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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.

Comments

[dafnap.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU SO HARD RIGHT NOW IT'S NOT EVEN APPROACHING HEALTHY.

OMFG. Terrence's lil' grimace on the plane set to the beat! I FUCKING LOVE YOU

"You can be honored by my lateness" as Tony finally shows up. I FUCKING LOVE YOU

Oh man, matching the echoing feedback to him waking up during the surgery: I FUCKING LOVE YOU

Smithing to the BEAT. I FUCKING LOVE YOU

And then the progress bar and power drain to the voice fading halfway through. I FUCKING LOVE YOU

AND THE END. WITH THE PRESS. THE END IS GENIUS.

DOOMTHREAD FOREVER.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

DOOMTHREAD FOREVER. BUT BED FOR BOTH OF US.

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

DUDE. I AM ABOUT TO LEAVE FOR WORK BUT DUDE WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE MY HERO FOREVER. YOU DID IT. YOU DID THE THING I HAD IN MY HEAD ONLY BETTER AND HOLY HELL. NYUAGDBHJVANUKGSLBNVAILDUKFJCNlaubchnbljkagncblvuknsdaklNLBHNLVJFDAHJAD

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AND IT'S PERFECT. IT'S LIKE. IT'S PERFECT. I. I DON'T EVEN HAVE WORDS, DUDE. UASDNGAIFLUGHFULAV. IT IS 5:30AM AND THIS IS PERFECT.

[obsession-inc.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT. I am up way too early and this is the first thing I found and now I have watched it, um, four times?

NICE. You catch those vulnerable looks so, so well. And the DICE, perfect timing. And hahahahhaha at "secretary and the boss", boom, shot of Pepper to shot of Tony.

Mostly, just GAH, the shot of Yinsen dying right before Tony lands in Gulmira, a very clear reminder of his reasoning there. And just the whole thing, the repeated looks at Tony's worst moments of vulnerability and his response to it (GIANT ROBOT SUIT), I just love it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA your dedication! Awwww. Get some sleep.

[jamaillith.livejournal.com]

sdaghajdkfc;sd; best thing ever.

[subduction.livejournal.com]

AWESOME. I'm downloading but will have to watch later, as I have to rush off to work, and more generally, I've been having a retarded few weeks and haven't been able to keep up with your Iron Man shenanigans at all (although everything is on the list -- I'd kind of like to see the movie again first). But when I saw this I lollerskated, since it reminded me of the idea I'd had three weeks ago -- not to hijack the thread here, or anything -- about setting an Octavian vid to this song. (I don't think that idea actually went any further than "ahahaha we could totally cut Octavia/Servilia footage with Octavian looking smoldering to I'D DO ANYTHING FOR A BLONDE DYKE", but then, most of my ideas don't.)

My point, actually, is that this looks 231574501x awesomer than any kind of wretched vid I'd've dreamed of making to this song, and I really can't wait to watch it when I get back. <333333333333

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

"ahahaha we could totally cut Octavia/Servilia footage with Octavian looking smoldering to I'D DO ANYTHING FOR A BLONDE DYKE"

OH.

MY.

GOD.

OH MY GOD.

In other words, yes. I think you win at Stronger. And I'm sorry that the weeks have been retarded -- but hey, at least the SGA MAMMOTH FIC is off to the beta?

[heidi-wiggin.livejournal.com]

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

OUR OBSESSION, LET US ROLL IN IT!

Faaaaaabulous.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,
You have no idea who I am, but I found this linked on del.icio.us and just wanted to say that I thought you did a great job. Love the movie, love the song, love the video. Thanks.

[subduction.livejournal.com]

Eh -- they're always retarded, I've just been feeling it lately. I'm sure yours are equally so. I think a lot of it really was the pressure of wanting to finish that story, and damn, yeah -- at this point I owe randomalia and kickthebeat so many of my offspring I'm gonna have to start moving on to internal organs. LONGEST THING I HAVE EVER WRITTEN, FOR A FANDOM I CAN'T FUCKING STAND, CHECK.

On a more relevant note: FUCK, I have to go see this movie again. That was awesome. Especially the bit from like, 3:10-3:30 where he's suiting up, and it's so perfectly synched up? Damn.

I've been resisting the torrent, because the cam, while not awful for a cam, still looks shitty, and because it was so crisp and gorgeous on the big screen -- I really do have to go again. I'm going to Indiana Jones this aft, but maybe tomorrow. *ponders*

(Also, I'm pretty sure "Stronger" can be used to vid any fandom in history. CASE IN POINT, wasn't it you who said something, ages ago, about setting Hornblower's sucked-in cheeks to "you could be my black Kate Moss tonight"? BECAUSE, I MEAN.)

ETA: AHAHAHAHAHAH your endnotes. Awesome. <33333333

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

adkjflkjgdf. AHAHAHAH. oh God, I'd forgotten that. And it's true. Maybe Stronger is, like, the new version of Massive Attack's Teardrop -- somebody once told me that a fandom ain't a proper fandom until somebody's done a vid to that. I think it applies more to anime, and it'd be hard to vid because IT'S SO FUCKING LONG, but anyways.

In numerical order:

1. God, SGA fandom is the blow. It's right up there with Doctor Who and Blake's 7 fandom for me.
2. Yes, go see the movie. Again. It's totally worth it. Also, when I went to see it for the second time, I was actually able to pay attention to the little tricks and mannerisms and so forth for RDJ instead of just being BLINDED BY CHARISMA.
3. AHAHAH. CHRIST. I'm glad that the suiting up bit synched for you. I had to do some major hackery to get the suit's eyes to light up to the big noise (see how knowledgeable I am) after West says "That's how long I been on ya," and whenever I watch that section, I'm just in DREAD because I know exactly where they're coming up.

Because you totally asked, one is that the jump right before Kanye says "Man, that's how long -- " It doesn't jump the same degree that the other ones did because I was desperately running out of footage. And the other is right before Kanye says "been." I had to slow down the footage to an abominable rate, then speed it back up again so that it looked normal when the mask closed. And right before the "been" is where the seam is. Bah. Maybe if I hadn't been trying to pull off a fairly complicated stunt at 3AM?

4. Tell me what you think of Indy. The reviews have been SO FULL OF SUCK that I'm afraid to go.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

GODDDDDD UP AT 5:30 FOR WORK ON A SATURDAY? THAT'S CRIMINAL.

(There are a couple places that make me do the GAAAAAH, WHY DIDN'T I JUST SIT ON THIS UNTIL I WAS ABLE TO WORK ON IT IN THE MORNING? Talking heads! Badly synched jumps! Etc, etc. I am glad it was good morning distraction for you, though.)

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

I'm a barista. My life is a lesson in why, um. Why nobody should be a barista.

I have just watched it again, with a clear afternoon head, and I conclude that nobody can see these faults, save for you. It is awesome and I love it and I think, when nobody's looking, Tony often stumbles to his bed, drunk, and yells out "Take that, HATERRRRRS" and then giggles and fondles himself.

[subduction.livejournal.com]

I hate the SGA fandom to death, but I love the canon so much it's not even funny. Basically I indulge my obsession by living in a bubble where I talk about it to randomalia and, well, randomalia, and by writing fucking ridiculous novellas that nobody will read, and never, ever, ever reading anything in or about or near the fandom itself.

(And shit, yeah; if I were in B7 fandom I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself. Poor babel. I almost don't want to watch the show for fear that I'll like it and wind up having to venture into the crazy, y'know?)

And, ahahaha -- I did notice some spots where the footage was speeding up/slowing down, but I thought that was just my shitforbrains processor, rather than the vid itself. I'D NEVER HAVE KNOWN. :D Anyway, I could tell what you were going for, and the intent was awesome.

Yeah, I'm not really holding my breath for Indy, but my mother wants to have a girls' afternoon out, and hey, if she's paying for the popcorn, I'm down. (Hitting up IM again will also have the advantage of being able to go by myself, as opposed to with my sisters, my dad, and the Boyfriend Squad, which was how I saw it the first time -- fun, but not exactly conducive to focus.)

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

OK, when I went to see IM the second time, I moved so that these college guys who were probably Big Brothers taking their Sibs out for one last outing -- I moved so that they could all sit together? And I ended up moving enxt to a woman who kept making stupid remarks? Like, when Tony pulls the tubes out of his nose, she did an extended and very loud EWWWWWW, WE DIDN'T NEED TO SEE THAT. And during the convo that happens after Obediah is playing Salieri, she started COMPLAINING that there was too much talking in the movie.

I nearly reached over and smother her in her own popcorn. If I were in B7 fandom, I'd probably end up on trial for throwing flaming toilet paper rolls at the houses of certain people.

So. Uh. That had a point. XD

And i

shit, i may have to scrap this 'work for starbucks when i get fired' thing.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

akdjf;lkadjg.dakjf.

That is really the only appropriate response to Tony often stumbles to his bed, drunk, and yells out "Take that, HATERRRRRS" and then giggles and fondles himself.

He does. He does. And sometimes, he does it even when people are looking. Oh Jesus.

Also, totally randomly. If setting it to Stronger hadn't worked out, I was going to do it to the Rick Rubin production of "God's Gonna Cut You Down." I'd forgotten that West made an appearance in the vid, too.

Re: shit, i may have to scrap this &#39;work for starbucks when i get fired&#39; thing.

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, I indeed used to work for Sbucks, and they were even worse than my current place. I was a supervisor. It was balls.

And sometimes, he does it even when people are looking.

Oh, utterly. Every holiday and birthday.

I was going to do it to the Rick Rubin production of "God's Gonna Cut You Down."

I see your akdjf:lkadjg.dakfjf. and raise you a INFVIUELBHUHJVBFHJVFLBHKGVFVNCJKDS&&&&&&&

And, one day, you are also going to make a happy times vid to Filthy/Gorgeous.

Re: shit, i may have to scrap this &#39;work for starbucks when i get fired&#39; thing.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

And, one day, you are also going to make a happy times vid to Filthy/Gorgeous.

AAHAH. HAPPY TO DO SO. All I need is the footage from the time he got a blowjob aat Bungalow 8 and the girl taped it on her cell phone.

(You mean the Scissor Sisters song, right? God, I'd love to put that together. The main problem, I think, would be finding enough happy-pants in the movie -- I could probably pad it out with Tony be ecstatic over flying and lots of swooping shots. Getting my hands on Dubai cut scene should help.)

Re: shit, i may have to scrap this &#39;work for starbucks when i get fired&#39; thing.

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

All I need is the footage from the time he got a blowjob aat Bungalow 8 and the girl taped it on her cell phone.

HA. OH, TONES.

(I do, and I love you. That song is #1 on my, uh, playlist. The one that I called Posthuman, but now is just kinda all-encompassing IM navel-gazing. It would be a toughie to get enough footage to match. I was just watching the film again, and for all the space it takes up in my brain, the actual Stark Airlines stripper pole section is very short! That's so wrong! I fully expect a good, long section in the making-of about the installation of the stripper pole, test runs, and maybe Terrence and RDJ giving it a good breaking-in.)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Wonderful - you've got the mood perfectly.

TONY STARKS WON THE OSCAR, Y'ALL.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

That song is #1 on my, uh, playlist.

I think you should share this navel-gazing Iron Man playlist. For the good of us all.

the actual Stark Airlines stripper pole section is very short! That's so wrong!

Every time I even think about that scene, it just fills me with joy. At lunch with work people on Friday, we were talking about Iron Man, and I blurted out that Tony Stark had strippers on the plane, and the guys -- it was all guys -- were silent for a second.

Sigh.

Re: TONY STARKS WON THE OSCAR, Y'ALL.

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

I think I might. When I'm at home and have, like, hours. Because it's gotten downright unwieldy. it started as just these tracks and now it's mutated. there's whole sections. the pepper section. the holy shit betrayal section. the feel good happy stripper pole vegas section. the section that's all robot noises and metal working sounds.

I blurted out that Tony Stark had strippers on the plane, and the guys -- it was all guys -- were silent for a second.

A moment of silence of their lord and master.

Re: TONY STARKS WON THE OSCAR, Y&#39;ALL.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

it's mutated. there's whole sections. the pepper section. the holy shit betrayal section.

.... holy shit. That's amazing. I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS GREATLY.

A moment of silence of their lord and master.

There's an article in today's NYT about how the kind-of-but-not-obscenely rich are having to sell some of their artworks and downgrade their personal planes from Learjets into something a little more discreet and cheaper. LET US NOW GUESS WHAT KIND TONY HAS. AND WHO IS BUYING THEIR JACKSON POLLOCKS.

I love Tony so much.

And totally randomly: I wonder what the Stark Industries stock price was trading at before Tony made the Announcement of Stock Pain and Doom.

Re: TONY STARKS WON THE OSCAR, Y'ALL.

[dafnap.livejournal.com]

Every time I even think about that scene, it just fills me with joy.

SAME HERE.

My mom is notoriously fickle, but enjoyed the heck out of the movie (which usually is a good sign - if she can admit to her wayward daughter she enjoyed something even REMOTELY comicbooky, either the end of the world is neigh or it's actually really fricking good. this was, thank god, the latter) except for, and I quote "the strippers were completely unnecessary."

I BEG TO DIFFER.