The Burly Man Remaster
Fandom: The Matrix Trilogy
Audio: "Break Stuff" by Limp Biskit
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I decided to give my 2005 Matrix vid a make-over before I do a system reformat while I still had all the footage on my PC. Ive also fixed a few of the things that bugged me about it, and replaced some shots to improve the overall structure & "angry" theme.
The Burly Man is the only vid I've ever created out of therapy, which I mentioned in my previous post. I think I originally cut it in about a week, and while I could have spent longer tweaking it...the best part about therapy is the release & letting go. To have kept working on it would have only kept me angry for longer. So its kind of ironic that now while I'm feeling the most zen in my life I've gone back to remaster & tweak it into the vid it was meant to be. You can still find the original vid here.
Its a lot tighter & more intense now, with 20% more Neo angry face!. There's more shorter cuts/shot changes. Some sections are unchanged, especially the very beginning of the vid but for the most its quite a bit more intense. Gone also are sequences that, in retrospect, didn't keep that intensity up - such as the fight with good guy Seraph (from the Teahouse fight, where he "quits & lets the shit slip"). I decided to keep it strictly to characters that were enemies engaging Neo.
Also during the section of the song where it repeats "...and if my day keeps going this way I just might..." the original had the middle one of those three repeticious lines with Neo striking back at the guy with the sword, whereas now he's being smacked around in all three. So by the time he gets to the last one, he's really pissed off & retaliates by breaking all sorts of shit - peoples faces, light posts, statues, etc.
I also recycled an effect I used on Matrix Life to lead into the "he said, she said" sections to highlight their arrival a bit more. And I think this may be the only vid I've made that doesn't have jump cuts! Still not sure how I restained myself the second time around...