Hey Pretty

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Vid
Title: Hey Pretty
Creator: astartexx
Date: Aug 2006
Format: Divx .avi
Length: 3:45 minutes
Music: Hey Pretty by Poe
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Fandom: Supernatural
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URL: vid announcement
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Hey Pretty is a Supernatural fan vid by astartexx. It was recommended by charmax on August 16, 2006 at the reel. The vid is told from the POV of Sam and Dean Winchester's car, the Impala.

Summary: ‘Hey pretty, don't you wanna take a ride with me? Through my world.’ The Impala is more pissed at Sam’s bitchy attitude, dad’s grumpiness and generally less forgiving than Dean."

Vidder's notes:"So yeah, inspiration hit hard three eps into Supernatural – everything clicked in my head – the solution is so fucking simple, take two pretty boys, one sizzling hot Impala and add the twist of deus ex machina and voilá, you get my most superficial vid up to date work title ‘car p0rn’."

She goes on to say that while the Dean/Impala connection come to her at first, she realized that Sam had his own relationship with the Impala: "About the wooing of Sam – ‘Hey Pretty’ really came down to his seduction by the Impala, which was both unbelievable fun to get done and was also just plain painful to accomplish. In the end I think I’ve done an okay job in showing the difference between the both brothers in regards of the car – How Dean is just at home, while Sam tries to find his place again in Season 1, plus the beauty that is her driving in the landscape.....It sure makes you reconsider all the times you made fun of males and their petting and goggling of shiny paint jobs and fast cars, when you suddenly find yourself obsessed with one…"

Reactions/Reviews

  • "Now this is car!porn. It felt like I somehow missed about half of these shots when they aired, somehow they became new again when you put the impala at the center. Lovely."[1]
  • "Very awesome vid. I really like the story behind it and the song gives a perfect voice and attitude to the Impala that will probably be in my head whenever I read Metallicar oriented fic. Or when I watch the show and just know the car is trying to tell Sam to stick with the passenger side and play nice. Of course now she's going to refer to Dean as her 'pretty baby' in my head, and -okay, i've always been a little to fond of anthropomorphism."[2]
  • "Watch this vid because it takes a different stance from most supernatural vids. The boys are still there looking pretty but the Impala is the one telling the story and she is not a happy girl. It has a great feel with a lovely soft focus that makes the car shine and really puts it at the forefront of the video. Astarte really brings the car to life and offers up some high quality car p0rn. It really shows the car as a character in the show.""[3]
  • ""It is a thing of beauty, people, both the vid and the car. It's just got such an amazing fluid quality to the editing, which is so awesome considering the subject is something that, you know, moves really fast. And it's got some of the best use of additional sound (smidges of dialogue) that I've ever *heard* in a fanvid.""[4]
  • "Hey pretty, don't you wanna take a ride with me. This might just be my favorite thing ever. Because OMG THE MOST PERFECT IMPALA VID YOU COULD POSSIBLY DREAM UP. And I believe that is all I have to say."[5]

References

  1. ^ feedback at the vid announcement.
  2. ^ feedback at the vid announcement.
  3. ^ feedback at the reel recommendation.
  4. ^ feedback at the supernaturalvid announcement.
  5. ^ zimshan's Supernatural Vid Recs dated Jan 31, 1007.