20 Music Videos That Parody Movies!

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by Scott Colothan
Monday, March 09, 2009
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From big-budget Hollywood epics to underground French cinema, below are some of my favourite music videos which pay homage to / copy / rip-off / mimic or pilfer from movies.

Featuring 30 Seconds to Mars taking on Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece The Shining, Blur dressed as Droogs, Tupac Shakur mimicking Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Elliott Smith chasing balloons and much more...

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Blur: 'The Universal' - Plenty of bands have been influenced by Stanley Kubrick's 1971 masterpiece A Clockwork Orange (Moloko and Campag Velocet even named themselves after Nadsat words), but Blur truly excelled themselves when they parodied the scene from the infamous Korova Milk Bar in the promo for 'The Universal'. Genius.

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