Brett Ratner Day on FilmDrunk continues (I swear I didn’t plan this) with this commercial for the New York Film Academy, which I stumbled across for the first time late last night.

Now, let’s say you were making a commercial for a small “Film Academy” that normally advertises in the back of Playboy and Rolling Stone.  You probably wouldn’t want to hang your reputation on the endorsement of a director widely considered to be kind of a whore, whose films have averaged 15% recommended on RottenTomatoes, and who famously attended NYU (i.e., not your school).  But, hey, he’s a name, I’ll give you that.  Heck, just for the sake of argument, let’s say he’s the perfect spokesman.  Still, seems like you probably wouldn’t want the storyline to be that he’s been up for three days, and has to endorse your school because he lost a card game (if you can’t watch the video at work, I promise I’m not exaggerating, not even slightly).  Nor does it seem like a good idea to imply that you, a school for filmmakers, had a really hard time making said commercial, which involves one shot and one location, and that it took you many, many takes to get it right. Come to NYFA – where incompetence is job 1! We make the simple look hard! With Brett Ratner!

When it comes down to it, I guess the world of Academia is just too complex for regular schmoes like you and I to understand.  Sweet graphics though.