Would have Smooth Criminal worked as a western?

[Galactus123]

It was the original plan: 0:41. Do you think it would have worked? I can see Michael entering a saloon and it being close to the final Smooth Criminal video but I can't see Michael being as cool in western clothes. What do you think?

 

[Fuzball]

For the SC video/sf MJ basically made a choice between Chicago 1945 & Buffalo Bill.

 

[R1chard]

Do you think it would have worked?

Yeah, maybe. With a saloon it wouldn't have been much different.

 

[Michael4MyLife]

Thanks to this forums, I learned that the "western" footage he shot on Neverland were actually for the LA Gear sports commercial video shoot, and he was practicting ideas for it. And yes, it would have worked! But it would be a slightly different setting. Someone made an AI video for Whatever Happens. I am not in favor of AI, but it gives an idea of how he might approach a video for that song. But we will never know... Imagine MJ sitting at a poker table lol.

 

[etoile 37]

Do you think it would have worked? I can see Michael entering a saloon and it being close to the final Smooth Criminal video but I can't see Michael being as cool in western clothes. What do you think?

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