Fringe Vid: Intelligent Design [Olivia]

[beccatoria]

Title: Intelligent Design
Video: Fringe
Audio: Levitibus // Canibus
Summary: Olivia Dunham fights every last damn thing in the world(s).
Vidder's Notes: It takes a flist! Thanks to chaila43, grimorie and emmiere for the help, cheerleading and suggestions.

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Cross-posted to vidding, fringe_tv and fringe_olivia.

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Comments

[scully1121.livejournal.com]

Amazing editing ! Love the song choice so much with the clips !

[chaila.livejournal.com]

Still amazing. I'm not even kidding that if you just keep making vids like this, I'll just never have to watch the show. This is the Fringe I want all the time the characters and themes and feelings and OLIVIA BEING TOTALLY FUCKING BADASS, but in this desperate, clinging-by-her-fingernails way that you have to watch closely to see, because she's just that awesome. I love all your vids, we know this, but this one just makes me want to go: YES, THIS, ALL OF THIS. It blow me away starting with the opening. It's so *angry* and Olivia is so angry, but in such a restrained, desperate way; she doesn't ACT angry, she just IS angry, in the way she moves and talks and just IS, and this vid totally draws that out of the show and puts it on display. Restraint =/= inexpressive or boring, and Olivia's faaaaaaace here guh.

I'm struggling to articulate why I love this so much in whole, but it's like this situates Olivia within the entire narrative, and her relationship to everyone and how central to everyone she is, and how determined and *powerful* she is, even with people like Bell and Walter and Nina, in addition to all the other secondary people--men--here, trying to manipulate her. But it's not just about fighting enemies, she's just fighting for everything, piece by piece. Like, I love the juxtaposition of John and her mother and of Broyles and Nina at the end, and how alike those people are in their relation to her; she loses or doesn't really know the people she loves, and she doesn't really know who's on her side. <3

It's gorgeously edited of course, and "tomorrow I will be a god of men" and "created by intelligent design" needle-stabbing and throat-punching and the casting of the scientists and Nina as the earl of...Something and "never had a scientific mind like me." And all of the rest too. WHY CAN'T THE SHOW ALWAYS JUST BE ABOUT THIS?

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

I've seen only a couple of your vids, but from what I've seen the thing all your vids share in common is that they're full of heart, full of understanding for the characters they are about and that is just amazing. This is just so purely Olivia that.. well, I don't know how to describe the Olivia-ness of it's, but it's there and it's wonderful. Great song choice too.

[shadowhuntress.livejournal.com]

PURE AWESOME. I can never get enough of Olivia taking people down. And the clips you chose fit the lyrics perfectly! Fabulous editing. Thank you so much for sharing! ::watches again and again::

[emmiere.livejournal.com]

So. Awesome. !!! There are a lot of small moments that are hitting me again or for the first time as I move through, but I have so much *GLEE* over it as a portrait of Olivia in furious motion and purpose through the whole damn narrative. (I really just want to quote everything chaila43 says about the power of her anger actually.) It's more than a little beautiful to watch.

I've apparently reached a word quota, but it is AMAZING and I'm drawing lots of angry, nervous hearts around it. And watching it again because. So, so awesome.

[grimorie.livejournal.com]

You posted!

I really love this vid (and, really, there aren't enough Olivia-centric vids!). I remain very much in love with the beginning of this vid and it lines up so well to the scene in context and out of it. So many people want to control and manipulate her and each time Olivia breaks free, coming back up swinging.

statues surrounded by neolithic objects

The way Olivia is standing over the disappeared building just struck me so much especially with the next line about the glyphs and Olivia tracking down the pattern over a map.

But most of this line:

I will be a God of men / to create a universe

And the corresponding images of Olivia confirming her ability and the way the camera zooms out as she looks out of the Two Towers… it felt like there was something foreshadow-y about it all.

I want to say more because rewatching this makes me see and feel something new. It's just really, really fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing this vid!

[hollywoodgrrl.livejournal.com]

This is freakin' amazing! Ok that's it. As I keep coming back to your journal for more Fringey things and have seen you around the fandom playground for a while now, I ask HOW ARE WE NOT FRIENDS YET?! Adding you. :)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

This is AWESOME. I love how Olivia's character is so all over the place in it (and, as a proxy note, I am now wondering a) what Ourlivia will do when her hair starts to grow in blonde and b) if Sam will look at Fauxlivia and know immediately what's what).

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

I, uh, wow. I've watched this vid so many times and feel like I can't begin to express how much I love it. Olivia Dunham is so awesome.

0:21 stone statues, love how it's the disappearing building
0:27 makes it feel like a dream, omg!
0:32 they call me a charlatan, I love the expression on her face here, it is PERFECT
0:36-0:40 - all I need is to create a universe... trillion degrees, this is a beautiful, gorgeous, omg flooring sequence right here, it's made me squeak each time I've seen it
0:45-0:47, snowman, observer!! ahh, amazing!!
0:55-1:44, omg I'm so taken by the vocalizing going on in the background of the song, it's so ethereal, so haunting, but the beats of the song and the audio snippets are at the forefront which help highlight the danger and violence of the show
1:17-1:19 - YES, YES, YES. I love how Olivia is so fucking smart and god, this is wonderful right here
2:19 - I love the editing work right here, especially the paper set down at 2:20 also? aurora borealis? colors of business cards? \o/ \o/ \o/

omg *leaps onto vid and wraps herself up with it* it's so jam packed with awesome, I love it, I love it, I love it

[gigglemonster.livejournal.com]

Whoah dude this is AMAZZZZZZING!

[gorgeousnerd]

Fantastic vid! I enjoyed it greatly.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

Ummmmmmmm fucking love this vid. Such a boss, bad ass song for our kick ass Liv! Love it!

[aworldinside.livejournal.com]

I loved this vid! Olivia <3

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

This looks most promising!

Would you just tell me up to which episode you've used footage? :) I'm only at 2x05...

[newredshoes]

I am FLAIL CITY about this vid! I don't watch very many, and I download even fewer, but this one, I think this is a recruiter vid. Thank you so much for putting together such an excellent, amazing look at Olivia and why this show is so, so great. Happy new canon day!

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely fantastic. ♥

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Recommended your vid here.

http://monanotlisa.livejournal.com/1144021.html

:)

[promethia_tenk]

I've seen maybe six or seven episodes of Fringe so far, but I cannot stop watching this vid! So much love.

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

OMG I DID NOT KNOW THIS IS SO BADASS. You took my breath away! Fantastic song choice.

I think that one of the reasons I love rap vids about ladies is the tone of in-your-face assertiveness, arrogance, and agency. It works so perfectly for Olivia, highlighting how her experience of victimization (via biotechnology) is also what made her a SUPERHERO. WIN!

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

I really loved this vid a lot too!