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The iPod in Scary Movie 4
Wait a tic, is that, an iPod killing people in
Scary Movie 4? Why, yes it is. Scroll through the first fourth of the trailer. They've called it a triPod, and
it plays the "Destroy Humanity" playlist. I believe this is supposed to be a sendup of War of the
Worlds. Later, somehow, the triPod must morph into the real tripods from War, because the trailer here on YouTube shows a distinctly different critter chasing
people. The trailer I saw tonight on Adult Swim appears to have the corrected version, but my eyeTV was unplugged...
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Stefan Constantinescu said 9:17AM on 4-12-2006
hey the iPod is a social staus symbol. general consumers don'ot even call mp3 players, mp3 players, they call them ipods.
further marketing and spreading the word. if the rumours about the 5gb and 10gb nano or true then i can't wait to get my paws on one.
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Johnny said 9:20AM on 4-12-2006
i guess this adds new deptth to the term "ipod-killer"
oh hahaha
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Brandon Hays said 10:02AM on 4-12-2006
ROFLCOPTER @ Johnny!
However, calling this "Product Placement" casts serious doubts on whether this blogger should be reporting on any Apple news at all. Product Placement? It's a parody, man, Apple hasn't really been doing blatant product placement since the movie Independence Day.
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LapTop said 10:02AM on 4-12-2006
CONSUMERS WHO COME UPON WEB ads for Dimension Films' "Scary Movie 4" later this month will get an unfamiliar invitation to "Download Videos to iPod." With a click of acceptance, their iTunes accounts--in many cases synced with their video iPods--will launch, and then download an automatically updated "Scary Movie" podcast folder.
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Epicenter said 10:19AM on 4-12-2006
I worked on the Scary 4 production, and I can tell you 2 thing:
1) the iPod in the movie has been common knowledge for months. way to go speedy.
2) an iPod killing people; do you think Apple would pay to have their product displayed in a negative manner? no, they would want some more creative control over the scene, so think before calling it 'product placement'.
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arkowi said 10:31AM on 4-12-2006
this is old.
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Chris said 10:53AM on 4-12-2006
I'm pretty sure that product placement comment was sarcasm.
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Graham said 11:16AM on 4-12-2006
Jesus I saw this four months ago when the trailer premiered. It's still funny though.
triPod.
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Graham said 11:21AM on 4-12-2006
Oh, I forgot to mention, I made a playlist on my iPod called "Destroy Humanity" a few months back after seeing this.
Here's a pic of it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/e3mw/94373287/
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dvddesign said 11:21AM on 4-12-2006
Apple hasn't really been doing blatant product placement since the movie Independence Day.
You obviously missed Blade 3, which is short for "Blade 3G ipod gratuitious product placement"
Jessica Biel only fights while listening to specially created playlists she makes for her 3G ipod. And she does this on Patton Oswalt's 24 inch Cinema Display based G5 system.
If Apple had officially made the shuffle and the 3rd party crucifix shuffle cap, Blade would have officially been the dumbest movie ever.
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Micha10589 said 12:03PM on 4-12-2006
Apple did obvious product placement on "Inside Man". Many people can be seen with white earphones, the Jodie Foster character receives a phone call in front of a very large Apple display with mounted iSight and even videochats on it with her assistant. I think there was a scene with an Apple laptop, too, but can't remember exactly.
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jbelkin said 5:35PM on 4-12-2006
Though clearly not in this Scary 4 case ... there are two types of product placement in Hollywood:
The TYPE YOU PAY FOR because no one really thinks your products are cool enough ...
And the other TYPE WHERE YOU LOAN PRODUCTS like Apple and most luxury goods makers. Your products are cool enough that you don't have to pay for placement. Productions get free use and agree to some basic primciple's - in the case of Apple, it's an agreement not to use it as a bomb or trigger device or in some unflattering manner.
While the production doesn't get any money, the advantage is that if it's pay-for-play deal, sometimes it pretty obvious who the good guys are as they are all using HP laptops while everyone else is using a white box or it leads to awkward exchanges like last week where a lead on a TV series was raving about how cool her Ford Fusion headlamps are ... as if.
Or like the movie LEGALLY BLONDE. In the first movie, she goes to buy a laptop, a Mac iBook - Apple simply provided the iBook.
In the sequel, GATEWAY signed up and she got a pink PC laptop - and you could order one online. I'm sure they sold dozens for their million dollar placement.
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Isaac said 8:43PM on 4-12-2006
Now arent we forgetting about two of the ipods greatest movie performances in the films "Transporter 3" and old Indiana Joness "Firewall". However, judging by the trailer, Scary movie 4 appears to be its best work. Now do the lasers zapping people foreshadow some sort of tazer to fend off ipod muggers in future ipod versions?
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Douglas said 10:41PM on 4-13-2006
I guess you people don't get the reference to War of the Worlds.
The aliens in War of the Worlds traveled in tripod spaceships. Hence, triPod
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