Comic book legend Todd McFarlane tells us the stories behind his iconic music videos for Pearl Jam, Korn, Ozzy Osbourne, and more.
The crickets at the end were Eddie’s idea. He just kept looking at it like, “This is just not landing quite right.” His suggestion was, “Can we put a cricket sound at the end?” It seemed like an odd request. But when we dumped it in, we went, “It’s kind of cool.” It cemented everything.
Now it was also unseasonably hot that day. It was over 100 degrees. And he’s out there dressed in black from head to toe with his jacket with a cigarette. Now I live in Phoenix, Arizona, so I’m like a cockroach; heat doesn’t bug me. And of course, Eddie wants to show off because he knows I’m a ballplayer, so he’s probably fucking giving more than he should. And about 10, 12 minutes into it, I think he’s gonna croak.
book right now. He and I said, “Well, what if we do hopscotch, but it’s on the edge of a cliff. So the question is, will she keep going or will she do what you’re supposed to do in hopscotch, which is turn around, and come back?” We did that to play with some of the stuff that Korn had already established with some of their prior album covers.
In the back, there was this big, giant steel cage like what you put a diver in, and the sharks come. I was going, “Oh, my God. I gotta use this cage.” Now you have to get your video idea signed off by the record company. So they’d signed off on this idea, and let me tell you, the word “cage” was never written in it once. But that thing was so cool. So the cinematographer and I went back to our room that night and essentially rewrote the script.
At times, there’s a little bit of guerilla warfare when you’re filming these things that you just like, and then worry in the editing bay whether it works or not. What’s the harm in grabbing it?The band members in Disturbed had a pretty clear idea of what they wanted to do. They came with the song and had preconceived notions, and now we had to try to service those visual wants and needs.
They sent me the song, and I was pleasantly surprised at the easy beat. You could catch onto it very quickly. Then we got back on the phone and had some pretty extensive conversations. What we agreed to was [since the song is about a mentally unwell person], “I don’t want it to make any sense.” Ideally, I’d like to have different people watch it and have different definitions of what they just watched.
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