Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Is Spike Jonze' short film "Scenes From The Suburbs" inspired by the movie "Over The Edge"?

I watched Scenes From The Suburbs recently. I thought it was a great,
great movie(but then again, most die hard Arcade Fire fans would say
that). So coincidentally, I found a VCR copy of "Over The Edge" just
today. I started watching the movie. And I noticed the "New Granada"
sign during the movie. Arcade Fire had used the "New Granada(Cult
Classic 1979) trailer" as an intro to a concert I went to(April 24th,
UIC Pavilion, anyone?). I watched the movie further more, and most of
the scenes looked just like scenes from the movie and their music
video of "The Suburbs". So all I'm asking is, did Spike Jonze make
this movie in inspiration of "Over The Edge"? Or is it really a modern
interpretation of the movie?

This is the Arcade Fire music video of the Suburbs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Euj9f3gdyM

And luckily, someone created a fan-made music video of The Suburbs,
using scenes from "Over The Edge".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlPMjQhd4iI

I found "Over The Edge" way better though. :)

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