Saturday is the 3rd single from Chicago pop-punk band Fall Out Boy's 2003 album 'Take This To Your Grave'. the charecteristics of this genre are videos which focus on live performance, however Fall Out Boy are known for making their videos more narrative based, often with tongue-in-cheek humour or parodies of films.
The video opens with the shot of the Queen of Hearts playing card and cuts to show singer Patrick Stump staring at the card in a suit, he is playing a detective. The video then cuts on the beat to a live performance section, while in the performance part the camera is unsteady and makes rapid zooms and pans across band and audience. The venue the band are playing is a gritty underground club with graffiti all over the walls, the crowd are right up close to the band like in the Hardcore clubs famous in New York for their chaotic live shows, this is shown when guitarist Joe Trohman makes a hole in the roof with his guitar. The narrative is a crime story, shot in the streets of an American city, where Patrick Stump plays a detective while bassist Pete Wentz is a murder who kills people using the Queen of Hearts. The playing card is used as a symbol of mystery like in poker.
Murder victims (including the other members of the band) are found with the Queen of Hearts on their body, and Patrick Stump is clearlygetting stressed by the mystery surrounding their deaths. During the bridge of the song both Pete and Patrick are shown sitting in the same position surrounded by polaroids of the victims, it is hinted that they are the same person, a reference to the movie Fight Club.
The breakdown after the bridge is shown in the live performance and both the band and the crowd are going mental, another reference to the hardcore shows of the late 80's. At the end of it Patrick uncovers loads of playing cards in his car, another suggestion that they are the same person. Patrick discovers Petes phone and goes to look at it but Pete runs at himand kills him with another playingcard, however when he looks in his jacket pocket and finds a card he drops dead on the last beat. This shows they were the same person throughout the video which is influenced by Fight Club.
The video opens with the shot of the Queen of Hearts playing card and cuts to show singer Patrick Stump staring at the card in a suit, he is playing a detective. The video then cuts on the beat to a live performance section, while in the performance part the camera is unsteady and makes rapid zooms and pans across band and audience. The venue the band are playing is a gritty underground club with graffiti all over the walls, the crowd are right up close to the band like in the Hardcore clubs famous in New York for their chaotic live shows, this is shown when guitarist Joe Trohman makes a hole in the roof with his guitar. The narrative is a crime story, shot in the streets of an American city, where Patrick Stump plays a detective while bassist Pete Wentz is a murder who kills people using the Queen of Hearts. The playing card is used as a symbol of mystery like in poker.
Murder victims (including the other members of the band) are found with the Queen of Hearts on their body, and Patrick Stump is clearlygetting stressed by the mystery surrounding their deaths. During the bridge of the song both Pete and Patrick are shown sitting in the same position surrounded by polaroids of the victims, it is hinted that they are the same person, a reference to the movie Fight Club.
The breakdown after the bridge is shown in the live performance and both the band and the crowd are going mental, another reference to the hardcore shows of the late 80's. At the end of it Patrick uncovers loads of playing cards in his car, another suggestion that they are the same person. Patrick discovers Petes phone and goes to look at it but Pete runs at himand kills him with another playingcard, however when he looks in his jacket pocket and finds a card he drops dead on the last beat. This shows they were the same person throughout the video which is influenced by Fight Club.
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