As far as the whole "Could I kill someone" question that people tend to ask. I'll say this, as someone who has had to shoot a person in self-defense, that thought never occurs in the heat of the moment. When it's truly life or death you are focused on survival, it's extremely easy to do whatever's necessary at the time. You don't feel anything, no hesitation, no remorse, no anger, you just don't have the time to really consider any of that. You wind up having to sort that out and rationalize afterwards, once the adrenaline has faded off. If you DO have the time and awareness to think through such complex thoughts before taking a life, then you are probably not facing imminent danger and should likely find a different option.
@@stevem.o.1185 can’t disagree with that logic. Thankfully I’ve never had to defend myself in that way against a person but I have had wild hogs come at me while hunting and I can attest to the fact that your body seemingly reacts before your mind even knows what’s going on. I walked up on the group of hogs in thick woods and was probably 40 feet away before realizing it. They closed the gap in seconds and before I had fully processed the situation I had already dealt with one of them which scared the others off. Admittedly that ended my hunt for the day. Afterwords I couldn’t hold my hands steady enough to shoot
@stevem.o.1185 what I'm saying is that the rational thinking part of the mind kind-of takes a back seat when it's a situation like that. It's almost like an out of body experience, you wind up just acting without much thought on what you're really doing. It's hard to explain, it's all just intuition in the moment. That's why most martial arts teach and train "muscle memory". You lose fine motor skills, emotion, complex thought, and the world seems to slow just a bit. Anyone who's ever been in a serious car accident has likely experienced this same mind state.
If you have the time to think about it, and aren't thinking about another way to deal with the situation, you're probably a police officer that's about to accidentally stumble upon a person who shot himself in the back 32 times with a shotgun.
R Lee Ermey didn't just play a drill instructor in full metal jacket. He had been a US Marines drill instructor during the Vietnam War. However, painter Bob Ross had also been a drill instructor. When Bob got out of the military, he decided he never wanted to shout again In his life, hence his soothing soft voice on his TV show.
Ermey wasn’t the first choice for Gny. Sgt. Hartman. Tim Colceri was originally cast as Hartman. Ermey was on set as a coach for Colceri. Colceri jokes saying Ermey should play the part & Kubrick agreed. Ermey was also older & more “seasoned” looking according to Kubrick, more likely to have been around long enough to have mastered the art of breaking new recruits. Colceri said “Ermey said I’ll give it shot, but I’m not looking to put Tim out of a job”. The rest is history. Ermey told Kubrick he had to keep in the film & Kubrick didn’t wanna cut him anyway. So he got cast as “door gunner”. Quite a downgrade from his original role. Kubrick paid him the same salary he was promised & even tho he only had a few seconds of screen time he had a couple of the best lines in the movie. As he’s shooting civilians working rice fields, he shouts “Get some”, which has been repeated in a few movies. “If they run they’re a VC, If they stand still they’re a well disciplined VC”. His best line tho is when Joker asks “how can you shoot women & children?” Gunner says “Easy! You just don’t lead em as much” “Ain’t war hell” he then says while laughing. Amazing movie!!!
That voice extended to every aspect of Ross' life after the military, as even friends and family reported his voice almost never going above a loud whisper at any point in his life post military service.
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I also think of when Trainspotting came out and so many people denounced it saying it was glamorizing heroin. I can't believe those people actually watched the movie, because, my gosh, there was nothing glamorous about heroin addiction in that movie!
Fully agree with your point. But you've mispelled heroin, you've spelt heroine which is a female hero, I'm being pedantic but thought I'd let you know.
I was a marine and one of my favorite movies is still full metal jacket. I’m fully aware that it is an anti war movie and that’s mostly why I like it. It showed a more brutal side of war that many people don’t understand.
But why is he laser-focused in some of his content, while other uploads show him in the monkey-minded throes of an Adderall binge?! I've noticed that the longer the runtime, the more rife with tangents and sidetracks.
A script that talks about misunderstanding the message starts out saying that Faerheit 451 was about censorship of books, when the author Ray Bradbury spent the entirety of his life going "It is NOT about censorship of books!" (It is about television and media and how the dumbing down of culture allows authoritarianism to flourish) But that, at least, is an easy misunderstanding to come to, given the protagonist's job and the title of the book.
I enjoy watching Simon’s opinion on Musk evolve, and I wonder when he will go from “You used to be cool. What happened?” to “This guy used to have such good PR that even I bought in on the hype.”
The bad things Musk used to do didn't hurt white people. So to Simon, Musk _didn't_ do anything at all, except the occasional bit of charming eccentricity. This was true throughout the early 2010s.
To the person that did the editing for this video: you outshined Whistleboy himself. I was actually watching this video with my eyeballs, waiting in anticipation of the next meme so I could have another knee slapping laugh. Thank you editor, you’ve made my day. American history X / Skyrim… had me choking on my breakfast.
What he said that greed isn't a good thing and it showed greed from Fullmetal alchemist I started laughing my ass off because I love greed and it shows that greed truly is a two-edged sword and although we always assume it is a bad thing it has a good side that we barely see.
A friend of a friend in college use to watch American History X up until the point when Norton's character goes to jail and stop. He was one of those people who thought the "arguments" were good. He always said it was his favorite movie, but only watches the first 1/3 of it. I am African-American, my friend was Caucasian and thankfully he said it before I could that we should never hang around that guy ever again.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman's seven-minute abusive tirade was apparently largely improvised. It still stands as one of the finest (and most disturbing) scenes in cinema. FMJ is really two related films: boot camp, and then combat. Well worth watching.
I don't get how even the smoothest brained idiot could think it glorifies war. Even the second half of the film is mostly just the characters being awful human beings.
@@RunawayTrain2502 I believe he started out as an advisor BTS until the director seen Ermey do his thing in person. . . I'm reading while listening to the video so its possible that was mentioned and I missed it 😂
Simon: just because someone is good at reading/presenting doesn't mean what they say is smart or truthful. Also Simon: I believe in the stuff they say in aspirational podcasts.
Simon as someone who works with you, I don’t think this is a bad personality trait. You are humble in the sense that you never mistake your own luck for genius, but you are also aware of your successes as a result of your work. I think as with this topic in general: it’s what people take from those examples that matters the most. If you see success in the right context it probably helps. If you see success without its proper context, it probably won’t help. The problem for a lot of successful people has been that their luck or starting advantages are so overwhelming that they’ve literally never learned humility.
They actually showed us Full Metal Jacket at the end of Boot Camp because it is a spectacularly accurate depiction of Marine Corps basic training in many ways with some very obvious exceptions.
He has managed to forget a whole channel. Xplrd had not had a video for over a year. "Pulitzer vs. Hearst: The Birth of Yellow Journalism" is the one he was talking about.
So Simon, the vietnam movie with the bad rendition of "Sympathy for the devil" was Apocalypse now where Martin sheen goes up the river to meet Marlon Brando, and the one with robbin williams was "good morning vietnam"
Coming from a PhD Economist, Simon, you are absolutely right about trickle-down economics not actually working. You perfectly described what economists call “diminishing marginal propensity to consume”. As a person becomes wealthier, although they do consume more, it’s not proportionate to their increase in wealth.
I was in a confined area with a gentleman who had a lot of respect from the "caucasian community" as a "room mate" who upon hearing that American History X was an influential film in my life, took that the wrong way. He suggested I watch "This is England 2006" for the wrong reasons. Definitely an eye opener.
To address the American History X one: One of the guys in my friend group in high school was one of the guys who got the wrong message. We watched it together and there is a scene where Ed Norton's character is talking to Eliot Gould's character telling him all the problems with different races, and that friend was totally jiving. It was like he was hearing his new favorite song. It was fucking weird. Even weirder was the fact that the dude is Mexican AF; his grandparents literally didn't speak English. Edit: Also want to mention that literally everyone that I went to basic training with cited an obvious anti-war film as their reason for joining; including myself. My dumbass literally read Audie Murphy's "To Hell and Back" on the way to basic and was still like: "This is going to be fucking awesome!".
I remember seeing a historical film in high school about Nazi Germany. There was a sequence of clips from Triumph of the Will and Olympia, that get the blood of impressionable teens going. Then. . . it switches to footage of the liberated death camps. Immediately. The message was inescapable - *that* leads to *this*. I can imagine how upset some people would be by this today.
It's absolutely INSANE that "This land is your land" has that back story. Every day when I was in 1st and 2nd grade, we'd have music class and we'd sing the song. Though 1st grade was late 2003-june 2004 and 2nd grade was late 2004 to early 2005. So it was right around when the war on terror was escalating and everyone was apparently super patriotic. I'm 25, almost 26 now and I still remember This land is your land. Every single lyric.
I don't know, if Simon really looks for ideas for future videos but considering he likes the Wolf of Wallstreet, I would really recommend him making a video about how the movie got financed in the first place because it is fuuuucking wild.
@@TheRowdyHouseCat A really short explanation is that Jho Low, someone, who had access to a Malaysian development fund was able to get away with stealing a ton of money from it, funding a movie production studio called Red Granite, which then produced the Wolf of Wall Street and Dumb and Dumber To.
It would be awesome to see a good edit of the various Vietnam movies combined together into a cohesive narrative. It'd probably be ten hours, but would be an incredible experience.
To be fair to "This Land is Your Land" they never do get around to the final verse. Even when I was a kid and finally read the final verse I was like: "Oh, this isn't that kind of song at all."
Citizen Kane is a great movie, and you don't need to be a film student to appreciate it. It shows how a stunted childhood, lacking in parental love, creates a power-mad megalomaniac who craves adulation, but ends up being abandoned again in the end. Sounds very familiar.
Nah - Citizen Kane is a streaming pile of poo and I'm still pissed I spent two hours of my life watching it trying to find something even slightly good about this supposedly great film
Her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard And they're like, it's better than yours Damn right it's better than yours I can teach you, but I have to charge
Fun fact the real life Belford (Wolf of Wall Street) was cell mates with Chong when he was in prison. It was Chong that talked him into writing a book about his career in the stock market and gave him a lot of pointers to how to write a dramatic narrative instead of a diary no one would be interested in. Also according to Chong Belford was nowhere near as off the wall as he is depicted in the movie; things like doing coke off a hooker's ass where WAY outside his comfort zone.
As a US Marine vet, the Full Metal Jacket entry reminded me of another 1980s war movie where people- or rather the military- lost the plot: Heartbreak Ridge. The movie was inspired by a US Army unit in Grenada calling in an airstrike with a pay phone when their radio went out. The lead character, Gunnery Sergeant Highway, was suppose to be a career US Army NCO and the title was a reference to a US Army battle in the Korean War. The producers showed the script to the US Army hoping for logistical support but got rejected because of Highway being portrayed as a heavy drinking divorcee, which mind you makes up a good portion of the military in general The Marines were approached and they offered help with some hesitance and the characters were changed to Marines. The Marines wanted to use the movie to promote their annual Toys for Tots charity but disowned the movie to the profanity. That's right the Marines rejected a movie for cursing because they couldn't use it for a toy drive.
You’ll be very surprised how often the ‘million dollar loan from my parents’ version of their story is a key element, and often the only element, that’s relevant to ‘how i became a millionaire’. it’s kind of boring to find out how the hard work, if any, often didn’t play a big part in them getting rich and powerful. There are plenty of brilliant people who are not rich
A lot of success stories also have to do with "Vitamin C", the connections one has, also often due to the right parents; and then the right schools/universities.
Right, that's the HUGE caveat. Having parents who are rich, powerful, and/or well connected is a common thread in a great many instances of massive wealth. In most cases they're undeniably also hard workers and had great ideas, but there are a LOT of people like that who are working normal jobs because they have bills to pay and nobody to give them enormous low to no-interest startup loans.
@@BruceBoyde another thing that seems relevant is that people who are already rich can work hard at things that would otherwise be a bad idea because of the risk involved. their parents wealth means even total failure doesn’t matter (this is the ‘i dropped out of college’ story, a la Mark Zuckerberg)
i assume he went on vacation around christmas. and that is likely about when these recent videos were recorded. he's mentioned being about a month ahead on most of his pages.
"Trickle down economics" wasn't claiming that rich people would spend more money in the grocery store if they got tax breaks... The idea was that business owners and investors having more money would mean they would invest more money into expanding their businesses, thus employing more employees and/or paying employees more. Of course, that still didn't work out the way that's claimed because there are so many other perverse incentives like venture capital and stock shorting that guaranteed the economics would never "trickle down".
Don’t forget most of those billionaires had parents with money to begin with Simon, even if not “billionaire” money. Only a rare few achieve that feat otherwise.
A poem by Bret Harte entitled The Heathen Chinee was meant to oppose Anti-Chinese sentiment in the 1870s but the message of the poem was too subtle and it ended up reinforcing Anti-Chinese sentiment in California and used by opponents of Chinese Immigration.
Pretty sure anybody "radicalized" by American History X would've gone down that route sooner or later anyways. That's one of the biggest upsides of the movie, the arguments are picked "straight from the street". Can't fault a movie for depicting reality accurately.
We sang "This Land is Your Land" in school back in the late 1960s/early 1970s. "God Bless America" is one of those preachy anthems that churches tend to only sing on July 4, or at least the churches I attended did I know this because I had to write out the words since the song wasn't in the Presbyterian hymnal and the other members of my praise band didn't know the song, and we needed one more patriotic-sounding song to round out our program. Kate Smith sang the definitive version in 1943, which had been written by Irving Berlin.
Yes, and Springsteen was quite rightfully p'd-off about it. But that's the idiot Republicans playbook - willfully misinterpreting protest songs to dilute their impact and meaning.
@21:09 Woody also painted the words, *_This machine kills fascists._* on other guitars he owned. With the song, both become a social statement I like Woody.
Old now, but rewatching this and the talk about American History X reminded me- thanks to seeing that as an angry teen yet to learn, the (likely, imo) most shameful moment of my life involved a curb stomp. Luckily I sorta... Came to during and stopped myself before ruing my life, and theirs. Every since I've worked hard to keep my anger well under control. I grew up from violence, and breaking that cycle (as well as helping decrease violence in general when possible) is one of the most important things to me now.
It's fairly fitting that soldiers love the first half of Full Metal Jacket and generally say the second half is a second movie entirely or just turn it off before the final Pyle scene. Not sure what that says about us, but I agree. Many in the uniform definitely missed that message.
As someone who's pretty into films, it's kinda blowing my mind that multiple people here are saying similar things. That they know people who just watch the horrible part of the movie, and its their favorite movie, but they just always turn it off at the part that shows the horrible part as actually being horrible, which is the whole point. I guess I have never thought that someone would actually interact with a movie in that way. It's not just missing the message, it's flat out willfully rejecting the message.
“The horror” a quote that still haunts me from Apocalypse Now or as Simon allegedly calls is: the movie where they find that dude up the river in the jungle
@@tanderson6442 honestly I just googled nadsat and after a glance decided to admit ignorance rather than bullshit an answer. Reading was life in prison, so I imagine might I know the concept but not the term but idk😁
My ex-roommate was one of those kind of guys that really liked Tyler durden in fight club for exactly that kind of reason AKA completely missed the author was a then closeted gay man who in fact did not identify with toxic masculinity and was writing something that outlines the cult mentality of attempting to start your own Zeitgeist only to replicate what you hated in the original mainstream culture. He used to borrow that DVD from my collection at least once a month I think. I'm betting he never understood it and has since canceled his life subscription.
Simon is the epitome of trickle down economics, even if he doesn't know it. As he gets more successful, he hires more writers, or traps more in the basement I'm not 100% on that, then he hires more editors, more videos get made and more channels get launched. He is bringing in more and paying out more to get even more coming in. Trickle down in action.
I am a year late to this party, but here goes. Citizen Kane -- In the late 1980's a friend invited me to got to a lare movie venue, where they were showing Citizen Kane. Having seen the film numerous times on television over the years, I figured I had seen it enough. But I went anyway, and saw the film on a huge screen, the way it was filmed to be seen. Cinematically, it really pulled me in.
I'm surprised Starship Troopers wasn't mentioned in this script, as millions of people around the world, mainly kids, believed that a world run by a fascist stratocracy would be a wonderful thing.
TIL: Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now are mostly indistinguishable from Good Morning Vietnam and Forest Gump....each of them just another Vietnam movie. Guess it's the same reason I can't distinguish between The Shining and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, since they both take place partly within hotels. Also, several Michael Lewis books have elicited this type of reaction.
I work in investment management and my boss has been in the industry for a long time. He said he was grateful when Wolf of Wall Street came out because Wall Street was getting a bit old and it was easy to spot people getting into the industry for the wrong reasons again. In the 1990s and 2000s, it was anyone obsessed with Gordon Gekko, 2010s onwards it’s anyone obsessed with Jordan Belford.
Simon, I feel like you need to hire someone to sit in the room with you and explain the references or answer you when you're desperately trying to think of something.
When someone gives you the answer it actually interupts you building better neuroplasticity. It's healthier and leads to better memory to wait and figure it out yourself.
Remember when Tom Hanks nearly got run over by that random TukTuk and, in character, slapped the roof while yelling "Stellllllaaaaaa!" Tears, my friend.
“Till Death do us Part” made in the 1960’s as an anti-racist satire with a Jewish actor ironically playing the über-racist Alf Garnet…completely taken at face value by most of the audience at the time…
I felt Citizen Kane was boring, too. And I was a film student. Also, This Land is Your Land was taught to pretty much all kids in primary school during the 1980s. We sang it in the morning before the Pledge of Alliegence at my school.
It's not just you Simon, trickle down economics is a way to give to the rich while making enough promises to sufficiently appease the poor. Also, I have no idea what the subject of that video was and you're killing me with curiousity. You bastard.
Ah yes, Tom Hanks and Robin Williams in _Apocalypse Now_ 🤣 Standard USMC contract is 8 years, 4 active duty and 4 years reserve. If your technical training is longer than a year though, you'll have to do 5 years active and 3 in reserve. Nothing at all surprises me about enlisting in the Corps to challenge yourself. Those are the kinds of guys you want when things go bad.
Why did you bring up Disco Duck?? I haven't thought of that in decades! I loved it when I was 10 and overplayed it making up a dance routine, but now it's an earworm - thanks, guys 💃😂
Simon, you have a much broader view of what constitutes success than just the money counter. It’s clear it matters to you, but when you talk, you talk about having work to do, and you talk about your family, and your kids, and your quiet places to spend time with them. I think you just need to broaden your definition of success. And you’re there. ❤
but that's actually the point the movie makes: racism is passed on, most Nazis already have a racist family background. it's kind of an inception...the movie triggered those people to believe in it. while outlining the exact same thing. it's not the movie's fault portraying what happens in reality. it's societies fault for not educating people from those backgrounds. mic drop 😘✌️🎤
As far as the whole "Could I kill someone" question that people tend to ask. I'll say this, as someone who has had to shoot a person in self-defense, that thought never occurs in the heat of the moment. When it's truly life or death you are focused on survival, it's extremely easy to do whatever's necessary at the time. You don't feel anything, no hesitation, no remorse, no anger, you just don't have the time to really consider any of that. You wind up having to sort that out and rationalize afterwards, once the adrenaline has faded off.
If you DO have the time and awareness to think through such complex thoughts before taking a life, then you are probably not facing imminent danger and should likely find a different option.
Well, that's a bit of survivor bias, innit? I imagine the guy that did hesitate isn't here to tell his story.
@@stevem.o.1185 can’t disagree with that logic. Thankfully I’ve never had to defend myself in that way against a person but I have had wild hogs come at me while hunting and I can attest to the fact that your body seemingly reacts before your mind even knows what’s going on. I walked up on the group of hogs in thick woods and was probably 40 feet away before realizing it. They closed the gap in seconds and before I had fully processed the situation I had already dealt with one of them which scared the others off. Admittedly that ended my hunt for the day. Afterwords I couldn’t hold my hands steady enough to shoot
@stevem.o.1185 what I'm saying is that the rational thinking part of the mind kind-of takes a back seat when it's a situation like that. It's almost like an out of body experience, you wind up just acting without much thought on what you're really doing. It's hard to explain, it's all just intuition in the moment. That's why most martial arts teach and train "muscle memory". You lose fine motor skills, emotion, complex thought, and the world seems to slow just a bit. Anyone who's ever been in a serious car accident has likely experienced this same mind state.
If you have the time to think about it, and aren't thinking about another way to deal with the situation, you're probably a police officer that's about to accidentally stumble upon a person who shot himself in the back 32 times with a shotgun.
I hope you're doing ok and were able to sort through all that.
R Lee Ermey didn't just play a drill instructor in full metal jacket. He had been a US Marines drill instructor during the Vietnam War. However, painter Bob Ross had also been a drill instructor. When Bob got out of the military, he decided he never wanted to shout again In his life, hence his soothing soft voice on his TV show.
I know you’re right, but I just can’t picture Bob Ross shouting
Same war..Vietnam. 3 different movies. Fmj. Good morning Vietnam and yes Forrest Gump and a feather
Ermey wasn’t the first choice for Gny. Sgt. Hartman. Tim Colceri was originally cast as Hartman. Ermey was on set as a coach for Colceri. Colceri jokes saying Ermey should play the part & Kubrick agreed. Ermey was also older & more “seasoned” looking according to Kubrick, more likely to have been around long enough to have mastered the art of breaking new recruits. Colceri said “Ermey said I’ll give it shot, but I’m not looking to put Tim out of a job”. The rest is history. Ermey told Kubrick he had to keep in the film & Kubrick didn’t wanna cut him anyway. So he got cast as “door gunner”. Quite a downgrade from his original role. Kubrick paid him the same salary he was promised & even tho he only had a few seconds of screen time he had a couple of the best lines in the movie. As he’s shooting civilians working rice fields, he shouts “Get some”, which has been repeated in a few movies. “If they run they’re a VC, If they stand still they’re a well disciplined VC”. His best line tho is when Joker asks “how can you shoot women & children?” Gunner says “Easy! You just don’t lead em as much”
“Ain’t war hell” he then says while laughing.
Amazing movie!!!
@@cmaden78 Couple of other classics - Platoon and Apocalypse Now.
That voice extended to every aspect of Ross' life after the military, as even friends and family reported his voice almost never going above a loud whisper at any point in his life post military service.
Putting up the poster for It while Simon was trying to remember Forest Gump is the funniest damn thing I’ve seen in weeks.
I almost woke up my family when laughing 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅
Now I'm trying to imagine Tom Hanks as Pennywise! 😱
Pure gold
💯😂🤣😂🤣
Simon needs to make another channel of him reviewing these clearly amazing movies that he's somehow never seen
I second this suggestion. It would be brilliant. LOL!
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Probably just need to like the comment. That might push it up
I would watch movies with Simon.
Found Simeon’s next channel idea! Heck, I’d sub his Patreon for that.
I also think of when Trainspotting came out and so many people denounced it saying it was glamorizing heroin. I can't believe those people actually watched the movie, because, my gosh, there was nothing glamorous about heroin addiction in that movie!
Fully agree with your point. But you've mispelled heroin, you've spelt heroine which is a female hero, I'm being pedantic but thought I'd let you know.
@Mat Geezer As Joey said, "Hey, look, I don't need you getting all judgemental and condescending and pedantic."
It doesn't matter how obvious the intended message of a movie declaiming something is, the detractors will ALWAYS claim the movie is glorifying it.
Seriously. That movie defines “scared straight”. If you know anybody going down Addiction Road, sit them down and and make them watch THAT. Yikes!
What's not fun about shitting the bed?
I was a marine and one of my favorite movies is still full metal jacket. I’m fully aware that it is an anti war movie and that’s mostly why I like it. It showed a more brutal side of war that many people don’t understand.
Truth. I’ve seen the kind of death most people only ever see in special effects. It’s far, far more horrific when it’s real people.
Are a Marine, brother. Once one of us, always one of us. Oorah!
The duality of man
All my Marine friends love that movie as well. Some of the best people I know.
@@Darksh0t009 Lots of people are veterans. Death irl is much harder to deal with than seeing it in movies.
Love how Simon's honest comon sense is the part of his brand that makes videos like this the more iconic
But why is he laser-focused in some of his content, while other uploads show him in the monkey-minded throes of an Adderall binge?! I've noticed that the longer the runtime, the more rife with tangents and sidetracks.
Wow, Did Simon refuse a payrise for Sam or something. The memes were brutal today 🤣
"I'm really good at speaking"
-Simon, after botching literally the first line in the video.
Followed quickly by a retraction of the assertion
Got to love Simon!
I'm sure some of the greatest orators flubbed a line or two in their time
A script that talks about misunderstanding the message starts out saying that Faerheit 451 was about censorship of books, when the author Ray Bradbury spent the entirety of his life going "It is NOT about censorship of books!" (It is about television and media and how the dumbing down of culture allows authoritarianism to flourish)
But that, at least, is an easy misunderstanding to come to, given the protagonist's job and the title of the book.
I enjoy watching Simon’s opinion on Musk evolve, and I wonder when he will go from “You used to be cool. What happened?” to “This guy used to have such good PR that even I bought in on the hype.”
This.
The bad things Musk used to do didn't hurt white people. So to Simon, Musk _didn't_ do anything at all, except the occasional bit of charming eccentricity. This was true throughout the early 2010s.
Most appropriate statement I've seen in forever
It's so awkward watching old BB videos and seeing him praise Musk as a genius 😂
To the person that did the editing for this video: you outshined Whistleboy himself. I was actually watching this video with my eyeballs, waiting in anticipation of the next meme so I could have another knee slapping laugh. Thank you editor, you’ve made my day.
American history X / Skyrim… had me choking on my breakfast.
American history x/Skyrim meme is probably the best meme I've seen in years. My laugh might have woken up my roommates
I wasn't prepared and spit my cereal out!
What he said that greed isn't a good thing and it showed greed from Fullmetal alchemist I started laughing my ass off because I love greed and it shows that greed truly is a two-edged sword and although we always assume it is a bad thing it has a good side that we barely see.
BlainBraze! Come for the whistling Simon, stay for the Memebles. GOBBLESS BORTHER!
A friend of a friend in college use to watch American History X up until the point when Norton's character goes to jail and stop. He was one of those people who thought the "arguments" were good. He always said it was his favorite movie, but only watches the first 1/3 of it. I am African-American, my friend was Caucasian and thankfully he said it before I could that we should never hang around that guy ever again.
What kind of crackhead only watches 1/3 of a movie
Right…
Why would he only watch the 1st third? Was he worried it would make him question his beliefs?
That's such a good movie, it's a shame he never finished it... Maybe he would have understood the point. Unfortunate but he showed his true colors.
There's also a certain demographic whose favourite film is the first 45 minutes of Trainspotting and their least favourite films is the rest of it.
Combining Full Metal Jacket, Good Morning Vietnam, Apocalypse Now, and Forrest Gump is such a Simon thing to do.
Maybe Saving Private Ryan too? 😂
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman's seven-minute abusive tirade was apparently largely improvised. It still stands as one of the finest (and most disturbing) scenes in cinema. FMJ is really two related films: boot camp, and then combat. Well worth watching.
I don't get how even the smoothest brained idiot could think it glorifies war. Even the second half of the film is mostly just the characters being awful human beings.
The movie was the perfect mood of Vietnam, violent and absolutely pointless.
The actor, R. Lee Ermey was a real drill instructor in the Vietnam war so he was pretty much playing an exaggerated version of himself.
@@RunawayTrain2502 I believe he started out as an advisor BTS until the director seen Ermey do his thing in person. . . I'm reading while listening to the video so its possible that was mentioned and I missed it 😂
And one could argue that the combat part is the less disturbing one.
Simon: just because someone is good at reading/presenting doesn't mean what they say is smart or truthful.
Also Simon: I believe in the stuff they say in aspirational podcasts.
Simon as someone who works with you, I don’t think this is a bad personality trait. You are humble in the sense that you never mistake your own luck for genius, but you are also aware of your successes as a result of your work.
I think as with this topic in general: it’s what people take from those examples that matters the most. If you see success in the right context it probably helps. If you see success without its proper context, it probably won’t help. The problem for a lot of successful people has been that their luck or starting advantages are so overwhelming that they’ve literally never learned humility.
Who let you out of the blazement?
Just kidding ❤
@@marcbeebee6969 Great Firewall has nothing on Simon's control of the basement denizens. Lloyd shall soon be corrected: of this we can be certain.
What channel do you write for?
@@marcbeebee6969 there are just facts down here. I’m so alone.
@@jeremyborder6794 little bit of everything. More Sideprojects and Megaprojects.
They actually showed us Full Metal Jacket at the end of Boot Camp because it is a spectacularly accurate depiction of Marine Corps basic training in many ways with some very obvious exceptions.
I'm glad at least Sam is trying to keep up the OG BB vibes. Thank you Sam.
Had surgery today, new blaze helps me pretend to big brain and forget the cutty and snipping.
I hope you have a speedy recovery and that they gave you the good drugs, not flour.
Simon is the living embodiment of forgetting more than I will ever know….
He has managed to forget a whole channel. Xplrd had not had a video for over a year.
"Pulitzer vs. Hearst: The Birth of Yellow Journalism" is the one he was talking about.
So Simon, the vietnam movie with the bad rendition of "Sympathy for the devil" was Apocalypse now where Martin sheen goes up the river to meet Marlon Brando, and the one with robbin williams was "good morning vietnam"
And the one where Sheen goes up the river to meet Sheen is Hot Shots 2.
Coming from a PhD Economist, Simon, you are absolutely right about trickle-down economics not actually working. You perfectly described what economists call “diminishing marginal propensity to consume”. As a person becomes wealthier, although they do consume more, it’s not proportionate to their increase in wealth.
I have the feeling he misunderstood/his brain skipped the part where it's clearly as sarcastically intended as he read it.
I was in a confined area with a gentleman who had a lot of respect from the "caucasian community" as a "room mate" who upon hearing that American History X was an influential film in my life, took that the wrong way. He suggested I watch "This is England 2006" for the wrong reasons. Definitely an eye opener.
Eloquent way to say you served time
To address the American History X one: One of the guys in my friend group in high school was one of the guys who got the wrong message. We watched it together and there is a scene where Ed Norton's character is talking to Eliot Gould's character telling him all the problems with different races, and that friend was totally jiving. It was like he was hearing his new favorite song. It was fucking weird. Even weirder was the fact that the dude is Mexican AF; his grandparents literally didn't speak English.
Edit: Also want to mention that literally everyone that I went to basic training with cited an obvious anti-war film as their reason for joining; including myself. My dumbass literally read Audie Murphy's "To Hell and Back" on the way to basic and was still like: "This is going to be fucking awesome!".
Mexicans are extremely racist. I worked with some. They absolutely hate South Americans and black people. So no it wasn't weird he liked it
Mexicans can be racist too. Even against other latino & hispanic people.
@@mike-sk2li Don't forget Puerto Ricans! Though I think most of the racism from Mexicans in America against Puerto Ricans is because they're citizens
I remember seeing a historical film in high school about Nazi Germany.
There was a sequence of clips from Triumph of the Will and Olympia, that get the blood of impressionable teens going.
Then. . . it switches to footage of the liberated death camps. Immediately. The message was inescapable - *that* leads to *this*.
I can imagine how upset some people would be by this today.
That sounds like an excellent movie for teens.
It's absolutely INSANE that "This land is your land" has that back story. Every day when I was in 1st and 2nd grade, we'd have music class and we'd sing the song. Though 1st grade was late 2003-june 2004 and 2nd grade was late 2004 to early 2005. So it was right around when the war on terror was escalating and everyone was apparently super patriotic. I'm 25, almost 26 now and I still remember This land is your land. Every single lyric.
I don't know, if Simon really looks for ideas for future videos but considering he likes the Wolf of Wallstreet, I would really recommend him making a video about how the movie got financed in the first place because it is fuuuucking wild.
Well do tell how it was financed please. I like that movie and would like to know
@@TheRowdyHouseCat A really short explanation is that Jho Low, someone, who had access to a Malaysian development fund was able to get away with stealing a ton of money from it, funding a movie production studio called Red Granite, which then produced the Wolf of Wall Street and Dumb and Dumber To.
2:47
LMAO Sam you killed me
you cant just put that after a curb stomp scene looooool
Proof of Simon's point on the last one. Every step you take, a song about stalking, found it's way into wedding playlists because it's romantic.
This might be Sam's finest work yet
Quack
It would be awesome to see a good edit of the various Vietnam movies combined together into a cohesive narrative. It'd probably be ten hours, but would be an incredible experience.
As long as Tropic Thunder is included :)
Are you sure it would be that short? Otherwise, I totally agree with you.
To be fair to "This Land is Your Land" they never do get around to the final verse. Even when I was a kid and finally read the final verse I was like: "Oh, this isn't that kind of song at all."
The one with the private property sign?
Citizen Kane is a great movie, and you don't need to be a film student to appreciate it. It shows how a stunted childhood, lacking in parental love, creates a power-mad megalomaniac who craves adulation, but ends up being abandoned again in the end. Sounds very familiar.
Nah - Citizen Kane is a streaming pile of poo and I'm still pissed I spent two hours of my life watching it trying to find something even slightly good about this supposedly great film
If the normal viewer doesnt understand the point of your work it isnt "smart" and "artistic"
you just have written a bad script...
*Change my mind*
@@thermitebanana I counter with Memoirs of a Geisha, Napoleon Dynamite and The Notebook.
@@gandalf_thegrey Why? People have loved, adored, and commended it for decades. You change their minds.
It's also got some genuinely humorous scenes. I can see why the Simpsons writers used to be fond of making references to it.
Oh man this feels like a throwback episode. Absolute lunacy love it.
2:00 - Chapter 1 - American History X
6:30 - Chapter 2 - Full metal jacket
11:50 - Chapter 3 - Wall street
20:55 - Chapter 4 - This land is your land
It's the remix to ignition hot and fresh out kitchen
Her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
And they're like, it's better than yours
Damn right it's better than yours
I can teach you, but I have to charge
Fun fact the real life Belford (Wolf of Wall Street) was cell mates with Chong when he was in prison. It was Chong that talked him into writing a book about his career in the stock market and gave him a lot of pointers to how to write a dramatic narrative instead of a diary no one would be interested in. Also according to Chong Belford was nowhere near as off the wall as he is depicted in the movie; things like doing coke off a hooker's ass where WAY outside his comfort zone.
Tommy Chong? No shit
@@ryurc3033 Yeah he talked about it when he was on Getting Doug with High with Kyle Kinane
Fun fact: your moms slightly above average attractive.
@@dont_hit_trees lol thanks... I will let her know...?
Best movie of all time🙌
As a US Marine vet, the Full Metal Jacket entry reminded me of another 1980s war movie where people- or rather the military- lost the plot: Heartbreak Ridge. The movie was inspired by a US Army unit in Grenada calling in an airstrike with a pay phone when their radio went out. The lead character, Gunnery Sergeant Highway, was suppose to be a career US Army NCO and the title was a reference to a US Army battle in the Korean War. The producers showed the script to the US Army hoping for logistical support but got rejected because of Highway being portrayed as a heavy drinking divorcee, which mind you makes up a good portion of the military in general
The Marines were approached and they offered help with some hesitance and the characters were changed to Marines. The Marines wanted to use the movie to promote their annual Toys for Tots charity but disowned the movie to the profanity. That's right the Marines rejected a movie for cursing because they couldn't use it for a toy drive.
You’ll be very surprised how often the ‘million dollar loan from my parents’ version of their story is a key element, and often the only element, that’s relevant to ‘how i became a millionaire’. it’s kind of boring to find out how the hard work, if any, often didn’t play a big part in them getting rich and powerful. There are plenty of brilliant people who are not rich
A lot of success stories also have to do with "Vitamin C", the connections one has, also often due to the right parents; and then the right schools/universities.
Right, that's the HUGE caveat. Having parents who are rich, powerful, and/or well connected is a common thread in a great many instances of massive wealth. In most cases they're undeniably also hard workers and had great ideas, but there are a LOT of people like that who are working normal jobs because they have bills to pay and nobody to give them enormous low to no-interest startup loans.
@@tubensalat1453 yep yep.
@@BruceBoyde agreed.
@@BruceBoyde another thing that seems relevant is that people who are already rich can work hard at things that would otherwise be a bad idea because of the risk involved. their parents wealth means even total failure doesn’t matter (this is the ‘i dropped out of college’ story, a la Mark Zuckerberg)
Thumbs up OG Business Blaze Legends.
RIP - R. Lee Ermey 🕊️
1944-2018
A True Legend!
Kevin has been writing more and more Blaze scripts.
Could it be that Danny has finally escaped from the Blazement?🥳🥳🥳🥳
I think Simon is one of my favourite people who i have never actually met. Dude is fucking wild.
you should mail him a lock of your hair as a symbol of your friendship.
Two words I never thought I'd hear out of Simon, "racism, yeah!" I hope no one takes that out of context 😂😂😂😂
Has Danny escaped the Blazement? He's not written a script for a couple of weeks
i assume he went on vacation around christmas. and that is likely about when these recent videos were recorded. he's mentioned being about a month ahead on most of his pages.
@@karnivaltwitch holiday
Kevin’s become the ruler of the Blazement. He’s colonizing Simon’s channels. Soon, Kevin will be writing for all 13 channels
Came to the comments to see if anyone else was wondering.
@@karnivaltwitch Simon is just too afraid to start collecting Danny's pages.
"Trickle down economics" wasn't claiming that rich people would spend more money in the grocery store if they got tax breaks... The idea was that business owners and investors having more money would mean they would invest more money into expanding their businesses, thus employing more employees and/or paying employees more.
Of course, that still didn't work out the way that's claimed because there are so many other perverse incentives like venture capital and stock shorting that guaranteed the economics would never "trickle down".
Don’t forget most of those billionaires had parents with money to begin with Simon, even if not “billionaire” money. Only a rare few achieve that feat otherwise.
Elon Musk became a "self made man" with only his family emerald mines to fall back on.
To go from millionaire to billionaire is still an impressive accomplishment.
Not really considering money typical makes more money.
I'm amazed that you managed to mix forrest Gump, full metal jacket, apocalypse now, good morning Vietnam and, platoon all into one movie lol 😅
A poem by Bret Harte entitled The Heathen Chinee was meant to oppose Anti-Chinese sentiment in the 1870s but the message of the poem was too subtle and it ended up reinforcing Anti-Chinese sentiment in California and used by opponents of Chinese Immigration.
Simons favourite Vietnam movie… Full metal Apocalypse Gump Now….”Man, I love the smell of a box of chocolates in the morning, Jenny”!
Pretty sure anybody "radicalized" by American History X would've gone down that route sooner or later anyways.
That's one of the biggest upsides of the movie, the arguments are picked "straight from the street". Can't fault a movie for depicting reality accurately.
I think this is a valid point
I think you make a good point. And what’s a mocie?
Edit: lol, I’m dumb. I just realized it’s probably a typo for movie.
@@HyperWolf fixed it, where's autocorrect when it's needed for once...
We sang "This Land is Your Land" in school back in the late 1960s/early 1970s. "God Bless America" is one of those preachy anthems that churches tend to only sing on July 4, or at least the churches I attended did I know this because I had to write out the words since the song wasn't in the Presbyterian hymnal and the other members of my praise band didn't know the song, and we needed one more patriotic-sounding song to round out our program. Kate Smith sang the definitive version in 1943, which had been written by Irving Berlin.
I am reminded of how Reagan (I think) used 'Born in the USA' as a campaign theme, presumably without having listened to any of the lyrics.
Yes, and Springsteen was quite rightfully p'd-off about it. But that's the idiot Republicans playbook - willfully misinterpreting protest songs to dilute their impact and meaning.
I love Kevin and I fully support the line being changed to "There are only two things that come out of Texas and they both taste delicious"😂😂😂
YAASS Blaze Boi! Amazing timing I am stressed asf today and this is just what I needed 😌
8:26 R.I.P. Ronald Lee Ermey, my God! this dude was funny as hell.🤣
@21:09 Woody also painted the words, *_This machine kills fascists._* on other guitars he owned. With the song, both become a social statement
I like Woody.
Old now, but rewatching this and the talk about American History X reminded me- thanks to seeing that as an angry teen yet to learn, the (likely, imo) most shameful moment of my life involved a curb stomp.
Luckily I sorta... Came to during and stopped myself before ruing my life, and theirs.
Every since I've worked hard to keep my anger well under control. I grew up from violence, and breaking that cycle (as well as helping decrease violence in general when possible) is one of the most important things to me now.
It's fairly fitting that soldiers love the first half of Full Metal Jacket and generally say the second half is a second movie entirely or just turn it off before the final Pyle scene.
Not sure what that says about us, but I agree. Many in the uniform definitely missed that message.
As someone who's pretty into films, it's kinda blowing my mind that multiple people here are saying similar things. That they know people who just watch the horrible part of the movie, and its their favorite movie, but they just always turn it off at the part that shows the horrible part as actually being horrible, which is the whole point. I guess I have never thought that someone would actually interact with a movie in that way. It's not just missing the message, it's flat out willfully rejecting the message.
The soldiers might like it, but we Marines love it!
@@clairekortbawi5659 Figured that would flush out the Marines watching.
@@thehumanconsensus And hear people thinking we no read good!
“The horror” a quote that still haunts me from Apocalypse Now or as Simon allegedly calls is: the movie where they find that dude up the river in the jungle
How does one confuse Full Metal Jacket with Good morning Vietnam? 🤣
Excellent question? 😮
I think it’s so cool that we are in a place where Simon can say “I’ll get a different electric car”
Yesssss just what I needed!
Its always funny to me when people lose the plot to Kubrick films. Like when they like Alex from clockwork
Not sure people like Alex as much as they like the nadsat language used throughout the novel/film.
There probably isn't something he made that a large number of people get totally wrong
@@tanderson6442 honestly I just googled nadsat and after a glance decided to admit ignorance rather than bullshit an answer. Reading was life in prison, so I imagine might I know the concept but not the term but idk😁
My ex-roommate was one of those kind of guys that really liked Tyler durden in fight club for exactly that kind of reason AKA completely missed the author was a then closeted gay man who in fact did not identify with toxic masculinity and was writing something that outlines the cult mentality of attempting to start your own Zeitgeist only to replicate what you hated in the original mainstream culture. He used to borrow that DVD from my collection at least once a month I think.
I'm betting he never understood it and has since canceled his life subscription.
7:22 Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Good Morning Viet Nam and Forrest Gump.
Robin Williams - Good Morning Vietnam, Tom Hanks - saving private Ryan, the movie where Tom Hanks is dumb - Forest Gump
The “it” poster edit was absolutely brilliant.
Simon is the epitome of trickle down economics, even if he doesn't know it. As he gets more successful, he hires more writers, or traps more in the basement I'm not 100% on that, then he hires more editors, more videos get made and more channels get launched. He is bringing in more and paying out more to get even more coming in. Trickle down in action.
I am a year late to this party, but here goes. Citizen Kane -- In the late 1980's a friend invited me to got to a lare movie venue, where they were showing Citizen Kane. Having seen the film numerous times on television over the years, I figured I had seen it enough. But I went anyway, and saw the film on a huge screen, the way it was filmed to be seen. Cinematically, it really pulled me in.
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now (finding the guy up the river)
Good Morning Vietnam (Robin Williams)
Forest Gump (Tom Hanks)
I'm surprised Starship Troopers wasn't mentioned in this script, as millions of people around the world, mainly kids, believed that a world run by a fascist stratocracy would be a wonderful thing.
Ah a new Blaze..... Just what I needed to go with my cold beer
That was a good impression of fortunate son lmao
TIL: Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now are mostly indistinguishable from Good Morning Vietnam and Forest Gump....each of them just another Vietnam movie.
Guess it's the same reason I can't distinguish between The Shining and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, since they both take place partly within hotels.
Also, several Michael Lewis books have elicited this type of reaction.
I work in investment management and my boss has been in the industry for a long time. He said he was grateful when Wolf of Wall Street came out because Wall Street was getting a bit old and it was easy to spot people getting into the industry for the wrong reasons again. In the 1990s and 2000s, it was anyone obsessed with Gordon Gekko, 2010s onwards it’s anyone obsessed with Jordan Belford.
Yay new business blaze!
Sam, I was not ready for that AHX/Skyrim meme! Had to pause the video because I was laughing over Simon 😂
Simon, I feel like you need to hire someone to sit in the room with you and explain the references or answer you when you're desperately trying to think of something.
When someone gives you the answer it actually interupts you building better neuroplasticity. It's healthier and leads to better memory to wait and figure it out yourself.
Cuz Alexa hates him 🤷
@@ASJones-re2oe And Siri
Woody Guthrie was one of Bob Dylan's heros! Arlo Guthrie had some great tracks too.
Good Morning Forrest Gump's Full Metal Vietnam Apocalypse Jacket Now is my favorite movie
Remember when Tom Hanks nearly got run over by that random TukTuk and, in character, slapped the roof while yelling "Stellllllaaaaaa!" Tears, my friend.
@@RHCole My favorite part was when Robin Williams came upon Gomer Pyle in that dark hut and started running across America
Maybe 1 reason you’re not aspiring to be a billionaire, Simon, is you don’t want to sacrifice time with your family, which is priceless!
To be honest it's not a Vietnam war movie unless Fortunate Son plays at some point.
“Till Death do us Part” made in the 1960’s as an anti-racist satire with a Jewish actor ironically playing the über-racist Alf Garnet…completely taken at face value by most of the audience at the time…
I felt Citizen Kane was boring, too. And I was a film student. Also, This Land is Your Land was taught to pretty much all kids in primary school during the 1980s. We sang it in the morning before the Pledge of Alliegence at my school.
7:38 Simon's mind for media is amazing: in his head there's a movie that would be called Full Good Metal Morning Apocalypse Gump Jacket Now.
It's not just you Simon, trickle down economics is a way to give to the rich while making enough promises to sufficiently appease the poor. Also, I have no idea what the subject of that video was and you're killing me with curiousity. You bastard.
If all the business owners are poor where are you going to make your money then?
Simon is legit hilarious and you'd never know it from the straight videos.
Sometimes all you need is charisma to indoctrinate people.
That's the underlying message and warning of Dune
Facts
The wave of nostalgia that hit me when Simon said brain blaze instead of business blaze tho
Ah yes, Tom Hanks and Robin Williams in _Apocalypse Now_ 🤣
Standard USMC contract is 8 years, 4 active duty and 4 years reserve. If your technical training is longer than a year though, you'll have to do 5 years active and 3 in reserve. Nothing at all surprises me about enlisting in the Corps to challenge yourself. Those are the kinds of guys you want when things go bad.
In an alternate time line, I see Robin Williams playing Colonel Kurtz... and it's pretty damn good.
How about the folks who thought Swift was serious about A Modest Proposal lol
Don't worry, Kevin. I'm a film student, and I also couldn't get into Citizen Kane...
We need a channel of Simon reacting to the plot of popular movies that hes never seen (since we cant watch him react to watching them lol)
Every Blaze the past few months have had a pretty good burp in them.
Why did you bring up Disco Duck?? I haven't thought of that in decades! I loved it when I was 10 and overplayed it making up a dance routine, but now it's an earworm - thanks, guys 💃😂
PLEASE do a biographics on Woody Guthrie. Great man.
While you are at it, how about Kerouac? Not that I see him as a "Great man" any mor- grew out of that maaaaany years ago, but would be interesting.
No, trickle down economics is just propaganda. Your criticism is spot on.
Two things come from Texas and they're both delicious...
You must explain that joke to him.
stears and quears is the original 2 things
it's a thing i heard alot growing up in louisiana
@@karnivaltwitch it was one hell of a line.
@@jaydisqus3353 sums up the default stance of most southerners. Iirc the second half was and I don't see no horns on you
Simon, you have a much broader view of what constitutes success than just the money counter. It’s clear it matters to you, but when you talk, you talk about having work to do, and you talk about your family, and your kids, and your quiet places to spend time with them. I think you just need to broaden your definition of success. And you’re there. ❤
but that's actually the point the movie makes: racism is passed on, most Nazis already have a racist family background. it's kind of an inception...the movie triggered those people to believe in it. while outlining the exact same thing. it's not the movie's fault portraying what happens in reality. it's societies fault for not educating people from those backgrounds.
mic drop 😘✌️🎤