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Run Boy Run
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| Title: | Run Boy Run |
| Creator: | hollywoodgrrl |
| Date: | Aug 22, 2013 |
| Format: | Digital |
| Length: | 3:32 |
| Music: | "Run Boy Run" by Woodkid |
| Genre: | Metavid, Female Characters |
| Fandom: | Game of Thrones |
| Footage: | Seasons 1-3 |
| URL: | LiveJournnal announcement Tumblr YouTube |
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Run Boy Run is a Game of Thrones meta vid by Hollywoodgrrl, focused on the female characters of the show and the violence perpetrated against them. It's praised for showing how violence effects all the women in the Game of Thrones universe, from Queens to serving girls, and how even women with "power" are not exempt from it. It is known for its fast pace and quick cuts, and It doesn't shy away from some of the more brutal scenes in the early seasons of the show.
It premiered at Vividcon 2013.
Summary
Summary from LiveJournal and YouTube:
"Girls see more blood than boys." - Ygritte
The vid begins with a tight focus on Arya and her struggles as she passes as a boy and her travels through a war torn Westeros. Then it switches to Daenerys and her early time with the Dothraki, and then it expands out to include almost every main female character plus several of the background characters.
Vidder's Notes
These are responses that were provided by hollywoodgrrl on a "Vidding Meme" post:
8. Which vid was the hardest to make? Long term projects and Big Picture vids are pretty hard to make just bc you may be dealing with a lot of pieces in terms of source etc. But I've found the vids that are hardest to make for me are the ones where I really have to enter the headspace of the subjects I'm portraying and be entranced in some of the heavy stuff within the text. So Smack My Bitch Up got to me when I was vidding it, but Run Boy Run was the most difficult vid probably as that was the most intense world to be submerged in. I remember sitting in a coffee shop during a particularly intense marathon edit session and doing nothing but killing those women and subjecting them to all sorts of horrible things. That REALLY weighed heavily on me at the end of the day. :/[1]
Run Boy Run - The last minute or so basically destroys me. I love how visceral it is, and it's supposed to be like that, of course. It's supposed to be as blunt as the hand that smacks Cersei and the fist that punched Ros. And my favorite moment out of that entire section is that societal boundaries shatter when it comes to the lives of these women in that world and I cry and I cry oh how much do I cry. :'([1]
Gallery
Arya running through the crowd at her father's execution, overlaid with the lyrics "Run Boy Run"
Daenerys trying to get away from a scorpion like creature that was sent to kill her, as that creature is stabbed with a knife, overlaid with the lyrics "They're dying to stop you"
Catelyn watching Walder Frey publicly molesting his young bride, this occurring not long after a brief montage of couples being loving with each other, thus offering a contrast between the two.
Reactions and Reviews
2013
A fucking plus vid right here. Get that deconstruction, that recentering.[2]
The editing in this will blow your mind. Just insanely good.[3]
ohmygod it’s finally here i’ve waited all day to be able to reblog it AH. I still can’t fully process this vid. I still cry everytime I watch it. If you like women, and Game of Thrones, and the women of Game of Thrones, you need to see this. Even if you don’t like Game of Thrones, YOU NEED TO SEE THIS. It sums up everything about what it means to be a woman in the world of GoT so perfectly. WATCH IT NOW.[4]
I have loved your vidding since I saw Marble House, and they are all marvellous. I love your 'gendered' view; the women-centric vids, which make me look at the source material in a new way - as you did with this one. Thank you for including the "villains" - for reminding me of just how cruel a world GOT is for the women.[5]
HOLY FUCKING SHIT FUCK ME SIDEWAYS
Basically: from a more academic perspective I like fandom stuff because it's often using remixes of the text to respond to the text in a more meaningful way. And the way you structured all of this, the way you edited scenes and put them together-- it's practically a visual dialogue and absolutely the embodiment of how this sort of derivative creation is just an amazing way to look at stuff. I really have no praise to offer any vid or fic or anything that's higher than that, and you just got it all SO right.[6]
2014
(quite possibly the best fan video I’ve ever seen of anything, the editing is unbelievably poignant and beautiful and it’s basically just meta in video form and it’s entirely about the female characters and everyone should watch it)[7]
And then hollywoodgrrl's made one of my absolute favorite vids for GoT --it totally made me cry the first time I watched it: Run Boy Run (starring All the Ladies!!!! from dear Brienne to Catelyn Stark to the women scrubbing the floors after the Red Wedding I LOVE IT SO)[8]
oh look it’s ONE OF THE BEST FANVIDS EVER MADE IN ANY FANDOM excellent.[9]
2015
This fanvid predates the new terrible rape scene in Game of Thrones but is so worth watching;[10]
2019
Brilliant and absolutely brutal. The initial tight focus on Arya makes you think the vid is going to be about one kind of girl's struggle for survival in Westeros, but as the narrative expands to include Dany and Sansa and then a plethora of different women, it gets hammered in that there's no safe way to be female. The cutting and clip choices are incredible (believe it or not, this was made over five years ago!!!), and I get goosebumps every time I watch it. [11]
2020
it's been 6 years and i keep revisiting this vid every few months and i literally cry EVERY TIME. no fanvid is better than this[5]
2024
wwwwow. All of them. You know? All of them.I kept thinking "is this bit meant to be an upbeat ending?" and no, nothing gets to be simple and pretty and easy.
The sheer fact that it's 'boy', like even the entire song and frame doesn't know that it's women who are in danger here[5]
References
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Vidding Meme, Sept 1, 2014 Livejournal post".
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|archvieurl=ignored (help) - ^ "Spet 27, 2013 Tumblr post by itpiercesskin". Archived from the original on 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Aug 25, 2013 Tumblr post by multifandomvidrecs".
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|archvieurl=ignored (help) - ^ "August 24, 2013 Tumblr poat by violace". Archived from the original on 2024-09-30.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c YouTube comments
- ^ "Comment on the vid announcement in the sync_slaying community". Archived from the original on 2025-03-11.
- ^ "Feb 20, 2014 Tumblr post by eppiesue". Archived from the original on 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Comment on General GoT/ASoIaF fanvids, posted to tapatalk.com/groups/jaime_x_brienne, June 27, 2014". Archived from the original on 2024-09-30.
- ^ "March 30, 2014 Tumblr post by somequeerdistortion". Archived from the original on 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Sexual Violence in Epic Fantasy Follow-up & Linkspam: Sansa Stark". Archived from the original on 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Rec at Fancake, Sept 29, 2019". Archived from the original on 2024-09-30.