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- Title
- Red Blooded - Lion Red
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
This boisterous Geoff Dixon-directed commercial dates from the time when craft beer was yet to make a big mark, and Lion Red was NZ's number one beer. Hyperactive in a flannel shirt, a pre-Hercules Michael Hurst takes the mic at a pub talent quest, and sings a war cry for Kiwi blokes against wimpy pretenders like champagne cocktails and Mexican beers. Local advertising veteran Roy Meares wrote the "anti-yuppie commercial" (he was also behind the long-running Speights 'Perfect Woman' campaign)...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1993
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/red-blooded-lion-red
- Related subjects
- beer / lion red / lion breweries / lion brewery / widow twankey / robert palmer / pool / auckland / commercial / 90s / nineties / saatchi & saatchi / bar / saatchi and saatchi / roy meares / alcohol
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