Wes Anderson and Brad Pitt for SoftBank
December 15, 2008 Comments
This is probably one of the most boring Japanese commercials with an American celebrity in it. They're supposed to be loud and garish and Japanese, with the celebrity forced to awkwardly shout foreign phrases directly at the camera. This Wes Anderson-directed ad for SoftBank just looks like a deleted scene from The Darjeeling Limited that stars Brad Pitt as the guy from Curious George:
The Japanese are going to fall asleep halfway through this. If their televisions go 30-seconds without blinding color and screaming, they jetpack down to Sony and pick up a new one.