Madonna - Die Another Day (2002)
*** (of four)
This James Bond soundtrack video likely pleased fans and detractors of Madonna, considering she spends most of the music video being tortured by Kim Jong Il and his Army-uniform-clad band of minions. Yeah, Madonna's some kind of renegade spy here - once she married Guy Ritchie and made that "What It Feels Like For a Girl" video, she switched her image to badass mode for a little bit. Peaking here, naturally.
Hauled into a grimy, green-gray interrogation room, a tank-topped Madonna is left alone to writhe and grimace atop various torture devices. Then Il and the boys return to shove her head into ice water, strap her down to an electric chair and slice up her torso. Meanwhile, in a concurrent death match in a bright-white armory/museum, two Madonnas battle each other. One is dressed in white, the other in black. I'll let you guess which one the viewer is made to root for.
And, while the camp value is high here, for sure, Madonna more or less pulls it off. Except for the sequence in which Evil Madonna breaks into a glass case housing the actor who played Odd Job, grabs his razor-sharp bowler off his head and frisbees it across the room, where it decapitates a fluffy cat puppet and whizzes by Good Madonna's cheek. Oh well, she gets points for creating a song I like (with her French techno-blip producer Mirwais) and for never being referred to as Agent M. Mariah Carey already laid claim to that title in her goofy spy video, 1997's "Honey."
This James Bond soundtrack video likely pleased fans and detractors of Madonna, considering she spends most of the music video being tortured by Kim Jong Il and his Army-uniform-clad band of minions. Yeah, Madonna's some kind of renegade spy here - once she married Guy Ritchie and made that "What It Feels Like For a Girl" video, she switched her image to badass mode for a little bit. Peaking here, naturally.
Hauled into a grimy, green-gray interrogation room, a tank-topped Madonna is left alone to writhe and grimace atop various torture devices. Then Il and the boys return to shove her head into ice water, strap her down to an electric chair and slice up her torso. Meanwhile, in a concurrent death match in a bright-white armory/museum, two Madonnas battle each other. One is dressed in white, the other in black. I'll let you guess which one the viewer is made to root for.
And, while the camp value is high here, for sure, Madonna more or less pulls it off. Except for the sequence in which Evil Madonna breaks into a glass case housing the actor who played Odd Job, grabs his razor-sharp bowler off his head and frisbees it across the room, where it decapitates a fluffy cat puppet and whizzes by Good Madonna's cheek. Oh well, she gets points for creating a song I like (with her French techno-blip producer Mirwais) and for never being referred to as Agent M. Mariah Carey already laid claim to that title in her goofy spy video, 1997's "Honey."
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