Music Video
The music video of the song kicked off Rouvas' successful collaboration with photographer and director Yorgos Lanthimos, who would go on to create the majority of Rouvas' most acclaimed videos over the next two years. Lanthimos won in 2008, the "Off-Cannes" Palme for one his movies and was nominated for an Oscar in 2010. Similar to some of Rouvas' past videos, the video features sexual content, especially for the time of its release that earned it some criticism, while also making it very popular. It contains four scenes, all on one setting, which is an outdoor patio. The video starts by showing quick flashes of various objects, namely a toy gun, a polaroid camera and photographs, a statue, and beach toys. Throughout the video, flashes of Rouvas singing into the camera can be seen while half-naked, playing around in a small outdoor pool. In another recurring scene, Rouvas' is lying down while shirtless while water continuously spalshes over his torso, while the camera angle is right above him, making it appear as he is being trapped by a glass effect. In the second half of the video, Rouvas can be seen dancing on the patio wearing an open purple T-shirt. The other scenes feature Rouvas playing around with two young women who have very similar features, although one is blonde and the other is brunette. In one scene, they are dressed in bikinis, feather boas, stilettos and diamond jewelry and are drinking champagne, while in the other they are dressed more casually. Rouvas blindfolds the two women and sends them off to search for him while he is watching. During the bridge of the song, Rouvas places the brunette woman in front of the target and aims to take a shooting stand, finally shooting her with the plastic gun on the right side of her chest. He then picks up a golf club and shoots the ball, while afterward, he is brought to lie down while the same woman stands over him, taking numerous polaroid photographs while he poses both clothed and in a bathing suit. The video plays with the effects of using fast flashes and off-angle shots in combination with some slow-motion and rewinding shots, such as Rouvas slightly getting out and going fully back into the pool, which is replayed many times.
The video for "Theleis I Den Theleis" would set an example of Lanthimos' work with Rouvas, featuring highly sexual content, as did the photo shoot of the album 21os Akatallilos and subsequent videos such as "Andexa". This video and ones similar played a part in Rouvas' recognition by media as a sex symbol, while it featured new concepts that helped shape the still young Greek video industry, as "Theleis I Den Theleis" was amongst the most-played videos on MAD TV during the channel's first years of airing.
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