This morning I was awakened at 7:30 by the Fed Ex guy. He had a Priority Overnight package for me; I blearily tore open the envelope to see what was so important as to wake me up at a decent hour on a work day. My sleep-encrusted eyes soon opened wider, though, as I realized what this package contained:
Money.
Two American dollars. Two Canadian dollars. And five Euros.
It had a letter from Louis Salinger of Scotland Yard (he looks quite a bit like Clive Owen in the attached picture), asking for my help in cracking the case against The International Bank of Business and Credit, The IBBC.
There was also a memory stick, and a whole bunch of papers. As I leafed through them I realized that this was a viral alternate reality game for Sony’s The International, a movie about an evil international bank that is either super timely or completely fucked by the recent economic collapse.
I looked at some of this stuff and couldn’t be really bothered to ‘solve’ anything, so I leave it all here for you, the loyal Chewers who are looking to do something on your company dime besides work.
The memory stick featured a Quicktime movie called STOP THE INTERNATIONAL. Here it is:
The two dollar bill enclosed in the packet has a stamp reading THIS IS BLOOD MONEY, so I assume that’s a good bill to use to begin your quest on stoptheinternational.com, as mentioned in the video. That bill’s number is L 21699601 A.
The memory stick also contained a folder labeled ‘Berlin Evidence’ (the package included a world map with Berlin, London, New York and Los Angeles marked). It contained an MP3 and some images. Here’s the MP3:
And here are the images.
9 comments
Yay! Let's play…bank?
What a pain in the ass. I'd rather watch Youtube's of people catching their asses on fire.
Piece of advice: When doing an ARG to promote a movie, don't use recognizable actors. We can clearly see Clive Owen and one of those "that guys". Benjamin Bratt killed "What Happened in Piedmont," I wish these guys would learn.
i saw the trailer for this movie before 'burn after reading' and I totally thought it was a parody until the trailer ended. It looks horrible.
How many shitty movies can Clive Owen be in? What a fun game. Shoot'em Up might as well haev been called kick in the nuts.
I want to put together one of these viral promotion games, get a lot of people involved, but then it turns out that there is in fact no film being promoted.
also, that mp3 was so obviously recorded in a sound booth.
people who hate Shoot'em up should be kicked in the nuts.
Mr. Not Don Murphy, you are a man of wisdom and taste.
It's all very clever, but how much effort do they expect me to put into marketing their movie? Asking fans to come together as a community is not the same thing as asking strangers to start running searches on treasury serial numbers.
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