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KharBevNor:
Song: Skyclad - Womb of the Worm

Action starts in a playground, with happy children playing. As the intro builds throughout the first minute, with each riff, one of the children drops dead as if by a heart attack, as a shadow of a cloud creeps across the playground, till by the opening solo the entire playground is full of corpses. As the solo plays, a shadowy figure in a tattered hoody which shows little facial detail except mirrored sunglasses walks into the shadowed playground and closes the eyes of one child with a skeletal hand, then looks up. zoom/cut to a rooftop where Martin Walkyier sits. As he sings the first verse he gets up and stalks across the flat roof, with cuts back to the figure silhouetted against the sky showing a rotten smile on 'hides behind his mirror shades and crocodile smile'. On 'Shepherd of a flock of black sheep', we see the children get up, shambling like zombies towards the figure. He hands them out syringes, crack pipes and packets of cocaine. On 'Their thirst for life is drowning', we see the sunken eyed, undead children shooting up etc. For the first chorus, each time Cath Howell sings the camera cuts to the children swinging listlessly on playground apparatus, each time Martin sings it cuts to his face, suitably anguished. On the riff after the chorus, we see rapid cuts of drug abuse between the worm grinning, slowly more malevolently. On verse two, Martin slams out of a door at the base of the building he was in into a dirty alleyway, ranting his lyrics at the camera. He walks past a busker, actually Steve Ramsey, rocking out the lyrics on a clapped out guitar. Martin throws him a coin, pretending to doff his cap to 'The Lord of the Flies is a dandy beau'. He rants to the sky as the camera zooms out 'Where does he come from their redeemer!?' On 'rotting away in the womb of the worm' the camera goes back to Steve, who loses his grip upon the guitar, falling over to reveal the needle in his arm. Martin continues ranting, doing appropriate actions to the lyrics as he spins out onto the street.

jeez, only done, like, three minutes of it. But the song puts a very strong image into my head.

lastclearchance:

--- Quote from: DynamiteKid ---The catch is, they're not using computer trickery, the band have actually learned to mime the song backwards (as best they can).
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So like Pharcyde's "Drop" but with rain?

Thrillho:

--- Quote from: lastclearchance ---
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid ---The catch is, they're not using computer trickery, the band have actually learned to mime the song backwards (as best they can).
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So like Pharcyde's "Drop" but with rain?
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I'd say 'yes' if I'd EVER heard of that act or that song.

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: lastclearchance ---So like Pharcyde's "Drop" but with rain?
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I see SOMEONE likes the Spike Jonze Director's Label DVD.


My idea:

(First, everything below will be in shot in a fun, light-hearted, colourful style. Even the skeleton discussed below will not be shown as graphic, but rather as a comic prop.)

In the opening shot, we see a house starting to light on fire at about mid-morning. Through time-lapse photography we see the house spend the entire afternoon on fire until it's basically just a frame.

As the music kicks up, the band arrives with a fire truck. They are firefighters. They strike model poses and appear to be super-awesome firemen dudes and friends to everyone. They jovially hook the hose up to a nearby fire hydrant and douse the blaze, revealing that everything except a frame and possibly a skeleton have burned away. They drive away down the street, smiling, and the family waves after them, smiling and happy to have seen the band.

In the next vignette, a grandma is outside in the park trying to get her cat down from a tree during an afternoon walk. The fire truck pulls up and quick, tense action shots of the band dismounting from the truck and getting ready for business begin. The same shot of the grandma is then shown, except the fire truck is beside her, and the band is nowhere to be seen. Cut to the band, showing off for a bunch of attractive female joggers.

The final scene begins with a dramatic shot of the Fire Chief's door. Inside his office, the chief, who looks kind of like Dennis Franz on NYPD Blue except with a bushier moustache and a pair of suspenders, is berating the band for an unexplained reason. The band is attempting to be serious, but they're stifling a lot of laughter. The chief, exasperated, doesn't understand why they're almost laughing, and sits down hard in his chair. A whoopie cushion has been placed there, however, and as it lets go he sits up quickly, shocked and embarrassed. The band breaks down laughing and the chief shakes his head and smiles, with his hands on his hips.

The final shot is a silhouette of the band, driving into the sunset on their fire truck and laughing.

rive gauche:
BEST!
IDEA!
EVER!

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