
In 1993, the larger-than-life singer Meat Loaf released a nearly eight-minute music video for his epic single “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That).” The video has police helicopters chasing motorcycles, motorcycles disappearing into mansions, police shooting up mansions, and so forth. The video, based on a combination of Beauty and the Beast and The Phantom of the Opera, had a cinematic quality. Appropriately, Hollywood took notice.