I just saw a Louis Vuitton commercial where Keira Knightley rides a hot-air balloon into the sky while making flirty facial expressions. Actually, it’s more complicated than that: it starts in the Louvre, and she looks at the Mona Lisa, and then I guess she steals some leather bag, and she escapes into the hot-air balloon while making duck face or whatever. (The truth is, I’m not sure it even is Keira Knightley: it might just be an impersonator.)
In any case, the first thing this ad reminded me of (after the movie How to Steal a Million) was the movie Kind Hearts and Coronets. In that movie, a woman takes a hot-air balloon up, and a fortune-hunting relative shoots an arrow at the balloon, dropping it and and killing her. And that made me think, wouldn’t it be fun if some other high end bag company (let’s say Coach) made an ad to always play directly after this Louis Vuitton ad, where some other famous celebrity look-alike (let’s say like Jennifer Lawrence from The Hunger Games) shot an arrow at a balloon like the one from this Louis Vuitton ad, and it popped the balloon and sent it crashing down to the ground, after which it said: “Coach”? (Maybe the slogan for this addendum attack ad could be: “It’s safer to take a Coach”.)
And then after this, the high end bag companies could always just try to find a way to deflate each other’s ads forever after. Hey, at least it would be fun for those of us who can’t afford to waste thousands of dollars on a designer bag.
I think this is the Louis Vuitton Louvre/balloon ad:
