Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson and Jackie Kennedy Onassis all turned up on set, and Eddie Murphy, Prince and Diana. The song was originally going to be called "Starlight". There's nothing flashy about the video, but the choreography was an instant hit and easy enough for people to learn. One of the lengthiest music videos made at the time, running for 14 minutes and 7 seconds. This brilliant video won the VMA for video of the year. According to Vanity Fair, Landis directed Jackson to add an element of sexual forwardness to his role, with an eye toward interesting the singer's many female fans by making him appear more manly and virile. I remember watching it in a pub called "Woosters" (aka as wasters) in Lady Lawson Street in Edinburgh. As Psy's Gangnam Style proved, films shot relatively cheaply and quickly, and which don't require pluggers, or for the artist to necessarily have an existing profile, can have a global impact comparable to Thriller. Spooks (a.k.a. [8] According to Landis, Ola Ray, a former Playboy Playmate, was cast as she was "crazy for Michael" and had a "great smile". At the time, music videos cost around one hundred thousand dollars to produce. The suit alleged that Landis didn't receive his promised 50-percent cut of the profits and that Jackson and company acted with "fraudulent, malicious, and oppressive conduct" in withholding what The Hollywood Reporter said amounted to about $2.3 million. [8] Epic had little interest in making another video for Thriller, believing that the album had peaked,[10] and eventually agreed to contribute only $100,000. "It's simple all you've got to do is dance, sing, and make it scary," DiLeo says he told Jackson at the time. And it ended up being the most iconic," she said. [12] Perhaps the most ingenious[editorializing] episode is the Dial M for Murder-style "The Double Kill", in which a man hires a hitman to kill his wife, but makes a fatal error in his otherwise meticulous planning. The storyline follows newly-qualified vet James as he leaves his home in Glasgow during 1937 to start working for head vet Siegfried in the fictional Yorkshire village of Darrowby. pg-13 147m. I was suing him for 14 years. All eight episodes of Prime Video's new show The Consultant made their debut last week, allowing folks to fly through the entirety of the workplace saga like the levels of an . From his Pope outfit to the reenactment of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" painting, Lamar doesn't shy away from religious visuals. There are shots of Missy covered in bees and tributes to the late Aaliyah and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes spray-painted on the hoods of cars it's truly filled with striking visuals. The UK version features Bush in a white dress as she dances around a dark room white white mist. "We came to the conclusion that if Michael was going to dance, it would be a hell of a lot easier for his monster to have two legs instead of four." In 2009, the Library of Congress added "Thriller" to the National Film Registry, naming it part of its collection of films that should be "preserved as cultural, artistic, and/or historical treasures for generations to come," according toLA Weekly. Michael Jackson: Thriller Music Video 1983 PG 13 m IMDb RATING 8.7 /10 18K YOUR RATING Rate Horror Music A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now. And then 4 months later it was spoofed on the very first episode of ITV's Spitting Image. [11] Landis and Jackson conceived a short film shot on 35mm film with the production values of a feature film, with a budget of $900,000, much larger than any previous music video. The zombie's costumes were purchased from The Salvation Army. Before any of the "Thriller" fun monster transformations, choreographed zombie dances, creepy yellow eyes the video begins with a brief bit of text on screen. During the elaborate production of this music video. Stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern. The trailer for the new TV show, which launched at 3pm on March 1, introduces Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas' characters, Nadia Sinh and Mason Kane, across multiple high-octane action sequences. However, Epic wouldn't pay for it the label spent $250,000 on the video for "Billie Jean" but made Jackson pay the $150,000 budget for "Beat It" himself. The video won for video of the year at the MTV VMAs. [20] In 2009, Jackson sold the Thriller rights to the Nederlander Organization to stage a Broadway musical based on the video. The main point of the video is that Gaga is being sold for sex, and the video switches between various scenes including one where she's dancing in an all-white outfit in a bath house and one where she is dancing for the men bidding as she's dressed in diamonds. Branca wouldn't do it, and he instead locked up the footage and gave Jackson the idea to let "Thriller" out, but just with a denouncing disclaimer tacked on to the start. He changes back into a human to sing the choruses. The "All the Small Things" video is a hilarious parody of other boy bands and pop artists of the '90s. Other videos that featured highly in yesterday's poll included Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody at No. We didn't get a Channel 4 signal until late 84 so missed out entirely! The actress and the musician wound up getting along just fine more than fine, actually. It really opened our eyes to music videos as a creative form of film-making, and a potential career." The video does feature a couple of clips of her walking through Parc de Saint-Cloud in Paris, but the emotional close-ups are the most striking parts. Welcome to the Digital Spy forums. Most clips just show him and a few others doing his signature moves like the running man and hammer dance. Recorded as a cover for the movie "Moulin Rouge," the four women appeared in the video. All Rights Reserved. Epic saw it as a novelty song;[9] Yetnikoff asked, "Who wants a single about monsters? Here, in no particular order, are the eight best thrillers on Prime Video. The short film was packaged on home video with The Making of 'Thriller' (1983) as "Making Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'", which became the world's best-selling VHS musical. After all, if they're going to pay a few hundreds bucks for a ticket, patrons can at least have some idea of what they're getting into beforehand when they line up to see Mean Girls (based on a hit movie) or Mamma Mia! TheOddOne - no, I know . "Romain Gavras he did M.I.A. In 2009, it became the first music video inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". The Rig is a horror thriller series arriving on Amazon Prime Video in early 2023. It ends with the groom as the actual ringmaster. [12][18] After each broadcast, MTV advertised when they would next play it, and recorded audience figures ten times the norm. 3 Take On Me A-ha. He really was childlike. Throw Katy Perry and her dancers in clothing covered in sweets, dress Snoop Dogg in a cupcake suit, make the setting a board game called Candyfornia, and you've got yourself the basis of the "California Gurls" video. Some music videos are more memorable than others. Dendle wrote that the video captures the feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness essential to zombie films. Here are 55 of the most iconic music . A videocassette of "Thriller" opened the door to priced-to-own videos. It's amazing. The video starts in black-and-white as Whitney Houston finishes a show and heads backstage. He suggested that Jackson should become a werewolf in a 1950s setting, inspired by the 1957 film I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Cyrus' provocative videos were a shock to people who had watched her on "Hannah Montana.". Thoroughly upset, Jackson ordered his lawyer, John Branca, to destroy the "Thriller" negatives. When the series was re-broadcast as part of The CBS Late Movie however, the original title sequences and music were restored. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Goofs The metamorphosis of the polite "boy next door" into a werecat has been interpreted as a depiction of male sexuality, depicted as naturally bestial, predatory, and aggressive. One major part of the early concept was rejected. The initial image is one that has defined the band since. Missy Elliot is also featured in the video and song. And his "Hammer pants" are iconic. [32], In 2017, the video made its debut in a newly restored 3D version at the 74th annual Venice Film Festival, accompanied by the Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller documentary, also newly remastered. Jackson's character takes his date (Ola Ray) to a horror movie and then makes her life into one when he transforms into a monstrous creature and leads a horde of other scary creatures both ghoulish and undead. "Then YouTube came along and that suddenly brought film-makers back to a more unconventional way of thinking, which I see as a totally positive thing. A making-of documentary, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller, was produced to sell to television networks. To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account. [26] In 2009, it became the first music video to be selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. An argument could be made for "Baby One More Time" to be on the list for the school girl uniform and high school setting, but "Toxic" deserves the title. "Thriller" also helped steer toward importance and bring a new standard operating protocol to another kind of video home video. [8] In a statement published in Awake!, a magazine published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Jackson said: "I just intended to do a good, fun short film, not to purposely bring to the screen something to scare people or to do anything bad. There's a lot to process. What worries me a bit is the kids who have a bit of bravado, and don't admit they are afraid, and then have nightmares. "Thriller was important because it was the first time anything this ambitious had ever been attempted," a spokesperson for VH1 said yesterday. Then she wakes and crawls outside to walk along the ledge. This ground-breaking video is the toast of MTV and will forever be remembered for what is the greatest music video of all time!! The presenter, 38, is paralysed from the chest down following . The mystery and thriller . Original cast member Al Molinaro made a cameo. Landis said he would do the video if it could be a short film, and Jackson embraced the idea. "[11], Thriller was the first time Jackson had interacted with a woman in a video, which Landis described as a "breakthrough". [14] According to Landis, the production involved the largest makeup team in film history up to that point, with 40 makeup artists. The massively successful "Thriller" video was a close collaboration between performer Michael Jackson and director John Landis, although it would seem that of the pair, only Jackson greatly benefited financially from the project. After production on the video wrapped, Jackson was told by leaders of his church (Jackson was a practicing member of the Jehovah's Witness faith) that they thought "Thriller" encouraged demon worship, and if it were released, he'd be excommunicated. features a band called the Love Below performing on a London show as a bunch of women scream in excitement. Cannot remember the excate time but dout it was 1 am as we would of not been allowed to stay up. The short film premiered on NBC's music video block Friday Night Videos. Choreographer and singer Paula Abdul danced alongside a cartoon cat named MC Skat Cat in the video for "Opposites Attract." [12], The video doubled boosted sales of the Thriller album,[8] which sold a million copies a week following the video debut[12] and became the bestselling album of all time. The girls are together when the guy comes knocking and slam the door in his face. I didn't have this thought intellectually at the time, but when I watch it now I realise that there's no reason for a lot of it; it's so free and loose. Every shot in the "Bye Bye Bye" video is memorable. ", Jonze took the freedom he sensed in Thriller and also its eccentricity and humour and ran with it, creating some of the 90s' most famous music videos, including the Beastie Boys' Sabotage and Praise You by Fatboy Slim, which also get continually spoofed. It doubled sales of Thriller, helping it become the best-selling album in history, and the documentary sold over a million copies, becoming the best-selling videotape at the time. In May 2009, Ray sued Jackson, along with his production company, for breach of contract. | [8] Entertainment figures including Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson and Jackie Kennedy Onassis visited the set. Lesley Sharp stars as a detective who faces impossible choices in a murky world where loyalties are tested and lines are blurred. Peter Gabriel's video for "Sledgehammer" was an impressive 16-hour feat. [5][6] Original music, including the theme tune, was supplied by Clemens' regular collaborator Laurie Johnson.[7]. [22] Gil Kaufman of MTV described the video as "iconic" and felt that it was one of Jackson's most enduring legacies. Less than two years later, sister network VH1 would also name "Thriller" the top video ever made. Thriller sealed MTV's reputation as a new cultural force; dissolved racial barriers in the station's treatment of music (though MTV has always denied they existed); revolutionised music video production; spawned the "making of" genre of documentary ("The Making of Filler," as Landis said at the time); helped create a market for VHS rentals and sales, because fans were desperate to see it when they wanted, rather than at the will of TV stations; and, in 2009, became the first music video to be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. The video tells a romantic story through a mix of live-action and pencil-sketch animation. Strictly Come Dancing have reportedly lined up Loose Women star Sophie Morgan to be the show's first ever wheelchair-using contestant. Jackson, for his part, hadn't seen Landis's films Animal House, The Blues Brothers or Trading Places; he wanted Landis because of An American Werewolf in London. [1] It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. He opens the window and she almost falls. "We don't believe they were complete, and they were never timely," Ray's attorney, Jason Feldman, told the New York Daily News, which reported that the most substantial chunk of money the actress received came in 1998 15 years after "Thriller" was shot. Garcia taped and uploaded videos of the sessions to YouTube, and in 2007, the one of the "CPDRC Dancing Inmates" doing the "Thriller" dance hit big and went viral. Set in a futuristic looking white room, the video stands out for the illusions it features. [8] Vestron Music Video offered to distribute Making Michael Jackson's Thriller on VHS and Betamax; this was a pioneering concept, as most video cassettes at the time were sold to rental stores rather than directly to viewers. This particular Thriller musical is not to be confused with Thriller Live, a Michael Jackson-themed theatrical experience that ran in London's West End (the British Broadway) for well over a decade. Isn't it ironic? At the end of the credits, they all dance back into their graves, with one of them gruesomely grimacing at the screen. According to Vanity Fair, Vestron Video helped offset the high production cost of "Thriller" by paying for the VHS and Betamax distribution rights for the Making Michael Jackson's Thriller documentary and then gave it a $29.95 retail price tag. 5 Virtual Insanity Jamiroquai. Vestron paid an additional $500,000 to market the cassettes. A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now. I would never do anything like that again." MTV, which, to that point, had never paid for content, contributed $250,000, and Showtime paid $300,000. As fun as Smash Mouth's song is, the video is even more wild. In December 2009, the Library of Congress selected the video for the National Film Registry. Michael Jackson's Thriller is a 1983 music video for the song "Thriller" by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on December 2, 1983. Director: Scott Cooper | Runtime: 128 minutes. The video has received over 700 million views on YouTube. "[8] According to Vanity Fair, Jackson preferred "benign Disney-esque fantasies where people were nice and children were safe", which ensured the video would be "creepy-comical, not genuinely terrifying". "Music videos in the early 80s started as a little cottage industry in Britain, really," says Brian Grant, the British director who made the Private Dancer video for Tina Turner and Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody. As of 2020, more than 59 million people had watched the sea of orange-clad people amble and groove like zombie-monsters. Prior to its production in 1983, music videos weren't taken seriously or considered anything more than a way to cheaply promote a single or an album. Jackson called his assistant, John Branca, and ordered him to destroy the negatives. at the Disco's first music video features a wedding where the bride's family is asleep and have their faces and eyelids painted. The 15-year-old promo, directed by John Landis, is now regarded as a landmark release - the first to transform pop videos into mini-films. The original UK title sequence featured still shots of locations in the story, devoid of people, shot through a fisheye lens, bordered in bright red and set to Johnson's eerie, discordant theme music. 2023 Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. Genre Adventure, Action, Science Fiction. The video is as fun as the song itself. The video features the four guys of OK Go doing a choreographed dance on treadmills all filmed in one shot. The zoomed in shots of her face and tears are reminiscent of Sinead O'Conner's "Nothing Compares 2 U" video, which is on this list. Her father, a hunter, disapproves of their romance and tries to shoot antler boy with an arrow but he's hit by a car. It was in all the papers but it was quite funny how Radio 1 avoided the subject. 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