MAD MAX: How To Reclaim Your Humanity (ft. Babe)
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- Mad Max & Babe's guide to facing the dystopia to reclaim your humanity.
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Mad Max first burst onto the scene in 1979 to tell a story about a dope Australian apocalypse. But 4 sequels later, we're still left in awe by director George Miller's coherent vision about power, life, and death - as seen in these films and also, incredibly, his children's movie, Babe. We'll explain all in this Wisecrack Edition on Mad Max: How To Reclaim Your Humanity - ft. Babe.
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When you want to make a video about philosophy of Babe, but you also want people to watch it.
Sucks how people have forgotten Babe. It's too slow for kids nowadays, and too "childish" - at least in appearance - for adults. But its third act remains practically perfect.
@@MoviesPlease Especially when you compare it to Charlotte's Web. Both are stories about pigs that want to live. One finds his purpose by MAKING his purpose, while the other whines and keeps whining while it's the frickin' spider who does the REAL work.
Movies, Please! Completely agree mate. Watched it again recently and it makes me so happy and hopeful despite dealing with themes of utility, our purpose in life and mortality. I would love a proper breakdown of babe. It is a masterpiece
Particularly Donald Trump. Oh wait..he’s always been an asshole.
Nux's Moment was BEAUTIFUL. THAT is Sacrifice.
Oh yeah, dude, I get teary eyes over his arc every time I watch it.
Real powerful imagery.
@@josephhoward9631 same
"Witness me."
WITNESSED
“Witness me..” still chokes me up.. damn you nick Hoult!!!!
Leewilldofine that’s not slavery to die for ones you love. It was his choice to die, he wasn’t “guaranteed” a wonderful afterlife for the act or forced into it; he chose his path.
Leewilldofine yeah I think you missed the point of the whole movie... and the video..😅
Leewilldofine he doesn’t say witness me at the end as a delusional religion driven slave. He says witness me to her as a final middle finger to his old beliefs as he chooses to die for the love he believes in now instead of for ValHalla🤷🏻♂️
Leewilldofine because if someone disagrees with you it means they are attacking you. Brilliant. jesus fucking chris. AmIRite?
Holy shit that was Nick Hoult?
Fun Fact: in thirty years, Mad Max will be a Historical Epic.
Funner fact: might not take that long
Yeah flint michigan isn't really too far off tbh
How so?
Dank no clean water
In thirty years it'll be a historical epic... Told only via oral tradition based on memory because we will have nuked (figuratively or literally) back to the stone age.
You know the world is getting crazy when you find optimism and hope in Mad Max...
The most ambitious crossover from Wisecrack yet.
I still think Tom Hardy's Max is actually that ferrel kid from the last movie, he didn't have a name. But in deciding to stand for something he takes the name of the only hero he'd ever known, the man who stood for the same thing, Max.
That's one theory I've heard (though wasn't the feral kid from Road Warrior?). I've also heard the theory that the Mad Max films are about a mythological figure in the post-apocalyptic world, one who has stories told about them showing up and helping troubled people again and again but who might not have ever really existed -- the original film was the story told about Max shortly before or shortly after the societal collapse (when it still resembled the former world), and then The Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome, and Fury Road are all tales told by societies in the wasteland as a unifying origin myth.
Not sure about that theory. Still think Mel Gibson shapeshifted into Tom Hardy to look younger.
@@Stray7 It seems more logical that The Individual called Max Wha(can never say his last name) was a real person.. who went through real tragedy. But he is dead, and has been for a long time.
But splinters of his legacy (history) gets passed down through a selective lucky (unlucky) few, who feel obligated to stand up to The Chaos of The World. And call themselves Max. Needless to say, these individuals are also suffering from traumatic psychosis of some sort.
But there has to be a physical link between all the name-barers. A journal mayhaps, with Max's family's pictures.
In short he's pretty much The Dreaded Pirate Roberts of The Wasteland. 😅
@@DavidMyrmidon Max Rocatanski. Yeah, I can buy the Legacy Character aspect as being possible.
Unless Fury Road is a reboot, Tom Hardy's Max has to be a different person.
OG Max had a wife and son who were killed by bikers, Fury Road Max had a wife and daughter killed by a semitruck.
I, for one, am looking forward to the release of Bad Babe: Furry Road.
Sounds like Animal Farm expressed through Tractors crashing.
You just won the internet! Bwahahahaha!
Sounds like something Sonic fans would like.
the third part would be a crossover. Bad Babe v Sonic: Dawn of Furry Warriors
8:36 : Countdown to how many people are going to get mad because you equated BDSM Fetishists and Yiffing Furrys (I suppose, they could be Normal Furrys) to LGBT relationships 9_9
Also: Huh, I didn't know "Mr. Homm" was in Witches of Eastwick ^_^
"Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society."
Admiral H.G. Rickover
Max’s old Police-Captain talking about “heroes” is necropolitcs. You’re a hero by keeping the road safe. You keep the road safe by killing dangerous drivers.
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being" - Carl Jung
@@ScaryMason "It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a stratagem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person."
Yagyu Munenori, As quoted in The Japanese Art of War (1991) by Thomas Cleary
@@ScaryMason "Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Nazis are harmless. Therefore, if I kill a Nazi, I am saving lives."
Lyudmila 'Lady Death 'Pavlichenko
Daniel Duvalle I have a medal for enlisting during wartime. It was not art, it was business. Deadlines were met and quotas were filled. Not once did my sergeant ask if I eradicated evil or killed a Nazi. But back to MAD MAX, just today I re-watched the movie. It holds up just fine.
The cinematography in this film is amazing. Worth the watch just for that
and epic guitar guy
I know Babe has some absolutely epic cinematography.
Babe is one of the best shot movies ever. Oh and Mad Max was pretty good too.
I see the dude, I abide
I always held the theory that Max isn't the same person throughout the series. Max is just the name given to the hero in stories told around the campfire. He's like Odysseus a way of joining all the myths & stories together.
This one is heavy and speaks to what's happening in society today on may levels. Gonna watch a few times to make connections. Thank you!
Look into Universal Basic Income. Lots of misconceptions about it, but I've found it to be the best system of freedom and prosperity for all and ensure our society doesn't succumb to this.
@@mattpalmer916 Thanks Matt! I'm aware of it! Yang was really on to something. Too bad the timing was wrong. They're many layers to what was said in this video
Matt Palmer ain’t that the truth
"Where can you see bio power and necro power at work today"
I kinda think this one had a pretty thin veil. Especially with the unstated animal farm parallel ..
@@mattpalmer916 But how would UBI stop our society succumbing to this, it already is this. The system we live in wants us to do this, either be the perpetrator or be the victim. Thats what competition is and I don't understand how UBI could mitigate that. We will always be seen as tools and statistics in the wider picture. How you treat your friends is another thing entirely but then is that what you mean by society? Does society even exist?
Holy shit! Great episode, guys. I'd never heard of Achille Mbembe, or the concept of Necro-Power as an answer to Foucault. I was just introduced to Fanon a couple of years ago.
Also, Shirtless, scarf-wearing Fifi professing a need for heroes in dark times, as he cares for his plants, is one of my favorite scene from the franchise, and recontextualizes Max's journey.
Fury Road is my favourite film of the last decade.
If it wasn’t for Blade Runner 2049, it’d definitely be Mad Max for me.
@Long duk dong no, you.
@Long duk dong Well that's just like ah...your opinion, man.
@@ravenkarlin Close second for me. What's cool with the 10's was that we got the perfect cyberpunk movie (Blade Runner 2049), the perfect post-apocalyptic movie (Fury Road), and the perfect city hellscape movie (Dredd).
Which are all also perfect reboots. 🙂
Makes sense because of your username
“-to become a subject outside the necropolitical framework to reclaim his name”
How great of a line is that???
"Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves"
somehow I'm disappointed this wasn't referred.
This you know: the years travel fast, and time after time I done the tell. But this ain't onebody's tell. It's the tell of us all, and you've gotta listen and to 'member, 'cause what you hears today you gotta tell the newborn tomorrow. I's lookin' behind us now into history back. I sees those of us who got the luck and started the haul for home, and I 'members how it led us here and how we was heartful 'cause we seen what there once was. One look and we knewed we'd got it straight. Those what had gone before had the knowin' and the doin' of things beyond our reckonin' - even beyond our dreamin'. Time counts and keeps countin', and we knows now: finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride, but that's our track. We gotta travel it, and there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna lead. Still in all, every night we does the tell so that we 'member who we was and where we came from. But most of all we 'members the man who finded us, him that came to salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of him that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there'll come a night when they sees the distant light and they'll be comin' home. - Savannah Nix - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Im so glad that wisecrack finally has an african philosopher featured on the channel!
They had David benatar referenced in their true detective episode as well for anti-natalism
It should be noted that James Cromwell, the actor playing the farmer in Babe, became vegan because of that movie, thus leaving that practice of necropolitics behind.
if you think vegans don't contribute to modern necropolitics, you're an idiot. Vegans depend on a worldwide industrial food distribution system, which both directly and indirectly kills people while warming the planet and destroying the natural world. Unless they live in the tropics, that is.
Necropolitics is the inevitable result of Capitalism gone out of control. You want to opt out of it? become a Mennonite or something. Otherwise, get off your high horse.
@@sophiejones7727 no need to call him an idiot. Be respectful the next time.
@@joaovilaca1436 excuse you, but I don't need to be respectful to ignorant hypocrites. *They* need to learn shit before they open their mouths.
@@sophiejones7727 I never said we can opt out. You're right, necropolitics IS an inevitable result of capitalism, and I think the incentives for exploitation are there even in milquetoast capitalism. Some would say "There's no ethical consumption under capitalism", but I'd go as far as to say that whether ethical consumption is possible under any system remains to be seen. That said, not all systems and consumption equally bad.
The problem with your attack is that you're wrong. An average western meat-based diet contributes to climate change much more than a plant-based one, because transport is actually a fairly small part of the carbon footprint of food. You only need to google "carbon footprint of diets". Also, you may have heard that South American rain forests are being cut down to grow soy. This is true, but almost all of that soy goes to feed American livestock. There are activist movements campaigning end it, but ~150 environmental activists are killed annually. Likewise, the burning of rain forests under Bolsanaro wasn't started by vegans. It wouldn't even make sense... If the goal is to save animal lives, burning rain forests would hardly be the logical path to take, wouldn't you agree?
The funny thing is, I wasn't even trying to make a moralistic statement. Even when ignoring animal rights and environmental effects, it'd be really difficult to deny that as the animal industry is designed to kill billions of animals globally every year, it is one of the purest (if not THE purest) implementations of necropolitics in human history. And I did say that Cromwell walked away from that specific implementation, not that he walked away from all of them. Or that I have.
@@sophiejones7727 that's why people despise anti-capitalism. You're a shame to the movements that fight capitalism back. You're arrogant. You think you're so intelligent that you get drunk on the little knowledge you have that makes you feel authorized and capable to humiliate others. Grow up. You're just obnoxious. You're not smart. Go read some books on how to deal with people who does not have the same degree as knowledge as you or how to deal with people in general. And keep in mind that this was not even the case here. Please, do not call yourself a communist. I don't want to share anything whatsoever with someone as unpleasant as you. You're clearly miserable. Now you can just fuck off.
I'm gonna die historic in the TH-cam comment section!!!!
Meet you at the gates of Valhalla!!
WITNESSSSSS
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Mediocre than217!!!
@@mitskis_bf "All shiny and chrome"
When hearing instrumentalization I immediately thought of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Do you guys think that Evangelion was also inspired by Biopower? Namely the "human instrumentalization project".
Instrumentality* but yeah, I think you can apply the same concepts to that series. Everyone treats the kids as means to the end of piloting the Evas.
One of the biggest inspirations for Neon Genesis Evangelion is Georg Hegel's Master and Slave Dialectic.
@@Killerfox512 I was actually referring to the project which aims to use the whole human race as fuel for the creation of a god/goddess. But your point is actually more interesting.
As Gendo always says, Shinji can go away any time, he will use rey. And when Shinji refused to act as him intended, he activated the dummy plug. He also outright used Ritsuko and Ritsuko's mom. Gendo is a sick fuck. Rei is also a tool, a doll as Asuka nicknames her. She does what its told her to do without question or hesitation, but likewise the George miller's characters, she transcends this state when she kills herself to save Shinji from Armisael and when she gives Shinji control over Instrumentality. So yeah, there's a lot in common.
When Wisecrack analyses a piece of media through one philosopher's lens, it doesn't mean that piece of media was inspired by it.
Hoggett singing "If I had words" makes me feel human again.
"More violent car crashes than lines of dialogue" I died 🤣🤣
When the title said "ft. Babe" I actually thought Jared's Girlfriend/Wife was gonna co-host this video with him
Hamilton quote: ''You have no control who lives who dies who tells your story''
Necro power & bio power: Am I a joke to you
"Max. My name is Max. That's my name."
😭😭😭
Possibly your best episode yet. Made me cry pretty hard actually. Thank you.
I bought Babe a few years ago for my son, since he was 2 and loved farm animals. I realized then what fantastic movie it was.
I read the book and practically had it memorized by the time the film was made. I was appalled the movie changed "the password"! The rodent chorus was really fun though. Very Muppet-like. The book didn't have a male dog .... just "fly" and her puppies but the goose trying to take over the Rooster's job was a great touch.
Wow, as always, you come at things from an angle I was not expecting and it’s a pleasure to learn new ways of thinking about things.
By far my favorite video! Thanks guys!
Aaaaannnd there goes my childhood. 😂
Fury Road was one of the greatest, most perfect genre movies ever made.
I didn’t realize Babe were miller films! That’s awesome. Only the twisted mind of Mad Max could have conceived such a hilariously twisted yet endearing piece of surreal art with real despite meaning and make it a children’s film!
A wonderful video essay. One of your best guys.
This was particularly great. While it's a little on the nose, I would call out Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood as one of my favorite versions of this concept
This video was beautiful thank you!
This is one of the best videos from you guys lately. Love it. Be good people.
Wisecrack: *Finally puts out a video on Mad Max*
Me: Oh what a day! What a lovely day!
Good stuff as always thanks!
Why is Jared’s look approaching Sean Bean with every quarantine video
Jared walks down from the chopping block with Ice. His son asks him why he must carry out the sentence himself. Jared answers his son as he looks out to the highlands "The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword". He looks back down with a smile and a microphone "Now let's do a deep dive into necropolitics".
The Mad Max films almost single-handedly made the decision for me on my first car. When I was 18, I bought a 1965 Ford Mustang with a 302 V8 crate engine. Sure, it drove like shit and got about 9 miles to the gallon, premium gas only, but I fucking loved that car. Learned to wrench on it because it was constantly breaking something.
Sadly, I had to sell it when I got my own apartment. Just too expensive to keep around. I fully intend to buy another one some day so I'm ready for the apocalypse. See you on the highways of Valhalla!
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If you want to be ready for the Apocalypse, buy a Tesla Cybertruck. Tesla is the leader in Apocalypse technology. th-cam.com/video/25ZuKkbHdqM/w-d-xo.html
@@andrasbiro3007 You know, I may not like Elon Musk as a person all that much, but God damn that man has all style and no shits to give. Armored glass on our electric truck? Sure, why not? Fuck it! Let's slap some rockets on the Roadster and make a widebody package for the Model S while we're at it!
If you want to be ready for the apocalypse, an armored eletric sun-powered car would be MUCH better.
All hail the mighty V8!!
Thanks for widening our horizons.
Great video as always guys. Can’t wait for the next.
Interesting concepts: Biopower and Necropower. I've learned something new. Thanks.
The Inmortan Joe character pretty much reminded me of monarchical figures of ancient times like, say, the Egyptian Pharoahs; mere mortals that, because of the power they held, they ascended themselves to an outright divine status over their subjects.
Thank you, Wisecrack. This is the knowledge we need.
This was very informational, I learned a lot. Thank you
What an analysis! What a lovey analysis!
Best episode you guys have done in awhile, great jorb
This was a really great episode guys.
What an amazing analysis for an amazing movie!
Fun Fact: Max's full name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. YT that name to see the coolest secret Mad Max scene ever
Take a shot every time Jared says “Mbembe”
Thank you so much - so much! - for this episode. ♥
Mad Max: Porcine Road
Happy to be a witness of this
Thank you Jared and the team. On the right path.
Good work!
Great show mate.
One of my fav action/ visuals story telling films
I was hooked from the second Foucault was mentioned. Good analysis!
Great analysis!
Brilliant and very pertinent video. Necropolitics is on my reading list. Cheers from a new subscriber.
This is the kind of video that I subscribed to this channel for 💯
Great video!! Just a little detail... although Miller worked in "Babe" as a writer and producer, it was directed by Chris Noonan. "Babe: Pig in the City" (the sequel) has been directed by George Miller.
YES! this was exactly what i wanted to see
that was one wild ride
Beautiful analysis.
This was beautiful man 😭
thank you so much for turning me onto "necropower".......very svelte analysis, well done.
This was a really high level video I didn’t expect this high level of video to come from mad max😂
The Metal Gear Solid series, particularly MGS4: Guns Of The Patriots, deals heavily with necropower
George Miller made Happy Feet? Whoah, so that's why I love that movie and I thought it was Footloose for kids.
Necro-Power lives on in corporate America.
The prison industrial complex, and all those involved.
Quite eye opening!
I guess I'll have to rewatch the Babe movies now. Beautifully written video btw
great video!
Great video!
AWESOMETACULAR!! This theme of instrumentalization and Bio Power can also be found in George Orwell's Animal Farm!
this was wholesome.
Interesting video, also glad to see Jared ended it with the correct peace sign! Hope that continues.
I though you were kidding when you guys said "Babe"... but man this episode took one ocular sweat out of my face... xD
really liked this vid.
Ooof this was a good one
How have you guys not touched Code Geass? It's the perfect time to talk about it! Love you guys.
You actually made the 'peace sign' correctly this time! Good on ya', Jared!
Great video! Another way that Fury Road demonstrates the mechanization of human bodies is the presence of the “Organic Mechanic” rather than simply a “Doctor” or “medic”.
This reminded me of Sonya Renae Taylor's book, "The Body is not an Apology"
Wasn't expecting a Sonya Renee Taylor shoutout here but I'm happy it's here!
Wow this was insanely deeppp
Hey! I learned someting new about Fury Road, thanks!
Cool tapestry!
14:03 - the beginning of Max Madness.
PS: Anyone watched A Boy and His Dog?
Watched it recently and now it's one of my favourite post apocalyptic movies. The angle of bio/nacro-politics fit it as well :)
yes, i watched 'a boy and his dog'. liked the layers of what was going on. it was a movie, that made you think.
one thing made me think WTF was, How were there still viable can food??
try watching (if you can find it), 'radioactive dreams' 1986 rock & roll movie. the music was great
the last line made me cry a little xD
Great video and im glad you got a haircut. Looks good
I love the philosophical stuff in here but the most mind blowing thing in here is how long I have loved the movie babe and never realized who the director was
THIS IS AWESOME!
I'm literally 2.08 minutes in the video, still: at some point, three or four months ago, I asked/suggested a dive into Mad Max... and her it is! I'm like.. jumping all around!
Finished the video.
Not disappointed at all.
Referencing Joseph Mbembe's work. I see you Wisecrack team, and thank you!
Beautiful
Perfectly prescient for the current predicament permeating our planet. You guys knocked it out of the park, again!
Dammit!! You name dropped the last copy of Final Fantasy VII. LOL Always love your videos Wisecrack; keep up that sweet sweet philos-review of Miller's work
i'm never sleeping tonight but cheers for the feast for thought