Kanye West - Runaway (Short Film)

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[.:Hercy Buggz:.]

alot of people will hate on this but I think Kanye West is a genius! alot of messages on this video

[Elano]

LMFAO kanye is a genius

[Dogg Ly Dogg]

alot of people will hate on this but I think Kanye West is a genius! alot of messages on this video

Tell me what messages then? Just asking because even if I liked that weird short film to me there's no message nor purposes

[Hatesrats™]

"Devil In A New Dress" is still my fav track released thus far...
This video was weird as fuck, So Kanye Was/Is fucking a Turkey?

[operation stackola]

I really like this (watched it a couple times). It's pretty much just a love story w/ undertones of society rejecting things that are against the grain or different. 'Ye saves the Phoenix, tries to conform her to have society accept her as his love; obviously, this fails, so she goes home. Didn't quite understand some of the parts of the dinner scene (like the ballerinas, wtf?). U know it's a great piece of work when it makes you think, though.

[operation stackola]

Another thing I picked up on: the animals in the video are ones that are hunted by humans. So, it's symbolism of the Phoenix's character. Prolly lookin' too deep, I'm high. Oh, and those other two tracks, the one w/ Cudi and the one w/ John Legend sound real nice, too.

[Action!]

It's about many things at once.  It's a metaphor for his career while reflecting on soceital norms, history, creativity, etc.

His career is like that of a phoenix.  It has a high point where he is on fire and then, part of the journey as a celebrity, is being destroyed but a phoenix is known to die and return.  Though, more likely, there was a woman or women in Kanye's life that are his creative sources. 

The entire scene with the hooded men is a chrsitian ceremony for rebirth.

The michael jackson parade float during this at once homage to the king of pop while claiming the throne.

He touches on racism in the dinner hall even if he is denying it in interviews (or he's ignorant of the tones in scene itself and someone is ghosting the video for him).  Though, I doubt he's ignorant of it.  Based on recent interviews he experiences a lot of racism for his poor decision to mic jack taylor swift.  This is him spitting back in their face.

I didn't catch that before about the animals but that makes sense.



I'm reminded of 50's last album title "before i self destruct"  When doing press rounds on the album 50 said he felt that Interscope built him up only to tear him down because they sought pleasure in both.   Where as 50's album didn't touch on that theme all that much, the comments concerning his career are similar to the commentary in Kanye's Runaway.

[CHUCK KNOXXX]

if nothing else can be taken away from the short film, is that the album is gonna be nothing short of dope, maybe even great. i think its pretty undeniable....you can really appreciate the songs more when their played in the context of the movie, some really good music going on here, pun intended....

[RingMan]

I liked, partly because it was shot in our country and because their used this fucking dope (Czech) car ...but the story and visuals were pretty nice as well, and Kanye explains some of the messages in interview with Sway on MTV

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[R1ZE]

This is art. Y'all said it, the mans a genius.


TBH I think Kanye might be a better director than rapper, I enjoyed the video more than the music.