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Has anybody seen this? I find it almost impossible to believe.

From imdb:

De Niro, AmexCo Accused of Exploiting 9/11

Robert De Niro and American Express are being criticized for a new 30-second TV ad airing in the U.S. and the U.K. which includes shots of the now barren site of the World Trade Center. In the ad, directed by Martin Scorsese, De Niro walks through New York, referring to "My East .. my West Side." When he arrives at Ground Zero, he remarks, "My heartbreak." (The spot's tagline is: "My life. My card.") Brand Republic, an online publication covering advertising and marketing, said that the spot is drawing flak for exploiting the 9/11 tragedy.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 29 January 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

He must be hurting for work now that Scorcese's thrown him over for that Leonardo kid.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 January 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Scorcese directed it, man!

http://www.mylifemycard.com/mylifemycard.html?celebId=deniro

"my heartbreak...my heartbreak...my life happens here and my card is american express."

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 29 January 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone else can watch the Ellen DeGeneres one.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 29 January 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

and the man ain't hard up for work. he was in the biggest hit comedy of the season!

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 29 January 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Amex's offices were down there too

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 January 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Scorcese directed it, man!

Heh, I completely missed that part in the original post, I admit. They should gone with a full Mean Streets parody.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 January 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

they should have had him in his apartment staring at the mirror screaming: "You looking at me?" "Hey, Bin Laden, you looking at me?" "I don't see anyone else standing here, you must be looking at me."

and then fade to De Niro behind the wheel of a taxi and a voiceover that says:

price of an illegal handgun: $300

price of a NYC taxi medallion: $200,000

revenge on every Islamic extremist that you see: priceless

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait, that's Mastercard. Nevermind.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i've seen this commercial, I thought it was weird. it's kind of a decent ad until the end when you find out what it's for. I thought it was for the Tribeca film festival or something.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 29 January 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"The official credit card of the 9/11 terrorist attacks."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 29 January 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

All these amex ads are like that. You're like oh god, what is this about? CREDIT CARD, YAYYYYY. I booed out loud at the surfer one when we were forced to sit through it in a movie theater. I'd boo even louder at this shit right here. Who the fuck wants an Amex anyway?

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 29 January 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the De Niro one is especially stupid. they try to sell it like it's the tough guy's credit card or something. the nitty gritty cred card.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"If you leave home without it, then the terrorists have already won."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 29 January 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Any guesses why the big De N even did this? It's so sappy and he and Marty can't possibly need the money. This reminds of of the dearly departed Raven Records in Knoxville Tennessee, where somebody on staff (Todd Steed, probably) scotch-taped the full-page New Yorker Amex ad featuring Lou Reed onto the Lou Reed bin divider, and changed the "Lou Reed" Dymo label sticker to "Sellout."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

American Express sponsors the Tribeca Film Festival, which is near and dear to Marty and DeNiro's hearts. Maybe the commercials were a favor, maybe a contractual obligation.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

omg actors acting in commercials and directors directing them what has the world come to????????????????????

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

errr.. i'm pretty sure that's not really the point..

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Sunday, 30 January 2005 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not even the 9/11 thing really. people have been making a buck off of that since the day after it happened.and the government's been running on that sad, tired fuel ever since. it's just so sad and...ugh., those guys used to keep to themselves, you know. they really don't have to be doing this shit.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 30 January 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

fucka AmEx, I don't qualify for Blue with one of the good balance-transfer deals.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 30 January 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

never forget

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

of all the celebrities i have seen on the street, why have i never got DeNiro?

― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

he is my white whale

― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

You need a wooden leg first.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

We should make nyc celeb spotting bingo cards... shit is easy

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

My dad met Robert De Niro once. He was at my dad's work, and loads of the women there were all "ooh, I'm too embarrassed to speak to him" so my dad went over and got lots of autographs.

He then came home, told us all about "some guy, nothing to look at but a really nice bloke, an actor, I think" that had been at his work that everyone had been getting inexplicably (to him) excited about. He honestly had no idea who it was though. He phoned us the next day "oh, I asked someone, apparently that guy yesterday was someone called Robert De Niro".

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Bless my dad, he's great. He managed to bring me home loads of autographs of crap z-list celebs passing through, but it never occurred to him that if everyone else wanted De Niro's autographs, he could have got it too, just in case it actually *was* something important.

Then I could have hung onto it and flogged it on ebay now, like 20 years later or whatever.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

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