Your Tricks with Fruit / Were Kind of Cute
Running Out of Luck (1986)
directed by Julien Temple
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Cinefile Video
In 1985, Mick Jagger sat down with Rolling Stone and had this to say about his forthcoming solo record She’s the Boss:
“How do you write a song? I don’t know. It comes out, and it’s a miracle, really. It just comes out, and you have these visual images, and you think, well, let’s carry them a little bit further and make them a little more cinematic or something.
“You know, ‘Lucky in Love’ and ‘Running Out of Luck?’ Before I would maybe have had to change it: ‘Oh, I can’t have two songs with luck.’ I use that, so that becomes a kind of slightly thematic thing, if I want to use that for a video.”
Columbia Records, or perhaps Mick himself, put the money where his mouth was and funded, not just a video, but a movie. Running Out of Luck is She’s the Boss in the flesh, the round, the nude. Mick and Jerry Hall travel to South America together, where Mick is kidnapped and put to work on a banana plantation. As he tries to get back to civilization, Ms. Hall returns to London, wears fur coats and lingerie, and takes up the life of an assassin.
What begins as overindulgence – Dennis Hopper shouting stage directions while Mick waltzes with drag queens - never really gives up on its commitment to entertain the fans. Mick can’t stop moving, and aside from participating in what is possibly the scariest, most gratuitous sex scene ever filmed, he pulls off the trick completely. Rock stars as a rule won’t make themselves the butts of jokes, but Mick is more than happy to, so long as he’s still a rock star in the end. It’s better proof than the music why Mick Jagger the celebrity has been the center of attention so successfully for so long.
And it’s pretty great. The last thing you’d expect to win over the room is now essential viewing for boys and girls and followers of fashion.
directed by Julien Temple
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Cinefile Video
In 1985, Mick Jagger sat down with Rolling Stone and had this to say about his forthcoming solo record She’s the Boss:
“How do you write a song? I don’t know. It comes out, and it’s a miracle, really. It just comes out, and you have these visual images, and you think, well, let’s carry them a little bit further and make them a little more cinematic or something.
“You know, ‘Lucky in Love’ and ‘Running Out of Luck?’ Before I would maybe have had to change it: ‘Oh, I can’t have two songs with luck.’ I use that, so that becomes a kind of slightly thematic thing, if I want to use that for a video.”
Columbia Records, or perhaps Mick himself, put the money where his mouth was and funded, not just a video, but a movie. Running Out of Luck is She’s the Boss in the flesh, the round, the nude. Mick and Jerry Hall travel to South America together, where Mick is kidnapped and put to work on a banana plantation. As he tries to get back to civilization, Ms. Hall returns to London, wears fur coats and lingerie, and takes up the life of an assassin.
What begins as overindulgence – Dennis Hopper shouting stage directions while Mick waltzes with drag queens - never really gives up on its commitment to entertain the fans. Mick can’t stop moving, and aside from participating in what is possibly the scariest, most gratuitous sex scene ever filmed, he pulls off the trick completely. Rock stars as a rule won’t make themselves the butts of jokes, but Mick is more than happy to, so long as he’s still a rock star in the end. It’s better proof than the music why Mick Jagger the celebrity has been the center of attention so successfully for so long.
And it’s pretty great. The last thing you’d expect to win over the room is now essential viewing for boys and girls and followers of fashion.
posted by NPK at 8:20 PM
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