From Madonna's decadent debut album, Madonna, she had four great videos that reflected different eras in the former story of motion picture.With each video she progressed, as the average of The Music Video grew with the coming of MTV.
Film Exhibition:Everybody (1982).Like a Nickelodeon machine but projecting outward in clubs, the sexy downtown street waif beckons everyone to dancing and sing, get up and do their thing.
glimpse within the hell in which she came.Performing on stage, people are dancing beneath her and walk across her leg with a boom box, she unaffected.
Symbolism:Burning Up (1983).Raunchy Sex Goddess in passion that crawled up from the gutters into a man of goldfish bowls, Grecian/Roman marble busts with illuminating eyes, an abundance of door locks, chains, eyeballs and lips.Doors turn into boats and a car drives through the river around her.She ends up in the center of a road, tugging at her dress as she's the place of a speeding driver.Just as the car would affect her and she would end up as road kill, she emerges driving the vehicle with the initial male driver nowhere to be found.
Narrative:Borderline (1984).Photographer discovers strikingly beautiful street girl as she's dancing with her fan and friends.Flattered at his proposition to beat for photographs, girls jealous boyfriend disapproves as she and photographer drive off to the studio.Being changeable in a serial of photos and end up on a handle of a magazine, girl has flashbacks to her life when it was easy, sexy, fun and free.Bored with the glamorous champagne atmosphere photographer provides, an argument ensues, she rebels and returns to guy she loves.
Technique:Lucky Star (1984).A visual and voyeuristic study of execution and personae using close up, medium and long shots via fast paced editing.A case sketch of the dancer with the use of a motion picture camera.From the instant she removes her sunglasses, she 'lifts the mantle' to exhibit herself to the viewer.Long shots of dancers performance, close up of body parts from eyes, lips, stomach, feet and bellybutton.Performer allows us into her narcissistic world while making love to the camera as it follows every move ahead to a personal extravaganza and ending with performer 'dropping the mantle' by putting glasses back on.
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Which is your favorite video from the Madonna album and why?
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