40 Music Videos That Should Be Movies

Hit-making promos good enough for Hollywood

By Total FilmNov 24th 2010
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Justice - Stress

The Video: Controversial on-the-ground look at a gang of Paris youths in Justice-branded bomber jackets tearing, robbing and smashing apparently at random during a violent spree across the city.

The Movie Version: A Warriors-style gang-on-a-mission film, with the now more likeable and less mindlessly violent Justice kids caught in the centre of Paris, trying to make it back to the safety of their estate while being chased by the police.

Starring: Fresh-faced unknowns from the Parisian banlieues.

Directed By: Pierre Morel.


 

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    • egipt

      Nov 24th 2010, 9:35

      US Hot Trends just got a notice that the news about Reviving Ophelia is being a hot searches on the world. Many people discuss this Reviving Ophelia in top forum like Twitter and many others. Perhaps seeing egipt last minute physical abuse on TV will wake some teenager up to the reality of an abusive relationship.

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    • gonzoBen

      Nov 24th 2010, 10:22

      Epic feature. Great stuff TF... I'll be revisting this one for a while ;)

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    • olihjo

      Nov 24th 2010, 10:34

      A really boring song but you should seriously have included this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdmHHoI9beM

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    • Gruffalo

      Nov 24th 2010, 13:17

      Good stuff... Might want to double check your description of no. 8 (The Dead Weather), though. Jack Black? Jack White. The thought of having to watch JB doing yet another stomp through anything would bring on a Barney moment.

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    • markfurvert

      Nov 24th 2010, 16:38

      The guitarist in blur is called Graham Coxon!

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    • MrDarraghF

      Nov 24th 2010, 20:43

      30 Seconda To Mars - From Yesterday!!

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    • ansatsuse

      Nov 25th 2010, 2:24

      it's not a hit, but it could be an epic slasher movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-PQDF39sr8

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    • NDitum

      Nov 25th 2010, 10:05

      Gruffalo/Markfurvert - eurgh. One thing late-night checks might catch spelling mistakes, but they don't catch when your brain just goes mad. Good spots! Fixed now.

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    • ginwai

      Nov 25th 2010, 15:31

      Small point but it's Andy Samberg as part of The Lonely Island at number 40, not Adam. How about Tonight Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins? Admittedly it's already loosely based on Le Voyage Dans La Lune but that was a short film. A colour feature would be great.

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    • vesponda

      Dec 3rd 2010, 21:53

      Actually UNKLE's song is a movie, it's called JACOB'S LADDER

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