Fanvid: Maybe Sprout Wings (Blade Runner)
Dec. 2nd, 2008 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laene_lifWell, I made a "Blade Runner" fanvid. It's really nothing great -- it's a melancholy, short, simple and quickly-made thing, patched-together from several downloaded scenes, but... Whatever. I hope to make another "Blade Runner" vid eventually (quite possibly to "Karma Police" by Radiohead), once I get the movie (and somehow get WMM fixed or even get a new editing program) but for what it's worth, here's this: Maybe Sprout Wings.
It's sort of about isolation and longing, and hope. An important idea in the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", it seemed to me, was getting over the fear of caring about something that might not care about you, and sort of just... just embracing the feelings you get, that seem important to you.
At the end of the novel, Rick Deckard chooses to keep the toad he found even though he realizes that it's not real -- he cares about it anyway. The end of the film, with the paper unicorn, reminded me of that moment (I'm really not a fan of Ridley Scott's explanations of Deckard actually being a replicant -- that just seems silly; it's missing the point). Rachael has to cope with all these memories she still has even though she finds out that they're not real. Roy has to cope with having feelings and desires that aren't validated -- his existence is fleeting and unrealized/unrecognized, "like tears in rain" (although Deckard sees him clearly at the end, which I imagine is a kind of consolation to Roy).
I like this passage from the book:
At an oil painting Phil Resch halted, gazing intently. The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by--or despite--its outcry.
"He did a woodcut of this," Rick said, reading the card tacked below the painting.
"I think," Phil Resch said, "this is how an andy must feel."
So... yeah. Take a look at the video if you're curious and tell me what you thought.
It's sort of about isolation and longing, and hope. An important idea in the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", it seemed to me, was getting over the fear of caring about something that might not care about you, and sort of just... just embracing the feelings you get, that seem important to you.
At the end of the novel, Rick Deckard chooses to keep the toad he found even though he realizes that it's not real -- he cares about it anyway. The end of the film, with the paper unicorn, reminded me of that moment (I'm really not a fan of Ridley Scott's explanations of Deckard actually being a replicant -- that just seems silly; it's missing the point). Rachael has to cope with all these memories she still has even though she finds out that they're not real. Roy has to cope with having feelings and desires that aren't validated -- his existence is fleeting and unrealized/unrecognized, "like tears in rain" (although Deckard sees him clearly at the end, which I imagine is a kind of consolation to Roy).
I like this passage from the book:
At an oil painting Phil Resch halted, gazing intently. The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by--or despite--its outcry.
"He did a woodcut of this," Rick said, reading the card tacked below the painting.
"I think," Phil Resch said, "this is how an andy must feel."
So... yeah. Take a look at the video if you're curious and tell me what you thought.
