If we made the political commercials.....

[Tom]

Here' the one I would do.
Scene - a college graduation ceremony.
The graduate's name is called, he/she gets up, walks to the podium, and is handed the diploma.

He/she walks off the stage, opens the booklet, and in place of a diploma is a BILL for whatever amount each person's share of the national debt is today.

Then fade out and show a pan shot of all the caps being thrown into the air.

[HUSKER55]

:lol: :lol:

[DJofSD]

Alternate ending: show the newly minted graduations, still in their gowns, standing in front of the local Home Depot with cap in hand waiting for donations.

Fade out that scene to a screen reading "Hope doesn't pay the bills, jobs do."

[Tom]

The scene - the Arizona desert, at night.
Shadowy figures sneaking past cacti....sound of dogs barking in the distance, getting closer.

The shadowy people run, a lot of them, running fast, search lights now scanning over their heads, the dogs getting louder and louder.

The shadowy figures run past a large sign that says BORDER, the cap blows off one them and drops to the ground, then they disappear onto the dimly lit streets of a border city, as the camera pans out, the figures can no longer be seen, but the border agents pull up in a SUV and as they get out and look, shaking their heads, one of them bends over and picks up the cap.

It is a graduation cap.

"We lost them." says one the agents,
"Si." says the other one holding the cap.
As he tosses it into the back seat of the SUV and closed the door, the Mexican flag on the door is hit by the street light, and it morphs in to the famous poster and now says....Hope, Change.

[ArlJim78]

Here' the one I would do.
Scene - a college graduation ceremony.
The graduate's name is called, he/she gets up, walks to the podium, and is handed the diploma.

He/she walks off the stage, opens the booklet, and in place of a diploma is a BILL for whatever amount each person's share of the national debt is today.

Then fade out and show a pan shot of all the caps being thrown into the air.
I'd do something similar but go back further.
I'd show a hospital nursery room, the kind where they have all the newborns for the first 24 hours.
A shadowy figure goes past each newborn and quietly puts a piece of paper in with each of them. the camera zooms in to read what is written on it "Welcome! You now owe us $100,000. Sorry but we just couldn't control oursleves and went ahead and borrowed from you. Have a nice life. Signed: The US TREASURY"

[Tom]

The premise in this ad is that everyone oat work has another person attached to them, like a three legged race. As the people go about their jobs, they have to drag the other person around with them, because all they are doing is reading newspapers, making phone calls, sleeping, drinking coffee.....

Mitts recorded voice plays over the scene, talking about the 47%ers....and as the worker goes to the pay window to pick up his paycheck, the paymaster tears it in half and gives
have to him and the other half to the "anchor."

The anchor looks at it and says "Is that all there is?

[thaskalos]

The scene - the Arizona desert, at night.
Shadowy figures sneaking past cacti....sound of dogs barking in the distance, getting closer.

The shadowy people run, a lot of them, running fast, search lights now scanning over their heads, the dogs getting louder and louder.

The shadowy figures run past a large sign that says BORDER, the cap blows off one them and drops to the ground, then they disappear onto the dimly lit streets of a border city, as the camera pans out, the figures can no longer be seen, but the border agents pull up in a SUV and as they get out and look, shaking their heads, one of them bends over and picks up the cap.

It is a graduation cap.

"We lost them." says one the agents,
"Si." says the other one holding the cap.
As he tosses it into the back seat of the SUV and closed the door, the Mexican flag on the door is hit by the street light, and it morphs in to the famous poster and now says....Hope, Change.

Very nice...:lol:

Have you ever considered screenwriting as a career?

[Ocala Mike]

You guys missed your callings; should have been "Mad Men."