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seekingferretDear Festividder!!!!,
Thank you for making a vid for me. I fell or re-fell in love with all of these fandoms in the past year and I'm so excited about the idea of one of them getting a new vid! Some notes on the fandoms follow, re: music I'll just say as always that my taste in music is almost laughably broad, and I have vidded to everything from opera to speed metal.
הסודות | The Secrets (2007) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Israeli movie about two young observant Jewish women in a seminary in Safed, who fall in love with each other as they fall in love with the dangerous Kabbalistic secrets of the Ari.
I love the central love triangle and would appreciate anything that works with any of them in any combination. Naomi is my favorite, and her romance with sacred Jewish text is honestly my favorite part of the movie.
The Hebrew Hammer (2003) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Parody of '70s blaxploitation movies starring an overly Jewish private investigator as he races to save Chanukah.
Maybe something OTT with silly transitions?
A Serious Man (2009) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: The slow downfall of a Conservative Jewish father in 1960s Minnesota; as his faith is tested, he desperately seeks answers in all directions.
Favorite parts of the movie are basically everything, but particularly the folktale elements- the Yiddish drama at the start, the Three Rabbis. I'd love a mood piece, a character study, a Jefferson Airplane groove, a klezmer kick... Whatever strikes you.
The Last Five Years (2014) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: The destructive course of a marriage, told forwards and backwards to delightful Jason Robert Brown music. Also Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan!!!!!
The movie isn't all that dancy, but it has its moments, and I'd like to see something dancy. I'd also like to see an attempt to rehabilitate either Jamie or Cathy, who are both such failboats, so finding a locus of why we sympathize with them seems like an interesting vidding project.
Broad City (TV)
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Sex-positive feminist gross-out humor and pot jokes, barely fleshed out sketch comedy dragged out at hilarious length.
Look, everyone just wants shippy Abbi/Ilana vids, right? To ridiculously inappropriate songs? Yeah, just checking.
The Night Before (2015) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Anthony Mackie, Seth Rogen, and Joseph Gordon Levitt hang out the night before Christmas. That's about it. Seth Rogen wears an ugly Chanukah sweater.
Seth Rogen is everything for me about this movie, honestly. The sweater is the most glorious thing in the world. Why the fuck is Seth Rogen making a Christmas movie? I have no idea, it makes no sense, but I love that when he ends up making a Christmas movie, he does it in such an amazing, defiantly Jewish way. I mean, a vid about friendships is what this film calls out for, really.
Inglourious Basterds (2009) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: War revenge fantasy about a Jewish platoon in World War II sent behind enemy lines to kill Nazis, teaming up with a Survivor along the way.
I'd prefer a Shosanna vid to anything else, but would also treasure a Basterds ensemble vid. Or almost anything else, just note that unlike some people in this fandom, I do not think of Landa as in any way shape or form a 'good Nazi'. He's the fucking monstrous villain of the movie.
I also think the movie is interesting as a meditation on the relationship between film violence and real world violence. We cheer on the gruesome and horrible ways in which the Basterds violate the Geneva Conventions, or at least I do, and there is something a little troubling about that even if it's just a film, and even if the bad guys are horrible Nazis. A meta vid that could ask these questions about the movie would be fabulous as long as it skated a reasonable line of the Nazis are still the bad guys.
Friday Night Dinner (TV)
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Britcom about a secular Jewish family that gets together every week for a Shabbat dinner that inevitably spins wildly out of control.
I'm not really sure what I want for this. I think I want something unreasonably sweet, really. At its core, for all the absurd humor and the backbiting sibling rivalry, this is a story about a family that is bound together, and I want some look at the idea of family in the show.
Thank you for making a vid for me. I fell or re-fell in love with all of these fandoms in the past year and I'm so excited about the idea of one of them getting a new vid! Some notes on the fandoms follow, re: music I'll just say as always that my taste in music is almost laughably broad, and I have vidded to everything from opera to speed metal.
הסודות | The Secrets (2007) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Israeli movie about two young observant Jewish women in a seminary in Safed, who fall in love with each other as they fall in love with the dangerous Kabbalistic secrets of the Ari.
I love the central love triangle and would appreciate anything that works with any of them in any combination. Naomi is my favorite, and her romance with sacred Jewish text is honestly my favorite part of the movie.
The Hebrew Hammer (2003) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Parody of '70s blaxploitation movies starring an overly Jewish private investigator as he races to save Chanukah.
Maybe something OTT with silly transitions?
A Serious Man (2009) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: The slow downfall of a Conservative Jewish father in 1960s Minnesota; as his faith is tested, he desperately seeks answers in all directions.
Favorite parts of the movie are basically everything, but particularly the folktale elements- the Yiddish drama at the start, the Three Rabbis. I'd love a mood piece, a character study, a Jefferson Airplane groove, a klezmer kick... Whatever strikes you.
The Last Five Years (2014) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: The destructive course of a marriage, told forwards and backwards to delightful Jason Robert Brown music. Also Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan!!!!!
The movie isn't all that dancy, but it has its moments, and I'd like to see something dancy. I'd also like to see an attempt to rehabilitate either Jamie or Cathy, who are both such failboats, so finding a locus of why we sympathize with them seems like an interesting vidding project.
Broad City (TV)
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Sex-positive feminist gross-out humor and pot jokes, barely fleshed out sketch comedy dragged out at hilarious length.
Look, everyone just wants shippy Abbi/Ilana vids, right? To ridiculously inappropriate songs? Yeah, just checking.
The Night Before (2015) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Anthony Mackie, Seth Rogen, and Joseph Gordon Levitt hang out the night before Christmas. That's about it. Seth Rogen wears an ugly Chanukah sweater.
Seth Rogen is everything for me about this movie, honestly. The sweater is the most glorious thing in the world. Why the fuck is Seth Rogen making a Christmas movie? I have no idea, it makes no sense, but I love that when he ends up making a Christmas movie, he does it in such an amazing, defiantly Jewish way. I mean, a vid about friendships is what this film calls out for, really.
Inglourious Basterds (2009) [SAFETY]
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: War revenge fantasy about a Jewish platoon in World War II sent behind enemy lines to kill Nazis, teaming up with a Survivor along the way.
I'd prefer a Shosanna vid to anything else, but would also treasure a Basterds ensemble vid. Or almost anything else, just note that unlike some people in this fandom, I do not think of Landa as in any way shape or form a 'good Nazi'. He's the fucking monstrous villain of the movie.
I also think the movie is interesting as a meditation on the relationship between film violence and real world violence. We cheer on the gruesome and horrible ways in which the Basterds violate the Geneva Conventions, or at least I do, and there is something a little troubling about that even if it's just a film, and even if the bad guys are horrible Nazis. A meta vid that could ask these questions about the movie would be fabulous as long as it skated a reasonable line of the Nazis are still the bad guys.
Friday Night Dinner (TV)
tl;dr if you haven't seen it: Britcom about a secular Jewish family that gets together every week for a Shabbat dinner that inevitably spins wildly out of control.
I'm not really sure what I want for this. I think I want something unreasonably sweet, really. At its core, for all the absurd humor and the backbiting sibling rivalry, this is a story about a family that is bound together, and I want some look at the idea of family in the show.
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