New vidlet! Smile, like you mean it.

[ash48]

(You know it had to be done...)



Title: Smile, like you mean it.
Vidder: ash48
Song by: The Killers
Category: Character study
Length: 1.03 min (damn, that's short)
Size: 16mb
Summary Dean's doing all he can to smile. Like he means it.



Huge thanks to the lovely counteragent for the beta. *heffa hugs* hun. I appreciate it.<33

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notes

This is embarrassingly short. Mostly because I can't seem to make longer vids these days, but it's also because it punched out of me like this.

The notion of Dean smiling as a way of coping with everything really struck a cord with me. In the final scene from Adventures in Babysitting (7.11), you can see the wheels churning in Dean's mind. I wanted to play with the "practice smile" and show what he has to fight (in his mind) to put it on his face.

Feedback is always appreciated. :)




As an aside to the vid (though relevant to it if you watch to the very end), I've heard that some fans felt that Dean was being mean for making fun of Sam's fear at the end of 7.14 - laughing at Sam's ordeal and by buying him a clown doll. I ABSOLUTELY appreciate that everyone sees things differently (and I love that! I really do) but I can't say I saw it that way. The end, to me, was a very brotherly exchange.

Dean laughing at Sam's expense is how it works. Sam knows that. That's why he stopped himself from saying anything (notice that moment when he was going to call Dean on it then stopped?). Instead, he saw Dean enjoying himself for the first time in a long time and let it go. He loved seeing his brother actually smiling. Especially because it was Sam that made him do so. Sam does the same to Dean (note the ribbing Sam gave Dean in the previous episode, Slice Girls). It's such a brother thing. I think we sometimes get stuck on constantly wanting to see them worry and care for each other (which, yeah...*g*) but I think we can sometimes miss that siblings also rib and make fun of each other. (I'm happy to debate this of course. I can see that Dean could be seen as being being thoughtless. I just didn't get that vibe with that scene.)

Sam has a fear of clowns, (which does seem rather weird considering the all the things that are out there) so of course Dean is going to leap on that. Add to that a brother covered in glitter? Well...if Dean's looking for something to smile about you can't do much better than that.

Comments

[galwithglasses.livejournal.com]

This is awesome.  I knew Dean was working to get that smile but I didn't realize how much he failed at it until this.  Jensen manages to convey a heck of a lot with his face and that must have been a challenging scene to do because that smile (or lack of one) is the scene.  I like how you showed everything that has happened to make it so hard to smile. Then you give the chance for us to see what he looks like when he does mean it.  So different.

As for the teasing, that's how these guys roll.  They snark back and forth at each other over most things.  Plus Dean had just apologized in a way that I'm sure he thought was a chick flick moment so he had to cover the fact that he cares and exposed his feelings by being obnoxious.  Sam fully expected to be mocked the way he came back still covered with glitter.  For these guys, it's a sign that everything is as normal as it could be between them or at least that they are trying to make it so.  In 5.10 Dean teases Sam about finally not trusting a demon.  Sam gave Dean grief last week about the hook-up.  They've snarked about Dean's drinking and where Sam's head is at.  You could even make a case that this particular fear is one that Dean's been mocking Sam about for a long time and it's part of their combined history.  In 2.02 Dean makes Sam sit in the clown chair and there is a lot of verbal back and forth about clowns and flying, which is one of Dean's fears.  Siblings just seem to know how to get under each other's skin with teasing in a way that no one else can but I think a lot of them also put up with behavior from a sibling that would never fly with anyone else.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

It's really interesting looking at that smile. Not once did it reach his eyes. He have the whole mouth thing happening but it stopped before his eyes. I think that was pretty clever of Jensen. His eyes conveyed so many other things....which is what prompted the vid really.

And yes... the boys are at their best when they are teasing each other. It's what they do. It's been a while since we've seen it so strong. it was rather refreshing and so pleasing to see. I just hope it's enough to help them through the next few hurdles...

xx