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Doesn't that insult you?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/248033/rom_strong_sensations_since_1964
What the hell is that trying to advertise?
Wonder the same thing. I found it kinda comic though, and actually laughed a bit when he was thrown out of the van :P
...like a cancer patient after the haircut.
How could anyone think he looks better with the short hair, I have no idea.
With the long hair, he looks cool.
Totally! There was a huge change after they shaved him! They're advertising some chocolate bar, I think but what's the point of the hair? Who cares, it's just a commerical that we should try to perceive as if we shave we'll look horrible (LOL)
Hello,
I found this kind of ad disturbing, but it plays on a dark page of Romanian history, when the slightest dissent meant being "dissappeared" by special forces, and tortured in some secret location, which is very typical in a dictatorship.
Now I should ask my Romanian colleagues to help translate the language in this ad. I know it is an ad for a chocolate bar, and I found it sad that a good looking guy was buzzed for this...
If I made the scr ipt, I would have had the guy whip out the chocolate bar as the clippers approach his hair, eat the chocolate, and turn into some superhero figure, push away the barber, and break through the walls of the jail his hair untouched.
A lot of commercials with haircuts, tend to sell the moral value that a guy has to have short hair, as well as the product.
A lot of people see the haircut as "positive" since "at least we can see this guy's face" which is the obsession of the day.
If I lived in Romania, I would simply boycott "Rom" chocolates, and since I keep my dental bills low, I boycott chocolate altogether :)
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
At around 16 seconds, when he's blindfolded, he asks "But what did I do?"
Then when the leader looking guy talks, he says "The party wants you to have a haircut, you rocker"
And at the very end when they introduce the chocolate, the guy says "ROM Tricolor (another word for the Romanian flag), strong sensations since 1964"
Pretty stereotypical, if you ask me.
That's an odd commercial.I don't know who it's aimed at.Who ever made it had to know they were going to piss off a lot of young people.There was several other young men with longish hair in that ad.Just plain weird.
Arrick
I found it pretty funny, but I have a dark sense of humor. I'm surprised Romania would take a satirical look at their "communist" past like that. It was especially hilarious how they manhandled him into the car.
Yeah that was pretty messed up. and I'm Romanian too. It's supposed to be a joke commercial for chocolate.
Strange, normally I would've found that funny but it was just offensive :(
We longhairs certainly don't go down the sreet glueing wigs on everybody's heads...
=(
Maybe we should! :)
--Rick
P.S. Great hair, Joao David!