Gift for Crowie by Jetpack Monkey (Godfather series)

[fv_poster]

Title of vid: All the Rowboats
Recipient: Crowie
Vidder: Jetpack Monkey
Fandom: Godfather series
Music: All the Rowboats by Regina Spektor
Summary: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Content notes: Gun violence
Signed length: 02:30

Link to signed vid post

Lyrics
All the rowboats in the paintings
They keep trying to row away
And the captains’ worried faces
Stay contorted and staring at the waves
They’ll keep hanging in their gold frames
For forever, forever and a day
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away

Hear them whispering French and German
Dutch, Italian, and Latin
When no one’s looking I touch a sculpture
Marble, cold, and soft as satin
But the most special are the most lonely
God, I pity the violins
In glass coffins, they keep coughing
They’ve forgotten, forgotten how to sing, how to sing

First there’s lights out, then there’s lock up
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
It’s their own fault for being timeless
There’s a price to pay and a consequence
All the galleries, the museums
They will stay there forever and a day
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away…

Comments

[kouredios]

Oh, wow. This is such a great pairing of source and song. Fredo in the rowboat at the end is even more haunting.

[jetpack_monkey]

Don't mind me. I'm responding to a bunch of comments very late.

Thank you! I have to admit, my breath still catches at the end, even though I made the vid.

[idella]

This is fantastic.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thank you!

[metonymy]

Riveting, start to finish, and a really great example of how astonishing a vid can be.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thank you so much. Astonishing is definitely one of many things I was going for!

[cupidsbow]

Very cool, and a great character study.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thank you!

[vaznetti]

What a fantastic vid -- beautifully put together.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thanks!

[lannamichaels]

Oh my god, this is amazing.

[jetpack_monkey]

I am so glad you like it!

[mresundance]

OMG, this is absolutely stunning. Amazing character study, sharply edited just -- wow wow wow!

[jetpack_monkey]

There were a couple times in this vid where I was very much, "What would mresundance do?"

[mresundance]

But dude, this very much "what would jetpack_monkey do?" The brilliance of it is entirely and thoroughly yours.

(Shamefully humbled by your comment though, but IT'S YOURS DUDE ALL YOURS AND IT'S GLORIOUS.)

[mresundance]

I rewatched this and this has such an understated intensity to it -- you fit the source to the song so neatly and elegantly -- without having to force anything. It lets all the emotions rise to the surface and that's why the vid is so forceful, really. It's something I wouldn't have been able to accomplish, because my approach would be entirely unsuitable.

SO THERE. YOU TAKE YOUR VIDDING GOODNESS AND YOU EAT IT MISTER.

[lithiumdoll]

Brilliance!

[jetpack_monkey]

\o/

[thingswithwings]

Absolutely gorgeous - it grabbed me from the beginning and then just would not let go. So much great characterization here.

[jetpack_monkey]

This means so, so much coming from such a great vidder like you. Thank you.

[isagel]

This is marvellous. Incredibly well executed and very insightful. Bravo.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thank you!

[frayadjacent]

Great vid! I still haven't watched these films, but this felt like a great character study that was still fun and interesting to watch, having not seen the movie.

[jetpack_monkey]

You should totally see the movies. They are Classics. Except for the third one.

[mazily]

Oh, wow, just an amazing vid.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thanks!

[laurashapiro]

Great cutting! Very sensitively put together.

[jetpack_monkey]

Poor Michael Corleone. He wants to escape, but he ends up being so much more of a monster than his father.

[stultiloquentia]

That was gripping from start to finish.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thank you!

[toft]

Wow, this is really great.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thanks!

[leanwellback]

How did I miss this first time round?! Just - wow, this is so brilliant. Fantastically put together, the kiss on that heavy drum beat and that last shot of Fredo in the boat is just... gah, amazing.

[jetpack_monkey]

Poor Fredo. In any other family, he might have done okay. As a Corleone... dead in a boat.

[fan_eunice]

This is absolutely stunning and amazing and a bunch of other superlative words that fail me right now because I am so blown away. *standing ovation*

[jetpack_monkey]

*bows* Thank you! <3 you!

[thirdblindmouse]

This might be the best festivid this year, and I do not say that lightly, given the festivids this year. I love you you use the beats of the song and the gunshots of the video.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thank you so much. Your beta work really helped and you should take credit for that!

Great icon, btw.

[musesfool]

Oh wow. This is brilliant.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thanks!

[condnsdmlk]

Wow. This was unbelievably good. I've rewatched it a few times now - chills every time. Absolute brilliance!

[jetpack_monkey]

Thank you! It's a pretty fucked up story when you think about it.

[franzeska]

Amazing! I too really like what you did with the big drum beats.

[chaila]

This is so well and powerfully constructed. And the song choice is amazing!

[jetpack_monkey]

Thank you! I heard the song while just messing around on Songza and it was pretty instantly The Song for a Godfather vid (to the point where I can't watch another vid with the same song).

[livrelibre]

I have somehow managed to miss seeing all the Godfather films so I know I'm missing layers of meaning here but you made me FEEL it. Beautiful!

[jetpack_monkey]

I love that you still were able to get meaning out of the vid even without all of the context. That was a huge concern for me!

If you ever do see the films, come back and let me know!