If I was completely deranged and directing a Batman movie or TV show, I would cut together scenes of Jason Todd clawing free from his grave and Tim Drake swimming as a form of training and as Tim hits the finish line that's when Jason "breaks free". But that's just me. I would also do it over Dead in the Water by SPELLES.
I imagine swimming and clawing your way out of a grave are extremely similar movements, one is just vertical.
Okay I’ve calmed down from my tag attack, now I wish to borrow/nit-pick at your mind op.
I need to know, when do you envision the song starting? Does it start really soft and grow into a crescendo as Tim gets through the laps and Jason digs? What kind of scene happens before this to set it up? Do you see this as an end of the movie scene or somewhere in the middle?
Like if you the budget for this movie but we’re only talking about this area of the film, how would you like it to be?
(or show but my mind is very much on movie for dramatics of it all, and the wait period for the viewers)
I want to see your vision here, I have mine based from this, I want yours.
Hi @its-maemain! I envisioned it at the very start, to really set the tone of the movie ya know. @twistpixel had a really great addition of cutting between the heavy breathing of Jason and his heart beating and the chaotic environment of an indoor public pool, which I think is just brilliant. The juxtaposition alone! Beautiful!
As the song starts, cutting together slow-mo Tim walking to the pool and Jason’s funeral procession (the passage of time is irrelevant). Then as the beat picks up, the drums are replaced with Jason banging on the lid of his coffin trying to break free. It was a stormy night when he broke free, so adding it cracks of thunder in place of drums as well.
During the beat drop / build up would be when Jason starts to claw free. The song ends with Tim climbing from the pool and Jason pulling himself out of the ground covered in graveyard dirt in his robin costume, which is half decomposed (because I think that would be all Bruce has reduced him to and he couldn’t bare to look at it due to the grief, and Jason loved being Robin).
Then Talia is standing behind his headstone, waiting to take him home (to the Lazarus pit to be forever altered in ways one could never image) and Tim is alone at the pool, but the people around him are greeting friends / teammates / coaches who hug them and tell them how good they did on their laps.
