The Human League - Louise

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The Human League - Louise
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The music video for Louise was directed by Steve Barron, who had directed most of the bands videos up to that point, and was to be his last for the band.
His story board plays on the literary perceptions of the song. It was filmed in Black and White to add gravitas. Something that wasn’t popular with Music TV stations at the time, who called it “drab”. The video’s story mirrors the song’s origins in that all the characters from the 1981 video for “Don’t You Want Me” are present. Susan Ann Sulley wears the same trench coat she wore in the DYWM video and has a similar hairstyle; and she is the ‘Louise’ character. Oakey spends the whole video navigating a Narrowboat along a London canal while narrating the scene as the action takes place on the road paralleling the canal. There is also limited stunt work with a London Routemaster bus skidded to a halt on a bridge; and Joanne Catherall herself dives into the canal water in one scene. The video also alludes to Philip Oakey and Joanne Catherall’s real life long term relationship, with the couple sharing a bath fully dressed and other intimate moments on camera. The video was called “too arty” at the time and the story that it was trying to tell, was never fully understood by the public. [Source: Wikipedia]

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