Some influences of Cinema in the Videoclip.
Undoubtedly, the video or video clip is the child of cinema. Both are audiovisual expressions that have influenced each other.
There are those who define the video clip as something visual placed over a song, which is valid to apply to any sung and danced passage of the old Hollywood musicals, which do not qualify as video clips because they are only part of a larger work, instead the video clip is intended to promote a song and an artist, regardless of the artistic quality of the same.
Many times when watching a video, whether in film, television or on youtube, I have had a certain Deja Vu and I say to myself: I have seen this somewhere else. In some cases in fragments of a second it comes to my mind in which movie it was, in others, after an avalanche of visual references and finished the video, I rest a little until I remember in which work of cinema or television I saw reflected those ideas that translated into images and music called my attention.
Below, I present several examples in which the influence of cinema in the area of video clips is clearly noticeable:
1.- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film) and Can't Let You Go (Video of the group Rainbow).
In 1920 the director Robert Wiene presents the story of Dr. Caligari, a hypnotist who travels the carnival circuit with the sleepwalker Cesare who has been in a catatonic state all his life and who can answer questions about what will happen in the future on issues related to life and death. Suddenly, murders coincide with the couple's visit, and apparently the hypnotist has been ordering Cesare to commit the murders.
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This film is a classic of German expressionism.
Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's hard-rock band Rainbow dressed their singer Joe Lynn Turner as Cesare for the video for the single Can't Let You Go.
Blackmore plays a magician who revives Joe Lynn Turner so he can see his beloved again. The video is a nod to the kind of German expressionist cinema. The video clip is powerful and simple and is directed by Dominic Orlando.
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The song belongs to the 1983 album Bent Out of Shape.
2.- A Trip to the Moon (Film) and Tonight, Tonight (Video of the group Smashing Punkin).
In 1902, Georges Méliès' Journey to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) was publicly screened. This short film is one of the most representative of science fiction cinema... Méliès is the father of special effects and fantasy in cinema and the first director of fiction cinema, inclined towards the fantastic genre and special effects.
Journey to the Moon was inspired by several stories such as From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells. Georges Méliès stars in the film as Professor Barbenfouillis, leader of the lunar expedition.
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The Smashing Pumpkins in the year 1995 releases a beautiful song called Tonight, Tonight based entirely on the work of Melies . "Believe in me, believe in me, believe/that life can change, that you're not/stuck without hope we're not the same, we're different tonight/this night so bright," he announces in his lines. The directors of the video were Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.
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The song belongs to the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
3.- The Shining (Film) and The Kill -Bury Me ( Video of the group Thirty Seconds To Mars).
The Shining is a film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name, in which the protagonist Jack Torrance ends up falling into a state of homicidal madness.
Stanley Kubrick released The Shining in 1980, the director shows through terrifying scenes the psychological ravings of a protagonist in search of destruction, both of his family and himself. Jack Nicholson gives a creepy performance as a sick man in progressive madness, who gesticulates a lot and presents exaggerated and disturbing looks.
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The Kill (Bury Me) is a single by alternative rock band Thirty Seconds To Mars released in 2005 on their second studio album A Beautiful Lie. It is about the relationship with yourself, facing your fears and the truth of who you are, as well as confrontation, as a crossroads and coming face to face with who you really are.
The music video makes many references to the movie such as the scenes where the central character is with the typewriter, the descent into madness, the haunted room, the look of the hotel or that there is a haunted room, and the dance scene.
A song worth listening to and its music video is a reference to a cult horror movie and manages to generate tension with a very well done choreography and photography. In addition, the band's singer and director of the video is Oscar-winning actor Jaret Leto.
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4.-The Evil Dead (Film) and Everlong (Foo Fighters video).
The Evil Dead by Sam Raimi was released in 1981 and is a classic film among the classics of the horror genre. At the time its director was an amateur, it had a low budget and unknown actors and its theme was very gore. Despite all this, The Evil Dead is probably the horror film most remembered by lovers of the genre, which has had allusions to its images in many other works of film and TV.
In the film a group of friends, enjoy a weekend in a cabin away from the world, but wake up to demonic entities that takes over them, occurring and many deaths sequentially. Only one will be left standing, and he must fight with all his strength and wits to destroy evil, he is Ash.
In 1997 the band Foo Fighter released the song Everlong which is on their second album The Colour and the Shape. Michel Gondry, is the director of the video clip, and incorporates in it a dream in which his hands became huge, but it is also a parody of the cult horror film Evil Dead, note the house, the forest, the basement, and many other elements.
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Everlong was written in the wake of the breakup of Dave Grohl's first marriage to photographer Jennifer Youngblood. He turned the initial riff into a full song and wrote the lyrics after falling in love with Louise Post of the band Veruca Salt, according to Grohl, it is really a love song to a person with whom you are connected physically and spiritually with whom you are in harmony.
5.- Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2 (Films) and Black Widow (Iggy Azalea video with Rita Ora).
Kill Bill, is the story of a woman known as Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) who is left on the verge of death (despite being pregnant) the day they rehearse the ceremony of her wedding, being responsible for his former colleagues, belonging to the Lethal Viper Assassination Squad. As a result of this, the young protagonist, after waking up from a deep coma, begins a bloody and lethal revenge. This saga is directed and written by Quentin Tarantino where violence, manga, tribute to westerns and samurai art dominate the plot.
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Black Widow is a sexy hip-hop song featuring the voices of Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora, in which both singers star in a revenge story inspired by Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. There are kicks, motorcycles, sword fights, tight sports suits and even a workout scene that references Kill Bill Volume 2 The track is from Australian singer, songwriter and rapper Iggy Azalea's first Album called The New Classic, released in 2014.
This music video features actors Paul Sorvino, and Michael Madsen, (actor who has worked with Tarantino and was part of the cast of Kill Bill).
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The direction is by Director X (real name Julien Christian Lutz), and the co-director is Iggy Azalea herself.
These are a few examples where it is possible to notice the influence of cinema in video clips, it is an audiovisual expression that has allowed its directors to make the leap to cinema: David Fincher, Steve Barron, Russel Mulcahy, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Julien Temple , Anton Corbijn, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunninham and Jonathan Glazer.
Thus, both film and music video severely feed each other.
I hope you have enjoyed this publication, and if you do not know the work that these videos are inspired by, run and see them, you will not regret it. There are many other interesting references that I hope to mention in future posts.
A big greeting to all.
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