Pink Floyd – The Wall Movie (1983) Flower Scene ‘What Shall We Do Now’ (((Stereo)))
Lyric are below.
One of the most popular animated scenes from The Wall movie is the flower scene,animated by Gerald Scarfe.The tune is called What Shall We Do Now. It speaks for itself.
The song was originally called Empty Spaces and shortened for The Wall album due to the overall time considerations for vinyl albums.
Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI, (born 1 June 1936 in St John’s Wood, London) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his work as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. He has also worked for rock group Pink Floyd, particularly on Pink Floyd The Wall album (1979) and movie (1982).
Scarfe was approached to work with Pink Floyd after Roger Waters and Nick Mason both saw his animated BBC film A Long Drawn Out Trip. Scarfe’s first work for the band was a set of animated short clips used on the 1977 “In The Flesh” tour, including a full-length music video for the song “Welcome to the Machine”. He also drew the cover illustration for their 1979 album The Wall, and in 1982 worked on the film version of The Wall, although he and Waters fell out with director Alan Parker during the latter stages of editing. As well as the artwork, Scarfe contributed 15 minutes worth of elaborate animation to the film, including a sequence depicting the German bombing campaign over England during World War II, set to the song “Goodbye Blue Sky”.
He was also involved in the theatrical adaptation, including The Wall Concert in Berlin, where his animations were projected on a vast scale.
Lyrics:
What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar ?
Shall we set out across the sea of faces
In search of more and more applause ?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on
Drop bombs
Do tours of the east
Contract diseases
Bury bones
Break up homes
Send flowers by phone
Take to drink
Go to shrinks
Give up meat
Rarely sleep
Keep people as pets
Train dogs
Race rats
Fill the attic with cash
Bury treasure
Store up leisure
But never relax at all?
With our backs to the wall.
Duration : 0:3:52
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Masterpiece. Whole …
Masterpiece. Whole my life I try to break at least one brick in wall to see…. what?
saw this movie on …
saw this movie on vh1 a few weeks ago and those (no pun intended) cut out the flowers. grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
wow this is …
wow this is excellent. the whole movie was great, i loved the animated scenes the best.
Reminds me of a …
Reminds me of a Salvador Dali drawing or painting
how shall i …
how shall i complete the wall?
what shall we do?
what shall we do?
You must be …
maybe i should have used the second If-sentece to express it a better way (sry, i’m not a nativespeaker 
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You must be mistaken,
i actually wrote, that i do believe IT IS art!
Because I don’t know what art should be like if you don’t call this art..
thats why i wrote IF
GOD BLESS YOU!
GOD BLESS YOU!
@Himbeer. This is …
@Himbeer. This is actually art, I hope your definition of art is not black and white shorts about sexual exploration. I’m not saying that’s not art, but it’s just retarded. So, music is art, movies are art, and this video is both, so how is this not art?
lol, you’re just …
lol, you’re just not willing to open yourself up to interpretation
PINK FLOYD-THE WALL …
PINK FLOYD-THE WALL-30 AÑOS
if this is not art, …
if this is not art, tell me what else
not many other …
not many other bands can capture reality like pink floyd. pink floyd is just amazing
i think gerald …
i think gerald anthony scarfe was a god…
been a long time …
been a long time since ilast watched The Wall
tall32guy… my …
tall32guy… my boy Pink had sex with his mother? i don’t think so bro. i think this scene is just a tribute to sex. there’s plenty of that motherly sheltering in the rest of it. so they include the song Mother in the movie? i can’t remember.
Who knows? lol All …
Who knows? lol All I know is the flowers represent not only male and female genitals but also (if I remember right) Pink and how his mother smothered him and overprotected him.
Exactly. But you …
Exactly. But you have to remember it’s English. They like other countries of the world, especially Europeans, are less “holding” of that stuff and more open with it then we are in the States.
wow!!!!! …
wow!!!!! impresionante!!! lo vi estando en un viaje, es…. no lo se, cada situacion, cada cosa, dibujo; no puedo ternimar de definir exactamente que es lo que sucede cuando lo veo, mis temores se ven reflejados, sentimientos de vida y amor… WOW!!!! no puedo creer que en un video puedas resumir parte de la historia humana
weldone! deep …
weldone! deep impact! ur words described it
amen
amen
Really captures how …
Really captures how humans are stupid for making things too complicated. We never learn to ’slow down.’ Fantastic song.
very twisted but …
very twisted but beautiful at the same time….. crazy!!!!
AWSOME, …
AWSOME, genius