Tommy Lee Jones gets lost in translation
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I found this gem on Screens, The New York Times blog about online video:
Just as Bill Murray showed in “Lost in Translation,” the Japanese Suntory ad appears to be a rite of passage for a cadaverous-complexioned American male actor of a certain age.
Bill Murray’s Japanese ad campaign, of course, was just fiction.
But these Jones spots are for real!
According to Shanghaiist, this is one of a series of ads in which Tommy Lee Jones plays an alien who looks like a human being, and who enjoys drinking cold canned coffee. Here are the others commercials in the series:
No. 1: Jones visits a gyudon (beef bowl) restaurant
No. 2: Jones works in a warehouse
No. 3: Jones works in a supermarket
No. 4: Jones works as a mover
No. 5: Jones works as a mover (again)
No. 6: Jones works at a karaoke club
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Meg wrote:
i didn’t read this properly (can’t resist clicking a silly video) and thought it was Tommy Lee as in Motley Crue – i got dissapointed
Posted 01 Feb 2007 at 6:40 pm ¶
tmk wrote:
Cameron Diaz also got lost in translation (www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2b3F-mX518)…
Posted 01 Feb 2007 at 7:49 pm ¶
tmk wrote:
sorry here is a clickable sorry link
Posted 01 Feb 2007 at 7:51 pm ¶