Vid: the losers - the heart is a beating drum

[eruthros]

So I made a vid!

Title: the heart is a beating drum
Fandom: The Losers
Song: The Heart Is a Beating Drum - The Kills
Length: 1:42
Contains: a few stuttery cuts, action-movie violence

Download: the heart is a beating drum mp4, 73 MB, mediafire
Subtitles: the heart is a beating drum srt file (to use, give it the same file name as the vid file and put it in the same folder)

Streaming on youtube:

Lyrics:

Looking in the mirror, looking back
A look of wild living bound to crack

The heart is a beating drum
The heart is a beating drum
It takes more than you wanted before
To keep it on

Howling at the future
Won't you be fast and full?
All the noise and hot crossed veins
You, you got in you

Send your love on a rampage
Give her everything you've got
And when you come to hate her
Show her more than just a spark

Cause the heart is a beating drum
The heart is a beating drum
It takes more than you wanted before
To keep it on

It takes more than you wanted before
To keep it on

Comments

[chaila]

Somehow I think I missed commenting on this during the anon period, but I love it! It is flashy and bright and pretty in just the right amount, but I especially love how you've constructed more of a character study for Aisha, which I think was mostly under the surface of the movie? I only saw the movie once, and awhile ago, but I remember it never looking where I wanted it to be looking! I love the focus on the moment where she seems to be deciding whether to shoot at the Team or at the cannon fodder in uniforms, and how she's become part of the team by the end.

[eruthros]

Oh gosh, thanks so much for this comment! Yeah, for me the movie wasn't focused on the most interesting parts of the story, and so I wanted to make a vid for ... kind of a different movie. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[mific]

I'm falling hard for Losers fandom at the moment, and this is excellent! You've captured Aisha's contradictions, the heat and violence of her tussles with Clay, and her gradual adoption of, and by, the team.

[eruthros]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[china_shop]

OMG, she is so awesome and badass -- this is a fabulous depiction of her! And yes to what the others have said about her gradual move to be part of the team, too. *applauds wildly*

[eruthros]

Thanks so much!

[chalcopyrite]

I haven't seen The Losers, but I'd watch a whole movie about this lady! Great vid - I love the sass of how the music and lyrics and clips come together!

[eruthros]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! And I wish I had a whole movie of her to offer :)

[shallowness]

On a totally superficial level: so pretty and thrilling, but also I loved how you focused on Aisha and her agency.

[eruthros]

Thanks so much - that's what I was trying to do, so I'm glad it came across!

[endeni]

OMG, so beautiful! Thanks for sharing! ^^

[eruthros]

Thank you so much!

[purpleyin]

I liked the vid.

[eruthros]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

[brownbetty]

I love this vid, and I'm wondering, when you made it, did you have Comics!Aisha's backstory in mind, or does this come purely from the movie? It had shades of Comics!Aisha, to me, but maybe I brought that on my own.

[eruthros]

I did have comics!Aisha's backstory in mind! I actually haven't read the Losers comics, but I have friends who talk about them a lot, so I inevitably brought that in when I was trying to do an Aisha vid. I guess you could say it's fannish-osmosis backstory?