Lordandmaster
Posts: 10943
Joined: 6/22/2004 Status: offline
|
The commercial is supposed to convey the message that Visa is with you wherever you go, and shows what could happen to you if you use "that other card." A guy travels to France, and all kinds of bad things happen to him. I don't remember the details, but he loses his luggage, gets hit in the head with someone's baggage, and so on. Finally he's lying in the airport in need of medical help, so he pulls out his Berlitz phrase-finder and looks for "I need medical attention." Only, in his haste, his eye doesn't read straight across, and instead he reads the French phrase for the next line: "I am a spy." He can't pronounce French, of course, so he runs around yelling "Jay sweez un espion, Jay sweez un espion." These two gendarmes look at each other and say "Espion?" And the poor man nods violently, "Yes, Yes, espion!" And they lead him away in handcuffs. It was a cute commercial. The idea that "I am a spy" would be in a phrase-finder in the first place was inane enough to be cute.
|