Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (Short Version)

This is my favourite music video as it is unlike many of the music videos of its time, or even today. this music video is more like a film rather than a music video. the music video featured in a film by Michael Jackson called MoonWalker, which is a collaboration of multiple music videos from Michael Jackson's Bad. Each song together advocated a story, which can offer an explanation the short film like music video characterised here. Michael Jackson himself is considered the greatest ever performer and and artist of all time, it is impossible to think anyone will ever suceed his career, music, dance, and achievements, he was titles the King of Pop, receiving 13 grammy's and countless awards and records. Smooth Criminal is a pop/soul/R'n'B song which is world wide known and extremely popular, received a No.1 across numerous nations including Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands, and No.2 in the US and Europe. It is full of choreography that disproves the image of the video, full of flamboyant, expressive movements and gestures. the choreography fundamentally contradicts the noir element seen within the music video. there is the sense of the good v bad, characterised through the use of costume and light, the protagonist (michael jackson) is in white and blue, and constantly illuminated by a light that hangs over, this has common associations with angelic and pure imagery. this differentiates from the other characters, whom loom in the darkness, and shadows. although the protagonist is always lit by a pure white light, there is often a shadow that conceals the identity of Michael Jackson, this could symbolise his change innocence, and becoming affiliated with criminals, yet still remaining intrinsically good.  differently it could symbolise the concealment of identity. Through the costumes it is apparent it is set in the 1920's New York, where commonly associated with gangsters and criminals at this time, matching the lyrics and dialogue of the song. the immediate setting is a club setting.