Yeah, the Nicelanders were easily my least favorite part of the film; they had the gall to be mad at Ralph for leaving the game, when it was them who were treating him like shit in the first place?
Yeah, that's the thing that always made me not like the movie all that much... They are supposed to be performers for the humans, they understand the importance of keeping said human entertained (since they stoping playing means apocalypse crisis basically) so why treat Ralph as a trash bag with legs since he is a villain and villains are important in every kind of game... Even when they treat him like shit and he goes somewhere else and comes back Victorious they treat him like he is being selfish when they are too thick headed to understand that leaving an important part of the crew out of the social circle is stupid. (Specially since Ralph being the villain he is WAY MORE important to the game as a whole than everyone else... Except obviously the protagonist) maybe I think to much into it.
It is kind of funny because the Nicelanders are the only characters who were completely useless for the game. Probably an angle they originally wanted to play up in an earlier draft is that they were jealous.
Even without the sympathetic backstory, Ralph couldn't be accurately depicted as the "bad guy" within the context of the movie because they are all aware that they are in a video game and Ralph performs an essential function within said video game. The movie even directly addresses that without him, there is no game. Without him, the plug will get pulled and at that point, their only two options are death or displacement yet they still treat him like he's an actual "bad guy". The fact that they call themselves Nicelanders is incedental. The biggest problem with them is that they treat Ralph like some sort of monster for simply doing his job.
@@zuko9085 Nicelanders are basically normal people who moved in after buying flats from a developer who had the government use eminent domain. They're not wrong to be pissed off that Ralph is wrecking their home.
@@1Maklak Doesn't make them good tho, even when they're not playing their part, they still treat ralph like some sort of monster when he's literally just doing his job
@@kthemaster1999 I saw a long ass joke post on iFunny about "Shrekitarianism" which was basically just libertarianism with an extreme focus on private property.
I mean... You don't even need to look into the credits. His game intro explains that he was shoved out of his land to make room for the hotel clearly enough. It's really not a hidden piece of lore...
Well it doesn't really explain that it was HIS land or that he was actually justified in his retaliation. On top of the fact that he's consistently referring to as a "Hobo" throughout both his movies. Hobos being a slang term for homeless persons. You aren't really "homeless" when you have your own land that you could build your own home on. He clearly had a home despite his appearance but was evicted from it due to eminent domain. This also explains his resentment at being called a Hobo. But this can also be seen by younger immature audiences as Ralph denying yet another fact of his game. Like how he tried to buck being a "bad guy" by getting the medel of heros, he could be denying that he is a Hobo despite being in fact a Hobo squatting on Fix-it Felix's land and then being mad about being moved despite Fix-it and and nicelanders having every justification of moving out a vagrant squatter from THEIR land. But the song lends more benefit to Ralph at being the victim rather than a vagrant. That's why it can be pretty surprising because it twists around the assumptions people can make about that beginning scene when not given the full context.
@Another Millennial- I mean, it is hardly necessary to scour Wreck it Ralph to find the whole eminent domain thing. They say it explicitly. Scouring implies having to do some sort of work, like pausing the movie to read something in the background of a shot, at the very least.
@Another Millennial - The words "eminent domain" were during the credits, but the movie shows the Nicelanders taking Ralph's land in the first minute of the movie. Plain sight; no scouring needed. @Laverne Blaszczyk - It really isn't overanalyzing the movie to say that Ralph has a point; the Nicelanders took his land and Ralph wants to get it back. I am sure many of the children watching the movie were able to come up with those thoughts. At the very least, even if a person came away without believing that Ralph was fully in the right, they probably came away with the thought that Ralph wasn't entirely wrong. Further, If you think that this 11 minute video is overanalyzing Wreck it Ralph, maybe you should steer clear of the "Out Of Frame" show on this channel. I am not sure what you'd expect to get out of a video from a show about reviewing movies on a channel about politics and economics, but if you aren't expecting a movie reviewed from a political and economic perspective, that is kind of your fault.
They explain that they took his land and moved his stump to the dump at the beginning of the movie,so his rage is justified the whole time....the song at the end would just be giving more details to what you already know if you watched the beginning.... though I'm in full agreement government is to big and has to much power there are plenty of laws that infringe on ppl and their right to live their lives....the question is what to do about it,a lot of ppl post videos like this pointing out the problems but none suggest any ways to deal it
Maybe some of them are just smart enough and observant enough to notice and identify the issue, but just short on the creativity needed to formulate a way to address said issue? I try to suggest solutions when I can, however in this situation most of the solutions require power/influence that most people don't have. With how the Supreme Court has shifted since the Little Pink House case I think that should someone be forced to deal with an issue like they might have a stronger chance of winning and possibly bring about change, however this solution requires waiting on one of the city, state, etc. governments to screw up and use Eminent Domain again for private interests again. While it is an issue, most people don't view it as a PRESSING issue and thus will more than likely not consider a congressman's opinion on this matter when electing people to the legislative branch which could result in change from that end rendering SCOTUS as the best option at the Federal level. More rural states might have an easier time getting such a thing fixed.
Rob Hogate Fun fact: these "laws" you speak of aren't actually laws at all. They're "regulations". And they're not imposed by congress, but instead government-appointed bureaucrats. For every 1 page of laws there are like 100 pages of regulations or something stupid like that. One of the first things Donald Trump did upon entering office was to impose restrictions on new regulations, basically saying that with every new regulation that was made two old ones had to be cut, and it's also a big reason why I think Donald Trump was a better President than Obama right out of the gate.
Yet they keep advocating for more government that’s why stock up on guns they want to take them so they can take your home and livelihood people did amazing things without all the bureaucratic red tape you can thank Woodrow Wilson and the snakes who bought him into office for that they moved regulation responsibility out of congress to appointed bureaucrats and made Income tax property tax inheritance tax the IRS the sixteenth amendment and the federal Reserve private central bank
@@thriveni1857 Arguably. If the government is going to steal property from people, it better be used for public goods, such as roads and the like, rather than private ones, like businesses and malls. Just like if the government is going to tax people, it should only be used for things that are going to benefit the people, such as the military and police to defend them, and the aforementioned roads and all that.
Wow. That's awful. There's also no way a government can force someone out and then "fairly" compensate them. If it was FAIR, they wouldn't need to FORCE anyone out. Fair means every involved party consents to the agreement because value isn't objective.
I would like to add the idea that the nice landers were never told about how Ralph got evicted. So from their perspective Ralph really was a villain who tried to destroy their home. Maybe fix it Felix senior was even the one who got Ralph kicked out and Felix junior is the son of that guy with a stronger moral code. Maybe when the big conflict of the movie was done Felix asked Ralph about his back story and then they came to an understanding and Felix used his influence to clear everything up afterwards.
They were fully aware that they are game characters and that losing Ralph would mean that the game would be plugged. Yet, even when they were aware that a) Ralph only followed the role the game assigned him b) his presence is REQUIRED for the game to continue they treated him like shit anyway. It was the Nicelanders that caused him to leave to get a medal of his own. The only Nicelander who treated Ralph with respect was Felix... and even Felix did questionable things (like not inviting Ralph to the party or speaking up against the horrible treatment)
"The theory of Communism can be summed up in one sentence; Abolish all private property." -Karl Marx from the Communist Manifesto Yep, doesn't get any clearer than that!
Those majorities were left leaning... and the dissenters were right leaning... Partisanship is an ugly topic anyway you look at it, but I just keep looking at every angle of left-leaning polititions, and there's a bunch of ugly chips glossed over with a bunch of shiny promises. Sadly half of the right-leaners today appear with a bunch of nothing glossed over with shiny promises... Politics is just disgusting, and will remain so as long as it's viewed as a politics college degree qualified job instead of a moderate-to-successful public citizen qualified job. I wish a bunch of people would get their mythical sense of justice out of their heads to see that their pick has a bunch of flaws too...
@@Nukestarmaster That's why people in the past would overthrow their (failed) government with their weapons yet we are getting more and more restrictions on guns. Not to mention a democrat left leaning senator threatened that Americans should be nuked for not giving up their weapons if the authority/government said so. And democrats always say things like Voter Fraud? NO SUCH THING! 2nd amendment because you need to protect youself from Government tyranny? NEVER GONNA HAPPEN! And they're always wrong. About almost everything. even with good intentions.
@@Nukestarmaster oh our Judicial system is screwed. Any of them can legislate right from the bench. They are the power that has the least checks and balances in our nation right now. It's why people care about the Supreme Court so much, because people treat their word (even though they only "interpret" the law, not make it) as final law.
Ralphs case is even worse. All your exaples for eminent domain happend in cities where building space is limited. If somebody wants to build something there, something else has to go away. Ralphs stump stood in a forest. The Nicelanders had no reason at all to build their appartment exactly where Ralphs stump was.
I think eminent domain is the backstory for the game, not our Ralph. Ralph didn’t seem like he wanted to wreck things, he was just forced to by the game
I mean, that's a good point. But most of us already knew that. ... because that clip at 2:58 is shown at the start of the movie and clearly depicts those very same events. The song is just vocalizing it, really...
Actually it's not really the same. Watching the scene, you don't know that ralph is the owner of the land, and the goberment kicked him out. The Lyrics add the layer of depth to show that it's worse than initially thought
Well... Wreck-it Ralph is the villain of his videogame, regardless of what motivations he might have. Zangief, for example, is in the villains meeting. As well the backstory of the games, which they have an effect on the characters, isn't EXACTLY them. Then again I guess the fact that people took Ralph's role as a villain so far that they didn't see he was actually just a person is heightened by the fact that his backstory sort of makes him a sympathetic villain. "Wait villain?"... Well he is forcefully breaking down a building with people inside it.
People who don't deserve to be there that was his home. But i guess they're technically not the ones responsible for building it there so attacking them isn't worthwhile. However is also sad thats the only thing Villain Wralph can do, he can only hit the innocent bystanders of his abuse and not the actual big hole that decided for that.
The whole 'fair market value' section of the policy really irritates me. They never provide the supplemental costs of their intrusiveness. Thanks for this video. I've seen this movie quite a few times, but never waited for the ending song.
The only way to determine the fair market value is to actually sell it, to actually pay the owner enough money to get them to part with it voluntarily. So, necessarily, the money they pay the owner isn't actually going to be any actual market value, but someone's approximation of the market value, which will be less than the actual real market value.
Fair market value is funny. If you have to pay taxes because your home and land is worth $100,000.00 then they want to seize it. then it is really only worth $20.00. Or other insultingly low amount. Law should say home will be reimbursed the value it is taxed at up front and include cost of moving. That way the person can actually afford to move. Then if they end up with an empty lot full of trash. It is on the heads of the politicians.
@Dana Moore but that is exactly why politicians will ( probably ) never change the law on their own. They make the rules, and they avoid any changes that can negatively affect them.
The points in this video are right, but let's remember that Ralph is ACTUALLY just a character in a game. The CHARACTER he plays WAS wronged, and DOES go about his revenge wrongly, BUT, Ralph himself is just playing the role he was PROGRAMMED with! He's depressed and in an AA group because he was literally created with the label of being the bad guy and takes a lot of crap for it, and THAT is the point of this movie. I just want to clarify that this whole video is discussing the plot of the "stage play" that Ralph and Felix perform over and over. Ralph isn't actually evil nor did he really lose his land; it's all the role they play in the videogame they were designed into.
Very well said. I think it's pretty clear that most of the characters are programmed with some kind of backstory and act accordingly(and when they don't, as in the case of Sugar Rush, it's because someone else caused a problem)
@@johnrickard8512 Yup. I feel really sorry for the commando girl, forgot her name, but her pre-programmed backstory is truly tragic. I know it's kinda meant as a satire joke (because OF COURSE it's as tragic as possible!), but after all, it is still tragic.
I think it's like a Toy Story kind of idea, where the longer you've been there, the less affected you are by the backstory you're programmed with. The main difference here being that characters know they're in a video game from the start. But if we compare Ralph to Calhoun, we can see that Ralph isn't affected by his backstory anymore, and it's only effect on him is how he acts in the context of his game because it's been there for 30 years, giving him ample time to become his own person with his own experiences. Meanwhile Hero's Duty has only been around for a week, so Calhoun last very little beyond the experiences she was programmed with. As a result her backstory still heavily affects her out-of-game demeanour. She wasn't her own person yet, and by the end of the film, we see her start to break out of that because she's experienced new things that her in-game role would never see.
@@MaxMallard Now that's interesting! Don't know if that's really how Toy Story worked, but a good enough theory. AFAIK, Buzz was the only toy to not realize what he really was. But Ralph isn't from the same world as Woody and Buzz, so maybe different rules apply. Would be cool seeing Calhoun a year or so later, become more chill and maybe cynical after her disallusionment (?).
TheGuardDuck fair point, and maybe my memory is a little fuzzy, but as far as I can remember the only other toy we see being active while also new was Barbie, but since she doesn't have a defined backstory, the dolls would act based on whatever job they were advertised to have. (I.e. Tour guide Barbie) Like in Wreck It Ralph, that's probably because what they're advertised to be is all they know. That's their coding, which is where I got the comparison from.
But then gives it to private citizens (Yes companies not owned by the government are still technically "private citizens")? Not exactly Communist or Socialist for that matter. Private Property doesn't exist in either of their worlds. Eminant Domain is a reminant of (if anything) Monarchical ruling. Heck, I could lose my home because my local Mayor wants to transform my town into a string of overly expensive appartments. (In fact the small outdoor mall would be torn down to build said appartments while My entire neighborhood would be turned into it's Parking Lot. We've been fighting against it for years, but the A$$hole just got reelected Again this year. We're doomed. We cannot keep paying to repairing all of these new regulations that he keeps making up. Downright Pisses me OFF.) The guy even constantly spreads lies about our city talking about how we don't want to help our overly populated schools, or "the poor". Which in itself is BS. My morgage is only $600. Meanwhile his Apartments would cost (at the Absolute Cheepest) $1000 a month.
@@Snowmon89 "overly populated schools" Why isnt anyone making 35 floors high schools? If most schools are 2 or 3 floors high with 35 floors you could fiit like 10 schools in one building.
@@matthewbauerle7153 wait, the left is for the idea of taking land from the poor and giving it to rich? Doesnt sound like a leftist idea to me, but i'm not american and your politics are really confusing sometimes
I'm so glad that this channel exists. It's promoting limited government ideals through the lense of contemporary culture. Not to mention the fact that these videos are extremely high quality and easy to understand. Keep up the good work!
Great video. This is a concept that most Americans don't think on until it affects them. I appreciate the approach too. I think that this is something I could show to my kids and most likely will.
Ralph destroyed a building (assuming Felix loses), puts lives in mortal jeopardy, and is not abiding by the law. He may have been wronged, but his response is not justified.
@@TheGuardDuck I disagree, if your property is being eminent domained you have the moral right to use violent action against any person involved in the lobbying for the THEFT of your property. Had the citizens at any neighborhood that was eminent domain-ed armed themselves and actually fought back (hell even threatend violence) there houses would still likely be there.
@@TheGuardDuck No... But the phrase is "give me liberty or give me death" not, "give me government abuse due to it being to powerful, or give me death". I don't know about the residents of those neighborhoods, but I'd rather die then surrender my property unwillingly to the government.
@@TheGuardDuck realisticaly what would have happened, would have been what happened at Bundy ranch a few years ago. Bundy Ranch was a little different then eminent domain but the principle is the same.
Sure, Ralph was wronged. But he still vandalized a building and tries (and sometimes succeeds) to murder Felix. He may not be *the* bad guy, but he is *a* bad guy.
Me: *sees an Out of Frame episode about Ralph not being the bad guy* Me: Oh, so it'll probably be about how deciding what you want to do with your life is better than your circumstances defining you. . .cool, I'll give it a watch. . . FEE: *Explains in-depth why Wreck-It Ralph was a covert cautionary tale about the abuse of eminent domain* Me: Oh
This is an even more interesting aspect of the movie when you realize the villains are the invasive cyber bug creatures and king candy is also a force that took over vanillape’s game unjustly as an outsider and made himself king. What makes the nicelanders different from the true bad guys of the film?
They have taken my grandma's house to build a parking place when me and my sister where babies. Leaving my widowed grandma and my parents with us homeless. we lived for a rent from then on. my father died and it basically took my mom and my grandma a secconds life time to gain their new houses. Without both, my mum and grandma married again for the better, that would of been impossible.
What do you think of Warhammer 40k, I think it’s a good table top game but exposes the dangers of an oversized government and control over a society to the point of stagnation.
Jim Dighton I thought the problem was religious governments and the unknown actually being dangerous because no one wants to get to a understanding except maybe the tau (if they don’t wipe away your culture).... holy fuck 40k is a very old idea
@@christophercordero9352 Lovely tirade. Except the whole point of 40 is that the world is such a shit place that that kind of government is the only thing that would work. Lets just say a government shutdown because of party disagreement means the extinction of the imperium and with it the whole human race. I am for small government, but you are inaccurate
We got to see _eminent domain_ up close and personal just over a decade ago now. Here in Birmingham, AL, our airport had been threatening for decades to take more land for itself. I remember seeing plans as early as the late '80s, and I remember learning about the concept of _eminent domain_ at that time. Problem is, my grandmother's house was on that land. In 2009 or 2010, they finally made good on it, moving all the residents out to other areas in new homes. That may sound benevolent, but the thing is, that house meant something to my grandmom (and the new house was no winner itself, either). She never graduated high school, grew up rather under my grandad's thumb at times, and when he passed in the mid-80s, she valued her freedom greatly, and that house was a symbol of that freedom to live as she chose, and I mean to the point that even when she was diagnosed with dementia, she refused to leave the place or be placed under some sort of care. Then, suddenly she was..."displaced" to a home she didn't know. The tornado that tore through our city in April of 2011 came within a street or two of wrecking the new house, but it really didn't matter because she was gone a month later, anyway. And I don't make romantic statements like this often, but the congestive heart issues she had weren't the leading cause of her death, imo. She lost all will to live in that new place, and I saw it up close and personal. Never mind that there must've been nights where she woke up and had no idea where she was. That's not to romanticize that old house they moved her from, by the way. It was a very old house, one in which my mom and uncle both grew up. The furnace grate was this metal thing that took up the entire hallway and could not be walked over without shoes. There was likely asbestos in the walls which may've contributed to the lung cancer my uncle died from two years after this, though I don't understand enough about cancer to ask how asbestos can have that effect some thirty-plus years after moving out. The worst part is, I don't even know if the damn airport has even bothered to use that land for anything ten years on. Last time I was up there, the house was gone, but the front hill and the steps leading up to where the house had been were still there.
Watching this video 3 years later with the new context of what's happening now with Pfizer and government connections...boy how history repeats itself.
I didn't realize this was subtle. I caught on to this the first time through. Regardless, I think its important to bring up the difference between the Ralph in the story of the film and the Ralph the game is built around. For example, look at Calhoun. We hear mentioned that she is "programed" with the most tragic backstory...meaning these characters supposedly don't live through these experiences but still act through the results of them. Its very interesting and the science of it all doesn't really affect the overall story all that much. Anyway, great video!
"A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him." people in the real world might as well be programmed with their own villainous backstory because it's a tale as old as time
The thing that makes Ralph a "villain" is narrative and action. Let's look at Donkey Kong, a pet ape that basically got abused and eventually broke out. He's actually the victim here, but he still is a villain, one, because the story asks for it, but, more imporantly, because he stole Jumpman's girlfriend Pauline. Ralph was a victim, yes, but, the story calls for him to be a badguy, and, the fact that he terrorizes a building full of people, regardless of whether they're innocent or not, makes him the badguy. He may be right in being pissed, but that doesn't excuse him from causing property damage.
Fun fact: when you buy a house, you don’t really your own land you’re renting it. To make sure to actually own your property you should apply and get a land patent to own and not pay for taxes for your land.
It shouldnt be used at all... If an owner doesnt wanna let you have their land, build somewhere else... The public doesnt have a right to private property even if the state pretends it does.
Ralph was a victim who became a bad guy. We can’t just excuse his actions because he has reason for them. Also, he’s not even taking his anger out on the right people. The residents of the apartments aren’t responsible for kicking Ralph out: they just live there. Sine Fix it Felix can magically fix the building, it doesn’t even cost the owners much to deal with Ralph.
I’m extremely confused on why the nicelanders were such big aholes to Ralph because it’s shown in the movie that they are all aware that it’s a video game and so they know that Ralph isn’t doing the wreaking because he doesn’t like them
The beginning of the game (inside the movie) shows Ralph and his stump being pushed off the land by a bulldozer, and then the nicelanders making the building on top of said land. It doesn't specify eminent domain like the song, but the backstory is not entirely hidden.
As a resident of Hurst, Texas, the mall is one of the best uses of Eminent Domain ever. Something like 40% of the city's tax income comes from the mall, and shopping area around it. The mall is right on the interchange of 2 major highways in the DFW area.
Thanks. Out of Frame episodes are pretty hard to do given everything we have going on at FEE every week, and it's mostly just me and one ither person working on them, but perhaps as we continue to grow, we might be able to make episodes for this series more frequently.
Let's not forget post-ww2 britain, countless working class families and communities were basically told they had to take what they were being given (basically the value of the dirt it's built on rather than the value of perfectly good homes) and move out so they could build massive blocks of concrete appartments, at best they could have maybe claimed that many didn't have indoor plumbing but they should have compensated the owners a lot better than they did. Many of these people found their community of generations split up and spread out among multiple apartment blocks that usually were all these people could afford with the money from their old homes. Or in more modern times there's the hs2 rail line, destroying tons of ancient woodland, buildings dating back centuries, mostly just to facilitate commuters traveling to London when the money would be far better spent trying to spread the concentration of businesses in London out more to take some of the burder off the infrastructure there and decrease the need to commute.
"The problem starts and ends with the power of eminent domain." Wouldn't it start and end with the power of private companies to influence peddle to our governments? No for arbitrary reasons is the answer to that second question.
Ah. Eminent domain. Heard about that term a lot 'cause my city's trying to widen existing roads and build new ones. Off course, there are private properties in the way so, the process is never easy. Personally, I do want traffic to be lessened after these projects push through, but then you gotta put yourself in the shoes of those who will lose homes... Anyway, awesome discussion as always. I wish you could make a Wreck it Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet video. I like the movie's theme of how to form a more mature and less possessive relationship with your loved ones. But maybe you can find a more interesting topic to tackle in the film - maybe something about viral videos or how we use the Internet in general.
I'd say that you need to measure your defense to your lot. If you're living in a flat or really small home, then rifle should be enough, but if you own a home that is big enough to fit more than 2 bathrooms, then some vechicular defense, a'la armored truck should be something to consider. If you own a villa, then buy a tank. And a small warship if it's beachside. When you start owning something the size of a small town, then pay for the armory of your smaller neighbours as a part of the deal that they'll be defending you. Governance should be bottom-to-top, not top-to-botton like it is today in most places.
Well, the point of the movie was that every role was important and worth doing, and you should respect everyone even if you think they aren't respectable. And that was still under the premise that Ralph is the bad guy
@@Hornswaggerz what, don't that sound like something young'uns woulda be learnin'? XD The point is, everyone still think he's a bad guy, they just treat him nicer
I‘m not a libertarian myself, but I appreciate your channel for providing me with a different perspective on certain things. Surprisingly, I even found myself agreeing with many of the ideas presented in your video essays. So thank you for creating quality content and keep making more awesome videos. I‘m looking forward to watching them. :)
Not surprising, Disney is the company putting out today's garbage Star Wars films. Of course they would make the Bundy family analog into the movie's antagonist.
I thought the in-movie prologue sufficed to explain why he was justified, but pointing out the meaning and real life examples of eminent domain was very helpful! Initially I assumed you were going to make a case for Ralph being the protagonist of the game. His role strongly resembles that of the gorilla, monkey, and wolf man in the video game Rage.
Not really, this was really obvious. In the beginning of the movie, it shows Ralph was pushed off his land. Only those under 10 years old wouldn't know about this "twist".
@@nt2122 yup. thats why I said liberals. But I really should of said the Left instead and its more than that. People not knowing about how the government can just take your land and about the harsh parts of life, is a very Left thing. Recently what I see in them is a very innocent person but not a child, discovers something bad about the world, thinks no one is helping or cares about the situation therefore takes it upon oneself to fix the situation without truly understanding it, usually causing more problems and never realizing it while saying anyone who doesnt back said one, is a nazi. The yin and yang of the world is completely missed but only by those who choose not to see it and then have the gol to tell everyone else who has known of the yin and yang for years about how little they know about it. So yes, people will be shocked. I think adults who are surprised by this have been very sheltered and should ingest more harsh realities one step at a time while also reminding themselves that there are just as many good realities of life and far more neutral realities than the good and bad combined. But also remember I am talking about those who are surprised, not those who are uninformed. There is a difference. And I am bashing the Left because they are idiots. Psychotic, terroristic, idiots that gained power in numbers and will be the downfall to America if we let them. I should of said the Left instead of the liberals because the liberals need to separate themselves from the Left. Just like the KKK and Feminism, people have taken a good name with a just cause and twisted it into a horrible thing in the name of utopia. A true Liberal is nothing like the Left today. Also fun fact, the KKK started out as people trying to scare the tax man off their land or something. Later in history racists took the name and turned it into what it is today.
Liberals evolved powerful defenses against logic so their delicate minds do not blow. It's a survival mechanism; they are unable to hear rational arguments.
There was once a town called Cades Cove, Tennessee. The government took over the whole town as part of eminent domain, and now that land is part of the national park.
This is insane I LIVE in West Palm Beach. My friends and I walk around the waterfront show in that image when we leave the park not far from there. I have drove past the empty lot he talks about. This is surreal in a way I can't really describe.
1. you don't have to wait till the end of the movie to know this, Ralph states it in the very start of the movie. 2. The law stats that the property owner must be compensated for the property. And Ralph was not.
I know someone whose dad is very, very good with money. He came from a lower-middle class family, became a lawyer, and saved up enough to buy an old apartment building and renovate it to meet code. It was very profitable for him, which is good because he and his wife have 9 kids together (probably 7 at the time he owned the building). But eminent domain law allowed the government to take his building away from him. Oh, and it happened in CT also, in another town not far from New London. It's ridiculous
Ever heard of Tremors? Burt Gummer had the same opinion on Eminent Domain, and he was always paranoid that it would occur. In Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, it was said that IF they couldn't capture a live graboid/shrieker (Ass-Blasters had yet to be seen), they would take the residents of Perfection Valley and move them, and seal off the valley indefinitely. Ultimately in the end, Burt lost his property, not to Eminent Domain, but killing an Ass-Blaster, not knowing that, unlike shriekers (which clone themselves after eating enough food), go into comas when they eat enough food.
I really never understood why the "nice"landers treated him poorly even when he's literally just doing his job? He is like an actor playing a role in a movie. Why does he deserve to be treated as lesser when he's a different man from the guy he's portraying. Not only that, he's just as important if not MORE than most of the people in there. Nicelanders my ass
Wow, just wow. See, from the intro alone I figured out the part about the fact that they had stolen his land to build their fancy apartment building, but I was completely shocked to hear about all of this stuff about "eminent domain". What a great video. I can't believe I hadn't even heard about this stuff before now.
Interesting in how the Supreme Court decided to uphold "eminent domain" basically along Political Party lines in 2005! Also, in the movie, we never see Ralph get justifiable compensation (if any compensation) for the loss of his land and his stump (i.e. home)!
It actually happened in my small area of PSL Fl but they made a road called crosstown that’s going to connect to US1. They bought and demolished a LOT of homes to build this and I actually knew an older woman who’s home got torn down to make it.
Another, not so harsh example that a friend of mine told me last night. When he purchased his house and land, the government turned around and said, that they have a right for pre-emption. So they have taken parts of his front garden away, because "maybe", they gonna rebuild the side walk at some day. The funny thing is, the price of land in that region is around 180€/m², but the price of streets is 22€/m². Guess which price they paid. They have taken around 50m², destroyed value of +/- 7900€, just for a "maybe" that will probably never happen.
I stuck around through the credits and heard that song in the theatre, then downloaded it, because I liked it so much. I kinda knew where you would starting with this video.
Yeah, the Nicelanders were easily my least favorite part of the film; they had the gall to be mad at Ralph for leaving the game, when it was them who were treating him like shit in the first place?
Their attitude in the movie is basically "you are trash, go die... Don't leave tho"
I can understand there being a divide between villains and the other NPCs... but as far as they are all concerned it was a role.
Yeah, that's the thing that always made me not like the movie all that much... They are supposed to be performers for the humans, they understand the importance of keeping said human entertained (since they stoping playing means apocalypse crisis basically) so why treat Ralph as a trash bag with legs since he is a villain and villains are important in every kind of game... Even when they treat him like shit and he goes somewhere else and comes back Victorious they treat him like he is being selfish when they are too thick headed to understand that leaving an important part of the crew out of the social circle is stupid. (Specially since Ralph being the villain he is WAY MORE important to the game as a whole than everyone else... Except obviously the protagonist) maybe I think to much into it.
It is kind of funny because the Nicelanders are the only characters who were completely useless for the game. Probably an angle they originally wanted to play up in an earlier draft is that they were jealous.
Can't blame the programming. They are programmed to hate Ralph.
Even without the sympathetic backstory, Ralph couldn't be accurately depicted as the "bad guy" within the context of the movie because they are all aware that they are in a video game and Ralph performs an essential function within said video game. The movie even directly addresses that without him, there is no game. Without him, the plug will get pulled and at that point, their only two options are death or displacement yet they still treat him like he's an actual "bad guy". The fact that they call themselves Nicelanders is incedental. The biggest problem with them is that they treat Ralph like some sort of monster for simply doing his job.
These Nicelanders are reminding my classmates from school because i was the most hated person in whole class... 😥
Nicelanders must be nice people. Like Antifa must be anti-fascists.
@@zuko9085 Nicelanders are basically normal people who moved in after buying flats from a developer who had the government use eminent domain. They're not wrong to be pissed off that Ralph is wrecking their home.
@@ilikebutter1969 same. I did nothing to gain that as well.
@@1Maklak Doesn't make them good tho, even when they're not playing their part, they still treat ralph like some sort of monster when he's literally just doing his job
Wreck it Ralph and Shrek would have a lot in common.
Exatcly. I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that. Shrek is a libertarian
Someday in the future Wreck it Ralph will be big meme status just like Shrek
@@kthemaster1999
I saw a long ass joke post on iFunny about "Shrekitarianism" which was basically just libertarianism with an extreme focus on private property.
@@socksome Well then my friend, you're looking at the creator of that post.
Don't forget Deliverance.
"The one thing you know about Wreck It Ralph... is wrong."
How can you expect us to bear that Sean.
seriously though this video was good
Y'know, It's very close in premise to the castle.
FreedomToons seeing you here Seamus is a strange encounter.
@@jasondarkflame4948 is it though?
@@williammccudden7025 FreedomToons is Seamus.
Wherever you find a video about animation and bad government practices, you'll find Shamus. God bless Freedom Toons
I mean... You don't even need to look into the credits. His game intro explains that he was shoved out of his land to make room for the hotel clearly enough. It's really not a hidden piece of lore...
Right? I have no idea why everyone on the comments is so genuinely surprised.
In fact he even showed clips from that scene
Douglas Byrd Yes, but the Eminent Domain Part is only in the Credits and The Land Belonging to Him is also Only in the Credits
Well it doesn't really explain that it was HIS land or that he was actually justified in his retaliation. On top of the fact that he's consistently referring to as a "Hobo" throughout both his movies. Hobos being a slang term for homeless persons. You aren't really "homeless" when you have your own land that you could build your own home on. He clearly had a home despite his appearance but was evicted from it due to eminent domain. This also explains his resentment at being called a Hobo. But this can also be seen by younger immature audiences as Ralph denying yet another fact of his game. Like how he tried to buck being a "bad guy" by getting the medel of heros, he could be denying that he is a Hobo despite being in fact a Hobo squatting on Fix-it Felix's land and then being mad about being moved despite Fix-it and and nicelanders having every justification of moving out a vagrant squatter from THEIR land.
But the song lends more benefit to Ralph at being the victim rather than a vagrant. That's why it can be pretty surprising because it twists around the assumptions people can make about that beginning scene when not given the full context.
I liked the video, but I am surprised that lots of people didn't catch that Ralph was a victim of eminent domain.
It was pretty obvious...
@Another Millennial- I mean, it is hardly necessary to scour Wreck it Ralph to find the whole eminent domain thing. They say it explicitly. Scouring implies having to do some sort of work, like pausing the movie to read something in the background of a shot, at the very least.
@Another Millennial - The words "eminent domain" were during the credits, but the movie shows the Nicelanders taking Ralph's land in the first minute of the movie. Plain sight; no scouring needed.
@Laverne Blaszczyk - It really isn't overanalyzing the movie to say that Ralph has a point; the Nicelanders took his land and Ralph wants to get it back. I am sure many of the children watching the movie were able to come up with those thoughts. At the very least, even if a person came away without believing that Ralph was fully in the right, they probably came away with the thought that Ralph wasn't entirely wrong.
Further, If you think that this 11 minute video is overanalyzing Wreck it Ralph, maybe you should steer clear of the "Out Of Frame" show on this channel. I am not sure what you'd expect to get out of a video from a show about reviewing movies on a channel about politics and economics, but if you aren't expecting a movie reviewed from a political and economic perspective, that is kind of your fault.
Most do, actually.
Yeah it literally shows it in the movie. I watched the video feeling like I was in the twilight zone.
They explain that they took his land and moved his stump to the dump at the beginning of the movie,so his rage is justified the whole time....the song at the end would just be giving more details to what you already know if you watched the beginning.... though I'm in full agreement government is to big and has to much power there are plenty of laws that infringe on ppl and their right to live their lives....the question is what to do about it,a lot of ppl post videos like this pointing out the problems but none suggest any ways to deal it
Maybe some of them are just smart enough and observant enough to notice and identify the issue, but just short on the creativity needed to formulate a way to address said issue? I try to suggest solutions when I can, however in this situation most of the solutions require power/influence that most people don't have. With how the Supreme Court has shifted since the Little Pink House case I think that should someone be forced to deal with an issue like they might have a stronger chance of winning and possibly bring about change, however this solution requires waiting on one of the city, state, etc. governments to screw up and use Eminent Domain again for private interests again.
While it is an issue, most people don't view it as a PRESSING issue and thus will more than likely not consider a congressman's opinion on this matter when electing people to the legislative branch which could result in change from that end rendering SCOTUS as the best option at the Federal level. More rural states might have an easier time getting such a thing fixed.
Rob Hogate Fun fact: these "laws" you speak of aren't actually laws at all. They're "regulations". And they're not imposed by congress, but instead government-appointed bureaucrats. For every 1 page of laws there are like 100 pages of regulations or something stupid like that. One of the first things Donald Trump did upon entering office was to impose restrictions on new regulations, basically saying that with every new regulation that was made two old ones had to be cut, and it's also a big reason why I think Donald Trump was a better President than Obama right out of the gate.
Yet they keep advocating for more government that’s why stock up on guns they want to take them so they can take your home and livelihood people did amazing things without all the bureaucratic red tape you can thank Woodrow Wilson and the snakes who bought him into office for that they moved regulation responsibility out of congress to appointed bureaucrats and made Income tax property tax inheritance tax the IRS the sixteenth amendment and the federal Reserve private central bank
@@HunterStiles651 do you know what I should google if I want to read up on those restrictions?
Exactly. To be honest. Revolution is the answer.
In India it's called Land Acquisition act 2017, Never knew why gov. Wanted private land. Never thought an American cartoon could explain better.
I thought land acquisition act is only limited to public use such as dams, public schools and highways.
@@ashutoshjain5094 even then it's exploitative.
in Panama its called "El Canal"
@@thriveni1857 Arguably.
If the government is going to steal property from people, it better be used for public goods, such as roads and the like, rather than private ones, like businesses and malls.
Just like if the government is going to tax people, it should only be used for things that are going to benefit the people, such as the military and police to defend them, and the aforementioned roads and all that.
@@Digganob590 trying to find morality in stealing land and money is stupid.
Wow. That's awful.
There's also no way a government can force someone out and then "fairly" compensate them. If it was FAIR, they wouldn't need to FORCE anyone out. Fair means every involved party consents to the agreement because value isn't objective.
Yeah, governments can NOT pay sentimental attachment.
Plus, the assholes try to cheap out by threatening ED.
Plus, the US government is infamous for paying the victims a pittance.
well said mate
Blight only has one meaning for me: 8d8 necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one.
Jokes aside, great video!
Plant creatures and magic plants have disadvantage and take all 56 necrotic on a failed save, non magic plants die and wither.
8d8?!? Cue the obligatory Phil Swift meme...
I would like to add the idea that the nice landers were never told about how Ralph got evicted. So from their perspective Ralph really was a villain who tried to destroy their home.
Maybe fix it Felix senior was even the one who got Ralph kicked out and Felix junior is the son of that guy with a stronger moral code.
Maybe when the big conflict of the movie was done Felix asked Ralph about his back story and then they came to an understanding and Felix used his influence to clear everything up afterwards.
They were fully aware that they are game characters and that losing Ralph would mean that the game would be plugged.
Yet, even when they were aware that
a) Ralph only followed the role the game assigned him
b) his presence is REQUIRED for the game to continue
they treated him like shit anyway.
It was the Nicelanders that caused him to leave to get a medal of his own.
The only Nicelander who treated Ralph with respect was Felix... and even Felix did questionable things (like not inviting Ralph to the party or speaking up against the horrible treatment)
@@Tezunegari Nel also was the only nicelander not upset with him. She was just scared.
not really, in the movie they're aware they're videogame characters, so it makes no sense that they hate each other.
"The theory of Communism can be summed up in one sentence; Abolish all private property." -Karl Marx from the Communist Manifesto
Yep, doesn't get any clearer than that!
These videos are excellent. They have the same quality as any video analysis out there with a libertarian twist. Good job.
Those majorities were left leaning... and the dissenters were right leaning...
Partisanship is an ugly topic anyway you look at it, but I just keep looking at every angle of left-leaning polititions, and there's a bunch of ugly chips glossed over with a bunch of shiny promises.
Sadly half of the right-leaners today appear with a bunch of nothing glossed over with shiny promises...
Politics is just disgusting, and will remain so as long as it's viewed as a politics college degree qualified job instead of a moderate-to-successful public citizen qualified job.
I wish a bunch of people would get their mythical sense of justice out of their heads to see that their pick has a bunch of flaws too...
Huh, I thought I was the only one to think that. Can't believe it's actually true.
Finally, a comment that makes sense.
I'm actually baffled how much politics the American system lets into the judicial system.
@@Nukestarmaster That's why people in the past would overthrow their (failed) government with their weapons yet we are getting more and more restrictions on guns.
Not to mention a democrat left leaning senator threatened that Americans should be nuked for not giving up their weapons if the authority/government said so.
And democrats always say things like Voter Fraud? NO SUCH THING! 2nd amendment because you need to protect youself from Government tyranny? NEVER GONNA HAPPEN!
And they're always wrong. About almost everything. even with good intentions.
@@Nukestarmaster oh our Judicial system is screwed. Any of them can legislate right from the bench. They are the power that has the least checks and balances in our nation right now. It's why people care about the Supreme Court so much, because people treat their word (even though they only "interpret" the law, not make it) as final law.
Ralphs case is even worse. All your exaples for eminent domain happend in cities where building space is limited. If somebody wants to build something there, something else has to go away. Ralphs stump stood in a forest. The Nicelanders had no reason at all to build their appartment exactly where Ralphs stump was.
This DID blow my mind
Rígille Scherrer Borges Menezes you thought he was a bad guy? Or the backstory part
As a South African, I found this an emotional thing to view.
Sorry for all the shit you guys are seeing and dealing with, hope everything rights itself out soon.
I think eminent domain is the backstory for the game, not our Ralph. Ralph didn’t seem like he wanted to wreck things, he was just forced to by the game
I mean, that's a good point. But most of us already knew that.
... because that clip at 2:58 is shown at the start of the movie and clearly depicts those very same events. The song is just vocalizing it, really...
Actually it's not really the same. Watching the scene, you don't know that ralph is the owner of the land, and the goberment kicked him out. The Lyrics add the layer of depth to show that it's worse than initially thought
Well... Wreck-it Ralph is the villain of his videogame, regardless of what motivations he might have. Zangief, for example, is in the villains meeting. As well the backstory of the games, which they have an effect on the characters, isn't EXACTLY them. Then again I guess the fact that people took Ralph's role as a villain so far that they didn't see he was actually just a person is heightened by the fact that his backstory sort of makes him a sympathetic villain. "Wait villain?"... Well he is forcefully breaking down a building with people inside it.
yea, though to think of it, to call Ralph and Zangief Antagonists would be closer to what they actually are.
People who don't deserve to be there that was his home.
But i guess they're technically not the ones responsible for building it there so attacking them isn't worthwhile.
However is also sad thats the only thing Villain Wralph can do, he can only hit the innocent bystanders of his abuse and not the actual big hole that decided for that.
Mind not blow, I actually watched the credits first time I saw it.
To be fair thought, still a great video.
The whole 'fair market value' section of the policy really irritates me. They never provide the supplemental costs of their intrusiveness.
Thanks for this video. I've seen this movie quite a few times, but never waited for the ending song.
The only way to determine the fair market value is to actually sell it, to actually pay the owner enough money to get them to part with it voluntarily. So, necessarily, the money they pay the owner isn't actually going to be any actual market value, but someone's approximation of the market value, which will be less than the actual real market value.
The government can arbitrarily devalue the property.
Fair market value is funny. If you have to pay taxes because your home and land is worth $100,000.00 then they want to seize it. then it is really only worth $20.00. Or other insultingly low amount. Law should say home will be reimbursed the value it is taxed at up front and include cost of moving. That way the person can actually afford to move. Then if they end up with an empty lot full of trash. It is on the heads of the politicians.
@Dana Moore but that is exactly why politicians will ( probably ) never change the law on their own. They make the rules, and they avoid any changes that can negatively affect them.
The points in this video are right, but let's remember that Ralph is ACTUALLY just a character in a game. The CHARACTER he plays WAS wronged, and DOES go about his revenge wrongly, BUT, Ralph himself is just playing the role he was PROGRAMMED with! He's depressed and in an AA group because he was literally created with the label of being the bad guy and takes a lot of crap for it, and THAT is the point of this movie.
I just want to clarify that this whole video is discussing the plot of the "stage play" that Ralph and Felix perform over and over. Ralph isn't actually evil nor did he really lose his land; it's all the role they play in the videogame they were designed into.
Very well said. I think it's pretty clear that most of the characters are programmed with some kind of backstory and act accordingly(and when they don't, as in the case of Sugar Rush, it's because someone else caused a problem)
@@johnrickard8512 Yup. I feel really sorry for the commando girl, forgot her name, but her pre-programmed backstory is truly tragic. I know it's kinda meant as a satire joke (because OF COURSE it's as tragic as possible!), but after all, it is still tragic.
I think it's like a Toy Story kind of idea, where the longer you've been there, the less affected you are by the backstory you're programmed with. The main difference here being that characters know they're in a video game from the start. But if we compare Ralph to Calhoun, we can see that Ralph isn't affected by his backstory anymore, and it's only effect on him is how he acts in the context of his game because it's been there for 30 years, giving him ample time to become his own person with his own experiences.
Meanwhile Hero's Duty has only been around for a week, so Calhoun last very little beyond the experiences she was programmed with. As a result her backstory still heavily affects her out-of-game demeanour. She wasn't her own person yet, and by the end of the film, we see her start to break out of that because she's experienced new things that her in-game role would never see.
@@MaxMallard Now that's interesting! Don't know if that's really how Toy Story worked, but a good enough theory. AFAIK, Buzz was the only toy to not realize what he really was. But Ralph isn't from the same world as Woody and Buzz, so maybe different rules apply.
Would be cool seeing Calhoun a year or so later, become more chill and maybe cynical after her disallusionment (?).
TheGuardDuck fair point, and maybe my memory is a little fuzzy, but as far as I can remember the only other toy we see being active while also new was Barbie, but since she doesn't have a defined backstory, the dolls would act based on whatever job they were advertised to have. (I.e. Tour guide Barbie) Like in Wreck It Ralph, that's probably because what they're advertised to be is all they know. That's their coding, which is where I got the comparison from.
Eminent Domain sounds like comunism to me......
Wouldn't it be socialism?
@@zoomspilo6798 Communism, Socialism, call it what you like! He said, quoting a song.
Its communism if the government seizes the property for themselves.
But then gives it to private citizens (Yes companies not owned by the government are still technically "private citizens")? Not exactly Communist or Socialist for that matter. Private Property doesn't exist in either of their worlds.
Eminant Domain is a reminant of (if anything) Monarchical ruling.
Heck, I could lose my home because my local Mayor wants to transform my town into a string of overly expensive appartments. (In fact the small outdoor mall would be torn down to build said appartments while My entire neighborhood would be turned into it's Parking Lot. We've been fighting against it for years, but the A$$hole just got reelected Again this year. We're doomed. We cannot keep paying to repairing all of these new regulations that he keeps making up. Downright Pisses me OFF.)
The guy even constantly spreads lies about our city talking about how we don't want to help our overly populated schools, or "the poor". Which in itself is BS. My morgage is only $600. Meanwhile his Apartments would cost (at the Absolute Cheepest) $1000 a month.
@@Snowmon89
"overly populated schools"
Why isnt anyone making 35 floors high schools? If most schools are 2 or 3 floors high with 35 floors you could fiit like 10 schools in one building.
Ralph was NEVER a bad guy! It was Turbo all along!
Turbo was the real bad guy OF THE MOVIE, but Ralph gets CALLED a bad guy in his own game.
@@troyguffey
How did you get verified on youtube?
@@Jekkyboi I just filled out the form on the web-page. Maybe there was an e-mail? Don't remember much anymore.
I got a happy tear in my eye when I saw the dissenters in the Little Pink House case :')
@@matthewbauerle7153 wait, the left is for the idea of taking land from the poor and giving it to rich? Doesnt sound like a leftist idea to me, but i'm not american and your politics are really confusing sometimes
@@yanimar89 I do wish people would say what they mean. In America, when we say "left" we mean "commie bastards".
@@soldierofkazus Bruh you're thinking state capitalists not commies.
“The one thing you absolutely know about Ralph-“
HE’S MALE!
“Is wrong”
WHAT?!
I'm so glad that this channel exists. It's promoting limited government ideals through the lense of contemporary culture. Not to mention the fact that these videos are extremely high quality and easy to understand. Keep up the good work!
I got it from the opening scene. The stump being pushed aside by the bulldozer.
Cool video.
Really appreciate that you caption all your videos. I hope more creators take your lead!
Great video. This is a concept that most Americans don't think on until it affects them. I appreciate the approach too. I think that this is something I could show to my kids and most likely will.
At the beginning it said they took his land
This is the hardest red pill I had to swallow now I know the great and wonderful thing that Ralph did. #RalphDidNothingWrong
Ralph destroyed a building (assuming Felix loses), puts lives in mortal jeopardy, and is not abiding by the law.
He may have been wronged, but his response is not justified.
@@TheGuardDuck I disagree, if your property is being eminent domained you have the moral right to use violent action against any person involved in the lobbying for the THEFT of your property. Had the citizens at any neighborhood that was eminent domain-ed armed themselves and actually fought back (hell even threatend violence) there houses would still likely be there.
@@Sure_You_Betcha Possibly. Or, possibly, they would die when the military rolled in. Is that the outcome you want?
@@TheGuardDuck No... But the phrase is "give me liberty or give me death" not, "give me government abuse due to it being to powerful, or give me death". I don't know about the residents of those neighborhoods, but I'd rather die then surrender my property unwillingly to the government.
@@TheGuardDuck realisticaly what would have happened, would have been what happened at Bundy ranch a few years ago. Bundy Ranch was a little different then eminent domain but the principle is the same.
Sure, Ralph was wronged. But he still vandalized a building and tries (and sometimes succeeds) to murder Felix. He may not be *the* bad guy, but he is *a* bad guy.
Technically he's clearing up his land and defending it from intruders
9:23
To add, we can technically blame both.
1:42 Did you miss the opening to the movie? they do show that Ralph and his stump is carted of to the dump before the building is built.
Me: *sees an Out of Frame episode about Ralph not being the bad guy*
Me: Oh, so it'll probably be about how deciding what you want to do with your life is better than your circumstances defining you. . .cool, I'll give it a watch. . .
FEE: *Explains in-depth why Wreck-It Ralph was a covert cautionary tale about the abuse of eminent domain*
Me: Oh
This is an even more interesting aspect of the movie when you realize the villains are the invasive cyber bug creatures and king candy is also a force that took over vanillape’s game unjustly as an outsider and made himself king. What makes the nicelanders different from the true bad guys of the film?
They have taken my grandma's house to build a parking place when me and my sister where babies. Leaving my widowed grandma and my parents with us homeless. we lived for a rent from then on. my father died and it basically took my mom and my grandma a secconds life time to gain their new houses. Without both, my mum and grandma married again for the better, that would of been impossible.
Sad story... Where was this?
@@FEEonline Germany. At the time "West Germany".
Man, I love Out of Frame. You do a great job.
What do you think of Warhammer 40k, I think it’s a good table top game but exposes the dangers of an oversized government and control over a society to the point of stagnation.
Jim Dighton I thought the problem was religious governments and the unknown actually being dangerous because no one wants to get to a understanding except maybe the tau (if they don’t wipe away your culture).... holy fuck 40k is a very old idea
@@christophercordero9352 Lovely tirade. Except the whole point of 40 is that the world is such a shit place that that kind of government is the only thing that would work. Lets just say a government shutdown because of party disagreement means the extinction of the imperium and with it the whole human race.
I am for small government, but you are inaccurate
Mada Branea good to know
Im 16 so sorry
We got to see _eminent domain_ up close and personal just over a decade ago now. Here in Birmingham, AL, our airport had been threatening for decades to take more land for itself. I remember seeing plans as early as the late '80s, and I remember learning about the concept of _eminent domain_ at that time. Problem is, my grandmother's house was on that land. In 2009 or 2010, they finally made good on it, moving all the residents out to other areas in new homes. That may sound benevolent, but the thing is, that house meant something to my grandmom (and the new house was no winner itself, either). She never graduated high school, grew up rather under my grandad's thumb at times, and when he passed in the mid-80s, she valued her freedom greatly, and that house was a symbol of that freedom to live as she chose, and I mean to the point that even when she was diagnosed with dementia, she refused to leave the place or be placed under some sort of care. Then, suddenly she was..."displaced" to a home she didn't know. The tornado that tore through our city in April of 2011 came within a street or two of wrecking the new house, but it really didn't matter because she was gone a month later, anyway. And I don't make romantic statements like this often, but the congestive heart issues she had weren't the leading cause of her death, imo. She lost all will to live in that new place, and I saw it up close and personal. Never mind that there must've been nights where she woke up and had no idea where she was.
That's not to romanticize that old house they moved her from, by the way. It was a very old house, one in which my mom and uncle both grew up. The furnace grate was this metal thing that took up the entire hallway and could not be walked over without shoes. There was likely asbestos in the walls which may've contributed to the lung cancer my uncle died from two years after this, though I don't understand enough about cancer to ask how asbestos can have that effect some thirty-plus years after moving out. The worst part is, I don't even know if the damn airport has even bothered to use that land for anything ten years on. Last time I was up there, the house was gone, but the front hill and the steps leading up to where the house had been were still there.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." -Spock
You change my whole view of the movie, and I'm angry that they called Ralph "the bad guy" on the first place.
Watching this video 3 years later with the new context of what's happening now with Pfizer and government connections...boy how history repeats itself.
I didn't realize this was subtle. I caught on to this the first time through. Regardless, I think its important to bring up the difference between the Ralph in the story of the film and the Ralph the game is built around. For example, look at Calhoun. We hear mentioned that she is "programed" with the most tragic backstory...meaning these characters supposedly don't live through these experiences but still act through the results of them. Its very interesting and the science of it all doesn't really affect the overall story all that much. Anyway, great video!
Aaand welcome back to film theory!
If you look around the apartment complex, there is nothing. So why did they have to build it on the ONE occupied space?
"A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him."
people in the real world might as well be programmed with their own villainous backstory because it's a tale as old as time
This might be the most important video of all time
in my town they took a entire neighborhood to build a qt when there was already 3 gas stations in that area
The thing that makes Ralph a "villain" is narrative and action. Let's look at Donkey Kong, a pet ape that basically got abused and eventually broke out. He's actually the victim here, but he still is a villain, one, because the story asks for it, but, more imporantly, because he stole Jumpman's girlfriend Pauline.
Ralph was a victim, yes, but, the story calls for him to be a badguy, and, the fact that he terrorizes a building full of people, regardless of whether they're innocent or not, makes him the badguy. He may be right in being pissed, but that doesn't excuse him from causing property damage.
Gary Kertopermono lmfao “property damage”
Fun fact: when you buy a house, you don’t really your own land you’re renting it. To make sure to actually own your property you should apply and get a land patent to own and not pay for taxes for your land.
Most of it is explained in the movies intro, credits just tells you a bit of the why
Eminent Domain should only be used to convert private land to public land. Bridges, Roads, National Parks, that sort of stuff.
It shouldnt be used at all... If an owner doesnt wanna let you have their land, build somewhere else... The public doesnt have a right to private property even if the state pretends it does.
Ralph was a victim who became a bad guy. We can’t just excuse his actions because he has reason for them. Also, he’s not even taking his anger out on the right people. The residents of the apartments aren’t responsible for kicking Ralph out: they just live there. Sine Fix it Felix can magically fix the building, it doesn’t even cost the owners much to deal with Ralph.
I’m extremely confused on why the nicelanders were such big aholes to Ralph because it’s shown in the movie that they are all aware that it’s a video game and so they know that Ralph isn’t doing the wreaking because he doesn’t like them
I think Detroiters would like to have a word with lakewood on what "blight" means
The beginning of the game (inside the movie) shows Ralph and his stump being pushed off the land by a bulldozer, and then the nicelanders making the building on top of said land. It doesn't specify eminent domain like the song, but the backstory is not entirely hidden.
"The one thing you know about Wreak it Ralph is wrong."....
HE DOES PLAY FORTNITE
As a resident of Hurst, Texas, the mall is one of the best uses of Eminent Domain ever. Something like 40% of the city's tax income comes from the mall, and shopping area around it. The mall is right on the interchange of 2 major highways in the DFW area.
I really liked that movie. I never saw him as the bad guy.
I had no idea that eminent domain was such a problem. Thanks for the interesting and informative video!
Reminds me of Killdozer.
Heemeyer showed us that people with authority can, and should, be held into account for their abuses.
I was expecting Killdozer to get mentioned here.
Never thought I’d feel such strong empathy for Wreck it Ralph
Another great video! I love this content! I just wish it'd come more often
Thanks. Out of Frame episodes are pretty hard to do given everything we have going on at FEE every week, and it's mostly just me and one ither person working on them, but perhaps as we continue to grow, we might be able to make episodes for this series more frequently.
Let's not forget post-ww2 britain, countless working class families and communities were basically told they had to take what they were being given (basically the value of the dirt it's built on rather than the value of perfectly good homes) and move out so they could build massive blocks of concrete appartments, at best they could have maybe claimed that many didn't have indoor plumbing but they should have compensated the owners a lot better than they did.
Many of these people found their community of generations split up and spread out among multiple apartment blocks that usually were all these people could afford with the money from their old homes.
Or in more modern times there's the hs2 rail line, destroying tons of ancient woodland, buildings dating back centuries, mostly just to facilitate commuters traveling to London when the money would be far better spent trying to spread the concentration of businesses in London out more to take some of the burder off the infrastructure there and decrease the need to commute.
"The problem starts and ends with the power of eminent domain."
Wouldn't it start and end with the power of private companies to influence peddle to our governments? No for arbitrary reasons is the answer to that second question.
Ah. Eminent domain. Heard about that term a lot 'cause my city's trying to widen existing roads and build new ones. Off course, there are private properties in the way so, the process is never easy. Personally, I do want traffic to be lessened after these projects push through, but then you gotta put yourself in the shoes of those who will lose homes...
Anyway, awesome discussion as always. I wish you could make a Wreck it Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet video. I like the movie's theme of how to form a more mature and less possessive relationship with your loved ones. But maybe you can find a more interesting topic to tackle in the film - maybe something about viral videos or how we use the Internet in general.
This why everyone should own a M249 machine gun to defend their private property.
Well you're not going win
@@minecraftvideo2547 why ?
@@minecraftvideo2547 we have 2nd amendment for a reason.
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I'd say that you need to measure your defense to your lot. If you're living in a flat or really small home, then rifle should be enough, but if you own a home that is big enough to fit more than 2 bathrooms, then some vechicular defense, a'la armored truck should be something to consider. If you own a villa, then buy a tank. And a small warship if it's beachside. When you start owning something the size of a small town, then pay for the armory of your smaller neighbours as a part of the deal that they'll be defending you.
Governance should be bottom-to-top, not top-to-botton like it is today in most places.
New York City's Central Park wasn't vacant land either. They had to evict 1600 people from several villages to build it.
I-Isn't that the point of the movie?
Well, the point of the movie was that every role was important and worth doing, and you should respect everyone even if you think they aren't respectable. And that was still under the premise that Ralph is the bad guy
@@imugi-16 meh... I dont know, it was made for young young kids so :/
@@Hornswaggerz what, don't that sound like something young'uns woulda be learnin'? XD
The point is, everyone still think he's a bad guy, they just treat him nicer
Ralph is the video game equivalent of Marvin Lee Heemeyer.
A true American hero.
FINALLY
I‘m not a libertarian myself, but I appreciate your channel for providing me with a different perspective on certain things. Surprisingly, I even found myself agreeing with many of the ideas presented in your video essays.
So thank you for creating quality content and keep making more awesome videos. I‘m looking forward to watching them. :)
Not surprising, Disney is the company putting out today's garbage Star Wars films. Of course they would make the Bundy family analog into the movie's antagonist.
Protagonist.
I thought the in-movie prologue sufficed to explain why he was justified, but pointing out the meaning and real life examples of eminent domain was very helpful!
Initially I assumed you were going to make a case for Ralph being the protagonist of the game. His role strongly resembles that of the gorilla, monkey, and wolf man in the video game Rage.
Not one mention of financial compensation. Shamful.
Sounds like it's time for Killdozer 2: private property boogaloo
you are going to blow so many liberals minds lol
Not really, this was really obvious. In the beginning of the movie, it shows Ralph was pushed off his land. Only those under 10 years old wouldn't know about this "twist".
@@nt2122 yup. thats why I said liberals. But I really should of said the Left instead and its more than that. People not knowing about how the government can just take your land and about the harsh parts of life, is a very Left thing. Recently what I see in them is a very innocent person but not a child, discovers something bad about the world, thinks no one is helping or cares about the situation therefore takes it upon oneself to fix the situation without truly understanding it, usually causing more problems and never realizing it while saying anyone who doesnt back said one, is a nazi. The yin and yang of the world is completely missed but only by those who choose not to see it and then have the gol to tell everyone else who has known of the yin and yang for years about how little they know about it.
So yes, people will be shocked. I think adults who are surprised by this have been very sheltered and should ingest more harsh realities one step at a time while also reminding themselves that there are just as many good realities of life and far more neutral realities than the good and bad combined. But also remember I am talking about those who are surprised, not those who are uninformed. There is a difference. And I am bashing the Left because they are idiots. Psychotic, terroristic, idiots that gained power in numbers and will be the downfall to America if we let them.
I should of said the Left instead of the liberals because the liberals need to separate themselves from the Left. Just like the KKK and Feminism, people have taken a good name with a just cause and twisted it into a horrible thing in the name of utopia. A true Liberal is nothing like the Left today.
Also fun fact, the KKK started out as people trying to scare the tax man off their land or something. Later in history racists took the name and turned it into what it is today.
Liberals evolved powerful defenses against logic so their delicate minds do not blow. It's a survival mechanism; they are unable to hear rational arguments.
@TheGuardDuck The same can be said for a lot of groups.
@@Del-Moss I wouldn't say a lot but I can think of a few. The Left, extreme right, terrorists, hippies lol
He did made a promise to his friend Felix that he wouldn't try to be good again in spite of his past, but he does have some soul and heart like a hero
"So they build a road or a bridge..."
... Or a bypass, or a hyperspace expressway.
There was once a town called Cades Cove, Tennessee. The government took over the whole town as part of eminent domain, and now that land is part of the national park.
This is insane I LIVE in West Palm Beach. My friends and I walk around the waterfront show in that image when we leave the park not far from there. I have drove past the empty lot he talks about. This is surreal in a way I can't really describe.
1. you don't have to wait till the end of the movie to know this, Ralph states it in the very start of the movie.
2. The law stats that the property owner must be compensated for the property. And Ralph was not.
I know someone whose dad is very, very good with money. He came from a lower-middle class family, became a lawyer, and saved up enough to buy an old apartment building and renovate it to meet code. It was very profitable for him, which is good because he and his wife have 9 kids together (probably 7 at the time he owned the building). But eminent domain law allowed the government to take his building away from him. Oh, and it happened in CT also, in another town not far from New London. It's ridiculous
Never expected to learn something useful here on a wreck it Ralph video. Thank you
Ever heard of Tremors? Burt Gummer had the same opinion on Eminent Domain, and he was always paranoid that it would occur. In Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, it was said that IF they couldn't capture a live graboid/shrieker (Ass-Blasters had yet to be seen), they would take the residents of Perfection Valley and move them, and seal off the valley indefinitely. Ultimately in the end, Burt lost his property, not to Eminent Domain, but killing an Ass-Blaster, not knowing that, unlike shriekers (which clone themselves after eating enough food), go into comas when they eat enough food.
Thank you for having subtitles.
It was a interesting analyzes.
I really never understood why the "nice"landers treated him poorly even when he's literally just doing his job? He is like an actor playing a role in a movie. Why does he deserve to be treated as lesser when he's a different man from the guy he's portraying. Not only that, he's just as important if not MORE than most of the people in there. Nicelanders my ass
Wow, just wow. See, from the intro alone I figured out the part about the fact that they had stolen his land to build their fancy apartment building, but I was completely shocked to hear about all of this stuff about "eminent domain".
What a great video. I can't believe I hadn't even heard about this stuff before now.
Ofc...Ralph was literally telling us all this in his opening narration. Don't really need to wait for the song at the end, just gotta pay attention.
Holy shit, MatPat got some serious competition!
Interesting in how the Supreme Court decided to uphold "eminent domain" basically along Political Party lines in 2005! Also, in the movie, we never see Ralph get justifiable compensation (if any compensation) for the loss of his land and his stump (i.e. home)!
It actually happened in my small area of PSL Fl but they made a road called crosstown that’s going to connect to US1. They bought and demolished a LOT of homes to build this and I actually knew an older woman who’s home got torn down to make it.
I'm gonna stick around until the end of the credits for every movie from now on. This was eye-opening, thank you!
Another, not so harsh example that a friend of mine told me last night. When he purchased his house and land, the government turned around and said, that they have a right for pre-emption. So they have taken parts of his front garden away, because "maybe", they gonna rebuild the side walk at some day. The funny thing is, the price of land in that region is around 180€/m², but the price of streets is 22€/m². Guess which price they paid. They have taken around 50m², destroyed value of +/- 7900€, just for a "maybe" that will probably never happen.
Tecnicly Wralph wasn't the villan.
He's the actor who plays the villain.
I stuck around through the credits and heard that song in the theatre, then downloaded it, because I liked it so much. I kinda knew where you would starting with this video.
Wow, I never noticed the song at the end. The movie makes more sense now. Great video
You don't even need to wait for the song, it says all that when the game starts and he tells us his story.