Inglourious baristas: why is Brad Pitt making coffee for 16 abusive dogs?

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In new film The Heart of the Beast, the A-lister’s bond with his loyal mutt proves crucial. In Spike Jonze’s new advert, Pitt is rather more subservient Brad Pitt has a new movie out this month, The Heart of the Beast, about an emotionally damaged man who forms a life-saving bond with a dog. If that sounds familiar, ma
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In new film The Heart of the Beast, the A-lister’s bond with his loyal mutt proves crucial.
In Spike Jonze’s new advert, Pitt is rather more subservient Brad Pitt has a new movie out this month, The Heart of the Beast, about an emotionally damaged man who forms a life-saving bond with a dog.
If that sounds familiar, maybe it is because you have seen The Call of the Wild. Or maybe it is because you have seen A Dog’s Way Home.
Or maybe it is because you have seen Dog. Or, look, you get the idea.
But perhaps Brad Pitt knows that getting people to see something as unimaginative as The Heart of the Beast is an uphill struggle, because that would explain why he has just made an advert that looks and feels much more like the Brad Pitt dog movie that deserves to be made.
In short, it is an advert where Brad Pitt gets loudly disparaged by a number of dogs for an extended period of time. Continue reading...
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