By Zachary Swickey
"Into the Wild" star Emile Hirsch hasn’t been around much since 2009’s "Taking Woodstock," and now, perhaps we know why: He's been working real hard on his directorial debut ... a music video for Daft Punk's "Alive," a song that was released 14 years ago.
We're not really sure why Hirsch chose the song — which comes at the tail end of Daft Punk's epochal 1997 album Homework — but we've got to admit, he's got quite the directorial flair: His video features a scrawny, skeevily-moustached Ace Norton (a director in his own right, having done clips for the likes of Norah Jones, She & Him and Bloc Party), as a amateur weightlifting enthusiast gearing up for battle against a more toned opponent, actor Frankie Levangie.
So, of course it features plenty of montages, including some spirited beach workouts, a touch of skateboarding, extreme Creatine chugging, and, of course, an epic final face-off,...
"Into the Wild" star Emile Hirsch hasn’t been around much since 2009’s "Taking Woodstock," and now, perhaps we know why: He's been working real hard on his directorial debut ... a music video for Daft Punk's "Alive," a song that was released 14 years ago.
We're not really sure why Hirsch chose the song — which comes at the tail end of Daft Punk's epochal 1997 album Homework — but we've got to admit, he's got quite the directorial flair: His video features a scrawny, skeevily-moustached Ace Norton (a director in his own right, having done clips for the likes of Norah Jones, She & Him and Bloc Party), as a amateur weightlifting enthusiast gearing up for battle against a more toned opponent, actor Frankie Levangie.
So, of course it features plenty of montages, including some spirited beach workouts, a touch of skateboarding, extreme Creatine chugging, and, of course, an epic final face-off,...
- 4/8/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
Full Disclosure: I didn’t see Tron. Mainly because I was deterred by friends who saw it who said “Don’t see Tron.” Now, as a fan of Daft Punk, who composed the Tron soundtrack, I was conflicted about this. But as an equally enthusiastic fan of eleven dollars, I just couldn’t part ways with movie ticket money that could easily feed a family of one (me) for lunch. And so, Tron was immediately put at the bottom of my Netflix queue, a service I do not even subscribe to. Thankfully, Daft Punk has made up for CGI’d Jeff Bridges by releasing this strange music video for their song “Alive.” The video was directed by actor Emile Hirsch, and is a coming-of-age tale about some skinny dude in Venice, CA looking to gain some muscle weight. The beginning is a little hard to get through, and the middle is even more difficult.
- 4/8/2011
- by Michelle Collins
- BestWeekEver
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