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Jesus of Suburbia - Green DayCreated on September 16, 2008 at 6:23am
Samuel BayerCreated on September 16, 2008 at 6:02am
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The music video for the "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around" was produced as a short movie. The video was directed by Samuel Bayer, who had first directorial works with Nirvana's 1991 single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". The video features dialogues written by Alpha Dog writer and director Nick Cassavetes, who had previo...usly worked with Timberlake in the film. Timberlake and Bayer enlisted American actress Scarlett Johansson after deciding on using "real" actors. The shooting went for three days between Christmas and New Year's Eve in Los Angeles. The dawn scene was shot on January 8, after the original sessions were done.
The video starts off with Timberlake flirting with Scarlett Johansson on the rooftop of a 1950's Moulin Rouge circus-style club. She rejects with a tease at first but eventually leaves with him to go back to his place. In between cuts, they are shown in bed caressing each other. Johansson jumps into a pool outside the house, and floats below the surface as if she is drowning. Timberlake runs out and pulls her up; she laughs at Timberlake and kisses him. Timberlake introduces her to a drunk Shawn Hatosy at the club calling her "The One". Hatosy seems to be interested in Johansson, despite Timberlake's wish for Hatosy to look out for her. Timberlake caught them at the stairway making out. After punching Hatosy and chasing after Johansson, who has sped off in her 1967 Chevrolet Corvette C2 Sting Ray, Timberlake chases her in his Porsche Carrera GT until seeing her run right into a fiery car crash pile up in which she is thrown from the car and lands feet away from the crash. Timberlake notices a body (presumably a dead one) lying supine on the ground. He gets out and kneels over her while the camera view moves toward the sky and ends the video.
The music video of "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around" was exclusively premiered on February 9, 2007 on the iTunes store. The music video debuted on MTV's Total Request Live at number nine on February 13, 2007. "What Goes Around..." retired on May 7 at number seven.[34] In Canada, the music video debuted on Muchmusic's Top 30 countdown at number 22 on January 26, 2007. It peaked at number one on April 27 and stayed on the chart for seven non-consecutive weeks.[35] The video was commercially successful, becoming the fastest selling pop promo on iTunes. It has sold 50,000 in downloads for four days. Timberlake was the first major artist to release a video on the download platform.
In September 2007, "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around" won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction. It was also nominated for Video of the Year but lost to pop singer Rihanna's 2007 video "Umbrella".
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The video generated controversy as it featured a reenactment of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. Manson and his then-fiancee Rose McGowan play JFK and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, respectively. Its debut release was through the band's official website MarilynManson.com, and was delayed twice until mid-Septe...mber due to the Columbine Massacre and the death of JFK Jr.
The video is oddly "clean" given the gore of the actual events. The director, Samuel Bayer, says there was no blood used during the filming. "We didn't feel like it was appropriate to actually act out the assassination." One Canadian reviewer remarked that the video, which was expected to shock, was "More Fellini-esque death march than blasphemous rewrite of history, [and] it caused little commotion."
The video is also notable for the appearance of the late, 7 foot 6 actor Matthew McGrory.
The release of the video was hampered by two coinciding events: the Columbine High School massacre, and the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
In a statement released by his publicist, Manson said the video used the Kennedy assassination "as a metaphor for America's obsession and worship of violence. "My statement was always intended to make people think of how they view and sometimes participate in these events." Further, the video, "is in no way a mockery. In fact, it is a tribute to men like Jesus Christ and JFK who have died at the hands of mankind's unquenchable thirst for violence."
He said that when he filmed the video, "little did I know that the tragedy at Columbine and the accidental death of JFK Jr. would follow. But it was telling to see the media shamelessly gorge itself on these events, which ultimately made my observations in the video even truer than I had originally imagined."
MTV Total Request Live host Carson Daly read the statement before MTV debuted the video; subsequently, the station would offer Manson's insights on its Web site and several more times on the air. "Coma White" would become one of the station's most requested clips. Kennedy family representatives declined to comment on the video.
While the story shown is unrelated to the song’s lyrics, the video's contents foreshadowed some of the themes on the band’s next album, Holy Wood.
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