Kanye gets Kar Wai and Herzog eats boot (Flix99.com)
Kanye gets Kar Wai and Herzog eats boot
If 2046 was used “illegally,” that means an amazing music video cost Kanye the price of a smart editor’s day rate
A post from Big Screen Little Screen turned me onto a music video created by Kanye West’s editor, Derrick Lee, using footage of 2046 for Kanye’s “Flashing Lights.”
It’s almost sacrilege to not watch this in High Definition, but the video remix still shames the original Spike Jonze helmed spot.
I couldn’t say it better myself. Wong Kar Wai’s 2046 is a long, visually indulgent meditation of love in bad timing, grief and the futility of anything else in life to play love’s substitute. In some way, Derrick Lee’s editing was able to grab the essence of love lost in what you might call a world of “affluent dystopia.” A hyper-realized city, like Tokyo or LA, where lives and opportunity are crammed together so tightly it would seem that making connections would be easy, but it’s only become harder. Human intimacy is the new luxury nobody can afford, but people spin their wheels faster. They collide but never connect. In short, repurposing footage from 2046 for “Flashing Lights” brought new meaning to a song I’d normally switch off.
Halfway through the video it was obvious Wong Kar Wai’s footage made the original Spike Jonze video–which Kanye and Co. probably paid a small fortune for–obsolete. I immediately tried to investigate whether or not the rights holders for 2046 had sanctioned the use of the footage, but I found nothing. If it was used “illegally,” that means an amazing music video cost Kanye the price of a smart editor’s day rate.
Considering slow, visually sumptuous work, like Kar Wai’s, is relegated to the art house, it would serve pop music to repurpose more artistically outstanding footage for their videos and expose their audience to a new visual language. In turn, directors like Kar Wai would reach new audiences and fulfill Werner Herzog’s directive laid down in Werner Herzog Eats his Boot (see below).
A civilization is doomed or going to die out like dinosaurs if it does not develop an adequate language or adequate images.
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Seth Green Gets Dream Job, Finally Joins The ‘Star Wars’ Universe
He traveled to a galaxy far, far away last year when both “Robot Chicken” (which he co-created) and “Family Guy” (where he voices a character) spoofed “Star Wars,” but now Seth Green is getting ready to join the actual George Lucas family. “I did something on that cartoon,” Green admitted to us at NY Comic Con, […]
He traveled to a galaxy far, far away last year when both “Robot Chicken” (which he co-created) and “Family Guy” (where he voices a character) spoofed “Star Wars,” but now Seth Green is getting ready to join the actual George Lucas family.
“I did something on that cartoon,” Green admitted to us at NY Comic Con, revealing for the first time that the “Buffy” star will be making an appearance in George Lucas’ upcoming “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” animated series. “I came in and did a voice.”
As for which character Green will play, fans will have to wait for the series to hit Cartoon Network later this year to find out. “I’d love to tell you, but I can’t,” he gushed. “They make me sign all these papers and then they take my kids away. [But] it was fun.”
The actor will be doubling down on the “Star Wars” universe again when “Family Guy” unveils their re-imagining of “Empire Strikes Back.” But details are scarce right now. “We recorded most of it,” said Green. “I don’t know when it’s coming out. I just act on that show [laughs].”
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