Trash Day: Four Scrapped Video Essays | Big Joel
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- Опубликовано: 8 мар 2018
- In this video, I just talk about four bits of media that I thought were interesting. The four things I talk about: "The Bachelor," the show "The Crown," "The Office," and "Evan Almighty." It's trash day. Let's take out the video essay trash.
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putting all these different ideas in one video is really dope and allows you to branch out. keep up the creativeness you sexy stud!
Use some of that patreon money towards an Optometrist: You have almost 25,000 subs (just my douchy way of saying congratulations)!
congratulations! Look forward to supporting you soon/!!
I might actually have something to say about the clip from Evan Almighty. I don't wanna ruin it for you, but I think it might be interesting.
There's a lot of basic Judeo-Christian symbolism going on. The dove is a clear reference to the moment at the end of the Biblical flood when Noah sends a dove to find land and it brings back an olive branch. The olive branch subsequently becomes a symbol for the renewal of God's covenant with the Jews, and a symbol of peace for pretty much all time.
In terms of a Christian allegorical interpretation life is the flood, the land where the olive branch came from is heaven, and the dove could be Christ, an angel, or the prophets, like Moses with the commandments, carrying reminders that even if we can't see him right now, God is real, he has a covenant with us, and maybe heaven is just around the corner. In this instance the dove is Evan now, and God also leaves a dove for Evan after he vanishes.
The dance is much harder to interpret. I mean it suggests harmony, reinforcing the covenant, but why dancing? Dancing with a human embodiment of God is not a particularly Christian image. It's almost Eastern, or shamanic, that Evan is now cast in this role of prophet in the wilderness. They're even under a big tree like the Buddha or something. I think its kind of an American Protestant thing, the idea that our relationship with God is a friendly and personable one. There also might be an environmentalist undertone, or at least some nature-harmony stuff, but I'm not a biblical scholar so maybe it just relates back to something in the canon I don't know about.
I do think its interesting that Israel is a name given to Jacob by God. I'm fixated on this in particular. Jacob is Hebrew for "grabs the heel," an idiom for a usurper. The name refers back to Jacob's betrayal of his brother Esau, which is too complicated to go into here. Israel means "wrestles with God" and refers to a mystic kind of dream-vision which Jacob has while he's in exile in the wilderness. "Wrestles with God," Jacob's new name, eventually becomes the name of the Hebrew nation. The scene could be read as a reversal of this old-testament kind of encounter with God.
Sorry if you really didn't want the scene interpreted, but I thought it was very interesting and got a little too excited.
...Watching this in Decenmber...when Sarah mentioned an explosion holy mustard of Satan they meant it...this is ridonculous. From 10k to 118k in 9 months...how in the what now?
"look at his eyes.... he's a demon"
"This man is not well. Look at his eyes..."
me: please no more sociopath diagnoses
"...he's a demon."
When I scrolled down in the middle of the video I read this as I heard him say it. I thought it was kinda neat.
Jake Ferris That is neat, Jake....that is neat.
@@caitie226 Psychopath
That little section from the bachelor interview gave me the heebie-jeebies. That is pretty much an emotionally abusive relationship at its finest. (Kind of speaking from experience here) But also, notice how he makes a point to say he's not only angry with her, but disgusted with her. It's his way of trying to humiliate her and belittle her in front of the cameras while also expressing his aggression. For her sake, I hope she got away from him.
I'm not a fan on the bachelor so I haven't seen much of it outside of advertising, but I think it is worth pointing out that the kind of anger or as he called "disgust" he had with her probably didn't just appear out of nowhere. The first portion of the interview that we saw was her shitting on him verbally (in a way that was understandably very personal to him given that they both went into the relationship with some hope of a loving relationship (the point of the show)). If someone you thought you loved said stuff like "the relationship got worse and worse" to your face when you thought as most people do you had been a good person/partner to them it would hurt, it would feel like manipulation and fabrication from your perspective if you think it was them who soured the relationship not you. The problem people have with the reaction isn't the way the relationship itself went regardless of how invasive reality shows are we can't get the full scope on that but they way he dealt with it when it crumbled it doesn't necessarily mean that he was emotionally manipulative during the relationship, for all we know she was the manipulative one dredging stuff out in front of cameras to portray herself in a positive light and attack his character and worth, we don't know but by observation that was probably what he thought she was doing not emoting but sand bagging him in front of the entire world on TV.
Thats an interesting perspective I'd not considered. To be fair, they could also be doing the same to each other after being so fed up with their relationship.
I stopped watching the Bachelor in the 2nd or 3rd season. It's so unrealistic, everyone have to fight for attention and someone needing more time doesn't have a chance. Also, they are all so da*n beautiful. I don't mind it, but there's so many of them.
@@oneshotmoonrock1344 Though you can also see his eyes are emotionless and he's apathetic. He says vile things to her, but is so calm whilst doing so. She wasn't shitting on him, she explained that since after the show he was really distant and stuck her in an apartment by herself.
I agree, basically a textbook abusive relationship interaction, I also speak from experience like OP. Usually they do ham it up, sure. But she speaks essentially identical to most anyone you'll meet that is somewhat freshly out of an emotionally abusive relationship. Hoping he would change. Loving him and wanting it to be how she thought it would be. Him saying hes So mad at her, so its not that hes better than she says he is. It's that she makes him mad and it's what she did to herself.
I love this video-
You mentioned that some of these ideas were scrapped because they were too specific to attract an audience.
I want to encourage you to pursue overly specific ideas, perhaps for selfish reasons.
I love your channel, and have watched most of your videos from the last year, and 95% of the time I have not seen the source content you’re talking about. And that’s fine. What I like to listen to are smart people talk about ideas and story telling, and you’re so good at that. I would love overly specific videos. I wouldn’t be any less attracted to that video than I would to any other of your videos. It wouldn’t make any difference to me at all.
I’m probably not the only person like me out there like this either.
Thank you! for you, I will make a million more trash days
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I totally agree, Elise :) Big Joel, I honestly was very interested when you started talking about The Crown. I'd never seen the show before and from the trailers, I wasn't very interested... BUT when you showed the epic opening sequence and some of the scenes and trying to find the underlying meaning of the crown and power, I honestly became extremely interested and wanted to know. I love your analyses and wanted to see it, but then you were like nope trash tricked u day nvm XD then I was sad. Just know that I was not bored and that such a creative, original take definitely piqued my interest.
But anyway, I do totally agree and second that you should do some more specific analysis on certain things in media. I enjoyed it a lot and I think that looking at specifics instead of the big picture of a show could provide some creative insight not seen in other RUclips commentary videos. You do that already in some areas, but maybe just more enhanced in the future; it could set you apart from others more. :D
@@shilohgrace7875 Yeah same. Watching vids about more & more obscure (for me) subjects cuz it's never not enjoyable to hear his take on something he cares about.
i completely agree! big joel, jacob gellar, and LadyKnightTheBrave are my top 3 fave video essayists. i could listen to any one of them talk for as long as theyd like about damn near anything.
Obviously not a format you can do all the time, but I'm looking forward to the next trash day! Congrats on the subscribers!
David Frank I'm so happy you're at over 20K! I had a feeling your channel would blow up. I love your sincerity and your topics never not intrigue me. Good luck going into the future!
thanks, guys! yeah I think I'll probably make one every six months or so, it's just so much fun
@@BigJoel 2 years ago Joel wheres the trash
@@BigJoel We want the trash Joel. Where is it?
@@BigJoel i notice a distinct lack of trash
You played the Evan Almighty clip and I found myself *loving* it, and I was afraid you'd start shitting on it, thank goodness I can keep subscribing to you lmao
When he said “do not skip this” I didn’t skip it. And you know what I like about the scene? The music is lighthearted and calm. In other words, peaceful. And then the scene ends with a dove / symbol of peace. Perfect.
ArtLover Animation never really dug universal symbolism imo, I like contextual symbolism and hot take: the dove in evan almighty symbolizes the blossoming homosexual romance between Evan and Morgan freeman god
@@joywolfe. jesus it really can mean anything
In context, dove symbolizes the Holy Spirit.
I really like the dance. It's slow and it stops and starts a lot and it consists of very simple moves. It's almost as if the actors had no idea they were supposed to dance until they said their lines. Then they awkwardly figured out some moves they could do together without music
God simply says "Do the dance", he watches him to mimic the dance and they have fun dancing, but then he looks away from god and continues the dance. God watches him, laughing, but he doesn't know that God was smiling upon him and when he looks back he is not there. For a moment he considers, have I turned my back on God? Has he turned his back on me? But he looks up, to see a fellow creation of God, a symbol of peace. It was his dance, God was watching him.
No fair, big innocent eyes, boyish face, harmless self depricating syntax, a comfy sweater...how in the world am I supposed to resist?
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+ my ultimate youtube weakness
Yes, I'm touching myself too
I take issue with the use of the word innocent
Your vibe is really different man. You can describe how a topic makes you feel, while being detached enough to let us make our own conclusions. How you structure your thoughts is Interesting. Looking forward for more 👍
So when the silly dance scene started playing the second time I noticed beautiful, intense bagpipe music playing in the background and I was confused about how I missed that the first time but just accepted it. I now realize it's coming from the Irish pub near my apartment and it's mid-March so.... oops
The Bachelor and The Office could actually make great topics for giant video essays nobody would watch, essays that could say a lot about television and reality and how the former sometimes supplants the latter and sometimes reflects it and sometimes(more often than we think) manages to do both. Hell, you could even combine the two subjects to make one huge super-essay about TV. Though I guess since I won't shut up about it maybe I should just do it.
Do it I would watch it.
I'm here from six years in the future, where we watch thirty hour long retrospectives about Nickelodeon sitcoms. People would watch The Office's.
Many MANY years ago, I was an alternate for the second season of "The Real World" (in Los Angeles in 1993). I was going to age out of the houseguest pool that year (the age was 24, I think, and I was about to turn 25), and they went a different direction when David was kicked out, but I did get a call. Even then, the casting and behind-the-scenes processes with production were SO INTENSE that I can't imagine that anyone on a show with a goal like The Bachelor's of falling in love wouldn't fall into the idea that they are, indeed, in love, even though every bit of past evidence points to the fact that this doesn't really happen on the show.
Other friends who have been through the whole reality TV paces say it's almost like living on another planet, only more alienating, so reality TV is so very interesting to me, for that hyper-reality sort of thing.
The "Evan Almighty" clip, to me, shows unconditional love. Evan does a bunch of crazy things and isn't the most likeable character (from what I remember), but the goofy, stupid dance is met with absolute utter delight by Morgan Freeman's God, and that's the whole point, isn't it? Just love the people you created (if you're a deity) whole-heartedly, full silly dances and all.
@@xingcat Love both your comments. I'm agnostic, but if God is real I hope he's like this character.
Multiple minutes of you uncomfortable on camera made my day. Keep up the good work dude!
It was really cool to see the man behind the videos! I really enjoy your content. Keep up the good work
That season betrayed a lot about the office and it is more interesting than the office got worse. The philosophy behind Michael was that however out of touch and asinine he was, he was a good boss that the office needed. They just drop this with Andy and show that the office doesn't even need leadership at all to succeed, which erases the importance of Michael in retrospect .
Not sure I agree that Michael was a necessary and good boss. The Scranton branch seems to largely coast by on the basis of having a couple of top salesmen along with all the clients from the merger without any of the employees. I kinda struggle to think of any important/good decisions Michael makes manager-wise, though he obviously does do some high quality sales sometimes. The show does indicate a few times that Jim would be a comparably bad manager, but that doesn't really prove that Michael is great.
Wait?! He was supposed to be a good boss? Now I'm really glad I preferred the UK version. We Americans are too good at sanding the edges off of everything.
I think the whole point was that he was a doofus out of his depth after his promotion and is objectively a terrible boss
@@davidtaylor142 Yes, this was the point of The Office. Michael is an example of the Peter Principle; he was a great salesman who was promoted to a mediocre sales manager who was promoted to a bad store manager, because he had skills in sales, not in management. They double down on this when he founds his own company to compete against Dunder Mifflin and bankrupts it within three episodes, only getting his job back because he was willing to hold on until David Wallace lost his job. He had no idea on pricing, inventory, etc., he just knew how to make a sale.
"Sons and Daughters" is one of the best songs on that particular album, and would make particularly amusing credits music for an episode like that given the lyrics and the fact that it is structured like a traditional singalong tune, but including it diegetically is just a bizarre choice-particularly given that the coda implies that the subjects of the song are the survivors of a relatively modern, possibly nuclear war.
My favorite thing about big Joel is his unblinking eyes. I love them
Okay, so when I was a kid I had to watch Evan Almighty a lot of times, I grew up with the church being very important and so it was just a movie I saw a lot and I always really hated "the dance". I thought it was uncomfortable and unnessiary, it never made me laugh. I haven't been watching your videos for very long so when showed it the first time I was ready for you to rip it apart and make fun of it's stupidity so I wasn't trying to understand it at all.
So when you said you liked it I was confused and I figured watching it the second time I'd try to see why. It's interesting, my opinion has changed I think, I kinda like it too.
So I don't know if you're christian or have a reason to like it outside of the humor but for me I think it connects with how my relationship with faith has changed. When I was a kid I saw God as some dude in the sky who just kinda sat there and watched us. He seemed so distant and etherial, kind of scary and above everyone and everything. When I was in college I began to move away from religious stuff. A lot of that had to do with me having never really formed my own oppinions, I just didn't get it. Also, I was realizing that I'm gay and I just didn't know how people in the church would feel about that.
So, about a year ago I decided to go to church again. I heard a couple sermons (online) around sexuality from one in a nearby city and I decided to check it. I actually found what I heard in most every sermon to be interesting and connect to my life which I was not used to faith doing. I began to actually really like church, it gave me a time to ponder and explore my thoughts, my beliefs and my goals. With this more engaged version of my faith I've also really seen a shift in how I see God. Now they're more flexible in their shape and far more relatable. I see God as someone I could laugh at a joke with or do a silly dance with but that I could also have a deep conversation with or confide in and feel safe. So I think for me, I like how my preception of that clip has changed from rediculous to relatable. Also, both of the actors just seem so genuinely happy, it's just nice. Thanks for sharing that, I genuinely enjoyed seeing it again.
Laura O you summarized my feelings perfectly with your story and how it truly fits the scene. I appreciate your comment and I hope Joel sees it.
Glitter Art Thanks!! I'm glad I'm not the only one haha. :)
I did read it. This is really interesting and gives the scene some depth I didn't know it had
Yeah, I kinda thought it might be a little different from what you were going for but I just wanted to give a little different perspective. Thanks for reading through!
I was hoping to read a comment like this :) I also thought the scene had a lot to do with feeling comfortable that God is always there with you sharing your jokes and awkward moments even if you can't see him.
I can't say I relate completely. I'm at the weird young adult crossroads you wrote about yourself. The more I feel pressured to say I believe in the teachings of Christianity, the more I distance myself. I think church and faith is somehow still a positive force in my life and my inner world though, so I'm not going to give up just yet.
I hope big Joel does another trash day soon.
This is an old video, I know, but the Evan Almighty scene really broke me today. I started just … sobbing. I have to agree, it’s the best thing to happen to me too.
Going back to your old videos and I just enjoy everything you’ve ever put out. Thank you Big Joel ❤
Oh man, I hope you resurrect that Bachelor interview from the trash bin and mine it for a video someday. It was truly a weird, creepy moment.
Okay honestly, I love this format and I loved this video. It was like a mystery box of Joel minisodes. I'd love it if you did this regularly
As a long time Big Joel watcher, and an obsessive Little Joel follower, it's interesting to rewatch his little clip at the end. How he acts on camera here is such a huge contrast to what he does now.
On the dance at the end of Evan Almighty I 100% feel it on the "inexplicable emotional power." I think it's moving, like, actually, emotionally moving, to the point that on the second, uninterrupted viewing of the scene my girlfriend and I just started crying tears of joy. Like, aside from Morgan Freeman being as perfect a theophany as any human being could ever be, there's a lot going on metaphysically here: god expressing love in his creation yeah, sure, but also profound joy at the silliness people get up to. Like, this god is just *so* happy about this little human dance, and is so excited to take part in it. It's like the Father aspect of god but instead of stern G-D blowing people up because we just keep fucking it up for him, this is the Father who get's drunk at a family reunion and calls you out to the dance floor to do the macarena. That's a profound and beautiful thing.
The first time seeing it in this video I thought "how is this so wholesome?" Somehow I feel like there's a lot of subtle emotion to unpack about such a small moment.
loved seeing the person behind the analysis! would actually really like to see more of you on camera in the future! great video as always, and congrats on now reaching 25k! wow!
nice camera quality lol
Best money could buy
Nerdwriter, then Popculture Detective, then Big Joel.
Innuendo Studios?
@@milu3779 yeah my tastes have changed a lot in two years... Innuendo is so brilliant i can't look directly at him. As for Nerdwriter, who even is that?
Today I say Contrapoints, Philosophy tube, everyone else.
@@papalosopher i mean, i thought you were specifically refering to media critics, but yeah those two are just stratospheric
I don't like Big Joel even a little bit any more.
I really liked this video. I hope you do more trash videos like this. Something about the act of calling out inconclusive yet morbidly captivating bits of media as you struggle to understand what you are seeing and why its meaningful is probably more interesting to me then watching your videos where you disect various social phenomena.
Little known fact: Trash day is the day the Earth was formed
The evidence is all around us
Ozapy LMFAO good one
😂
Look around. The earth is lovely. Its the people who suck.
Always liked this video. Love the ambiguity of a shorter big Joel video, glad to see the new channel going well!
Also I just remembered what the Evan Almighty scene meant but I won't tell any of you to preserve the magic
I just found your channel and want to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed each of your videos, even the ones I wasn't initially interested in. I hope you keep making videos and thank you for making my day more thoughtful, interesting, and entertaining.
you're doing amazing, sweetie!
I love your videos. Mini bite sized analysis clips are great and something that i feel like would be a great thing to see more of :)
Thank you for sharing these interesting little ideas. Discovering this channel in all its intensely weird specificity was a gift. The unique insights and unapologetic personal-ness of the point of view of the channel is both refreshing and inspiring.
this is so nice! thank you!
I don't know anything about the dance scene too, but I really enjoyed the rythm of it, of the cuts and camera placement. It gives this super wholesomeness and a feel of an old nostalgic thing you have going with a good friend. idk I felt good watching the scene haha
wow the big 10k! congratz on this milestone!
Loved this video Joel! Your content is really unique and I can’t wait to see what you do next!
I loved this. I wouldn't mind getting a trash day once a week or month or whatever. This was cool. It kinda showed a bit of your process and I find that super interesting. It's nice to have someone who notices the relevance of an intro or gets super geeky over a just plain good scene. I love your stuff. It doesn't surprise me you're springing up now. Here's to the next milstone.
This here is some top quality trash. I would know.
"do not skip this"
Well okay, but I'm putting it on 2x speed.
I just found your channel, and your videos are fantastic! Even this "trash day" video was really interesting and well-made! Keep up the great work!
That ending scene with God dancing is D R I P P I N G in themes focused on in youth group and happier church sermons. God’s described as laughing with you and taking joy in the things that make you joyful. They describe angels dancing a LOT so it’s really appropriate in the context to have them dance; It speaks directly to the imagery we get of what heaven’s like. The dove that brings the branch (signifying God’s kept promises of happier times) is also thematically related to dancing because the dove is the holy spirit and the holy spirit literally is joy (and is always described as dancing and laughing with you)
watching this after witnessing the way your channel has grown, and witnessing your second channel, is so cool, especially the last part. It just feels super wholesome and sentimental in a way I find difficult to describe. I often wish I had the executive function to do what you do. I'm glad you're able to.
big joel you have the most beautiful humble eyes i've ever seen
I love you and your taste in movie scenes without context is perfect
A huge congratulations on the big 10K subscriber mark! I'm not sure how long ago you made that last sequence of the video, but considering you're already up to 24K subscribers it seems like you're starting to get some traction, which is awesome. Maybe at 100K you can explain your little cartoony thumbnail picture, which given the rest of your content I'm sure has some startling meaning behind it. Keep up the good work!
that's a good idea i will do this if i ever get that sweet silver play button
Great video!! I just recently found your channel through the bambi video and am currently in the process of binging all your content, and just wanted to say that you make amazing stuff!! I really enjoy the thought you put into your videos, it's refreshing!!!
Also you have a cute face :P
Don't tell anyone. But I skipped it.... :P
Man, please more of these!!!!
Keep up the good work and congrats on the sub milestone!
I really enjoy your content buddy! Keep up the good work !
Your voice is so weird and unique and I can’t tell if I like it or not but it doesn’t really matter since the words you are speaking are far more interesting and why I’m subbed. I do wonder what you sound like off the cuff and not scripted
I just wish I had find you sooner, your videos are super fun to watch :)
lookin' mad cute my guy
I love your Channe! I can definitely see you becoming really big with that kind of high quality concent at such a high rate! Keep it up if it makes you happy and you will make your viewers happy in the process :)
this little joel compilation video is years ahead of its time
Okay i now live for trash day this was so much fun please make more (when possible). Keep up the phenomenal work, Joel!!
Congrats on the 10k subscribers! Lotsa hard work ahead to the 20k huh
honestly your best work yet. idk why but i enjoyed this so much. F
Dear Big Joel,
You are one of my favorite creators & I love watching your videos. I want you to keep making stuff that makes you happy because it makes me happy. Thanks!
Love, Andie xo
Woo! And close to 19 months later, you’ve gone from 10k to 200k!
I appreciate how you’ve filled this niche of trash topics, and I love your dedication to those peculiar scenes... keep it up!
I recently got bck into your videos after starting a masters program in creative writing, and after readin so much of my classmates trash stories, i look at your work and think, maybe there’s some value to trash after all...
I liked the insights for each one of these concepts and how quickly the ideas were conveyed. Please, Joel! Give us more trashdays!!!!
Trash day was great! Congrats on 10k!
Wooo 10k (*cough* 24k) subscribers! I'm glad you're getting more subscribers 'cause your videos are pretty great, and I especially love how eclectic they can be.
I swear a solid 40% of what makes these videos so entertaining to me is trying to suss out how much of Big Joel's verbal affectation is just how he genuinely talks and how much is a character. Either way is delightful because the affectations themselves are delightful and the videos are delightful, but I've definitely spent far too much brain power on this.
that evan almighty clip brought me so much joy. thank you big joel.
That scene.... Was the greatest gift of all
Having never watched The Office, I had no idea they used "Sons & Daughters", one of my favorite songs, one that consistently brings me to tears. It's a song about a people dreaming of escaping their war-torn homeland and finding a new place to settle down and call home. It's a topic that becomes ever more tragic when you consider the modern realities that 1. there are currently vast numbers of people, real human beings, who are trying to flee their homes, some due to war but some due to poverty and some due to climate change, the last of which being an issue that's only going to get drastically worse as time goes on, and 2. most countries that are currently in a position to accept and accommodate refugees (and who JUST HAPPEN to be largely the same countries are actively causing these various crises) are completely denying asylum en masse. Here in the US, we fucking throw people in jail and deport them (sometimes to a country they're not even from) for trying to seek asylum, which, in addition to being a serious violation of international law, is just a really fucked up thing to do.
So like, the song is about dreaming of a new homeland. But we know most of them are never going to find one.
So, in that context, I find it to be in pretty poor taste for the show's producers to use such a serious song, especially with the intent of making it a fucking sitcom theme song. I have nothing against sitcoms, I am in fact a gigantic fan of early The Simpsons (season 8 was the last Golden Era season, fight me), and sitcoms absolutely can have serious moments, but the overall tone of them is obviously comedic and lighthearted, it's literally in the name "situational comedy". So, if for that reason alone, I'm glad this spinoff attempt went nowhere, because it would've fucking ruined one of my favorite songs.
Honestly i cant ever get through reality tv shows, but youre analysis of them makes me wish i could
hey i really like this concept of a "trash day" video series cause not everything can be an entire video but these little bits are just ??? nice??? i dont know how to phrase it but yeah, do more of this thanks
Would love to know your thoughts re: Jake and Vienna in light of the Bachelor finale last week (in which Arie broke up with Becca, and filmed the breakup. This was done with split screens and fully unedited for 20 minutes). It’s some of the most horrifying and gripping minutes of reality I’ve ever seen. It really resonated with me as the like tangibility of reality tv, like the Jake/Vienna interview
where can i see this monstrosity? is it on youtube, im so excited
Only about 6-7 minutes of it is on youtube and it's just the part in which Arie breaks up with Becca because he's still in love with the runner up, Lauren. The long version (which may only be available on hulu or ABC) includes Becca leaving to cry, Arie standing there and refusing to move when she asks him to leave, and ultimately Arie trying to get Becca to make him feel better for breaking up with her.
While it may be a hassle to go to Hulu/ABC and fast forward to 2/3 of the episode, I highly recommend seeing it all the way through - if only to see Chris Harrison describe how emotional this is while showing no emotion himself.
will do
It stuck with me when in a different video, Big Joel said something to the effect of, "it's good when people dance in movies, I think." I got the sense it came from somewhere, and it's nice to see them expand on that here.
Big Joel tells me not to skip...I must obey the king
I was just binging some of your content like I do at least once a week and it just fucking hit me that even though I've been watching your channel for months I never actually subscribed. Dammit. Subscribing now lol.
Change the thumbnail to include scrapped essays, I thought 'Trash Day' was some obscure American TV show and nearly missed this awesome video! Brilliant ending :D
My "Evan Almighty scene" is at the end of Fast and Furious 5. When they open the vault after a big heist, the money starts pouring out of it, the camera focus on Vin Diesel as "Danza Kuduro", a song about doing a sexy dance (by Don Omar, who also plays one of the heroes here) starts, and suddenly Vin Diesel looks up, like he's thanking God. It's mesmerizing.
Also, love the trash day. Do more of these.
The transition to the Crown is amazing.
Your thoughts on the intro of The Crown were really interesting.
Yes do a full length video about The Crown!
Idk why this was recommended to me but well done you’ve earned another sub :)
"i recently hit 10k subs"
>already has 24K subs
I'm watching this now and it's 10x that number
This is your best work.
I think the Bachelor and the Crown video both had a good amount of potential. I wouldn't opposed to you attempting them sometime in the future.
@Big Joel, I just found your channel a few days ago and I find myself listening to your content now whenever I have some free time. I often listen to RUclipsrs like Matthewmitosis, Joseph Anderson, and the Redlettermedia Plinkett reviews, and others like them for a unique breakdowns of themes messages, and story or game design structure; and I find your content to be right up there with them.
All of your videos have consistently been really sagacious, and so I am particularly hopeful that you will tackle some potentially confusing/vague- seeming pieces of media. As a suggestion: the fairly new movie Annihilation just came out and nobody is really talking about it as it is being over- shadowed by Black Panther and the Shape Of Water. It is an intently frightening movie at times with complex themes of identity It's beautifully shot with strong editing and a unique choice of sound design and music. So it is a bit of an untapped subject.
I'm sure you have a lot on your plate, but I'm hoping this suggestion finds you at a good time. Thanks anyways for the content you've already produced whatever you decide about this
This was awesome. You're awesome.
the decemberists dwight thing pops up in my brain so often. thank you for bringing this to the attention of our community 5 years ago. sorry i'm only just seeing this now in 2023. i feel foolish.
The bachelor guy reminded me of the abusive partner of someone I used to be friend's with. He used to talk to her in almost exactly the same way, she'd get texts if she went out without him saying 'you disgust me'. He also lied about provably false things without missing a beat, which might have been what the bachelor guy did about flying. Think, he was at the least a narcissist, he was really obsessed with status and superiority.
i wanted to call it emotionally abusive, but it felt a bit presumptuous tbh. I think it's true that Jake was abusive, he certainly seemed that way in this interview
dude, that dancing scene was just awkward and unpleasant for me, (sorry??) but i love that your tastes are so unapologetically weird. it's challenging and interesting. yay
I have never once commented “I want more of these” but fuck this is great, I would watch a thousand more videos of you just being like “think about this shit though that was weird”
I do hope you'll do more of the Office. Even though everyone knows it got worse, there isn't really much in the way of explaining what went wrong and why
I enjoy your videos. Thankyou.
God bless you, Joel. God bless you, every one.
Thank you so much for the Evan Almighty scene... You've changed my life
Just when the dance was about to play again and you flashed up."do not skip this" an advert popped up.
I freaking love this channel. That’s all.
This channel is highly underrated.
This was a fun video to get to know your brain better. I have random half-ideas like this all the time (#relatable). Thanks for the Evan Almighty clip.
... But LITTLE did Joel know, his greatest creation would come from his LITTLEST idea ever...
I subbed to you recently but I just wanted to say you're a really unique video essayist and I love what you're doing. A lot of other folks have niches they fill (Lindsay Ellis) or only talk about one specific medium (ScreenPrism) and that's great, but you're similar to The Nerdwriter in that you can talk about a lot of different stuff, movies, RUclipsrs, reality TV, etc. I think that's really cool. But unlike him you have a certain charm about you that's a little dorky and little snarky at the same time that reminds me of Jenny Nicholson, she's not a video essayist but she critiques movies in an informal one-on-one kinda way. You should check her out if you haven't already. I think having a more neutral tone is not a bad thing, it's better than being too emotional, but you have just enough humor and personal honesty that I get behind what you're saying more without perceiving a bias. So yeah, keep doing what you're doing because you're currently my favorite video essayist :) .
Woah thank you so much!! I love Jenny Nicholson so much