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A fan video of the Macbeth episode of Great Performances, featuring Patrick Stewart as Macbeth and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth. The video is set to Mulan’s I’ll Make a Man Out of You and focuses on Lady Macbeth encouraging Macbeth to carry out their plots. It was submitted by quantumspork, who says,
Not explicitly “queer,” but a silly riff on the themes of masculinity in Macbeth. Besides, I’ll Make a Man Out of You videos are always necessary.
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The Hungarian co-ed production of Romeo & Juliet, submitted by morethanprinceofcats, who says, “Everyone I’ve ever shown this to thinks Mercutio and Tybalt are sleeping together. Try to deny it.”
Video begins with a gang of Montagues arguing, Mercutio among them; all dialog is in Hungarian and there are no subtitles. A voice from elsewhere shouts to them; it’s Tybalt. Mercutio announces anticipatorily, Capulets! Tybalt says he’s looking for Romeo, and is promptly harrassed as though this has a double-meaning. The song begins when Tybalt loses his temper, and Mercutio and Tybalt begin harrassing each other. Romeo eventually joins the scene and he and Benvolio try to break up the fight.
Right before the moment in which Tybalt runs at Romeo and Mercutio with his knife drawn, in the last lines of song, Mercutio runs his hand intimately through Tybalt’s hair, which utterly infuriates him.
Tybalt rushes in to stab Romeo, and appears to have stabbed Mercutio entirely by accident; he is clearly devastated, and runs off. Mercutio collapses, and the rest of the video is his death song and Romeo’s grief.
For me the queerest part is the moment when Mercutio touches Tybalt’s hair. The line in Hungarian is:
Mercutio: Szép—
Tybalt: Nem!
Both: Színház az élet!Tybalt is saying, “Life is not a theater!” and Mercutio is saying, “Life is a beautiful theater!” Because of the way Hungarian words, the word for negations is the same word for “no”—so in the scene this has a double meaning: Mercutio touches Tybalt’s hair and coyly sings “beautiful” while Tybalt shouts “no!”
Earlier in the scene, before the song has begun, when Mercutio begins goading him, he calls Tybalt “szép”. This is a Mercutio who earlier in the show kisses Romeo, though what he means by it isn’t all that clear.
Thank you!
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A submission from dontcrosscross.
Fanvideo made from clips of the 1996 Twelfth Night, with Nicholas Farrell as Antonio and Steven Mackintosh as Sebastian, set to “Romanticide” by Tal Bachman. Antonio/Sebastian, but Antonio-centric.
[Clips are of Antonio and Sebastian interacting or Antonio alone by himself; there are very few featuring only Sebastian. The main exception to this is on the line in the chorus “Whoever said that good guys always win?” which is set to a clip of Sebastian kissing or otherwise interacting with Olivia. In the clips of Antonio alone, he looks sad.]
Also, let it be noted that I, the creator and submitter of this fanvid, also made this one (link to “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich” fanvid previously posted on this blog).
Thank you!
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A fanvideo comprised of clips from the 1996 film of Twelfth Night, starring Imogen Stubbs as Viola and Helena Bonham Carter as Olivia, and, as described by intheconcertroom, “inexplicably set to Lady Gaga.”
[The video clips mainly involve Viola and Olivia’s interactions, with Viola in disguise as Cesario. Some clips involve them walking and talking together; in others, Olivia appears to be confessing her love to Viola; in still others, they are kissing or otherwise romantically engaged. Some clips are rather sexually suggestive. The video is set to an abbreviated version of Lady Gaga’s “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich.”]
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Right then! Let’s get this train wreck a-rollin’, and other such clichés about starting things.
This is the title track from a musical called Were the World Mine, directed by Tom Gustafson and starring Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, and Nathaniel David Becker. From IMDB:
If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. After his eccentric teacher casts him as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe hidden within the script to create the play’s magical, purple love-pansy. Armed with the pansy, Timothy’s fading spirit soars as he puckishly imposes a new reality by turning much of his narrow-minded town gay, beginning with the rugby-jock of his dreams. Ensnaring family, friends and enemies in this chaos, Timothy forces them to walk a mile in his musical shoes. The course of true love never did run smooth; it’s a bumpy ride.
It is camp, it is adorable, it is beautiful, it is fabulous, and it is based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There is no possible way it could be any better.
Click here for the lyrics.
[The video opens with Timothy sitting on his bed. He is holding a book with a single word printed on it: “Sing.” He turns the page, revealing the opening lyrics of the song. He starts singing. When the instruments come in, he turns his head, revealing elaborate glittery eye makeup on one side. As the song continues, he moves into a dream world of the stage at his school. He has changed into parts of his Puck costume, and some members of the rugby team are also on the stage, shirtless or in jerseys.
As he sings on stage, the shot cuts to Jonathon, who is sleeping on a bed of white flowers. He has glittery makeup on the opposite side of his face, matching Timothy’s. While Timothy sings, members of the rugby team dance on the stage. Timothy now has his costume wings on, and their costumes are different as well, mainly being more revealing and adding wings.
Jonathon wakes up to sing his part to Timothy. Timothy approaches him, and they dance together, with backup from the rest of the rugby team. As the song ends, they sit together on the bed of flowers, both of their faces in profile to show their makeup. Jonathon lifts a purple flower from the bed and passes it to Timothy. Timothy looks down at it, and Jonathon and the dream world fade behind him. From outside his room, someone calls “Hey, I’m here!” Timothy, who is back in his room, with no makeup and his normal clothes, holds the purple flower. He replies, “Hold on! Wait out there.”]
