Michael Jackson video
The visual parallels between Sebastian Venable fleeing the drum-beating children and this video ("They Don't Care About Us") are really quite remarkable:
http://youtu.be/QNJL6nfu__Q
Deliberate homage?
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No.
shareFrom where did you get that idea? In the film, Sebastian's killing is like a ritual, a sacrifice. The MJ's video is about how the governments don't care about it's own people. They are two very different things.
shareYou seem to have missed a word.
VISUAL parallels.
If you turn down the sound on Jackson's video (recommended) it could be about any number of things. Ritual sacrifice? Maybe. Pedophilia? Possibly. An epileptic seizure?... Cannibalism?... Why not?
Anyway... For all you know, Sebastian Venable's poems were all tear-stained laments about how "they" don't care about the poor impoverished children he (rich guy) was grooming.
I just think it's funny that a guy charged with what he was (whether guilty or not) would respond with a video that looks so much like SLS. And you know he was aware of the movie, being Liz Taylor's #1 fan.
Going to Brazil to film the video was Spike Lee's idea. That was a really dangerous place that people living there cleaned it up because MJ was going to be there. He also filmed another video for this song in a prison. Is not like he was going to shot it at a private millionaires' resort to complain about how nobody cared about them.
Spike Lee is not the kind of director that shots movies in the style of SLS. I don't really think this is the kind of movie that he draws inspiration for his films.
To finish, it seems like we have different opinions on the matter and we'd better end it now.