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Romance during a financial downturnPosted by Joel Martinsen, March 16, 2009 5:37 PM
An Alibaba commercial that illustrates how your business can profit by selling online becomes fodder for a voice-over commentary track that treats it as a textbook on how to pick up chicks. The effect is fairly entertaining. The creator of this parody, 叫兽 (a soundalike for "professor" that means "calls a beast") or "Show Jiao" in English, is famous for a series of comedy videos put out under the Chunbaba name (蠢爸爸). There's a Chunbaba BBS for fans of the series, and a descriptive Baidu Baike entry. |
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Comments on Romance during a financial downturn
damn, this dude has the exact same voice as my financial math teacher... freaked me out
This is pretty great, although I haven't seen the original commercial. Did he edit it at all or just add the voiceover directly? Just curious because if it's unedited, they sure take a long time to get to their actual product, and when they do, they spend about two seconds on it...(which is great for the comedy but seems like kind of failure of an actual ad...not that I know anything about advertising)
Anyway, the moral is: go to Alibaba, wait two years, you too will be a successful hot internet business chick?
I tried unsuccessfully to locate the original, but it seems to me that the only edits were to cut out the titles and credits. They may only spend a few seconds on the name and logo, but it's a key element in the story. I think it's more of a soft ad - a short film that hinges on a product placement.