Programme notes
Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice [Official 4k Video]
Summary
A 2000 big beat single whose video, directed by Spike Jonze, consists almost entirely of Christopher Walken dancing alone through the public spaces of a hotel before taking flight on wires. Bootsy Collins supplies the vocal.
The track itself is loose and funk-derived rather than driving, which is what gives the video its room: the performance can be languid because the music is.
Why it matters
It is one of the small number of music videos that outlived the format's commercial logic — remembered and rewatched long after music television stopped being how people found music. Its premise is also an argument in itself: a single performer, one location, no narrative, and a piece of casting that recontextualises an actor known for menace as a hoofer, which is what he had trained as.