There’s tons of fruit and vegetables there, all very fresh despite being surrounded by miles of empty desert, and shipments of such produce amounts and variety costing more than a poor village could afford if they collectively saved for months on end.
And when the protagonist is trying to hide from hired thugs/assassins/secret agents who are still wearing crisp business suits in the middle of a marketplace, he steals a random cloak either off off somebody's back or from one of the market stalls and he slips silently into the crowd before anyone can call him out
“Wow we’ve never seen a foreigner here in this sprawling city that’s still suffering from the devastating effects of European colonialism, centuries on.”
Funny thing is ,I'm Lebanese and I have never seen anything that Hollywood likes to pretend we are 😭 😭 we don't have camels, deserts OR the "bustling markets of Arabia "😂
@@perpisdich3386yeah I’m pretty sure they’re basing off of other middle eastern countries besides Lebanon, though. This is not to say that what they’re writing isn’t romanticized, just that what they are portraying might be slightly true if they’re basing it off of surrounding regions.
@@pinacoladaofficial oh yeah, and then there's a random half buried skeleton of a farm animal, like a cow, in the sand, with only the skull and ribs sticking out
He gets kidnapped in Act 3 until the hot, light brunette badass trades her own life for his. Next, MC finds out the boy is the nephew of the foreign merchant/computer wizard, even though merchant/comp wizard and the kid have no scenes together. Then, the kid sneaks MC past the guards (and MC straight up kills them all one after another), and he faces off the villain and saves her and all three escape as a pseudo-nuclear family.
That's actually his intro to his videos, the guy is a Pakistani-australian named aslan pahari and he always starts his videos with "hello my friend". He makes history/archeology related videos
The damndest thing about that is that unironically happened to my family when we lived in Xinjiang. Traveled through a village and they were like "holy shit, you're foreign, hang on, we got this we'll fix you right up". Roast lamb, the village dance gang, the whole deal. It sounds super cringe and made-up but that's just one of those weird things that actually happened and we weren't even rich or anything. I think my parents insisted on paying for everything they could but the whole dinner was something that was happening _to_ us whether we liked it or not
@@danolantern6030 return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone...
@@MrGriefCreep you're right, I meant that the pyramids are more accessible than the desert further west. I mean, if you look at google maps, theres like restaurants, roads and golf courses near the pyramids
as an egyptian myself i can confirm. i’ve rarely been to a desert in egypt. even during road trips where it seems “deserted” it’s usually farm lands and trees lol
I love the fact the protagonists always get lost on the way to the pyramids when in real life they are literally right next to the city of Cairo. You have to photograph them from a specific angle to NOT get the city just over there in the picture
You forgot the 2008 color scheme where they somehow make everything yellow-ish brown. Also only ever showing the desert despite the rich geography of the region.
so true. Like the middle east and many countries there also has woods and snow on ice -capped mountains and green pastures, fertile valleys with rivers . It's like going to America and only showing the desert part lol. Although the middle east does have alot of desert like Sahara desert or the Empty Quarter desert in Arabian peninsula it's not all like that. They make it look like everywhere is dusty and sand everywhere you go ,every place you go dirt poor too like slum or ghetto or run down village. Ive been to the middle-east so I know from experience the reality. I've visited a few countries. Memories I'll cherish for life. I'll be forever restless because of it. Met and made friends with different beautiful people , beautiful inside and out. Most people are happy and content wether they are wealthy or not. I'm not Arabs (I also know that the middle east is made up of different ethnicities not all same race or Arab) either. Another thing I've found is Arabs are good looking. I know from personal experience. But you only ever see in 99% of movies from Hollywood or American shows the kinda unattractive, like as if theyre deliberately made them look like bad scary guys or unkempt and unhygienic. While there are places/people like that over there,same can be found everywhere ,places/people like that. It's like visiting a big city and only showing a bad run down neighbourhood. There's good and bad everywhere you go. They just make it seem it's everywhere and nearly everybody like that. The middle east (most of it) is truly blessed with natural wild beauty,very rich in history and culture, and the food amazing.
@@mrlofi333because you're a Hollywood producer and have not even a tenuous grasp on reality? Im old enough to remember when Chris Tucker pretending Jackie Chan was harder to understand than he is was peak Hollywood comedy
Sometimes it isn't necessarily stereotypical. But the clothes are traditional clothes from an Arab country and the king dons it so the movie producers will show how "exotic" or "different" he is.
@@A_Lion_In_The_Sun "Ah I see, you are my American friends! Come Come, let us-as the English say-party!" Led off by some belly dancers and guards with no shirts. 😂😂😂😂
Plot set in: "Iraq" Filmed in: Iran People: Random noises in no language at all White people main characters: "Arabicanese is such a beautiful language, I studied it in university"
@@cam4636As an Iraqi, we do share alot of cultural similarities with Iran, (and the rest of the Arabic countries obviously) But the languages are completely different. I discovered that there are a couple of villages in Iran that speak Arabic and an in Iraqi dialect...I was like why is their Iraqi dialect a little weird, are they Kurds (which you would expect the majority of Kurdistan knows Arabic) but it turns out some of them can speak our dialect. but you can spot them cause it's not perfect 😅
Sometimes there’s just a perfect storm of internet magic that grants us all the ability to watch a bunch of strangers dunk on the tropes of hollywood orientalism together
@@unknown-fq9swThere’s a good video by an Iranian dude about orientalism in music, understandably he’s annoyed at how there’s no effort done to represent the various cultures orientalism is done to properly and instead just some stupid mismatched bunch of instruments that sound “eastern” to western ears Farya Faraji is the channel. I can’t link the video itself or I will get smote.
@@unknown-fq9sw I believe the channel they're talking about is called Farya Faraji, it's a more recent video so you'll be able to find it. It's called 'Orientalism: Desert Level Music vs Actual Middle-Eastern Music'. It's pretty good. RUclips will delete links so I can't put it here.
@@unknown-fq9sw If my earlier comment got deleted: It’s the video “Orientalism: Desert Level Music vs Actual Middle-Eastern Music” by the channel Farya Faraji.
One of the saddest things is its always the same generic music when there are really cool middle eastern music traditions that have huge variety to them.
@@rulasmania not really, I'm not an expert so I don't know song names however there are many insane musicians you can look up. I really reccomend Oud music. It's a beautiful instrument
And then the seller catches one of them while the others escape but then mc steps in and stands up for the kid which displays how much of a good person he is
@@a_rtyom and then child offers mc to rest a night in their already overcrowded home as a gesture of gratitude. MC learns from child's heavily pregnant mother/elderly grandparent that things used to better around here, but the newest warlord leeches money and resources off the poor folk and imprisons all the capable men, and this is why child was forced into petty thievery.
@@tameriz1280 and then MC offers to help and in the process discovers that said warlord was actually the enemy he's been looking for. So MC, Arab guy who welcomed him, kid, and comic relief character set off to find him. During the journey MC notices some masked bandit-like figure appearing at times- which could either be an ally or a foe.
Random children pickpocketing the protagonists, leading them to a chase which reveals the villain and show what's behind all that shit that happens there.
@@danilodesouza6461the child stumbled upon a group of street gangsters and now he's in trouble, the protagonist was about to help but then some random girl swoop in to save the kid and now she's unlockable as love interest.
Dont forget that for no apparent reason, there is always a crowded market with a shady merchants offering shady thing and sometimes that shady thing they sold is always an ancient artifact with super magical properties, straight up a cursed item, or a map that lead to somewhere hidden and then later it becoming a key and you are somehow the choosen one on prophecy who can use it to open a secret, or just straight up scamming you with junk that will absolutely do nothing for the entirety of the story or a junk thay accidentally become useful in unexpected situations.
I'd like to see one of these movies add in a realistic scammer. One that slaps a bracelet on your hand and goes "IS FOR FREE! FREE! VERY CHEAP! PAY ME NOW! PAY ME NOW!" and banks entirely on the tourist getting overwhelmed and panic paying them. Shit sounds fake but it actually happens.
Don't forget the shot of the sun that glares the camera, the sound of some desert bird, the empty water bottle that a character tries to drink from, and the character saying "we're lost/doomed/gonna die here" because they are stranded.
Scenes that were missed: 1. Random women bellydancing 2. Snake charmer on the streets 3. Crowded market with spices and dudes selling AKs 4. Kids on the streets playing football 5. Predator animals like snakes and scorpions in a plain desert
you forgot the one guy in the bazzar selling plates and shouting to the tourists how they are "genuine" and "handcrafted by local artisans" in perfect english edit: I was really focusing more on the fact that they always seem to be selling plates or cutlery or glass or just, something that would be heavy or breakable that you would worry about putting in your suitcase and flying home. The english thing is everywhere, how many movies set in ancient Rome have people with british accents in it?
To be fair, the English thing is usually done for most foreign countries in movies, not just the Middle East. It’s usually easier than having to work around a language barrier. It is (typically) a suspension of disbelief thing, rather than a nonsensical stereotype.
Middle East, India, North Africa (typically Egypt), Arabia and even Turkey, lmao. Hollywood can’t seem to rid themselves of the Orientalist perspective.
Western portrayals of Turkey have to be the stupidest ones of all. It's a very Europeanised country, probably the most Europeanised of all Muslim majority countries, and in movies it makes it look like it's underdeveloped.
@@destructionandcreation Depends where in India. If it's the Northern Himalayan regions, India resembles switzerland more. But if it's the Western desert region, then I can see why India is mistaken for Arabia. Camels and sand etc.
Also: When the ancient, sacred, magical scrolls are revealed accidentally by a small cave in,during a random hike across the dune covered desert, Midday...🤭
The protagonist trips, realizes an ancient tablet is poking out the ground near where he fell; first human eyes to spot it in 2,500 years or so. He begins gently digging around it, revealing more text to the audience, which is duly translated in the next scene by a beautiful young archaeologist/language expert.
Unrealistic, they forgot the shot of some kind of military aircraft (usually a helicopter or Osprey) flying over expanses of desert & ruined buildings.
That scene happened ten minutes into Act 1. We're now twenty minutes into Act 1, where the protagonist has escaped the dinner at the mansion and passed out in the desert.
You forgot the random kid who'll steal the protagonist's wallet and will be caught by some people who'll plan to beat him up but then the protagonist will arrive to stop them.
And she starts flirting with the protagonist and has flowing curly brown hair. And apparently good at making poison. And at times, not free because she owes her 'pimp'. And the protagonist saves her eventually.
Half of Asia is double harmonic, half of Asia is major pentatonic. Simple geography. Then, I'm _pretty sure_ Morocco is a city in Iraq so same thing, all of North Africa gets it too.
@@player17wastakenmorocco is its own country on the northwest coast of africa If it happens to be the name of a city there too then I wouldn't know lmao
This is genius. Can't wait to see the full movie. Staring Alex Siddig as Arab guy, Kevin Hart as Black guy, and Benedict Cumberbatch as inappropriately casted Arab assassin/ally guy but we all ignore he's not the right ethnicity because he's such a good actor.
@@jgmr645 Genshin Impact's Sumeru soundtrack utilizes traditional instruments from the Arabian peninsula and several South Asian instruments. The composer uses the traditional music notation in the songs. It's my favorite Genshin soundtrack, and I can't recommend it enough.
Also; İstanbul in Hollywood: Putting "yellow filter" effect on İstanbul to show it like a Middle East desert city, putting extra focus on mosques (as if they're the only thing we have), showing bellydancing women and Middle Eastern type bars (*cough, The Veil), showing broke neigbourhoods and trash-collecting folks İstanbul irl: Europanized in every conceivable way, mostly full of concrete and greens, skyscrapers every 5 meter, old trams, Taksim square, an incredible nightlife, many nightclubs and gay bars, and beaches and SEA
@@lucindayumikane8567 Same. Even though initially I hadn't been raised in turkiye(I spent most of my childhood in europe), I was originally from turkiye and born in Istanbul. And when I returned back to my homeland at an older age, I quickly noticed that cats were absolutely EVERYWHERE. From the public street parks to inside the little grocery shops, from the metro stations to even mosques! And as a cat person it became one of my favourite aspects about this cozy city! ^_^
The funny character be like: “It is hot as hell in this Funky-ass Hot-ass room I’m in.” *sees the mysterious character* “IS THAT THE GRIM REAPER?!?!?!”
The local lady who joins the protag(s) is the only one wearing “modern” clothing starts randomly going up to stands in a bazaar and finds “the one who knows whom we are looking for” Or it’s some well off blonde dude in tacky sunglasses but trying to be cool
The "one-dimensional black character who's just there to make puns" is so accurate, it's unbelievable in how many movies a black guy or gal's role is just to be loud, scream and talk in a stereotypical accent.
You forgot some random scene where the MC gets super dehydrated and sees vultures circling above them, before abruptly falling to the ground from passing out.
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don't forget the overcrowded market with people yelling prices and shit
And one guy waving an AK around hoping to sell it
There’s tons of fruit and vegetables there, all very fresh despite being surrounded by miles of empty desert, and shipments of such produce amounts and variety costing more than a poor village could afford if they collectively saved for months on end.
And when the protagonist is trying to hide from hired thugs/assassins/secret agents who are still wearing crisp business suits in the middle of a marketplace, he steals a random cloak either off off somebody's back or from one of the market stalls and he slips silently into the crowd before anyone can call him out
The one with the beads and the fresh oranges? With the beautiful, patterned fabrics used as awnings and curtains?
It's pretty realistic
Add local "dusty" kids playing soccer and being amazed by the main characters arrival into town
So true
They’re shoeless and the soccer ball is a plastic water bottle.
I mean that's almost realistic, every corner of the globe got dusty kids playing football.
“Wow we’ve never seen a foreigner here in this sprawling city that’s still suffering from the devastating effects of European colonialism, centuries on.”
LOL FR
And there is ALWAYS a chase scene through a crowded market.
Fruit, baskets, and caged chickens will be toppled!
Funny thing is ,I'm Lebanese and I have never seen anything that Hollywood likes to pretend we are 😭 😭 we don't have camels, deserts OR the "bustling markets of Arabia "😂
@perpisdich3386 I realized lebanon is the only middle eastern country that doesn't have a desert.
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@@perpisdich3386yeah I’m pretty sure they’re basing off of other middle eastern countries besides Lebanon, though. This is not to say that what they’re writing isn’t romanticized, just that what they are portraying might be slightly true if they’re basing it off of surrounding regions.
You forgot the shot of a scorpion crawling near uncovered feet to show how dangerous it is
Crawling past a dude just. Charming a snake in the middle of a bazaar
Then the guy, drinking his own piss, as his only form of saturation, to quench his thirst
@@Goon_Lagoon69420 probably onto any wounds he has for some reason and then yells out a big ol AGH
Rips his shirt or pants to wrap it up lmao
@@pinacoladaofficial oh yeah, and then there's a random half buried skeleton of a farm animal, like a cow, in the sand, with only the skull and ribs sticking out
Or its just on a rock and as the wind blows it crawls into a random animal skull eyesocket
Wheres the random little homeless boy that knows information about everything and somehow tied with the plot
And that same boy somehow manages to dodge all of the evil henchmen who have decades of military training
He gets kidnapped in Act 3 until the hot, light brunette badass trades her own life for his. Next, MC finds out the boy is the nephew of the foreign merchant/computer wizard, even though merchant/comp wizard and the kid have no scenes together. Then, the kid sneaks MC past the guards (and MC straight up kills them all one after another), and he faces off the villain and saves her and all three escape as a pseudo-nuclear family.
THIS
his face is dirty and he’s always playing with a ball
@@elizabethpost8021a ball made of used toilet paper, that is covered in sand
Hollywood when the scene shows something vaguely Asian:
*GONG!*
Sixteen Candles did this
And the oriental rift
YOOOOO
And the pentatonic scale
Rush Hour. First scene with Jackie Chan as soon as it shows him GONG!!
“Welcome my friend” sounded too good to be a parody.
Reminds me of when you open Stronghokd Crusader
He sounds like a character who will help the protagonist interpret ancient texts
That's actually his intro to his videos, the guy is a Pakistani-australian named aslan pahari and he always starts his videos with "hello my friend". He makes history/archeology related videos
@@pale_blue_ruby Also works for a British news media
the one dimensional black character is 100% kevin hart and nobody else
Or Martin lmao
or Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker walked so that Kevin Hart can run
@@TheHuskyK9 Chris Tucker ran so Kevin Hart could keep up the pace
More a Chris Tucker IMO 😂😂😂
You forgot the random blind beggar on the street
Who somehow reveal's half story and lore of the movie
And they will be like : "The Liberator has come!"
Who turns out to be not blind but a watchmen instead
This one is so on point
@@tijmen131 Did I really get that reference?
I love that welcome guy broke character, but then the black guy’s bit was timed so that made it seem like he was actually laughing at the one liner.
Woah, yeah that's genius
Wait ur right 😭
Good eye 👁 😅
I know the first time I watched this I even notice, but when I watched it today I was dying
every once in a while i rewatch this video and i JUST realised this
They forgot one: Random shots of people riding camels, charming snakes and bellydancing.
Abd pickpocket kids
Overcrowded street market? Or is that Asia?
@@thegoat5141 That’s all Asian countries.
@@thegoat5141 yes
@@shadowclaw7210 Like The Mummy Returns 🤦♀️
Random generous rich guy invites the protagonist to a lavish dinner an incredible house with bellydancers with jewels in their bellybuttons.
The damndest thing about that is that unironically happened to my family when we lived in Xinjiang. Traveled through a village and they were like "holy shit, you're foreign, hang on, we got this we'll fix you right up". Roast lamb, the village dance gang, the whole deal.
It sounds super cringe and made-up but that's just one of those weird things that actually happened and we weren't even rich or anything. I think my parents insisted on paying for everything they could but the whole dinner was something that was happening _to_ us whether we liked it or not
St3ven uinsterse
@@samwallaceart288Where did that happen?
@@mavis.lahar2001 I don't remember exact location, it was somewhere in the far west of China though.
And the assassin was hired to kill the protagonist at the dinner bc "oh look rich guy evil"
Also add a guy trying to drink water from his flask, but it's filled with sand.
Only after he sees a mirage of a beautiful palm tree in the middle of a desert
Thats essential
Curse of Ra
@@danolantern6030 return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone... return the stone...
@@SleekHeroo..........
It's actually "return the SLAB"
😂
When they go to Egypt and it's all desert....
Meanwhile the average Egyptian has seen the desert only once when he/she went to see the pyramids
and that's not even "the desert" it's a plateau covered in sand. The real desert is west of the nile
@@A_Lion_In_The_Sunthe pyramids are west of the nile
@@MrGriefCreep you're right, I meant that the pyramids are more accessible than the desert further west. I mean, if you look at google maps, theres like restaurants, roads and golf courses near the pyramids
as an egyptian myself i can confirm. i’ve rarely been to a desert in egypt. even during road trips where it seems “deserted” it’s usually farm lands and trees lol
I love the fact the protagonists always get lost on the way to the pyramids when in real life they are literally right next to the city of Cairo. You have to photograph them from a specific angle to NOT get the city just over there in the picture
Even Dune couldn’t escape Earth movie influence
Bro Dune literally ripped straight from Islam 😂
@@qriofficial1769it’s a mix of Islamic budddhist with a religious belief of Zoroastrian
Almost as if dune did it on purpose 🤯 the culture and language of Arrakis and Fremen in books is heavily based on Arabic culture
So is islam roflmao @@ErikPT
its 2024 movie of the year and will be talked about when award season comes
The “lady wearing a lot of fabric” and the “wobbly air” got me
The wobbly air is spot on.
To be fair the air in the Middle East is genuinely wobbly AF around the horizon
They forgot the children in the public market stealing apples and running away
Then the fruit seller yells at them, sometimes chases after them, but the children are way too agile and do parkour to leave him in the dust
You forgot the 2008 color scheme where they somehow make everything yellow-ish brown.
Also only ever showing the desert despite the rich geography of the region.
And when they do show more interesting terrain, it’s always just the Jordanian mountains, no matter what country it’s supposed to be set in.
That’s called the Mexico filter
so true. Like the middle east and many countries there also has woods and snow on ice -capped mountains and green pastures, fertile valleys with rivers . It's like going to America and only showing the desert part lol. Although the middle east does have alot of desert like Sahara desert or the Empty Quarter desert in Arabian peninsula it's not all like that. They make it look like everywhere is dusty and sand everywhere you go ,every place you go dirt poor too like slum or ghetto or run down village.
Ive been to the middle-east so I know from experience the reality. I've visited a few countries. Memories I'll cherish for life. I'll be forever restless because of it. Met and made friends with different beautiful people , beautiful inside and out. Most people are happy and content wether they are wealthy or not. I'm not Arabs (I also know that the middle east is made up of different ethnicities not all same race or Arab) either. Another thing I've found is Arabs are good looking. I know from personal experience. But you only ever see in 99% of movies from Hollywood or American shows the kinda unattractive, like as if theyre deliberately made them look like bad scary guys or unkempt and unhygienic. While there are places/people like that over there,same can be found everywhere ,places/people like that. It's like visiting a big city and only showing a bad run down neighbourhood. There's good and bad everywhere you go. They just make it seem it's everywhere and nearly everybody like that.
The middle east (most of it) is truly blessed with natural wild beauty,very rich in history and culture, and the food amazing.
also "desert" = dunes of pure sand, no rock formations allowed
Egypt🤝Mexico: being filmed on a tangerine instead of a camera.
cut to scene with baskets full of different types of spices, then a car drives into them
No, that part is a couple minutes after the introductory shot.
Usually, the villains' black sedans, or the protagonists' tan/mud green Jeeps while trying to escape.
Apples spilling out from baskets
@@Greenstrtjs87 after one of the cars wheels is shot out by a rebel with an ak-47
Random superstitious merchant warning the protagonist not to go in that cave / tomb while the random thieves overhear the conversation.
"God damn, it's hot. I'm sweatin' like R. Kelly in Disneyland!"
That line caught me off guard lmao
Why tf would you say this
@@mrlofi333because you're a Hollywood producer and have not even a tenuous grasp on reality?
Im old enough to remember when Chris Tucker pretending Jackie Chan was harder to understand than he is was peak Hollywood comedy
Ha ha yes that is what the man said in the video ha ha
THANK YOU MY HEADPHONES ARE BROKEN AND I COULDNT MAKE OUT WHAT HE WAS SAYING
Don't forget the scene where the main character meets the king of the Arab country that has on stereotypical clothing.
Bonus points if he meets the sultan of a republic.
Sometimes it isn't necessarily stereotypical. But the clothes are traditional clothes from an Arab country and the king dons it so the movie producers will show how "exotic" or "different" he is.
"Ah hah hah hah. Welcome to Ramadabajhabad my friend!"
@@A_Lion_In_The_Sun "Ah I see, you are my American friends! Come Come, let us-as the English say-party!" Led off by some belly dancers and guards with no shirts. 😂😂😂😂
To be fair, the kings in Arab countries do dress traditionally
I love that the one-dimensional black character timed their take perfectly to make it look like the welcome dude was breaking character
Random old man "The legend say that a stranger from a far away land will come to save us... It must be you!!😮😮"
Fuggin Stilgar 😂😂😂
Also everyone is still for some reason using medeival era technology for anything that isn't a car or gun.
also people of the land sleeping in tents in the middle of the desert💀
Hollywood be like
Plot: Is set in Iran
People: Speak Arabic
Plot set in: "Iraq"
Filmed in: Iran
People: Random noises in no language at all
White people main characters: "Arabicanese is such a beautiful language, I studied it in university"
@@cam4636Exactly 😂😂😂
@@cam4636"Arabicanese" LMFAO 🤣
@@cam4636As an Iraqi, we do share alot of cultural similarities with Iran, (and the rest of the Arabic countries obviously) But the languages are completely different.
I discovered that there are a couple of villages in Iran that speak Arabic and an in Iraqi dialect...I was like why is their Iraqi dialect a little weird, are they Kurds (which you would expect the majority of Kurdistan knows Arabic) but it turns out some of them can speak our dialect. but you can spot them cause it's not perfect 😅
Music: Armenian instrument
Shooting site: Jordan
Handsome White Guy: “Where am I?”
Or the other phrase "Woah... What IS this place?"
“I’m not in Kansas anymore!” he says out loud, to no-one.
Usually Dwayne The Rock Johnson
@@duncanchillake8024or Ryan Reynolds
In the 90s it would have been Brendan Fraser. 😂
Sometimes there’s just a perfect storm of internet magic that grants us all the ability to watch a bunch of strangers dunk on the tropes of hollywood orientalism together
I wonder how middle eastern people feel about orientalism
@@unknown-fq9swThere’s a good video by an Iranian dude about orientalism in music, understandably he’s annoyed at how there’s no effort done to represent the various cultures orientalism is done to properly and instead just some stupid mismatched bunch of instruments that sound “eastern” to western ears
Farya Faraji is the channel. I can’t link the video itself or I will get smote.
@@AtlasNL is there a link to it ? I'd love to watch it
@@unknown-fq9sw I believe the channel they're talking about is called Farya Faraji, it's a more recent video so you'll be able to find it. It's called 'Orientalism: Desert Level Music vs Actual Middle-Eastern Music'. It's pretty good.
RUclips will delete links so I can't put it here.
@@unknown-fq9sw If my earlier comment got deleted: It’s the video “Orientalism: Desert Level Music vs Actual Middle-Eastern Music” by the channel Farya Faraji.
One of the saddest things is its always the same generic music when there are really cool middle eastern music traditions that have huge variety to them.
Can you recomendó some of them ?
@@rulasmania not really, I'm not an expert so I don't know song names however there are many insane musicians you can look up. I really reccomend Oud music. It's a beautiful instrument
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stardust crusaders live action looks great
LMAO
😭🤣
Nice XD
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Holy fucking shit is that a mother fucking JoJos reference
That R Kelly joke was so funny the Arab guy laughed at it before it was even said.
Final addition!
Crowded Bazaar where random orphans bump into the main cast and pickpocket them.
Good gods, 10k?!
MA I'M FAMOUS
The big chase where they knock over some fat guy’s fruit stand
And then the seller catches one of them while the others escape but then mc steps in and stands up for the kid which displays how much of a good person he is
@@a_rtyom 😂
@@a_rtyom and then child offers mc to rest a night in their already overcrowded home as a gesture of gratitude. MC learns from child's heavily pregnant mother/elderly grandparent that things used to better around here, but the newest warlord leeches money and resources off the poor folk and imprisons all the capable men, and this is why child was forced into petty thievery.
@@tameriz1280 and then MC offers to help and in the process discovers that said warlord was actually the enemy he's been looking for.
So MC, Arab guy who welcomed him, kid, and comic relief character set off to find him. During the journey MC notices some masked bandit-like figure appearing at times- which could either be an ally or a foe.
Random children pickpocketing the protagonists, leading them to a chase which reveals the villain and show what's behind all that shit that happens there.
As well as the love interest
@@danilodesouza6461the child stumbled upon a group of street gangsters and now he's in trouble, the protagonist was about to help but then some random girl swoop in to save the kid and now she's unlockable as love interest.
Where the fu** has this happened?
I immediately thought of “The Scorpion King” 😂😂🤣
😂
You forgot the part where the protagonist is left to die in the desert, only to be saved by an "undiscovered" oasis
Dont forget that for no apparent reason, there is always a crowded market with a shady merchants offering shady thing and sometimes that shady thing they sold is always an ancient artifact with super magical properties, straight up a cursed item, or a map that lead to somewhere hidden and then later it becoming a key and you are somehow the choosen one on prophecy who can use it to open a secret, or just straight up scamming you with junk that will absolutely do nothing for the entirety of the story or a junk thay accidentally become useful in unexpected situations.
Shady*
I'd like to see one of these movies add in a realistic scammer. One that slaps a bracelet on your hand and goes "IS FOR FREE! FREE! VERY CHEAP! PAY ME NOW! PAY ME NOW!" and banks entirely on the tourist getting overwhelmed and panic paying them. Shit sounds fake but it actually happens.
@@Jenna_Talia Not a movie, but JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 3 kind of did this with Steely Dan.
@@Pleasestoptalkingthanks thank you for correcting
@@Jenna_Talia almost forgot about that one, thank you
The protagonist saving random kid stealing apples from the bazaar and getting caught by the retailers.
“I’m sweating like R. Kelly in Disneyland”💀
Don't forget the shot of the sun that glares the camera, the sound of some desert bird, the empty water bottle that a character tries to drink from, and the character saying "we're lost/doomed/gonna die here" because they are stranded.
idc this and the star wars birthday are the two greatest tiktoks of all time
Edit: I can’t believe I forgot “as a member of the black community”
LMAOO I FORGOT ABOUT THAT 😭😭
You forgot the one about Ryan Reynolds
yeah
@@samelis6546 that is the star wars birthday
bo it's this and "there it is, thanks for that"
Scenes that were missed:
1. Random women bellydancing
2. Snake charmer on the streets
3. Crowded market with spices and dudes selling AKs
4. Kids on the streets playing football
5. Predator animals like snakes and scorpions in a plain desert
You forgot the old lady running up and trying to sell chickens to the tourists
you forgot the one guy in the bazzar selling plates and shouting to the tourists how they are "genuine" and "handcrafted by local artisans" in perfect english
edit:
I was really focusing more on the fact that they always seem to be selling plates or cutlery or glass or just, something that would be heavy or breakable that you would worry about putting in your suitcase and flying home.
The english thing is everywhere, how many movies set in ancient Rome have people with british accents in it?
Or just how everyone is speaking English in general
They all have the accent but almost never speak their native language for some reason
@@pinacoladaofficial I assume they gotta sell to tourists or foreigners.
Meanwhile they're all made in china
To be fair, the English thing is usually done for most foreign countries in movies, not just the Middle East. It’s usually easier than having to work around a language barrier. It is (typically) a suspension of disbelief thing, rather than a nonsensical stereotype.
Middle East, India, North Africa (typically Egypt), Arabia and even Turkey, lmao.
Hollywood can’t seem to rid themselves of the Orientalist perspective.
It's crazy to me that some people confuse India with Saudi Arabia when they aren't even similar at all with geography, religion, clothing, nothing
Western portrayals of Turkey have to be the stupidest ones of all. It's a very Europeanised country, probably the most Europeanised of all Muslim majority countries, and in movies it makes it look like it's underdeveloped.
@@destructionandcreation Depends where in India. If it's the Northern Himalayan regions, India resembles switzerland more. But if it's the Western desert region, then I can see why India is mistaken for Arabia. Camels and sand etc.
Persia, sind, Uyghur too
@@stynershiner1854 northern Himalaya region is similar to Patagonia Argentina
random white guy as the main character with nothing but a single drop of water in his empty canteen
"Dang it! I forgot to pack water when going to a desert!"
Also: When the ancient, sacred, magical scrolls are revealed accidentally by a small cave in,during a random hike across the dune covered desert, Midday...🤭
The protagonist trips, realizes an ancient tablet is poking out the ground near where he fell; first human eyes to spot it in 2,500 years or so. He begins gently digging around it, revealing more text to the audience, which is duly translated in the next scene by a beautiful young archaeologist/language expert.
name five movies where that happens.
The Mummy has all of those. I still love it though.
The Mummy is one of the reasons alot of these tropes exist in the contemporary mind, even though most go back as far as 40s and 50s Hollywood.
@@Stargazzer811 I really doubt The Mummy (1999) has as much influence on modern society as all that
@@cam4636 And I really doubt your doubt.
Most of it is already in Indiana Jones
@@Stargazzer811still loving
That random shot of a camel eating took me out lmao
Camels really do be like that though
Unrealistic, they forgot the shot of some kind of military aircraft (usually a helicopter or Osprey) flying over expanses of desert & ruined buildings.
Michael Bay got a lot of mileage out of that exact shot in the first two Transformers movies.
That scene happened ten minutes into Act 1. We're now twenty minutes into Act 1, where the protagonist has escaped the dinner at the mansion and passed out in the desert.
@@spongemaster You know it's Bay directed when you can't tell if the real hero is Optimus Prime or the US Army.
Oh that’s the once a movie urban scene.
@@RealRexRiplash the army, of course. humans > all
And don't forget the kid that's about to get beat up for stealing food but thankfully the American protagonists step in and save them 🙏🙏🙏
fr what will we do without the american protagonist
He and the hot light brunette assistant to the British guide he just met in Act 1 unofficially adopt him by the end of Act 3.
Then the American protagonist asks the kid 'where is the oil?'
@@TrelliessRose"I'm more than my beauty, adventurer." Said the brunette as she swung the sword flawlessly.
Literally Shanghai Knights
That merchant in the public market shouting for any possible customers while selling the most outrageous items
"Come get your fresh baked Coleslaw cookies"
You forgot the random kid who'll steal the protagonist's wallet and will be caught by some people who'll plan to beat him up but then the protagonist will arrive to stop them.
And recrute the boi and in the End adopt him
Scorpion King
And then the MC will commit genocide against humanity 💀 (Attack on Titan)
I was literally about to say "don't forget the girl in the hijab with the beautiful eyes looking sultry" and then 0:25 happened. I died 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The night was sultry…
And she starts flirting with the protagonist and has flowing curly brown hair. And apparently good at making poison. And at times, not free because she owes her 'pimp'. And the protagonist saves her eventually.
Don’t forget about the tourists who are dressed like Steve Irwin 🩳 🥾
Lmao 😭
These are the best kinds of Tik-Toks
I love when random people on the internet come together and produce a banger like this. So accurate!!😂😂😂
It's the double harmonic scale
Every. Single. Time
Half of Asia is double harmonic, half of Asia is major pentatonic. Simple geography. Then, I'm _pretty sure_ Morocco is a city in Iraq so same thing, all of North Africa gets it too.
I see I'm not the only one who's watched Farya Faraji's video on orientalist music. xD
@@aimee9478 who?
@@kokorochacarero8003 Search for a video titled Orientalism: Desert Level Music vs Actual Middle-Eastern Music. I have a feeling you might enjoy it!
@@player17wastakenmorocco is its own country on the northwest coast of africa
If it happens to be the name of a city there too then I wouldn't know lmao
0:50 ofc that’s not kevin hart😂
I've been a character in one of those movies and I can confirm that it is true
neat dude! what movie were you in? (If u dont mind me asking)
@@aboxinspace yeah we’d like to know
I've been a camel in one of those movies and it is true
@@Ka1o.U made me snort 😂😂😂
Tough white guy protagonist: "I'm here only for the money"
The ,,welcome my friend" was on point
This is genius. Can't wait to see the full movie. Staring Alex Siddig as Arab guy, Kevin Hart as Black guy, and Benedict Cumberbatch as inappropriately casted Arab assassin/ally guy but we all ignore he's not the right ethnicity because he's such a good actor.
why should the actor be the same ethnicity as the character?
I wish they used actual Arabic music in scenes like this
I'm kinda curious, do they research for the music or at least hired an expert ?
@@unknown-fq9sw
Would be neat if they did. But for now, we're stuck with Phrygian Dominant. At least video game composers are picking up the slack.
@@SilentGlaceon94 do you know good examples of it in video game OSTs?
Arabic metal-jazz goes fucking hard
@@jgmr645 Genshin Impact's Sumeru soundtrack utilizes traditional instruments from the Arabian peninsula and several South Asian instruments. The composer uses the traditional music notation in the songs. It's my favorite Genshin soundtrack, and I can't recommend it enough.
it just kept getting more and more accurate with every new addition
Oriental music is just Surf rock slowed and reverbed. Change my mind.
Genuinely take any song with a guitar solo, replace said guitar with a sitar and crank up the reverb. You'll have a "middle-eastern" vibe easy.
One of the most famous surf rock songs is literally an Anatolian folk song
@@Jenna_Talia no way, changing the primary instrument changes how the music sounds????
Camel also acts as a weird chekhov's gun, at some point it will bite/huck cud at somebody if it's shown off.
It hates the main character at first but at the climax of the movie it somehow helps or gives them transportation and becomes obedient
Don't forget the part where a guy in a turban plays a wooded instrument, making a Cobra rise out of a clay pot.
"Welcome to Egypt my friend"
*Proceeds to show Arizona*
Also;
İstanbul in Hollywood: Putting "yellow filter" effect on İstanbul to show it like a Middle East desert city, putting extra focus on mosques (as if they're the only thing we have), showing bellydancing women and Middle Eastern type bars (*cough, The Veil), showing broke neigbourhoods and trash-collecting folks
İstanbul irl: Europanized in every conceivable way, mostly full of concrete and greens, skyscrapers every 5 meter, old trams, Taksim square, an incredible nightlife, many nightclubs and gay bars, and beaches and SEA
You forgot about the cats
CATS EVERYWHERE! :D
@@Ктоя-ь1м As an İstanbul person, l can guarantee the cats are everywhere 😂
@@lucindayumikane8567 Same.
Even though initially I hadn't been raised in turkiye(I spent most of my childhood in europe), I was originally from turkiye and born in Istanbul.
And when I returned back to my homeland at an older age, I quickly noticed that cats were absolutely EVERYWHERE.
From the public street parks to inside the little grocery shops, from the metro stations to even mosques!
And as a cat person it became one of my favourite aspects about this cozy city! ^_^
Honestly, the only thing on that list that surprised me was gay bars. Nothing wrong with that, it just surprised me.
@@downloadablecreature They are not noticable because they are frowned upon. You need to get inside to understand usually 😂
Can’t forget the Expat with London accent waiting for the protagonist at a hookah bar 😂
name five movies where this happens.
0:51 “I’m sweating like R. Kelly in Disneyland” is so unbelievably funny
This needs to have more segments in it
OR when the (white male) protagonist finally finds the lost tomb of King Madubneem
King Sugondeez
Or the shot where men stare at the americans and they're actually hiding a weapon
the accuracy of this hollywood portrayal is criminally good 🤣
The funny character be like: “It is hot as hell in this Funky-ass Hot-ass room I’m in.”
*sees the mysterious character*
“IS THAT THE GRIM REAPER?!?!?!”
Forgot the rattle snake noises..
"American character! Welcome to Pakistan!"
"We're looking for this individual. Have you seen him?"
*Shows picture of individual.*
"Yes! But we do not speak of him."
You forgot the 10 second long shot of the sun with an overly dramatic lens flare
The laugh of the greeter mixed perfectly with the one liner's joke
The Mummy😂
You forgot the carpet people and their hagglers 😂😂😂
BRB I’m going to rewatch the Mummy
The lady staring is a facttttttttttt this is so great
😂 This is tops. Please do African jungle movies.
The local lady who joins the protag(s) is the only one wearing “modern” clothing starts randomly going up to stands in a bazaar and finds “the one who knows whom we are looking for”
Or it’s some well off blonde dude in tacky sunglasses but trying to be cool
That second last part had me dying 💀
The "one-dimensional black character who's just there to make puns" is so accurate, it's unbelievable in how many movies a black guy or gal's role is just to be loud, scream and talk in a stereotypical accent.
Then that one kid looking at the protagonist in a weird way
Y’all forgot the white guy whose been living there for a few years and set up his base of operations there
And yet the funniest part is how Hollywood has been so adamant about wanting to break racial stereotypes when they were 90% the cause of most of them
“Welcome my friend…to Jurassic middle east” *arab version of Jurrasic park theme plays*
Oh. Well done, you blocked the last guy with ugly advertiements
Removing ugly ads asap cuz that last guy is me. 😭
Edit: Removed.
You forgot the bazaar where there's a stand selling candy next to a stand selling AKs and old mortar tubes.
Nathan drake in rub al khali dessert uncharted 3
But there were't any of these cliches
Dont forget two men in a local bazaar holding up different amounts of fingers while arguing.
This is why the internet was invented. The girl doing the camel is my personal favorite.
The what now 🤨🤨🤨
As a turk being extremely near middle east, i can definitely sense the yellow camera filter and the distant arabic choirs from here
this is my favorite video ever
You forgot some random scene where the MC gets super dehydrated and sees vultures circling above them, before abruptly falling to the ground from passing out.