Spike Jonze Arcade Fire Video

2010-11-19 by oh trudy, youre with the meanest boy in the hills STAFF | 24 Comments
Celebrated film producer, director, and actor, Spike Jonze has collaborated with indie rockers Arcade Fire for the band's most recent video ("The Suburbs").

Enjoy: http://stereogum.com/581602/arcade-fire-the-suburbs-video-directed-by-spike-jonze/top-stories/lead-story/

Tagged: Arcade Fire

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Ghostyghost
November 21st 2010
18 Comments


We are Arcade Fire, we are poetic.

MaskAtTheMasquerade
November 21st 2010
2924 Comments


too bad it wasn't Michael Bay

psykonaut
November 21st 2010
3913 Comments


great video for a great song from a great album

dylantheairplane
November 21st 2010
2181 Comments


awesome video

Lordata
November 21st 2010
17 Comments


That was interesting....

if you didn't know,
"Celebrated film producer, director, and actor, SKATEBOARDER, Spike Jonze"

Schizophrenik
November 21st 2010
848 Comments


Great video, as expected. The one he did for Buddy Holly (the song) will always be the best though.

Maize
November 21st 2010
156 Comments


Maybe I missed something but why do the two kids have a falling out?

reaganomics777
November 21st 2010
401 Comments


A truly amazing video. One of the best I've ever seen, that's for sure.

deathofasalesman
November 21st 2010
8643 Comments


I don't care for Arcade Fire at all but Spike Jonze has always been an inspiration for me.

MUNGOLOID
November 22nd 2010
4554 Comments


fucking awesome video.

Mothership
November 22nd 2010
19 Comments


Im not exactly sure of the meaning behind the video, but I love the song and video.

Bleekill
November 22nd 2010
832 Comments


very meh to both the music and the video.

TheAlmightyBungler
November 22nd 2010
104 Comments


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZWCx89EK8
this video is better

whywontyoudie
November 22nd 2010
3067 Comments


Spike's work in the Lakai video is the best thing he has ever done.

Torii
November 22nd 2010
845 Comments


Godd video

Sheeple9000
November 22nd 2010
1349 Comments


@TheAlmightyBungler

Here's the original:

http://www.endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=M-ECMTNcewI&start=1m45s&end=1m55s

astrel
November 22nd 2010
2615 Comments


Spike Jonze has always been hit and miss with me. I thought this video (and song) was pretty boring. The cinematography was still excellent. The naked man angrily jumping on cars seems to fit the whimsical mood of the song more though.

Kiran
Emeritus
November 22nd 2010
6134 Comments


Maybe I missed something but why do the two kids have a falling out?

the way i saw it was that the suburbs were being depicted as isolated (the scene where the kids are staring beyond the barbed wire fence) and militant (i guess to depict win butlers themes of conformity in the actual album) and following the brief cut of the kid with long hair running, presumably from something, he's seen at the party looking pissed and with a shaved head (meaning he's succumb to 'the system' or w/e, like the scenes where people are being abducted or arrested in the background suggest) and following that he's beating his buddy up in the restaurant after trashing his bike, which punctuates his militant moulding

the videos supposed to be about "friends growing apart" so if you align that with the conformity metaphor its just an extreme way of showing that

Chrisjon89
November 22nd 2010
3833 Comments


not that big on the video, but love the song.

DraconForsaken
November 22nd 2010
92 Comments


Better than MCR's latest video.

MutnikSpusic
November 22nd 2010
560 Comments


better than the last led zeppelin video

MutnikSpusic
November 22nd 2010
560 Comments


also gummoesque

brandaao
November 22nd 2010
329 Comments


For me, this video had the feeling that is part of something bigger. A part of some other Jonze project.

Didn't some news come out a few months ago that Jonze and Arcade Fire were working on some kind of sci-fi short movie??

Awesome video though. Love the album, and love the director.

thebhoy
November 23rd 2010
4460 Comments


I really wish they wouldn't be so cliche about the suburbs. Either way good song good video.



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