Confira fotos dos bastidores de Thriller, clipe icônico de Michael Jackson

03 dez | 1 minuto de leitura

Por Daniel Furlan

Vídeo completa 35 anos

Eu tenho certeza de que você já viu pelo menos algum trecho do clipe abaixo:

Lançado por Michael Jackson em 1983, o clipe de Thriller se tornou um dos vídeos mais icônicos da indústria musical. Com uma longa duração e uma história muito boa, o clipe ficou muito famoso nos anos 1980, mas até hoje é visto como algo extraordinário. Inúmeras pessoas pelo mundo sabem fazer a coreografia completa e se divertem ao som da música do álbum homônimo, lançado no ano anterior.

Para homenagear essa obra-prima de Michael Jackson, trouxemos algumas fotos dos bastidores do clipe para você ver que a produção em torno do clipe foi gigantesca extremamente cuidadosa. Dá só uma olhadinha!

The plot of "Thriller" is two-fold: In part of it, Jackson plays a werewolf-like beast in a 1950s movie. Then the scene switches to the present day, in which Jackson is watching the 1950s movie in a theater with Ray. When they leave the theater, they're attacked by zombies -- and Jackson himself turns out to be one of the undead. Cue the song.

Baker, left, was already famed for his work on Landis' film "An American Werewolf in London." He was initially reluctant to take the "Thriller" job. "It's like being a dentist in a way," he says in the book. "They have to sit still in a chair for hours while you work on them. It's uncomfortable."

Jackson was unfazed by the process. About the only thing he didn't like were the painful yellow contact lenses he had to wear for some scenes. Well, and one other thing, Baker said: the behind-the-scenes footage Landis shot. "Michael was so nervous that, as soon as the cameras came in, he ran off and hid in the bathroom."

Kirkland took the photographs for Life magazine. He shot most of the pictures with a long lens, keeping his distance from the filming. Jackson was at his best just before a take, Kirkland recalls: "He projected this glorious smile which could warm anybody up," he said. "That was Michael being Michael, and that's when I made my best pictures."

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA" target="_blank">The "Thriller" video,</a> a 14-minute narrative, went well beyond the usual three-minute promotional clip. Jackson worked with A-list Hollywood talent, including director John Landis and makeup artist Rick Baker. Playboy model Ola Ray played his love interest. The video cost $500,000, an enormous sum at the time.

Baker didn't have much time for others on the film. The dancers weren't cast immediately, so Baker kept their zombie makeup fairly simple. "We'd only have three days from meeting the dancers to finishing their faces," he said. But Jackson was well cared-for. In this photo, Jackson holds Muscles, his pet boa constrictor.