Bruce Lee Kicks Ass for the Nokia N96
Bruce Lee Kicks Ass for the Nokia N96

This viral, made for Chinese eyes only, shows you why you should never, ever, ever mess with Bruce Lee. Fine, the guy's dead now, making him a fairly easy mark for even the most wimpy alive people. Still, if this video teaches you anything, it's that the guy knew his way around the nunchakus, a deadly martial arts weapon to some, an unconventional ping-pong paddle to others. Roll tape:

Doesn't Bruce Lee's badassness give you a tingle down your spine? I didn't think it could get any better than him kicking Chuck Norris's ass (this is the fight where he grabs a handful of Norris's chest pelt...yum). This video pushes you to a special, Bruce Lee-themed Nokia N96 microsite* where a digital Bruce Lee demonstrates the phone's main features in the way only a digital Bruce Lee can: Awesomely.

I love this model. Nokia tells the story of incredible functionality and performance through a very clever Bruce Lee/ping pong video mashup. It then continues the story on the microsite. Nokia doesn't just tell its Chinese audience, "hey, this phone is great." It tells a story and thereby demonstrates it. Obviously, Nokia's got this post-advertising thing down. (The company has been trying for long enough: clickety clickety clack.)

More cool ping pong stuff here and here.

*The site has VERY slow load times. Possibly because the server is so far away, possibly because so many people are trying to access it at once. Probably both.

 

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