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skygiantsDear Festividder,
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I am super excited to be participating in this exchange for the third year, and whatever you do, it is one hundred percent a certainty that I will be delighted by it.
Safety fandoms: Into the Woods (1991), Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Mermaid (2016)
TV shows: Chicago Typewriter, Ms. Perfect
Manga/still image: 7 Seeds, 20th Century Boys
Into the Woods (1991)
Into the Woods is a musical about various fairy-tale characters whose paths cross over the course of three nights in the woods. Various problems arise, but mostly everything's fine! Then a year later all the consequences of the things they did come resounding down on their heads and everything's not fine, it's not fine at all, but it's OK, they grow as people! (Well, the ones who survive.) Fair warning: the narrator doesn't make it.
The Witch and the Baker's Wife are probably my favorites -- I mean I am pretty sure they're everyone's favorites -- but there's tons of interesting stuff to say about all of them, and about the whole setup. It's also an incredibly meta musical, which could also potentially be really interesting to play with if the mood strikes you; I would be totally happy for any outside sources (Disney movies? Fairy tale illustrations? even the 2014 film if the mood strikes, though I admit I'm a bit of a purist and the 1991 stage version will always have my heart) to be incorporated here.
Notre-Dame de Paris (1999)
Another musical filmed from the stage, yes, yes, I know, but hear me out: the staging for this musical is RIDICULOUS. Also, the makers of the official video added so many giant overlays on top of the actual staging, it's like they're halfway to vidding their own show!
Notre-Dame de Paris is a French musical adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel from 1998, which keeps all the key features of the book -- beautiful dancer, creepy priest, devoted disabled bellringer, douchebag soldier, douchebag soldier's fourteen-year-old girlfriend, beautiful dancer's random fake husband narrator, epic tragedy, Hugovian digressions, and Gothic architectural symbolism literally crushing everything in its path!
When I imagine a vid for Notre-Dame de Paris, my brain inevitably flies to angsty punk rock, but there are also many other fascinating possibilities so please feel free to explore! (Gregorian chants? Actual bell-ringing? Songs from the Disney musical?) Also, if you want to use other footage to expand the bounds of Notre-Dame beyond the limitations of the Parisian stage, be my guest.
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
What I love about this particular version of Much Ado About Nothing is the glorious silliness of it -- it just seems like Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson and Denzel Washington are all just having the time of their lives bouncing around in floofy white outfits making fun of each other. Every single one of Beatrice's facial expressions! Benedick pretending VERY BADLY to be a bird!
That said, while I'd love a vid that played up the comedy and clever farce, there's also tons of interesting places to go with the darker side of the story -- if you wanted to center a vid on Hero's plotline and Beatrice's fury, on double standards and betrayal and revenge, then BY ALL MEANS I am there for that too.
The Mermaid (2016)
This is one of the weirdest and funniest films I've seen in the past year. A mermaid is sent to assassinate a playboy businessman whose development ventures are destroying the local mermaid habitat! Alas, instead they fall in love, much to the dismay of her murderous mermaid aunts and extremely frustrated octopus uncle, and his evil bazooka-wielding business partner. MAYHEM ENSUES.
I can't imagine a vid for this film that would be anything but hysterical; five hundred bonus points if you manage to work in the cinematic masterpiece of a scene in which Our Hero attempts to describe his attempted-murder-by-mermaid to the cops.
Chicago Typewriter
OK, now we're out of safety fandom land and into sixteen-episode Korean dramas. But if you watch one kdrama this year, this is a GREAT one to pick, featuring as it does a love triangle between Korea's most popular writer, a legendary RPF fanfiction writer, and a haunted typewriter who all loved each other very much in their past life as tragic Korean revolutionaries!
This is a deeply strange and often extremely ridiculous show with some AMAZING weird visuals, but I love it very genuinely not just for the hilarious ghost roommate hijinks but also the way in which it allows for the possibility of change and forgiveness after betrayal. (...and also for the beautiful possessed dog.) My only request is that a vid not focus on the relationship that focuses on the romance between two of the protagonists to the exclusion of the third -- if you want to make a character study about one of the leads or side-characters, that's totally OK and I'm very much into it, but when it comes to the main interpersonal dynamics I am very invested in the equilateral revolutionary triangle.
ALSO, as a sidenote, if BY CHANCE you happen to have seen my other favorite revolutionary kdrama by this author, Capital Scandal, and if BY CHANCE you felt like vid-crossovering, that is a thing about which I would not complain at all.
Ms. Perfect
Aaand this one's a 20-episode kdrama but it's also a great use of twenty hours of your life -- it's an extremely creepy, beautifully shot thriller about two women whose lives become more and more intertwined in less and less comfortable ways.
Things I love about this show include the fierceness of our middle-aged heroine, the many interesting and complex relationships between women, the amazingly terrible children, the fact that the love interest's job is mostly to provide coffee and legal assistance and 'OH BURN' faces whenever the heroine gets in a good zinger, and all of that could be super fun to vid. I'm especially interested in the way that it embraces and revels in Gothic imagery, and I would also really, really love a vid that digs into that some. Also, I think it bears note that I don't love EVERYTHING about the show and I definitely think it could have stood to interrogate some of its tropes way more than it did, so if you want to do some pushback/interrogation of the show's Madwoman in the Attic handling of its antiheroine, that would also be amazing.
(Also, Jung Hee is the worst? He's the worst. I feel very strongly about this, there is no need for sympathy with Jung Hee, he's the worst.)
7 Seeds
If you signed up to vid 7 Seeds for me, I am IN AWE. If you didn't sign up for this, this ... might not be your ideal second-choice fandom, since it's not just a still image fandom but specifically an ongoing post-apocalyptic ensemble manga with a million characters that's currently at 34 volumes and counting. HOWEVER, it's amazing so if you do feel inspired, BY ALL MEANS, don't let me stop you!
The basic plot of the manga focuses on groups of kids who have been (for the most part, unknowingly) frozen in time to wake up several thousands of years after a meteor has destroyed life on Earth as we know it. That provides a golden opportunity for epic amounts of character development, team-building, and REALLY BEAUTIFULLY WEIRD world-building. Giant ants! Parasite zombies! Puppies! A vast array of female characters with different strengths and personalities! Yumi Tamura has even helpfully named many of the chapters after songs! (...you definitely don't have to make a vid to any of the songs that are name-checked in the manga if you don't feel like it.) There's so many characters that I could stand here for years listing off everything that would make me happy -- Natsu character study! (Or Ayu, or Ran, or Semimaru, or Koruri, or or or....) Tragic Team Winter OT3! Team Summer B hijinks vid! Ensemble vid for everyone's parallel development! Zombie Shelter arc vid! Honestly, you could probably make me a vid that entirely consisted of loving screenshots of the five million different kinds of giant bugs that the kids encounter in various different plotlines I would be happy. GIANT EVIL MUSHROOM VID!
20th Century Boys
Another lengthy post-apocalyptic manga series, another poor choice for a surprise fandom or pinch-hit! But It is a thing the kids are into again, or so I'm told, and if you like It then 20th Century Boys might also be your jam -- it's story of a group of kids in Japan who dream up an imaginary apocalypse, and then thirty years later find that someone is making it come true.
20th Century Boys feels to me like as much of a natural choice for a vid as a still image fandom can ever be because of the way that music runs through the plot -- rock-and-roll kicks off the story and frames the character's childhoods, the hero carries a guitar for the entire third act instead of a gun, and the final victory against the forces of evil relies on organizing a giant rock concert. I would love a vid that played around with that somehow, whether it focuses on a specific character (giant music nerds Kenji Endo and Koizumi Kyoko are my best beloveds), or more broadly around the themes of culture, nostalgia, inspiration, and revolution.
For the record, the manga has also been adapted into a film trilogy in Japan -- I nominated the manga because I know it best and haven't seen all the films yet, but if you wanted to work with the films as well or instead that would be totally OK by me.
Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I am super excited to be participating in this exchange for the third year, and whatever you do, it is one hundred percent a certainty that I will be delighted by it.
Safety fandoms: Into the Woods (1991), Notre-Dame de Paris (1999), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Mermaid (2016)
TV shows: Chicago Typewriter, Ms. Perfect
Manga/still image: 7 Seeds, 20th Century Boys
Into the Woods (1991)
Into the Woods is a musical about various fairy-tale characters whose paths cross over the course of three nights in the woods. Various problems arise, but mostly everything's fine! Then a year later all the consequences of the things they did come resounding down on their heads and everything's not fine, it's not fine at all, but it's OK, they grow as people! (Well, the ones who survive.) Fair warning: the narrator doesn't make it.
The Witch and the Baker's Wife are probably my favorites -- I mean I am pretty sure they're everyone's favorites -- but there's tons of interesting stuff to say about all of them, and about the whole setup. It's also an incredibly meta musical, which could also potentially be really interesting to play with if the mood strikes you; I would be totally happy for any outside sources (Disney movies? Fairy tale illustrations? even the 2014 film if the mood strikes, though I admit I'm a bit of a purist and the 1991 stage version will always have my heart) to be incorporated here.
Notre-Dame de Paris (1999)
Another musical filmed from the stage, yes, yes, I know, but hear me out: the staging for this musical is RIDICULOUS. Also, the makers of the official video added so many giant overlays on top of the actual staging, it's like they're halfway to vidding their own show!
Notre-Dame de Paris is a French musical adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel from 1998, which keeps all the key features of the book -- beautiful dancer, creepy priest, devoted disabled bellringer, douchebag soldier, douchebag soldier's fourteen-year-old girlfriend, beautiful dancer's random fake husband narrator, epic tragedy, Hugovian digressions, and Gothic architectural symbolism literally crushing everything in its path!
When I imagine a vid for Notre-Dame de Paris, my brain inevitably flies to angsty punk rock, but there are also many other fascinating possibilities so please feel free to explore! (Gregorian chants? Actual bell-ringing? Songs from the Disney musical?) Also, if you want to use other footage to expand the bounds of Notre-Dame beyond the limitations of the Parisian stage, be my guest.
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
What I love about this particular version of Much Ado About Nothing is the glorious silliness of it -- it just seems like Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson and Denzel Washington are all just having the time of their lives bouncing around in floofy white outfits making fun of each other. Every single one of Beatrice's facial expressions! Benedick pretending VERY BADLY to be a bird!
That said, while I'd love a vid that played up the comedy and clever farce, there's also tons of interesting places to go with the darker side of the story -- if you wanted to center a vid on Hero's plotline and Beatrice's fury, on double standards and betrayal and revenge, then BY ALL MEANS I am there for that too.
The Mermaid (2016)
This is one of the weirdest and funniest films I've seen in the past year. A mermaid is sent to assassinate a playboy businessman whose development ventures are destroying the local mermaid habitat! Alas, instead they fall in love, much to the dismay of her murderous mermaid aunts and extremely frustrated octopus uncle, and his evil bazooka-wielding business partner. MAYHEM ENSUES.
I can't imagine a vid for this film that would be anything but hysterical; five hundred bonus points if you manage to work in the cinematic masterpiece of a scene in which Our Hero attempts to describe his attempted-murder-by-mermaid to the cops.
Chicago Typewriter
OK, now we're out of safety fandom land and into sixteen-episode Korean dramas. But if you watch one kdrama this year, this is a GREAT one to pick, featuring as it does a love triangle between Korea's most popular writer, a legendary RPF fanfiction writer, and a haunted typewriter who all loved each other very much in their past life as tragic Korean revolutionaries!
This is a deeply strange and often extremely ridiculous show with some AMAZING weird visuals, but I love it very genuinely not just for the hilarious ghost roommate hijinks but also the way in which it allows for the possibility of change and forgiveness after betrayal. (...and also for the beautiful possessed dog.) My only request is that a vid not focus on the relationship that focuses on the romance between two of the protagonists to the exclusion of the third -- if you want to make a character study about one of the leads or side-characters, that's totally OK and I'm very much into it, but when it comes to the main interpersonal dynamics I am very invested in the equilateral revolutionary triangle.
ALSO, as a sidenote, if BY CHANCE you happen to have seen my other favorite revolutionary kdrama by this author, Capital Scandal, and if BY CHANCE you felt like vid-crossovering, that is a thing about which I would not complain at all.
Ms. Perfect
Aaand this one's a 20-episode kdrama but it's also a great use of twenty hours of your life -- it's an extremely creepy, beautifully shot thriller about two women whose lives become more and more intertwined in less and less comfortable ways.
Things I love about this show include the fierceness of our middle-aged heroine, the many interesting and complex relationships between women, the amazingly terrible children, the fact that the love interest's job is mostly to provide coffee and legal assistance and 'OH BURN' faces whenever the heroine gets in a good zinger, and all of that could be super fun to vid. I'm especially interested in the way that it embraces and revels in Gothic imagery, and I would also really, really love a vid that digs into that some. Also, I think it bears note that I don't love EVERYTHING about the show and I definitely think it could have stood to interrogate some of its tropes way more than it did, so if you want to do some pushback/interrogation of the show's Madwoman in the Attic handling of its antiheroine, that would also be amazing.
(Also, Jung Hee is the worst? He's the worst. I feel very strongly about this, there is no need for sympathy with Jung Hee, he's the worst.)
7 Seeds
If you signed up to vid 7 Seeds for me, I am IN AWE. If you didn't sign up for this, this ... might not be your ideal second-choice fandom, since it's not just a still image fandom but specifically an ongoing post-apocalyptic ensemble manga with a million characters that's currently at 34 volumes and counting. HOWEVER, it's amazing so if you do feel inspired, BY ALL MEANS, don't let me stop you!
The basic plot of the manga focuses on groups of kids who have been (for the most part, unknowingly) frozen in time to wake up several thousands of years after a meteor has destroyed life on Earth as we know it. That provides a golden opportunity for epic amounts of character development, team-building, and REALLY BEAUTIFULLY WEIRD world-building. Giant ants! Parasite zombies! Puppies! A vast array of female characters with different strengths and personalities! Yumi Tamura has even helpfully named many of the chapters after songs! (...you definitely don't have to make a vid to any of the songs that are name-checked in the manga if you don't feel like it.) There's so many characters that I could stand here for years listing off everything that would make me happy -- Natsu character study! (Or Ayu, or Ran, or Semimaru, or Koruri, or or or....) Tragic Team Winter OT3! Team Summer B hijinks vid! Ensemble vid for everyone's parallel development! Zombie Shelter arc vid! Honestly, you could probably make me a vid that entirely consisted of loving screenshots of the five million different kinds of giant bugs that the kids encounter in various different plotlines I would be happy. GIANT EVIL MUSHROOM VID!
20th Century Boys
Another lengthy post-apocalyptic manga series, another poor choice for a surprise fandom or pinch-hit! But It is a thing the kids are into again, or so I'm told, and if you like It then 20th Century Boys might also be your jam -- it's story of a group of kids in Japan who dream up an imaginary apocalypse, and then thirty years later find that someone is making it come true.
20th Century Boys feels to me like as much of a natural choice for a vid as a still image fandom can ever be because of the way that music runs through the plot -- rock-and-roll kicks off the story and frames the character's childhoods, the hero carries a guitar for the entire third act instead of a gun, and the final victory against the forces of evil relies on organizing a giant rock concert. I would love a vid that played around with that somehow, whether it focuses on a specific character (giant music nerds Kenji Endo and Koizumi Kyoko are my best beloveds), or more broadly around the themes of culture, nostalgia, inspiration, and revolution.
For the record, the manga has also been adapted into a film trilogy in Japan -- I nominated the manga because I know it best and haven't seen all the films yet, but if you wanted to work with the films as well or instead that would be totally OK by me.
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Date: 2017-10-29 05:55 am (UTC)CHIP ZIEN OR BUST
*relurks*
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Date: 2017-10-29 09:44 pm (UTC)I need you to tell me everything about Mermaid now.
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Date: 2017-10-29 10:03 pm (UTC)The comedy trailer!
THE GREATEST SCENE (sadly in English dub because that was what I could find on YouTube but STILL GOLD)