Tony Vid: Double Feature

[purplefringe]

Idiotheque

edited by purplefringe
fandom: Iron Man & Avengers
characters: Tony Stark, Tony Stark & Tony Stark. And a few guest appearances.
music: Idiotheque - Radiohead cover by Vienna Teng & Alex Wong
summary: everything all of the time
content notes: Spoilers for all three films

notes: Greetings Fandom - Team PURPLE HEIGHTS are proud to present: A TONY STARK DOUBLE FEATURE! We are delighted to invite you (somewhat accidentally) to come see Tony Stark in all his multifaceted everything-all-of-the-time-(this-includes-friends-and-sexual-partners)-ridiculousness. Suggested viewing order is Idiotheque followed bysuch_heights joyous vid of joy, Call Me Maybe (AKA 'My Little Tony: Friendship Is Magic'), but that is really up to you. Either way, emotional confusion may follow.

Thank you, as ever, to such_heights, for patiently watching approx. fifty million drafts of this vid, and explaining to me how to make it better. And how to put it in the right aspect ratio.....


download: 49MB @ mediafire

password: stark

stream:

Idiotheque from Phoebe on Vimeo.

Lyrics

Who's in a bunker, who's in a bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children -
I laugh until my head comes off
I swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I -

Who's in a bunker, who's in a bunker
I have seen too much
You haven't seen enough
You haven't seen -
Oh I laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
The children first
The children -

Here I'm allowed everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed everything all of the time

Ice age coming, ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both -

Ice age coming, ice age coming
Throw him on the fire
Throw him on the fire
Throw him on the -

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
Oh no we're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening

Mobiles quirking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money -

Here I'm allowed everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed everything all of the time...

Comments

[zeegoeshere]

Oh, this is one of the best vids I've seen about Tony. Really beautifully done. The intro was just fantastic, as was the second repeated chorus of 'here I'm alive, everything all of the time'.

[morbidmuse]

Wonderful job!

[livrelibre]

This is the third time I've watched this and I'm still wordless. The editing is is killer and oh the feels.

[sinensis]

I love it.

[everbright]

"Here I'm allowed everything all of the time" I really like how you tied this line to Tony's freedom being how when he applies his mind (and money) to things, he can do almost anything. The Shots of him making miracles in his workshop and as Ironman really nail that homes.

[usuallyhats]

Amazing vid! So beautifully edited, it left me breathless.

[glinda]

This is so gorgeous, and the editing, seriously, all those lovely visual parrallels coming together to make this beautiful, damaged whole. Excellent work.

[memoryhouse]

This is beautiful! What great choices, all the way through.

[green]

I am completely blown away by this vid. It's so layered and meaty and your vision of Tony Stark really shines through. It's really emotional and hits hard. I'm going to watch it over and over, I think. Thank you.

[goodbyebird]

Very impressive. Thanks for sharing.

[chaila]

Sekritly, I may be the only person in fandom without Tony Stark feels, but I'm glad I clicked on this anyway because the editing is gorgeous. I love the parallels and juxtapositions and connecting motion, especially in the opening. And the cuts from in-the-suit to out-of-the-suit throughout the vid are really effective.

[aoftheis]

This is absolutely amazing. ♥

[tearful_eye]

holy crap, this is incredible. i'm absolutely in love with your quick cutting - it's stunning! and the parallels you've found ... i wanna draw hearts all around this vid.
& just- i'm all choked up now. because tonnnyy ;_;

[legoline]

Wow. That was beautiful.

[theoret]

TONYYYY

Oh man. Everything all of the time indeed.

I love how you've done a lot of cutting back and fourth between visually similar scenes that have different moods or contexts. That really builds up the sense of how Tony's life feels overwhelming and uncontrollable. The cut at 0:31 between Tony getting ready to race and Tony being tortured, and then from Tony squinting at the light when he opens the Stark Expo and squinting at the light when he comes out of the cave worked really well for me. They really viscerally show you how Tony can't quite mentally escape what happened; even when he's doing stuff he enjoys/is in control of, that vulnerability is still there.

The montage of Tony being thrown at 1:34 was really effective. Obviously it works as a visual metaphor for Tony not being able to control what happens to him, but I like how it builds on that feeling by being slightly disorientating to watch. And on a non-metaphorical level, seeing Tony being subject to a string of attacks without seeing him get to regroup or fight back makes Tony being on the receiving end of physical violence feel sort of inevitable, which works really well to show Tony's feelings of physical, as well as emotional, vulnerability. There's a reason he can't stop engineering himself better and better armour.

I also really loved the cuts at 2:39 from Tony dropping the missile through the portal to the clips of Tony picking himself up. You've built up this whole sense of overwhelmingness throughout the vid, and it sort of feels like Tony closing his eyes as he lets go of the missile is Tony finally giving in to that. And that could be a tragic sort of peace, that he's given in to the 'inevitability' of his own death, but instead of leaving that moment of peace you interrupt it with Tony getting up again. Even when he's at the most overwhelmed he's ever been, even when he's been knocked down over and over, he has to keep getting up.

And just. TONY. Everything is always too much and he always keeps going anyway. I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS. ;__;

(Don't mind me, I'm just stalking your vids a little. >__>)

[kaberett]

... TONY BABY.

[hopelesse]

I just stumbled across this vid and -- wow. This is gorgeously edited AND encapsulates so many of Tony's key traits: his joy and responsibility and dynamism. What a joy to watch :D

I hope you don't mind -- I'm pulling together a small reclist of vids and I definitely want to include this!

[tarlanx]

This was excellent!