Michael Jackson: Black or White
- Music Video
- 1991
- 11m
Michael Jackson's video accompanied with the single ''Black or White''.Michael Jackson's video accompanied with the single ''Black or White''.Michael Jackson's video accompanied with the single ''Black or White''.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
- Native American Dancer
- (as RobbieLeeGeneral)
- Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter
- (uncredited)
- Tyra Banks
- (uncredited)
- Veena Bidasha
- (uncredited)
- Bart Simpson
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Homer Simpson
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Roberta Chow
- (uncredited)
- Blonde Kid
- (uncredited)
- Young Indian Dancer
- (uncredited)
- Khrystyne Haje
- (uncredited)
- Mother
- (uncredited)
- African Dancer
- (uncredited)
- Yuko Sumida Holley
- (uncredited)
- Dancer - Girl
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTyra Banks: One of the extras who morphs into another person.
- GoofsWhen Michael is dancing with the group of Russians, the amount of artificial snow on the floor keeps changing.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Father: Turn that thing off!
[goes upstairs and enters the blonde kid's room, making the rock music stop]
Father: I thought I told you to turn that thing off! It is too late and it's too loud!
Blonde Kid: But, dad, this is the best part.
Father: You are wasting your time with this garbage. *Now, go to bed!*
[exits the blonde kid's bedroom by closing the door so hard that the Michael Jackson poster falls over]
Blonde Kid: Okay.
[He brings the big speakers into the living room, sets up his electric guitar and adjusts the speakers from "loud" to "Are you nuts?". His parents notice him with his electric guitar]
Blonde Kid: Eat this.
[the boy plays an electric guitar loudly enough to fire his father into space, to finally landing in Africa]
Mother: I'm afraid your father is going to be very upset when he gets back.
- Alternate versionsAfter receiving many angry phone calls and letters of protest, the later showings of this video removed the scene where Micheal Jackson smashes a car with a crowbar, smashes a window by throwing a garbage can at it, and grabs his crotch while dancing.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Top of the Pops: Episode #28.46 (1991)
In the Black Or White minifilm, short-sighted tabloid-like critics were able to see only "masturbation" (which actually was only in their ill minds) and "violence".
But this video has the deepest symbolism I have seen in a film ever.
It called Black Or White. The whole film is about. It is about good Or bad, light Or darkness, happiness of communication between people Or despair of loneliness, peace Or aggression, nations unity Or rage and so on.
Every frame of the last, Panther, sequence is a symbol. The water, the wind, the dance, the mimic poses symbolize many things.
Absolute quality and art of costumes, light, photography, special effects.
The idea, scenario, choreography, text and music by Michael Jackson.
Denis Raphael Solyahoff, analytic contents provider for MJFCs' SCREAM International Project >
- denisrs
- Jan 7, 2001