According to The Robot’s Voice, Hervé Villechaize (1943 – 1993), the stalwart French midget actor (he preferred the term) who appeared as Mr. Scaramanga’s sidekick in The Man with the Golden Gun, has been brought back from the dead with some clever CGI. As a tie-in with the upcoming James Bond film SPECTRE (due in theater November 6th), Heineken has released the following 90-second spot featuring editing and composites of Daniel Craig and the famed French actor.
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Ever since Fred Astraire danced with a vacuum cleaner, re-purposing a dead celebrity for commercial purposes has been an occasional practice. This posits a future when celebrities will never die, and we can always see them at their prime. Whether or not this will be a good thing is a matter of debate. While you think about it, enjoy the ad.
Above image: MGM
Witney Seibold is a contributor to CraveOnline and co-host of The B-Movies Podcast. You can follow him on “Twitter” at @WitneySeibold, where he is slowly losing his mind.
