Talk:Thriller (music video)

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[edit] Sales

This article claims the video has sold in excess of 90 million copies world-wide. Where was this sourced from? I thought it was nearer to the 1 million mark.

[edit] Longest video

How was this beaten by Mike Skinner? What about Ghosts, which was 35 minutes long? Theswillman 01:00, 20 August 2006 (UTC) Ghost beat Thriller.

[edit] Bollywood version

Recently on Youtube there has been an Indian parody posted. Does anyone know anything about this? FuturePast 05:31, 28 February 2007 (UTC) FuturePast


      • The Golimar song of Chiranjeevi is from the movie Donga (Tollywood, language Telugu, year 1985). Chiranjeevi definately copied MJ. ***

[edit] Trivia clean-up

I made a new heading for references to the video in pop culture. This can be sorted further, however, e.g references in cinema, other music videos, etc. 211.30.189.31 05:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Very little of what's in the Trivia section is actually noteworthy. I think we can just delete it all.--24.83.107.213 20:51, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] National Film Registry

You can check the records of the National Film Registry here. Thriller is not mentioned anywhere. I am going to remove that part of the trivia section.UberCryxic 15:17, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, Thriller did make the list for films that were nominated to the Registry but not chosen. See here. There were, however, other music videos that were also nominated, so Thriller is not special in that sense.UberCryxic 15:20, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Person at the end of the video?

Who might be that person at the very end of the video, dressed up as a curly zombie? It appears to be somebody one should recognize, but I just don't get it. Quincy Jones or someone?

[edit] Only show (complete) Once?

If I remember this correctly, the entire long form video was only shown once on MTV - mostly to drive sales of the video. After that, they only showed the song portion. 24.24.211.239 (talk) 21:49, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

MTV showed the full version in countdowns on greatest videos of all time in the '90s, so it's been shown in full more than once, although long after it was off the charts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.133.8.248 (talk) 13:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Thrillertitlecard.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Do we need this

I just watched this video and it's really, really bad. Does it really deserve its own article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.193.45.183 (talk) 19:45, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thriller Dance Used in Final Fantasy VIII?

I've been comparing videos of Thriller to the Dealing City Parade cut scene but while I cannot conclusively rule out that the dance steps are not the same it is looking unlikely. Of course this is only minor trivia that doesn't really add anything to the article, but I happen to like the trivia so it might as well be accurate. So if anyone one else can find another source or take a look at it for themselves to see if the dancers in the parade are/n't using the Thriller dance steps then it would be appreciated. Deepraine (talk) 23:03, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Werecat or Werewolf?

The article says that Michael Jackson turns into a werecat, yet at one point in the video he howls like a werewolf. Just a thought. --♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 15:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)