I love it when a commercial makes me emotional and perhaps even cry. It’s really a rather hard thing to do since you only have 30 seconds to establish character, create a story, and end it in a fashion that is deeply personal. This following commercial I found pretty cool because it was in a foreign language (that I do not understand) and had no subtitles yet managed to elicit a nice emotional response. I guess McDonald’s in the Philippines is truly a universal experience. McNuggets!
Filipino McDonald’s – nothing lost in translation…
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Awww, so sweet! Have done a lot of Roger spotting in McDonald’s commercials, recently, BTW.
Btw, is that our beloved Jolibee on the top left corner?
Before you let that warm fuzzy feeling settle into your stomach from this commercial (or maybe McDonalds food), you might want to remember that this is the same company that brought you the (now defunct) i-am-asian.com.
Which I think has since become http://www.myinspirasian.com
See what they did there? They changed ation to ASIAN? Yeah? YEAH? CLEVER!
@Guest – yes, it is Jolibee beating on da clown
@Godheval – myinspirasian.com is a bit heavy-handed. seems very corporate. the filipino McD’s commercial posted, though a commercial, had a natural charm to it. plus, it was shot totally low rent style with simple HD cameras and probably a ridiculously low budget.
Nice. Much better than the idiotic McD’s hipster-style “I’m Loving It” we see here. YMMV.
I noticed backseat passengers in the car don’t wear seatbelts. :-/
I think I caught the end of one with Offender Roger seated in a McD’s, accompanied by a little girl.
McNuggets!
i see roger’s commercial every time i turn on the tv- like at least 3 times a night!
i never realized just how much tagalog sounds like na’vi.
@FeO – I see you…
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roger, nice way to plug mcDs on a blog post. hahah! j/k hope you get some free mcnuggets for it!