Gift vid for livrelibre (The Book of Eli)

[fv_poster]

Title of vid: O Death
Vidder: crickets
Recipient: livrelibre
Fandom: The Book of Eli (Movie)
Music: "O Death" by Jen Titus and Ralph Stanley
Summary: Dear lord, we thank you for this meal. We thank you for a warm bed and, and a roof over our head on cold nights such as this. We thank you for the gift of companionship in hard times like these. It's been too long. Amen. - Voiceover
Content notes: No standardized notes apply.
Length (signed): 2:00

Signed vid here [LJ].

Comments

[livrelibre]

OMG Festividder OMG! This was amazing!I'm kind of incoherent with excitement here. First of all, thank you so much for making this for me. It hits all the things I love about this source. The song choice--oh man! Perfect, esp. given that I am a SPN fan and it captures the weight, spirit, and poignant heart of the movie. Other things I love in no particular order:

-the way you capture all that post-apocalyptic landscape and make it function with the old-time spiritual. From the opening frames of the forest and Eli looking at the skeleton in the car with the low humming starting-yes!

-the way you use the arrows and Solara's grenade on the beats *shivers with goodness* Oh man that first one in the forest-I can't even-

-The voiceover-I never would have thought of including it and it is perfect!

-Solara's scream on Hell

-beautiful use of the fight scene in the tunnel and the attack on Solara. Oh and that moment when Eli turns his face to the sun and Eli with SOlara on the highway. I love those moments in teh movie and it was so good to see them here.

-I love the use of the book and the printing press and Eli and Solara together juxtaposed with Carnegie and Claudia with the voiceover about companionship and shelter. You got the books and the power of the word and companionship in there!

All of the ending. All of it! After all of it, the lightness and spirit and Solara carrying on the mission with her resolute face and the spiritual in her ears.

This is absolutely awesome Festvidder! Thank you so so much for making this and I'm going to run off and watch it about a billion more times.

[krickets]

I never got a chance to say how pleased I was that this worked so well for you. I really wanted to hit all of the topics you mentioned and give you the vid that you wanted and I am thrilled, beyond thrilled, that it lived up to all of your expectations!

It was a real pleasure!

[saekhwa]

This is stunning and gorgeous. Wow. Just wow.

[eruthros]

Wow, this is gorgeous! And really interesting. <3

[chagrined]

omg, this is amazingly gorgeous. Wow, I'm stunned. Absolutely must see this movie now! It looks beautiful. Really great use of the visuals in this vid.

[laurashapiro]

Gorgeous work. Really powerful.

[recessional]

This is amazing.

[sophinisba]

I have not seen this movie but this vid really blows me away. Great song and amazing job.

[serrico]

Oooh, shivers. Well done!

[yhlee]

Stunning marriage of vocals and visuals, and I love the arrow to the percussion cutting in.

[actiaslunaris]

Blown away here. This is so spare, and yet it says volumes. I love the irony of the visuals paired with the voiceover.

[goodbyebird]

Love the editing and vibe in this, and I rarely see voiceovers done well but here it fits perfectly. Well done!

[stultiloquentia]

Wow. I must see this film now.

[liptonrm]

OMG THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!

I loved it all (editing, pacing, footage choice) but I especially can't get over the way you spliced the two versions of O Death together.

IT IS ALL TOO AWESOME FOR WORDS!!!!

[futuransky]

I don't know the source, but now I want to. The song, the voiceover and the visuals go together beautifully, with such a spare grandeur. I got shivers.

[thuviaptarth]

This is really intriguing -- I definitely want to see the movie now.

[lunabee34]

I love the voice over. What a beautifully done vid.

[counteragent]

That was excellent! Very intense.

[isagel]

I haven't seen the movie yet, so I can't speak as to the content, but, oh, this vid is amazingly well edited and very powerful. Bravo.

[kitsun3]

Oh, that was very good.

[tenar]

wow. i've never seen this film but i am chilled utterly by this vid. in the best of ways.

[franzeska]

I love the colors--specifically the flower at the end.

[isis]

This is amazing. I don't know the source but the visuals and the really moving music go together beautifully. It just seems so elegant and quietly powerful.

[kyriacarlisle]

Woah. Though this isn't source I know, this vid is compelling and so well-cut. I especially like the music choice: the shift from the traditional "O Death" (or, at least, the versions I know) to the unfamiliar, metrically-uneasy, amplified version matches this post-apocalyptic universe so well that it gives me shivers.

[zillah975]

Oh my god, this is gorgeous. Wow. Stunning, beautiful vid.