Well, this is why they make chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream, isn't it. Tastes differ. I'd guess these comments totally sink the prospects for this clip, which I thought actually had some significant redeeming qualities. But at least
consigni's report is a true statement of this reviewer's reaction to the work.
As I said from the beginning, Quinn had a very difficult case of COVID which left her, months later, still having trouble with her breathing. She did test herself, submerged in a bathtub, before she came to the shoot, but that turned out not to replicate the more excited and violent conditions of the actual scenes. So, she got some water in her sinuses fairly early on, and then could not stay under the water for more than a few seconds at a time.
I extended these scenes in the editing, and put together the different looks, and added some nicely paced music. The result was not what we had scripted, and it didn't have a long, quiet look at the body under water or other elements in the original script. But in the end, it did have a mood, and her eyes were, overwhelmingly, emotionally, pleading.
Of course, it has now been pointed out now that we could have drained the water and shown her dead in the tub. Too bad we didn't think about that change after the fact. But we didn't. There were other things that could have been done if the project didn't get disrupted as it did. But we didn't do them either.
In any event, I do appreciate folks taking the time to provide their comments and reactions to the work. It takes a lot of time, energy, and frankly, money, for the various producers to make these clips. So, it's always nice to know that people think enough of them to write something about them when they are released.
On
Gumroad, by the way, you get not only the clip of
"Pleading Eyes," but also a clip of the Hollywood drowning from my 29th clip reel collection that inspired this project.
