Vogue
| Title: | Vogue | |
| Creator: | luminosity | |
| Date: | 2007 | |
| Format: | digital | |
| Length: | 4:57 minutes | |
| Music: | Vogue by Madonna | |
| Genre: | meta | |
| Fandom: | The Female Gaze | |
| Footage: | 300 | |
| URL: | original vid announcement; Streaming version of the vid.  | |
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Vogue is a fanvid edited by luminosity, using footage from the film 300 set to Madonna's song Vogue.
- Vidder's summary: "Bite me, Frank Miller."
In 2007, the vid went viral.[1] Luminosity was nominated[2] to be profiled in a double page spread in New York Magazine[3] and Vogue was rated by the magazine as one of the funniest videos, and the best fan video, of the year.[4]
Despite the vid's recognition, it was deleted in January 2008 for copyright issues after having been posted to iMeem, a streaming video service. Morgan Dawn and several other vidders took the vid and began posting it across multiple video streaming sites in protest.
Reactions/Reviews
- "Vogue" literalizes the Female Gaze by recutting the film 300 to the music of Madonna. "Strike a pose!" sings Madonna, as the vid lingers lovingly on slow motion abs and biceps and thighs in action, on graceful tilt of head, curl of lip, swirl of cloak. It is Frank Miller's racist and frequently misogynistic Spartan epic as women prefer to see it, distracted by the pretty. 300 is the hot bimbo you fuck so her mouth is too busy to talk....Mocked and dismissed as they are by mainstream society, fangirls have been staging a quiet revolution for decades - reclaiming the right of women and girls to gaze, as well as be gazed upon."[5]
- "A masterfully edited fan tribute to 300 that knows exactly what that movie was all about."[6]
- "In Vogue, Luminosity punctures the violence of 300 by defiantly aestheticizing both the battlefield and the men on it. She conflates the battlefield and the dance floor, subjecting the men to a female and queer gaze and setting Madonna up as this world's reigning pagan goddess. An instant classic that went straight into vidding canon."[7]
Madonna Remix?
At the 2012 Superbowl, Madonna opened the halftime show with Vogue - accompanied by a vast number of dancing gladiators - thereby prompting much of the vidding community to wonder if Madonna was remixing Luminosity.
- Madonna is a Fan of Fanvids? post at jilltxt.net, 2/2012
- Remix at the Super Bowl post at Obsidian Wings, 2/2012
References:
- ↑ From the sublime to the ridiculous - New Vid - 300 Accessed March 16 2009
- ↑ Henry Jenkins: we decided to nominate Luminosity, who ranks among the very best of contemporary vidders Accessed March 16 2009
- ↑ The Vidder. Luminosity upgrades fan video. Accessed March 16 2209
- ↑ The Twenty (Intentionally) Funniest Web Videos of 2007. #15 In a sea of easy parodies, Luminosity’s lush, hilarious pairing of 300 and Madonna’s "Vogue" is the best fan video of the year. Accessed March 16 2009
- ↑ The Female Gaze by kerryg, dated 2009; WebCite.
- ↑ 300 vs. Madonna's Vogue = AWESOME comment next to a copy of the vid that was reposted by perfectlysane in 2009.
- ↑ Comment by Francesca Coppa in the Blip.tv copy of the vid; WebCite.
