Fieberbrunn
09-10-2005, 23:04
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=b0b5606b-bbdf-4c50-aa6a-edd905da290b
The people of Belgium have been left reeling by a public service commercial featuring the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.
The 25-second commercial is the work of UNICEF, and is to be broadcast on TV across Belgium next week as a public fundraiser. It is intended as the keystone of a drive, by UNICEF's Belgian arm, to raise about $145,000 for the rehabilitation of former child soldiers in Burundi.
here's a poor quality video (at the 40 sec mark):
http://djmonstermo.blogspot.com/2005/10/unicef-bombs-smurfs.html
I think it's well done and highly effective. Everybody is used to seeing Africans die and easily tune it out. This cuts much more deeply to people who grew up with the smurfs. what do you guys think?
The people of Belgium have been left reeling by a public service commercial featuring the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.
The 25-second commercial is the work of UNICEF, and is to be broadcast on TV across Belgium next week as a public fundraiser. It is intended as the keystone of a drive, by UNICEF's Belgian arm, to raise about $145,000 for the rehabilitation of former child soldiers in Burundi.
here's a poor quality video (at the 40 sec mark):
http://djmonstermo.blogspot.com/2005/10/unicef-bombs-smurfs.html
I think it's well done and highly effective. Everybody is used to seeing Africans die and easily tune it out. This cuts much more deeply to people who grew up with the smurfs. what do you guys think?