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re: Mad Men Series Finale - "Person to Person"
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:39 pm to jackmanusc
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:39 pm to jackmanusc
I think the ending is actually pretty straightforward. In the world of Mad Men, Don created (or at least had the inspiration to create) the Coca Cola ad.
Note that Peggy explicitly mentions Coke in their phone conversation and mentions how Don would be welcomed back to McCann. So, we've been reminded that McCann does Coke's ads and that Don could come back if he just decides to (a decision he has made many times before).
Then, when meditating, the timing of the smile is perfectly in sync with the meditation bells. Of course that bell was also extremely familiar because it sounded an awful lot like the classic lightbulb going off sound.
Don had a personal epiphany during the group session; the yoga session presented him the professional epiphany.
Note that Peggy explicitly mentions Coke in their phone conversation and mentions how Don would be welcomed back to McCann. So, we've been reminded that McCann does Coke's ads and that Don could come back if he just decides to (a decision he has made many times before).
Then, when meditating, the timing of the smile is perfectly in sync with the meditation bells. Of course that bell was also extremely familiar because it sounded an awful lot like the classic lightbulb going off sound.
Don had a personal epiphany during the group session; the yoga session presented him the professional epiphany.
This post was edited on 5/17/15 at 10:40 pm
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Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:39 pm to beatbammer
Holloway
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:40 pm to SCTmo
quote:
quote: Well, people were convinced that the intro was alluding to such. Watching it, you can understand why. Except that the falling dude in the intro ends up just chilling in a chair with a smoke once the fall is completed. No one ever seems to recognize that fact. It's almost like the falling amongst ads was just symbolic or something.
I'm not reading 18 pages.
When Roger fired Dons secretary and said "land on your feet" and she replies "I always do". I knew that was it.
I actually think it was Weiner fricking with us. Because they immediately cut to the next scene with a huge window in a conference room. I knew she would go screaming down the window. The angle was even right. That's how the shot would have been framed had she jumped.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:40 pm to beatbammer
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And Don wrote it. That's why he was smiling. He was still Don and he had the best ad for Coke. In that moment.
EXACTLY.
Don didn't become a hippie. Don was abandoned at a commune, took that experience, went back to work, and made the most iconic tag-line in the history of the business.
FANTASTIC.
Agree with all this. That smirk was Don knowing he just had the idea that would earn his use of the name Don Draper. He "did something with it".
HISTORY OF HILLTOP AD
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:40 pm to beatbammer
Holloway Harris
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:40 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
The real story behind the Coke commercial....thought it was interesting
https://www.coca-colacompany.com
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Bill Backer, creative director on the Coca-Cola account for the McCann Erickson advertising agency, was flying to London to meet up with Billy Davis, the music director on the Coca-Cola account, to write radio commercials with two successful British songwriters, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, to be recorded by the New Seekers, a popular British singing group.
The heavy fog in London forced the plane to land in Shannon, Ireland. Passengers had to remain near the airport in case the fog lifted. Some of them were furious about their accommodations. By the next day, Backer saw some of the most irate passengers in the airport cafe. Brought together by a common experience, many were now laughing and sharing stories over snacks and bottles of Coca-Cola. Backer wrote of the scene:
"In that moment [I] saw a bottle of Coke in a whole new light... [I] began to see a bottle of Coca-Cola as more than a drink that refreshed a hundred million people a day in almost every corner of the globe. So [I] began to see the familiar words, 'Let's have a Coke,' as more than an invitation to pause for refreshment. They were actually a subtle way of saying, 'Let's keep each other company for a little while.' And [I] knew they were being said all over the world as [I] sat there in Ireland. So that was the basic idea: to see Coke not as it was originally designed to be -- a liquid refresher -- but as a tiny bit of commonality between all peoples, a universally liked formula that would help to keep them company for a few minutes."
https://www.coca-colacompany.com
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:41 pm to beatbammer
You may be right. I just seem to remembering him starting on a ledge/window and kind of tripping, but it's not that important either way. Just explaining why some people thought someone was going to die.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:41 pm to theunknownknight
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Holloway
Thanks... so she used both her names to make it sound more official.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:41 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
How so? Have you researched it? I'm interested in your answer.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:41 pm to Othello
I guess I'm the only one who thought the Peggy/Stan thing was cheesy after they outed their love for one another.
Good thing that ended on the last episode. The chase is all the fun. Them making puppy dog eyes at one another for a season would have gotten old quick.
Also loved the throw back Halloween decorations and old Sesame Street episodes.
Good thing that ended on the last episode. The chase is all the fun. Them making puppy dog eyes at one another for a season would have gotten old quick.
Also loved the throw back Halloween decorations and old Sesame Street episodes.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:41 pm to BluegrassBelle
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And it's not "just a commercial". That's the kind of commercial where your kids will live off the royalties. ETA: How the frick do some of you not know that commercial? For God's sake get out more.
Do others not know? I certainly understand what it is
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:42 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Maybe he goes back and ends up taking care of the kids. Finds happiness.
No, sally was doing kitchen work in the montage at Henry's house
I think this is what bothers me about the ending, don has a moment with Leonard at a hippy camp and that gives him the motivation to go back to New York and write this , according to this board, timeless coke ad. Not Sally or the kids not Betty's impending death, nor his need to be set free from don draper to be dick Whitman. In the end it was fricking Leonard, and that is insulting to me as the viewer.
This post was edited on 5/17/15 at 10:43 pm
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:43 pm to adono
Don's first big pitch about sitting at a table in a fast food restaurant bringing people together was exactly that thought line btw
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:44 pm to Alley
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I guess I'm the only one who thought the Peggy/Stan thing was cheesy after they outed their love for one another.
Agree 100%. It seemed so out of character for Peggy. I'd be happy if the character actually had a realization in the moment like that, but it just seemed too fast in the context of how Peggy has handled men in the past. Definitely played more soap operay than a lot of this show. I also enjoyed the fact that Stan and Peggy's relationship had developed into a true friendship (as opposed to a romantic thing).
Still really enjoyed the finale and this show as a whole.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:45 pm to WW
How do I know about one of the most famous ads in history? Are you serious here? I wasn't alive for the Mean Joe commercial, still know about it. I'm sorry you didn't.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:45 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
There was also the time in Season 5 I believe where Don was about to get on an elevator and it opens and he stops because it's not there and he looks down and there's a huge hole down there.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:46 pm to SCTmo
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Agree 100%. It seemed so out of character for Peggy. I'd be happy if the character actually had a realization in the moment like that, but it just seemed too fast in the context of how Peggy has handled men in the past.
See this is where I disagree with you.
I don't think it was "fast" at all. Hell, it developed over YEARS.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:46 pm to BluegrassBelle
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ETA: How the frick do some of you not know that commercial? For God's sake get out more.
Get out and view more commercials before my birth. Got it.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:47 pm to vuvuzela
One of the best series endings ever. One second Don is a goofy hippie, the next second ties it all together when they play one of the most famous commercials of all time.
I LOL'd, how perfect can an ending be.
I LOL'd, how perfect can an ending be.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:47 pm to vuvuzela
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In the end it was fricking Leonard, and that is insulting to me as the viewer.
I saw that as Don finally seeing he isn't alone. No matter how many sessions, counsellors, or whatever, he never felt like anyone understood him. Then, he finally heard how he felt, and it clicked.
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