Kim Possible, et al: Vise ("What It's Like")

Right, um..... Everlast's "What It's Like" meets.... "Kim Possible."

Sure.

Because the first thing you think of when listening to a song about catastrophic urban decay is a cheery Disney show. O_o

"What It's Like" by Everlast

"Lose Yourself" by Eminem

"Kim Possible" (C) Disney

My backstory for Mr. Barkin:

I came up with this theory for "Osama's Last Stand," and it became even more probable after I heard Barkin's PTSD ramblings in "Fashion Victim."

Barkin was not your standard grunt. Instead, he was really part of a special reconnaissance team, known as SOG, designed to go deep into enemy territory and/or over the border into Laos or Cambodia to report on the actions of the Viet-Cong.

As a small, elite group of commandos, SOG members were all pretty high up the chain of command - hence the reason Barkin, a lieutenant, had to forage for food in "Two to Tutor;" there wasn't enough manpower to fork the task over to some buck PFC.

In 1969, Barkin and his team were airdropped into Cambodia for a recon/search-and-destroy mission. Unfortunately, the PAVN had overcome their shock and rout of 1968 and developed a system for dealing with these intruders, and Barkin's team was picked apart by booby traps and snipers within a week. One of the last survivors, Barkin was captured by VC while gathering firewood and tortured. Upon his eventual return to the States, he had to panhandle on the streets until the country's attitudes adjusted and he managed to snag a low-paying teaching post at a high school in the Midwestern town of Middleton.

I chose the name "Vise" for several reasons: One, "What It's Like" seemed too formulaic; Two, a vise could stand as a metaphor for the crushing squeeze of urban crime and poverty ; and Three, it's a homonym for vice, which is a synonym for sin, though I think both terms ("vice" and "sin") paint too broad a brush over the extraordinarily complex web of human behavior.

I can't exactly say enjoy, but please review!

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[acap901]

i dnt think this can be called AMV... i think.... mostly AMV is Japanese cartoon normally called anime, thats why it's called anime music video i think this is more like CMV a cartoon music video i dunno cant be fully sure btw nice vid ^^.

[fireandchutes77]

Thanks for the comment! :)

I've always heard them called "AMVs" - standing for "animated music videos."

[kirbiliusclausius]

I would not have thought this could have been done. Cutting edge, I say.

[fireandchutes77]

Thanks. :) I know it's an... unusual choice for a KP AMV; my mind tends to pluck disparate things out of the air and put them together. The results tend to be either very good or very odd. XD

[janinajento]

This is really good! its amazing how you made the stories fit to a "cheery disney show":P even though it was kinda funny, it had a slightly melancholic feel, you know...(slaps head for almost starting to ramble:P) i really liked it, 5* and favxD

[fireandchutes77]

Thanks! :D I wanted the video to have some power to it, but I also wanted some chuckle points to it too, so it wouldn't be a complete bummer (parts of it were frankly depressing to make).

BTW, no fear here of rambles - I like to read! :D

[nachocheeseface13]

Really great... but I can't say it much better than Twila.

*****

[bigpoppa1234]

My only real suggestion would be to swap the kim jump onto the bed crying with the kim crying on the kimmunictator at 4:31, and end the video with the fadeout there, as it would fit the video better than the last scenes there now. It would lose the last bit of song, it just fades out.

Ron gets in Shego and Drakkens face around the 58 minute mark. In a Sitch In Time.

You could always just remove the straw scene (it's very fast and over quickly), and just have Ron lying "dead" on the floor.

[fireandchutes77]

Also, if you're able to think of a better clip for that straw bit, I'm happy for suggestions; I'm always looking for ways to improve on my next video. :)

[fireandchutes77]

"Although I don't get why the straw bit is there."

I needed something of Ron getting in someone's face, my brain was sputtering out, and that was there, so... yeah. XD

Did you catch that Ron was grayed-out in the final scene? :D