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Bruno Mars Turns Up The Heat In 'Gorilla' Video
Bruno Mars' "Gorilla" is an absolutely arena-sized sex jam, and now, it’s got an appropriately epic music video.
In the new clip (which premiered Tuesday on Mars’ Facebook page), Bruno pushes practically everything to the max, casting actress Freida Pinto as Isabella, a downright devilish dancer in a South of the Border strip club. She struts and prowls her way across the stage, powers her way up and down the pole, and — in one gloriously cinematic scene — sheds her clothes with such ferocity that it literally causes the joint to short circuit.
Luis Guzman cameos as the club’s seriously sleazy owner, and Mars and his mates serve as the house band, and practically every frame of the video drips with both sweat and sex (to say nothing of the scenes where Mars and Pinto passionately paw at one another in the back seat of a Caprice) … which, again, is probably the point. But credit Mars — who co-directed the video with frequent collaborator Cameron Duddy — for also infusing the clip with a healthy dose of camp, whether it’s in the catty back-and-forth between a pair of strippers backstage, or Guzman’s scenery-chewing turn. Clearly, Bruno’s seen “Showgirls” a few times.
And while Pinto will no doubt garner the most attention for her, uh, work— make no mistake about it, she deserves the accolades — the "Gorilla" video also succeeds because Mars and Duddy have created a singular, hyper-sexualized world here, one that pays homage to the song’s subject matter (you know, humping) while, at the same time also paying tribute to pulpy classics of the past. It feels fresh, yet, also worn in … or, more specifically, sweated in.
Like everything Mars has done on his Unorthodox Jukebox (Locked Out of Heaven” and "Treasure," specifically) his latest clip is undoubtedly indebted to the past few decades of pop-cultural history … yet, once again, he’s managed to created something entirely new, too. Thanks to Pinto’s wattage, “Gorilla” goes to heights — and depths — Mars has never visited before … we’re all riding along with him, and we can’t wait to go back, even if we probably need to take a cold shower before repeated viewings.
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Bruno Mars' 'Gorilla' Video: Freida Pinto Strips & Slithers in Steamy Clip
Bruno Mars has been deemed family-friendly enough to headline the upcoming Super Bowl halftime extravaganza, but the pop crooner sports a more R-rated side in the music video for “Gorilla.”
Mars and his band performing the epic “Unorthodox Jukebox” cut in a seedy bar as "Slumdog Millionaire" star Freida Pinto attacks a stripper pole with her entire sexual being. Sure, the Luis Guzman cameo is pretty memorable, but not as memorable as the back-to-back shots of Pinto (playing the impossibly alluring Isabella) peppering Mars’ guitar with tequila and a lit match, and then ravenously sucking face with the singer in the backseat of a steamy car.
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Bruno Mars Goes Primal in 'Gorilla'
Bruno Mars doubles as a seedy strip-club singer in his just-released video for "Gorilla" – a track off his latest album, Unorthodox Jukebox – which he premiered via his Facebook page. He co-directed the clip, which stars Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and features Luis Guzmán (Boogie Nights), with his past collaborator Cameron Duddy ("Locked Out of Heaven")
The dramatically charged clip opens with two women speaking in Spanish while applying lipstick backstage at a gentleman's club called La Jungla. It seems a new woman has been fooling around with another's man (Mr. Mars), and it ends with one of the women declaring, "Wait 'til I tell the boss who she's sleeping with." Then it's revealed that the woman, Isabella (played by Pinto), has been listening in – and it's her time to dance.
After an introduction by Guzmán, Mars kicks things into gear and Isabella begins pulling off some gravity-defying spins on the pole. As his band bangs out some mid-tempo steamy soft-rock piano stabs, Mars mugs at her intensely, singing "You and me baby making love like gorillas," as she disrobes and sparks fall from the ceiling. Then it cuts to the two of them heating up the backseat of a car, intercut with shots of her grinding on customers. There's a moment about mid-song when Mars sings, "In this jungle, you can't run," which metaphorically explains the name of the strip club in a "Hotel California," "you can never leave" sort of context, but it also serves as an invitation for her eventually to drop to her knees and lick (wait for it) his guitar. She takes it from him and lights it on fire à la Hendrix, and it's pretty much all over for everyone after that, leading to an anthropomorphic chase scene.
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They better stan.
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