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Dear Festividder
Dear Festividder,
Thank you for making me a vid for my tiny fandom! I am so excited to see what you end up doing.
I don't have any more prompts to add, but I do want to repeat that I realize the prompts are optional, and included them just in case you wanted an idea of what I'd like. I figure the best things to do here are to include the song file I mentioned for the Ginger Snaps prompt, and to give you a brief overview of the sources, in case you decide not to go for the fandom we matched on. All of the movies are available via Netflix and all of them except Omkara are currently in print in the U.S. I don't know about their distribution in other countries, sorry. I can make any of the short sources available via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fv_shh.
Cat People - 1942/The Curse of the Cat People - 1944 (Movie); The
About the source
This is not my official safety, but I think it is shorter than the official safety, especially if you only watch one film; they only run about 70 minutes each.
These are classic horror films -- from 1942 and 1944, so there isn't any gore, although in the first film there is some suspense. In many ways they are terribly gentle; beautifully shot, and with an extraordinary sense of sympathy for women, young girls, the powerless and outsiders. In The Cat People, Eastern European immigrant Irina Dubrovna believes that she suffers from a family curse and will turn into a giant panther whenever aroused. In a lot of ways this is a conservative story that expresses considerable anxiety about immigrants, the composition of "whiteness," and female sexuality; but, as I said, director Val Lewton has an extraordinary sympathy for his main character, which complicates the safe closure of the ending.
The "sequel"--it is really an independent companion film--is about the daughter of Irina's lover, an imaginative young girl who sees Irina's ghost in her garden--to the dismay of her father, who fears his daughter's imagination and independence. There is melancholy sweetness to the film that is not at all what you would expect from "horror."
Be warned that the films are of their period: they may seem melodramatic to the modern viewer, and they will definitely have problematic aspects about race and gender. The only nonwhite characters I can recall off-hand are a black waitress in the first film and a black "Jamaican" butler in the second. (I do not think his accent sounds remotely Jamaican. It is possible that I am mistaken about what Jamaican accents can sound like, or that they have changed considerably over the past sixty years, but honestly? I think they just decided a black dude with one foreign accent could stand in for a black dude with any foreign accent.)
Request
I am fine with a vid using both the movies or either. I love the unexpected sympathy towards Irina in the first movie, her sensuality and her fear, and the delicate melancholy tone of the second, how it hardly matters whether there's a ghost or Amy's imagination, because love and fantasy are equally powerful.
Chuck (TV)
About the source
This is a charming series about a sweetheart of an underachiever named Chuck, the computer that gets downloaded into his brain, and the spies who protect him. He has a loving family and a dead-end job in retail. This is fun and this is adorable and it only gets all the more fun and all the more adorable the more ridiculous the spy plots get.
It is also, at 36 episodes, the source I've requested which requires the biggest time investment, so you probably don't want to resort to this as a safety if you haven't seen it already.
But, you know, if you want to check it out after you are done vidding, the first season is out on DVD and the second season is available where TV episodes that have not been released on DVD are usually available.
Request
My favorite character is Sarah and my second favorite is Chuck and I am ridiculously sappy about shipping them. I would be happy with a vid focused on either one or both of them, shippy or gen. Usually I am all about the angst, but this is my happy fandom.
Fringe (TV)
About the source
This is a sort of X Files clone, but starring a woman and also in a universe where people who are faced with reasonable proof of the apparently impossible accept the evidence of their eyes. Oh, and also no voice-overs! So that is three improvements on the original.
I love Olivia Dunham, the reserved FBI agent who is the lead, and I like her interactions with not-entirely-sane scientist Walter Bishop and his caretaker son Peter. The first season starts off slow, but the end of has some phenomenal plot twists, I mean I was seriously beside myself with glee. Also, the show is extremely pretty. I don't just mean the actors--I mean the cinematography is just generally very pretty, with the kind of noir influence I always enjoy. Chiarascuro is the way to my heart.
But there is a 20-episode first season (available on DVD) and six episodes aired of Season Two, so, again, I would not recommend this as a safety.
Request
What I want most of all is Olivia. It can be Olivia gen, a character study, or a universe study centered on Olivia and all the strangenesses she encounters, or on the big reveals at the end of Season 1, or on Olivia's relationships with other people, any other people. If you really can't stand Olivia, though, I will be happy with vids about the Fringe universe, or about Broyles, Astrid (a vid about Astrid's no good horrible days at the office could be hilarious), Nina Sharp, or even Walter. I would prefer not to receive a vid exclusively focused on Peter or John Scott, although use of them in vids focused on other characters (including Olivia ship vids) is fine. If you do end up focusing on Walter, a comic vid is fine, but not if it's making fun of senility or insanity; a serious vid is fine, but--much as I like Walter--I would be really uncomfortable with a vid that emphasized his very real suffering but did not also reference the very real harm he's done. I tend to think of trip hop or trance music when I think of Fringe vids, but that's mostly for Olivia and the mytharc; the type of music that's suitable would really depends on the character and focus you went with. I am not set on anything.
Ginger Snaps trilogy (Movie)
About the source
Ginger Snaps is a brilliant feminist werewolf movie. Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed is the inferior sequel and Ginger Snaps III: Ginger Snaps Back is the even more inferior prequel.
Ginger Snaps focuses on two teenage sisters in a candy-colored Canadian suburb who are obsessed with (a) death; (b) getting out of the suburbs. They are attacked by a wolf in the woods -- which starts a transformation both feared and desired, like (oh very like) puberty.
Supernatural fans may recognize Ginger as Ava and Brigitte as Becky the fan.
Ginger Snaps II goes from using lycanthropy as a metaphor for adolescent female power and sexuality to using it as a metaphor for drug use. I find this problematic. Especially since they don't stop using it as a metaphor for adolescent female power and sexuality. Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle once again deliver powerful performances as Brigitte and Ginger, respectively, particularly Perkins, but the movie is horribly flawed.
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning tells the story of two sisters arriving in colonial Canada and encountering the possible origins of the wolf who appears centuries later in Ginger Snaps. It is boring. It has a mystic Indian. It does have some pretty fairy tale visuals, though.
Warning: These are pretty gory. If you can't deal with horror in general, you should probably skip these.
Request
What I love best about the Ginger Snaps trilogy is the relationship between Ginger and Brigitte and what I love second best is Brigitte. I would be happy with any vid that incorporated one or more of the films (you don't have to use more than one if you don't want to) and that focused on the sisters or was a character study of Brigitte. Alina Simone's "Black Water" has an attitude that says Brigitte to me, but I'd also be fine with a completely different song.
Middleman (TV); The
About the source
This is a comedy series with thirteen episodes, about Latina art school graduate Wendy Watson's recruitment into a life of superherodom (except without tights or capes) by the Middleman. I adore Wendy; Natalie Morales gives her enough life and charm that I don't mind that the characterizations are all basically two-dimensional.
Request
Wendy Watson, please. Character study or ship vid or her friendship with Lacey or her friendship with Lacey and Noser or her growing fondness for the Middleman or her antagonism with Ida -- any genre or theme is fine with me, as long as the focus of the vid is Wendy.
Omkara (Movie)
About the source
My official safety!
This is a Hindi retelling of Othello set in contemporary India. Half-caste bandit-going-respectable Omkara/Omi (Othello) falls in love with the daughter of a rich and respectable man, and we kind of all know how it goes from there. The cinematography is gorgeous, Omi is scary and sexy and you can see why Dolly's a fool for him, Langla (Iago) is charismatic and compelling, and Indu (Emilia) steals every scene she's in.
Request
This movie is so gorgeous! I think I would be happy with anything. If it helps, my favorite part is the friendship between Indu and Dolly, although I also think Langla is fascinating and Omi is sex in white pants. I realize these are three things that are not alike! I don't expect them all to fit into an one-minute vid.
Sleep Dealer (Movie)
About the source
This is a low-budget science fiction thriller set in Mexico in the near future. American corporations have seized water sources that used to be common property and sell water back to Mexican farmers, protected by the American military. Workers migrate from the country to the city and become "node workers" -- workers who operate heavy machinery around the world without ever leaving Mexico. ("It's the American dream," a factory supervisor says, "work without the workers.") Memo leaves the countryside, hoping for a better life in Tijuana, where he meets Luz, a university student who sells her memories on the Net. And Luz has a buyer who's very interested in her memories of Memo. 
The plot gets kind of pulpy and predictable, but the acting is very strong and the visuals are striking.
Request
I would prefer a vid that focused on Memo or Luz to one that focused on Rudy, but aside from that I'm open to anything -- character study, thematic analysis, recruiter vid, portrait of the Sleep Dealer universe. I think a lot of the movie looks amazing, especially for such a low-budget picture--the oversaturated Tijuana skylines, the workers hanging like puppets, the red and blue node sex.
Thank you for making me a vid for my tiny fandom! I am so excited to see what you end up doing.
I don't have any more prompts to add, but I do want to repeat that I realize the prompts are optional, and included them just in case you wanted an idea of what I'd like. I figure the best things to do here are to include the song file I mentioned for the Ginger Snaps prompt, and to give you a brief overview of the sources, in case you decide not to go for the fandom we matched on. All of the movies are available via Netflix and all of them except Omkara are currently in print in the U.S. I don't know about their distribution in other countries, sorry. I can make any of the short sources available via
fv_shh.Cat People - 1942/The Curse of the Cat People - 1944 (Movie); The
About the source
This is not my official safety, but I think it is shorter than the official safety, especially if you only watch one film; they only run about 70 minutes each.These are classic horror films -- from 1942 and 1944, so there isn't any gore, although in the first film there is some suspense. In many ways they are terribly gentle; beautifully shot, and with an extraordinary sense of sympathy for women, young girls, the powerless and outsiders. In The Cat People, Eastern European immigrant Irina Dubrovna believes that she suffers from a family curse and will turn into a giant panther whenever aroused. In a lot of ways this is a conservative story that expresses considerable anxiety about immigrants, the composition of "whiteness," and female sexuality; but, as I said, director Val Lewton has an extraordinary sympathy for his main character, which complicates the safe closure of the ending.
The "sequel"--it is really an independent companion film--is about the daughter of Irina's lover, an imaginative young girl who sees Irina's ghost in her garden--to the dismay of her father, who fears his daughter's imagination and independence. There is melancholy sweetness to the film that is not at all what you would expect from "horror."Be warned that the films are of their period: they may seem melodramatic to the modern viewer, and they will definitely have problematic aspects about race and gender. The only nonwhite characters I can recall off-hand are a black waitress in the first film and a black "Jamaican" butler in the second. (I do not think his accent sounds remotely Jamaican. It is possible that I am mistaken about what Jamaican accents can sound like, or that they have changed considerably over the past sixty years, but honestly? I think they just decided a black dude with one foreign accent could stand in for a black dude with any foreign accent.)
Request
I am fine with a vid using both the movies or either. I love the unexpected sympathy towards Irina in the first movie, her sensuality and her fear, and the delicate melancholy tone of the second, how it hardly matters whether there's a ghost or Amy's imagination, because love and fantasy are equally powerful.
Chuck (TV)
About the source
This is a charming series about a sweetheart of an underachiever named Chuck, the computer that gets downloaded into his brain, and the spies who protect him. He has a loving family and a dead-end job in retail. This is fun and this is adorable and it only gets all the more fun and all the more adorable the more ridiculous the spy plots get.
It is also, at 36 episodes, the source I've requested which requires the biggest time investment, so you probably don't want to resort to this as a safety if you haven't seen it already.
But, you know, if you want to check it out after you are done vidding, the first season is out on DVD and the second season is available where TV episodes that have not been released on DVD are usually available.
Request
My favorite character is Sarah and my second favorite is Chuck and I am ridiculously sappy about shipping them. I would be happy with a vid focused on either one or both of them, shippy or gen. Usually I am all about the angst, but this is my happy fandom.
Fringe (TV)
About the source
This is a sort of X Files clone, but starring a woman and also in a universe where people who are faced with reasonable proof of the apparently impossible accept the evidence of their eyes. Oh, and also no voice-overs! So that is three improvements on the original.
I love Olivia Dunham, the reserved FBI agent who is the lead, and I like her interactions with not-entirely-sane scientist Walter Bishop and his caretaker son Peter. The first season starts off slow, but the end of has some phenomenal plot twists, I mean I was seriously beside myself with glee. Also, the show is extremely pretty. I don't just mean the actors--I mean the cinematography is just generally very pretty, with the kind of noir influence I always enjoy. Chiarascuro is the way to my heart.
But there is a 20-episode first season (available on DVD) and six episodes aired of Season Two, so, again, I would not recommend this as a safety.
Request
What I want most of all is Olivia. It can be Olivia gen, a character study, or a universe study centered on Olivia and all the strangenesses she encounters, or on the big reveals at the end of Season 1, or on Olivia's relationships with other people, any other people. If you really can't stand Olivia, though, I will be happy with vids about the Fringe universe, or about Broyles, Astrid (a vid about Astrid's no good horrible days at the office could be hilarious), Nina Sharp, or even Walter. I would prefer not to receive a vid exclusively focused on Peter or John Scott, although use of them in vids focused on other characters (including Olivia ship vids) is fine. If you do end up focusing on Walter, a comic vid is fine, but not if it's making fun of senility or insanity; a serious vid is fine, but--much as I like Walter--I would be really uncomfortable with a vid that emphasized his very real suffering but did not also reference the very real harm he's done. I tend to think of trip hop or trance music when I think of Fringe vids, but that's mostly for Olivia and the mytharc; the type of music that's suitable would really depends on the character and focus you went with. I am not set on anything.
Ginger Snaps trilogy (Movie)
About the source
Ginger Snaps is a brilliant feminist werewolf movie. Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed is the inferior sequel and Ginger Snaps III: Ginger Snaps Back is the even more inferior prequel.Ginger Snaps focuses on two teenage sisters in a candy-colored Canadian suburb who are obsessed with (a) death; (b) getting out of the suburbs. They are attacked by a wolf in the woods -- which starts a transformation both feared and desired, like (oh very like) puberty.
Supernatural fans may recognize Ginger as Ava and Brigitte as Becky the fan.
Ginger Snaps II goes from using lycanthropy as a metaphor for adolescent female power and sexuality to using it as a metaphor for drug use. I find this problematic. Especially since they don't stop using it as a metaphor for adolescent female power and sexuality. Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle once again deliver powerful performances as Brigitte and Ginger, respectively, particularly Perkins, but the movie is horribly flawed.
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning tells the story of two sisters arriving in colonial Canada and encountering the possible origins of the wolf who appears centuries later in Ginger Snaps. It is boring. It has a mystic Indian. It does have some pretty fairy tale visuals, though.Warning: These are pretty gory. If you can't deal with horror in general, you should probably skip these.
Request
What I love best about the Ginger Snaps trilogy is the relationship between Ginger and Brigitte and what I love second best is Brigitte. I would be happy with any vid that incorporated one or more of the films (you don't have to use more than one if you don't want to) and that focused on the sisters or was a character study of Brigitte. Alina Simone's "Black Water" has an attitude that says Brigitte to me, but I'd also be fine with a completely different song.
Middleman (TV); The
About the source
This is a comedy series with thirteen episodes, about Latina art school graduate Wendy Watson's recruitment into a life of superherodom (except without tights or capes) by the Middleman. I adore Wendy; Natalie Morales gives her enough life and charm that I don't mind that the characterizations are all basically two-dimensional.
Request
Wendy Watson, please. Character study or ship vid or her friendship with Lacey or her friendship with Lacey and Noser or her growing fondness for the Middleman or her antagonism with Ida -- any genre or theme is fine with me, as long as the focus of the vid is Wendy.
Omkara (Movie)
About the source
My official safety!
This is a Hindi retelling of Othello set in contemporary India. Half-caste bandit-going-respectable Omkara/Omi (Othello) falls in love with the daughter of a rich and respectable man, and we kind of all know how it goes from there. The cinematography is gorgeous, Omi is scary and sexy and you can see why Dolly's a fool for him, Langla (Iago) is charismatic and compelling, and Indu (Emilia) steals every scene she's in.Request
This movie is so gorgeous! I think I would be happy with anything. If it helps, my favorite part is the friendship between Indu and Dolly, although I also think Langla is fascinating and Omi is sex in white pants. I realize these are three things that are not alike! I don't expect them all to fit into an one-minute vid.
Sleep Dealer (Movie)
About the source
This is a low-budget science fiction thriller set in Mexico in the near future. American corporations have seized water sources that used to be common property and sell water back to Mexican farmers, protected by the American military. Workers migrate from the country to the city and become "node workers" -- workers who operate heavy machinery around the world without ever leaving Mexico. ("It's the American dream," a factory supervisor says, "work without the workers.") Memo leaves the countryside, hoping for a better life in Tijuana, where he meets Luz, a university student who sells her memories on the Net. And Luz has a buyer who's very interested in her memories of Memo. 
The plot gets kind of pulpy and predictable, but the acting is very strong and the visuals are striking.
Request
I would prefer a vid that focused on Memo or Luz to one that focused on Rudy, but aside from that I'm open to anything -- character study, thematic analysis, recruiter vid, portrait of the Sleep Dealer universe. I think a lot of the movie looks amazing, especially for such a low-budget picture--the oversaturated Tijuana skylines, the workers hanging like puppets, the red and blue node sex.
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