vid - I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Supernatural, Planet Terror, and Zombieduck

[kiki_miserychic]

vid title: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
music: Dana Fuchs, Joe Anderson & T.V. Carpio's "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from the Across the Universe soundtrack
source: Supernatural, Planet Terror, and Zombieduck (with addition footage from I Know Who Killed Me)
duration: 3:52
summary: Within the Supernatural universe, there is Planet Terror with zombies. Those zombies are from Zombieduck. Also, there are strippers.
notes: Made for 2008 VVC Challenge
warning: Ummm... blood, guts, nudity, sex, guns, and rock'n'roll. Please don't let your grandmother watch unless she's superawesome.
Oodles of meta on this vid in the comments of this post.

download: 30mb avi

[Joe]
I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

[Dana]
I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad,
It's driving me

[Both]
She's so heavy
She's so heavy
(heavy, heavy, heavy)

[Chorus]
I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad

[T.V.]
I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad,
It's driving me mad
It's driving me--oh

Comments

[danegen.livejournal.com]

I would MAKE OUT with this vid. Oh God, I need my con DVD NOW because I'm watching the fuck outta this.

Dean as El Wray in the hospital scene is absolutely filling me with glee. And the Wincest and the strippers and the ZOMBIE STRIPPERS!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

You can make out with this vid. It is obviously slutty. :)

There is actually a movie called Zombie Strippers. I kid you not. It hasn't come out on DVD, so I haven't seen it yet. :(

Thanks. I can't wait for my con DVDs either. OMGWANTSTHEM.

[danegen.livejournal.com]

You can make out with this vid. It is obviously slutty. :)

Great, I'll start with Naveen and work my way through.

There is actually a movie called Zombie Strippers.

Yeah, saw the trailer and was disappointed. Didn't seem bad enough somehow. I haven't seen Zombieduck either, so I'll have to rectify that.

Watched again. Hee! Dean shoots Bruce Willis.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Zombieduck is actually a music video director. All of it can be watched online. I'll get some links.

Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker. What's more badass than shooting Bruce Willis?

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/user/zombieduck

[danegen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks! Heh, zombie Chihuahua.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Zombie Paris Hilton too. :)

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's so surreal and interesting.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[jhava.livejournal.com]

That is just an incredible vid -- talk about editing! Bearing in mind the limited lyrics ::grin::, the emotional content behind this vid is amazing. Well done!

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

Wow! I'm here because jhava linked and I wouldn't have wanted to miss this. You really manage to tell a whole new story by mixing these different clips. Thumbs up and thanks for sharing!

[eisakay.livejournal.com]

That was so freaking cool.

[gottalovev.livejournal.com]

that was absolutely AWESOME. visually stunning! =D

[bigmamag.livejournal.com]

Dude, most awesome shit I've seen in a long while! :D

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

When I sat down to edit the vid I hadn't realized there's a dozen words in the whole thing.

Thanks. :)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I was trying to create a believable reality, so hopefully that works.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Cute icon.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Yay. And Dean seems to like it to. Probably because he got to shoot Bruce Willis.

[serrico.livejournal.com]

What's better than hardcore Winchester-zombie-fighting--cest? Not bloody *much*, I tell you.

The effects in this thing are *incredible*. Wow.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I vidded linearly, so I can see where I got better at masking and matching coloring. :)

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

DUDE. That's... cool. (I am such a vid newbie, pardon me). Really, really cool. I totally want to see that sexy gory incestuous slasher zombie flick!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Welcome to vidding.

EHhehe, you'd have to look at the seat in any theater that would play this movie before you sat down.

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

I kept telling Milly to comment "YOU FUCKED OUR BRAINS and we'll be back to comment later" while we were at the con because I didn't want to impose on her computer time with three other people in our room and only one laptop that was prone to overheating, but I was all like OMG THIS VID MUST LET WHITNEY KNOW NOW THAT IT FUCKED MY BRAIN but it doesn't look like she got around to it, so now I have to do my own dirty work. So, uh, where was I?

All of us were sitting together at Challenge and right after this vid we all leaned across and said "Whitney?" to each other and nodded vigorously, and that was that as far as the double-blind went. NO ONE does the fucked-up the way you do. (And also we all punched the air in triumph when it was revealed that you in fact did it because Oh Hai, It Was Our Awesome Friend and we got to bask vicariously.)

The first time I watched this at the show I felt like I really got the Fuck You. Upon rewatch now I'm no longer sure that was your primary meaning, but I'll lay it down anyway and would love to hear your thoughts on it.

My initial reading revolves around the juxtaposition between the zombie whores and the Wincest. I keep seeing the zombie misogyny to the very heavy grinding beat, the blood, the Missing Reel, and among that you splice the graphic Wincest to the much softer, ballad-y stuff, and to me that's the equivalent of flipping off the SPN fangirls for enjoying "lalala the boys are hot when fucking each other" when there are much more sinister themes at play both in the show and in the vid. The first time I watched it, the vid wasn't so much about a linear narrative as it was a scream of frustration at SPN fandom. The more I watch it the more I pick out a narrative thread, but not having seen any of the zombie movies it's hard for me to piece out where it starts or ends. But that's enough wank for now. It's a fucking brilliant vid and probably the most graphically grotesque I've seen, not just for the con but probably anywhere ever, which - YAY. :D You twisted genius, you.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I do some really horrible things to brains, but I've never purposefully fucked one, but YAY. :) Thank you.

I had a bit of underhanded subtext because, in my head, it was part of the Fuck You challenge. Not in a mean, "I hate you all" kind of way, but in a personal "Fuck You, I'm using a billion effects because that's how I roll" way. After I completed this vid and considered the other vids I had made for VVC, I almost felt like I needed a disclaimer that said I don't hate women. I thought that a lot of what I was trying to say wasn't going to read and everyone was going to hate it and be offended. I obviously overthought it. Cherry had to die for many reasons, both technnical and narratively, and I wanted to play with that. On the surface she seems to die so that Sam and Dean can have angsty motel sex because that is a major theme in slash. Technically, masking is hard, yo. Then I had my own thoughts about awesome female characters... they die.

sol_se warned me that people were going to be squicked out by the chained up zombie stripper. But I already knew it would get to some people. In the things that Supernatural tries to immulate, that's what happens to women. I figured that between this and one of my CVV vids, people would be squicked in general.

I originally wasn't going to have wincest, but I liked playing with the manips for your Climbing Up the Walls that I decided to test out using masks. As you can see, I went with it. I'm glad I did because my original version was so vague about the wincest that it wouldn't have read by the viewer.

On the surface I wanted it to work as the horror grindhouse feel that Supernatural sometimes aims for with the porn, but falls short of achieving. The majority of Supernatural fandom dislikes the female characters. (I'm not pointing out individuals and I'm generalizing, so hopefully no one throws things at me.) Supernatural doesn't write women well, so I had to take a female from another fandom. One that likes women who are strippers or lesbians.

I have other thingy thoughts, but there was much better meta than this at VVC.