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[quigonejinn]

Stronger (Harder, Better, Faster)

Tony Stark set to Kanye West and Daft Punk
XVid, 35MB

The song is on my default playlist, and last week, in the throes of full-blown fandom crazy, I started obsessing about what a fantastic track this would make for an Iron Man vid. And then one of the DOOMTHREADS -- it is 4:30AM, and I am too brainfried to figure out where, even with Gmail's halfway decent search engine -- somebody mentioned wanting to see it. And uh. I was too tired to write tonight, so here! HAVE MY OBSESSION.

Started at 10PM or so of Friday night, finished around 4AM of Saturday morning. Not much in the way of movie-independent storytelling, which is probably why it came together so easily. It usually takes me about eight hours per minute, but I banged this together in way, way under that. Think more like a 5:20 recap of the movie than anything else.

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[nextian.livejournal.com]

... aw, apparently I'm the only person not to get EATEN BY THE DOOM THREAD who actually saw this vid. completely devoid of reading comprehension, and also, threadfollowing. But It's fucking fantab. Even if I still do have to cover my eyes every time we get to the shot of Tony on the couch with Obadiah ripping his heart out; I had Kanye to get me through it.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

GOD. That scene still makes me wince, and I've vidded the hell out of it for two separate things. Poor Tony. I mean, talk about betrayal scenes.

[nextian.livejournal.com]

I suspect this has already come up in the four thousand pages of meta y'all have apparently done about this, but one of the reasons I love this film so much is that it had this incredibly obvious metaphor in it that they basically jumped up and down going "this! this is a metaphor! over here look at the metaphor!" and because Obadiah was such a cuddly sociopath right up until you twigged that he was evil, you totally bought it. It's like the opposite of Spider-Man, where you just spend the whole movie going, "Peter Parker, step away from your boyfriend's dad. He has clearly been marinating in the crazy juice."

OKAY I'm sure you have the answer to this question somewhere up in that thread, and also you are a busy lady, but: "don't act like I never told you": Tony talking? Everyone talking to Tony? Both? Every time I watch it I change my mind because both are so awesome.

I AM NEVER TIRED OF NAVEL-GAZING AT MY VIDS/FIC. SO.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Obadiah was such a cuddly sociopath right up until you twigged that he was evil, you totally bought it.

Seriously. I mean. All the reviews were like, OBEDIAH HAS EVIL TATTOOED ON HIS FOREHEAD. WELL, DUH. Uh. Yeah. I just must've missed the clue train because it just broke my heart when he was ebils. That scene when him and Tony are sitting around, eating pizza while Big Sis Pepper does her homework!

Sigh. I am just exceptionally gullible.

The section you're talking about is the one where Rhodey breaks up with Tony and Pepper breaks up with Tony and Yinsen breaks up with Tony and Christine's earrings dance, right? Yeah, i think it is. And in my head, the first "told you" is Tony -- "So, OK, when I bust out as Iron Man, you don't get to be like YOU NEVER TOLD ME!" And that one is supposed to symbolize how big and cool Tones thinks he is. And all the ones afterwards are people telling him some pretty harsh truths about the world.

So yeah, both?

Re: I AM NEVER TIRED OF NAVEL-GAZING AT MY VIDS/FIC. SO.

[nextian.livejournal.com]

It was probably because he was bald. The media is so prejudiced against bald people! Male pattern baldness is a very serious condition okay and these stereotypes do nothing but harm. But, yeah, pushingmetaphor gave me the complete plot breakdown beforehand and I was still surprised.

Ooh, awesome, that is pretty much how I was reading it only in much better words. So yay!

(*DYING* The image of Yinsen breaking up with Tony by getting blown up. "Oh god if we get out of this cage he will never stop following me around, like a drunken puppy with a car battery. This is why you are not supposed to meet your heroes. If I have to hear the thing about the Enterprise being scientifically unsound I will kill myself. Wait! Idea!" I'm a terrible person, aren't I.)