www.youtube.com or QT non-band version www.factoryfilms.net

         

Maybe next time he'll fetch the damn drycleaning. Director is Giuseppe Capotondi. Band is extraneous plastic wrapping.

         

crikey.

dougal was going to do this but was going to take it in a TOTALLY different direction.

maybe we will get a later chance but talk about changing the brief!

         

crikey.

dougal was going to do this but was going to take it in a TOTALLY different direction.

maybe we will get a later chance but talk about changing the brief!

         

interesting promo. nice to see a narrative concept. i feel that the lack of conclusion to the narrative (the why or how this is happening) makes the whole affair seem a little 'look-at-me-being-arty'. which isn't to say the reasons for everything need to be spelled out but if you look at radiohead's 'just' we understand the reason for the weirdness is whatever the main guy says. if you look at uncle's 'rabbit in your headlights' we come to understand that the main guy is somehow different, special. or even nickelback's 'savin' me' shows us the mechanism that transfers the weirdness (save someone from imminent death). but in keane's vid what's the reason for the weirdness? seems like someone had a good premise but no real ending...

         

i know what you mean kalstark. I wanted an ending! but nonetheless i like it. the weirdness was cool. and is that Giovanni Ribisi? the actor? i couldn't tell b/c of shitty youtube quality.

         

Super-bored right now so here's my take on the ending. Our hapless protagonist is set free, stripped of the soul-warping settlings, make-dos + compromises that caused him to no-longer recognise the man he had become. Unencumbered, he can pursue his true destined life, save for the fact that he was always supposed to be w/ his now-estranged wife + child in the life he so royally loused-up by indulging in his egoecentric, navel-gazing quest for the ur-self. If only he hadn't listened to that stupid Keane song.

Favourite part - back at the office, Mr Ribisi pulling a "Sheena".

         

hey hass, you tease, what was dougal going to do then?!! I'm sure it would have have had more substance than this vid. If my girlfriend caught me listening to Keane, I think I would be replaced too...

         

there's a no-band version somewhere in the net

         

sorry but can't tell dougal's idea as they MAY want to come back to it at a later stage

it was totally different ball park to this but also a huge idea and therefore terrifyingly expensive so fingers crossed they sell shit loads of albums and come back to us in the autumn

         

no worries, I always look forward to a dougal vid so i hope something comes off...

         

Here it is, people, the non-band version, in Quicktime:

www.factoryfilms.net