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Legendary Movie Director Ridley Scott Creates Epic Advertisement for Hennessy XO

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Ridley Scott – the director of such films as Gladiator, Blade Runner and Alien – has created a four minute-long advertisement for Hennessy XO — a Cognac that retails for about $300 per 750ml bottle. It’s pretty spectacular stuff. (The film, I mean.)

“Each time you taste Hennessy X.O, you go on an odyssey. Seven tasting notes, like seven unique worlds to explore.”

Take a look…

There are 3 comments

  1. SO cool – –its boring.

    COOL itself is now decades STALE.

    And SCOTT and ALL mass entertainment and mass Medea – –
    ————————————————- – – -is 100% INTEL RUN.

    TAKE HEED

  3. The other day I saw the ad on my television, and I just wanted to see how was the man behind the idea. You can see the tie and effort that it took for them to come up with something like this.

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