VCCP Trades Van Damme for Schwarzenegger in New Campaign

By Patrick Coffee 

London’s VCCP, which recently earned headlines with a Jean Claude Van Damme stunt spot for Coors (following the Forsman Bodenfors “split” for Volvo, of course) has now upgraded to a better-known 90s action star.

In its new campaign for e-commerce client Compare the Market, VCCP enlisted The Terminator to more directly connect European viewers to former A-listers.

The work promotes a new movie tickets deal pushed by the company’s signature Meerkat (which is far closer to the Geico Gecko than the dumb Twitter app you keep seeing in headlines).

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We’d hoped for an “I’ll be back…after I clean my shirt” or a “Give me free tickets if you want to live,” but this will have to do.

As if to remind us that The Arnold is a real-life human being, the Meerkat interviews him in a companion video. It’s primarily worth watching to see Schwarzenegger review his favorite one-liners:

Our main question: which of these barely believable characters has a more awful accent?

 

Credits for the top spot:

Creative Agency : VCCP

Executive Creative Director : Darren Bailes

Production Company : Passion Pictures

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