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She says that a prop guy brought it and painted it. But look at the gun itself compared to the Nerf gun. It looks a lot more real than that tbh
Never forget Kathi lol

i really like the colors in this video and how minimalistic it is, i love how its also so personal and it feels like one take

Did anyone had this vid remind you of Tropico? Not that the video has a story -besides a stalker in a helicopter and Lana shooting him with a big-ass gun- but it felt incomplete like there's more to it. Just my opinion, but she a freaking bad ass Lolita

"This video sucks"

"Boring Video"

"Bad Editing"

"What is she doing"

"BTD and UV is Better"


 
This video was cool, it was different, and it was very Lana. It obviously isn't MEANT to be this cinematic fucking masterpiece like Star Wars -- it's supposed to send a message.
 
....and the message is this:

Yeah that's right. Especially BBY and PWYC conveyed such a new idea of her voice ...
I hope she does it a little bit more .. consitently this era.
Like, for UV we had the Neil krug shoot and the album, both of them were different to what she did before. However, everything else was still very Paradise-ish. The photoshoots, the videos .. all oft his could have happened during BtD/Paradise aswell (of course I'm exaggerating a bit on this part, but you get what I mean).

I can't with the delusional interpretations of this amateurish video. She's such a bad actress and she moves so awkwardly that was painful to watch sometimes. At least get that lip-sync right. The way the gun didn't fit in the guitar case is ridiculous. She's such a troll

My little brother pointed out that the gun is a painted Nerf gun

Francesco: Lana come over
 
Lana:

Francesco: I brought the Italian sausage
 
Lana:

I love this transformation from submissive, needy and masochistic cry baby to revengeful and bloodlust Amazonian that grabs destiny in her own hands and clutches god by the balls. Sooo refreshing in contrast to her usual imagery. I am glad this is not overly produced, ultrapolished, fancy-schmancy grandiose video, because she already had ones, and also that it isn't flippant, sloppy and hermetic jerking off like Ultraviolence (ok, I don't hate that one, I just state that this overshadows Ultra, although it is as much as simple). It is something brand new, crazy hybrid between Tarantino action and Dogme 95/home video/Steve McQueen seventies/Larry Clark/documentary/voyeuristic  shaky camera, and you can feel that this kind of filming is deliberate. And it is masterfully delivered, because your site is really narrowed in suspense and you feel the excitement and vehemence of the action. Even slow parts are thrilling. Speed and poetry in one. And there is an excellent use of color (azure blue of vast ocean and bare, luminant crinoline of the sky), and frame from the balcony seems cosmically wide –that is the greatness of the vid also: the contrast between tight, claustrophobic tubes of villa halls with her rush like mercury through them and magnificent freedom of the big blue nature principles.
 
Although Shades of Cool have very strong visual metaphores, such as Lana in 3D illusion, stabbed by a sword, or gun pointing at her, bullets flying, flowers softly exploding, and magical amalgam of gem-like colors, like ruby, royal blue and mystic violet, this is much more cohesive and that Scarface shooting and explosion in the sky is like her initiation into whole new dimension of existence, personal (spiritual) and artistic. Enough experimental and intimate ("indie" formally, so to say) yet enough cohesive, articulate and charged, or should I say, blessed, with (almost) unexpected, brilliantly depicted culmination and message hidden in it. That climax is like her awakening from the nightmare into pure white bliss. Thousand orgasms from me.
 
And yes, she is so cute, funny, vulnerable and human in that scene of her gown being stuck, and the fact that we see her in different emotional states and in physical movement (running, stumbling) is a breezy shift from her gloomy, elusive, mysterious and impenetrable poutiness of a diva. I adore that expression of healthy rage and determination on her face. So complex, soulful and relatable. She creates a powerful space for catharsis.

Oh geezus I feel like the only one who lowkey fucking loved this video. Infinitely better than the UV video, imo, even with its simplicity. 

I love it when that page pops up again after she blows up the helicopter.
 

I think that while it's simple, it's also beautiful and weird. 
 
Also that shot by the window with the helicopter and the wind... 

I noticed all the walls are empty, no headboard on the bed, stark kitchen with only a coffee pot I think. It's like she just moved in or we got to see the bare bones if her home, but afterwards she will furnish it, personalize it and make it her own regaining a feeling of privacy or her own space.

God, most of these opinions are just....blah.
I seriously tire of these forums.
Over analyse
Over critical.
Over gushing.
If you don't like, don't play or watch.
...and get some balance in your life.

makes sense. when i was first watching the video i was thinking about how she isn't actually 'on' the beach, but rather "by the beach" (while holed up in her house). what kind of anxiety ridden realness 
 

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Chuck better have fucking taken photos infront of those glass block walls. Born To Die album shoot throwback

THIS IS SO FULL OF MEME MATERIAL SORRY I 

ok but........

calm down beyonce 
 

 
I like how the video mirrors, very well, what james says about the video "being about her and not being about her". It could be about a generic person just wanting to escape or more specifically about lana dealing with the paparazzi

I've wanted Lana to do a one take video    I thought it was actually really cool. Though it was all pretty ordinary a few shots were really stunning and she looked fucking amazing throughout. 

https://instagram.com/p/6VF1Oplnvl/
 
Didn't know where else to post this, but I love the Andy Warhol reference

did she actually buy the house tho or just rent/hire it for the making of the video?

This should be captioned "leaving your flop thread" lol