NaViMaMo Vidlet: This Chain of Days [Star Wars]

[beccatoria]

For such_heights!

Comments

[beccatoria]

Hee! Yes, I think any fusion of The Princess Bride and Star Wars is bound to be full of joy and win.

[such_heights]

a;dlskjsa SO AWESOME. I love love love the way Padme is centred here, and the way the limits of her agency are abruptly highlighted. :( I think that sense of her loneliness and isolation came across really powerfully in such a short piece. And I love the last shot of Leia after the images that have come before, it's brilliant.

I apologise for the tricksy prompt, but I'm not too sorry giving the vid and notes it produced. *g*

I am behind on feedbacking your other vids, though I am squeeing over many! But this is so so cool, for it is a vague notion of a vid I've been carrying out for a long time, and now it exists and is perfect. :D

[beccatoria]

Oh, dude, don't apologise, it was incredibly interesting, so I'm glad to hear you're not sorry for the results. And thrilled to hear that you think I succeeded in conveying some of Padme's loneliness and the, well, I like the way you put it - the abrupt limits to her agency

[daybreak777]

I really like Shmi and Leia here. You captured a great look on Leia's face that was reminiscent of her grandmother. Padme's the link between them but Shmi and Leia seem so much . . . older? Wiser? Something more than Padme here in this vid.

The cinematography in the first Star Wars (A New Hope) was very lonely!

[beccatoria]

Thank you! Yes, Padme is such a strange and awkward link between the other two women. I always wanted more for her but it never seemed to materialise. I kind of always got the sense Padme herself felt that way too. Like she was waiting for something that never came.

It's really interesting to see Shmi and Leia together, you're right there's a lot of resemblance there. The cinematography in ANH is actually quite lonely, you're right. From the opening shots of the space ships, so huge and slow. It's a movie shot with a lot of care. Really different to the prequels where I think Lucas got distracted by all the CGI. :/

[sasha_feather]

I LOVE NEKO CASE and I have been waiting for someone to make a vid to her music!!!!! <3 <3 <3

This is wonderful, I love seeing a SW vid about the women, thanks for making this. I had trouble downloading it but will try again later.

[beccatoria]

Thank you! I'm really pleased you enjoyed it. I just tried and couldn't see a trouble with the download - let me know if you're still having trouble and what kind? If nothing else I can upload it to a site like megaupload or something which might sort the issue?

As to Neko Case, I'm ashamed to admit I'm not very familiar with her but her voice and lyrics are wonderful in what I've heard. If you want more vids to her, I am at least familiar with one other - a episodic vidlet made by chaila43 about Starbuck from BSG:

A Widow's Toast. I think that the streaming is no longer working, but the download link still does.

[sasha_feather]

Ack, Ok, the problem I am having is that when I download the vid, I can only play about the first 10 seconds. When I try playing it again, VLC tells me the file is broken. I am going to try some other things, maybe downloading the newest VLC, since other people are clearly not having this problem.

Thank you for the vid rec, I am dling that right now! Neko Case is TEH HAWT. She is so amazing. Right now my favorite song of hers is "Red Tide".

[beccatoria]

Aaah, no, you are correct, it seems the file has become corrupted or something - not sure if it's always been that way (streaming seems far more popular than downloading these days, so it wouldn't shock me if you were the first attempting to download it) or if it got gunked up later, but I've reupped it - so try again now? Thanks for pointing this out!

I'll definitely check out Red Tide.

[ineptshieldmaid]

Oh, I loved this!

[beccatoria]

Thank you! :D