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Zero hitting that guy with a shovel, proving he can now read, and running tf out of there is a 10/10 moment
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
"D-I-G. What does that spell?" "Dig!" Absolutely love it.
That was the moment I enjoyed most watching it as a kid.
Literally incredible, best part of any movie ever
YES.
Holes is probably one of the closest book to movie adaptations I’ve seen
Honestly apart from a few aspects change it’s really close to the book
Damn, didn’t think about it
And it's genuinely good. Like it's a damn masterpiece
LITERALLY!!! I remember watching the movie so much and I loved it. When I read the book just for fun, I was surprised how close the movie was to the book. It's unironically one of the best book-to-film adaptations
@@FAYFLYSAWAY And they actually had a good reason for what they changed. The only example I can think of is that Stanley starts out the story overweight and slims down over the course of the book. The crew didn't want to subject a child to that drastic of a weight fluctuation in the short filming time, so they chose not to include that plot point.
The reason the counselor was out to get Zero, its because he enjoyed having control over the kids emotionally, but Zero gave him nothing. We see in the scene were they are in a circle, that he says Zero won't talk to him and when he does, he gives him a sarcastic answer...
So it was an Ego thing. Like "Its not that I'm a bad councelor, you are just a bad patient".
But I never thought he really had emotional control over any of the kids seeing the way they liked to disrespect him.
@@Siimplyhyuka But at least they interacted with them. I'm sure he felt he could "fix" them...
@@MisaelMatute76 that's true, I always thought the reason he picked on zero wasn't exactly because of emotional control but because he wouldn't entertain him, I agree with what you said about the ego thing,
unlike the other boys, zero didn't entertain his stupidness. So I do kind of agree with you in a sense, it's all about his ego imo
That would make sense the way y'all put it. Because all this time, it always got on my mind why he single out Zero most from the rest of boys. So the shovel smack felt good like McMurphy choking out Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
@Siimplyhyuka You probably explained it better, but yes that's the idea. He hates getting ignored, at least the others give him a reaction, even if it's not positive.
So the thing about the Yelnats curse is that Zero's ancestor, Madam Zeroni, had made a deal with Stanleys Great great grandfather, if he carries his pig up a mountain every day, and makes it drink from the water, it'll grow big, so that he can give it to this girl he likes, and at the end of the deal, he would need to do the same for her, but after realizing the girl didn't really care who she married, he broke the deal, and went to America, ending up in the now cursed Desert of Green Lake, being robbed by kissing Kate, two people whose lives were ruined.
During the movie, Zero gets badly hurt and Stanley carries him up the thumb mountain, and since Zero is a Zeroni, Stanley just completed the deal that his great great grandfather didn't, so not only does the treasure get found and Kate and Sam are both avenged, but the Yelnats curse was lifted and they were allowed to find what was legally theirs, if Kate never robbed Yelnats, the curse never would've been lifted for either of them.
And the "Sploosh" that Stanley and Zero found in the boat is actually peaches, Kate gave Sam peaches, in exchange for him fixing the school house when needed, and Sam sold onions for some time, so not only were Stanley and Zero technically saved by Kate and Sam, but Sams onions flourished on the same mountain that Yelnats (supposedly) died on, and the curse would be lifted, almost as if they were connected
And the best part is that the Yelnats do also realize how to make their shoes smell better... Peaches and Onions, you cannot tell me it was NOT fate, the intricate details of this movie is what I feel should've made this a classic amongst ALL households
Thank you for this!
you forget that the mountain is also the same mountain that stanleys great grandfather took refuge on after being robbed
MatPat: WHO ARE YOU AND DO YOU WANT A JOB???
@@aaronratliff1240 I mean, these were all explicitly explained in the book, not THAT impressive.
Not the first Stanley, it was Elya. The first Stanley was his son
"I can fix that" dude is still the smoothest operator I have ever seen
Seconded, Dule Hill has amazing charisma, loved him in "Psych!"
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
i doubt that @@p-__
All I can see is Gus from Psych when I watch this movie
Best movie
"I'm of tired digging, Grandpa." "That's too damn bad." I always crack up at that scene. I love that Sigourney Weaver took the role of the Warden at the request of her child, who was a fan of the book.
“I’m tired of diggin Grandpa”
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
A meme for the ages
Why excUSE ME?
My sister stay quoting that to this day lmfao
Sam also said his onions act as repellent for Yellow Spotted Lizards, hence why none of them attack Stanley and Hector in the treasure hole, because they ate from the spot Sam picked from. The same mountain climbed is also where Stanley 1 found refuge after Kate robbed him. A lot of clever foreshadowing.
When I was a kid, I felt so proud of Zero. I was a good student and very rarely had problems with teachers, but had a lot of friends who struggled with everything and anything in school. So I helped out my friends a lot if they asked for help, but could never help them out when the teachers were passive aggressive towards them during class.
If there's any Zero's out there, just know that if an adult ever tells you "You're too stupid to learn something," it's really not true. You'll likely have to work for it harder than most other people, but if you work hard for it, you can do it.
I think it's brilliant that what stopped Stanley's treasure from being stolen in the end wasn't just that it had his name written on it, but that Zero was able to read it.
Poetic justice, it was perfect.
And before that it was venomous lizards.
Same here 😅
And if Stanley never taught Zero how to read, none of this would've happened
I like how they found the chest in the book. Unlike every other hole digging scene in every movie/show they didn't just dig straight down until thunk they found it. They actually gave up cuz they couldn't find it, but they were digging in the dark so they never realized that instead of uncovering the top they had uncovered the side of it and it was just sticking out the side of their hole. It wasn't until zero mentioned the fact that Stanley's last name is the reverse spelling of his first name that they actually found the chest.
There's actually only one significant difference between the book and movie:
In the book, Stanley was overweight, and being sent to the camp made him lose all of it to where he was super skinny.
They chose not to do this because forcing Shia LaBeouf to lose all that weight on the quick schedule they were on would've caused significant damage to his adolescent body.
They didn't try to give him a fat suit ?
@@Lucario1121 Out in the blistering hot desert? Avoiding heatstroke's my guess
Better that way honestly, forcing anyone to lose all that weight especially where they were filming would have been torturous
The weight thing doesn't even make sense unless all the boys are skinny. But Armpit still exists.
@@kira_calamari2431Its common for super hero movie actors to severely dehydrate themselves for shirtless scenes to make their abs look better. Just for a few shots. Hollywood encourages being cruel to the body, which is why a case like this is so refreshing.
I’m convinced reading hatchet and holes in 4th grade is a universal experience
I didn't read hatchet in 4th and I only watched Holes in 5th but same thing ig :D
Over in NZ we never read Hatchet, but we both read and watched Holes. Goddamn great movie.
I read it in 2nd, and I lived in freaking china
never read either of them in school I only heard of holes because of disney channel
Mine were My Side of the Mountain, and A Little Princess. Not quite the same, but definitely a similar vibe.
I didn't read Hatchet or Holes until fairly recently, which is a shame because even reading them as a teenager I really enjoyed them.
This was one of my favs... it's not necessarily a masterpiece, but it does all the basics correctly:
1. Characters that feel real and that you actually care for
2. Interesting A and B plotline
3. Perfect bridge between all the plotlines and therefore a happy and reasonable resolution 😀
There are at least 3 distinct plotlines. And the structure of the story and how all three weave together is masterful
Pendanski resents Zero because he can't control him. He can't make him talk. Pendanski just likes the power, he's not actually a doctor.
Nobody who willingly signs onto a place like this does so when they DON'T want power over helpless individuals.
I completely agree with you. I love how this kids movie covers dark and serious topics in a respectful way and does it well. It doesn't treat kids like they're too stupid to understand these darker topics. It presents them in a way that kids can understand in a great story. The movie is absolutely fantastic too in the music in this. The music in the movie does not get enough love it's one of my favorite soundtracks of all time. And I just feel like now a movie like this would never be made. The book would have never been written. It just seems like they dumb kid shows down too much now.
In the books it’s more of Pendanski encouraging Zero to talk and be more social. (I’m not even halfway into the vid rn so idk I might delete this)
@@WhyUBully957No in the book he’s just as bad
@@Elizabeth_Afton__1983 It didn’t feel that way to me
I loved how at the end of the movie when Staley and Zero are about to leave the camp, it starts raining. 9 year old me sobbed it’s was so beautiful
This is the exact moment after the Sheriff requested that the camp be taken over by the state, which by default removes it from the possession of the Walker family, thus lifting the curse of no more rain on the lake that came with Sam’s murder.
I definitely cried in the theater at this part too
It was almost like a cleansing of all the evil that went on
This just occurred to me but it almost perfectly mimics Rime of the Ancient Mariner with that part
i think you forgot about the fact that stanleys dad fixed his shoe odour problem and then collaborated with sweetfeet and they like live together now
Holes: Absolute masterpiece of storytelling
Tunnels: Interesting premise that devolves into increasingly insane conspiracy theories involving puritan mole people and hollow earth
holy shit i completely forgot about Tunnels. i did a book presentation on it!
I love the fact that Zero picked up a billiard ball ready to fight. You know that kid grew up in the streets going for a blunt object.
I know right 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Right?? Bruh was ready to throw down and end it.
He wasn’t gonna let go of Zig Zag when he was choking him no matter what the other kids around were saying, the fight was over but he wasn’t stopping. It took Pendanski firing a shot in the air for him to stop. Zero’s way of fighting was for life or death
"Holes", both the book and the movie, was peak storytelling and no one can convince me otherwise.
*ATLA has entered the chat*
Both are peak, but holes had a good live action adaption, Avatar didn't@@tylerjerome4365
@@tylerjerome4365**glazing**
its good but stop doing tricks on it @@tylerjerome4365
It was something out of Attack on Titan
9:09 the end of the movie says that zeroes mom has been looking for him this whole time too. But then I gotta ask, why didn’t she come back in the first place? Did she not file a missing child report? How was this kid convicted in court with crimes and incarcerated without the court ever trying to contact a parent or guardian?? That judge should definitely be disbarred lmao. He sentenced a child without parents or guardians like “oh well, underage minor who has no parents or guardians. It’s labor camp for you! Maybe next time, you - a homeless, parentless, unemployable teen under 16 - will think twice about stealing a pair of shoes!”
Wow, that's a lotta words. Too bad I'm not readin' 'em
@@Wutsizbukkit😂 you're a manace.
@@ricardozkDon’t laugh, it encourages shitty behaviour like that.
I always thought she was a drug addict. And if you're familiar with them, it all makes sense. If not, it's too hard to explain. It's exactly the kind of thing you'd have to see to believe.
I always wondered if it was the same judge who sentenced Stanley, and potentially, the other boys........And, I, for some reason, have felt that he was in the Warden's pocket, so to speak. I mean.....Think about it.....She was looking for a lost, valuable treasure, and needed the work force to dig it up. What "better" way to ensure that she got it then by promising the judge a portion of it, assuming it was found, if he sent her kids to dig at the camp. And, as he said during Stanley's trial "I could send you to jail......And, I wouldn't lose one night of sleep over it!" Someone like that wouldn't lose one night of sleep sending a kid like Zero to the Camp either. Especially if there was something in it for him.........
so 10:15 for all you wonderin the peaches were spiced and sealed so they should theoretically last forever and also zero drank one that wasn't sealed properly which is why he faints when climbing the mountain (this was only in the book)
Fun fact. Most of the yellow-spotted lizards in the movie are actually just bearded dragons with spots painted on them lol. There are a few CGI ones, but the practical ones are literally just beardies. I mean I get why they went with beardies. They're usually pretty passive animals that make really good pets and are easy to handle. Perfectly safe for child actors to work with.
I know. As a beardie owner myself, I love the fact that they used these. I don't see many beardies in films or TV, so this was amazing!
I thought it was so funny when I saw this movie how they were all just painted beardies. Possibly the chillest reptiles around
Bro the CGI ones were so goofy 😭😭😭
Which is honestly kind of upsetting because none of them were yellow
"Most" 💀
Zero decking the counsellor in the face with a shovel is one of the most satisfying movie moments I've ever seen
I know right 🎉🎉🎉🎉
AND THE BOOK. IT WAS AMAZING
Personally my favorite part of the movie was seeing the racist, entitled Trout going broke and insane and Kate all but giving him the middle finger as she dies
Nobody is talking about the teacher reading 50 shades of grey to the class!?
My lunch ladies LOVED us. My friends mom was one of our lunch ladies and she’d always talk to me in Spanish and give us Flan and come talk to us during lunch. She was so sweet
I was a lonely and awkward little kid; one of the lunch ladies at my school ate breakfast with me every day when I was a kindergartener so I wouldn't be by myself. Her kindness made a huge difference to my school experience.
@@MM-jf1me aww, that is so amazing, lunch ladies deserve more than they get
Fun Fact:When Sam tried sell the onions the customer was the author of the book, Louis Sachar
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Nice
Same here 🎉🎉🎉🎉
“I’m tired of this grandpa-“
“WELL THATS TOO DAMN BAD!”
we say this at work almost every day lol
"Well excuuuse me"
*Grandpa spits*
"You'll thank me one day"
It's funny because the only thing she got was jail time
My experience was feeling sorry for the kid Warden. She was made into this heartless husk of a woman by her own family and the loot she was forced to work for her entire life was literally taken right from before her. Kate Barlow really got the last laugh.
@@thepoleontheroad Nah but same. Poor kid spent every day she spent at her grandparents' place, digging holes. Honestly, after so many years and at least 1-2 different generations, I'm surprised they even knew what they were digging for.
Also, if the parents knew just how crazy the grandparents were, why send her over ALONE? I didn't see them digging and there is NO WAY she was there just for the day in that area.
My family quotes this at any given opportunity, lol
11:10 god damn it there's nothing I hate more in movies than chewing/biting sound effects, gives me the chills
You might have Minophonia
this is genuinely like the best story ever written honestly, every single detail that could possibly be considered ties back to everything else and every connection you make on your own feels so satisfying. this must have been a nightmare to write to make everything connect together like this
It’s ironic how he keeps saying it’s not a Girls Scout Camp where as at the end it becomes a Girl Scout camp
Woah… who coulda thunk it
Foreshadowing!
Holes is like "Foreshadowing: The Movie"
As long as the girls eat lots of onions
I believe that's a brick joke.
The thing about Camp Greenlake is that it does the exact opposite of what it's supposed to. You send a good kid like Stanley Yelnats there, having committed no crimes, but later on he's like stealing the water truck and other stuff like that.
Just like the real thing. The prison industrial complex isn't about rehabilitation; it's about exploitation of labor and encourages violence or reoccurring behavior. There are some people in prison now because it's better than how they were living before and they commit the same crime once released to go back in. Nevermind with having something like that on your record, it becomes a lot harder to get a job, also leading to crime again because they can't make a living.
There are videos here on this platform that do a better job than I explaining how Holes mirrors the prison system.
Same
@@graygreysangui troubled teen camps are even worse than regular prisons.
That's how jail is
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This is the most perfect book to movie adaptation. Practically Perfect In Every Way. “I can fix that.” When Dule did that line on Psych I lost it. So smooth.
I love your representation of "the thumb". Don't think you mention it but when I saw the drawing of the mountain the old neurons fired... real attention for detail that doesn't go unnoticed!
I always loved the backstories running alongside the main story, especially Kissin' Kate Barlow, who could easily have a movie of her own. The scene where Sam and Mary Lou are lynched always breaks my heart. 💔
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
I’ve always waited for a mini series or prequel or sequel to this just exclusively of Kissin Kate Barlow.
Kissin Kate Barlow is my favourite of how sweet and innocent love can change anybody’s life
They were shot in the movie IDK about the book, not trying to be mean saying that because either situation is tragic
It should start when she was a kid and her inspiration to be a teacher and should have at least 5 episodes
The reason the curse was lifted was because Stanley carried Zero up the mountain. The first Stanley was supposed to carry madam zeroni after she made him memorize the song but her never did. That’s why the curse was there in the first place. Remember? If only if only the woodpecker cries…. Or something like that. When Stanley now, carried zero up the curse was lifted and he was finally lucky again and found the treasure chest.
Edit: it wasn’t about friendship @14:40
And he gave him a drink, which the first Stanley was supposed to do with Madame Zeroni
That part was really yadda yadda’d over in this video. I know it’s really difficult to explain it coherently because it’s so interwoven.. but the fact that they were cursed because he never carried madame zeroni up the mountain and Stanley/zero breaking that is 🥺
And they find zero’s mother! Who had been looking for him too!!
"If only, if only" the woodpecker sighs
"The bark of the tree was as soft as the skies"
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely
He cries to the moon
"If only, if only"
When I realized that as a kid I was super amazed for weeks to come. Good memories!
Sugar, I'm sure he knows all of that already😂
Loved that movie. All I could remember about the movie was digging holes to build character, eating the ancient preserves, and eating the onions.
in my senior year of high school (2008) i played Stanley in our production of Holes. it was the best time of my life
Her death is one of the few scenes that sticks with me from this movie. Just how she laughs and leans back is such a bittersweet moment. She won in the end, she got her revenge (and Sam did too since the lake dried up), but in exchange, it was her life that she traded with, and its truly sad. The same with Sam
Very true but on the bright side they can be together in the afterlife
Nah, nobody won there. That was the point. Stanley and Zero/Hector were the ones in the end because they were able to grow a friendship and cooperate despite generational trauma. The best revenge is to live a good life
She was a lost soul the moment Sam died. That's why she could rob others and murder the men who had the inclination they could get something from a pretty woman. Stanley Yelnats I is proof she didn't kill all men. But as much as she was out for revenge, her life was going to be suffering. That's the point of revenge: it consumes everything. There aren't any winners.
Same here
The thing with Holes (both the movie and the book) is that EVERYTHING that happens is relevant to the plot.
Right? If only Wish had gotten the memo... XD
Well, that's how stories are supposed to work, ideally.
Gotta say imo this video was perfect. Great job. From the animations to the jokes the way its all editted together. Perfection
holes is an absolute icon. we also had it read to us as small children and it was mind blowing
imo one of my favourite scenes is when stanley and zero are in the hole with the chest and they have to have a stand off with the camp staff because they are just COVERED in yellow spotted lizards. and not getting eaten somehow (spoilers its because of the magic onions)
the way all the small details and different plot lines come together will never not be satisfying to read. 10/10 book and movie. especially love how morally grey the characters all are
Sams boat was the boat that Zero and Stanley took shelter in, also Sam got his onions from the mountain nicknamed “The Hand of God”
It was interesting to think that Sam was buried somewhere under there and that’s where Kate decided to end her life. Beautifully tragic
I know right 😊
@@chelle1810that implies kate spent the remainder of her life getting drunk from the drink she made, mourning the loss of sam 😢 thats so sad
Woah....you dont say!!!
also stanleys ancestor was supposed to carry madam zeroni up a mountain but didnt thats how they got cursed. Stanley carries zero up the mountain breaking the curse
i had to do, like, 5 essays on holes in primary school, good book/movie but if i have to explain stanley yelnats's character development one more time i am going to explode
Lmao this unlocked a memory I didn't know I still had 😂
Same, but with jack merridew for me. Grade 9, then Grade 11, then Grade 12. Thats what I get for changing schools.
Please explain how Stanley Yelnats transformed throughout the story.
@@AsianAnticsOfficial I was just about to type that
Please explain how Stanley Yelnats' character developed throughout the film.
It's worth noting that it was actually Zero's case that had him almost immediately sentenced to Greenlake. By the time that Stanley's case was finished and he was sent there, Zero had already been there for months.
I think this book did a really good job of taking the circumstances that kids were actually in, and cranking it up to 11.
Like, adults who don’t believe you (judge, police)
People who make you do nonsensical stuff, and won’t tell you why, even when they obviously have reasons (the warden)
And people who just hate you for no reason, and seem to hate the concept of children in general, despite working with kids (Mr. Sir)
Like, idk, I feel like it works to make people feel seen, like this is what they are going through)
I mean with all the documentaries about the ‘betterment’ camps they’ve had/are still having in America for “troubled youths” that discuss what it was like in them it plays very straight, except unlike the camps in the documentaries, that get the parents to pay for it, it’s government enforced
@@moodycowcrafts4862 that’s a really good point, I wasn’t really thinking about that, I more so was referring to what the average kids goes through. But you did make a good point that this sort of thing does actually happen. Thanks for adding for adding your input!
It sounds like the series of unfortunate events, even having a Mr sir in both
@@cacklebabygg6156 omg, I never made that connection, but yeah, I see that. I think I read both of them around the same time, so if nothing else they appealed to the same person.
It definitely adds to the underlying tone of cynical foreboding too. All of those examples are realistic and the lack of competent, caring adults is one of the things that made this film stick with me as a kid. You don’t really feel “safe” until the end of the movie.
"Start digging." Kissing Kate Barlow's death scene is one of the coolest moments in the book.
Epic username/pfp
This book and the Giver, they really opened my little mind up. Great school books
I watched this in a car tv as a kid during my brothers baseball games. The lack of ac in the car made it more immersive.
The story between Kate and Sam never failed to make me sad. And the fact that Kate's life was never the same after seeing somebody she loved litreally get shot in front of her is even more heartbreaking
I know right 😢😢😢😢
It's sadder than just seeing her love shot in the face. Her love was wrongly proclaimed to be an abomination, and he was injustly killed.
This is what fuels her resentment and turns her into someone who hates humanity. It's one thing when someone is killed, a completely different when it is done so in the name of goodness and it is actually an injustice. It's VERY difficult not to fall into resentment after experiencing injustice, and projecting your hurt onto the entire world as punishment for allowing this to occur.
This is exactly how the best of people turn evil, and that is what makes this infinitely sadder.
This is one of the few movie adaptations that capture the spirit of the book
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
Except Stanley isn't fat, I guess that wasn't easy to do in a movie because he loses weight throughout the book
The author wrote the screenplay
@@themarsman5155 exactly. They didn't think it would be healthy for Shia to go through such a dramatic weight change as a kid
@@themarsman5155 Yeah as someone else said, they didn't want to put a kid thru that kind of stress.
15:25- Didn’t they open it? I thought they did and we got to see their reaction and then it cut to black!?!
They did idk why he cut it there
@@Qbeakl yeah, I can’t anything for the movies and shows I have never seen……. But the rest…. Yeah, he does that a lot!
Bro got that usoap look 12:25
I swear, the way that zero says 5:17 “I like digging holes.” is almost in the exact same cadence as “I like turtles.”
this point made me burst out laughing, oh my gosh
"I like money"
"I like trains"
@@RetrofinsNYYYOOMMMMM-
Hector reuniting with his mom wrecks me every time.
That moment is one of the most touching movie moments that stick with me. In that scene you knew he never stopped loving his mom and she got herself better for him.
Same
I love the book
The best written screenplay and book by the same author
@Alex Meyers have you tried using an audio splitting library such as Deezer/Spleeter for separating the music and vocals from your videos? I haven’t tried it for separating spoken lines from background music but it works really well for separating vocals from the rest of the track. Might make your job a little easier for removing all that copy write protected music without distorting the vocals. Just a suggestion.
Great video!
"I can fix that."
"Gus don't be a gooey chocolate chip cookie."
😂
under rated comment 🙏🏽
YES!!!
😂 so good.
You mean last night gus
The real brilliance of this is that Kate's treasure was in the Stanley name.
They lost it before they ever dug the first hole.
Please explain 😅
@@tee_1999 Kate robbed the first Stanley Yelnants and took his treasure chest of stuff that he had from the bank. Kate buried that box which had the Yelnants name on it.
@@christophercathcart881When I read the book I was flabberglasted at this plot twist
You really took me back with this one. Read Holes in the 5th grade, I think the same year the movie was coming out. It felt like a huge deal. I know Harry Potter preceded it, but Holes is the earliest example I remember of being excited for a story I love getting adapted into a movie.
14:51 „Dievs, svētī Latviju,
Mūs' dārgo tēviju,
Svētī jel Latviju,
Ak, svētī jel to!
Kur latvju meitas zied,
Kur latvju dēli dzied,
Laid mums tur laimē diet,
Mūs' Latvijā!”
Uhhhhuu
This was crazy good at interweaving the stories of past and present, it also blew my mind as a kid. Don't forget the bit at the end when the father discovers that combining onions and peaches cured foot odor and then the major league player, Sweet Feet(original owner of the donated-then-stolen shoes), became spokesman for the product!
Don't even try it B-O-T-S
nowadays I don't see kids stories intertwining 3 plot lines that all come together in the end. Everything is just flat out explained to you (cough, Netflix Avatar, cough).
@@sam4744 I mean this is a Master-class in being insanely intricate so a lot of things couldn't measure up to that level and still be good but you're right; it makes all the modern 'Tell Don't Show' media look ridiculous. I've only seen clips of the ATLA Remake and it was painful just listening to the dialog.
Funfact: the author who made holes also made the wayside books
Those books were honestly on a different level and were just pure insanity. I loved them
Dude no one talks about those books and I remember them being crazy.
Whaaaaat! I was OBSESSED with those books as a kid. 😩
I dunno what this author was on, but they wrote some bomb ass children books. 🤣
Those books are like a fever dream unlocked. I used to love those books. “Wayside school is falling down..”
15:43 SERIOUSLY...
Walden Media just happened to be the most nostalgic childhood moment.
The third movie in the Narnia series was my favourite movie as a kindergartener and until like i was 7. I still remember it. Love it still. The first time I watched it, i only had a box TV and a Blue-Ray disc insert. Loved them both dearly and wish I still had them.
Not to mention the BANGING song ( *Dig It* ) that went along with this movie. So good that Disney played it during commercials from time to time
I’m in my thirties and still crank this in the car when it scrolls through my iTunes 😂
Same here 😂😂😂😂
youuuuu got to goo digg those hoolessss
A R M PI to the T! What’s that ya smellinnnn?
Doggggg, that’s me.
I don’t take showers and I don’t brush my teeth
All I do is eat, dig holes and sleep
Why my 8 yr old brain thought this was the hardest verse, I will never understand
Best part of the movie was how the Warden was cursed to never see the treasure and even after she intercepted the treasure and later begged Stanley to get a glimpse, she still never got to see the treasure. The sweetest revenge.
The fact that my class just finished this book this week is crazy
What I never realized until about a week ago is that Stanley's dad, Stanley, is played by Henry Winkler, the actor who played Happy Days cool guy Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, aka "the Fonz".
If you thought this movie was insane, the sequel to the Holes book is called Small Steps. You also skipped over the fact that the guy named Barfbag intentionally put his foot near a cottonmouth snake, leading to the vacancy at camp. Fucked up stuff.
I know my fifth grade teacher read that one to us, but I don't remember it super well. I remember it was about Armpit, and then X-Ray was in it, and there was a girl that Armpit was into, and the only thing I remember clearly is that he tells the girl his nickname was a body part, and he would only tell her the nickname of she touched that body part after he told her. Really weird scene, every now and then I still think about it.
Oh yeah, it revealed that Armpit was in Camp Green Lake for beating up two boys in a movie theatre for stealing his popcorn, and X-Ray sold dried parsley to people who thought they were buying weed
I had no idea there is a sequel to Holes! I should look into that...
Actually I believe it was a rattlesnake. Cottonmouths generally live near the water and, well...
@@TheCultureshock101it was indeed a rattlesnake.
The way this story portrays fate is uniromically so good. Everything ties together so perfectly and I just can't get over it
I love this book and its movie adaptation. My sisters and I all read it again a few years ago for our book club and had a good time. I always enjoy your 90s and early 2000s callbacks and things like the projector (it’s actually how I realized I had bad vision, it was hard to see the writing from the projector when my teacher used a red marker, lol) And the joke about the woman going to a doctor’s visit was spot on!
I grew up in an upper middle class suburb and now I work at an inner city school. So many of the kids I work with were abandoned by their parents like Hector was, so his story hit really different when i watched this last year 😢
Not long before getting his nickname, Stanley had tried to turn in a fossil that he had found while digging. I figured that's why they went with the name Caveman. They didn't say it outright, but then again, I like it when the author leaves a few little things like that for us to figure out instead of spelling everything out for us.
"you have to fill in the holes yourself"
Author Louis Sachar has a cameo as a man whom Sam sells onion tonic to, and has the line "My head?" Also, he initially used the name Stanley Yelnats as a placeholder, until he found something better, before realising that it fit.
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
That's interesting. It's so cool when authors make cameos in adaptations of their own work. I'm aware that there are some who direct it like Stephen King and the author of Perks of Being a Wallflower. I remember back when I was in high school, I read Native Son and the book has been adapted three times for the screen with the first being released in the early 1950s with Richard Wright, the author of the book, playing the main character. It's worth noting the movie was filmed in Argentina instead of the US due to the Jim Crow laws.
@@kamsismith Seconded, I always love spotting the author of the source material pop up, even if it's merely for a small or walk on role.
@@trinaqyeah like Alice oseman is in a brief scene in the background as a passenger on the train in heratstopper
@@kamsismithChristopher Paolini once wanted a cameo where he was killed in the movie Eragon. It was inspired by time when he was online gaming and his death message coincidentally read "killed by Eragon."
No joke, he actually told this story at a book signing I attended.
This was actually a perfect movie out of 2003 alongside Finding Nemo. 0:01 i was also in fifth grade and my teacher finished the book at around May. We watched the movie and it was amazing.
One of my favorite books/movies! I didn't get to watch it before it was taken down by YT, so when I saw the notification that it was back up, I immediately clicked! 🤩
AND one more thing, the yellow spotted lizards!!! The reason why the lady couldn’t just take off with the treasure is because they were surrounded by these yellow lizards who could kill you if they bit you. Stanley and zero had ate so many onions it acted as a detergent for the lizards. I think the kissing robber lady was also killed by one so it was symbolic, and later Stanley’s dad uses the onion idea to make his sock de-odorizer or something.
It was a mix of onions and peaches, symbolizing that Kate and Sam belonged together.
I know right 😊
Holes remains that movie that intrigued my enjoyment for reptiles and poisonous snakes
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
Your farts aren’t that better than Phoenix’s
This movie has made me love reptiles so much because it kinda shows how cool lizards are, and how chill they can be aswell like literally the most venomous lizard ever and yet they are chill as fuck until you anger them
EDIT: Thank you for telling me click clack, I knew there was a word for poisonous bite instead of just being poisonous, but completely forgot the word for it
I agree! Stanley and Zero were there all night chilling with them 😂
Anything that bites you and injects toxins is venomous. Anything that you bite which secretes toxins is poisonous.
This book/film seems so crazy and you didn’t even mention the whole side story with the pig and the mountain.
Holes was my childhood and I always watch this movie every year thank you for making this video😍😍
Pendanski only seems nice when you're not the kids he's talking down to.
Much more insidious than Mr. Sir
@@Olibubbyeah at least Mr. Sir treated everyone equally bad
You knew where you stood with Mr. Sir.
6:34 I love so much That scene of zero getting ready to beat a kid with a pool ball, I guess he really enjoyed when he got a shovel instead
It's like when Roy confronts Jim at the basketball game and Kevin is about to defend him and wipes his brow when it doesn't get violent
You're still making these videos? Im impressed! its been a few years since i saw this channel
My study hall teacher just randomly played this in class, and now your video is in my recommended. Almost as convenient a coincidence as the time my great grandparents met in Italy.
My favorite line in the movie "
The duck may swim in the lake, but my daddy owns the lake."😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I quote that all the time 😂
The book won the Newberry Medal, the award given for Outstanding Achievement in Traumatizing Kids With Books.
Lol, yes. The last one I read, upon finishing, I thought, "That was really well-written. I'm never reading it again."
Truth this. 😏
Standard Louis fare
It’s insane how I’ve been watching your videos for years , you’ve posted like 10 videos over the last six months and RUclips suggested not one
This movie is pure perfection. The way they weaved in and out between present day and the past was done so well. The cast is incredible. The story is insanely good. Absolute perfect film.
10:26 my mind went “Drink cactus juice. It'll quench ya. Nothing is quenchier. It's the quenchiest!”
It is indeed the quenchiest
FRIENDLY MUSHROOM!MUSHY GIANT FRIEND!
Same
Omg yesssss. I just made a comment that they’d likely be getting drunk from the fermented old juice XD
Sigourney Weaver is fantastic in dang near every role she has ever played. My fave little factoid about this movie is that she almost didn’t do this part cause she didn’t want to be the bad guy. But her daughter (or maybe niece… I can’t remember) told her the book was awesome and that she HAD to do the part.
Damn, old books and movies went hard in 6th grade for me.
Holes: child slave labour and corruption
Hatchet: a teenager struggling to survive after a plane crash that killed their pilot friend and his dad
Another book that took place in the middle east, where the daughter did everything for her family to survive and breaking sharia law. By taliban rule, her dad had to beat her to death but broke down because he couldn't. Whatever remained of their family had to seek refuge.
These are the types of media kids should still be learning. You need to ponder about life at a young age to truly appreciate it.
i remember watching this movie a while ago and even watching this video i get chills everytime Zero says “Dig”
"There is no lake at Camp Green Lake" -- Thank you so much for quoting the book's opening line! That one line is forever seared into my memory as a turning point in how I engaged with books and stories.
Seeing Zero deck that mean guy with the shovel and proving that he could read was the pinnacle of my existence.
I have been a 4th grade teacher for 17 years. Every year we have read the book and watched the movie. Every kid I have ever taught LOVED them both!!!
It's nice revisiting your videos I used to watch when I was In 5th and 6th grade and now in highschool glad to see you doing great and doing the same ❤
I remember seeing this as a kid and liking it but now realising that it was kinda crazy for a kids movie
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
“I’m tired grandpa” “Well that’s too damn bad” gets quoted in my friend group so often it’s insane also the if only song towards the end is almost always in my head to the point I kinda loosely based a dnd character around it. It’s by far one of my favorite movies, also Kissin Kate will always have my heart lungs and kidneys.
Same
I think the thing with Bluey specifically being held up as surprisingly mature is bc it's a preschool show in the same age bracket as stuff like Sesame Street and Blues Clues. Up until pretty recently Sesame Street was probably the only show that actually went into more serious stuff but for pre-school aged kids.
5:57
That may be true, but after that "kill you," those mfs will fight by your side and face demons for you. You will have the most loyal band of brothers you've every had.
A couple of years ago?
Sir, Bluey is STILL an obsession. If the most recent episodes didn't make your cry, you're a soulless heathen.
Same here