Bookend Jam
Bookend Jam
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The Tragic Case of the Robot Detective
An essay about violent labors as a self actualization tool in stories about robots.
Inspiration for this video's concept came from: ruclips.net/video/trq_DMxnuf4/видео.html
Editing by Grayton Newman
RUclips: / @gznewman
Instagram: @gznewman
Website: grayhoundbrand.com
Art by: @kissingagrumpygiant.tumblr
Icon by @sitlolly on Instagram
Sources:
Alien
Aliens
Blade Runner
Disco Elysium
Ex-Machina
Ex-Machina
The Iron Giant
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Robots
Solaris
Terminator 2
WALL-E
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Barry is a Show About Addiction
Просмотров 691Год назад
HBO's Barry has assassins and actors, and maybe there are some ballerinas in there, too. Previous Video: ruclips.net/video/OCDhVfG_fwg/видео.html Editing by Grayton Newman RUclips: www.youtube.com/@gznewman Instagram: @gznewman Website: grayhoundbrand.com Barry Video Sources: • ia601002.us.archive.org/31/items/dni.ncaa.ICCR-1382-UMHB/ICCR-1382-UMHB.mp4 • Backstage at the Kirov (1984) - Dir. Der...
Severance is a Show About Ghosts
Просмотров 45 тыс.Год назад
A video essay about ghosts and a science-fiction drama directed by Ben Stiller. Editing and the voice of Kier Eagen was done by Grayton Newman: grayhoundbrand.com @gznewman on instagram The primary inspiration for this video came from an essay writer and blogger known as kathy: katy.substack.com/p/do-severed-souls-dream-of-a-two-headed?s=r
No Exit and Pretty Little Liars: This Series Might Take Place in Hell
Просмотров 3693 года назад
Hear me out...If the final episode of Riverdale ends with a reveal that they were all in hell the entire time, then you all owe me money. The instrumental cover of 'Little Lies' is by Matthew Anniss Music. Art by: kissingagrumpygiant.tumblr.com Keep up with me on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/128422338-bookend-jams Follow me on Twitter: bookendjams Follow me on Tumblr: book...
The Institute Review and the Essence of the Stephen King Microgenre
Просмотров 5053 года назад
Journey with me into the forests of Maine as we dissect a book a lot of people loved and I hated. All images belong to their respective owners and fall under fair use for parody. Art by: kissingagrumpygiant.tumblr.com End Credit Music: pisse.bandcamp.com/album/kohlr-benwinter Keep up with me on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/128422338-bookend-jams Follow me on Twitter: booke...
January Book Recap: The Last Unicorn, Winterwood, and Gideon the Ninth
Просмотров 2923 года назад
I'm already a book behind. A shorter video to detail some of what I've read for this month. Next Bookend Jam will be focusing on Stephen King's, 'The Institute'. Keep on the look out for that coming out in the next month or so. Yes, I used to consume Hamsteak. Yes, it still holds a special place in my heart. And yes, the whiplash of seeing two major Homestuck authors go big is incredible. Imagi...
Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows: Review and Thoughts on the Netflix Adaption (Spoilers)
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.3 года назад
Sometimes you have a whole lot of thoughts about a fantasy series written by Leigh Bardugo. Major Spoilers for The Grisha Trilogy, and minor for the Six of Crows Duology and the Nikolai Duology. Thumbnail art by: @kissingagrumpygiant.tumblr.com Icon by @sitlolly on IG Book reviews and book talks that have a production value on par with a child selling lemonade out of a paper cup. Special thanks...

Комментарии

  • @RSB1949
    @RSB1949 16 дней назад

    Great great great analysis! Glad I found your video. NGL I did kinda ship granner / harmony. Wanted some more fucked up sexy banter from the overlords.

  • @KilllaTofu
    @KilllaTofu 16 дней назад

    Severance preserves a consciousness. Lumon collects severed chips upon outies death to preserve innie version. Lumon clones the body of the outtie but is unable to give it life until they have placed the chip from the original deceased into new clone body. At this point, the clones can nevere leave lumon (since they’re dead) and are only woken to work as needed, like Ms. Casey.

  • @Thenewboidahlia
    @Thenewboidahlia 27 дней назад

    Gosh dang it I thought I found a new severance video but damnit all if I won’t rewatch 😂😂

  • @666j1
    @666j1 Месяц назад

    It’s criticism about muh capitalism and Drumpf amirite fellow redditors ?

  • @AngryGordan
    @AngryGordan Месяц назад

    Fantastic stuff i'm so glad i stumbled upon your channel

  • @Digitalvetted
    @Digitalvetted Месяц назад

    Such an incredible and insightful review! Your ability to explain complicated ideas in such an easy-to-understand way is truly impressive. I really appreciate the passion and creativity you bring to your work. Keep up the great effort-I’m excited to watch more inspiring and engaging videos from you. Thank you for always giving your best!

  • @nuxxy_
    @nuxxy_ Месяц назад

    this is like if cinema sins did pop psychology with fentanyl 😂

  • @Eighthplanetglass
    @Eighthplanetglass Месяц назад

    The way i did a double take so fast.. run in youtube video essay circles ✅️ Jewish ✅️ love Sir Terry Pratchett ✅️ 😂😂😂

  • @Eighthplanetglass
    @Eighthplanetglass Месяц назад

    Really enjoying your videos ❤️ you have great insight

  • @chestermarcol3831
    @chestermarcol3831 Месяц назад

    The whole Eigan family dynamic, etc. brings, to my mind, Mormonism.

  • @carltheninja1
    @carltheninja1 Месяц назад

    great intro, i will be watching your channel with great interest

  • @ricotalks
    @ricotalks 2 месяца назад

    Another great one. The golem comparison is perfect, and something not many people know about. Bonus points for using Evangelion clips, and negative marks for making me hate 2049 😭

    • @bookendjam
      @bookendjam Месяц назад

      2049 was one of my favorite films until very recently when I went to watch it at a local theatre of mine for their Blade Runner series. It was one of those very strange experiences where I've also soured a lot on Denis Villeneuve. I think he does wants to engage with the issues of the past text (he does a lot of similar moves with Dune), but there's something a tad "hand hold-y" to me about it all.

  • @astralpurrjection5931
    @astralpurrjection5931 2 месяца назад

    Fantastic video! If you didn't already know, Alex Proyas (dir. of The Crow) is making a film R.U.R : A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results. Based on the famous 1920 play by Karel Capek, a satire ever more potent for today.

  • @florallychaotic
    @florallychaotic 2 месяца назад

    Like now I'm wondering could we even create a spectrum of robot -> golem -> frankenstein's creature and the defining factor is the level of humanity we assign them?

  • @florallychaotic
    @florallychaotic 2 месяца назад

    Was writing a long nonsensical comment about connecting Frankenstein, the golem and robots as a circle when a weird thought came to me. Are the star wars druids that don't resemble humans (ex r2d2 and bb8) are they to more humanistic druids (C3PO) what golems are to humans? More concisely, are druids to robots what golems are to humans?

  • @florallychaotic
    @florallychaotic 2 месяца назад

    30 seconds in and I'm getting an etymology lesson that's how you know it's gonna be good

  • @gznewman
    @gznewman 2 месяца назад

    This was so much fun to work on!

  • @marlowemichaelson1366
    @marlowemichaelson1366 2 месяца назад

    Noticing a trend where people who are mostly known for comedy seem to excel at horror and horror-adjacent projects (thrillers I guess?). Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger, John Krasinski, Kevin Smith of course, and now even Ben Stiller. Worth noting however, Ben Stiller did not conceptualize the show, but he certainly saw the value in making sure it came to fruition! Props to him for that and recognizing talent.

  • @aghastlyghost
    @aghastlyghost 2 месяца назад

    What is the first song in this please? The trumpet is amazing. Also, great video. Surprised you havent more subscribers yet!

    • @gznewman
      @gznewman 2 месяца назад

      Howdy! Video’s editor here. The song is Freudian Slip by Bladverk Band!

  • @fasillimerick7394
    @fasillimerick7394 2 месяца назад

    As far as _Severance_ not having a lot of twists, I'd rather hear a story I know told very well, than a new story told poorly.

  • @joebartonwrestling3435
    @joebartonwrestling3435 2 месяца назад

    I will argue that The Last Jedi is the only movie of the three that at least tried

  • @bingusbongus9807
    @bingusbongus9807 3 месяца назад

    "what are ghosts if not a repressed memory" spooky little guys its that easy

  • @lexiconlover
    @lexiconlover 3 месяца назад

    Girl YOU ARE TOO SMART! Look at you, I see you, go ahead and do your thing, girl!

  • @somejackball
    @somejackball 3 месяца назад

    there's an interesting thing about Jame Eagan no one ever mentions, is that he's the only one that wears a jacket with a trimmed conservative collar. only other time i've seen that is in a couple futuristic Sci-fi films, ALIENS, at Ripley's debriefing, and in Blade Runner. so is he from the future, or maybe a alternate universe where they are more advanced, technologically? 🤔

  • @jarochomorales8496
    @jarochomorales8496 3 месяца назад

    I have no idea of what your video is about but I’ll watch it, in hopes that it is another critique to capitalism. . . Don’t let me down!

  • @Ets638
    @Ets638 3 месяца назад

    Goodness just awful music and could your AI speak any faster? I’m out!

    • @gznewman
      @gznewman 22 дня назад

      Man. I wish I was an AI. Life would be so much easier.

  • @spaghettisocial
    @spaghettisocial 3 месяца назад

    The only ghost talked about in this show is the specter of communism. Mark is literally reading a shitty hallmark version of Karl Marx/ Fredrick Engels. "Our Job Is To Taste Free Air. Your So-Called Boss May Own The Clock That Taunts You From The Wall, But, My Friends, The Hour Is Yours." The Innies are slaves with no control over their lives. Their life is work and nothing else. No matter what treats the company may give them to stop them from organizing they still are slaves.The Innies in the show literally are organizing against the company on company time to gain their own autonomy. On a smaller level it could be about forming a union and what it takes to organize but on a bigger level which I think the show is really showing is how you organize a revolution against capitalism as a whole and the harms capitalism has on the working class. Also I dont think the point is necessary the labor that the Innies are doing. Something tells me the only thing Lumon cares about is control over its workforce and how to duplicate that worldwide for other corporations seeing the party that Helly "crashes" at the end of the season. Its exactly like the conferences billionaires hold to advertise for stock holders to show off and sell a product. All the tasks and jobs that other departments do seem pointless. If I had to guess its probably just an experiment to see how they could control the entire workforce. Seeing that Marks Wife never leaves.

  • @DrDeb2005
    @DrDeb2005 3 месяца назад

    Can't believe I've only just happened across this video! @bookendjam @gznewman: brilliantly done! Subbed in hope of more in the future (especially with S2 finally upcoming Jan 17!). Thank you! 🙂

  • @Bred_bin
    @Bred_bin 3 месяца назад

    Nuh uh

  • @EleaticStranger
    @EleaticStranger 3 месяца назад

    Beth-Ann Donaldson thusly theorizes all about the conspiracy of corporate entities

  • @Cat-ee-jik6715
    @Cat-ee-jik6715 3 месяца назад

    I think that the lumon workers ARE the chip in their head. As if it wasn't bad enough already.

  • @veroniquebellamy4741
    @veroniquebellamy4741 4 месяца назад

    Apple devices exist in the world of Severance but not in the severed world. The only cell phone we see on the severed floor is Milchick’s phone which has a pronounced antenna.

  • @DermotBrophy
    @DermotBrophy 4 месяца назад

    yea background music was so loud & bad. so not Ghosts what you described split personality

  • @SkepticalZack
    @SkepticalZack 4 месяца назад

    Fantastic quality

  • @michaellalli7693
    @michaellalli7693 4 месяца назад

    Snow everywhere - what is the supposed location- Pennsylvania, Minnesota?

  • @bonzupippinpaddleoxacoppil484
    @bonzupippinpaddleoxacoppil484 5 месяцев назад

    It would make sense how mark’s wife is still “alive” as an Innie even though she died irl.

  • @snigdhabhattacharya1690
    @snigdhabhattacharya1690 6 месяцев назад

    Jing Han, you are selfish. You screwed up your entire life and now you expect me to save you. You want me to give up my entire life trying to make the medication to help you recover from addiction. No. I thought the drug laws were harsh but now I realise it’s to punish selfish people. Once you start taking coke you cannot think clearly anymore. You are clear proof of it. I have seen your messages. The boy I used to know isn’t there anymore. You’re already brain dead. Everything you do is only to get your next fix. I can no longer trust you.

  • @Dogberto999
    @Dogberto999 7 месяцев назад

    0:58 doesn't it take place in Kier, Pennsylvania? From S1E9, when Irving pulls out that map to find Burt?

  • @microman_mathtiiaasrosen
    @microman_mathtiiaasrosen 7 месяцев назад

    05:13 someone said,.. this is paradise, this is how it looks like. our pain is just spice, and death is a bridge to next chapter. It's for ever, and you can never leave

  • @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2
    @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2 7 месяцев назад

    EXCELLENT video ♥

  • @horuslupercal9936
    @horuslupercal9936 7 месяцев назад

    WOW! I didn't realize Zendaya was a Severance Fan!

  • @DieFischbude
    @DieFischbude 7 месяцев назад

    Nice one :) I hope we never find out what Lumen really does. The mystery is far better than any explanation could ever be.

    • @abcdeisthekey
      @abcdeisthekey Месяц назад

      No or love to find out the truth at the end of the series run

  • @teph1256
    @teph1256 7 месяцев назад

    shows in 2020. the date is on marc's badge

  • @squattingheads
    @squattingheads 8 месяцев назад

    Too arrogant with pure speculation

  • @judygal33
    @judygal33 8 месяцев назад

    I love the video but would find it easier to listen to without the background jazz 😂

  • @imacg5
    @imacg5 8 месяцев назад

    I would argue the "outie" (official term of the show) parts are the ghosts of the characters in this show. The "mundane" (my choice of term) life are where the repressed memories and histories really haunt, and this clean, simple, "infantilized" world, the "work" life, is how they chose to live. In other words, we are the ghosts haunting this earth.

  • @everydaykat
    @everydaykat 8 месяцев назад

    I thought they were in Pennsylvania since the addresses on Burts list say PE

    • @m_christine1070
      @m_christine1070 16 дней назад

      PE is not the postal abbreviation used for Pennsylvania. Its PA

  • @mattstone9364
    @mattstone9364 8 месяцев назад

    Ok HUGE PROPS to the editor and creator cause this video is WELL DONE. 10/10 👏👏👏