Artist: Foo Fighters
Song: Learn To Fly
Director: Jesse Peretz
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 1999
The music video is a comedy about two airline staff (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) who smuggle drugs onto the plane through the coffee machine which ends up intoxicating everyone who drinks it. The Foo fighters themselves play many different characters on the plane which adds to the comedy effect.
There is diegetic sound at the start of the video which then kicks into the song playing. The editing is fairly fast paced and there is quite a bit of action going on. There is occasional performance footage played through television screens on the plane. As everyone apart from the band members drink the coffee it is left up to them to take control of the plane as all the pilots have gone crazy due to the drugs. The video has intertexualitity to the film Airplane! A comedy set on an Airplane which has a similar plot. The premise of smuggling drugs into airplane coffee is very similar to an actual smuggling operation that was uncovered in 1997 just before the video was made. The video also won a Grammy in 2001 for best short form music video. The comedy music video works well and the idea of using band members for multiple roles in the video is a good one.
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