12.05.06
MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP! MAKE THE MADNESS STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paris Hilton has recently been on Italian TV doing commercials for a cell phone company called 3. Watch this … then keep reading.
The guy in the scene is Claudio Amendola, a famous Italian actor. Paris is playing the part of … herself. The commercial is about how it’s inexpensive to switch your cell phone over to this company.
This commercial is awful for several reasons:
- Paris’ accent. It is literally one of the worst American accents I have ever heard. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s hard for an American to get rid of their accent completely, but Paris is borderline hard-to-understand.
- For the second commercial in this series, they hired an Italian actress to do a American-speaking-Italian voiceover for Paris when she speaks in Italian.
- It’s possible that Paris Hilton wouldn’t recognize Claudio Amendola, but absurd to think that Claudio Amendola wouldn’t recognize Paris Hilton. She’s really popular here.
So now that I have gotten that off my chest… I do have to wonder why certain parts of American culture (Paris Hilton) get imported here, and why other parts (Taco Bell) do not. It really is a strange thing.
PS - The title of this blog post comes from my teammate, Marcus, when he heard that they released the second commercial in this series.
angie said,
12.11.06 at 1:02 pm
Brian…on behalf of myself and Valerie, my co-worker here in the Student Mobilization office…”AMEN!”
I could probably do that commercial in better Italian than she did…geesh!