International Day Of Femslash, Multifandom vid: I'm your Man

[charmax]

Video Title: I'm your Man
Song Title/Artist: I'm your Man - Patricia O Callaghan

Source: Victor/Victoria, Tipping the Velvet, Twelfth Night, Sylvia Scarlett, Just One Of the Guys, Morocco, Star Trek Voyager, Xena, She's The Man, Queen Christina, Portrait Of A Marriage, Bound, Thelma & Louise, Buffy, Bionic Woman, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Calamity Jane, Deadwood, Cagney & Lacey, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, DEBS, Women's Murder Club, Fried Green Tomatoes, Bend It Like Beckham, Charlie's Angels old skool, Gia, If These Walls could Talk 2, Birds Of Prey, Rebecca, Lost & Delirious, Children's Hour, Hex, Nina's Heavenly Delights, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dark Angel, Saving Face, Bad Girls, Alias, At Home With The Braithwaites, Rent, Fingersmith, Imagine Me And You, Color Purple, Alien Resurrection, Girl Interrupted, Queer As Folk US, The L Word, Sugar Rush, Ellen.

Summary: A celebration of media clichés.
Length/Format: 3.13, (Xvid, Stream)
Notes: Made for the International Day Of Femslash. As it's a celebration of clichés I've allowed myself some truly spectacular literalism, I remain unrepentant.

Download Xvid (720x400 - 50MB) |Download Xvid (416x240 - 25MB) |Imeem |Youtube

ETA: Vimeo are having server problems so I've embedded Imeem instead.


I'm your Man

If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you
If you want a partner
Take my hand
Or if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
I'm your man
If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
I'll examine every inch of you
If you want a driver
Climb inside
Or if you want to take me for a ride
You know you can
I'm your man

Ah, the moon's too bright
The chain's too tight
The beast won't go to sleep
I've been running through these promises to you
That I made and I could not keep
Ah but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
Or I'd crawl to you baby
And I'd fall at your feet
And I'd howl at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And I'd claw at your heart
And I'd tear at your sheet
I'd say please, please
I'm your man

And if you've got to sleep
A moment on the road
I will steer for you
And if you want to work the street alone
I'll disappear for you
If you want a father for your child
Or only want to walk with me a while
Across the sand
I'm your man

Feedback loved.

Comments

[mammothluv.livejournal.com]

That may just be the most awesome of awesome videos ever! Seriously, it was lovely! Wonderful song and clip choices.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

This comment really makes me happy, all that hard work paying off. Many thanks!

[ubiquitousmixie.livejournal.com]

ZOMG!!!!

this was awesome!! you nailed these cliches perfectly!!!!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

HEEE!!!

Glad you you think so. I am the Pokemon master of clichés "Gotta catch 'em all."

drag kings and knives and neck-touching, oh my

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

As soon as I saw the song and summary, I knew I was going to love this vid.

Amazing, amazing, amazing. If I had to single out a favorite part, it's probably the montage of window-gazing, progressing to doors and fences and glass, and then the barriers crash down and there's the first actual kiss in the vid. So awesome.

Re: drag kings and knives and neck-touching, oh my

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Even I was amazed at how many times the barrier motif was used. I started off knowing maybe four of them and as I scoured the source they just kept on coming.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I'm only familiar with, like, three of the sources you used, but this is such a gorgeous, tender, insouciant celebration of women!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. Fortunately, it's not necessary to know all the sources. I think I'm probably the only one that does. :)

[csiladies.livejournal.com]

Awesome vid :) Great clips!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Cheers!

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

Hee! I seem to have an enormous, sly grin stuck on my face.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Perfect reaction. *thumbs up* :D

[inspectorboxer.livejournal.com]

Wow. Very well done. You put some serious work into this and it shows. And I love the "boxer" line. heh. ;) I'm impressed. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The boxer line was just impossible to resist, who wouldn't want a Boxer. ;)

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Oooh, very cool. :)

Is that a youtube link too? Cause it don't seem to work

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Hi, thanks!
I'll be uploading it to Youtube a little later. :)

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

Oh, fuck yeah.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Damn right! *g*

[mercurychkita.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! You really included some classics in there. *off to watch it again*

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I just had to include the classics, the vid just wouldn't be the same without them! Enjoy the repeat viewing. *g*

[leviathan101.livejournal.com]

That was very cool. I liked it!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. Thanks for commenting!

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

This is a gorgeous melding of an unbelievable amount of source, and feels like such a celebration. Lovely, lovely video!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Cheers, Nicky. Unbelievable amount of source is right. Logistics was a nightmare but it was so worth it.

[syrenslure.livejournal.com]

that was completely awesome! Songs, clips, style, everything was perfect. Thanks so much for making and sharing this.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. I'm overwhelmed by the response to this vid!

[twtd]

That was awesome. I'm going to have to watch it again tomorrow when I'm not so tired.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Many thanks. I hope you enjoy it just as much tomorrow. :)

[chasarumba.livejournal.com]

This is truly a celebration. I wasn't familiar with all of the source, but it didn't matter because of your editing and the way in which you tied together different themes (cliched and literal as you may consider them to be, they worked in a joyful way!).

[charmax.livejournal.com]

It was definitely made as a celebration and as far as I'm concerned there can never be too many joyful vids.

Thank you, so much.

[slamaina.livejournal.com]

Awesome vid. Well done. Excellent choice of clips and music.

Slam

[charmax.livejournal.com]

*squee* Thank you.

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! :D

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Cheers! :D

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh! I love it!

Multi-vids for the win. On first watch, the sections that jumped out at me were the sad section, with the woman falling off the building (I'm guessing from your other vid that that is how the Cry Me a River girl ends up?)--was that section about denying sexuality?--and the violence section, with Faith and Buffy and Juliet and Kate (rowr, how did I forget that?) and knives and corsets.

And, of course, the Syd and Anna kiss never gets old, for me. :)

Another stunner--Willow painting on the back of not-Tara. Heh. Well, that's a gorgeous cliche, anyway.

ETA: Thought the pan up the woman in the beginning (a mix of pans from different sources) was also awesome.

Hot, amusing, amazing in its scope, and cheeky as hell. I'm sure I'll find tons more to adore in subsequent viewings.

Love it!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

YAY Thanks!

You've gotta love the multi vids, how can you ever not? The sad section as you pointed out is really about the "dead lesbian syndrome." We die a lot. Such a lot in fact that I narrowed the cliché down to suicides/apparent suicides. Paulie from Lost and Delirious (Cry Me A River) looked to have committed suicide because her relationship with another girl went wrong and she was shunned. The girl from Hex hadn't actually killed herself but everyone assumes she has cos that's what's expected. Obviously it is way more complicated than that but you get the gist, I hope? Basically, lesbians rarely get the happy ending.

The violence section, ahh, sexual tension, love and hate. The knives section always feels to me like Buffy saying "You call that a knife?, that's a knife!"

The throwing off of the corset early in the vid is about liberation and no longer being bound, literally of course, and by the shackles of womanhood. The early section is made up entirely of period pieces because passing as a man was the only real way to throw off those shackles, the vid opens up later in the same way that options for women opened up.

Cheeky is definitely the tone I was going for. It is an affectionate pisstake rather than angry rant.

Syd/Anna OTP!

[sportysmurf.livejournal.com]

Wow and yee ha! All the best bits set to very cool music. Hmmm...how many times can I watch it today... ;)

Cheers!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

*g* HEEEE! Be careful it can totally invade your brain. I've been waking up with that song in my head for days.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

This was great fun to watch! Loved the variety of source and how well you played with it.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Oh I loved playing with it but unfortunately it didn't always like playing with me. The traumas of multiple source! I'm so glad you had fun though. :D

[lysachan.livejournal.com]

Incredible. Wonderful video, once again! And absolutely brilliant clip choices.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

So thrilled you enjoyed the vid, Lysachan.

[scatterheart.livejournal.com]

That was absolutely fantastic. I suck at vid feedback, just - I loved this so much, both the technical side (holy shit, so many short clips from so many sources!) and the emotional one (I'm grinning so hard right now) and the song, too. Great, great job!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

That sounds like great feedback to me. I wouldn't worry about that. I'm just pleased to have raised a smile.

[grumpybear1031.livejournal.com]

That video was awesome...one of the best I've seen..absolutely loved it. Great job!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Awesome compliment. Thank you!

[val-120.livejournal.com]

haha this was awesome :D

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Glad it made you chuckle. :D

[cnnjunky.livejournal.com]

This is pretty much the coolest thing ever!

Random squee moment: CHRISTINE CAGNEY!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Christine Cagney world class Dykicon. *g*