Friday, October 22, 2010

Now They Work for Us

Go see a political ad that has as much impact as the Apple 1984 ad. You can play it here on a website of the New York magazine. In fact it has very much the same feeling as that historic Apple ad.

The ad's content: A Chinese professor in the year 2030 telling his students, in Mandarin, why the great American empire fell, for the same reasons the Roman, British, etc. empires did. The real hook is when he says "now they work for us" and his students all laugh.

The ad features subtitles in English; interesting that laughter requires no translation, isn't it?