TV ad I want to see

I was thinking today about how government sponsored advertising on t.v. is able to get away with so much more than the regular adverts from normal companies. For example take the drink driving adverts you see at Christmas that are full of violence, or the anti-drug adverts with disturbing imagery. 'So', I thought, 'how could a company use similarly over the top techniques to sell their product?' This is what I came up with:

We open on a pub car park. Twilight. A car pulls in and parks. A young man, maybe late teens or early twenties steps out. We follow the man as he walks into the pub, pausing briefly to hold up his car key and click the remote lock button. We see the car's lights flash once.

Cut to; the young man is sitting at a table in the pub twiddling with his phone, a pint of beer sits half empty on the table in front of him. Suddenly three more men appear and his face lights up when he notices their arrival.

Cut to; montage of the four friends laughing, rough-housing and drinking beer.

Cut to; we are back in the car park. It is dark now. The young men stumble out of the pub, laughing and joking. They say their goodbyes and three of them leave on foot, elated. We follow the final young man back to his car. We see the car's lights flash once.

Cut to; a dark, quiet road. In the distance we see headlights appear over the horizon. As the car approaches the sound of the engine slowly becomes audible, then deafening. Suddenly the driver loses control and the car skids off the road. The car slams into a tree, destroying the bonnet and shattering the windscreen. Silence.

Slowly we approach the car. We peer into the driver's side window to see the young man, unconsious and possibly dead. He has a gaping wound on his head and an obviously broken arm.

Fade to black.

Words fade onto the screen.

"Drink Coca-Cola.

There's no law against it."

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