Dubya Dubya Dubya dot Hitler’s Cross dot kaun?
Posted by danvirion on September 6, 2006
A new restaurant opened up recently a furlong or so away from where my folks stay in Navi Mumbai. Almost instantaneously it was a top feature on prime time news for all the wrong reasons. The promoter chose to name his eat-house “Hitler’s Cross”. Not surprisingly, the local Jewish community was up in protest, and the eatery was quickly rechristened.
But this post is not really about this cavalier means of advertising, but about something a lot more subtle that not many people seem to have noticed. The portrait of Hitler that the eatery used during this ad campaign was not picked out from history books. The portrait was constructed by digitally imprinting a Hitler-style moustache over the face of a powerful world leader of contemporary times. Who? The title of this post gives it away!
Was there a more subtle message in this ad campaign… the thought is rather uncanny… the resemblance, even more so…!
