Denmark Introduces Harrowing New Tourism Ads Directed By Lars Von Trier

Tourism officials hope the acclaimed Danish director’s bleak vision of unsettling sexuality and brutal violence will attract more visitors to their country.

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25 Responses to Denmark Introduces Harrowing New Tourism Ads Directed By Lars Von Trier

  1. Shamus8b8 says:

    @BibianaBurke You …
    @BibianaBurke You obviously missed the point of the skit, it’s making fun of indie “FORIEGN” directors who cover controversial themes and other harsh subject matter just to seem DEEP.

    This ad is making fun of that, not just HURR HURR DENMARK IS GAY AHAHA.

    Try and read MORE into things, try and look between the lines.

  2. tdctop says:

    This is great :D


    This is great :D

    But several of the “Danes” sounded like Danish was their second (or third, or fourth) language…

    And no, the world will NEVER threaten our dominance in indoor handball… NEVER!!!

  3. lynes99 says:

    @MomoiroGirl
    You …

    @MomoiroGirl
    You are right. It was wrong for me to generalize. Reading it today, my comment seems much stronger than intended because it appears out of context. I was responding to earlier comments that are too old to be visible now. I apologize.

  4. MomoiroGirl says:

    @lynes99 Look, I’m …
    @lynes99 Look, I’m danish, I’m not offended, it’s comedy, it’s not serious at all, it’s all for the laugh :) BUT when YOU generalize all danes like that, it makes YOU a prejudice asshole. Almost EVERYONE in Denmark is very dissapointed in the newspaper that “dished out” those cartoons, especially because now people like YOU say that EVERYONE in Denmark thought those cartoons were okay. I’m just saying :)

  5. nithelmusic says:

    @bbphnix I don’t. …
    @bbphnix I don’t. It’s not any more offensive than anything else Onion has made :-)

  6. MsHerro2010 says:

    Haha
    Haha

  7. BibianaBurke says:

    No. been to Denmark …
    No. been to Denmark, met the people. Not happy with Onion’s take on the country. Nor the rape thing. DENMARK RULES!!!!!!!!

  8. 1DVGamer7 says:

    lol…. funniest …
    lol…. funniest eva… go onion.

  9. lynes99 says:

    Well, DE should be …
    Well, DE should be able to take it, since they were able to dish it out in the form of those cartoons that were offensive to some Muslims…

  10. bbphnix says:

    would Danish people …
    would Danish people feel offended by this? Does not strike as the best of the Onion’s sketches…

  11. LilChuckyWoodenHead says:

    This isn’t funny .. …
    This isn’t funny ……..It’s sick !

  12. himerius2007 says:

    @ploothable More …
    @ploothable More like extremely drunk norwegians.

  13. mroldnewbie says:

    Funny.
    Funny.

  14. homebuiltindoorplane says:

    hahahahah!~!!!!!!!!
    hahahahah!~!!!!!!!!

  15. vonsvin says:

    Jørgen, Jørgen. ha …
    Jørgen, Jørgen. ha det er hvad sker når man spørger for meget.

  16. MightyGoldenBoy says:

    @ploothable or as …
    @ploothable or as we commonly refer to it, “with porridge in the throat”

  17. SVKP122 says:

    OMG this is so …
    OMG this is so accurate !!!!!! dansks are so creapyyyyyy :x

  18. ploothable says:

    @miodmind2 I live …
    @miodmind2 I live in Sweden, just on the other side of Öresund. My experience is that danes are the same as any other people. The biggest difference is that they talk like extremely drunk swedes.

  19. hogwashsentinel says:

    Jooooorrrrrnnnnnnnnn
    Jooooorrrrrnnnnnnnnn

  20. diamonddragoniori says:

    was this supposed …
    was this supposed to be funny….?

    <_<…….too lazy to go google this fella……

    but Denmark is a gr8 country thou..regardless…..

  21. PanterenDK says:

    Brilliant, just …
    Brilliant, just brilliant and no! No one will ever threaten our dominance in indoor handball!

    Come to Denmark and enjoy our outdoor life ;-)

  22. Havn1988 says:

    This is awsome!!

    This is awsome!!
    I’m danish and I can’t see why this offends anyone. People who know of Lars Von Trier knows that he’s got a twisted mind where those exact “ads” actually could have been in a movie.
    This Onion was made a little while after the imfamous clip where the “young danish mother seeking a dad” was discovered to be a false. Thank God for self-irony!!!
    As for the ticker in the bottom of the clip: It’s just normal Onion jibberish.

  23. tuseroni says:

    @Kagemusha08 scott?
    @Kagemusha08 scott?

  24. alexhuje says:

    i am a dane and i …
    i am a dane and i actually liked this. onion news rocks!!! btw. the answer to the last question in the movie is: HÆLL FµCKING NO!!!!!!! :-)

  25. Kagemusha08 says:

    Most people who …
    Most people who think this is funny are either Danes or knowledgeable about von Trier. I’m part of the latter and I find it hilarious mainly because it seems like something he would actually do.
    That said, all the Danish people I’ve met are very friendly, not to mention great to drink with. I’d love to visit one day, though the price of flying over the Atlantic makes that impossible at this point in time. Driving to New Jersey will have to do for now (*sobs uncontrollably*)