Vid: Perfect Drug (XMFC)

[danegen]

Title: Perfect Drug
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Song: Nine Inch Nails
Length: 2:32
Summary: My fear is warm to get inside of you. Erik/Charles, Erik/Shaw
Contains torture and concentration camp imagery

Comments are nuzzled.
Download at Mediafire (41 mb .avi)

Also posted to AO3. I think.

Comments

[winterevanesce]

Awesome video! Wow, and loved that ending with "falls apart".
Fantastic job! :)

[danegen]

Thanks, I'm so glad you liked it!

[giandujakiss]

This is fabulous! Really gorgeous visually and I just love the narrative and the way it works with the music.

[danegen]

Thank you! I'm so glad it worked for you visually. I've never done some of that *makes flappy gesture* stuff before.

[sol_se]

HOLY SHIT. OH MY GOD, THIS VIDEO. It finished and I didn't even realize I'd been holding my breath the entire time. This is seriously everything I've been wanting to see in an XMFC vid. I'm gonna be watching this about a zillion more times.

[sol_se]

*rewatching for 4th time*

Ok, a few specific things I have to flail at you about. Without detailing every section of your vid back to you, some details that I absolutely LOVED:

- NUMBERS. Opening with the tattoo over the Cerebro coordinates and then the Shaw file numbers.

- FINGERS. Shaw's fingers slowly running across the desk to Charles lifting his to his temple. Also, the use of hands throughout the whole thing is awesome.

- 0:16 child!Erik's face on "good" breaks my heart.

- 1:56 Erik's head tilt with that sound is AMAZING. It gives me chills.

- 2:00 Flashing between Charles putting the gun to his head & Shaw's finger on his head. HOLY CRAP.

- 2:13-2:20 FALLING. Everything falling! The movement in this sequence gives me goosebumps.

- Ending with the coin & bullet in his hand. OH ERIK. *cries*

UM, BASICALLY I LOVE THIS VIDEO A LOT.

[danegen]

Eeeee, thank you! I will flail happily in this comment all day.

Shaw's fingers slowly running across the desk to Charles lifting his to his temple

Yay, I'm so happy you noticed that!

1:56 Erik's head tilt with that sound is AMAZING

Heh, that was a total accident. I grabbed that bit and randomly stuck it on the timeline for future use, and when I played it, it was right over that weird noise. I was like, ooooooooh, that's staying right there.

I'm so glad you liked it! And thanks for the rec!

[fajrdrako]

Oooh, excellent! Put a shiver up my back. Beautifully conceived.

[danegen]

Thanks, I'm so glad it made you shiver!

[daria234]

amazing job

[danegen]

Thank you!