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Coke Rewrites History in ‘Unbelievable’ March Madness Ads

Source: Musebycl.io, 3/31/21

1983 was never like this!

Remember the frenzied finish to the 1983 NCAA men’s basketball championship game, when victorious North Caroline State center Cozell McQueen perched atop the hoop with a bottle of Cherry-Vanilla Coke, and brand signage, as the crowd went wild?

Of course you don’t. It didn’t happen that way.

But check out the impressive headfake—or deepfake, or whatever you want to call it—in Coca-Cola’s “Unbelievable Doubt Take” commercial below, as the soft-drink giant inserts 3-D product shots into that famous celebration from 38 years ago.

UM created the spot with production house Ryff. Coke explains that “first-time, cutting-edge 3-D product models were rendered into iconic sports scenes that were filmed in standard definition formats, a truly unique marriage between new and old.”

Coke believes the technique “will bring generations of audiences together and pay tribute to iconic sports moments,” promising more product-infused highlights from the ’80s, ’90s and ’00s. The fakery somewhat recalls State Farm’s lauded 2020 put-ons touting The Last Dance, in which ESPN SportCenter hosts appeared to predict the existence of the documentary about the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls nearly a quarter-century ago.

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