aliens Smith & Jones
November 24th, 2008Adding to the list of US celebs who make weird Japanese ads because they don’t think anyone in the Western world will see them: Tommy Lee Jones. According to the synopsis on mefi:
"Tommy Lee Jones plays extraterrestrial ‘Alien Jones’, who has taken the form of a man to check on the world of humans, all the while drinking a Japanese brand of coffee named BOSS."
While not as loopy as I want them to be, these ads have kind of a quiet, TLJones intense brand of odd.
This one takes place in a "host club", a place where young women and pay trendy young men to entertain them. There used to be this great doc about host clubs on google vid, but it looks like it was sold so they’ve pulled it (good for them). Looks like it just aired on Sundance…some info about it here…) Here’s the ad…
the last shot takes the whole thing to a new level, doesn’t it?
Do you think that people in Japan think that WE make no sense too?
I think that yes, they do think that we are crazy, with our crazy Western limbo contests, mimes and hot dog vendors!…MM, you lived there, care to comment?