vid - Once Upon A Time - The Fall

[kiki_miserychic]

vid title: Once Upon A Time music: "Excess" by Tricky source: The Fall duration: 4:42 notes: Made for Vividcon 2009's Club Vivid (not shown). resource: I took visual coloring cues from typicalrobots' gorgeous The Fall picspam.

summary: "Why are you making everybody die?" / "It's my story." / "Mine, too."

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[0mindthegap0.livejournal.com]

Uh... wow. To the uninitiated, this movie looks quite.. odd.

Anyway. I came for the Tricky, and any intended meaning's being completely lost, but still. Wow.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

The movie is amazing. I love everything about it. Tricky fits very well with the feeling of it.

Set in the 1920s, a girl (Alexandria) staying in a hospital for breaking her arm while picking oranges is told a story. Roy, whose legs are paralyzed from falling during a stunt for a movie, begins telling her the story, but what she pictures in her head doesn't match his words because she's 6 and she speaks little English at first. The story is about bandits (the Masked Bandit, Otta Benga, the Indian, Luigi, Charles Darwin, and the Mystic) on a quest to kill Governor Odious for their various revenges.

The following contains spoilers for the movie, so ignore if you plan on watching...

SPOILERS BE HERE:

Roy was telling her the story to get her to bring him pills so he could kill himself. He tells her that she has to leave when he falls asleep. A lot of real life circumstances seep into the story Roy is telling the girl. At the end of the movie it is vaguely revealed that the basic plot was taken from the movie Roy was in when he was injured. After he takes the pills and he's falling asleep when the girl inserts herself into the story to save them. The pills didn't work and he throws a fit. She thinks he needs more pills to feel better, so she sneaks into the pharmacy to steal them, but falls from the table. She has surgery, Roy visits her, and she begs him to finish the story. He continues the story, killing nearly every character and making his character a coward drowning in 3 feet of water. She makes him change the ending, the hero winning. As they recover a screening of the movie is given at the hospital, which includes the scene where Roy was injured. The ending is left a bit open with the girl returns to working in the oranges groves. The girl says that her mother took her to the movies and told her Roy was a stuntman in them, so she imagines him doing all the stunts in the movies she watches. The happy ending implies that Roy's legs healed and he got work as a stunt man, while the less happy and more realistic ending implies that the girl's mother lied to her because one clip is given of Roy as the stunt man. The first time it is a different actor, but it's Roy when replayed.