"before the end, you will pluck snowdrops at midwinter, die by your own choosing and weep for a nightingale."
these books.... this world and its characters are something so familliar to me and so very a part of my heart. katherine arden is truly a gifted author, making one understand every character no matter how vile they may be, and her descriptions... it's like poetry but in prose. i must admit i love the second book the best (just by a the tiniest of margins) and hopefully one day i'm gonna do smth like this for it and the third book.... or something more general and include more side characters like i did in my uprooted video. so this video is mainly focused on the relationship between morozko and vasya (and medved) but like in an aesthetic way.
i really wanted to include the prick of the priest that is konstantin but i just couldn't think of a man to match his looks that has enough footage to actually make something with it hence two saša cameos that are more of a teaser to scenes in the second book (i guess you can pretend he is konstantin in the context of the video and chose scenes/voiceovers and i was tempted to do so myself but danila is my perfect saša soo). did i mention i love saša? because i do.
and medved.... don't get me started on that absolutely maddening and powerful incarnation of lonely chaos. when i first finished the first book i definitely had not expected that, in just another half of the book time, i was going to come to understand and care for him. it sneaked up on me like the first frost of winter.
the fact he gets the best lines does not help either lol
- “There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.”
(this is his deep quote but you should see the power of sass and one liners he wields, especially in the third book)
i'm trying not to ramble too much but am kinda failing at it.... i want to make an edit that focuses only on morozko and medved - death and life, peace and chaos, winter and summer. then again i want to make a lot of things but end up failing at it bleh
i am kinda half deaf atm but i was aching to edit something in regards to this trilogy so.... i hope it's decent enough.
as i said for naomi novik's work, i don't want hollywood to come near these books - not even a centimetre. if someone ever decides to do something with it, i feel like the animation form would give the best opportunity to bring to life all the magic and quietness of this world as well as sheer volume of all the emotions that we feel throughout the story. i just keep imagining the scenes like vasya letting požar go and she transforming into a firebird and lighting all of moscow with her anger or when vasya first comes to medved's sleeping place deep in the forest come to life with the help of animation.
translation of the lyrics can be found here: drive.google.c...
cast:
mila sivatskaja as vasilisa petrovna
sam claflin as morozko
richard dormer as medved
danila kozlovski as aleksandr (peresvet) petrović
#viddingisart #fanvidfeed #winternight
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