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"Hungry Like the Wolf" was the greatest video I'd ever seen". [40] The band's video work was influential in several ways. First, Duran Duran filmed in exotic locales like Sri Lanka and Antigua , creating memorable images that were radically different from the then-common low budget "band-playing-on-a-stage" videos.
On the first day of New York-based WLIR's run as a modern-rock station, "Hungry Like the Wolf" aired in morning drive, with John DeBella as host. It gained national popularity, however, only when the newly emerging MTV began playing the accompanying music video in heavy rotation; the exposure pushed "Hungry Like the Wolf" onto AOR playlists. [35]
During the trial, the prosecution plays Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf" to demonstrate to the jury Diane's choice of song used to motivate her to kill. Diane Downs is sentenced to life in prison, and her two surviving children are adopted by the prosecutor Frank Joziak and his wife, Lola.
Former film student Marcello Anciano acted as storyboard artist and art director for all the videos. [11] The Sri Lanka videos emphasised the exotic location; "Hungry Like the Wolf" saw Le Bon cast as an Indiana Jones-type character, while "Save a Prayer" utilised elephants and found the band atop a mountain inspecting stone temples.
The first one had the "clean" or "day version" of "Girls on Film" alongside "Hungry Like The Wolf", while the other had the uncensored "night versions" of each. [1] In February 1984, the video album Duran Duran won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video, while Video 45 won the Best Short Form award.
(Side note: I would have preferred the Wolf doing Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf,” X’s “Hungry Wolf,” Shakira’s “She Wolf,” or even TV on the Radio’s “Wolf Like Me ...
Also seen in the video is the backing singer Tessa Niles, struggling underwater to break free of the chains that bind her, where she sings her backup line in the song. [6] A portion of the music video can be seen in the "No Laughing" episode of the MTV show Beavis and Butt-Head , which was aired in July 1993.
Retrospectively, music journalist Annie Zaleski described the song as "a moody ballad driven by lush, pirouetting keyboards and acoustic guitars, and a rhythm section that propelled the song forward with nuanced grooves." She wrote: "Duran Duran's blend of acoustic and electronic is one reason why "Save a Prayer" works so well.