Gift for odessie by Scribe (A Midsummer Night’s Dream - BBC, 2016)

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Title of vid: Never Look Away
Recipient: odessie
Vidder: Scribe
Fandom: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BBC, 2016)
Music: Never Look Away by Vienna Teng
Summary: I want the storm inside you awoken now
Content notes: Physical triggers (e.g., epilepsy or migraine: strobe lights, bright lights, "stuttery" cuts between 2-3 stills)
Password: Festividz!
Signed length: 03:38
Signed URL: https://vimeo.com/199490568

Lyrics
Detect my sudden existence on your sonar

You feel the echo

Electrify the resistance in your broken heart

And burn it up, oh

We’re gonna photosynthesize and drink up the sunrise



So do they ever shut up because you said so or

Do you overthink ’em all

Somebody ought to corrupt you on the dance floor

And take you home

Show you all your daemons and desires and dark sides

All of your colonies and continental divides



Let me uncover the silver in your dark hair

The weight of your bones

I want to witness the beauty of your repair

The shape you’ve grown

For you are made of nebulas and novas and night sky

You’re made of memories you bury or live by



So if you’re out there in the cold

I’ll cover you in moonlight

If you’re a stranger to your soul

I’ll bring you to your birthright

I want the storm inside you awoken now

I want your warm bright eyes

To never look away

Don’t you ever look away



Some nights we open up the flood

And some nights we are lost

And some nights we’re choking on the words

But some we light on fire



So if you’re out there in the cold

I’ll cover you in moonlight

If you’re a stranger to your soul

I’ll bring you to your birthright

I want the storm inside you awoken now

I want your warm bright eyes

To never look away

Don’t you ever look away



I want your warm bright eyes

To come back to me

And hold on to me

You know I won’t lie

I will never look away

Comments

[odessie]

Ahhhhh, this is SO gorgeous and full of joy. Beautiful musicality - I love your editing to the changes of pace in the music - and what a perfect song choice, you've really captured that kind of outpouring of relief and joy in the source. Thank you!!

[cupidsbow]

I haven't seen this movie yet, but now I really want to. Thank you for giving me the push -- you've made it look fantastic.

[longwhitecoats]

This is so beautiful!

[isweedan]

Fave, fave, faaaaaave! Love this.

[nelisce]

This is absolutely gorgeous and it makes me want to check out the movie. Great job!

[purplefringe]

This is beautiful! I especially loved how you edited the first 'don't you ever look away' bit, with everyone waking up.

[kiki_miserychic]

I am sold for butterfly lesbians.

Love the beat where the dude taps away the security screen. ❤️

[fairestcat]

Wow. I have never seen this source but now desperately want to. Great vid!

[(Anonymous)]

So clearly I need to catch up on the BBC's latest slew of Shakespeare productions... Seriously awesome job - you take a complicated plot, and a complicated production, and pull out really strong visual and narrative themes. Great song choice, great vid.

[ghost_lingering]

OH MAN, this is so great! I need to watch this version of Midsummer Night ASAP!

[beatrice_otter]

Okay, now I have to see this production, because it looks REALLY awesome. Great song and editing!

[valoise]

Lavish and lovely, now i"m going to have to track down this version of the play.

[bingeling]

Wonderful!

[tabaqui]

Just damn awesome!

[sasha_feather]

What a fun and happy vid. My favorite part is the butterfly lady getting her wings free and flying up and kissing her girlfriend. \o/

[aurumcalendula]

This is lovely! And now I need to see this movie!

[sanguinity]

Oh, wow.

[heresluck]

Oh my gosh, this is gorgeous -- not just the source, which now I REALLY want to get my hands on (Titania/Hippolyta? YES PLEASE), but also the way the song brings out such a marvelous set of the play's thematics: what people see in each other, how people can be made to see what's not real, "daemons and desires and dark sides." Just marvelous.

[leanwellback]

I haven't seen this version yet but clearly I NEED TO! Wonderful storytelling and you brought out the themes beautifully. That final shot of the security guy closing the video feed of Theseus dying is fantastic.

[lynndyre]

Beautiful and fey and fantastic.

[muccamukk]

What a fantastically vivid work. Like most here I haven't seen that adaptation, but it was very easy to follow the characters, and I loved how evocatively you cut to the song. Wonderful!

[croissantkatie]

Oh gosh, that was lovely

[yarnofariadne]

This is gorgeous!

[felis]

Oh, great to see this! Love all the Puck moments, starting with the one in 0:57 when the music picks up and the vid really dives into the forest world. Love the second "If you're out there..." part with the Titania/Hippolyta scenes, awesome lyric ties, and it's lovely how the feeling of relief and joy carries through after that (taking the banners down, yay!).

[anoel]

Awww this is so cute and wonderful! The butterfly part made me so happy in a tearful joy kind of way.

[such_heights]

I have totally failed to actually watch this despite being super interested, and now I really must! This is a beautiful vid, beautiful use of the song, and the ending is so wonderful.