5/6 I KNOW THOSE EYES/THIS MAN IS DEAD (animatic)

The fifth Count of Monte Cristo musical song.
NOW WITH SUBTITLES and LYRICS IN DESCRIPTION

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In this Animatic, The Count holds a Ball at his Manor, and invites his old "friends". None of the men recognize him, but Shycedes does. She spends the party trying to talk to him, while he denies knowing her.

For more art, our animatic's storyboards, that cool end credits picture and much more can all be found at Silhouette's DevianArt Page: http://assassin-or-shadow.deviantart....

FAQs:

Why'd you take two years to finish it???
Well, it's because we had to go on hiatus due to this film course we were taking.

Where’s the music from? And where can I get it?
It is from a musical, called “The Count of Monte Cristo Musical”. The music is available on iTunes.

Where can I watch this?
You can’t, unless you live nearby where it is being performed on stage, as there are no recordings of it.
EDIT: A lovely youtuber by the name of Count Monsparkle has generously uploaded the German version of the musical but with English subtitles for everyone to watch:    • The Count of Monte Cristo Musical  

Who’s the singer?
Thomas Borchert and Brandi Burkhardt

What programs did you use to create this?
Everything was drawn in Photoshop CS6, and edited in After Effects CS6.

When will you finish the animation?
Never. This is the finished product. It takes a while to fully animate stuff and we don’t have the patience for it. This way we can get our videos out sooner so we can move onto the next one.

With that out of the way…

Illustrated by Silhouette
Edited by GhostQuill

"I Know Those Eyes/This Man is Dead" is from the "Count of Monte Cristo Musical", performed by Thomas Borchert and Brandi Burkhardt on the Concept album released in 2008. Written by Frank Wildhorn. We do not own it.

My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and its characters are owned by Hasbro. We also don't own it.

LYRICS:
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MERCEDES:
My God, my heart beats faster
And my mind is racing
Could it be…?
Could it be that you’ve come back to life?

I know those eyes following me
Dark and familiar and deep as the sea
I know that face, strange though it seems
Younger and kinder it haunts all my dreams

How can you stand there?
A whisper from me
Yet, somehow be so far away

In eyes once familiar a stranger I see
With so many words left to say

EDMOND:

This man is dead
He is no more
He died a little each day
Like a thief, the Chateau D’If has stolen him away

The mind plays tricks
You are confused
The man you seek is long gone
Dead and cold

A story told
By those he trusted, those he loved, and those who then moved on

Both singing different lyrics at the same time:

EDMOND:
I am a ghost; just a mirage
Who chases traces of you

MERCEDES:
There in that voice
Traces of you

Dark and familiar and deep as the sea

EDMOND:
This man is dead
He is no more
And though it’s torturing me

MERCEDES:
I know those eyes
Torturing me

BOTH:
Can either of us really ever be free?

How can you stand there?
A whisper from me
When you are still so far away

And why does the truth seem too hard to be true?
With so much broken

EDMOND:

And so much damage

BOTH:

There are no words

EDMOND:

Left to say