FAN REVIEWS:
I LOVE this
video. I love the way it was shot. All the dark scenes with the cool lighting. The whole
transitioning scenes with the paintings thing, rocks my world. I love that kind of stuff
and it was REALLY well done in this vid.
I love his intensity at the beginning when he is in the club at the table with the table
cloth all fisted up. Man, that just grabs me. The use of lighting in this whole thing was
really cool. This is such a powerful song to me and the loss and sadness really come
through in the video.
I re-watched this video over the weekend. I
don't remember seeing this being played much back in the day when MTV played Rick videos
regularly. I think I know why after watching this in 2002. I came up with a few points to
address...
Why is there a succession of women leaving Rick? I think the video would've made more
sense if he was at least chasing the same woman through the whole video. This just
makes him look like a "man whore" (see the movie Deuce Bigelow for definition)
The "character" Barbara played really made no sense...if she was a flight
attendant, she was just (in a sense) going to work, not technically leaving him. If she
was going off to war (as it looks somewhat 1940s-ish) why isn't Rick? Usually that
"going off to war" theme is opposite, with the man leaving on the train and the
woman longingly waving good-bye from the platform.
The wedding dress woman made sense for the song (couldn't face the heavy commitment of a
marriage) ...but what the heck??? She jumped overboard and swam away?? Totally not
believable...but Rick is quite the hottie in the tux. So I'm thinking that was the theme
of that idea, get the man in a tux (always a plus).
The biggest faux-pas I'm going to point out is the ending. The woman obviously FREAKIN
died. Unless she committed suicide to get away from Rick (which in itself shows signs of
delirium) she wasn't walking away from him. It was interesting to see however, that Rick
will still be a hottie when he is 75. He'll be the best damn lookin' grandpa in the
ol' nursing home, eh?
All in all, I seriously hope the person who came up with the concept of this video wasn't
Rick and was fired after the production ended.
This one is not one of my favorite Rick
Springfield videos. Don't Walk Away is one of my top five favorite Rick songs too,
so you would think that would help. I ALWAYS think of the scene from the movie and
not the video when I hear the song. Perhaps it is because of my strange obsession
with that dang pea coat!!! It will haunt me forever. But those scenes where he
is walking around the town looking for (ugh) Diana appearing so sad wearing that
coat...whew. It is magical. I know I am the only one that will think
this, please don't throw rotten eggs at me, but that coat makes Rick 10 times more sexy
than when he is running around "dropping the towel" for us all!!!
Oh, but wait a minute...this is a review of "Don't Walk Away", sorry, blame it
on the coat.
The video is really dark, in mood and in actual footage, which I don't care for.
Rick seems so psychotic doubled over in pain singing about this girl, again, this is not a
right or normal thing for Mr. Springfield to be doing. The backwards water scene
freaks me out. Rick appearing old and feeble at the end freaks me out. The
only interesting factor is that Barbara was in it. I did not know that was her at
the time but I always thought to myself "wow, I bet his girlfriend HATES that kissing
scene"!!! Too funny...little did I know. It makes sense now that it was
SUCH a realistic scene......it is nice to know it was Barbara. When you are young
(naive and stupid) sometimes it is easy to jump to conclusions. I always thought
because he used the same girl in "Don't Talk To Strangers" and "What Kind
Of Fool Am I"....that HAD to be his girlfriend!!!! I practically had those two
married off somewhere!
I guess my favorite part of the video would be where he is chasing the girl (again,
another not-worthy-to-be-in-the-video-with-him-caliber-of-girl) by the sea. This is
only because he is wearing a bow tie and he looks handsome. But then, he always
looks handsome, even doubling over in psychotic pain.
This is not one of my favorite videos. I think my
main problem with it is, I just don't get it. I can't figure out what kind of
concept they were going for in this one. I do kind of like the opening frame, with
Rick rising out of the water, yet is all dry. Kind of like a backward Baptism.
He just seems a little too psychotic in the video. And the point of the song
is basically that he's so in love with this one woman and that she's the one and only
woman for him, yet there are 3 different women within the video. I guess maybe it's
supposed to be 3 different time periods (or 3 different lifetimes) or something. I
have no clue. The best part is that his wife makes a short appearance in the video, so it
gives it some historical value and they have a great kissing scene (guess there was no
holding back on that one). I never think of the video when I hear the song, I always
think of the scene from the movie where it was playing.
I just love the idea of Rick saying he's "not afraid" of commitment! I always
picture him doing this song live in BOTLD when I hear it. The way he pumps his arm.....
LOVE that! We get a little of that in the video but not as much. I have to say the video
does not do anything for me. I get a kick out of the Barbie part but other than
that....not so hot!
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