Italian Commericals

Italian Commericals are usually things I disregard anyhow. Here is a late commerical Dustin did for a channel that aired in Italy.

It's hard to understand why anyone would expect much then, but apparently the Italians do. Dustin's new commerical that advocates tourism in the coastal Marche region of Italy is said to have sparked negative remarks from Italian Newspapers who report Dustin's Italian as nothing too remarkable. Here's the article:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/no-amore-for-dustin-hoffmans-italian-commercial/

Here's the commerical:



I'd like to spend some space evaluating WHY Dustin possibly didn't live up to their expectations:

A.) Dustin is not native to Italy, so obviously his Italian isn't going to be brilliant.

B.) He's not EVEN Italian (As far as I know). He is a Polish Jew.

C.) Well, who cares. In the commerical he's stumbling over the words anyway. That's kind of the point.

D.) OBVIOUSLY there is SOMETHING the Italians like about him since if you look at the majority of the commericals he's DONE across the world they are mostly Italian.

But what are you goanna do?

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