Vid for Gardnerhill: Mr. Holmes: Beekeeper

[holmesticemods]

Title: Mr. Holmes: Beekeeper
Recipient: gardnerhill
Vidder: rachelindeed
Beta: sanguinity
Verse: Mr. Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes and full cast
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Mr. Holmes struggles to remember the griefs of yesteryear. What he finds, to his surprise, is hope for tomorrow.

"Mr. Holmes: Beekeeper" (Watch on YouTube)

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Lyrics and music by Dessa

Here comes the beekeeper
With her pitcher full of smoke
She'll put us all to sleep
I hope it's dreamless and it's deep
Sweet Prometheus, come home
They took away our fire
And all that scarcity promotes
Is desperate men and tyrants

What fine design
What hands
What minds
The envy of Eden
Our tools and our reason
It's clear in the animals' eyes
We stand upright
Build fires at night
Made on the sixth day to rest on the seventh
And now we just try to survive

The surgeon and farmer meet
And each greets the other with a bow
They're kindred instruments, you know
The scalpel and the plow
And in the shadow of the mountain
We work when work abounds
And we wear out all our prayers when the work runs out

What fine design
What hands
What minds
The envy of Eden
Our tools and our reason
It's clear in the animals' eyes
We stand upright
Build fires at night
Made on the sixth day to rest on the seventh
And now we just try to survive

Comments

[mightymads]

It was lovely! Thank you for sharing!

[gardnerhill]

OMG this is gorgeous. A poignant fandom, and an equally poignant song about the passage of time. The lines about the surgeon, coupled with the film's one look at Watson and the scene of 90something Holmes caressing the stone that represents "my friend John," are heartbreaking.

This has extra meaning now because my 95-year-old father passed away this year - a man who was reading Sherlock Holmes before Doyle died. It's a time to reflect on age and mortality, and what lives on afterward even as this film and this video do.

Brilliant work - as always.

[venusinthenight]

This was lovely.

[tei]

This is wonderful. This movie made me so sad that I wasn’t sure I even wanted to see bits of it again, but I’m glad I did <3

[elwinglyre]

Beautiful and brought a few tears to my eyes. Thank you!

[scfrankles]

Must admit I haven’t seen the film (I’ve read the original novel but I gather it’s somewhat different from the film) but I found this so poignant. It’s beautifully put together.

What a great choice of song. I particularly enjoyed the montages accompanying the sections when the piano plays on its own. Especially the bit at around the 0:10 mark, when Holmes turns round. I thought that smooth rotation fitted the music perfectly. Also the pause at 0:16 when we look straight into the character’s eyes, and the chord at 0:22 coinciding with Holmes poking the stick into Roger’s chest.

Some other moments that particularly struck me:

0:43 ‘They took away our fire’ - as Holmes gestures with a finger as he tries to recall a memory.

0:56 ‘What minds’ - while we’re looking at a distorted Holmes through the glass.

2:55 ‘What fine design’ - the ceiling shot moving into the shot of the flower.

3:20 - ‘And now we just try to survive’. Holmes and his housekeeper waiting together to see if Roger survives.

And it’s such a positive and peaceful sequence for the vid to play out on.

[verdant_fire]

This is so lovely! It really captures the elegiac tone of the movie, and you did such a good job matching the music to the cuts and the choice of scenes, like the line about standing upright with Holmes struggling to do so. Very well done! <33

[nottoolateforthegame]

I haven't seen the film, but now I want to!

[starfishstar]

Lovely and moving!