Dear Festividder
Oct. 15th, 2011 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bironicTo the lovely vidder who's been matched with me, and to anyone who's curious about what I've requested for Festivids or who might consider making a treat—which would be awesome—behind the cut are some thoughts for
Ace of Cakes
This show makes me happy. Any vid about this show will make me happy. I love that everyone in the bakery has fun making what they make and working together, being super-competent and ambitious and being silly. Delivering cakes to people who are delighted to receive them. I love the cakes they make, especially the geeky ones. I love Geof, but I'm not sure how a vid of him might work since a lot of his appeal is in his little one-liners. So any or all of that would be fun to celebrate. Cake-making as choreography, with mishaps and splats and cracks and collisions along the way? A bunch of 20- and 30-something dorks throwing flour at one another and making gum paste monsters? Want to pair people up? The possibilities are endless.
Project Runway
Tim Gunn! A vid about Tim Gunn will win my heart forever. Or, you know, whatever inspires you about this show. A fashion show vid? Clothing design, hair and makeup as a series of choreographable movements? A farce of fashion disasters and workroom accidents and petty bickering and the judges' comical faces? For what it's worth, I have seen seasons one through four, and I've really been enjoying the current season (nine, Wikipedia tells me).
Roar – 1997
Longinus! I love Longinus possibly even more than I love Tim Gunn. Heh. I loved this show despite all its camp and catfights and rampant historical inaccuracies, and it was largely because of Longinus with his pretty, pretty hair, his angst, and his hopeless villain lines against baby Heath Ledger. If you want to focus on Longinus, I will love you beyond words, but either way, the existence of a Roar vid will brighten the world.
The Man Who Fell to Earth – 1976
This movie lost me sometimes, but the images and the tone were really compelling. David Bowie's beautiful young face, oh my goodness. I read the book and really enjoyed that. It would be great to see a vid try to make (more) sense of the film—or muddle it up even more, really emphasize that sense of disconnection and confusion and downward spiral/tragedy.
I had a difficult time deciding whether to request this movie in particular or the "RPF – David Bowie" category; if you wanted to add more Bowie roles to this vid for a crossover or constructed reality or celebration of multiple Bowie characters or whatnot, you would be more than welcome.
Strange Days
A great, underappreciated movie. I don't even know what to ask for in a vid, specifically. I like Ralph Fiennes in just about everything. I like Maisie kicking ass. I like Faith as the messed-up femme fatale and also druggy Philo Gant but mostly because Michael Wincott is awesome. I like how a racial crime cover-up comes back to bite the perpetrators in the ass no matter how hard they try to bury their tracks. I like the whole cyberpunk dystopia/millennial paranoia theme and imagery. I, um, like the rape and rape-play scenes. (Disclaimer: not in real life, only in fiction, etc.) I like the concept of the POV-recording neural net and the benefits and dangers it brings. Basically, anything you like is sure to please.
Queen Margot (La reine Margot) – 1994
This movie has such beautiful, rich imagery that it just begs for vidding. The massacre; the court intrigue; the epic French romance. Anjou's face (and wig). Charlotte, who breaks my heart. The love story between La Mole and his enemy-brother Coconnas. A whirl of color and blood and passion and deviousness and intricate politics.
Wallace and Gromit animations (Nick Park)
So adorable, and so much fun. (Or if you swing that way, eminently pervertible. :) ) Would love just a playful vid showcasing the antics they get up to, or Gromit's long-suffering rescues of poor Wallace, or anything cleverer you can think of. (Is there something to invert?) "Have you seen this chicken?" is a favorite moment.
A Simple Twist of Fate – 1994
Possibly no one has heard of or seen this movie, but if this is what we match on, hooray! I'm not usually one for super-sentimental movies, but this one I have watched over and over through the years. What gets me is the sincerity of the father/daughter bond, the way Steve Martin's character falls into miserly hermithood and climbs back up to become a loving family man, and the way Mathilda grows up and has to make this difficult choice, and that once she's made it, outside forces seem certain to force her to accept the alternative. I also love Gabriel Byrne's (and Laura Linney's) side of the story; he's a highly sympathetic (not to mention very pretty :) ) "villain," and even though we're rooting for Mathilda, it's hard to see him and his wife lose one of the few things that might have made him/them happy in life, even if it was his selfish decision that lost him custody to begin with.
I'm not sure what to say about my tastes on a meta level. I like celebrating shows and movies that make me happy; but just as much I like queering texts, whether it's pairing characters who aren't paired in canon or inverting themes or highlighting kink or drawing attention to minor characters or totally changing the tone of a source. I like joyful and I like dark and I like sexy. I am really hoping you aren't looking for specific song recommendations, heh. Oh, and in case they're helpful in conveying preferences, my own vids are here and some vid recs are here.
But! As I've said for everything above, of course, and as per Festivids tradition, feel free to make whatever vid appeals to you, regardless of whether I've asked for it. We've been matched because we both like something, so whatever you choose to do with that should be wonderful. Hopefully you have an idea you'd like to pursue!
Ace of Cakes
This show makes me happy. Any vid about this show will make me happy. I love that everyone in the bakery has fun making what they make and working together, being super-competent and ambitious and being silly. Delivering cakes to people who are delighted to receive them. I love the cakes they make, especially the geeky ones. I love Geof, but I'm not sure how a vid of him might work since a lot of his appeal is in his little one-liners. So any or all of that would be fun to celebrate. Cake-making as choreography, with mishaps and splats and cracks and collisions along the way? A bunch of 20- and 30-something dorks throwing flour at one another and making gum paste monsters? Want to pair people up? The possibilities are endless.
Project Runway
Tim Gunn! A vid about Tim Gunn will win my heart forever. Or, you know, whatever inspires you about this show. A fashion show vid? Clothing design, hair and makeup as a series of choreographable movements? A farce of fashion disasters and workroom accidents and petty bickering and the judges' comical faces? For what it's worth, I have seen seasons one through four, and I've really been enjoying the current season (nine, Wikipedia tells me).
Roar – 1997
Longinus! I love Longinus possibly even more than I love Tim Gunn. Heh. I loved this show despite all its camp and catfights and rampant historical inaccuracies, and it was largely because of Longinus with his pretty, pretty hair, his angst, and his hopeless villain lines against baby Heath Ledger. If you want to focus on Longinus, I will love you beyond words, but either way, the existence of a Roar vid will brighten the world.
The Man Who Fell to Earth – 1976
This movie lost me sometimes, but the images and the tone were really compelling. David Bowie's beautiful young face, oh my goodness. I read the book and really enjoyed that. It would be great to see a vid try to make (more) sense of the film—or muddle it up even more, really emphasize that sense of disconnection and confusion and downward spiral/tragedy.
I had a difficult time deciding whether to request this movie in particular or the "RPF – David Bowie" category; if you wanted to add more Bowie roles to this vid for a crossover or constructed reality or celebration of multiple Bowie characters or whatnot, you would be more than welcome.
Strange Days
A great, underappreciated movie. I don't even know what to ask for in a vid, specifically. I like Ralph Fiennes in just about everything. I like Maisie kicking ass. I like Faith as the messed-up femme fatale and also druggy Philo Gant but mostly because Michael Wincott is awesome. I like how a racial crime cover-up comes back to bite the perpetrators in the ass no matter how hard they try to bury their tracks. I like the whole cyberpunk dystopia/millennial paranoia theme and imagery. I, um, like the rape and rape-play scenes. (Disclaimer: not in real life, only in fiction, etc.) I like the concept of the POV-recording neural net and the benefits and dangers it brings. Basically, anything you like is sure to please.
Queen Margot (La reine Margot) – 1994
This movie has such beautiful, rich imagery that it just begs for vidding. The massacre; the court intrigue; the epic French romance. Anjou's face (and wig). Charlotte, who breaks my heart. The love story between La Mole and his enemy-brother Coconnas. A whirl of color and blood and passion and deviousness and intricate politics.
Wallace and Gromit animations (Nick Park)
So adorable, and so much fun. (Or if you swing that way, eminently pervertible. :) ) Would love just a playful vid showcasing the antics they get up to, or Gromit's long-suffering rescues of poor Wallace, or anything cleverer you can think of. (Is there something to invert?) "Have you seen this chicken?" is a favorite moment.
A Simple Twist of Fate – 1994
Possibly no one has heard of or seen this movie, but if this is what we match on, hooray! I'm not usually one for super-sentimental movies, but this one I have watched over and over through the years. What gets me is the sincerity of the father/daughter bond, the way Steve Martin's character falls into miserly hermithood and climbs back up to become a loving family man, and the way Mathilda grows up and has to make this difficult choice, and that once she's made it, outside forces seem certain to force her to accept the alternative. I also love Gabriel Byrne's (and Laura Linney's) side of the story; he's a highly sympathetic (not to mention very pretty :) ) "villain," and even though we're rooting for Mathilda, it's hard to see him and his wife lose one of the few things that might have made him/them happy in life, even if it was his selfish decision that lost him custody to begin with.
I'm not sure what to say about my tastes on a meta level. I like celebrating shows and movies that make me happy; but just as much I like queering texts, whether it's pairing characters who aren't paired in canon or inverting themes or highlighting kink or drawing attention to minor characters or totally changing the tone of a source. I like joyful and I like dark and I like sexy. I am really hoping you aren't looking for specific song recommendations, heh. Oh, and in case they're helpful in conveying preferences, my own vids are here and some vid recs are here.
But! As I've said for everything above, of course, and as per Festivids tradition, feel free to make whatever vid appeals to you, regardless of whether I've asked for it. We've been matched because we both like something, so whatever you choose to do with that should be wonderful. Hopefully you have an idea you'd like to pursue!
