Seriously, WTF is wrong with this guy? Richard Curtis and his horrible 10:10 climate change film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k

Contains blood and stuff, what the hell were these folks thinking?

Thankfully this has been withdrawn by the 10:10 organisers. Just can't understand how they thought that this film would win anyone over.

Article here, but I'm still too fucking gobsmacked to read it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/02/1010-richard-curtis-climate-change

Haha wow. I can see what he was thinking (they bring up Python in the article) but a Python skit would never have used that much gore! Couldnt they just vanish them in an explosion of smoke? Yeesh.

http://www.1010global.org/no-pressure

Onwards and upwards,

Franny, Lizzie, Eugenie

fuck's sake.

Might have worked if it was just them blowing up Ginola cos tbh he had it coming after those shampoo adverts, but shit me, you do not need to possess preternatural foresight to glom onto the fact that campaigners blowing up school children might just alienate a few folks.

I'm certainly not offended by it, but how was this supposed to work in advertising terms? The people who you're supposed to be supporting are depicted as hostile, bullying twats - surely it's more likely to play into 'reject the hivemind, sheeple' reactions than 'oh yes, that seems like a good idea, I'll join in' ones?

environmentalists are the worst. i say that being not at all opposed to the politics per se, as i'm too ignorant to support or oppose.

eh

Really? The worst? So, like, worse than St0rmfr0n7 and the KKK?

The two things that really bother me are first the diservice it does to ordinary campaigners who get portrayed as militant psycho nutjobs, and secondly, people are already getting busted for protests under anti-terror legislation. This shit just helps makes it easier for the police to paint folks into that corner.

Maybe they were aiming for the sort of shock value that some of the old anti-nuclear films had, but I don't remember the CND pipebombing your neighbours in those. This is more reminiscent of the terrible PR that certain lunatics bring to the animal rights movement.

also bothersome is that this is what people will be talking about for the next several weeks or whatever, instead of, you know, the annoying reality of climate change.

I could understand it if the people who refused to take part were portrayed as harming others in a similarly gory way, that sort of fits with the message, but the narrative here is just stupid and unappealing.

ZS otm, countdown to rightwing blogger onslaught begins...

already did

Christ, comments box for the Daily Mail report of this is not a pretty sight either :(

Did lol at the vague sense of disappointment in this though: 'Tottenham footballers Peter Crouch and Ledley King also make an appearance, though he (sic) is not blown up'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1317079/Richard-Curtis-exploding-schoolchildren-climate-change-video-withdrawn.html

Thankfully this has been withdrawn by the 10:10 organisers. Just can't understand how they thought that this film would win anyone over.

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Sunday, October 3, 2010 8:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

p manufactured/deliberate controversy if you ask me -- the guardian article ends "The Guardian warned users of its site that the film contained footage that could cause offence, and continues to link to another version of the film posted on YouTube." -- which seems to even admit they're attempting to make a thing go viral

the problem is it's not violent *enough* it needs to be properly gruesome but the exploding mess just looks too special-effectsy.

also is David Ginola famous enough? i'd have had no idea who he was unless i'd read about it.

the guy who directed the last MIA video should have got the job instead.

if it does 'go viral' it will be via people going check it out, climate change dudes are dumb fucks that want to kill kids, can't really see that being the true goal

environmentalists are the worst. i say that being not at all opposed to the politics per se, as i'm too ignorant to support or oppose.

― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 3 October 2010 21:22 (1 hour ago)

ignorant people are worse.

I see from that blog that "climate science realists" is the current euphemism for climate change deniers. Nice.

I can't believe the stupidity of the video in playing to the most damaging stereotypes, allowing various YouTube commenters to compare environmentalists to terrorists, Stalin, Mao, etc. On what planet is "it's funny to kill people who disagree with you" not going to backfire? I looked at the Mail comments and saw the top one arguing that the Nazis were left-wing - National SOCIALISTS, geddit. These fuckers really don't need any more ammunition.

Right wing talking point: This advert is a form of eco-terrorism!

Exchange on the Guardian comments thread:

I would be more interested in your narrative on how you felt when you first saw it...

Threatened. Very much how I imagine a Jewish shopkeeper would have felt the morning after Kristallnacht...

I saw the film, found it to be just depressingly stupid and meaningless, I don't understand how at some point in the process of making it, someone didn't take a look at it and realise that it would have a negative impact and alienate people.

that said, even if it were a well-made piece that put across its point in a good manner, right wing nut job bloggers and comment box nutters would stuill have ragged on it.

if i'd seen than sans context i would have assumed it was made by a "climate change sceptics" group. wtf was everyone thinking?

well, obviously the envirofascists couldn't conceal their real intentions - to murder half of the world in the service of "man-made global warmism" - any longer, and it spilled out into this clip. I'm surpised that AlBore and the rest of Gang Green didn't slip up sooner

It's the Cronenberg environmental PSA I wasn't asking for but will gladly take anyways.

It's like they sat down and said "Right, the deniers haven't called us Nazis for a while and the email row has died down. They're getting bored. What can we do to look like arrogant, bullying elitists? Kill some kids!"

Honestly astounded this got past the "person who thought it up describing it to someone who wasn't a sociopath" stage

Thought this film needed more people, especially children, screaming, running to try to escape the room, weeping, vomiting, passing out, violently beginning to shake, etc. etc. THAT would have been funny.

This will make people want to adjust their HVAC on 10/10 so it wastes more energy just to spite the idiots who made it. Probably not what they were going for.

"hmph, pretend to blow me up for not joining in some liberal fantasy wank party..."
*blasts the AC and lets the hose flood the yard*

a Python skit would never have used that much gore!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmcrreUVBeo

Hahah I stand corrected ;)

is 10:10 a legit group? or is this where they are revealed to be an undercover puppet operation set up to discredit environmentalists everywhere

big picture, guys. if some british people cut their lights out for a couple of hours a day then we can reverse climate change.

what the FUCK

well hey this is a pr clusterfuck but at least its HILARIOUS

This reminded me a bit of a public information film from the late-'70s/early-'80s (possibly withdrawn) which was meant to convey an anti-trespass/anti-vandal message wrt railways but couched its message in the form of a gameshow - teams of kids attack train with coloured rocks, "ooh, pregnant woman with facial lacerations - 100pts to the Blues! Driver...actually blinded - 500pts!" etc.

Except...this is far more stupid.

(Do kids still attack trains? Recall sitting next to a window crazed by an air rifle shot when going through St Helens in about 1980. It's all Gears of War now, innit?)

i remember once riding on a coach through west london and stuff being thrown at it, but don't think it happens to the extent that a public information film is needed

Have been on a Brighton-London train delayed because someone threw stones through a window - this was only a few years ago.

God bless youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc54mdvZTFw

from before the advent of ADHD then

Gross shock ads are fine when that shock value has a point - the TAC ads here (the transport accident commision) ones are nasty, in your face and confronting but thats the POINT - but threatening ppl because they wont get with climate change is fucking ridic.

I did get a small guilty lol at Gillian Anderson blowing up tho :/

i didn't even recognize her, took the guardian article to make it click for me

Thanks, Stevie! I seem to be conflating a couple of different films then...

James Delingpole got very excited by this indeed

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No, I think that's just the first 5 minutes of a longer film (!) - I think the stone throwing was the next event following the cross-track dash.

it's fucking christmas come early for delingpole and co. now isnt it

mind you the sister of 10:10 head honcho goes in for this sort of thing

they shd have made the film about killing james delingpole, not schoolchildren. 'epic fail.'

wait what did the radiohead have to do with this?

sure pitchfork gave it 10.10

everyone has seen David Lynch's anti-litter PSA right

i can not even imagine what possessed somebody to make this thing

like, it's not like it coneys a point with nasty humour or anything... it just doesnt make any sense at all and the content of the video doesnt relate to the point they're trying to make in any way. you could literally make the exact same video about any cause

^^ also, I can't really believe that nobody at some point didn't ask the question Does This Really Promote Our Cause because it looks like a pretty expensive production involving a lot of people and lots of effort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7OXZCDpcw

Plus an amazing form letter of complaint to 10:10 sponsors:

Kazuo Inamori, Founder & Chairman Emeritus
Makoto Kawamura, Chairman
Tetsuo Kuba, President
Kyocera Group

Honorable Founder Inamori, Chairman Kawamura & President Kuba

Thank you for your foundation of “Living Together” built on you ethical perspective “What is the right thing to do as a human being?” and for your effort to “build trust relationships with all stakeholders”. This affirms Jesus’ teaching: “Do unto others as you would have them do to you.”

However, your company is supporting the 10:10 UK group at 1010global.org. Though claiming to act for the environment, 10:10 UK is destroying our foundational Rule of Law. By their video “No Pressure”, they phttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGte teachers violently murdering children who do not agree with their advocacy.

Please repudiate 10:10’s teaching children to murder.
Please remove your support from 10:10UK.

Yours sincerely

Dr. David H

Err...

Do that again, plz.

lol what

That cat looks like I did seeing that video for the first time. He has a better hat though.

banaka revealed

I seriously don't know how that got there.

substitution for word 'http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG'

ahahahaha

r0m0

ohhhhh it's some American footballer. yet again the hilarious japesters of ILNFL wow the remainder of the messageboard with their HTML-based wit and wisdom

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I thought this might be Minty's revenge.

I say ILF gets on the case with a nifty li'l Ibrahim Ba/goatse substitution ploy, that'd be brilliant

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so *that's* why Taylor Parkes stopped posting here xps

You don't understand, must repeat.

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P is at the beginning and TE is at the end. It's a new word. Don't look for it in the Scrabble dictionary any time soon.

Good board description, though.

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what was 'romo'??

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dying

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