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seekingferretNight of Roses (7 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Shosanna Dreyfus/Marcel
Characters: Shosanna Dreyfus
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
Thanks tostarlady and turquoisetumult for betaing.
Aaaah Inglourious Basterds! I love this movie so much.
The vicious central joke of the movie is that Hans Landa is terrible at his job. He claims an ability to smell Jews, he thinks he is always one step ahead of his enemies, he thinks he can outsmart both Hitler and the Basterds, and... he is thwarted because he cannot detect Shosanna when she is right in front of him. Every time the movie teases Landa's success, Tarantino throws in a reminder that Shosanna is still out there, working her patient plan. My favorite of these moments is in the theater after the death of Bridget. Landa waves a hand and Aldo is seized by a gang of SS goons. They throw him to the floor and haul him away to be interrogated, and left on the floor of the theater is the rose that had been pinned to his lapel. Shosanna= Rose. Unawares, the doom of the Nazi regime marches on. It's such a brilliantly subtle moment that I'm convinced Tarantino, or someone on his production team, threw in as a joke nobody would get.
"Erev shel Shoshanim" - Night of Roses- is a classic Israeli love song that's been performed a million different ways, asbironic discovered recently. It was instantly my pick as a Shosanna vidsong, and then I spent a few days auditioning covers to pick out the right one. Israeli folk-rock band Jane Bordeaux's moody cover won out. And with all the rosiness everywhere in the source- Shosanna, the aforementioned lapel rose, and all the deep red in the film's color palette- I decided to amplify the rose theme by using time lapse images of roses. Roses as things that slowly and gloriously bloom, full of life, the queen of flowers.
My main struggle with this vid came from the fact that there already some truly iconic Shosanna vids.joyo's "Ada" and turquoisetumult's "Run Girl Run" are my touchstones, and I wanted to figure out how to say something about Shosanna that neither vid did. One trick I had up my sleeve was "Erev shel Shoshanim"... the song implicitly invokes Shosanna's Judaism and automatically brings out another layer of who she is, one that is obviously apparent at all times in the film even though no visuals support it. Another thing I think I did differently is my use of the Basterds... "Run Girl Run" doesn't involve the Basterds at all, instead telling the story of Shosanna's victory as happening in parallel but unconnected to the story of the Basterds, but I try to advance an argument here that their stories run in parallel and their success is in some fashion shared, even if ultimately the night at the theater is Shoshanna's carefully engineered plan (Connecting Shosanna to the Basterds is also about connecting Shosanna to her Jewishness, I think.). Also, "Run Girl Run" traces the whole arc of Shosanna from start to finish, and "Ada" makes a holistic representation of who Shosanna is as a person, but that wasn't my goal. I was trying to tell the story of one single night and capture her emotions entirely at that single point in time. "Erev shel Shoshanim" is entirely about one sensual moment.
I told several people while I was making this that I am really bad at anonymity. OBVIOUSLY I made this vid, nobody would have to think for five seconds to realize that. And then I lucked intobironic's post about the song, days before go-live, giving me such a wonderful opportunity to troll. I recruited starlady to post a troll guess on the guessing post that bironic had made the vid, but she beat me to the troll by guessing I made the vid before the guessing post even went up, so I had to go more aggressive. (starlady trolled me better. In chat, she told me "I feel like mine is extremely obvious...but you're the only person who's ever successfully guessed my vids", when she had made my gift. I skated past it, oblivious.)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Shosanna Dreyfus/Marcel
Characters: Shosanna Dreyfus
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
Night falls slowly
And a wind of roses blows
Thanks to
starlady and turquoisetumult for betaing.Aaaah Inglourious Basterds! I love this movie so much.
The vicious central joke of the movie is that Hans Landa is terrible at his job. He claims an ability to smell Jews, he thinks he is always one step ahead of his enemies, he thinks he can outsmart both Hitler and the Basterds, and... he is thwarted because he cannot detect Shosanna when she is right in front of him. Every time the movie teases Landa's success, Tarantino throws in a reminder that Shosanna is still out there, working her patient plan. My favorite of these moments is in the theater after the death of Bridget. Landa waves a hand and Aldo is seized by a gang of SS goons. They throw him to the floor and haul him away to be interrogated, and left on the floor of the theater is the rose that had been pinned to his lapel. Shosanna= Rose. Unawares, the doom of the Nazi regime marches on. It's such a brilliantly subtle moment that I'm convinced Tarantino, or someone on his production team, threw in as a joke nobody would get.
"Erev shel Shoshanim" - Night of Roses- is a classic Israeli love song that's been performed a million different ways, as
bironic discovered recently. It was instantly my pick as a Shosanna vidsong, and then I spent a few days auditioning covers to pick out the right one. Israeli folk-rock band Jane Bordeaux's moody cover won out. And with all the rosiness everywhere in the source- Shosanna, the aforementioned lapel rose, and all the deep red in the film's color palette- I decided to amplify the rose theme by using time lapse images of roses. Roses as things that slowly and gloriously bloom, full of life, the queen of flowers. My main struggle with this vid came from the fact that there already some truly iconic Shosanna vids.
joyo's "Ada" and turquoisetumult's "Run Girl Run" are my touchstones, and I wanted to figure out how to say something about Shosanna that neither vid did. One trick I had up my sleeve was "Erev shel Shoshanim"... the song implicitly invokes Shosanna's Judaism and automatically brings out another layer of who she is, one that is obviously apparent at all times in the film even though no visuals support it. Another thing I think I did differently is my use of the Basterds... "Run Girl Run" doesn't involve the Basterds at all, instead telling the story of Shosanna's victory as happening in parallel but unconnected to the story of the Basterds, but I try to advance an argument here that their stories run in parallel and their success is in some fashion shared, even if ultimately the night at the theater is Shoshanna's carefully engineered plan (Connecting Shosanna to the Basterds is also about connecting Shosanna to her Jewishness, I think.). Also, "Run Girl Run" traces the whole arc of Shosanna from start to finish, and "Ada" makes a holistic representation of who Shosanna is as a person, but that wasn't my goal. I was trying to tell the story of one single night and capture her emotions entirely at that single point in time. "Erev shel Shoshanim" is entirely about one sensual moment.I told several people while I was making this that I am really bad at anonymity. OBVIOUSLY I made this vid, nobody would have to think for five seconds to realize that. And then I lucked into
bironic's post about the song, days before go-live, giving me such a wonderful opportunity to troll. I recruited starlady to post a troll guess on the guessing post that bironic had made the vid, but she beat me to the troll by guessing I made the vid before the guessing post even went up, so I had to go more aggressive. (starlady trolled me better. In chat, she told me "I feel like mine is extremely obvious...but you're the only person who's ever successfully guessed my vids", when she had made my gift. I skated past it, oblivious.)
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