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The Dead Are Alive (fanedit of Spectre)
I make no bones about the fact that I didn't care much for Spectre. I don't think there's any other Bond film where my enjoyment was so high at the start and then so low when the end credits rolled.
So as a faneditor of films and TV, I wanted to take what I enjoyed in Spectre (Mexico City, Lucia Sciarra, a handful of other scenes) and create a new James Bond short called The Dead Are Alive.
The short also includes a custom gun barrel sequence, new music, and colour correction to remove the film's sickly yellow tint. It's approx. 20 min. long and can be viewed below. I recommend watching in HD for best quality. If you want to see a higher quality version, just PM me.
(Note: my username on Fanedit.org is "Problem Eliminator," which is why I call myself that in the opening credits.)
So as a faneditor of films and TV, I wanted to take what I enjoyed in Spectre (Mexico City, Lucia Sciarra, a handful of other scenes) and create a new James Bond short called The Dead Are Alive.
The short also includes a custom gun barrel sequence, new music, and colour correction to remove the film's sickly yellow tint. It's approx. 20 min. long and can be viewed below. I recommend watching in HD for best quality. If you want to see a higher quality version, just PM me.
(Note: my username on Fanedit.org is "Problem Eliminator," which is why I call myself that in the opening credits.)
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Maybe? If you've never heard of fanedits before, this is how Wikipedia describes them: "A fan edit is a version of a film modified by a viewer, that removes, reorders, or adds material in order to create a new interpretation of the source material."
The video doesn't show up on my iphone. I'm guessing that was @barryt007 's issue too. Works on my laptop though.
Moreover, your beautiful color correction makes me wish I had an edit of SP like this in its entirety that didn't carry the prominent yellow overlay.
Stellar stuff, all around!
I also dig the cold, spectral feeling that you enhance from the film. That is a feeling that I personally think penetrates all the film in a very gothic kind of way and you really tapped into that.
I do not find the yellow-filter as distracting as many other do, but you have really showed how much better the film would look without it. I felt as I could really enjoy the frames more and pick up some interesting mise-en-scene that otherwise gets lost.
@dominicgreene Sent you a PM.
@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Thanks for your comments! Maybe some day someone will do an edit of Spectre that just removes the yellow tint.
@MrBond I'm glad to hear the short worked so well for you. I was trying to evoke Fleming in the opening by paraphrasing the original subtitle of For Your Eyes Only ("Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond").
Here is a curiosity, if anyone is interested - a side-by-side comparison of the original gun barrel and the one I created. Both are properly synced to the music. Notice that Bond no longer swings his gun arm back and forth in the new gun barrel!
I wonder if any other Bond films could have little "shorts" extracted from them. I have played around with ideas for OP, TND and SF, but none of them quite worked. I think Spectre lends itself to this treatment because the story feels like a bunch of random ideas sewn together... IMO, anyways.