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80's AIDS ads

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  • #2
    MagicMarker
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    Well they're not exactly ads for chewing gum are they?


  • #3
    TeddyTedson
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    To be honest ads today are mundane in comparison. Like the ad for meningitis and the glass tumbler.


  • #4
    latenia
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    I remember after that first one came out when I was 7 or 8 we would play chasing and instead of saying 'tag' or whatever when you caught someone we'd shout "DIE OF IGNORANCE"


  • #5
    Hande hoche!
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    Damn CIA.


  • #6
    OutlawPete
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    Hard to believe the movie Philadelphia was eighteen years ago now. That really was a turning point when a A list movie star and studio were willing to make a large budgeted mainstream movie about the illness, it removed a lot of the stigma from that point on.

    Springsteen won an Oscar :cool:


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  • #7
    Naikon
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    It's a shame nobody would have the balls to air something like those videos today. For fear of litigation, like.


  • #8
    --LOS--
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    shadowcomplex wrote: »
    Jaysus these were a bit full on were they

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT-RH_2gfog

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U219eUIZ7Qo

    you sure these are 80s? pretty sure I remember the first one.

    I want to see a feature length of the second one


  • #9
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Hard to believe the movie Philadelphia was eighteen years ago now. That really was a turning point when a A list movie star and studio were willing to make a large budgeted mainstream movie about the illness, it removed a lot of the stigma from that point on.

    Springsteen won an Oscar :cool:

    A major factor in the studio and Jonathon Demme making Philadelphia was the big backlash from the gay community over the Buffalo Bill character in Silence of the Lambs.


  • #10
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    latenia wrote: »
    A major factor in the studio and Jonathon Demme making Philadelphia was the big backlash from the gay community over the Buffalo Bill character in Silence of the Lambs.

    Yeah, was touted as an apology at the time. Always thought Longtime Companion was a better and more realistic portrayal of a what a HIV sufferer faced at the time anyway. Philadelphia had almost cartoon'esque villians and heroes.


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