The third entry in my Britpop triptych is a few indie music/movie mashups I recently put together in commemoration of the equally maligned and celebrated mid-90s scene whose 20th anniversary arrived last month. (For other reasons I’ve been making videos see my previous Ronnie O’Sullivan video entry posted on snooker final day).
This first one marries one of the genre's best singles and bands, both saluted in my Britpop doff piece, with one of my favourite Ian McKellen flicks – the 1995 totalitarian adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, which was partly filmed at my uni and at Battersea Power Station near where I later lived. Its scenes of Ian as Richard in proper villain mode were more suitable a video for the punky tune than the standard studio promo I thought.
This first one marries one of the genre's best singles and bands, both saluted in my Britpop doff piece, with one of my favourite Ian McKellen flicks – the 1995 totalitarian adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, which was partly filmed at my uni and at Battersea Power Station near where I later lived. Its scenes of Ian as Richard in proper villain mode were more suitable a video for the punky tune than the standard studio promo I thought.
This next one’s a simpler new video for an underrated Super Furry Animals single - the title track of their Rings Around the World album. As I wrote in its YouTube blurb: “...using Superman: The Movie's climactic scene where the caped superhero turns back time by flying faster than the speed of light around Earth, briefly turning it into a mini-Saturn with his flightpath rings. SFA's song nicely soundtracks the metaphysical drama of Supes thus rescuing his Lois from a rubbly death.”
The final reprise is Blur's Tracy Jacks, a Parklife album track whose lyrics I noticed correlated closely with Michael Douglas’s D-Fens character in Falling Down, released a year before the album. Both concern a working man going mental so a new video was born.
BONUS EXTRA: This extra one certainly isn’t Britpop but is included here anyway as a similar style mashup, this time the trippy stargate finale of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtracked by an obscure but decent Pendulum single released seven years after the film’s events were supposed to have taken place. This clip is improved greatly by headphones and some form of intoxicatedness...
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See also: A Reflection on Britpop
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