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i love this video so much that i can't even, i can't odd, i can't anything -- i have to stop watching at 41:07 which is , well , ok , i made it two thirds of the way through -- i have to go stick my head in my freezer for a minute, then watch Dr. Bruce give Gayle a bath in the kitchen sink (Chris Fleming) --- a ha ha, ee hee hee, you've been out in the yard and you're so fil-thy, give me a bath in the big sink-ee ---- mom, wake up --- i need a ride to school. I'll come back and watch the rest as fast as I can, I promise. I just love it so much, it's so good -- I need intermissions -- Self-Imposed Intermissions!! lol big fan, long time listener first time caller
I don't know why video essayists do this "If I reach X goal on Patreon I'll do an hour-long video about X frivolous movie" thing. Trying to make the video long enough to fit the length requirements when you may not have any special insight on its subject seems like it's taking the worst aspects of high school English papers and adding a couple days of video editing on top.
I’d argue there’s a million ways to interpret a work beyond author’s intent. Everyone has different life experiences, changing what lyrics of a song mean to them, for example. St. Chroma isn’t about leaving a cult, but I can sort of put it together that way even if Tyler didn’t intend for that interpretation when he made the song. It’s still a way of looking at things.
Can’t believe I’m alive to watch this. This is the culmination of everything Marx and Engels talked about. EDIT: I posted this comment on the first 30 seconds of the video and I can’t believe it ended up being absolutely truthful.
Today in jokes that weren't in this movie, but I wish were: "I will own you! You’ll toil away without pay while I grow ludicrously wealthy from your talent!" "Jeez, it'll be just like playing college basketball again."
When you realize that, in the film industry, "bumping the lamp" means going the extra mile to get the shot to this day because of Roger Rabbit...you really start to process how revolutionary that movie is and was.
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland isn't a recreation of the Alice in Wonderland story but is instead an extension of the Space Jam universe Change My MIND.
@@laurensahanna5826 Coward's answer. Alice is older than the Alice in the book which could be argued to be an aged up version of her if you're not big and sexy like me. If you are you understand that it's not the real Alice and Wonderland isn't real, since all the characters and their designs perfectly fit what a edgy 19 year old would indeed imagine her favourite childhood characters to be when she's cool and edgy now, like all those peoplr who draw Ariel smoking a fat blunt.
@@princetonalec8695 sorry, I should've been more clearer, I was building on you joke about Tim Burton's Alice in wonderland is a spiritual sequel to Space Jam
I think it shoulda been American public officials as saying public officials implies the rest of the world are fucking it up as hard as our dumbass in chief. Also irl nba officials do take covid seriously for nba teams and players (cause those players have a union) it’s the American government that dosent give a fuck
@@everfluctuating I was very smug about my country's responses to the first wave. Now they just want to let the world burn because their donors finally got to them.
@@everfluctuating from the UK here. Can confirm it isn't just the US officials fucking it up. The UK government is doing a fabulous job of killing us all.
Covid never had to be a crisis of this magnitude. What we're seeing from the governments of imperialist nations is pure shock doctrine. The president of the US is fueling the crisis every way he can until the seriously compromised election is over.
An important point here: when Jefferson wrote the word “happiness”, he meant something closer to “good fortune”. Nowadays we think of happiness of a feeling which can be independent of anything happening to you. But, that wasn’t how people in that time thought about it. Hence, he did in fact intend the Declaration’s Preamble to declare that people had the right to pursue economic success. Although “people” in his conception were white men.
On high school my English teacher had my class watch and wrote an essay about Pursuit of Happyness. I criticized the movie saying that it equates happiness with financial success when it shouldn't be. (my teacher agreed with my view) And only now I understand that "Pursuit of happiness" actually does mean "Pursuit of economic success".
Title sounds like a joke but it's genuinely interesting and entertaining. The perfect blend between jokes and seriousness in these kinds of video essays is my favourite ingredient. Like, you see the title and hear the Space Chungus Theme, and you're like "there's no way someone made a 1-hour long essay on Space Jam", yet when you actually pay attention to the message, you can't stop watching because of how interesting the topic is when put that way. I like the kind of humor that has either so many layers of irony you can't tell if you're laughing unironically or not, or it's just trash and your brain tells you it's the former. Edit: Hate to be the guy that brags about likes and stuff, but thanks for the heart Edit 2: It's funnier because the heart is gone, but it doesn't matter to me at all
I feel it is extremely important to point out: if the Looney Tunes elements can be read as a daydream from Michael Jordan about having an adventure with characters from his childhood-in other words, basically fanfiction, right- then this must also mean Lola Bunny is, in fact, Michael Jordan's OC that he decided to insert into the plot while he was at it. This is the true deepest Space Jam lore and I'm shocked this didn't get addressed in the video.
Lola Bunny early on in the films development was a pre-existing character from the 50s Gold Key Comics named Honey Bunny. So really she’d be Michael half remembering a character.
I remember being a little kid and having Space Jam on VHS. The first time I watched it, I thought that they somehow printed the wrong title on the tape because I was promised a cartoon, but for some reason I was watching a biopic about a random basketball player. And then I got past the opening sequence and got REAL confused. Loved this analysis!
Eyy i was the same way. We had a bunch of VHS tapes for my older brother growing up and one was space jam. I didnt know anything about the looney tunes or michael jordan when i watched it lol
I remember how Micheal Jordan and Muggsy Bogues were literally the only two basketball players I knew about as a kid, so I was friggin STOKED that they were both in the film and I could get some of the basketball jokes. EDIT: OKAY WHAT. That kid's book really used Einstein, a German-born Jewish immigrant/refugee, as another example of a man having no barriers to his dreams. Someone did that on purpose.
39:42 - this right here is the tagline / thesis of the whole video (SPOILER?): "One cannot conceive of a just world under capitalism, without first imagining they live in a children's cartoon."
My fiancé made a space jam joke the other day and when I didn’t get it he realized I had never seen it. So I just watched space jam for the first time a few days ago, how timely this is, well for me.
@Persephone Muzingeaux This is particularly funny to me since my best friend does this thing where she judges her milestones on whether or not they were before or after she saw space jam. I think that’s why my fiancé assumed I had seen it. Because my best friend literally tells time by space jam. 😅
I feel like this video embodies the spirit of your entire channel. How unhinged you seem to be at times, combined with deep analysis of something that probably doesn't deserve it. Really appreciate the bit about "it's just a dream" theories, I always hate those too! Also, the presence of Neil Cicierega - Yahoo distracted me so much during that part because I just couldn't believe you were using it ahahghdgdf
Mouth *Dreams* Its topicalllllll. I thought itunes started playing in the background it took me three minuted to figure out what was actually happening lol.
@@cammclean5460 ya did he leave that in the video timeline by accident when he rendered it? it feels so... accidental... did he leave soundcloud on by accident while he recorded his talking head segments?
Best line: "There's some basic idea of an organized community, but really, they don't get much done, and seem to just dedicate their time instead to recreationally antagonizing each other for seemingly little gain. It's basically Twitter!" 30:45
Every story has an unintentional meaning, especially ones that aren't written well. You actually have to _try_ not to give your story a message you don't want for it. Translation: Bad messages happen when you're not thinking, and bad writers don't think.
@@assassin8636 He's just saying every story ever made is gonna have people who misunderstand the meaning or message a story is trying to portray and that's because everyone has their own viewpoint when seeing any kind of story. Every story, in every book, show , movie, game , etc can have a message or moral made up from the contents within it and to have a story that has no meaning whatsoever is something you'd have to actively try very hard to do due to everyone viewing things in their own way. Also that when you try to write a story with "no meaning" it'll typically still have meanings, and morals and messages that people will pull from it, again due to everyone having their own lives and experiences that dictate the way they see the world.
*Jack making his big conclusion after an hour and making great points* *suddenly in the background*YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *can’t focus on what Jack’s saying cuz every 90’s Yahoo commercial ever plays through my head *
9:00 There is an even better comparison: Space Jam is a fanfic. An RPF crossover fanfic. Built on existing characters/celebrities, assumes you have context on them, and half the point is watching those known characters being themselves in a new situation
I often wonder what influence the murder of his father impacted Michael Jordan's work and life after. That opening scene with little Michael and his father took on a whole new deeper meaning to me once I learned this was made after his father was killed.
You know, for me the fact that the other stars lost their talent was the most traumatic part of that movie, that shit scared me and devastated me as a child.
Space Jam bears a lot of resemblance to Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley. It started off as a one-off shoe commercial but was later made into a fully formed piece of media. Only difference is that Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley was a comic book. And has far more Godzillas.
You can't talk about Charles Barkley and expanded media, and not at least *mention* "Barkley's Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden", the jrpg sequel to 1993's sega sports game hit.
also at some point you said "y'all ready for this" and I screamed the song at my partner before realising you were doing a shitty "dun dun dun dun du dun" in the background
Wait so...begins the movie with the protagonist jaded as he has everything he wanted and has no catharsis....Space Jam is the One Punch Man of Hollywood Movies.
Great vid, and it's so interesting watching the gradual, quiet outing of Hamilton as liberal propaganda. I remember being shut down about this daily in '15-16 and there was something strangely vindicating about receiving an email from my college that the US Embassy in Israel was hosting a free viewing of the filmed version to teach us all about "American values."
The crowd looks bad because someone decided to triple the stadium size practically weeks before the release, and the animators had to make a programm to fill it quickly ^^
Jack Saint is here making hour long videos about societal and political problems implied in silly movies while I can't even finish the one page essay I have to do for homework.
I went to Naropa University, where the mythology is one of the writer's went, that writer supposedly studied Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Language; and wrote it to pay loans. It may be an exploration of Bardo somehow, according to the folks in the Allen Ginsberg Library; where I heard this.
@@Sara3346 It was oft repeated but I've never seen it validated, so I kinda don't buy at this point. Plus, as a Zen communist I might not be invited to the bardo party.
You’ve gotta be kidding me, since Wednesday I have not been able to get space jam out of my head and then today, the first thing I see in the morning is this.
Dear US military: Please stop interrupting my TH-cam videos with your propaganda. I do not think I need to join you in order to have worth and "amount to something", and I will not join you unless forced by financial insecurity to sign up for the draft. Thank you for your time.
I fucking hate how once I turned 18 and decided to actually be honest about my age I got fucking bombarded by these disgusting propaganda ads that are clearly targeting lonely people. No I do not want to go and shoot children in these worthless ass wars you fucks >:[
Also of note, if Team Fortress and Five Nights at Freddy's couldn't convince me to join the military, then what makes you think your discount dubstep and half-ass narrator would?
The ads you see on videos are personally targeted. Apparently Google thinks you might be military material. Then again, Google thinks I’m a male boomer who might vote Trump (or at least Republican).
Selective Service registration is mandatory for men in the US, at least it was when I turned 18. Did I mention that I was born with spastic cerebral palsy? That made for a fun call from an Army recruiter, about three months after the US invaded Iraq for the second time. It took him 20 minutes to mention that he was recruiting for the Army and about five seconds to hang up after I mentioned my disability.
I love how you talked about how even people trying to fight back against the capitalist system must do it from within the capitalist system, and then had an ad play
Space Jam was one of those movies that was on the tv over and over and so it was one of the movies I’ve watched like ten times but also forgot about. This is an amazing take on a movie I haven’t thought about in years.
clicked on this thinking I was only going to watch the first 15 minutes, but the sheer genius kept me seated all the way throught. Consider my fedora tipped sir.
The fact the nerdlucks have a naming pattern (synonyms for "nothing") is the most amazing thing ever and I wished the movie highlighted that more because holy shit I love that.
I still remember my dad losing his mind at the basketball jones drop when we first watched Space Jam. He showed us his original record of it and would then spend the next few years singing it as one of his go-to ways of annoying us.
Pausing the video to thank you for that rant on Dream Sequence/Coma/They Died and Went To Hell theories. The creepypasta theory scene especially was flooded with this lazy nonsense back in the day ("oh, Ed Edd n Eddy are actually dead").
Jack Saint dropping that he’s a Baffy shipper in the credits like it’s no big deal. Where’s the hour long Looney Tunes: Back in Action analysis arguing that it’s a commentary on the way society put people into clearly defined boxes and labels with no concern for the complexities that lie underneath??? Bugs and Daffy start the movie literally filming the same gag over and over again in a stale routine because marketing wise it’s their most recognizable role as the suits at Warner Brothers desperately try to cling to the remaining cultural relevance of the brand, not daring to step outside of that neat safe area despite the fact that format has no place in the modern media landscape. Daddy desperately tries to break out of his designated antagonist role but has no power to as Warner Brothers LITERALLY owns his name. He tries to break away but finds he has no other options but to play the stooge as he has no where else to go. Bugs meanwhile feels frustrated by modern branding constraints but stays the course as he’s the one that benefits the most from it. All the while through out the whole movie Bugs and Daddy dance around this sexual tension that may have existed as long as they have but they don’t dare speak it aloud. Is it fear from their own feelings? Or is it the knowledge that their cooperate overlords would never approve of their two biggest stars being gay and know better than to fight it. Anyway yeah I’d like to see that video, thanks Jack for validating the obvious in a two second throwaway line.
@@Rad-Dude63andathird Autocorrect struck twice and I didn’t proof read. I really don’t want to be known as the person who accidentally called Daffy Duck Daddy. 😂😂😂
That Bugs drawing is one of many "gangsta Looney Tunes" shirt designs. There's an interesting history behind that trend involving Space Jam, and I'm disappointed that Jack didn't mention it.
I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed of it, but because of Space Jam I got into basket ball for 10 years straight, starting at the age of 7... At a moment in my life, I had passed more than half of my presence on earth practicing basket ball, all thanks to Space Jam... I loved this movie as a kid, I really need to watch it again !
I watched space jam as a kid in the cinema, and thought it was a great movie. I convinced both MY PARENTS to take me again because it was so great. I think they still don’t trust my taste in movies. And that is why I became a Patreon to jack, so I can ruin all your guy movie taste as well!
this has nothing to do with the video but hearing someone whos cis say the word cis is so jarring. literally havent heard a single cisgender person say 'cis' without throwing a fit. wild. thanks
"In the real world, the bad guys aren't getting tricked by a piece of paper telling them to play fair." Haha oh dear god that hit me so much harder than I was anticipating
Thank you for reminding me how lucky we are to have this great film, which had every reason to be utter trash, but was instead not only technically groundbreaking but also a downright excellent movie. (I'm talking about _Roger Rabbit,_ of course.)
I am officially a superfan now. It started out innocently enough, laughing about Barbie and the Willie Wonka to come (we didn't even need a second one). Been casually absorbing this channel for a few weeks now, and I get it now. I finally get it. All of it. You have changed my life, Jack. Or at least my understanding of Space Jam.
I hope one day to have as much joy in my life as Jack looks like he had filming and editing this video. Legit can’t stop smiling, the vibe is infectious :)
Starship Troopers (the film at least, the book not so much) is a parody of militarism and fascism, but a lot of people think it's an endorsement of those ideas.
Y'know, something we don't really talk about, but I think we all know on some level, is that the villains in kids' movies are almost always greedy capitalists, I think because children intuitively understand that capitalists are evil.
When my parents got cable in our house for the first time space jam was the first thing I watched. I had seen it before and it was part way in but will always hold the spot of first thing on cable I watched at home.
Fun fact (but one that would be hell to try and fact check, so please take this more like a gossipy rumor from an animator who shared horror stories) A studio near where I live in canada was outsourced to animate some frames from the movie/commercials to Space Jam, but the studio (that has later been known for being the most notoriously shady/manipulative animation studio among animators, and some clients) was refusing to pay their workers: SO animators started taking their Space Jam animation home with themselves every evening in order to hold their own work ransom for the pay that the studio was refusing. It sounds absurd, but I did work at that studio around 2010 - 11 for a very short period, and it was MADDENING that this studio exists/still exists with the kind of terrible business practices they've done. Chances are the scenes that this studio worked on were very very few, and likely low priority.
Had never watched a video from this guy before and I didn't think this would be so... depressing... really bad idea to watch this after crying over my college grades and really masochistic of me to watch the entire hour
Man. I know that some people put up their Christmas decorations the very next day after Halloween... but giving Christmas PRESENTS?! Oh Jack, you shouldn’t have! I love it!
If I had a dime for every time one of my favorite youtubers expressed their extreme burnout through long, intense, some would say unhinged Space Jam deep dives, if have 10c from you and 10c from super eye patchwolf
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I hope this becomes your most popular video.
lol ur a dork lol
great video my friend myflock and I r lol thanks 😊
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men with no ceilings on their dreams? Jackie Robinson is a great example. Alan Turing was the first to come to my mind.
i love this video so much that i can't even, i can't odd, i can't anything -- i have to stop watching at 41:07 which is , well , ok , i made it two thirds of the way through -- i have to go stick my head in my freezer for a minute, then watch Dr. Bruce give Gayle a bath in the kitchen sink (Chris Fleming) --- a ha ha, ee hee hee, you've been out in the yard and you're so fil-thy, give me a bath in the big sink-ee ---- mom, wake up --- i need a ride to school. I'll come back and watch the rest as fast as I can, I promise. I just love it so much, it's so good -- I need intermissions -- Self-Imposed Intermissions!! lol big fan, long time listener first time caller
I don't know why video essayists do this "If I reach X goal on Patreon I'll do an hour-long video about X frivolous movie" thing. Trying to make the video long enough to fit the length requirements when you may not have any special insight on its subject seems like it's taking the worst aspects of high school English papers and adding a couple days of video editing on top.
Jack saint is the epitome of the principle of:
"Authorial intent doesn't mean shit. The most interesting interpretation is the right one"
i couldn't put it better my self
I’d argue there’s a million ways to interpret a work beyond author’s intent. Everyone has different life experiences, changing what lyrics of a song mean to them, for example. St. Chroma isn’t about leaving a cult, but I can sort of put it together that way even if Tyler didn’t intend for that interpretation when he made the song. It’s still a way of looking at things.
why do i feel like this video was inevitable
Holy shit I didn't know you liked Jack's videos. I like your animations a lot!
It was! I literally just had to wake up and realize everyone was looking up to me not the other way around.
Jack Saint's sexy lola bunny cosplay sesion now available on his only fans.
Damn, might have to sign up for that.
Sold.
Link?
So this is where the beastars fans of his audience went...
Would buy 100%
Can’t believe I’m alive to watch this. This is the culmination of everything Marx and Engels talked about.
EDIT: I posted this comment on the first 30 seconds of the video and I can’t believe it ended up being absolutely truthful.
Marxist-Loonieist theory
Marxism? More like... Cringism
based and jampilled
@@autistichideokojima7737 no
@@Monica-br8pi yes
Today in jokes that weren't in this movie, but I wish were:
"I will own you! You’ll toil away without pay while I grow ludicrously wealthy from your talent!"
"Jeez, it'll be just like playing college basketball again."
HA! 10/10
When you realize that, in the film industry, "bumping the lamp" means going the extra mile to get the shot to this day because of Roger Rabbit...you really start to process how revolutionary that movie is and was.
Thanks for the fun fact
I’m still amazed by that film
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland isn't a recreation of the Alice in Wonderland story but is instead an extension of the Space Jam universe Change My MIND.
Its a spiritual sequel
@@laurensahanna5826 Coward's answer. Alice is older than the Alice in the book which could be argued to be an aged up version of her if you're not big and sexy like me. If you are you understand that it's not the real Alice and Wonderland isn't real, since all the characters and their designs perfectly fit what a edgy 19 year old would indeed imagine her favourite childhood characters to be when she's cool and edgy now, like all those peoplr who draw Ariel smoking a fat blunt.
@@princetonalec8695 sorry, I should've been more clearer, I was building on you joke about Tim Burton's Alice in wonderland is a spiritual sequel to Space Jam
@@laurensahanna5826 Not a spiritual sequel... a canonical sequel
@@laurensahanna5826 a squeakwel, if you will
"public officials take immediate actions after a pandemic scare,non of this makes any sense"was pretty funny
I think it shoulda been American public officials as saying public officials implies the rest of the world are fucking it up as hard as our dumbass in chief. Also irl nba officials do take covid seriously for nba teams and players (cause those players have a union) it’s the American government that dosent give a fuck
@@brandonporter8509 other countries arent fucking it up nearly as bad as the US but rest assured most of the (western) world is also fucking up
@@everfluctuating I was very smug about my country's responses to the first wave. Now they just want to let the world burn because their donors finally got to them.
@@everfluctuating from the UK here. Can confirm it isn't just the US officials fucking it up. The UK government is doing a fabulous job of killing us all.
Covid never had to be a crisis of this magnitude. What we're seeing from the governments of imperialist nations is pure shock doctrine. The president of the US is fueling the crisis every way he can until the seriously compromised election is over.
An important point here: when Jefferson wrote the word “happiness”, he meant something closer to “good fortune”. Nowadays we think of happiness of a feeling which can be independent of anything happening to you. But, that wasn’t how people in that time thought about it. Hence, he did in fact intend the Declaration’s Preamble to declare that people had the right to pursue economic success. Although “people” in his conception were white men.
Came here to say just this, well put.
On high school my English teacher had my class watch and wrote an essay about Pursuit of Happyness.
I criticized the movie saying that it equates happiness with financial success when it shouldn't be. (my teacher agreed with my view)
And only now I understand that "Pursuit of happiness" actually does mean "Pursuit of economic success".
"Revolution re-imagined as personal therapy."
Man.
That hit me like a truck.
*(Contrapoints looms ominously in the background)*
Title sounds like a joke but it's genuinely interesting and entertaining. The perfect blend between jokes and seriousness in these kinds of video essays is my favourite ingredient. Like, you see the title and hear the Space Chungus Theme, and you're like "there's no way someone made a 1-hour long essay on Space Jam", yet when you actually pay attention to the message, you can't stop watching because of how interesting the topic is when put that way. I like the kind of humor that has either so many layers of irony you can't tell if you're laughing unironically or not, or it's just trash and your brain tells you it's the former.
Edit: Hate to be the guy that brags about likes and stuff, but thanks for the heart
Edit 2: It's funnier because the heart is gone, but it doesn't matter to me at all
wow this is such a great comment, I love how you just say words that you mean! youre great:) have a nice day
Lol, you lost your heart because you edited your comment.
Brag and boast away! That is a great comment! I screenshotted it 😄😂😄😄😄
@@jazzminceleste2143 well in this case, _OMG thanks for the heart and these 55 likes!!!!1!!!_ I guess
@@Killersquirrel111 note to self: in case of bad day, check replies of comments
"No-steppy snake man, and genuine scumbag,Thomas Jefferson."
pfffffft ily
Right? Pure poetry.
I feel it is extremely important to point out: if the Looney Tunes elements can be read as a daydream from Michael Jordan about having an adventure with characters from his childhood-in other words, basically fanfiction, right- then this must also mean Lola Bunny is, in fact, Michael Jordan's OC that he decided to insert into the plot while he was at it.
This is the true deepest Space Jam lore and I'm shocked this didn't get addressed in the video.
This also imply that he's a furry and that she's his waifu(r).
@@NIHIL_EGO Or his true desire to be a woman/feminine since it's a self insert 👀
Lola Bunny early on in the films development was a pre-existing character from the 50s Gold Key Comics named Honey Bunny.
So really she’d be Michael half remembering a character.
Jack Saint has never even seen a basketball.
Pfft, you believe in balls?
basket balls are a lie created by the deepstate and big nike
Jack Saint never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
A what?
All balls are flat, wake up sheeple
cmon and SLAM and welcome to the JAM
Slam, jam, thank you ma'am.
In west philadelphia born and raised
Great now I can't take out that song and its various mash-ups out of my head
Does any one else remember the bunny rap?
@@Mavisdundundunnnmanston Buggin'! Loved that track!
I'm glad to be here for such a historic event
I remember being a little kid and having Space Jam on VHS. The first time I watched it, I thought that they somehow printed the wrong title on the tape because I was promised a cartoon, but for some reason I was watching a biopic about a random basketball player. And then I got past the opening sequence and got REAL confused. Loved this analysis!
This movie was surprisingly short on fruit preserves
Eyy i was the same way. We had a bunch of VHS tapes for my older brother growing up and one was space jam. I didnt know anything about the looney tunes or michael jordan when i watched it lol
I remember how Micheal Jordan and Muggsy Bogues were literally the only two basketball players I knew about as a kid, so I was friggin STOKED that they were both in the film and I could get some of the basketball jokes.
EDIT: OKAY WHAT. That kid's book really used Einstein, a German-born Jewish immigrant/refugee, as another example of a man having no barriers to his dreams. Someone did that on purpose.
Jack, taking off Space Jam's monster mask as if he were Velma from Mystery Inc
"I knew it. It was capitalism all along."
39:42 - this right here is the tagline / thesis of the whole video (SPOILER?):
"One cannot conceive of a just world under capitalism, without first imagining they live in a children's cartoon."
My fiancé made a space jam joke the other day and when I didn’t get it he realized I had never seen it. So I just watched space jam for the first time a few days ago, how timely this is, well for me.
What was the joke?
@Persephone Muzingeaux This is particularly funny to me since my best friend does this thing where she judges her milestones on whether or not they were before or after she saw space jam.
I think that’s why my fiancé assumed I had seen it. Because my best friend literally tells time by space jam. 😅
@@linseyspolidoro5122 B.S.J. And A.S.J. Are the only time labels I’ll be using from now on to lol
neil cicierega’s “yahoo” showing up as a song in a real video is my favorite moment of 2020
I feel like this video embodies the spirit of your entire channel. How unhinged you seem to be at times, combined with deep analysis of something that probably doesn't deserve it. Really appreciate the bit about "it's just a dream" theories, I always hate those too! Also, the presence of Neil Cicierega - Yahoo distracted me so much during that part because I just couldn't believe you were using it ahahghdgdf
THATS WHERE I RECOGNIZED IT FROM
Mouth *Dreams* Its topicalllllll.
I thought itunes started playing in the background it took me three minuted to figure out what was actually happening lol.
@@cammclean5460 oh I didn't know there was a third "mouth" mashup album
Oh up until I saw this comment I genuinely thought "oh, the little Yahoo jingle is an actual song?"
@@cammclean5460 ya did he leave that in the video timeline by accident when he rendered it? it feels so... accidental... did he leave soundcloud on by accident while he recorded his talking head segments?
When I was in elementary school whenever the teachers didn’t want to teach they would put on this movie and say it was a movie day
That may play a part in why so many people have fond memories of it
@@andrewdiaz3529 You probably have a point.
@@alexanderthemagnifcent2573 That's why I for some reason LOVE. The Day After Tomorrow.
Me: I need something that’s gonna blow my mind while I get stoned
Jack Saint: Gotchu Fam
Best line: "There's some basic idea of an organized community, but really, they don't get much done, and seem to just dedicate their time instead to recreationally antagonizing each other for seemingly little gain. It's basically Twitter!" 30:45
Except it isn't as bad as twitter because twitter is only bad because of capitalism because politics and pre post scarcity stress and bad moderation
@@flamingpi2245I really hope you feel embarrassed by this comment.
Every story has an unintentional meaning, especially ones that aren't written well. You actually have to _try_ not to give your story a message you don't want for it.
Translation: Bad messages happen when you're not thinking, and bad writers don't think.
So you don't want messages in movies like "what do we learn from them" like what?🤦♂️
@@assassin8636you seem a bit confused
@Justin-ug3xi yes I'm a little confused on what that comment is saying
@@assassin8636 He's just saying every story ever made is gonna have people who misunderstand the meaning or message a story is trying to portray and that's because everyone has their own viewpoint when seeing any kind of story. Every story, in every book, show , movie, game , etc can have a message or moral made up from the contents within it and to have a story that has no meaning whatsoever is something you'd have to actively try very hard to do due to everyone viewing things in their own way. Also that when you try to write a story with "no meaning" it'll typically still have meanings, and morals and messages that people will pull from it, again due to everyone having their own lives and experiences that dictate the way they see the world.
I translated it.
*Jack making his big conclusion after an hour and making great points*
*suddenly in the background*YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*can’t focus on what Jack’s saying cuz every 90’s Yahoo commercial ever plays through my head *
9:00 There is an even better comparison: Space Jam is a fanfic. An RPF crossover fanfic. Built on existing characters/celebrities, assumes you have context on them, and half the point is watching those known characters being themselves in a new situation
Come comrades now is the time to Slam I bid thee most humble welcome to the Jam
Fun fact: this film is canon to Michael Jordan's life
I often wonder what influence the murder of his father impacted Michael Jordan's work and life after. That opening scene with little Michael and his father took on a whole new deeper meaning to me once I learned this was made after his father was killed.
Watching Space Jam with no cultural background context is like picking up the Iliad without knowing shit about the Trojan War or the Greek gods
You know, for me the fact that the other stars lost their talent was the most traumatic part of that movie, that shit scared me and devastated me as a child.
Jack analyzing Tails Gets Trolled is now on my list
Space Jam bears a lot of resemblance to Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley. It started off as a one-off shoe commercial but was later made into a fully formed piece of media. Only difference is that Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley was a comic book. And has far more Godzillas.
How fucking dare you introduce me to this glorious piece of history
Godzilla isn’t even in Space Jam and yet he still has more screentime than he does in that American abomination from 2014
You can't talk about Charles Barkley and expanded media, and not at least *mention* "Barkley's Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden", the jrpg sequel to 1993's sega sports game hit.
I remember that from Linkara's review. Good times.
My polisci prof argued the right to “the pursuit of happiness” was literally meant to be the right to property.
Own more stuff, become Happy through consumption.
Proud to be one of the 500 patrons supporting Jack Saint in creating maddeningly good video
also at some point you said "y'all ready for this" and I screamed the song at my partner before realising you were doing a shitty "dun dun dun dun du dun" in the background
All my leftube faves are getting more chaotic and honestly I'm into it
But that big chungus theme....
"Space Jam is a commentary on the lie that was the american dream"
Part One: It came out in the 1990s
end video
This is unironically one of the best videos I've ever seen. I'm sorry for the toll it took on Jack's mental health
“I actually ship that, funnily enough” felt so absurdly genuine... a beautiful moment
Wait so...begins the movie with the protagonist jaded as he has everything he wanted and has no catharsis....Space Jam is the One Punch Man of Hollywood Movies.
Great vid, and it's so interesting watching the gradual, quiet outing of Hamilton as liberal propaganda. I remember being shut down about this daily in '15-16 and there was something strangely vindicating about receiving an email from my college that the US Embassy in Israel was hosting a free viewing of the filmed version to teach us all about "American values."
The crowd looks bad because someone decided to triple the stadium size practically weeks before the release, and the animators had to make a programm to fill it quickly ^^
Jack Saint is here making hour long videos about societal and political problems implied in silly movies while I can't even finish the one page essay I have to do for homework.
I went to Naropa University, where the mythology is one of the writer's went, that writer supposedly studied Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Language; and wrote it to pay loans. It may be an exploration of Bardo somehow, according to the folks in the Allen Ginsberg Library; where I heard this.
Gosh I hope not, I don't want to see space jam while I'm dying.
@@Sara3346 It was oft repeated but I've never seen it validated, so I kinda don't buy at this point. Plus, as a Zen communist I might not be invited to the bardo party.
Jesus Christ the fact that Jackie Robinson and Nat King Cole are both in that Hillary book is insane
I want to see the Daffy/Bugs Bunny shipping manifesto Jack.
The what?
@@bebecranney8740 Don’t try to act surprised that that exists
The song at the end singing “yahooooo” over and over was so distracting XD I don’t think I processed anything that was said during that
It's "Yahoo" by Neil Cicierega
same lol
You’ve gotta be kidding me, since Wednesday I have not been able to get space jam out of my head and then today, the first thing I see in the morning is this.
Dear US military:
Please stop interrupting my TH-cam videos with your propaganda. I do not think I need to join you in order to have worth and "amount to something", and I will not join you unless forced by financial insecurity to sign up for the draft.
Thank you for your time.
I fucking hate how once I turned 18 and decided to actually be honest about my age I got fucking bombarded by these disgusting propaganda ads that are clearly targeting lonely people. No I do not want to go and shoot children in these worthless ass wars you fucks >:[
Also of note, if Team Fortress and Five Nights at Freddy's couldn't convince me to join the military, then what makes you think your discount dubstep and half-ass narrator would?
The ads you see on videos are personally targeted. Apparently Google thinks you might be military material. Then again, Google thinks I’m a male boomer who might vote Trump (or at least Republican).
In the words of someone very wise, "nah imma do crack"
Selective Service registration is mandatory for men in the US, at least it was when I turned 18. Did I mention that I was born with spastic cerebral palsy? That made for a fun call from an Army recruiter, about three months after the US invaded Iraq for the second time. It took him 20 minutes to mention that he was recruiting for the Army and about five seconds to hang up after I mentioned my disability.
I used to watch this movie alot when I was young, and I remember how I understood absolutely nothing but still loved it.
I love how you talked about how even people trying to fight back against the capitalist system must do it from within the capitalist system, and then had an ad play
Space Jam was one of those movies that was on the tv over and over and so it was one of the movies I’ve watched like ten times but also forgot about. This is an amazing take on a movie I haven’t thought about in years.
clicked on this thinking I was only going to watch the first 15 minutes, but the sheer genius kept me seated all the way throught. Consider my fedora tipped sir.
The fact the nerdlucks have a naming pattern (synonyms for "nothing") is the most amazing thing ever and I wished the movie highlighted that more because holy shit I love that.
I have been waiting for this for too long.
Came because the thumbnail looked deep fried and I thought it was a joke, stayed because
*COME ON AND SLAM*
I want a Tune Squad shirt so bad that I might get a Basketball Jones.
That deep cut was brought to you by Barry White and a falsetto Chris Rock.
i got a basketball jones oh baby ooh-wee-ooh
I still remember my dad losing his mind at the basketball jones drop when we first watched Space Jam. He showed us his original record of it and would then spend the next few years singing it as one of his go-to ways of annoying us.
"og no steppy snake man" is a phrase i will be using allot from now on
Pausing the video to thank you for that rant on Dream Sequence/Coma/They Died and Went To Hell theories. The creepypasta theory scene especially was flooded with this lazy nonsense back in the day ("oh, Ed Edd n Eddy are actually dead").
What's it flooded with nowadays?
@@scratch2086 Lasagna
They got sick of pasta.
@@littlefieryone2825 bathe me in lasagna and leave me to die
Jack Saint dropping that he’s a Baffy shipper in the credits like it’s no big deal.
Where’s the hour long Looney Tunes: Back in Action analysis arguing that it’s a commentary on the way society put people into clearly defined boxes and labels with no concern for the complexities that lie underneath???
Bugs and Daffy start the movie literally filming the same gag over and over again in a stale routine because marketing wise it’s their most recognizable role as the suits at Warner Brothers desperately try to cling to the remaining cultural relevance of the brand, not daring to step outside of that neat safe area despite the fact that format has no place in the modern media landscape. Daddy desperately tries to break out of his designated antagonist role but has no power to as Warner Brothers LITERALLY owns his name. He tries to break away but finds he has no other options but to play the stooge as he has no where else to go. Bugs meanwhile feels frustrated by modern branding constraints but stays the course as he’s the one that benefits the most from it. All the while through out the whole movie Bugs and Daddy dance around this sexual tension that may have existed as long as they have but they don’t dare speak it aloud. Is it fear from their own feelings? Or is it the knowledge that their cooperate overlords would never approve of their two biggest stars being gay and know better than to fight it.
Anyway yeah I’d like to see that video, thanks Jack for validating the obvious in a two second throwaway line.
"Bugs and Daddy"
Bit of a Freudian slip there.
@@benl2140 Oh god, I hate autocorrect so much. 😂
@@TheNerdyPencil
You called him "Daddy" twice too XD
@@Rad-Dude63andathird Autocorrect struck twice and I didn’t proof read. I really don’t want to be known as the person who accidentally called Daffy Duck Daddy. 😂😂😂
When I was a kid, ball Michael freaked me out.
Also, that inflating Newman scene definitely gave some people a fetish.
Imagine if future generations are this obsessed with Baby Peanut
This is in the hall of fame for thumbnails holy shit. Haven't watched the video yet but it's already a 10/10.
That Bugs drawing is one of many "gangsta Looney Tunes" shirt designs. There's an interesting history behind that trend involving Space Jam, and I'm disappointed that Jack didn't mention it.
it feels right that every moment of our lives has somehow led to this. thanks jack saint
I don't know when "double exposure cross-fade into futterwacken" will ever be relevant again
I'm hoping that paryicular sequence will never be relevant again.
& I'm one of the few who liked futterwacken.
5:49 okay, maybe my brain has been melted by chapo but Rod Dreher has a space jam review? That Rod Dreher?!
I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed of it, but because of Space Jam I got into basket ball for 10 years straight, starting at the age of 7... At a moment in my life, I had passed more than half of my presence on earth practicing basket ball, all thanks to Space Jam... I loved this movie as a kid, I really need to watch it again !
I watched space jam as a kid in the cinema, and thought it was a great movie. I convinced both MY PARENTS to take me again because it was so great. I think they still don’t trust my taste in movies. And that is why I became a Patreon to jack, so I can ruin all your guy movie taste as well!
I like you
this has nothing to do with the video but hearing someone whos cis say the word cis is so jarring. literally havent heard a single cisgender person say 'cis' without throwing a fit. wild. thanks
damn bro, i’m sorry there is such shit people around you- from a cis person
"In the real world, the bad guys aren't getting tricked by a piece of paper telling them to play fair." Haha oh dear god that hit me so much harder than I was anticipating
Thank you for reminding me how lucky we are to have this great film, which had every reason to be utter trash, but was instead not only technically groundbreaking but also a downright excellent movie. (I'm talking about _Roger Rabbit,_ of course.)
Always loved your videos, but this the ultimate opus magnum of your literary output. I'm in awe.
47:00 Mouth Dreams YES
YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO~
The fact that Clinton campaigned for Barry Goldwater just makes those pages all the more amazing for me.
The end of an era....
This is unequivocally the best video on TH-cam. So good I didn't even skip the credits.
That Charles Barkley scene made me wanna cry 😢
I am officially a superfan now. It started out innocently enough, laughing about Barbie and the Willie Wonka to come (we didn't even need a second one). Been casually absorbing this channel for a few weeks now, and I get it now. I finally get it. All of it.
You have changed my life, Jack. Or at least my understanding of Space Jam.
27:50 no less than that Jack, more like 3 or 2 generations.
Honestly, he's old enough that four generations may be too generous.
How am i supposed to tell people that this is the thing they should watch if they want to understand the hellscape of late capitalism
I hope one day to have as much joy in my life as Jack looks like he had filming and editing this video. Legit can’t stop smiling, the vibe is infectious :)
"Starship Troopers style" wait elaborate on that
Now you need to talk about Starship Troopers
Have you never seen it?
Starship Troopers (the film at least, the book not so much) is a parody of militarism and fascism, but a lot of people think it's an endorsement of those ideas.
when i heard Melina Pendulums voice..... so glad!
Y'know, something we don't really talk about, but I think we all know on some level, is that the villains in kids' movies are almost always greedy capitalists, I think because children intuitively understand that capitalists are evil.
When my parents got cable in our house for the first time space jam was the first thing I watched. I had seen it before and it was part way in but will always hold the spot of first thing on cable I watched at home.
I had literally no idea who Michael Jordan was when I watched Space Jam. It was incomprehensible to me as a kid.
This is the content I subscribed for
Fun fact (but one that would be hell to try and fact check, so please take this more like a gossipy rumor from an animator who shared horror stories)
A studio near where I live in canada was outsourced to animate some frames from the movie/commercials to Space Jam, but the studio (that has later been known for being the most notoriously shady/manipulative animation studio among animators, and some clients) was refusing to pay their workers: SO animators started taking their Space Jam animation home with themselves every evening in order to hold their own work ransom for the pay that the studio was refusing.
It sounds absurd, but I did work at that studio around 2010 - 11 for a very short period, and it was MADDENING that this studio exists/still exists with the kind of terrible business practices they've done.
Chances are the scenes that this studio worked on were very very few, and likely low priority.
Had never watched a video from this guy before and I didn't think this would be so... depressing... really bad idea to watch this after crying over my college grades and really masochistic of me to watch the entire hour
Man. I know that some people put up their Christmas decorations the very next day after Halloween... but giving Christmas PRESENTS?!
Oh Jack, you shouldn’t have! I love it!
If I had a dime for every time one of my favorite youtubers expressed their extreme burnout through long, intense, some would say unhinged Space Jam deep dives, if have 10c from you and 10c from super eye patchwolf
I feel like I need a safeword for Jack Saint
Quality video, here have some algorithm fuel.
Thank you for this masterpiece Mr. Jack Saint
That Big Chungus song made me vibe so hard i translated the communist manifesto into Siamese