Novelizations are a great way to experience the film a differently. They are usually written using the script before the movie was completed, preserving deleted material and anything that doesn't fit in the standard 90-minute feature. Bookstores don't advertise them like that used to.
“You sure you don’t want some coffee?” Love that bit. So subtle yet so effective. Kay didn’t need to prove anything. Jay just needed to see for himself that Kay was telling the truth.
@@themiddleman3060 I like the lack of soundtrack or score in this scene. Makes it feel more real. Usually there’d be a musical note that syncs up to the moment of revelation like - “dun, dun, dunnnnn!” But here it’s just dialogue, ambient noise that makes the scene feel authentic, like we as an audience understand the shock and disbelief that jey experiences in this moment.
I watch this scene a lot. I like how he critically thinks while everyone else sort of just reacts. K had already made his decision that he wanted J long before he even showed up for the tryout. This was more of a formality and the other guys were just there to sort of take up space while they analyzed J.
@@Dubulcle it makes perfect sense. Instead of “critically thinking” as you claim they do, they just started shooting at everything that wasn’t human. J was more aware of his surroundings. He had a logical explanation for every potential encounter. He gathered the facts. As K said later, there are x amount of aliens living on this planet and most of them are decent enough just trying to get by. One of those in the range could have been “just trying to get by”. The soldiers just acted out of a stereotype. It’s not hard to comprehend we just have to sit back and objectively think about it.
I love that subtle dig Zed gives the other applicants when he says, "You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training". Unlike Jay, those guys are a bunch of conditioned yes men who will shoot first and ask questions later.
@@imwinningthisone7613 That's the point. Dangerous ''looking'' aliens. It's a job where you cant just assume an alient is bad because it looks scary and light it up. Think outside the box.
Understand that he had to be funny in his transition from the Fresh Prince to a movie actor. He had it all. Then he slapped Chris Rock over his anger with his disgusting wife.
Zed's clearly pleased with his answer, too, until he starts getting sassed. I imagine 'don't shoot anyone' would also be considered a right answer in this situation, but the whole point of the shooting range seems to be to see if you have critical thinking skills beyond "shoot da monster man!", which company agents really need.
@@Komakazeම Anyone in the military or with basic firearms safety training would tell you that you're supposed to engage the safety whenever a weapon isn't in active use, even if you've personally emptied the magazine.
@@BeesechurgerProductions For sure, my dad was military but I think for the sake of the movie they were trying to demonstrate the difference between those guys being book smart and J having field experience
It still holds up beautifully, not just in production values but in humor and style. This and Independence Day too; Will Smith was on top of the world back in the 90s. What a career to end with a slap.
Except the bit about us knowing the earth was flat 500 years ago is false. I think it was known it be false even when this movie was made. We knew the earth was round for thousands of years.
@@TONGA09 Not really. Even in the middle ages most people knew it was round. There was a ton of controversy about the nature of the universe itself, whether earth was the center of the Solar System and etc., but that was a different subject.
I like how Zed is smiling when J is giving his answer but loses all that happiness when J gives attitude 4:48. He nailed the try out but Zed knew he had to work on himself.
This sequence is one of the greatest in cinema history. So layered with jokes, information, and effort. You can rewatch this multiple times recognizing more and more details.
Little by little you discover K's backstory. He was some youngster going to give flowers to his date (the woman he spies on thru satellite). By dumb luck he discovers the alien and MiB and makes the decision to drop his whole life and join.
4:38 that look on his face says it all. He knows J is the right dude, he thinks its kinda hilarious and pretty funny - the last face says "shit.. another Agent K i have to deal with"
I love how every aspect of this test is to gauge how aware you are of suspicious things that are uncanny and don't seem quite right yet have many excuses to be explained as normal or just something no one really thought through. Likewise the only reasonable options that present themselves to you are things that make you seem unusual, awkward, or dumb. You're taught from the very beginning to see things for what they really are and take the most obvious route that leads to a solution even if it makes you look strange.
"A person is smart, people are dumb" the whole point of having the military dudes was to see if Jay would give in to peer pressure or be willing to stand apart from the herd to do the right thing.
I figured it was a newbies hazing... Why didn't will smith have to sit at the door for awhile? Would of added some funny value... just like in lethal weapon when theyhad to be street patrol and managed to find something crazy going on with action.
I'd say he's secretly the most bad-ass agent. The first line of defence for an agency like that and he's just one guy? He's probably trained in 6 forms of alien kung-fu and has dual Noisy Crickets in spring loaded sleeve holsters.
"is it worth it?" Is such a brilliant question. When faced with a major decision, someone on the other side was selling it to me. I asked them, "talk me out of it, tell me why i SHOULDN'T do it..." They said. "I cant". So i did it.
@@NWJF I hear "I can't," and I hear one of two things. "I cannot think of why," a surface-level understanding, or "I cannot tell that to you." a marketed omission. In response, to accept that as acceptable feels the same as shooting first and questioning later. The opposite of why J is accepted in this scene. To me, something more convincing would be either being told the pros and cons directly, or searching for that for myself. If the pros hold more weight over the cons, Then my conviction would be reaffirmed. Then I'd do it.
I’ve always loved this scene, will smiths character doesn’t see past the aliens , they were just sneezing etc, showing no prejudice, but brings up the white girl.
Only because of what she was carrying, where she was (she was out of place), and the being surrounding her.. Could have been any race, and the answer would have been the same.
let's be real. an eight years old kid alone, at night, in a dangerous neigborhood carrying a book a couple decades too advanced for any local school to use? I may not know why or what but the kid is up to no good. no need to mention gender, skin color, clothes or any other tag that can discriminate. no well behaved kid that age would be at that place, at that time, with that book.
@@WilliamWizer but you have to admit it's stanger to see a little white girl than a minority little girl in the ghetto. Just another layer to the suspicion
One thing that's also important to note, other people have mentioned that the soldiers are mostly meant to serve as a foil for J so they can analyze him. They don't want unthinking shoot first grunts. They want people who can relate to others and work with them, notice that for a lot of MIB work they're almost like social workers for the various alien refugees. They need somebody who can build that human-alien relation as well not being afraid to get dirty and do some shooting when a criminal comes rolling. J is in that sense effectively the perfect MIB agent.
"People are dumb, stupid, panicky and you know it." Anyone who vaguely remembers the covid fiasco knows this to be 100% true. No one who gets into a fist fight over toilet paper is smart on any level.
Or now with people being led by a cult leader disguised as a presidential candidate. People want the simplest explanation, and anyone willing to supply it convincingly enough becomes their hero.
Indeed. But he proved in these tests that he had an inquisitive mind, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and the persecution of the alien guy proved he had the persistence required for the job. MIB are not soldiers who just obey orders without making questions. Also, when Zed says that those uniformed young men are the expected product of government's training - it's not a praise.
@@gabejonsson3354A possible plot hole really. But all they had to do was drop a line or too like “When [insert letter of the alphabet other than K] saw potential in you and brought you into MIB….]
08:25. Mistake. 500 years ago, people knew the Earth is spherical. Columbus didn't take the opposite way on a whim nor to prove anything. He just believed the distance to India was shorter - and had no idea there was a pole-to-pole continent in his way.
@@brandonmckittrick2822 Morons wanting to go against the grain for no good reason, and idiots who genuinely buy into it because they think it makes them special.
The guy who wrote sleepy hollow looked at the history of Christopher Columbus and decided that it wasn’t good enough for writing. So he made a ton of changes, removing his foolishness, the cultural and population destroying genocide of the Taino people he caused, and lied about how people thought the world was flat back then.
The only problem is how the loaded weapons are treated in this scene. They are flagging everyone on the table, and afterwards, he points it at multiple people while explaining why he shot Tiffany.
I could never tell if he got it right because of all his observations of the aliens? When he explained it the guy in charge looked impressed. But then it seemed like Will smith was like eh, or did that all bs and I owe her an apology?
He got it right because K vouched for him. His observations of the aliens are obviously excellent considering their job, but he also gets pretty mouthy with Zed.
@@RainAngel111 He was mouthy with Zed, but if you look at Zed's face you can see the hint of a smile because J was right the whole time and he most definitely saw J making observations before acting. Also funny thing is knowing how K used to be decades prior, odds are he made that face because J reminded him so much of K in his youth lol
@@googelle7555 I mean, in the second movie, everyone is scared shitless when he appears. Because he just loves using the neuralyzer. So you could technically say he has the whole organization taken hostage.
He was in a few less situationships at this point in his life... LMAO Still... slapping his wife's name right out of Chris Rock's mouth will live forever
@@Seals-ky6dj CAT scans are used for, among other things, checking for cognitive impairment. Smith's character is essentially calling Jones' character crazy.
@@felinusfeline5559 I think the test was more about realizing sometimes you have to be noisy to get the job done. Yes they are about being a figment of the imagination, but sometimes you gotta do shit that could draw attention, mainly because you can wipe the memory of people and make it like you were just a figment.
I just realized - I used to think it was smart to use the big table for the writing test. But there was a tiny table right next to him the whole time that was a bit higher - probably would’ve been the best to put the paper on.
What a lot of people miss is that a highly top secret base his guarded by only one. And he’s not in the best of shape, but how deadly must he be to only be guarding solo.
Knowing the end of K's career, it's super cool how humane MIB is. Genuinely keeping life and galaxies safe, and giving their agents happy endings for all the work they put in. If only all big corps worked like that.
Two things I've noticed that are hillarious here: -You have two USMC applicant, but one of them, for some reason, decided to show up in his dress blues instead of his alpha like the rest of the military applicant. -When Zed goes to K, the military dudes are fucking around and pointing their gun at kay, disregarding the most basic gun safety rules.
Just want to say that I love the way Tommy Lee Jones is aging. I hope he never retires and I can watch him until one of us goes. Also, after reading Wills book, it is a clue to the violence at the Oscars.
5:15 These "best of the best" can't practice basic gun safety and aims the gun straight at Edwards for a second, the others in the back strafe him too. They are talking about all the shots they took, Edwards taking a closer look at the aliens. Little detail I never noticed before now.
I love those last lines. "Is it worth it?" / "Oh, yeah, it's worth it! If you're strong enough!" J is, understandably hesitant and scared of the implications of this. He's going to jump into a world completely and utterly unknown to himself whilst also abandoning his previous life, but he also understands that there is a sense of fighting for the greater good with a job like this. And you can already tell from his face that he's SERIOUSLY considering it. So he gives K a test--is this worth it? Is it worth giving up EVERYTHING for something like this? And K does not hesitate for a second. Immediate answer. "Yeah, it's worth it!" That's his reassurance to J. This job IS worth dropping everything for. This job IS going to give him that sense of fighting for the greater good. And to seal the deal, K gives him a final challenge: "If you're strong enough!"
Guy at the door seems friendly at first till you show the card because his job is to help and guide any civilians away. Say someone is running from an assailant or something, of course he gotta be nice on first impression
The Tiffany comment on her planning to do something is exactly what men in black have to be most weary of, aliens trying to look as inocent as possible so they can commit crimes without being targeted
Yeah the gesticulating with the gun in hand made me cringe extremely hard. To say nothing of the fact they were all nearly on top of each other. Let's add zero ear protection but that's getting picky.
500 years ago everybody knew the earth was flat... and 15 minutes ago you knew that people were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll learn tomorrow...
2:15… I don’t know why but I find that absolutely hilarious. Just the fact that he didn’t know it was sealed and the look on his face like oh my gosh, what did I just do and try to play it off like it’s cool. I remember we had different tests that we would do occasionally, and they would be sealed like this, so in school, I would randomly think of the scene and try to hold back my laughter. Now that I’m an old fart at 30, I am glad I still have a sense of humor!
"Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it" "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it!" Possibly the most profound 10 seconds in any movie. Ever.
In the novelization of the film, Agent K confirmed that everything James Edwards said about the alien firing range was true.
Wait, there is a men in black novel??
@@Mikey-ym6ok novel style of the film, its just the film but a author need to add more texts bout few insight details or inner dialogue
Novelizations are a great way to experience the film a differently. They are usually written using the script before the movie was completed, preserving deleted material and anything that doesn't fit in the standard 90-minute feature. Bookstores don't advertise them like that used to.
by novelization are you referring to the comic that the movie was based on?
@@ryouma1717no, the book which is basically movie translated to a writing. The comic is different.
“You sure you don’t want some coffee?” Love that bit. So subtle yet so effective. Kay didn’t need to prove anything. Jay just needed to see for himself that Kay was telling the truth.
@@master-of-mind5881 Yeah
I would've asked "Are they always on coffee break?"
A common comedy trope where the disbelief of person#1 is shattered before evidence presented by person#2 while #2 acts nonchalant. Yeah gotta love it.
@@themiddleman3060 I like the lack of soundtrack or score in this scene. Makes it feel more real. Usually there’d be a musical note that syncs up to the moment of revelation like - “dun, dun, dunnnnn!” But here it’s just dialogue, ambient noise that makes the scene feel authentic, like we as an audience understand the shock and disbelief that jey experiences in this moment.
“Your exactly what we have come to expect from government training”
Oh I’m picking up some subtle messaging there.
Oh no the message was clear lmfao
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Subtle? He's literally facing the camera when he says it 🤣 can't get much more on the nose than that.
USMC veteran: Same 🤨🤔 but accurate.
USMC veteran: Same 🤨🤔 but accurate...
"A person is smart, people are not" Thus is the blight of social media.
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Its the blight of collectivism.
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Group thinking vs Individual thinking
That last part is so important. "Is it worth it?" "Oh yeah. If you are strong enough." Probably the best answer he could have got.
Would you do it?
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Hell no. What's the point of having a job if you can't have a life in which to spend the money from the job.
@@Metaknight145 its not about money its about knowing there more to life that one thought
@@Metaknight145 That's why K said "...if you are strong enough."
@@Metaknight145 life is not just spending money :D
I watch this scene a lot. I like how he critically thinks while everyone else sort of just reacts. K had already made his decision that he wanted J long before he even showed up for the tryout. This was more of a formality and the other guys were just there to sort of take up space while they analyzed J.
What if all those "military men" are just the same people they recycle over and over again for the purpose of this test?
@@Korvolio brain damage I’d assume lol
What you're saying makes no sense. Their "reacting" is also using critical thought.
@@Dubulcle it makes perfect sense. Instead of “critically thinking” as you claim they do, they just started shooting at everything that wasn’t human. J was more aware of his surroundings. He had a logical explanation for every potential encounter. He gathered the facts. As K said later, there are x amount of aliens living on this planet and most of them are decent enough just trying to get by. One of those in the range could have been “just trying to get by”. The soldiers just acted out of a stereotype. It’s not hard to comprehend we just have to sit back and objectively think about it.
Especially after Men in Black 3.
I love that subtle dig Zed gives the other applicants when he says, "You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training". Unlike Jay, those guys are a bunch of conditioned yes men who will shoot first and ask questions later.
Hi yes man
@@TheWorldsOkayestUSMarine ah yes a personal attack instead of refuting his point, thereby proving his point. bravo!
@TheWorldsOkayestUSMarine leave it to a marine to take something too seriously, it's just a movie, plus everyone knows that the Army is better 🫡
Except during the shooting test they shot dangerous looking aliens and he shot a child with books
@@imwinningthisone7613 That's the point. Dangerous ''looking'' aliens. It's a job where you cant just assume an alient is bad because it looks scary and light it up. Think outside the box.
I’m a little worried J doesn’t know he can just use half of the pencil to write.
Yea, but you can't NOT look stupid in front of everybody doing it though right?
Edit: No, it looks even stupider lol.
@@KaylansDrone 😂😂😂
What?? You mean, like a broken hologram?? Pencils are magic!!
Understand that he had to be funny in his transition from the Fresh Prince to a movie actor. He had it all. Then he slapped Chris Rock over his anger with his disgusting wife.
@@joshjohnson2600 pls stop being SUCH a reject like im not tryna read comments like this
What's funny is that the director said that J's explanation on why he shot little Tiffany was 100% right
It was obvious
Tiffany was the only one on a target track, which kinda confirms it was filmed that way.
in the animated series tiffany is the queen bug from the planet that the main villain in this movie is from (the cockroach).
J 's Tiffany theory was quite plausible judging by this movie's nature. Nice shot, too.
Still, it was quite the capital judgement. What if those were her parents' books and she was running away from an attacker?
The fact Z got a button to bring the little tiffany is a proof that J was right
Zed's clearly pleased with his answer, too, until he starts getting sassed. I imagine 'don't shoot anyone' would also be considered a right answer in this situation, but the whole point of the shooting range seems to be to see if you have critical thinking skills beyond "shoot da monster man!", which company agents really need.
5:37 J the only one checking his safety before putting the handgun down. Subtle detail.
Jesus after how many times I've seen this flick and never noticed that.
The others used all their shots probably why
@@Komakazeම Anyone in the military or with basic firearms safety training would tell you that you're supposed to engage the safety whenever a weapon isn't in active use, even if you've personally emptied the magazine.
@@BeesechurgerProductions For sure, my dad was military but I think for the sake of the movie they were trying to demonstrate the difference between those guys being book smart and J having field experience
But he also did wave the gun at Z when he's going through his rant. Safe or not, he should know better.
This movie is just one of those gems... no matter how many times you see it, after a few years, that glimmer of brilliance shines still.
Bro shut up lol
@@slabdrill2364 It's a damn good film. Let the man have his sappy sentiments.
It still holds up beautifully, not just in production values but in humor and style. This and Independence Day too; Will Smith was on top of the world back in the 90s. What a career to end with a slap.
That 1500, 500, 15 minutes ago line is fabulous screenwriting.
Yep, the best but being .. imagine what you will know tomorrow
Except the bit about us knowing the earth was flat 500 years ago is false. I think it was known it be false even when this movie was made. We knew the earth was round for thousands of years.
@@solaris9426 yeah but... you know... religion and the dark times
@@TONGA09 Not really. Even in the middle ages most people knew it was round. There was a ton of controversy about the nature of the universe itself, whether earth was the center of the Solar System and etc., but that was a different subject.
@@solaris9426 A clock is round and flat so is a pizza. Round does not mean globe.
I like how Zed is smiling when J is giving his answer but loses all that happiness when J gives attitude 4:48. He nailed the try out but Zed knew he had to work on himself.
"Awww, you gave the tall man some flowers" got me rolling 😅🤣
imagine shooting a little girl between the eyes because she's got quantum physic books🤣🤣🤣
Best of the best, "Marines, Air Force, Navy Seals, Army Rangers, NEW YORK PD". That cracked me up when he nonchlantly included NYPD in the list.
Lol yea that’s the point. The others thought he was a joke
8:19 - One of the most profound lines of all time in one of the silliest movies ever made.
Yep, i wish people would take this in to consideration when they use word "never" : )
as far as you knew when you wrote that message.
perhaps your present now knows better.
Even as a kid that line hit deep. When he finished with “imagine what you’ll know tomorrow” it blew my mind
This sequence is one of the greatest in cinema history. So layered with jokes, information, and effort. You can rewatch this multiple times recognizing more and more details.
Little by little you discover K's backstory. He was some youngster going to give flowers to his date (the woman he spies on thru satellite). By dumb luck he discovers the alien and MiB and makes the decision to drop his whole life and join.
Wonder if the flowers he gave the alien was originally for his chick.
@Mikey-ym6ok If I remember the cartoon show episode rigth, yes, they were for his gf.
@@Mikey-ym6okyes they were. Same lady K was looking at through the satellite feed on his computer.
4:38 that look on his face says it all. He knows J is the right dude, he thinks its kinda hilarious and pretty funny - the last face says "shit.. another Agent K i have to deal with"
I love how every aspect of this test is to gauge how aware you are of suspicious things that are uncanny and don't seem quite right yet have many excuses to be explained as normal or just something no one really thought through. Likewise the only reasonable options that present themselves to you are things that make you seem unusual, awkward, or dumb. You're taught from the very beginning to see things for what they really are and take the most obvious route that leads to a solution even if it makes you look strange.
I think this was all a formality. I think they knew from the beginning they were gonna make James an agent.
Things looking strange is why Neuralizers exist.
"A person is smart, people are dumb" the whole point of having the military dudes was to see if Jay would give in to peer pressure or be willing to stand apart from the herd to do the right thing.
I forget this movie came out before 9/11. You can see the World Trade Center 7:47
Technically thats the job of a detective.
I love how the big man mentioning only J's lack of respect of authority as a minus proves he did right in both tests
Wonder how much that front door agent gets paid.
Alot of money
I figured it was a newbies hazing... Why didn't will smith have to sit at the door for awhile? Would of added some funny value... just like in lethal weapon when theyhad to be street patrol and managed to find something crazy going on with action.
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@@cranbersnah probably the old timers job instead of retiring and getting zapped
I'd say he's secretly the most bad-ass agent. The first line of defence for an agency like that and he's just one guy? He's probably trained in 6 forms of alien kung-fu and has dual Noisy Crickets in spring loaded sleeve holsters.
2:00 you can’t tell me K wasn’t laughing behind that glass before that transition.
Tommy Lee Jones looks so young-old here.
"Yold"?
This was his prime. When he was young,he was a scroungy looking little fck
He was retiring almost 40 years ago.
@@PsychicCellphone Make this a word. No more words like "Middle aged".
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8:14 "Person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous, animals and you know it" One of the hardest lines in movies story in my opinion
That quote from K about imagine what you will know tomorrow is still to this day one of my favorite quotes of all time.
"Imagine what you'll KNOW tomorrow" - the emphasis on "Know" by Tommy Lee Jones in that line delivery is fantastic!!
"is it worth it?" Is such a brilliant question.
When faced with a major decision, someone on the other side was selling it to me. I asked them, "talk me out of it, tell me why i SHOULDN'T do it..."
They said. "I cant".
So i did it.
Hm. I have thoughts about that, if I may?
@@palecaptainwolfkayls8499 you may not
@@NWJF
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@@palecaptainwolfkayls8499 okok, you may. Please.
@@NWJF
I hear "I can't," and I hear one of two things.
"I cannot think of why," a surface-level understanding, or "I cannot tell that to you." a marketed omission.
In response, to accept that as acceptable feels the same as shooting first and questioning later. The opposite of why J is accepted in this scene.
To me, something more convincing would be either being told the pros and cons directly, or searching for that for myself.
If the pros hold more weight over the cons,
Then my conviction would be reaffirmed.
Then I'd do it.
I forgot how old this movie is. Then i see this 7:47 part and i was just like: Oh..... is it before that?
I’ve always loved this scene, will smiths character doesn’t see past the aliens , they were just sneezing etc, showing no prejudice, but brings up the white girl.
Only because of what she was carrying, where she was (she was out of place), and the being surrounding her.. Could have been any race, and the answer would have been the same.
let's be real. an eight years old kid alone, at night, in a dangerous neigborhood carrying a book a couple decades too advanced for any local school to use?
I may not know why or what but the kid is up to no good.
no need to mention gender, skin color, clothes or any other tag that can discriminate. no well behaved kid that age would be at that place, at that time, with that book.
@@WilliamWizer too late
@@WilliamWizer but you have to admit it's stanger to see a little white girl than a minority little girl in the ghetto. Just another layer to the suspicion
I love the part where Tommy Lee Jones smiles. I legitimately didn't remember that happening in these movies.
One thing that's also important to note, other people have mentioned that the soldiers are mostly meant to serve as a foil for J so they can analyze him. They don't want unthinking shoot first grunts. They want people who can relate to others and work with them, notice that for a lot of MIB work they're almost like social workers for the various alien refugees. They need somebody who can build that human-alien relation as well not being afraid to get dirty and do some shooting when a criminal comes rolling. J is in that sense effectively the perfect MIB agent.
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@johnhennessy7887Did you remember to take your medicine?
7:47 dang forgot the age of this movie
Yeah.... Right.....
The tallest buildings back then are still there ...
🎶 "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders!"🎶
Little do they know. She's the biggest threat in the room. MiB lore, she's the leader of the bugs.
yup. the queen
"People are dumb, stupid, panicky and you know it." Anyone who vaguely remembers the covid fiasco knows this to be 100% true. No one who gets into a fist fight over toilet paper is smart on any level.
Or now with people being led by a cult leader disguised as a presidential candidate.
People want the simplest explanation, and anyone willing to supply it convincingly enough becomes their hero.
I absolutely love the table screech. That whole ridiculous scene cracks me up.
It's not until you see the ending of MIB 3, do you really understand why he was choose..
Indeed. But he proved in these tests that he had an inquisitive mind, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and the persecution of the alien guy proved he had the persistence required for the job. MIB are not soldiers who just obey orders without making questions.
Also, when Zed says that those uniformed young men are the expected product of government's training - it's not a praise.
To be fair in the timeline where K died and wasnt there to recruit him he still ended up in MIB
Chosen
@@gabejonsson3354A possible plot hole really. But all they had to do was drop a line or too like “When [insert letter of the alphabet other than K] saw potential in you and brought you into MIB….]
@@gabejonsson3354nepotism 😂
0:07 He walks the exact same way as when he walked up on stage to do something very dramatic.
Get over it dude
😂😂😂 facts
I like how J was the only one to double check the safety was on his gun before he puts it down unlike everyone else.
2:40 it"s funny he flips the pencil like he's trying to erase the hole 😂
08:25. Mistake. 500 years ago, people knew the Earth is spherical. Columbus didn't take the opposite way on a whim nor to prove anything. He just believed the distance to India was shorter - and had no idea there was a pole-to-pole continent in his way.
Been known for thousands of years that the earth was spherical. Not sure where flat earth theory came from.
@@brandonmckittrick2822 Morons wanting to go against the grain for no good reason, and idiots who genuinely buy into it because they think it makes them special.
Religions mostly. Also everyone didn't know it everywhere.@@brandonmckittrick2822
Wrong. Columbus had maps over a thousand years old. People were coming (Scottish knights Malta) since 1000 ad.
The guy who wrote sleepy hollow looked at the history of Christopher Columbus and decided that it wasn’t good enough for writing. So he made a ton of changes, removing his foolishness, the cultural and population destroying genocide of the Taino people he caused, and lied about how people thought the world was flat back then.
Bro the one continuous shot from ceiling to elevator, to meeting room is amazing dawg
The only problem is how the loaded weapons are treated in this scene. They are flagging everyone on the table, and afterwards, he points it at multiple people while explaining why he shot Tiffany.
You're such a hero for pointing that out decades later.
They cut out the alien smoking scene......monsters ! 😮
I could never tell if he got it right because of all his observations of the aliens? When he explained it the guy in charge looked impressed. But then it seemed like Will smith was like eh, or did that all bs and I owe her an apology?
He got it right because K vouched for him. His observations of the aliens are obviously excellent considering their job, but he also gets pretty mouthy with Zed.
@@RainAngel111 He was mouthy with Zed, but if you look at Zed's face you can see the hint of a smile because J was right the whole time and he most definitely saw J making observations before acting. Also funny thing is knowing how K used to be decades prior, odds are he made that face because J reminded him so much of K in his youth lol
In the cartoon, turns out that "Little Tiffany" was the favorite disguise of the Bug Queen.
he got it right, but was willing to accept additional or alternative information, which is the best kind of "getting it right" there is
The shots when J and the other candidates were walking out of the room, notice how the only track to bring a cutout forward is for Tiffany
I really enjoy the one dude at 4:32 in the background kind of grinning and nodding like "You know, he's got a point."
Will smith becomes multiple people dressed in black? This I gotta see to believe 😮
Yeah! Didn't you watch the movie?? He becomes the whole organization! 🤣🤣🤣
@@googelle7555 I mean, in the second movie, everyone is scared shitless when he appears. Because he just loves using the neuralyzer. So you could technically say he has the whole organization taken hostage.
Back in the day will still had hope in his voice and life.
He was in a few less situationships at this point in his life... LMAO
Still... slapping his wife's name right out of Chris Rock's mouth will live forever
The little girl "was dangerous..." Haha funny 🤣🤣
"You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training" lmao
sadly, it's the f*cking truth.
all they could expect from years of government training is... failures.
I like how K smiles for the first time in this movie
I forgot how great this movie is. Just figured out what I’m doing with my Sunday.
"Uh, look, I'm sorry, not to change the subject or anything, but when was the last time you had a CAT scan?" (6:49) Best line in the movie.
I still nwv3r get the joke
@@Seals-ky6dj CAT scans are used for, among other things, checking for cognitive impairment. Smith's character is essentially calling Jones' character crazy.
as a kid i didnt know wha a cat scan was and being an alien movie i was like what is that a scan to see if he has some mutant cat genes lol
Can we all agree making a Captain America reference long before the MCU took off is sort of amazing?
When??
I'd either be the one who writes on my knee, pulls the table closer, or goes and sits on the floor next to the table. 🤣
Any was probably the correct way. The test is about thinking outside the crowd
@@felinusfeline5559 I think the test was more about realizing sometimes you have to be noisy to get the job done. Yes they are about being a figment of the imagination, but sometimes you gotta do shit that could draw attention, mainly because you can wipe the memory of people and make it like you were just a figment.
I just realized - I used to think it was smart to use the big table for the writing test. But there was a tiny table right next to him the whole time that was a bit higher - probably would’ve been the best to put the paper on.
It’s an 60s like ashtray
That thing is concaved more than a soup bowl, try writing in that!?
What a lot of people miss is that a highly top secret base his guarded by only one. And he’s not in the best of shape, but how deadly must he be to only be guarding solo.
This movie should've gotten a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination.
I dont know what is so funny about him ripping the cover page and his reaction after :D 2:14
Bro it gets me every time 😂
J’s freaking out at seeing the aliens, and to K, it’s just another day at the office.
This truly was the moment Will Smith became a Man in Black
I love this movie cuz it feels like one of the last films where Jones seemed to legit enjoy his time making a movie
Forgot how funny that table part was!! 🤣🤣
Knowing the end of K's career, it's super cool how humane MIB is. Genuinely keeping life and galaxies safe, and giving their agents happy endings for all the work they put in. If only all big corps worked like that.
i never notice J was one of the only peeps to check his gun before putting it down nicely.
Quintessential Will Smith in 1997, in his prime
Summer 1996.
Before the dark times. Before he became Hancuck.
What is missed about the egg seats was the table was the test.
Also none of them safed their weapons.
"He's got a real problem with authority...he ran down a chephlapoid...you got to admit...that's tough enough."
*I love how half of the reason Jay fits the job is because he thinks life on Earth is a joke*
Two things I've noticed that are hillarious here:
-You have two USMC applicant, but one of them, for some reason, decided to show up in his dress blues instead of his alpha like the rest of the military applicant.
-When Zed goes to K, the military dudes are fucking around and pointing their gun at kay, disregarding the most basic gun safety rules.
"You're everything we've to come expect from years of government training" : the burn is real ah ah
"Sure you don't want some coffee?" Now that hit the spot xD
Just want to say that I love the way Tommy Lee Jones is aging. I hope he never retires and I can watch him until one of us goes.
Also, after reading Wills book, it is a clue to the violence at the Oscars.
5:15
These "best of the best" can't practice basic gun safety and aims the gun straight at Edwards for a second, the others in the back strafe him too. They are talking about all the shots they took, Edwards taking a closer look at the aliens. Little detail I never noticed before now.
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I was 21 years old in 1997 when this movie came out - 90s were awesome
I like that sideeye from Jensen, with honors ^^, that says "you should know, he just told us"
Every once in a while Hollywood will produce original gems like MIB.
Thank you for showing us how he became a men in black
It's like Hollywood can't make great movies like this anymore
I love those last lines. "Is it worth it?" / "Oh, yeah, it's worth it! If you're strong enough!"
J is, understandably hesitant and scared of the implications of this. He's going to jump into a world completely and utterly unknown to himself whilst also abandoning his previous life, but he also understands that there is a sense of fighting for the greater good with a job like this. And you can already tell from his face that he's SERIOUSLY considering it. So he gives K a test--is this worth it? Is it worth giving up EVERYTHING for something like this?
And K does not hesitate for a second. Immediate answer. "Yeah, it's worth it!" That's his reassurance to J. This job IS worth dropping everything for. This job IS going to give him that sense of fighting for the greater good. And to seal the deal, K gives him a final challenge: "If you're strong enough!"
7:47 sad face
Will smith is the only one that checked if the saftey switch was on
Guy at the door seems friendly at first till you show the card because his job is to help and guide any civilians away. Say someone is running from an assailant or something, of course he gotta be nice on first impression
The Tiffany comment on her planning to do something is exactly what men in black have to be most weary of, aliens trying to look as inocent as possible so they can commit crimes without being targeted
It seems just like yesterday that I saw this in the cinema. I can't believe it was 27 years ago! This was a great movie to watch in the cinema.
I like how K just cares about his running skills haha
Bad muzzle discipline during the gun range scene with Zed. Otherwise, too funny of a scene. 😂
Yeah the gesticulating with the gun in hand made me cringe extremely hard. To say nothing of the fact they were all nearly on top of each other.
Let's add zero ear protection but that's getting picky.
500 years ago everybody knew the earth was flat... and 15 minutes ago you knew that people were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll learn tomorrow...
Love how they actually looked at his shot and then scoffed because the situation
2:15… I don’t know why but I find that absolutely hilarious. Just the fact that he didn’t know it was sealed and the look on his face like oh my gosh, what did I just do and try to play it off like it’s cool. I remember we had different tests that we would do occasionally, and they would be sealed like this, so in school, I would randomly think of the scene and try to hold back my laughter. Now that I’m an old fart at 30, I am glad I still have a sense of humor!
I love that Kay was laughing and it’s just that no one could hear it
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. On paper, a ridiculous combination. On film .. not bad. Not bad at all.
3:14 it's pure genius, the annoying sound and the rest of the officers just taking a look at Will
Gentlemen, you're everything we've come to expect from years of Government training. lol!
Hollywood films used to be immersive and sincere
Time 6:54: J asking K when the last time he had a CAT scan. Time 7:35, J thinking "I need a CAT scan!"
The trilogy was perfect in nearly every way. I miss MIB.
"Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it"
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it!"
Possibly the most profound 10 seconds in any movie. Ever.