This is an interesting video. I read the reviews on it and its supposed to be a story of Christian Mythology. We see the band brought into the Coliseum, where they seemingly prepare for gladiatorial combat. This narrative is interspersed with shots of bizarre tableaus that riff on early Christian mythology, the first of which is a clip of a crucified man. Other biblical stagings include the blessed mother surrounded by preening acolytes, a pontiff with a trio of comely Roman lasses at his feet, and a tattooed woman with a lion on either side of her. The four members of the band are then sent into the arena and made to battle a gigantic gladiator for the amusement of a presumably evil—but royal couple. Naturally, they get pretty roughed up until they remember what our Jedi friend from the beginning of the video slipped into their respective hands. It is at this point that the video goes from being a cutesy allusion to early Christian martyrdom to an explicit invocation of the David and Goliath myth. The band realize Kenobi (for lack of a better name, I’m just going to keep calling him that) has given them the means to build a sling. Fall Out Boy assemble their collective weapon and Pete Wentz, their fearless leader. “Centuries” to appear as a strange confluence of historical themes: a reconstruction of the “David and Goliath” mythos meets a conceit based on public martyrdom in early Christianity.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:24:31 +0000
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