Exclusive: The Animal Fighting Championships
Max Landis Goes Wild With Wallpaper
The mind that brought us Chronicle and The Death and Return of Superman, Max Landis,
is at it again, and this time he’s determined to find out what wild beast wins
in a battle of wits, strength, and dance accompanied by an artillery of highly
messy weaponry. The music video for Wallpaper’s The Underdog is an energetic explosion of color and sound that tells the
story of ruthless beasts’ quest for glory in bursts of super slow
motion. The triumphant, feel good song paired with the epic, balls out nature of the fighters makes for a rush of feel-good sensory overload.
When Landis approached Bay Area rapper Ricky Reed as a fan with an
idea to gather between 60-100 of his closest friends, gussy them up in
Kigurumis and make them wrestle and fight with pasta, flour, paint, confetti,
tampons, and countless other miscellaneous household ammunition- well, we’re
not sure what his reaction could have been, but it definitely worked out. We
caught up with Max to answer this and many other burning questions about what
it was like directing his first music video, what it feels like to have Holi
color powder sting your eyeballs, and what the best fighting techniques are
should you have to channel your inner chinchilla/gorilla/swan for the next
AFC.
What animal truly is the strongest? You’ll have to catch the
video to find out. Let us know what animal you would be in The Animal Fighting Championships on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+!
