To make Fridays even more fun I decided to start another new feature (yeah, my creative side has been very productive lately). Although moviestars make good money doing their movies they sometimes get offered roles in commercials. Many moviestars don’t appear in commercials in the US, but do appear outside of it. In this new series I will look at one actor or actress and select a couple of their funny commercials.
The first pick is action star Jean Claude van Damme.
Detergent
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlATdFIPDYI]
Cell phones
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qctT51Koc1M]
World of Warcraft
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIfC_1Xav7c]
DVD site
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2VA6kF2QQ4]
Japanese chewing gum commercial
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEXWVsuApJk]
Some other Japanese ads
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ6Y9a3o_0Y]
Beer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7rv_3yvk4Y]
My personal favorite is the last one. It’s ridiculous and van Damme knows how to deliver it in such a serious way.
What is your favorite?
I love the idea! I liked the first commercial, though as Youtube wouldn’t let me see the last one, I can’t see if it’s really my favourite.
Christopher Lloyd recently recorded many commercials for an electronics shop called Garbarino in my country (Argentina). These are some of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7w3r-FvXrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26JfNBRhc98&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8-GelP7SEc&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7w3r-FvXrI
I can’t imagine how much money Garbarino spent on those commercials! Anyway, I just thought it was so awesome to see the Doc here in my own country. I love Back to the Future, it’s my favourite movie of all time!
He also made this one last year, for Nike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yiSdjwi_bg I love all the references to Back to the Future on that commercial! There are plenty of other commercials with Christopher Lloyd on youtube. I just wanted to share these with you because I thought you might be interested 🙂
Guadi.
Some great commercials and I heard about these a while ago. Always nice to see some more Back to the Future related stuff!
Hi, Nostra and company:
I still remember a very young Dustin Hoffman schlepping Volkswagen Fastbacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3RD-hG4nbc
And Richard Dreyfuss in an AMC Javelin ad;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbPdqoHGaoY
Thanks for these Jack!
Oops, I linked a video twice and forgot to link the main one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdLdwAUD4tw&feature=relmfu
Great series… Looking forward to seeing some great commercials.
Thanks Raghav!