Thursday, January 5, 2012

Youtube Video Analysis: Flower Warfare-Psychedelic Action Scene

Before I link you, let me give you some back story to this video...*ahem*
March, 1971. Freddie and Moonchild are hiding from the Psychedelia Police. The Psychedelia police have become a corrupt organization, keeping all the "Whoa, dude..." inducing materials for themselves. Frustrated with the stream of lies being fed to them, Freddie and Moonchild penetrate the police force's HQ. Whilst there they discover the vault of "materials". They capture the police commander, steal his vault access key and steal as much "material" as possible. As they load the "material" into their van, they spot the police preparing to charge them. Freddie, being as quick a thinker as he is, shoves Moonchild in the back of the van, closes it and jumps into the driver's seat. He wastes no time and guns it before the police catch up, Moonchild firing her automatic flower rifle at chasing cars all the while. They manage to escape the police and hide in their secret safe house (Moonchild's house), in the middle of the woods. When they deem themselves safe, they crack open the "material" and induce some "Whoa, dudes..." until they pass out. This is where we join our protagonists at the beginning of the video.
As the video starts, we see that Freddie is fast asleep, until he wakes up suddenly with the images of the police commander, Rico, and his men. Now, I don't know the effects of the "material" that Freddie had been using, but I'm pretty sure psychic visions are not on the list of desired effects, or even on the list of effects at all.   It is because of that we will assume he was just having a dream and woke up thinking it was real, and by some grand coincidence it was. Or we could assume it was just for show and to set the mood, or something crazy like that.
"Rico is coming to get his stuff!" Freddie exclaims as he wakes up. "We need guns!" Moonchild then replies. "They're in the oven!" Freddie explains after checking under the couch cushion. Nowwaitaminute. Let's say we were Moonchild for a second okay? So you're sleeping there when all of sudden this guy wakes you up and says you're place is about to get raided by drug addict police. Would you just automatically accept this without any questioning whatsoever? No only that, would you immediately assume you're gonna need to needlessly shoot a bunch of people, when you could just take the loot and sneak out the back?
What is this and why am I holding it?
However, it's the next thing Freddie says that gets me. "They're in the oven!". Out of all the places to store weapons that have heat triggered ammunition, you put them in the oven? Actually...what triggers these flower projectiles? Never mind about all of that then. The oven though. I think I've actually written the problem I had with that away...Next scene!
Moonchild takes her gun from Freddie and immediately goes to the window in order to shoot two baddies that are attempting to flank them. I'm glad she decided to look out of THAT particular window first, rather than the much closer ones in the kitchen. It's like she already knew exactly when the bad guys would come that way. The next few seconds are of Freddie seeing Moonchild leaning out of the window and shooting in slow-motion. We then observe the two goons getting hit by the flower-bullets and dying. Moonchild then leans back into the house and throws her gun down, saying "I'm out." Now how do you run out of ammo just shooting two guys? and why do you only have one magazine? You seemed so prepared for this raid up until now. Aiming would be a nice thing to do in the future, also.
Bullets are overrated.

Next, Freddie exclaims "That was awesome!" and Moonchild takes a shotgun. They run to the kitchen door, but before they reach it, Moonchild pushes Freddie down and shoots another goon as he opens the door. After that incident, Freddie comes to a completely assumed realization. "We're surrounded.". He runs through the house to another window in a different room to shoot two more guys. I have a feeling that these bad guys are extremely confused as to how Freddie knew exactly where to go to shoot them. Although, they are probably busy being dead so they might not. "Groovy." he says as he turns around. GROOVY??? Good Lord...
Moonchild asks if Freddie is okay when they hear a noise on the roof. The video then cuts to a shot of a bad guy walking around on the roof of the house. No idea how he got up there, but I'm learning to just accept these things. They then open fire on the freakin ceiling, because screw ceilings. Somehow, the flowers manage to penetrate the ceiling and roof, and they all shoot up within a two feet radius of the guy on the ceiling, a few managing to even hit and kill him.
You.Are.NOTHING.

After their unreasonable protest on ceilings, they realize they are once again out of ammunition. They run to the back door (Like they should have done in the first place) and Freddie finds a handgun lying on a table. As they open the door and pop their heads out they see two guys on either side of the door. When the bad guys start to fire the pop back in the door and the baddies get a terminal case of friendly-fire. As unlikely as that last event may have been, I'm gonna let it slide because it was pretty cool, I guess. After double checking to make sure it was clear, Freddie and MoonchildMoonchild looks at Freddie lying on the ground for a second, and continues running. "YOU HAVE TO KEEP GOI-oh man." Freddie says as he looks at his only source of aid run away. He then remembers, Oh yeah! Antagonist! and shoots at Rico. Rico takes cover around the corner of the building, and Freddie keeps firing, because screw walls also. 
After emptying his magazine, he throws his gun aside and awaits Rico's dramatic advance upon his position. As Rico leans over Freddie, half for dramatic effect, half because he's about to kill him, Freddie spots a double rainbow. "Whoa...double rainbow, all the way. What does it-" and his beautiful monologue is interrupted by Rico, who kills him.
How peaceful.



Okay, so this is the first blog post I've made in a while, because I wanted it to be special; and definitely not because I'm lazy. Anyway, I love Freddie Wong's videos, they all have great video effects and editing. Here is a link :  http://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew 
So if you liked this, a comment would be super nice. Until next time!