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these commercials are awful and annoying. pretentious garbage, if you actually enjoy walt whitman’s work you should be outraged at this crap. plus levis are bad pair of jeans anyways.
I hate the ads… I hate the poem and I hate the graphics – it’s like the could only shoot scenes in bad urban areas, and the scene with the neon America sign half submerged in water… what? America is sunk? What’s the message here?
The ads are bad. The first few times I saw them I scratched my head and could not even remember the product being sold. While hearing Whitman recite the poem is pretty cool, it certainly puts his message in a new creepy, angry light. This does not give me incentive to buy Levis.
This is a call to action by a company that built this country. The “America” sign is in the mud the fireworks are about to fizzle out but Walt Whitman gives us hope that the youth of today will put on our jeans and “go to work” to find a solution for the mess we are in. People who are hungry and hurting by the state of our economy get this ad.
With younger generations now, I think any way to expose them to classic poets and poetry is wonderful…you have to take advantage of every possible chance. They’re gaining crucial cultural literacy, perhaps, w/o even knowing it. Kudos to them.