Classics Summarized: Don Quixote
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
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Spain's most famous eccentric takes center stage in a comedy that SORT of manages to hold up in spite of the majority of its humor amounting to pop-culture references that make NO sense in our current cultural climate. Also this book is about 150% longer than it needs to be, and that's not even touching on the sequel!
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Here's what I would love: a Don Quixote movie where Don Quixote talks to the audience but the rest of the characters just think he's crazy. Like Don Quixote would be in the middle of a monologue and then the camera would switch to another character watching him and wondering who he's talking to
So it's a literature version of the Office?
Or Fred lol 😂
Deadpool ?
Scene: Quixote is talking to the camera about his lady love and how he will prove himself to her.
Cut to the perspective of his companions looking at him talking to a cactus
@@exceedcharge1 you made it better
Manager Esquire!!!!! Where hath you gone???!!!!!!
Clock is scared of yellow thing's smell smell
whenever she says that i can imagine dante just hiding behind a wall, sweating profusely lol
LIMBUS COMPANY !!
Don Quixote mentioned
LIMBUS COMPANYYY!!!
first recorded instance of a murder hobo dnd character.
I mean, have you heard of Gilgamesh? Granted, he becomes less of a murder-hobo as things go on, but I digress.
Dracosfire 7 hey, are you really a murder-hobo if you revive the person afterwards?
It sounds like he had a DM, who was done with his shit and kicked his ass everytime he tried anything but he kept at it anyway for the LOLs.
@@dracosfire7247 Hey, I think looking for the strongest of swords is a noble and powerful motivator for a DnD campaign.
... what do you mean "that's the wrong Gilgamesh"?
You're not wrong
Everytime i hear Don Quixote, i think of a yellow haired gremlin whos a huge fan of fixers
MANAGER ESQUIRE!!!
LIMBUS COMPANYYY!!!
KALISHA, ROSHILANTÉ!!!
BEECH VOLLEYBURR!
LIMBUUUUS COMPANNYYYY
Aight Canto 7 is coming lets just watch this summary
the dream ending😢
me fr fr
cant wait for them to completely break any sense of happiness she had :')
the BLOODFIEND???
Project moon agents appearing at the mention of lobotomy , library and limbus reference
My favorite description of Don Quixote was from myths reimagined: "Don Quixote eats sanity and shits violence."
That is amazing! 😂
Quixote’s Bizarre Adventure
When you’re stuck in a cage and can’t move.
“This must be the work of an enemy stand!”
That windmill became a giant? This must be the work of an enemy stand!!
"DON QUIXOTE!""
"tsk..tsk..tsk...
YES I AM!"
Oh, man, how is that posible, that me being spanish, had this book drilled into my brain during scholarship, being a JoJo fan and NOT REALIZING UNTIL NOW THAT THIS MIX WOULD BE BOTH HILARIOUS AND FREAKING PERFECT?! You have made my day and probably the whole week, mate.
Ricardo De Marco You thought I was just a masked stranger, BUT IT WAS ME, DON FERNANDO!
A woman who forgot she was a vampire fights against giant windmills piloted by vampire hunters.
I see you are doing your homework for Canto VII
Limbus company
Or perhaps, she knows that, but she must forget in order to do so
I just realized, theres a good chance the climax of the canto is the last inn scene. Either that or that whole scene is going to be comoletely ignored
windmills which may or may not be actuall windmills.
hope we remember that from last time we had to deal with "mermaids" and "whales"
Now I'm going to think of this whenever someone says they were "born in the wrong generation".
Ah man, fuck people who say that. It's the worst.
I was born in the wrong generation. I should have been born in the jurassic era so I could witness the fall of the dinosaur and prove to my parents I can be a pteradactyl.
@@endofpixel3712 Except this guy, this guy I respect.
I was born in the wrong generation, i wish i got to live in the 1400s, dress up as a bird, shout at sick people, be rich, pretend to be a doctor, that´s the life.
@@theweakestbrazilianmale3398
Also this person. They go it.
I can’t help but get reminded of that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where Lancelot (I think it was) goes plowing through that castle and randomly killing the guards at the wedding
Nick The Undying Pretty y much the first half of the book
fernanda romero-valdespino HUZZAH! *shank*
This is probably the most likes I’ve gotten for a comment within one hour
That's basically it, with slightly less death
That explains a lot about Terry Gilliam and his Don Quixote movie.
Yep, that was Lancelot!
Manager Esquire!!!!! To where in the world hast thou disappeared!!!!!!!!!!!
dante:⏰⏰⏰
"this is why he hates women and was therefore yelling insults at his goat" I'm not sure why but this is the funniest sentence I've ever heard and I actually keep goats which for some reason makes it even better idk why
I am not sure because this was writen 400 years ago and language is fluid, but I think it's a joke because "goat" is a words that was used in spanish to mean "young girl"? I might be mistaken tho
@@rankushrenada could be idk, just found the scenario funny the way red said it
@@rankushrenada Language is fluid but the Spanish language to my knowledge has changed less in the last 400 years than almost any other language. That's why it translates so well and feels like a modern novel when you read it.
Preparing myself for Canto 7 of Limbus Company by watching this
His portrayal of women raises the question, "Did Cervantes really feel that way or did he just write them like that since his purpose was to subvert the tropes of his time?"
I don't think it's unlikely, sexism in the capacity we know today hasn't always existed and also he might have gotten some Muslim influences from the then still very much influential Cordobian culture. Especially if he never took much influence from Aristotle he could have been quite well balanced. I think his work speaks for itself though.
I dont think he would be able to even subvert the tropes, let alone so masterfully, if he didnt think in such a way about said group. If he didn't think those ladies were as capable as they turned out in the book, how could he even subvert the tropes?
He probably felt that way in some capacity, but was open minded enough to figure it out.
Well Spanish women (the nobility in particular) had much more autonomy than their counterparts in the rest of Europe at the time with the possible exception of the Italian city states- maybe because men at the time were expected to fight the Moors and complete the Reconquista so the women were oftentimes running things back home to a large extent and that dynamic just bled over into societal attitudes towards them as a whole but that's just my theory
"Don Quixote" may be his most popular work, specially internationally, but Cervantes wrote tons of short novels and plays in his lifetime, and he always depicted women in this manner. So... you do the math.
More like Damn Quixote.
Edit: Now that I actually watched the video, I gotta say *DAMN QUIXOTE*
Because *CHIVALRY!*
DAMMIT QUIXOTE!
FOILED AGAIN!
damn quixote, back at it again with attacking random processions
Back then “ALL FICTION CAUSES VIOLENCE!”
Now “ANYTHING TO DO WITH VIDEO GAMES CAUSES VIOLENCE”
Cervantes would totally write Don Quixote as a basement dwelling loser who sends all his time in a knight based VR game.
@@nyetloki I wonder how Quixote would react when he hears about Skyrim
@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933
Don :Oh that special type of magical disc that let you experience the life of your other self from different reality
Time is a flat fucking circle isn't it?
@@controlequebrado4455 Just like the earth.
"A wizard stopped by and stole the entire room"
Lol🧙♂️
Soooo... We now have an actual fotnote for "a wizard did it"
*Wizard:* hippity hoppity, your books are now my property 🧙♂️
some payday shit right there
The CBT wizard's at it again
@@YataTheFifteenth "Guys, the Library, go get it!"
"I tried so hard and got too far, but in the end it doesn't even matter." --Don Quixote de La Mancha.
This would make a hilarious western adaptation. A dude in a more modern (But not present day) western setting thinks he's a spaghetti western protagonist, keeps riding into towns and generally messing everything up for everybody involved.
RaHuHe imagine, he is obsessed with western movies and goes to the set. It also works in Spain, since most of them where filmed there and you can even visit the sets to this day
That would be much darker adaption. Western films often have a kill or be killed attitude, which may not work well for a "Quixote" guy to emulate with a gun among civilians. In fact, an attempted school shooter has admitted westerns were an influence on him
I actually think that would a good modern interpretation of Don Quixote.
I would love to see such an adaptation as a deconstruction of the frontier myth XD
he can be the only guy who doesn't know his gun is loaded with blanks.
I knew that i would see many PM sleepr agent here.
So basically this is "What if Michael Scott found some knights armor?".
batshineman it’s a bit more extreme than that, but you’re still pretty accurate
Yes, too true.
Deuce Moncura the office because Michael Scott is kinda a modern don Quixote
I could definitely see this happening if there had ever been an episode of the office where he visited a renn fair.
Yesterday it was "hard core parkour!"
Today it's "living free in chivalry!"
@@Chad_Eldridge the office
The PM wildhunt will continue for a long time
Cervantes wrote this first part and people loved it so much some other amateur writers wrote stories (essentially fanfictions lol) about Don Quijote. In response of people mistreating his character, he decided to wrote the second and final Don Quijote book to close everything up.
While in the first part the book seems to center around how reality can be more interesting than fiction, the second book tries to give more insigth into Sancho Panza. By the end of a few more insane adventures, Sancho learns that is good to have some fantasy pouref into reality to keep yourselg going through dramas and hardships, as Don Quijote by the end of the book [SPOILER] winds up dying and recovering his sanity for a few brief moments, for Sancho has indeed showed him the wonders that the real world can fit. In essence, each of them learned valuable lessons from the other, even if DQ ended on a sad somber tone, given how late he realizef all of it.
I should know, I' spanish. They make us read Don Quijote on school. And thank god they allow to read a shorter edition. Seriously. Thank god. The long original version is reading two very large and intricated books.
Oh and it's pronounced with the most sonorous syllable being BRAS. *Fie-ra-brás*. In the Dragon Quest saga of games, is how we translated the name of a magical plant because of the seemingly healing properties the balm of the same name was supposed to have in medieval times.
I have the original longer version at home, in oldish Spanish. Obviously can barely understand it.
Thanks for the context. I really like your take on how it ends. I read the unabridged version myself and I remember just being confused most of the time with what was going on.
i tried reading the book but only got half way before i had to return it to the school
In Puerto Rico is the same lol
bait used to be..... HOLLY #### IS THAT A BLOODFEIND
Damn, DQ is quite....eccentric in a destructive way.
I guess fanboys being stupid is a timeless concept.
Agreed
I got an idea, what if Don Quixote, but he is a fujoshi? Who cannot help but ship every single person he meets.
Haters too.
@@ringkunmori Then he'd be even worse.
deadass
This is so sad, Sancho play Despacito
Go rot in hell, that meme is disgusting
@@alejandro24680rg not as disgusting as Sancho's view on race
Alejandro Ramirez thotus begonus
Much like so many others here, I've had this video reconmended to me for months, not specifically because I enjoy the channel, which don't get me wrong I do, but because Project Moon has infiltrated my life in a nefarious way. Best of luck to you with the rest of us. I can already see the impact on the comment section.
Lmao
4:25: I get what the priest was trying to do, but burning books is _never_ cool. Donate them to a local library or-wait, they probably didn't have those.
...Donate them to a local monastery or something, at least!
Yes.
They are from the Medieval age
Burning is what they do
Actually the priest appreciates the books but considers chivalry novels as bad literature. Despite that he chooses to save one, "Tirant lo Blanc" as he considers it the only book so good he can't burn in good conscience. Furthermore is a book not written in spanish but in catalan by a valencian author.
Andreu Martínez Villarroya *chivalry
@@marcelob.678 thanks, correction noted.
Two fun meta facts: when the priest is burning chivalry books, one of the books he keeps is La Galatea, by an author called Miguel de Cervantes, which the priest state is a friend of his but a better snarker than an author, and that his books never seem to go anywhere. Also, the moor's story is inspired by real life experiences of Cervantes, who was locked up with his brother in a prison after being caught by pirates (his life story is amazing, totally worth checking out) and who exchanged notes with a girl while locked up. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the moor at one point comments that he met a very cool prisioner while in jail, who is obviously Miguel. And that's not even mentioning the second part of the book, which is full of snarky "take that"s at the guy who wrote a Don Quixote fanfic trying to pass it off as the real deal. In fact, in one scene he has Sancho and Don Quixote find the "fanfic" and spend the entire chapter talking shit about it. Definitely one of my favourite books. (And authors! Gotta love Cervantes' snark) Really recommend It to everyone, along with a read of Cervantes life story, which is as wild as many action heros'. (Includes war, Pirates, prison, theater, fake Quixotes, duels, hands being almost lost, hands being paralyzed...)
I now need a film called "Cervantes" which covers his life story, but also blends with his literary work at some points.
I can see why Red was just tired.
"But wait! There's more!"🤪
Too many threads and subplots to keep track of even with a flow chart and miniatures.😁
She doesn't even get into the part where the innkeeper pulls out a novella he had lying around and we read that for a minute.
To be honest, the subplots are far too good to be subplots. I'd love to hear more but no, we are always reminded that this story is about some old virgin LARPing his way through La Mancha fighting windmills for his waifu princess
Holy shoot Limbus Don is far more accurate than I thought.
Project moon mentioned
LIMBUS COMPANYYYYYY
BEACH BOLLYBUR
Every time a new character comes around to tell their story, I’m like “what is happening right now!”
Looks like if your fanfic doesn't become a cult classic like Dante's comedy it'll be so hated that a important writer will be forced to make a cult classic book, so it's impossible to fail writing fanfics😂
For another example there is the Arthurian canon, which is just layers upon layers of fanfic and and anti-fanfic
Wait wait wait
Does that mean the veggie tales adaption was...kinda accurate? I mean it was shown again and again that whatever Don was doing wasn't good
There was a Veggie Tales adaptation of Don Quixote?
@@bjorntheviking6039 i think I've seen it but i was a kid
Oh, yes. The Cafe La Mancha skit.
Veggie Tales is surprisingly good. It is especially surprising because blatant unappologetic propaganda usually isn't that entertaining. Usually only subtle propaganda is entertaining.
+Bjorn The Viking Yep! "The Asparagus of La Mancha". It came with "Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler". Not one of their best works in general, but it does feature this exchange:
Archibald (as Don Quixote): I believe I just had the impossible dream!
Mr Lunt (as Poncho): Just by definition, wouldn't that be impossible? Maybe you just had a difficult dream, or perhaps an impossibly strenuous dream.
Well now I'm half tempted to read this collection of Skyrim side quests simply for those strong female characters
That is the funniest description of the text I have ever read.
Skyrim but 'Dragonborn' is replaced with the opening number from "Man of La Mancha"
@@ingonyama70 there's probably a mod for that
Like the one where a husband was trying to save his wife from a women kidnapping bandit leader only to find out that she was the bandit leader kidnapping other women?
there needs to be a Quixote-vision mod for Skyrim.
*LITTLESIRSQUIREEEL*
lol!
So courtly love is like having a celebrity crush, or pining for a fictional character and getting into flame wars about which character is the best?
Pretty much. You know what they say, nothing new under the sun.
The original trope came from the Lancelot/Gwenivire/Arthur love triangle. So yeah, this, but you could bang her too if you didn't get caught.
Waifus are as old as narrative
This might be a murder on the warp express!1!! ↩⏩🔀
"Every Multi has its Crack" -John MultiCrack office fixer
I wrote a paper on Don Quixote! I used both parts in a very literal translation from the original Spanish text, to compare schizophrenic behaviors and tendencies to those of Quixote. Basically, the chivalric delusion and encyclopedic knowledge are the most similar symptoms, but Quixote's rage fits and violent tendencies do not match with the actions of most people with schizophrenia, who usually prevent conflict whenever possible.
So, does he just suffer delusions of grandeur alongside violent outbursts?
I was doing some research on psychosis for reasons and one of the websites I came across (www.nami.org) listed signs of psychosis as:
- Hearing, seeing, tasting or believing things that others don’t
- Persistent, unusual thoughts or beliefs that can’t be set aside regardless of what others believe
- Strong and inappropriate emotions or no emotions at all
- Withdrawing from family or friends
- A sudden decline in self-care
- Trouble thinking clearly or concentrating
Almost all of these apply to Don Quixote. He believes that the inns are castles, the windmills are giants, etc. despite others' beliefs. He shows strong outbursts of anger and violence with little done to incite it. He _abandons his family to chase his delusions._ When he decides to mourn on the mountains like the knights, he's found half-starved.
I know that psychosis is a symptom of many mental disorders, and schizophrenia is already ruled out. Perhaps bipolar disorder? I looked around on www.nimh.nih.gov and found their bipolar disorder page. Maybe he's going through a manic episode over the days this story takes place. He's shown a spike in energy, agitated behavior and irrational impulses associated with a manic episode of bipolar I disorder. What do you think?
I just wrote a mini-essay psychoanalyzing Don Quixote. Yes. I have priorities.
@@SpaceCase132 Basically, yes, there aren't enough qualifiers to be worthy of diagnosing Quejano with schizophrenia.
So... is he just psychotic?
LIMAS COMPANYYY
LIMBUSS COMPANY!!
I love the use of that victorious track lmao
I loved it too!
LIMBUSSSS COMPANNNYYYY‼️‼️‼️
Marcela was the real hero of our story
like the guy who tried to kill a windmill. and also that girl from limbus
LIMBUS COMPANYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
Project Moon sleeper agents I summon thee
The first ever fanfiction was a Don Quijote sequel? Nice.
And the author was so salty that be spends huge parts of his official sequel just trash talking said fanfiction
If only modern authors could do that instead of sue fanfic writers.
Well depending on your definition, you could say that that title belongs to the aeniad.
If you think that from this video, you might want to check out Red's Legends Summarized King Arthur, fanfic goes back even further than this.
How did you... Misspell a name that's literally right in the title of the video you're commenting on?
@@boxcarzDon Quijote is how we call him in Spain
LIMBUS COMPANYYYYY
LIMBUS COMPANY
Man between all the stuff that happens in the novel and recent plot revelations. Canto 7 is going to be wild.
THIS makes sooooooo much more sense to me now as to why the Creator of the One Piece Series placed so many weird Personality Tropes on the Character: 'Don Quixote' Doflamingo and his crazy group of allies in the series!
Also I love how there's a rocinate here and doflamingos brother is named rosinate
I’VE FINALLY FOUND A ONE PIECE COMMENT
something, something project moon reference... you know how it is.
Gallop on, Rocinante! Justice shall prevail!
I OWE YOU NOTHING
Man, complete with a presentation 8D
She needed the visual reference to get it through their thick skulls :P
T'is... T'is epic...
I never knew you had a book~
THE GREMLIN IS HEREEEEEE
limbus company
Why are you whispering? SHOUT IT OUT PROUDLY!
@@Parelf LIMBUS COMPANYYYYYYYYYYY
Despite watching this because of Limbus, this is surprisingly good
“Justice shall prevail!”
"Gallop on, Rocinante! Justice shall prevail!"
- Don Quixote, The Third Sinner of LCB/The Second Kindred
Gotta love how this 5 year old video is getting attention from the limbusters
I feel like a modern version of this would be a Boomer who tries to act like an edgy 80's action hero and would rip libertarianism a new one
yeah that sounds about right
I recommend watching "Falling Down"
Or It could take place in modern day Japan, Quixote was a hikkikimori that when he finally decided to get out his room was to let his chuunibyo run wild, he spent too much time reading light novels and playing eroges, and Dulcinea was his waifu.
Or It could still take place in Spain, only Quixote was also a serious weaboo.
One of the times I read *_Don Quijote,_* I was outlining in my head the adventures of *_Captain Quijote,_* a Trekkie who goes off the deep end and takes off in his beat-up VW van to hunt down the villains who replaced his phaser and communicator with non-functional fakes.
Kick-ass
Sleeper agents rise!!!!
BEECH VORIBUUURR
LIMBUS COMPANEH!!!!!
CHUKOLITT
ORINGE
VECCCASION
PAR TEH
GWAN-LI-JA NA-RI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AISH KUREEM
I love that the author decries chivalry as being silly and pointless compared to how cool real life is, but paradoxically, all the characters meant to serve as the people to point at and go "Look, real life stuff! Isn't it cool?" also start unrealistically telling their entire life's story and have tales of high drama in their lives that don't actually happen that often in reality.
Nah 17th Century Spain was just wild like that
I mean the craziest story tol in the book that is supposed to be real is of the Moore Maria who wants to be christian and her love, the Captive. And half of his story actually happened to the author in real life. The Canon priest that was mentioned briefly also says that fiction has a place in the world. But it should be rooted in reality and at least somewhat accurate, which said story is.
@Daniel S me when I am woman who doesn't like a guy who tries to force himself on me but then her proposes so I'm cool with it but then he finds an even hotter woman to marry who had a guy who liked her who saw them get married and ran away and then after I run away I meet guy who ran away and team up with him and some random people I just met to wrangle the mountain schizo.
LIMBUS COMPANYYYYY!!!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯
The head has summoned me
Glory to limbus company
10:35 This is also the part where Don Quixote delivers a surprisingly forward-thinking monologue about the evils of slavery, which is part of why he frees them.
Manager esquire!!! Where hath thy gone!!!!
.....just like limbus company ...
BIIIIICH VALLEYBRRRRRR
Not enough pm sleeper agents
Also please do the Canterbury tales, the tale of genji, and the arabian nights.
Arabian nights have a really interesting story, because with each new European transaltion new stories were added, although most of them also came from Arabic/Islamic sources. For example Antoine Galland credited Aladdin's origin as a folktale that he heard from Hanna Diyab.
Also have you seen the animated mini-series they did a while back based on the Canterbury Tales? It's really good because while the framing device is stop-motion, each tale has its own unique art and animation style, making each one unique and helping to appreaciate how skillful Chaucer was writing different kinds of stories and genres. Also in the show they completed the Squire's Tale, although I don't know if the stuff added was the screenwriters's own invention or they took inspiration from some of the continuations I've heard other authors wrote but that I couldn't find any to read for now.
>Genji Monogatari
Shit, that is a name I have not heard in ages.
@@guillermodebaskerville7117 yes I have seen it, it was animated by soyuzmultfilm and I study propaganda where soyuzmultfilm got its start in the stalin era. I love the miniseries
@@baronvonbeandip not really one you hear at all here in the west
It makes so much more sense that this is Deadpool’s favorite literary character
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LIMMBUSSSSS CCCOOOOOMMMMPPPAAAAANNNNNY
LIMBUS COMPANY
LIMBUS COMPANY!!! (YIPPEE)
damn osp and pm be colliding
"Limbus company!"
LEEEMBUUS COOMPANII
The whole "chuck a rock at an uber-fan in the middle of a shipping rant and punching his friend as you storm out" is a total mood, and I'm pretty sure the appropriate human response
I'm gonna need to revisit this once Limbus Company gets around to a Don Quixote focus chapter. Still, between base Don being one of the game's worst base identities, her immediate reaction to gangsters extorting a pawn shop owner being "fight time!" (bad idea), witnessing a child being forcibly separated from their father at immigration and getting border security angry and her and all her associates (this kills everyone, but they come back), immediately going 110% fangirl over Siegfried (the guy who LITERALLY JUST KILLED EVERYONE), and going probably way too far beating some sense into Emil Sinclair during the latter's mental breakdown, there's definitely a lot to look forward to with all these side characters that haven't come up yet. (On the other hand, her default special attack is called "La Sangre de Sancho" - or "The Blood of Sancho" - and I'm getting a feeling that has to do with The Second Part).
Limbus!Don's other big thing is that she's obsessed with "Fixers", basically do-anything-for-hires that almost all of have at least some degree of actual combat experience, because the City is a late-capitalist nightmare. Now, this *sounds* like it wouldn't be a problem since Don and the concept of Fixers are actually contemporary with one another, but Don's outlook on the profession is... really off. To her, Fixers are, like the chivalric knights OG!Don admires so much, inherently good and just and noble, which is not something that's correct to say about an industry that has *multiple* explicit subsections for "murder for hire". The Sinner* Operations Manual even calls into question whether a "noble Fixer" has *ever* existed at all. They're not heroes, they're mercenaries.
Hey someone else in here due to limbus!
Don's chapter will be pure depression.
I'm also here from Limbus
her cinq identity has the glamour that she envisions herself having, meanwhile all her other identities are just,,,, depressed don
She is also clearly aware it's a delusion, as shown in the mariachi scene in chapter 2 with serious don voice
They predicted Don Quixote from Limbus Company 🤯
nah this is a classic project moon reference
Don quixote? like in Limbus?????
You guys should do The Three Musketeers...
Sorry but it's just a thought
I love your name
As a joint video covering both the myth and history.
I lost it at "This sounds like something Terry Pratchett would write."
Damn, this _would_ make a helluva soap opera xD . Just expand a bunch of the characters that this book is not about and you've got at least 5 seasons of content, maybe 7 if a few of them fall comatose.
I can understand why both interpretations of this story exist. On the one hand you have the cynical take that he’s just a self obsessed mad man but on the other there’s also the optimistic view that he’s a passionate dreamer born into a world seemingly determined to destroy him. I think the reading you have greatly depends on your values as a person.
I want to know why there hasn't been a single adaptation that paints Don Quixote as he really is, a rating lunatic you would avoid if you ran into them on the street LMAO I was dying laughing this whole video! I really wish someone made a comedy movie adaptation
Doesn’t Sancho ask Quixote to tell him another adventure at the end of the story
@@WhitneyDahlin
*looks at current events*
...Yeah, sure. Avoid... Honestly, he seems sane in comparison to the modern world.
TVTropes of all places summarizes it perfectly, Don Quixote is heroic not in spite of being a lunatic with a lance, but exactly because of it.
Like, let's be real, believing in knights and chivalry and all that dumb shit is dumb and stupid and dumb because the real world sucks and everyone is just trying to survive. So then, when someone like Don Quixote says "screw it" and decides to follow those ideals and stick to them no matter what despite making himself look like a fool, don't you think that's quite heroic?
@@WhitneyDahlin
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote??? Sort of?
I love how invested Red got in the love subplot.
"Hooray! Happy ending! ...oh wait, the book isn't about these people."
That was beginning to look like a reoccurring theme with the book.
i want a movie that just focuses on that plot its so good
I know right? That sub plot was amazing, it had everything, and instead the story is about an insane man who attacks windmills. I JUST CANT EVEN!
Chad Busch it would be kind of like a medieval pirates of the Caribbean, where Quixote would be Jack Sparrow 😂
I love the whole book
Gallop on, Rocinante! Justice shall prevail!
I swear, this is all just Monty Python ahead of their time.
BlackEpyon um, you seen The Man Who Killed Don Quixote? Cause that’s closer to reality than you might think
@@Kroododile553 that movie is amazing. A lot of people dislike it because it's not how they expect to see the story. It's true to the original work but still original and artistic
Darrei Deamos Very, very artsy.
Bit of an acquired taste.
Pretty ironic it was a Spanish author
NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!
Don Quixote: My job here is done!
Andres: But you didn't do anything!
[cue Don Quixote exitting dramatically]
Only to trip and land in a cactus
Ey is that a meme referrence?
"Tuxedo Mask as Don Quixote" was the reinterpretation of Sailor Moon I didn't know I needed.
Original Don Quixote: Literature includes too much fantasy, we need more reality.
Don Quixote Adaptations: Literature includes too much reality, we need more fantasy.
Imo, the book isn’t so clear about which is superior. It certainly highlights the negatives of both being too realistic and too fantastical, but there are identifiable positives of both. Sancho is a better man for becoming more fantastical while idk if don quixote is a better man by the end for being more realistic.
I think most people don't realise how much Spanish literature has changed after Don Quixote.
From being almost ideallistic, portraying the world as it should be instead of how actually is, there has been an increasing tendency in Spaniard literature to do more and more realistic stories like Lazarillo de Tormes, and specially since the late 19th Century, becoming incredibly depressing, being almost a big chunk of them about how any rebellion against the system is useless because the individual always end up being crushed, and life only can get progressively worse, like Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba, Pio Baroja's El arbol de la cienca, Valle Inclán's Luces de Bohemia and Unamuno's Nada. None of them have a happy ending or show a hopeful protrayal of society in particular and humanity in general. Things kinda improved after the Spanish Civil War, but when people talk about Spanish literature since Don Quixote It appears that barely any fantasy literature exists, with a few exceptions like Becquer's Legends, and if it does it has been ignored. It says a lot when most of magic realism literature, the most acceptable kind of fantasy to lit fiction circles, mostly comes from Latin America and not Spain.
Also now that I think about it everytime Alan Moore bitches and whines about how influential Watchmen was (like dude seriously you really believed a deconstruction of superheroes as severe as yours wouldn't be a turning point for the genre?) doesn't hold a candle to how influential for the worst Don Quixote has been. It's almost like authors took it too seriously and decided to remove all creativity and imagination, and the only thing left was a morbid saddism that puts to shame the entirity of Lars von Trier's filmography.
Show no that It seems like fantasy has been erased from Spanish literature I think it's pretty natural to have a reaction in which there's a backlash against the work's original thesis and say that no, literature need fantasy, because fantasy represents hope, something that has been missing in Spanish literature for a long time.
I think it's a phenomenon similar to Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, a story about how individuals matter less than patrimony, to then become a story about why injustice shouldn't be tolerated, even if a cathedral would last longer than the people suffering the injustice.
Good.
Modern adaptions trolling last authors
@@guillermodebaskerville7117 great read thank you. As a hispanic person who never read spanish literature beyond assigned readings and pablo neruda, thank you
I like how the happy ending to that tragic love story is happening in the inn while don quixote is fighting wine barrels upstairs.
"And after all the commotion, everybody realised they haven't seen don Quixote in a while.
And everybody murmured: "Oh shit!"
Don Quixote was the Florida Man of his time.
yesssss all florida men are his long lost decendents
So that's why I like him.
I'm the guy w the invisible car. Bc f* it, YOLO
More like the joker
And original chuunibyu, who lost himself to heroic fantasy fiction.
Cervantes was WAY ahead of his time. My professor described Don Quixote as "a post-modern novel written before modernism".
You mean I just wasted my money buying post-modern trash without realizing it?
Preston Jones okay lobster man
Your professor sounds awesome
@@aldernate8606 *proceeds to snap fingers in the air wile making pincer noices*
Pre-modern postmodernism. Neat.
OH MY GOD. THEY WERE LITERALLY ARGUING ABOUT SHIPS. *ARGUING ABOUT SHIPS!!!!!!!!*
Cervantes really was ahead of his time.
@@optillian4182 bruh Plato's contemporaries were already doing that with Achilles and Patroclus. Some were arguing that it's platonic and some say it's romantic, and then among the shippers they have the top/bottom discourse
@@srehh5529 oh okay
Shipping is a total bottom thing to do
@@srehh5529 And then in our day and age we got Song of Achilles, basically a yaoi fanfic that managed to get published.
Imagine publishing a second part of your book out of pure spite
r/madlads
sounds like something I would do
It wasn’t though- he always planned it, but somebody beat him to it and Cervantes edited his 2nd part to clarify that that guy was a freeloader.
@@jlupus8804 hush.
@@jlupus8804 to make your hatred for another's appropiation of your intellectual culture an actual, notable part of the story? There's so much spite there.
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The whole four-person love subplot just makes me think that Cervantes had an idea for a completely different novel but instead got lazy and stuffed it randomly in his satire novel as a two for the price of one deal.
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That happened to L Frank Baum. One (maybe more) standalone book he was writing, he ran out of ideas for and just published it as an Oz novelette instead.
That may be true, but it still fits very well here. The point is that the side plot is much more interesting and complex, while Quixote's scenes are foolish and silly. Reality is more interesting than fiction.
@@ninjabluefyre3815 Are you talking about Magical Monarch of Mo or Queen Zizi of Ix? Also, I'm surprised when people talk about how much serialization has affected children's literature, more people don't recall that Baum published fourteen novels about Oz, the same amount of novels that took Jordan and Sanderson to write The Wheel of Time, and that it was continued after his death.
It’s part of the satire I think. Don Quixote is surrounded by these amazing and intriguing stories but he’s so wrapped up in his own chivalric fantasies that he’s blind to them all.
@@oryanstudios2252 I find that kind've funny when the story is still a fantastical work of fiction.
When your LARP get's out of control.
and then it becomes FLARP
Pretty much.
more like when drugs get involved in your LARP
OH MY GOG
Said that when I finally saw Labyrinth.
k, so im spanish and majoring in both spanish lit and english lit, and this semester i had a subject that was cervantes. thats it, 6 months studying the one guy. and lemme tell you, he was GENIUS. and out of my deep admiration for the guy, allow me to explain some things:
hes not actually as racist nor classist as you might think, he is rather commenting on the society he lived in. he was probably of jew descent and made fun of ppl who pride themselves in their "pure blood" o "cristianos viejos" as they were called. in part two of DQ, he has a moor character commenting on the expulsion of the moors and showcases how much of a tragedy the expulsion was for these ppl, even though he portrays it a bit as the character being "of the good ones" to make it more palatable for its censors. he also shows sancho as incredibly smart in his own right, even if he is illiterate and gullible at times. he also makes fun of nobles in the second part. A LOT. he actually shows sancho as much better suited for leadership and power positions than most nobles.
ALSO he really was ahead of its time regarding women, and this grew more and more during his life. he lived with two of his sisters, his daughter, his wife and his niece, surrounded by women by himself, and i think this made him see women as real people.
he had overall a very sad life and was never able to find his place in literary circles, he was blacklisted by authors more popular than he was. but he didnt publish the sequel out of spite, you can actually see in the second book when he found out about the seque,l bc he ingeniously introduces it in the fictional world, and DQ and sancho find out about this fake book written about them, and they even meet a character out of the book, which concedes that the quixote he meet must have been a fake. he also introduces the success of the first book in the second one, and characters recognize dq and sancho from the first book. its all very meta and cool. anyways i admire cervantes so fucking much and he was mostly a very noble, legendarily creative person. thats why he constantly introduces stories in the main narrative, bc he was so prolific and wrote so much he tried to place his stories wherever he could. he wrote "thank me not for what i have written, rather thank me for what i have not" bc he saw his creative flow as unstoppable and he found it very hard to keep himself from writing on and on (kinda how im doing now, lol)
also the short novels stop in the second book, or rather, they are woven into the story and dont feel as much as a distraction, bc he received criticism for this and tried to better his writing.
im gonna shut up now
k sorry
bye
Por fin. Es insoportable ver a yanquis no entender don quijote, ni les importa estudiar la cultura
@@LynnHermione Los gringos son así, o al menos la mayoría que e conocido
@@LynnHermione fuaaa la re vivis scooby
The first part is enjoyable, but definitely the second part is the GOOD part.
I get Mel Brooks vibes and Monty Python.
This sounds like every DnD player character ever.
*"Local murder hobo still at large after another assault, manhunt organised by authorities. Public warned to 'stay away from dangerous menace' last seen riding north, shouting about 'making them wizards pay'."*
So true xD
@@Heothbremel Also, occasionally ranting about making the kingdom great again.
@@Babbleplay Ah, yes, inserting irrelevant politics into literally everything. Gtfo.
@@andyknightwarden9746 You aren’t the comedy police, so please stop trying to censor others.
Edit : removed an unneeded snark line; not trying to antagonize, but, not going to let anyone play thought police on my comments. There were WAY lower blows I could have taken, and that one was tame.
@@Babbleplay And you ought to know that incindiery potshots like that are exactly the kind of thing that characterized the leader of that movement. You want to be like him?
BTW, between this and Journey to the West, this channel has done more to convince me I need to read some of the classics more than any college course ever did.
Oh absolutely. Something I love about history is people are basically the same. You think we have a sense of humor now? Just look at the old shit XD
Yessir, also convinced me to try ap literature and 1984
Yes!
I read beowolf last year cuz I was so fascinated by red's video about it!
Really cool book!
Im not a literature person, takes too long, hurts my eyes, I just dont casually read fiction. Ill read, and write, technical manuals at the drop of a hat, but pleasure reading (even though I do read technical literature for fun, yes im a nerd) just isnt my bag. So videos like Reds allow me to experience a condensed 'sparknotes' version, and particularly for Red, in an entirely entertaining way. Ive put these videos on so much I can damn near quote them line for line.....and still come back to them. For us non-booky types they are simply amazing and very much appreciated! And them inspiring more booky types to read some of the classics is just icing on the cake and a gold seal of awesome content!
@@AsdfAsdf-mi6ks Sometimes it's such an unexpected thing lol. You hear about these old stories that people have held dear for ages so you expect them to be these extremely serious stories, and you get shocked by the humor it has. It's always so pleasant to know that we've always been the same. We've always been telling jokes and writing them down