Dangerous: The Short Films
Dangerous: The Short Films is a collection of music videos from the Dangerous album by Michael Jackson released initially on VHS, Laser Disc and double Video CD (in Asia market only) in 1993 and reissued on DVD in 2000. It was re-packaged with Dangerous in a two disc set in 2008.
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| Released | December 7, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1991-1993 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 112 minutes | |||
| Label | Epic Music Video, Sony Music | |||
| Director | Various | |||
| Producer | Various | |||
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Track listing
- "Intro"
- "Brace Yourself"
- "Reaction to Black or White"
- "Black or White"
- "Black or White: Behind the Scenes"
- "Grammy Legend Award 1993"
- "Heal the World" (Super Bowl XXVII halftime version)
- "Remember the Time: Behind the Scenes"
- "Remember the Time"
- "Will You Be There"
- "In the Closet: Behind the Scenes"
- "In the Closet"
- "Ryan White"
- "Gone Too Soon"
- "NAACP Image Awards"
- "Jam: Behind the Scenes"
- "Jam"
- "Introduction to Heal the World"
- "Heal the World"
- "Give In to Me"
- "I'll Be There" (Pepsi commercial)[1]
- "Who Is It"
- "Dangerous: Behind the Scenes"
- "Dangerous"
- "Why You Wanna Trip on Me" ("Credits")[2]
Certification
| Country | Certification | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2× Platinum[3] | 30,000 |
| Germany | Platinum[4] | 50,000 |
| Mexico | 3× Platinum[5] | 100,000 |
| Spain | Gold[6] | 10,000 |
| UK | Platinum[7] | 50,000 |
| USA | 3× Platinum[8] | 300,000 |
References
- Note: The Pepsi commercial was slightly edited; almost all Pepsi references in the original were replaced with archive Jackson 5 pictures and video.
- Note: Various scenes from the Pepsi commercial "Dreams" were used in the music video. Michael chases a woman in red and black dresses (played by Vanessa Sandin) through pipe laden inner workings of some sort of factory. The floor is obscured by with what appears to be smoke or steam. The woman appears on a circular backed throne in red coronation clothes with a crown on her head. She holds two staffs one of which has what looks like a gloved hand holding up the pointer and middle fingers. The circular back of the throne is topped with golden animal statues with one pedestal on either side. One of the pedestals has an owl statue on it. The animals then morph into their real life counterparts except for the elephants whose statues are African but morph into Asian. The woman, animals, throne and pedestals morph into a crown half buried in the sand of a desert. Michael chases the woman into the hat of a little person dressed as a ringmaster which leads into a swirling vortex. Michael then appears in an alleyway then a desert where he sees the woman in a blue dress. A man dressed as P.T. Barnum stands in a room with three arches. He presents a woman standing in a spotlight through the middle arch dressed as a ringmaster's assistant. Michael runs in the desert with children then dances in the spotlight with the assistant. The ringmaster also dances. Michael continues to dance in the spotlight with the assistant then in the desert with the children some of whom hold some sort of animal skull. Michael runs through an arch flanked by two pillars like on the album cover. The assistant in the spotlight extends her arms. Michael is shown in the desert with P. T. Barnum half buried in sand with the ringmaster standing on his head. The woman Michael was chasing at the start is shown standing in an alternative version of the album cover in the form of a mural ala Looney Tunes. Michael dances with the assistant then with the woman he chased at the start in the factory's inner workings again. The ringmaster shows the swirling vortex inside his hat again with the woman inside it. Various artworks from the album cover are shown in quick succession. The woman materializes and dematerializes in the alleyway. Michael spins in the alleyway. He and the assistant dance in the spotlight while the man dressed as P.T. Barnum watches. The top of the central arch is adorned with an orange rhombus with a green eye on it. Michael dances in the factory's inner workings again then with the assistant the man dressed as P.T. Barnum still watching. The camera slowly pulls back revealing another archway made of gold with the sides consisting of two golden caryatides one on each side. Michael and the woman walk through the factory's inner workings. Michael and the assistant continue to dance while man dressed as P.T. Barnum still watches. The two golden caryatides are flanked by a bust. The ornate top of the archway consisted of the two golden caryatides is shown to be adorned with a blue ball with golden stars on it with golden spikes surrounding it flanked by an ornate light on either side. Michael's eyes and a single lock of his hair are then shown against a black background. Various pieces of artwork shown on the album cover come out of his eyes: one of the desert children standing on a stone sculpture of one of his hands with the number 7 on it, the ringmaster standing on P.T. Barnum's head, the orange rhombus with the green eye on it, a golden crown adorned with rubies and an undulating band of emerald, the world, the blue ball with golden stars on it topped by a white African elephant with a clown astride its back, a golden woman's face with a crown on her head and three long thin bars coming from her mouth. The rhombus with the eye, the crown, the child holding the animal skull on Michael's hand, the ringmaster standing on P.T. Barnum's head and the blue ball with golden stars ridden by a white African elephant with a clown astride it move around the screen for a while before returning to Michael's eyes.
- ARIA Charts Archived 2012-07-02 at WebCite
- "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank ('Dangerous%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Short%20Films')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
- "SEARCH AMPROFON". Archived from the original on 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
- Promusicae
- "British certifications – Dangerous%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Short%20Films". British Phonographic Industry. Type Dangerous%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Short%20Films in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
- RIAA Archived June 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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