The Lighthouse (2019) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | What Great Performances!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2023
- Thanks to Grandaddy Markus for the Special Request! We both head out to a remote island to experience the powerhouse performances of Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in Robert Egger's The Lighthouse (2019). Here's our reaction to our first time watching.
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"Do they kill each other, or themselves?"
Yes.
"Maybe it's a love story?"
Somehow, also yes.
That one scene where I thought they were gonna kiss, then started beating the crap out of each other 😂😂😂
Willem Dafoe should have won ALL the awards for his performance. His very best work, IMHO.
I totally agree. This was his best performance.
He WAS Thomas Wake. Quite astounding how relaxed and normal he comes across in interviews. One would expect him to be quite crazy himself.
This film is a masterpiece. Was happy to see the Mrs. didn't hate this film as much as I thought she would've
It’s really not.. it tries too hard.
@@VictorLugositries too hard... bruh what?? By that logic every movie on planet earth tries too hard
@@VictorLugosiJust say you didn't like it. Just as the other commenter said, by that logic all films try too hard. Especially shit like Avengers, which ain't bad. But ppl hate way too hard on movies like these rather than to just not watch it.
@@VictorLugosiyou can have your opinion as well as others…the film is viewed as an extremely well made film in every aspect of filmmaking. Maybe the story or how it was portrayed just isn’t for you.
The coal is powering the electrical output with steam. This film is meant to be a metaphor about Promtheus stealing fire from the gods.
Robert Pattinson screaming “farts” is one of the funniest line readings I’ve ever seen lol
*_PHAAAAWWWWWTZ_*
Also "if i had a steak, i would f**ck it" lmao
Almost as good as Aubrey Plaza.
".....Godddamn FARTS!"
His monologue about the farts is legendary lol. Fuckin hilarious.
"The Witch....was horrifying."
I believe that was the point.
“He wants to f*** that light. Right?” Could a perfect opening cut to this reaction as well 😂
Secretly the best comedy of the last ten years, also just a total masterpiece
"I told you not to spill the beans..." Best line! xD
"Ye smell o' shit!"
@@magallanesagustin4952 "like curdled foreskin!"
Honestly the best movie of 2019. Dafoe's monologue is LEGENDARY. Shakespearean worthy if you'll allow me. "Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea! "
....alright, have it your way. I like your cookin'.
I've watched that scene too many times 😂
'who throws a shoe?' love that line 🤣
At Bush
"Seriously???"
@rumham2834 It was two shoes, wasn't it?
2:42 Also the shooting square thing was to create a claustrophobic feeling for the audience, to mirror what the characters were feeling.
I was shocked at the way it made dark scenes look. The way the background of the screen kind of fades into the background of the aspect ratio made the darkness seem even huger.
Dafoe’s monologue while he’s getting dirt thrown in his face is a perfect example of a legend practicing his craft. Both stars are at the top of their game here.
I wonder what they used? Chocolate comes to mind, obviously, but it could've been something much lighter to show on film since it's old school film they used
You're fond of me lobster!
Robert and Willem both should have gotten Oscars. This film is brilliant. But I'm afraid to watch the reaction because she might hate it and that will break my heart.
Just from the TH-cam title it seems that they don't hate it ^^ It's a great movie in my opinion like all of Robert Eggers movies. Can't wait for his version of Nosferatu
@@sickelmo_officialThe title got cut off but I see it now. Cool.
I haven't been able to eat lobster since this movie without quoting that line to myself. And I'm fine with that. So good.
@@sickelmo_official Indeed, very eager for Nosferatu. Seems like the perfect subject for Eggers and will likely be very different than other vampire movies. Any speculations who might star in it?
This film is a true work of art and Dafoe and Pattinson are incredible in it. I live somewhere where I can hear the two foghorns in our bay pretty easily and, after watching this, they started to give me anxiety for a while. And i like the explanation of Dafoe's farts as being purposeful and malicious. lmao
people back then used to go crazy all the time working lighthouses. theres one true story of two guys working the same lighthouse and it was known they werent too fond of each other, one day one of them got sick and passed away and the other one thought "damn they think i kill him!" so for evidence that the body was unharmed he kept him around, i think he strapped him with ropes to the side of the lighthouse or something like couple meters high as there were hooks he could tie him to, and apparently due to the wind the dead corpse waved at him and that guy then went completely mad.
could be an urban myth though, still stories like these are numerous
There is also at least one documented case of the entire three man crew of a lighthouse disappearing without a trace in 1900 off the coast of Scotland. And to this day no theory about what happened to them has been completely accepted
I once heard that the very heavy fresnel lens was afloat in mercury to minimize friction so it would turn more easily. The keepers breathed in the fumes which again would affect the brain. Add to that long lonely shifts on some godforsaken rock, and there you go.
"When Griffith died in a freak accident, Howell feared that if he discarded the body into the sea, authorities might accuse him of murder. As Griffith's body began to decompose, Howell built a makeshift coffin for the corpse and lashed it to an outside shelf. Stiff winds blew the box apart, and the body's arm fell within view of the hut's window. As the winds would blow, gusts would catch the arm and move it in a way that made the appendage appear to beckon. In spite of his former partner's decaying corpse and working the lighthouse alone, Howell was able to keep the house's lamp lit. When Howell was finally relieved of duty, the impact of the situation was so emotionally taxing that his friends did not recognize him. As a result, the governing body changed the lighthouse policy to make lighthouse teams rosters of three people, which continued until the automation of British lighthouses in the 1980s."
This is the greatest just mind twister of a movie... I love it so much.... PLUS THE FACT THAT NEITHER OF THEM GOT AN OSCAR, ITS A RIP OFF, They did so fucking well in this movie....
This is a phenomenal film, the best film of 2019 in my opinion. I like the Greek mythology regarding the two characters. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are perfect in these roles and in my opinion, these are their best performances. It’s a shame it only got one Academy Award nomination for cinematography as the performances, writing, direction, production and everything was worthy of being nominated that could be nominated. Glad to see you guys watch this. Hope you’re doing well and have a great day. Take care!
Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead Winslow! HAAARK!
Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til’ ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more -- only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye -- a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself -- forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!
I love the details about costuming that I learned about this movie, specifically that the designer focused on texture of the cloth rather than color out of necessity. In color, Robert Pattinson's overalls outfit was so garish he looked like Mario.
😂 that picture is fooking hysterical, legit looks like killer psycho Mario
A stone-cold masterpiece.
It's a piece of garbage. One of the worst films I've seen in the last 20 years. There is one short scene worth watching. That's it.
Wow! So you didn’t like huh lol?
Indeed. One of the best films I've seen this decade.
Anybody can like or dislike whatever he wants. But many people called me names just for stating that i liked the movie very much. They even got angry because they cant fathom someone liking something they hated. People are weird sometimes.
@trhansen3244 there are less embarassing ways to announce to the world that you've got shit taste.
love that movie! in my opinion this is Robert Eggers best work so far. 😜
I'm glad you saw this movie, I remember seeing The Lighthouse in a cold cinema's room, so you must imagine how I felt, while seeing the film. Then, I saw the movie, I said; "For the love of Neptune, give Willem Dafoe the Oscar, which he's waited for a long time".
I guess you don't really get an Oscar for a weird indie movie like this, right? Totally deserved anyway. Give him three - one for monologues, one for his farts and one for his jism-stained underpants.
Oscars are fucking worthless, circlejerk for hollywood elites.
And the Oscar for best bird murder goes to……..
That JUST made sense...just this second.
"I have yet to see an A24 film I didn't like." So true. And I love Robert Eggers's style and execution. He really nails atmosphere. I'm so happy I got to watch this in theaters, cause those monologues hit different. I also think Pattinson did a fantastic job going toe-to-toe with a giant like Defoe. If you liked Pattinson in this, you really ought to check out some of his other works. Much like Daniel Radcliffe, after he finished Twilight (Harry Potter for Radcliffe), he was pretty much set financially, so he got to choose projects that actually intrigued and challenged him. If you liked him in this, I recommend you check out Good Time (2017)
The director said something to the effect of " if I explained the movie to you, it would cause you to react like Robert Patterson did at the end".
Same will happen if you watch it too frequently. Better lock it up.
I read an explanation long time ago and it made sense but I've forgotten most of it. It's based on greek mythology. The light at the top of the tower is Prometheus fire. The island seems like purgatory...
As many times as I've seen this movie, I never considered a time loop... It makes sense, though.
Seeing Pattinson in this made me feel OK with him cast as Bruce Wayne, which i originally had significant reservations on.
I love the humour in this .... amid the horror
That too lol
It's actually inseperable which makes it even better.
I suspect that both characters in this movie are the same person, which is why it is eventually revealed they have the same first name. The island they're on is like a metaphor for this person's psyche, or soul and the way the interior reality of a person's psyche is forever cut off from any other person's reality. If you think about it, nobody can ever really truly know somebody else, so we really are like islands, and what I think the movie is getting at is that we can't even be sure we know ourselves. The older wiser part of this person, or the super ego, controls the rational faculty of mind, symbolized by the light in the lighthouse, while the younger version of himself is base instinct, or id, which fights for control of the rational faculty but has to be disciplined by super ego. It's something like that. If you think about it as a metaphor for the conflicting parts of somebody's psyche, a lot of the weirder aspects of the movie start to make more sense.
The ending is a reference to the myth of Prometheus, who stole the fire from the gods and gave it to humanity but was punished for it by being chained to a rock and doomed to forever having his perpetually respawning liver eaten by gulls every day for eternity. It's an ancient Greek version of the Garden of Eden story in Genesis and the idea that with knowledge (the fire, light, or the apple from the tree of knowledge), comes moral responsibility because knowledge makes agency and moral choice possible. If you imagine Prometheus as a symbol for higher order abstract thinking and the humans he gives the fire to as a symbol for baser earlier man before we developed the capacity to think, you get super ego vs id.
In part, if ya care, this is loosely framed on The Shining (as Mr Movies joked about). Many details point to this - but for the story's sake all that really matters is that Tom (all 3 of em!) is the caretaker, and he's *always* been the caretaker.
Also its inspired by the greek myths of Proteus and Prometheus, and also a Poe story with the same title. Probably other stuff too...
Love this one, one of my favorite pre covid memories was seeing this in the theaters with my boyfriend, I recommend Beau is Afraid to you two!
I love this movie. Thanks for watching it, it was fun reliving it.
When they were wondering what kind of oil they'd use in the lighthouse, based on the period setting, the 1800s my guess. So back then I'm not sure of the availability of a petroleum based oil. But whale oil would have still been popular back then.
Takes place in 1890's, back then paraffin oil was the most popular, though not the only kind used.
If viewed through the lense of the lighthouse being purgatory, it makes a lot of sense
Skeleton divine death blast
Amazing and unique movie. It's like a theater! Very poetic!
ok, you want weird? watch 'antichrist' by lars von trier also with willem dafoe. probably the most profane movie I've ever seen.
Isn't that the movie where he has a full frontal scene but had to bring in a stand in penis because Willem's is apparently unnaturally huge to the point where it was just TOO distracting 😂
2:46 The film was shot in Orthochromatic film (that film stock is more sensitive to blue colors and had a harder time capturing red colors); so anything that was blue and to some extant green, had more exposure, while anything that was red, rendered a deeper and darker black color. For example, when Willem Defoe is giving his "Hark, Trident! Hark!" scene, since his face is becoming more blushed (redder) with his emotions rising, his face becomes more and more black, more and more menacing. And the 4x3 ratio is a reference to the ratio of film making of that period, all the while inducing a heightened sense of anxiety and claustrophobia.
On point. It's actually more square than 4:3 though, more like 1.1:1.
Robert Eggers loves handcrafted, period perfect world building…and farts. Bless him
I'm about to watch the German Nosferatu from 1979. It's not as good as the original 1922 silent film. But it is still great. Highly recommend both!
Kinski was very different and actually creepy because he was actually more like an animal than human. The rest of the film seemed quite patchy and low budget to me. The photography was inconistent not really top of the line. Maybe that's 1970s German cinema (it's not Hollywood after all).
It was well known that lighthouse keepers would go mad mad in the date this movie is based on
I gave you a like for the shoe quote alone, also nice to see people watching these older style films.
I F-ING love this movie!
The Gaslight House.
fun fact the "dirt" that Willam was chewing during his last monologue was actually crumbled up chocolate cake.
Just kidding, idk how they filmed that.
Pretty sure Willem just tanked actual dirt. He's dedicated to authentic craft
“Who throws a shoe? Honestly!” You guys are watching Lighthouse but sounds like the kids have on Austin Powers 😂
The Mariner kills the bird of good omen
His shipmates cry against what he's done
But when the fog clears, they justify him
And make themselves a part of the crime
Sailing on and on and north across the sea
Sailing on and on and north 'til all is calm
Thank god for this channel; I would have walked out if in the theater
Definitely an impressive film but the Witch is still my favorite. How can you not love Black Philip?
The sound of that foghorn lives in my nightmares.
Mrs. Movies is gonna LOOOVE this one 😅
She will not. Lol.
@@ct6852 😉
Glad you gave this movie a chance. not a hard film to enjoy but is worth it.
Loved the performance From (Batman) Robert Pattinson, and Wiliam Defoe (Green Goblin) , really immersed u in this world
Finally, been waiting for this
Eggers is a genius 🙌
Just an incredible piece of filmmaking in every facet. My brother and I were big fans of the VVitch and Pattinson's steady turn toward very serious and interesting movies, so we were absolutely hyped for the Lighthouse (and we knew Dafoe was going to be amazing). Went and saw it in the theaters on opening night, and we both walked out in a bit of a daze trying to process it all. I was wondering about the time loop theory but the ending shot of Pattinson being eaten by seagulls immediately made me think of the Prometheus myth, and the light was the fire of the gods that he stole and brought to humanity.
That shot of naked Dafoe with the light projecting from his eyes onto Pattinson is an homage to an early 20th century etching called "Hypnosis", which I believe was meant as the artist making a symbolic commentary on the power of masculine intimacy over himself. I'm still ultimately leaning toward a modern interpretation of Prometheus, especially with the presence of sirens/mermaids and Dafoe's transformation into Triton or Neptune/Poseidon.
I think they are the same person, which is why it's revealed that they have the same name. My guess is that the island and the lighthouse are a metaphor for any one person's soul, meaning their interior psychological reality. No person can truly know anybody else, so we really are like islands. Arguably we can't even truly know ourselves, because every person's psyche is split into conflicting and antagonistic drives. That's what I think the two characters are. The light in the lighthouse is a symbol for the rational faculty of mind. To possess it would be to have control of the soul, psyche, or consciousness. The older version Thomas represents the super ego, or rational part of the psyche, while the younger version of Thomas represents the id, or baser instinctual part of us that is furthest from reason. We often know what is right or good, but we'll have desires which convince us to ignore this knowledge, so people are often at war with themselves, with different conflicting aspects of the psyche fighting for control, and the rational part of the mind tries to discipline the baser instincts. I think that's what it's about. If you think of it as a symbolic representation of a single person's psyche and its conflicting parts, the weirder aspects of the movie start to come into focus and make a lot more sense.
This interpretation fits if you're familiar with Plato's tripartite soul. It would also explain the Prometheus reference, which Plato also references in his explanation of how the "soul" or consciousness is composed. This could be a stretch though because it's an open question as to if Eggers himself is familiar with the details of that theory. Not a lot of people are who didn't study it. I could be just reading it into the film where it doesn't exist. It could also be that the older man is what Plato refers to as the "spirited" part of the soul, and the younger man is the "appetitive" part, with the light being a symbol for the rational faculty of mind that both want control over.
The part in which Dafoe's eyes are beaming into Pattinsons eyes and the end with Pattinson getting pecked on are both inspired by famous art pieces! For the life of me I can't remember the names but I thought that was cool :)
Aw man, I was expecting you to go black and white for this reaction. That's how you've usually done it for b&w films.
One of the very best films I've ever seen!!
Instantly made it to my personal top 5.
_"Why'cha spill yer beans...?"_
"Who throws a shoe?" Me when i was in 4th grade :/
'Who throws a shoe?' President Bush could answer that.
Was thinking the same thing!
I have a theory about the dirt that gets shoveled onto Dafoe's face. When I first saw it I thought he was actually eating dirt just because of how much he commits to the role and the scene, but then I remember talking with some other film fan friends of mine who mentioned the black and white grading would make it super easy to use ground up oreos instead. Movie magic!
@@TackJorrance I'd love to see the interview if you could link it! I wouldn't doubt Dafoe to do it for the art.
I thought the same thing
11:18 "Who throws a shoe?" - woman, they have enough of them 😂😘
They used to put the light on top of mercury, not knowing that mercury was poisonous. Top hats had mercury in them too, and thats where the saying mad as a hatter comes from 👍
Based on a True Story if no-one has mentioned it in comments! 2 Lighthouse actually disappeared from a Lighthouse during a storm and no one could understand what had happened. They or their bodies were never found, it was an explicable mystery. Their coats err on the hooks and a meal was on the table I believe? Or at least their were strange things that just didn't make rational sense, protocol was to not to go outside in severe storms etc. And certainly not both of them at the same time. So in the true case, no one knows what happened.😮
"yer god damn fahhhhttts!"
This is one of only few films I can actually call a flawless Masterpiece!
Weird is how everyone describes it... Willem Dofoe played Nosforatu in Shadow of Nosforatu... His second best performance
I got the feeling William was Poseidon and that was something of a purgatory for lost souls that so happens to die in the ocean and the way to judge them is to make them pass his judgment with testing people. Just my thoughts. I feel like the fever dream while you die all takes place in those months we’ve seen as the viewer.
Yesss one of my favorites
I cant belive thats the same actor from twiligt and he is also Batman
great film. loved it when i first saw it.
mom figured it out in the first two minutes.." so arethey gonna kill each other or kill themselves??"-mom
Kraken Krypt Keeper:Great name for a metal band!
One of the best horror movies ever made, you can't change my mind about that! A masterpiece just Eggers could create for us! ❤❤❤
Eggers called it a "weird tale" which is a genre category Lovecraft resides in. I have up age with him. Very Lovecraftian.
@@t0dd000 I'd lean towards that caategory too. It's not real Horror because it's too funny for that.
@11:19 lol Your comment reminded me of the ending of the first _Austin Powers_ movie when Random Task hits Austin in the forehead with the shoe. I hope your girl is feeling better and didn't get any bruising, or anything. Kids will be kids.
This was an utter nightmare to shoot. To get this dark film look the set needed to be blinding bright. You notice on occasion they are squinting because of it, but damn if it wasn't worth it. My favorite part is obviously the Willem Dafoe rant over the cooking. That entire thing earned a star by itself in my rating.
Watch Robert Pattinson in
GOOD TIMES. He is fantastic in it & deserved an Acadamy Award nomination for it.
Looks like another variation like the film "Cold Skin", 2017, Xavier Gens.
Think this is strange, watch Lamb. :)
Loved that one as well.
This movie is terrifying, if you have depression, don't watch it, it digs a hole in your mind and it's hard to let go.
An Austin Powers reference well placed. Good on you.
"who throws a shoe... honestly"😂😂😂
The boys were drinking turpentine with honey
Best Eggers movie, easily.
Trying to tie the ending to anything coherent, maybe the intense heat from the light combined with all the oil they drank created a sort of euphoric self-sauna feeling that was too embarrassing to show off to a buddy idk
academy werent fond of lobster
Y’all’s reactions are great. I’ve watched this movie once and basically had the same reaction.
I want more details on that shoe.
Incredible,is it a time loop of the same man when hes young and old? Is it two shady men going insane from isolation and alcoholism? Is it the gates to hell? Is the lighthouse supernatural sending people insane? Is willem dafoe some kind of mythical shape shifter? Iv got no idea but that what makes it great 10/10 for me
The little one was practicing to become the new Random Task for an Austin Powers movie someday.
Such an underrated film! It's an absolute masterpiece and doesn't get the recognition it deserves.
Have you seen Whiplash with Miles Teller and J.K Simmons it's a great movie
The creepyness level of this movies was just off the charts when I saw it. No odea what was going on or what was going to happen and it was awesome🤘
i wanna see this remade but kristen stewart is a mermaid
Now you definitely gotta do "Eraserhead." And then after that, "Mad God."
Just taking through the whole gauntlet of incredibly weird movies huh 😂
10/10 film one of my favorite cosmic horror movies of all time
You don't like my lobster?
This whole movie is basically the story of Prometheus told through the eyes of lighthouse workers using old Sailor folklore. This movie is much more about creating atmosphere and fear than linear story telling. Also believe it or not this is based on a true story and Egger's used old diaries of lighthouse workers from this period to write all of the dialogue so that it is authentic to the time.
"WELL YEE LOIKE MEE LOBSTER DONT YEEE?"