In Gavin Hopps book 'The pageant of his bleeding heart' it has the following very interesting passage on page 189:
‘There is an extraordinary moment in the video for November Spawned a Monster, which features Morrissey miming in a state of choreographed derangement in Death Valley, in the Nevada desert. In between the first and second verse (1:37-40 and 1:43-45) and again towards the end of the song, there is an interrupted tracking shot of the singer in the middle distance, as he slowly turns towards the camera, his face grotesquely disfigured by computer manipulation, and who appears as a result to have been transformed into a Francis Bacon portrait of himself. The shot only lasts for a few seconds and is easy to overlook. Yet it deserves to be as famous as – and is manifestly related to – the earlier ‘impaired’ appearance wearing a hearing aid and National Health glasses. In this brief moment………..the singer boldly identifies himself with and as the ‘monster’
Any comments please.
‘There is an extraordinary moment in the video for November Spawned a Monster, which features Morrissey miming in a state of choreographed derangement in Death Valley, in the Nevada desert. In between the first and second verse (1:37-40 and 1:43-45) and again towards the end of the song, there is an interrupted tracking shot of the singer in the middle distance, as he slowly turns towards the camera, his face grotesquely disfigured by computer manipulation, and who appears as a result to have been transformed into a Francis Bacon portrait of himself. The shot only lasts for a few seconds and is easy to overlook. Yet it deserves to be as famous as – and is manifestly related to – the earlier ‘impaired’ appearance wearing a hearing aid and National Health glasses. In this brief moment………..the singer boldly identifies himself with and as the ‘monster’
Any comments please.