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Michael Jackson's Thriller is the music video for the song "Thriller" by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on December 2, 1983. It was directed by John Landis , written by Jackson and Landis, and stars Jackson and Ola Ray .
- All “Thriller,” Some Filler
- The Working Title For The Album Was Originally Starlight.
- Michael Jackson’s Faith Seeped in.
- “Thriller” Is A Coming-Of-Age Story.
- “Thriller” Had A Playmate.
- Fred Astaire Could Have Been A “Thriller” Extra.
- The “Thiller” Choreographer Was A “Beat It” Gang Member.
- The Appeal of Zombie-Dancing Is Global.
- There Should Not Be Business Classes Based on “Thriller.”
- “Thriller” May Have The Ability to Possess you.
The video cost half-a-million dollars; at the time, it was the most expensive video ever made. But CBS Records wouldn’t pay for a third video from Thriller, and MTV had a policy of never paying for clips. Jackson and Landis funded their budget by getting MTV and Showtime to pay $250,000 each for the rights to show the 45-minute The Making of “Thril...
Before songwriter Rod Temperton came up with Thriller, Michael Jackson’s working title for the albums wasStarlight. Temperton, a British native formerly of the funk band Heatwave, also wrote “Baby Be Mine” and “The Lady in My Life” for Thriller(and earlier, had penned “Rock With You” and “Off the Wall” for Jackson).
The opening title card (“Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult”) was inserted due to Jackson’s Jehovah’s Witness faith. Another manifestation of his piety, according to producer Quincy Jones: During the recording of Thriller,in a studio in the Westlake district of Los Angele...
“In adolescence, youngsters begin to grow hair in unexpected places and parts of their anatomy swell and grow,” director John Landis explained, regading the role of the werewolf metaphor in cinematic history. “Everyone experiences these physical transformations in their bodies and new, unfamiliar, sexual thoughts in their minds. No wonder we readil...
Jackson’s “Thriller” costar, former Playboy Playmate Ola Ray, also appeared on Cheers and in Beverly Hills Cop II, but her only other notable music videowas “Give Me the Night” by George Benson (a single also written by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones!), on a date with Benson that involves hot dogs and champagne. That video’s biggest spe...
Hollywood legend Fred Astaire, a fan of Jackson’s dancing (Jackson personally taught him to moonwalk), attended a “Thriller” rehearsal. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who edited Jackson’s Moonwalk autobiography, logged some serious hours: When they were filming at 3 A.M. in a bad neighborhood in east Los Angeles, she was hanging out in Jackson’s Winne...
Choreographer Michael Peters also did the epic dance sequences in Pat Benatar’s “Love Is a Battlefield” and in Jackson’s “Beat It” video (where he played one of the gang leaders — the one dressed in white, with sunglasses and a mustache). He won a Tony for his work on Dreamgirlsand died of AIDS in 1994, at just 46 years old.
The largest number of people doing the “Thriller” zombie-dance routine, according to the Guinness Book of World Records:“13,597 participants in an event organized by the Instituto de la Juventud del Gobierno del Distrito Federal at the Monumento a la Revolucion, Mexico City, Mexico, on 29 Aug 2009.”
John Landis on the motivationsbehind making “Thriller” and its huge financial impact: “The reality is, it was a vanity video. Everything that happened on ‘Thriller’ happened because Michael wanted to turn into a monster. None of it was planned. I want to make that clear, because there was a course taught at the Harvard Business School on ‘Thriller,...
As a nine-year-old child, Cee Lo Green was so scared of “Thriller,” he would flee the room whenever the video came on TV: “If he could be possessed, then I damnsure could be possessed, because Michael was so much stronger than I.”
Oct 31, 2023 · How did Michael Jackson come up with the concept for the ‘Thriller’ music video? ‘Thriller’ is an iconic music video and one of the biggest moments of Michael Jackson’s career - the video choreography went on to become one of Michael’s signature dance moves.
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Michael Jackson: Thriller: Directed by John Landis. With Michael Jackson, Ola Ray, Forrest J. Ackerman, Reed Armstrong. A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies attacks Michael and his date - only a "Thriller" can save them now.
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- Horror, Music
- John Landis
- 1983-12-14
Sep 23, 2020 · In 1984, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller won the Grammy Award for Best Video Album, and in a 1999 end-of-the-century countdown, MTV named "Thriller" the #1 music video of all time. Less than two years later, sister network VH1 would also name "Thriller" the top video ever made.
Oct 15, 2020 · When Michael Jackson’s iconic music video for “Thriller” debuted on MTV on December 2, 1983, it changed the music video industry forever.
Oct 31, 2018 · Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is so closely associated with Halloween that it can be easy to overlook the fact that it’s also the most influential music video ever made, for a host of reasons...
