I have to cross the aisle on this one. Dos Equis is a Mexican beer, and pretty good, too. What, you want him to be Anglo? This reminds me of the old Beck's beer commercial, with a blond guy with a German accent banging his bottle of Beck's on the counter. Whenever I saw it, I wanted to pack a suitcase. But that's how you sell imported beer, you pander to ethnic stereotypes. At least the Mexican guy in this vid is upscale and he's not slapping the women around.
Oh, I was joking. To me, the most interesting man in the world is the man I want to be. Did you see him in that boat with all the beauty queens? This is the third in a series of very cool commercials - advertising at its finest.
Genetically that man is actually Jewish. His name is Jerry Goldsmith, and he is portraying a "conquistador" Mexican obviously of 99% Spanish-decent.
Steve Sailer pointed out a few times that former Mexican President Vincente'Fox was 6-5" and very Spanish. There was no Atzec or Maya in that guy at all.
There are about 5 or 6 commercials in that series. They are all on YouTube. One is 2 minutes and 27 seconds long, four are 30-second spots, and 2 are short spots "Rollerblading", etc.
Just as its misleading to think most short, fat, tempermental-hard-drinking little brown Mexican women look like the blonde and copper headed beauties on Univision, its misleading to think that Mexico is full of men that look like Jerry Goldsmith, especially during the flashback scenes when they are using a younger actor to portray him. That is a great beard on the younger actor by the way. Steve Reeves, when he portrayed Hercules, had one of the all time great trimmed-beards. http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1p4U6UcGqPwqL7mapgOZ9wLzLVq5UVc0mKazYyHPGG-4XDNQCDYs8nHE7gNl3N1SdY
Steve Reeves used to be in many old 50's "Hercules" movies. I had a roomate years ago who was big and built (250 lbs) and roughly that good-looking (if anything, even better-looking). He was a cop (still is best to my knowledge). It was comic to me to watch the social seas just part for him. Women metaphorically threw their panties at him. He didn't even have to try...
JONATHAN Goldsmith (not Jerry-dont know why that name was in my head).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326091/
Note the fact that he has quite BLUE eyes. You can enlarge his picture by clicking on it. Getting the beer commercial gig must be a godsend for a guy who was primarily a TV actor in the 70s-80s.
m: Thanks for the info. I had no idea. In that photo, Steve Reeves is just ridiculously good-looking - alpha looking too - he must have had the ladies all over him.
The ads don't come right out and say that he's Hispanic, but this most recent one, where he plays jai alai, implies that he's Mexican - or Basque!
Just a bit too American,..a bit too sophisticated for my liking.
This is more to my taste... in ads that is. The beer is shocking.
The first VB ad is another typically Oz take on things.
Keep the low brow stuff coming Dennis. Loved the Lezbo last post, my heart is still racing. I never knew Kultcha could be so...exciting. btw, to my thinking the brunette isn't anything other than a typically hot Colleen. No Med detected on my part. Much better than Mulholland Drive, she's the real McCoy.
What gets me is how the masses fall for this stuff. I boycott all Mexican products so I've been paying attention to the rise of this alleged beer.
Until recently the beer was unavailable in my area. Then came the commercials. Almost every time I've been in a beer store in the last year or so I've seen people buying this worthless Mexican piss. Yet when it comes to quality beers - Belgian trappist ales, microbrews, English ales etc - they sell so poorly that most beer stores stock them briefly then give up on them because they don't sell as well as the mass produced heavily advertised tasteless beers like Bud, Stella, Coors, Labatts, Corona, etc. I asked the clerk at one store if Dos Equis is selling well and she said it's 'flying off the shelves' followed by 'people love the commercials?'. I don't understand buying something because of commercials.
When I see our people so easily influenced and manipulated by media I start to understand why we can't get traction on issues like immigration. A population of sheep is easily led.
I have a flash blocker on my browser, so when I read "Most interesting man in the world" plus "Hispanic" I thought it was going to be another Dudamel post.
A bit odd that the actor in this ad is Jewish. The Latino-Jewish phenomenon is an interesting one. Note also Television megastar Don Francisco, whose real name is "Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld."
"Just as its misleading to think most short, fat, tempermental-hard-drinking little brown Mexican women look like the blonde and copper headed beauties on Univision, its misleading to think that Mexico is full of men that look like Jerry Goldsmith, especially during the flashback scenes when they are using a younger actor to portray him."
Nobody thinks that Mexico is full of people that look like "these" men and women. Everybody in America has the image of short, brown, and wide Amerindian men and women in their minds next to the word "Mexican." There are many good and correct reasons to attack the MSM for leftist propaganda, but the idea that this (along with Univision and its attractive actresses) is an example of the MSM trying to get Americans to accept immigration by showing them how attractive Mexicans are is just wrong.
This ad campaign and its commercials are all about a stereotype, the stereotype of the sophisticated, attractive, suave, Southern European (and his Latin American derivation) womanizing playboy/adventurer (think Taki Theodorocopoulos). Note that this isn't some new stereotype concocted by the MSM, but one that goes back hundreds of years. The standard image of this kind of man has always been a Southern European, Casanova, Don Juan type.
That's why they're popular, funny commercials. It exaggerates and pokes fun at the features of a stereotype that everyone is familiar with and finds funny to being with.
You wouldn't be able to exploit this stereotype and use it for comic effect for an ad campaign for, say, Guinness, for example.
"former Mexican President Vincente'Fox was 6-5" and very Spanish."I thought Fox was part Irish, but Wikipedia shows him with Basque and German-American ancestry.
"Lager isn't beer."Buddy, I like a great ale like the next guy, but when it's hot and your thirsty, ice-cold lager is the way to go. We had an unseasonably warm day here for April last Saturday -- mid-80s. After a few hours of splitting logs, a few ice cold Heinekens hit the spot. Even better would have been a few Asahi Super-Dries, but I wasn't anywhere near a Japanese liquor store.
A bit odd that the actor in this ad is Jewish. Not really. In many parts of Latin America, Sephardic Jewish blood predominates over Spanish blood. Of the countless Mexicans I've encountered in my 20 years in Texas, most -- of course -- are Mestizos with lots of Amerindian ancestry. Among those without much Indian ancestry, Mexicans of Sephardic-Jewish ancestry outnumber Mexicans of apparent Spanish ancestry by at least 20 to 1. Part of this has to do with the fact that lots of Mexicans in Texas come from Nuevo Leon, which was founded as an essentially Jewish refuge. However, other parts of Mexico have a substantial Sephardic-Jewish presence as well.
By the way, I have to weigh in and say that Dos Equis lager and amber are both quite good, though I prefer Pacifico and, above all, Negra Modelo among Mexican beers.
Nobody thinks that Mexico is full of people that look like "these" men and women. Everybody in America has the image of short, brown, and wide Amerindian men and women in their minds next to the word "Mexican." There are many good and correct reasons to attack the MSM for leftist propaganda, but the idea that this (along with Univision and its attractive actresses) is an example of the MSM trying to get Americans to accept immigration by showing them how attractive Mexicans are is just wrong.It's very hard to argue that Univision and its actresses is doing much in terms of getting (non-Hispanic) Americans to accept immigration, for the simple reason that its viewership is almost entirely Hispanic.
Its image of Mexico as part of Scandinavia is being promoted to a largely brown Amerindian audience.
"Its image of Mexico as part of Scandinavia is being promoted to a largely brown Amerindian audience."
I'm against Mexican/Latin American immigration as much as the next guy here, but I have to say that while Mexicans aren't that smart, they aren't that stupid either. They are as acutely aware of Latin America's racial castes as you or any other American is. They understand fully that Latin America consists primarily of poor mestizo and Amerind peasants, with a small European derived wealthy, landowning, upper class. After all they're reminded of this every day in the media, and whenever there is an election, political issue, etc.
And the Latin American media is not serving up these soaps filled with Euro looking Latin Americans in order to convince brown Amerind peasants that they're "a part of Scandinavia." Mexicans, like people all over the world, want to see soaps about beautiful, wealthy people. Brown, Amerind peasants don't want to watch soaps about miserable brown, Amerind peasants and be constantly reminded of how shitty their lives are.
You know there are mirrors in Mexico and Latin America. Those brown Amerind peasants know damn full well what they themselves look like, and what the wealthy elite looks like.
"Lager isn't beer."Buddy, I like a great ale like the next guy, but when it's hot and your thirsty, ice-cold lager is the way to go. We had an unseasonably warm day here for April last Saturday -- mid-80s. After a few hours of splitting logs, a few ice cold Heinekens hit the spot. Even better would have been a few Asahi Super-Dries, but I wasn't anywhere near a Japanese liquor store.Maybe I went a bit too far with the hyperbole.
I do think I prefer a slightly warmer ale to an ice cold beer on an extremely hot day though.
That comment of mine made next to no sense at all and, rather than suffer the indignity of the world knowing what a complete buffoon I am, I have decided to delete it.
Bohemia bottled for sale in Mexico is wonderful. In a glass with a head the aroma of wheat dough rising gently, subtly fondles one's nose. The taste is smooth, drinkable with a clean after taste.
Bohemia bottled for export sale in the USA is just beer.
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I have to cross the aisle on this one. Dos Equis is a Mexican beer, and pretty good, too. What, you want him to be Anglo? This reminds me of the old Beck's beer commercial, with a blond guy with a German accent banging his bottle of Beck's on the counter. Whenever I saw it, I wanted to pack a suitcase. But that's how you sell imported beer, you pander to ethnic stereotypes. At least the Mexican guy in this vid is upscale and he's not slapping the women around.
ReplyDeleteOh, I was joking. To me, the most interesting man in the world is the man I want to be. Did you see him in that boat with all the beauty queens? This is the third in a series of very cool commercials - advertising at its finest.
ReplyDeleteGenetically that man is actually Jewish. His name is Jerry Goldsmith, and he is portraying a "conquistador" Mexican obviously of 99% Spanish-decent.
ReplyDeleteSteve Sailer pointed out a few times that former Mexican President Vincente'Fox was 6-5" and very Spanish. There was no Atzec or Maya in that guy at all.
There are about 5 or 6 commercials in that series. They are all on YouTube. One is 2 minutes and 27 seconds long, four are 30-second spots, and 2 are short spots "Rollerblading", etc.
Just as its misleading to think most short, fat, tempermental-hard-drinking little brown Mexican women look like the blonde and copper headed beauties on Univision, its misleading to think that Mexico is full of men that look like Jerry Goldsmith, especially during the flashback scenes when they are using a younger actor to portray him. That is a great beard on the younger actor by the way. Steve Reeves, when he portrayed Hercules, had one of the all time great trimmed-beards. http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1p4U6UcGqPwqL7mapgOZ9wLzLVq5UVc0mKazYyHPGG-4XDNQCDYs8nHE7gNl3N1SdY
Steve Reeves used to be in many old 50's "Hercules" movies. I had a roomate years ago who was big and built (250 lbs) and roughly that good-looking (if anything, even better-looking). He was a cop (still is best to my knowledge). It was comic to me to watch the social seas just part for him. Women metaphorically threw their panties at him. He didn't even have to try...
m
Dennis,
ReplyDeleteJONATHAN Goldsmith (not Jerry-dont know why that name was in my head).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326091/
Note the fact that he has quite BLUE eyes. You can enlarge his picture by clicking on it. Getting the beer commercial gig must be a godsend for a guy who was primarily a TV actor in the 70s-80s.
m: Thanks for the info. I had no idea. In that photo, Steve Reeves is just ridiculously good-looking - alpha looking too - he must have had the ladies all over him.
ReplyDeleteThe ads don't come right out and say that he's Hispanic, but this most recent one, where he plays jai alai, implies that he's Mexican - or Basque!
"He lives vicariously,.. through himself."
ReplyDeleteVery good.
Just a bit too American,..a bit too sophisticated for my liking.
This is more to my taste... in ads that is. The beer is shocking.
The first VB ad is another typically Oz take on things.
Keep the low brow stuff coming Dennis. Loved the Lezbo last post, my heart is still racing. I never knew Kultcha could be so...exciting. btw, to my thinking the brunette isn't anything other than a typically hot Colleen. No Med detected on my part. Much better than Mulholland Drive, she's the real McCoy.
This one's big on Opera. Well, it's pretty dramatic.
ReplyDeleteWhat gets me is how the masses fall for this stuff. I boycott all Mexican products so I've been paying attention to the rise of this alleged beer.
ReplyDeleteUntil recently the beer was unavailable in my area. Then came the commercials. Almost every time I've been in a beer store in the last year or so I've seen people buying this worthless Mexican piss. Yet when it comes to quality beers - Belgian trappist ales, microbrews, English ales etc - they sell so poorly that most beer stores stock them briefly then give up on them because they don't sell as well as the mass produced heavily advertised tasteless beers like Bud, Stella, Coors, Labatts, Corona, etc. I asked the clerk at one store if Dos Equis is selling well and she said it's 'flying off the shelves' followed by 'people love the commercials?'. I don't understand buying something because of commercials.
When I see our people so easily influenced and manipulated by media I start to understand why we can't get traction on issues like immigration. A population of sheep is easily led.
I have a flash blocker on my browser, so when I read "Most interesting man in the world" plus "Hispanic" I thought it was going to be another Dudamel post.
ReplyDeleteA bit odd that the actor in this ad is Jewish. The Latino-Jewish phenomenon is an interesting one. Note also Television megastar Don Francisco, whose real name is "Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld."
Most Interest Man on Careers: "Find out what it is in life that you don't do well......and then don't do that thing."
ReplyDeleteFor my own part, I find mexican beers to be generally pretty good. Draft Dos Equis Amber is great (bottled, however, not that good).
Lager isn't beer.
ReplyDeleteHe may very well be Jewish, but "Goldsmith" isn't necessarily a Jewish name.
ReplyDeleteOliver Goldsmith, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith
"Just as its misleading to think most short, fat, tempermental-hard-drinking little brown Mexican women look like the blonde and copper headed beauties on Univision, its misleading to think that Mexico is full of men that look like Jerry Goldsmith, especially during the flashback scenes when they are using a younger actor to portray him."
ReplyDeleteNobody thinks that Mexico is full of people that look like "these" men and women. Everybody in America has the image of short, brown, and wide Amerindian men and women in their minds next to the word "Mexican." There are many good and correct reasons to attack the MSM for leftist propaganda, but the idea that this (along with Univision and its attractive actresses) is an example of the MSM trying to get Americans to accept immigration by showing them how attractive Mexicans are is just wrong.
This ad campaign and its commercials are all about a stereotype, the stereotype of the sophisticated, attractive, suave, Southern European (and his Latin American derivation) womanizing playboy/adventurer (think Taki Theodorocopoulos). Note that this isn't some new stereotype concocted by the MSM, but one that goes back hundreds of years. The standard image of this kind of man has always been a Southern European, Casanova, Don Juan type.
That's why they're popular, funny commercials. It exaggerates and pokes fun at the features of a stereotype that everyone is familiar with and finds funny to being with.
You wouldn't be able to exploit this stereotype and use it for comic effect for an ad campaign for, say, Guinness, for example.
Personally, I thought Taki was the most interesting man in the world.
ReplyDelete"former Mexican President Vincente'Fox was 6-5" and very Spanish."I thought Fox was part Irish, but Wikipedia shows him with Basque and German-American ancestry.
ReplyDelete"Lager isn't beer."Buddy, I like a great ale like the next guy, but when it's hot and your thirsty, ice-cold lager is the way to go. We had an unseasonably warm day here for April last Saturday -- mid-80s. After a few hours of splitting logs, a few ice cold Heinekens hit the spot. Even better would have been a few Asahi Super-Dries, but I wasn't anywhere near a Japanese liquor store.
A bit odd that the actor in this ad is Jewish. Not really. In many parts of Latin America, Sephardic Jewish blood predominates over Spanish blood. Of the countless Mexicans I've encountered in my 20 years in Texas, most -- of course -- are Mestizos with lots of Amerindian ancestry. Among those without much Indian ancestry, Mexicans of Sephardic-Jewish ancestry outnumber Mexicans of apparent Spanish ancestry by at least 20 to 1. Part of this has to do with the fact that lots of Mexicans in Texas come from Nuevo Leon, which was founded as an essentially Jewish refuge. However, other parts of Mexico have a substantial Sephardic-Jewish presence as well.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I have to weigh in and say that Dos Equis lager and amber are both quite good, though I prefer Pacifico and, above all, Negra Modelo among Mexican beers.
ReplyDeleteNobody thinks that Mexico is full of people that look like "these" men and women. Everybody in America has the image of short, brown, and wide Amerindian men and women in their minds next to the word "Mexican." There are many good and correct reasons to attack the MSM for leftist propaganda, but the idea that this (along with Univision and its attractive actresses) is an example of the MSM trying to get Americans to accept immigration by showing them how attractive Mexicans are is just wrong.It's very hard to argue that Univision and its actresses is doing much in terms of getting (non-Hispanic) Americans to accept immigration, for the simple reason that its viewership is almost entirely Hispanic.
ReplyDeleteIts image of Mexico as part of Scandinavia is being promoted to a largely brown Amerindian audience.
Peter
ironrailsironweights,
ReplyDelete"Its image of Mexico as part of Scandinavia is being promoted to a largely brown Amerindian audience."
I'm against Mexican/Latin American immigration as much as the next guy here, but I have to say that while Mexicans aren't that smart, they aren't that stupid either. They are as acutely aware of Latin America's racial castes as you or any other American is. They understand fully that Latin America consists primarily of poor mestizo and Amerind peasants, with a small European derived wealthy, landowning, upper class. After all they're reminded of this every day in the media, and whenever there is an election, political issue, etc.
And the Latin American media is not serving up these soaps filled with Euro looking Latin Americans in order to convince brown Amerind peasants that they're "a part of Scandinavia." Mexicans, like people all over the world, want to see soaps about beautiful, wealthy people. Brown, Amerind peasants don't want to watch soaps about miserable brown, Amerind peasants and be constantly reminded of how shitty their lives are.
You know there are mirrors in Mexico and Latin America. Those brown Amerind peasants know damn full well what they themselves look like, and what the wealthy elite looks like.
"Lager isn't beer."Buddy, I like a great ale like the next guy, but when it's hot and your thirsty, ice-cold lager is the way to go. We had an unseasonably warm day here for April last Saturday -- mid-80s. After a few hours of splitting logs, a few ice cold Heinekens hit the spot. Even better would have been a few Asahi Super-Dries, but I wasn't anywhere near a Japanese liquor store.Maybe I went a bit too far with the hyperbole.
ReplyDeleteI do think I prefer a slightly warmer ale to an ice cold beer on an extremely hot day though.
Too cold kinda hurts.
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ReplyDeleteThat comment of mine made next to no sense at all and, rather than suffer the indignity of the world knowing what a complete buffoon I am, I have decided to delete it.
ReplyDeleteAs you were.
re: Mexican cerveza
ReplyDeleteBohemia bottled for sale in Mexico is wonderful. In a glass with a head the aroma of wheat dough rising gently, subtly fondles one's nose. The taste is smooth, drinkable with a clean after taste.
Bohemia bottled for export sale in the USA is just beer.
Dan Kurt
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ReplyDeletefor photos of this funny TV campaign