"Subverting an Advertisement"
Even the gorgeous and famous can not help from eating the wrong foods. As this slender actress poses in revealing attire the doubt of if it is actual milk arises. Everyone knows that you do no get slim and trim from drinking milk. However, as this actress puts that notorious milk mustache on her upper lip with a sip of milk, she is likely to add an unwanted bulge. So why would they place a gorgeous women in a milk advertisement anyways, I would personally rather see her posing for Victory Secret's new line of lingerie. I think that would fit better with their wording, "you should see what's underneath." That would surly make the editor get some unwelcome phone calls. But realistically, the magazine where this article was located is majority read by middle to upper class adults. Therefore, blowing out my notion of less is better out of the water. This advertisement does show this woman with a little more then lingerie on, it does imply that if you drink milk you will look like her. "If only it were that easy," many girls would say. Honestly, if anyone could drink milk and turn out to look like her, there would not be an hour long wait for the treadmill at the gym. This would be great for men, there would never be
Everyone knows Roseann would not look good in this add. However this actress does make drinking milk look a lot more appealing, although why even drink milk in the first place? How many times have you gone to the fridge to look for a thirst quenching drink and grabbed the milk? This milk advertisement boasts about the calcium content in milk, but neglects to inform the public that milk consumption causes a rise in cholesterol. I guess that was a mistake of the creators to leave out that tidbit of information. If they are going to show the good points, why not show the bad? A product's good qualities should out weigh the bad, right? Just not in this case, as the high cholesterol increases the risk for many diseases, such as heart disease as well as cancers. Ouch, next thing we know they will be stamping warning labels on foods. But I guess the milk producers think what we do not know can not hurt us. With a different person in place this opens up entirely new possibilities for this advertisement. Such possibilities could include one for an antacid, like extra strength Mylanta. This ad would work perfectly into this bar/grill scenery after a long day in order to relieve the heartburn from being overindulged with beer and wings. However, the martini glass
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Approximate Word count = 851
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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