicate their message with a scenario like this, right? Because
we can’t smell her, but we can clearly see that she’s not the kind of woman
guys like that would be attracted to, so it must be the perfume that’s doing
it! After all, she doesn’t have fake boobs, caked-on makeup an inch thick,
plastic surgery, etc., so who in their right mind would want a woman like that? I mean, really! So we definitely
get the message that it’s the perfume that’s attracting the men here, so we can
all just go buy it and get guys like that whenever we want to. (<That’s a
joke! She’s one of the most beautiful women in the world, or at least I think
so, and all that fake stuff I rattled off is very unappealing to many people,
including myself. But the idea that she would need this perfume to attract men
is hilarious! She could stink to high heaven and guys would still be beating
her door down to go out with her. Let’s get real here! For an ad to really work
for perfume, shouldn’t they show a really plain Jane girl getting the hottest guys
to drool all over her, and then people watching this scene could say: “It must
be that fragrance!”? {Oh, but then it should be an ad for some brain-boosting
program, because it’s her perfect 4.0 average with a highest-possible GRE score
that’s really attracting all the hot guys! [<Another fantasy scenario!
Although that might work with me: intelligence is definitely underrated in this
superficial celebrity-obsessed culture of ours!]})
Here’s the cheating/cavorting commercial:
