kevathens, 23. July 2008, 21:26
Gnarls Barkley "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" dir. Chris Milk


Quicktime - MTV - YouTube - alcoholharmony's got talent
         
Misplaced casting. Junky dialogue. Odd fit for such a solid track.
         
Jorma. I loved it.
         
By far the BEST video I've seen this year! Both authentic and surreal at the same time. Great!
         
this video is really stupid.
         
Sucks learning your video got released early by finding it on Antville.

I'll post a mov soon.

fire away
         
I love the peoples compassion as the little heart walks across the counter towards his death. Great job Chris Milk.
         
erm... this is pretty stand-out. i think the casting&performance are subtle, really tops (yeah, ok, so the last piece of his dialogue was written a bit heavy-handedly, big deal). sure, the track doesn't much fit in the beginning, and the cutting out of the heart is pretty jarring per se, but once the little critter does his thing, he holds me audience just like the geezers in the diner.
this was a strange wager - methinks it paid off. (does it actually end like that?) cheers, milky one!
oh, and, k? that alcohol guy is moving.
         
That match cut at the end is genius.
         
...or maybe just obvious.
         
neat story, romantic and bloody are great but it felt like i was watching an advertisement. Nice to see some dialogue in a clip but at the same time it really buried the song in the background.
         
I really wanted to love this but the dialogue killed it for me. Not sure if it was the writing or just the delivery. I guess if it's all taken in a nudge of the elbow sort of way it works. The music just feels like it's pushing for more of a genuine emotional response from the listener and it felt at odds with the acting and visual content. Once the song kicks in / everyone shuts up and the little guy did his thing I really loved it. I definitely agree with jgamble, the patrons compassion and reaction were my favorite part of the whole thing.
         
great
         
Love the part when he falls down.
         
love the part that took place between the beginning and the end.

seriously, that was excellent. Can it play on MTV? And where's Milk's Breeders video?
         
anyone got a link for the uk?
         
Gotta love the twisted humor in this clip. FX were top notch. Can't wait for the quicktime. Well done Chris.
         
Who is the actor in this? Been bugging me for well on ten minutes now. I can't seem to place him, but I'm familiar with his work for some reason. (Never mind. Just found it. He's one of the Lonely Island guys).
         
Jorma Taccone.

The girl is some non-descript bitch from Compton. They picked her up in a dilapidated jacuzzi limo and trucked her to this location whereupon they made her recite some lines they got from an Old Spice ad. They proceeded to victimize her by making her eat salad and buy Fresca. The juice from the Fresca fruit came from a warm beach in the Lesser Antilles; a fruit which is now extinct because of their commercialistic ideas of what they think Fresca should taste like. Fresca means "fresh" in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, but that doesn't mean you should drink it if you want to have children. Fresca is largely not available outside North America because most Europeans know better than to drink something that's bottled in America, a place where slavery reigns free and actors are made to look like something they aren't.

Chris Milk did a good job on this. Kudos to you, Mr. Milk.
         
Oops sdelahoyde changed his comment while I was typing my manifesto on how to take over the world in 3 easy steps.

That comment was a tribute to my old friend Anthony Yankovic who now mysteriously lives 3 hours from me in a state neither of us grew up in. He's the most punk person I've ever met, and that's how he talks and thinks and acts and breathes. It's weird.

Didn't I mention I was a Web Artist? This is how we talk and googlebomb and etc. I think prog is one too but I should probably stop talking or our plans for world domination may be failed. Again.
         
the boring situation.
i mean bonnie.
nice track, tho.
         
that was great. chris milk, if you are reading this, this video's unconventional for a band like gnarls. was it difficult to get it made/get the treatment approved? did you have to convince anyone that the dialogue needed to be audible, etc? would you mind letting us in on getting this unconventional video made?
         
they are not believable as human beings.
         
Kevathens,

Was the... "The girl is some non-descript bitch from Compton"... comment some kind of blundering attempt at satirical humor? If so it was truly poor and one of the more ignorant... bordering on racist... things I've read on these Antville boards. Maybe just try and stick to commenting directly on the effectiveness of the promos.
         
Yep, Kevathens did an Imus.

:(


         
Methinks Kevathens was hacked. Or suddenly became a schizophrenic.

More importantly, this video blew my socks off. Makes me have to rethink every thought I ever had about music videos. Also makes me wonder why Jorma isn't a bigger star than Andy Samberg.

Genius work, Chris, as always.
         
oy vey - not the poor overflogged antville-is-racist-horse again... (on the subject of which: maybe post those old threads from your files somewhere, k?)

methinks kev might be on a bit of an edge that none of us know much about. cut the k some slack, aight?
         
Yep there's actually a lot people don't know about. Trust me, I'll leave it at that.
         
What? edgy = ignorant. You may believe making stereotypical or racist remarks (even in jest) as hilarious or "edgy" (as you put it) and/or something not to be concerned with... I simply don't agree. He has the right to make awkwardly executed racially offensive remarks... it is my right to point out that it is incredibly unnecessary when giving an opinion on a music video. The Antville boards would be better served without such narrow minded comments . It is simply not cool.
         
I tend to agree with paul e, actually, prog. Sorry, paul e. Definitely not cool.
         
no, paul: i intended edge to mean brink, ledge. fwiw, i'll also leave it at that.
ps: your call for an unracist 'ville is noble, by all means - only it's misplaced, tha's all...
         
It's worth noting, btw, that Windowlicker is a derogatory term for someone who is mentally challenged.
         
PC police: Technically it isn't racist to call a woman a bitch regardless of her background. It's just crass. Also, can I get a quicktime so I can see what all the fuss is about?
-j
         
It's not that this site is racist, it's just that everyone on it is white.
         
chocolate milk.
         
I don't like it when the adults fight.

Back to the vid; I love it love it love it! It certainly takes a risk in blurring the boundaries between traditional narrative work and the standard music video format, but due to the pathos in content and execution the vid pulls it off in a remarkably effective and original way. With great risk comes great reward, so great rewards to everyone involved!
         
Nice... very nice.
         
Mov

Boncharney, It wasn't that difficult to get made. Brian/Dangermouse/.5 of Gnarls, was a film major in college. They are pretty open to experimenting with the construct, even when it means weaving dialog through their song.
         
Ooooh. beautiful mov > silly mtv boofering. The video looks great. I don't think anyone watching it for the first time knew where the video was going next. That element works perfect for a song like this because the soft buildup has you thinking the worst is coming.
Then that heart gets up and man...
Kudos!
         
High Res

         
>High Res

LOL
         
Ah, there it is. And jolly good it is too.
         
i don't want to sound disrespectful or anything - the video is well made, although i am no big fan of surrealist episodes in a fastfood - but i fail to see the big innovation in weaving dialog lines thru the song. it's not the first video i see with characters talking over the track. and his heart on a plate - that was too literal for my taste. other than that, yes, it is well made but i don't think it fits the track. my 2 c.
         
i really liked this up until the heart came to life. Then i had trouble getting past the compositing, which is a little funky. Who did the animation and comp?
still great overall though.

C.Milk is one of the few noteworthy SF Academy of Art director alumni i think. Along with Encyclopedia Pictura, Arno Salters, and maybe the antiparticle people.

Actually that would be an interesting addition to videoville - adding what film school people went to, if any..
         
nice work!
         
I was gonna say I really enjoyed it up until the heart sprouted legs and came to life, but now i'm not that bothered. its pretty good.
         
this could be the best video of the year so far along with that cheeky BPA one. anyone who is criticising it and mainly has bones to pick with the dialogue or compositing needs to take a deep breath, watch a bunch of recent, formulaic 'on brief' music videos and then watch this again. For a medium that Stipey is calling dead, this is extremely refreshing.

tone reminded me of:
www.youtube.com
possibly because of the diegetic sound and the hearts, but still...
         
Great video let down by shoddy compositing.
         
oh, bingo, dansul. (dir. philippe andré)
         
Suthon Petchsuwan's Queen of Hearts for CareerBuilder.com