Wow. I was quite cynical about this - I don't go in for fanvids much, and well, if anybody tells me something will make me cry I automatically harden. And at first I thought, oh yeah, sad song, sweeping strings, over-brightened visuals, all the tricks... and then it got me.
I've seen Band of Brothers all the way through now what, seven or eight times now, and never has the bombing of Eindhoven affected me as emotionally as it did when she cut straight from the celebrations to the town burning (and I think now I'm going to find that episode much harder to watch). And somehow she timed Skip and Penkala's deaths perfectly with the crescendo in the music that I still have a lump in my throat that's not going away.
There's some visual tricks in this I've not seen in any other fanvids before, either, in particular superimposing one image over another for effect. You weren't lying - this is astonishing. Edit: Oh, yes, and a point I was thinking off while watching it but then forgot - this feels like a memorial. This is just my reading, but it feels like she's made a powerful anti-war statement out of a series that, despite itself, sometimes glorifies war.
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Wow. I was quite cynical about this - I don't go in for fanvids much, and well, if anybody tells me something will make me cry I automatically harden. And at first I thought, oh yeah, sad song, sweeping strings, over-brightened visuals, all the tricks... and then it got me.
I've seen Band of Brothers all the way through now what, seven or eight times now, and never has the bombing of Eindhoven affected me as emotionally as it did when she cut straight from the celebrations to the town burning (and I think now I'm going to find that episode much harder to watch). And somehow she timed Skip and Penkala's deaths perfectly with the crescendo in the music that I still have a lump in my throat that's not going away.
There's some visual tricks in this I've not seen in any other fanvids before, either, in particular superimposing one image over another for effect. You weren't lying - this is astonishing. Edit: Oh, yes, and a point I was thinking off while watching it but then forgot - this feels like a memorial. This is just my reading, but it feels like she's made a powerful anti-war statement out of a series that, despite itself, sometimes glorifies war.