…in this commercial for the Japanese cell phone company, Softbank.
Spike Jonze, he of the upcoming Where the Wild Things Are, directed this short 30-second commercial. To tell you the truth, it makes little sense to me. Brad Pitt is in it and so is a big sumo wrestler. That’s the commercial.
Pitt must have some kind of contractual thing with Softbank, as he starred in a Wes Anderson-directed commercial for them a few months ago. I kind of prefer that one. Click here to check that one out.
The beautiful thing about these things though, regardless of them making much sense or not, especially to a non-Japanese reader like myself, is it establishes a rapport between actor and director which may be exploited in a feature film some day. At least we can all hope.
Which would you rather see Pitt in? A Wes Anderson movie or a Spike Jonze movie?
Oh, yeah. Here’s the Pitt/Jonze commercial. Enjoy it.
Was anybody else reminded of the “Entourage” episode where Vince films a commercial for that Japanese energy drink?
I liked this one better than the Anderson one. It seems like movie stars always go to Japan to shoot commercials, they must pay pretty well.
Seem pretty obvious to me, “at SoftBank we’re here to help.” I don’t need an interpreter to tell me that.