Observing Los Angeles

LA at the Super Bowl: flying saucer edition

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Who needs an NFL team? Los Angeles is likely to be well represented in the commercials that air during Sunday's Super Bowl. Ed Fuentes saw a preview and grabbed a shot of a spaceship crashing into the Los Angeles River and the 4th Street bridge. It's a Chevy ad: the small white object to the left of the flying saucer is a rugged pickup truck, plowing down the river while chaos erupts all around. Click to see it bigger.

Los Angeles, of course, also plays itself in the Ferris Bueller-themed Honda commercial featuring Matthew Broderick that I posted a few days ago.

At LA Biz Observed, Mark Lacter also posted a couple of even more male-oriented commercial that are in the Super Bowl line: Guys can be such...well, idiots.

Photo: Screen grab by Ed Fuentes


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