When Modest Mouse released their new music video for the song "King Rat," I was surprised to see Heath Ledger listed as the director, but more than that I was blown away by the intense and chilling imagery on my screen, not something you normally get with cartoons.
According to Rolling Stone's Daniel Kreps, "Ledger approached Modest Mouse’s Issac Brock with the storyline for the video when Brock visited Australia in January 2007... With the clip, Ledger was hoping to bring awareness to the illegal commercial whale hunts taking place off the shores of Australia by reversing the roles of the parties involved, and the imagery of the video does a superior job of translating Ledger’s message."
Without further ado, I present "King Rat":
Modest Mouse - King Rat (Directed by Heath Ledger)
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