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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25 Responses to Pink Floyd – The Wall Movie (1983) Flower Scene ‘What Shall We Do Now’ (((Stereo)))

  1. socal2121 says:

    you
    you

  2. vodElke says:

    Masterpiece. Whole …
    Masterpiece. Whole my life I try to break at least one brick in wall to see…. what?

  3. dingaling24 says:

    saw this movie on …
    saw this movie on vh1 a few weeks ago and those (no pun intended) cut out the flowers. grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

  4. LuLupoo says:

    wow this is …
    wow this is excellent. the whole movie was great, i loved the animated scenes the best.

  5. JRR951 says:

    Reminds me of a …
    Reminds me of a Salvador Dali drawing or painting

  6. GodlyVayne says:

    how shall i …
    how shall i complete the wall?

  7. beheshte1988 says:

    what shall we do?
    what shall we do?

  8. Himbeermaedchen says:

    You must be …
    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 ;) maybe i should have used the second If-sentece to express it a better way (sry, i’m not a nativespeaker :) )

  9. Toorfi92 says:

    GOD BLESS YOU!
    GOD BLESS YOU!

  10. DylanTownesDrake says:

    @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?

  11. stormbringer350 says:

    lol, you’re just …
    lol, you’re just not willing to open yourself up to interpretation

  12. jorgealbertobaron says:

    PINK FLOYD-THE WALL …
    PINK FLOYD-THE WALL-30 AÑOS

  13. Himbeermaedchen says:

    if this is not art, …
    if this is not art, tell me what else

  14. redsox1ful says:

    not many other …
    not many other bands can capture reality like pink floyd. pink floyd is just amazing

  15. Frozenfrog13 says:

    i think gerald …
    i think gerald anthony scarfe was a god…

  16. 2braindamage says:

    been a long time …
    been a long time since ilast watched The Wall

  17. mynameisbricktamland says:

    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.

  18. tall32guy says:

    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.

  19. tall32guy says:

    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. :)

  20. kabilia1816 says:

    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

  21. symphonia2008 says:

    weldone! deep …
    weldone! deep impact! ur words described it

  22. MrsRatched says:

    amen
    amen

  23. Polterguist666 says:

    Really captures how …
    Really captures how humans are stupid for making things too complicated. We never learn to ‘slow down.’ Fantastic song.

  24. TheMannyguzman says:

    very twisted but …
    very twisted but beautiful at the same time….. crazy!!!!

  25. necroyoli08 says:

    AWSOME, …
    AWSOME, genius