"And finding answers is forgetting all of the questions we called home."
- Trading Yesterday, "Shattered"
This is probably my favorite song. If... I can pick a favorite. Not sure I can.
I heard this song first in a youtube fan music video of Harry Potter.
I love watching music videos of my favorite movies because they offer a different perspective than the original movie. Moments are taken out of context, similarities between moments are noted visually, different colors are used (a favorite is turning Hermione's pink dress blue, as it was in the book), special effects give the film a new look, and different parts of the story can be dwelt upon individually.
I love the juxtaposition of scene on scene which awakens some new thought in my mind... if that, and if that, then what would--?? I also like when they manipulate the clips so that they seem to tell a different story - or an unfilmed part of the existing story. I tried my hand at editing a few years ago so I know just enough to know how hard it is. So I like music videos as art as well.
I did one live-action music video (the rest are slideshows). It's of Lucy and Aslan. You can watch it here. Tell me if you watch it and like it. :)
The above quotation is hauntingly beautiful to me. In the original Harry Potter video it was played over a clip of Harry and Dumbledore in the Order of the Phoenix. They were in the courtroom, and Dumbledore was avoiding him.
That question (What is up with Dumbledore avoiding eye contact?) was a part of him at that time. It was part of what made him who he was. When he learned that Dumbledore thought he was keeping Harry safe by remaining distant from him, that question ceased to be a part of Harry. He ceased to be who he was when that was one of his questions.
And that lead me to think further.
Harry has to delve deep into Voldemort's past and psyche to discover the secret to destroy him. I think Harry would mourn the man that knowledge has made him; mourn the innocence about human nature that it took from him. Delving into a psycho's soul is the stuff that makes you a man if you weren't already. Either a man of sorrows or a man of anger or a man of evil, but not a child.
Take this idea two steps farther and you get a sentimental clinging to the past for the simple sake of it being known. That's not right. But there are some things about the past - past innocence, for instance - which ought to be remembered and maybe even mourned.
I think the whole of growing up is this way; not just growing from childhood to adult, but growing throughout the whole of your life. As I look back with wistful remembrance on my tenth or twelfth year, so many look back on their twenty-first. The things I thought were troubles then were not; the things I looked up to have lost their luster as I have become and done the things which seemed fantastic.
I don't regret growing up - I don't mourn the loss of my childhood because I am welcoming my future. But it is true that those questions that were HOME have now become "the old house."
The old house should be remembered as a place that we once were, a place that has helped to bring us where we are, and the name that I shall someday give to the place I stand now.
It keeps us transitory.
What questions did you used to call home?
I heard this song first in a youtube fan music video of Harry Potter.
I love watching music videos of my favorite movies because they offer a different perspective than the original movie. Moments are taken out of context, similarities between moments are noted visually, different colors are used (a favorite is turning Hermione's pink dress blue, as it was in the book), special effects give the film a new look, and different parts of the story can be dwelt upon individually.
I love the juxtaposition of scene on scene which awakens some new thought in my mind... if that, and if that, then what would--?? I also like when they manipulate the clips so that they seem to tell a different story - or an unfilmed part of the existing story. I tried my hand at editing a few years ago so I know just enough to know how hard it is. So I like music videos as art as well.
I did one live-action music video (the rest are slideshows). It's of Lucy and Aslan. You can watch it here. Tell me if you watch it and like it. :)
The above quotation is hauntingly beautiful to me. In the original Harry Potter video it was played over a clip of Harry and Dumbledore in the Order of the Phoenix. They were in the courtroom, and Dumbledore was avoiding him.
That question (What is up with Dumbledore avoiding eye contact?) was a part of him at that time. It was part of what made him who he was. When he learned that Dumbledore thought he was keeping Harry safe by remaining distant from him, that question ceased to be a part of Harry. He ceased to be who he was when that was one of his questions.
And that lead me to think further.
Harry has to delve deep into Voldemort's past and psyche to discover the secret to destroy him. I think Harry would mourn the man that knowledge has made him; mourn the innocence about human nature that it took from him. Delving into a psycho's soul is the stuff that makes you a man if you weren't already. Either a man of sorrows or a man of anger or a man of evil, but not a child.
Take this idea two steps farther and you get a sentimental clinging to the past for the simple sake of it being known. That's not right. But there are some things about the past - past innocence, for instance - which ought to be remembered and maybe even mourned.
I think the whole of growing up is this way; not just growing from childhood to adult, but growing throughout the whole of your life. As I look back with wistful remembrance on my tenth or twelfth year, so many look back on their twenty-first. The things I thought were troubles then were not; the things I looked up to have lost their luster as I have become and done the things which seemed fantastic.
I don't regret growing up - I don't mourn the loss of my childhood because I am welcoming my future. But it is true that those questions that were HOME have now become "the old house."
The old house should be remembered as a place that we once were, a place that has helped to bring us where we are, and the name that I shall someday give to the place I stand now.
It keeps us transitory.
What questions did you used to call home?