@@milletrad8871 yes, much more plausible than other emcees, who are basically doing disconnected mugging and posing and who are emcees of nothing but more just some male models in a particularly avant garde fashion show mouthing the lyrics. alan cumming was particularly awful in the role (my words are strong here to contrast with the inexplicable praise he gets). redmayne's is "fun" and very, but totally disconnected from the audience that he's supposedly the emcee of. none that I know of even slightly attempted to capture the interwar germany vibe like grey did. i have only seen neil patrick harris' rendition in a very blurry youtube video it seems decent enough to take second place but still a ways behind grey's superb performance here. even a small point: look how grey clearly is hinting of a different attitude/relationship he has with all of the girls just by saying their names. the others for the most part miss this most unsubtle of subtleties much less many deeper ones.
"German" "Glucklich zu sehen" is not something any German would say (it means more "Happy to be able to see" than "Happy to see you") - most performances by German companies change the line to something like "Schon Sie zu sehen" ("Good to see you") or "Schon das Sie da sind" ("Good that you're there"). Sorry for the lack of diacritical marks, using a lousy keyboard.
@@finncullen However, the thing is that in a cabaret at that time, where there were people from all over the world, they all didn't speak German properly. So I think it would have been better if they had left it uncorrected.
Isn’t it interesting that Liza’s character is literally the lead character of the story but is introduced sort of in passing as if she is deep in the background? Very interesting way of introducing Sally Bowles.
Masterpiece movie and I did think Liza was only quickly showed in beginning number and wondered why? I knew why later because she was POW the rest of the film
The edits and cuts during the musical numbers was done with meaning unlike the crap we see in much later musical where fast cuts are used which comes out of the school of music videos. Consider the obvious - Chicago. Great number by Catherine Zeta-Jones all chopped up as if the editor and director didn't think her dancing alone was enough to wow the audience. Shameful. Cabaret is leaps and bounds better in editing and cuts. Fosse trusts his audience.
Some people find the reason for their existence like right here. Joel Grey gives the performance of a lifetime as a character that he was born to play. Excellent direction, stage management, choreography, lighting, sound, and cinematography. It’s such a rare combination topped off by this simply incredible performance by Joel. Absolutely brilliant.
The choreography and the reference to military goose-stepping - such a feeling of dread through this whole show, with deeply ironic music-a desperate last gasp of freedom and life.
Remember watching g this I. My early 20s...didn’t quite get the terrifying angle to it all...watched it in my early 20s and had a bit of a cry afterwards. What a brilliant, terrifying film - and to think this was made in the l big memory of people who had survived inexplicable horrors.
Plus, on *Broadway,* he choreographed the original productions of *_"The Pajama Game"_* (1954), *_"Damn Yankees"_* (1955) and *_"Bells Are Ringing"_* (1956) and directed/choreographed *_"Sweet Charity"_* (1966), *_"Pippin"_* (1972) and *_"Chicago"_* (1975).
Part of Joel Grey's (practically immeasurable) brilliance is his ability to speak French with a German accent; je "sveeze" enchante. I suspect this possible because he was raised speaking a Germanic language, Yiddish. In addition, that he knows to add tinges of an Oxford accent when when speaking English is truly impressive. (To this very day, this is considered the best accent for non-English, European students learning the language.) I personally speak both French and German (neither my native tongue) but, for the life of me, could never transpose accents the way he did in this film.
Yet he says cabareyy instead of the German /kabaré:/ english speakers rarely get the vowls right. For some reason it's impossible to say e. It'll always sound like /ey/.
Joel Grey and Alan Cumming are both amazing as the Emcee. Obviously playing the character in such unique ways is what makes the Emcee a dream role of mine.
The MC is the creepiest character ever, anywhere. The personification of nazism sneaking up on Europe. These days, I understand more about how that happened.
@@larrygrant-hy8skI understand that productions these days try to present that view, but in the film it is far more ambivalent. Nazis are shown attending the club after all, and Grey’s MC is a truly terrifying figure, demonic. It’s easy to imagine him cackling away as the ovens are lit.
A while ago I went to see a Berlin kabaret. It was very good but nothing like what I expected - because of this film - and I quickly realized that I was seventy years late.
The unbelived Mr. JOEL GRAY ( has now 90 years OLD - GOD Bless Him )👉Simply an fantástic actor and really He Was the BEST EVER who could play THIS amazing role in which He Won the OSCAR !
I first saw this movie soon after its release in 1974. I saw it in a sleazy little cinema with my cousin in, of all places Gdańsk, Poland, which was previously the Freistadt von Danzig. The war started when German troops crossed the western border of Poland, AND simultaneously the battleship Schleswig Holstein opened fire on the Polish coastal defences at Westerplatte outside Gdansk. Poles in Gdansk put up a defence of the Polish Post Office in the Free City. The cinema where I saw this movie was close to the old PO. It was a feeling that resonated even though I was only 15 in 1974.
I loved the visually artistic rendering of German Expressionism and the Otto Dix "picture" in real life (man sitting at table and dressed in semi drag neither male more female). This visual trick technique will be seen years latter in the film, Sunday in the Park with George.
He raised the bar way high for this role, and this is what actors atrived to be in preceeding performances. I saw this at our local playhouse about 3 years ago and that emcee could almost pass for Joel Grey - he was that good :)
I'm a bit obsessed with Weimar Germany. I collect ceramics, photographs and memorabilia from 1919-1933. An endlessly fascinating period from the Revolution to the Bauhaus and beyond.
@@boblawblaw9451 You wish perhaps :-) It's certainly a period of endless fascination, as I have found from my hobby - but the reality of daily life there would have been rather different I suspect. Meanwhile, the ceramic Tortenplatten etc. produced c.1930-33 adorn my humble abode.
He wins an Oscar for supporting role! Are the actors who play the confrencier wins anything? They all think her interpretion is the only one, but Joel Grey is the only one!
Joel Grey made Emcee! As if this role was made especially for him! I absolutely love this whole performance!! It just seems like every Emcee after Grey just didn't have it! I get that it's their own interpretation but I can't let go of Joel's performance here! It's perfect in every way!
In French : j'ai vu le film à sa sortie à Paris... J' ai tout de suite pensé que c' était un film musical tout à fait remarquable... En 2021, je n'ai pas changé d' avis...
@@pippishortstocking7913 Maybe....I don't like toy clowns, either. That could be it. Poltergeist creeped me out. Or the zudu doll from Trilogy of Terror...
ESTA PELICULA ARRAZO CON LOS OCARES Y LLEGO A VALPARAISO Y LA VI 6 DIAS SEGUIDOS Y NO SEGUI, POR QUE LAS ENTRADAS AGOTADAS. LIZA MINELLI Y EL ELENCO Y DIRECCION FUERA DESERIE. GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTA JOYA.
mgwilliams1000 Cabaret won eight Oscars without winning Best Picture. That's the record. (Side note: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) won five Oscars...and wasn't even nominated for Best Picture. That's also a record.)
Joel Grey was quoted as saying he presented his interpretation of the EMCEE in an audition and thought afterward that he had "gone over the top" perhaps too strong. Not verbatim....but how wrong he was. He got the part and like many other characters we've met in the entertainment field....was perfect...and no one could ever match his work.
I read something once about the cabaret being kind of limbo because you never see anything more that a back wall, never any side walls in any shots so you can never get an idea of the shape or size. You also never see the emcee or any of the performers other than Sally outside the club….
I Bob Fosse didn’t want Joel to be cast in the movie. He wanted the film to have no connection to the Broadway play, and Joel was the only performer from the play. When he decided to take a stand and get his way, without question, producer and ‘money people’ “Grey goes or I go.” “That’s too bad, Bob. Joel’s not going anywhere.” Joel stayed, Bob stayed, Liza was brilliant…and EVERYBODY got Oscars.
It's one of those things in life where you want there to have been two top prizes. The Godfather is another favourite film of mine but it's that frustrating thing where you want the runner up prize to be almost as prestigious as the top prize. I suppose the nomination says something though.
I like how Helga is the cabaret girl name that has stood the test of time, also I like the completly different the Emcee character is played today compared to how Joel played him.
I watched this movie a few nights ago... I find myself wondering WHAT the MC actually IS...is he a man? Is he a demon? Is he an angel? Perhaps he is one of the Four Beasts saying "Come and see!" or, more appropriately, "Kommen sie!"
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Joel Grey's Emcee had this venial and corrupt quality about him that was hard for other actors to match.
Watching his performance, you feel as if you're in confident, albeit slightly scary, hands.
@@milletrad8871 yes, much more plausible than other emcees, who are basically doing disconnected mugging and posing and who are emcees of nothing but more just some male models in a particularly avant garde fashion show mouthing the lyrics. alan cumming was particularly awful in the role (my words are strong here to contrast with the inexplicable praise he gets). redmayne's is "fun" and very, but totally disconnected from the audience that he's supposedly the emcee of. none that I know of even slightly attempted to capture the interwar germany vibe like grey did. i have only seen neil patrick harris' rendition in a very blurry youtube video it seems decent enough to take second place but still a ways behind grey's superb performance here. even a small point: look how grey clearly is hinting of a different attitude/relationship he has with all of the girls just by saying their names. the others for the most part miss this most unsubtle of subtleties much less many deeper ones.
Always loved him singing in German, French and English so seamlessly.
"German"
"Glucklich zu sehen" is not something any German would say (it means more "Happy to be able to see" than "Happy to see you") - most performances by German companies change the line to something like "Schon Sie zu sehen" ("Good to see you") or "Schon das Sie da sind" ("Good that you're there"). Sorry for the lack of diacritical marks, using a lousy keyboard.
@@finncullen However, the thing is that in a cabaret at that time, where there were people from all over the world, they all didn't speak German properly. So I think it would have been better if they had left it uncorrected.
Isn’t it interesting that Liza’s character is literally the lead character of the story but is introduced sort of in passing as if she is deep in the background? Very interesting way of introducing Sally Bowles.
Well, she's a normal, free-spirited (and heterosexual) woman, so, in that story, she's a bit of the, "odd man out."
Masterpiece movie and I did think Liza was only quickly showed in beginning number and wondered why? I knew why later because she was POW the rest of the film
One of the best movies ever made.
The edits and cuts during the musical numbers was done with meaning unlike the crap we see in much later musical where fast cuts are used which comes out of the school of music videos. Consider the obvious - Chicago. Great number by Catherine Zeta-Jones all chopped up as if the editor and director didn't think her dancing alone was enough to wow the audience. Shameful. Cabaret is leaps and bounds better in editing and cuts. Fosse trusts his audience.
My favorite musical film.
no matter how many revivals of Cabaret, Joel Grey created this role, and will OWN it forever
He has that rare thing, eyes that look black but are so twinkly and warm
He almost never blinks. That adds a kind of strange vibe
Some people find the reason for their existence like right here. Joel Grey gives the performance of a lifetime as a character that he was born to play. Excellent direction, stage management, choreography, lighting, sound, and cinematography. It’s such a rare combination topped off by this simply incredible performance by Joel. Absolutely brilliant.
@Cookefan59 This! ^^
You have summed it up wonderfully and accurately! Bravo!
The choreography and the reference to military goose-stepping - such a feeling of dread through this whole show, with deeply ironic music-a desperate last gasp of freedom and life.
Remember watching g this I. My early 20s...didn’t quite get the terrifying angle to it all...watched it in my early 20s and had a bit of a cry afterwards.
What a brilliant, terrifying film - and to think this was made in the l big memory of people who had survived inexplicable horrors.
Very well said!
It looks like today in the same place, Europe, without the Cabaret.
@@nessuno1948yeah.. still hauntingly relevant
Bob Fosse was a genius!
So much talent here in this scene and there were so many more in this incredible movie, still one of my favorites.
movies from Broadway plays were better then
Bob Fosse directed two movie masterpieces--Cabaret and All That Jazz.
Yes!! 🎬👏🎬👏
Don’t forget “Sweet Charity” (1969)! 😍
A charming concept, with some energetic dance numbers, that is often--and unfairly--overlooked.
"Lenny" should be in there, too, IMO.
Plus, on *Broadway,* he choreographed the original productions of *_"The Pajama Game"_* (1954), *_"Damn Yankees"_* (1955) and *_"Bells Are Ringing"_* (1956) and directed/choreographed *_"Sweet Charity"_* (1966), *_"Pippin"_* (1972) and *_"Chicago"_* (1975).
The greatest opening scene of any movie ever!!!
Grabs you right from the start and lays out the whole premise. Bob Fosse shows amazing talent here.
this and the one in all that jazz are my faves! can you tell i love fosse? 😂
It is. I want to watch the musical but I doubt it could compete with the special effects. Nice to see the difference though.
I agree! The opening scene of All That Jazz isn't too shabby. It's show time folks! Thanks Bob!
Part of Joel Grey's (practically immeasurable) brilliance is his ability to speak French with a German accent; je "sveeze" enchante. I suspect this possible because he was raised speaking a Germanic language, Yiddish. In addition, that he knows to add tinges of an Oxford accent when when speaking English is truly impressive. (To this very day, this is considered the best accent for non-English, European students learning the language.)
I personally speak both French and German (neither my native tongue) but, for the life of me, could never transpose accents the way he did in this film.
The man brilliance really shines in the movie.. a true star.
(I see that Mike Thomas stated the same sentiments)
But his german has a heavy english accent.
@@sabinenoll5947 I'm not so sure. If anything, being a Yiddish speaker, his German would be closer to Plattsdeutsch.
Yet he says cabareyy instead of the German /kabaré:/ english speakers rarely get the vowls right. For some reason it's impossible to say e. It'll always sound like /ey/.
@@Freaky0Nina Oh, ok. Never mind, then.
Joel Grey and Alan Cumming are both amazing as the Emcee. Obviously playing the character in such unique ways is what makes the Emcee a dream role of mine.
i would absolutely love to play the emcee… it really is a dream role
The MC is the creepiest character ever, anywhere. The personification of nazism sneaking up on Europe. These days, I understand more about how that happened.
The Cabaret is the opposite of nazism
Yea get it more these days too.
@@larrygrant-hy8skI understand that productions these days try to present that view, but in the film it is far more ambivalent. Nazis are shown attending the club after all, and Grey’s MC is a truly terrifying figure, demonic. It’s easy to imagine him cackling away as the ovens are lit.
I love this movie. The music is fantastic. The acting is suburb. Bob Fossee dance moves are fabulous
Joel Grey is the only actor that could play this role. He was brilliant.
Zasd
Totally agree
C’est vrai 👍
Alan Cummings did it pretty well- just a different take on the character.
He got an Oscar! Well deserved
this is what REAL talent looks like
This opening is really wonderful, all the characters have a specific physical characteristic that makes them perfect for the scene...
A while ago I went to see a Berlin kabaret. It was very good but nothing like what I expected - because of this film - and I quickly realized that I was seventy years late.
My experience of this film was just....... stunning, and that was way back in 1973. I recommend it.
Yo la he visto varias veces y es de verdad muy genial!
The Fosse moves are fantastic
The best opening sequence of any musical!
Disney's ouverture of Hunchback of Notre Dame is very good too. But Cabaret represents the maturity of all the musicals.
Love this so much. Joel Grey is amazing.
Also, the casting for this scene was brilliant, Ves Pitts.
The unbelived Mr. JOEL GRAY ( has now 90 years OLD - GOD Bless Him )👉Simply an fantástic actor and really He Was the BEST EVER who could play THIS amazing role in which He Won the OSCAR !
der mann ist absolut genial leider hat er sich nach dem film zu keiner weiteren show überreden lassen. hut ab dem herrn!
I first saw this movie soon after its release in 1974. I saw it in a sleazy little cinema with my cousin in, of all places Gdańsk, Poland, which was previously the Freistadt von Danzig. The war started when German troops crossed the western border of Poland, AND simultaneously the battleship Schleswig Holstein opened fire on the Polish coastal defences at Westerplatte outside Gdansk. Poles in Gdansk put up a defence of the Polish Post Office in the Free City. The cinema where I saw this movie was close to the old PO. It was a feeling that resonated even though I was only 15 in 1974.
Released 50 years ago today. More eerily relevant today (sadly) than ever
amen.
My favorite moment in the whole number. 4:16 Joel is such an amazing performer with brilliant animation!
Great show and great music!!!
Best movie. Won 8 deserved Oscars. Most in all history Not to win best picture.
Had it not come the same year as the Godfather
Brilliant, just brilliant. (So full of talent, symbols, popular culture, craftmanship, historical information... What a beauty!).
Блин, 72 год, а как классно снято и поставлено ))
One word: Perfect. Liza nailed it.
Only one person could ever play this role........perfect casting.
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I would not say that. Alan Cumming was just as iconic, imo. Just in a different interpretation.
@@Lady-Seashell-Bikiniyes Alan was great too they both brought something different but iconic to this role
Without him the cabaret would not be as amusing and daring
I loved the visually artistic rendering of German Expressionism and the Otto Dix "picture" in real life (man sitting at table and dressed in semi drag neither male more female). This visual trick technique will be seen years latter in the film, Sunday in the Park with George.
is not a man, was a woman, a journalist. "Bildnis der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden", picture exposed on centre Pompidou Paris.
One of the best film openings of all time.
Best performance I have ever seen in a musical.
joel grey is perfect casting as mc in cabaret
Yes
He raised the bar way high for this role, and this is what actors atrived to be in preceeding performances. I saw this at our local playhouse about 3 years ago and that emcee could almost pass for Joel Grey - he was that good :)
I thought he was better in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.
@@choirkitty casAVfre3tzB
He is unparalleled... incredible performance.
I'm a bit obsessed with Weimar Germany. I collect ceramics, photographs and memorabilia from 1919-1933. An endlessly fascinating period from the Revolution to the Bauhaus and beyond.
Look for the recent German TV series "Babylon Berlin", you will enjoy it. Main song: Zum Asche, zu Staub. (To ash, to dust)
When I visited the city of Weimar, I was surprised at how small it actually was.
I too am obssessed with this period. I sometimes wonder if I lived there in my previous life.
@@boblawblaw9451 You wish perhaps :-)
It's certainly a period of endless fascination, as I have found from my hobby - but the reality of daily life there would have been rather different I suspect. Meanwhile, the ceramic Tortenplatten etc. produced c.1930-33 adorn my humble abode.
The rampant child prostitution, drug abuse, and economic misery made the Weimar era a real laugh riot, alright!
If someone doesn't know what is a masterpieces.. Just watch.. Cabaret.
Színház és a valóság. Történelem és az Ember..., köszönöm.
ОБОЖАЮ И ВОСХИЩАЮСЬ ЭТИМ АКТЕРОМ ,И КОНЕЧНО МИНЕЛЛИ ,СПАСИБО ЧТО НАПОМНИЛИ ❤,
Perfeccion.Director y cast .Que talento para el montaje.Las chicas...la atmosfera ...Bravo.🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹
Precisely two reasons to enjoy the movie adaptation: Joel Grey's portrayal and Geoffrey Unsworth's cinematography.
Absolutely stunning performance
He wins an Oscar for supporting role! Are the actors who play the confrencier wins anything? They all think her interpretion is the only one, but Joel Grey is the only one!
Joel Grey made Emcee! As if this role was made especially for him! I absolutely love this whole performance!! It just seems like every Emcee after Grey just didn't have it! I get that it's their own interpretation but I can't let go of Joel's performance here! It's perfect in every way!
Seul le talent de Joël Grey peut nous faire rentrer dans Cabaret 💖
Joel Grey's performance was class and funny
In French : j'ai vu le film à sa sortie à Paris... J' ai tout de suite pensé que c' était un film musical tout à fait remarquable... En 2021, je n'ai pas changé d' avis...
Joel Grey in this movie is downright creepy in three languages
There is a fine line between mediocre wannabe vs. sheer, insane brilliancy. Joel Grey is brilliantly creepy!
No, mate, there isn't a "fine line", there's decades of work.
Only God is brilliant! And He is Love amazing and pure!
He was fantastic but "creepy" I don't agree with. Maybe the makeup creeps you out. His character exuded fun and excitement.
@@pippishortstocking7913 Maybe....I don't like toy clowns, either. That could be it. Poltergeist creeped me out. Or the zudu doll from Trilogy of Terror...
@@ednguyen3822 that Trilogy of Terror fetish doll was scary af 🤣
ESTA PELICULA ARRAZO CON LOS OCARES Y LLEGO A VALPARAISO Y LA VI 6 DIAS SEGUIDOS Y NO SEGUI, POR QUE LAS ENTRADAS AGOTADAS. LIZA MINELLI Y EL ELENCO Y DIRECCION FUERA DESERIE. GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTA JOYA.
In love and always will be. This picture is the blueprint. Timeless
Joel Grey will always be my favorite emcee! ❤❤❤❤
I agree! One of my favourite movies too!
Joel Gray is a legend. I love him!
best version still.
El Presentador debe ser uno de los personajes más influyentes de la historia del cine.
No one can play the M.C., like Joel Grey.
I believe this was the only motion picture that won the most Oscars yet not Best Picture. Nine total.
mgwilliams1000 Cabaret won eight Oscars without winning Best Picture. That's the record. (Side note: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) won five Oscars...and wasn't even nominated for Best Picture.
That's also a record.)
most brilliant musical written
Joel's father was Mickey Katz, who brought Jewish music and song to so many of us.
If Pee Wee Herman and Rocky Horror Picture Show had a baby, it'd be this scene. 😄
My all time favourite musical 🎼❤😍
My favorite performance was by Alain Cumming I Cabaret..he was brilliant.nyc studio 54
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Joel Grey was quoted as saying he presented his interpretation of the EMCEE in an audition and thought afterward that he had "gone over the top" perhaps too strong. Not verbatim....but how wrong he was. He got the part and like many other characters we've met in the entertainment field....was perfect...and no one could ever match his work.
I read something once about the cabaret being kind of limbo because you never see anything more that a back wall, never any side walls in any shots so you can never get an idea of the shape or size. You also never see the emcee or any of the performers other than Sally outside the club….
I Bob Fosse didn’t want Joel to be cast in the movie. He wanted the film to have no connection to the Broadway play, and Joel was the only performer from the play.
When he decided to take a stand and get his way, without question, producer and ‘money people’ “Grey goes or I go.”
“That’s too bad, Bob. Joel’s not going anywhere.”
Joel stayed, Bob stayed, Liza was brilliant…and EVERYBODY got Oscars.
the BEST movie ever
Bob Fosee was the best!
Love this, right on point
Una verdadera obra maestra
I love this performance….
cabaret wonderful movie
Espectacular película inolvidable fantástica una joya
The Godfather lost out to Cabaret, but as much as I love The Godfather, I recgnise Cabaret was a worthy contender
It's one of those things in life where you want there to have been two top prizes. The Godfather is another favourite film of mine but it's that frustrating thing where you want the runner up prize to be almost as prestigious as the top prize. I suppose the nomination says something though.
The Godfather won for Best Picture.
@@U2QuoZepplinn
Got just one name to add to the roster of this, Bob Fosse, without him this just wouldn't have been the same...think about it....
Спасибо 💐💐
My favourite film. Actually tied with The Graduate.
Great films, yes, but try out "The Seven Samurais"
Fantástica la banda sonora y actuación en esta película
Сыграл гениально.
He sure was brilliant!!!
ON THE STRENGTH OF THIS SCENE I AM CONVINCED THAT JOEL GREY SINGLEHANDEDLY INVENTED GALLOWS HUMOUR!!!😃😃😃😃😃😃😃👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
the face that Joel is looks so short makes me laugh every time I watch this.
I like how Helga is the cabaret girl name that has stood the test of time, also I like the completly different the Emcee character is played today compared to how Joel played him.
I would love to see the name "Mausi" used a bit more.
What's scary about Cabaret is the story is set one year before Hitler came to power in Germany!😬😬
Fantastic film they were brilliant. But the story behind it was quite sad
LIFE IS INDEED A CABARET OLD CHUM!!!😃😃😃😃😃😃😃👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Love this guy
Una de las mejores intros de la historia.
Can I just say that the tall blonde dancer ('Mausi') is absolutely stunning????
A masterpiece
Wow! Top notch! 10/10!
I bought the original LP soundtrack right after enjoying the film, first run.
Watching “Babylon Berlin” now- this fits right in.
I saw Alan Cumming in the revival in NYC but Joel owns the role!
I watched this movie a few nights ago...
I find myself wondering WHAT the MC actually IS...is he a man? Is he a demon? Is he an angel? Perhaps he is one of the Four Beasts saying "Come and see!" or, more appropriately, "Kommen sie!"