HER: I COULD'VE BEEN YOUR GIRL [FESTIVIDS 2014]
Song: I Could've Been Your Girl
Artist: She & Him
Fandom: Her
Download: here
Streaming: embedded
Click to viewMade for nicole-anell for Festivids 2014.
Summary: If I could do it over, I'd send you the pillow that I'd cry on.
Notes: I have literally been in love with this film from the first time I walked out of the theater. I know it's a strange film to have an obsession with -- a lot of people seem to have trouble understanding why I adore it, or why it's become one of my favorite movies. All my Scarlett Johansson love aside (and believe me, there's a lot of it), this was a movie that reached into my heart and grabbed me both emotionally and in a very personal way. It's a beautiful story that encompasses everything about love -- its messiness and its happinesss and its ups and downs. I also maintained from the first time I saw it that the cinematography would make it perfect for vidding.
Although my giftee requested something that I thought was an amazing idea -- vidding from Samantha's POV -- it was just something that was too daunting for me to work with once I had settled on a song choice...so that ended up unfortuantely not happening, as much as I was intrigued by it. But abandoning that idea did give me a chance to figure out how to focus on Theodore and his relationships, the wins and the losses and sometimes hard and compromising decisions that come with trying to figure out your place in someone's life. In the end, the vid came together in a way that I didn't intend it to, but I think it works, and I'm pretty happy with it.
Thanks to hollywoodgrrl for encouragement and for insanely helpful beta that no doubt made this ten times better than it probably would have been otherwise.