Because writer-director John Hughes started his career as a copywriter, “ad-man” has been the default career for many of his characters; and as a probable expression of how Hughes felt about his years in the industry, his ad-men are typically miserable souls, quietly yearning for meaning. Consider Teri Garr in Mr. Mom, or Kevin Bacon in She’s Having A Baby; or Steve Martin as Planes, Trains And Automobiles’ Neal Page, a man so uptight that it takes a 
disastrous cross-country trip with a salt-of-the-earth shower-curtain-ring salesman to teach him the values of friendship and family that hold this goddamn country together. Maybe next time he’ll think twice before he leaves his lovely wife and wonderful kids to take a business trip to (tsk-tsk) New York City. Matthew McConaughey, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days The scene gets repeated in advertising offices hundreds of times a day: A womanizing ad exec tells his colleagues he can make any woman fall in love with him within 10 days. They make a bet: If he can pull it off, he’ll win the big diamond-company account. (Which he’s otherwise denied, because he’s a guy, and can only advertise things guys enjoy, like beer.) But wait! The lady he happens to choose (Kate Hudson) is also deep undercover! She’s a writer working on a piece that involves having a man break up with her within two weeks. Two hidden agendas. Two extremely good-looking people with tough, glamorous jobs and unusual, sexy assignments. Will love redeem this cad and save him from his career-mandated cynicism? Probably not.
disastrous cross-country trip with a salt-of-the-earth shower-curtain-ring salesman to teach him the values of friendship and family that hold this goddamn country together. Maybe next time he’ll think twice before he leaves his lovely wife and wonderful kids to take a business trip to (tsk-tsk) New York City. Matthew McConaughey, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days The scene gets repeated in advertising offices hundreds of times a day: A womanizing ad exec tells his colleagues he can make any woman fall in love with him within 10 days. They make a bet: If he can pull it off, he’ll win the big diamond-company account. (Which he’s otherwise denied, because he’s a guy, and can only advertise things guys enjoy, like beer.) But wait! The lady he happens to choose (Kate Hudson) is also deep undercover! She’s a writer working on a piece that involves having a man break up with her within two weeks. Two hidden agendas. Two extremely good-looking people with tough, glamorous jobs and unusual, sexy assignments. Will love redeem this cad and save him from his career-mandated cynicism? Probably not.For further details visit as : http://www.avclub.com/articles/souls-for-sale-20-fictional-ad-or-pr-professionals,31447/
