Saturday, April 2, 2011

Toy Soldiers by Eminem and E*trade Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lexLAjh8fPA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GsNhLt9Ds

The Song Toy Soldiers is about Eminem's loss of a friend due to gang/rap violence. Throughout the video children are shown. The first time is in the very opening scene where there are two children sitting together, and one opens a story book. The music video starts and has many scenes depicting different parts of the story of Eminem's friend Proof's death. Later in the video there are children singing at Proof's funeral, but they have blank expressions. The rest of the video shows pictures of prominent figures in music, who have died, fading away. The lyrics talk about the whole debate and their main focus is comparing something to toy soldiers.

The E-trade commercial is a video of a baby in a crib. There is a dog sitting next to it and the baby claims to have gotten in trouble for riding the dog around. He sneaks some sort of internet getting device into his crib so that he can use E-trade to "check and manage his portfolios." A woman, presumed to be his mother, comes in and takes away the device. The baby responds with mild disbelief that she took it, and yells at the dog for not barking to warn him that his mother was coming. He then jokes with the dog that he wanted a bird rather than the dog.

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