Oh Mercy! Did I just see Bob Dylan selling cars in a Super Bowl commercial?

Lotta makeup, good lighting, soft lenses, and a some defocus. Not "airbrushed" per se, but let's say it's as "optimized" as feature film lighting. Note that the pattern in his tie isn't very sharp, either.

 

And wisely, he got rid of that creepy moustache.

 

...and hair dye.

 

Yep. Dat too. While I think there are a lot of rock stars who won't do plastic surgery or any of that stuff, they pretty much all dye their hair -- Jagger, Richards, Dylan, McCartney, even Springsteen. I get it. Nothing says "old" like gray hair. (In my particular case, only my hairdresser knows for sure.)

 

I doubt it's about $ or stuff with Dylan. He got an offer

yeah but Chrysler paid the USA back w interest and these cars are built here by folks getting wages and taxes as well as the advertising people So I'm cool.

 

Agree, still, I would have expected Dylan would take a more genuine approach to aging gratefully gracefully...

"Oh, well, a touch of gray, kinda suits you anyway"

 

And that is exactly why I live being bald and my head closely shaved. At 59 many thing I'm in my 40s and I don't do any updating. Good genes I guess. ;-)

 

that is an insult to belgian beer.

 

I always say: if you get into your 50s and you haven't lost any hair, you have no testosterone.

Well, it doesn't have that "color not found in nature" hair dye that McCartney has. Dylan's still got a ton of gray, but not what you might expect from a 72-year-old guy. I keep enough gray in my hair to be real for my age, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna be a snowbird.

 

If you're correct they really should have hired Sammy Hagar or Kid Rock - or maybe David Allan Coe!

 

Courtesy of MAD Magazine:



Arnie

 

Did Bod told you that? Or did someone planted just a story in the press?

 

Somehow I missed this thread. Sadly. Although, I didn't miss the ad on Super Bowl night.

The issue of whether or not Chrysler is *really* an American company is beside the point, to me. If you listen to the ad, the focus is on the American worker: who's making Chryslers and how they have heart and soul, and where these cars are assembled, etc. So the fact that Chrysler is a multinational corporation just makes it like just about every other major corporation, no?

Just in terms of its effectiveness as an ad--well, we can all speak for ourselves. I find it just a bit hokey at times, but I also think that was its intent. It's a throwback (it has to be, I guess, when your pitchman is 73 years old!). But it's kinda effective overall: beautifully shot, and I, personally, still find Dylan very cool. And funny.

So even though I'm going to keep my Honda, I did enjoy watching the ad multiple times.