Dollar Shave Club video: the script
To follow up on my previous post about the Dollar Shave Club video that I love, here is the script.
DollarShaveClub.com –Their Blades Are F***ing Great
[Mike is sat at office table. Close-up shot of head and shoulders. Suspicious amount of children toys are hung up all over the background wall. Camera slowly zooms out as Mike begins to speak.]
Mike: ‘Hi. I’m mike - founder of dollarshave.com. What is dollarshave.com? Well, for a dollar month we send high quality razors right to your door. [Mike stands up and begins moving around the desk towards the door.] Yeah. A dollar. Are the bladed any good? No. [Stops in doorway and points at the poster to the right] Our blades are fucking great.
[New shot of wall in factory. Mike bursts through tissue paper wall holding razor example and cont. walking through factory floor]
Mike: ‘Each razor has stainless steel blades and Aloe Vera lubrication strip and a pivot head. [Passes a toddler sat with shaving a man’s head as he reads calmly.] It’s so gentle a toddler could use it.’
[Mike cont. walking along factory floor, towards camera as camera moves away.]
Mike: ‘And do you like spending 20 dollars a month on brand named razors – 19 go to roger Federer – [A tennis racket is thrown in from the side.]
Mike: I’m good at tennis…[Tennis ball is also thrown in. Mike misses the ball with racket.]
Mike[jumping on a pickup reversing to the right of the screen]: ‘And do you think your razor needs a vibrating handle, a flash light, a backscratcher and 10 blades? [Passes an old photo of grandfather on wall behind] Your handsome-ass grandfather had one blade and polio.
[Camera zooms and remains on portrait]
Mike: Looking goooood poppop!
[Back on factory floor, Mike moves towards table displaying a box of razors about to packaged.]
Mike: ‘Stop paying for shave tech you don’t need and stop forgetting to pay for your blades every month - Alejandro and I are gonna’ ship them right to ya’. [Worker Alejandro pulls tape across box, which Mike then cuts with ridiculously oversized sword, before throwing the package to a man dressed in a bear suit. Camera swings round to the bear-man who misses the box before putting his thumb up to address the camera in a friendly and cheerful manner.]
[Cuts to shot of Mike and Alejandro working together in a wheel barrow. Mike sits back, wrapping his legs around Alejandro as they move along.]
Mike: ‘We’re not just selling razors, we’re also making new jobs. [Addressing Alejandro] Alejandro, what were you doing last month?’
Alejandro[grinning]: ‘Not working’
Mike: ‘And what you doing now?’
Alejandro [still grinning]: ‘Working.’
Mike: ‘I’m no Vanderbulit but this train makes hay’ [Mike motions tooting a trains horn in time to sound] *beepbeep*
Mike [moving across factory tables this time]: ‘So stop forgetting to buy your blades every month and start deciding where you’re gonna’ stack all those dollar bills am saving you.
[Mike moves into background consisting of the man-bear, who reveals an American flag and who holds stacks of dollars.]
Mike: We’re Dollarshave.coma and the party, is on.
[Cuts to music “Karate” by Kennedy (real funky) …And Mike blowing money around with a leaf blower.]
