coming from a big fan of yours: it seems like NapoleonVII's recent video on this movie inspired you, considering the similar topic and especially thumbnail. i think a shoutout would be nice, as a courtesy to a much smaller youtuber
I appreciate you highlighting this. There's a ton of rampant plagiarism on just about every social media platform right now, especially as it pertains to the bigger vs smaller creator dynamic. So I'm genuinely glad you're willing to hold me accountable for my part in that. Believe it or not, I actually wrote pretty much the entirety of this script on November 6th. The script was originally written as a combination analysis of La La Land + Fantastic Mr. Fox, specifically framed through the respective holidays they're loosely associated with (Christmas and Thanksgiving respectively). I shelved the idea for a bit, both to get it done closer to the holidays and because I wanted to do a video on the Scott Pilgrim anime that dropped a couple weeks back. Then what do you know, the Scott Pilgrim anime releases...and so does NapoleonVII's video on the exact same day lmao! It popped up on my recommended feed, with maybe 1500 views at the time? I immediately watched it and I loved the video a lot! As an analyst they definitely feel cut from a similar cloth as me, and explored the topics I wanted to with a lot of depth and grace. So of course, after watching it, I had to reconsider a lot about my own script. Which 100% admittedly, for the bigger vs smaller creator reasons your comment touches upon, made me pivot away from using the framing device of Thanksgiving once I revisited the script so as to not step on their toes. So in that sense, their video definitely influenced my own! But as far as the actual content of what was said in my script, most of it is retained from the original November 6th draft. I decided to frame my video around Fantastic Mr. Fox's paradoxical design, since that was the thread that tied my analysis together once the holiday angle was (mostly) stripped away. Then the thumbnail just kind of came as a natural extension of that. All that considered though, I actually enjoy NapoleonVII's video better than my own overall. I was going to share their video on my community page today, but then I saw it hit about 350K views! I'm so proud and happy to see the wonderful and incredibly deserved reception it's been getting. However, at the end of the day, you're still absolutely right. Regardless of my own behind the scenes process, I've got a platform and I might as well use it to boost it good work to even greater heights if that's within my power. I'm sharing it ASAP. Thank you again for directly commenting on this with tact and grace. Appreciate you. 💛 p.s. I changed the thumbnail and that should update shortly
@@meeptopfucking kudos mate great response. I'm not using sarcasm nor anger/spite since it's difficult to tell tone through text. I enjoyed seeing how you were eager to be accountable for a coincidence to maintain your goodwill with your viewers and it's something that a lot of people would blow up into a bigger deal than need be or disregard the notion entirely.
What I found fascinating about this film was that they actually had the cast act out the entire film and recorded everything as if it were a live action and then animated it. Everything but the stunts were performed. So they were kind of playing when they made this film, the animators captured their playfulness because they could study it.
This film for me is exactly as Mr. Fox says in his final speech, it's about our survival. The survival of our pure wild animal instinct, our passion and drive to make the world make a space for us in it, rather than us letting the world put us into a place for its own convenience of profit. It's about following our deepest instincts of creativity and identity exploration.
I always liked the scene were they explained each animal's name in Latin, which was shown right on the screen. Talk about unconventionally educational!
i really appreciate how you explore ideas, emotions, and themes in films instead of simply reacting or summarizing them. fantastic mr. fox has always had a special place in my heart and i’m happy to see it still talked about in a time where platforms usually prioritize discourse on what’s ~new~ and trending. great video as always!!
My favorite Wes Anderson film after the Royal Tenenbaums. Also, I do think it is the job of a YoutTube reviewer to tell us what the film means; to them. I often get a better appreciation for films after I see it through someone else’s lens.
5:57 I get that… I’m so tired of TH-cam recommending “MOVIE EXPLAINED” videos to me. Videos like that are always so surface level. I’d much prefer to hear video essays and discussions. Art isn’t meant to be just one thing set in stone. It’s meant to be explored and discussed. It’s meant to be looked at from a million different angles and defined by a million different perspectives and opinions.
real talk please keep crafting your videos, i absolutely adore your style of speaking about films or anything else you’d want to do! i watch all of your videos as the level of quality is so good, theyre rather comforting videos to me! so thank you, truly
Wonderful job articulating the underlying reality behind the nuanced themes of this film. You held up an x-ray to the true reasons this story speaks to me.
To me, the Fantastic Mr. Fox is a deeply Lacanian movie. Fox and friends are forced to decide whether they should stay in the realm of the Unreal, or embrace the Real - that is how I see it. They realise that the Real comes to them - it chooses them. They are unable to escape it. There is also a sense of what Lacan described as the Big Object and its difference to the Little Object. He was so original he had a French term for everything he conjured up in his mind and could explain it in layman´s terms to people who are born and raised in the English speaking world. Take this to Lighotti and add a few Lighottian elements, and you notice that in 2009 Thomas Lighotti is experiencing one of his Golden Age periods. It seems harder to notice potential Freudian aspects in it. Sorry if I said anything not related to the movie here. Amazing film. Thanks for your analysis. Best wishes to you from Iceland.
I usually don’t like Wes Anderson films, but this is the biggest exception. I’m not that big on the deadpan acting that is unique to Wes Anderson’s style. However, I feel like this style of acting works extremely well for stop motion! This movie also made me love autumn!
i felt like it was a huge deal of naracisim which was shown alot of times in the film and heavily implied and not letting pride affect your love ones. he didnt realised how much he was putting his pride infront of everything until the people he loved around him was in danger, and when you focus on revenge you would lose everything.
coming from a big fan of yours: it seems like NapoleonVII's recent video on this movie inspired you, considering the similar topic and especially thumbnail. i think a shoutout would be nice, as a courtesy to a much smaller youtuber
I appreciate you highlighting this. There's a ton of rampant plagiarism on just about every social media platform right now, especially as it pertains to the bigger vs smaller creator dynamic. So I'm genuinely glad you're willing to hold me accountable for my part in that.
Believe it or not, I actually wrote pretty much the entirety of this script on November 6th. The script was originally written as a combination analysis of La La Land + Fantastic Mr. Fox, specifically framed through the respective holidays they're loosely associated with (Christmas and Thanksgiving respectively). I shelved the idea for a bit, both to get it done closer to the holidays and because I wanted to do a video on the Scott Pilgrim anime that dropped a couple weeks back.
Then what do you know, the Scott Pilgrim anime releases...and so does NapoleonVII's video on the exact same day lmao! It popped up on my recommended feed, with maybe 1500 views at the time? I immediately watched it and I loved the video a lot!
As an analyst they definitely feel cut from a similar cloth as me, and explored the topics I wanted to with a lot of depth and grace. So of course, after watching it, I had to reconsider a lot about my own script. Which 100% admittedly, for the bigger vs smaller creator reasons your comment touches upon, made me pivot away from using the framing device of Thanksgiving once I revisited the script so as to not step on their toes.
So in that sense, their video definitely influenced my own! But as far as the actual content of what was said in my script, most of it is retained from the original November 6th draft. I decided to frame my video around Fantastic Mr. Fox's paradoxical design, since that was the thread that tied my analysis together once the holiday angle was (mostly) stripped away. Then the thumbnail just kind of came as a natural extension of that.
All that considered though, I actually enjoy NapoleonVII's video better than my own overall. I was going to share their video on my community page today, but then I saw it hit about 350K views! I'm so proud and happy to see the wonderful and incredibly deserved reception it's been getting.
However, at the end of the day, you're still absolutely right. Regardless of my own behind the scenes process, I've got a platform and I might as well use it to boost it good work to even greater heights if that's within my power. I'm sharing it ASAP. Thank you again for directly commenting on this with tact and grace. Appreciate you. 💛
p.s. I changed the thumbnail and that should update shortly
@@meeptop the thought process you describe here makes a lot of sense, thank you so much for responding! i look forward to your upcoming work :)
@@meeptopfucking kudos mate great response. I'm not using sarcasm nor anger/spite since it's difficult to tell tone through text. I enjoyed seeing how you were eager to be accountable for a coincidence to maintain your goodwill with your viewers and it's something that a lot of people would blow up into a bigger deal than need be or disregard the notion entirely.
@@meeptophomie your wonderful and amazing. Just because sometimes we agree with people without intentionally trying to doesn’t make you a bad person
What I found fascinating about this film was that they actually had the cast act out the entire film and recorded everything as if it were a live action and then animated it. Everything but the stunts were performed. So they were kind of playing when they made this film, the animators captured their playfulness because they could study it.
They did the same thing for Rango
i love the videos of george clooney rolling around in the grass during voice takes hahaha
That's another level of realism right there!
"When I look at myself in the mirror, I try to keep a straight face. At some point, maybe I won't feel the need to turn away."
This film for me is exactly as Mr. Fox says in his final speech, it's about our survival. The survival of our pure wild animal instinct, our passion and drive to make the world make a space for us in it, rather than us letting the world put us into a place for its own convenience of profit. It's about following our deepest instincts of creativity and identity exploration.
Death only seems a big deal when your still alive but once “it happens” your like ‘ooh so that’s what all the fuss was about, hahaha’
Ma'am are you dead? 😥😰
I always liked the scene were they explained each animal's name in Latin, which was shown right on the screen. Talk about unconventionally educational!
"I don't know your latin name. I don't think they had possums in ancient rome."
Underrated performances from the entire cast. George Clooney really captures what it’s like to be a fox 😂
wow this is an incredibly written video essay. the most perfect, articulate analysis of this movie ever.
i really appreciate how you explore ideas, emotions, and themes in films instead of simply reacting or summarizing them. fantastic mr. fox has always had a special place in my heart and i’m happy to see it still talked about in a time where platforms usually prioritize discourse on what’s ~new~ and trending. great video as always!!
My favorite Wes Anderson film after the Royal Tenenbaums.
Also, I do think it is the job of a YoutTube reviewer to tell us what the film means; to them. I often get a better appreciation for films after I see it through someone else’s lens.
My favorite thanksgiving movie
I’m so glad someone’s making a video on this movie
great video ❤ i always knew there was a deep weave of existentialism in this film, it’s great when it’s put into words so well
5:57 I get that… I’m so tired of TH-cam recommending “MOVIE EXPLAINED” videos to me. Videos like that are always so surface level. I’d much prefer to hear video essays and discussions. Art isn’t meant to be just one thing set in stone. It’s meant to be explored and discussed. It’s meant to be looked at from a million different angles and defined by a million different perspectives and opinions.
Great essay. Missed opportunity to say “one of the things that makes fantastic mr fox so fantastic” hahaha
real talk please keep crafting your videos, i absolutely adore your style of speaking about films or anything else you’d want to do! i watch all of your videos as the level of quality is so good, theyre rather comforting videos to me! so thank you, truly
Wonderful job articulating the underlying reality behind the nuanced themes of this film. You held up an x-ray to the true reasons this story speaks to me.
This channel is so underrated
To me, the Fantastic Mr. Fox is a deeply Lacanian movie. Fox and friends are forced to decide whether they should stay in the realm of the Unreal, or embrace the Real - that is how I see it. They realise that the Real comes to them - it chooses them. They are unable to escape it. There is also a sense of what Lacan described as the Big Object and its difference to the Little Object. He was so original he had a French term for everything he conjured up in his mind and could explain it in layman´s terms to people who are born and raised in the English speaking world. Take this to Lighotti and add a few Lighottian elements, and you notice that in 2009 Thomas Lighotti is experiencing one of his Golden Age periods. It seems harder to notice potential Freudian aspects in it. Sorry if I said anything not related to the movie here. Amazing film. Thanks for your analysis. Best wishes to you from Iceland.
I usually don’t like Wes Anderson films, but this is the biggest exception. I’m not that big on the deadpan acting that is unique to Wes Anderson’s style. However, I feel like this style of acting works extremely well for stop motion! This movie also made me love autumn!
holy cow. you really captured why i like this movie so much
I adore this movie sm.. I hope to one day, get a tattoo of the "Canis Lupus" scene
Great video! I really really should rewatch this one soon; I don’t think I’ve seen it since I was a kid and it was in theaters.
Hope you had an amazing Christmas. Happy new year, meep!
I love this movie. The voice cast are great. I love the humor. Visually great looking. Unique and fun music.
i felt like it was a huge deal of naracisim which was shown alot of times in the film and heavily implied and not letting pride affect your love ones. he didnt realised how much he was putting his pride infront of everything until the people he loved around him was in danger, and when you focus on revenge you would lose everything.
I never understood the movie as a kid, at 20 I fully get it, such a masterpiece, thanks for this great detailed video.
10:05 what's that song it sounds so familiar
Let her dance by Bobby fouller four (might wrote some parts wrong, sry 😅)
it sounds like day tripper by the beatles
Absolutely one of my favorite movies
Fantastic vid, remember me when you hit 1mil.
One of the most excellent movie i ever watched......a perfect movie
This was so great good job :))))
Tlou soundtrack fits this essay perfectly, thank you!
It’s my second favorite movie.
Wes Anderson, "A whimsical film about existential dread"
5:26 spin
Did you see the Pokémon trailer with the stop motion?
You literally need to be insane if you want to do Stop motion animation.
yeah imma just use this for my essay thanks for the free marks >:)))))))))))))))
If you like this movie you should do a review of isle of dogs!!
Foxtastic Mr. Fan
I love this
I think i’m forgiving myself
i am such a wes anderson girly even if a lot of his films are pretentious
Second best stop motion movie ever, after Pirates a Band of Misfits. I like that movie a bit better than this one.
6:15