| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - 'Blade Runner', 'Repo Man', & 'Transformer'. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Sunday, 24 October 2010 22:51 |
 PART II l PART III 'Blade Runner', 'Repo Man', & 'Transformer'... MIKEY WAY: Movies affect - just as us artists - as much as music would, which is really cool and interesting, I think. FRANK IERO: Yeah. We kind of like to have movies going while we'll tracking. For some reason, that visual stimulation sometimes will make you play differently. GERARD WAY: 'Blade Runner' was really huge. 'Blade Runner' was huge during Parade as well. 'Blade Runner' was always on, but this time [while] I watched them, I felt like I was - I felt we were on a bit of an artistic crisis at a certain point. We had done this recording, we [had] just gotten back from Japan and I had about, we had a week to ourselves maybe, to kind of contemplate what we're in the midst of in what we're doing. And I watched the 'Blade Runner' documentary, and that's actually called 'Dangerous Days', because that was the original title of 'Blade Runner'. And there's, just from watching that, I gained so much insight about art and what it took to not back down. And there's this thing where he's, in the very opening when the credits are happening, there's a shadow of Ridley Scott and he says: you see this in my hands, this is my camera, this is my weapon. He goes: I'm not gonna stop until I get what I want. And I was like: oh, God, you got to really dig deep like this guy, like he, we're gonna have to really do what he just said. Had a huge impact on me just that documentary. 'Cause obviously, I've seen the film so much and there's a little bit of influence in there. There's a lot of Tokyo in there. There's a lot of Katsuhiro Otomo. And there's a lot of the director of 'Visitor Q'. RAY TORO: Takashi Miike. GERARD: There's a lot of him in this, you know? So, it's really crazy plan of like Andy Warhol, pop art, Japanese comics and filmmakers, and then really amazing science fiction filmmakers like Ridley Scott. Yeah, it's got to be the 'Night Of The Comet', 'cause I think 'Night Of The Comet' was a bit like - it was [similar] style - it feels like they're gonna look like they are making it up a little and just finding cool stuff and has a new-wave punk element to it, much like 'Repo Man', which was also... you look at the generic dog food cans and the vending machines in the middle of the desert, and that's what real 'Repo Man' [is]. We made all the stuff, we spent a long time making all the stuff. And then once we had done it, it was actually much larger than Black Parade. Like, I would say almost 20 times more art was created for this than Black Parade. FRANK: It's actually 22 percent. GERARD: Twenty-two percent more, and it was like everything down to the stickers on the car were made-up companies, but even the fonts on the stickers were - and the colours of the logos and everything was like that. And so, now that we have it, it doesn't feel like a prison like Black Parade did. Like, that was very uncomfortable and it was kind of that was the idea, very... military. This seems like something that I want to live in for the next two years and keep playing with. FRANK: That's one of the greatest things here is that when you can live in this world, it can change and, well, it's like we were talking - [Lou] Reed how, [with the album] 'Transformer'. And then all of a sudden, you'd go see him on that tour, but it was different already. Like, he was already on to the next sheet. And this, I think this concept is the world [that] really allows us to [reach a higher] place and go find that within this world. GERARD: Totally. Yeah. I want to keep doing it. Like, to me, we should still be doing this all the way up to the end of the cycle. I think it's gonna take a minute to get to the bigger shows to do that. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE's new album 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys' is released in New Zealand on November 22nd - features the lead-single 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)'. Find out how you could win the chance to hear the new album eleven days before it hits stores HERE - as well as about our ART IS THE WEAPON event. |
