It seems an ad agency in Beirut created a commercial similar to the British T-Mobile advert (Lifes For Sharing) in which a group of people suddenly started dancing in a train station except in our case the dancing takes place at the airport. The commercial is for the company Plus Brokers (which you can clearly see their banner through out the video). I personally prefer the T-Mobile version, first because of the fact they came up with the idea first (although they were inspired by Improv Everywhere’s Frozen Grand Central Station) and secondly because the T-Mobile version looked more real. The dancing in the T-Mobile commercial took place at a crowded station and it looked as if people randomly started joining but with the Beirut Airport version the airport is empty and it then just looks like a group of dancers came in and started dancing. Even though it’s still fun to watch. [YouTube]
Below is the original T-Mobile ad for comparison.
[YouTube]
Angie at NowLebanon have another version of the clip and it does not show the PlusBroker banner…I am not saying it is not an ad—-but if it is they have to make sure that their version goes viral and not some random amateur posting his/her version on youtube
Actually even in the other video you can see the banners
I think this is the busiest I have seen the airport =P
lol
Very ugly performance compared to the one of T-Mobile!
I don’t think it’s a bad performance, its not as good as tmobile but it’s still good in it’s own way
the sound is horrendous, and the idea is a copy, it’s fun to watch though. but wasn’t moby the first to do such an idea when he shot one video of his with people dancing in a mall and people just walking by or joining in? can’t remember which song though…