1984
November 24, 2008
From the 30th Anniversary Issue of Adweek, by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners co-chairman Jeff Goodby, regarding the best commercial of the 1980s:
No one writing about the ’80s could skip the Apple “1984″ commercial. It changed the way we’ve approached not just the Super Bowl but all big-event advertising. It also showed that you could use a fairly obscure story from a book only English majors had read to make spectacular advertising. But although it was influential, it only ran once.
(Emphasis mine)
Really? George Orwell’s 1984 is a “fairly obscure story” that “only English majors” have read?
I mean, I know advertisers don’t read anything but books by other advertisers, but come on.
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Yep, it’s right up there in the galleries of obscurity with Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby.
No doubt. It’s not quite up to the level of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, though. That book’s a CLASSIC.
I thought this was required reading in like… junior-high? I know I read it when I was about 12 or so originally. Re-read it a few years back just for kicks.