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Mary why the executioner has to always wear a mask underneath their face is to keep them anonymous so they don't get no backlash so they don't become a target after they execute someone and yes they always wear the black mask ✌️❤️
Welcome Mary, to the wonderful world of Bill & Ted. This movie was a pop-culture phenomenon when it came out. In many ways it seemed to inspire Wayne's World. There are two sequels. There was an animated series back in the 90's and even a comic book. The last sequel came out just a couple years ago.
Sooo, from my history nerd adventures, I remember it being mentioned that executioners kept their faces covered because it was an attempt to protect their identities and families from any backlash from their job
They were also superstitious back then and they didn't want the person being executed to know who they were so they wouldn't haunt them after their death. Then again the mask thing as a whole seems to be tenuous and not confirmed. In a lot of portraits of executions of the time, the executioners were not wearing any hood or covering.
It's not really different, even now. In states in America where capital punishment takes place, the identities of the executioners are kept secret. There have been a number of legal challenges based on the right of the public to oversee the government and to know the qualifications of the person handling the execution procedure but, in case after case, the courts have sided with the prison's right to "maintain security" and the executioner's right to protect their identity for reasons of personal safety and to limit professional backlash (for instance, lethal injection requires a medical professional to administer the drugs but medical professionals take an oath to "do no harm," so there's an inherent conflict with the bodies that govern their profession). So, while executioners may have worn literal hoods throughout history, they wear figurative hoods today.
@The Magoo Files tbh, superstition was usually the reason they executed a person was because they were in opposition with them, would profit from the death of the accused or afflicted person. Maybe that’s why their superstitions were propagated and could have been encouraged by the ruling class.
Thay didn't always keep their faces coveres that is why they tended to live on the outakirts of town with their families. They were looked down upon for their work and people didn't want to get "infected" feom them.
‘Just a minor oedipal complex.’ One of my favorite movie lines of all time. My junior year AP English teacher went to see this movie with our whole class right before finals as a stress reliever (she was amazing!) and 30+ years later I still remember how hard she laughed at that line.
Bill and Ted was started in 87 Was set for release in 88 but sat in the can for a year because the movie company DEG who also did transformers the movie went under.
People probably already said this, but it was Wayne's World that reminded me of THIS. It predates Wayne by a few minutes. I prefer Bill and Ted's reply to "No way" "YES way!" over Wayne's "Nehw whey" "Whey".
Not exactly, since Wayne's World was itself based on SNL skits that predate Bill and Ted. I do expect they were pretty much independent ideas, just riffing on some of the same core concepts and cultural stereotypes.
In the book _Live from New York,_ which consisted of interviews with most every SNL cast member still alive at the time, Dana Carvey was quoted as saying "Aren't we just doing Bill and Ted?" when he heard about the concept of Wayne's World. So, there's that.
Now watch Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey to continue their story. There is also a 2020 sequel Bill & Ted Face the Music. Oh and note that Joan of Arc was played by Jane Wiedlin a member of the Go-Go's punk band and also played the singing telegram girl in Clue. And of course Rufus was played by the great George Carlin.
It's a fun movie from my teens. Just a note Genghis Khan was a military genius and conquered half the known world but he was not evil. He accepted all religions and many cultures in his empire. You should read up a little on him. There was a really good Netflix series on him.
@@Serenity113 He only ("only" HAH) had 5 wives, but about 500 concubines, and today about 16 million men in that region carry a nearly identical Y-chromosome, or about 0.5% of the world's population, (1 in 200 men)
The time traveling guy with the ponytail's name is George Carlin. He was a stand up comedian. Totally worth watching and reacting to some of his sketches!
Yeah, ranked one of the best stand ups of all time. And much of his comedy made you think as well as laugh. He spoke nothing but facts and delivered it all in a compelling and funny way.
28:24 -- I can't even count how many time travel movies I've seen, but, to this day, I have still never seen a scene as clever and intelligent as this. And by the way, Wayne's World, as well as Beavis and Butthead, were cargo cults of Bill and Ted. Bill and Ted came first, all other teenage underachieving duos are derivative.
⛔️ WAYNE’S WORLD first aired as a sketch on SNL February 18th, 1989. It was super popular long before the movie came out. Bill and Ted was released Feb 17th 1989 so they came out the same weekend. You guys are wasting your time with obsessive compulsive comparisons. The catch phrases Mary was connecting between Bill & Ted and Wayne’s World were actually general catch phrases in American youth culture at that time period. “Party on” was super common. No one was copying anybody. Wayne’s World was a completely different concept about a guy doing a local cable show in his basement. The only similarities are the heavy metal cliches that were common in culture. Both plot lines are very different. Party on dudes.
@@christoffesedao3579 Yeah crazy person. The fact that the day after the movie came out Mike Meyers was doing the exact same thing for the very first time isn't a red flag. Spam that everywhere.
So-crates was saying 'We are but dust in the wind,' which Bill and Ted got because 'Dust in the Wind' is a song by Kansas. Executioners wore masks to hide their identities. Chopping off heads wasn't a full-time occupation. Rufus was played by comedian George Carlin. For More about Napoleon, you should watch 'The Emperor's New Clothes,'
14:14 In America, there is a long running soap opera show called Days of our Lives. The line Socrates said was a direct quote from the opening scene for each episode. My mom would drive me bonkers watching that show when I was a kid. 19:32 Song is In Time by Robbi Robb. Honestly, this movie had a pretty solid soundtrack for its time.
This one and the sequel have my favorite soundtracks period. The sequel has slightly better music overall, though they also had the opportunity to follow the precedence of this movie so it makes sense they would improve.
I miss George Carlin. I rewatch a lot of his stand up that is still absolutely relevant to this day long after he 'passed away' (especially the one on 'pro-lifers').
They really do a great job with the "fish out of water" stuff as the historical figures clash with modern society, my favorite part definitely being how much fun Beethoven has with the synthesizer
Reversely, that part's the only issue I've come to take with the film. Historically Beethoven was deaf, so he shouldn't have been able to hear the synth making noises; Bill and Ted were able to surprise him when they abducted him because of that. Unless he could feel the vibrations from the music it was making (was he touching it when the salesman hit the play button?), and it was the vibrations he was surprised it could do on its own, not the sound?
What are you guys talking about?! I’m so lost... Was that a porn reference? If so, the term “step mom” still has the exact same meaning as it always did (even in porn) which is why I’m so confused!
Originally, executioners wore the hood for anonymity. Relatives might try and take revenge on the man who executed their family member. Later on it became a symbol that they were acting as faceless arms of the state and were individually guiltless for the death of the person(s) they executed. It also made them scary and was part of the deterrence of capital punishment.
Waterloo is a place in Mesa, Arizona USA called Golfland and Sunsplash, it's still there today, of course they built up the water park significantly since this movie back in 1989, I used go there for my birthday as a kid, it has a castle with an arcade in of side it, a mini golf course and Sunsplash the water park. It's been many years since I was last there I think they added go-carts too.
I was just in the area around that mall over the weekend. That ice rink was awesome back in the day. I’ve also been to their circle k more times than I can count. It just closed down a couple months ago and they did a screening of this in the parking lot. Tickets sold out so fast.
It was my mall too. Well. actually Valley West Mall was where we hanged, but we went to Metro sometimes. They filmed this in 1988. There was a short blonde skater who went to our high school who got paid $50 to be in the movie as an extra at the mall, but I guess his scene was cut as I can never spot him.
Bill and Ted are cinema icons. Two really likable dudes, travelling through time and space, setting things right in the universe. Glad you saw this one, now you have to see Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, which I think is even better.
This is the role Keanu Reeves was mainly associated with for a long time. Pretty much until The Matrix, even though he did plenty of work in between. Actually, even to this day, if somebody does a Keanu impression, they tend to do the Ted voice. Probably because it isn't that different from his normal voice. Not only are there 2 sequels to this movie, but there was also a Saturday morning cartoon, "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures".
I have loved this movie since childhood and it is still a favorite of mine today. I was only 5 when it came out so I probably saw it sometime after, but I remember renting the sequel from Blockbuster after seeing the original several times. I think the humor, goofiness, time travel, history, music and characters created a perfect blend for an 80’s style movie. Also, bogus or most triumphant, I always enjoyed the idea of music being able to unite us as a people and lead to peace and harmony. The other movies are good, but nothing will beat the original Bill & Ted for me.
The whole bit about going back in time to steal the keys is brilliant! Total logic. Also I always loved the idea of Beethoven getting hold of an electronic keyboard.
Ages ago Peter Ustinov hosted a PBS documentary on Bach. He brought up the topic of modern synthesizers, and attitudes toward them. He then pointed out that an organ is essentially a synthesizer and that Bach would probably love modern synthesizers. It's an observation that always stayed with me, and, yep, I bet that Beethoven would have gotten a kick out an electric keyboard.
100% watch the sequels. It's a great little trilogy of silly, feelgood movies. And don't listen to the haters - Face The Music is great. Same spirit, same writers, directed by the guy who did Galaxy Quest and exactly what we needed during quarantine. 👊🏼😊
Dude, i watched Face The Music first, since i am a fan of Samara Weaving. I loved it so much that i decided to watch the older ones. Hot take. The third is somehow still my favorite. But i had a blast going through the series.
I loved this movie! This film was very popular at my school, when it first came out. All of us kids were quoting the movie and trying to talk the lingo. Such a fun film
The three people in the thrones at the future place are well known musicians. Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Fee Waybill of The Tubes, and Clarence Clemons (RIP) of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
This movie came out when I was in high school and my best friend and I liked to pretend that we were the ones travelling through time. So much fun for two intellectual theater nerds in school!
What's funny is that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was released on February 17, 1989, while Wayne's World made its SNL debut on February 18, 1989.
Remember guys. He was known to be a "shitty actor when this came out" many didn't take him serious until he started doing action roles in "Point Break" and "Speed" which I highly recommend watching those. (Especially SPEED)
Joan of Arc (‘Noah’s wife’😏) was played by Jane Wiedlin. Although she had a couple notable roles (this one and a brief appearance in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” among others), she was far better known as a member of ‘The Go-Go’s’, an all girl new wave band from the early ‘80’s. Other musical figures appeared as the ‘3 Most Important People in the World’ (the future dudes). They were Clarence Clemons (sax player in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band), Fee Waybill (lead singer of ‘The Tubes’) and Martha Davis (lead singer of ‘The Motels’).
Just some little trivia and inside stuff you might have missed: Beethoven was playing the "unfinished symphony" when they grabbed him, so they were responsible for it being it unfinished. Joan of Arc was played by Jane Weidlin, the bassist for the Go-Go's
Freud actually spoke English, as well as a host of other languages...a right smart-arse :) His grandson, Clement Frued, was a regular on some BBC radio 4 comedy shows, very sharp and was quite a _character_ too.
Joan of Arc was played by Jane Wiedlin from The Go-Go's. Jane Wieldin is older than Winona Ryder. Jane Wieldin was born on May 20, 1958, and Winona Ryder was born on October 29, 1971.
Been to the circle k they filmed at and drove past the water park they used for Waterloo. The circle k closed permanently this spring but before they did they turned the parking lot into a drive in movie theatre and showed the movie. If you went there and asked an employee if they knew when the mongols ruled china, they had to answer, “I don’t know I just work here”
I saw this movie a couple of years ago. Between this movie, Speed & The Matrix is when I first heard about Keanu Reeves. Gorgeous man. Also, there are the sequels: Bill & Ted's Bogus Adventure & Bill & Ted Face The Music
Regarding everyone being on board without question, I think it's just because, and this really came through for me in the third one, these films are all heart deep down. There's no malice in them whatsoever.
I LOVE Bill and Ted. In 1990, my first year of high school, I convinced my Humanities teacher to let our class watch Bill and Teds excellent adventure during one of our double lessons for it's historical value (I could be very convincing), he'd never seen it and didn't realise what he was agreeing to, lol. It gave me a good reputation with the rest of the class for the remainder of the year though.
There are a couple of obscure rock references in the casting - the middle "3 most important people in the world" guy in the future is played by Clarence Clemens, the brilliant saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and Ms. of Arc is played by Jane Whedlan, the bassist for The Go-Go's (and The Singing Telegram in Clue).
I fully credit this movie for bringing my wife and I together. Some of my high school friends took me to see it when I was a junior in college. A couple of weeks later I met this super cute girl, and we were sitting in her dorm room talking, and I told her about how my friends had dragged me to a horrible movie (I was a theater major, taking “my craft” way too seriously) called Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. A few minutes later one of her friends came by to invite her to see it. She looked at me and we both laughed. She stayed with me, and the rest is history…including how I saw it again a few years later and finally realized that it was hilarious!
This has always been a really fun movie and the sequels were great too (especially Bogus Journey). It was a really entertaining sequel. The 3rd movie was a bit difference since it was newer. It wasn't as good as the first 2, but it wasn't terrible either. It was a solid movie that just had a little different feel to it, but a decent way to wrap up the characters.
I seem to remember the subtitles on my dvd of this film, it doesn’t say “speaks foreign language” it actually said what Socrates and Freud said in their respective languages.
Miss Cherry, you are such a joy to watch🙂 I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it but there was an animated series of Bill and Ted if I remember correctly.
I'm not sure what platform you are watching the movie on but the DVD or digital copies show the subtitles of what the characters are saying in the foreign language scenes. The VHS versions even have the proper subtitles
The reason executioners' heads were always covered was because it was not an honorable occupation on top of the possibility of retaliation. There is a great episode of the podcast Last Podcast on the Left that gives some great insight into the lives of executioners throughout history along with some raunchy comedy.
So, from what I know of the lore, the reason Bill and Ted are so important to the future is because the future is shaped directly around their life story and musical career.
Fun fact, the first Wayne’s World skit was done on SNL the night after Bill and Ted was released in theater. So technically, Wayne’s World has Bill and Ted vibes.
The exchange between Ted and Socrates was interpreted by Socrates as 'As sands in the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.' Which was of course, the opening voice over for the soap opera, Days of Our Lives.
Interesting trivia fact. Napoleon is always depicted as being short. He was 5'2" tall. However, this was in French inches, so he was actually 5'7" tall by English standards. That was average height in that time period. He was as tall as Tom Cruise.
Aren't French Inches smaller than English Standard Inches? Also you really think historians wouldn't already know to convert it into a different measurement
In Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Rufus never introduces himself. His name is given to the present Bill and Ted by the future Bill and Ted creating a bootstrap paradox as the information has no traceable origin
When you said you thought that Missy had bribed the teacher, bless, don't ever change. Still, she didn't do it for the grades, she just likes men of a certain age.
I was still young when this movie came out but when I got older & saw this as my childhood movie, I have basically memorized the lines for this movie 😅
15:36 Nice to see you get into the Bill & Ted talk. "No way!" And yeah, the actresses that played the princesses were a couple years older than the actors that played Bill and Ted. (Late 20's vs mid-20's) but I'm sure they were playing princesses of an appropriate age. A lot of girls were married off young in those days. Some who just started puberty. Though I'm sure they were quite a bit closer to 18 than that. As for my opinion, I LOVED these movies when I was a kid. I'd watch them constantly! (There was a second one back then and then they came out with a third one much more recently but it's mainly about nostalgia in my opinion) This is the movie I knew Keanu Reeves from. He became a much bigger name when Speed came out but this was my first exposure to him. Even with Jack from Speed or Neo from The Matrix or John Wick, he'll always be Ted to me.
I heard Keanu Reeves was worried that this movie would haunt him for the rest of his career, but the way you said "He'll always be Ted to me" with affection rather than derision would make his day, I bet.
Billy the Kid was a legendary outlaw in the old west. He's known to certainly have existed but much of his life and even to a certain extent, the shootout that ended his life is shrouded in mystery. Slightly off topic but you should check out "The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford". It's an amazing outlaw movie.
Mary, having lived in the US my entire life and in Texas, which I am very fond of, after spending a week in Vienna and the Austrian countryside, I fully second your wish to live there. It's not perfect but the beauty, the history, the art, and the Sacher Torte! It was the best place I have ever visited.
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Mary don't forget to watch the goonies 🙏✌️❤️
Mary why the executioner has to always wear a mask underneath their face is to keep them anonymous so they don't get no backlash so they don't become a target after they execute someone and yes they always wear the black mask ✌️❤️
Welcome Mary, to the wonderful world of Bill & Ted. This movie was a pop-culture phenomenon when it came out. In many ways it seemed to inspire Wayne's World. There are two sequels. There was an animated series back in the 90's and even a comic book. The last sequel came out just a couple years ago.
Sooo, from my history nerd adventures, I remember it being mentioned that executioners kept their faces covered because it was an attempt to protect their identities and families from any backlash from their job
They were also superstitious back then and they didn't want the person being executed to know who they were so they wouldn't haunt them after their death. Then again the mask thing as a whole seems to be tenuous and not confirmed. In a lot of portraits of executions of the time, the executioners were not wearing any hood or covering.
It's not really different, even now. In states in America where capital punishment takes place, the identities of the executioners are kept secret. There have been a number of legal challenges based on the right of the public to oversee the government and to know the qualifications of the person handling the execution procedure but, in case after case, the courts have sided with the prison's right to "maintain security" and the executioner's right to protect their identity for reasons of personal safety and to limit professional backlash (for instance, lethal injection requires a medical professional to administer the drugs but medical professionals take an oath to "do no harm," so there's an inherent conflict with the bodies that govern their profession).
So, while executioners may have worn literal hoods throughout history, they wear figurative hoods today.
This is true.
@The Magoo Files tbh, superstition was usually the reason they executed a person was because they were in opposition with them, would profit from the death of the accused or afflicted person. Maybe that’s why their superstitions were propagated and could have been encouraged by the ruling class.
Thay didn't always keep their faces coveres that is why they tended to live on the outakirts of town with their families. They were looked down upon for their work and people didn't want to get "infected" feom them.
‘Just a minor oedipal complex.’ One of my favorite movie lines of all time. My junior year AP English teacher went to see this movie with our whole class right before finals as a stress reliever (she was amazing!) and 30+ years later I still remember how hard she laughed at that line.
first 20 or so times watching this movie as a kid that line few so far over my head
The movie keanu reeves feared would haunt his career I'm glad it didn't I always found it to be good and funny
Best thing about this movie?
Both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter continue to be the most excellent people in Hollywood
“Cmon Ted it’s a history report not a babe report.” - “but bill, those ARE historical babes.” Lol still my favorite line
Wayne's World was made in '92. Bill and Ted was made in '89. So if you're seeing similarities, WW was copying Bill and Ted.
righteous dude
Mike Myers invented Wayne right around the same time as this movie came out in Canada, then introduced the character on Saturday Night Live.
Bill and Ted was started in 87 Was set for release in 88 but sat in the can for a year because the movie company DEG who also did transformers the movie went under.
Spicolli got them all beat
@@aaronhusk "invented"
People probably already said this, but it was Wayne's World that reminded me of THIS. It predates Wayne by a few minutes.
I prefer Bill and Ted's reply to "No way" "YES way!" over Wayne's "Nehw whey" "Whey".
Nice handle!
“I don’t go map findin’ behindin’”
@@daddynitro199 (inner monologue) "Can I drink him?"
Not exactly, since Wayne's World was itself based on SNL skits that predate Bill and Ted. I do expect they were pretty much independent ideas, just riffing on some of the same core concepts and cultural stereotypes.
In the book _Live from New York,_ which consisted of interviews with most every SNL cast member still alive at the time, Dana Carvey was quoted as saying "Aren't we just doing Bill and Ted?" when he heard about the concept of Wayne's World. So, there's that.
I very much recall watching Wayne’s World and saying “This is Bill and Ted after high school.” Love both movies equally and they still make me laugh.
Now watch Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey to continue their story. There is also a 2020 sequel Bill & Ted Face the Music.
Oh and note that Joan of Arc was played by Jane Wiedlin a member of the Go-Go's punk band and also played the singing telegram girl in Clue.
And of course Rufus was played by the great George Carlin.
Go-Go's "punk"?😆😆😆
@@BillKrayer12thMan They began as Punk before they went New-Wave.
Bill: Let's go to Greek
Mary: that must be Rome
Mary: I think they're in Rome!
Always remember: Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!
It's a fun movie from my teens. Just a note Genghis Khan was a military genius and conquered half the known world but he was not evil. He accepted all religions and many cultures in his empire. You should read up a little on him. There was a really good Netflix series on him.
He also loved Twinkies
And also totally ravaged Oshman's Sporting Goods.
Didn't he have a lot of wives and I mean a lot that there are people related to him to this day?
@@Serenity113 He only ("only" HAH) had 5 wives, but about 500 concubines, and today about 16 million men in that region carry a nearly identical Y-chromosome, or about 0.5% of the world's population, (1 in 200 men)
History teacher came to say the same thing
I love this series. Be excellent to each other is my life philosophy.
Party on, dude!
mine too. I've made it a point to live by this.
Most awesome philosophy Dude...
Excellence
Part on sweetheart
The time traveling guy with the ponytail's name is George Carlin. He was a stand up comedian. Totally worth watching and reacting to some of his sketches!
Yeah, ranked one of the best stand ups of all time. And much of his comedy made you think as well as laugh. He spoke nothing but facts and delivered it all in a compelling and funny way.
💯
Indeed he's one of the greatest comedians of all time!❤
@@carn9507 well said
George Carlin is the Marlon Brando of comedians
if you want you can see the 2 sequels:
- bill and ted's bogus journey
- Bill and Ted face the music
@hephner78 it's not as funny but I thought it captured the tone.
@hephner78 It's not the best one but I still liked it.
3 different styles of movies but the same Bill and Ted 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Bogus Journey is excellent, minus 1 or 2 things.
@hephner78 Face the music was pretty good considering how much time has passed and everything.
28:24 -- I can't even count how many time travel movies I've seen, but, to this day, I have still never seen a scene as clever and intelligent as this.
And by the way, Wayne's World, as well as Beavis and Butthead, were cargo cults of Bill and Ted. Bill and Ted came first, all other teenage underachieving duos are derivative.
⛔️ WAYNE’S WORLD first aired as a sketch on SNL February 18th, 1989. It was super popular long before the movie came out. Bill and Ted was released Feb 17th 1989 so they came out the same weekend. You guys are wasting your time with obsessive compulsive comparisons. The catch phrases Mary was connecting between Bill & Ted and Wayne’s World were actually general catch phrases in American youth culture at that time period. “Party on” was super common. No one was copying anybody. Wayne’s World was a completely different concept about a guy doing a local cable show in his basement. The only similarities are the heavy metal cliches that were common in culture. Both plot lines are very different. Party on dudes.
Wayne and Garth: "No Way!" "Way!"
Bill and Ted "No Way!" "Yes Way!"
See? Totally different.
@@christoffesedao3579 Yeah crazy person. The fact that the day after the movie came out Mike Meyers was doing the exact same thing for the very first time isn't a red flag. Spam that everywhere.
So-crates was saying 'We are but dust in the wind,' which Bill and Ted got because 'Dust in the Wind' is a song by Kansas.
Executioners wore masks to hide their identities. Chopping off heads wasn't a full-time occupation.
Rufus was played by comedian George Carlin.
For More about Napoleon, you should watch 'The Emperor's New Clothes,'
Concise and informative. Well done!
14:14 In America, there is a long running soap opera show called Days of our Lives. The line Socrates said was a direct quote from the opening scene for each episode. My mom would drive me bonkers watching that show when I was a kid. 19:32 Song is In Time by Robbi Robb. Honestly, this movie had a pretty solid soundtrack for its time.
Bill and Ted's line to Socrates 'All we are is dust in the wind, Dude" is from the song "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas. (well, not the Dude part)
This one and the sequel have my favorite soundtracks period. The sequel has slightly better music overall, though they also had the opportunity to follow the precedence of this movie so it makes sense they would improve.
@@DomSithe definitely agree bogus journey had the better soundtrack
A pretty solid soundtrack for its time? The '80s were the best decade of music, excuse you.
20:52 First time I saw this film, Dr. Freud's line was shown in subtitles. "Das must ein traum sein" was translated as "This must be a dream!"
I miss George Carlin. I rewatch a lot of his stand up that is still absolutely relevant to this day long after he 'passed away' (especially the one on 'pro-lifers').
George was a fountain of searing wisdom.
Carlin is timeless because he focused on human behavior and that just doesn't change
@@ILikeCHEEZ9 Depressingly true.
We need him now, and likely always will, unfiltered and unafraid of truth.
George Carlin is the Marlon Brando of comedians
They really do a great job with the "fish out of water" stuff as the historical figures clash with modern society, my favorite part definitely being how much fun Beethoven has with the synthesizer
Reversely, that part's the only issue I've come to take with the film. Historically Beethoven was deaf, so he shouldn't have been able to hear the synth making noises; Bill and Ted were able to surprise him when they abducted him because of that. Unless he could feel the vibrations from the music it was making (was he touching it when the salesman hit the play button?), and it was the vibrations he was surprised it could do on its own, not the sound?
@@PurpleLugia he became deaf.
@@PurpleLugia Beethoven wasn't completely deaf and those amps are way louder than anything he was playing.
"She's his Stepmom. Totally different meaning in this day and age."
Yeah, they cut out the part where she got stuck in the dryer. :)
“You know your dad is on a business trip…."
What are you guys talking about?! I’m so lost... Was that a porn reference? If so, the term “step mom” still has the exact same meaning as it always did (even in porn) which is why I’m so confused!
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Originally, executioners wore the hood for anonymity. Relatives might try and take revenge on the man who executed their family member. Later on it became a symbol that they were acting as faceless arms of the state and were individually guiltless for the death of the person(s) they executed. It also made them scary and was part of the deterrence of capital punishment.
so glad you found this movie it is one of my all time faves along with Stand by Me and Lost Boys. and yeah the 80s were pretty wild at times lol
Waterloo is a place in Mesa, Arizona USA called Golfland and Sunsplash, it's still there today, of course they built up the water park significantly since this movie back in 1989, I used go there for my birthday as a kid, it has a castle with an arcade in of side it, a mini golf course and Sunsplash the water park. It's been many years since I was last there I think they added go-carts too.
I was just in the area around that mall over the weekend. That ice rink was awesome back in the day. I’ve also been to their circle k more times than I can count. It just closed down a couple months ago and they did a screening of this in the parking lot. Tickets sold out so fast.
That was my main childhood mall as well. It made me really sad to see that it was shut down last year.
It was my mall too. Well. actually Valley West Mall was where we hanged, but we went to Metro sometimes.
They filmed this in 1988. There was a short blonde skater who went to our high school who got paid $50 to be in the movie as an extra at the mall, but I guess his scene was cut as I can never spot him.
This movie usually does have subtitles for when they speak foreign language. It must be the streaming service that didn’t include it for some reason
They also miss-subtitled Water Loops as Waterloo.
Bill and Ted are cinema icons. Two really likable dudes, travelling through time and space, setting things right in the universe. Glad you saw this one, now you have to see Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, which I think is even better.
Keanu Reeves is on record thinking that his gravestone will say "Here Lies Keanu Reeves. He played Ted."
Fun fact/comparrison: Steven Spielbergs original idea for a time travel machine in Back to the Future was a phone booth.
This is the role Keanu Reeves was mainly associated with for a long time. Pretty much until The Matrix, even though he did plenty of work in between. Actually, even to this day, if somebody does a Keanu impression, they tend to do the Ted voice. Probably because it isn't that different from his normal voice.
Not only are there 2 sequels to this movie, but there was also a Saturday morning cartoon, "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures".
I remember really liking the cartoon.
I have loved this movie since childhood and it is still a favorite of mine today. I was only 5 when it came out so I probably saw it sometime after, but I remember renting the sequel from Blockbuster after seeing the original several times. I think the humor, goofiness, time travel, history, music and characters created a perfect blend for an 80’s style movie. Also, bogus or most triumphant, I always enjoyed the idea of music being able to unite us as a people and lead to peace and harmony. The other movies are good, but nothing will beat the original Bill & Ted for me.
The whole bit about going back in time to steal the keys is brilliant! Total logic. Also I always loved the idea of Beethoven getting hold of an electronic keyboard.
Ages ago Peter Ustinov hosted a PBS documentary on Bach. He brought up the topic of modern synthesizers, and attitudes toward them. He then pointed out that an organ is essentially a synthesizer and that Bach would probably love modern synthesizers. It's an observation that always stayed with me, and, yep, I bet that Beethoven would have gotten a kick out an electric keyboard.
100% watch the sequels. It's a great little trilogy of silly, feelgood movies. And don't listen to the haters - Face The Music is great. Same spirit, same writers, directed by the guy who did Galaxy Quest and exactly what we needed during quarantine. 👊🏼😊
Most triumphant trilogy!!
The part with the buckets on the heads made me see spots i was laughing so hard. Not hyperbole, literally. I almost passed out watching that movie.
Dude, i watched Face The Music first, since i am a fan of Samara Weaving. I loved it so much that i decided to watch the older ones.
Hot take. The third is somehow still my favorite. But i had a blast going through the series.
I loved this movie! This film was very popular at my school, when it first came out. All of us kids were quoting the movie and trying to talk the lingo. Such a fun film
As a fellow Bill i have one thing to say….PARTY ON DUDES!!
The three people in the thrones at the future place are well known musicians. Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Fee Waybill of The Tubes, and Clarence Clemons (RIP) of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
And of course Joan of Arc is Jane Wiedlin guitarist from the Go-Go’s
the late George Carlin , an iconic comedian has amazing stand-up routines
Mary you are 'Most Bodacious' and everybody 'Be Excellent to each other'
This movie came out when I was in high school and my best friend and I liked to pretend that we were the ones travelling through time. So much fun for two intellectual theater nerds in school!
What's funny is that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was released on February 17, 1989, while Wayne's World made its SNL debut on February 18, 1989.
Remember guys. He was known to be a "shitty actor when this came out" many didn't take him serious until he started doing action roles in "Point Break" and "Speed" which I highly recommend watching those. (Especially SPEED)
Keanu is actually kind of terrible in Point Break, hes pretty good in speed though.
@@BasketCase-rr7tx Hey he was an F-B-I Agent!😁
The Devils Advocate (1997) will always be my favourite keanu reeves movie
I mean... hes still kind of a shitty actor. But hes handsome and charismatic as fuck so he gets a pass... a true "movie star".
@@BasketCase-rr7tx I wonder if Mary will agree with you.
Joan of Arc (‘Noah’s wife’😏) was played by Jane Wiedlin. Although she had a couple notable roles (this one and a brief appearance in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” among others), she was far better known as a member of ‘The Go-Go’s’, an all girl new wave band from the early ‘80’s.
Other musical figures appeared as the ‘3 Most Important People in the World’ (the future dudes). They were Clarence Clemons (sax player in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band), Fee Waybill (lead singer of ‘The Tubes’) and Martha Davis (lead singer of ‘The Motels’).
She was the singing telegram in Clue
You know what's crazy about the Wayne's world vibes You mentioned? Wayne's world first aired on SNL literally the day after this came out in theaters
Bill and Ted came out in 89.
Wayne's world was in '92.
@@phredphlintstone6455 debut of the skit on SNL, big guy. The movie came years later.
Just some little trivia and inside stuff you might have missed:
Beethoven was playing the "unfinished symphony" when they grabbed him, so they were responsible for it being it unfinished.
Joan of Arc was played by Jane Weidlin, the bassist for the Go-Go's
There's significance to the sword left by Joan too. Her voices/guides told her of a sword hidden in a church!
I saw a rough cut of this about 6-8 months before it came out (yes I’m old). No one at school believed me when I tried to describe it.
Freud actually spoke English, as well as a host of other languages...a right smart-arse :)
His grandson, Clement Frued, was a regular on some BBC radio 4 comedy shows, very sharp and was quite a _character_ too.
Joan of Arc was played by Jane Wiedlin from The Go-Go's. Jane Wieldin is older than Winona Ryder. Jane Wieldin was born on May 20, 1958, and Winona Ryder was born on October 29, 1971.
Jane is also the singing telegram in Clue! She's so cute!
@@LordVolkov Rush Hour is one of the darn cutest pop songs ever. :)
@@LordVolkov Great movie.
Equal parts torn between "this movie was awesome" and being distracted by Mary looking amazing
It's really is a common issue, for sure 😂
This was my favorite movie ever as a kid. I was obsessed with it at 5 years old.
Wholesome is a very good word for this movie. Bill and Ted are just relentlessly happy and I love it.
Be excellent to each other!
And party on dudes!
The sound track for this movie is so underrated. The entire sound track is awesome.
Been to the circle k they filmed at and drove past the water park they used for Waterloo. The circle k closed permanently this spring but before they did they turned the parking lot into a drive in movie theatre and showed the movie. If you went there and asked an employee if they knew when the mongols ruled china, they had to answer, “I don’t know I just work here”
All 3 Bill and Ted movies are gold. Recommend the trilogy.
"Ancient Greece..."
*2 seconds later*
"That's gotta be... Roman, I reckon."
"Genghis" was also in DIE HARD, the henchman stealing a candy bar from the counter he was stationed at! 😂
They wore the "hoody" because they didn't want people to know who they are, because it was normally someone from that town.
20:08 I know I'm 2 months late but glace is just what the French call ice cream.
I saw this movie a couple of years ago. Between this movie, Speed & The Matrix is when I first heard about Keanu Reeves. Gorgeous man. Also, there are the sequels: Bill & Ted's Bogus Adventure & Bill & Ted Face The Music
@@justindenney-hall5875 sounds pretty good
@@justindenney-hall5875 not yet. I really don't remember what happened Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Been a long time since I saw that one
And now you know where Neo's 'Whoa' in the Matrix came from.
@@beannathrach2417 Whoa that is cool
Socrates was word for word reciting the intro to "Days of Our Lives", a LONG RUNNING American Soapie. 😂
Regarding everyone being on board without question, I think it's just because, and this really came through for me in the third one, these films are all heart deep down. There's no malice in them whatsoever.
I LOVE Bill and Ted. In 1990, my first year of high school, I convinced my Humanities teacher to let our class watch Bill and Teds excellent adventure during one of our double lessons for it's historical value (I could be very convincing), he'd never seen it and didn't realise what he was agreeing to, lol. It gave me a good reputation with the rest of the class for the remainder of the year though.
Please give STAR TREK a chance! 🖖
Which one though?
Could you be more specific in your *constant* posts about this? 🙄
Try reacting to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan! 🖖
This is one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid.
This movie was probably my first exposure to most of these historical figures.
this was one of my fave movies when i was a kid.... guesss then i´m still kind of a kid.... it´s still one of my faves....
There are a couple of obscure rock references in the casting - the middle "3 most important people in the world" guy in the future is played by Clarence Clemens, the brilliant saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and Ms. of Arc is played by Jane Whedlan, the bassist for The Go-Go's (and The Singing Telegram in Clue).
The one to his left is Fee Waybill, lead singer of The Tubes.
I fully credit this movie for bringing my wife and I together. Some of my high school friends took me to see it when I was a junior in college. A couple of weeks later I met this super cute girl, and we were sitting in her dorm room talking, and I told her about how my friends had dragged me to a horrible movie (I was a theater major, taking “my craft” way too seriously) called Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. A few minutes later one of her friends came by to invite her to see it. She looked at me and we both laughed. She stayed with me, and the rest is history…including how I saw it again a few years later and finally realized that it was hilarious!
This has always been a really fun movie and the sequels were great too (especially Bogus Journey). It was a really entertaining sequel. The 3rd movie was a bit difference since it was newer. It wasn't as good as the first 2, but it wasn't terrible either. It was a solid movie that just had a little different feel to it, but a decent way to wrap up the characters.
3 is much better than 2.
Now watch Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey and Bill and Ted Face the Music. I still love this. I saw it many times in the Theater.
"John Wick" is the alternate universe where he was sent to military school
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I seem to remember the subtitles on my dvd of this film, it doesn’t say “speaks foreign language” it actually said what Socrates and Freud said in their respective languages.
Yep.
Honestly. This movie has the basis of a most bodacious philosophy, one which I truly believe more people should follow.
Be Excellent to Each Other.
Miss Cherry, you are such a joy to watch🙂 I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it but there was an animated series of Bill and Ted if I remember correctly.
Now you need to see Bill and Ted’s bogus Journey
I'm not sure what platform you are watching the movie on but the DVD or digital copies show the subtitles of what the characters are saying in the foreign language scenes. The VHS versions even have the proper subtitles
The reason executioners' heads were always covered was because it was not an honorable occupation on top of the possibility of retaliation. There is a great episode of the podcast Last Podcast on the Left that gives some great insight into the lives of executioners throughout history along with some raunchy comedy.
So, from what I know of the lore, the reason Bill and Ted are so important to the future is because the future is shaped directly around their life story and musical career.
Fun fact, the first Wayne’s World skit was done on SNL the night after Bill and Ted was released in theater. So technically, Wayne’s World has Bill and Ted vibes.
Those electric guitar stings you hear them perform to each other were provided by the great guitarist Steve Vai.
They should have gotten him for their most triumphant video.
Who is Billy the Kid? Someone needs to watch Young Guns....
The exchange between Ted and Socrates was interpreted by Socrates as 'As sands in the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.' Which was of course, the opening voice over for the soap opera, Days of Our Lives.
Interesting trivia fact. Napoleon is always depicted as being short.
He was 5'2" tall.
However, this was in French inches, so he was actually 5'7" tall by English standards.
That was average height in that time period.
He was as tall as Tom Cruise.
Aren't French Inches smaller than English Standard Inches? Also you really think historians wouldn't already know to convert it into a different measurement
@@jenewbee I'm merely repeating what I read. I'm not interested in arguing.
@@ericwatson54 how was I arguing? I was just asking for clarification
@@jenewbee Not before the French Revolution. It was actually a little bit longer.
@@timmarshall2491 thanks Tim
Now you have to watch the sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, I love both movies but the second one is my favorite.
“NO WAY!”
"YES WAY!"
In Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Rufus never introduces himself. His name is given to the present Bill and Ted by the future Bill and Ted creating a bootstrap paradox as the information has no traceable origin
Garth and Wayne must have used the phone booth because Wayne's World came out after this movie in order to get the proper vibe
It’s kind of hilarious to me that a throw away, fun movie I saw with my 8th grade friends is now being called a “classic”.
When you said you thought that Missy had bribed the teacher, bless, don't ever change.
Still, she didn't do it for the grades, she just likes men of a certain age.
A silly but lovable, fun film. Something I don’t mind rewatching every few years.
This was my introduction to George Carlin.
I was still young when this movie came out but when I got older & saw this as my childhood movie, I have basically memorized the lines for this movie 😅
15:36 Nice to see you get into the Bill & Ted talk. "No way!"
And yeah, the actresses that played the princesses were a couple years older than the actors that played Bill and Ted. (Late 20's vs mid-20's) but I'm sure they were playing princesses of an appropriate age. A lot of girls were married off young in those days. Some who just started puberty. Though I'm sure they were quite a bit closer to 18 than that.
As for my opinion, I LOVED these movies when I was a kid. I'd watch them constantly! (There was a second one back then and then they came out with a third one much more recently but it's mainly about nostalgia in my opinion) This is the movie I knew Keanu Reeves from. He became a much bigger name when Speed came out but this was my first exposure to him. Even with Jack from Speed or Neo from The Matrix or John Wick, he'll always be Ted to me.
I heard Keanu Reeves was worried that this movie would haunt him for the rest of his career, but the way you said "He'll always be Ted to me" with affection rather than derision would make his day, I bet.
This is one of my go to movies when I'm feeling down. It cracks me up everytime!
"I fell out of my suit when I hit the floor." makes me laugh every time.
Do Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey and Bill & Ted’s
Face The Music
Mary: "Why doesn't he just go to Community College?"
My mind, immediately: "Get me some rope, tie me to dream..."
Billy the Kid was a legendary outlaw in the old west. He's known to certainly have existed but much of his life and even to a certain extent, the shootout that ended his life is shrouded in mystery.
Slightly off topic but you should check out "The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford". It's an amazing outlaw movie.
OMG Mary you also need to scrub up on your history :P
Mary, having lived in the US my entire life and in Texas, which I am very fond of, after spending a week in Vienna and the Austrian countryside, I fully second your wish to live there. It's not perfect but the beauty, the history, the art, and the Sacher Torte! It was the best place I have ever visited.
PARTY ON, DUDES!!!