By Kyle Buchanan, 5:46 PM on Fri Dec 12 2008, 9,622 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson doesn't typically work with two-time Sexiest Man Alive winners (keep trying, Schwarzbaum!), so to imagine what the director could do with Brad Pitt doesn't come easily.

Nevertheless, here we have a Japanese ad for, uh, Volkswagens? Canary-yellow pith helmets? Oh, it's an ad for phones, we guess, Japanese phones, and Anderson directs Pitt in it as though the actor had just stepped off a Jacques Tati set. Aniston, your move. Might we suggest lining up David Lynch in a hallucinatory commercial for pachinko?

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