Gift for Shati by Scribe (Om Shanti Om)

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Title of vid: One Stage Before
Recipient: Shati
Vidder: Scribe
Fandom: Om Shanti Om (2007)
Music: One Stage Before by Al Stewart
Summary: It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 03:21
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Password: infinity

Lyrics
It seems to me as though I've been upon this stage before
And juggled away the night for the same old crowd
These harlequins you see with me, they too have held the floor
As here once again they strut and they fret their hour
I see those half-familiar faces in the second row
Ghost-like with the footlights in their eyes
But where or when we met like this last time I just don't know
It's like a chord that rings and never dies
For infinity

And now these figures in the wings with all their restless tunes
Are waiting around for someone to call their names
They walk the backstage corridors and prowl the dressing-rooms
And vanish to specks of light in the picture-frames
But did they move upon the stage a thousand years ago
In some play in Paris or Madrid?
And was I there among them then, in some travelling show
And is it all still locked inside my head
For infinity

And some of you are harmonies to all the notes I play
Although we may not meet still you know me well
While others talk in secret keys and transpose all I say
And nothing I do or try can get through the spell
So one more time we'll dim the lights and ring the curtain up
And play again like all the times before
But far behind the music you can almost hear the sounds
Of laughter like the waves upon the shores
Of infinity

Comments

[shati]

Oh wow this is gorgeous. I love how you used all the eerie little sounds in the song (his birth, his scar, the moments where he starts to remember, fire, the closeups of the snow globe -- 2:19 *_*), and the intercutting between the lively past and the burnt out ruin. I really love the reincarnation/ghost story parts of Om Shanti Om and this is so appropriately haunting, and Shanti! Shanti at the end! What a good last shot.

I do also appreciate a vid that starts with the protagonist's death. (I mean ... but it does!)

Also Dastaan-e-Om! my favorite of the songs! (okay like five of them are but still, and it fits right into the flashbacks)

Thank you so much! :DDDD

[cupidsbow]

Gorgeous.

[condnsdmlk]

I adore this vid!! I loved the feel and flow of it - brilliant song choice and really clear storytelling. Fantastic! <3<3

[valoise]

I have absolutely no idea what is going on, but it's gorgeous and mysterious and I'm going to have to watch this now.

[franzeska]

Lovely! Al Stewart isn't vidded enough, and you've used him to perfection here.

[(Anonymous)]

God this is good. I keep watching this over and over again. In fact, I can't STOP watching it!

The focus on haunting (in both the creepy and melancholic sense) is done very effectively. It's a beautifully edited vid. I especially liked 2:09-2:20 (the fire and snow globe sequence), 2:36-2:39 (a relatively quite moment before all the craziness to follow), and of course, the entire Dastaan-e-Om Shanti Om section.

This is really fantastic, and I (selfishly) hope you vid more Bollywood in the future!

[skygiants]

Oh wow, this is so great! I love how you've brought out EVERYTHING THAT'S CREEPY in Om Shanti Om so well -- the overlaid lives, the echoes of the past, and of course GHOST SHANTI IN ALL HER PERFECT GLORY. Amazing!