Tuesday 12 July 2011

Another Gorilla...

Following yesterday's post featuring multiple Gorillas in Bristol - here's another. The Drumming Gorilla was an instant hit in this classic ad for Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Actually, I can't quite believe this ad is 4 years old already - and while they've tried to recapture the magic of this, I don't think they've quite pulled it off since.



Andrew

3 comments:

Raybeard said...

When this was on TV I assumed for a long time that it was done either by film trickery or by a man in a gorilla suit, albeit expertly 'fitted'. But it's undoubtedly a classic.
Btw, Andrew, did you know that when the original 'Planet of the Apes' won the specialty Oscar for 'Best Make-up', it beat '2001' because it was thought the apes in the latter film MUST have been real? At least that was how the story went at the time.

oneexwidow said...

Ah, that's a good anecdote... I like. (Although I've not seen either film, so can't comment on how far-fetched or otherwise the claim that 2001 Apes were real may have seemed!)

Raybeard said...

WHAT? You haven't seen my definitive all-time favourite film? - and I'm NOT referring to 'Planet of the Apes', though that did surely have one of the greatest, gasp-inducing, 'twist' endings ever. Totally unexpected by ALL!
'2001' was also the only film I ever saw in the long-since-defunct Cinerama format, but even without that I know I'd have been blown away. However, seeing it now on a small screen just cannot avoid drastically reducing its original heart-stopping impact.