in honor of miss monkeycrackmary's natal day

[mimesere]

A vid.

What it means to be Commodore James Norrington.

http://www.ourfallenwords.com/mimesere/commodore2.wmv
http://www.exp626.net/vids/commodore2.wmv

Hosted by the magnificent themagdalene, who is kindness itself.

And if that doesn't work then...well.  I shall hand out another url.  But the .wmv is much nicer, despite the mysterious line.  'cause like, Elizabeth's head doesn't look like it has a giant growth on it.  

Comments

[sharpest_rose.livejournal.com]

Wow. I've loved that version of the song since the first time I heard it, and I never would have expected it to work as a Norrington song but holy crap do you make it perfect. This is such a clever and intelligent and sensitive video, which highlights all the tragic, violent, horrifying, lonely, and melancholy things lurking inside this "blockbuster action movie about pirates". And it's obvious how much you adore Norrington with every frame of the vid, and even if I didn't already love him that much myself this would make me do so anyway because it's just that good at showing what this character is.

It all haunts, there are so many clever choices with the cutting and the juxtaposition. I especially like the ending, because the attack on the Dauntless really really is horrible and inside the cave there's the big swashbuckling revenge-fight with the wisecracking and the one-liners and the sassiness and meanwhile pirates are slaughtering the navy. And so Jack gets his moment of triumph, but that same moment is something else up on the ship and Norrington's sword is all bloody and there's no gloating or victory in his eyes, just fear and sadness, and it's such a little moment but your brought it to the fore here really well and I'm babbling but this video is wonderfulperfectGREAT and you deserve a whole bucket of strawberries and mulberries and raspberries and other yummy things.

And you showed what a marvellous leader he is, too, which is something the movie treats as the wind-up to the joke of Sparrow's constant escapes. So, yay for badass Norrington!

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[mimesere.livejournal.com]

*blush* eeee. I'm so glad you like it 'cause I would not be half so in love with him if it weren't for you, and you make me smile quite a lot, and I wanted to give something back that was equal to the happy that you bring. Also, your brain is a lovely thing.

I wanted to show the character that we love so much, 'cause he's...there's one thing in saying that he's a good man and there's another thing entirely in *showing* it. And *word* to the tragic, violent, horrifying, lonely, and melancholy things about the movie. Because it's all there, but it's buried in the middle of the swashbuckley swordfight, as you say, and oh, just. I really love your brain a lot.