Vasakronan copies Fat Boy Slim

OOOh, will you look at that, someone has a serious case of demo-love it seems?

Or, do you really think that the team behind the dancing actor Michael Persbrant for Vasakronan never saw Christopher Walken strut his stuff in Fat Boy Slim's video "weapon of choice"? 

Researcher thought the Vasakronan ad was great, because you so seldom see big bombastic ads in Sweden. True.

But it wasn't long before a commenter named Martin muttered "so frickin' stolen from Fat Boy Slims video". Aye.

After watching both, I have to agree - this seems more than just a little inspired. Got the famous male actor/bad boy? Check. Got him dancing? Check. In an empty office building at night? Check. Got him flying around at the end? Check. Lets see now, what's missing? Oh yeah, dancing talent in Persbrants/Vasakronan's case. At least Christopher can move!

See and judge for yourself. Go here to Resumes filmrum to watch the Persbrant/Vasakronan dance. Or here in the commercials archive: Vasakronan - 9 to 5 Michael Persbrandt (2006) - (Sweden)

 Update Saturday 9th of December

From Resume advertising magazine comes this quote (see bottom of the article):

The Concept and feeling is a lot like Spike Jonze awarded video Weapon Of choice with a dancing Christopher Walken. - "Yes, we've been inspired by that, We saw it this summer together and it has the same feeling that we want to portray", says Bengt Möller Information Director at Vasakronan