vid - I Fought in a War - Firefly/Serenity

[kiki_miserychic]

Vid Title: I Fought in a War
Vidder: kiki_miserychic, miserychic47@hotmail.com
Musical Artist: Belle & Sebastian
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
For: Brad and Nicky (thanks for being awesome)
Summary: Focuses on Mal, while exploring the relationship and interactions between Mal and Simon.

Download: 30mb avi

I fought in a war and I left my friends behind me
To go looking for the enemy, and it wasn't very long
Before I would stand with another boy in front of me
And a corpse that just fell into me, with the bullets flying round

I fought in a war and I left my friends behind me
To go looking for the enemy, and it wasn't very long
Before I found out that the sickness there ahead of me
Went beyond the bedsit infamy of the decade gone before

And I reminded myself of the words you said when we were getting on
And I bet you're making shells back home for a steady man to wear
Round his neck, well it won't hurt to think of you as if you're waiting for
This letter to arrive because I'll be here quite a while

I fought in a war and I didn't know where it would end
It stretched before me infinitely, I couldn't really think
Of the day beyond now, keep your head down pal
There's trouble plenty in this hour, this day
I can see hope I can see light

Comments

[tearful-eye.livejournal.com]

wow. i seriously adore this vid. it's just awesome! woah...

everyone else probably already said it better than me, but i have to add my own couple (okay, a bit more than a couple, i admit) of words why i love this vid to its tiny little pieces. actually, it's difficult because i don't really know myself ;) but it's a real piece of art - thank you so much for creating it!

first, i love the way you characterized mal. it's moving & painful & beautiful - you can see his bitterness & his humanity & also his vulnerability. i love the way you centered everything around his experience in the war & made him relive the event through his relationship/meeting with simon. it's just... wow (again, i know - can't seem to find the right words at all). if i'm already with simon - of course i already love this just because it's mal/simon - i adore those two. it's one of my absolute favorite pairings, because it's so harsh and beautiful and real.

then of course i love the way you edited everything - the mask & layers & what not. and especially the way you moved between the situations of the war and aboard the serenity with simon & combined them in the end with the scenes from serenity, so lovely & very powerful.

i oviously loved the whole vid, but i have a ouple of moments i love best (doesn't everyone?):
** ~0:20 - where the clip of mal's face in the war changes with one one where he is the spacesuit - i really don't know why but for me this is such a powerful moment - maybe because the situation changes so much & mal is still stuck back there in the war... still the same, maybe?
**1:05ff - many different, fast clips - of the planets/the house/etc. this looks so stunninly beautiful - once more: wow.
** 1:36 -'i'll be here quite a while' and the following musical sequence. so good. i love the way you mirrored (?) the clip to the music, while they are just sitting there, yay!
**2:03ff - when simon is shot in serenity. this is just so powerful *gulp*

erm, yes. i'll just stop now, i think i have babbled enough - at least you can see that i really really like it - & i'm repeating myself, i know :) and now realyl for the last time: thank you so much for creating this, now i really have to go and watch it again, yay!

[tearful-eye.livejournal.com]

eh, oops. this has gotten a little out of hand - i didn't even notice that the comment has gotten this long. sorry? *lol*

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

No need to apologize. I long for huge and wonderful comments like yours.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

but it's a real piece of art - thank you so much for creating it!
Wow. Thank you for watching and feedbacking. :)

first, i love the way you characterized mal. it's moving & painful & beautiful - you can see his bitterness & his humanity & also his vulnerability.
I love Mal to pieces. He is one of my favorite characters. There's something about him that interests me.

it's one of my absolute favorite pairings, because it's so harsh and beautiful and real.
Ditto. Those two are so great.

~0:20 - where the clip of mal's face in the war changes with one one where he is the spacesuit - i really don't know why but for me this is such a powerful moment - maybe because the situation changes so much & mal is still stuck back there in the war... still the same, maybe?
Exactly. My idea there was that it's still the same for Mal. After the war he's still standing (or floating in space) the same now with the Alliance reflecting in his face because he's still in Serenity (once you're there, you learn to live there).

** 1:36 -'i'll be here quite a while' and the following musical sequence. so good. i love the way you mirrored (?) the clip to the music, while they are just sitting there, yay!
Some of it them are just flipped, but a few frames I exported into Photoshop and flipped just Mal and Simon in the frame, leaving the Serenity background the same, so they changed positions.

Thank you so incredibly much for taking the time to feedback. I greatly enjoyed it.