You should now feel mentally reinvigorated. If you suspect staring at art has not provided the required intellectual sustenance, reflect briefly on this classical music.
We’re moved by emotion, not words. If it makes us feel peaceful, we’ll behave peacefully (this started as a funny quip comment, then got weirdly serious - I blame the song 😉 )
actually just because of this masterpiece I bought Portal & Portal 2 a couple days ago - and finally I understood what this "cake and party position" thing is about...
Dont expect steam to put out anything again. It's all about the store for them. Honestly, though Microsoft is going to win that one in the end with free Xbox pc cross-play. Not to mention having you save data crossover as well.
Holy shit, I never noticed it until now! But what we don't know is whether Chell had the portal gun when she walked in. Her stance assumes that of holding a portal gun, but we can't see it. hOLY SHIT IT'S SCHRODINGER'S CAT ALL OVER AGAIN
This may be true,but were missing one critical component for chells escape: She needs to make another portal to pop out through the other and the floor isn't portal-compatible and the walls seem to be covered all over with incinerators, I assume. The only possibility would be, that she can make a portal on the backside of the wall that she entered the room through or on the door, again, if they are portal compatible.
I wouldn't be surprised honestly if the whole song was written in part to stick that absolutely perfect reference in it. This song highlights it in such a sad/horrifying way that Still Alive doesn't. The robots have no choice, they must do it. "Hear [their] words and try to understand." It's almost pleading in a desperate way. "I'm sorry, we *must* do this." Why must they? Just because they can. Someone said "We can do this, so let's", and now the monster has been created and unleashed. "For science"
@Noah Black the motto of Aperture Science is “We do what we must because we can”. Here at Blaperture we do what we must to make a better tomorrow for all mankind because we can.
When you look at the turrets, if they are moving and looking around, they look very nice and friendly, but when they aren't emoting or moving, simply staring forward they immediately become terrifying
I love how the turrets slowly transition from unison singing to chords. Like they start unison then leak into chords and more and more until it’s all chords. It’s amazing!
Your comment intrigued me, what exactly do you mean by transitioning from unison to chords? Not really an expert on musical techniques, but I'm curious nonetheless!
Yeah, how many notes are playing at once. Like at first they’re all singing the one note and then they slowly break into more and more notes at once until all 5 are on a different note. It’s a really neat drama builder and it’s amazing how incrementally it’s done
Dear God...this is hauntingly beautiful. You've perfectly captured the horror of Aperture Science within this song and video...as well as Chell's endless determination and tenacity. The shots of within the test chambers, her exit to see 'ten thousand more', her dogged defiance and moments of frustrated despair, lonliness, fear, and the scenes of those who have fallen and failed within Aperture are hypnotizing. The last scene is masterful. The intentional open-endedness to it allows for the possibility that, despite being surrounded by walls of flame, Chell could find a way out. The turrets are apathetic, and at once cheerful and nightmarish. The Stupendium's lyrics emphasise the enormity, the hopelessness and the constant cycle of endless testing within the walls of Aperture. Gleaming Facades and hi-tech machines, built on nightmares and death. Harry, you've done it again. A work of art from the world of Portal. I'm getting this on Itunes. Thank you.
I couldn't agree more with your analysis. I also enjoyed the beginning, the turrets' song and the image of sleeping Chell made scene seem innocent, I think I even spot a *small smile* on the sleeping Chell's lips. The feeling is of turrets gently waking a young woman to work. Even the Samba beamed into her brain feels like something she might have volunteered to... Then the image transitions to liquid filled containers, in neat factory lines, with people inside... and the lyrics are saying how the people are *kept* asleep until the tests, and the feeling of a lullaby disappears.
For me,the Aperture Science laboratory is a perfect(sic) visualization of absolute evil. Glados would gladly test even Satan and God if at all possible. Satan at least notices that you're alive (meaning you have an intrinsic meaning that he presumably hates). Glados just extinguishes meaning, while at the same time not gaining meaning/purpose itself.
Everyone is gushing about the animation, but I can’t get over how incredible this SOUNDS. Like, holy shit the depth of the sound field, the layers of vocals (including harmonizing!), and how it just builds... I’m stunned. Incredible job!
I got to that part and my brain just blew. “OH, WoW, wAAAw, so g00d! PoRtAL LyRiCs iN a P0rTaL s0nG! 👌👏👌👏” wasn’t expecting the great reference to one of the best video game songs. 10/10
Every single one of these parody’s are so well crafted from the animation to the lyrics and ESPECIALLY the voice acting. It always impresses me that you can voice act every character so well. Another job well done!
@@MoonGuardian866 A rocket engine, especially the Saturn V Rocketdyne F-1 Engine, may be very powerful but I doubt it will immediately ash someone out in just 1/10 a second.
I honestly cannot remember the last time I heard something so haunting and beautiful and right up my alley, this whole video is a wonderful experience.
I was thinking this too! "We kept you dreaming peaceful while we arranged our portal tiles" could mean that they made a game while the franchise and fanbase slowly died down.
That would be cool. But i just want to say Portal 3 could not really happen, atleast for the story of chell. Chell escaped. it would be sad for her to be stuck in aperture science, for whatever reason. And plus her ending was also kind of bad, Portal 2 is after millions of years! Past civilizations fall. (and how Portal is in with the universe of Half Life 2. Which means the combine crushed society before Portal 2's end. )There could be a story for another subject, though.
wow, well done. The attention to small details really sells it - ie when the dorm/hotel door is first opened, it fully opens and then bounces back just so slightly.
I initially wondered if it was filmed then some CGI applied to make it look, well, CGI. But no, it's crazy animation and mocap! And I don't even dare to think how long it took to render!
Found this by accident a couple of days ago and now is saved to my play list. It's absolutely beautiful. I loved the original by Simon & Garfunkel and your version does it proud. Well done! I used to play Portal and Portal 2 back in the day & this makes me want to set up one of my old consoles to play it again. I'm 60yrs old and still gaming on Playstation and Xbox.
@@Aerotactics Yeah, but those are separate from the actual core, and instead mounted externally. But attached to the core directly... that's just demonic.
Misread title as "Portal - The Sound Of Silence" and thought it would be funny to hear that song sung by GLaDOS. What I actually got was nothing short of a masterpiece :)
There are 3 reasons I love this. One, it shows the attitude of aperture science, doing it "because we can", "though we don't know what the data means". A truly morbid and scary attitude. 2 The music is created very reflective of that from music from the portal series. 3, The "camera shots" especially the one of the flames through the turrets eye is extremely effective! Again this enforces the aperture attitude... This is the best portal song I've heard in a while! (Edit) -Horrible grammar, corrected...
dont forget, they were sold as home security units and to the military. I think the singing ability was given to them by GLaDOS but they might have had it before her in order to sing lullabys or war cries. although, most likely they sang lullabies to the enemy soldiers and shot the babies
I'm not usually one who glomps onto a different version of a song, when I've heard one form before the other. However, this was so well done that it's starting to replace the original in my brain. Bravo and thank you for making this. It continues to bring me joy
And believe me, Harry’s still alive. He’s making videos and he’s still alive. And while we’re waiting, he’ll still be alive And when we’re watching, he’ll still be alive. Still alive Still Alive.
This is so very well done. The writing, the vocals, the harmony... then there's the animation. This is top tier work that normally could only be achieved by corporations with a full team working on the project.
I'm sure corporations and especially unemployed college grads would love us to believe this, but the truth is that more people are only necessary when they're making something they don't care about. A small team or an individual working on something they're passionate about will beat a large company churning out content almost every time.
Exactly, most of the time, a lot of these "parody" type songs are brought down by really bad lyrics or music composition, but this fit so well and they nailed everything Portal.
I'm unsure what impresses me the most: - the singing - the idea of this song and writing - the video And I don't know if I want to know how many hours this video took
There's something so viscerally dystopian and beautiful about the test subjects praying to the cake, like it really is this holy relic that no one's seen before. The tone of this whole video is breathtaking.
Well, I never played Portal 2, but it's interesting that I was so busy laughing that I never really took the time to visualize exactly how dark the series was. Harry manages to show us that Portal 2, if you think about it, is nothing less than a horror game with a comic overtone.
When i saw that man fall to his knees at 2:48, before I saw cake in the next scene, I thought; Man GlaDOS really is heartless. Those test subjects may have been suck in the facility since forever and now being lucky enough to pass through all the test chambers that man bows and thanks the Lord. Only he doesn't know that GLaDOS kills her test subjects after the 'Science' is done. Even though aperature labs may have won the portal technology race against Black Mesa ages ago, but GLaDOS still continues her brutal ways with those test subjects. Of course, they have never seen that cake before just shows how isolated their life has been as test subjects. Slavery to GLaDOS' "Science".
@@derekreer8625 a analogy of life going test to test hoping to get a cake and eat it yet there is no cake its death...... day after day working for what??????? to get food, water and all needed to survive. its sad how stupid humanity became to the painfully obvious.
@@antlerr Oh, look, an edgy teenager in an existential crisis. I guess I'm going to get all mopey and depressed, for he has thought of all the things I never have. Hahaha, just kidding. Grow an upper lip, kid. That's life, deal with it.
This is brilliant. I can't believe Valve didn't produce this, or the original voice actress. The best part is how this is equally as funny in 2020 as it would have been in 2011. Major kudos. MAJOR kudos.
Dude I was literally obsessed with making science and this is aperture and the Wheatley song when I was in like, 5th grade? 6th grade? And suddenly RU-vid hits me with this recommendation after all these years,, and it's a jam, AND the lyrics were written by Stupendium who I've taken a major liking to more recently coz his stuff jams, basically this song is extremely good and also a major flashback for me and I love it, thank you
When you compare the quality of the 99% of SFM videos that are uploaded to RU-vid right now, to the quality of this? Wow Incredible how you can squeeze enough good scenes out of something like Source Filmmaker for an awesome song like this! Keep up the great work and have a nice day!
How bad most of them are is just a meme at this point, and then when slight effort is put into the actual animations, people go all "holy shit this is some serious gourmet shit" while Harry runs rings around the entire sfm community.
The fact that this dude is still going with this literally makes me wanna create stuff and just have tons of fun Thanks for being an inspiration, seriously!
I am honestly incredibly surprised Valve hasn’t hired you on to do this stuff to make it official. Honestly better in most cases than Valve’s own projects in SFM. Every time you upload, the world becomes a slightly better place
Cannonically, funny enough, the turrets actually fire the WHOLE bullet at you. Not just the little lead head no the ENTIRE bullet. Their gun's are essentially like springloaded pop guns that "shoots" the entire bullet at you.
Wow... the lyrics of this one seriously hit and I love the "we do what we must because we can" reference. Great work as always, Harry! You once again knocked it completely out of the park.
what valve created isn't a game... it's a truly masterpiece, along with all the other franchises... there's really something special about seeing old games never actually die.
I feel videogame development kind of peaked around the time both portal games came out, and in good measure from the hand of Valve itself. Not that they haven't improved and advanced after that, but in no other period has the advancement been so steep.
Except Portal wasn't originally from Valve. Originally titled "Narbacular Drop" by a small startup; it was bought out and bundled with the Orange Box as a bonus. No one was able to predict how popular it would become.
Years Have Passed... And legends says that he is still working on Going Home 2! He just need 7 more years and then The Subsricers Will Get What They Deserve.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!???? This was the finest piece of art that I have seen, EVER!!! Simply brilliant. I am still tearing up from the beauty and tragedy. I am eternally grateful that you and Gregory took the time to gift us all this masterpiece. I am sharing this with every human (and robot) I know. Once again, thank you.
