A compilation of scenes from Season 3 of the Hulu series, 'The Great' (2023), starring Elle Fanning (Catherine) and Belinda Bromilow (Aunt Elizabeth). #thegreat #ellefanning #russianroulette
sorry in advance if your comment was sarcasm but i don’t think she was broken after killing the guy. more like shocked because it actually hit her that she would be dead if she didn’t shoot him. i think that’s why she smiled after (i have never seen this movie and don’t know who it’s about)
@@brcsephina I think that’s what op meant- not broken over the guy who died, but the realization for herself. Never watched either lol but according to other comments she was already in a low point when she was doing this so makes sense
Im not sure, I took it more as one of those situations where when someone is very suicidal, but the moment the jump off the bridge, or kick the chair, they instantly regret it, and those that survive, like the rope breaking or just not drowning, end up completely having a different view of life. And I think that was expressed with her happily greeting her husband in the photo
she was checking if they were all loaded, they were which meant that somebody loaded them all possibly knowing that she plays that game and knowing it would be an easy thing to get away with
@hanksussyschrader I know what she was doing, but it's still funny that she's shooting a wooden floor on what's likely the second story of the building. It's just hilariously unsafe.
In Russian roulette one bullet will be in the gun and due to gravity it will always come and settle down. So the person cannot shoot themselves with it. It's just a way to test if the person is a spy or not . The person has to offer to shoot themselves to prove
Lol another reason for that is when you’re carrying a dead body out of the house its gonna face the door in a laying down position. The same position when you sleep
By trying to kill her, the assassin saved her life from the game & the game saved her life from the assassin. Meaning, if she didn’t have a loaded gun in her hand about to play Russian roulette, then the assassin would have been able to shoot her. But if assassin didn’t come to kill her, she would have shot herself. So the two deadly forces canceled each other out.
So there's no confusion - Catherine the Great didn't actually invent Russian Roulette. Nobody knows who invented it, but my best guess is that it was made up for a novel and then became kind of a real thing from that.
@@staomruel It was done, but other 'games' were more common, like forcing POWs to go through minefields or having them run away and using them for target practice. War is full of terrible things like this.
@Antonio-Gransci It's stupid and reckless enough to be typically Russian. It's like when Russians inject krokodil, although it often leads to septic shock and gangrene because it's so impure, and they know it. And you don't have to make things up about Russia. The truth is horrible enough, as demonstrated in the ongoing war. And you joined YT in January this year. Of course.
Rarely does anyone really want to kill themselves. In most cases, it really is just about getting someone to really notice a problem and give them help in life. In some cases, they "consciously" want to die...they're suffering and want the suffering to end...and see no possible solution but death itself. But in both cases, the instinct to survive is still mostly or even entirely intact. Very, very rarely is someone so broken that instinct itself also completely fails. In fact, it's psychologically impossible. You can't train out instinct. You can sort-of "add" pseudo-instincts through techniques like muscle-memory and such, or add-ons to existing real instincts. But getting rid of them requires some hefty genetic or physiological damage to the hindbrain. Which is usually lethal in the first place. Instinct is unbeatable. Uncontrollable. There is no "mind over matter." The mind only exists at all BECAUSE of matter. Your mind RESULTS from your brain...and absolutely never the other way around. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a quack or a con-artist.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979it’s definitely possible but extremely destructive. Before I got over my self loathing I was a monster in my unit because I would work and push to the point where I would often black out after the work was done. In order to prevent someone from stopping me I would excuse myself to the side to momentarily pass out or catch my breath. I’ve aged my body significantly and I’m getting medically retired so mind over matter is possible if your brain is Swiss cheese but it’s definitely a horrible thing to do
That is such a complex emotional twist man! Imagine having set up a game years ago from poor mental health, a degree of deniability for your unaliving thoughts, an all or nothing adrenaline rush for when you "need" it. And imagine you go to follow through, about pop yourself in the dome unknowingly. If it had happened, it would have been an betrayal of god, or just a brutal reality brought by her own hand, either one a valid interpretation. But imagine that complexity in the moment, feeling like it's time to put it all on the line, someone tries to take your life instead of your choice, so you take the chance to shoot back and the bullet meant for you to fulfill the purpose you sent into motion during times of mental illness, turns out to be your salvation. Thrilling. Then finding out shortly after that someone loaded them all that day.
@@kvassinc These are flintlocks, they don't have percussion caps. You can see the flints in the jaws. The weird thing is the flints didn't produce any sparks at all.
I only realized afterward the 3 charged pistol at the end was planned by Ant Elizabeth to kill Catherine... I explain myself. 1) she knew about the new Russian bullet game of Catherine 2) Catherine asks the Royal Guards to charged the gun 3) soon after Ant E show Catherine that the Royal Gards are more loyal to her (they redused to obey C because A.E told them so) 4) FINALLY A.E is *suprised* to see C after she sat on the chair I belive because she thought C had already killed herself after she loaded all the guns. And that why she guve back the chair I think my theory works. But nobody talked about it in the comment
Considering those are flint lock pistols. You'd visually see which one didn't have a flint. The first two pistols didn't even hit a flint spark. But every other one did have a flint spark when it fired.
Turns out all the guns were loaded at the end... Maybe a different assassin saw she was playing a death game, and decided to try and be smart. Only he ended up helping her.
its hilarious to me because the lighter flintlocks that women often had were made with smaller caliber rounds in mind, meaning sometimes they would discharge in such a way that they could injure and not yet kill, due to the large amount of stopping power and the penetration power of.. well, a ball. try throwing a shot put into a cement wall - good luck getting it into the wall, much less through it. now imagine that interaction 50x smaller, and the wall is a human skull.. bouncing can happen
Then there's the woman who carries the man's flintlock just to make sure no "bouncing" ever happens. Also, the average flintlock ball/shot weighs just over 1oz of iron... it's kind of hard not to die after getting hit with 1oz of iron flying at 1,600fps!
@@johndoe-sx5pv but a smaller chamber causes lower fps. Do you not know how firearms work? the reason women's flintlocks existed is because firearms are heavy and hard to aim
If there is a 4th season, it would be funny if Marie Antoinette and Louis 16 would come to Catherine, who could escape from revolutionary France =) Toinette would start throwing all sorts of parties that Catherine doesn’t really like :)
"Blyat! What the fuck is that!?" "Moy droog, Catherine tries to kill herself again." "Ayy blyat I survived Chesma, hope for peaceful guard post in the palace and some psycho cyka shooting off in the middle of the night!"
1:01 Reminds of the story of one of the few people who survived jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. As soon as he jumped and realized he was in danger, he knew he wanted to live.
I mean, it wouldnt really work with these guns since in order to shoot the gun you needed gunpowder on the flap up top (i have no clue what its called) so when it comes smashing down it makes a spark, which ignites the powder inside, which fires the gun. If one of them was loaded, then the one with powder on the metal flap would be the one you dont want to choose.
you would then, power all the pans but only charge one gun with powder and ball in the barrel?? It's a simple concept. The pan is powdered after the gun is charged.
The problem with this is flintlock pistols either have powder at the flint, or a blast cap. Which means either the loaded ones are visually obvious because they aren't missing the blast cap, or all three have a blast cap, with only one loaded with shot, and you burn your face from the blast cap.
@@shruu1056 yeah, this is the moment that she realizes its not fate, its literally dumb luck that can be manipulated by anyone around her and that she needs to take control of her own life. Thats why in the end of the season she says “destiny didn’t make it, I did.” She was the one who rose to power and she is the one who is going to bring change, she is not going to let destiny do it all for her.
She does Russian roulette to test fate, she has the guards put 3 guns on the table but only one is unloaded. if she chooses the gun loaded and dies then it shows she just wasn’t meant to rule Russia (her whole thing is that she thinks being empress was her fate). So that time where she laughed was because earlier that day as she was putting one of the guns she chose to her head and was about to pull the trigger someone busts in the room trying to kill her so she instinctively shoots and kills that man with the gun she just had to her own head and just stands shocked that the gun was actually loaded. The reason she laughed here was cuz when she tries the other two guns later that day they’re both loaded. she realizes someone (probably the guards) rigged the guns for all of them to be loaded knowing she plays the game and it was yet another assassination attempt. This is funny because when only one gun isn’t loaded she always picked the unloaded gun, when all 3 are loaded she gets lucky and just kills yet another assassin with it while dodging a completely different assassination attempt, making viewers wonder if it really was Catherine’s fate to rule Russia.
