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今日って休日らしいですね。
さっき知りました。仙人か、わしゃ。
ところで「つかってみんしゃいよか石鹸」の
CMの小芝居を知ってますか？
NHK教育の小学生用番組というか教習所のビデオ教材というか、
完成度の低さが心にやさしい小劇場なのです。
40代とおぼしき冴えない女が、つかってみんしゃいよか石けんを
使ったら若い男子に飲みに誘われちゃった、というのを
同僚の同世代男子が妬いて、若いヤツなんかやめてオレと飲みに行こうよ～
とか言うんですけど、それが筆者の見る限り使用後も全然冴えないままでして。
さらにその過程で
「女はいつでも男性の目を意識してなきゃ！」
とか言って聞かせる「先生」と呼ばれる60歳ぐらいの女が
「オマエが言うのか？」
と見る人全てにつっこまれそうな女でして。
完成度どころか説得力も大変弱く、
めっちゃ心休まります～。
菅野美穂とかシャロン・ストーンが
「コレ使ったら美しなりまっせ。」
とか言うCMでは
「おまえソレつこたから美しなったんちゃうやんケ！！」
などと強く思ってしまったりとかして心休まったりとかムリでして。
それで思い出しましたけど、筆者も20年ぐらい前に
海外ビジネスマン向けの日本語教材のビデオで主演したことがあるのです。
死んでも観たくないから一度も完成品を見たことないですが。
もう死ぬほどダサい超イケてないヘア＆メークをされまして、
普段の筆者の５倍ぐらいブサイクにされまして。
あのメーク係、何考えとんねん？！
撮影後に髪とメイクを自分でし直して帰ろうとしたらスタッフに二度見されたのを
忘れられません。「え、そこまで悲惨でもないやん？！」という顔です。
そう思えるんやったらメークをクビにせんかい！！次の日もおんなしメークしやがって。
撮影中はガラスも鏡もゼッタイ見ませんでした、筆者。
そんなもん見てしまったら演技を続けるのに必要な最低限の自信も失われると思い。
しかし、もしかするとあのビデオもどこかで誰かの心を休ませたりしたかもしれないな。
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Today is a holiday, right?
I noticed this a few minutes ago. Am I a hermit or something?
By the way have you ever seen the CM of
Tsukatteminnshai Yoka Sekken soap??
It's like a ETV eduation program for primary school students or
one of those videos they show at driving schools.
Its poor quality makes me feel at ease.
A woman in her 40s who's done with taking care of her appearance
uses the soap and suddenly asked to go for a drink by a young guy.
And one of her male colleagues about the same age as her suddenly becomes
jealous and asks her to go for a drink with him instead of the young guy.
But the truth is; there's no visible improvement made on her. Not that I can see.
And there's this older lady somehow called "sennsei (teacher)" who
teaches the first woman saying,
"Women should always be self-conscious about how they look to men's eyes!"
And I'm sure I'm not the only one who comes up with the question:
"And YOU tell that to her?!"
Not only the whole thing is of poor quality, but it's hardly convincing.
It's really peaceful.
When some beauties like Miho Kanno or Sharon Stone says,
"This'll make you beautiful."
or some bullshits like that in a cosmetic CM, I can't help thinking,
"This is not at all the reason why you're beautiful!! You think I'm an idiot?!"
Thus these CMs never give me peace.
This reminds me; I starred in a short movie about 20 years ago.
It was called more or less "Elementary Japanese for Foreign Businessmen,"
which I have never watched myself because I don't wanna see it unless
my very survival depends on my watching it.
The makeup girl did an unbelievably uncool jobs on my hair and face.
And as a result, I looked approximately 5 times uglier than usual me.
I mean, what did that girl think she was doing?!
I can't forget the way some of the filming staff looked at me when after the day's
filming I undid the stupid hair and makeup and retouched them myself to
make me look a little more like my usual self.
Their faces were the faces that were saying,
"Wow, she's not as totally disastrous as we thought, is she?"
If you think so, then fire the makeup girl!!
But instead they kept doing the same vandalism on me and my heart the next day.
I never looked at any mirror or glass during filming.
If I saw myself like that, I was sure my petty confidence I needed to keep acting
would be shattered.
But now I wonder if maybe one or two souls found comfort in that movie?
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