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marycrawford) wrote2006-07-29 08:18 pm
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Michael Hurst in action
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cyloran: A 1994 beer commercial for a New Zealand beer called Lion Red, with Michael Hurst in the starring role, now up on YouTube.
This is just hysterical. I keep watching it, and it keeps putting a mad grin on my face. Just. HEE.
The song is all about how Lion Red is a beer for real New Zealanders, being for 'red blooded blood brothers' (who have all got 'different mothers' or is it 'different others?') but the imagery is so over the top macho it turns into camp, what with Michael strutting in his working man's shirt and jeans mesmerizing an entire bar, the huge pool players trying to intimidate him, the guitar-swinging girls straight out of Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love video, the singing 'mothers' in the portrait who are all transvestites (and that's Michael Hurst in the middle doing a Twanky, I'm almost sure).
And then there's the moment where he goes 'And there's a little lion on the label! Yeah!' and jumps in the air, cut to a shot of the label with the lion rampant. Heeee. (Also, I keep thinking that they should have flipped the shot of Michael jumping, horizontally, so it would line up with the lion more. *cough* This is what vidding does to ya.)
ETA: You can save this video (and anything else you fancy) off YouTube with KeepVid. The only catch is that it saves to a special format (FLV), and you will need the free FLV player to play it. I just tried this out, and it worked fine.
ETA 2:mmapmaker pointed out that you could just use VLC player instead, which is the best allround player out there, and also free.
cyloran: A 1994 beer commercial for a New Zealand beer called Lion Red, with Michael Hurst in the starring role, now up on YouTube. This is just hysterical. I keep watching it, and it keeps putting a mad grin on my face. Just. HEE.
The song is all about how Lion Red is a beer for real New Zealanders, being for 'red blooded blood brothers' (who have all got 'different mothers' or is it 'different others?') but the imagery is so over the top macho it turns into camp, what with Michael strutting in his working man's shirt and jeans mesmerizing an entire bar, the huge pool players trying to intimidate him, the guitar-swinging girls straight out of Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love video, the singing 'mothers' in the portrait who are all transvestites (and that's Michael Hurst in the middle doing a Twanky, I'm almost sure).
And then there's the moment where he goes 'And there's a little lion on the label! Yeah!' and jumps in the air, cut to a shot of the label with the lion rampant. Heeee. (Also, I keep thinking that they should have flipped the shot of Michael jumping, horizontally, so it would line up with the lion more. *cough* This is what vidding does to ya.)
ETA: You can save this video (and anything else you fancy) off YouTube with KeepVid. The only catch is that it saves to a special format (FLV), and you will need the free FLV player to play it. I just tried this out, and it worked fine.
ETA 2:
mmapmaker pointed out that you could just use VLC player instead, which is the best allround player out there, and also free.