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re: Was the Starbucks cup actually a product placement?
Posted on 5/10/19 at 11:10 am to CaptSpaulding
Posted on 5/10/19 at 11:10 am to CaptSpaulding
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The fact that they could remove it digitally proves to me that it was intentional.
quote:yep
Are we really supposed to believe that it went totally unnoticed until the viewing audience immediately saw it,
Posted on 5/10/19 at 11:57 am to Ssubba
quote:Confirmed
Starbucks released a new Dragon drink for the summer a week before the episode aired.
It's actually a new variation of an older drink. Quite a coincidence.
quote:Did they though?
Before you ask, no. Starbucks Dragon Drink was not the beverage shown in Sunday’s Game of Thrones. Really missed a great opportunity though.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 12:08 pm to Dr RC
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I’m not sure why having the ability to digitally edit it out would mean it’s on purpose.
I just don’t buy for a second that not a single person saw it before it aired. No one on the set during production, no one in post production, no one at all until it aired on HBO, when millions of people immediately notice it.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 12:15 pm to CaptSpaulding
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Are we really supposed to believe that it went totally unnoticed until the viewing audience immediately saw it, and then they were like “wow, we should fix that!”
1) The viewing audience didn't see it. YOU didn't see it until it became a meme. A select few people glanced at the table instead of the Dragon Queen's reaction shot (which was the focus of the shot).
2) It did go totally unnoticed by the production team and HBO. For all that you know, that reaction shot was dropped in towards the end of the editing process for that episode. Someone doesn't like the shot they had, tells the editor to drop in a different take, boom - coffee cup.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 12:17 pm to CaptSpaulding
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when millions of people immediately notice it.
No they didn't. Millions of people were told on the internet after a few noticed.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 12:48 pm to CaptSpaulding
Having been on a set and in an editing room for films, news, and commercials, I can completely understand it. You’d be surprised how often things get missed until it’s too late.
Hell, my wife does post production on commercials for a certain truck brand whose creative team straight up forgot to get the music rights for a song and nobody noticed until the day it was to be shipped to air.
Hell, my wife does post production on commercials for a certain truck brand whose creative team straight up forgot to get the music rights for a song and nobody noticed until the day it was to be shipped to air.
This post was edited on 5/10/19 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:36 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:They knew someone would see it. GoT nerd live for that shite, and film buffs in general always notice things. Expecting it to be seen and that it would become a meme is not a stretch.
1) The viewing audience didn't see it. YOU didn't see it until it became a meme.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:46 pm to blueboy
Yes it is. Grow a brain bruh.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 1:46 pm to blueboy
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Expecting it to be seen and that it would become a meme is not a stretch.
No, it is. So are we 100% committed to just ignoring that it wasn't a Starbucks cup?
If an advertisement, they would not use a generic or non-Starbucks labeled cup. PJs wouldn't put in a generic cup and just pray that you thought of them instead of Starbucks.
Come up for air.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:15 pm to Jay Are
quote:They would because the logo would be too distracting. It's enough that the buzz afterwards is about Starbucks.
If an advertisement, they would not use a generic or non-Starbucks labeled cup
Notice they haven't been relentlessly correcting people who say it's Starbucks. Plus, isn't this the second time they've done this?
The real question is: who owns that little Irish coffee place? Eh? If the owner is listed as "Rachel Benoiff" or "Lilian Weiss," I'm calling Jump Street.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 3:57 pm to blueboy
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If an advertisement, they would not use a generic or non-Starbucks labeled cup
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They would because the logo would be too distracting.
Now you're just fricking with us.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 5:21 pm to CaptSpaulding
So many people act like the two coffee cups are the first of their kind. There is a "goofs" section on IMDB for movies and for popular movies there are usually lists of a dozen or so mistakes, one of the sub-categories in goofs is crew and equipment visible.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 6:00 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:And they don;t even correct us by naming the "real" company.
Notice they haven't been relentlessly correcting people who say it's Starbucks.
But yeah, I'm sure Starbucks releasing the dragon drink a couple of days before the "incident" is just a coincidence.
And if I'm wrong, I SHOULD be right, because that was super beneficial for Starbucks.
Posted on 5/11/19 at 5:06 pm to blueboy
Still milking it. In the words of TX Tiger (or Tiger in TX or TX TGR, or whatever the frick it is), "you people are sheople."
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Posted on 5/11/19 at 6:01 pm to Salmon
You're an idiot if you think they wouldn't do this or that this kind of product placement isn't ubiquitous
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