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"I just think people loving each other is a kind of miracle. And I think it's against all odds and I think everything in the world conspires against that." -- Bono, 2000 |
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@U2 QOM February 2009: U2 has just tapped you to create another video for 'Get On Your Boots' -- what do you do?
@U2,
March 04, 2009
(Each month, @U2 puts a spotlight on U2 fans with our "Question of the Month." We pose a question to our readers and invite answers of 200 words or less. If you're interested in taking part, check our home page to see if the current question is still open. If not, check back shortly after the beginning of next month and we'll have another question ready to be answered!)
-- Eric R. Weiss Well, what I really want to do in a U2 video? To kiss Ali!!!!! All my female U2 friends want to kiss Bono, so this is my answer. -- Steve I think that I would make it more about women heroes and just regular everyday women in general. I would definitely include women firefighters and police officers because they wear boots everyday. The boots don't always look beautiful but those women are heroes and I think sometimes those kinds of boots are more "sexy" than the high–heeled kind. I would also include women in many other jobs because actually as Bono says "women of the future, hold the big revelations." There would be businesswomen, chefs, teachers, doctors, and even just mothers from around the world. I would even include women from Africa even though most of them don't have shoes and especially boots -- they are some of the most inspiring women ever. I believe that every woman is just as important as the next and especially as important or more than men, but they don’t always get the credit they deserve. -- Elsha Stockseth 1) The video opens with U2 on a balcony overlooking a small town. There is a jukebox and a boy who resembles Peter from the "Boy" and "War" eras shuffles up, nods to the band, puts in a few quarters, and begins playing "Boots." 2) The camera zooms to an aerial shot of the town square, where an army of female soldiers (what look like hundreds from above) dressed in glam fatigues all stand in row formation. 3) As the camera zooms in, we see them putting on stiletto-heeled knee-high boots, and cocking them like guns after zipping them up. 4) We're taken to street scenes of a few of the women, one by one, diffusing tense situations (social, political, sexual, etc.) by hiking up a leg and 'shooting' it as if it were a gun. Animated hearts are shot instead of bullets, and we're taken to the next scene of another female soldier in another scenario. This repeats a few times to shed light on the overall theme of empowered women basically fixing things everywhere around them. 5) We're taken back to U2 who take notice of what is going on in the town below as the jukebox continues to play. They look through telescopes, the kind that are coin-operated at tourist spots, as things unfold. This scene could mix in between each scenario depicted above. 6) Some of the women whom we've seen in the scenes above start filing up the stairs to the balcony where U2 is. They're carrying instruments and flight cases. 7) As they arrive at the top, they're greeted by the Peter boy, who takes them by the hand to the band, who are now clearing tables and chairs to make a performance space. 8) Each band member takes his respective instrument, nods to Peter, nods to the soldier women, and plays along with the jukebox during the last few measures of the song. 9) As the song finishes, the city begins to glow a warm reddish-orange, like the most stunning of sunsets, and a single animated heart 'bullet' floats upwards until it can't be seen. -- Don
(c) @U2/individual contributors above, 2009.
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I
think they should have quick snippets of the band eating pudding in exotic places
with other famous people. Yeah, I got nuthin'... 
