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Music video by Cyndi Lauper performing The Goonies
'R' Good Enough. (C) 1985 Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Music
video
There was also a two-part video shot for this song
featuring World Wrestling Federation pro-wrestlers
Captain Lou Albano, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Wendy Richter,
The Fabulous Moolah, The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff,
Freddie Blassie and André the Giant (Part II
only); Steven Spielberg; David Wolffe (Lauper's manager);
The Goonies cast (except for Kerri Green, Anne Ramsey,
Joe Pantoliano, Robert Davi and John Matuszak); and
the then relatively unknown Bangles as a group of
female pirates. Lauper's mother appears as "Cyndi's
mother" and the "sea hag".
According
to Cyndi Lauper, filming the music video was less
than an enjoyable experience. Richard Donner, apparently,
was a pushy director and wanted things done a certain
way and forced Lauper to keep going, even when she
was exhausted. In a behind-the-scenes documentary
of the video, the viewer can see Donner being pushy
and doing lots of takes on scenes.
Part
1 of the video debuted on MTV before The Goonies opened
in theaters and Part 2 premiered on MTV after the
movie opened. On the DVD of The Goonies, both parts
have been spliced together to form one video with
no chapter change in the middle of the two. Part 1
of the music video had an extended version released
in Japan. The version included more commentary from
the voice over during the opening sequence of the
video and extended scenes inside the gas station and
with the wrestlers. Part 1 of the video almost didn't
make it onto the DVD due to Warner Bros. inability
to find the original negative of the video. They were
ready to start pressing the DVD when someone at VH1
found an unused master copy of the tape that was sent
to their network. In the nick of time, it was digitized
and put on the DVD before pressing began.
Plot
Cyndi Lauper's character, referred to only as Cyndi,
works at her parents' gas station, along with her
friends Dave (Wolffe) and Wendi (Richter). Cyndi's
Mom is baking cookies for gas station customers, and
Wendi operates a vegetable stand (set up inside a
miniature wrestling ring) outside the station. A group
of creditors (Piper, Blassie, Sheik, and Volkoff)
show up to evict them and take over the station. While
they argue with Mom and Pop (Albano), an old woman
(Moolah) shows up and closes down Wendi's vegetable
stand, putting in a Benihana-like set-up in its place.
While packing, Cyndi removes a picture from the wall,
which reveals the entrance to an underground cavern.
Searching through the cave, Cyndi finds a treasure
map, and then encounters the Goonies (minus the character
of Andy), who also have a copy of the map.
Soon
after, they encounter a group of pirates (who look
just like the creditors, though it is never said if
they are the same people as the creditors), and a
supposed green-faced witch. Cyndi runs away as the
Goonies are captured by the pirates. Running through
the caverns, she encounters several skeletons, and
even some chefs who seem to work for the restaurant
Benihana. Cyndi eventually finds herself trapped between
the pirates and the green-faced witch on a log-bridge.
Unsure what to do, she cries out: "Steven Spielberg,
how do I get out of this one?" Strangely enough,
the scene cuts to Spielberg in an editing room (he
seems to be editing the video as it is happening).
Spielberg stops the editing machine and begins to
give a solution, before realizing that he doesn't
know how to help Cyndi.
Cyndi,
along with the Goonies, is captured and taken aboard
a pirate ship. The pirates, along with the green-faced
witch and some female pirates (the Bangles), party,
while forcing the Goonies and Cyndi to prepare food
for them. Also of note, is that Dave and Wendy (who
had also gone into the cave to look for Cyndi) have
also been captured (how they were captured is unknown),
and tied to the mast of the ship. Eventually, Cyndi,
Dave, Wendi, and the Goonies break free, and after
finding some treasure on the ship, toss some of it
to the pirates, who fight amongst themselves for it.
After subduing the green-faced witch, the Goonies
escape from the ship along with Cyndi and her friends,
giving her the remaining treasure that they found.
Cyndi,
along with Dave and Wendi, return through the cavern
entrance in the gas station, armed with the extra
treasure in hopes of appeasing the creditors. Despite
all the treasure she offers, they still refuse. Cyndi
then whistles, and in a cloud of smoke, André
the Giant appears, and chases the creditors off (with
Roddy Piper apparently breaking character, calling
out to director Richard Donner, Spielberg, as well
as Lauper and Wolffe that "the video wasn't supposed
to end like this" before being assaulted by Andre).
The family then celebrates their good fortune as the
story draws to a close. (Wikipedia)
