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"Duell"
- Spielberg's movie debut is known as a classic piece of film. The story
is amazingly simple: an anonymous, psychotic truck-driver chases a guy
in his old chevy through the desert, trying to kill him in an accident.
Director
Oliver Sommer adapted this theme in our video for "No Speech".
During our US-Tour, we met him in Las Vegas where we had a final talk
about the script.
Standing
in front of the Desert Cafe. Looks like it already had it's best days
in the 50's.
It's situated a liitle off of Highway 91 and there are only few who find
the way to this dusty little town that is actually a Post office, a
gas station, the cafe and some truck-wrecks.
It takes six hands and one chief to make a clean chevy look like it ran
for miles and miles through the desert.
The band
walks out of the cafe, gets into the car and drives off with a dusty wheely.
Sandra's diving premiere!!! It's true, she doesn't have a driving license!
She had a quick introduction by Stefan before the video-shooting. Though
opinions differ whether Stefan himself actually has a license or is only
permitted to drive in the county of Göttingen, because his father
is police officer there, Sandra drove like a young godess. She even managed
80% of the stunt scenes.
Apropos
truck - the crew had some trouble providing one when the rental company
quit their contract on the morning of the
shooting day. Not that easy to arrange a new one in the desert between
L.A. and Vegas. The one that arrived later turned out to be orange rather
than black and needed some painting to look more "evil".
The evil,
black truck chases us for miles and miles over the desert road and bumps
into our car several times, making Sandra's
attempts to escape pretty useless.

The "good"
Guanos are fighting with the truck, and meanwhile the "bad"
ones rock hard in the trailer.

What a scene! An old coppermine was scouted for the showdown and the truck
chases our car directly towards the edge of the cliff.
Oh
oh! Bad luck! Standing almost on the edge now with the truck pushing right
behind us we try to brake and escape but there's nothing we can do against
that big Mack-Truck.

No chance. The truck pushes our chevy all the way into a better world
and the take ends in a big fireball.
Everybody thinks the "good" are dead now but surprise, surprise:
those are not the bad but the good Apes jumping out of the trailer, finishing
the most exciting Videoshoot we certainly had yet. Hope you like it!

  
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