Comment by nkurz
1 day ago
I was bothered that it seemed to be an extremely direct copy of this 2008 German commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY
It took the same scenes, but in keeping with the theme, made them slightly worse.
If they didn't acknowledge this somewhere, they should be called out on it.
I'm not sure I see it to be honest? Yes, they are both guys that bother others, but their motives are different.
"Mr. W" is a personification of the wind that can't help his existence flinging things, but finds a new purpose.
The "Enshittificator" is a person modifying consumer products more directly, and it ends badly, but he's happy about it.
Going in I was expecting scene-for-scene similarities, but it wasn't that close.
Perhaps not, but that was my feeling on watching the Norwegian version, although to be fair, I was bothered enough that I only watched the first half.
Defending my opinion, though, I felt that both had tall somewhat socially awkward men dressed in oddly formal manners giving monologues to the camera. Scenewise, I thought slamming the drawer was a direct echo of slamming the shutters. And kicking the rock in the street echoed throwing the bottles in the street. And so forth.
Interesting that you don't think it's a knockoff. Given the theme, I found it ironic that it was itself an inferior copy. It ruined it for me.
> I felt that both had tall somewhat socially awkward men
Northern europeans cast northern europeans in commercials you say?