Spike Jonze On Directing Christopher Walken - Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice

I'm sure people ask you all the time was the Christopher Walken video yeah you have Fat Boy slim he had the song a weapon H weapon of choice yeah yeah how did that come about I mean you got Christopher Walken did you know that he had like a dancing background and now when he danced somehow maybe I saw how much down right live or something like do with some dance and so like when I was thinking about it I also love making dance videos I just love filming dance and like I did this Bjork video called it's oh so quiet oh yeah the first one I did that was like getting to choreograph and dance and then I just kept doing more and um and so I did a fat voice in video of the is record before for cup for praise use you the torrents dance get one yeah and so I wanted to do dance again but I didn't want to do like lo-fi amateur dancing I wanna do like a real dance like dance production thing just like amazing dancing and the song was awesome and and then I was like who do I want to film dancing and from like years earlier as I remembered Christopher Walken on Saturday live and I was like what about that would be amazing and so I talked to Norman Cook from fat boy cinemas like my ideas basically just filming Christopher Walken dancing and he's like if he'll do it that's and and so I wrote up this treatment the treatment was really simple I was kind of like like my dad well how I succumbed when he my dad would come to town he'd stay at one of those airports hotels by the air for those Marriott's oh yeah and so I just imagined my dad at all these hotels traveling around the country at the Marriott to kind of hotels and and just sort of the mundane sort of repetitive numbing quality of that and and so that sort of the idea was like the fantasy that comes out of that yeah and also my dad kind of I cubes you know I remember like watching Deerhunter with my dad so I had that connection with Chris Rock on my dad and then my dad also when we drive in like on road trips he would sing show tunes oh really so it's like somehow all just made sense and then um and so yeah I I call it I somehow got Christopher Walken's number and you know we talked to his agent and okay I pitched it to his agent and I pitched it to his manager in it and then they pitched it to him and and Chris got on the phone he's like can you do a good Chris Walken imitation no I know but it's very I've never even tried that's right you know it's very like well yes I can't dance hello right yeah tell me more about it my brother killed you and we could call him up and get him yeah oh come the so he basically was like you know asking a lot of questions and kind of not sure about it and then at a certain point just got quiet like you know I'm 57 years old and I don't know when I'm gonna get to do this again and I could tell he just loved dancing and nobody ever asked him to dance like and he grew up and he told me like he started on in Broadway in the chorus line basically dancing in these big you know musical numbers in the 60s or whatever it was and so yeah he's came on did it and it's crazy edible so lucky so lucky that he did I mean was such a good when he goes out and rings the bell right do you remember this video yeah yeah okay when he goes out and rings the bell rings a bell and he comes back in I've always wondered this and he jumps on the baggage yeah don't carousel thing and he spins around is that him doing this him doing it yeah interested I know he's not jumping off the balcony and yeah I know you had some stuff yeah we have no but he did spend that one splendid room we got the egg because I fooled around with luggage carts a million times but they were possible okay and then we got one of those in the rehearsal studio and and figured out that move and then Chris first didn't okay he's also very agile yeah because I could just imagine like that could be a crazy fall no honey that's the shot you another shot I want to know okay real quick - I mean I like I love this I love this will get back to skating but when he comes and he's dancing through the hallway in the the double mirror yeah did you guys put those mirrors there yeah we built that you built that yeah we just got mirrors like hardware store mirrors for the closet doors I mean yeah cuz in my mind I'm thinking like why would they put two mirrors on both sides to make that we did it would be like upstairs yeah there was like a big like conference room and we just built like a hundred foot section of mirrors in the conference room Raj you gotta watch some of these videos here and if you never seen spikes work you should I should check it out well good well good that's why I'm video days oh yeah you

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Length: 5min 14sec (314 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 04 2018