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I love Slap Shot, and the Hansens are hilarious. But this video, trying to change it from a comic caricature to justifiable in reality. If you love your family and friends, and will do anything for their team, then violent assault, sucker punching, and ignoring the rules and the laws is all just fine. Winning a game make serious violence far beyond normal hockey, and attacking fans, all excusable. Wow. This is a movie that exaggerates to make a point, so as a movie, it's fun entertainment, a classic. To try to make an argument that their actions are somehow good as a way to really act is moronic. This channel is blocked.

Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark need some Hansen style Transgender Enforcers going after anyone who hard fouls especially with no calls by referees!

"Are not all political personas essentially invented identities?" The whole Being There concept seems to have inspired a contemporary campaign. Was a certain slow word-salad/Spock-thought dispensing political persona inspired by Chauncey Gardiner?

I love the Hansons. Being raised Catholic I love the part when they make a sign of the cross 23:19. I thought to myself "That explains a lot"

wrong all wrong about it being ice. wtf? wrong all wrong

I love this movie!!!

An excellent movie I have the movie and I watch it over and over and over again and I’ve been watching it since it’s since it came out I like all the people in it Paul Newman was good. Everybody was good and it’s an excellent😊

I'm in no way suggesting my interpretation is correct, but the book and film both held special significance to me as an autistic person. I see Chance as master of masking.

Dave’s a mess

Hanson and Carlson is very Swedish surnames which would explain why they love hokey and are a bit crazy! 😂 We Swedes are mostly very polite and friendly, but just like Canadians do we take hokey very seriously!

The best thing about this movie is that it is based on real stories from real hockey players.

At 9:50, a good point is made that the two Holocaust survivors acted on their own since seemingly no one cares. I would add that while there are some who are apathetic, there are more who aren't properly informed about the horrors of the Holocaust

They all lived together previous to the movie & on their days off they would drink beer & race slot cars all day long according to Steve Hanson! Reggie's apartment was modeled directly after Steve's Paul Newman & someone from the production went to Steve's to see what a real hockey players apartment looked like! Steve went back to sleep & Newman watched a car race on TV & drank some of Steves beer! All three of the Hansons were offered a multi year contract with the film studio which they declined because they wanted to play hockey not act!

Excellent work ....

You can admire their camaraderie, but you also have to recognize the unhealthy nature of their relationship.

They are loved because they are simple, Amazing teammates and tough as fucking nails in the golden age where they competed with tough men. They are Idealic Goons and I mean that in the most beloved sense.

outstanding analysis of a vastly under-rated film.

Great synopsis and character study! I saw the movie in the theatre in Montreal when it came out in 1977! 👍🏻🇨🇦🏒🥅🇨🇦👍🏻

The film is stretching our perceptions of a man without a mind.

I started to try and figure out what Chance walking on water meant. But then I realized the whole film was about projecting what you thought on to Chance and that is what the films ending encourages you to do. Project what you think the meaning is onto an ending that actually has no meaning but is just something that happens.

Good video

I loved this movie and enjoyed your analysis

Absolutely phenomenal video man. Thank you for this brilliant profile of these 3 misunderstood icons.

fantastic, thank you

Wonderful speculative analysis. Thank you for your hard work on this. Kosinski was an autobiographical writer and a fabulist, not to mention a brilliant man concerned about politics and the future of humankind. That several or all of these versions might be in play is quite possible.

He was an angel from God

Great movie. Shoresy is Slapshot's grandchild.

La castagne

I was watching some analysis on the last scene and jprules2578 from below is completely correct. Since us humans, whether we like it or not, are meaning making machines and once the thought is in our head our mind will create a reality to match it. If the thought never arises that you can't walk on water, then any of us could walk on water. We all create our own reality, but the mind is very limited to the 3D world and our belief system, which is filled up from birth in realities that might not really be. The producer shows this throughout the movie. It is all perception. This movie is brilliant in allowing the viewer to see that and the absurdity of what we think is really. What if the reality we see with our biological sense is not reality? Our little mind can't wrap around the concept well of a multi-dimensional existence is what is really occurring. It it mind bending.

Well done

No one feels sympathy for that "elderly man" are you nuts?

Paul Newman (and his agent) could spot a great script, regardless of the backstory.

Hello from Canada. Great Video about a terrific movie. Thanks for posting the video.

Shoresy's the three Jims has to be an homage to the the Hansons.

I was happily reading the synopsis and thoughts in the comment section. Not being from the US, can someone define "woke" for me? I know it doesnt mean "past of wake". Is this another american manufactured word that's supposed to be derogatory? Like "snowflake"?

Is Kamala our Chance the gardener candidate? It is a remarkably similar setup.

With Kamala unable to articulate anything beyond the BAB’s (Boring as Bromides) something told me I saw this before---somewhere. Thought long and hard and then WALA. College. Movie date. Best hatchet job on liberals ever. The move? The Candidate with Robert Redford. He wins because of his good looks, and the demonization of his GOP opponent Crocker Jarman (actor Don Porter), and celebrity endorsements (Natalie Wood) the uber handsome Bill McKay (Robert Redford) an California Barak Obama (community organizer) doesn’t have a clue (hint hint) but wins and asks his campaign manager Marvin Lucas (the magnificent actor Peter Boyle) “Marvin, now what do I do”?

Nicely done, Scheider at his best and the forgotten talents of Marthe Keller and Devane. Very underrrated film. Thanks for reminding people about this one. I saw it twice when it came out. When you actually had to pay each time you watched it, remember? Turned out in the end, she was more sincere than anyone anticipated. She really did care for him and died for it.

excellent treatise

Some have compared Kamala Harris's campaign for POTUS 2024 to that of Chauncy (Chance) Gardner, played by Peter Sellers, from the sly yet poetic satire 1979 film, "Being There". The comparison is dangerously superficial. Chance is simple-minded but honest and sincere. 😇 Kamala Harris is anything but -- she's "stupid and ambitious on steroids". 🤑😝 If you want to read this film as a parable rather than a satire, Chance is a "Holy Fool" and illustrates the "the meek who inherit the earth" untouched by the worlds contamination.

Excellent analysis. Thanks

Dr Allenby was always my favorite character in Being There Dysart did a wonderful job. Enjoyed this video on the movie.

Great video

Thanks to this I started to eat lemon (and other fruits) fully. Lemon in particular is very good in salad, choped and added. Very good.

How did ten year old the narrator of this video by the way, manage to get into a cinema for an extremely violent film 'that Marathon Man is?

Great scene in a great movie. Laurence Olivier exudes evilness. Cold blue eyes, immaculately dressed and groomed and no trace of humanity in his personality. I like this video breaking it down.

When the movie came out my cousin was playing Jr Hockey it was a big deal in Port Huron as they hosted the Silver Stick tournament. I wanted so bad to join the team but I could not skate very well I was skinny klutz. Fell & broke my hand in tryouts. To this day I have long hair & black glasses. always a Hanson at heart.

I'll bet your food gets really cold before you eat (and enjoy) it.

He would have used the same phrases on every customer he encountered

It's the way socialists view capitalism