Are we really at eighteen already? Today's video is done by the Beastie Boys and is called "Body Movin.'" It's five minutes of beastiness. It can be found here at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6z0IC2FBHs
wow! This video centers around the Diabolik movie. It mixes scenes from the movie with the Beastie Boys playing Diabolik and a couple of henchmen. During the first minute of the video "body movin'" is repeated a few dozen times. According to the copyright, this video was made a year before MST3k made it's final episode. Odd because Diabolik is well known in Europe (somewhere. It's all one big continent.) but not in the US.
The beginning of the video has Spider-Diabolik (slooooowly) climbing up the tower of the castle that hid some jewels. Two of the Beastie Boys play the old man, who replaces the old woman with the jewels, and a security guard dressed like an English fop. Diabolik walks up to a safe in a room that's much brighter then the one in the movie. The wall is blindingly yellow. Diabolik blows up the safe with some wire and explosive putty. This wakes up the other two Beastie Boys and a fight breaks out. We're a minute in and we still only have two words making up the whole lyrics.
Suppose to be old guy poins a sword at Diabolik, who grabs a sword when the lights go on. Finally, we get new lyrics. Although not much. After some sword play, fop distracts the other guy who gets his head cut off with cheesy blood effects.
Diabolik runs up some steps. Both guys follow. It's amazing what bandages can do. Beastie Boys continue to sing in that way where they emphasize all their rhymes. Diabolik escapes by catapult, and we immediately cut to him driving the car. The Beastie Boy who plays him looks nothing like John Phillip Law. Just saying. The other two guys follow by helicopter. Diabolik drives off a cliff after getting shot at. For some reason we now cut to the plane scene from Diabolik.
BB Diabolik has his hands bound. The boss of the plane looks even less like #2 from Thunderball then the BB Diabolik looks like the 'real' Diabolik. Anyway, the boss stupidly opens the trap door like in the movie and Diabolik escapes with a parachute and the fop. The boss dies in the plane explosion when a bird flies through the trap door and hits him. I didn't make that up.
By the way, I think the McGuffin of this video is some photo.
Fop and Diabolik wrestles. Diabolik wins but fop survives the fall. Diabolik drives into his cool but ridiculous lair. It turns out that the photo is some kind of recipe.
I'm cheating by looking at the lyrics, but there doesn't seem to be any meaning to the song. It just seems to be about dancing. "Yeah, dance! Your body is movin'. Whoo!" If there's any deeper meaning then that, I don't see it.
Anyway, it's cool that they saw how silly the movie was before MST3k got it's hands on it.
3 comments:
Tork... You're trying to get deeper meaning from a song whose lyrics are the phrase "body movin'" over and over and over again. Sometimes it's ok for a song to just sound cool, you know?
Here's your new song, which is also very repetitive, but the video at least does have a meaning. Also before you embarrass yourself and get all ranty about how you're sick of politics and crap, I just want to tell you that this video was made well before 9/11 and so is not a comment on the current situation. I don't even think W was president yet (and if he was it was only just barely). This version also includes an extended ending that I hadn't seen before just now.
So now that I've thoroughly prejudiced you against the video even before linking it (go me!), here it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT3bu5lAlJk
..."before you embarrass yourself..."
Oh, why stop now?
I love Beastie Boys videos, they always seem to have so much fun making them. "Sabotage" is one of my favorite videos (and favorite songs, too). But there is totally a deeper meaning to this song, and you missed it, Torrk. It's all about drugs.
Way to go.
(My word verification is "ewbig". For real.)
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