kapparomeo
10-04-2009, 11:28 PM
I decided to try my hand at another full-length AMV:
YouTube Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEtyM5_-ooo)
AMV Hell Video Directory Link (http://www.amvhell.com/video.php?do=viewdetails&videoid=240)
animemusicvideos.org Link (including download) (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=171899)
This is a short AMV - the core content clocks in at 1:06 - and that's mostly because of the lack of suitable footage in Jin-Roh itself, a film which was a very surprising bait-and-switch - I went into it expecting a political drama and got something entirely different! It's odd that they spend so long narrating the setting in the pre-credits sequence when it isn't at all relevant after the first act...
(also, I actually originally submitted it as an AMV Hell clip - but when Zarxrax says that some clips can go over the length limit, he means five or six seconds, not thirty. :sweatdrop: )
Anyway, there just simply wasn't enough action to fill out the second verse in the song as well. However, while it's not very long, it does require a fairly substantial commentary because I hope that it can be seen as an AMV with a message.
There is comedy in this AMV, but it's black and ironic. The audio is a light-hearted, innocent number from Pirates of Penzance, a classic Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera; if this was the theatre we'd be laughing at the antics of the policemen as they capered across the stage, but here the darker undertones and implications of the lyrics are exposed by setting them against the violent riot.
It might seem to be mordant at best and nihilistic at worst to spoil the genial fun of feelgood theatre with these associations, but Glibert & Sullivan are making an important point, and the video helps to make it more on-the-nose and bring it to the fore. Whenever there's a big protest/riot, inevitably the issue of "police brutality" is dragged out and beaten with sticks. Abuses do occur, I can't deny that, but this is a severe case of "mote in my eye, log in your own". To take for example the G8 riots in Rome in 2001, a protestor shot dead by police was immediately raised up as a heroic and blemishless martyr on the altar of the International... but what was conveniently forgot is that they'd been actually mobbing on and violently assaulting the police, and that the protestor in question had been charging the shooting policeman with a fire extinguisher to smash his skull in!
I find it offensive that rioters, vandals, and would-be revolutionaries are so wrapped up in their thick blanket of self-absorbed moral sanctity that any degree of violence and destruction is justified to advance their own position - but the moment a policeman puts a tonfa against his wrist he is transformed into an agent of oppression. It's naked hypocrisy, and should not be indulged. When the police finally act at the end of this AMV, I hope that you'll see it as a rightful response for all of the abuse that they stoically and thanklessly shouldered beforehand.
Another motif seen at the beginning and towards the end of this AMV are seeing eyes behind the helmets and masks - "the pigs" are people too.
This is an AMV composed out of sympathy for beleaguered authority.
YouTube Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEtyM5_-ooo)
AMV Hell Video Directory Link (http://www.amvhell.com/video.php?do=viewdetails&videoid=240)
animemusicvideos.org Link (including download) (http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=171899)
This is a short AMV - the core content clocks in at 1:06 - and that's mostly because of the lack of suitable footage in Jin-Roh itself, a film which was a very surprising bait-and-switch - I went into it expecting a political drama and got something entirely different! It's odd that they spend so long narrating the setting in the pre-credits sequence when it isn't at all relevant after the first act...
(also, I actually originally submitted it as an AMV Hell clip - but when Zarxrax says that some clips can go over the length limit, he means five or six seconds, not thirty. :sweatdrop: )
Anyway, there just simply wasn't enough action to fill out the second verse in the song as well. However, while it's not very long, it does require a fairly substantial commentary because I hope that it can be seen as an AMV with a message.
There is comedy in this AMV, but it's black and ironic. The audio is a light-hearted, innocent number from Pirates of Penzance, a classic Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera; if this was the theatre we'd be laughing at the antics of the policemen as they capered across the stage, but here the darker undertones and implications of the lyrics are exposed by setting them against the violent riot.
It might seem to be mordant at best and nihilistic at worst to spoil the genial fun of feelgood theatre with these associations, but Glibert & Sullivan are making an important point, and the video helps to make it more on-the-nose and bring it to the fore. Whenever there's a big protest/riot, inevitably the issue of "police brutality" is dragged out and beaten with sticks. Abuses do occur, I can't deny that, but this is a severe case of "mote in my eye, log in your own". To take for example the G8 riots in Rome in 2001, a protestor shot dead by police was immediately raised up as a heroic and blemishless martyr on the altar of the International... but what was conveniently forgot is that they'd been actually mobbing on and violently assaulting the police, and that the protestor in question had been charging the shooting policeman with a fire extinguisher to smash his skull in!
I find it offensive that rioters, vandals, and would-be revolutionaries are so wrapped up in their thick blanket of self-absorbed moral sanctity that any degree of violence and destruction is justified to advance their own position - but the moment a policeman puts a tonfa against his wrist he is transformed into an agent of oppression. It's naked hypocrisy, and should not be indulged. When the police finally act at the end of this AMV, I hope that you'll see it as a rightful response for all of the abuse that they stoically and thanklessly shouldered beforehand.
Another motif seen at the beginning and towards the end of this AMV are seeing eyes behind the helmets and masks - "the pigs" are people too.
This is an AMV composed out of sympathy for beleaguered authority.