Well, maybe not.
Maybe Nissan AND their customers are generally too young to remember much beyond oh, say 1999?
Anyway, not being a TV watcher, I had not seen Nissans latest Commercial on Titan Trucks until tonight.
Good grief.
Talk about lack of taste.
OR, are they rubbing our faces in it?
OR, are they oblivious to the history of Japan and the US (And Britain, I might add)
The music playing over the commercial is the theme from "The Bridge on the River Kwai". (BRK)
The BRK was a movie that was produced back in the 50s.
It was based on the reality of the Japanese building the Burma Railroad using prisoners of war as slave labor in WWII.
And it was based on a real guy and real POWs.
The truth of the matter is that, regardles of what they are now, in the 1940s, they were cruel, sadistic bastards. Thousands upon thousands died in the POW camps while building this damn railroad and the bridges.
It is just too much that they would use this song from this movie about their atrocities. Just to sell a product?
If my uncles could crawl out of their graves, (Both KIA in WWII, Both in the Pacific theater) I'm sure they would, and Nissan would not be very happy about the results.
Some of us were around back then and some of us really don't want to think too much about those days.
But it was Nissan that decided to run the commercial, not me.
Nissan gets a letter about this and it won't be very nice. And if they don't bury the Commercial, the Newspapers get the next letter.
Homer
Maybe Nissan AND their customers are generally too young to remember much beyond oh, say 1999?
Anyway, not being a TV watcher, I had not seen Nissans latest Commercial on Titan Trucks until tonight.
Good grief.
Talk about lack of taste.
OR, are they rubbing our faces in it?
OR, are they oblivious to the history of Japan and the US (And Britain, I might add)
The music playing over the commercial is the theme from "The Bridge on the River Kwai". (BRK)
The BRK was a movie that was produced back in the 50s.
It was based on the reality of the Japanese building the Burma Railroad using prisoners of war as slave labor in WWII.
And it was based on a real guy and real POWs.
The truth of the matter is that, regardles of what they are now, in the 1940s, they were cruel, sadistic bastards. Thousands upon thousands died in the POW camps while building this damn railroad and the bridges.
It is just too much that they would use this song from this movie about their atrocities. Just to sell a product?
If my uncles could crawl out of their graves, (Both KIA in WWII, Both in the Pacific theater) I'm sure they would, and Nissan would not be very happy about the results.
Some of us were around back then and some of us really don't want to think too much about those days.
But it was Nissan that decided to run the commercial, not me.
Nissan gets a letter about this and it won't be very nice. And if they don't bury the Commercial, the Newspapers get the next letter.
Homer