Baywatch Argumentative Essay

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Baywatch has been reborn from the 1980s into the world we know today. From the slow-motion runs to the skin-tight swimsuits, it is all there in the new Super Bowl Baywatch commercial. This new playful trailer for this new rendition delivers perfectly. Baywatch convincingly encourages the youth of today to go out and watch the new instillation of this well-known story. The intended audience of the new instillation of Baywatch is both teenagers and adults. This is a classic raunchy teen movie. This is the kind of movie that a group of friends go to see on a Friday night. The movie showcases large breasts in order to appeal to teen boys. In many shots of the commercial, the women are wearing low cut blouses to show off their breasts. The movie also showcases a chubby teenage boy that intends to be part of the Baywatch lifeguard team. Putting an overweight contender can relate to some teens that are also overweight that wish to do something that overweight people usually do not do. This movie also appeals to adults that watched the original series. These adults will want to go see this new Baywatch instillation because it was part of their past and seeing it would be very nostalgic. Baywatch does a great job of showcasing the classical appeal of ethos. The job of …show more content…

In the trailer, the Baywatch team are continuously shown on duty saving lives or getting ready to go save lives. This created a sense of anxiousness in myself. There is a scene where they are all on four-wheelers racing to go help someone. This got my heart pumping and made me want to hop on one with them and go help. It is also very humorous. The trailer had a few good laughs throughout. One scene shows a lifeguard running in slow-motion. This is a head nod to the cliché of the old show where they would all be running in slow-motion. The trailer does well in evoking emotions in the viewer by comedy and