Scott’s collection of the best film clips part 2.

Part two of my collection of best film clips is about to begin – PUMP IT UP!!

Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar

The first time i saw this film clip, i wasn’t sure why but in the first 20 seconds i was so hypnotized by it. There was something going on that i could see consciously, something behind the foreground, something in the foreground, there was something that made this film clip amazing to watch. It all of a sudden clicked and the train rushes passed a series of bare carriage bodies, that the whole scene was matching EVERY part of the music. The percussion is fairly obvious and quickly picked up, but the melodic structure is also represented that is a little more subtle.

Notice the smoke stacks in the background, the mountains everything represents the music. This is one of the MANY film clips that i will feature Directed by the incredibly creative and inventive, Michel Gondry.

Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar from Rinat Crone on Vimeo.

Queens of the Stone Age – Go with the Flow

Styled like a Robert Rodriquez or Tarantino movie, this Apocalyptic looking film clip starring QOTSA as a team of outlaws, is not very subtle in terms of its message, but none the less a film clip i think LOOKS amazing and suits QOTSA and the song perfectly.

UNKLE – Rabbit in your Headlights

Arguably one of the best films ever created for me. I featured another great clip by UNKLE in my last post, but this one is the one they are most famous for. So why is it so good Scott, i hear you asking. Well, Thom Yorke on vocals aside, the song is powerful and emotive, the film clip of coarse had to relay the emotions.

The cinematography is a triumph, I love long tracking shots so that probably why for me it’s so good, i love how you can hear the goings on during the film clip, like the music has become part of the film clip rather than the other way around. But i think what makes it so good is the curiosity it provokes, you wonder what he’s saying, you wonder where he’s going, you wonder why people keep hitting him, ultimately the song i think is about the title, the rabbit gets in the way, gets hit and is left to die with no care or remorse, until one day the rabbit has its own way. So why is it so good? It provokes thought, discussion and opinions.

TOOL – Parabola

It was always going to happen. One of my favourite bands, with all the weird film clips, all the weird songs, weird timings, weird members was always going to be included. They have a style of their own, kind of Lynch meets Coppola, meets Kubrick, then mixed with some other weird stuff.
It’s good because you wonder what the hell is this? What has this got to do with anything? Well I don’t know, i never have known with any of their clips, i’m sure there is something. We all know art doesn’t have to make sense, and this film clip is just that…Art.

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