New Vid: The Un-American (Smallville, Gen mostly)

[theclexfactor]

I haven't made a new vid in over 2 years, but I love this song and I love the VRA storyline on Smallville and it fit pretty perfectly IMHO.  The vid is pretty meta as vids go, and I draw parallels to the real life heroes and villains of the McCarthy era.  So think of this as the trailer to my as-yet-to-be-written meta about the VRA, McCarthyism,

Comments

[ancarett]

*applauds wildly*

Wow! I'd never heard the song before but it's a great match-up, especially with the added archival footage. What a great concept and an impressive execution of the vid!

[theclexfactor]

Ooh love your avi.

And thank you very much. I wanted to do this vid as soon as I heard the song, especially after Icarus. But then I saw Good Night and Good Luck (brilliant movie, btw) and I couldn't put it off any longer.

[ancarett]

Good Night, and Good Luck is a fantastic movie, very much agreed! Murrow was a fascinating figure and the film managed to do the entire show's context justice (which is pretty impressive).

You captured that journalistic integrity versus patriotic paranoia/exploitation theme so well with the VRA storyline, I must say!

[jlvsclrk]

That was awesome! Totally loved it!

[theclexfactor]

Thanks my dear. I adore this song and this artist, and you know how I feel about Smallville, so I had to HAD TO merge the two in some logical way, lol.

[serenography]

Wow. Sitting here slack-jawed at how brilliant this vid is. Also, a little green with envy at how endlessly talented you are!

You've really made me appreciate the overall concepts so much more in your vid than the show has. My hope for the rest of the season has just tripled. :)

I love the way you built up to all the great heroic moments and saves, then showed the pure humanity and love. Just beautiful work... Congrats on a job extremely well done.

[theclexfactor]

Thank you so much, I actually really like the VRA storyline and I actually wish the finale season was all about that and Clark regaining the trust of the people and getting public opinion on his side. But I do also like that the threads of this storyline were laid "visibly" as far back as Season 8 when the Red Blue Blur "came out" so to speak.

And thank you for pointing out the "humanity and love" aspects because that's what I was going for with the slower moments in the song. And this song is pretty much on my list of all time favorites.

[mahaliem]

This was really great!

[theclexfactor]

Thank you so much :D

[carolandtom]

An awesome vid! A very impressive job! *Applauds*

[theclexfactor]

Thank you Carol. I've been wanting to make this vid since Icarus and I finally got it done.