"Turn around..."
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a 1983 song by Bonnie Tyler. While the song is a Silly Love Song, the video is quite different. It can be seen here
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The song is the Trope Namer for Total Eclipse of the Plot.
"Total Eclipse of the Tropes":
- Animal Motif: Doves appear for no explained reason.
- Boarding School of Horrors: Well, boarding school of weirdness, at least.
- Dramatic Wind: It might be easier to find shots where there isn't a wind machine directed at Bonnie.
- The '80s: The music video consists of just about every single 80s music video tropes.
- Glowing Eyes: Some of the students, one of whom can fly, literalizing the hook "Turn around bright eyes."
- Greaser Delinquents: Some students dance around dress like this.
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: Not only in the lyrics. In the music video, light sources (the moon, illuminated rooms, the literal "bright eyes") are contrasted with the dark elements (the silhouettes, the darkened hallways, even the nocturnal setting).
- Ninja: Some appear in the video.
- Random Events Plot: Stuff just happens, and no explanation is ever offered.
- Rule of Cool: Downplayed, but, it's as good an explanation as any for what is happening here.
- Selective Obliviousness: It isn't until Bonnie encounters the one boy at the end with Glowing Eyes that she gets a sense that something is wrong.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Some boys making a toast with what is clearly wine.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Ninjas in a school! Also about 90% of the video, like the angel guy who cops a feel towards the end.
- Winged Humanoid: A boy has large wings.
