This book was featured on Studio 360 years ago when it first came out. I thought about it and later forgot about it. Thanks to your video, I'm going to look for it at my local comic book store. Another great tortured artist story is The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber. I hope someday a bio pic is made about Jasper Johns. He has always struck me as the antithesis to the tortured modern art genius.
In my sequel trilogy, the Knights of Ren are new group force users created by Lord Ren. Lord Ren believes that common non-force sensitive beings are incapable governing themselves that Force-users are supreme beings destine to bring order to the galaxy. She combines the teachings of both Jedi and Sith put rejects the aspects that led to there downfall. She combine aspects of Darth Bane Rule of Two and Rule by the Strong. So every member of knight of ren must have a apprentice and to avoid power struggles she have code of honor in the Kaggath system. She also build a Cult of Personality around Darth Vader in order keep Knight of Ren in line by making them unit to accomplish Lord Vader goal of bringing order to the galaxy rather than petty squabbles.
This is way more interesting than what we got. Amazing how fans conceive of better, more thoughtful ideas than mega corporations who hire teams of writers and story editors.
@@nolanueno1060 Not really, I think you should continue to develop the concepts and overall thesis statement of your fan sequel trilogy, and perhaps try to produce it into some kind of video or blog post on social media. It's interesting!
Of all Scorsese's movies, I'm only in a rush to watch four: Goodfellas The Last Temptation of Christ Raging Bull and _especially_ After Hours. After Hours is honestly on my need-to-watch list simply BECAUSE it's so relentlessly insane and epically funny.
Wish I could have seen it on the big screen. Hopefully if there's a screening of it for the anniversary next year, it'll be around where I live so I can watch it.
Me too. University residence roommate in the year it was released in 1985 I guess it was. We went out that night for a laugh at a comedy movie; we came back to the house more stressed than when we went out a few hours earlier! Still, couldn’t stop thinking about it for days trying to figure out what to make of it with the other guys in the house many of whom went to see it too over the course of a couple weeks. It’s true too though looking back on that almost thirty years ago what a difference there is seeing all movies for the first time you see them in a theater on a big screen. I remember so much more about the movies I saw for the first time that way back then, than I do so many movies I’ve seen for the first time since, that I saw for the first time only on Beta or VHS (!) or VideoDisc or DVD or BluRay or now streaming onto a TV screen. In a theater with other moviegoers on a large screen is the better format for almost every movie that’s worth seeing in the first place! And “After Hours” sure was; I’ve enjoyed it more every time I’ve seen it since!
@@JAI_8 Beautiful comment. And yeah, it's a bizarre how easier it is to remember a film you see in theaters versus a film you watch on the small screen
If you like "After Hours", track down the original Joe Frank radio show the first half was taken from. An absolute masterpiece of writing and audio production.
@@dirkturtle3354 Too bad Joe Frank's widow is restricting access to his work. I'll never forget listening to his shows: you could never predict what new world you were about to step into. Hopefully his stuff will become more readily available soon.
Interesting analysis. Before I get to my interpretation I'll point out that the interaction Paul has with the bouncer at Club Berlin is based on a passage from The Trial by Franz Kafka. I don't think I really got After Hours until a friend said she didn't like the movie because he could have just walked home. So I had to consider the question of why he didn't just walk home, and I think the reason is that he clings to the notion that he can rely on the assistance of others. He continues to believe that either some person will help him or some system (taxis, the subway, or the police) will be available to him. To answer your point, Paul does go back in an attempt to apologize to Marcy, he does return to Julie's apartment as he promised, he does return Tom's apartment key, and he does finally pay the taxi driver for his ride to Soho -- all with disastrous results. Not only are his good will and faith in the kindness of others not rewarded, but ultimately the only way he is able to get out of Soho and back to his life is by way of an act of thievery when the statue he is encased in is stolen (an act he has no agency in). If I understood your point, you believe that the movie is about following through on engagements and commitments to others. I would say the message of the movie is much darker: the universe is indifferent to wants, needs, and best intentions.
That's a wickedly good interpretation! A fascinating way of looking at the events that transpire in the film. One can certainly say that Paul is repeatedly punished for daring to trust others. He's punished for assuming that people will genuinely help him. The irony being is that, he doesn't really offer to ever help them in return. He remains solely focused on getting home, which is understandable. Thank you for your analysis. I really enjoyed it.
Remember that one Game Theory that the Knights of Ren were the squad from Rogue One decades later? Sounds more compelling than what we got about them. Lmao 🤣😂
Hux was a great character...in Force Awakens, when he was channeling a certain European dictator. Then in Last Jedi he became a sniveling punchline in order to make Snoke and Kylo look more intimidating as they pushed him around.
Oh, that's a good point, JJ abrams could have had the knights as the primary antagonist in "last skywalker" instead of clumsily bringing back palpatine for a lore breakingly stupid plot point. He could could have literally made the exact same movie with one of them filling the primary antagonist role and elude to things palpatine might have done before he died to fill in the blanks where needed. 🤔 I had a pretty low opinion of that movie b4, but this just really drives home the level of incompetence involved in the plots construction. They resurrected an old antagonist even though they had several on hand, ready to take the reigns. Its bad enough if you go in thinking that taking snoke off the board last movie put them in a bind, but when you realise that because the knights exist, it didn't really. That's next level bad.
@@src6339 Great comment, overall, too. The Knights as a series of antagonists would have been way more compelling to see get taken down than just having Palpatine return. But that would have required development from early on, and considering they basically just winged every script, we never got it. Instead we got characters with no dialogue that never ended up mattering.
In his GQ interview he said they gave him the script with his name already attached I just have a fucking hard time believing that they produced the screenplay without ever contacting the actor John malkovich I was a kid at the time was JM super relevant at the time or ? So random of an actor
The obscure choice for casting, I think, adds to the bizarre nature of the film, and also the nature of fame and acting, and how these elements connect to audiences.
Every so often I remember this movie, that I never actually watched, exists and look into clips. Neat to see something so recent being made to give a look at it!
I read Starlin's Thanos stories in the 70s and 80s. Not much since. I enjoyed your overview of this series, but at first it's hard to reconcile this character with Starlin's original Thanos. Thanks for the video. I also liked your Malkovich study.
Thank you so much. I have Thanos Quest and Infinity Gauntlet, but I haven't read them like I have Thanos Wins or Thanos Rising. I think when we look at Thanos' evolution (and many other villains from the 50s-70s and how they've transitioned into the modern era) we see him being way more malevolent and slowly becoming a more complex and sympathetic character. And it's especially funny seeing how the films completely changed his motivation and personality. Perhaps it's a consequence of the time, or the writing style, or everything... Hard to know. Anyway, thanks for your comment and support. Very much appreciated.
I always felt that would be the ultimate end goal of entertainment. Full immersion. Sight smell taste touch. Imagine being in any pov of any character from any movie tv media etc.
The Knights of Ren are a waste of opportunity? Really? How about the waste of the opportunity of having possible a last adventures with main original (no other characters that have no bearing on the trilogy or the story is a whole) characters involved in one last war in the stars.
If you think about it we are chimera even having 2 diffrent sets of dna that came from 2 diffrent life forms. I also think you do have the conscious mind and there possibly 2 other consciousness inside us as the entric nervous system is the larget amount of neurons outside the brain and even contain more than the spinal cord and more than whats inside a house cat. Thought this anime was pretty cool and how the relayionship between Izumi and parasite developes they actually care for each other eventually.
Wow these are really interesting thoughts. Thanks for sharing. I never knew about the entire nervous system having so many neurons. Really makes one question the history of how humans have interpreted conflicting notions or ideas within their minds. As if the classic "angel and demon on the shoulders" could literally be far more than simple value clashes, but possible alternative consciousnesses interacting. And yeah, it's a brilliant anime. Any favourite episodes?
@@mediatransmission o e of those Demons is literally your entric nervous system, It's what make you hangry and can greatly influence your mood.i have hypoglycemia and it has almost landed me in jail, when your sugar drops you tend to become extremely aggressive, I'd be at school have a attack and fall asleep and teacher would come over and wake me up and I would be throwing hands, something happens to a diabetic of they take to much insulin they will become extremely aggressive even becoming full blown violent. I use to have profoundly violent thoughts. And it's not like you are thinking it, it's almost like another voice in your head yelling at you. My parents told the teachers not to wake me but to call them and they would take me to have blood work done and sure enough my blood sugar was actually so low that it could be life threatening for a adult, a child can go lower than a adult and be OK. People thinking your a nut job or have behavioral problems but it turns out you have to consume alot and I mean alot more sugar and calories than the average person. But as I said it's almost like another voice in your head it's the entric nervous system. Upwards of 50%+ dopamine is contained in the gut and a whooping 95% percent of the serotonin is also made there, all made and controlled by the ENS, some scientists call it the first brain. My theory is that it's consciousness is more like that of predatory animal.
