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[skygiants]

Dear Equinox vidder,

Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I will absolutely be delighted by whatever you make, and I'm really looking forward to watching it!

Safety fandoms: The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), The Scarlet Pimpernel - Takarazuka Revue, Indecent (PBS 2017)
TV shows: 미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV), Baccano!


The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)

I've gotten deep into a Scarlet Pimpernel kick this year; this particular film was my first encounter with the story and the most formative one, but I have also loved many other Pimpernel iterations (the books, the Leslie Howard movie, the musical, the takarazuka revue production which is also one of my requests ...) and would be delighted with any take on the material!

My favorite thing in this particular film version is Ian McKellen as a tiny, furious, deeply thirsty Chauvelin (and indeed I have discovered that the later books bear out this characterization one hundred percent) but I also love Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, and all the nonsense disguise, fancy parties, and swashbuckling. I do have a soft spot for costume-drama vids set to contemporary pop, but, I mean, I also love costume-drama vids set to baroque music, there are many possible ways to capture the Spirit of Adventure!!!! here!


The Scarlet Pimpernel - Takarazuka Revue

Everything I love about other Scarlet Pimpernel incarnations, multiplied by sparkle! Gowns! Dancing! An troupe of British adventurers wandering around carrying symbolic golf clubs and cricket bats! I cannot possibly imagine any vid made with this source that would not delight me.

I'd also be more than happy to see a vid that used both these sources, or pulled in other Scarlet Pimpernel sources to boot - there's a rich vein of material here, please go as wild as you wish!


Indecent (PBS 2017)

Hey, remember how there's a meta-theatrical Broadway show about Yiddish theater, Jewish history, censorship, and lesbians? I saw it for the first time in 2016 and I had many feelings about it; I'm unbelievably stoked that an official recording exists that would make it possible for it to be vidded!

I can imagine a vid for this show that plays on the history and the metatextual angle with Yiddish music, or old-school lesbian blues, or showtunes, and I love ... any of those ideas ... but the failure of my imagination does not have to be yours if there's another way you'd like to take this! Since the show itself is so much about process and textual interpretation, please also feel absolutely free to expand beyond the scope of the source and pull in other media or stills if the spirit moves you.


미스터 션샤인 | Mr. Sunshine (TV)

A couple things about Mr. Sunshine, my favorite revolutionary kdrama of this year:

- it has some of the most gorgeously over-the-top camera work I've ever seen in a kdrama
- I love every major character, and also almost every minor character
- I ship everyone in it pretty much indiscriminately

I realize this is unhelpful in narrowing down the scope of a vid! I have some more thoughts on things I liked about the show in this post, but here are some ideas I can toss out:

- Everyone Loves Go Ae-Sin And Go Ae-Sin Loves The Revolution, A Ballad
- language and translation: It's Thematically Significant
- "revolution inspires even minor characters towards heroic acts! I love you, random citizen!"
- the tragic love song of Dong-mae and his anguished second-in-command
- the tragic love song of Dong-mae and his own eternal ability to shoot himself in the foot
- the tragic love song of Gunner Jang and the king of Korea, the show's truest romance of all
- Ms Haman tribute vid
- Kudo Hina outfit tribute vid

(Also, if you wanted to do a crossover or multifandom vid with some of the other revolutionary kdramas nominated this year, like Capital Scandal or Sungkyunkwan Scandal ... I wouldn't stop you, is all I'm saying.)


Baccano!

I am a simple person with simple joys, and one of those simple joys which never, ever palls for me is watching the hilarious and bloody collision of five different train-related crimes set to bouncy music.

Thank you so much again -- I'm really stoked to see what you come up with!

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[graycardinal]

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By coincidence, I have just this past week seen the current Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Indecent, and had had no idea there was a PBS iteration of the show, which I shall now have to go and seek out. And I can happily recommend that anyone within reasonable geographic reach of southern Oregon seek out the present staging, which runs through October.

I am also struck by the coincidence of finding Patrick Page squee in the previous post on Hadestown, as there was a period of several years early in his career when he was more or less in residence at OSF. [I particularly recall him as Autolycus in The Winter's Tale, but that may be because that's one of my favorite Shakespeares to begin with.] And my parents and I saw the original traveling staging of Beauty and the Beast here in Portland, in which he was a positively amazing Lumiere.

[skygiants]

I'm real glad that Oregon Shakespeare Festival picked Indecent up! It seems to be making the rounds -- there was a recent local production around here, too, which I missed because that month was a fairly over-scheduled time for me, but didn't feel too badly about since I'd already recently seen the off-Broadway and the PBS.

Honestly, his Green Goblin was one of the best parts of Spider-Man ... but I'm glad he gets to have a little more gravitas now in a much better show!

[graycardinal]

Not just picked up; Indecent was an OSF commission (or in this case co-commission). They've been doing a whole series of original commissions in recent years; Sweat was also one of theirs.

[skygiants]

Oh, neat, I had no idea they commissioned it!