Needful Things (1993 Film) | The Devil & The Mormons | A Great UndertaKING

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  • Опубликовано: 14 янв 2025

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  • @patcoston
    @patcoston Год назад +2

    I remember watching Siskel and Ebert: At the Movies on PBS. If Siskel hated it and Ebert loved it, then it's a movie I would enjoy.

  • @patcoston
    @patcoston Год назад +2

    Patrick Doyle ... my name and yours combined!

  • @Ravuun
    @Ravuun Год назад +2

    After binging all your content I have been missing your videos! Yay for new content!!! And congrats on 1,000 subs, that's like 200 more than you had when RUclips first put your videos in my feed!
    Ye gods, Sleepwalkers next...oh dear LOL

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад +1

      Hey Ravuun! Thank you! I intend to watch Sleepwalkers tonight…. Keep me in your thoughts. Lol

  • @DarinRWagner
    @DarinRWagner Год назад +5

    I admire your confidence in the inclusion of your verbal anomalies and artifacts. I always edit mine out out of some half-assed desire for perceived perfection. Maybe I should lighten up and let a few slip in my own videos.

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад +1

      Thanks Darin. It was after I realized that I wasn’t that great at writing jokes that I decided to leave the bloopers in. They’re the jokes that write themselves!

  • @EdwardLorn
    @EdwardLorn Год назад +2

    LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

  • @patcoston
    @patcoston Год назад +2

    11:44 I think this is officially your longest lasting transition ever and one of the coolest!

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад

      Thanks Patrick! I thought about shortening it, but I liked it too much to cut it off early.

  • @patcoston
    @patcoston Год назад +2

    My cousins are named after the Greek Gods Athena and Eros but they spelled Eros as Eras, either because they didn't know how spell Eros or they didn't want his name associated with the word Erotic.

  • @seakittens
    @seakittens Год назад +2

    Ah, I truly enjoyed your discussion of Satan and tricksters. I find it interesting that Eastern cultures usually portray Satan as more of the trickster type than the ABSOLUTE EVIL you see in the Western interpretations. I love when people dig into how different religious lore share so many common themes that sometimes get warped through various lenses. It's been so long since I watched Needful Things. I need to check it out again with this interpretation in mind.

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад

      Hey Kitty! Yeah, it seems that in the US in particular Satan was used as a cudgel rather than as a storytelling apparatus.

  • @KardboardKenny
    @KardboardKenny Год назад +2

    Ancient Aliens (of all shows) has a great episode on the Devil.
    they defend him and say that he's actually right.

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 Год назад +2

    I only recently found out that Amanda Plummer is the daughter of the late actor Christopher Plummer who appears in the movie adaptation of Dolores Claiborne

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад +2

      I did not know that! I know who Christopher Plummer is, and I’m super excited to get to Dolores Claiborne!

  • @bradperkins4669
    @bradperkins4669 Год назад +3

    I've always had a soft spot for this movie and it's always been one of my favorite King books. Would love to see this story stretched into a limited series, showing more of how greed can gaslight an entire community

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад

      It would likely make an excellent series. We’d really get a chance to know and understand the motives of each resident, rather than only a couple of them.

    • @thebarky1988
      @thebarky1988 Год назад

      I agree. I read most of Kings books in the 70’s and 80’s. My favorites are Salem Lot, Needful Things and the Shining.

  • @patcoston
    @patcoston Год назад +3

    These long rants and deep analysis are two of the many things that makes your RUclips channel stand apart from all other Stephen King based RUclips channels.

  • @Paul_McSeol
    @Paul_McSeol Год назад +3

    Good morning, Mr. Doyle. I saw the expanded cut. It was amazing. Then again, I have a serious soft spot for this film, unlike Mr. Ebert (RIP). I actually used this film as a piece of a theology paper I wrote in seminary about depictions of the devil in popular culture as compared to how they are shown in scripture. And Gaunt fits the bill quite well. Castle Rock may seem a little out of the way but the Devil did expend a fair bit of energy just to mess with Job over a bet with God. And getting otherwise decent people to fight is a classic devil move. (Also a great way for the wealthy to control the poorest peoples by getting them to fight each other). Not familiar with the Mormon website you mention but it sounds interesting and I look forward to checking it out. Huh, long rambling post…So yeah, I do enjoy this film quite a bit. Have an awesome week! And good luck with Sleepwalkers. It’s pretty terrible. 😉

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад +1

      Good morning, Paul! Yeah I never realized just how uneducated in biblical matters I was until now. I grew up going to church, but never by choice, so I didn’t absorb or retain much.
      I was surprised by the BCC site. There was a lot of levelheaded, thought provoking commentary on there!
      As for Sleepwalkers, I’ve seen a few stills now, and I am NOT looking forward to it. Let’s hope I can dig deep enough to find something worth discussing! Have a good day, Paul! 😀

  • @ffejpsycho
    @ffejpsycho Год назад +3

    Great vid!!
    Max von sydow in this role made me arrive at a thought, that always haunted me...
    "Your Devil will come with a smile, not a sneer..."

    • @ffejpsycho
      @ffejpsycho Год назад +2

      Also... That Ebert bit...
      That was awesome....
      Sooo harsh.... and sooo hilarious!

    • @ffejpsycho
      @ffejpsycho Год назад +1

      also... also haha
      wanted to add, when I had that thought "Your Devil will come with a smile, not a sneer..."
      I always saw it as more disquieting as "Your" Devil, and not "The" Devil....
      because while it's unlikely that "The" Devil is out there, It's a near certainty that "Your" Devil is out there.

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад +1

      Lol I couldn’t help myself

  • @rememberpickles
    @rememberpickles Год назад +4

    Thumbs up for the Roger Ebert burn.

  • @dustinvanderpool592
    @dustinvanderpool592 Год назад +2

    I literally just got my daughter into Stephen King , like 2 days ago , using this movie to set up the first season of Castle Rock.
    She's reading my copy of The Stand as we speak

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад +1

      That’s fantastic! I’m hoping to indoctrinate my daughter in the world of King eventually, but she’s still too susceptible to lasting trauma so I’m going to wait a while still lol

    • @dustinvanderpool592
      @dustinvanderpool592 Год назад +1

      Yeah, my daughter is 24 lol

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад +1

      😂😂😂 I sometimes forget people can have adult children.

    • @dustinvanderpool592
      @dustinvanderpool592 Год назад +1

      Now my granddaughter has to wait another 10 -14 years

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад +1

      Lol he’s got some safe short stories. And then there is The Eyes of the Dragon… we could maybe start them earlier if we choose carefully lol

  • @jimmcclements5229
    @jimmcclements5229 Год назад +2

    I enjoy your deep thoughts I actually learn a lot that I didn't know since I read his work and not give it a thought on where he gets his ideas.

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад +1

      Thank you, Jim. I hadn’t ever considered the background information either until I started the channel.

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 Год назад +2

    Here's an interesting fact about bonnie bedelia she's the aunt of the culkins macauley culkin rory culkin scream 4 and Kieran culkin from the show succession their father is bonnie sister

  • @joshua3367
    @joshua3367 8 месяцев назад

    As someone else who tends to overthink all themes and subtexts of horror books and movies I genuinely appreciate these videos.

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 Год назад +2

    I had know idea that needful things was made into a movie until a year ago I watched the extended cut of needful things and I did like it but I understand why it's not well known the late max von snyder was brilliant as Leland gaunt he really stood out I also liked bonnie bedelia in the film ed harris was also good

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад

      I wish I had found the extended cut first and watched that one instead. Something tells me it is better than the theatrical cut.

  • @patcoston
    @patcoston Год назад +2

    I wasn't sure if you forgot to say "unquote" or it was a long quote.

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад

      Lol I know I did forget to say quote or unquote at some point in this one.

  • @patcoston
    @patcoston Год назад +2

    Can you explain your costume to me? Why the white shirt, black tie and backpack?

  • @ericpanissidi6761
    @ericpanissidi6761 8 месяцев назад

    Saw it in the theater.loved it.i wish they could have included the talisman care ace driver for guant for his chore he brings buster along doing coke

  • @patcoston
    @patcoston Год назад +2

    I counted 4 verbal flubs. Is that a record for you? This is my 8th comment on this video ... perhaps a record for me.

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад

      I don’t know… may be a record, but I haven’t been keeping track!

  • @ericpanissidi6761
    @ericpanissidi6761 8 месяцев назад

    The testing of Kobe from the bible.satan offered earthly riches but end up a curse

  • @ericpanissidi6761
    @ericpanissidi6761 8 месяцев назад

    The testing of jobe from the bible.satan offered earthly riches but end up a curse

  • @hdervish2497
    @hdervish2497 Год назад +1

    Siskel and Ebert were hacks and the only horror movie they ever said anything nice about was that godawful Cat People remake

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад

      I never saw the Cat People remake, but I’ll be sure to avoid it based on your comment lol

    • @hdervish2497
      @hdervish2497 Год назад +1

      @@agreatundertaking Malcolm McDowell is a creepy panther man who has a thing for his sister. Pretty much the whole plot hinges on his sister's virginity. It's just creepy in the wrong ways haha

    • @agreatundertaking
      @agreatundertaking  Год назад

      Lolol McDowell has some great films under his belt, but he also has Cat People and Firestarter 2 on his filmography. I’ll never understand why he didn’t have a more… fruitful career.

  • @ziggybartdust1298
    @ziggybartdust1298 Год назад +3

    Excited about this one