The 10 Greatest Music Videos Based on Movies
3. Tupac feat. Dr. Dre, "California Love"
Film: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
How are Tupac and Dr. Dre taking us down to the wild, wild west? Via space-age dune buggies and the kind of intergalactic desert vehicles you'd expect from a recent Mario Kart iteration, of course! The budget is big, the costuming is lush, and the love of Tina Turner's zaniest film experience is addictively grandiose. Also, there's Chris Tucker.
2. Smashing Pumpkins, "Tonight, Tonight"
Film: A Trip to the Moon
A stunning combination of film-school shoutouts, beautiful cinematography, and the snarliest frontman of the '90s, "Tonight, Tonight" reinvents Georges Méliès's revolutionary 1902 film with a delicate brood. Video visionaries Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris jettisoned two other concepts before going with a full silent-film homage, and their versions of zeppelin takeoffs and a paper-cutout lunar landing injected the Smashing Pumpkins with awe-inspiring whimsy. It triumphed at the 1995 Video Music Awards, winning six Moonmen including Video of the Year.
1. Madonna, "Express Yourself"
Film: Metropolis
As the first music video to cost over a million dollars, "Express Yourself" needed to be a sprawling success. Luckily, it's not hyperbole to call this the best music video of all time. Dire
ctor David Fincher invoked Fritz Lang's sci-fi inspection of the working class, technology, and revolt, coding it with layers (and layers) of Madonna-approved mantras: self-empowerment, gender subversion, unabashed sexuality, homoeroticism, androgyny and coruscating stage presence. Madonna is the high priestess of self-love here, and she explores "self-love" in a number of sultry and frustrated ways. Don't go for second best with all these Glee Madonna tributes, baby. Put your love to the test and experience "Express Yourself" for the unbeatable gem it is.
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But what about Michael Jackson's Thriller, based on the motion picture West Side Story?
One more Fincher. Abdul's Cold Hearted is a take on All That Jazz...
Do TV shows count? Weezer's Buddy Holly...
Interesting Fact> There is a video collection of the best of Playboy Playmate video features. They function basically as erotic music videos. There are several which resemble and pre-date Madonna videos; "Express Yourself" included.
All this time, I thought that was Reese Witherspoon in bed with Dave Grohl. My bad.
Audioslave, "Show Me How To Live"
Film: Vanishing Point
Busta Rhymes, "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See"
Film: Coming to America
Puff Daddy - Victory - based on The Running Man
I'm not sure if it still is, but was the most expensive video ever made at the time.
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Blur - To the End
Film: Last Year At Marienbad
The Cranberries - Linger
Film: Alphaville (Godard)
I remember listening to "Stacy's Mom" when it came out and liking that song. I didn't know it was a film, I thought one of the band members was in love with an actual girl named Stacy's mom. I was really young, in my teens, when it came out.
There's a hip-hop video, I forget who by, that's a scene-by-scene recreation of "GoodFellas". And Brian McKnight's "Back at One" was clearly inspired by The Jeff Bridges film "Fearless".
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
Film: Alice in Wonderland
Blur - The Universal
Film: A Clockwork Orange
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good videos
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