Fat Boy Slim's song "Weapon of Choice”

Weapon of choice is a song by an English artist called Fat boy slim well known for this tremendous song that was part of an album called Halfway between the Gutter and the Stars. It is based on a tired and bored businessman (Christopher Walken) who sits in a hotel corridor with his baggage beside him, sitting on a chair. However he becomes aware of the sudden beat and strange singing rhythm that comes from the radio on a cleaning trolley. Suddenly and unexpectedly he launches into a dance and he continues to dance and fly around in the empty hotel to the music.

Since Christopher Walken was trained as a dancer in musical theatre prior to his acting career he did a variety of dance which he personally choreographed within the music video (weapon of choice).In the music video Christopher Walken also does dances such as tap dancing and other things such as a cartwheel. The song is also well known for its accompanied director Spike Jonze and is mostly interesting for most people due to the unexpected departure from their view of Walken as a villain since people cannot believe that he actually performs in the video.

Christopher Walken does an energetic performance within this video and the performance that he does is impressive for a man of his age. He is also very flexible which gives the whole performance a wonderful feeling and makes it entertaining. This is also a very comfortable and unique performance from Walken.

His use of props such as luggage trolleys and fixtures such as escalators and tables is also essential in the video and enables him to dance into the escalator as it goes up and down and helps him leap and kick away from the table. Therefore the fixtures enable him to do his dance moves more effectively. This video was filmed in the Marriott hotel in Los Angeles. The hotel provides a modern corporate of interior design and consists of dim lighting. This provides an interesting contrast and graphics to the camera work.

The camera is tilted according to the directions that Walken leans to so he is clearly in the video and moves fast so they can keep up as he runs around the building (hotel). They also do close-up so we can see him as he dances (especially as he does tap dancing so we can see the movement of his feet).

The purpose of the music video is to show that music can cheer people up in times of sadness and can make you have a wild moment of freedom. It also conveys that without music we return to our thoughts and troubles again as shown in the video when Walken returns wearily to his chair.