"Woke Hollywood" and The Limits of Empathy
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
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An analysis of the trend I see in contemporary Hollywood productions and how it might reflect the current state that the industry is in. All while breaking down grappling with my own gaps in perspective.
I would've said this of my Orson Welles essay, but this one, I think, is the true conclusion of my first batch of video essays as this one touches upon all the themes I've been looking at so far and actuallly has a somewhat concrete conclusion.
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0:00 Introduction
3:50 How we got Here
26:30 The Trial
1:11:53 The Way Forward
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“The form of the biopic is ideologically western in its individualist approach which betrays the power of the collective struggle.” Oh my fucking god, one of the best critiques I’ve ever seen about Hollywood biopics and western media.
Why would making biopics betray the power of collective struggle? Most stories revolve around a main character, not just western ones. Many pieces of fiction that are not from the "western" literary tradition follow a main character. Isn't it possible that when making a fictional story you want to follow a main character, so it would make sense to follow a main character that also existed in real life? There are biographical texts that don't originate in "the west" to act otherwise is patronizing and stupid. To examine the world from the perspective of a main character is an interesting way of telling a story. The collective is made up of individuals, these are not mutually exclusive things.
@@user-tg3wh4km2iAll true, that was the dumbest line in this whole video😂
@@user-tg3wh4km2i Many biopics can limit themselves by telling a story using this individualistic template of the hero’s journey, which dominates western storytelling. Biopics don’t have to be about the perspective of one person. Doing so weakens stories about collective struggle as it can’t appropriately convey the huge influence the collective have. There certainly are benefits to following an individual, it can inspire or even just serve as a cautionary tale.
@@djibreezy Most biopics don't use the hero's journey template. Oppenheimer, for instance follows an anti hero whose short shortsightedness leads him to despair. It is a tragedy. I don't want to be too pedantic about what the hero's journey is, but one thing is for certain you're using reductive language. All of the nuances and complexities of a film like Andrei Rublev, fuck all that noise - its the hero's journey and white supremacist in form. Yes Andrei Rublev the uni dimensional hero who beats his dog to death with a cane and embarks on a journey to give up painting because he has lost faith in god. "Doing so weakens stories about collective struggle as it can’t appropriately convey the huge influence the collective have." How? You can't just say that! By following a main character you can get a sense of the reality that the character occupies in the world at large, which includes the collective! My main point is the majority of literature follows a main character. Can you give me an example of story telling that appropriately conveys the huge influence the collective has? The existence of one story doesn't "weaken" another. There could absolutely be more room for media that is post colonial, space for more voices other than white men. But the issue here has nothing to do with the form of the biopic - it has to do with the nature of the film industry!
Funny enough, this is something Soderbergh brought up whilst making Che. That making the story be about Che alone and framing him in big hero shots betrayed the narrative of the man.
Am I white? No
Do I live in the west? No, infact I live on the opposite side of the planet compared to the west
Do I know what white guilt is? Yes, learned about it 72 sec ago when I searched up what it means.
Do I watch a lot of western media? I watch 1 Hollywood and 1 non Hollywood western movie every week.
Am I gonna watch this video like I know everything? YES LESSGOOO BABY!!!
That’s a cultured person right there😤😤
pov : ur not native english on the internet
Thanks for the birthday gift. I loved the video. I am a barbie critic. In the theater, when I was watching the barbie movie surrounded by women screaming at half baked birkenstocks jokes, I was suffocated by the fact that after I have to pretend that I liked the movie for the rest of my life I've enjoyed the movie more on subsequent watches with no audience and lower expectations and have been so fortunate that there were fellow barbie critics so I didn't go crazy . It just wasn't made for me. But after I watched Barbie I went to the bar with the girl, I saw it with and her boyfriend was there. We started discussing the film and our mutual disappointment before the conversation got hijacked by him and he ranted for a full half hour about a movie he had never seen. And when I questioned him on that he said you can't live in an echo chamber. (he is a white man and i am a black women, btw) And like he didn't see it, but he still centered himself in the conversation as if he was an expert. A vacant expert. A master of disgust knowing just enough to pretend to have an opinion on everything, but just short of enough to actually care. and my brother and his fiance work in hollywood, and I don't get the movies he likes. And I can usually see his eyes go vacant when I start my own opinions. Like there is a right answer and I will never have it. We were once talking about the Bear (the tv show). And i was talking about the sexual tension of sydney and carmy, which they were telling me wasn't there. That is never the intention. But like it's a show that prides itself on accuracy and I am a black women in chicago working a job like the show. And the intentions are based in a historically racist sexist industry. And so I will always have to care to the surface level readings taught in film schools, just to engage with my people on the films they like. But we can't take two minutes for an alternative perspective. And it's all so suffocating. The white guilt cinema is for them. Everything is for them and I have to wait until they get over themselves, but I'm losing the plot. I don't want to the watch movies or engage because why? I am not enjoying them, even the masterpieces. It's like homework. What's worst is that nothing is changing. It's just me. I'm growing up incompatible and it's about the movies, but also everything. Anyways sorry for the rant. I love these videos. One of the few things I actually get excited for. Make whatever you want I'll watch.
Happy birthday!
Don't let such idiots stop you from liking or disliking movies
His opinions are just as subjective as everyone else
“Everything is for them and I have to wait until they get over themselves” PREACH
Happy Birthday Chi-town girl ❤️
anything that involves white people is an overrated surface-level garbage
“Your autistic friend’s favorite avant-garde comedian Nathan Fielder” true true.
I’m the autistic friend
this might be my favorite of your videos yet. i especially appreciate how you acknowledge that even culturally significant, beautifully made pieces of art can be cut from the same cloth of white supremacy. its time that we as a culture choose to move away from seeing racism/white supremacy as an individual, personal evil and start analyzing how they are frameworks that society uses to craft meaning, art, and law. doesnt mean that any art constructed with the help of white supremacy is instantly worthless garbage, it just means that its always worth examining so that things can progress and eventually lose the racist framework. great video.
any form of art constructed with the help of white supremacy is overrated worthless garbage, deal with it.
One thing if I can fight for Succession (I will always fight for Succession because its too much fun), I don't think we see the effects of their actions on the rest of the world exactly because they live in such a protective bubble and it reinforces the fact that they don't have to face any real-life consequences.
Exactly
that nolan movie doesn't go into how the US didn't need to drop the bomb
we've found that lower income and rural schools still actually teach there was no alternative (which was just propaganda at the time)
Yeah. The firebombings of Tokyo with “conventional weapons” were deadlier and more destructive by several orders of magnitude than the two atomic bombings, but it wasn’t a scientific achievement so whoops that’s all that matters now. Also that’s totally why the Japanese surrendered, just disregard the fact that the western front had been wrapped up and the Soviets no longer had any reason to uphold their neutrality pact with Japan… IIRC the exact records are difficult to determine but the atom bombs weren’t even considered notable by the imperial commanders when they were making final decisions on the surrender.
The Japanese military generals had started to operate outside of the emperor, they wanted to fight to the last man while by the time the bombs were dropped the emperor had grown wary of continuing to fight. The reason other than propaganda that the bombs were justified is because of the atrocities that japan was committing in the east they were pillaging every country that was near them ie. Nanjing massacre. While Hirohito was definitely guilty by the end of WW2 the US viewed Japan as a potential nazi level threat if not dealt with, there was not enough agreement in the Japanese government to get them to actually surrender. The govt could surrender but that wouldn’t stop the rogue generals from continuing to fight making peace non existent.
@@thomasbodoczy895dropping the bomb on civilian populations was still a war crime. The main reason was as a display of power toward the soviets. The U.S also helped the nazis grow if it meant they would defeat the soviets. They didn’t intervene until they started attacking allies.
@@djibreezy It's never a war crime the first time.
You need to go to college. There is plenty of debate there. Oppenheimer was a movie of the attitudes at the time, and at the time (as my grandparents told me) they absolutely believed it was the only way to stop the fanatical Japanese military. Remember, this is a military that endorsed tactics like Kamikaze pilots, and had soldiers like the one we discovered in the Philippines 30 years after the end of the war. A ground invasion of Japan would have been devastating to the US.
Again though. Go to college.
the whole video is great but after the lily gladstone snub mention i need to go out for beers with you man. you're a real one.
Ty Justice for Lily!! I am so disappointed Emma Stone for her sexy baby born yesterday role goes to show what pervs run Hollywood
I would really appreciate if you (or whoever captions this) please captioned the clips you add to the videos and not just your words - I know it would be extra work, but the audios can be old and hard to understand- plus it makes the videos more accessible for people who are ELL or deaf
Yes, definitely! It was really hard a lot of the time trying to figure out what those clips were saying sometimes, even when I pressed my headphones to my ears so I could hear better. (I'm not deaf I just understand better with subtitles.)
I like everyone else in the comments am enjoying this tremendously but I question why you don't commit to the snippets of text you flash so that they are actually legible. It's comes across like a visual form of a hesitation, which is cool on its own but many of the ones I was able to pause for were definitely worth reading. maybe when youre editing you're looking at it in groups of frames so it seems long enough but i can tell you it ain't let it linger. great video!!
Also the sound mixing sometimes makes it hard to hear his voice a lot of the time unless I really concentrate (I also am really enjoying the video regardless)
Thanks for pointing that out, I definitely need to work on that.
@@tensai.productionsappreciate yr positive response to critique, u wouldn’t believe the amount of RUclipsrs I’ve seen not able to take a complaint
@@tensai.productions just for a different perspective, they worked well for me. Felt like footnotes; pause to read if you want more context, but not essential. I appreciated when they were punctuated by sound design or a musical tag so if I was looking away I would know I'm missing something. Really really great work. I'll watch anything you make.
As a woman, specifically a trans woman, Barbie was cathartic and not much else. People point to the monologue or the talk between Barbie and her creator being the most important biggest parts of the movie. But for me easily the best biggest and most important scene of the movie was when Barbie comes into the real world and talks to the old woman on the bench.
“You’re so beautiful”
“I know it”
And she just smiles. It filled me with a very intense affirmation that I rarely feel especially when something is trying so hard to be that way.
YES!!! that scene was the THE SCENE of the movie.
The bench was such a profound scene. I also think the monologue deserves as much praise as it gets. It so beautifully captured what it feels to be a woman. There’s so much pressure and expectations given by society for women. Listening to America articulate it so well in a 40 second long? monologue made me cry.
Not to mention there was a trans Barbie and they didn't make any jokes about her being a Ken before. My bar was so low, but that made me so happy.
So, as a man then...
@@user-xm9ms5dl8d why do you think of men all the time
This is the first video I discovered on my feed and I’ve automatically subscribed!
What I would say that I loved about Oppenheimer was it’s final hour where he is really shown to get screwed by his government, meeting Truman just scoffing off at his guilt. It presented Oppy as just another cog in the machine of the entire system of the US hegemony, specifically the military industrial complex. While it made Oppy the focused perspective it still gave enough context on other characters he interacts with.
An incredibly nuanced and self-aware film-based video essay? At this time of year, at this time of day, broadcasted entirely to my laptop!?
I am too stupid to contribute to any conversation taking place here about this video, but I CAN say that I share your one-second sentiment about the Dark Knight trilogy, and the appeal of making fantastical characters more "gritty and realistic" continues to miss me.
"I was raised in the 1950s" I'm sorry but you sound like you're fourteen years old
He was using hyperbole to represent the mindset he grew up with. What he really means is that the very Christian community he was raised in had an equivalent of the same values people had in the 1950s.
i love your unique perspective too, to my knowledge you're the only Jamaican youtuber I've listened to. you explain things that seemingly can't be articulated very well. like the metaphor for being in the background of someone's photograph. rly good video thank you
Friend, you're editting is understated and hella funny to me. Really enjoyed your analysis of film and self-reflection. Keep at it! You're a rockstar. :)
after watching this wonderful video i went to your youtube page to subscribe and,,, the fact that you've made 7 long-form video essays in less than a year and you're at this level of proficiency at communicating is just incredible!! i'm looking forward to seeing more of your stuff in the future!
also love ur editing and music choices! its also really distinc from other youtubers haha kinda like a trademark
I found this video genuinely engaging and enjoyed the perspectives you posed
Wow I love the editing and sound on this video. It made me completely engaged to the stuff being said
I always love your videos so much you’re my favorite youtuber! Oh also my mom worked on the curse!
you have some damn good transitions DO NOT STOP THE CREATIVE TRANSITIONS!!! I SUBBED
This has to be the best of all ur video essays yet
Going brought it home with that ending… I was hesitant to watch this at first but I’m glad I did
This essay is blowing my mind like The Matrix, which had a Black man blowing a white man mind
most normal youtube comment
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2014-2016 destroyed not just one but multiple generations, and the internet is one of the main reasons why
i’m glad i found this gem of a vid :) just came back from pausing to finish the curse😭
This vid itself was incredibly entertaining. Thank you for your work!
Love the editing as well as the content
the detail about how the Bob Marley film was a non jamaican production reminds me of how i had to argue for an assignment that colonialism in india was a good thing actually. basically its their rules in the end... but you still got a Bob Marley movie (railroad system)
Your class sucks, I hope you got a good grade and put that class behind you. Enslaving and killing people for resources is always bad. Even the people who get the resources end up hating themselves, hence the white guilt cinema this video is taking about.
Musical biopics tend to take away everything interesting about musicians and try to make them into standard movies. The only interesting ones I can think of are Purple Rain, because Prince was playing himself, Walk Hard, a comedy mocking the cliches of the genre, and Amadeus, a story told from the point of view of Mozart’s biggest hater.
RRR was a good movie and very anti colonialist yet also an odd film since it had very Hindutva far right messages
This is so close to being a great video. Your points/analysis were amazing, but it was hard to hear some of the words, because of loud background music or speaking too quietly. Few strange edits here and there as well, with sentences being chopped up. I also feel it rushes just a little too much. That is a style I've seen with other video essays, and maybe it's a personal thing that I'm less crazy about, but it is hard to digest everything being said. What I could digest was great, though.
I've always seen Encanto as the gold standard for movies that actively oppose white supremacy.
It tells an extremely relevant story about generational trauma through the lens of Columbian culture. And it does so without exploiting the message or the culture for its agenda.
I found this message very intriguing because to me, Encanto is one of those movies that cherry-picks elements from both the literary genre it tried to fit within (Magical Realism) and Colombian culture, for the purpose of appealing to a mass market of mainly white people.
I'm not Colombian, so I cannot say how accurately three American writers capture their culture. I can tell you, though, that as far as Magical Realism goes, Encanto is a film that wanted the "quirky" elements of it -- oooh, magic! -- without any of the LatAm-specific social commentary that you'd expect within that genre specifically. With that alone, to me, it is a gold-standard in appropriation.
@@dannycaballero2172 I dunno, man. I have yet to find a video or interview of a Columbian that disapproves of Encanto's representation. 🤷🏻♂️
@@dannycaballero2172well id argue they did explore generational trauma and trauma/loss in general, which is usually a common theme in most the lives of Latinos. Not only that but I think a lot of Latinos saw themselves within the characters and family dynamics. While I agree that it’s not exactly the pinnacle of Latin stories, I don’t think it appropriated Colombian culture in an effort to pander to white people, as they wouldn’t relate to the narrative in the same way
@@cecilia0688 Yeah, exactly! Well said.
> "actively opposes white supremacy"
> disney movie
(?)
Impeccable background music choice btw
33:19 I thought I was the only one😭 I remember the first time my brother and I watched TDK together, he fell asleep at the couch half way through the movie while I was fighting so hard not to change the channel.
you're a very talented podcaster mate
keep it up
i have not seen most of the movies you've gotten your clips from so i have no idea what they mean when you put them in. could you please consider subtitles for those parts so people who are deaf can follow along as well? i would appreciate having context for the cutaways and i think knowing what they are saying would help
As a 16 year old girl who has an obsessive need to consume video essays, this helped me recognize my own flaws and resonated to every word you said.
i love these long detailed somewhat rambled videos. very educational and a good medium for learning sociology
beautiful video, started this the day before israel invaded raffah, now the part about hollywood patting itself on the back about depicting a person repsonsible for a massacre whilst a real massacare is happening,,, gave me chills. instantly subscribed, free Palestine.
Your thing on the Bob Marley movie is the exact same thing that happened to my hometown when Bomb City, a film about a contrivercial murder/hatecrime from my goddammed hometown was released. The atmosphere in that town when that movie released was tense because that case stull brings up a lot today. And yeah, its cool that it was made and spreads the story, but its limited by its medium.
I believe, in time, it has found, and is finding people who appreciate it. But its weird when you're from the same town that the story takes place in. Its a magical feeling and rejuvinated my love in film.
this video also serves as a self reflection on how the creator has fallen deep into whatever the opposite of being based is.
I knew within the first 5 min of this video that I had stumbled upon a special channel and that this video would be smart, thought provoking and well done. just subbed!
Instant sub for putting King Krule and the Gunbuster OST in your video essay 💯
At 26:04 you say "I don't talk about media I don't like even when I'm critiquing them" (according to the captions) and I am just. Not grasping what you mean with that, maybe I'm having a brain fart but could someone explain what that means? I feel like you have to talk about something when critiquing it, I also don't get how it ties into the "it isn’t bad to like harmful art" follow up, I'm just very confused about the sentence structuring.
absolutely one of my fav video essayists! love ur content so much man! im brown and my fav show is succession lol and i totally echo all of your sentiments its really validating to hear someone elaborate on why these certain media need to be examined under a bigger lense, bc they dont exist in a vaccuum. anyways, love ur videos looking forward for more!
I love early movies, they remind me of early RUclips, the beginning of House and Hip Hip, or TikTok. Something about a medium making stories before setting down rules captivates me.
Thanks for platforming Native Media Theory and Alachia Queen.
This video is brilliant, I appreciate you a lot
You aint slick putting hamburgerphobia in there for like 3 seconds.
holy shit this was enlightening. good work man
Great video! Only thing I wonder if it is possible to go even a layer deeper.
Can a white director even tell a story where the perspective isn't white? Even with a non-white person co-writing it? Is there not an inherent risk with co-writing that the ideas and perspective of the non-white person becomes overridden by the white person as the white perspective is more entrenched and supported by the system? Would that be a risk worthy to take to have non-white stories told (at least partially) by a white director?
Furthermore, why is a film more guilty of being white supremacist inside the context of the current popular film industry, rather than outside its context? And if a director' authentic artistic intention just so happens to align with what is popular and white, should a director be encouraged to move away from that intention for the sake of a humanitarian struggle that they have no possible perspective on?
Anyways if you read this please check my music lol. Great video again!
Apocalypto enters the chat...
Your video makes me think of the band Rage Against the Machine. People wonder why White Supremacists/people who practice White Supremacy love Rage, even though the band is so explicitly political… and I think after watching your video I finally have an answer.
Those guys are sellouts lol. Wear Gramsci shirts yet are themselves pawns for coopted capitalism
Please never stop making vids
What is the song at 56:30
This is an absolutely incredible video, I was completely transfixed by it from start to finish. Truly insightful and your willingness to open up about your personal connection and even failure to connect with some of these things made it so much more than the sum of its parts. Completely hooked from the first 5 minutes, thank you for working so hard to put your thoughts together so effectively
What’s that song when he says ‘Macbeth’ 6:06
Amazing video
Your videos are great.
Bro.... The psalty meme has me shook hard.
Thank you so much for making this video and speaking on the invisible things that are right in front of our faces. I'm a black, queer, comic artist, and I have been very seriously considering what stories I want to tell, who I am telling them to, and why. My love of film and other forms of narrative art has certainly informed my storytelling tendencies, and this video is forcing me to identify how much of this stuff I have internalized and accepted as a necessary part of storytelling. I say all of this to say, thank you so much. As a creative, and as a person, I needed to hear this.
2:02 please. Name of the piece right here. Lovely video btw
15:18 and here
I wonder if you had delayed this video by another few weeks how you would have incorporated Dune Part 2 into this tapestry of a video essay. Because that film is also very much centred on a white perspective while deconstructing (or attempting to deconstruct) the myth of the white saviour. Even if the protagonist is deconstructed, Villeneuve, being a white director, inadvertently frames the issue in a lens of white guilt.
The book is much more intelligent, much more "Marxist" and yet, much more reactionary by far than the movie. Truly a fascinating book
Im so excited for this video already
The ending of The Curse reminds me so much of a horrible conversation I had with my mom. I am trans and visibly so. We live in a rural, very conservative area. Some teenagers were laughing at me in the line of some store and my mom decided to yell at them. I pulled her away and outside the store. In the car, she was so angry at those kids and I was just exhausted. I told her that she should never do anything like that again and she was confused. I explained simply: lashing out at bigots can be dangerous. What my mom, a cis woman, just did, was put me in danger. She didn't understand. I explained further: if the cops get called because of a fight, they won't be arresting or brutalizing some nice white looking middle aged woman. It is likely that the very trans looking young person is the one who will face the brunt of the abuse and possibly be taken to jail where trans people are often assaulted. My mom had never even considered this. She was even angry at me, she said I was invalidating her feelings. In that moment, my mother made her feelings the center of the situation when my safety was at stake. In that moment, I realized that my mom, though she loves me, will never truly understand my perspective and her first inclination was to center her own perspective. It was truly horrible.
We made up later that day, but I have never forgotten it. It really opened my eyes to something I haven't noticed before. I'm used to random people doing this stuff, but my own mother? It was shocking.
@@labracktime I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here, sorry.
@@breadpilled2587 I am sorry but what are you talking about?
@@labracktime your reply to my comment here?
@@breadpilled2587 did I?
@@labracktime yeah, how else would I be able to tag you?
obligatory history lesson?? let goooooo!
Bro has great music selection
Awesome video. Review Beau is Afraid someday maybe?
excellent midroll placement
Since November, I've been working with a former BBC producer (of almost 3 decades). He had to come to America to make that story. 😉. Which makes you wonder how much the truth was doctored, or if it's mostly straight up things he witnessed...
In other news. Any modern show that has 6-10 Panavision cameras rolling at once, while Kodak 35mm film flies through the camera, should stay on the air a long time. The more customers Kodak has, the more, my Zuni/Mexican-American pov/voiced stories can be shot on film. Cause you and I both know, a fridge of film, per film, is not keeping them in business. And even though my friend Eric has been on it a bunch of times. I've still never seen any of it. I just like that they shoot on film, and that they don't have a budget on the amount of film. Eric has spoken with the camera dept extensively, as he is an older cat, and he's not just an actor, but a filmmaker, with a lot of experience with 8-35mm. They roll cameras even on rehearsals, even when no one is aware. The cameras roll unless the mag runs out. They treat them like digital cameras. The only things I know about that show, is what Eric tells me, I didn't even know who all was on it, before watching your video about it. And yeah, Peep Show is one of the greatest shows ever created, anywhere in the world.
Babe not that it’s revelant but how do you know about father ted???
How many times are you going to change the title?
If you were to have a film from the Japanese POV during WWII, itd be like having that from German POV. Both were racist fascist governments.
With that being said, there's already a solution to what you're discussing. Foreign cinema. More popular than ever. Watch it
haha, woman here. I didn't like the Barbie movie :D turned it off in the middle. it was soooo boring to me
Criminally underviewed work! Another excellent video
I dig your vibe sir. So I am gonna give you money(joined the patreon..as long as I can afford it anyway)
I was gonna like this video until I figured out you found a very articulate way to say “I’m a victim” “white man still bad”. 🤦🏽♂️
You must have given up your listening comprehension partway through, then.
Did you just say you were raised in the 1950s???? How old are you????? Love your videos btw:)
this shits fire 🔥
56:44 I DIED!!! LOL
conservativism isnt the norm
thank you for sharing your thoughts.
wait, welles was 25 when he made citizen kane?
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how was that allowed. actually I feel like due to inflation 25 then is more like 30 now
31:31 a capital f Fascist would specifically be Italian.
I wish i could like this MORE TIMES
Thank you for this wondefful video:
- philosophical
-educational
-moving
-creative
-beautifully edited
Thank you!!!!!
1:33:23
Skibidi toilet is fine
Everything that comes from it and surrounds it is not
In my opinion you have a terrible way to watch movies.
I love your vids. that said, are you okay?
Why?
the webster definition is wrong 14 01
54 47 so youve never seen scream?
fellas, is it racist to make dramatic interpretations about white people in power? Or perhaps, it's more racist to assume non-white races never had these exact same power struggles, with the exact same ego problems and guilty conscience? Macbeth's race doesn't matter, it's more about the universality of human power struggles; it's why everyone can relate to the play.
@David_Icke-ou5jz ?
@David_Icke-ou5jzYes Oppenheimer was in fact a white man.
@David_Icke-ou5jz Yes, which would make him white since Ashkenazi Jews are considered at large to be white and are seen as having a certain amount of privilege (based on looks) when compared to Jews of other ethnicities. The majority of U.S. Jews are considered and consider themselves white. This of course doesn’t mean that they do not face discrimination on the basis of their ethnicity.
Killers of the flower moon is so much better than Oppenheimer
to be honest, i have little to no interest for stories about rich people and/or powerful people and their problems, no matter how masterfully that story is told. So no, i never liked Citizen Kane, gave up on Bojack Horseman after season 1, and will probably never touched Succession nor Oppenheimer (who by the way, the real man was never remorseful for the atomic bomb), nor any piece of media in the similar vein.
which is to say, i have no sympathy nor empathy for rich and powerful people/characters, because even though they can arguably be called "victims of the system" as well, they are, in fact, the system.
i do not care about their so-called guilt. i do not care about their so-called struggles. They're the reason the rest of the world suffers.
anything with rich white people in it is an overrated surface-level garbage, i feel you
this line of thinking makes no sense. everyone who lives in society has enough "power" to partake in things that will make others "suffer" just by virtue of the current structure of capitalism. where do you draw the line? when someone has $100,000? $1,000,000? when someone owns a business? if you shop at supermarkets, drive a car, own a smartphone, etc., you are actively partaking in things that makes others in the world suffer. depictions in art that humanize "rich" and/or "powerful" people do more to explain the way they are and tear them down than just dehumanizing them and shutting them out because some of the most powerful people are shmucks. do you think oppenheimer depicted the man in a positive light? he was a womanizing, close minded, flip flopping man, and the film takes the last thirty minutes to show how his so called "guilt" only came AFTER the damage was done, calling into question whether it was real guilt at all.
Succession is not an empathize with the humanity of the poor rich children kinda narrative- It's an incredibly cynical indictment of the class ecosystem some terribly unlikeable characters inhabit- really the narrative inversion of what you describe.
Spoken like true poor kid
This didnt have another title?
jesus theres a lot of people misinterpreting your video in the comments, as a non-white person who aspires to make movies one day, keep up the good work! really enjoyed this!
I like your content overall. But.
This sounds like the most online leftie champagne socialist essay I have ever heard.
He is a leftard ,what did You expect?
@@dioalfonso a better thought out video? Also if hes a "leftard" why do you watch him? Also by using that phrase I know youre basically the same as him, just on the right, and with even dumber views
My argument is:
The fact that white people make movies about if they could be complicit in crimes thru the eyes of people commiting atrocties in history, rather than trying to see themselves in the shoes of people experiencing it, is because everyone will say that its bad those things happened. A person that is of that heritage can bring an interesting view bcuz they are a part of that group, but an outside observer can only comment "bad thing bad" without much more thought, and a movie of an outsider would be all the same.
Not to say attocities need to be entertainin or thought provoking, but then youre looking for a documentary. A movie for entertainment will try to have a perspective or ask a question as best it can, and that starts with the director
Also if you watch an award show made by white people for white people, youre going to see a lot of white people, shocker. There are movies made by almost every etnicity, and if you want their perspectives, you go to them, not bcuz they shouldnt appear in "white peoples movies", but bcuz they will have an infinetly better perspecitve on their history and culture than an outsider
It is.
I think you may have watched a different video???
Just subscribed.
Dude marty literally listened to Osage story and even he said that he wishes more native directors were more recognized and also a lot of native tribes love killers of the flower moon even to have a showing event when it came out
How about your ass go finally just for once go and LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLES STORIES
You didn’t watch the video.
take everything in this script and replace "white man" with "american" and you're closer to the truth
Kinda lost me when you praised 'Barbi' as first female this and first female that….do I even have to bring up Valentino, or Joan Crawford or 'Gone With the Wind"? Presumably, their popularity demonstrates some slight resonance, at least, with women's 'lived experience.'
But, I forgot; in some worlds, only gay actors are allowed to play gay characters…..
'Sympathy' - the power of entering into the feelings of another. To be entertained is to enjoy: 'Freude, schoener Goetterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium….Deine Zauber binden wieder, Was die Mode streng geteilt...'
'Empathy' - a technical term from the science of psychology. pretentiously academic Occidentalism on steroids. You and Edward Said...If Western films dominate much of the world, it might be because Western culture dominates much of the world, which might be because, for the time being, Western culture outcompetes the rest, so stop whining and learn to compete...
You wrote all that just to say nothing in the end. Learn nuance, not everything is an attack on your precious whiteness and western culture. Art can be critiqued in any way shape or form, he is absolutely entitled to his opinion and I would much rather listen to his well articulated takes than whatever tf you just wrote.
lol you sound really whiny
this is fascinating aesthetically, but I really don't get the point