All you really need is a girl and gun
Jean-Luc Godard made it all sound so easy.
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, the Nouvelle Vague revolutionary famously said.
Godard could have said the same thing about iconic pop songs and pioneering music videos.
I woke up today with a hankering for Brigitte Bardot (who doesn't?), so I clicked on YouTube and watched the 1967 clip for "Bonnie and Clyde," Bardot's ultra C-O-O-L collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg. You can see it here.
Bardot couldn't really sing, but she really didn't need to sing, what with that beret she wears and the tommy gun she holds.
I love this clip: It looks like an outtake from one of Godard's deconstructions of a gangster genre film -- something like "Bande a Part" with even more singing and dancing than usual.
I'm going to continue to feed my appetite for French pop by listening to the Serge Gainsbourg compilation "Comic Strip" while walking on the treadmill.
Right after I watch the "Bonnie and Clyde" clip just one more time.
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, the Nouvelle Vague revolutionary famously said.
Godard could have said the same thing about iconic pop songs and pioneering music videos.
I woke up today with a hankering for Brigitte Bardot (who doesn't?), so I clicked on YouTube and watched the 1967 clip for "Bonnie and Clyde," Bardot's ultra C-O-O-L collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg. You can see it here.
Bardot couldn't really sing, but she really didn't need to sing, what with that beret she wears and the tommy gun she holds.
I love this clip: It looks like an outtake from one of Godard's deconstructions of a gangster genre film -- something like "Bande a Part" with even more singing and dancing than usual.
I'm going to continue to feed my appetite for French pop by listening to the Serge Gainsbourg compilation "Comic Strip" while walking on the treadmill.
Right after I watch the "Bonnie and Clyde" clip just one more time.
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