On the beach of an island in the Pacific, an island with black sand, hardened black lava, and nothing green growing but cactus, a British mariner with a knife in his hand was crouching before a giant tortoise.

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Soon they walked, drunk, surrounded by a pack of hungry strays, toward a glaring white strip of beach and the black sea and blue froth crashing on the sand.

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We can see the ad, photos of models, a video trailer at a black-sand beach in Hawaii, and what would be called, on a DVD, a bonus feature on the making of the video.

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