Posted on 11/28/2020 10:15:44 AM PST by mairdie
A music video for the Chinese romantic comedy drama, Love O2O. Two computer science college students first meet and marry in an online game. Real life follows that same pattern as the boy works to win the design contest for an online game.
Unusual is that the two leads never doubt or waver during their two year courtship. And the boy is always confident that the girl will prefer to solve her own problems with himself as backup only. Love O2O on viki.com
PING to two Love O2O music videos.
Recipe for romantic video:
1. Film anything.
2. Add song ‘Right down the line’ by Gerry Rafferty.
3. You are done.
My comment wasn’t a knock on the Chinese comedy drama. I’ve never seen it. Only a compliment to Gerry Rafferty.
You’re sweet to clarify. Thanks for that. This is the first Gerry Rafferty song I’ve used in 876 videos. I’ll have to look into him more.
What made the song work for this show is the “It’s been you, woman, right down the line.” In the show, the boy sees the girl playing the online game and is impressed with her skill. He goes to the game and asks her to marry him online. Later he meets her on a bridge in the real world in the same position their characters were in the game and, after he marries her in real life, takes her to the place where he first saw her that he’s bought for his company offices and flashes back on that first time. It’s trying to find that deep connection between the story of a song and the story of a drama that is the fun part.
My favorite Gerry Rafferty tune is “Baker Street”...for me, when I hear it, it brings me back to when I was in the USN, anchored off Rota Spain, outbound back to the USA and the USS Eisenhower was relieving us, anchored a short distance away.
When I woke up that morning, it was to the ship’s 1MC system playing “Baker Street” with the last stanza obviously the one they meant for us to hear...
When you wake up, it’s a new mornin’
The sun is shinin’, it’s a new mornin’
You’re goin’, you’re goin’ home
What a grand day-going home to my friends and loved ones...:)
He had a few good tunes...not a one-hit-wonder...:)
Yes, Baker Street is an absolute gem.
:D
Exactly! I took it that way. :D
I’m just realizing that you made the video. Great job! I see you have many more and a good taste in music. They are deserving of more views. A couple of other Gerry Rafferty classics are Baker Street and Stuck in the Middle With You (he was singer with stealers wheel).
I’m guessing you did not see a movie named The Warriors which was a cult male classic made in 1979 about gangs in New York. Although its notoriety came from its violence, it’s really a good movie with an exceptional director. One of my favorite videos on YouTube was made using this movie. And a song I had never heard. I left the comment that it is the most under-appreciated video on YouTube. Take a peek when you have a minute. As a fellow romantic I think you will like it.
https://youtu.be/wbgjLV-fEK0
I very much enjoyed your link. No I hadn’t seen the movie and I did immediately play Baker Street after you mentioned it. It doesn’t have a strong enough story for me to work with.
I’ve done over 850 literary song videos since 1985. I’ve run a number of workshops, given a talk on them at the MIT Media Lab, and have been interviewed for a number of books. Not sure by now if I should consider a lot of my video friends as children, grandchildren, or great grandchildren by now. People used to show up at my house for mini workshops for 24 hours or a week.
These are not MTV videos. I usually think of those as fine arts turned kinetic. What I do is closer to short story writing. I have written quite a bit of fan fiction and had Writers&Artists repping two of my movie scripts.
I can outline a literary song video in much the same way as I would a short piece of fiction. The story is everything so what I’m always looking for is the song that tells the story of a particular show, or the show that will explicate the lyrics of a particular song. I once stood outside a cafe in New Orleans listening over and over again to Boys of Summer. It took me 30 years to find a show that would handle that.
I use the videos to show off a character or to slice thru some aspect of a show. In the “old days” I used to be able to hold an entire series in my head and work loose. These days I tend to flit to new shows so build elaborate time-coded logs with body English descriptions when I’m trying to put together several videos for the same show.
Rarely do I do movies, except for ones with sequels like Star Wars or Superman. Usually just series. But some movie ones you might enjoy would be:
Witness - Weird Al - Amish Paradise
https://youtu.be/y66HERLkQLQ
Escape from NY - Julia Ecklar - Escape
https://youtu.be/PKRiZu5qUqQ
Gettysburg - Soundtrack
https://youtu.be/XiZ8cTeeeLE
Raiders - Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out for a Hero
https://youtu.be/VYwXtki4FpE
My full set of videos, chronologically organized, is at:
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/songvids/historical-list-of-all-music-videos.htm
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