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Credits Report: 'Let Love Rule' Remix
Filed under: Trailers and Clips »
The cheeky use of seemingly endless, interactive, and fake credits at the end of this "Let Love Rule" video for the Justice remix of Lenny's Kravitz's song take over once the hero saves the girl, hands her his lucky purple rabbit foot, and wanders off into the city. No, really. That's all there is after he shoots the bad guy in the head; the music plays, the guy wanders around the city, and the credits start rolling. There's Wolfman Rick, a prison guard, dancers, a cab driver, three assistant directors, and even a person to handle the floor special effects. Eventually, our hero realizes that the credits are actually there, and the fun begins.
Director Keith Schofield is definitely a creative, clever dude, as his viral videos, advertisements, and music videos (and many awards and professional kudos) go to show. The SFW XXX Diesel video is pretty wild -- I dare you to watch it and not try to figure out what's really happening behind the illustrations.
Check out the rest of the video after the jump.
Credits Report: Kiss Me, Stupid
Filed under: Comedy », Fandom »
Here in Austin, the Billy Wilder movie Kiss Me, Stupid is playing tonight as part of a series about Wilder's later films, and I suspect I am driving people crazy, trying to convince them to see it with me. I may have scared a local filmmaker at a screening of Wilder's One, Two, Three a couple of weeks ago, urging the poor man -- whom I hardly know -- to return for this film.
Kiss Me, Stupid is often considered one of Wilder's worst films, a smutfest from 1964 that helped end the Production Code in Hollywood, a black-and-white comedy that is the opposite of the sophisticated sex comedies of the early 1960s (Doris Day and that crowd). It might have been a very different movie with its original lead actor, Peter Sellers, but he was ill and had to be replaced by Ray Walston. And yet there's something about this sex comedy that's appealing to me. The cast includes not only Walston but Dean Martin, Kim Novak and Felicia Farr.
The opening credits, which you can watch via YouTube after the jump, are the only part of Kiss Me, Stupid set outside the small town of Climax, Nevada. In Las Vegas, a celebrity crooner known only in the film as Dino (Dean Martin, natch) is performing his closing-night act before driving to Hollywood. It's a glitzy Vegas nightclub, with stereotypical leggy showgirls. I sometimes wish this scene had been shot in color, like an anti-Wizard of Oz. But the comedy style sets you up perfectly for the tone of this film. It's also fun to know that not only is the song that Dino sings in the credits a Gershwin tune ("'S Wonderful") but so are all the "bad" songs throughout the movie.
Credits Report: Harold and Maude
Filed under: Comedy », Fandom », Trailers and Clips »
It doesn't seem like the right fit. The camera follows a pair of feet slowly down the staircase and over to the record player. Soon Cat Stevens' "Don't Be Shy" is playing: "Don't be shy, just let your feelings roll on by. Don't wear fear, or nobody will know you're there. Just lift your head, and let your feelings out instead." It's a nice song, in classic, melodious Stevens style -- the sort you would imagine for a movie of lightness and sweetness -- but it's also the perfect match for dark satire -- the perfect accompaniment to Harold's fake suicide.
There's nothing about the credit sequence to Harold and Maude that I don't love. The plain, sans serif font nestles right at home against the slow camera trail as Harold sets up his fake end. The camera doesn't dare pan back until the deed is done, allowing us a sort of keyhole look into his technique. And once he's hanging, there's no better way to relay the feel of the film than his mother walking in busy in her own thoughts, seeing him, pausing, and then continuing with her path. You don't know why she's indifferent to her son's apparent suicide, but you do know that we've entered a Swiftian, satirical world where things aren't exactly status quo.
As much as I love some of the more intricate and fancy credit sequences that hit screens today, I hold a large slab of appreciation for perfection in simplicity, and how an unassuming approach and a carefully shot scene can be just as powerful as an explosion of flair.
Credits Report: Quantum of Solace
Filed under: Action », Music & Musicals », Fandom », James Bond », Daniel Craig », Trailers and Clips »
I've been a bit of a lapsed Bond-ophile as the series has evolved over the years. I grew up with Roger Moore's slightly more campy Bond, and as an adult I worked my way through the Connery years for a little historical perspective...and yes, I even gave Timothy Dalton a try. But by the time Pierce Brosnan had stepped in I had tuned out. The arrival of Daniel Craig as our new Bond was the chance to reignite a franchise, and say what you will about Casino Royale, (and there is plenty to complain about, which for the purposes of time and brevity, I won't get into here) Craig proved that he could hold his ground as 007. But no matter what I may have thought about Royale, by the time the credits rolled on Quantum of Solace, all was forgiven.
So today's Credits Report might be a bit of a cheat because really, it's about two scenes: the opening car chase, and the iconic Bond theme by Alica Keys and Jack White. So first let's get to that car chase. Well, you can't have Bond without a little vehicular mayhem and Forster delivers with expert uses of sound and stunts. We even get Bond delivering a rare moment of cheekiness before those opening chords of Solace's theme.
After the jump; a few words about Keys and White's 'Bond Song' and two worthy additions to Bond's canon of car chases and snazzy credit sequences...
Credits Report: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Filed under: Action », Classics », Fandom », Film Clips », Western », Trailers and Clips »
Welcome to the latest Cinematical feature -- Credits Report! Hatched by our own Scott Weinberg, this is going to be an ongoing celebration of our favorite opening and closing credit sequences. Like our other features, Scenes We Love and Terrific Trailers, it'll be one that's passed around our stable of writers and will pop up completely at random, and will probably depend entirely on what the internet provides. Nevertheless, if you know us, you know you can expect some treasures.
It's my bit of luck that I've gotten to do the first installment (I tried to get Weinberg to do it) and what better way to kick it off than with one of the greatest credit sequences ever? The opening to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a piece of edgy, badass beauty even without that classic Ennio Morricone theme ... and with it? Well, that just makes it perfection. If I was very clever and artistic, I would put together an art print that puts all the primary color character and film panels together, Andy Warhol style, with the title in the middle. (If someone out there actually does this, please send me one?)
There's nothing else to say about this one. The clip is below the jump. Enjoy!
It's my bit of luck that I've gotten to do the first installment (I tried to get Weinberg to do it) and what better way to kick it off than with one of the greatest credit sequences ever? The opening to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a piece of edgy, badass beauty even without that classic Ennio Morricone theme ... and with it? Well, that just makes it perfection. If I was very clever and artistic, I would put together an art print that puts all the primary color character and film panels together, Andy Warhol style, with the title in the middle. (If someone out there actually does this, please send me one?)
There's nothing else to say about this one. The clip is below the jump. Enjoy!
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