vid - Fairytale of New York - Moulin Rouge

[kiki_miserychic]

Vid Title: Fairytale of New York
Vidder: kiki_miserychic, miserychic47@hotmail.com
Musical Artist: The Pogues
Fandom: Moulin Rouge
Summary: Christmas vid that has a sideways view of the movie.

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It was Christmas Eve, babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

Comments

[bananainpyjamas.livejournal.com]

I've always been impressed by your use of color but you really blew me away with this vid. I feel like a lot of vidders throw in dramatic color shifts without much of a rhyme or reason to it, but I never got that feeling here. This should be held up as a guide for people wondering how to use color dramatically and effectively.

I also love the continued use of sweeping motion. I almost felt like I hadn't seen the movie before. It just all looked so new and shiny. :D

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I try to have a basis for my coloring choices, so I'm glad you can see my reasoning.

The source is so beautiful and I've wanted to vid it for a while. The same is true of the song. I'm not sure why it took so long for me to realize how well they could go together.