Sunday, January 13, 2008

The founder of Microsoft walks into a bar...

Bill Gates' celebrity-cameo-loaded video-spoof of his last day of work is striking, for the following dubious reasons:

1. The (accidental?) resemblance of the interview portions to the "talking head" interviews on The Office (US). If the resemblance is on purpose, what does this say about what it's like to work at Microsoft?

2. The assumption that computer geeks who care about Bill Gates can recognize Matthew McConaughey on sight alone.

3. The poor comic pacing. The Bono gag was excruciating. Fix it thusly: Show Bill Gates rocking out on Guitar Hero. See him pick up the phone and ask, "so, what do you think?" Then cut to Bono gently letting him down. Hmmm... methinks someone needs to buy Final Cut Pro.

4. Overall, it's actually not that funny. Sorry, Mr. Gates. You make spoof videos about as well as you make operating systems.

Posted by Mary at 11:39 p.m.

1 comment:

Kempton said...

Hi Mary,

Agree. This is one painful to watch spoof video.

Now, may be the video was also hurt by corporate policy of NOT using Final Cut Pro. They had to eat their own dog food, so to speak.

Regards,
Kempton

January 30, 2008 2:12 a.m.

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