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Sunday, February 2, 2020

Ground Hog Day flag in Jeep's Commerical with Bill Murray


In 1993 the best of the best Ground Hog Day movies was created, starring Bill Murray.  27 years later Murray would reprise his role in the perfectly timed Super Bowl that was aligned with the most precious holidays of American holidays, Ground Hog Day 2020.   

Of vexillological interest are two flags that can be seen flapping in the upper left hand corner when Phil steals Phil the ground squirrel of Punxsutawney.  There is an orange and green flag in the background.

If you have not seen the movie, it is must watch.  The relatively new sci-genre of repeating the same day or moment plot device captured the essence of these theme perfectly.  Basically, Bill Murray repeats the same day over and over again.  If you did not see the movie, it will be hard to appreciate and understand this commercial.

The Grand OG original repeating time plot is based on the story 12:01pm where a man repeats the same hour, over and over again.  But Ground Hog Day was perfectly preachy without being preachy.  There was no direct exposition on how to live ones life, but the story reveals its message naturally...which is something modern movies have a hard time doing these days.....no narrator, no text crawl.....just an organic......use your own brain kind of movie.

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