Harrison Ford’s MCU debut can wait. I prefer his whiskey ads | Film

IN Over the next few weeks, Harrison Ford will officially join Marvel Cinematic Universe starring in Captain America: Brave New World as both president of the United States and Red Hulk. However, the film is shaped to be a critical and commercial flop – maybe even the biggest Marvel flop yet – and therefore it makes sense that Ford will quickly move on to his next project.

And now we know what that project is. This week, a number of videos appeared on the YouTube channel in Scottish whiskey brand Glenmorangie, taking the form of a semi-fictional six-piece series about Adventures of Harrison Ford in Scotland. Joel Edgerton instructed the ads. They are put in the traitor castle. It’s all pretty hard to understand.

Of course, this is not the first time a Hollywood star has traveled abroad to make money in ads. Nicolas Cage went to Japan and made a series of incomprehensible Pachinko advertisingWhile Robert de Niro recently came to Britain to become the face of the sliced ​​bread. The most similar to this is the series of Blockbuster Tourism -Advertising that Zac Efron and Jessica Alba Made for Dubai, taking the form of compressed action movie trailers that were filmed across a number of famous local landmarks.

But even this does not quite vote with the pure wonders know what Ford has done here. Anyone could just go to Scotland and sip to some booze, but this is almost a soap opera. In Section 1 Ford is progressing his bedroom after seeing a vision of Scotland while meditating, and Requirements to be led to a slot. In the second he arrives in Scotland, visiting Glenmorangie Distillery And immediately start telling people that he won’t do ads until they give him a nice car, and then he changes his mind.

Section three sees Ford visit his accommodationWhich is very clearly the castle where they film the traitors and he goes to the round bord and breaks an armor. Section four male Puts on a kilt. Section five he goes Back to the distillery And make a truly disturbing Scottish accent into a Scottish person. In paragraph six he drinks some whiskey and then throws Advertiser script in the fire.

And then it is. Perhaps. It’s honestly hard to see, as the series doesn’t really have anything approaching an identifiable tale, Ford, throwing the manuscript into the fire, could be the end, but it could just as forever. There is a compressed version of the series that plays out as a traditional 60-second ad. It has a shot of Ford on a glen in a kilt surrounded by sackpipers. Could this have been taken from a later episode? Will it end up being the story that Harrison Ford becomes more and more comicically Scottish until he ends up looking and appearing as Russ abbot From the 1980s?

However, I want Ford to continue to make these ads forever. There is some weird melancholy about them. They are about an older man in a foreign country, a little confused and apparently in the grip of an existential crisis. In this connection, they are a bit like Michael Winterbottom’s trip, only with fewer impressions. Who knows where it could go from here. Maybe he finds love and it all becomes a kind of whiskey-based gold mixing campaign. Maybe he stays in the castle for so long that he ends up on the next series of traitors. Maybe he will come out. There really is no story.

It’s an interesting way for the last stages of a career to play out. Harrison Ford is an icon, a man intended to go down as one of the great movie actors. And yet he is here, 82 years old and jumped around on YouTube for a relatively small audience, apparently just to entertain himself.

It reminds me a little of David Lynch, who, after spending years at the forefront of Arthouse Cinema, spent her latter years happy to mess on the internet. The last piece of work that Lynch has ever produced is a video on his channel where he took an old movie and did A fun voiceover about shutters On top of that. He was happy to do it, so we should be glad it exists. The same goes for Harrison Ford. Forget MCU, if he wants to spend the rest of his life dating around Scotland, none of us should stop him.