"True Heroes" | Super Mario Bros | Go the Distance

🎹“Till I find my hero's welcome waiting in...your arms.”
Yes one of the main reasons I chose this song for this movie specifically was the "shooting star" line xD Plus Bowser playing the piano!! This is a beautiful cover of Go the Distance by Shawn Hook & Kurt Hugo Schneider (the very same who covered the version of Fix You I used in my Vivo video!) Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought of this combo because there's at least 2 others who already did it! Those vids were the first thing that popped up when I searched for Mario amvs and my stomach dropped in disappointment that I wasn't the first to do this LOL don't you hate it when that happens?? But this cover is my FAVORITE, no one else has used this version of the song from what I can tell, and we all had totally different scene ideas so I couldn't resist!
I also had fun with the other lyrics like 'uphill slope!' When you're an editor, it's hard to listen to songs without thinking of scenes like that haha
When you're an editor, it's also hard not to notice certain things like stylistic choices in films such as this one. I did NOT notice when I first watched it in theaters, but while editing this video, it occurred to me that there's a strange, slightly gray-ish "filter" on the movie. At first I thought something was wrong with the copy I have, but looking back at official trailers, it's also on those too! So I actually did a little bit of color correcting in this video. If it looks different to you, that's why! I just wasn't a fan of the strange filter and now I can't watch the original movie the same way (but I still love it!) But I guess they were going for a kind of video-gamey style or something? Pay close attention next time you watch it!
As for the video itself, I'm not sure how many viewers who watch this have played any of the Mario games. I myself have only played a few (my favorite being Mario Party 2 on the Nintendo 64 if that counts.) So I tried to make the focus of this vid mostly on Mario and Luigi trying to find each other and less on the video game aspects but there's still some of that of course xD I hope that came through!