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The French versions of homemade 'Thriller'' videos
November 17th 2008 22:00
Despite the advancing age of Michael Jackson and his albums, there's never any shortage of people willing to make their own homage. With the rise of YouTube, it's gotten even more widespread, with the 'Thriller' homemades spreading to other countries.
A search on Youtube yields about 120 000 hits, but I'm hoping they're not all Michael Jackson impersonations.
No, at least some of them should be related to Muhammed Ali and the 'Thiller in Manila'. Or video reviews of tepid Hollywood thrillers.
What about the French, though? Are they wise to the MJ scene? Do they have a need to express their inner Thilller? It seems they do, but they're just willing to put a lot more work in it.
This first video was found on Monkey Review, and is of a French dude named François Macré, who decided to take 64 video tracks of himself and assemble the song, acappella.
It's awesome, but I can't help but wonder how strained he was to work on it. Certainly, recording some of fthe percussion work was dull and exhausting? Anyway, with a press of a button we can enjoy the fruits of his labours, which is what the Internet is all about, anyway.
The second video was made by some French school, that decided to involve the entire place in a one-shot steadycam tribute to 'Thriller'.
LIP DUB IUT SRC ROUEN 2008 from arcanes-prod on Vimeo.
It's not as impressive, but it is a pretty good video, shot like a marketing video for the school. Some of those kids need to get out of their private school and see what actual street kids look like when they're hanging around, though.
*this image is from Thriller helped me find my feet on the Guardian.
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