astartexx made me do it and it was fun.

[charmax]

Video Title: Protège Moi
Song Title/Artist: Protège Moi - Placebo
Show: Supernatural
Summary: What's black and white and red all over?
Length/Format: 1.22, (Xvid)
Notes: This is the first part of a vidlet challenge that I've got going with astartexx. The style is inspired by film noir/Sin City.

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Comments

[lidi.livejournal.com]

this video is simply ingenius.
it makes SNL so much better than it actually is. and I mean in the nicest way possible.
all the hidden metaphors (especially the main one - of red color being the color of life and yet of death. of devil and of power. "protect me from I want" turns into "and deliver me from evil").

the technical part it beyond awesome. after seeing this video 10-15 times, I finally realiazed how much work was put into it (the final staw was seeing the red sigh "vacant" at the very end. not talking about spilling blood, all bedspreads - including the one in the hotel, not only with Dean alone, but also when he's with Sam, necklace (or whatever this thingy in girl hands is), baloons, flames of fire, car's lights and even plane's bits and glass's drawing in the church! mindblowing!)

and now about the plot of that video - as said above - it's really hot. yet it's really tragic. and for me it looked even more serious than SNL cares to show us. you made it more meaningful. bravo! really!

this vid is so dark and so moody in adult's fashion - it's amazing. it's like we finally see it through Dean's eyes. dissapointed, selfless, cruel and in someway quite unkind.
it's amazing that one can actually write poems (in this case - fiction) after seeing 1:22 of brilliant video. it contains so much interesting ideas, that twist and change in different point of views.

(I'm very stupid at 2 am. I lost the train of my thoughts all the time. oh)

I wanted to tell about small detals - well, first of all - the sexiest of all is at 0:57-0:58, followed by 0:41-0:44 with a tense Dean and innocent Sam.
winking at 0:58 (or 59) is interesting too (oh my, I'm writing in such official terms. it's bad. I shouldn't be that sleepy). and the way we see Dean turning a bit, as if sensing something behind...
and I love comparison of Dean and Sean's stares (looks?) at 1:05-1:06. you can see such a difference between them. amazing work.

to sum it up a bit (because I'm not able to think at all now) - it's a brilliant video with amazing ideas, that are actually much, much better (for my taste) than original.
so thank you very-very much for creating this wonderful video.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Wow thanks for such amazing praise. I'm so pleased that you liked it.

I wouldn't say it was better than the original but thanks for the compliment. I just went with the idea of dark Wincest and just went where it took me. I noticed how often red shows up on the show and thatwas when the idea for the effect came to me. Then it was a matter of figuring out how the heck to do it.
You're right there is definitely a feeling in this vid that Dean knows something Sam doesn't.

[lidi.livejournal.com]

I know I shouldn't say it (and of course I'll say it right away), but I'm not the biggest fan of that show. I like it and it's pleasant, but I also can't take it seriously most of the time (maybe it's supposed to be this way, actually. I don't know).
So when I saw all those hidden messages in your video I was quite surprised. You made me see that I was missing something really important (and sexy, and dark, and captivating, and mesmerizing, and, well, interesting ;) ).

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I felt kinda the same way when I started watching Supernatural. Most fans are much more into the boys than I am. Although I still don't think it's perfect I do find that I can enjoy the banter between them more than the phwoar factor. I don't consider myself a massive fangirl of the show but I do enjoy it and astartexx is a big fan and if she wants a SPN vid she gets a SPN vid. She is most persuasive! lol