Editing Under Pressure (section)

==Music video==
The [[music video]] for the song features neither Queen nor David Bowie due to touring commitments.<ref name="MusicVid">[http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/videos/queenpromo.htm Queen Promo Videos – Under Pressure] Ultimate Queen. Retrieved 20 September 2011</ref> Taking the theme of pressure, director [[David Mallet (director)|David Mallet]] edited together stock footage of traffic jams, commuter trains packed with passengers, explosions, riots, cars being crushed, and various pieces of footage from silent films of the 1920s, most notably [[Sergei Eisenstein]]'s influential Soviet film ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'', ''[[My Lady of Whims]]'', the silent ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Paramount film)|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' starring [[John Barrymore]], and [[F.W. Murnau]]'s ''[[Nosferatu]]'', a masterpiece of the [[German Expressionism|German Expressionist movement]].<ref name="MusicVid"/><ref name="Video">[https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/100-greatest-music-videos/P15 Queen and David Bowie, "Under Pressure" (David Mallet and Andy Morahan)] ''[[Slant Magazine]]''. Retrieved 10 March 2018</ref> The video explores the pressure-cooker mentality of a culture willing to wage war against political machines, and at the same time love and have fun (there is also footage of crowds enjoying concerts, and many black and white kissing scenes).<ref name="Video"/> ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' refused to show the video in its original form due to it containing footage of explosions in Northern Ireland, so an edited version was instead shown.<ref>''Greatest Flix II'' liner notes for "Under Pressure"</ref> In 2003, ''Slant Magazine'' ranked "Under Pressure" number 27 among the 100 greatest music videos of all time.<ref>[https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/100-greatest-music-videos/P15. "The 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time"]. ''Slant'' magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2018.</ref>