Edgar's fall

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Edgar's fall (La caida de Edgar) is a video that was uploaded to Youtube in March 2006 from México. This internet meme has been one of the most popular videos in Youtube, with over two million viewings throughout the world.

1 History
2 Impact on Mexico's popular media
- 2.1 Edgar's Revenge
3 External links

[edit] History

The video features a young Mexican kid named Edgar and his cousin Fernando hiking in a ranch near their home town of Monterrey. The video starts with Edgar being afraid of trying to cross a river using a log as a bridge. Soon after Edgar starts crossing, Fernando starts shaking the log, making Edgar curse angrily with a funny mexican "norteño" (northern) accent until he finally loses his step and falls into the river while cursing again.

[edit] Impact on Mexico's popular media

Edgar's fall was the subject of much media exposure in México wich included newspapers and the clip being shown on the TV news.

There are ringtones, games, parodies, remixes and even a web page where Edgar is proposed for Mexico's presidency. There are over 20 versions of the video including Star Wars, Mario Bros, and Street Fighter. Some publicity campaigns have made use of the video without worries of copyright issues, by example Nike's Joga Bonito campaign. Edgar has also gained other media exposure, appearing on TV shows and in newspapers.

[edit] Edgar's Revenge

On 2007, Edgar, Fernando and the cameraman that participated in this video made a TV commercial called La Venganza de Edgar (Edgar's Revenge) for a Mexican cookie company, Gamesa. The commercial parodies the situation seen in the original video but, instead of Edgar falling in the river, he screams "Guards!", and suddenly Roman soldiers appear, to the shock of Fernando, the boy about to make him fall. Edgar orders the Roman guards to throw Fernando in the water, and despite Fernando's protests they do so. At Edgar's command, the cameraman was then also dropped in the water by the Romans.

This series of commercials advertises a brand of cookies called Emperador (Emperor); they show people acting like they were a Roman Emperor, calling their guards to turn things in their favor.