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ZENITH 

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Watch ZENITH (DIRTY CLEAN) on Odysee

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Video editing: 

Montag

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Music:

Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra - Girl Of My Dreams

Escape Artist - Zenith

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Movie:

Angel Heart (1987) - Directed by Alan Parker​

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Today is Wednesday.
It's Anything Can Happen Day.

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The recipe is simple: to stop being afraid of the devil, all you have to do is stop believing in God and poof, they both walk away hand in hand.

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But then a serious problem arises: half the fun in the world disappears along with them, and what would become of us without the devil, without Rock and Roll, and without horror movies?

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We'd be left with nothing but sex, drugs and... Drum and Bass?

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Okay, that still sounds like a pretty good deal to me. 

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Drum and Bass has its roots in Reggae Music, which, as we all know, is the music of angels, so at least we'd still have a paradise with a great soundtrack to enjoy.

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Not for Harry Angel, though, burdened by the weight of some terrible choices in director Alan Parker's 1987 film Angel Heart, one of the most violent, intelligent, entertaining and influential horror films in history, one that makes you (whether you like it or not, whether you want to or not) sit through every last second of the end credits.

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The zenith is the point directly above your head, on a line extending from the center of the Earth, passing through you and continuing into the sky. 

But metaphorically, it also represents the peak of personal development, success or intensity.

Or even the planet Venus, the Morning Star, the Light of Dawn, or the man himself, Lucifer.

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The opposite point is the nadir, where Harry ended up after taking a one-way elevator to... well, you can imagine.

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And things don't get any better when you arrive there and find yourself greeted by a devilishly grinning Robert De Niro (the not-so-subtle Louis Cypher). 

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After all, what people fear isn't what the devil is capable of doing, but what he might show them.

And usually, all it takes is a mirror.

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So, in an attempt to lighten things up, I took the almost angelic track Zenith by Australian artist Escape Artist and, with nowhere left to escape, combined it with the brilliant end credits of a demonic film about a man in debt named Harry, whose last name happens to be Angel. 

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And guess what? I called it, contradictorily but inevitably, Zenith.

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It didn't lighten things up one bit, but the strange mood was a perfect match.

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There is no copyright infringement intended, the material used in this is purely for entertainment purposes, and it will be removed by request.

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