Steve Barron

Whatever you guys want in it, let's do it.

Was it Steve Barron who had the story about Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits? Yes.

When he pitched in the idea for Money for Nothing, one of the most iconic videos.

That video was like the face of MTV.

So let's breeze through the last part of this show, Vernon.

The production history directed by Steve Barron.

He did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

And he also did like some of the best music videos of the 80s.

It's so interesting how famous that band is because of that one song and that one video.

Yeah.

I think Steve Barron deserves a lot of that credit.

He really does, yeah.

yeah but i just think that i think there's moments of all of them where it's like i don't know that little transcendent thing where it's like oh yeah they have like the magic inside of them

But other, you know, folks who worked on this are the director, Steve Barron, who we've talked about before because he directed some episodes of The Storyteller.

Is that not Trump's fake name that he uses also? It's

John Barron, maybe.

And more famously, probably, you know, directed Michael Jackson's Billie Jean video and A-Ha's Take on Me video.

Okay.

But apparently, you know, according to Brian Henson, Steve Barron, the director, and Sally Menke, the editor, who film school kids know as Quentin Tarantino's main editor, were working on this film, but were both replaced later on, like near the end, by the studios, so that they didn't get to finish the film.

What the heck?

Yeah.

I did just want to say, those videos, Take On Me and Money for Nothing, Steve Barron, the director, directed both of them.

Yeah.

The same bloke directed both of those videos.

Yeah.

I couldn't tell you who directed The Maltese Falcon, but I do know that the great Steve Barron, the late great Steve Barron, I'm only saying that because I don't know if he's dead.

I just want to cover my bases.

He directed the original Ninja Turtles movie.

Today we're delving into the Rogue Reviews archive and releasing an episode we recorded back in 2022 of the sci-fi miniseries Delete, which aired in 2013 and can still be watched on Prime Video.

Directed by Steve Barron, the story follows a young hacker and a reporter as they slowly discover the world is being taken over by a powerful artificial intelligence.

With the help of an FBI agent, they must race against time to put a stop to this malevolent entity.

The series stars an ensemble cast that include Keir Gilchrist, Erin Kaplunk, Ryan Robbins, Jewel Bellows and Matt Frewer.

Yeah.

uh so mtv obviously becomes a big part of the madonna phenomenon yeah uh burning up was added to the mtv rotation in september of 83 and the steve barron directed the video built around the bold colors and the look of crucifix earrings and rubber bracelets.

And that styling with the midriff bearing, the teased hair, that Madonna, that 80s Madonna look.

spread through teenage girls like wildfire.

But the directorial choice here is what I find incredibly fascinating.

It was directed by a man named Steve Barron.

Which is a name that might not immediately scream gritty 19th century historical epic.

Not at all.

Steve Barron is a legendary music video director.

He is the visual mind behind Michael Jackson's Billie Jean, A-ha's Take on Me and Bryan Adams' Summer of 69.

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