"Night Driving" - Richard Burton

One of the most beautiful and atmospheric ads we have seen. Combining the experience of driving at night (surely, something we all can identify with) with Richard Burton's voice is pure genius.

This advertisement comes from Volkswagen and, if we understood it correctly, was broadcasted only in the US, back in 2007. The campaign was named "Night Driving". The music/narration is

a mix of  "Don't Blow It" by Cliff Martinez from the "Solaris" soundtrack (the 2002/Soderbergh version and not Tarkovsky's, thirty years earlier) and a fragment of Dylan Thomas' BBC radio play "Under Milk Wood"  in Richard Burton's narration, recorded in 1954. The text that can be heard is the following:

“And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now.

Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives. Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the organ-playing wood….

You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing.

Only your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded town fast, and slow, asleep…”