N900 Videos

Nokia’s viral marketing department has released a series of videos based on the theme of a loser who always gets things wrong because he’s not constantly online.

In this video the loser is John, the Groom’s “best man”. The movie opens with John asleep after the stag night (”buck’s party”), together with the groom and their mates.

The landline phone rings. John wakes and stumbles over his mates to answer it. We don’t hear the message, but it must be that they are late for the wedding. Better hurry!

John wakes the others. There’s a general panic. The groom has had his chest hair shaved into a smiling face, and the hair superglued onto someone else’s face as a beard. Hurriedly they sort themselves out, doing the final preparation in the limousine ride to the church.

Outside the church they pause only to pick some flowers for their buttonholes, before racing into the church and taking their places as if nothing has happened.

There’s an uneasy silence, with members of the audience looking around uncomfortably. Something’s not right! Then the “real” groom and best man walk in. John and the others turned up at the wrong church.

As they race out of the church, an N900 appears in the foreground showing a chat between a Bruce Harrison and a Judith. They’re wondering whether John, the best man, got the message that the venue had changed. If only he had been online as it was happening.

The music is Chasing Time by Alan Pownall.

There is also a sequel: Sally’s revenge.