The star directs, writes, composes and acts in this beautifully shot and sombre film about an old-school hero in a 19th-century frontier community fraught with tragedy
This sinewy, sombre, handsomely crafted and beautifully shot western is Viggo Mortensen’s second feature as a director, an impressively authored movie in which Mortensen is also writer, composer and star. With almost anyone else, this might be the recipe for narcissism, and yet that self-effacing and even reticent quality in Mortensen’s screen presence works against that danger. He is, however, certainly working within the traditional strong, silent template of the old-school western hero.
Holger Olsen (played by Mortensen) is a Danish immigrant to the prewar United States of the 1860s, who finds himself in San Francisco – a carpenter, rough-hewn outdoorsman and military veteran. He finds himself meeting the frank, unabashed gaze of Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) a French-Canadian woman of modest means but independent temperament,...
This sinewy, sombre, handsomely crafted and beautifully shot western is Viggo Mortensen’s second feature as a director, an impressively authored movie in which Mortensen is also writer, composer and star. With almost anyone else, this might be the recipe for narcissism, and yet that self-effacing and even reticent quality in Mortensen’s screen presence works against that danger. He is, however, certainly working within the traditional strong, silent template of the old-school western hero.
Holger Olsen (played by Mortensen) is a Danish immigrant to the prewar United States of the 1860s, who finds himself in San Francisco – a carpenter, rough-hewn outdoorsman and military veteran. He finds himself meeting the frank, unabashed gaze of Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) a French-Canadian woman of modest means but independent temperament,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Tl;Dr:
An ironic Beastie Boys music video was an inspiration for Aqua’s “Barbie Girl.” The video also drew inspiration from multiple Hanna-Barbera cartoons. The music video is about as popular as the clip for Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain.”
The Beastie Boys had a huge impact on music videos. For example, they inspired the music videos for Aqua’s “Barbie Girl.” In addition, The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo influenced “Barbie Girl.”
Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’ was inspired by the irony of the Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’
During a 2022 interview with Rolling Stone, director Peder Pedersen explained how he and Aqua came up with the concept for the “Barbie Girl” music video. “We had watched Spike Jonze’s video for ‘Sabotage’ by the Beastie Boys,” he recalled. “I love those crime movies and exploitation movies that they were referencing. It was an inspiration, since it had the Beastie Boys playing characters.
An ironic Beastie Boys music video was an inspiration for Aqua’s “Barbie Girl.” The video also drew inspiration from multiple Hanna-Barbera cartoons. The music video is about as popular as the clip for Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain.”
The Beastie Boys had a huge impact on music videos. For example, they inspired the music videos for Aqua’s “Barbie Girl.” In addition, The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo influenced “Barbie Girl.”
Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’ was inspired by the irony of the Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’
During a 2022 interview with Rolling Stone, director Peder Pedersen explained how he and Aqua came up with the concept for the “Barbie Girl” music video. “We had watched Spike Jonze’s video for ‘Sabotage’ by the Beastie Boys,” he recalled. “I love those crime movies and exploitation movies that they were referencing. It was an inspiration, since it had the Beastie Boys playing characters.
- 7/25/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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