The commercial received some negative attention due to a series of interviews to elementary school children who claimed in a worrying number that heaven was "a place where you drank coffee". The Nespresso commercial was accused of plagiarizing a commercial from Lavazza, an Italian company, which also showed characters in a fluffy heaven which has seemingly nothing better to offer than coffee.A Nespresso ad shows George Clooney being killed by a falling piano and arrives at the Pearly Gates, with John Malkovich as either St.We may also get to see some Celebrities Hang Out in Heaven. The destination when Winged Soul Flies Off at Death. Characters who die in a story often Died Happily Ever After before coming here. Not to be mistaken for Level in the Clouds, which may be fluffy but is still very terrestrial. See also the Hallmark version of Hell, Fire and Brimstone Hell. This is the most popular sub-trope of Heaven Above, which covers any association of the divine and the sky. The exceptions almost invariably treat the depiction as a simple visual short-hand. Nowadays the use of this depiction is usually meant either as satire or for very young children. Some only offer banal homilies to their clients others provide supernatural aid, but none of them smite the unrighteous, Old Testament style.ĭon't expect to find this description in any religious text. Sometimes there's even a computer on it.įluffy Cloud Heaven may be the home of Hollywood angels, who are less like something out of any established religion and more like fairy godmothers and godfathers.
Often he has a desk right in front of the gates. He'll read his book about all the naughty and nice things someone has done, and then either let them in or send them to Hell via a trapdoor. There is often a line in front of the "Pearly Gates" of people wanting to get in (because Heaven itself can't find an efficient way to deal with a line of people), with an angel based on St. If God exists in Fluffy Cloud Heaven at all, he's a giant white-haired, bearded man wandering around or sitting on a huge white marble throne. Other than that, it's not exactly clear what people do. note These guys are really called putti and may represent (among other things) innocence and fun, or guardian spirits keeping an eye on things. Smaller Super-Deformed cherubs à la Cupid may float around too. They are given wings, a long white robe, a lyre/harp and a Holy Halo that is literally a golden glowing ring that floats over their heads. Besides the clouds, the landscape consists chiefly of white, fluted columns in a generic Greco-Roman style.
Heaven takes place in the clouds, which are solid enough to walk on, and expect much Heavenly Blue.
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