Viola & Duke (She's the Man)

Hello everyone!

 This week's OTP-video focuses on one of our favourite couples from the young-adult movie "She's the man" based on William Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night". The movie is a great story of trust, friendship and love woven into a fast-paced, hilarious football adventure! At its heart lie the two main characters: Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) and Duke Orsino (Channing Tatum).

 

Viola has never been much of a lady (at least according to her mother) and prefers playing football to modelling dresses. But when her football team is cancelled, Viola makes a radical decision: to take her twin brother Sebastian's place at his school, while he is off to play concerts in London.

 

With the help of a few friends, Viola transforms into the spitting image of her brother, determined to beat her old school's boy football team, which is captained by her ex-boyfriend Justin. Of course, this wouldn't be a comedy if Viola didn't slightly overdo things at the beginning. Her new classmates find her strange and she even struggles with her football skills when matched against strong boys! 

  

 

 Luckily, Viola/Sebastian's handsome roommate Duke Orsino offers to helo her training if she in turn will aid him in winning the heart of beautiful Olivia. However, as Viola gets to know Duke, her feelings turn from friendship to love. She tries to make Duke jealous to win him over and even kisses him once (as a girl)! Duke even admits to his friend Sebastian/Viola that he likes her!

Things start to get really complicated when Sebastian returns for the big game of the season against Viola's old school ... 

We really wanted to show Duke and Viola's transition from friendship to love in this video. As boys, they could really get to know each other as friends, bonding through football training and talking about girls. Viola helps Duke to slowly overcome his shyness, while he teaches her that not every boy is shallow and focused on appearance alone.

 We picked "Misery" by Maroon 5 as Viola and Duke's song in this video. As the story is told from Viola's point of view, we really thought the song would show what it was like for her to be all alone at a new school, surrounded by boys and falling in love with her only real friend: "I am in misery/ there ain't nobody who can comfort me". Especially the line "why won't you answer me?" was really fitting in our opinion, with Viola trying to make Duke fall in love with her while still protecting her secret identity. There is a lot of conflict and question in this song made light-hearted by the upbeat melody. 

This, in our opinion, reflects the essence of this movie and of Duke and Viola's relationship. Though they find their love in a comedic way, after many wrong turns and lies, the core of their relationship is trust built of time through friendship. We think this is a really special couple worthy of being an OTP, because we think Duke and Viola are perfect for each other!

Watch out for our new video on youtube! We will also post the link here!

Love,
One True Production

Welcome to our crazy minds

Hey guys!

This is a blog owned by two nutcase crazy ladies, who want to inspire some hearts, minds and souls out there.
We call ourselves One True Production -short OTP- and talk, think, feel about and with our favourite pairings.

And by that we mean:

...fangirling over new set pictures, trailers, premiers and candids



...being overly excited about forehead kisses, hand holding or hand shaking



...defending them against every person saying something remotely bad about our babies




...giving up on trying to get normal people into our fandom



We hope you have fun on our blog!

Love,
One True Production

Shake it out - Ally & Tyler

This is a movie about how cruel death can be and how sometimes cruelty is a part of healing and forming the person you always wanted to be. 

 

Tyler Hawkins is a young man living in New York, working in a book store and fighting with cops. But Tyler is also a man who lost his brother Michael and father, well-off lawyer Charles, at the same time. The first one because of his suicide and the other because of its side effect: Pain. As a father, you don't just lose your child, you lose a part of yourself, a void that in turn Tyler needed to fill.

Death steals carelessly.

Ally Craig watched her mother being murdered while waiting for the subway to come. She no longer uses public transport. Her Dad, a renowned police officer, drives her from and to university. Because death has the effect of changing not only one but many. Over-protectiveness is born so easily and death lets time stand still.

I don't want to go into detail about why Tyler wants to get Ally's Dad back (a cut above his brow plays just a smal part) for the simple reason that it doesn't matter. Fact is Tyler wants to hurt Ally by betraying her trust. Too bad that his heart doesn't play along. A romance that both were trying to avoid breaks lose and they share so many moments together that being apart isn't an option any more. 

 

Until the truth comes out and Ally leaves.

Death can make someone unforgiving.

But this wouldn't be one of my favourite movies if there weren't side stories. Because a movie about death is unacceptable. This film creates a thick web of problems. For example, there is Tyler's sister Caroline, who is being bullied by her classmates. We all know how difficult it is to be different when you're in school.

 

So we have a father who loves his non-existent baby girl and his dead wife, another father who doesn't show his love, a woman living life in the shadow of fear, a man shadowing his life with fear and a girl, who gets her hair cut off and her heart ripped out.

That's more than enough material for the end. But sometimes one, two or even three deaths aren't enough to portray sorrow and hurt.Sometimes we have to remember the ugliest days of human existence: 9/11

Tyler dies that day. Among many others. But nevertheless Tyler Hawkins dies. Before everything is alright. Right in the middle of making everything alright. 

Because death is cruel.

Remember Me is one of these rare movies that makes your heart ache a little more and leaves a bittersweet taste in your mouth. This film hurts you because it matters. Every word. Every time. Every moment.

But the crucial point is that death defines people. Sometimes it makes them worse but I believe that sometimes it makes them better, taller and lighter.

You can learn to forgive, to not make the same mistake twice, to say what you want and to do what is best for you and the one you love.

„Shake it out“ by Florence and the Machine is about the moments, when regret and demons are so heavy on your shoulders, that you are in danger of breaking. These moments are a big part of Remember Me. But this song gives you an advice.

Shake it out. All of it. Because how can you „dance with a devil on your back“? How can you enjoy life when you have nothing that matters?
Every person in this story has his own darkness, but music answers with „It's always darkest before the dawn“.Let's hope the dawn of Remember Me's characters after the darkness that Tyler's death is bright enough to outshine their sorrow.

I read somewhere that we only get as much as we can take and that sometimes by working your way through pain, you heal.

 

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This isn't one of our usual OTP videos because a) Becky is away (without me) and b) (a result of a) Becky has never watched this movie. So my opportunity to tell you guys about dying and living. I hope you can see that without the perfect connection of Ally and Tyler this story  wouldn't exist. And how important the pairing is for the message of this film.

See you soon with a lighter subject and Becky next to me and wish you all a good start into next week!

Love,

one half of One True Production

Alex & Gigi (He's just not that into you) - the next OTP

    ALEX
                    I dunno.    I like you.

          

    GIGI
                    You do?

          

    ALEX
                    Don't start doodling my name on your
                    binder. I just mean, I like you, like I
                    like basset hounds. They're kinda
                    pathetic - so you want to cheer them up.

Gigi Haim and Alex „the bartender who doesn't believe in the spark“ are our next one true pairing (otp). Together they form the main part of the romantic comedy named „He's just not that into you“, which is a movie about loving what you deserve, accepting the one you love, forgiving the little things and not forgiving the big ones.

(That's the more poetic way of saying „every single one fu*** up royally in some way or another; but like every Hollywood production, there are many happy endings“)

Alex and Gigi meet through a mutal friend named Connor. „Mutal“ meaning Gigi went out with him and decides, after he simply doesn't call, to stalk him. And what better way to start that than going to his favorite bar? 

 

Bar owner and Connor's best friend Alex is the one who has to tell her that she is the rule, that men mean what they do or rather not do and that she has to stop thinking she's the exception.

Harsh words form a really unique friendship which consists of late night phone calls and helpful date advice, of awkward truths and even more awkward moments.

 But because this is Gigi we're writing about, a woman who reads more into signs than into reality, the storyline would be unrealistic if she didn't think, somewhere half-way through the movie, that Alex, a man with no sensibility and a serious case of commitment phobia, is totally into her. 

And this wouldn't be Alex if he didn't push her away... hard.

At this point of the story we decided to start our new video about these two and use the song „Realize“ by Colbie Caillat. The lyrics of this ballad allowed us to switch POVs within the video. Because of that we chose to begin with a shatterd Alex, whose world is „crashing down“ the moment Gigi ends her heartbreaking monolog. She forces him to realize how much she affected him in such a short time and how essential it is to have a little bit of Gigi in yourself. („If you just realize what I just realized. Then we'd be perfect for each other and we'll never find another.“)

But at the same time we wanted to show Alex' struggle with getting Gigi to understand that sometimes a man just isn't into you, that you have to wait for the one who cares and that when a guy is mean to you, he simply doesn't like you. (a flashbacked childhood memory underlines Gigi's believe in „being an as*hole and therefore having a crush on you“ theses)

To bring that across and additionally emphasising our approval with Alex, we switched POVs („But I can't spell it out for you No, it's never gonna be that simple“) and created a two sided story.

 This is a video about finding what was right in front of you and valueing it („Take time to realize, this all can pass you by“) deeply. Because sometimes when you are searching for an easy rule you meet your gigiish exception.

Love,

One True Production

The team - One True Production

"You're one of those people who make my life better just by being in it."

So we want to take two seconds of your (and our) time to introduce ourselves a little bit more to you.
As we previously said, this is a two-person thing. Our  time working on this project consists of late-night drives with the laptop riding shotgun, sitting in the kitchen discussing song lyrics and life's meaning and cutting clips into little clips and little clips into very little clips.

The Team

Becky - the doesn't like OTPs talking during clips part of One True Production

&

Dodo - the it doesn't matter if the clip is off-beat part of One True Production

We kind of sort of maybe like each other. So we spend a lot of time together. Making videos and fun.

One drinks coffee (with too much milk and sugar), the other tea (without anything but love).

One loves her dog more than life, the other couldn't live on without her cat.

One can sing, the other wishes she could.

One loves Robert Pattinson, both think that The Hunger Games beats Twilight.

One loves Glee because of her OTP, the other likes listening to the songs.

Yeah so that's us :)

One last thing: One of us (looks at Becky) speaks fluently English the other (looks at me)... doesn't.
So whenever you see a mistake (in spelling or grammar)... don't hate.

Love,
One True Production

Olive & Todd (Easy A) - our first OTP!

Hi everyone!

A few days ago, we posted our first OTP-video on youtube about one of our favourite movie couples, Olive Penderghast and "Woodchuck" Todd. Even though 'Easy A' is a comedy, we admired the depth with which their childhood friendship is portrayed. Throughout the movie, it gradually blossoms into romance and Todd proves to be a true friend by staying at Olive's side despite all the rumours concerning her. 

 

We especially loved the sincerity between these two and their respect for each other's feelings. Our first video is told from Todd's perspective, confessing his romantic feelings toward Olive which he's kept hidden for a long time. His feelings towards Olive are - in our opinion - beautifully reflected in Train's song "Drive by": Oh, I swear to you, I'll be there for you, this is not a drive by.

Especially in light of everyone else is treating Olive like a common prostitute, these lyrics are very meaningful. Todd protects and saves Olive multiple times throughout the movie, proving to be a real strong shoulder. However, since they are a young adult couple, we decided on a song with a slightly more upbeat sound and tempo to accurately portray their emotional life. 

 

However, romance was not the most important part of 'Easy A'. Instead, a young woman's struggle to find herself is funnily and often poignantly shown. Todd is an essential part of the story, representing a more mature side in her. Their relationship eventually helps Olive turn her life around and accept who she is. 

There is real support and respect in their relationship. This makes them a real one, true pairing (OTP) in our eyes. We hope you enjoyed our first video - watch out for more to come! 

Love, 

One True Production

"Oh I swear to you, I'll be there for you"

("Drive by" - Train)

I'll be there for you - Olive &Todd

Hello everyone!

Welcome to our blog! We're One True Production and we make videos about OTPs on youtube!

Check out our first video:

Hope you enjoy!

Love, 
One True Production