3:17 Little trivia. Jon Hamm is a friend and mentor to Michael Gandolfini,son of the late James Gandolfini. Their relationship started because after his father's untimely death, Michael needed someone to help guide him. He called Jon Hamm. "I'm calling you,because my dad said you're a good guy" Jon Hamm burst into tears. He and Michael's father used to have conversations about their respective anti-hero characters. Now,he regularly talks to Michael. Helping him to navigate his career and his life. Looking out for him. A "Godfather",in all but name.
MadMen...Fantastic Show! I was a boy in the early-mid 60's...men in suits & hat. Women wearing white gloves to dept. store shop or church.. Memories. Don.. the show expressed his strengths, weaknesses, insecurities, growing up dirt poor...but working past all that to build the life he imagined to be ..."success".
Mad Men has, since it's debut, been my all time favorite TV series, ranking even a bit ahead of Breaking Bad. Everything about the show, Don's character, the era, and the ad industry of that era, fascinates me. You've done a fabulous job of analyzing why it's all so attractive. It's not real, but the idea of it is something I like to indulge in, including all the negative and dark sides of it, in spite of the fact that by most peoples' standards I lead a pretty up-standing life.
Don always had the sizzle, but there was something about the thoughtful competence of Lane Pryce that appealed more to me. “Do you know how to do what he does?”
Don Draper is a very hedonistic character. And I know quite a few like him. Friends who are very very wealthy. Some though hard work. Some trust fund babies. Multiple marriages, out of marriage children while married, questionable business legality and so on. I’ve rubbed elbows with ‘celebrities’, attended insane Hollywood parties and witnessed a whole lot of shit that people shouldn’t see. The point of all this seemingly braggadocio is comment? None, and I mean of them have what I would call a good life. Let alone a happy life. With money, influence, power whatever. One gets a lot of ‘privileges’. Well, what they see at first as privileges. But it becomes an immoral groundless way to live. Seeking the next ‘thrill’ or whatever. There are going to be younger prettier women, there is going to be another party with who knows what is there and who the hell is there. You know who I admire and I strive to be? My dad. He worked a shitty factory job all his life to give my sisters and myself the opportunities he couldn’t get. No matter how hard his day was. He always walked through that home door he bought full of energy and joy as we smothered him with love only the innocence of a child for their parent can. I wouldn’t be Don Draper if a genie from the lamp gave it to me as a free wish. I live an incredibly privileged life from the hard work I have put in. I unselfishly supported and gave to my community. And have an immense amount of respect that I earned. But don’t feel deserving of it. I have a lot of young adults always asking how I did what. I say work hard to make an honest living but work even harder to be a good person. And the world will open before you.
That's a great perspective, man. No matter how successful a person gets, they should always remember there's something far more important than the fleeting 'happiness' they get from practicing hedonism. Otherwise, your whole life is reduced to chasing the next 'thrill', as you put it. Your father was a great man, I'm sure.
The most important fictitious role model in my opinion has to be Lucas McCain in The Rifleman. He is a single father and widower that is a veteran of the civil war building a life out west for him and his son. The series does allude to a checkered past but in the show, we see a stern but caring father. A man that keeps his word and doesn’t back down. A man that is selfless in helping strangers and putting his life on the line to protect others. He also enjoys a cigar and beer with the town sheriff from time to time and he has a few love interests that he always treats with admiration and respect but is never a pushover. The show is free on Pluto TV
How about doing a style analysis (including grooming) of cinema male stars from the early periods to the modern day Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracey, Cary Grant , Steve McQueen, Alain Delon, Marcello Mastroianni etc What was their style? Was it their own or that of Hollywood stylists ? How did it influence men’s style in their era and beyond ? What can we learn from them? It doesn’t need to be done in one episode but by era.
Sally was the Mad Men character that I'm relatable with because I am also an older sibling and I got volunteered to be the third parent just like Sally
One character I think of when it comes to style is Saul Goodman (AKA Jimmy McGill). He uses clothing and hairstyle in an expert way to accomplish any task, legitimate or not. In Breaking Bad, we see his flashy colors to make him pop on the tv, selling himself not as a criminal lawyer, but as a *criminal* lawyer. But in Better Call Saul, we see other costumes as Jimmy tries to find who he is. For example, he wears his white 'Matlock' suit to be relatable to the senior citizens for his elder law practice, and he even imitates the clothes and hair of his former boss Howard Hamlin on a few occasions for various cons.
All men want to be Don Draper, including Don Draper. Because he is in fact not Don Draper, but Dick Whitman. He built himself up out of nothing into this glossy, slick facade of a man but it wasn't effortless at all. It took years of hustling and hiding. What the viewer sees is the final product, which is indeed shiny and cool, but behind that veneer is still Dick Whitman and he is a big mess. Mad Men is my favourite show because it succeeds in showing these complexities in characters (and the fashion is impeccable, of course!).
His mess is due to him being raised in a horrible home that was one big guilt weight around his neck. He had issues but we do not know if he ever got over them.
Don Draper is an interesting character Even dick Whitman (for those who don’t watch the show that was his identity before he committed identity theft haha) wants to be Don Draper in season 4 he journals that he wants to “wake up and be that man” meaning he wants to be the Don Draper that everyone sees Don Draper is indeed like James Bond the second he shows a slight flaw Dick Whitman thinks he has failed as his character Although Don Draper is a very hardened tortured character it’s an interesting case study on self improvement Dick Whitman was a awkward stuttering loser from the middle of no where But after the accident which caused him to switch identity’s he began reading and learning watching foreign films eventually dressing nice and developing his confidence Sorry for the ramble haha Great video!
Good analysis. I like that Don came from nothing and re-invented himself as a successful executive, The underlying tension in the program is that deep down Don feels like he is a fraud even as he can seemingly do and have anything he wants.
There’s a bit of misinformation here about the character. I’ve watched Mad Men a few times and Don is not ”effortlessly successful” in the sense that he’s lazy. To the contrary, he’s often portrayed as a workaholic. It’s true that he leaves the office in the middle of the day all the time, but he’s often seen thinking of new ads and scribbling on new ideas on cocktail napkins out of the office and after work hours late into the night. He’s also regularly seen as the last one in the office when there’s a deadline or a big pitch. While it’s clear that he’s extremely charismatic and a bit of a genius, it’s not effortless. In the flashbacks where he meets Roger before Sterling Cooper, he is a salesman who was volunteering to design and write their advertisements for free as a passion. The dude was hustling to make it in the ad game. And while he tricked Roger into getting hired, it was a big risk that paid off. It’s a good video, but Don Draper is not lazy. At first glance, yeah, but not if you’ve watched the entire series.
A few times a month I vist the neighborhoods where Germantown Friends School and Haverford College are located. I always think,"Dale Cooper went there".
I wrote a movie about my Dad being a Homicide Cop, here started on the force in 1965. Him and my Mom had a SunBeam Convertible ( I have pictures ) and they were very hip and cheek. Very Don Draper....Then they had 3 kids...... My elevator pitch was - It is like MADMEN but it's funny, true, and they are cops.... Writing is not the hard part - it is getting people in the biz to look at it that is close to impossible. A few nibbles but no dice. I will redraft the script into a series. So, I will make it after the HAN SOLO thing builds and audience.
I'd love if you could locate some good examples of Don Drapers swim trunks. Looks stylish and functional, really distinguished from what is offered in stores today.
I have not yet seen Mad Men, but I have watched Luficer, at least 3x, and that persona has effectively been drafted in my DNA. My confidence, sense of humour and fashion sense has propelled since it aired.
I should probably give “Mad Men” another try. I watched the first episode back when it came out and I wasn’t impressed. It seemed to be trying too hard to show “look how different things were back then!” In hindsight I suppose Episode One was just setting the period and premise for the series, and I didn’t give it a chance to show the nuances you describe. Maybe I’ll give it another shot sometime.
As much as "sigma" and "alpha" could be applied to men,Don Draper is definitely an "alpha". Or at least,pretending to be one. When Dick Whitman switched dog tags with the real Don Draper,he wasn't just getting out of combat. He became an engineer,an army officer,and a decorated war hero. These statuses are the foundational cornerstones of his success,and are repeatedly referenced throughout the series. If there is an archetype of the so-called "sigma",it is probably John Wick. Wick,is solitary. He doesn't lead people,or possess an authoritative status. And we see him spending countless hours privately honing his core competencies. And considering his stylish attire, can we get a John Wick vid?
He's like James Bond, men what to be him and women want to be with him, for all the reasons you list. The main lie that Don starts with it that he's not really Don Draper,, but a dead fellow soldier during the Korean war from whom he pulled his dog tags off. All of his subterfuge hingings around this.
Don/Dick did not pull the tags. He was injured in shelling and the tags got mixed up. He was on a hospital bed when came out of a coma to find he was now Don. The whole thing was Don went out and reinvented him self to escape his horrible early life.
Don is a power fantasy, something for the undeveloped mind to aspire to be, before they've grasped something of greater value. Don would be ashamed and disgusted by the values of hedonism, laziness, and instant gratification, yet as we can see, from our perspective we can see he fits this description just as well. It doesn't match the image he's projecting, which is part of what makes his character compelling. Even Don isn't really Don. He's Dick Whitman. Don is a persona, a mask, a means to an end. Don is the idol for the emotionally immature. He presents an alternative reality in which power is all it takes to diverge consequences, which is often mistaken for a form of freedom or privilege. Don is in no way qualified to lead, yet he bulldozes his way through life like a literal bull in a China shop, with just enough charisma to go, "Sorry about the mess" and tip the shopkeeper whose livelihood he's just destroyed, ala Han Solo. The emotionally immature envision a life where depravity never catches up to you, where pleasure-seeking is enough to keep the beast at bay, and where the people around them are nothing more than supportive cast members to the anthology of their ficticious life's story. But the truth of the matter is, this version of Don Draper is as flat as the magazine advertisements his firm produces. It's not the truth even he wishes it was. Underneath the persona, there's a deeply unhappy and insecure person.
What a surface-level misreading of Mad Men. ‘Don Draper’ was a facade that even Dick Whitman couldn’t live up to. “I don’t think about you at all” was meant to be ironic, as he felt threatened by Ginsberg and thought about him a great deal. Copy the style by all means, but the theme of the show was that ‘being Don Draper’ was destructive.
Don is not a slacker, he certainly works a lot harder than the other partners Sterling or Cooper. The four hour Martini lunch is a thing of his era, when he is doing this he is recruiting clients and even when he is seemingly not working he is always watching people very closely and trying to figure out what they desire, which is the skill that makes him wealthy. He doesn’t put up a sweat but he is always working.
Mad Men is most importantly the story of the hedonic treadmill. Don ran faster on the treadmill than anyone, but it never came close to making him happy.
"Why all men want to be Don Draper" simple, males want to be Men or a real Man, sadly those days are long gone for many gen x, the vast majority of males born as millennials, and basically all Z and beyond. Sadly while males were declining, girls and women were thriving creating an even bigger gap in maturity.
@@poppajwalker9344 interesting. I’m straight as can possibly be but my experience tells me that you’re projecting. I’m happily married with three grown children whose values are my values and are not the shallow values of the character Draper. I have an 8 figure net worth who never made a buck by deceiving, humiliating or lying to anyone. I’m driving a 26 year old Honda CRV because shiny things never held sway with me. I own my home free and clear. Tomorrow my wife and I pick up a 9 week old black lab. Our lab of 9 years passed. We had a lab of 13 years before that. The Draper character didn’t like dogs. I don’t trust a man who doesn’t like dogs. So, yeah. I think I’ll pass on the Draper personality. And whoever says that ALL men want to be Don Draper need to check their own value ladder. At the same time, you might want to stop your homophobic projection, Karen.
Your fragrance "special" is $595. Outrageously NOT special. Your pitches are the worst part, the least admirable part of your videos. Aside from that I like your insights and advice. The sixties were to free. It was still the day of the corporate pension and most men worked for the same company from age 22 when they graduated from college to the mandatory retirement age of 65. Losing your job was a consignment to disaster and poverty. It was not a free time. Conformity ruled, although mandatory overtime was rare. And vacations were generous. It was also expected that you would take your vacation as a chunk, not piecemeal. If you had a month, you took a month off. Different tradeoffs.
Even Don Draper can't be Don Draper. He's acting, just like all of us, and I think that's what the whole show is trying to convey.
Don's deceptive facade is just like his advertisements. A flashy and enticing presentation for what is, under the surface, a shitty product.
Very true
A man of great style
But no James Bond
He is/Was Dick Whitman, he knew he was performing, a masterpiece, a character within a character.
3:17
Little trivia.
Jon Hamm is a friend and mentor to Michael Gandolfini,son of the late James Gandolfini.
Their relationship started because after his father's untimely death,
Michael needed someone to help guide him. He called Jon Hamm.
"I'm calling you,because my dad said you're a good guy"
Jon Hamm burst into tears. He and Michael's father used to have conversations about their respective anti-hero characters.
Now,he regularly talks to Michael.
Helping him to navigate his career and his life. Looking out for him.
A "Godfather",in all but name.
These videos are like a cocktail. Well balanced.
Like a *good* cocktail 🥂
MadMen...Fantastic Show! I was a boy in the early-mid 60's...men in suits & hat.
Women wearing white gloves to dept. store shop or church.. Memories.
Don.. the show expressed his strengths, weaknesses, insecurities, growing up dirt poor...but working past all that to build the life he imagined to be ..."success".
Mad Men has, since it's debut, been my all time favorite TV series, ranking even a bit ahead of Breaking Bad. Everything about the show, Don's character, the era, and the ad industry of that era, fascinates me. You've done a fabulous job of analyzing why it's all so attractive. It's not real, but the idea of it is something I like to indulge in, including all the negative and dark sides of it, in spite of the fact that by most peoples' standards I lead a pretty up-standing life.
This is no doubt one of your best presentations. Well done
Don always had the sizzle, but there was something about the thoughtful competence of Lane Pryce that appealed more to me. “Do you know how to do what he does?”
Beautifully cinematic,and refreshingly thoughtful. Wish there was a "Director's Cut". Great job James.
Thank you, Sam. I hope the extra time I am now putting into my work shows.
@@Gent.Z
Absolutely!
Don Draper is a very hedonistic character. And I know quite a few like him. Friends who are very very wealthy. Some though hard work. Some trust fund babies.
Multiple marriages, out of marriage children while married, questionable business legality and so on.
I’ve rubbed elbows with ‘celebrities’, attended insane Hollywood parties and witnessed a whole lot of shit that people shouldn’t see.
The point of all this seemingly braggadocio is comment?
None, and I mean of them have what I would call a good life. Let alone a happy life.
With money, influence, power whatever. One gets a lot of ‘privileges’. Well, what they see at first as privileges.
But it becomes an immoral groundless way to live. Seeking the next ‘thrill’ or whatever.
There are going to be younger prettier women, there is going to be another party with who knows what is there and who the hell is there.
You know who I admire and I strive to be? My dad.
He worked a shitty factory job all his life to give my sisters and myself the opportunities he couldn’t get. No matter how hard his day was. He always walked through that home door he bought full of energy and joy as we smothered him with love only the innocence of a child for their parent can.
I wouldn’t be Don Draper if a genie from the lamp gave it to me as a free wish.
I live an incredibly privileged life from the hard work I have put in. I unselfishly supported and gave to my community. And have an immense amount of respect that I earned. But don’t feel deserving of it.
I have a lot of young adults always asking how I did what.
I say work hard to make an honest living but work even harder to be a good person. And the world will open before you.
Well said
That's a great perspective, man. No matter how successful a person gets, they should always remember there's something far more important than the fleeting 'happiness' they get from practicing hedonism. Otherwise, your whole life is reduced to chasing the next 'thrill', as you put it.
Your father was a great man, I'm sure.
The most important fictitious role model in my opinion has to be Lucas McCain in The Rifleman. He is a single father and widower that is a veteran of the civil war building a life out west for him and his son. The series does allude to a checkered past but in the show, we see a stern but caring father. A man that keeps his word and doesn’t back down. A man that is selfless in helping strangers and putting his life on the line to protect others. He also enjoys a cigar and beer with the town sheriff from time to time and he has a few love interests that he always treats with admiration and respect but is never a pushover. The show is free on Pluto TV
How about doing a style analysis (including grooming) of cinema male stars from the early periods to the modern day Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracey, Cary Grant , Steve McQueen, Alain Delon, Marcello Mastroianni etc What was their style? Was it their own or that of Hollywood stylists ? How did it influence men’s style in their era and beyond ? What can we learn from them? It doesn’t need to be done in one episode but by era.
Love that idea
Lovely idea , hope to see It implemented
Sally was the Mad Men character that I'm relatable with because I am also an older sibling and I got volunteered to be the third parent just like Sally
Thomas Crown from the film, The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). Yes, he is played by the King of Cool Steve McQueen.
Now that is a killer suit and tie. Well done.
For me it’s his calmness under pressure, the ability to say the right thing in the moment. That takes class
One character I think of when it comes to style is Saul Goodman (AKA Jimmy McGill). He uses clothing and hairstyle in an expert way to accomplish any task, legitimate or not. In Breaking Bad, we see his flashy colors to make him pop on the tv, selling himself not as a criminal lawyer, but as a *criminal* lawyer. But in Better Call Saul, we see other costumes as Jimmy tries to find who he is. For example, he wears his white 'Matlock' suit to be relatable to the senior citizens for his elder law practice, and he even imitates the clothes and hair of his former boss Howard Hamlin on a few occasions for various cons.
All men want to be Don Draper, including Don Draper. Because he is in fact not Don Draper, but Dick Whitman. He built himself up out of nothing into this glossy, slick facade of a man but it wasn't effortless at all. It took years of hustling and hiding. What the viewer sees is the final product, which is indeed shiny and cool, but behind that veneer is still Dick Whitman and he is a big mess. Mad Men is my favourite show because it succeeds in showing these complexities in characters (and the fashion is impeccable, of course!).
His mess is due to him being raised in a horrible home that was one big guilt weight around his neck. He had issues but we do not know if he ever got over them.
Looks like I've found a new tv show to watch ! Great video.
Coincidentally,I just rewatched Jon Hamm's movie,"Beirut",
two days ago.
I like the film. It's basically Don Draper in a political thriller.
That sounds fantastic. I’ll have to watch it.
@@Gent.Z
It's worth it. And you may laugh.
It's literally Don,doing Don things,
in a completely different context.
Don Draper is an interesting character
Even dick Whitman (for those who don’t watch the show that was his identity before he committed identity theft haha) wants to be Don Draper in season 4 he journals that he wants to “wake up and be that man” meaning he wants to be the Don Draper that everyone sees
Don Draper is indeed like James Bond the second he shows a slight flaw Dick Whitman thinks he has failed as his character
Although Don Draper is a very hardened tortured character it’s an interesting case study on self improvement
Dick Whitman was a awkward stuttering loser from the middle of no where
But after the accident which caused him to switch identity’s he began reading and learning watching foreign films eventually dressing nice and developing his confidence
Sorry for the ramble haha
Great video!
Bottom line , you must perform.
Good analysis. I like that Don came from nothing and re-invented himself as a successful executive, The underlying tension in the program is that deep down Don feels like he is a fraud even as he can seemingly do and have anything he wants.
I try to have confidence in myself, in my career and with women too
My dad was born in late 30s he does same job don draper does
There’s a bit of misinformation here about the character. I’ve watched Mad Men a few times and Don is not ”effortlessly successful” in the sense that he’s lazy. To the contrary, he’s often portrayed as a workaholic.
It’s true that he leaves the office in the middle of the day all the time, but he’s often seen thinking of new ads and scribbling on new ideas on cocktail napkins out of the office and after work hours late into the night. He’s also regularly seen as the last one in the office when there’s a deadline or a big pitch.
While it’s clear that he’s extremely charismatic and a bit of a genius, it’s not effortless. In the flashbacks where he meets Roger before Sterling Cooper, he is a salesman who was volunteering to design and write their advertisements for free as a passion. The dude was hustling to make it in the ad game. And while he tricked Roger into getting hired, it was a big risk that paid off.
It’s a good video, but Don Draper is not lazy. At first glance, yeah, but not if you’ve watched the entire series.
Nice crossover with Antonio
I thought it was just me that had these feelings for Don
send them in
Every man should want to be like Christ
Fictitious male role model: Agent Dale Cooper
A few times a month I vist the neighborhoods where Germantown Friends School and Haverford College are located.
I always think,"Dale Cooper went there".
I like the jacket, James. May I ask where you bought it?
Thank you. Links to everything I wear in my videos are always in the description
Por favor faça mais vídeos sobre don draper. Sou brasileiro e adoro seus vídeos
I wrote a movie about my Dad being a Homicide Cop, here started on the force in 1965.
Him and my Mom had a SunBeam Convertible ( I have pictures ) and they were very hip and cheek. Very Don Draper....Then they had 3 kids......
My elevator pitch was - It is like MADMEN but it's funny, true, and they are cops....
Writing is not the hard part - it is getting people in the biz to look at it that is close to impossible. A few nibbles but no dice. I will redraft the script into a series.
So, I will make it after the HAN SOLO thing builds and audience.
I'd love if you could locate some good examples of Don Drapers swim trunks. Looks stylish and functional, really distinguished from what is offered in stores today.
They are from Brooks Brothers. If you watch my video on swimwear you will find more info
I have not yet seen Mad Men, but I have watched Luficer, at least 3x, and that persona has effectively been drafted in my DNA.
My confidence, sense of humour and fashion sense has propelled since it aired.
I should probably give “Mad Men” another try. I watched the first episode back when it came out and I wasn’t impressed. It seemed to be trying too hard to show “look how different things were back then!” In hindsight I suppose Episode One was just setting the period and premise for the series, and I didn’t give it a chance to show the nuances you describe. Maybe I’ll give it another shot sometime.
You should definitely watch it again, it’s absolute class
i did the same- quit after the first episode. Then i tried again and its now my favorite show of all time
As much as "sigma" and "alpha" could be applied to men,Don Draper is definitely an "alpha".
Or at least,pretending to be one.
When Dick Whitman switched dog tags with the real Don Draper,he wasn't just getting out of combat.
He became an engineer,an army officer,and a decorated war hero.
These statuses are the foundational cornerstones of his success,and are repeatedly referenced throughout the series.
If there is an archetype of the so-called "sigma",it is probably John Wick.
Wick,is solitary. He doesn't lead people,or possess an authoritative status. And we see him spending countless hours privately honing his core competencies.
And considering his stylish attire,
can we get a John Wick vid?
Finally, you talk about The Madison Man. Please do an analysis on Harvey Specter next 🙏
He's like James Bond, men what to be him and women want to be with him, for all the reasons you list. The main lie that Don starts with it that he's not really Don Draper,, but a dead fellow soldier during the Korean war from whom he pulled his dog tags off. All of his subterfuge hingings around this.
Don/Dick did not pull the tags. He was injured in shelling and the tags got mixed up. He was on a hospital bed when came out of a coma to find he was now Don. The whole thing was Don went out and reinvented him self to escape his horrible early life.
Don is a power fantasy, something for the undeveloped mind to aspire to be, before they've grasped something of greater value. Don would be ashamed and disgusted by the values of hedonism, laziness, and instant gratification, yet as we can see, from our perspective we can see he fits this description just as well. It doesn't match the image he's projecting, which is part of what makes his character compelling. Even Don isn't really Don. He's Dick Whitman. Don is a persona, a mask, a means to an end.
Don is the idol for the emotionally immature. He presents an alternative reality in which power is all it takes to diverge consequences, which is often mistaken for a form of freedom or privilege. Don is in no way qualified to lead, yet he bulldozes his way through life like a literal bull in a China shop, with just enough charisma to go, "Sorry about the mess" and tip the shopkeeper whose livelihood he's just destroyed, ala Han Solo.
The emotionally immature envision a life where depravity never catches up to you, where pleasure-seeking is enough to keep the beast at bay, and where the people around them are nothing more than supportive cast members to the anthology of their ficticious life's story. But the truth of the matter is, this version of Don Draper is as flat as the magazine advertisements his firm produces. It's not the truth even he wishes it was. Underneath the persona, there's a deeply unhappy and insecure person.
What exercise do you do? Gym? Running?
What a surface-level misreading of Mad Men. ‘Don Draper’ was a facade that even Dick Whitman couldn’t live up to. “I don’t think about you at all” was meant to be ironic, as he felt threatened by Ginsberg and thought about him a great deal.
Copy the style by all means, but the theme of the show was that ‘being Don Draper’ was destructive.
Fantastic video, though I can't think of anyone I'd rather NOT be.
Though I do love his JLC, so there's that.
Don was a genius, but also a pig. You have to pick and choose.
Best TV series of all time.
Don. The men want to be him, the women want to be with him! And there are some men...
(Spoilers)
What does it say when the man all men want to be turned out to be a fraud? Perhaps it is appropriate.
Fraud?
In today’s world, you need to be a little bit Tommy Shelby, Hank Moody, and Cary Grant
Don't speak for all men.
gent z... you haven't watched titanic yet... if you see this YOU MUST WATCH IT!!!
Don is not a slacker, he certainly works a lot harder than the other partners Sterling or Cooper. The four hour Martini lunch is a thing of his era, when he is doing this he is recruiting clients and even when he is seemingly not working he is always watching people very closely and trying to figure out what they desire, which is the skill that makes him wealthy. He doesn’t put up a sweat but he is always working.
No
Mad Men is most importantly the story of the hedonic treadmill. Don ran faster on the treadmill than anyone, but it never came close to making him happy.
Second time asking you to do a fitness for gentlemen video
I don’t want to be Don Draper
OMG that scene where the comedian’s wife tries to blackmail him and he sticks his hand up her dress and says “I will ruin him.”
Can you make a video about Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman)?
Now do Patrick Bateman
“most of us want to be don draper but turns out we are just another pete campbell” ctto
Is that moustache intentional ?
That's Armand Tamzarian not Don Draper.
"Why all men want to be Don Draper" simple, males want to be Men or a real Man, sadly those days are long gone for many gen x, the vast majority of males born as millennials, and basically all Z and beyond. Sadly while males were declining, girls and women were thriving creating an even bigger gap in maturity.
I have a dark past
I admire Don but I’d never wanna be like him. Don’s life feels cold and lonely
He is a character trying to overcome his family life that shaped him early on.
I'd never heard of Don Draper before this video though 😕❓
Not once have I wanted to be such a shallow man.
You sound gay
You sound a little 🏳️🌈
@@poppajwalker9344no amount of good posture or social skills can replace a man's most important virtue: his integrity
If having actual substance to your character is gay, I'm Elton John.
@@poppajwalker9344 interesting. I’m straight as can possibly be but my experience tells me that you’re projecting. I’m happily married with three grown children whose values are my values and are not the shallow values of the character Draper. I have an 8 figure net worth who never made a buck by deceiving, humiliating or lying to anyone. I’m driving a 26 year old Honda CRV because shiny things never held sway with me. I own my home free and clear. Tomorrow my wife and I pick up a 9 week old black lab. Our lab of 9 years passed. We had a lab of 13 years before that. The Draper character didn’t like dogs. I don’t trust a man who doesn’t like dogs.
So, yeah. I think I’ll pass on the Draper personality. And whoever says that ALL men want to be Don Draper need to check their own value ladder. At the same time, you might want to stop your homophobic projection, Karen.
Your fragrance "special" is $595. Outrageously NOT special. Your pitches are the worst part, the least admirable part of your videos. Aside from that I like your insights and advice. The sixties were to free. It was still the day of the corporate pension and most men worked for the same company from age 22 when they graduated from college to the mandatory retirement age of 65. Losing your job was a consignment to disaster and poverty. It was not a free time. Conformity ruled, although mandatory overtime was rare. And vacations were generous. It was also expected that you would take your vacation as a chunk, not piecemeal. If you had a month, you took a month off. Different tradeoffs.
Whatever your going through brother, get better 💪
Yep, the fragrance pitch felt very forced
totally disagree with your anlaysis of Don Draper.......
Disagreeing without explaining why makes you look silly.
Yeah.... and you have made a better analysis ?? Let's hear it ...
Impressive, very nice, let's see Paul Hm7cz's analysis.
dont speak in somebodys name,
im not all,
Hes me
Confident, incredibly successful, handsome and well dressed ?
Pretty awkward segue into the ad.