{"id":12083,"date":"2012-02-06T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12083"},"modified":"2012-02-06T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:28:49","slug":"big-screen-feature-film-to-music-video-crossover-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/big-screen-feature-film-to-music-video-crossover-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen Feature Film-to-Music Video Crossover Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark Metcalf<\/strong>, the actor who played\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images_blogs\/geekdad\/images\/2009\/03\/29\/neidermeyer.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\">Niedermeyer<\/a> in <em>Animal House<\/em>, plays the angry dad at the beginning of <strong>Twisted Sister<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4xmckWVPRaI&amp;ob=av2e\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It&#8221; video<\/a>. To me, that&#8217;s one of the best big screen feature film-to-music video crossover roles ever. Metcalf carries the crowd-pleasing asshole qualities of his best-known movie role over to the small screen, adding some mainstream credibility to this then-upstart band&#8217;s breakout video. Not all established film actors are able to bring so much to their music video work. Take <strong>Johnny Depp<\/strong>, for instance.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iT8RnVm1k_8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Surely you remember Depp&#8217;s work in <strong>Tom Petty<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Into the Great Wide Open&#8221; video. You do, right? It&#8217;s the video in which an already-acclaimed Depp, still years away from believing he was actually his pirate\/Keith Richards character, revisits themes from his underappreciated work on <em>21 Jump Street<\/em> while playing out scenes from Petty&#8217;s version of Bad Company&#8217;s &#8220;Shooting Star.&#8221; \u00a0Blame it on the script, if you must, but I think Johnny was more interested in going along for the ride, playing the rock star he always wanted to be, and test-driving a Wide Bandana Look that his hairline-challenged rocker friend had been considering, than focusing on his acting chops. In the pantheon of big screen actors appearing in rock music videos Depp&#8217;s performance is among the least effective.<\/p>\n<p><em>So what are the most memorable big screen feature film-to-music video crossover roles ever? What are the flops?<\/em> Pre-stardom appearances, especially pre-small screen stardom appearances, such as <strong>Courtney Cox<\/strong>&#8216;s unparalleled career turn as the cute girl plucked from the audience to dance with <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>, do not count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Metcalf, the actor who played\u00a0Niedermeyer in Animal House, plays the angry dad at the beginning of Twisted Sister&#8216;s &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It&#8221; video. To me, that&#8217;s one of the best big screen feature film-to-music video crossover roles ever. Metcalf carries the crowd-pleasing asshole qualities of his best-known movie role over to the small <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/big-screen-feature-film-to-music-video-crossover-efforts\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}