This adorable anti-drink driving advertisement from New Zealand takes a very different approach to Australia’s “you’re a bloody idiot” TAC commercials.
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“bro, Monique says you’re dumb”
- if he says something
compared to the highly unrealistic scenes in the Australian ads of girls mocking the guys speeding in a fast car….
If thats the way it worked, they wouldn’t need anti-speeding ads, would they?
This is a way better approach, and its funny:
“i’ve been internalizing a really complicated situation in my head” - or maybe its just the accent
GHOST CHUPS
Yeah not bad. Don’t think we’ll see a local version with indig actors any time soon though. Can you imagine the uproar?
It makes the point well - but almost needs subtitles once across the Tasman.
Yep, well I will avoid the usual platitudes about the Kiwis - but this is a GREAT ad, designed to make people think, not “shock-and-awe” tactics that are the fodder of the TAC, and our constabulary …
@ Zut Alors - oh please! We cop that from Americans due to our Australian accent, let’s not do the same “almost needs subtitles” nonsense, a kiwi accent is not THAT hard to understand. (Then again I have a number of Kiwi friends so maybe I’m more acclimatised).
Enquvist,
I wasn’t making a gratuitous quip, I genuinely had to listen attentively.
Do Americans really give us a serve, I spent several months there a few years ago and never heard one comment.
Kiwis: stoic one day, hilarious the next. No wonder Australians claim all that’s NZ’s.
“internalising a really compllicated situation” brilliant.
@ Zut Alors - you see it more on youtube in the comments section from Americans commenting on videos which feature strong Australian or British accents.
ZUT: Why do I always find myself agreeing with you?
ENQUVIST: I’m Oz born and Oz bred and can do a wicked Oz accent if I feel like it.
But, but, but, I think I understood about one word in four of the NZ ad. Consequently I wouldn’t know if and why it was funny.
Great ad. I didn’t think it needed to be subtitled either. I hate the way the US treats anyone with a slightly different accent by subtitling it, and do NOT think we need to copy that trend here.
It is adorable and I loe it.
love it love it with a v
v. clever ad. Im a bit surprised fellow aussies can’t understand a new zealand accent…
CPOBKE: The point is there are many New Zealand accents. I have four NZ friends and each one of them sound completely different to each other, but I still can’t understand the NZ ad.
I thunk it’s ekkerdymock, bros. A but uv a gummock.
Those of you who can’t understand some of the accented words shouldn’t worry too much. I’m over in NZ on business for a few days and that’s a pure South Auckland accent on display there, but half the south island struggles to understand it all.
A really great ad that gets the message across, and I reckon Ernie Dingo could do a good Australian version