Russell Brand V Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman- Russell Brand interview.

In the early months of last year Jeremy Paxman interviewed the highly opinionated, revolutionary Russell Brand. In the video Paxman enquires about the political stance Brand takes, very similar to a Marxist point of view, and begins to delve into Brand's views of revolution from the demeaning, bourgeois exploitation of the "disenfranchised, disillusioned underclass". 

This links to our music video as it highlights the exploitation the government carries out upon the public and apart of that public is the students. Brand points out the governments failure to tackle the problems at hand with the country and the world and points out the government's obsession with money by suing the EU over banker's bonus'. This is a problem highlighted by the Marxist William Chambliss who believed that laws are passed by the ruling class to benefit their economic growth. Likewise Laureen Snider believes that the ruling class are reluctant to create laws which will threaten economic growth, which monitor businesses. 

This greed and lust for money within the ruling powers of the British government is the reason that so many cuts have been made in education and the reason these cuts have been made are because of the huge debts caused by the recession. Therefore Brand is stating that the Capitalist society our society is based upon is no longer worth taking any interest in and the only way we can resolve the problems we have is stop living to gain profit and start living to help each other's prosperity; and that this is only achievable by revolution; starting by creating things like "March for the Alternative".

We took inspiration from this video as we felt it gave us great background knowledge and insight into the politics and political views of the modern day revolutionary. As our protagonist himself is a lonely revolutionary who takes part in rallies and protests, we felt as though Brand's views would give us an insight as to what our protagonist's views and behaviours would be like in order to then display this via our music video.