Gundam Thunderbolt | Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Well I'm busy with school, work and my social life, but was able to make this thanks to it being related to school. So I hope you enjoy this even though it's nothing to do with what I want the direction of the channel to be, it's just there to be well, something.
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I put this together for my video art course, for a contextualization assignment, which simply put is to give a different context from to something from its original one. Examples would be Harry Potter as a teen comedy or as one of my classmates did, mixing horrific death in Syria with Mr.Rogers "Won't You Be My Neighbor?".
I began this assignment working on something else but scrapped it after a month, I then I said something along the lines of "fuck it, I am doing Gundam with Jazz", and that is how this came into existence.
I cheated a bit due to Thunderbolt already having Jazz, but really the recontex would be around the song I used mixed with the scenes from Thunderbolt.
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Please Bandai/Sunrise don't screw me over, just trying to have some fun with one of your properties.
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Animation: Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
Song: Frank Sinatra - That's Life
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Gundam Thunderbolt is both an action drama within the mecha sub genre, splitting its narrative between two protagonists on opposite sides on the conflict, both who believe they are destined to kill each other. Taking place during the One Year War (First Gundam), Thunderbolt is a side story within the Thunderbolt sector, pitting two tragic units against each other who have nothing truly left to lose and are desperate to gain victory, edging on insanity for some.
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Frank Sinatra is a 20th century musician with great critical claim worldwide, his works have influenced many throughout the decades and an inspiration thanks to his gifted natural ability in the realm of music and art.
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I am still busy with everything else in my life, I don't truly have time to sit down, record and then edit a video for youtube that isn't related to my personal life. I still plan on releasing a Mecha Explored Video for Voltron, its script has been finished for some time now. I will finish it before season 2 is released, thanks in part to this semester almost being over.
So yah, if you want to see it whenever I upload it, there's like this little bell thing next to where it says "subscribe", if I'm right it'll give you a notification of whenever I upload something, I think. Because like I said, no idea when I can put stuff together for youtube at this current point in my life.
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Just a friendly reminder that this takes place almost at the same time as the original Mobile Suit Gundam
Losing all four limbs to pilot a super power giant red robot to avenge your fallen comrades while your girlfriend and home ship gets wrecked by a giant massive blue/white robot? That's life
Toonami give me a job
For a show about giant robots this franchise is probably the most accurate depiction of war in anime
The thing that ultimately makes this video amazing is the fact that in Japan, Frank Sinatra is a suuper touchy subject. The leader of Aum Shinrikyo (The people that used sarin gas in the Tokyo subways) was obsessed with My Way and sung it for hours at karaoke bars, and if you do that nowadays, people get their asses beat for doing it. The fact that the Zeon and hopefully this new cult are all listening to Sinatra-like big-band music might be tapping into those stigmas to further reinforce the morbid shit that goes on in the series.
I love how Frank actually sounded like Thunderbolt's narrator at the beginning. As in he sounded like he could narrate.
Probably the most intense gundam movie I ever watched in my life.
The more I watch this, the more I realized we were never told, who was good and who was bad in the Gundam universe.. this right here, is plain as day, the mind trickery off war, putting people who don’t even know each other against each other while the corpos sit on their fancy thrones and chairs watching the madness safely..~ smdh.
Everyone wants to be a mech pilot in the gundam universe until you get a POV shot of what that looks like: a giant metal monster ripping you apart limb from limb before finally cooking you alive with a giant laser sword
That feel when you re-watched Thunderbolt more than you have 8th MS team just in a span of a month.
thunderbolt really covered every single terror of war. death, torture, fear, loneliness, loss, isolation, and the ‘coping’ mechanisms.
Io Fleming: "Heh...I just thought of a really funny joke."
"At first I saw War as a Tragedy,now I see it as a Comedy"-Io Fleming
What I love about Thunderbolt is that while the new type stuff in main Gundam series tends to bog down an other while good plot. Stuff like Thunderbolt gets straight to the point, you don't need to see the world through a phycic kid to the utter pointless of war. It just shows war is bad rather than telling
Honestly, I could totally imagine this being an extended Toonami promo. Well done, sir!
Wow... oddly appropriate music for such a brutal anime... love it!
"... I jump right on a big bird and then I fly" this song was perfect for Gundam
The first gundam show i’ve seen where the real antagonist is the war itself. I hope we see more gundam shows like this.
The legend returns
This could serve as a fucking promotional vid for Thunderbolt.