Fanvid: Death Waltz (Fall of Eagles)

[lost_spook]

When I said the other day that part of my problems were my own fault, it was the making of this (largely) over the weekend that I meant. (And, don't worry, I'm not making another vid until I can be sensible again, which I thought I had trained myself to be. Also I encountered yet more technical issues. *joy*) Anyway, I killed my brain for a

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[dimity_blue]

Ooh, I enjoyed it! It makes me even more keen to see the DVDs!

I didn't recognise Jan Francis as the ballerina at all! I liked how you kept on going back to the dancing though - that fitted in well with the music (obviously!).

LOL at your Patrick Stewart eating pancakes comment. Doesn't that make *every* vid worthwhile? ::pictures PS eating pancakes popping up in odd vids - S&S, Press Gang...::

[lost_spook]

Aw, thank you! As long as somebody else enjoyed the vid, I'm v happy. Fall of Eagles is good (although I am only half-way through it, I admit) although it has narration and things so the style of it does take a little getting used to, but it is rather marvellous overall.

And LOL. That could be my signature thing! Pancake-eating Patrick Stewart in all my vids! It's a temptingly silly thought. :-)

[jjpor]

Well I like it too. And it makes me want to watch the series even more at some point. Curt Jurgens as Bismarck, eh? I know him mainly from classic war movies like The Enemy Below and The Longest Day, but he was also in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. I like the way you use the ballerina as an ongoing theme as you cut back and forth between the crowned heads and ol' Vladimir Ilyich and his co-conspirators, plotting to seize control of the means of producing pancakes... ;D

[lost_spook]

Thank you! It seemed an inevitable thing to do with it. :-)

And it is pretty good. Episode 1 is so narrative-heavy and full of contemporary images that I really wasn't sure about it, but all the other episodes have been great so far (and that one was good once they stopped narrating everything). My DVD cover does say that it is a rare TV appearance for Curt Jurgens. (I suppose if you promise someone they can play Bismarck, they can't refuse, heh.) The pancakes are a cunning ruse to disguise the fact it is a radical meeting.

[jjpor]

Was Colin Baker in it at all? I was looking out for him, but the closest I could see was that chap in the red uniform opening the doors quite early on, and on reflection I don't think it was him at all.

Those scheming Bolsheviks - so skilled in the arts of political subterfuge... ;D

[lost_spook]

No, he's not; I'm still only halfway through and he's in it at some point towards the end, so I haven't seen him yet, either. That was good thinking, though, because that's Barry Foster as the Kaiser, who is Colin Baker's father (his characters father, I mean, or at least, that was my assumption).

Because of the huge time span and things, very few people clock up more than 2 episodes, even the major characters.

[belantana]

GEMMA JONES OMG. Always and forever a Russian spy.

Also, EXPLOSIONS, and pretty costumes. belantana is deeply impressed.

[lost_spook]

Thank you. And I was not meant to make this fanvid so quickly; it just happened. There is a picspam nearly finished which was supposed to happen first and that would explain things like:

Gemma Jones is Princess Vicky, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, who marries a Prussian prince. (So not a Russian spy at all, I AM SORRY.) However, she is completely awesome in it.

[belantana]

I have heard that suppressing a fanvid is kind of like swallowing a burp and is very unhealthy. So it's a good thing you got it out, even if it was too quickly for your brain!

Excuse me how can you say Gemma Jones married a Prussian Prince and then ISN'T a spy?

[lost_spook]

:lol: What an image!

Because she... isn't? I'm sorry. (I don't think she's a Russian spy in Sense and Sensibility, either. ;-p)