HER SPIKE JONZE MOVIE
HER SPIKE JONZE SERIES

HER SPIKE JONZE SERIES

Debuting the same year Spike Jonze directed “Sabotage” for The Beastie Boys, “Buddy Holly” recreates Al’s Diner and plays their tunes for characters of the popular series Happy Days. Weezer’s hit, “Buddy Holly,” unquestionably fits its music video. By this point, it’s pretty clear Jonze is able to, like a new instrument, fine-tune his style and has ‘the power to move you.’ Here music and narrative intertwine for a sort of medieval music video that doesn’t end so well for Jack Black. It’s epic considering it is a Spike Jonze vehicle. Honestly, the lyrics have very little to do with the actual video, but the curated chaos and unexplained weirdness that exists here is too good to leave out.īefore Jon Snow knew nothing and battled for the Iron Throne, Jack Black was singing about getting away from ‘the mucky muck.’ One of Jonze’s grander music videos, Kyle Gass and Jack Black traverse cold mountain ranges set to the tunes of their band Tenacious D. Like a far tamer, more structured version of The Purge, “Drunk Girls” starts strange and just rolls with the punches, quite literally James Murphy gets pummeled here and there by folks in panda-like, white hazmat suits.

While the whole of LCD Soundsystem’s “Drunk Girls” seems pretty off, it’s on brand weird for Spike Jonze. “The Moon Song” is a subdued lullaby compared to Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Y Control.” Jonze’s direction behind “Y Control” mimics the ambient noise and ruthless tunes the song provides. It would go on to be nominated for Best Original Song at the 2013 Academy Awards. The pair would collaborate on “The Moon Song” with lyrics by Jonze and music by Karen O. Jonze would go on to work with Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman, Karen O, on the soundtrack for Her. Venturing on the far less structured route, Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Y Control” is a chaotic, underground hellscape featuring kids wreaking havoc, among other things. More than anything, the music video may want you to just have a full-length film featuring the adventures of Chuck scored by Daft Punk. Really, there is no obvious connection between anthropomorphic Chuck and his ventures through the city. In his first collaboration with Daft Punk, “Da Funk” almost feels like Jonze wrote a narrative that simply happened to have the diegetic sound of the band’s song playing throughout. It moves with the speed of the song, and while it might be slightly difficult to take the outrageous costumes and fake mustaches seriously, it is the crafted video and song that make watching so worth it. Maybe it’s a back-handed compliment, but Jonze’s direction has every cliched camera angle and edit to parody the popular cop shows of the ‘70s. Abrams’ Star Trek), the video won an MTV VMA for Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman). Arguably one of the band’s most popular songs (enough so that it was featured at the beginning of J.J. Beastie Boys – Sabotage (1994)Īppearing in a spoof of a 1970s cop show, “Sabotage” is one of the many collaborations Jonze has done with the Beastie Boys. Here, we’ll go through a list of ten music videos by ten different artists Jonze has partnered with, mimicking sound and sight tailored made for the alternative creatives. The director has helmed over 20 projects from a range of artists, but there’s a core few with whom he always collaborates. While he’s known for original features like Her, Adaptation, and his reimagining of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze can attribute most of his directorial credits to music videos.

HER SPIKE JONZE MOVIE

And for those who are wondering: this is my third favourite movie of all time.Director Spike Jonze is no stranger to the short-film structure of the music video. I can't remember any movie being able to achieve that. I just didn't want it to end and even after multiple rewatches, it still manages to take me off guard and make me tear up because of how beautiful and sad at the same time it all is. It's nothing short of a masterpiece, a unique way of describing a love story and it makes you think of what it actually means to be human. HOWEVER, nothing compares to the emotional rollercoaster the movie 'Her' took me. Okay let's get something straight: There is nothing I love more than badass, exhilarating movies! The Joker performing his little pencil magic trick, Indiana Jones dodging traps and swinging his lion-taming whip at enemies, the bride in kill bill punching her way out of a closed coffin with her bare hands, John McClane single-handedly annihilating an airplane in mid-air while exclaiming the best one-liner known to mankind and I could go on and on.

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