Ridiculously Huge BP Advert

British Petroleum! The apogee of the "On The Move" campaign of 1994 here's a typically huge, overblown, high-budget commercial of the kind we see a lot of these days in purely mathematical terms, but which died out creatively some time in the mid to late nineties.

Fun fact: the special effects are done by freaking ILM. Seriously.

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Entertainment

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• Advert
• Commercial
• BP
• British
• Petroleum
• 1994
• TV
• ILM
• Industrial
• Light
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• Magic
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• Charles
• Saatchi
• advertisement
• gulf
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• mexico

[uhegbu]

I am thinking of another BP advert that had a song 'Go Now'. Can you help me out to the actual song and artist I am referring to?

[Applemask]

@uhegbu "Go Now" by the Moody Blues, presumably, or one of the many covers.

[greff]

Which floor has the cleanup equipment?

[ICEMAN3rdID]

BP in space. Holy crap. God help us.

[JJMCB26]

BuP!!!

[Naddia49]

O I L S P I L L O C E A N K I L L E R S !

[xpez]

Ad agency people are so soulless when they accepted money to build the brand of the most evil corporate empire known to mankind.

[motzPHaragas]

At BP, our emphasis on oil spill tend to rage people at the Gulf in Americans. lol

[kralalrulz]

to bad they couldnt afford the 50 cent plug for the oil spill

[FatBlackFrancis]

Am I sad that the gulf disaster is happening? Hell yes! 11 people lost their lives and many many more are losing their livelihood, this is a catastrophe that is altering lives, but this "America is the victim" attitude stinks! Tens of thousands of people in Bhopal, India are still awaiting justice and 182 families in Scotland are still missing loved ones. The US pioneered cost-cutting, now they reap the disadvantages.

[FatBlackFrancis]

@wwdhhhh Dude, in the 1980's (or70's) more than 3,000 Indians died when an American chemical plant exploded releasing millions of tonnes of gas in India. It almost wiped out an entire Indian town. In 1988 a "cost-cutting" measure by a US Oil company led to the deaths of 182 British Oil men during the Piper Alpha disaster (the greatest offshore accident in history.)

[tinaUNDAcova]

@ICEMAN3rdID looool.

In the words of Jon Stewart "they'll shoot you to the moon, but have no intention of ever bringing you back"

[TimeForDadTime]

what if we're ALL inside the BP building and didnt know it?

Keanu, where are you when we need you?