skygiants: Beatrice from Much Ado putting up her hand to stop Benedick talking (no more than reason)
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Dear Festividder,

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! This letter contains a variety of prompts (most copied from previous years) but please disregard absolutely anything that doesn't speak to you and make the vid of your heart.

Safety fandoms: Into the Woods (1991) [SAFETY], Jumanji (1995) [SAFETY], Much Ado About Nothing (1993) [SAFETY], Muppet Treasure Island (1996) [SAFETY], Notre-Dame de Paris (1999) [SAFETY]
TV shows: 힐러 | Healer, 부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club (TV)

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 significantly less fine, in fact.

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.

Jumanji (1995)

I received an excellent vid for this film previously, but I hunger for more! I love ostensible child protagonists, but to be honest, it's the existential terror of the Alan and Sarah storyline that haunts me in the best possible way: imagine getting trapped in your worst moment for 26 years! But with bonus venomous insects and horrible monkeys! INCREDIBLE. I'd honestly love a vid that delved into just how genuinely creepy the film is, but please do also feel free to focus more on the hijinks element if that's what speaks to you.

I requested the 1995 film because of the special place it has held in my heart for the past 25 years, but I also do truly love the new Jumanji films and if you wanted to make a vid that somehow pulled in themes from all three for an homage to the Jumanji Extended Universe, that would be a great gift for me personally although obviously not in any way required!

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.

Muppet Treasure Island

Greatest Treasure Island adaptation of all time? MAYBE. I guess hypothetically I could have nominated the entire Muppet Movieverse here, but to be honest, this is really the Muppet movie of my heart - pirates! tourist rats! Tim Curry seducing Miss Piggy! SAILING FOR ADVENTURE ON THE BIG BLUE WET THING! I'd be happy for any focus and any kind of music for this canon - sea shanties? Muppet-ized rock? Another brilliant idea I have not even conceived of?

Notre-Dame de Paris (1999)

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, horrible soldier, horrible 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 from different adaptations or I guess actual Paris to expand the bounds of Notre-Dame beyond the limitations of the Parisian stage, be my guest.

힐러 | Healer

There are so many interesting characters in this show, and so many cool loose ends -- while I'd love a vid about any of the main characters and plotlines (plucky reporters vid! hilarious Clark Kenting vid! Young Shin and her mom vid! Young Shin and her dads vid! Scathing vid about political corruption! Min Ja-centric vid, SIGN ME UP), I am also super open to a vid that pulled in other sources for extensions on what we see in the show itself. What about making this imaginary sequel a little closer to reality? How about the tinhat shipper vid for Young Shin's two dads? Or a vid about the pirate radio group in their heyday, before everything went to hell in a handbasket? (If you happen to have seen Sandglass, a crossover vid would be SUPER FASCINATING.)

부암동 복수자들 | Avengers Social Club

My favorite Avenger is Jung-hye (she's so beautifully committed to being bizarre) but I would love a vid focused on any of the three lead women, or on their dynamic together! While I like Soo-gyum and the younger generation, I don't care about them as much on their own and would prefer a vid that didn't focus on Soo-gyum alone; however, a vid that focused on Jung-hye and Soo-gyum, Mi-sook or Do-hee and their respective children, or indeed all of TEAM REVENGE as a collective, would be absolutely delightful

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