<p>Subject: Honda </p>
<p>This is very cool… Read the article first, then click to see the video!</p>
<p>And you thought those people that set up room full of dominos to knock over were amazing…</p>
<p>There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film.</p>
<p>Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as you see it.</p>
<p>The film took 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn’t work.</p>
<p>They would then have to set the whole thing up again.</p>
<p>The crew spent weeks shooting night and day.</p>
<p>By the time it was over, they were ready to change professions.</p>
<p>The film cost six million dollars and took three months to complete</p>
<p>including full engineering of the sequence.</p>
<p>In addition, it’s two minutes long so every time Honda airs the</p>
<p>film on British television, they’re shelling out enough dough to keep any</p>
<p>one of us in clover for a lifetime.</p>
<p>However, it is fast becoming the most downloaded advertisement in</p>
<p>Internet history.</p>
<p>Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in “free viewings”</p>
<p>(Honda isn’t paying a dime to have you watch this commercial!).</p>
<p>When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it</p>
<p>immediately without any hesitation - including the costs.</p>
<p>There are six and only six hand-made Honda Accords in the world. </p>
<p>To the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of</p>
<p>them to make the film.</p>
<p>Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and complete Honda Accord) </p>
<p>is parts from those two cars.</p>
<p>The voiceover is Garrison Keillor. When the ad was shown to Honda</p>
<p>executives, they liked it and commented on how amazing computer</p>
<p>graphics have gotten.</p>
<p>They fell off their chairs when they found out it was for real.</p>
<p>Oh. and about those funky windshield wipers. On the new</p>
<p>Accords, the windshield wipers have water sensors and are designed to start</p>
<p>doing their thing automatically as soon as they become wet. It looks a bit</p>
<p>weird in the commercial.</p>
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