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Vidukon Premiere: Crossroads
Jun. 11th, 2023 07:51 amCrossroads (0 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fringe (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Characters: Phillip Broyles, Nina Sharp, Olivia Dunham, Walter Bishop, Alternate Phillip Broyles
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
I first met Lance Reddick on the West Wing. He plays a bit role in one of the best episodes of the first season, "In Excelsis Deo", as the cop who finds Toby Ziegler's business card in the coat of a Vietnam War veteran who died on the cold winter streets of DC and tracks Toby down to figure out the connection. It's one of Reddick's many roles as a police officer-I later came to love him both as FBI Agent Philip Broyles on Fringe and as Lieutenant Cedric Daniels on The Wire. However the role was written, he brought complexity to it, humor and seriousness and thoughtfulness and ambition and so many different notes of ambiguity. The writers of Fringe wanted you to spend the whole first season unsure if Broyles was going to doublecross the team and he pulls it off without ever losing the audience's sympathy.
After Reddick passed away, someone shared a great interview with him discussing his role in the John Wick series. The script simply said that he spoke with an African accent; he spent days trying out different specific national and regional accents before settling on the Kenyan accent he used. He was such a great actor who always served his character perfectly no matter how big or small the part he played.
I've been wanting to make a vid about Broyles for a while, but Reddick's death kickstarted me into actively song hunting. I found a cover of Clapton's cover of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" that had the right musical vibes and the right message: Agent Broyles keeps making deals with the devil in the name of national security, and the cost he pays is that even as he saves the world, he can never stop watching his back. But also, I think, that to some degree Broyles is the devil and the other devils keep making deals with him.
I made this vid without doing a full Fringe rewatch, and I made it quickly to the Vidukon deadline, so there are probably key Broyles shots I missed that could've made the narrative sharper, but I'm really happy with the atmospherics of how it looks and tells the story of Broyles.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fringe (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Characters: Phillip Broyles, Nina Sharp, Olivia Dunham, Walter Bishop, Alternate Phillip Broyles
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
Agent Broyles at a crossroads
I first met Lance Reddick on the West Wing. He plays a bit role in one of the best episodes of the first season, "In Excelsis Deo", as the cop who finds Toby Ziegler's business card in the coat of a Vietnam War veteran who died on the cold winter streets of DC and tracks Toby down to figure out the connection. It's one of Reddick's many roles as a police officer-I later came to love him both as FBI Agent Philip Broyles on Fringe and as Lieutenant Cedric Daniels on The Wire. However the role was written, he brought complexity to it, humor and seriousness and thoughtfulness and ambition and so many different notes of ambiguity. The writers of Fringe wanted you to spend the whole first season unsure if Broyles was going to doublecross the team and he pulls it off without ever losing the audience's sympathy.
After Reddick passed away, someone shared a great interview with him discussing his role in the John Wick series. The script simply said that he spoke with an African accent; he spent days trying out different specific national and regional accents before settling on the Kenyan accent he used. He was such a great actor who always served his character perfectly no matter how big or small the part he played.
I've been wanting to make a vid about Broyles for a while, but Reddick's death kickstarted me into actively song hunting. I found a cover of Clapton's cover of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" that had the right musical vibes and the right message: Agent Broyles keeps making deals with the devil in the name of national security, and the cost he pays is that even as he saves the world, he can never stop watching his back. But also, I think, that to some degree Broyles is the devil and the other devils keep making deals with him.
I made this vid without doing a full Fringe rewatch, and I made it quickly to the Vidukon deadline, so there are probably key Broyles shots I missed that could've made the narrative sharper, but I'm really happy with the atmospherics of how it looks and tells the story of Broyles.