Thriller: An historical video

My favourite music video

   My favourite music video is Thriller of Michael Jackson. According  to publications of internet, the video was created by the own Jackson and John Landis, director of film “An american werewolf in London”. Landis has said that one day in 1983, received a call from Michael Jackson. The artist had seen the movie about the american werewolf and he wanted to make a film where he turned into a monster in the screen. Beside, Jackson wanted to tell a story with music. After they got the money, even Jackson put one part, they made, more than a music video, an small short film combining the story with the music and dance.

  Jackson had to support five hours of make up for achieving the wished effect.

The video cost 800 thousand dollars, the most expensive of the history until then. Thriller transformed the history of music videos and  now is part of popular culture. Even the video is the first in come into the lists of culture treasure of USA.

   For the public, the video is a parody of terror films,  because until zombies are funny. Even the zombie concept, as partly alive,  has been used in students protests, as happened on 2011 in Chile.

   This music video had been imited a lot of times in differents places of the world. As a sample of its enormous success, I can say that it has been seen 133 million times in You Tube.