My wife’s a teacher in Scotland and I have to agree 100% with Robs assessment of modern day teaching.Its a minefield of navigating troublesome pupils /lack of respect and entitled parents .
At 49 i can relate to the way teachers were and are today for sure! Seeing a teacher in the wild was a rare event. Even in high school I didn’t know my teachers political views or sexual orientation, as it should be!
when i heard Chief Runningmouth i almost laughed out loud. Good show. That mother is mistaking a Cinema class for a Diversity in Cinema class. When her daughter had Music Appreciation i wonder if she wrote in. 'Beethoven and Mozart are okay but will you be teaching about any female composers ?"
As soon as Rob started reading that letter, I knew exactly what this person was going to say. The point of showing films in a film class is to illustrate a particular theory/idea. Showing mainstream films makes sure the students are actually awake to watch and learn. My own film class showed entirely mainstream films, and the instructor would always stop and give commentary when a concept came up.
I was listening to a podcast a few months ago and I remember a really interesting conversation, the guest was Asian American, the topic turned to representation and she had an interesting take. She said how when she was growing up, her parents were big on movies and as well as mainstream cinema they regularly took her and her siblings to Asian film festivals up and down the country, so she grew up enamoured with the culture and heritage, watching Asian cinema just as frequently if not more so than Hollywood films, to the point where she said she's never felt underrepresented in movies. I think more parents should take a similar initiative instead of badgering Hollywood and other institutions to do it for them.
The letter from the parent sounded like, “Nice film class you have there, shame if something were to happen to it” I have loved film since I was 4 years old and I have never found it so exclusionary as it is now. In my view it has always been a mix of any and everyone. You just have to look for it. Seek and ye shall find.
Speaking of awesome schools, I went to San dimas high school. I remember my senior year we had a final report that we had to share with the school in the auditorium. I remember the star football player gave the best presentation and he ended it with : “San Dimas high school football rules!” The good ole days
Keeping fighting the good fight . Great job as always man. They need to turn Hyperion in to a movie or TV show. I read that book because of your recommendation. Dam great Sci-fi story ! .
This mother would’ve had a heart attack at seeing a Doris Wishman film… Now I’m going to have to get back into my Doris Wishman box sets ;) Great show, Rob, and right on target. BTW, hadn’t heard you talk about it yet, but how about that news about Severin Films working with the Russ Meyer estate and their upcoming releases of Vixen, Super-Vixen and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens? December 3rd cannot get here soon enough. And just saw that Amazon does have a Region A release for the first season of Blake’s 7 on Blu-Ray, and I couldn’t pre-order it fast enough.
I only realised where you were going with this (Leni Riefenstahl) about a minute before you arrived and broke out into laughter. I just could not stop. Rob, you are such a teaser.
The official animosity started in 2008. Since then, we have a, "do whatever you feel like doing" society. Morality has been thrown out the window. Every imoral ill behavior is excused by calling it mental illness. It isn't mental illness, it is Moral Illness. In high school, the type of teachers that were there, I saw what is happening now coming. I saw the beginning of it. You had some teachers who were excellent at what they do, and were well appreciated. You had others, with most peculiar ideas and morals, which they insisted on imparting onto students. If a student questioned those, "teachers" they would receive from a most vicious reprimand, to a most bigoted revenge intent. A student simply asking a question of one of those types of teachers.
Geez, I feel like any teacher who showed SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG to a classroom would be fired before school let out that day. Hell, I've gone through a ton of terrific blaxploitation flicks (and a couple clunkers) with my 22-year old son, but I wouldn't want to watch that movie with him. The intrusive mom is a chowderhead either way, though.
Funeral Parade of Roses what about that F ING amazing movie. I watched it on a crap load of MUSHROOMs. I would love to hear people's opinions on that film or mabey what you think of it Mr. Burnett. You recently made me love you even more when you brought up Andrei Tarkovsky. THE GREATEST FILMMAKER EVER. All the best.
The mom’s blunder was assuming the point of the semester was to explore cinema’s role in culture. It’s a high school film class that was probably just about showing different filmmaking techniques
Because the actual channel page itself is very shit designed: Why do you have to scroll to the bottom to get to the recent uploads, and why do links to 4+ year old streams appear? Also doesn’t help that the live stream start times are wildly inconsistent.
Well, at least this parent had enough interest to look at the curriculum, so that's something I suppose. The best you can do at 11th grade is cover the basics and inspire young people to continue on their own journey. To keep learning outside of the classroom. They aren't babies and don't need to be spoonfed!! If you're a parent and you want them exposed to something why not supplement it yourself
Hi Robert... always love your channel and your views on movies, but this thesis has hit the nail on the head, about why civilisation is disintegrating... take care bro.
I never thought about that & still don’t think about it either when I watch something. I just want a great story, actors & characters that touch me in some way. With the whole inclusion / diversity always in everyone’s face it’s probably easier to go there. It could be because I am just a white female. Either way that teacher can’t make everyone happy and if you try to make some happy & not all it could make more problems. If it’s just general overview. Picking excellent films that teach what you need to know to be good filmmaker I think is most important element.
This fixation with DEI has become exhausting. Literally can't escape it anywhere, it's on the agenda in every industry and community. Tired of getting invested in interesting or heart warming story, only for it to be muddied in controversy once someone finds a way to be offended and make it all about themselves. Victimhood itself has become a kind of social boon, people use it to feel important, and I fear for any society that values victimhood over merit. I just think back to that quote from American History X "This isn't about race!" "This is America, everything's about race."
Today no one is interested in the history of cinema as an intellectual pursuit to learn about film directors writers etc and their impact on evolving culture of society. Now cinema analysis much like modern films are just superficial vehicles that priorise/shoehorn a series of representation check boxes over good storytelling. Do we ever get films that prioritize a director’s voice or perspective in storytelling over having to include every possible modern day DEI list of characters eg, including a 3 legged dog in an animation story.
My nephew is being taught that the civil war was only because of slavery. Tragedy. Same with the film school stuff. Keep those stories out. They’re not American films for american students. If a child needs to see Past Lives? go overseas.
Instead of focusing on a mother who would like to see a curriculum that reflects the modern diversity of cinema why don’t you discuss parents who would like to ban classic books such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace. This happening in southern states like Florida right now. This seems a little more disturbing than a woman of colour asking for a curriculum update
Columbia Pictures would be my pick. But I don't like their Classics boxsets. I strongly dislike Sense and Sensibility, Starman, Gandhi and Gerwig's Little Women.
You can delete posts, pointing out your feeble mindedness, but the truth of your stupidity will remain... take care and adopt your children, because you are inappropriate parental material.
My wife’s a teacher in Scotland and I have to agree 100% with Robs assessment of modern day teaching.Its a minefield of navigating troublesome pupils /lack of respect and entitled parents .
RBM's 1 Hr lecture on how to counter inauthentic wokism (redundant, I know). I come with pen and paper in hand, your Sageness.
This was one of your best episodes (no disrespect to your prior episodes), you gave us some excellent information. Thank you, sir, 🙂.
At 49 i can relate to the way teachers were and are today for sure! Seeing a teacher in the wild was a rare event. Even in high school I didn’t know my teachers political views or sexual orientation, as it should be!
when i heard Chief Runningmouth i almost laughed out loud. Good show. That mother is mistaking a Cinema class for a Diversity in Cinema class. When her daughter had Music Appreciation i wonder if she wrote in. 'Beethoven and Mozart are okay but will you be teaching about any female composers ?"
As soon as Rob started reading that letter, I knew exactly what this person was going to say.
The point of showing films in a film class is to illustrate a particular theory/idea. Showing mainstream films makes sure the students are actually awake to watch and learn. My own film class showed entirely mainstream films, and the instructor would always stop and give commentary when a concept came up.
What is the definition of a “mainstream film?”
I was listening to a podcast a few months ago and I remember a really interesting conversation, the guest was Asian American, the topic turned to representation and she had an interesting take. She said how when she was growing up, her parents were big on movies and as well as mainstream cinema they regularly took her and her siblings to Asian film festivals up and down the country, so she grew up enamoured with the culture and heritage, watching Asian cinema just as frequently if not more so than Hollywood films, to the point where she said she's never felt underrepresented in movies. I think more parents should take a similar initiative instead of badgering Hollywood and other institutions to do it for them.
The letter from the parent sounded like,
“Nice film class you have there, shame if something were to happen to it”
I have loved film since I was 4 years old and I have never found it so exclusionary as it is now. In my view it has always been a mix of any and everyone. You just have to look for it.
Seek and ye shall find.
Speaking of awesome schools, I went to San dimas high school. I remember my senior year we had a final report that we had to share with the school in the auditorium. I remember the star football player gave the best presentation and he ended it with : “San Dimas high school football rules!” The good ole days
Were strange things afoot at the Circle K?
@@Repossessedurass hey it’s a history report not a babe report. Give our love to the princesses!
Keeping fighting the good fight . Great job as always man. They need to turn Hyperion in to a movie or TV show. I read that book because of your recommendation. Dam great Sci-fi story ! .
This mother would’ve had a heart attack at seeing a Doris Wishman film… Now I’m going to have to get back into my Doris Wishman box sets ;) Great show, Rob, and right on target. BTW, hadn’t heard you talk about it yet, but how about that news about Severin Films working with the Russ Meyer estate and their upcoming releases of Vixen, Super-Vixen and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens? December 3rd cannot get here soon enough. And just saw that Amazon does have a Region A release for the first season of Blake’s 7 on Blu-Ray, and I couldn’t pre-order it fast enough.
You have to watch my weekly show, LET'S GET PHYSICAL MEDIA! You'll love it!
I only realised where you were going with this (Leni Riefenstahl) about a minute before you arrived and broke out into laughter. I just could not stop. Rob, you are such a teaser.
Loved this episode. The part about melvine hits hard. Respect.
This episode was great, man. Makes me want to dive into my long time coming exploitation movie rabbit hole
The official animosity started in 2008. Since then, we have a, "do whatever you feel like doing" society. Morality has been thrown out the window. Every imoral ill behavior is excused by calling it mental illness. It isn't mental illness, it is Moral Illness.
In high school, the type of teachers that were there, I saw what is happening now coming. I saw the beginning of it. You had some teachers who were excellent at what they do, and were well appreciated. You had others, with most peculiar ideas and morals, which they insisted on imparting onto students. If a student questioned those, "teachers" they would receive from a most vicious reprimand, to a most bigoted revenge intent. A student simply asking a question of one of those types of teachers.
Geez, I feel like any teacher who showed SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG to a classroom would be fired before school let out that day. Hell, I've gone through a ton of terrific blaxploitation flicks (and a couple clunkers) with my 22-year old son, but I wouldn't want to watch that movie with him. The intrusive mom is a chowderhead either way, though.
First full episode I've watched in a while. Really fascinating. I'll have to look up some of these films!
Oh, and I just heard you mention Body Double. One of my all time favorites, saw it when I was first out of the house at 18!
Funeral Parade of Roses what about that F ING amazing movie. I watched it on a crap load of MUSHROOMs. I would love to hear people's opinions on that film or mabey what you think of it Mr. Burnett. You recently made me love you even more when you brought up Andrei Tarkovsky. THE GREATEST FILMMAKER EVER.
All the best.
The mom’s blunder was assuming the point of the semester was to explore cinema’s role in culture. It’s a high school film class that was probably just about showing different filmmaking techniques
Can’t it do both?
@@Ubik1999 there’s so many things a class could do. But highlighting diversity of creators shouldn’t be assumed to be a necessary part of it
I am constantly baffled why The Burnettwork has so few subscribers.
Because the actual channel page itself is very shit designed: Why do you have to scroll to the bottom to get to the recent uploads, and why do links to 4+ year old streams appear?
Also doesn’t help that the live stream start times are wildly inconsistent.
Well, at least this parent had enough interest to look at the curriculum, so that's something I suppose. The best you can do at 11th grade is cover the basics and inspire young people to continue on their own journey. To keep learning outside of the classroom. They aren't babies and don't need to be spoonfed!! If you're a parent and you want them exposed to something why not supplement it yourself
Hi Robert... always love your channel and your views on movies, but this thesis has hit the nail on the head, about why civilisation is disintegrating... take care bro.
Disney+ has killed Star Wars and the MCU
Parent makes reasonable point, TH-cam host makes bad faith hour and a half video without providing the list of 10 films in question.
I never thought about that & still don’t think about it either when I watch something. I just want a great story, actors & characters that touch me in some way. With the whole inclusion / diversity always in everyone’s face it’s probably easier to go there. It could be because I am just a white female. Either way that teacher can’t make everyone happy and if you try to make some happy & not all it could make more problems. If it’s just general overview. Picking excellent films that teach what you need to know to be good filmmaker I think is most important element.
This fixation with DEI has become exhausting. Literally can't escape it anywhere, it's on the agenda in every industry and community. Tired of getting invested in interesting or heart warming story, only for it to be muddied in controversy once someone finds a way to be offended and make it all about themselves. Victimhood itself has become a kind of social boon, people use it to feel important, and I fear for any society that values victimhood over merit.
I just think back to that quote from American History X
"This isn't about race!"
"This is America, everything's about race."
Today no one is interested in the history of cinema as an intellectual pursuit to learn about film directors writers etc and their impact on evolving culture of society. Now cinema analysis much like modern films are just superficial vehicles that priorise/shoehorn a series of representation check boxes over good storytelling. Do we ever get films that prioritize a director’s voice or perspective in storytelling over having to include every possible modern day DEI list of characters eg, including a 3 legged dog in an animation story.
Would you call LA Confidential true noir?
My nephew is being taught that the civil war was only because of slavery. Tragedy. Same with the film school stuff. Keep those stories out. They’re not American films for american students. If a child needs to see Past Lives? go overseas.
Instead of focusing on a mother who would like to see a curriculum that reflects the modern diversity of cinema why don’t you discuss parents who would like to ban classic books such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace. This happening in southern states like Florida right now. This seems a little more disturbing than a woman of colour asking for a curriculum update
Respectfully disagree, Rob. There is TOO much nuance to this discussion.....Happy Birthday dude.🎉
I can't get past the mispronunciation of her name, over and over.
Columbia Pictures would be my pick. But I don't like their Classics boxsets. I strongly dislike Sense and Sensibility, Starman, Gandhi and Gerwig's Little Women.
Holy fuck anyone else fall asleep🥱
If you found of these topics entertaining you live a boring life
Your post is probably one of the most moronic examples of intellectual atrophy I have come across... go back to school.
You can delete posts, pointing out your feeble mindedness, but the truth of your stupidity will remain... take care and adopt your children, because you are inappropriate parental material.