Music Video
The music video for "The World Is Not Enough" was directed by Philipp Stölzl for Oil Factory Films. The video was a shot in a London soundstage over September 23–24, 1999. Manson's android shots (laboratory, kissing and driving scenes) were filmed on first day with the pyrotechnic scenes shot on the theater set on the second. To film her "death", Manson was required to kiss a lookalike model. The University of London's Senate House provided the exterior for the fictional New Globe Theatre. Post-production and editing was completed over the following two weeks.
In the video, set in 1964, terrorists build a robotic replica of Shirley Manson on an unnamed Pacific island, with the ability to kill her targets with a single kiss. She is fitted with a bomb that is primed before she leaves for her mission. The android makes its way to Chicago's New Globe Theater and lets herself into the real Shirley Manson's dressing room. The android replica kills her and assumes her identity to perform the coda of the song atop a massive steel globe. As it and the rest of the band receive a standing ovation from their audience, the bomb inside the replica counts down. Android Manson thrusts her arms in the air and smiles. The screen cuts to black just as the timer hits zero, and an explosion can be heard.
Stölzl originally drew up a treatment that Garbage liked but MGM and Eon (who were paying for it from the movie's promotional budget) did not think it was "Bond enough". His reworked storyboard featured Manson as an android double replacing her and he provided a special effects house with sketches he'd drawn of the android, and they constructed a replica based on them using aircraft parts, bits from guided missiles, and bits of tubing, metal and plastic. The elements within the android were combined with Manson in post-production to show the android's mechanical interiors. "It reminds me of The Man Who Knew Too Much. Some of the shots look like Stanley Kubrick", recalled Vig, "For us it was just important that the music video was also a Garbage video." " like a mini-Bond action-packed film, where an android removes evil from the world and sacrifices herself in the process like a kamikaze warrior. That's as close as we'll ever get ," Manson later commented.
The video shoot was documented by a Making The Video camera crew, and made its worldwide premiere on MTV following the special on October 20, 1999. The video debuted on Total Request Live the next day. In the United Kingdom, the Making The Video special and video were broadcast from October 21. An edit of the video featuring footage from the movie was shown in some countries. In order to preserve the narrative, the movie footage was inserted on a split screen so that the narrative is uninterrupted on the opposite side of the frame. "The World Is Not Enough" video was later included on Garbage's 2007 greatest hits DVD compilation Absolute Garbage.
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