Showing posts with label Music videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music videos. Show all posts

Monday, 20 December 2010

"The Year Turns Around Again," a song from the popular play, "War Horse"

This poignant song seems appropriate for the year turning around again. "War Horse" is an emotional and popular play adapted from a novel by Michael Morpurgo.  It's a play about a a horse who gets conscripted into the British Army in World War I. The horse enriches the lives of those who meets him - until the original owner is re-united with the horse in "no man's land". Steven Speilberg has turned this into a film and it is being edited at present. Its release is sometime, late next summer.

With thanks to Paper Monocle who posted this on You Tube.


Here’s the official synopsis from Dreamworks:
From director Steven Spielberg comes “War Horse,” an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, “War Horse” begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. “War Horse” is one of the great stories of friendship and war—a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.

Monday, 20 August 2007

"After The Goldrush" by Neil Young



Still waiting for the modern goldrush! Perhaps it's somewhat early to post this - but it WILL happen!

Friday, 17 August 2007

"Fields of Gold" by Sting

"Diamonds and Rust" by Joan Baez



Time to reflect.
A song about Baez and Bob Dylan's relationship in the early 60s. Quite beautiful!

Thursday, 16 August 2007

"Wait For Me" by Bob Seger

I taught this a few weeks before we broke up. There's a brief analysis of the video in the June archive.

Friday, 6 July 2007

"Wait For Me" by Bob Seger

There's a night-roaming wolf in it, too. No doubt the wolf, the open country, empty roads and motorbike symbolise freedom - the man's freedom.

In terms of representation the gender roles are somewhat stereotypical: she's a blond picture of purity, dressed in white, passively hanging out the washing while she muses over the return of her 'mobile', biker-boyfriend dressed in black. However Segar's "trailer-trash" couple are invested with more romantic passion than one would expect from a blander, middle class couple from the suburbs.

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I teach Film, Media and English Lit.