Thirty-seven years after Dorothée, Mylène Farmer is in turn making a small leap into the world of
Dungeons and Dragons
role-playing games .
The French singer released a new music video produced in collaboration with Paramount Pictures on Wednesday, ahead of the
April 12 release of
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor of Thieves .
Illustration of
L'Emprise
, a song taken from the album of the same name released in November, Mylène Farmer's new clip focuses on sobriety.
The singer appears on a stage with a black background, sometimes in a suit and tie under a ray of light, sometimes hooded, like an adventurer from the Forgotten Realms - the universe of Dungeons and Dragons represented in the
film
.
To support the link with the film, the artist is also spied on by a pair of bulging eyes.
Perhaps those of a dragon - which the budget allocated to the clip probably did not allow to model.
Because it is, however, a promotional collaboration for the film, images from the feature film by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley intersect Mylène Farmer's single on stage and inevitably give it the look of a trailer.
Regé-Jean Page slays an adversary possessed here;
an obese dragon pursues Chris Pine and his friends there;
not to mention an evil red witch busy casting spells.
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The singer's fans reacted rather positively to the clip.
“I appreciate its sobriety in an era invaded by excessive gratuitous vulgarity
,” commented a user on YouTube.
If some believe that
"the song fits perfectly with the scenes of the film"
, others were less thrilled by this collaboration and by the juxtaposition of the action scenes of the film with the staging while retaining the clip.
“It's a disaster,
laments a user.
You wonder what Mylène is doing in the middle of all this shoddy Hollywood mess.
Some comments also regretted not having discovered a new title for the occasion.
In 1986, the singer Dorothée had for her part split an original song for the credits of the cartoon
Donjons et Dragons
, broadcast in France under the title
Le Sourire du dragon
.
From sinister memory, the film
Dungeons and Dragons
by Courtney Solomon released in 2000, with Justin Whalin and Jeremy Irons, did - on the other hand - not seek to woo a French singer.
Allergic to social networks, Mylène Farmer has not yet commented on her collaboration with Paramount Pictures.
