Vid: Soon Love Soon (Master and Commander)

[usuallyhats]

Title: Soon Love Soon
Fandom: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Music: Vienna Teng
Content notes: Depiction of suicide. (Please feel free to ask if you want more details.)
Summary: To be a part is to be truly whole.
Download: Vid and subtitles here (2:37 minutes, 99MB) (I've been having some issues with Mediafire, lmk if this link doesn't work!)
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(password: onepeople)

soon love soon
soon love soon

soon love soon
we will find illumination in unnatural light
soon love soon
you will travel a thousand miles without leaving my sight
soon love soon
we will find we never knew hatred ran so deep
soon love soon
such a wide, wide chasm of faith to leap

but we will be as one god
and we will be as one people

and we will be as one god
and we will be as one people

yes we will be as one god
and we will be as one people

soon love soon
there will be an evolution of the human soul
soon love soon
we will know that to be a part is to be truly whole
soon love soon
we will know the pattern of centuries rise and fall
soon love soon
we will know that the fate of one is the fate of all

and we will be as one god
and we will be as one people

and we will be as one god
and we will be as one people

and we will be as one god
and we will be as one people

Comments

[raven]

Jenni, I love this!! It captures so much that is beautiful about the source, and the song, too. Honestly, I love everything about it. I love how Stephen's eyes open on "illumination". I love how you start with the crew who caused Hollom's suicide and show how they can be BETTER than that, that they come together to fight their battles. I love how "we will be as one god" is always a shot of the ship under sail. I love in particular how much use you make of Stephen, the way he lingers as the ship's conscience even when the tone lifts. I just, I adore this.

[usuallyhats]

Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it.

[muccamukk]

Wow this is so gorgeous. I really love the cuts, and how the shots fade into/over each other with the layers of life on the ship. The cut of the beetle and Bleakney lighting up to "There will be an evolution of the human soul" was so perfect.

[usuallyhats]

Thank you!

[purplefringe]

Jenniiiiiii this is SO LOVELY OMG. I haven't seen or read the source, so am coming to this entirely context-free, but it's still beautiful. I am missing all the nuances, of course, but the way you use the swaying rhythm of the song and the ship together, and that strong beat that pulses through it, is wonderful to watch. I get the sense of a group of people working together to become something *more* than they started, striving towards a common goal and united by the ship they share. I love the way the vid focuses on the ship, the 'one god' who everyone aboard works to protect, and which in return protects them.

[usuallyhats]

Thank you!

[sophia_sol]

I first watched this vid back in 2018 and loved it at the time, and rewatching it now I'm reminded of how truly excellent it is - you've done an amazing job of building the song and visuals together to create something really moving

[usuallyhats]

Thank you!

sending love

[littlecatk]

this was lovely!
the cameradery, was definitly my favorite but at the same time maybe it is just me, but the "and we will be as one people" is a promise not yet fullfilled in the movie but carrying beyond it, the hierachies the shots are seperated - i like it when vid expand over what the source shows - does this make sense? what i mean to say, thanks for making and sharing this great vid!

Re: sending love

[usuallyhats]

Thank you!