6 Insane Stereotypes That You Still See in Every Movie - After Hours
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When I was studying acting in college, we had a guest speaker who worked on the movie "Hitch". He told us that they had to really negotiate with someone on the production end of things to cast Will Smith because they felt that although Will Smith would do a fine job, they would not be able to cast a lead actress. They refused to cast a white actress to pair with him because they didn't want to pair a black man and a white women, and they refused to cast a black actress, because that would officially make it a "black movie". So they split the difference, cast a latina, and agreed to casting Will Smith. I mention this because, it could be said that all of the things the Cracked team covered in this episode are pure speculation, but, whether they know this or not, this one is actually based in fact. Probably not the only one, but it's the only one I can, myself, speak to.
Wow that's messed up :(
These days they split the difference so that if it's a white woman and a black man it's fine but some white character always has a problem with it. If it's a black woman and a white man, he's an effemanate idiot who either needs her to keep him on track or brings her down with him.
You're so full of shit, show us a single quote where he stated this.
Princess Daisy I’m pretty sure your thinking of Denzel Washington who in one of his films refused to kiss his white costar as he felt that his main demographic was black women and didn’t want to alienate them.
I actually think that it might not be an issue of Will Smith but creators of movies that he's in. He overall rarely gets a girl in a movie because he has hard time generating on-screen chemistry with his female co-stars. And why he was never with a white woman... because of casting directors, script writers, directors and so on... You said it yourself "they refused to cast a black actress, because that would officially make it a "black movie""... Like who cares?! So? It shows that creators maybe put a little too much meaning in actors' races... Denzel actually had reasons to not end up with white women...
"It had been twenty years (in 1992’s Malcolm X) since Denzel had kissed a White woman on screen until more recently in the 2012 movie, “Flight.” He had his reason for not doing so and it had nothing to do with him disliking White women or anything like that, but it apparently had a lot to do with with his respect for Black women and his disapproval of how Black actresses were all too often not seen as the object of affection when it came to major motion pictures, so he didn’t want to feed into that stereotype."
"Most of the characters Morgan Freeman has ever played."
Including his role in the Lego Movie.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I was raised on television and conditioned to believe that every black women over 50 is a cosmic mentor" - Jeff Winger
Butt Soup Awesome Community reference.
Soren is basically Jeff anyway
Their writers were streets ahead.
@@getpumped87 the season 4 writers were streets behind :(
Ethan Tull I personally feel like he is a mix between Dean Winchester, Jeff winger, Barney Stinson and maybe a superhero of some kind and/or deity of some kind
"i'M THE GOOFBALL IN MY OWN LIFE!?"
I laughed so hard, I stopped breathing for a couple of seconds.
"Gay people are magic!" Is still the best setup line for any episode of After Hours.
I’m so sad I came across this series and cracked on TH-cam in 2019. Love the content, wish the evil dying newspaper company that bought Cracked didn’t liquidate them, destroying my hopes for more OPCD and After hours to ever flourish again.
After Hours was already finished anyway. They hated filming it by the end. It was recast with 4 other actors but it just wasn't the same.
Swaim and some other ex Cracked people are doing a ”reboot” type thing of after hours called Off Hours on smallbeans youtube channel
Jonatan Nilsson why was I not made aware of this before???
Honestly tho thank you for knowing about this and spreading the info
What happened? What's going on?
watch Small Beans, it has new content - Odd Hours
why has hollywood exposed our gay magic this was supposed to be secret goddammit
I was doing such a good job hiding it too.
@CHAOSCANDIDATE thanks for that amazing, deep and complex reply to this joking comment.
You couldn't just be cool and play along, you just had to be rude.. didn't ya?
"Sometimes i forget you guys arent all figments of my imagination"
That quote pretty much sums up all my interactions with other people.... is that bad?
we are...
Hooray for the figments of my imagination finally discovering solipsism!
@@Mixinnitup 5:22 The way Soren said that was delightfully sociopathic.
I'd like to testify that 1. I am gay and 2. I AM magic.
Are they related?
+A Piece Of Bread Yes. Yes they are.
+Jack Weibel When I see an openly gay comment on youtube with no off-topic homophobic replies it kinda gives me hope for the future...
seeing the lack of homophobia fills you with determination.
+Jack Weibel wrong kind of magic
Daniel is obviously the protagonist. Soren even confirms it when he mouths "WE ARE" in response to Daniel saying "I forget you're not all figments of my imagination".
I thought this too, but actually that makes him the author and Soren is the protagonist in the story Dan is writing
Anybody notice when sarron whispers "We Are" to Dan at 5:22 ?
Yes
.....holy fuck i didn't catch that at all
Headcanon CONFIRMED
Sarron? Do you mean Soren?
Yes
The waitress has "Crazy Beautiful" tattooed on her arm.
and she is.
as a gay man, I can assure you we are magic
Magic and my father. Wow.
Where the money for child support you owe me
Bert Turbaville omg thats so great
+I am Your Father But papi please
if god hates gays why has he made yall so cute
The last Samurai thing actually makes perfect sense, in the sense that there's no such thing as a left handed Japanese sword style, regardless of handedness. That's one of the things that made Hajime Saito so famous/dangerous, was that he was one of the number of swordsmen from japan that you can probably literally count on one hand that taught himself left handed fighting.
Because,you know, interesting shit no one cares about :D
The left and right handedness of characters is actually intentional and a pretty old rhetorical device. It's not a coincidence that we call things that are correct "right," as the default construction of most devices (particularly complex machines requiring an operator) is that which is operable to a right-handed person (the majority of people). Pre-dating the Industrial Revolution, even, left-handed individuals were considered shifty and untrustworthy. The word "sinister" is Latin for "left" (or proper left, predominately when discussing one's coat of arms, in which designs on the proper left of the shield were considered less important to the history or attitude of one's family. Ever noticed that the eagle on the Seal of the US is holding arrows in its left claw and an olive branch in its right?). The negative connotation of "sinister" comes from this attribution of untrustworthy behavior to left-handed individuals, a practice that still shows up in film and TV, today.
In a lot of Byzantine art & Italian Renaissance art, Jesus is depicted with his right hand raised as a symbol of blessing/anointing. In Michelangelo’s “The Fall & Expulsion from Garden of Eden,” Eve is reaching out to Lucifer’s left hand with HER left hand
When you find out you're not the protagonist in your own life lmao
Lol I’m left handed and also just the goof ball in my own life.... dang
What about the stereotype of the "inspirational disabled person"? You know what I'm talking about--that movie that shows a person with a disability triumphing over adversity and changing able-bodied people's look on life in the process.
As someone who's been visually impaired since birth, that stereotype drives me nuts. If we overcome obstacles and inspire others, great, but don't define us by our disabilities. We're not here to be wing-men constantly dispensing advice and insight to make non-disabled people feel more fortunate or better about themselves. It will be a great day in Hollywood when a film is made about a character with a disability and that disability isn't the central focus of the story and instead shows the character as someone just living their life, someone who just happens to be disabled.
www.cracked.com/article_20082_6-insane-stereotypes-that-movies-cant-seem-to-get-over_p2.html
I feel the same with gay people. I want to see a movie or TV series where a person is gay but no one cares, and it's not a big deal and it's not part of the story.
Kristian S Defiance. Almost everyone in that show seems to be gay / bi and no-one even makes the slightest mention of it.
Kristian S By "not making a big deal" do you mean the show never acknowledges homophobia? Sadly, the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is the web comic Homestuck.
SourBitters Homestuck is awesome! What are you talking about?
...Unless you're implying its sad you can only think of one work of fiction where homophobia isn't mentioned with homosexual/gay characters. If that's the case, I agree with you. Although Good Luck Charlie had a same-sex couple without having characters react in a homophobic way (although they are never seen kissing or holding hands or any romantic stuff).
The two shows I expected to have made an episode about homosexuality surprisingly haven't. Arthur and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Specifically Arthur. I mean, it's done topics like swearing, Cancer, and even terrorist attacks (very similar to 9/11) very maturely. So you'd expect it to have an episode regarding homosexuality. Then again, it is a kids show, and tons of angry soccer moms would get upset and march over to PBS's office and yell at them for having something like that. I think all the bronies remember what happened when Derpy got a speaking line.
Seriously? The subject is ridiculous Hollywood stereotypes, and not one mention of how Asian males are portrayed? I agree you don't often see a black guy and white woman end up together in movies, but you do see it occasionally. What you ALMOST NEVER see is a straight Asian male portrayed as a sexual being IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER, let alone with a white woman. Asian females are the love interest for every race but their own. The male characters, it's all "mean Asian dad" or "sexually ambiguous friend." I've been almost exclusively with white women my entire life; not because I didn't want to date an Asian girl, I just was never around very many. And while I wouldn't say I'm a party-animal alpha douche, I'm certainly not an introverted little nerd. But as far as Hollywood is concerned, I DON'T EXIST. The one notable exception is, of course, Glenn and Maggie on The Walking Dead. Glenn is a pretty amazing character, when you think about it. I heard an interview with Whoppi Goldberg where she talked about seeing Lt. Uhura on Star Trek, and it made her realize she could be whatever she wanted. White people can't understand it, but NEVER seeing anyone who represents you on TV, it's a very limiting thing. Glenn, even leaving aside the whole Maggie factor, he's the first sort of normal, ACTUAL DUDE-type Asian character I've EVER seen portrayed on TV. I know it was a long time coming and there's still room for improvement, but there are now quite a few regular guy characters who are black. Glenn is literally the ONLY Asian, and even with him, they sometimes fall back on that whole "nerdy" thing. There are more Asian males on this planet than any other type of male: we obviously DO US SOME FUCKING. But you'd never know it from movies or TV.
***** Don't know if it's really true or not, but I remember hearing about a poll that asked what races and sexes were most to least desirable, sexually. Black women and Asian men were dead last. Sucks, I know, but I wonder if that has anything to do with Hollywood's reluctance in this area??
You are right though, even I've noticed exactly what you are saying, and I'm not Asian.
BTW, Glenn is one of my favorite characters on TWD. I root for him, and always wish he'd get more screen time.
There are plenty of Asian actors who are portrayed as bad-asses, but then that's just another stereotype. It's true that they rarely get the girl. There are only a few *actual dude* types that come to my mind, but not many. Actor Kenneth Choi comes to mind. But yeah I totally see what you're saying.
What did you think of Gran Torino, if you've seen it?
blfry I only saw Gran Torino once, when it first came out. I remember really
liking it; definitely a movie I'd watch again, I just haven't gotten
around to it.
blfry And also, you're right--there are many depictions of the "kung-fu badass" type, but even they rarely get the girl. They're usually just the main character's buddy, or the villain's henchmen, jumping around doing kung-fu while the white guys get laid, often with Asian females.
***** True. And it's such an *odd* stereotype. Why can't the Asian guy be seen hooking up with a non-Asian girl? I'm not sure who would be put off by that?
***** I'm willing to bet money that its the famous (wrong) stereotype that Asian men have small penises. Subconsciously, at least, since I think we can agree that Hollywood has a collective subconscious.
And I've noticed the lack of Asian guys in movies, but that's mostly because I enjoy pointing out odd patterns in things like movies in an effort to make my friends think about what they're watching.
There's no such thing as different races, we're all the same no matter what colour we are. I'm black but i'm still human, just like everyone else. We're all apart of the HUMAN RACE. We're a part of different cultures.
Thank god someone understand this.
Yeah people tend to think we're different, wrong. We're all the same.
trolly mcderpingstein No actually we do not, there is no biological difference between black and white people or any peoples of color. Race is just determined by physical characteristics that are past down from generation to generation, take the woman who had twins and one came out white and the other black, all that was different was their pigmentation. One got the gene to make more melanin while the other did not. If there was an actual biological difference, we wouldn't be making interracial babies that share both traits from both parents, so what are they now a whole new biological species? Please pull your head out of your ass.
tosin O
Can't into sickle cell anemia.
Shmuel Malkin That's not a biological difference, that is like saying those who are prone to getting cancer are a different race. Sickle cell anemia is a biological disease yes, but that is pretty much the same as any other disease that exists. The only thing is that it originated in parts of Africa and seeing as those people would still have sex with the people in their village or city, so they would keep creating kids with that biological defect. Also not every black person has sickle cell anemia so what about those people?
Another example of handedness in movies. The Infinity Gauntlet in Infinity War which was made specifically for Thanos is for his left-hand. When they remade the gauntlet in Endgame, it's for right-handed use.
Wait a minute...
In "Joker", Arthur Fleck is righthanded, but everything he does as the Joker (even dance) is lefthanded.
My gay sociology professor said he is so done with gay stereotypes in movies because when he first becomes friends straight, females they want to go shopping with him and ask for hair and makeup advice...
well there are different types of gay people if you watch a few gay youtubers like the gay men channel and the gay women channel you could see that we are not all the same but we fall into categories just like straight people
Katie: Are you so crazy that you've been keeping track of which hand movie characters write with?!
Dan: Nope...I've been studying hair parts!
Me: I think I'm in love
So I know it's been 5 years since you've said this, but I've been rewatching After Hours, and as a chick, I absolutely find Daniel the character I most want to be with.
Its really weird because in real life black male white woman couples are like a hundred times more common than their counterparts. I find that odd
There's a caveat that should be brought up here.
White man + Any kind of woman is far more prevalent than Black man + any kind of woman. When it comes to specifics, black women + white men is less frequent than white women + black men. Going further, Asian women + white men is WAY more prevalent than White women + Asian men or really Asian women + any non-Asian male group. So there's an effect of both ethnicity AND gender. Fascinating! **Sips tea**
MrOmniblast lol I feel like I just graduated college reading your comment lol.
MrOmniblast does it says much if I say my wife is Asian?
Jacoby Sloan
Nah, my ex is Asian. lol Some of them don't succumb to the brainwashing. Besides, you're probably a well educated, successful dude. Her parent's most likely had no objections and if they did, it would be entirely racial, which is easier to counter. ;)
Corey Pack
I thought that was going to be a troll comment, but wow. Go make that damn movie. Haha Or a play, even!
black man white woman-"save the last dance" and i hate that i know that
Annie's remake.
Troy and Britta on Community
webbyman58 YES ( I ship them)
What about an Asian man with a white woman, aside from "Dragon" with Jason Scott Lee and Lauren Holly, playing Bruce Lee and his wife Linda? I was thinking, maybe 1 of the Harold and Kumar movies, but John Cho's wife is played by a Hispanic actress named Paula Garcés. La Bamba might count, but Lou Diamond Philipps is mixed and looks more Hispanic than Filipino.
When you say Asian do you mean East Asian, or are we including Indian and Middle Eastern?
How about the dumb dad, smart mom stereotype. I'm kinda tired of seeing it, and the only show I can think that changes it is American dad, but I can't think of a film.
It's part of the larger "Isn't It Funny When Men Are Dumb" trope.
Yeah, I think we should be equal with the distribution of violence.
Equal brutalization for everyone, regardless of class, race or gender!
Deadpool actually agonizes over this *while* fighting two women.
I can't believe this video didn't include the three stereotypes that all female characters from Hollywood fit into. And on the subject of female deaths they are a lot more common if the female character happens to be gay. A lesbian character will die about 81% of the time.
That might be because side characters not main characters are generally the ones that die in movies and lesbian characters are usually side characters not main characters
Lesbian characters exist in Hollywood blockbusters? Wow.
Wait, what are the three stereotypes all female characters in Hollywood fit into? I need to know this
*wearing beret*
But in real life, the lesbian, she dies 100% of the time.
*smokes cigarette pretentiously*
As do we all.
@@fidly4 - I'm guessing he means *Manic Pixie Dream Girl* aka the cute, quirky 2-dimensional girl who only exists to inspire character growth in the male lead (like Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, Melanie Griffith in "Something Wild", Zooey Deschanel in "Yes Man", Kirsten Dunst in "Elizabethtown", Kate Hudson "Almost Famous", Natalie Portman in "Garden State", etc.), *The Trophy* aka the girl who the nerdy protagonist chases throughout the movie or that action hero wins for saving her life (Revenge of the Nerds, Superbad, Knocked Up, James Bond, Transformers, etc.) *Tranformation Girl* aka this girl is a plain jane or ugly duckling who only has value after a makeover or dress-up montage (Grease, She's All That, Never Been Kissed, Miss Congenialty, Princess Diaries, Pretty Woman, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, etc.)
I've probably seen every After Hours at least 5 times over the years and this is the first time I've noticed Soren lean into DOB and whisper, "We are" after Dan says "Sometimes I forget you aren't all figures of my imagination."
Egyptians are always white in Hollywood...
+ryfin2000 probably something more 'historically accurate'. There are plenty of more accurately colored actors out there to cast...
Egyptians both then and now, look a lot like middle-eastern men and women. They most definitely were not 'white' though
+ragnarox16 actually you are wrong, egypt alongside all north africa was invaded by arabs in medieval times, ancient egypt would look more similar to greek people or israeli people than middle eastern people
+patataton After doing a bunch of reading research on wiki, it's 'inconclusive'. There isn't enough evidence to prove skin or eye color... Although facial models can be made, most Pharaohs had both Caucasian and North African traits such as a North African skull shape but narrow nose opening (which is generally Caucasian).
+ragnarox16 I just made a long rant on Facebook a few hours ago about that a few hours ago. I just saw the Gods of Egypt trailer and was highly pissed. I'm not racist towards white people but, Egypt is part of my heritage and it got shitted on.
+James Scales Isn't it a shame?
You should totally copy and paste / share your rant here.
Also if the protagonist is black it's probably an action movie or maybe a romantic comedy. There are very few good smart movies about life and stuff starring black people because the general audience won't relate with a black guy having complex existential issues. Same thing with a woman, it will either be a romantic comedy about her wanting a rich guy *or* having to choose between a rich guy and a much better one who is relatively poor, or just an action movie with the gimmick being "this time it's a woman!" Nobody is gonna watch a movie about a woman having to deal with an issue unrelated to at least one guy because every woman's life is supposed to gravitate around a man. That's how Hollywood think. Don't even get me started on an asian guy being the protagonist in something else than an action movie (and the guy not being Jackie Chan). We're gonna have to wait years for that one, maybe decades. And for the protagonist to be an arab, he's gonna at least have to be an ex-terrorist, or an infltrated terrorist who works for the government (because you'll never have a movie where the american government is the bad guys) or *anything related with terrorism*.
It's like in ancient times where every character of a play was a member of royalty, it's for the audience to *care*, you have to have important people as your protagonists. And who is more important than a white male, really ?
What about the Alien franchise? Out of 8 movies, including the AVP crossovers, 6 of them have female main characters. I am unsure about Covenant and Requiem had so many storylines. AVP's main character was also black
Moonlight- has a gay black dude as the main character. The big Sick- has a Muslim as the main character. Hidden Figures- has three black women as the main characters.Moana- has a female samoan as the main character. Coco-has a latino boy as the main character Soul- has a black man as the main character. The Farewell- a female Asian is the main characters. A Ballerinas tale- Once again, has a black woman as the main lead. If beale street could talk- a black man. And a black woman are the main leads. All of these movies have POC's as main characters and all those movies deal with relatable themes of loss, love, rejection, struggle, acceptance, and trying to work towards your dreams. What you texted was complete BS in my opinion and If you think I'm wrong please tell me why.
An observation I made (when that Cheerios commercial came out and ignorant people were upset about the black guy and the white woman) those who have a problem with it are usually misogynists. The act of being with a woman still means that they have ownership so it is okay for white men to own women of all races but when a non white man "owns" a white woman they have serious issues because to them woman can't make the choice on who they date. I have to admit that I'm still surprised that it is reflected in Hollywood since we are in the 21st century we should be past this.
Too true
***** I love your user name
I really loved that commercial and I can't believe people made it an issue.
Jesus Christ save us, Cracked has gone to the multi-cultists
I actually think its because white men are insecure about their dicks.
I love the silent "WE ARE!" after he just stated he had forgotten they WEREN'T figments of his imagination...
and since he didnt try to let him see that...
Are they actually just a figment of his imagination?
Is that why they all have such specific personalities? :D
OMG i want an After Hours about them discussing how likly it is, that they are just figments of his imagination :D
This is Cracked's best video series.
I love these after hours episodes.
Amazing departed spoiler aha, that's fucked someone's day up. God damn it I cant believe I only discovered Cracked today.
W E L C O M E.
It's an overrated movie anyway
Jessica jones.... To your black man whit woman.
Eva Stetler Movie, not show.
+Hana Omer But they mentioned the show friends?
This episode was made in 2014. Jessica Jones didn't release until 2015. Marvel must have seen this video lol.
that's cause it's based on comics
Supergirl to your Jessica Jones. Black Jimmy and Blond white superhero, NOPE! Not on the CW you don't.
I've gotta say, this is one of the most well done, and interesting videos of after hours yet.
Make another after hours about ANYTHING I swear I am obsessed with these episodes... you could talk about anything and I would be interested
Pleas check out my channel it's not Amish good but we are getting their
SPOILER ALERT
Angelina Jolie got shot in the head in Wanted... but after watching it again there was no blood spray and every other guy character shot in the scene had a blood spray
Nice sleuth work.
ncolaros Thank you
Why did I forget that movie? I don't remember but it might be a very good reason.
Frederic Beaudet Because aside from the action sequences, Wanted BLOWS (pun intended). The plot starts off plausible then quickly migrates into WTF territory. I tend to forget those until reminded too...
sirensoundwave Gee thanks! Now I remember.
idk why but i like the way Daniel talks. lol
(read this in his voice to get the full effect)
He has frequent, yet infrequent, pauses, but then he talks really fast and spews out a bunch of facts all at the same time, like info-dumping, and then kinda sums, it all, up, with more, pauses.
You should be a linguist if you aren't one already! (That's... not an insult. Honest.)
Reminds me of a sped-up Jeff Goldblum.
Navid Haider Thank you! I'm thinking about having a minor (in college) in something to do with that 😊
Emily B My second major was in linguistics! If you go for an English degree that's the one that will actually feel like a real science. Good luck :) You'll be in good company!
After Hours is my favorite series on Cracked. The only reason I subbed.
same
they miss one other insane stereotype, the Evil Albino
Aside from DaVinci Code when was there an albino that was evil?
lol.... read, and comprehension required. Title of the clip: 6 Insane Stereotypes That You Still See in Every Movie. EVERY MOVIE, hint hint....
In General when they mean every Film that includes an Albino he/she is generally the villain or the henchman like The Da Vinci Code, Rocky Horror Picture Show, House of 1000 Corpses, the Omega Man, The Matrix Reloaded, Contact, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ice Age 3, Hellboy II etc...
The Faceless Unknown Who was the evil albino in the Matrix?
The Twins
Seriously, how many times do we have to ask for 2 After Hours a month? Dont you get it Cracked??
"You should have just walked away, Soren."
On the "no black male/white female couples" front, I was introducing my parents to Community, which they love, but my mother pointed out the fact that when Troy was dating Britta, they never once kissed on screen. Britta kissed Jeff when they were an item (as did Annie), but when she was dating Troy, as sweet as they were as a couple, there was this sort of almost platonic barrier as far as PDA was concerned. Yes, they were shown in bed once (so coitus is implied), but never anything more than a hug actually on screen. I didn't notice it until it was pointed out, but yeah, that's still a thing for some reason.
MORE After fucking Hours! I love these so freaking much.
just make more. I miss these.
they have like 1 episode a month
make it 2 and I'd be happy.
1:23 The use of Red from Shawshank Redemption here is odd, because he actually is a flawed and human character who grows through the course of the film. The movie is told from his perspective, and he learns things from Tim Robbins' character. The line here, "That's goddamn right," follows "Get busy living, or get busy dying," which was a phrase he repeats from Tim Robbins.
I mean, it's mostly true about Morgan Freeman's roles. But this example was peculiar.
Black man with white woman: House the TV series. :)
+Bret Sheeley Not a Netflix subscriber. So never seen it. But yeah! :D
+Lexi Atel Doctor Who has had at least two.
Buffy and Angel as well (one each).
+Lexi Atel foreman and 13 dont stay together you already know that now i m sure
+Jonatan Augusto Yep, I did :)
The way your hair is parted has nothing to do with which hand is your dominant hand goofballs
Ruscle Dew yes it does.
no it 100 percent does not, im left handed but i use my right hand to part my hair
Ruscle Dew then you are the odd man out it has something to do with it for most people although it is not 100% it is at least 85% of the time right.
I'm right handed but part my hair with the left, because it's usually the empty hand.
R.J. Beasley what do you mean the empty hand.
I'm right handed, but everyone who's ever seen me write says that I write like I'm left handed. What does this mean?
Edit: I'm *right* handed, not *write* handed. Also, I'm a dumbass for getting that wrong.
Jeffrey Heesch It has something to do with the way you grip the pen/pencil. I'm the same way and still don't quite understand it.
***** I suppose. Some people say I was probably a lefty all along, but was forced to use my right by some asshole teacher. That didn't happen, so I don't know. Though I am pretty good at becoming ambidextrous with certain tasks if I practice a little.
***** And upon rewatching, I just realized that I also use my right hand to part my hair like a lefty... It's kind of a natural parting, though. Still, this is bizarre.
Jeffrey Heesch Maybe they just mean that your handwriting is bad.
Jeffrey Heesch I actually was born left-handed and left-footed (funky-foot to the skaters) but was taught to write right-handed in first and second grade. Granted, that was a long time ago (mid 70's) and I don't think it's permitted anymore. I can put a pencil in either hand and draw, shoot pool from both sides, and I can throw any ball with both hands, but I cannot for the life of me write left-handed because I was never allowed to learn it. I feel somewhat gipped now.
Michael is lefty, but his hair parts like he's right handed?
A. Mikey B. Glad I'm not the only one that noticed
The white and black romance thing, does it count if it's TV? Cause I have one word for all y'all.
Leverage.
Two main characters, Hardison (black) and the lovely Parker (white) end up dating by end season and are flirting through the series. So... Proof.
I don't know about all movies in general, but Cloud Strife is right-handed and Sephiroth is left-handed...
Oh yeah... Huh.. That explains sooo much
Doesn't always work for video games though, Link's left handed
coolcattime
I think he's evil on the inside though and clearly goofy(look at his dream, or acid trip, or moving on to the next life cause he died majora's mask)
Which means maybe ganondorf is actually the good guy he's right handed.
Im left handed but i shoot with my right, and fight dudes with swords with me right hand. My hair is parted too the right as well. Left handed people dont only use their left hand for certain things.
Carter Harvey but was it conditioning that made you do it? I bat and shoot righty because my coaches taught that way as a kid. Everything else I do lefty. It seems we're taught/forced to be more ambidextrous than right handed people.
Yeah it was always taught to do those things with my right hand, or I guess it just felt right. I dunno, hard to remember.
You're mixed-handed. True lefties (like me) can't use their right hand for anything without specifically training against what is most comfortable.
I think it has to do with how you are taught to do something. I play a lot of sports right handed (except batting) and on the other side of that, my sister does a lot of craft stuff left handed because my left handed mother taught her.
"Modern Family, which has one of the most balanced and realistic gay relationships on television"...
*cough* The Fosters *cough*
Stef and Lena forever.
Love Steph and Lena! I didn't even think about them.
Then maybe they should specify homosexual men. I mean, all of their examples are men, and lesbian couples have actually been getting pretty reasonable depictions of their characters, because it doesn't infringe upon most male writers' sexual insecurities.
Does Brooklyn 99 count
A movie with a Black man with a white woman. Well there was Hancock with Will Smith and Charlize Thorne. Redtails. Texas Chainsaw 3D with Trey Songz dating the main girl lead. With tv there is Lost Girl with Kenzi and Hale. In cartoon shows there was Justice League, Young Justice, and Static Shock, Teen Titans. Actually the bigger issue is the lack of Black women being represented as the girlfriend characters to Black male leads. You rarely see a Black woman with a Black man. She is replaced with Latinas and biracial women to pass for Black because the character is suppose to be sexy and Hollywood doesn't find Black women all that sexy and they are afraid to have a Black couple together because they feel their film will be labeled a "Black movie" but they have no problem with having a full cast of whites and one or two token other ethnic characters.
Hancock- I dont think they end up together by the end of the movie.
Abdul Wahed sheikh **spoiler** They don't, and it becomes a movie on why they SHOULDN'T be together.
I'm still waiting for that sequel.
it still creeps me out how creepy Soren looked when he mouthed "we are" to Dan.
It's pissing me off that the food is getting cold.
I miss these guys so much. Good stuff.
Gotta go write a screenplay about a gay wizard who has to defeat a left handed villain who shoots men in the head but never women, brb.
Seen it already
Pleas check my channel out its not that good bit where still working hard
The ELITE Crew Does your channel have a gay wizard that defeats a left-handed villain who shoots men in the head but never women?
You'll be competing against my movie about black gay everyman who must defeat a right handed villain who only shoots women in the head, while he steals the heart of a white dude.
Patrick Scott um no but well get to working on it okay
*Personal request:* Put the "After hours" first , _then_ the title of the video!
I never know if i'm gonna get a great, smart "after hours" sketch/discussion which is funny and very well written, or a shockingly fast montage of movie clips that will get on my nerves. Hehehe....love you guys! :p
These are getting so infrequent that the cast visibly ages in each episode.
They've been once-a-month for the past year and a half.
Huh. I stand corrected. Seems longer, I guess.
cgjthoma *Ahem* yo momma's been once-a-month for the past year and a half. Thank you, this is all.
Lastie P-R PMSing?
I miss these so much
The hair part theory is extremely flawed, because not everyone parts their hair in the direction of their hendedness. for example, I am right-handed, but typically part my hair to the left, and I imagine I'm probably not the only one
+KRX50 same here, I've tried to go the other way once, it just felt wrong.
+KRX50 Because your a bad guy!!!
It was just a small example, but they weir pointing out the fact most Bad OR goofy movie characters use their LEFT hand, and usually the main character or hero, use their right hand... It honestly wasn't apart parting hair, it was referring to which hand they usually use
Also this was ONLY referring to MOVIE characters, not a real life social experiment...
Also the clip they showed to show how Tom Cruise shoots with his right hand, he had his hair parted to the left.
KRX50 I thought he meant just protagonists and sidekicks/antagonists in movies
I find it strange that the color of ones skin is now the determining factor on ones ability to be able to talk about other ways of life. It's as though books, interviews, the internet, and simply talking to other people no longer count as ways of accumulating information for oneself.
R. Downgrade No it's more a matter of well thought out/cautious courtesy. If in doubt about that google the following "Imperialism", "Mercantilism", "Slavery", "Colonialism", "English East India Company", "White man's burden", so on and so forth. History is not just stories in a textbook, it comes with tangible weight. But yes, ultimately it is not about the color of one's skin but about the geopolitical, socio-economic and cultural advantage a certain demographic might have over others due to the actions and/or fate of one's ancestors. These advantages are not always obviously perceived due to individual differences and varying micro level/regional differences but could impair the ability of a person to fairly talk about or judge a topic of discussion regarding a formerly disadvantaged/exploited/persecuted demographic be it according to race, sexuality or whatever.
ptrips1
Why do you think your words mean anything to me? Do you honestly think I will degrade myself by agreeing with those kinds of statements? 'White Man's Burden'? I'm to swallow that because of the random chance of my birth my skin color means that I must content with white slave masters who I'm not even related to and prostrate myself for others of darker skin colors because of this rather than treat each individual as a separate human being and base my thoughts on their own personal actions despite the randomness of birth giving them differing skin colors? And what's more just because I don't have a certain amount of money (lacking or surplus) I'm incapable of understanding them? it's like you think learning isn't real either. Please don't waste my time again with your leftist rhetoric.
R. Downgrade Just because you perceive something as it should be, doesn't mean it comes out in governmental policies and macro level behavior of a majority race/religion/group. In-group bias/favoritism is a real thing, but you are free to be delusional. I clearly said it's not about race earlier. I simply mentioned historical policies that one demographic literally justified politically to exploit others. Happens between various groups throughout history irrespective of color.
True, but your entire supposition lends itself, heavily, to that those who made these movies did so with wholly malign intentions, as though no one might do something because it would be better or less complicating for the narrative to be told in a certain way. And while yes their are instances of this, this video, as well as many others in this series, will only malign Hollywood, and only ever on the side of insulting those who are of a lighter complexion (because, and let's be honest, they do because it is safe to do it to "whitey"). But I'll tell you what, if they EVER do a video where they either admit that most of the dirty job practices are done by Democrats or on something like Django Unchained and point out the hypocrisy of a violently bloody gun movie's main protagonist going on an anti-gun message during the opening week of the movie I'll edit my first comment and say I over reacted and that these guys are more balanced in their discussions than I initially gave them credit for.
R. Downgrade One does not simply abuse the word"one" as you have.
"Will smith cant end up with a white woman"
9 months later... :P
I was pointed towards a pretty appealing movie called "The Watermelon Woman" by Cheryl Dunye. It's about a black lesbian film student trying to research an obscure actress from the 1940s, in the hopes that her demographic will finally be given the deserved representation in the field of film history. I recommend it. It's not that long and was cheap to rent on iTunes. It had a couple heavy moments but was mostly loose and fun, and plays with breaking the fourth wall where you feel like you are getting a rather honest vertical slice of what was going on in Dunye's life at the time, so once you're reeled in, the (SPOILERS!) title card at the end confirming that most of what you saw, at least everything regarding the mysterious actress, was a fiction does hurt, even if you're not surprised by this revelation. It's also very 90s. Considering how strong her first attempt at making a movie turned out, I'm sure Dunye's other movies are good too. But the other ones are clearly gritty and not here to cheer people up; documentaries about systemic exploitation of women's prisons and the like.
i think they forgot to mention
Hancock.
on the white and black arguement. . .
no, because the white girl in that movie was running away from her black soul mate to a white knight, and it ended that way. she ended up with the white guy.
Willy Massey cause white is right
Taco Toucher Wish i was White...
henry pendle Let me tell you, it's awesome...
magicstix0r really? Nice...
I'm right handed, but I part my hair on the left, so what does that mean? Am I the protagonist of my life, or am I like the DUFF or something? I'm so confused now
Rae Prite Anti-hero
Penelope Burrman I accept this role
i like watching these and pretending i have friends
yes i talk to them >.> i might be crazy
no, just lonely
welp we can be friends dude puts hand out for shaking ?
welp be my friend you can live in my prison with me walkers killed a bunch of my friends but srsly friends now
aww I'll be your friend :(
In regards to the "Left-handedness is only for villains" trope, props to "The Lord of the Rings" for not giving into this stereotype. Theoden was a lefty.
What about Christina Hendricks in Drive? How about that for a woman getting shot in the head?
Riddle me this: I'm right-handed, but I don't part my hair from left-to-right.
You're bald.
Nice try, but nope xD
no one bloody parts their hair in real life. that look is for the 70's and people too old to remember that its not the 70's anymore
You are the guy that double crosses everyone in the end to save your own ass.
You're me reversed I'm a lefty and my hair parts on the left side.
Somehow, it makes sense that Soren is the protagonist.
"Tom Cruise does every thing Right-Handed"
*Proceeds to give 3 different examples of Tom Cruise parting his hair the left handed way*
What about Drive? A female character effectively gets her head blown off :P although I guess that's not Hollywood...
***** 'reverse rape'? Do you mean rape?
*****
So you mean a chick raped a dude?
***** Ellen Page can rape me any time she wants. Although that's not likely to happen considering what her tastes are :(
Greyghostvol1
I forgot she drinks from the furry mug.
I remember being quite shocked by Christina Hendrix's death in Drive. Partly because I thought she'd be a more important character and partly because it's so rare to see a woman die in such a violent way. You can see any number of men getting their heads blown off and it's almost mundane, but when the same thing happens to a woman it comes as a surprise.
...I'm the left-handed goofball in my own life too.
Just don't be the antagonist.. that would suck..
Trevor Williams No, it's alright.
002Brackets oh! Okay then.
another thing related to the topic of the video
in movies, rape against women is treated as drama (which it should), but rape against men is often used as comedy.
I don't watch enough movies so this question is sincere, but what movies use rape against men as comedy? I'm mostly curious, is it prison movies? Because I always figured most prison settings are fairly serious.
Arcllore he means female on male rape.
hal fryer
Oooo, I see. Well yeah, no one takes that seriously, not even outside of movies. Which is a shame, since everyone is always going on about equality when something so blatantly wrong gets overlooked because "women can't rape men".
Arcllore
the "TV tropes" website has a rather large list of specific cases, the one i recall the most is the movie "Forty Days And Forty Nights" the male protagonist is raped by his ex girlfriend when he was semi unconscuious and suffering from delirioums.
The movie not only treats the issue lightly,but even portraits the man as guilty, and has the new girlfriend of the guy be mad at him, and he has to beg for her forgiveness. In top of that, the ex girlfriend gets away with what she did and none of the character seems to be angry at her.
We really need progression to cultural equality work both ways.
Please sir, I want some more.
I know this is from last year, but isn't "Focus" the one Will Smith movie where he hooks up with a white girl?
LaDracul He ends up with her yes
Urban Atheist So, it doesn't count? Either way, a lot of his movies aren't promoted like "his other films". He hasn't had a really good movie in a while. Also, there are a lot of TV shows that have black males with white females. This isn't something they're hiding; it's something they do with limitation because it's in their best interest to keep couples with their own race since that's how they usually are.
Urban Atheist I disagree. I think it had more to do with people just don't want it forced. Most people don't care, not that they don't want to see it.
Save the last Dance white girl winds up with a black boy
*****
welll how about Leverage. Parker and Hardison wind up together and are freaking adorable as couple. And Parker is a blonde haired blue eyed very white girl and Hardison is a black hacker nerd of awesome
Finally another one.
I swear this makes me want break out my DVD collection and just start binge watching just to see if his theory holds up about handedness and hair parts.
Hey, in Halo: Reach, Kat gets shot in the head. Not only that, but she's the only one of the team to (canonically) die on screen.
Carter: Crashes a gunship with tinted windows.
Jun: "I'M NOT DEAD!"
Emile: Stabbed in the abdomen on-screen, but ducks for cover before dying.
Jorge: Slip-space rupture behind spaceship walls.
Six: Dies shortly after the camera cuts to his discarded helmet.
It's more aimed toward movies because the argument can be made that you can kill women with headshots in games like GTAV.
I'd complain about the fact that that's not in a 'movie', but that's a really good point you made, and me making such a feeble counter argument is just cheap.
Eiknip Eip But this is a scripted event.
I believe thats because video games only reach to a specific demographic of people. It doesn't encompass a larger demographic like how movies do. Therefore, video games can get away with it easily and without regard vs hollywood.
The other thing you have to keep in mind is that typically the majority (or the entirety in most cases) of the bad guys are men. The only time I ever see an even slightly equal ratio of male-female enemies is in zombie games. Even in Mario games with dialogue all the enemies speak to each other as males, and an enemy is only explicitly female if there's a joke about her being fat/ugly.
Ellen Page gets her face half blown off in Super, and it's probably the most shockingly graphic death I've seen in a movie, mostly because it was a female character. I've seen the same thing happen to lots of male characters and it hardly makes a dent in my brain, lol.
Dude.....Spoilers
Yeah but we don't see it. It only after she got shot and the Main Character goes to her help to find her face been blown off.
The One Nerd's Opinion Video Show Oh Sorry. I thought everybody has already seen it. Besides, by the time you see it coming it will have already happened.
The One Nerd's Opinion Video Show
Oh did say she got her face blown off? I meant she DIDN'T get her face blown off.
He’s trans, he’s a man, but he wasn’t out when you posted this comment
I'm left handed, but after watching this I'm going to try parting my hair from the right . . . just as a social experiment.
I'm left handed too! I was hilariously offended by their observations! I shall pay closer attention as well!
Lefties unite!!!
superpilotdude . All 7 of you?
Alucard
10... there are 10 of us dude. get your facts straight
Anthony Kittchner
In the entire world?
Law abiding citizen, the female judge gets "shot" in the head.
P.S. I'm watching all the channels videos, I guess I'm weirdly obsessed with this channel since yesterday and I just now see this video 2 years later...still..
I don't know if a cellphone exploding counts as "shot in the head." But they were talking about brain and blood getting spattered around, they admitted that you see some get shot in the head or women with bullet holes in their head.
Don't forget, lead parts quite usually have blue eyes
Just to be a nerd here: You're not born left- or right-handed. There is no gene for that. Children actually try out both hands at first and than stick to the one they are more used to at about the age of 3.
Drace90 So kids are *raised* right-or-left handed. Well, that's certainly different, but not much of a distinction when it comes to a discussion of handedness in adulthood.
Kyle Harmieson No they can't be raised to use a certain hand. They need to try it out. It's part of their motoric development. Any forced influence will just hinder it.
Drace90 It's not genetic, it's neurological and is determined at birth. You can't inherit being left handed but you are born being left handed.
The Clumsy Toaster If children were born left- or right-handed, they wouldn't try both hands until they are around three. Sure it's neurological but that has to develop first. The motoric development mostly hasn't even begun before birth. Movement is neccessary.
Um actually God decides!
yay! More after hours!!!!!
I am seeing this in 2022, and man, ever so relevant. Can't believe how amazing this whole series was....
I can't believe they did a thing on protagonists always being left handed and not using the latin word for left handed, Sinster.
theory falls apart at 6:32 where tom cruises hair is parted like a left handed person
No it doesn't because Tom Cruise is left-handed.
3:01 A black man and a white woman get together in Love Actually, The Bone Collector, The Pelican Brief, Save the Last Dance, Boogie Nights, Hancock, Cruel Intentions, The Day After Tomorrow, House of Wax, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Jungle Fever, Blazing Saddles, Me, Myself & Irene, Primary Colors, Valentine’s Day... and that's just to name but a few.
elizabeth184 Hancock and House of Wax don't work. Firstly in House of Wax they start off together but both die, and secondly in Hancock they HAVE to separate and she stays married to her uber white husband.
Mitch and Charly only have a brief moment at the hotel in Long Kiss Goodnight, which Mitch calls bluff and the whole point of Jungle Fever is interracial romance so it doesn't count either.
And in save the last dance there being different is 90% of the movie. You could not have done that movie with 2 white or 2 black people
Man I’ve seen one of those, and it’s Hancock where they don’t even end up together at the end
elizabeth184 it’s honestly more rare when it’s a black guy with a black love interest. Like damn is it really that hard to a another black woman. Like come on now they don’t do that with no other race. Asians go with Asians. Latinos r with Latinos. White ppl with white ppl of course 🙄. But for black ppl it’s rare to just have an ALL black family
7 years later and the protagonist reference at the end still gets me 😂
They forget that black men are always the muscle when they play superheros
Except they're not:
John Wraith / Kestrel (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) - teleport, disappear (like Nightcrawler)
Darwin (X-Men: First Class) - reactive evolution
Steve Montgomery (Chronicle) - telekinesis
Frozone (The Incredibles) - ice powers
Nick Fury - infinity formula, supersoldier, more tactical than muscle
Blade, Hancock, Spawn - Main heros who are super strong, but it is one of many abilities
Spawn- is all muscle and little brains
John Henry Irons- Pure muscle
Blade- depressed and angry black man
Luke Cage- Merc. for hire
John (Green Lanturn)- NEVER HAPPY
“Tyrone Cash.- EX gangbanger
War Machine- muscle
Barret Wallace- Only black in FF and he is literally the hulk
Was the Crazy Beautiful tattoo on the waitresses upper arm a reference to the movie Crazy/Beautiful with Kristen Dunst and Jay Hernandez? Another form of racism in which a rich dumb white girl and a poor but smart hispanic guy are basically told that their relationship will never happen because of the old money, white power symbolized by her over bearing father. A figure engulfing ideals of 1940's America, whose offspring gave us the 60's, a time of youthful shenanagins fueled by drugs, bucking the "system" and throwing off the shackles of societies seperation of races/cultures/beliefs? Going against the parents wishes and in the end learning about love and peace and all kinds of gooey things (insert joke about Kirsten Dunsts and Jay Hernandez when she's in those panties and wifebeater here) which is what happens in this movie. A couple overcoming the racism of the neighborhood and the area in general. Also, Palisades High was where this took place, isn't that the same school as in Bring It On? Will Kirsten Dunst ever graduate high school? Or did all these movies take place in the same time frame, just the trail of a single girl in her high school career, learning about life and love. Every new year. Over and Over.
Or, was it just a coincidence?
Girls not shot in head, clearly you missed Kate's death in NCIS
I miss this show and the world will be better when it comes back
Women never get shot in movies because if they did feminist claim it a 'sexist' 'misogynist' 'oppressive'
"Modern" feminism sickens me. It used to be about equality, but it's been hijacked by over-sensitive people who ruin some halfway decent points by being too hateful and whiney about it. I used to call myself a feminist, but it's become such a dirty word that I have to say I'm "pro-equality" to get anyone to listen to my opinions.
R.J. Beasley When was "feminist" ever NOT a dirty word? This isn't a dig against feminists, it's just that I can't think of a single time in history when they've been in the mainstream. Sure, they managed to affect what was going on, but they still weren't fully accepted.
The media always loved to focus on their worst bits portraying them as being, as you say, "hateful and whiney" all the time. Meaning people always pictured the lunatic fringe of the movement whenever they thought of feminists.