INT. DFO PRODUCTION OFFICE – DAY
A pair of sleazy Hollywood producers are yet again hard at work in their office. One – DARKEST TIMELINE ZACK MORRIS – is standing in front of a whiteboard covered with post-it notes that contain unfamiliar names. The other – RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY – is pacing back and forth pointing from card to card, nodding or shaking his head. A third person in the office is lounging on the couch, throwing a football up in the air to himself and catching it.
COLE BEASLEY: So where when do we actually start shooting?
RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY: [glances at him] Is that all you think about? Just take an Uber up to Burbank, there’s easily half a dozen gun ranges up there.
COLE BEASLEY: No, no, I mean the film.
DARKEST TIMELINE ZACK MORRIS: We’re not filming anything until we’ve got a director lined up.
COLE BEASLEY: Is that what all of those names are?
RTD: That’s right, Cole.
COLE BEASLEY: How come I ain’t never heard of none of those fellas?
DTZM: [points at a card] You haven’t heard of Giovanni Campari?
COLE BEASLEY: Nope.
RTD: What about Nick Punch?
COLE BEASLEY: [shakes his head]
DTZM: Eleanorita Chihuahua?
RTD: J.M.T. Marconi-Masterson?
COLE BEASLEY: No.
DTZM: Svetlana Chernobyl?
RTD: Vincent O. Vincenzo?
DTZM: What about Hudson Spacecastle?
RTD: You have to have heard of Hudson Spacecastle.
COLE BEASLEY: No, no, and NO. Damnit, who are these people? You guys can’t hire someone like, I don’t know, Steven Jewlaser…I mean Spielberg?
DARKEST TIMELINE ZACK MORRIS and RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY erupt into laughter that lasts an uncomfortably long time.
DTZM: Actually, we don’t do projects with Steven anymore.
RTD: Very difficult to work with.
DTZM: We talked about this, though. We’re looking for an outsider.
COLE BEASLEY: Is that what all those names are?
RTD: [gestures at whiteboard] Those names are actually the names of music video directors.
DTZM: We’ve found that it’s an excellent well of untapped talent.
RTD: Plus, they work cheap.
DTZM: David Fincher got his start directing music videos, if you can believe it.
COLE BEASLEY raises his eyebrows in surprise.
RTD: You do know who David Fincher is, right Cole?
COLE BEASLEY: OF COURSE I DO YOU TRYIN’ TO CALL ME STUPID?
DTZM: Of course not, Cole. Let’s revisit some of his work, though. He became well-known because he used the music video as a means to do more than just promote a song – many of his videos became rather iconic.
RTD: And the best of them told an actual story.
DTZM: Speaking of which…we’ve got an episode of Request Line that is well past due, so let’s use that a theme.
RTD: Music videos as short films?
DTZM: Exactly. I’ll get us started with one that Fincher did with a little band called “Aerosmith”.
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Today’s theme is: Music Videos as Short Films. We’re looking for songs whose videos tell a genuine story. Post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7+4_11uV!a and they should embed in the comments after you refresh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J08ZwySCoJ8
Double shot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpdZvewjwJs
This one is sort of a parody of various tv shows, but it does present a continuous (if silly) story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqS72pTvN04
Robert Smith has said this song is a story about masturbation. Great video if you know that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-zoTZjSVM
Conceptual double shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1NrQYXjLU
Could probably do an entire Request Line on that theme. “She Bop”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn1CXbf2xF8
Pretty undeniable steal here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmFxgEGKH0
DOUBLE SHOT.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8
Call it a triple…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLpZWNyM0I
How ’bout a quad?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1D3a5eDJIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVOuYquXuuc
It tells a story. No one knows what it is, but it’s a story.
“I never said the story had to make sense.” – RTD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tatoOZ2-uw
Would the western scenes be enough for this to be considered a double shot?
I would think there is enough of a plot…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0DK-0fIKCw
Here’s one about Ozzy taking drugs and turning into a crazed monster.
So, a documentary…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncJyec4i4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVhNCTH8pDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSD-oq9krRs
Great song and cool story.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDoqw51G3Do
Here’s the story of a married 45+ year old rock star meeting and eventually a marrying a 19 year old supermodel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZA6qiJVfU
He dies in the end.
Awww. They left out the part about him cutting her out of the will.
Still in litigation, so we don’t know how that ends.
Guess there will have to be a sequel.
Dunno how I neglected to take this firstest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-xVSlnWKQ
I think that’s his real-life wife, too.
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl goes to dentist.
Kinda like the plot of Little Shop of Horrors without the carnivorous plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dOx510kyOs
So much better with the SNL parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dZW1C3neao&ab_channel=OranJuiceJonesVEVO
For reference…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q06tcRae13k&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJQQrjVmQG0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYps5LfOaGg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJtHdkyo0hc
OH HELL YES
this may be my very favoUrite rap song
That makes sense because it is the very best one.
David Strathairn? Sissy Spacek? This video was actually the inspiration for the theme.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIhrPGyu6U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c
Boomer Mind Masturbation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g&ab
A re-make of this for today would do well, I think…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7FKO5DlV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4
It’s the story of a gay metal band in a factory that makes sparks.
This is the video I always think of when I hear Patton Oswalt’s routine about 80’s metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs4v-zexx8M
“Those videos were gayer than 8 guys blowin 9 guys” -did he say that phrase first?
Yes.
And I’ve said it about a million times since.
Also “Maybe I can get the guys from Haircut 100 to fuck me cuz I’m not gettin’ any cock from the guys in ‘Jackyl’ with a ‘Y’!”
I’ve also said it too many times to count. Nice to know the source finally.
Elisha Cuthbert is the high=maintenance lead singer of Weeze but her act wears thin so Rivers Cuomo replaces her and the band is renamed Weezer. I wouldn’t kick Elisha Vuthbert out of my band or anything else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwv-iRvyDZg&ab_channel=WeezerVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u33g0vlGaPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0&ab
I was trying to remember that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeiFF0gvqcc&ab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCUpvTMis-Y&t=47s&ab
How can anyone not have picked this one up yet? IT HAS KEANU!
https://youtu.be/yqyIaNWP0T0
Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler in a video that probably should have gotten someone arrested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMNgbISmF4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABZfkRcQ6A
U2 with The Blair Walsh Story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggGD9wMlIdk&ab_channel=U2VEVO
Really? This didn’t go first?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
i cant see shit.
“Not the one I want”
=J. Fogle
odd. my browser is displaying the youtube page with a shadow.
I am on a work laptop
Double Shot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUXAEzaC3Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE&ab
The Stagger Lee wouldnt post – so here
I was indeed thinking of this’un
Hell yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q
It’s basically Portlandia’s Romeo and Juliet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJXQSBWO5Qc&ab
It’s a little on the nose as far as the lyrics are concerned, but it certainly fits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghd2bkIadG4
I never said the story had to make sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckom3gf57Yw
Well in that case…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3WIHtOmkBg
Triple shot
https://youtu.be/qPOTEs_yTJo
please please please don’t link “One”
/PTSD from teenage nightmares there
That’s clips from an actual film though, it wouldn’t count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A
Double shot from Cyndi…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff0oWESdmH0
Brandon Flowers likes the story-telling. Which is nice.
Time loop, baby! (I think)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sQoX12zo-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G333Is7VPOg
Chick gets weird haircut, abusive asshole hates it, she embarrasses him at an event, tale as old as time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To&ab_channel=TilTuesdayVEVO
Abusive guy double shot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGVZOLV9SPo&ab_channel=PatBenatarVEVO
Cinematic as fuck, this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKGWbFpLv0
shot el dos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyhkQzPLjcA
As we have discussed we have very similar music tastes but I fucking hate Cold War Kids with a passion.
HERESY
To tie this post & Sharkbait’s cocktail post together, here’s Simon getting a lil action in the jungle…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJL-lCzEXgI
https://youtu.be/DVJkfXeTs9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
Boom, talk about nailing it.
Nice theme! This is taking me back to the halcyon days of my misspent youth.
I was going for this, but knew I had the check.
I was not surprised.
Chaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fzUGR8ZH4
RIP, Dusty…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae829mFAGGE
Double Shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw
Triple Shot…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDcTLaWJuo
RIP Dusty (fwiw I actually considered having him stop by as a ghost guest star)
https://www.theonion.com/zz-top-grants-clinton-keys-to-magic-hot-rod-1819564402