M(1931)

I think the scene in M with the children singing is an interesting one because this is a trope that is common in setting a tone of underlining creepiness that involves on having children present or singing in some fashion. A good example and one the most famous examples is in Kubrick's The Shining with the twin girls. Children and an outside setting is often used to invoke a feeling of underling horror. I'd really like to know the physiological reasoning behind that.

As I said previously I do find it interesting that the other criminals are hunting for the murder it could be framed as an anti-heroes and people you want to root for. I find it interesting that in the world of criminals if there is or isn't is another matter. But, the fact remains that we like to believe that in this lawless world there are “rules” or most of these criminals though they could murder a human in cold blood draw a line and haven't lost all their humanity. This too is a common trope and saying about those who harm children or women don't do well in prison. Maybe it has to do with defending those that can't defend themselves or a base psychological thing I don't know.

Another element in the whole things that piqued my interest is the Kangaroo Court by Criminals this too is a popular thing we've seen in a variety of things one that sticks out is in Batman when the criminals take over and put people on trial. Mostly businessmen panting parallels to recent events.

So What does M tells us about Mob Justice? Is it in support of it or not? At the end the criminals and the murder all get arrested so one can probably say no. Or is the fact that sometimes there are things so rotten even the “lowest” in society set to put things right and that there are things that are base instincts just can't let slide.

My Attempt At Remix

So after talking so much about Remix and appreciation I took a shot at remixing works I appreciated using the basic tools of Audacity and my imagination.



My first attempt was make Adam WarRock's Sinister Six and Superior track one cohesive story since the main focus is on Doctor Octopus so I took the start and end of the first song and spliced in most of Superior after it. Since Superior Spider-Man is Doctor Octopus as Spider-Man. It just seemed like an interesting idea and one that would thematically work together. Needless to say this feels to me like a bad remix by me because it doesn’t feel like I did much but cut things out and paste other things in.

The Superior Spider-Man

It feels like the minimal amount of work it did come from a loving place but that's no excuse for bad work. I guess part of it is what I envisioned in my head was different than what came out which I had to high of hopes for my first attempt. Also there are some blatant errors like Spider is cut off the final line of the track.

My Second attempt at a remix was using Vienna Ditto's Little Fingers and The Undefeated as a
True Detective mashup/soundtrack/I don't know the proper term for this one. I feel this is a better remix I spent more time on it for sure. I don't think that is why though I like this one more that may be partly because I had a clear idea on what I wanted for this one. One I first heard Vienna Ditto a week ago I immediately said to myself this needs to be in “True Detective “Season 1 an impossible thing to do retroactively or is it? Anyway this remix is better but I feel the execution is not as good levels rise and lower and sometimes soundclips are drowned out by music.

My third and final attempt was a mash up or combination of three different Adam WarRock's track “Marvelous” “Nova” and “Andrew Garfield SDCC” this was a more ambitious attempt due to the amount of clips involved. I feel this is on the same quality as the previous remix or a bit better. At this point I had discovered some tricks in the tools I was using that I hadn't spotted before due to having spent a longer amount using them previously. As with the turtle I learned by playing. 

 



Overall this experience gave me more respect for “Girl Talk” an artist I don't actually listen to but know of who mostly does mash up and remixes it is definitely not easy work. An idea I didn't have previously but would certainly not cross my mind now. 

Girl Talk aka Greg Gillis

 



Which remix did you like best?