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I hadn’t seen these until reader Lica emailed me to tell me about them. Brad Pitt is featured in a series of German ads for Alice, a telephone and DSL provider. So far two commercials are available with the third one still waiting to be shown (or possibly even filmed). The series shows Brad’s motorcycle breaking down and he has to pop into a random person’s house to use the phone to call a taxi. The wife and daughter are both really excited that he’s there and primp madly. I’m curious to see how it ends.
I don’t understand much German so I don’t really know what the family is saying but it works anyway because in the series Brad doesn’t understand them either and looks confused while speaking to them in English. I wonder what happens in the final slot – you can sign up to be notified when it’s ready.
To see the first two commercials, go to this site and scroll down to the bottom where it says “Ein Star für Alice” and you can watch them right there.
If anyone here is fluent in German, I’d love it if you could head into the comments and let us know the basic idea of what they’re saying to poor, stranded Brad Pitt!
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Hi, I speak some Deutsch. I only watched the ads through once, but basically, in the first one – when Brad is standing at the door – the lady at first thinks he’s pointing to the Alice ad on the bus stop shelter, then understands he means his bike. She says, “You need a phone? Come in.” And something about his tank being empty. She tells him he can stay on the phone as long as he likes because they have a flatrate for their landline, as well as for their DSL (when she offers him e-mail access.) In the second ad, she again mostly talks about the great deal they’re getting with Alice (I lived in Berlin for 4 years, and Alice isn’t actually that great a deal…) She mentions that her daughter loves talking on the phone, but that’s okay because they get a good rate (including calls from a landline to a ‘handy’, which is a cellphone.) Then she’s all happy that she’s talking to him, and that’s when he asks her to call a taxi. “Ein Taxi? Klar.” A taxi? Sure… In other words, she’s mostly talking about her phone plan, which is probably what any of us would talk about if Brad Pitt showed up at our door. Hope that was helpful!
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LoL the ads are pretty funny even though I dont understand it.
Lol thats probably why I think its funny cause i dont understand it. 8]
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lol!! yeah if i ever see brad i’ll try to mention my phone plan.
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thanks danielle for the interpretation. I appreciate it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8piAP4rhXhg
an old commercial but Brad is like whatever to his driver or who ever he is.
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Danielle – Thanks for the translation!
Leat – No kidding, right? OMG it’s Brad, I’m nervous… let me tell him how many hours my plan covers! :D
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danielle, thanks for letting us know what was going on in that commercial. understandably, i’d probably be talking nonsense if brad pitt was ever in my house.
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Oh and thanks Sherry and Lica for leading us to the commercials.
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That was funny and it looks very recent since Brad has his beard. Do you remember the Canadian lady’s story when Brad all of a sudden knocked at her door and introduced himself when he was looking for a rental for him and his family during the filming of Jesse James? It reminded me of this commercial. From what I remembered, Brad said to the lady, “I’m Brad, ” then the lady said, “I know.” He was also alone on his bike like this commercial. Anyway, thanks Sherry and to Danielle for the translation.
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I live in Austria and we also speek German here.
I think this commercial is not very successful.
The topic should be funny but it’s not… it’s rather standard. The actress was quite bad and I think Brad was bored when he acted in this clip.
If I had to pay him thousands of dollars for acting in my commercial I would make the best out of it.
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Thanks for the translation Danielle, and Sherry for the videos.
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It is one of the worst phone rate commercials I’ve seen in a long time.
Now this commercial is soo German.
The woman is the typical German woman.
Blonde, tall, no wit, no fun, no charm. She is just rattling on about phone rates.
How cheap, how practical and so on.
There is just esprit in this commercial. Brad does not get the chance to ad charisma to this either because the script is just boring.
What a pity!
The basic idea of him coming by with the bike and not speaking German is not bad at all. It’s just that there is no smart story behind.
Compared to the Clooney ad “nespresso what else?” this one is just plain boring.
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Sorry, I meant no esprit of course!
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Ha, ha…I live in Munich, Germany and Alice is my provider. It’s a funny add, the translation above is correct, the lady tries to keep Brad longer “Oh, you could have been on the phone longer (we have a flat rate), you probably need to check you e-mails, stay, stay”. :)))
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Alice is my provider too, i live in Hamburg. it´s a really cute commercial. i have the feeling Brad is exactly like this in real life, nice and polite.
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I don’t understand German but keep on looking at Brad’s face all the time. LOL. It must be recent commercial, his hair, the scruffy look & that scarf was that the scarf he wore on one occasion? Alice should have included Ange too, riding the bike with Brad. Got to go to work, see you all later. God bless the Jolie-Pitt’s.
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Hi, I am from Austria too, and I think the commericial is really really bad. Sorry.
Of course this man looks great, but thats it. No fun, no haha, and this horrible lady in the end waving around with her mobile, i am sorry, it look cheap.
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When he asks, “Could you call a taxi?” his voice sounds just like joe black – from another world entirely….
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I’d be dumbfounded for a few seconds (hopefully not minutes, LOL) if Brad was ever at my house. LOL
I’ll give him my mobile, the landline, the fax machine, desktop, laptop, anything and everything he needs to communicate with… Make sure he’s comfy so he could stay longer. LOL
Aw, gawd. Wishful thinking. Sorry :-)
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Sherry, you must be very proud to have so many people from so many different countries come to your web site. As we all know, it is a great website. You make it so interesting and so much fun, and we all have so many different thoughts and idea’s.
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