IP, the number of posts you've written over the last few weeks is out of control - more power to you. I spend all day, every day at the library these days and when I get home my mind is a vacuum (with an occasional AIDS metaphor floating around) so I'm just going to post yet another video.
McDonald's has apparently decided to woo the French public with a bit of father-son-bonding over pretty boys in a school photo. Apart from finding it a bit worrying that these people spend quality time in a fast food restaurant, what do you make of it (as a message, as a marketing strategy...)?
Bill O'Reilly apparently feels rather threatened by the whole thing. Anything that makes Bill O'reilly uncomfortable I find highly entertaining.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEIE4isBXqE
Transcript (in English...French will be harder, but I'm working on it) for those who want it:
ReplyDelete((A father and son are at McD's. The father is at the counter getting food, and the son is at a table looking at a class picture. His mobile phone rings and he answers.))
Son: Hello? ((Pause)) I was thinking about you too. ((Pause)) I was looking at our class picture. ((Pause)) I miss you too. ((Pause)) I have to go, my father is coming back. Big hugs. ((Hangs up phone)).
Father: ((Returns to table with tray of food)) Here. Is that your class picture?
Son: Mhm.
Father: I had the same head as you at your age. Girls just loved me. Too bad there are only boys in your class.
Son: ((Half-frowns, half-laughs))
Father: You would get lucky.
Cut to plain black background with the tag line "Come as you are" in white, and the McD logo.
--IP
French...with an alert for gaps, spelling errors and transcription errors, but you get the drift.
ReplyDeleteSon: Halo? Moi aussi, je pensais à toi. Je regardai la foto de classe. Toi aussi, tu manque. Il faut que je te laisse, mon père est la. Je t' embrasse.
Father: Voilà. C'est la foto de classe?
Son: Mhm.
Father: J'avais la même tête que toi a ton age. ((Bit I can't hear properly.)) Domage que il y a que des garçons dans ta classe. Tu auras eus tes chances.
Tag line: Venez commes vous êtes.
--IP