Yulevid

[thuviaptarth]

People are currently brainstorming for an anonymous holiday rare fandom vidathon at yulevid.

These are fandoms I am thinking about:

Fringe (it is SO PRETTY, you guys! there should be vids)
Chuck
Life (I am not sure this counts)
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles (I am not sure this counts either? I am inclined to think not, alas)
Coffee Prince
Damo
Painter of the Wind (I haven't seen this but the picspams are pretty)
Capital Scandals (I haven't seen this but the picspams are pretty)

Omkara
Bright Star (only I am not sure if it can be ahemmed and it's not out on DVD yet)
Sleep Dealer
Bound
Blade Runner
Lust, Caution
Clueless
Heathers
The Revengers Tragedy
The Lady in [from] Shanghai (I haven't seen it but I own it, so hey)
Bringing Up Baby
The Lady Eve
The Cat People/The Curse of the Cat People

ETA:
Profit
Ultraviolet (tv)
Lilo & Stitch
Bleak House
Ginger Snaps trilogy

Comments

[kass]

I would love to see Fringe vidded! It is an awfully pretty show.

[thuviaptarth]

I know! I am not even sure I really want to watch the show, but I would love to see all the best bits condensed into vid form.

[giandujakiss]

Fringe would be awesome - I could stare at Anna Torv for three minutes, easy.

[vehemently]

You mean The Lady from Shanghai, from the 40s?

...Just remember, that's Orson Welles's divorce movie. He was in the middle of getting divorced from Rita Hayworth, and directed her in the movie and starred as her love-interest. You can tell they are getting divorced, aside from clues in the plot-eventuality, by the fact that he demanded she cut and dye platinum her famous red tresses for the role. It's a humdinger role, but.

Actually, that's true about the whole movie: it's a humdinger, but. There's a lot of gloriously Code-y mid-century fuckery in thar! Which is interesting, but not ultimately satisfying.

[thuviaptarth]

Yes. Um. In my defense, it would not occur to me to cast Rita Hayworth as someone from Shanghai.

[giandujakiss]

Don't forget, he also cast Charlton Heston as a Mexican in Touch of Evil.

Which isn't fair, actually, because I don't think that was his decision - it was the studio's. Still, because the plot hinged on Heston being Mexican, and because I found that literally impossible to grasp, the first time I saw the movie I was wildly confused about what was going on.

[vehemently]

She is from Shanghai the way that J. G. Ballard was from Shanghai. Actually, there's this whole pre-midcentury thing about single white women who have lived in Asia (and aren't missionaries): they're bold and urban and stylish and vaguely disreputable -- on the nightclub-singer-to-whore scale of reputability, plus bonus colonial/racist implications -- and can speak "exotic" languages.

Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) has come to California via Asia as well. The female sidekick from Indiana Jones #2? Her. There's a whole noir movie that treats in that sex/colonial cathexys, called Macao (which Robert Mitchum consistently pronounces "ma-KY-yo"), which my grandfather remembered fondly from his young adulthood, and then saw again in his 70s (with me) and pronounced it ridiculous. Mostly I think because the movie makes no sense, but also because its attitudes are so shitty.

All of which is to say, actually, that unlike other Hollywood movies that refer to Asia of this era, The Lady from Shanghai features a chase sequence that stumbles into the real Chinatown of San Francisco, and into a theatre showing Real Chinese Actors performing a Chinese drama, in Chinese. The camera just stumbles past gawkily for a minute or two, but it was certainly neat to see it.

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I just remembered I want to add Castle to my list, too. Sheesh. This is hard!

[thuviaptarth.livejournal.com]

That is why I want public brainstorming. So people can remind me of the sources I'm not thinking of. :)

[anoel.livejournal.com]

I would definitely say Life counts. T:TSCC...it *could* but I don't know if it quite fits the spirit of *rare*. Doesn't hurt to request it though.

[thuviaptarth.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I am leaning towards feeling like it's not in the spirit of the challenge.

[hapex-legomena.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I am so glad I'm not the only person who's seen Sleep Dealer. It's so pretty!

[thuviaptarth.livejournal.com]

I just saw it yesterday. Oh so pretty!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

So Close? Red Cliff?

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I'd totally offer Red Cliff if I could figure out where the heck I put the source that oyceter gave me. :-( I need a better filing system.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

This is slightly off-topic, so I understand if you don't want to take the time to respond now.

Do people ever do deconstructive/analytical vids of anime?

I saw this one (http://community.livejournal.com/ff7/721395.html), which is based on the Final Fantasy VII video game (+ numerous video game sequels and the Advent Children movie), but everything else I've ever, ever seen has just been random scenes strung together with music. (Except for Tra La La (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcSYbOo__og), and I sincerely apologize in advance if you're seeing it for the first time because of my link!)

[thuviaptarth.livejournal.com]

Yes, but AMV fandom is pretty separate from live vidding fandom. There are a few people who cross over, but reputations etc. don't tend to transfer. So you won't necessarily find them rec'd in the Usual Vidding Places on LJ.

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity...Ultraviolet, the tv show with Jack Davenport & Idris Elba? Or, Ultraviolet, the movie with Milla Jovovich?

[thuviaptarth.livejournal.com]

The TV show.

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

\o/

[thuviaptarth.livejournal.com]

Clearly we share an interest in relatively obscure British sf productions!