Thursday, April 14, 2005

Back in the Saddle

In an effort to ease myself back into the creation of these entries, I thought I should address some of my outstanding (in the sense that they are incomplete as opposed to exceptional) Blog® ideas. In the back of my sketchbook I keep a collection of little notes scribbled in the book, on scraps of notepaper, on receipts, news clippings and so on. I keep telling myself that I will use all of this material one day to write something. Weblogs for now, but perhaps if I find the right thread I will one day be able to stich these loose patches together into one cohesive quilt of insight that will comfort generations to come.
Or maybe just the weblogs.
Either way, what (I promise) will follow are several short (again, I promise) entries gleaned from my notes, starting with this one.
Starting now.
I am much bothered of late by a television commercial that has been running for the electronics & entertainment chain, 'Best Buy'. If you have seen it, the premise is that Best Buy has so enormous a selection that a person could be lost in the aisles for what seems to be an interminable amount of time. In this commercial, a man is wandering among racks of DVDs when he encounters a teenaged boy.
"Dad?" inquires the incredulous lad.
Seems the father has been gone so long that his boy has aged appreciably, almost to the point of unfamiliarity, but not quite. Any problems so far? Nope. Good ad. Strong premise. Fine performances all around. So where's the beef?
The boy continues, "You told Mom and I you were just going to get some movies."
And there you have it.
Have what?
My problem. It grates at my psyche. I wake up in a cold sweat over it. It has all but extinguished my appetite and diminished my will to live.
Well, I exaggerate, but my problem is this: "...Mom and I..."
It should be "...Mom and me..." In this instance, because the father is the subject and the actor in the sentence (You told...you were going...) the personal pronoun should be me. Not a big problem, right? In addition, spoken language is far more forgiving than written, particularly where familiar conversation is concerned, so it can be overlooked. In fact, if it were dialogue taken from a fictional work and lent sincerity to a character's 'voice' I would think nothing of it.
But it's not. It is a commercial. A short message crafted by an ad agency for the sole purpose of communicating a client's message to potential customers. A very special kind of writing. Because I work in advertising, I know that almost nothing happens by accident in commercials. There are so many fingers in the pie and everybody wants to contribute just so they can say they had a part so that no decisions are made easily. This script went through several stages and passed through many hands before it ever made it to TV and at every step, this little error got the green light.
Just to bug me.
I think it goes back to aggressive over-correction back in the early years. Kids are constantly told: "You mean Jimmy and I went to the mall..." and so on without a proper explanation. In this case it is easy because if you take out the mom, the sentence makes no sense. You would never say, "You told I you were just going to get some movies." I think people are scared to use the personal pronoun 'me' simply because of this well-intentioned childhood trauma.
So now that I got that off my chest, it's time to move on to the next entry. For those of you who haven't already done so, you may go back to sleep.

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