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13Dec2008

Brad Pitt, Japan's Answer to the Verizon Guy

DateSaturday, December 13, 2008 at 4:39AM
It's hardly a secret that big time American movie stars sometimes supplement their already enormous salaries by taking a day's pay filming commercials in Japan. There's an extremely funny scene in Lost in Translation that plays off of that fact.

Brad Pitt has been making commercials in the Land of the Rising Sun for over a decade, shilling for jeans companies, Honda, Rolex, a bank, and a tasty beverage. Now he's got a new phone commercial, which was directed by Wes Anderson.

I can understand overpaying Pitt to show up in your commercial, but Anderson literally just pans the camera twice, once to obscure an edit, and then there are some cuts at the end to get a product close up. And yet, it's exactly what you'd think a Wes Anderson commercial would look like, so he killed it with simplicity, I guess. Here's the commercial, posted on Friday at Defamer:

And because we mentioned it, and because it's potentially embarrassing, here's Brad Pitt for Edwin Jeans, circa 1997:

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Wes Anderson? What happened?

I hope the money was really good.

Sunday, December 14, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterLenghty Johnson

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