"Metropolis" - centerspread from the original 1927 French Pressbook
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Red Hot Chili Peppers influenced by the Style of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Their video for "Otherside" released in 2000 was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris in a black-and-white/monochrome Gothic style similar to Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, all influenced by German Expressionist art.
Jonathan Dayton: "We did look at Caligari, and we looked at a lot of German Expressionist film. But it was also very important to avoid 'Caligari.' It was both inspiration and something to work around, because it has such a strong, specific style, and there have been other videos that have completely ripped it off."
Valerie Faris: "We didn't look at 'Calagari' all that much, really. We did, but then we just left it. We did look at a lot of the works of the futurist artists from the '30s, and the illustrations of the surrealists and from cubism. We were inspired more by paintings than by films…"
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Almost all of the Red Hot Chili Peppers music is surrealistic in essence. Their lyrics aren't always totally coherent and they really just evoke imagery as opposed to delivering one general message. They're my favorite band.
ReplyDeleteThey are a good band, yes. The video was good as well.
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