The boy who played Newt is a British actor and his name is Thomas Brodie Sangster. He has never played Peter Pan. He was the little boy in the movie Love Actually and he was also in the serie Nanny McPhee. He was Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones. He was also the voice of Ferb in Phineas and Ferb. He has been in a a lot of movies since he was a little child and when he played Newt he was already one of the most established actors in that cast. The whole Maze Runner Trilogyn is about a group of teenage boys in the age of 15-18 years, Chuck is the youngest, about 12.
In re: Why do stung Gladers have so much hostility towards Thomas? Despite his youth, Thomas was a high-ranking WCKD official. In fact, he's a genius. He's a medical doctor/researcher as well. He created the Maze, and he put the Gladers into it. Most likely he was in charge of the Maze, and was a direct report to Dr. Ava Paige, who runs WCKD. Of course, Thomas remembers only a tiny bit of this, hardly anything at all. In his memories, we see Dr. Paige interacting directly with Thomas, she wouldn't be doing so with some minor staffer. She tells Thomas: "Don't be easy on them (the test subjects)." No, Thomas was important in WCKD. After Ben is stung, he tries to kill Thomas. What does Ben say to Thomas? He tells him: "I saw you." In other words, Ben remembers Thomas putting him in the Maze. Naturally, Ben feels anger towards Thomas which the Flare-like WCKD virus magnifies into murderous rage. When Thomas tries to administer the WCKD serum to Alby, Alby yells: "You shouldn't be here!" Alby knows Thomas was WCKD, he put them all in the Maze, and he ran the show. Later, Alby tells Thomas: "We can't leave, they won't let us. I remember ... you (Thomas). You were always their favourite, why did you do this? why did you come here?" Alby doesn't understand why Thomas is in the Maze, because he shouldn't be, and it doesn't make sense to Alby. Right before he's killed, Alby tells Thomas: "Get them out!" Alby knows Thomas created the Maze, ran it and should know how to get out. Finally, there's Gally, who, after being stung and while pointing a pistol at Thomas in the Lab, intending to kill him, says: "No, we can't leave. Free? You think we're free out there? No, no, there's no escape from this place." When both Alby and Gally say the Gladers can't leave and won't be free, they're remembering they're all part of the Trials, that they're lab rats, and WCKD has absolute control over them. The ironic thing is that Thomas is actually the "Creator."
@@UpYourArsenal Since you didn't really say anything, I can't really judge whether you're being absurd or not. Even so, I'll take you at your word that you're absurd.
@@wilhelm-z4t So you're upset that I called you out - and make a pathetic attempt to twist what I actually said into something else. Try harder next time, that wasn't even funny.
@@wilhelm-z4t You're intelligent enough to know (I hope) that what was said is that: You nearly spoiled the next movie, but the entire story was so ridiculous that none of it is even true.
TMR is a trilogy, but supposedly there's a 4th film currently in development. Here's the answer to your Gally in the Lab question. When Thomas and Minho first opened the #7 gate, they triggered a reconfiguration of the Maze and the END of the Maze Trial. The Maze was then reconfigured to funnel the Gladers to #7 gate/exit. This is what was happening when Thomas and Minho were running back to the Glade. Subsequently, all 4 Maze entrances in the Glade were opened. The Grievers were sent in to evict the Gladers from the Glade. Remember what Teresa said to Gally? The Grievers are going to keep coming back until you're all dead. In other words, it's pointless to remain in the Glade. By the way, all those Grievers would have section #7 keys. The entire experiment has been a variation on "survival of the fittest." Only those Gladers who successfully exit the Maze pass Phase I. Those who stay behind will not survive. Remember when Thomas was appointed Runner, Minho took him to the Runner's Hut. He told Thomas the "pattern" the Maze's sections follow when they opened. This is the "code" to the 8 Maze gates. Since only #7 gate is available to the Gladers after the reconfiguration, it's reasonable to assume the code begins with 7, i.e., it's 71526483. If they had opened, say, #2 gate, the code would be 26483715 etc. After Alby is stung, the other Runners quit, except for Minho, the keeper or leader of the Runners. The ex-Runners were then seen talking to Gally, and probably stayed behind with Gally after Thomas and the others left. Gally was also one of the leaders of the Glade. It's reasonable to assume Gally knew the code either from the ex-Runners or because he was a leader. He certainly knew about the "key" inside the Grievers. After Thomas and the others left, either Gally and his mates followed them to force them back or they were driven out of the Glade by a round 2 attack by the Grievers. On the way to gate #7, Gally and his mates either killed a Griever or found a dead one and got a key. Apparently, only Gally made it to the gate, everyone else with Gally was killed along the way. Since Gally had a key and knew the code, if one was still required, he was able to exit the Maze and enter the Lab. Unfortunately, Gally picked up the pistol from the dead attacker, and you know the rest. WCKD wouldn't allow aircraft to fly over the Maze. Since the Maze is huge and the walls are at least 100 feet tall, any helicopter approaching the exterior of the Maze from below 100 feet probably wouldn't be heard inside the Glade, anyway.
Minho is the keepers of the runners. When Ben gets stung they have to ban him from the glade since he attacked Thomas and one of the rules is to never attack or harm another glader. The bannish moment with shoving him out to the maze is the gladers way of establish some law and order. And as you already said, it's easier for them so they don't have to kill someone with their bare hands. When Ben is gone, Alby goes in the maze with Minho since he's the first command. Newt is the second command after Alby and when Alby got stung, Newt takes over and he's the one in charge and also the one who decides to make Thomas a runner. Gally don't like it but he has to do what Newt decides. Gally acts irrational because he's suspicious of Thomas from the beginning, he's not an evil person, just afraid of what's gonna happen when Thomas breaks all the rules that they all have been fine with. And as we will see, he's not wrong. everything changes when Thomas arrives. So we can't actually blame him. Gally was not my favorite character, but i understand him. Newt is my favorite because he's calm, nice, and very supportive and understanding to Thomas. He is also called the Glue in the group because he always tries to keep them all together. He is also the one that always encourage Thomas to do the right thing. He's a true friend through the whole trilogy. He's the best. r
They don't remember anything from their past since Wicked had their memories erased before they put them all in that glade. They only remember their names and those names aren't even their own birth names because when Wicked took them from their parents as small kids they changed their names so they shouldn't remember any connecton with their real family. Wicked gave them new names after famous scientist, filosofers, and other famous people. Thomas: Thomas Edison - Gally: Galileio Gallileo- Theresa : Mother Theresa, Alby- Albert Einsten, and Newt was the only british boy in the glade, so he was named after the british scientist Isaac Newton. 6
Lmao. This is the second time I've heard someone call Gally 'Eyebrows' in a reaction. I don't even remember who the other was, but this just reminded me.
All the boys have implants. The implants undoubtedly 1) geolocate them for the WCKD personnel AND the Grievers, 2) control the Glader's memories, and 3) identify them individually. So, the Grievers probably could just target Alby individually if they wanted to. But they killed many other boys as well. Why, then? There are probably two purposes in play. Eliminate Alby because his memories may spoil the experiment AND evict the Gladers from the Glade. When Thomas and Minho opened #7 Gate, the Maze reconfigured itself to funnel the Gladers towards #7 Gate. The end of the Trial was also triggered. The Grievers were then sent it. Their attacks are probably designed to come in waves. Only those Gladers (subjects) who successfully exit the Maze survive, they advance to Phase Two. Basically, Phase 1 is survival of the fittest.
The "Maze Runner" films are very good, and they're a lot deeper than many viewers realize. The films are not YA, they're adult-oriented. They are not like THG, they have a completely different basis: "Theseus and the Minotaur," the "River Lethe," "Lord of the Flies" and the WW II Nazi medical experimentation programme. If you know your classics, the "Maze Runner" is a pretty close retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur," as mentioned. Naturally, Thomas is Theseus, the hero. Turns out, Thomas, in his pre-Glade life, was also Daedalus, a creative genius. Daedalus created the Labyrinth for Minos, just like Thomas created the maze for WCKD. Daedalus also betrayed Minos, just like Thomas did WCKD. Daedalus was condemned by Minos to the Labyrinth, just like Thomas was sent by WCKD into the maze. The Glade and the Gladers are Crete and Athenian youth of the myth, respectively. The Grievers are the Minotaur, the monster that feeds on the Athenian youth who have been offered as sacrificial victims. The Minotaur is half-man, half-bull. The Grievers are half-organic, half-machine. The WCKD mechanism that's found in the crushed Griever is Ariadne's thread, the key out of the maze. WCKD, as noted above, is King Minos. In the myth, 7 youths and 7 maids are sacrificed to the Minotaur every year. This strongly implies the existence of an all-female maze. The number 7, which has significance in the film, is undoubtedly an allusion to the myth, too. The maze motif is repeated in the "Scorch Trials" and "Death Cure." The Glade's Crete is, however, more like "The Lord of the Flies (LOTF)" than classical Greece. The Glade is, after all, an island inhabited by boys in the midst of an ocean-like maze. Who can forget the pig that arrived with Thomas, either? Themes in that well-known classic include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. Things which we do see play out in Thomas and the Gladers. Thomas seems to be a combination of LOTF's Ralph and Simon. His Simon attribute leads us to believe that at some point in the trilogy Thomas will die. Gally, in the first film, probably represents LOTF's Jack. The Gladers eventually split between Thomas (Ralph/Simon) and Gally (Jack) just as in LOTF. Late in the film, Gally proposes to make Thomas an offering to the Grievers/Maze. In LOTF's, Jack proposes to make Ralph's decapitated head an offering to the beast. Despite his sometimes impulsiveness, Thomas represents rationality, individuality and morality. Gally denotes groupthink and emotionalism. Does Alby see Thomas as a catalyst? The significance of the names that are the closest surrounding Thomas' on the wall will become clear in the later movies. When Thomas and the others arrive in the Glade, they're essentially born into it, actually and symbolically. The water is the amniotic fluid, the glass cylinder represents the placenta, and the person is the foetus. The lift is the birth canal. Like newborns, the Gladers arrive as brand-new persons. They have no identity except a name, which they were christened with by WCKD. So, when Alby says that the creators only let them remember their name, he's not exactly correct. They don't remember their actual name, only their WCKD name. That's why no two Gladers have the same name. You want to be able to distinguish your test subjects for analytical purposes. Since we saw in this film that WCKD can monitor brain function of the Gladers remotely, we can conclude all the Gladers have brain implants of some sort. Clearly, they also would have an implant that would track/geolocate them. You'd want to be able to follow your subject. It's also safe to conclude that an implant is what affects their memory, and it can presumably be turned both on and off. The average Gladers is reluctant to answer Thomas' questions from ignorance and fear. The people who know answers, albeit very imperfectly, are the runners, Ably and Newt, and perhaps some of the other keepers. Alby maybe reluctant to answer Thomas because he's afraid of what Thomas might do. The runners function as a sacred priesthood in the Glade. Their map-hut is off-limits to the average Glader. Only when Thomas is anointed runner does Minho reveal to him what is known of the maze's secrets. Why is Newt willing to answer Thomas' questions? We see from the get-go, there's an attraction, a closeness developing between Newt and Thomas. Thomas and Ava Paige tell us the maze is an experiment to stress and test brain function in order to find a cure for the Flare. The "Maze Runner" trials mean to develop, isolate and produce a curative enzyme that only occurs in immune's brains so humanity can be saved, even if it means killing the immunes. The Flare is the trilogy's MacGuffin. In any experiment, you need a treatment group and a control group. The control group is the benchmark against which you compare the treatment group. The control group must be non-immunes, the treatment group immunes. Some of the Gladers are immune, others are not. The immunes are naturally immune to the Flare. The Griever sting cannot be Flare because all the Gladers have to be at risk of death for the sake of the experiment. Griever sting is similar in effect to the Flare, but it's 100% curable by WCKD. Also, it can't be communicable since WCKD would not want all the test subjects to die if one were stung. Thomas is clearly bothered by Ben being banished. He doesn't approve at all. In fact, it's a triggering event for Thomas. Our tragic hero, Thomas, is super intelligent, very curious and completely selfless. He is so selfless we might consider him impulsive. After Ben, Thomas has decided there'll be no more maze deaths if he can help it. That's why he jumps into the maze after Minho and Alby. Which brings up the question of why Minho is bringing Alby back if he's been stung. The three rules of the Glade make no reference to being stung. There is no punishment for being stung per se. We know the Gladers holds court to decide punishments since Gally prosecutes Thomas for entering the maze in front of such a court. Ben was banished by a court because he tried to kill Thomas, not because he was stung. Minho was bringing Alby back to the Glade out of duty and affection. A court would later have to decide if Alby was deserving of banishment or some other sentence arising out of the second rule. On the other hand, Minho was not obligated to commit suicide to save Alby. He should have left him when it was obvious they couldn't both make it out of the maze, but he waited too long. Later, of course, fear takes over, and Minho abandons both Alby and Thomas to their collective fate. Theresa is an anomalous figure in the first film. She's a girl, her arrival is untimely, and she heralds the end of the Gladers' supply lifeline. She completely breaks the Glade's paradigm. Thomas is somewhat ambiguous, too. It's not clear what to make of his dream-visions. Is he an agent of good or evil? It's certainly in his nature to be a catalyst. We know he was WCKD's favourite, the best at solving challenges. Is that why he was sent into the maze? Also, why are he and Theresa able to recall snippets of their past? None of the other Gladers can do that unless they've been stung. Both Thomas and Theresa are clearly mysterious. After Thomas and Minho first open the #7 gate using the Griever key, they trigger a reconfiguration of the maze which will funnel the Gladers to the #7 gate. This means the experiment is entering its final phase. Common sense tells us the sequence the runners noted previously, but starting at 7, will be the correct code. Only those subjects who successfully exit the maze are candidates for the second trial. Thomas is the archetypal tragic hero. Tragic heroes are characters of elevated stature, both in birth and morality. Like most heroes, he has above-average intelligence, which means he has situational awareness; he's determined, which means he is firmly set in opinion or purpose; and he has a loyal close friend who guides, advises and helps him as he faces his trials. In the films, Newt clearly fits the role as Thomas' helper, his Ariadne. The Theseus myth also emphasizes the power of love. Ariadne helps because she has fallen in love with Theseus. Likewise, Newt is in love with Thomas. As a tragic hero, Thomas is subject to a collective fate, the will of the gods, if you will, which had precipitated the solar flares that scorched the Earth and indirectly brought about the Flare virus. A common attribute of the tragic hero is that he once held a lofty position from which he has now been cast down. Thomas' hamartia has visited his own individual fate upon himself which prompts his present adventure-journey. His moral choices while part of WCKD led him to immoral behavior, the torture and deaths of his friends. In this way, Thomas assumed the role of a god over the Gladers. That's hubris. Humans, even if they're heroes, have to be taught they are not a god. Thomas' eventual betrayal of WCKD precipitated his downfall and the tragic course his subsequent life followed. Tragic heroes suffer, and so Thomas will suffer throughout the films. Another aspect of the tragic hero motif is that those nearest and dearest to the hero often wind up either in some sort of deadly peril or just plain dead. Most often, it's dead. The trilogy manifests several themes. One that runs through all the films, and is the main theme, is the question of whether the end justifies the means. The principle is part and parcel of consequentialism, a teleological theory that says whether an action is morally good or bad depends on its outcomes. The more good outcomes outnumber the bad, the better/more moral the action. Another theme, which we see in this film in particular, is the question of how do different people deal with fear/unknown? This is also very much a theme in LOTF.
@@JeremiahJackson-qm6zp Some people do read it, not everyone is a prole. Mirabile dictu! The answer should be obvious, it's a complicated film, explication suits it, but, yes, I know most people who inhabit YT et al. have the attention span of a gnat and can't read or concentrate for very long. It's no skin, though. The book's been writ and it was just a cut-and-paste.
@@wilhelm-z4t I legitimately paused the video in read all 3 of you're long comments, learning more lore was pretty helpful ngl and interesting, how'd you come to figure all this out?
@@JeremiahJackson-qm6zp My real-world job is to figure things out. Watching films like these that are densely-packed with meaning, especially if it's less obvious and more subtle, is a fun hobby. Unfortunately, most films today don't fall into that category. The Maze Runner films were a happy exception. Believe it or not, what I pasted here is just scratching the surface of that trilogy. You can watch them as simple action-adventure and still enjoy them from that standpoint, but there's much more to them than that. The more you know about what's going-on, the more you enjoy them. Since it's Halloween, another film that's in that category is Kubrick's "The Shining." It's a slow-burn psychological horror flick. Ditto "The Haunting of Hill House" series.
"Hope all these guys are good guys." That's what I was thinking as well haha. Pretty messed up to send one girl into a place that only has a lot of guys. Not that putting a bunch of people into a maze with monsters against their will is particularly nice either though. 😂
Well, for the past three years the boys have undoubtedly been getting intimate with one another. Rule #2 probably addresses that. Nothing non-consensual, boys, else it's the Maze for you. By the way, Ben was condemned to the Maze because he tried to kill Thomas, a severe violation of Rule #2. Being stung per se isn't necessarily a death sentence. A court like the one Gally prosecuted Thomas in ultimately decided Ben's fate. That's one reason why Minho was bringing Alby back, he hadn't been judged and condemned. On the other hand, Minho was not obligated to commit suicide. When he saw they both couldn't make it, he should have abandoned Alby.
On the first watch without really any critical thinking, Gally is an idiot and a bad dude. Upon extra thought, he has been there roughly three years and doesn't remember his past. That IS his home. He is rule oriented because he's seen what breaking the rules does (the "dark days" Alby mentions). He follows what he knows, which is that the box sends up fresh supplies, they make everything else they need to survive and outside in the maze is danger. He sees Thomas as a threat because he consistently breaks the rules and questions everything. Thomas's philosophy is pretty much "I don't want to survive, I want to live". So I understand a lot of peoples confusion and hatred toward Gally, but I think, simply put, he's just scared. And I feel like a lot of people in his position would be that way. I love Gally's character as a whole.
The boy who played Newt is a British actor and his name is Thomas Brodie Sangster. He has never played Peter Pan. He was the little boy in the movie Love Actually and he was also in the serie Nanny McPhee. He was Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones. He was also the voice of Ferb in Phineas and Ferb.
He has been in a a lot of movies since he was a little child and when he played Newt he was already one of the most established actors in that cast.
The whole Maze Runner Trilogyn is about a group of teenage boys in the age of 15-18 years, Chuck is the youngest, about 12.
In re: Why do stung Gladers have so much hostility towards Thomas? Despite his youth, Thomas was a high-ranking WCKD official. In fact, he's a genius. He's a medical doctor/researcher as well. He created the Maze, and he put the Gladers into it. Most likely he was in charge of the Maze, and was a direct report to Dr. Ava Paige, who runs WCKD. Of course, Thomas remembers only a tiny bit of this, hardly anything at all. In his memories, we see Dr. Paige interacting directly with Thomas, she wouldn't be doing so with some minor staffer. She tells Thomas: "Don't be easy on them (the test subjects)." No, Thomas was important in WCKD. After Ben is stung, he tries to kill Thomas. What does Ben say to Thomas? He tells him: "I saw you." In other words, Ben remembers Thomas putting him in the Maze. Naturally, Ben feels anger towards Thomas which the Flare-like WCKD virus magnifies into murderous rage. When Thomas tries to administer the WCKD serum to Alby, Alby yells: "You shouldn't be here!" Alby knows Thomas was WCKD, he put them all in the Maze, and he ran the show. Later, Alby tells Thomas: "We can't leave, they won't let us. I remember ... you (Thomas). You were always their favourite, why did you do this? why did you come here?" Alby doesn't understand why Thomas is in the Maze, because he shouldn't be, and it doesn't make sense to Alby. Right before he's killed, Alby tells Thomas: "Get them out!" Alby knows Thomas created the Maze, ran it and should know how to get out. Finally, there's Gally, who, after being stung and while pointing a pistol at Thomas in the Lab, intending to kill him, says: "No, we can't leave. Free? You think we're free out there? No, no, there's no escape from this place." When both Alby and Gally say the Gladers can't leave and won't be free, they're remembering they're all part of the Trials, that they're lab rats, and WCKD has absolute control over them. The ironic thing is that Thomas is actually the "Creator."
I'd have been worried about spoilers if this wasn't so absurd.
@@UpYourArsenal Since you didn't really say anything, I can't really judge whether you're being absurd or not. Even so, I'll take you at your word that you're absurd.
@@wilhelm-z4t So you're upset that I called you out - and make a pathetic attempt to twist what I actually said into something else. Try harder next time, that wasn't even funny.
@@wilhelm-z4t You're intelligent enough to know (I hope) that what was said is that:
You nearly spoiled the next movie, but the entire story was so ridiculous that none of it is even true.
@@UpYourArsenal I'm sorry, I never learned Troll. Have fun up your arse, 'n all that implies.
TMR is a trilogy, but supposedly there's a 4th film currently in development. Here's the answer to your Gally in the Lab question. When Thomas and Minho first opened the #7 gate, they triggered a reconfiguration of the Maze and the END of the Maze Trial. The Maze was then reconfigured to funnel the Gladers to #7 gate/exit. This is what was happening when Thomas and Minho were running back to the Glade. Subsequently, all 4 Maze entrances in the Glade were opened. The Grievers were sent in to evict the Gladers from the Glade. Remember what Teresa said to Gally? The Grievers are going to keep coming back until you're all dead. In other words, it's pointless to remain in the Glade. By the way, all those Grievers would have section #7 keys. The entire experiment has been a variation on "survival of the fittest." Only those Gladers who successfully exit the Maze pass Phase I. Those who stay behind will not survive. Remember when Thomas was appointed Runner, Minho took him to the Runner's Hut. He told Thomas the "pattern" the Maze's sections follow when they opened. This is the "code" to the 8 Maze gates. Since only #7 gate is available to the Gladers after the reconfiguration, it's reasonable to assume the code begins with 7, i.e., it's 71526483. If they had opened, say, #2 gate, the code would be 26483715 etc. After Alby is stung, the other Runners quit, except for Minho, the keeper or leader of the Runners. The ex-Runners were then seen talking to Gally, and probably stayed behind with Gally after Thomas and the others left. Gally was also one of the leaders of the Glade. It's reasonable to assume Gally knew the code either from the ex-Runners or because he was a leader. He certainly knew about the "key" inside the Grievers. After Thomas and the others left, either Gally and his mates followed them to force them back or they were driven out of the Glade by a round 2 attack by the Grievers. On the way to gate #7, Gally and his mates either killed a Griever or found a dead one and got a key. Apparently, only Gally made it to the gate, everyone else with Gally was killed along the way. Since Gally had a key and knew the code, if one was still required, he was able to exit the Maze and enter the Lab. Unfortunately, Gally picked up the pistol from the dead attacker, and you know the rest. WCKD wouldn't allow aircraft to fly over the Maze. Since the Maze is huge and the walls are at least 100 feet tall, any helicopter approaching the exterior of the Maze from below 100 feet probably wouldn't be heard inside the Glade, anyway.
Minho is the keepers of the runners. When Ben gets stung they have to ban him from the glade since he attacked Thomas and one of the rules is to never attack or harm another glader. The bannish moment with shoving him out to the maze is the gladers way of establish some law and order. And as you already said, it's easier for them so they don't have to kill someone with their bare hands.
When Ben is gone, Alby goes in the maze with Minho since he's the first command. Newt is the second command after Alby and when Alby got stung, Newt takes over and he's the one in charge and also the one who decides to make Thomas a runner. Gally don't like it but he has to do what Newt decides.
Gally acts irrational because he's suspicious of Thomas from the beginning, he's not an evil person, just afraid of what's gonna happen when Thomas breaks all the rules that they all have been fine with. And as we will see, he's not wrong. everything changes when Thomas arrives. So we can't actually blame him. Gally was not my favorite character, but i understand him.
Newt is my favorite because he's calm, nice, and very supportive and understanding to Thomas. He is also called the Glue in the group because he always tries to keep them all together. He is also the one that always encourage Thomas to do the right thing. He's a true friend through the whole trilogy. He's the best.
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Love this series!!! Happy to see y’all reacting !
Yes you're right. KI Hong Lee is playing Minho. He was in Wung Fu channel before.
They don't remember anything from their past since Wicked had their memories erased before they put them all in that glade. They only remember their names and those names aren't even their own birth names because when Wicked took them from their parents as small kids they changed their names so they shouldn't remember any connecton with their real family. Wicked gave them new names after famous scientist, filosofers, and other famous people. Thomas: Thomas Edison - Gally: Galileio Gallileo- Theresa : Mother Theresa, Alby- Albert Einsten, and Newt was the only british boy in the glade, so he was named after the british scientist Isaac Newton.
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they brought alby back because the reason they banished ben wasnt because he was stung but it was because he attacked thomas
Looking forward to Maze Runner the Scorch Trials! 🔥
Lmao. This is the second time I've heard someone call Gally 'Eyebrows' in a reaction. I don't even remember who the other was, but this just reminded me.
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Right? There's definitely a few. Nikki and Steven React also call him that. I'm sure there are others too 😂
After alby woke up they sent in the grievers to kill him because he remembers. So once they got him they went back.
All the boys have implants. The implants undoubtedly 1) geolocate them for the WCKD personnel AND the Grievers, 2) control the Glader's memories, and 3) identify them individually. So, the Grievers probably could just target Alby individually if they wanted to. But they killed many other boys as well. Why, then? There are probably two purposes in play. Eliminate Alby because his memories may spoil the experiment AND evict the Gladers from the Glade. When Thomas and Minho opened #7 Gate, the Maze reconfigured itself to funnel the Gladers towards #7 Gate. The end of the Trial was also triggered. The Grievers were then sent it. Their attacks are probably designed to come in waves. Only those Gladers (subjects) who successfully exit the Maze survive, they advance to Phase Two. Basically, Phase 1 is survival of the fittest.
U gotta watch all three movies great character developments great story
Forgot this was a movie, books were OK but I recall the first being the best
You should really react to the Scorch Trials next!
I’ll always love TMR books and movies. If you ever get the chance check the books out James Dashner is such an incredible writer
I would like you guys to react to Ninja Assassin next
Yall better watch The Sorch Trials and The Death Cure
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hopefully you will watch the other 2 movies aswell
That's the plan! But we'll see how this first video does. haha
The "Maze Runner" films are very good, and they're a lot deeper than many viewers realize. The films are not YA, they're adult-oriented. They are not like THG, they have a completely different basis: "Theseus and the Minotaur," the "River Lethe," "Lord of the Flies" and the WW II Nazi medical experimentation programme.
If you know your classics, the "Maze Runner" is a pretty close retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur," as mentioned. Naturally, Thomas is Theseus, the hero. Turns out, Thomas, in his pre-Glade life, was also Daedalus, a creative genius. Daedalus created the Labyrinth for Minos, just like Thomas created the maze for WCKD. Daedalus also betrayed Minos, just like Thomas did WCKD. Daedalus was condemned by Minos to the Labyrinth, just like Thomas was sent by WCKD into the maze. The Glade and the Gladers are Crete and Athenian youth of the myth, respectively. The Grievers are the Minotaur, the monster that feeds on the Athenian youth who have been offered as sacrificial victims. The Minotaur is half-man, half-bull. The Grievers are half-organic, half-machine. The WCKD mechanism that's found in the crushed Griever is Ariadne's thread, the key out of the maze. WCKD, as noted above, is King Minos. In the myth, 7 youths and 7 maids are sacrificed to the Minotaur every year. This strongly implies the existence of an all-female maze. The number 7, which has significance in the film, is undoubtedly an allusion to the myth, too. The maze motif is repeated in the "Scorch Trials" and "Death Cure."
The Glade's Crete is, however, more like "The Lord of the Flies (LOTF)" than classical Greece. The Glade is, after all, an island inhabited by boys in the midst of an ocean-like maze. Who can forget the pig that arrived with Thomas, either? Themes in that well-known classic include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. Things which we do see play out in Thomas and the Gladers. Thomas seems to be a combination of LOTF's Ralph and Simon. His Simon attribute leads us to believe that at some point in the trilogy Thomas will die. Gally, in the first film, probably represents LOTF's Jack. The Gladers eventually split between Thomas (Ralph/Simon) and Gally (Jack) just as in LOTF. Late in the film, Gally proposes to make Thomas an offering to the Grievers/Maze. In LOTF's, Jack proposes to make Ralph's decapitated head an offering to the beast. Despite his sometimes impulsiveness, Thomas represents rationality, individuality and morality. Gally denotes groupthink and emotionalism. Does Alby see Thomas as a catalyst? The significance of the names that are the closest surrounding Thomas' on the wall will become clear in the later movies.
When Thomas and the others arrive in the Glade, they're essentially born into it, actually and symbolically. The water is the amniotic fluid, the glass cylinder represents the placenta, and the person is the foetus. The lift is the birth canal. Like newborns, the Gladers arrive as brand-new persons. They have no identity except a name, which they were christened with by WCKD. So, when Alby says that the creators only let them remember their name, he's not exactly correct. They don't remember their actual name, only their WCKD name. That's why no two Gladers have the same name. You want to be able to distinguish your test subjects for analytical purposes. Since we saw in this film that WCKD can monitor brain function of the Gladers remotely, we can conclude all the Gladers have brain implants of some sort. Clearly, they also would have an implant that would track/geolocate them. You'd want to be able to follow your subject. It's also safe to conclude that an implant is what affects their memory, and it can presumably be turned both on and off.
The average Gladers is reluctant to answer Thomas' questions from ignorance and fear. The people who know answers, albeit very imperfectly, are the runners, Ably and Newt, and perhaps some of the other keepers. Alby maybe reluctant to answer Thomas because he's afraid of what Thomas might do. The runners function as a sacred priesthood in the Glade. Their map-hut is off-limits to the average Glader. Only when Thomas is anointed runner does Minho reveal to him what is known of the maze's secrets. Why is Newt willing to answer Thomas' questions? We see from the get-go, there's an attraction, a closeness developing between Newt and Thomas.
Thomas and Ava Paige tell us the maze is an experiment to stress and test brain function in order to find a cure for the Flare. The "Maze Runner" trials mean to develop, isolate and produce a curative enzyme that only occurs in immune's brains so humanity can be saved, even if it means killing the immunes. The Flare is the trilogy's MacGuffin. In any experiment, you need a treatment group and a control group. The control group is the benchmark against which you compare the treatment group. The control group must be non-immunes, the treatment group immunes. Some of the Gladers are immune, others are not. The immunes are naturally immune to the Flare. The Griever sting cannot be Flare because all the Gladers have to be at risk of death for the sake of the experiment. Griever sting is similar in effect to the Flare, but it's 100% curable by WCKD. Also, it can't be communicable since WCKD would not want all the test subjects to die if one were stung.
Thomas is clearly bothered by Ben being banished. He doesn't approve at all. In fact, it's a triggering event for Thomas. Our tragic hero, Thomas, is super intelligent, very curious and completely selfless. He is so selfless we might consider him impulsive. After Ben, Thomas has decided there'll be no more maze deaths if he can help it. That's why he jumps into the maze after Minho and Alby. Which brings up the question of why Minho is bringing Alby back if he's been stung. The three rules of the Glade make no reference to being stung. There is no punishment for being stung per se. We know the Gladers holds court to decide punishments since Gally prosecutes Thomas for entering the maze in front of such a court. Ben was banished by a court because he tried to kill Thomas, not because he was stung. Minho was bringing Alby back to the Glade out of duty and affection. A court would later have to decide if Alby was deserving of banishment or some other sentence arising out of the second rule. On the other hand, Minho was not obligated to commit suicide to save Alby. He should have left him when it was obvious they couldn't both make it out of the maze, but he waited too long. Later, of course, fear takes over, and Minho abandons both Alby and Thomas to their collective fate.
Theresa is an anomalous figure in the first film. She's a girl, her arrival is untimely, and she heralds the end of the Gladers' supply lifeline. She completely breaks the Glade's paradigm. Thomas is somewhat ambiguous, too. It's not clear what to make of his dream-visions. Is he an agent of good or evil? It's certainly in his nature to be a catalyst. We know he was WCKD's favourite, the best at solving challenges. Is that why he was sent into the maze? Also, why are he and Theresa able to recall snippets of their past? None of the other Gladers can do that unless they've been stung. Both Thomas and Theresa are clearly mysterious.
After Thomas and Minho first open the #7 gate using the Griever key, they trigger a reconfiguration of the maze which will funnel the Gladers to the #7 gate. This means the experiment is entering its final phase. Common sense tells us the sequence the runners noted previously, but starting at 7, will be the correct code. Only those subjects who successfully exit the maze are candidates for the second trial.
Thomas is the archetypal tragic hero. Tragic heroes are characters of elevated stature, both in birth and morality. Like most heroes, he has above-average intelligence, which means he has situational awareness; he's determined, which means he is firmly set in opinion or purpose; and he has a loyal close friend who guides, advises and helps him as he faces his trials. In the films, Newt clearly fits the role as Thomas' helper, his Ariadne. The Theseus myth also emphasizes the power of love. Ariadne helps because she has fallen in love with Theseus. Likewise, Newt is in love with Thomas.
As a tragic hero, Thomas is subject to a collective fate, the will of the gods, if you will, which had precipitated the solar flares that scorched the Earth and indirectly brought about the Flare virus. A common attribute of the tragic hero is that he once held a lofty position from which he has now been cast down. Thomas' hamartia has visited his own individual fate upon himself which prompts his present adventure-journey. His moral choices while part of WCKD led him to immoral behavior, the torture and deaths of his friends. In this way, Thomas assumed the role of a god over the Gladers. That's hubris. Humans, even if they're heroes, have to be taught they are not a god. Thomas' eventual betrayal of WCKD precipitated his downfall and the tragic course his subsequent life followed.
Tragic heroes suffer, and so Thomas will suffer throughout the films. Another aspect of the tragic hero motif is that those nearest and dearest to the hero often wind up either in some sort of deadly peril or just plain dead. Most often, it's dead.
The trilogy manifests several themes. One that runs through all the films, and is the main theme, is the question of whether the end justifies the means. The principle is part and parcel of consequentialism, a teleological theory that says whether an action is morally good or bad depends on its outcomes. The more good outcomes outnumber the bad, the better/more moral the action.
Another theme, which we see in this film in particular, is the question of how do different people deal with fear/unknown? This is also very much a theme in LOTF.
Bro why are you writing books in the comments
@@JeremiahJackson-qm6zp Some people do read it, not everyone is a prole. Mirabile dictu! The answer should be obvious, it's a complicated film, explication suits it, but, yes, I know most people who inhabit YT et al. have the attention span of a gnat and can't read or concentrate for very long. It's no skin, though. The book's been writ and it was just a cut-and-paste.
@@wilhelm-z4t I legitimately paused the video in read all 3 of you're long comments, learning more lore was pretty helpful ngl and interesting, how'd you come to figure all this out?
@@JeremiahJackson-qm6zp My real-world job is to figure things out. Watching films like these that are densely-packed with meaning, especially if it's less obvious and more subtle, is a fun hobby. Unfortunately, most films today don't fall into that category. The Maze Runner films were a happy exception. Believe it or not, what I pasted here is just scratching the surface of that trilogy. You can watch them as simple action-adventure and still enjoy them from that standpoint, but there's much more to them than that. The more you know about what's going-on, the more you enjoy them. Since it's Halloween, another film that's in that category is Kubrick's "The Shining." It's a slow-burn psychological horror flick. Ditto "The Haunting of Hill House" series.
@@wilhelm-z4t ohhh okay interesting that's dope, keep it up
"Hope all these guys are good guys." That's what I was thinking as well haha. Pretty messed up to send one girl into a place that only has a lot of guys. Not that putting a bunch of people into a maze with monsters against their will is particularly nice either though. 😂
Well, for the past three years the boys have undoubtedly been getting intimate with one another. Rule #2 probably addresses that. Nothing non-consensual, boys, else it's the Maze for you.
By the way, Ben was condemned to the Maze because he tried to kill Thomas, a severe violation of Rule #2. Being stung per se isn't necessarily a death sentence. A court like the one Gally prosecuted Thomas in ultimately decided Ben's fate. That's one reason why Minho was bringing Alby back, he hadn't been judged and condemned. On the other hand, Minho was not obligated to commit suicide. When he saw they both couldn't make it, he should have abandoned Alby.
55:25 The way he ropes in Theresa is diabolical.
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On the first watch without really any critical thinking, Gally is an idiot and a bad dude. Upon extra thought, he has been there roughly three years and doesn't remember his past. That IS his home. He is rule oriented because he's seen what breaking the rules does (the "dark days" Alby mentions). He follows what he knows, which is that the box sends up fresh supplies, they make everything else they need to survive and outside in the maze is danger. He sees Thomas as a threat because he consistently breaks the rules and questions everything. Thomas's philosophy is pretty much "I don't want to survive, I want to live". So I understand a lot of peoples confusion and hatred toward Gally, but I think, simply put, he's just scared. And I feel like a lot of people in his position would be that way. I love Gally's character as a whole.
Even Thomas admits that what Gally says isn't unreasonable. 😉