Waiting by the mailbox, by the train,
Passing by the hills 'til I hear the name,
I'm looking for a saw to cut these chains in half ..
What the hell? Brad Pitt is the new face of Chanel No. 5?
I find this kinda depressing.
In the wake of such brilliant performances in recent films such as Inglourious Basterds, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Assassination of Jesse James, is this really a necessary detour from his career?
This ad harks back to the Brad Pitt of the early-mid 2000's, post Fight Club and Se7en and 12 Monkeys, when he stopped 'acting' and just tried to 'cool' his way through it all. "Hi, I'm Brad Pitt and I'm hot and I kind of mumble and look disinterested when I speak, but I don't care because I just shagged Angelina Jolie and somehow made millions out of it".
Did you manage to sit through Mr and Mrs Smith? What a steaming pile. It hardly qualifies as a film. It may as well have been called "Two hot people shooting stuff".
That's by the by, but as I say, virtually all his stuff of late has been awesome and occasionally had me thinking "damn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, you're gonna have to up your game to hold onto my top spot, mate".
And then all of a sudden, Brad Pitt's standing there in black and white in his shirt, his face being all sensitive and doing the kind of wracked, conflicting emotions and inner turmoil malarky, while he spouts off some godawful bullshit about journeys and fate and fortune.
It makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
The whole advert is the epitome of what I thought was a bygone technique, which subscribed to the idea that if enough Brad Pitt is thrown at something, then it will automatically write itself (I'm looking at you, Troy).
In short, they may as well have just had 30 seconds of Brad Pitt's arse with the perfume bottle wedged in his crack and 'Inevitable' hastily scrawled at an angle in sharpie across one arse cheek, with Clair de Lune playing in the background. It would have packed the same emotional punch.
If you can watch this through no more than once and tell me what he's talking about, drop me a reply on facebook.
