Vids! Mandara (Dune) and Black Black Heart (The Revenger's Tragedy)

[astolat]

I am very gratefully home! at last, and after successfully staving it off for six weeks, the traveling has finally laid me low and I have what is trying to be a cold, argh. But I am fighting it off with fluids and vitamins, and have gotten the Vividcon vids up. :D

Comments

[aynatonal]

How did I miss that there was a Revenger Tragedy movie? Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention (and what a beautiful vid!). Pimping accomplished! I can hardly wait to Netflix the movie.

[astolat]

wooo! *raises hands* \o/

[franzeska]

When you're done watching, watch again with the commentary. It's awesome.

[tabaqui]

Okay. Revengers. OMG. I...just...
*hands*

Tell me, tell me, please, that at some point in this movie those two fall on each other and have insane, devouring sex. I mean...dear *gods*....

*must, must, must see*

Utterly lovely vid, am downloading because i must have it on my HD forever, Precioussss, forever...

[astolat]

as I told untrue_accounts, after this vid we would need to warn people that no, they don't actually have sex in the movie. *cough* um, sorry? :/ They should, though.

yay that you liked! :D

[tabaqui]

I adored!

And there must be fic. Where is the fic!!
:)

[franzeska]

There is that terribly symbolic violence though... Some people just don't know what to do with a tied up Eddie Izzard!

[franzeska]

Bah! The ending of The Revenger's Tragedy pales in comparison to that of Tis Pity She's a Whore! That one has incest and even more ridiculousness. There's an excellently overwrought Italian movie adaptation.

But, yeah, I can't understand why fandom isn't obsessed with that movie either. Even Derek Jacobi is sexy in it... in an aged, shirtless, purple lipstick-wearing kind of way.

[franzeska]

BTW, have you listened to the commentary on Revengers? It's the director and Izzard arguing about things like whether the doors to city hall say "SPQR" as they should or "SPQL" for Liverpool.

[thuviaptarth]

Ohmygod, the directors' commentary is the MOST HYSTERICAL THING ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. UNINTENTIONALLY. WITH EDDIE IZZARD. I can't decide if my favorite part is Eddie Izzard talking about the complexity and richness of Middleton's characterization or Alex Cox totally missing the subtext of his producers saying, "If you end it with a shot of the World Trade Center falling, no one in the States will distribute, Alex," being "And also aesthicatically that is your worst idea ever."

[franzeska]

I still vote for the 10-minute "No, it's SQPL!" argument as the most ridiculous thing in there, but you're right: the whole thing is hilarious.

[minim_calibre]

A DUNE VID!!!!

As it was one of the few movies I saw in the theatre growing up (it was not, and still isn't, a regular thing for my parents to go to the talkies), and introduced me to Kyle MacLachlan (AHAHA, I am SO GLAD I burned my diary from that era, so that the purple prose of my massive crush is LONG GONE from this earth), I am afraid I cannot be rational about my love of it, warts and all.

That said, love aside, I can't really watch it without vague cringing. Despite the love. It's like when a family member is being embarrassing in public. So a VID! DISTILLED ESSENCE OF THE GOOD ASPECTS! PERFECTION! I NEVER HAVE TO WATCH DUNE AGAIN!

[minim_calibre]

(except for the part where watching the vid more than once makes me want to watch Dune again. Curses! I know it won't be what you extracted from it, and yet! Ah well, I think Dad still has several random video tapes with various edits and extended versions of the thing around down at their place, so if I *have* to watch it, I don't have to actually buy it.)

[ladyclio16]

I love your Dune vid. Though the 1984 movie was flawed I like it better than the sci-fi channel version. It's a lovely vid. Thanks for sharing it with us.