destiny - how to make an interesting advertisement

[taxico]

today, while loading a video on youtube, an ad played... and for the first time, i tried rewinding the ad but to no avail. it was a curious trailer.

i present to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toDuu5l5Y9w

this was the ad masquerading as a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwEgD3NyL-4

o, petard. mi no speakst fwensh... (???)

[nakatago]

This got me when I first saw it. It was during the previews in a movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NGg2feEhHs

I checked. Brazilian Caroline Correa does look like Angelina Jolie.

[taxico]

is that dude the real actor (whazisname) or also a lookalike?

[nakatago]

is that dude the real actor (whazisname) or also a lookalike?

Benicio del Toro? I think so; how else could they have put his name on the credits?

[taxico]

angelina or not, i'd tap that. heh!

[JR8]

today, while loading a video on youtube, an ad played... and for the first time, i tried rewinding the ad but to no avail. it was a curious trailer.

i present to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toDuu5l5Y9w

this was the ad masquerading as a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwEgD3NyL-4

o, petard. mi no speakst fwensh... (???)

Er, petard? Off the top of my head isn't that a dagger (hence the expression 'hoist on his own petard'). It is also a red-coloured fire-cracker that comes in strings, sized anywhere from the smallest roughly 7mm long * 2mm wide, up to about 12cm*2cm, the latter being capable of doing some pretty serious damage (IIRC in the States they are called 'cherry-bombs').

Or did you mean putain, the French expletive, which literally means whore, but I've heard it used as a general expletive when a person (either gender) or inanimate object is really annoying you.

[the lynx]

This got me when I first saw it. It was during the previews in a movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NGg2feEhHs

I checked. Brazilian Caroline Correa does look like Angelina Jolie.

She did it for new Magnum ice cream. Same MO: Ad masquerading as trailer. There are 3 instalments but I can only find 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NGg2feEhHs

[Mi Amigo]

Er, petard? Off the top of my head isn't that a dagger (hence the expression 'hoist on his own petard'). It is also a red-coloured fire-cracker that comes in strings, sized anywhere from the smallest roughly 7mm long * 2mm wide, up to about 12cm*2cm, the latter being capable of doing some pretty serious damage (IIRC in the States they are called 'cherry-bombs').

Or did you mean putain, the French expletive, which literally means whore, but I've heard it used as a general expletive when a person (either gender) or inanimate object is really annoying you.

What's the French for 'a load of old b0ll0cks'?*

* I'm referring to the YT clip, not your comments above.

[taxico]

...Er, petard?

Or did you mean putain...

i speak no french...! but i know how to say "3ncule" very well. i think that's as bad/good as it gets for me.

[JR8]

...Er, petard?

Or did you mean putain...

i speak no french...! but i know how to say "3ncule" very well. i think that's as bad/good as it gets for me.

Yes, or add 'vous!' (='you!') on the end and, as you say that is AFAIK about as bad as I learned as a schoolboy.


p.s. Seems contrary now that in that expletive you are using the polite/formal tense of 'you'. One for a Francophile to explain ...?