Portishead - To Kill A Dead Man

The band Portishead are heavily influenced by the Spy films of the sixties & the soundtracks of such composers as Lalo Schifrin & John Barry. Their trip hop music conjures up images akin to movies such as The Ipcress file. Here they take their love of this genre further with a short B&W film starring themselves & with a very cool soundtrack. It begins with a rooftop assassination & centres on the reaction to it & understanding of it by a woman who was with the victim. But who was the victim? Is he dead? Who ordered the hit? This short film twists & turns in on itself all in the space of 10 minutes. This is obviously a must for all Portishead fans but many lovers of sharp spy movies of the sixties & those familiar with the work of the above mentioned film composers will find this intriguing. Hopefully the band will one day be given a full length feature to score on the merits of this short film.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• portishead
• kill
• dead
• man
• beth
• gibbons
• geoff
• barrow
• tim
• bishop
• dave
• mcdonald
• richard
• newell
• alexander
• hemming

[JaysThoughts]

Ohhh yeahh.. MTV used to do MUSIC!

[orelero]

Makes me think of David Lynch's Eraserhead !

[rabidfish02]

2:32 Amy Winehouse, lol.

[SHHAKEN]

Que elegancia, de buena que es una gran banda

[inhaler4]

@bachelorfoxactulally they did

[Alirocksn]

The start of this song is similar to Shine on you Crazy Diamond.

[placeboaddict1]

@miepdetruus Kudos! Great comment! :-))

[miepdetruus]

@JaysThoughts yeah, they changed it from Music TeleVision to Moron TeleVision :)

[Europa2099]

MUSICAL PERFECTIONISM AND FOLLOWING, AND REFERENCES FROM THE UK WERE NOT ENOUGH IN HOLLYWOOD TO GET THE JEWS GET SOME DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS OPEN. (MAYBE THEY WANTED ROUGH SEX...HEY, THESE JEWS ARE NOT MARTYRS, LIKE INDICATED IN HOLLYWOOD PROPAGANDA).

[domnulborcan]

finally it came to me... this is similar to atom heart mother from pink floyd. but i love it just as much :)

[brunitopenkas]

esta pocamadre el video portis es la neta