If you live in Los Angeles, you already know about the
mayoral race advertising blitz. Oh, but if you’re not from L.A., you’re totally
missing out! It’s a negative ad accusation free-for-all, with smears aplenty of
both candidates coming from all directions! But do these smears really go far
enough? I think these ads can go further, and here’s what I mean:
Ad #1: We see a scene from a Slasher movie where the killer
is murdering everyone with a big kitchen knife, and then he takes off his mask
and it’s Eric Garcetti (!). Then the announcer says this is what he’ll do to
the Los Angeles if he’s elected mayor: he’ll kill the city!
Ad #2: We see the scene from Psycho near the end where Norman Bates wears the wig and
comes to attack Vera Miles, but in this case, Wendy Greuel’s face in
superimposed over Anthony Perkins’s, and the announcer says Wendy Greuel is a
psycho who will knife-murder the city if we elect her as mayor.
Ad #3: Godzilla is rampaging through Los Angeles (well,
Tokyo, really, but the ad people can comp in some L.A. landmark buildings,
can’t they?), breathing atomic breath on the city and melting and burning
everything in sight. Then we see a close-up of Godzilla, and it’s really Eric
Garcetti (!!). And then the announcer says that this is the kind of
destruction Eric Garcetti’s heinous lies will wreak on the city if we elect him
as the mayor.
Ad #4: We see a scene from the movie Misery, and Kathy Bates is breaking James Caan’s ankles
with the sledgehammer, only Wendy Greuel’s head is Photoshopped onto her body for
this sequence. And then the announcer says that this is what Wendy Greuel will
do to the government of Los Angeles if we elect her as the mayor.
They really might as well make silly ads like this to smear
each other. After all, they’re not that much more over-the-top than what
they’re doing already. Only if they made these, it might be more entertaining
for the rest of us.
