Holmes/Waton vid!

[laene_lif]

Title: The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Homes and Watson!
Song: "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Us"
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Movie: "Sherlock Holmes" (Guy Ritchie's; 2009) [and a couple of sneaky clips from "Finding Neverland"]
Comments from the vidder: Yeah, so I'm not really super proud of this one, but you know, whatever. I do enjoy it, and I hope you do too. I found the song difficult to vid for -- it's a bit quirky and ponderous (I edited out a few big chunks of it and it's STILL almost 5 minutes long) -- but I couldn't squelch my desire to do it. Every time I listened to it, I thought of H/W and UST. In my mind, the wasp (or crow? can we pretend a crow works?) represents both the prick of love and desire, and the the oppressiveness of (Victorian) society and ideals which make that love impossible. Enjoy.

Download: My copy of SH isn't great (it's very dark) and WMM isn't great, of course, and on YT it just becomes even worse. So if you're interested in a slightly better quality viewing, here's a download link: here. [28,169 KB; 4 minutes, 56 seconds]
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmT0fzKxXiE
Stream:

Comments

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I'll have to get the download, but the part I watched on youtube looked very good.

[ciderapples.livejournal.com]

I thought this had a great narrative. The way you picked your moments actually had me reconsidering the way I had watched those moments in the context of the larger film. This was quite romantic and lovely, and the song worked very well (and you worked well with the song).

[theravenwrites.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I adore this song so so much and so I was of course interested in watching your vid. And as I watched I was impressed by how appropriate it is through the shots that you chose. I really loved the pacing of long, panning sequences paired with the instrumental, flowing parts of the song. I've been kind of fading out of the Holmes/Watson fandom lately, but this really made me remember why I believe so much in them but also why they're so troubled. So really: excellent song choice and great vid.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't have much substantive to say, but I enjoyed it - unusual song, but I liked the way it worked with the footage.