Video of the Day: Weird fake Nike ad about China 'sweatshops'

Found this bizarre video over at CSR Asia. It's patterned after a real Nike ad (the one where the guys do all the ball-handling drills to drum-corps-like beats) but the actors are wearing strange masks (kind of like these sculptures) and then it cuts to Crank Yankers-esque puppets working at sewing machines while getting whipped by their bosses.

Here's what CSR's Stephen Frost had to say:

It’s a pretty slick production, and although I know nothing about the production details (when it was made, who made it, etc) I do know it bears little resemblance to China or Chinese factories. Very weird…

Indeed.

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This "fake ad" seems to come from a daily French show called "Les Guignols", on Canal+

Their style and their puppets (Their favorite puppet being Sylvester Stallone)

Je confirme, c'est une parodie venant de la France et des Guignols.

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/guignols/1

;)

(Un bonjour de Paris ;))

Well, this is a manual trackback. The video indeed comes from the show "les guignols". And it is for sure caricatural (and somewhat old, was aired some years ago).

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