Greatest Videos - 01 - Planet Earth
VIDEO:
Cheesy, with some ridiculous FX....And what about Simon on fire? And those red lines appearing from nowhere? Maybe it’s because of these things and more that I LOOOOOOOOOOVE SO MUCH this one! I can see it many times and I never get bored!
It’s amusing, entertaining and endearing, and even those cheesy FX make it more charming to me.
I love a lot of things about “Planet Earth”:
- the fact that each member has a lot of well-deserved screen time
- that info about planet Earth and the word DOOMSDAY appearing on the screen
- Simon and John singing together (I’m a JoSi fan!)
- John and Andy singing together (just because it’s fun seeing them!)
- the Ice Tower (well, it was and it will always have that name for me) where the Durans are performing at, and the bluish landscape that surrounds it
- the clapping hands
- the punk couple dancing, just alone or with John and Simon framing them (the first time, John turns round to look at the couple and the second time he simply looks at the camera with his arms folded, I dunno but I adore that!)
- that “bliss” moving John and Simon’s hair in several scenes
- the girl with the liquid-eyes (well, she seems to have!)
- Simon jumping into the void at the end
SONG:
“Planet Earth” is one of my favorites songs too. And even after so much time, it still remains in my top ten. Great song, great chorus, and I like the lyrics a lot.
It’s also a very special song for me.
My aunt introduced me to Duran Duran with this one. She lent me the “Arena” cassette while saying: “Listen to this band, they’re wonderful! You’ll love “Planet Earth”, it’s a jewel!”
And she was sooo right!
THE BOYS:
- Andy: I love him! He appears so much in this video, that’s a good reason to like it!
And we get to see his lovely blue eyes!!! Nice, nice, nice!
Blond is not the best colour for his hair, but here he looks really good.
I like him saying “Planet Earth” while the camera takes some close-ups of him
Funny shirt, maybe Nick chose it for him.
- John: Beautiful and ethereal. Strange haircut but it suits him well. I like that piece of cloth (well, what the heck is it called?) that he wears on one side of his trousers. In fact, I like his clothes and how he wear them all! And he moves better than Simon, with bass and everything!
- Nick: He looks rather well, appropriately cool and mysterious, but I don’t like his puffy haircut!!! I like the colour, though, and that “baroque” shirt.
- Roger: Cute, cute, cute!!! How nice, that bluish image of him in the beginning and in the middle of the video! He is so sweet and adorable (specially in the drums, there’s a moment when he looks at the camera with an almost anguished look that makes me sigh!) that I want to run to thim and hug him and....oh well!
- Simon: Horrible pants, horrible dancing! Anyway, he looks good. One of my favorite Simon’s part is when he’s lying on the floor (or whatever), then looks at the camera and sings: “You’re looking at Planet Earth”, he’s soooo gorgeous!
ADDED NOTE (22-01-2006):
I was lurking in one of the old LK Lizard's Duran forums when I came across this lovely pic of Andy in "Planet Earth" (posted by ReflexOz). It shows one of those great Andy's close-ups I was talking about and I couldn't help posting it here.
Sometimes it seems that I have the hots for Andy, but the reason why I try to talk about him a lot is that he's always been one of the neglected Durans (in favour of the more dashing Simon and John, and Nick as well) and it seems unfair to me.
Even in the 80's, I appreciated a lot what he was doing for Duran Duran and I cringed when his appearances in videos was kept to the minimum.
I missed him a lot during these years and I'm glad that he's back again!
