doesnt make me wanna do it

at least they are trying

That Talk to Frank advert was a little to close to home. Thanks for ruining my day.

suicide bombing is bad mmmmmmkay?

is that a sprite commercial? i couldn’t read the text at the end

Ever see Swordfish, with John Travolta and Halle Berry?

sprite commercial? swordfish? proof of context is in the pudding. it’s what i see, too. and that’s the depressing part — we can’t even relate.

in north america, sure, we don’t deal with daily suicide bomb threats, so we subvert the context of ads like this, demean the power of the image, and voila, new blockbuster clip is what we come up with.

okay, instead of wearing wearing your ‘north american cap,’ try picturing taking a stroll in lebanon, holding your kid’s hand, and some crazy fucker pulls open his jacket…

the meaning is lost on us, we don’t have that image running through our heads every time we pop out to get a pack of smokes or a carton of milk like a lebanese citizen probably does.

at least talking to frank or whatever doesn’t insinuate that you’re gonna shoot your friend in the face from smoking a joint like the american ads. check out what brazil has going on though, it’ll build up your anti-drug ad tolerance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o1NaVD7aLo

jeezus christ! allah ahkbar!

Yeah It’s understandable that nobody can relate, we’re watching it on a computer. The only thing I’ve seen that did my head in was that kidnap victim getting beheaded. It just looks like a cool action movie that you want to watch again.

Yeah, it looks like they digitally added burkhas and removed the ball bearings from that scene from Swordfish.

You need to cross this with the advert for traffic awareness thats on at the moment where its like a kid ‘could’ have grown upto be an action movie star. then you’d have something. Stop. Look. Sleeper Cell.

seems like just a quasi realistic depiction of the act, not really leaning for or against.

The message I take from this is: “Suicide bombing kills innocents.”

No shit. That’s why terrorists do it.

This video would only be shocking to a western audience. Most Arabs wouldn’t bat an eye and it probably boosts recruitment for Islamic extremists.

A religious spin would be more effective, like: “Allah says it is forbidden to kill other Muslims.”

yeah death to infidels is right, it’s too quasi. they totally should have set off a real suicide bombing for the commercial shoot. the impact would have been so much more “real”.

i want to blow something up just because someone told me to. dumb bastards.

whoever was casting director completely got carried away and thought s/he was casting for a aftershave commerical.
surely they should’ve chosen a fella with an eye patch and a peg leg and hooks for hands with teeth like little knives and spit thats yellow and thick thats smothered over his mouth, dirty sweat that drip drip drips on the dusty floor and of course, he shits himself just before doing the deed.

Whoever said swordfish was absolutely correct. My friend produced that ‘psa’ and said he was planning to recreate that opening sequence. Oddly enough, I found swordfish much more gruesome

Would it make a difference if the text in the end were translated? It might as well have said, “Coming Soon to Theatres Near You,” but perhaps the message reads stronger in Lebanon.

Also probably hits a lot more close to home in Lebanon. Follyindeed pointed out that it would be effective to Western audiences, but I think it is even effective to the audience in Lebanon–but not the target audience, those who would use religion to justify suicide bombings. Sympathy was reached by the civilians, but how do you get the opposing thinkers to change THEIR views (at least half-way)?

hahahahahahahahahaha, sick man!