I've politely asked the ad agency which came up with the commercial (TBWA) to explain the cross-dressing black guy at the end.
I'm keeping on good terms with them for reasons we won't go into (freebies)
but I rate my chance of getting a reply from them about this at less than 5%
Right! Just been informed by my lovely other half that Nissan are running the Cross Dresser advert in the UK too, she's just watched it this morning.
I can just see the ribbin I'm gonna get from my mates. If Nissan are targeting the youth 20-35 market SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL THEM THAT IMAGE IS IMPORTANT and we don't want to be branded as cross dressers (not that I have anything against people who indulge in such activities).
That is only a small part of the advert and all in all it's just a bit of fun.
I wouldn't get hung up on it and to be honest i think it fits the quirkyness of the Juke. AT least it gets the car talked about. Certainly doesnt suggest that we are all cross dressers.!
Think it is a good piece of PR if it does the job in getting the car noticed and talked about.
As long as it doesn't get labelled a hairdressers car then I'm all good! Then again any car I seem to buy would get labelled like that. I could buy a ferrari f40 and still get ribbed by my mates in work!
I don't care though, I love the Juke and I'm picking mine up a few days early tomorrow yay!
...and there a new Jukeapp for a fancy Androidphone if anyone is into that sort of thing: http://www.jukepowerup.com/
...and Europe's most active Juke blogger Valerie R (Val63) must have been at the Paris Motor Show at the same time as me to video this yesterday! I assume Nissan sent her an invitation too -the show doesnt open to the general public til tomorrow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivhIqkhTgUw
There's also a 1 shortened one minute version of the Juke TV advert which I saw in France, but while the jewellery thief and a few other bits are edited out, the black guy at the end stays in!
This is a Portugese version from youtube,so you get the idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M3aBQ0zVkg
<I asked at Paris and the Nissan peoplethink the black guyis just coming back from a stag party - he isNOT a cross-dresser
hmm that's OK then
It was obvious from the way they had an answerimmediately, that I was NOT the first person to ask
Looking at the top banner pic tho, could thye FIT any more accessories on the juke, from my eye I see: 18" wheels, chrome mirrors, chrome fog rings, chrome side bars, front faceplate
the blade silver demo at our dealer had the chrome pack. I personally didn't like it. the front fog rings looked awful, i just think chrome on cars went out in the 80's!!
the only thing i like about the pic above are the chrome mirrors but only on the red & the side bars look kinda cool!
LOL
Iwas shownthis in Paris last week, - it's not for the UK market.
It's called "The Dread" and is a video advertproduced by Psyop as part of the Urban Legend campaign for countries including Canada.
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