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.

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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

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Comments

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this cover is a bit of a leap from the Leonard Cohen version but it definitely helps set the tone for the vid. I didn't want to make an angry vid about representation or lack thereof but I did want to point out how often the same themes/images reoccur over decades. I'm happy to celebrate the clichés but I would definitely welcome some more diverse representation. As for the Dead Lesbian cliché, if you didn't laugh, you'd cry!

I'm glad to have this called a documentary set to music especially as "The Celluloid Closet" was my jumping off point for the vid.

I believe this year was the first International Day of Femslash, Ralst at passion_perfect organised it. It is happening again next year so keep a look out for it. :D

Thank you so much for your lovely feedback!