I was surprised when I posted one of the Volkswagen Vee Dub commercials at ProHipHop and didn't get any flak. Their relationship to hip hop is quite superficial and I like them for other reasons entirely.
This particular commercial is the closest to perfect of the lot (I'm a little disappointed with how the automobile destruction revealing the VW is handled in this one). The timing and editing are really incredible and the female character works well, though I have absolutely no interest in seeing her again, nor in seeing the loser character, though he works just fine as a foil.
It's the actor who plays Vee Dub who amazes me. The rhythms of his weird phrasing and facial expressions are so perfectly timed and perfectly strange that I can watch this commercial over and over again without getting sick of it. To me, it's a short film featuring Vee Dub and the other characters and cars are all there to give him the opportunity to make his bizarre magic.
Since TypePad insists on archiving the first week of this blog's existence in which there were no posts, I'd thought I'd back date one so people won't be disappointed if they happen to come here via my first week's archives.
John Dancy-Jones of The Paper Plant turned me on to this commercial.
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