Arcade Fire has long held a reputation for seriousness, whether it's the Montreal band's carefully contemplated music, their politics or their unwaveringly independent ethos.
So it's perhaps not surprising that the stark images in the band's new Spike Jonze-directed short film "Scenes from the Suburbs" — in which shadowy military characters at one point execute a civilian on a pristine suburban street — are being interpreted as a statement on the military, or U.S. border security, or the suburbs themselves.
But really, the band's Will Butler says they were just having fun making a short film influenced by the sci-fi adventure movies they grew up watching.
"No, I think it starts with the genre, like: 'Let's make a dystopian movie,'" Butler corrected.
It will be in stores in August, bundled with a new version of the band's Grammy-winning third album, "The Suburbs."Multi-instrumentalist Win Butler says the film was inspired by '80s movies like "The Goonies" and "Red Dawn."
It's a sci-fi movie about an American suburb with an oppressive military presence.The actors in the film's lead roles are actual teens that the band found around Austin, Texas.
So it's perhaps not surprising that the stark images in the band's new Spike Jonze-directed short film "Scenes from the Suburbs" — in which shadowy military characters at one point execute a civilian on a pristine suburban street — are being interpreted as a statement on the military, or U.S. border security, or the suburbs themselves.
But really, the band's Will Butler says they were just having fun making a short film influenced by the sci-fi adventure movies they grew up watching.
"No, I think it starts with the genre, like: 'Let's make a dystopian movie,'" Butler corrected.
It's a sci-fi movie about an American suburb with an oppressive military presence.The actors in the film's lead roles are actual teens that the band found around Austin, Texas.
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