Isn’t that seductive TV advert thanking Lotto for making NZ films using some of our most iconic cinema moments really ugly when you realise our art is dependent upon fucking gambling?
Isn’t that just so Kiwi? Cheap, underfunded and requiring a vice tax for social good.
Less waiting for Godot, more waiting for Lotto.
Ugh.
- Sponsor Promotion -
Vice? Or desperation?
Uneducated.
Came a Hot Friday (fts in vid above) was released two years before Lotto existed. A few others pre lotto too.
Yep, the artistic wilderness of the Pacific…
I find the constant use by Kiwis of the term “iconic” for most of their achievements/endeavors just as vomit-inducing as this type of advert – perhaps the most up-its-own-arse nation in the world.
Countryboy these shiney new law firms and investment houses are designed by the 1% for the 1%. They are elitist and are giving the finger to anyone below there station. They all gather in a little club hoping to make as much money off the working classes in the form of profits ie trickle up. They dispise of course the working class. New Zealand now has a two class system. The wealthy and of course their hangers on and the working class. Thats it and that is now set in concrete…
New Zealand iconography started to be appropriated by commercial interests in a big way from the early 1990s. With the evolution into an extreme capitalist society, a price was put on everything. Nowhere is this more exemplified with the “bach” which went from being cheap seaside accommodation to a million dollar investment.
Weren’t some of those movies in the advrrt made BEFORE lotto was introduced? I’m sure “Sleeping Dogs” wasnt funded through lotto.
This is exactly right.
Lotto was introduced to NZ in 1986:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotto_New_Zealand
Sleeping Dogs was made in 1977:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076725/
There is no possible way they have anything to do with each other. Fake advertising. SAD!
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