Watchmen fanvid!

[laene_lif]

Fandom: Watchmen
Song: "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead
Characters: All (overall focus shifts from Comedian, Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan to Dan, Laurie and Rorschach)
Summary: The world might end! Can we stop it? Is stopping it what's really important? How should we view ourselves/life/the world? What should we do? Existentialist quandaries of the Watchmen and Radiohead join forces!
Notes: I know I already used this song for a fanvid (a Lord of the Rings one) but oh, well. It's what I found working for me. Aaaand now I just found one ghost clip, and it's going to piss me off forever.
Disclaimer: None of this is really mine -- I'm just a fan with too much time on her hands.
Links: watch it here or here...
Additional rambling:To me, this song is kind of about the absurd, as Camus described it: "that divorce between the mind that desires and the world that disappoints; my nostalgia for unity, this fragmented universe, and the contradiction that binds them together." The world is full of destructive forces, none the least being humankind -- everything is doomed, and for what? Rorschach says "existence is random, has no pattern... no meaning save what we choose to impose." It's a "rudderless world...not shaped by metaphysical forces" but just by us and by everything else in it. And yet, there is a structure to it -- there are laws of nature, and everything is set in motion in a certain way; Dr. Manhattan calls the universe "a watch without a watchmaker." But where does that put us? How do we view ourselves and our choices? Radiohead concludes with saying "immerse yourself in love." Thom Yorke has some stuff to say about the song too.

Comments

[sarahetc.livejournal.com]

I think this is beautiful and moving and melancholy. The images work really well with the lyrics. Thanks!

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That is the effect I was hoping to achieve.

[mackinzie.livejournal.com]

Very Lovely.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thanks for watching. Glad you liked it.

[(Anonymous)]

Beautiful video. I can't believe it never occurred to me what an excellent choice of song this would be for a Watchmen fanvid. You've done a wonderful job with this; thanks so much for sharing it :)

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Great job on this. I enjoyed your vid a heck of a lot more than I did the movie. :)

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have found sometimes that vids can be more effective than the films they take from, in a way -- by sort of distilling a lot of the good stuff that was there and culling out the rest. There are lots of movies that I love but that kind of fall flat in a lot of ways -- Star Wars and Dead Poets Society, for examples -- that have a lot of potential for great vids. Watchmen is kind of similar. I enjoyed it, but not all of it worked, somehow. Anyway, I'm rambling. Thanks for watching -- I'm very pleased that you enjoyed it.

[sociologies.livejournal.com]

This video was captivating and organic. It really matched up with the overall, deeper, philosophical and emotional essence of Watchmen beyond the special effects and elaborate set designs. Great job!

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I enjoy your icon. :) Although I suppose any time you use it, you're no longer lurking, because you're commenting -- which I appreciate. Glad you felt it got at some of the philosophical and emotional weight of Watchmen! That's really what I was hoping to do.

[balistik94.livejournal.com]

That was very nice.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thanks!