What is the historical context of the Stella Artois advert?

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You know, the one where there are prisoners of war on a boat, and one of the prisoners acquires a bottle of Stella.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

the stella artois wars of 1996/7

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

they never made the papers!!!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

*Lowers head and doffs hat in memory of the glorious dead*

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate that advert.

― mandee, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I think its a kind of Papillon thing.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

uhh, ron perlman was in this commercial? was he the nasty cook who gets whacked with the ladle?

― mandee, Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't follow that advert. Or the new football one with Robert Carlos and Ronaldo.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The first bloke they put in that shed thing looks like Tom Waits!!

― Bill E (bill_e), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

isnt he the guy from 'lost city of children'? anyway i can think of nothing i'd want less in that sweatbox than very hot beer. yuk.

― zappi (joni), Friday, 23 April 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

that would be 'city of lost children' of course

― zappi (joni), Friday, 23 April 2004 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

They're not Prisoners of War, they're criminals presumably being transported to Devil's Island.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 23 April 2004 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I always kind of assumed they were generally inspired by Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources. Surely the transported criminals one doesn't have enough sex, depravity and so on to be Papillon - if it was, surely the Stella would end up hidden in someone's arse.

(when I was young and in a Youth Orchestra, one of the pieces we played was the music which is now The Music From The Stella Ads. It's "The Force Of Destiny" by Verdi.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 23 April 2004 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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