Spike Jonze, famous Director, Writer and Producer

The music video was directed by a well known producer, director and writer Spike Jonze. In 2009 Spike Jonze was the lead screen play writer of the famous children’s novel ‘Where the wild things are’ turning it into a great IMAX experience, he has also written and directed many other great films such as the Oscar worthy ‘Being John Malkovich’ which was his first ever film and is still a great piece of post-modernism work to date. Spike Jonze was also writer and director for a well known song and music video for the ‘Beastie boys, Sabotage’.
The video weapon of choice features a well known actor Christopher Walken, who was trained as a dancer in musical theatre prior to his acting career. Who would have thought that he would be dancing and flying around in an empty Los Angeles Marriott hotel to the music of Fat boy slim?
I wanted to find out why Christopher was used within the video? Was it celebrity endorsement? Was it because he plays many antagonist roles within films, many of them including psychological narratives and a crazy killer A.K.A him? I tried to find reasons for his involvement, but could only find an interview where the topic was briefly mentioned.

Question: What's the story behind the “Weapon of Choice” video?

Walken: The director, Spike Jonze called and asked me to do that. Sent me a tape of the music.

Question: Was it based on his knowledge of your dancing?

Walken: I think he must have, you know, I did a picture called Pennies of Heaven, a musical movie. He must have seen something. You never know how you get these things. But the choreographer was Mickey Rooney's son.

In my opinion I think he was used because of the psycho killer roles that he plays, as the lyrics of the song offers a substitute solution to violence and then ironically he is used to emphasise this. Another reason could be that he uses words to deceive, control, subject people to violence and this powerful weapon is used to get into the minds of people both within his films and the novel dune.

The song was released in September 2001 and got to 10 in the chart. The "Weapon of Choice" video won six MTV awards in 2001 for best choreography, choreographer, best editing, best art direction, best cinematography and best directing.
The video was also cited as the best video of all time in April 2002, in a list of the top 100 videos of all time that was compiled from a music industry survey by VH1.