Gift for happydork by Dogstar (Attack the Block)

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Title of vid: Sirens
Recipient: happydork
Vidder: Dogstar
Fandom: Attack the Block
Music: Sirens by Dizzee Rascal
Summary: Better run when you hear them sirens coming.
Content notes: some horror and bloody violence
Signed length:
Signed URL: http://leanwellback.dreamwidth.org/41841.html

Lyrics
Blud, when you hear them sirens coming

I can hear them sirens coming

Better run when you hear them sirens coming

I can hear them sirens coming



1 to the 2 to the 3 to the 4

Limehouse police knocking at my door

12 black boots on my bedroom floor

What they want with Rascal I'm not sure



Took me to the station eight-thirty

For a fight that I had recently

Say they got me on CCTV

And them pussyole boys told on me



Can't understand why these boys keep snitchin'

Can't understand why these boys keep bitchin'

Now I'm hot tempered feel like switchin'

Can't stand still trigger finger itchin'



Gotta stay calm, gotta keep my cool

If I go jail, I'll be a damn fool

Gotta rise up, gotta stand up tall

Can't let them see the end of Dizzee Rascal



Blud, when you hear them sirens coming

I can hear them sirens coming

Better run when you hear them sirens coming

I can hear them sirens coming



Blud, when you hear them sirens coming

I can hear them sirens coming

Better run when you hear them sirens coming

I can hear them sirens coming



I can hear them sirens coming

I can hear them sirens coming

I break the law, I will never change

I break the law, I will never change

I break the law, I will never change



Step into my zone, get your whole face rearranged

See me on the telly but I ain't no actor

Running through the street, brave face

It's a jack war



Broad daylight, no shame, like a lunatic

Rain, hail, sleet or snow, I ain't new to it

Show me what you got, better give it up quickly

Lay them on their back if they chat back swiftly



Better mind out when they come through the manor, man

Keep them on their toes like Hammer, man

It's no joke, man, woman and child I'm seeking

See no sex, no age, I'm creeping



Anything for the dough, code of the wheelers

Duck for the feds and I roll with the dealers

Par with the hard heads and young offenders

Nah, my life ain't nothing like Eastenders



Step into my zone, get your whole face rearranged

I break the law, I will never change

Comments

[happydork]

Aaaaaaaaah!!! Oh my god, this is amazing, I love it so much! So much! John Boyega's face is truly the best of faces, and you have showcased it brilliantly here. Inspired choice of song, and oh, you capture perfectly the urgency and power of the film. Your clip choice on "I break the law, I will never change" in the middle and then and the end is just the most perfect -- it hit me exactly but exactly where the film did. <3<3<3 Thank you so much -- I'm thrilled and delighted by this, and I'm going to be rewatching it so many times.

[such_heights]

Ahhh, this is wonderful! Fantastic song choice and editing, this was really gripping and I still haven't seen this film - though now I really have to.

[jb_slasher]

The timing, nnngh, the timing is perfect. This vid is so energetic and it just keeps on delivering on the punch. Brilliant!

[echan]

The whole last ~20sec of this vid is magic. Everything you did to reach that point was great too, the energy and action and the way you used the lyrics, really great vid.

[valoise]

Love it!

[sasha_feather]

This is awesome!

[silverhare]

Fantastic - like was said earlier, really captured the urgency of the film. <3

[axiom_of_stripe]

oh wow! this has amazing energy. i love it!

[ghost_lingering]

Love it! This is great.

[grammarwoman]

Wow - it felt like I couldn't breathe through the whole of that, as the action kept building and running. Well done!

[bironic]

Excellent. I only know the movie through vids (one day, one day soon!), but it was quite clear what was going on, and I love how the song and the opening sequence set up this parallel between alien/monster invasion and police brutality.

[no_detective]

Wow, amazing work - the flow, the buildup, and that explosive ending! So well done.

[catwalksalone]

This was so great! Perfect capturing of the film, but it also felt like it could be a music video for the actual song. I loved it.

[odessie]

Great vid! The energy and motion and the fast cutting really worked for me, and I loved the last shot. <3 Want to rewatch the movie now!

[livrelibre]

Oh man this was so great!

[futuransky]

This is brilliant! I love how the sirens of the title refer both to the aliens and to the cops – such a great way of bringing out the film's themes and of even of extending beyond it to wider issues of police brutality.

[gorgeousnerd]

Ooh, this gave me chills. So great!

[nicole_anell]

John Boyegaaaa. *ahem* So awesome and action-packed! Love the way you used the song, like the 'siren' itself at 1:18, and the end is just great.

[sanguinity]

Mphf, I love how visceral this is, especially the opening scene with the cops attacking Boyega and the aliens attacking the cops -- the shot of the aliens on top of the van! -- and how it just keeps building the tension from there.

[bingeling]

That was great, perfect ending!

[heresluck]

...yeah, this just kicked the movie even higher up my Need To Watch list. Love the energy!

[anoel]

Oh WOW THIS IS SO AWESOME! The song choice is SO FUCKING PERFECT and I love how well you set up the story and make it so coherent and powerful. The "superstar" chorus was so meaningful and inspiring with the clips you selected and your cutting worked so incredibly well with the music especially with the use of intercutting. I absolutely love the ending, you capture his spirit so well with that smile. Love this vid!

[franzeska]

Perfect choice of musician for this canon!

[naye]

I only just watched this movie and someone pointed me to the vids and YESSS I'm here for this. Perfect music choice to pick up on a lot of the themes in the film, and EXCELLENT editing!