For real

David Lynch made Twin Peaks inspired ads for Japanese coffee in the nineties
By Lewis Firth | Art | 25 November 2015
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Courtesy of Coca-Cola (Japan)

In the 90s the prolific director and screenwriter, David Lynch, produced a series of TV advertisements for Japan’s coffee-in-a-can brand, Georgia. Surrealism is his thing, and yes they’re weird. In the best Lynch way possible.

The four unsettling 40-second clips re-emerged this week and feature TV’s most loveable detective Dale Cooper taking a quick break from finding the dead-and-gone Laura Palmer, as he sips on a can of sweet Georgia Coffee. Ahhhh.

Georgia was launched by Coca-Cola Japan in 1975 and named after The Coca-Cola Company’s American home state, since becoming exceedingly popular. (In 2007 its sales were double of that of Coca-Cola in Japan – no mean feat).

It’s not the first time Japan has got a brilliantly creative visual interpretation of Lynch’s work: just take the weird and wonderful poster art many of his works got on release there like the Twin Peaks one below. A hit around the world on its release in 1990, ABC later cancelled the show due to a drop in viewership but it’s now set for a 2017 comeback, with David Lynch and Mark Frost at the directing helm again. Cop an eyeful and keep your anticipation at bay.

Courtesy of Lynch/Frost Productions


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