Nathaniel The Grublet - VHS Review | Too Many Tapes
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- What starts as a fun, silly kids' movie about person-sized Borrowers fixing up old junk in a town turns into a weirdly regressive moralist diatribe about the dangers of wanting any sort of upward class mobility.
Nathaniel the Grublet is the film adaptation of Dove Award & Grammy-Nominated Christian band Candle's 1979 LP about a little boy who faces a moral dilemma when his brothers decide that stealing is preferable to work.
It's oddly well-made for its genre, and contains some well-written songs and decent performances. It also becomes a weird puppet and mascot outfit fever dream about 20 minutes in, so stick around for those nightmares!
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So I fancied rewatching Brutalmoose's Dream Bunny again and then I came across your version and thrn onto this. I love the vibes here and I sincerely hope that the RUclips algorithm blesses you someday!
Also, yeah, the message I get from Nathaniel the Grublet is that stealing is wrong but exploiting the underclass and keeping them in poverty is perfectly fine!
I grew up listening to (and LOVING) Nathaniel the Grublet. I still have an original LP of the album. A lot of your criticisms of the story are absolutely valid, but I believe you're thinking about the tale on a much deeper level than was ever intended. The story itself is one meant to instill a semblance of honesty within the children for which it was written.
The VHS is an absolute nightmare, but the original album came with a very charming comic-style leaflet (full-size to the record album). The ultimate moral of the comic and original music was that an honest day's work is more valuable than stealing. The video you review here is a train wreck that misses the point and introduces many side effects that you rightly deride.
Agreed. The audio with the little booklet, which we still have, was delightful and our kids loved it--although we sometimes had to skip passed the Direwood music for our more sensitive child. But it was very enjoyable and well-done. I never knew there was a video...
I was so scared by this audio cassette tape as a kid. Seriously gave me anxiety and i think really informed my personality.
I remember watching this at my cousin Mae Hellen’s video years ago
I had the audio book of this as a kid, I never saw the video of it!
The first video after I became a Patreon member, its a joyous day!
Good summation of this story. I was entertained by the album version of this story as a child. As an adult, I have to admit it was horribly bad theology. It shows repentance NOT as meeting Majesty Himself, and being transformed by knowing Him, but by making a decision to "stop sinning" (in this case, stealing, even though you never really did it,) all on your own, by your own volition. It is only AFTER you "change your own ways" that THEN "Majesty" will meet you and transform you further. (Even though in reality, we cannot "good works" our way though to please God.) And as you pointed out, "Majesty" is always invisible, which is an awful way to portray a God Who lived among us and died and rose again that we might live. It just smacks of do-it-yourself religiosity rather than the Good News of Grace.
You're wrong. It's correct theology.
You ooze with brilliance! Thanks for sharing this!
I’m excited!
Still not sure what a grublet is but I love how passionate about it!
Please tell me you're gonna review Yellow Dino "Tricky People" sometime in the future. XD! I would love to hear your opinion on it. Also, is the mayor played by Michael Eisner at 4:36????
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It's fascinating to find these wrong lesson videos. Like, it's just off, right? The Grublets are shown as tired, ragged, and living in shacks; but the town loves what they do. They start stealing so they can not do that, but Nathaniel doesn't cause he thinks its wrong. The end SHOULD be Nathaniel and the moral authority figure explaining that the Grublets stole cause they were tired, hungry, and lived in shacks; then the town realizes what it was doing was fucked up cause they like the Grublets and didn't want them to be miserable. Then you see the Grublets living in the town and helping people there instead of in the woods.
That's, like... the story, right? You've seen that a million times before. Smug leftists will roll their eyes at the idea that you can just TALK to your oppressors and they'll be fine, and people would make youtube essays about how its this sort of incrementalist thinking that's afraid of direct bold action that is the reason worker's rights are the way they are now. That's the way it should go! Instead, everything just goes back to the way it was! When it was SHOWN to be bad! It's so weird when you find things like this. It's off. It's all off. It's like the piggy who built his house out of brick having it blown down too and the moral actually is "pigs deserve to be eaten."
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...pation.
Out of curiosity, how DID you make your the TMT title card?
Alongside watching a bunch of cursed old media, I'm also a new media artist focused on analog glitch art. I have some custom circuit-bent analog video processors that I run my footage through had then capture that footage for use in my title cards and backgrounds.
When I grow up I want to be a billionaire ska pervert
The billionaire part is the hard part. 2 outta 3 ain't bad.
I feel attacked by this title