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Vid: Heroes (A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery)
source: A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
audio: Scala & Kolacny Brothers, "Heroes"
length: 3:20
download: 27MB on Dropbox
summary: We can be us, just for one day
A Festivids 2016 treat for josette-arnauld.
Original Festivids post
I devoured Dorothy L. Sayers' Peter Wimsey novels last year and was blabbering about them to my roommate (who had only read the Vane novels); I convinced her to read the rest of the books and she showed me the Petherbridge/Walters miniseries. The casting is divine, but the adaptations start out good with Strong Poison and go downhill from there. This is my love letter to Harriet and Peter, though it's not the vid I initially envisioned because the footage just doesn't exist, from a combination of the exigencies of BBC budgets (minimal) and the bad choices made in the adaptation of Gaudy Night, which rob the story of a lot of its political heft. Peter and Harriet, of course, rise above such issues, mostly because Petherbridge and Walters rewrote their scenes wholesale on set. Their relationship--the fact that they find each other, and are able to become the versions of themselves who are able to hold onto each other through each other's influence--is an achievement, and it would be so even in this day and age, even more so in the 1930s.
Technically, vidding with footage this old was…interesting. I thought about trying to correct it, but the light levels are mostly tolerable (I did alter the light levels in the courtroom scenes for visibility) and in the end I lost my vidding energy for all of November, which obviated that possibility. (Fun fact: I finished the first draft of this vid on a plane on Halloween.)
audio: Scala & Kolacny Brothers, "Heroes"
length: 3:20
download: 27MB on Dropbox
summary: We can be us, just for one day
A Festivids 2016 treat for josette-arnauld.
Original Festivids post
I devoured Dorothy L. Sayers' Peter Wimsey novels last year and was blabbering about them to my roommate (who had only read the Vane novels); I convinced her to read the rest of the books and she showed me the Petherbridge/Walters miniseries. The casting is divine, but the adaptations start out good with Strong Poison and go downhill from there. This is my love letter to Harriet and Peter, though it's not the vid I initially envisioned because the footage just doesn't exist, from a combination of the exigencies of BBC budgets (minimal) and the bad choices made in the adaptation of Gaudy Night, which rob the story of a lot of its political heft. Peter and Harriet, of course, rise above such issues, mostly because Petherbridge and Walters rewrote their scenes wholesale on set. Their relationship--the fact that they find each other, and are able to become the versions of themselves who are able to hold onto each other through each other's influence--is an achievement, and it would be so even in this day and age, even more so in the 1930s.
Technically, vidding with footage this old was…interesting. I thought about trying to correct it, but the light levels are mostly tolerable (I did alter the light levels in the courtroom scenes for visibility) and in the end I lost my vidding energy for all of November, which obviated that possibility. (Fun fact: I finished the first draft of this vid on a plane on Halloween.)
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I couldn't agree more that this series has amazing casting and absolutely no production value.
I love how you captured the melancholy of both their characters, and how these two wounded people find strength in themselves, and eventually, in one another.
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And I'm glad that you liked this vid. I do think it is rather heroic, how they both are able to change and reach out of their shells to find happiness despite everything.
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The Petherbridge and Walter miniseries is great, though they definitely go down in quality as they go along. I really wish they'd been able to get the rights to do Busman's Honeymoon, though on the other hand given the problems with the Gaudy Night adaptation it might have turned out badly too. I have the 70s Wimsey series to watch as well, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I suspect I will never be able to unsee Petherbridge as Peter.
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(I'm interested in what you said in your post about the actors rewriting their scenes on set - I don't suppose you have more info about that?)
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Welp, I should have kept looking--the source of this story is Edward Petherbridge himself.
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Thanks to a year-end meme
Re: Thanks to a year-end meme
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