New movie vid!
Title: Rock Steady
Artist: All Saints
Movie: Gilda
Format: DivX
Size: 36.8 MB
Summary: Rita Hayworth gave good face
Download here (Right/control click and save target as)
Or watch online at iMeem
Feedback is a very exciting emotion.
Notes
Gilda is an odd movie. It’s also a queer one but the oddity comes more from the different types of film at war within it than the big gay love-hate triangle. The whole thing is shot and narrated like a noir but climaxes with a musical number that would make Minnelli proud and oozes melodrama like a classic woman’s movie. The eponymous Gilda has a lot in common with the anti-heroines featured in that much maligned genre, the women played by Joan Crawford, Bette Davis or Barbara Stanwyck who would spend most of the movie having a ball, ruling roughshod over the men-folk in fabulous frocks before unaccountably dying of cancer or otherwise seeing the error of their ways in the final reel. Rita Hayworth’s Gilda survives but isn’t even allowed the dignity of repentance, the movie ends with one of the male characters finally telling the hero that she was never really bad after all, that it was all an act.
I guess my main aim with this vid was to re-write that final reel and give Gilda the last word. At first the thought of vidding in black-and-white was scary but the movie does such wonderful things with light and shadow, the soft blur of the bedroom scenes contrasted with the harsh party-light of the casino, the way the slippery-when-wet sheen of Ballin’s sword stick matches that of the satin sheath dress Gilda dons for her performance of “Put the Blame on Mame.” The camerawork is quite traditional, no steadicam trickery, but the way it creates movement by blocking and lingers on the actors faces is to die for. Finally there’s the hair, this vid has the best hair of any I’ve ever made and has probably been worth making for that reason alone.
Rock Steady Lyrics
Years on the run
Boy I know I can take it
And now that I'm here
I know you can't stand the waiting, boy
Lets say no more games
No messing with the mind
Always room for change
Let's give it one more try
(Come on lets give it a try)
I got my bags packed baby and i'm ready to go
Look at my eyes rock steady and I promise you more
I got My heart back baby and it's skipping a beat
I got my ass in check, checkin' out, I'm ready to feel
It's all good to go
I'm right here for the taking
(oooh ticky ticky ticky)
Don't cross the line
I'll promise you no fakin', boy
(no no no no)
Its all understood
No messing with the rules
(the rules, the rules)
If I let you go
Boy I will be a fool
(What kind of girl wants to be a fool?)
I got my bags packed baby and i'm ready to go
Look at my eyes rock steady and I promise you more
I got My heart back baby and it's skipping a beat
I got my ass in check, checkin' out, I'm ready to feel
Tell me why we act so stupid, the games we're playing (oooh)
If life is the rule then we're heading towards the same thing
You are not worthless with love instead of the fighting (oooh)
Let's get together forever with no more hiding
I got my bags packed baby and i'm ready to go
Look at my eyes rock steady and I promise you more
I got My heart back baby and it's skipping a beat
I got my ass in check, checkin' out, I'm ready to feel
I got my bags packed baby and i'm ready to go
Look at my eyes rock steady and I promise you more
I got My heart back baby and it's skipping a beat
I got my ass in check, checkin' out, I'm ready to feel
Artist: All Saints
Movie: Gilda
Format: DivX
Size: 36.8 MB
Summary: Rita Hayworth gave good face
Download here (Right/control click and save target as)
Or watch online at iMeem
Feedback is a very exciting emotion.
Notes
Gilda is an odd movie. It’s also a queer one but the oddity comes more from the different types of film at war within it than the big gay love-hate triangle. The whole thing is shot and narrated like a noir but climaxes with a musical number that would make Minnelli proud and oozes melodrama like a classic woman’s movie. The eponymous Gilda has a lot in common with the anti-heroines featured in that much maligned genre, the women played by Joan Crawford, Bette Davis or Barbara Stanwyck who would spend most of the movie having a ball, ruling roughshod over the men-folk in fabulous frocks before unaccountably dying of cancer or otherwise seeing the error of their ways in the final reel. Rita Hayworth’s Gilda survives but isn’t even allowed the dignity of repentance, the movie ends with one of the male characters finally telling the hero that she was never really bad after all, that it was all an act.
I guess my main aim with this vid was to re-write that final reel and give Gilda the last word. At first the thought of vidding in black-and-white was scary but the movie does such wonderful things with light and shadow, the soft blur of the bedroom scenes contrasted with the harsh party-light of the casino, the way the slippery-when-wet sheen of Ballin’s sword stick matches that of the satin sheath dress Gilda dons for her performance of “Put the Blame on Mame.” The camerawork is quite traditional, no steadicam trickery, but the way it creates movement by blocking and lingers on the actors faces is to die for. Finally there’s the hair, this vid has the best hair of any I’ve ever made and has probably been worth making for that reason alone.
Rock Steady Lyrics
Years on the run
Boy I know I can take it
And now that I'm here
I know you can't stand the waiting, boy
Lets say no more games
No messing with the mind
Always room for change
Let's give it one more try
(Come on lets give it a try)
I got my bags packed baby and i'm ready to go
Look at my eyes rock steady and I promise you more
I got My heart back baby and it's skipping a beat
I got my ass in check, checkin' out, I'm ready to feel
It's all good to go
I'm right here for the taking
(oooh ticky ticky ticky)
Don't cross the line
I'll promise you no fakin', boy
(no no no no)
Its all understood
No messing with the rules
(the rules, the rules)
If I let you go
Boy I will be a fool
(What kind of girl wants to be a fool?)
I got my bags packed baby and i'm ready to go
Look at my eyes rock steady and I promise you more
I got My heart back baby and it's skipping a beat
I got my ass in check, checkin' out, I'm ready to feel
Tell me why we act so stupid, the games we're playing (oooh)
If life is the rule then we're heading towards the same thing
You are not worthless with love instead of the fighting (oooh)
Let's get together forever with no more hiding
I got my bags packed baby and i'm ready to go
Look at my eyes rock steady and I promise you more
I got My heart back baby and it's skipping a beat
I got my ass in check, checkin' out, I'm ready to feel
I got my bags packed baby and i'm ready to go
Look at my eyes rock steady and I promise you more
I got My heart back baby and it's skipping a beat
I got my ass in check, checkin' out, I'm ready to feel