The Wire - How Stringer Bell Manipulates Everyone 

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I mean, that just means Shamrock was a good choice for that job. Stringer probably told he was gonna do it, and what has to do. Shamrock then went and looked into what a job like that may entail, then followed through with his newly gained knowledge.

@@jacobp.4593 Great point

cracks me up every time!!!!

snot boogy is right up there with it...

What I find interesting is that Stringer theoretically could have adapted. But his hubris and paranoia got in the way. Yah Clay played him this time, but if he took the L and learned he may have eventually succeeded. But he needed to be in control and the smartest person in the room and created the scenario for his death and to lose anyone who may have had his back.

He thought he was smarter then the people around him and that was his down fall and the people above him where not smart at all he just wasn’t a good businessman like Avon who brought the whole city including clay Davis

It's like this in anything. The higher up you go in any social structure the more you see that everyone that is there is there for a reason. They may not be good at what their job description says they should be good at but they are good at SOMETHING. Stringer ran into people that presented themselves as people good at paperwork and getting past bureaucratic red tape but they where really just good at taking people's money. Stringer didn't get outsmarted as much as he didn't consider the possibility that guys in suits could be criminals. It's not like clay davis did anything creative he just promised things and broke his promises. If Stringer would have approached clay as a criminal his normal strategies would work. He threatens someone close to clay's life if money dissappears similar to what happened to brandon.

Rather than high school versus college, I always framed String's problem as the difference between undergraduate and post-grad work. He's literally only got a first-year community college level understanding of business, but he would need to dive into Masters or PhD work in Business (and Public Policy, since that's really what The Wire is about) to understand the complexities of the environment that he's operating in. As the saying goes, he "knows just enough to be dangerous".

And in the land of two eyed, the four eyes reign supreme.

It's wild to me how after ALLLLLLLLLLL of these wire videos, this is the first I've seen about dirtydawg community college mastermind

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They interviewed and worked with sever actual Baltimore gang affiliates and Police at the time so their language and actions were as realistic as possible

@@jordanford9320 that was going to be my response. Initially I thought like @MrTurtleTail and figured it was deep writing and research. Over time we've learned that the reason that this series was so real and consistent was indeed the writers and producers based this on real people where many of the events actually happened to some extent.

Elba has the wet sounds in his voice though when he talks his voice is irritating When he pronounces words with Ps, Gs, Ks and Cs that sound like Ks it has these weird almost like clicking noises to them

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@@judeannethecandorchannel2153me too bro and I done watched it 8 times since no cap

There ain't no nostalgia to this shit Edit: hope someone remembers the line lol

Crazy that after he survived the shooting he built a career in management at a Steel company before taking an executive role at a paper company. What a great character!

Luther, Stringer he to good

I SECOND THAT

The wire definitely spring boarded a lot of careers

Nah, Stringer thought he was way smarter than he actually was. He tried to treat the dope game like a legit business but he lacked the perspective that the much less educated Avon had about what really rules the dope game. Fear and brute power. Stringer thinking he was much smarter than everyone is literally the thing that cost him his life in the end.

Lol yes man I just said that. Brother mouzone is what stringer thinks he is, a smart person and business man. Yeah stringer is smart but not as much as he thinks. He has no respect for the game, who buys corners 🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

Emotional intelligence is the key term here, plus Avon knew how to pick the right people for the job - another sign of a good leader. If Avon was to pursue the real estate/legal income path like Stringer, he would've hired someone knowledgeable to handle it (Levy for example) instead of trying it out himself - because he knew that wasn't his game.

@@saadishsnake That’s a fact man. Even Levy asked stringer why he didn’t come to him first.

@@jojodagoattv9186 no it’s not a fact and opinion

Stringer Bell was actually extremely unlucky. He did make some questionable choices, but Mouzon surviving an attack by Omar and then eventually teaming up with Omar to go after Stringer was an extremely unlucky chain of events for him. The thing is, the world would probably be a better place if all drug gang leaders were as rational as he was. Committing murders and fighting wars is generally a very inefficient way to deal with rival businesses, and tends to blow back on you, one way or another, in the end. If the police left the most peaceful drug king-pins alone, there'd be a lot less drug related murder and gang violence, and the drugs themselves would probably be safer/ higher quality, and less likely to be contaminated or improperly made. Other examples of more civilized/ business like fictional drug king-pins come to mind, namely Frank White (King of New York) and Walter White (Breaking Bad).

Jimmy McNulty : " who the fuck was I chasing?

I disagree, Marlo is just as interesting, but in a different way. Stringer was addicted to money, but Marlo is pure chaos, he's basically a junkie for power and an evil force, the end of the show with him taking heavy breaths after taking the corner is like someone relapsing after having been sober for a long time.

When you think about it, we didn't even get a backstory with Marlo either. He just appeared out of nowhere.

Agreed

My issue with Marlon wasnt that I didnt think he was interesting, more that I didnt believe that this dude who didnt even know what money laundering was could end up so high on the food chain

In the middle 😂. Even worst

A man without a country, always playing away games

BOOM!

Damn….😂 I got this.

He was the queen appose to Avon being the king. He could have been the legal/business side but never the street. Avon knew that, but Stringer didn't understand it. And it go him killed, not understanding the role of the soldier.

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Same, whenever I hear his actual accent it sounds fake to me lol

Same here. It took until he raised his voice for me to notice something was off. For some reason, that's often the case for foreigners doing American accents -- once they start yelling they slip up.

McNulty is British as well like in real life

I still remember the first time I heard him speak with his real british accent. I was surprised to say the least.

That's a fact, there's a kid in here lost in admiration over stringer's deluded ambitiousness

He also forgot the number one rule never outdo the master, he tried to over take Avon. Which was the ultimate failure, of Stringer was loyal and had a code. Avon would have forgiven him for his mistakes in the game. But stringer had not code, killed his nephew, lied to him multiple times and tried to take his organization from him. He did a bad job running it, Avon knew at that point what good are you to me. Can’t run my organization and you can’t even be a loyal friend.

So, so good, as always. Thank you.

@@realranger6297 don't get me wrong I still love the entirety of the show and i absolutely realize how every storyline is interconnected. I just think the street gang focused segments are far more real than the cop aspects when it comes to the acting, dialogue and writing. The police segments felt like just another typical NYPD Blue style of television, particularly in the dialogue and acting (the fat slob cop behind the desk snarfin on cheetos barking orders while the snarky young Irish detective is always firing off one liner quips was old hat years before the wire was even conceived), what made the wire so much more memorable were the real aspects of the streets. Even during season two or three when the whole dock workers aspect came into play was a refreshing glimpse of fictional reality with how the actors played their parts with the dialogue, because the writing made it feel like you're actually seeing how real people talk instead of how television wants you to think people would talk. It almost felt like two different shows every time the police had screen time, the forced "jokes" in the dialogue were unnatural which is why shows like the Sopranos or Better Call Saul are so gripping: it's believable

@@realranger6297 Why yes, I'm glad you asked

@@cloudbloom idk the cop aspect of the show was very much believable to me because it’s subversive to typical cop shows. Sure, they had familiar/tropey characters, but their behavior was flawed, self-serving, and ultimately unheroic. Most cop shows try and give the viewer the notion that those working in law enforcement are all working for the greater good and actually care about the impact they have on the community at large. The Wire shows (mostly) cops acting in their own best interest, taking/refusing/sabotaging cases to move up the ladder. That’s just as real as the street gang segments to me because it’s the truth: most cops don’t actually give a fuck about the state of the public, it’s a job like any other at the end of the day

@@aarontheruler that's a great point, I think mostly I didn't like the acting during the cop segments I'm really sucked out of the believability in shows when the writing (dialogue) and acting aren't portrayed realistically but I know that's a personal problem lol

It's based in the concept of Hubris

empathy? I thought he was the worst character on the show bar none - horrid individual.

@@TC8787-yq7og OF COURSE he's a terrible individual...many antiheros are; think "Tony Soprano", "Walter White", "Nucky Thompson", etc. If a person can't appreciate complex, tragic characters, perhaps they should turn to fairy tales for entertainment.

I wish I could watch it for the first time again.

I gotta put it at a 3-way tie with Stringer Bell, Gus Fring, and Homelander.

Gus fring, Anton Chigurh, Stringer bell

@@gregorio853 Anton is a film character lol

@@jakel7213 eh String has far more depth than Gus tbh. String actually wanted to bring about change to the streets for the better even though his methods weren’t the best. Gus was just a walking talking smoove capitalist machine who also wanted revenge because of what happened to his partner.

@@gregorio853 you can't put anton up there🤣🤣🤣🤣

You mean David Simon

Check out “A man’s world podcast” he has some good videos

I think a "dearth" of such videos is more accurate.

Hey now, A Man's Gotta have a code Running with them wolves is all fun and games until they realize you're just a pup

worse second to me very conniving but i respect the take

Im glad that someone actually respects his strategy

He had his own agenda. Dude gave up Avon to the Police, how is he the best second-in-command? He killed Avon's nephew without cause and he tried to have the muscle Avon hired killed.

Nah too greedy and for damn sure too self preserving. He and his type Gotta fall.

Shame alright. I saw an interview with David Simon before though where he said stringer tried to change the game and the game doesn't tolerate change.

I know the vibes- you couldn't shut me up after my first Psych course, couldn't tell me nothing either😤

Lmao

Can't live another Man's dream, Marlo knew that better than all of em

You are so right about the irony of Marlo getting what Stinger dreamed of and didn't even want it

But Stringer main mistake was not staying loyal to Avon. All this issues stems from him uncontrollable ambition and disloyalty toward Avon. All he had to do was be loyal and do exactly what Avon told him.

Stringer was more sophisticated than the average request for Bob n vagene that's for sure

No bobs n vagenes on this side of youtube my guy

Facts

Well said.

@@youknowwhoyouare2269 milk truk just arrive

Nah, look at the Kennedys.

Stringer understood that his lane only led to 2 destinations: Dead or in jail. The game was rigged.

He had more bodies than a Chinese cemetery, lol

@@idkwhodidthis2990 lol part is hilarious

I feel like Marlo would have went against him no questions asked too but Marlo hit different lol

Chris and snoop don't have the capacity for fear I don't think

Brother mouzone could’ve easily killed him him

Unless you sacrifice your queen purposefully as part of a strategy

Only thing Omar feared was going against his principles, and not getting a soft pack of Newports

Stringer is everyone after taking their first college course, running back to the block with basic 101 and passing it off as graduate level wisdom

@@youknowwhoyouare2269 😂

His arc was the most satisfying, from nothing to something meaningful- the only happy ending in the show