Lawyer Fact Checks Criminal Court Scenes, from 'The Dark Knight' to 'Legally Blonde' | Vanity Fair
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Defense attorney Elena Fast reviews criminal court scenes from movies including ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Legally Blonde,’ ‘My Cousin Vinny,’ ’12 Angry Men,’ ‘The Lincoln Lawyer,’ ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ and ‘Fracture’ and analyzes their probability, craft, and execution.
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Lawyer Fact Checks Criminal Court Scenes, from 'The Dark Knight' to 'Legally Blonde' | Vanity Fair
She's got a resting smiling face :)
She do!
1st responders react/respond to 1st responder scenes in movies
This channel does a few. ruclips.net/video/TRn2LNhjrTA/видео.html
Legal Eagle said that My cousin Vinny was pretty much perfect. Case closed.
also everything she said about the car was for the most part accurate except for the fact that there was actually three cars made that year.
Accept getting that close to the witness. THE BAILIFF WILL TACKLE YOU.
Always interesting to hear these real perspectives! Thanks to Elena for taking the time to explain this to us.
"none of us are that good looking in real life" as she sits there being that beautiful
Right? She's gorgeous...
She’s a solid 5
@@DarkVitamins edgy
DarkVitamins Ok 2
Reminds me for some reason of Judge Judy saying 'beauty is fleeting but stupid is forever lol
Actually both sides of Harvey Dent’s coin are heads, so he knew he would win.
"none of us are that good looking in real life" OBJECTION !!!
You're cute and intelligent, that's a killer combo.
1:10 To the extent that Harvey Dent planned ahead, he had a two-headed coin
These videos are always so interesting to me- love it!!
The gun was stated as being “carbon fiber” in the movie.
And I’ve accidentally gotten a knife into a courtroom, while I had no intentions of causing harm, it’s not that hard. The guards are like “Is that a belt buckle” and let me through. Stop thinking you’re safe because someone else is paying attention. 🤦🏼♂️
"I wish we could pick who we go against, it'd make my job a lot easier!"
Man, I don't know who, but somebody just got roasted
We all love Elle Woods. She is a brilliant person, but that scene was right out of Perry Mason. Never happen in reality.
I've seen the Legally Blonde scene analyzed before and there's context that gets missed. The first point serves as characterization: the reason Elle talks about the girl in her Sorority to the jury is to show she's an inexperienced lawyer & doesn't know everything about court etiquette yet. Second, as for stacking the questions, it's to build dramatic tension and prove to Chutney that Elle is onto her & was quickly able to figure out why her story doesn't add up. You can tell by the look on her face she's panicking and the pressure is building until she breaks. So Elle got a confession, even in an incorrect way.
i had my doubts at first but, seeing as she described the act of calling someone a sick bastart for disfiguring and murdering a woman as "extremely prejudicial" i am conviced shes a very experienced lawyer
The bit about the coin in The Dark Knight does actually make sense, as Harvey reveals later both sides of the coin are heads so he was going to 'win' the toss no matter how it landed.
At this point they are straight up ripping Wired’s content...
Gq's got the same thing too. I personally enjoy the variety and quantity/quality of videos being brought about by so many channels doing the same thing. they force each other to do better.
Both are ripping off Legal Eagle's content, so...
Sami Dunlap They're all run by the same company. Well at the very least GQ and Variety are.
@@khrashingphantom9632 Wired is owned by a different company than GQ and Variety...
Wired has the worst version of this imo, with the awful editing of the people in the film "reacting" to what the expert is saying. Happy to have 3x the content
Just realized that Gerard Butler isn’t Tom Hardy 🤦🏾♂️
I love these videos where experts critique movies, but it’s just a movie of course they’re not going to go for 100% realism in legally blonde...or a movie where a man dresses as a bat and fights crime ha. Artistic license and all that
Still love them though
looks like she's being forced to do this lol
i think that justs how she is IRL
That's what emotionless narcissists looks like when they can't fake it.
@@Dunning.Kruger Like you.
@@Dunning.Kruger or she just doesn't like cameras and is actually a nice person, but your theory makes much more sense. Please use double protection with the one woman who'll ever agree to touch you. Please. For your future kid's sake.
@@Dunning.Kruger and actually, emotionless people are experts in faking it. That's exactly how they survive so, do your homework before you blame someone for not being real.
I want to know more about her colleague who can't figure out his brown shoes!
Gotham is entrenched in corruption, that's the whole point, but she makes good points. I like the casual "we used to dig up dirt or discover unfavorable things about a witness, even if it had nothing to do with the case". Prosecution holds too much power, so a balance I suppose.
Also, the coin flip shouldn't be referenced as after finishing the film, you know that it's a sham coin anyways.
@@nwcarnelli6 You are of course assuming, that she finished the film and didn't just watch a clip of it.
he literally showed that the coin was double-headed a second later, obviating her entire response.
Usually it would be a mistake for the defense to waive the preliminary hearing because they want as much time as possible. But in this case, he did commit the crime and knows far more about it than the prosecution. Time is working against him.
Another movie that would have been interesting to cover would have been To Kill A Mocking Bird
Boy she’s Fast
2:12 thats the Gotham lady
I’ve been binging these and waiting patiently for legally blonde. Bless u 😌
twelve angry men is a terrific movie even the 1997 version is good
Saw the original classic at a special screening a couple of years ago. Brilliant film
Hey subtitle writer: The word here is "counsel" not "council"
1st responders react/respond to 1st responder scenes in movies
“Hollywood doesn’t always get it right”. In other breaking news, “water is wet”.
My uncle brought a gun into his sentencing hearing and shot himself in the heart. In the 80s, maybe early 90s? I don't think I was born yet. Yes it was in all the newspapers.
Legally Blonde is the most accurate to real life, change my mind.
BETTER CALL SAUL , GOODMAN COURT-SCENES PLEASE
In My Cousin Vinny this was a test to see if they were credible to testify as an expert in cars. I don't know if they would be allowed to pass through the well, but still, this is not a witness at that moment of the film.
Also, he knew the answer to the question, he was just testing her to see her credibility.
@@Stolkmen He thought he knew the answer. He realized she was right, which was why he was so sheepish at the end.
Amazing video, I wish she broke down the movie Big Daddy, courtroom scene with the child.
LegalEagle might wanna have a word.
The bit with flipping a coin is explained that he wasn't really flipping a coin because the coin has heads on both sides so the coin-flip was a foregone conclusion.
"Fracture" is a nice movie. Watched it like two times and can't remember nothing.
Wow. Straight-up copying Legal Eagle.
i mean yes, but also no, because VF has this on-going series of experts in a field reacting to/fact checking their field's representation in media
@@walklikearobot He did these exact scenes though, he just did then better.
Harvey Dent uses a double-headed coin.
Question, regarding the "can't give testimony by nodding or shaking of head", what if the person being questioned is unable to talk/vocalize?
Then likely the testimony would be submitted as a written evidence.
*chuckles*
Good one, Ms. Fast (at the end there)
I like her. She seems very nice and rational.
Y'all really didn't put "12 Angry Men" in the title? I mean jokes aside, I get why, but I was very pleasantly surprised to see it.
I wish they would do more realistic movies. Like Philadelphia, a time to kill, movies like that
Lol they do. It's called neorealism.
Pretty sure I've seen this done before
Things said short, they got it all wrong.
Harvey's coin is 2 of the same side...that way, he make his own luck...that change when he became 2 face when one side of the coin was also affected by the explosion..
Has she seen Dark Knight? Harvey Dent's coin is a trick coin, both sides are identical "heads"
2:45 You should have a listen to the podcast Darknet Diaries. One of the later episodes is about a group of pentesters, who's job it was to break in to a court house to test their security. They did it easily. Hence: Planting a gun somewhere would have been trivial.
Her phrasing is that 'it's probably impossible maybe nearly impossible' to bring a gun into court and that she has never heard of a case like this in federal or district court in New York (also known as Gotham), not that it is entirely out of the realm of possibility.
The case referred to in the podcast is a county courthouse in Iowa at night and of the two cases they mention, they get caught early on in the second break-in.
Furthermore, they are professional pentesters, people who can practice a great many of break-ins without any real risk of facing repercussions. Common criminals will have far less experience.
This is not at all comparable to a district court in New York and trying to plant (or retrieve) a gun.
Couldn't even make it to the 3 minute mark. No one's fault, but the echoey sound on her end made it impossible to follow for me.
Whyyyyyyy is the screen so small on the clips...
Why would you make the clip so small in the screen?
I guess even vanity fair can get a copy write strike
Aww I like the lawyers reaction on Wired’s channel more re: “legally blonde”
Worst start ever. The coin was double sided and didn't matter. The rest is just dry. I'll just pop over to Legal Eagle's channel.
I love this!
Oh cool
Is it just me or is the sound quality horrible? 😬😬😬
I think she was very educated, but I don't think she looked at everything in the broader scope of what is actually allowed vs. what is common procedure. For example, Elle Woods stepping in as attorney. Obviously firing someone may be silly, but it's technically not prohibited, and I sincerely doubt you'd have this much doubt about your attorney until much later in the game, so doing it before trial might not be realistic at the time. Additionally, she points out that you have to take baby steps before going to fully handle a full trial criminal defense on your own... But she never said it wasn't allowed. Of course, it's a far-reaching extenuating circumstance, but she speaks much to standard procedure, and I'm not sure if what she's saying is actually prohibited or merely frowned upon.
Great video
would have loved to see Liar Liar on this list!
Regarding the legally blonde confession, Racehorse Haynes is famous for stuff like that!
This is the type of stuff I wanna do
Who did these captions? They're wrong in a number of places, like:
0:58 should say say "counsel" not "council". A council is a group or a meeting whereas counsel is a legal advisor.
10:04 she says "get your client an acquittal" but the captions say "get your client in a huddle" which is just bizarre.
15:20 She says "District attorney's offices" but the captions say "secretaries"! Are you kidding me?
And these are just the ones I caught! This thing is chock full of errors. Please fix this.
i'm not a lawyer but maybe the name depends on the region
@@Isabelle-xp7qb it does not. The two words (council vs counsel) are distinct in the dictionary and do not change by region. It's simply a case of one homophone confused for another and a caption writer who doesn't know any better (but should).
@@candice_ecidnac okay i'm a little confused are you talking about the captions or the lady that's talking?
@@Isabelle-xp7qb I should think that would be obvious by the very first line of my original comment...
@@Isabelle-xp7qb the captions say "get your client in a huddle" when SHE says "get your client an acquittal". The captions should match what she says. That's the issue. Follow?
I know she is saying alot of intelligent stuff, but I can't help but think through the whole video that she must have been the cutest baby in her entire town when she was little. Her face is definition of cute.
Really? Don't see it myself. Plus her voice is like a cat being prodded with a fork
Please review SUSPECT.
But was it ever RICO?
I liked this better when Legal Eagle did it.
Lover her accent lol
This is a complete rip off of the wired one...
And not as good but I still watched it .
Oh yes I thought they had repeated themselves with a crappier lawyer but they have just copied Wired. How embarrassing!
No one has copyright on the idea of talking about movies.
Dead on balls accurate
wired did this series first
They already had a lawyer fact check these exact scenes a little while ago. Lazy.
That was the WIRED channel.
uh wired already did this but okay
Terrile audio!
Gotta say this was one of the weaker "Professionals React" type of video. The clips you picked weren't very interesting and the attorney didn't provide that much information that we haven't seen in the dozen of lawyer react videos that already exist.
The lower part of the tv, in the thumbnail, moves when you scroll in subscriptions page on mobile. Try it!
not the best
the audio is way to loud even with the volume turned down
So... movies aren't real life? Groundbreaking.
Jesus Christ sort your audio out FFS.
I guess Vanity Fair doesn't watch WIRED, which had an episode of Technique Critique last year examine a few of these: ruclips.net/video/we6qm0zXMYU/видео.html
they do and they copy them alright
Exactly what I thought too
Fact checking a fantasy chick flick? Someone got a lot of spare time.
Thats the whole point of the video lol. This is a while series based on pros fact checking things
Cool
Am I first? No one cares so just
Hi people hope your having a good day
Yes, you are the first... Good day to you too...!😂
LOL i clicked on this video not realizing it was uploaded today, wow are we special or what?
Good day to you too.
By the way, it's 'you're' not 'your'. People confuse them too often, it's annoying.
Okay... Vanity Fair, it is downright creepy how close her face is to the camera.
I wish Elena was centered in the frame. This felt a bit awkward to me.
Two videos by VF have brought up the gun-in-courtroom, but wasn't it porcelain? Or that was implied? Either way is that not a plausible scenario since porcelain guns exist? 3D printed guns are more recent so that wouldn't be it.
As far as I know you are usually subjected to a search before entering court. Furthermore, your belongings are scanned and in the US, courtrooms may have to pass through a full-body scanner as well. Both methods do not require the object to be made of metal.
As for the porcelain gun, no such thing exists. This is a Hollywood invention. If you think about it, it's easy to recognize why a porcelain gun would not only be extremely impracticable but also very dangerous to the user. They would also likely still require metal components for the mechanism.
As for getting hold of such a weapon, to my knowledge, the manufacture and sale of guns that are constructed in such a way as not to be detectable by airport security is illegal. Therefore guns must always contain metal and/or be distinctly in the shape of a gun.
Second to comment and I love watching these videos
“More than tsa precheck”
* laughs in Muslim*
she looks like Will Poulter
her voice is so irritating that i can’t even focus on what she’s talking about
Her non symmetrical face distracts me, your honor.
@Glenna Smith Objection! Incrimination!
Everyone has an asymmetrical face
the king of cool I'm sure you have a perfect face, in every way.
No, that's not enogh eveidence she is guilty, your honor.
What I learned: wear a jacket in court.
Actually both sides of Harvey Dent’s coin are heads, so he knew he would win.
Yo this is nitpicky but I don't dig the mini-TV setup
Edit: I've been thinking about it and I think maybe it helps avoid copyright and licensing fees but I can't be sure
@7:59, that’s the way it’s _supposed_ to be, but unfortunately in reality that’s rarely the case. I love following cases and trials, and I can think of _at least_ 10 off the top of my head where there was _more than adequate_ reasonable doubt of a defendants guilt (due to circumstantial evidence, details that didn’t fit and were conveniently overlooked, etc.), yet they were convicted. Even though a “lucky” few have later been exonerated, the feat is _close to impossible_ to achieve. Makes you wonder how many innocent people are still in prison who _should_ be exonerated, but probably never will.
The US justice system is grossly deficient and wildly inconsistent in its practices of trying and prosecuting crimes. It’s insane how much sentences and convictions can vary for similar crimes based on arbitrary details like the location of the trial, physical appearance and economic status of the defendant, and the skill of the defense attorney. The US justice system claims to be fair and unbiased, but anyone can _clearly_ see that having the money to do things like bail oneself out of jail before their trial and hire a good attorney gives some people a clear and egregious advantage over others.
/rant. Sorry, I just get so fired up about this and got kinda triggered by this video, haha.
Being a lawyer seems to be less about finding justice and more about closing cases
You are entirely correct, being a lawyer is not about finding justice. It is about doing the utmost in fulfilling the role you are assigned to do in the pursuit of justice, in other words, doing your job. Lawyers are advocates. Finding justice is up to the jury or the judges based on the information and arguments provided by the advocates of both sides and witness testimony.
Finding justice based on what you think is the correct answer without engaging in the proper proceedings and engaging with the burden of proof, is what leads to people being hung up in the streets by mobs.
That being said, the US justice system is extremely flawed, but that is an entirely different matter.
Being a litigating attorney during a trial is more about theater. It's not a lawyer's job to "find" or "achieve" justice. It's a lawyer's job to advocate in an adversarial platform.
@Kyle J Hartman Prosecutors and public defenders barely make any money, at least in the US. So it's definitely not about that.
@Kyle J Hartman Well that range is typically for experienced, big city prosecutors. If you hit six figures, you're probably a federal prosecutor. Either way, prosecutors of that caliber easily make 3x+ that amount in private practice. There's also no bonus or incentive (outside of keeping your job) for winning cases. Public defenders make half that range. No lawyer enters public service for the money.
Linda from peaky blinders, is that you?
I've never seen Peaky Blinders....feel like I'm the only one
Tom Segura: The first 48
i'm 3 minutes in and would love to see her take on the antics that Donnell, Young, Dole, & Frutt attorneys at law do. "plan B", etc
I saw fracture a couple of weeks ago (I've been licensed for a little under a year in Texas) and I saw so many problems with it. The prosecutor didn't know how to ask for a mistrial or a continuance, nor would a trial happen so quickly as to allow him time to finish his 2-3 week tenure at the DA's office.