mrk Reviews Posted July 8, 2003 Reviews Share Posted July 8, 2003 This is just so mellow http://www.rathergood.com/vid/ :shifty: enjoy :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravager Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Is this one of those things where a horrible face hops out at you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eevoo Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 no, but someone was really board. probley that kid that was staying awake for a bet. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xp1ode Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 hmm....... that was lame but um that techno song cought my attention, anyone know anything of it??? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ike Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 rathergood is just really really weird lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 no, but someone was really board.probley that kid that was staying awake for a bet. :p Bwa!! :woot: :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neb Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 old, but freaky (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empty Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 i want that song, any ideas what its called Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPMCommander Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 hahahahahhaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-}x0{- Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 whats that song at the very end of the animation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 What the hell was that. I seem tired after watching that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russellc Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 LOL, that kids such a stoner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empty Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 LMAO, i just found a critical analysis for that video: "A Frightened Boy" is a video by Joel Veitch, on his web site, Rathergood.com. The video begins with a dreary landscape of gray buildings, brown earth, gray sky, and dark clouds. It is obviously supposed to represent post industrial England, where the author is from. You'll notice that it is a very polluted place- this would explain why all of the children are dead, except the boy, who is obviously a mutant (see how his head is almost as big as his body?) and thus immune. The boy is covered in chemicals, which make him entirely gray, and yet survives with his mutant powers, but, as a child, does not realize that he is immune to England's industrial waste. Obviously the author is making an urgent plea for the environment! The boy is joined by other mutants, crabs with strange and deformed heads, block people (called "pixel people" to represent that they are products of the environmentally hazardous computer age), and Brittany Spears (who is quite obviously deformed). The clouds race by very fast, but the boy's mouth opens and closes only very, very slowly. This represents how the boy is trying to speak to the crabs, to ask them to dance in front of him, to let him join their joyous dance of "Mutants For A Clean Environment" (or M-FACE). The boy fears rejection from his fellow mutants, or hemorrhaging of his delicate, polluted organs, and so does not even turn around or speak, and can only occasionally blink his chemically blood-shot eyes in frustration. The crabs are calling the boy to join them, and they even ask him to dance and join in their acid rain techno party, but he is too frightened. The boy's fading away at the end is a powerful metaphor for how England's children (even the mutants) are lost in the mire of pollution. This video also represents a battle between the conformists and non-conformists. The buildings of the boy's world are all exactly the same, and he does not wish to look at them, because then he will have to conform with the other children and "die". The crabs are obviously non-conformists, and Brittany Spears joins them for a private techno party for a temporary break from her own excessive conformity. When non-conformists get together and dance, they have a lot of fun, but the boy is frightened to be one of them, even as he is frightened to conform, and so has no one. The music reflects both these themes: the sad music at the beginning represents the sadness of a polluted land and the sadness of being alone in non-conformity. The Italian opera music obviously represents non-conformity, and is certainly what we would expect a radioactively mutated crab to sing. The techno, along with showing the joys of the non-conformists, also represents what happens when opera is polluted. The slow music at the end is sad and reflects the loss of the boy to pollution, while being joyous enough to see that he never really conforms, hence "...whatever killed them has never come for him". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empty Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 also, here is the music For the Frightened Boy one The tunes were: Cossack Patrol by Ivan Rebroff, Tanz Br Derchen by Hyperactive and Version by DMX Krew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samoa Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 ya, whatever, the freaking video sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted July 9, 2003 Subscriber¹ Share Posted July 9, 2003 it was pretty funny, just the contrast.. but i can why most people might think it sucks.. still, bookmarked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iczman Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 lol empty, obviously someone has quite well creativity.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 ok.. that was just really stupid. :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizkit Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 I thought it was retarded, and made me more retarded than I already am just because I watched it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiBer Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Got bored of it in the first 25 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshie Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 I remember this from ages back. It's awesome for people who have an attraction to stuff that doesn't quite click immediately. The bizarre factor envelopes the twisted humor behind it, and I love that. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesardrgn Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 I like that Techno song... :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizdon Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 Hypnotic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hav0c Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 Worse flash ever and it does not make sense at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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