Music Videos upon many influences to make themselves interesting and attract a wide audience, a good music video can come down to its influences and how it tells a story already told, again and differently, paying homage to great cinematic visions. In the Red Hot Chilli Peppers video for 'Otherside' the direction and style is based on German Expressionism one of the grounding movements of cinema. It draws on the styles ability to create surrealism with minimalism and psychological nuances in the black and white backgrounds to create an effective music video, with a distinct Expressionist feel, a throwback to the founding directors of the darker elements of film and film itself.
The music video for The Smashing Pumpkins, 'Tonight Tonight' is a homage to the silent film 'Trip to the Moon', shot in 3 days the film was created to show the surrealist nature of the first science fiction film (as Trip to the Moon was seen) and recreate it awash with psychedelic colour, to draw a parallel to the norm of early cinema and its surrealism in acting and composition as it seems today, the music fits the song perfectly and the music, direction and band are so devoted tot he aesthetic the video comes off stylishly.
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