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Wow, that was really good.

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Piano...that's it. That's what really turned this commercial from shitty to everybody, to just shitty to people like me.

Puke. Fake sentimentality for viral marketing. That sign wouldn't work. It's the Amélie-type music that convinces us something deep and meaningful is coming. It's not.

Here's a better sign: "I'd like to see my grandchildren. You can help."

Or if he's beyond medical help: "You can help me save for my independence."

"Whoa" / Keanu Reeves.

Whole video centers on the reveal, and the new message is dumb. Both of messenger's above are better, and his original message was better. Almost anything would be better. It doesn't work as a profound statement (for the audience of "us"), it wouldn't work well for a panhandler, and it certainly doesn't sell their skills as advertisers.

If you're going to go sappy, you have to go real sappy (like messenger says: Grandchildren would be gold - or use some detail of his routine or personal story that's particularly moving, etc..). But I don't think sappy is the best approach - it looks calculated and cliche. People are fairly resistant to direct "guilting" - much better to let the sob-story be implied, and focus your message on something else.

The successful panhandlers I see go self-deprecating, otherwise funny, double-take inducing ("HELL-PANDAS ATE MY EYES"), audience-pandering ("OBAMA WON'T PAY FOR MY EYE SURGERY"), or try to offer something incidental in return for donations (magazines, trinkets, something they made, music, etc..).

Video would have been better if they'd kept the music, tone, and dialog - and then revealed the sign as "NEED MONEY FOR BOOZE".

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So many haters! The sappiness level was perfect for my overly sentimental nature. "I'm bind, please help", doesn't convey the emotion of being blind. I am no fancy word doctor, or clever director, but a blind man exposing what I take for granted, by even being able to see his sign, nonetheless a beautiful day, moved me to get some sparkles in my eyes.

This was beautifully done.

grooooooooooooooooooooooooooan

I could have sworn that I saw this exact same video, shot for shot, in a different location. Someplace where it actually was a beautiful day, not a cold wet day like in this video. Olvera Street in Los Angeles, if my memory is correct (which it likely is not).

this nailed me so freakin hard, im 98% blind in my left eye, i blew tears all over the place D8

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I really hate myself sometimes.

It's a beautiful video, well done, good music.

And there's that little asshole voice in the back of my head going "Where'd he get the sign from in the first place?"

this is a plagiarized work, a few years ago, this was very popular

altough it might also be plagiarized

..ok, the parent comment had two links. i don't know if this is because my accout is brand now or something.

but here's link 1 and link 2

well.. wtf

youtube dot com/watch?v=zyGEEamz7ZM

and

youtube dot com/watch?v=ANWMZT0z_0k

It's a beautiful Ferrari, but I can't afford it.

>> ^therror:

well.. wtf
youtube dot com/watch?v=zyGEEamz7ZM
and
youtube dot com/watch?v=ANWMZT0z_0k


...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyGEEamz72M < not a video, apparently.

however, works.


*Edit: Where "however works" is, contains an embedded link with the words "This one" that lead to the second video that was of what you were talking about.
Curious that linking isn't working.

and then it started to rain.

"It's a beautiful day and I can't see it."

And I can't have sex with Adriana Lima. Got any change for me?

yeah somehow i messed up the second one, but here it is youtube dot com/watch?v=zyGEEamz7ZM

Gutwrencingly awful. Particularly the angle of trying to use pathos for the visually impaired as a tool.

The moral of the story: it's OK to mess with a disabled person's (or anyone's) sign without asking, and without telling them what the change is - even when they ask.

You sure are quite cynical, I bet you get laid a lot.
>> ^messenger:
Puke. Fake sentimentality for viral marketing. That sign wouldn't work. It's the Amélie-type music that convinces us something deep and meaningful is coming. It's not. Here's a better sign: "I'd like to see my grandchildren. You can help." Or if he's beyond medical help: "You can help me save for my independence."

This would have been better if they'd panned up to see it was Bill Engval and he said "Here's ya sign!"

Pull at people's heartstrings and you can bend their will to your needs. Politicians have been doing it years.

Good to see Pete Townsend is getting taken care of. 'Course if he just strapped on his guitar he'd do much better . . .

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It's not what you say, it's how you say it. Give us money.

Actually I do get laid a lot. By blind hobo chicks.

No seriously. It's not cynical to think that a marketing corporation would abuse sentimentality for advertising, and even less surprising that they would do a bad job.>> ^Mindfuck:

You sure are quite cynical, I bet you get laid a lot.
>> ^messenger:
Puke. Fake sentimentality for viral marketing. That sign wouldn't work. It's the Amélie-type music that convinces us something deep and meaningful is coming. It's not. Here's a better sign: "I'd like to see my grandchildren. You can help." Or if he's beyond medical help: "You can help me save for my independence."

Thank God that sighted, (obviously) educated, well-dressed, employed lady was there to help out that poor, blind, homeless idiot who obviously doesn't know the first thing about basic marketing.

Anyone else notice that they never actually audibly implied blindness? That way they can badmouth blind people behind their backs.

They should've had a well dressed blind guy with a seeing eye dog walk by with a sign that said, "Hey blind dude, I can't see your sign."