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Beat It is a tribute video to the King of Pop (Michael Jackson) starring Ārana Edmonds as "MJ" With friends of his. It's almost a shot for shot parody of the music video Beat It. There are two versions of this video the normal one which is 11 minutes long and the 2nd one has been cut down to 4 minutes. On the 20th of March 2020 the filming of Baet It begun. But on the 23rd of of the same mouth filming had to be stopped because of New Zealand going into Alert Level 3.

## Beat It

### Air date

**Original Releases**\* Jun 27th, 2020 * Jul 1st, 2020 (Shortened Version)

**Updated Releases**\* Sept 29th, 2021* Sept 30th, 2021 (Shortened Version)

## Story

The film starts with the Nerd grabbing a book. He goes to the Librarian, then walks to his class; however, he bumps into The Bully. Then the Bully punches him, almost knocking him out. They spilt off the song starts to play (Beat It.) They walk around the school, "MJ" walks and dances around the school, then they meet up near T-Block the Nerd and the Bully starts to fight but "MJ" stops them and they dance the night away. The song ends, and then "MJ" starts to talk to them, and he hears a girl (Annie) screaming out, and he needs to see if she's ok. He runs to a table and gets on top of it. He then begins to dance on it, and a light hits him. A beam of light then comes down to pick him up. We then see him flying through space, leaving the audience to wonder, "Is she okay?"

## Cast

* Ārana Edmonds as "MJ."
* Reid Walford as The Nerd.
* Benjamin Rayner as The Bully. (credited as Benjamin Franklin)
* Tama Lane as Big Foot.
* George Cheshoare as The Kid.
* Mrs Rance as Herself
* Alex Hartley as a Super Cool Guy.
* Tomás Bale as Backup Dancer #1
* Carter Elwin-Pepperell as Backup Dancer #2
* Joseph Rayner Backup Dancer #3
* Nathan Raj as Himself (cameo)
* Phill Aitofi as Himself (cameo)
* Joe Pesci as Mr. Big (archive footage from Moonwalker)
* Kellie Parker as Katie (archive footage from Moonwalker also credited as Ani)

## Soundtrack

 "Captain EO Entrance Music" by James Horner (1986)

## Shortened Version

After the success of Beat It, a newer version of it was released. The main difference is that this one got cut down by about 7 minutes. Most of the video's extra content was removed, but there was still an intro song, and at the end of the video, it goes to black and says, "Radio Someone Still Loves You." (This line, for some reason, was still kept nonsensical even through the edit.) These are the only things not cut out in this version.

## Easter Eggs

In the background of the film you can see Michael Jackson album/movie covers in the film.

1. When the Nerd and the Bully meet up an Off The Wall album cover is in the left corner.
2. When the Nerd walks past the Bully and they make contact a coin flip sound effect can be heard. It's from the Smooth Criminal short film.
3. Vincent Price Excerpt From Thriller Voice-Over Session were used when the song starts playing.
4. When you see first see "MJ" with his red jacket and the camera zooms and a Thriller album cover is on the door.
5. When "MJ" opens the door. On the left window there you will see a Capital EO and Moonwalker movie posters.
6. When the bully runs and than jumps in the middle of the chain link fence a Bad album cover is seen.

## Quotes

* The Kid: Hi there.

The Nerd: Hi. Have a good day.

* The Nerd: You ain't bad you ain't nothing. Nothing.

* "MJ": You learn to Beat It and you learn to be Bad. [to The Nerd and The Bully]

* "MJ": Michael who? [to The Nerd and The Bully]

* The Bully: Is she Ok? [to "MJ"]