Procrastination is My Drug of Choice: Buffy and Veronika Decides to Die Icons

[red_satin_doll]

This is what I do when I have at least three meta and two fics unfinished on my harddrive, whilst my lovely beta lanoyee waits patiently so she can actually beta. (Beta is both a noun and a verb, right?) I don't have Photoshop, only the simply editing suite on Photobucket to play with, so no claims to art here. (If you're looking for art, try terragram_icons ; they just posted a fun set of buffyverse quote icons. Or comlodge's award-winning icons. Or...anyone who is not me.)

Sample Icons:  

Anyhoo...The first two are from Veronika Decides to Die (a movie I don't recommend due to what I consider it's unethical and misguided "solution" to depression: "Veronika just needs to care about someone else and she'll feel all better! And lying to her about her health condition and manipulating two mentally ill people in order to cure them is TOTALLY worth the risk!" Sorry, NO. But damn, it's got some pretty visuals.) The rest are of my girl Buffy Summers, of course, or Buffy and Dawn.

You know the drill: Comments and feedback are always welcome; proper credit is a must. All for the taking, just let me know.
(ETA: Speaking of proper credit *ahem*, original screencaps and promo images for Veronika sourced from smg-online.org and LadyMason.com .)

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Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thanks sweetie! # 4 is one of my favorites too; I was really pleased with the strong contrast effect.

Veronika's moral is bullshit but the movie was so beautiful

Amen. It's one of the most gorgeously lensed films I've ever seen
http://ladymanson.com/galleries/movies/MoviesTV/displayimage.php?album=7&pid=14357#top_display_media
http://ladymanson.com/galleries/movies/MoviesTV/displayimage.php?album=7&pos=1665
but - what is the shorthand term for beautiful images put to the service of a terrible message? ("A major portion of Western art and culture" is a little unwieldy.) Smothering mother, love at first sight, creativity as a cure - and I could write a nice long post about my issues with the depiction of women & masturbation & the association re: mental illness in the movies (Veronika, Margot at the Wedding, Black Swan.) Ugh

The fact that Sarah does hit the "right notes" (no pun intended) re: depression, suicide, hopelessness, lethargy, anger etc just makes it worse.

Apparently it's available on bluray so I guess it was pretty popular worldwide? I don't recall that it got a US release.

[kikimay]

If I remember correctly the film just went out in dvd-form without being released in cinemas. Apparently it wasn't a huge success. And yes, there's that contraddiction between stupid message and generally good movie. (I also appreciated the other actors not only Sarah, who was magnificent)
I just really hope to see Sarah in something I completely like. I think she's really talented and she deserves to act in proper projects.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I also appreciated the other actors not only Sarah

I forgot to mention Melissa Leo! She was in it before she made Frozen River and The Fighter but I didn't see it until after I'd seen the Fighter. I think she's fantastic. I love mature women in movies who look like - real women. Her wrinkles make her more beautiful in my eyes.

I just really hope to see Sarah in something I completely like.

I would too but at this point I'm not holding my breath, sadly. I would never have picked DB as the one to have the most successful after-series career based on what I saw in btvs (aside from Aly, but she already had those American Pie movies.) Sarah, James, Emma, and Anthony would have been my picks. Maybe it's just what other people have said: the right actor+right role=kismet. Like lightening in a bottle that can't be recaptured.

[buffydub.livejournal.com]

I was just following the links to your Icons and saw your discussion .

The situation with Veronika is that it is in distribution hell in America , apparently because of a legal dispute between two of the producers , and has never been released in any form .There was a proposed DVD release at one point but that never went ahead .

It hasn't been released in the UK either apparently as a consequence of the US dispute so there is no DVD or Bluray from there .

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[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

It hasn't been released in the UK either apparently as a consequence of the US dispute so there is no DVD or Bluray from there .

Ah, thank you for the information! I think that's a lot more common that people would think? (I remember back in the '80's a film went straight to VHS starring Jodie Foster and Dennis Hopper that was supposed to be a major release but the producers went bankrupt. If anything it might be even more common in this economic climate.)

There was a proposed DVD release at one point but that never went ahead .

I found it on Blu Ray (5 copies) and a couple of used DVD copies on Amazon. I actually watched it on YouTube but I'm fairly certain pieces of it were missing or out of order (the pool sequence, for instance.) Lady Manson's caps are from the Blu Ray.

I just friended you I hope you don't mind? I know that you haven't posted to LJ since 2004. Did you find me via su_herald, perchance? (What does the "dub" in your screenname signify? My first thought was it signified something being "dubbed" into another language.)