"Rubber Lover" by Marmaduke Duke Video Analysis

The music video for Marmaduke Duke's 'Rubber Lover' is an animated narrative video featuring a man with yellow eyes and a bird character of approximately the same build. They are playing poker or some sort of card game against a pig-looking character in a club/pub surrounded by women dancing in bikinis and very raunchy costume in time with the music. Although we don't see the other characters until 2 lines into the first verse at around 32 seconds. The camera pans around the room during the introduction and start of the first verse with what we depict as medium shots or medium-close up shots of the environment and the female dancers. The title 'Rubber Lover' is presumably an innuendo for sexual activity. There is a wide range of shots such as over the shoulder shots, close ups of the characters during their card game, which shows in detail the expressions and 'poker faces' of the characters. When the chorus comes in after our main character turns over a queen of hearts, the camera moves into the suit symbol and shows another dimension, which our two main characters; the man and his bird; are somehow transported to. It seems like some sort of fantasy world. When the verse comes back in the camera pans around the bird in the fantasy world and on the beat we see the characters in the club again at the table playing cards. After the final chorus when the main character is back in the fantasy world we fade back into 'reality' in the club and the creature he played cards with has disappeared and in the corner we see the bird with another man, who we assume is a friend of his.