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purplefringe) wrote2015-02-14 11:40 am
Festivid: Feather Moon (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Feather Moon
purplefringe joyo for Festivids 2014download: 63MB @ mediafire
This was made for joyo, who apparently shares my appreciation for the gorgeous visuals in this truly beautiful and ridiculous film. I mean, it really is ridiculous. Though when Awesome Flatmate K and I went to the cinema to see it together, we were the only people in hysterics...but come on, *surely* we're supposed to find it funny when Adam says, very seriously, 'Just goes to show. We don't know shit about fungi.' ?! :-D I really love the film for just that - the combination of lush cinematography and wicked, subversive humour. Not to mention Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton's faces. *swoon*. K and I came out of the cinema having decided we very much wanted to make out with both of them.
Ahem ANYWAY. This vid idea came to me months ago, but then was surprisingly hard to make. This was partly a technical issue (the film was in some absurdly high quality format, and it took a MILLION YEARS to make each 2 minute clip) and partly because the film has very little in the way of narrative drive and the song has basically nothing in the way of narrative drive....and I found that surprisingly hard to put together? The plan was always to make a sort of mood-piece, which focuses on the tone and the themes and the sensual nature of the film rather than the plot, but I kept finding myself trying to vid the plot anyway, which made for an awkward sort of hybrid-vid....I think I eventually overcame that, but who knows. (My first introduction to vids, many moons ago, was in the post-Doctor-Who-Season-2 era of Ten/Rose vids on youtube, especially Ten/Rose happy-ending-constructed-reality vids. Even many years and 20-something of my own vids later, there is a part of me that still feels compelled to tell a *Story* and take things *literally* when I'm vidding, which I have to work very hard to overcome!)
such_heights and I like to keep the vids we are making secret from each other, even though we live in the same flat and sometimes even vid on the same sofa. She guessed this one from the metadata alone (Vienna Teng + Tom Hiddleston was always going to be a giveaway), but then as she was watching it she had to pause it around the one minute mark because she was LAUGHING too hard. Apparently I have some sort of thing for shots of hands... :-P
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I sure hope so! I think some of the critics of the film missed that memo.
>>The plan was always to make a sort of mood-piece, which focuses on the tone and the themes and the sensual nature of the film
I liked that about it. Downloading now for safekeeping. <3
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THANK YOU. I've read a lot of reviews of this film, for some reason, and almost none of them mention how hilarious it is! K & I were in fits of giggles in the cinema. That line's just one of my favourite examples. I'm glad other people found it funny too!
And I'm very glad you like the vid :-)
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"You drank Ian. You drank....Ian."
*cackles*
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:D
Oh, man, I need to see this movie again. Haven't done so since it first came out in theaters.
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