Which could easily be a written off by any competent employer, since, pretty much every person who thinks outside the box has problems with authority, lmao. Authority is pretty much a giant, invisible box!
@@fedos It's funny you mention it. History proven that people who don't listen to authority or at least keep healthy relationship with it become most succesful. There's nothing gained from following any authority other than false sense of security.
@@mariuszmoraw3571 I think their concern was that he might have been too keen on not following orders, and even for M.I.B. while he should be able to think for himself and question orders, he should follow at least some basic orders and directives, and that was what Z was worried J wouldn't do.
The part where J is explaining why he shot little Tiffany and you can see Zed trying not smile is subtle genius. Zed standing there like "half a dozen military men and the beat cop is the only one to notice the twist"
Here's the thing about the test. 1. The "written" exam is a stress test. Odd chairs, one weird table in the middle, flimsy paper, and crappy pencils. It's a quick judge of handling mental stress and adapting. J is the only one to pass. 2. Firing range test is testing the ability to judge targets and make assessments. Everybody shot monsters, and J was the only one to actually consider exterior and alternate factors. In the context of this and other movies and the animated series, it makes perfect sense why J is the only one to pass the exam.
Seems like someone else is trying to be Captain America over here. Best of the best of the best... with honors. Do you think explaining "intelligently" a simple scene in a movie makes you look intelligent? You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training.🤣🤣
I always loved this sequence. Test 1: improvise and adapt, use the environment to your advantage. Test 2: identify threats, and don't be fooled by how something looks like, very important for M.I.B. agents.
Also an element of Test 1: Take decisive action to make use of the available resources. Additional element of Test 2: Identify the threat under very challenging conditions in the face of abundant distractions.
I love that one soldier in the background when he's explaining why he shot Tiffany, around the 'bunch of monsters' line, just nodding as if he's realised 'You've got a point there.'
standard military. Gets told to shoot things that look like threats, then people who know how police work come in and explain how much of a terrible fuckign idea that is while doing policing work
Military training vs police training in nutshell. Everything which is threat you shot first ask questions later vs everything which is threat you make sure is threat and then shot.
First test with the written exam: don't be afraid to cause a scene Second test, gun range: identify and neutralize the threat (Little Tiffany with college-level science books) Third "test," eye exam: neuralyze candidates who didn't qualify for MIB Seems like a simple process.
While to a certain level Edwards is bullshitting his way through the situation, he did an assessment of the situation before shooting, picked out the one person that didn't necessarily fit in, didn't go all Rambo on the lane and could justify why he did what he did. One could argue that shows a lot of competences an agent in the MIB needs, the military guys immediately jumped to the conclusion Tiffany was harmless and blasted the obvious aliens. Now, what sort of Aliens do MIB guys often have to deal with ? For me, there's a lot in the scene that can be overlooked due to Smith comedy-ing it up a little.
The written exam is really more about using your environment to your advantage. There's a perfectly good table in the middle of the room. Why WOULDN'T you use it instead?
@fpspwny995 I say it's about causing a scene because all agents have a neuralyzer to take care of bystanders. As for using the environment, Jensen was trying to use the side of the chair. In sliding the table over, Edwards made everyone else look at him in annoyance while he finished the exam.
The gun range test is really just a test to see if anyone actually stopped to think if any are threats, or assumed they were because they looked like monsters. J didn't assume, he didn't profile, he took in the environment and realized none of them actually seemed dangerous In a job where most of the normal harmless civilians look like monsters, having that quality without knowing aliens are real is a great sign that they belong in MIB
I'd say the first test is a mental stress test designed to test ability to adapt. Everything is basically the least optimal design. The chairs are probably the worst design ever. The test paper is so flimsy you can't open or even write on it. The pencils break. How do you handle that and adapt to it.
I think the written test had multiple factors: being adaptable to your environment, thinking outside the box, using resources you have available…making a scene because of the neuralizers seems kind of low on priorities to me. They generally call people’s attention to neuralize them. They don’t necessarily want to attract a ton of attention with what they’re doing on the job in general…
@@nuffyj8614 When dealing with aliens they might have to cause a scene which would then facilitate the use of a neuralyzer. I doubt any of those other candidates would be willing or able to cause a scene they knew they were responsible in cleaning up that way.
I was looking for this comment XD "But you shot a little girl!" Dude, listen to his reason! Why would a little girl be carrying physics books at night with a bunch of aliens around??
All of them are from military background - they do look like from families where each member is in military too. With exception of just one cop with ghetto background... I would also bet on cop to have working brain. 😂
I love how when the one soldier pokes a hole in the test paper he turns his pencil around like he's going to somehow erase the hole he just made... I saw this when it was first released in theaters and when he moved that table... good gods... at least half the people there shrieked in pain.
RIP little Tiffany:( Poor girl was just trying to run her sisters textbooks back to her after forgetting them at their parents house. Surrounded by monsters and some cop smokes her in the forehead:(
The "test" is to see how they deal with uncomfortable or irritating situations and how they adapt or IF they adapt. The MIB guys are looking for someone who can look at the whole situation and delete the distractions in weird circumstances.
When offered a test, don't be sure you know what is being tested. The written test, at the very least, is going to test how you handle the fact that you weren't given the right tools for the written test. An uncomfortable egg chair, no table but the shared coffee table which is badly positioned to help, and of a bad height, pencils that break and paper that rips easily, ... Will's character's BS detector was screaming a loud warning in his head, and the best thing to do is to embrace and amplify the BS. He shot the little girl only and then explained why afterward, but we don't actually know if he wasn't just fighting the BS.
The saddest thing about this is watching grown adults not instantly understand that the first test was problem solving and the second test was situational awareness. I watched this movie as a middle schooler and we all instantly understood these tests.
Same here. I remember watching it when I was little and as soon as he explained his reasoning for shooting the kid, I went "oh that makes sense!" But the rest of my family was still confused XD
While i know this movie is fiction, its comforting to imagine people in the shadows who are not afraid to shoot a little girl in the face. I mean, sure she could have found the books and picked them up, or she could have bringing them to a friend or family member; but maybe... I mean, there was a threat that... I mean if she were an alien with BOOKS then she... I don't know. All i know is that when i see a child carrying something a child doesn't normally use i shoot it just in case its an alien. Contrary to the message of moments earlier in the scene, which was dont shoot aliens just for being aliens.
When he teases the young Lt it's perfect payback for that condescending and scalding look he gets when he explains why they are there when he doesn't really know either. I love this entire scene.
Also has nobody realized there is literally a small table right next to him while he’s sitting in the pods, but instead he goes and grabs the biggest table in the room
Pretty sure I would have just put the silver table thing next to the chair in front of me as a table rather than get up for that table. My Korean friend said she would have just sat on the floor in front of the table.
@@MimikyuCookie The actual test is to cause a scene to complete the objective. That's why they have neuralyzers. Notice the military guys are all trying to stay quiet and keep to themselves but Edwards had no problem sliding the table noisily to his chair so he could write. He passed the test in drawing attention to himself.
Having actually been in the Army, us low level enlisted would be a better choice. If we had to fill out paperwork without a surface, one of us would let the other use his back as a desk then switch. Alternately, we learned to always have a little notepad on us, which would wok even better. alternately stand and use the egg as a desk.
fucking love J. he questions authority, asks "WHY", thinks outside of thebox, and is able to come up with a convincing story/rationale ON THE SPOT. he also excercised discretion instead of just immediatley blasting the "obvious" enemies. the other fuckers never stood a chance
I think the whole part of the written test was not to pass the test but to see how they adapt to uncomfortable circumstances (bad writing utensils, enclosed chair, no hard surface to write on). Will Smith’s initiative and creativity by pulling over the table passes the test, and it’s alluded to in Rip Torn’s line about how the rest responded as how the government taught them. There is no real way to test for how a person would handle an unexplainable alien encounter so those kinds of personality traits I.e. initiative and creativity matter.
That 5th one... "And putting all the other characters in dull sim colors but not black 10 out of 10" guess shes not aware of how military uniforms are. And the Navy guy was wearing black.
For all the greater cinematic value of how the movie went down, I do feel the best solution in that shooting range was not to fire a shot. Yes, Tiffany has no clear reason to be in that setting - but neither do the others. Yes, she's clearly potentially very dangerous - but if you are carrying a firearm and expected to operate under the assumption that things you shoot with it die, if you're not going to shoot the actual people with guns in the room then "potentially very dangerous" clearly does not equate threatening and Tiffany is not clearly in the act of doing anything criminal - and the other aliens there don't seem scared of her either. J did do the important thing by resisting any peer pressure to shoot, showing even if he had made a bad call there he could be expected to admit it WAS his call and face consequences. But without either part of the setting being the presumption that an immediate threat exists and some figure here absolutely needs to be shot (and I'd even then still be checking for people disguised as scenery and distant snipers first) or background on Tiffany, there really isn't justification to fire.
After all these years, I'm wondering if they were even testing those other guys. I suspect they're just their to keep J from immediately realizing they're only interested in him.
I still have this on VHS. It's probably the first scene I ever remember realizing that the devil is in the details. On first glance he lost. If he wasn't already an established main character I would have been confused. I was a little, until I realized the test was to assess the situation and adapt to it. The rest of those guys would have been lost on the first mission. They needed someone open minded enough to see a monster as a potential good guy.
When I watched this movie, at the end of the shooting scene when Will Smith explains his reasoning, I was nodding along thinking it all made sense. But when you think about it some more, his response is a fail as well. Sure, he identified little Tiffany as the most suspicious individual and potential threat, but walking through a park with a bunch of books that are above your educational level is not against the law. As a cop, Smith's character should know that. Really, he should have shot none of the presented targets and by sharing his observations and reasoning with Zed at the end of the test, he would have passed, since the real goal here wasn't to test shooting accuracy but ability to take in, process and act on information quickly in a high stress environment.
I keep seeing the comments and them missing the real first test. Asking why they are here. They are military! Applying for a job from a government branch that they have never heard of and non of them bothered to ask! I also like how the reactors all pick up on at least one of the tests actually being the test.
Unless the chairs are immobile, I would have moved the chair to the desk like you'd do in a normal room chair/table. I'd motion to everyone else to follow suit, literally in suits. I did similar in real life, a group of guys couldn't maneuver a machine in place, fumbling over each other, I directed them and the job got accomplished.
Angelina...she literally called the military uniforms costumes, lol. Its amazing how many of these people have no idea whats going on in these scenes...theyd definitely be getting the "eye test"
I love how everyone in here is trying to explain this scene like it's so hard to figure out; and they are the only ones who did. Trying to make yourself look intelligent by explaining something obvious; doesn't. It actually has the opposite effect. You all are everything we've come to expect from years of government indoctrination.🤣😢
But did Tiffany deserve to be shot? He shot her because the books are too advanced for her, could be her parents books and she just has them. Middle of the ghetto with all these monsters, except by his logic they weren't bad, just someone sneezing and another exercising.
Based on Z's reaction, J's explanation is sound - he starts smiling until J gets sassy. Whether that means it's correct is a different matter, but it implies that J did at least one of the possible 'acceptable' solutions. According to other comments here, it's revealed in the MIB cartoon that 'Tiffany' is modelled on the most evil and dangerous alien of them all, so he definitely was correct to shoot - but that's a later addition, not something that was 'true' at the time of the film's release.
@niymeh342 maybe, but personally I don't believe that. Sure I could get she was suspicious, but her being out of place doesn't justify a head shot. He had no information going in, honestly they had no reason to believe they had to shoot anyone. They all assumed they did because that's what it looked like they had to do. They shot the "monsters" because they thought they were the bad guys. He shot her because he thought he was supposed to shoot someone and she seemed like the biggest threat. But he wasn't that much better than they were. Sure he was when it came to judging the monsters, but like them he killed someone because he judged them to be a threat by how they looked. Her being designed after the biggest threat is irrelevant since he wouldn't have known that at the time, maybe if there was a picture of her somewhere saying she was a threat I could understand he saw it and used that, but they never showed that. I get it's not this deep but honestly this just seems like a cop that shot someone that wasn't doing anything wrong because they had something the cop didn't think they would have and were in a neighborhood they didn't think they belonged in.
He passed because he put some thought into things before shooting. Later in the movie it's shown that some aliens look scary but are not hostile. And the MIB does not shoot at anything that moves. They use diplomacy and understanding when dealing with alien problems. They are not looking for a mindless soldier.
@@IZA_Grey I get that, but that's also my point. Sure she looked suspicious, but she wasn't a threat. Books beyond her years will be something he'll likely run into, same with someone being where you don't think they belong. They weren't told to shoot, they just assumed that's what they were supposed to do. He was the best for not shooting the rest but he still shot someone when she didn't show any actual threat.
@tonyblake7569 that's why it's a test. He stood out and thought outside the box. Which is exactly what the MIB is looking for. It's not a real situation so the only consequences are that K and Zed are judging them.
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Fun fact little Tiffany is actually the most dangerous parasite alien in MIB history
Came looking for this comment, not disappointed. I think it was the animated series that revealed that is the preferred disguise of the bug queen.
@@joshuareznicek1010thank you for reminding me of the animated series, about to rip the bong and binge it
@@joshuareznicek1010damn i miss that series
Where can you even find that anymore? I haven't seen it since I was a kid.
@azidal3755 a lot of the episodes are just on TH-cam in their full form
It's funny when you realized he aced all the tests and the only issue they had with him was "he has a problem with authority".
Which could easily be a written off by any competent employer, since, pretty much every person who thinks outside the box has problems with authority, lmao.
Authority is pretty much a giant, invisible box!
"Has problem with authority"
Me: *Stamps as perfect candidate*
He's the best candidate because he doesn't blindly follow authority, but are we sure we want someone who doesn't blindly follow authority?
@@fedos It's funny you mention it. History proven that people who don't listen to authority or at least keep healthy relationship with it become most succesful. There's nothing gained from following any authority other than false sense of security.
@@mariuszmoraw3571 I think their concern was that he might have been too keen on not following orders, and even for M.I.B. while he should be able to think for himself and question orders, he should follow at least some basic orders and directives, and that was what Z was worried J wouldn't do.
The part where J is explaining why he shot little Tiffany and you can see Zed trying not smile is subtle genius. Zed standing there like "half a dozen military men and the beat cop is the only one to notice the twist"
Not only that in a dark room, surrounded by people shooting guns, he was able to see every little detail and memorize it
Here's the thing about the test.
1. The "written" exam is a stress test. Odd chairs, one weird table in the middle, flimsy paper, and crappy pencils. It's a quick judge of handling mental stress and adapting. J is the only one to pass.
2. Firing range test is testing the ability to judge targets and make assessments. Everybody shot monsters, and J was the only one to actually consider exterior and alternate factors.
In the context of this and other movies and the animated series, it makes perfect sense why J is the only one to pass the exam.
Seems like someone else is trying to be Captain America over here. Best of the best of the best... with honors. Do you think explaining "intelligently" a simple scene in a movie makes you look intelligent? You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training.🤣🤣
@Cloud_Strife0811 if you think that comment was trying to be intelligent and not just talking then really that says way more about you than them 😂
@@Squids_MacKenzie So does yours🤣🤣
I especially like the guy who poked a hole in his exam, then flipped his pencil like he's going to erase it.
I always loved this sequence.
Test 1: improvise and adapt, use the environment to your advantage.
Test 2: identify threats, and don't be fooled by how something looks like, very important for M.I.B. agents.
Also an element of Test 1: Take decisive action to make use of the available resources.
Additional element of Test 2: Identify the threat under very challenging conditions in the face of abundant distractions.
I love that one soldier in the background when he's explaining why he shot Tiffany, around the 'bunch of monsters' line, just nodding as if he's realised 'You've got a point there.'
standard military. Gets told to shoot things that look like threats, then people who know how police work come in and explain how much of a terrible fuckign idea that is while doing policing work
Military training vs police training in nutshell.
Everything which is threat you shot first ask questions later vs everything which is threat you make sure is threat and then shot.
@@mariuszmoraw3571more like in the military both sides wear uniforms
@@DzinkyDzink that hasn't been the case for a long while.
@jaydeleon8094 are you sure about that?
I love how every other reactor just squirms at the dragging table sound, and Dasha and CineBinge just sit there, and laugh through it 😂😂
Most reactors were watching like this 🗿
Loosen up, it's a comedy 😂
@@nitrokid
Mr. Video: “I was laughin’.”
It's the worst part of the movie for me. Close second goes to Jay's sometimes obnoxious personality
Oh no, anyway…
Jenn and Raggedy laughed too
First test with the written exam: don't be afraid to cause a scene
Second test, gun range: identify and neutralize the threat (Little Tiffany with college-level science books)
Third "test," eye exam: neuralyze candidates who didn't qualify for MIB
Seems like a simple process.
While to a certain level Edwards is bullshitting his way through the situation, he did an assessment of the situation before shooting, picked out the one person that didn't necessarily fit in, didn't go all Rambo on the lane and could justify why he did what he did. One could argue that shows a lot of competences an agent in the MIB needs, the military guys immediately jumped to the conclusion Tiffany was harmless and blasted the obvious aliens. Now, what sort of Aliens do MIB guys often have to deal with ?
For me, there's a lot in the scene that can be overlooked due to Smith comedy-ing it up a little.
The written exam is really more about using your environment to your advantage.
There's a perfectly good table in the middle of the room. Why WOULDN'T you use it instead?
@fpspwny995
I say it's about causing a scene because all agents have a neuralyzer to take care of bystanders. As for using the environment, Jensen was trying to use the side of the chair.
In sliding the table over, Edwards made everyone else look at him in annoyance while he finished the exam.
The gun range test is really just a test to see if anyone actually stopped to think if any are threats, or assumed they were because they looked like monsters. J didn't assume, he didn't profile, he took in the environment and realized none of them actually seemed dangerous
In a job where most of the normal harmless civilians look like monsters, having that quality without knowing aliens are real is a great sign that they belong in MIB
I'd say the first test is a mental stress test designed to test ability to adapt. Everything is basically the least optimal design. The chairs are probably the worst design ever. The test paper is so flimsy you can't open or even write on it. The pencils break. How do you handle that and adapt to it.
Now imagine the table dragging sound IN THE THEATERS....I can...
I was in the theater. It was as terrifying as it seems
It was awful
I saw this movie in the theater!
Not a fun time, I can tell ya
It. Was. Bad.
I love that the written test is to see if you're ok with making scene because they have neuralizers
I think it is more so that it's seeing how you can adapt and improvise in a situation where as many odds are stacked against you as possible.
@@bloodwolfgaming9269do you think they would still pass if they wrote on the floor?
I think the written test had multiple factors: being adaptable to your environment, thinking outside the box, using resources you have available…making a scene because of the neuralizers seems kind of low on priorities to me. They generally call people’s attention to neuralize them. They don’t necessarily want to attract a ton of attention with what they’re doing on the job in general…
@@nuffyj8614 When dealing with aliens they might have to cause a scene which would then facilitate the use of a neuralyzer. I doubt any of those other candidates would be willing or able to cause a scene they knew they were responsible in cleaning up that way.
The test isn't ON the paper. The test IS the paper.
"I'm gonna need you to get ALL the way off my back, Zed."
I’m surprised that some folks missed the point that she was not in fact a little 8 year old girl
I was looking for this comment XD
"But you shot a little girl!" Dude, listen to his reason! Why would a little girl be carrying physics books at night with a bunch of aliens around??
@@djmurphy_05 other comments are saying that the animated series reveals Tiffany is the preferred disguise of the alien queen.
@CrymsonNite I've never watched the animated series before so I wouldn't know about her being a specific character. That's pretty cool though
@@CrymsonNite even without that knowledge though you could figure things out
@@CrymsonNite Except that the movie came first, by a few years.
I like how the tests are basically just to see if they have a functioning brain and most people still fail
All of them are from military background - they do look like from families where each member is in military too. With exception of just one cop with ghetto background... I would also bet on cop to have working brain. 😂
Years of government training.
"a person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."
Fun fact: I'm fairly certain that those test booklets are actually CPA exams from the 80s and 90s.
"fact"
I love how when the one soldier pokes a hole in the test paper he turns his pencil around like he's going to somehow erase the hole he just made...
I saw this when it was first released in theaters and when he moved that table... good gods... at least half the people there shrieked in pain.
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Buddy sat up and said, “WHAT’S GOING ON?!”
@@thesnacccgawdsukuryuappu Pretty much
The way the dog looked at him like he caused the noise had me crying laughing 😂
Kid me: What an idiot?
Adult me: Holy shit! He's right!
Lore accurate she's one of the most dangerous conquerors in the universe
RIP little Tiffany:( Poor girl was just trying to run her sisters textbooks back to her after forgetting them at their parents house. Surrounded by monsters and some cop smokes her in the forehead:(
Wow, I never thought about it that way.
Dont worry, little tiffany is really the worse, in the animated serie she appear as a bug Queen trying to conquer earth
@@n4m31355h4dow I don't remember that, then again I have garbage memory, but MIB Animated was crazy enough that I can believe it did lol
Why would she be allowed out in the middle of the night, on her own?
En la serie de animación Tiffany era un parásito
The "test" is to see how they deal with uncomfortable or irritating situations and how they adapt or IF they adapt. The MIB guys are looking for someone who can look at the whole situation and delete the distractions in weird circumstances.
Real test: LOGIC
So if Agent J entered the TBBT world he would have 1000% shot Sheldon.
I think we all would.
13:59 Dude say's "oh he shot Tiffany?" like she was a long time established character in the film.
The Lore in mib She's actually one of the most dangerous conquerors in the universe
Poor young Sheldon definitely getting one
Young Sheldon would have been at least a little afraid of the monsters
When offered a test, don't be sure you know what is being tested.
The written test, at the very least, is going to test how you handle the fact that you weren't given the right tools for the written test. An uncomfortable egg chair, no table but the shared coffee table which is badly positioned to help, and of a bad height, pencils that break and paper that rips easily, ...
Will's character's BS detector was screaming a loud warning in his head, and the best thing to do is to embrace and amplify the BS.
He shot the little girl only and then explained why afterward, but we don't actually know if he wasn't just fighting the BS.
The saddest thing about this is watching grown adults not instantly understand that the first test was problem solving and the second test was situational awareness. I watched this movie as a middle schooler and we all instantly understood these tests.
Same here. I remember watching it when I was little and as soon as he explained his reasoning for shooting the kid, I went "oh that makes sense!" But the rest of my family was still confused XD
While i know this movie is fiction, its comforting to imagine people in the shadows who are not afraid to shoot a little girl in the face. I mean, sure she could have found the books and picked them up, or she could have bringing them to a friend or family member; but maybe... I mean, there was a threat that... I mean if she were an alien with BOOKS then she...
I don't know. All i know is that when i see a child carrying something a child doesn't normally use i shoot it just in case its an alien. Contrary to the message of moments earlier in the scene, which was dont shoot aliens just for being aliens.
When he teases the young Lt it's perfect payback for that condescending and scalding look he gets when he explains why they are there when he doesn't really know either. I love this entire scene.
He was ready to shoot at an alien disguised as a little girl and he didnt even know it.
Also has nobody realized there is literally a small table right next to him while he’s sitting in the pods, but instead he goes and grabs the biggest table in the room
Look again, that "small table" is shaped like a bowl.
It's an ashtray
The whole interview is stage by M.I.B /employees and how to problem solve. I did not know until I figured it out. Great movie.
Yea Tiffany looks way to calm in that situation
I just dawned on me, Cheech and Chong ought to get back together and do new movie reactions
Pretty sure I would have just put the silver table thing next to the chair in front of me as a table rather than get up for that table. My Korean friend said she would have just sat on the floor in front of the table.
There might have been certain rules
@@MimikyuCookie
The actual test is to cause a scene to complete the objective. That's why they have neuralyzers. Notice the military guys are all trying to stay quiet and keep to themselves but Edwards had no problem sliding the table noisily to his chair so he could write. He passed the test in drawing attention to himself.
Having actually been in the Army, us low level enlisted would be a better choice. If we had to fill out paperwork without a surface, one of us would let the other use his back as a desk then switch. Alternately, we learned to always have a little notepad on us, which would wok even better. alternately stand and use the egg as a desk.
There was probably no real right answer. Just thinking outside the box and solving your issue would have been enough.
I would have moved my chair to the table
We've done it. THE video that determines I'm old. Adults younger than me who haven't seen men in black.
fucking love J. he questions authority, asks "WHY", thinks outside of thebox, and is able to come up with a convincing story/rationale ON THE SPOT. he also excercised discretion instead of just immediatley blasting the "obvious" enemies. the other fuckers never stood a chance
I wonder how people reacted to the table being moved when the movie was in theaters.
It made me laugh.
I think the whole part of the written test was not to pass the test but to see how they adapt to uncomfortable circumstances (bad writing utensils, enclosed chair, no hard surface to write on). Will Smith’s initiative and creativity by pulling over the table passes the test, and it’s alluded to in Rip Torn’s line about how the rest responded as how the government taught them. There is no real way to test for how a person would handle an unexplainable alien encounter so those kinds of personality traits I.e. initiative and creativity matter.
Captain america dude was a 2nd LT.... not even promoted yet?
That 5th one... "And putting all the other characters in dull sim colors but not black 10 out of 10" guess shes not aware of how military uniforms are. And the Navy guy was wearing black.
Well, Navy Blue but functionally black.
For all the greater cinematic value of how the movie went down, I do feel the best solution in that shooting range was not to fire a shot. Yes, Tiffany has no clear reason to be in that setting - but neither do the others. Yes, she's clearly potentially very dangerous - but if you are carrying a firearm and expected to operate under the assumption that things you shoot with it die, if you're not going to shoot the actual people with guns in the room then "potentially very dangerous" clearly does not equate threatening and Tiffany is not clearly in the act of doing anything criminal - and the other aliens there don't seem scared of her either. J did do the important thing by resisting any peer pressure to shoot, showing even if he had made a bad call there he could be expected to admit it WAS his call and face consequences. But without either part of the setting being the presumption that an immediate threat exists and some figure here absolutely needs to be shot (and I'd even then still be checking for people disguised as scenery and distant snipers first) or background on Tiffany, there really isn't justification to fire.
After all these years, I'm wondering if they were even testing those other guys. I suspect they're just their to keep J from immediately realizing they're only interested in him.
This is by far my favourite scene from the movie; I especially wish we could have seen what kind of a terror Little Tiffany was.
One of the best sequences in any comedy movie ever!
I still have this on VHS. It's probably the first scene I ever remember realizing that the devil is in the details.
On first glance he lost. If he wasn't already an established main character I would have been confused. I was a little, until I realized the test was to assess the situation and adapt to it.
The rest of those guys would have been lost on the first mission. They needed someone open minded enough to see a monster as a potential good guy.
I loved this movie when this came out in theatres. I love the pug dog and the pawn shop owner as well.
8:40 Naruto manga/anime: The written test part of the Ninja test.
How to gather Intel without getting caught.😊
The first men in black imo is still a great movie
I love MIB. I'd like to know if will improvised and of this part of the movie
They actually revealed years later that he was correct and Tiffany was the real danger there.
When I watched this movie, at the end of the shooting scene when Will Smith explains his reasoning, I was nodding along thinking it all made sense. But when you think about it some more, his response is a fail as well. Sure, he identified little Tiffany as the most suspicious individual and potential threat, but walking through a park with a bunch of books that are above your educational level is not against the law. As a cop, Smith's character should know that. Really, he should have shot none of the presented targets and by sharing his observations and reasoning with Zed at the end of the test, he would have passed, since the real goal here wasn't to test shooting accuracy but ability to take in, process and act on information quickly in a high stress environment.
I believe Smith using the table was a test
He's the best for just being himself
The table dragging sounding grating on your nerves is music to my ears. It sounded like Gomez was speaking Spanish and I was Morticia.
I keep seeing the comments and them missing the real first test. Asking why they are here. They are military! Applying for a job from a government branch that they have never heard of and non of them bothered to ask!
I also like how the reactors all pick up on at least one of the tests actually being the test.
My boy Primate once again, and as the fourth reactor! Fuck yeah.
Unless the chairs are immobile, I would have moved the chair to the desk like you'd do in a normal room chair/table.
I'd motion to everyone else to follow suit, literally in suits.
I did similar in real life, a group of guys couldn't maneuver a machine in place, fumbling over each other, I directed them and the job got accomplished.
Awesome video.
I think MiB and MIB II was few of movies that I watched in theater when they were released.
I wonder if Dasha and Dashie have ever gotten in the mix with their channels.😏
Angelina...she literally called the military uniforms costumes, lol. Its amazing how many of these people have no idea whats going on in these scenes...theyd definitely be getting the "eye test"
What? She literally didn't even say the word "costume" in that clip.
@WhatKindOfNameNow she didn't say the word, but she implied it
@@robbieracer3294 "she literally called the military uniforms costumes, lol."
So...
I mean it's a costume dude. For the actors. It's a movie.
It's not too late to "eye test" this comment.
Robbie doesn't know what the word "literally" means.
No, he doesn’t owe little Tiffany an apology. But he would have to apologize if he slapped her. 😆😉
I always wondered why they all didn't just take a knee around the table to do the test. That would have been my first instinct.
Can you please do the scene where Will chases an alien at the beginning
Addie Counts- as a young Grace Randolf clone.😏
Anyone else go to school with a “Jensen” 💀
Yep, and I wanted to backhand him to the point he had to wear deapers again.
Absolutely freaking annoying and it was only 7th grade.
Yes, in my class there was a lady Jensen, couldn’t stand her
How did Alex Hefner watch this, and come to the conclusion that shooting Tiffany was a bad thing to do?
Oh, will smith…how you fell…
dat what get for watch movies on headphones
Little Tiffany didn't keep his wife's' name out her mouth.
I liked the asian man and his white wifes reaction best❤
I love how everyone in here is trying to explain this scene like it's so hard to figure out; and they are the only ones who did. Trying to make yourself look intelligent by explaining something obvious; doesn't. It actually has the opposite effect. You all are everything we've come to expect from years of government indoctrination.🤣😢
I think Will had an interesting analysis of the situation. However, at the same time, he over complicated things. It was a good shot though
Best as in unconventional thingking.
Next IMB instalment... they should hire someone from the Space Force!
..not.
HI ADDIE!
Hey! What's the procedure for a black cop shooting a white girl?
Love hesitanted
But did Tiffany deserve to be shot? He shot her because the books are too advanced for her, could be her parents books and she just has them. Middle of the ghetto with all these monsters, except by his logic they weren't bad, just someone sneezing and another exercising.
Based on Z's reaction, J's explanation is sound - he starts smiling until J gets sassy. Whether that means it's correct is a different matter, but it implies that J did at least one of the possible 'acceptable' solutions. According to other comments here, it's revealed in the MIB cartoon that 'Tiffany' is modelled on the most evil and dangerous alien of them all, so he definitely was correct to shoot - but that's a later addition, not something that was 'true' at the time of the film's release.
@niymeh342 maybe, but personally I don't believe that. Sure I could get she was suspicious, but her being out of place doesn't justify a head shot. He had no information going in, honestly they had no reason to believe they had to shoot anyone. They all assumed they did because that's what it looked like they had to do. They shot the "monsters" because they thought they were the bad guys. He shot her because he thought he was supposed to shoot someone and she seemed like the biggest threat. But he wasn't that much better than they were. Sure he was when it came to judging the monsters, but like them he killed someone because he judged them to be a threat by how they looked. Her being designed after the biggest threat is irrelevant since he wouldn't have known that at the time, maybe if there was a picture of her somewhere saying she was a threat I could understand he saw it and used that, but they never showed that. I get it's not this deep but honestly this just seems like a cop that shot someone that wasn't doing anything wrong because they had something the cop didn't think they would have and were in a neighborhood they didn't think they belonged in.
He passed because he put some thought into things before shooting. Later in the movie it's shown that some aliens look scary but are not hostile. And the MIB does not shoot at anything that moves. They use diplomacy and understanding when dealing with alien problems. They are not looking for a mindless soldier.
@@IZA_Grey I get that, but that's also my point. Sure she looked suspicious, but she wasn't a threat. Books beyond her years will be something he'll likely run into, same with someone being where you don't think they belong. They weren't told to shoot, they just assumed that's what they were supposed to do. He was the best for not shooting the rest but he still shot someone when she didn't show any actual threat.
@tonyblake7569 that's why it's a test. He stood out and thought outside the box. Which is exactly what the MIB is looking for. It's not a real situation so the only consequences are that K and Zed are judging them.
Should have skipped most of the testing phase to input more of the physical testing phase where J hands Tiffany her end.
I don't have any control over what each reactors editor puts in their reactions...
But the writting oart is supposed to draw attention to yourself teast so he's justified in keeping it in