National Guard Warrior
I just went to the cinema to watch Burn After Reading, it was great but this is not what this post is about.
You see, before the movie started, in the middle of the trailers, there was this song/advertisement thing for the National Guard. I could not work it out, I was not sure what I was watching, was this Americans doing irony or was it real? Was this supposed to be funny? I was not laughing, instead my jaw was on the floor in disbelief.
Then the audience started to laugh, at first just a few were just a few chuckles but after a a minute or two it turned into peels of laughter, shouting and booing from across the theatre. And at the end of the song this guy came up on screen and suggested we may like to download the song from the internet! That was when the audience collectively wet themselves.
Thing is this was not Americans doing irony at all, it was real! But at least the Americans I was in the theatre with tonight got the joke.
The official site is here:
http://www.nationalguardwarrior.com/
But it is easier to watch it here:
