Weird note on french using "ooh-la-la": i play valorant sometimes on central EU lobbys and one time there was this toxic french guy arguing with another french guy on my time and he used "Cool-la-la" 😎 as a sort of "cool story bro"/dismisive backchat. It was the funniest thing ive ever heard I couldnt believe they actually say that
On second thought, the word play could have been cul-la-la( as in the French for ass, sorry for my spelling) but it was said and not written so theres no way for me to know. Regardless, the French kids are still using forms of it today and it's hilarious
Tor, please don't change! Love the "90's cable access" video vibe. Fascinating stories with thoughtful delivery, chill vibe and great background sound beats high tech mediocrity every day of the week.
Wild to think that Jerry Lewis could have truly joined the pantheon of visionary directors of the time. At least he'll always have that cameo in Goncharov.
I nearly sprayed milk out of my nose when you said that this was a movie about " a German clown who accidentally gets sent to Nazi death camp" just the absurdity of that sentence
I was born in 1965. It is hard to express his cultural relevance through most of my life. His yearly charity telethons saw to that, if nothing else. I can almost pinpoint the moment he slipped out of relevance (it starts with N and ends with irvana--they didn't just change music).. If you hadn't brought up Life is Beautiful, I would have. You saved me a lot of work. And Nutty Professor really is a good movie. Subscribed.
These give me heavy qxir - tales from the bottle vibes but way longer with far more research put into them, which coincidentally is the only that i think would make tales from the bottle any better. Keep it up man these videos are so good.
I like how poetic it sounds that a failed clown finds empathy and humanity in people who have been so dehumanized and tortured, and then becomes even more disturbed and sad than before. Although the film ends up talking more about this comedian than the Holocaust itself, it ended up creating a very good idea of representation of the people who had their lives interrupted in the Holocaust, inside and outside of it. I think the film would be legendarily tragic and beautiful if the production and the main actor himself were in a better context, with more support and help.
I would say that the idea that this movie would actually turn out good is near impossible, But we live in a world where Heavens Gate and Caligula both got decades later recuts which turned out to be actual masterpieces, transforming their reputations as two of the worst films ever made to two of the most misunderstood masterpieces of film history. So anything is possible I guess 🤷
boy is this video in my zone of interest! tasteless jokes aside, this is such an insane idea for a film, it's up there with that one Holocaust flick by Roberto Benigni (also about a clown!) i can't remember the name of. i feel like he's basically the Italian Jerry Lewis. that one is such a horrifying flick, though it's got nothing on his version of 'Pinocchio,' which is absolutely psychotic and barely watchable. no idea why he was taken so seriously in the 90s or 2000s or whenever that was. certainly before you were born; thanks for making me feel impossibly old lol. edit: good lord i need to learn to not comment before the video ends, of _course_ you'd mention that benigni film, which is called "life is beautiful," as you helpfully reminded me. also, all those critics were wrong, i watched that movie in a class in 7th grade and thought it was awful.
yeah, I thought you were making fun of me when you said "i feel like he's basically the Italian Jerry Lewis" because I said that almost word for word in the video. I also first saw it in school at around that age as part of the state-mandated Holocaust education program and was weirded out by the concept. I don't hate it but it's definitely not for everyone.
@torscabinetofcuriosities yeah, sorry! i have a horrible habit of commenting on long videos whenever i see something that reminds me of basically anything, which bites me in the ass near-constantly. i went to a weird artsy alternative school for 7th-9th grade and had this incredible teacher who taught a class called "Hollywood Movies" where we would just watch movies every day and then he'd have us write papers critiquing them. It was a great crash course in thinking critically about media, he had a bunch of middle and high schoolers comparing "Life is Beautiful" to "Schindler's List" to see which has a more effective message, though my favorite was that he made us watch (the then-just released on VHS 🫠) "Pocahontas" and write about how it's modern propaganda for settler-colonialism. RIP in peace Tom Feeney, what a fantastic teacher.
@@torscabinetofcuriosities absolutely stellar video by the way! that's the other thing i always do, i leave a long comment halfway through the video and then forget to compliment it. which is a shame because i love everything you got going on here, the set is great, the actual content is great, the delivery is great, it's all great. edit: i mean i guess i said it's in my "zone of interest" but that was just a really tasteless joke and not a sincere compliment 😅
What an absolute diamond in the rough this channel is! You deliver the no frills well-researched info dumps I've been missing for the last decade ever since YT got its glossy, sponsor-friendly makeover. Your writing is tight and snappy - like, I'm genuinely impressed by it! And, your topic choices are niche without being esoteric. Thank you for your videos
There is a way to see some of it publicly the German documentary Der Klown. A few years ago I got hyper fixated on the most disturbing and wrong comedy every made and found the documentary about it and just had to see what the decades of fuss were about. The documentary uses clips from the film totaling about 1/3 of the produced material and some scenes recreated in a stage show format. Either they cut out all the jokes or it isn't comedic as the stories would have you believe. Maybe it's the urban legend bleeding into the viewing experience but I found it more eerie and unsettling than anything else, yet oddly fascinating, the feeling you get when you see something you know you're not supposed to, like a Creepypasta come to life.
That Jerry Lewis was despised by critics is a misunderstanding. His slapstick humor was at best surrealistic, fanciful, and original; he made many classics (The Nutty Professor is still beloved)-and a lot of garbage too, especially when he grew old. Bad and mediocre critics can't hold two perspectives in their heads simultaneously, which is why so many of them are fixating too narrowly on his bad movies.
I was born in 1961. That’s context. I recall Jerry Lewis promoting this on the Tonight Show around 1973. It wasn’t until years later that I realized it was never released nor ever really seen. If you want to see a comedian, make a film about the holocaust. I guess you’d have to see, ‘Life is Beautiful’. That’s a movie that reduces the holocaust to a clown show where the prisoners have to carry heavy anvils.
this is great! showed up in my recs just like, a day after remembering that the day the clown cried was a thing and trying to dig into any possible new info that had surfaced since i discovered it several years ago. also, respect for the goncharov mention
Jerry Lewis' fascinating tribulations remind me that to this day, people still blithely accept Directorate and Napoleonic propaganda-slander against Maximilian Robespierre as a monstrous, bloodthirsty dictator - though his character was in fact precisely the opposite of that; he was only one of 24 completely independent legislators collectively responsible for executing the revolutionary national government of the 1st French Republic against a massive foreign invasion and brutal civil war; and the infamous Revolutionary Tribunal of 1793-94 was entirely run by radical local-level politicians in the Paris Commune. Even across centuries, Winston Churchill's famous observation that "history is written by the victors" remains tellingly relevant.
Note to Gen Z: Genuine curiosity about past cultural phenomena > snide, smug Wiki-dismissal of same. "I was born in ___, so allow me to condescend to all that existed before my arrival." /Note to podgabbers: Film commentary works best as a result of actual, venturesome *film watching* rather than cramming-for-finals-style article skimming.
Omg i was waiting the whole time for you to mention Life is Beautiful! Just such a banger film, got goosebumps just thinking about it. Better than Schindler's list imo
I grew up on older movies, mostly on VHS but occasionally we'd get them from Netflix in the mail (things that make me seem old to my kids). I remember actually really enjoying Jerry Lewis movies when I was little, but the thing is, looking back, I don't really REMEMBER them. Compared to say Hope and Crosby Road movies or Marx Brothers movies or Abbott and Costello where I can quote some of the quips to this day, his comedy tended to be more a "vibe" than anything that stuck with me ... with one exception. There's a movie called the Bell Boy where he plays a silent Bell Boy who kind of has a charmed way of surviving all this chaos at a big hotel and in the end he's finally asked why he never said anything, and... I can't even remember the line, but it was a joke (no one ever asked me anything? Maybe?), and I just remember being blown away that a whole movie could basically be setting up one single gag like that. It honestly feels very modern just for that.
The whole Holocaust Comedy didn't phase me, and Life is Beautiful is why. For years my friends tried to convince me to watch the Holocaust Comedy. I said that that was bonkers and that it must be terrible insensitive. Eventually, after coaxing from multiple other people and my history teacher (she specialized in the impacts of media on the image of Nazis and their death camps) I finally watched it. It was pretty great for what I was expecting and one of the most 'literary' movie I had watched (no idea if that is the term or not, LiB is the first movie I watched for 2 or 3 years that I did for the movie's sake and not just for social connection, and I haven't watched one since). Movie premises don't mean anything to me anymore.
kinda wild how consistently good this channel is lol. like these are well researched videos that are quite long, uploaded several days after each other. like how do you even have the time to do all of this? i suppose not much editing but the quality is still good either way
Lol you're just like me, when I first heard of Jerry Lewis I was a teenager and thought "oh you mean Jerry Lee Lewis"? If you haven't, you should watch The King of Comedy with him and DeNiro, it's funny as hell
I was the exact opposite. I grew up watching Jerry Lewis and only heard of Jerry Lee Lewis as a teen. I'm under the age of 30 too. No, I'm not normal haha.
Although you requested that I comment "I do not like your spikey banana" I do like your content. It goes right up there with the interesting comment about "Schndler's List" that "somehow a movie was made about the one good Nazi in Germany". It seems that a lot of scholarship is now moving on the "The Grey Zone" as the best film in the category, though it is quite distressing that we even have such a category and a discussion of its contents. Being remembered for a movie that wasn't completed is a pretty meta joke on the populace, and I shudder to consider what would happen if John Malkovich found the script.
TCM recently ran the doco The Darkness To Light and it contains Jerry Lewis discussing the film from before he passed and lots of footage of the film. Intriguing stuff, a shame we can’t see it in full and decide for ourselves.
Dude your confidence during the intro after the warning right before the title card...fuck yeah dude...fuck yeah. Looks good on you. We see it bro. Keep it up man.
Dude, you have been a recent favorite of mine! If I may make one suggestion, your theme-song card was WAY louder than your audio. It is undoubtedly a bop, but I'd recommend boosting your own audio (after doing some eq and filtering) so that the whole video is level. I've edited podcasts in the past and helped with several youtube channels. if you need a sound guy, or just want some pointer, hit me up! Keep up the good work
I remember hearing rumors and mentions about this movie when we talked about depictions of the holocaust. Its crazy to know there was such a backstory behind it!!
You sound eerily similar to the host of a radio drama from the 30s called Suspense. I feel like you're going to break out into an ad for Roma Wines at any moment.
I'm hardly a connoisseur of films about the Holocaust, but of all the films about it that I've heard of, 3 1/2 are comedies, "Life is Beautiful", "Striped Pajamas", "To Be or not to Be", and maybe "The Day the Clown Cried". Of the serious films, there's 1/2 that I've heard of, "Schindler's List" and maybe "The Day the Clown Cried".
This is the first video from Tor about a topic I knew something about before watching. This movie is really like the holy grail of lost media. Or like, unreleased media I guess.
Folks in SE Wisconsin younger than those born before 1980 know Jerry Lewis due to his telethon and the need to avoid Channel 58 on Labor Day. Every other channel that carried the telethon would cut away for literally everything except local news, Channel 58 never cut away. All day Labor Day, a day you tried to watch as much TV as you could because school started the next morning.
@@Dhampy yeah for sure, i was just trying to (clumsily) say probably a lot of people born after 1980 know of him because their Labor Days were ruined by their favorite channel cheaping out and buying syndication rights for the MDA telethon and preempting Pinky and the Brain. I was never too bothered about channel 58, they never had anything on anyway. 18 and 24 are where the fun stuff was. Between those two channels, i grew up watching 2-3 hours of The Simpsons every day. there's this great Mr. Show sketch where a supervillain (played by Bob Odenkirk of "better call Saul") does a telethon to raise money for him to not blow up the earth with a giant death ray. that one always stuck with me, lmao.
@@elen5871It was also broadcast on Canadian television for a few decades. I'm 50 and i don't remember a time it when wasn't on Labour Day t.v growing up
I feel like the way he refused to ever even talk about it indicates he was aware that he'd turned it into something about himself, and that was the real problem.
I think lewis making it more about his own career/life is the most disrespectful thing about it, aside from that i absolutely believe it could have been good
this is a rlly beautiful analysis of this film, from the title i knew it sounded similar and thats because i had heard of it some 2 years prior and it caught my attention as that's when i was most interested in ww2 and the holocaust, so ty for reminding me of this, btw what's the music in the back? it sounds like something out of homestuck or something of the like
I'm a French Gen'X from Bordeaux, the only time we heard about Jerry Lewis was on TV where the "TV aristocracy" was incensing him. Never saw a real fan in the real people, most "elder" I've heard found his movies stupid. It's like some privileged class from Paris showbusiness was trying to advertise him and was telling to the crowd how a genius he was but that didn't really spread to the whole population... The only thing I remember is that play where he "covers" the typewriter song, that was... funny. I think it was a snobbish fanbase because he was "dubbed" "The King of Comedy" (title of one of his movies), and Parisian TV hosts were trying to get the hype for France, and he was during the "French New Wave", but it's a microcosm intellectual fame which showed on newspapers and in TV but was not a mass phenomenon in the country.
I'm not gonna lie, when I first heard about this, I thought it was fake. Given I heard about it from a certain japanese inspired imageboard filled with a ton of other spooky fake creepypastas, I don't think anyone could blame me. But knowing that it was actually made, and the somewhat understandable reasons behind it, is pretty fantastic tale. Whether or not this is a better tale than the actual movie is left to the imagination.
I think it’s always sad when any media is lost to censorship which is kinda the case for this. Any story deserves to be told no matter how messed up it is. Just like how any criticism of messed up media deserves to be heard. Let it exist, and let it be criticized if needed. And in this case the movie has a good chance of being good apparently.
When I think of movies like "Jacob the Liar" which was an American attempt to compete with the more renown masterpiece "Life is Beautiful", It WAS the movie that starred Robin Williams. I think the Lewis film could have been good, it just wasn't the right time. Only in a post "Life of Brian" world could TDTCC be made. This was the time that "Cabaret" got made and won an academy award. As for the personal sense of decline, I'd also compare that with Peter Sellers adoration of his last character, Chauncey Gardiner, where he worked hard in declining health to complete "Being There" as he felt that this was how he wanted to be remembered...and was.
Memes are ubiquitous in life though, the internet seized the term, but it’s actually a real sociological phenomenon. Internet memes are just the perfect example of what memes are and how they work. The meme was coined discussing all societal transfers of behaviour that the population at large all takes up without any formal consensus or discussion. It is a behaviour that is universally understood within a group. That can refer to anything. If you can point at a mullet and say, “business in front” and someone else can finish, “party in the back” then they’re from the same cultural group and share the meme about mullets. Memes are a serious field of study in sociology and psychology lol it’s just that people generally are not made aware of the theory of memes and thus believe internet memes ARE memes. Like that’s all memes are. But Internet memes are just a small subtype of social memes.
Okay I think that the Title "The day the 🤡 cried" is supposed to be a Double entandre cause 🤡 can be read as Clown but also because it's a Photo of him "the day Louis cried" which would Put even more of a Point on Louis
There is a Jerry Lewis flim I would like to suggest that you look into One is called Funny Bones ( he plays an aging American comic who has to reconcile with a strange British son) I point these out because it's clear that Jerry Lewis did at some point become more known for his dramatic than his comic persona
I didn’t find Jerry Lewis very funny as a kid in the 70s, but he is easily best compared with Robin Williams. To me, his comedy was like Robin when he was not funny, so just pick whichever of his roles you find have the least warmth and humor and you are close to Lewes territory. I’m going to give you two Jerry Lewis movies that you might watch to get a feel for him in a decent light. The first is Cinderfella, as you might guess, Jerry in the Cinderella role (innovative at the time), the plot straightjackets him somewhat, a good thing, as it limits at least some of his insanity, and the character naturally engenders sympathy. It’s not a great movie, but it is a gentle comedy (in full color), a cozy movie. And I recommend Visit to a Small Planet, this black n white movie feels like the director really has control. You have to find a way to inject a bit of sympathy and control into a Lewis movie, just like a Williams one, or you just vapidity. See what you think.
Caught ya a couple weeks ago and watched a few vids since. Only my personal opinion here, but I might suggest shortening the intro music and lowering it a touch to be more in balance with your voice. Otherwise, keep up the awesome work.
Pour les français qui me regardent: Je ne suis pas désolé d'avoir insulté Johnny Hallyday. Les fans de Johnny peuvent mâcher ma culotte.
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Donne moi quelque chose de Tennessee...
Maitenant!
@@1-eye-willythis is always what I think too lol Dexter's lab was way too good
As a French person, I never met a person who unironnically likes him today
@@torscabinetofcuriosities Johnny holiday peut embrasser mon cul cajun!
Nota Bene: je ne sais pas qui est Johnny Hallyday. 🤷
Weird note on french using "ooh-la-la": i play valorant sometimes on central EU lobbys and one time there was this toxic french guy arguing with another french guy on my time and he used "Cool-la-la" 😎 as a sort of "cool story bro"/dismisive backchat. It was the funniest thing ive ever heard
I couldnt believe they actually say that
On second thought, the word play could have been cul-la-la( as in the French for ass, sorry for my spelling) but it was said and not written so theres no way for me to know.
Regardless, the French kids are still using forms of it today and it's hilarious
Elijah wood killed it in that 30 seconds of French stereotypes lol
Tor, please don't change! Love the "90's cable access" video vibe. Fascinating stories with thoughtful delivery, chill vibe and great background sound beats high tech mediocrity every day of the week.
Agreed! The substance of your videos is such high quality, its nice to see a creator just relax and be confident in their research and presentation. ❤
Your channel explores all my niche interests and didn't-know-i-was-even-interested niches
Wild to think that Jerry Lewis could have truly joined the pantheon of visionary directors of the time. At least he'll always have that cameo in Goncharov.
Goncharov. Best mafia movie in history
Fuck yeah, Goncharov (1973) getting the recognition it deserves!!!
I nearly sprayed milk out of my nose when you said
that this was a movie about " a German clown who accidentally gets sent to Nazi death camp" just the absurdity of that sentence
It sounds like one of Sprockets' "Germany's Most Disturbing Home Videos" entries...
Man, it is wild to see how far a channel I checked out because of a durian with a face has grown and is still so awesome.
"what a horror. it must be told" a sign of a real man, thank you for sharing his story and letting it be told.
I was born in 1965. It is hard to express his cultural relevance through most of my life. His yearly charity telethons saw to that, if nothing else. I can almost pinpoint the moment he slipped out of relevance (it starts with N and ends with irvana--they didn't just change music)..
If you hadn't brought up Life is Beautiful, I would have. You saved me a lot of work.
And Nutty Professor really is a good movie.
Subscribed.
By the 80’s he was a punchline. We saw a bloated guy past his prime taking up good airtime to beg for money.
These give me heavy qxir - tales from the bottle vibes but way longer with far more research put into them, which coincidentally is the only that i think would make tales from the bottle any better. Keep it up man these videos are so good.
I like how poetic it sounds that a failed clown finds empathy and humanity in people who have been so dehumanized and tortured, and then becomes even more disturbed and sad than before. Although the film ends up talking more about this comedian than the Holocaust itself, it ended up creating a very good idea of representation of the people who had their lives interrupted in the Holocaust, inside and outside of it. I think the film would be legendarily tragic and beautiful if the production and the main actor himself were in a better context, with more support and help.
this guy is PUMPING out straight quality! keep up the good work dude!
I would say that the idea that this movie would actually turn out good is near impossible,
But we live in a world where Heavens Gate and Caligula both got decades later recuts which turned out to be actual masterpieces, transforming their reputations as two of the worst films ever made to two of the most misunderstood masterpieces of film history. So anything is possible I guess 🤷
9:36 omg no one ever talks about Goncharov!! its genuinely one of my favorite movies of all time
Im going insane i have no idea if its real or not atp
@ its real❤️
had to rewind for the goncharov mention to make sure my ears hadn't deceived me
There is no “before memes” in human history, they’ve always been with us.
boy is this video in my zone of interest!
tasteless jokes aside, this is such an insane idea for a film, it's up there with that one Holocaust flick by Roberto Benigni (also about a clown!) i can't remember the name of. i feel like he's basically the Italian Jerry Lewis. that one is such a horrifying flick, though it's got nothing on his version of 'Pinocchio,' which is absolutely psychotic and barely watchable. no idea why he was taken so seriously in the 90s or 2000s or whenever that was. certainly before you were born; thanks for making me feel impossibly old lol.
edit: good lord i need to learn to not comment before the video ends, of _course_ you'd mention that benigni film, which is called "life is beautiful," as you helpfully reminded me. also, all those critics were wrong, i watched that movie in a class in 7th grade and thought it was awful.
yeah, I thought you were making fun of me when you said "i feel like he's basically the Italian Jerry Lewis" because I said that almost word for word in the video. I also first saw it in school at around that age as part of the state-mandated Holocaust education program and was weirded out by the concept. I don't hate it but it's definitely not for everyone.
@torscabinetofcuriosities yeah, sorry! i have a horrible habit of commenting on long videos whenever i see something that reminds me of basically anything, which bites me in the ass near-constantly.
i went to a weird artsy alternative school for 7th-9th grade and had this incredible teacher who taught a class called "Hollywood Movies" where we would just watch movies every day and then he'd have us write papers critiquing them. It was a great crash course in thinking critically about media, he had a bunch of middle and high schoolers comparing "Life is Beautiful" to "Schindler's List" to see which has a more effective message, though my favorite was that he made us watch (the then-just released on VHS 🫠) "Pocahontas" and write about how it's modern propaganda for settler-colonialism. RIP in peace Tom Feeney, what a fantastic teacher.
@@torscabinetofcuriosities absolutely stellar video by the way! that's the other thing i always do, i leave a long comment halfway through the video and then forget to compliment it. which is a shame because i love everything you got going on here, the set is great, the actual content is great, the delivery is great, it's all great.
edit: i mean i guess i said it's in my "zone of interest" but that was just a really tasteless joke and not a sincere compliment 😅
@@elen5871what you’re doing is called jumping the gun
French people being obsessed with Jerry Lewis was a well-aged joke when South Park brought it up 30 years ago.
great video jollibee, dont know who that other guy is, when will he be gone?
What an absolute diamond in the rough this channel is! You deliver the no frills well-researched info dumps I've been missing for the last decade ever since YT got its glossy, sponsor-friendly makeover. Your writing is tight and snappy - like, I'm genuinely impressed by it! And, your topic choices are niche without being esoteric. Thank you for your videos
There is a way to see some of it publicly the German documentary Der Klown. A few years ago I got hyper fixated on the most disturbing and wrong comedy every made and found the documentary about it and just had to see what the decades of fuss were about. The documentary uses clips from the film totaling about 1/3 of the produced material and some scenes recreated in a stage show format. Either they cut out all the jokes or it isn't comedic as the stories would have you believe. Maybe it's the urban legend bleeding into the viewing experience but I found it more eerie and unsettling than anything else, yet oddly fascinating, the feeling you get when you see something you know you're not supposed to, like a Creepypasta come to life.
This has quickly become my new favorite channel. I look forward to each new video! Keep up the good work!
That Jerry Lewis was despised by critics is a misunderstanding. His slapstick humor was at best surrealistic, fanciful, and original; he made many classics (The Nutty Professor is still beloved)-and a lot of garbage too, especially when he grew old. Bad and mediocre critics can't hold two perspectives in their heads simultaneously, which is why so many of them are fixating too narrowly on his bad movies.
I think it's more that Jerry was despised as a person, than anything else.
not you mentioning goncharov while im wearing my goncharov shirt lmao
ive heard of this before but never in proper detail - i’m so happy to see you cover it. a very a strange case very fitting of tor’s cabinet
Love the channel Tor!
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I’m very glad the algorithm led this video to me - this was a great video, probably the most engaging I’ve seen on the topic - thanks!
I was born in 1961. That’s context. I recall Jerry Lewis promoting this on the Tonight Show around 1973. It wasn’t until years later that I realized it was never released nor ever really seen. If you want to see a comedian, make a film about the holocaust. I guess you’d have to see, ‘Life is Beautiful’. That’s a movie that reduces the holocaust to a clown show where the prisoners have to carry heavy anvils.
this is great! showed up in my recs just like, a day after remembering that the day the clown cried was a thing and trying to dig into any possible new info that had surfaced since i discovered it several years ago.
also, respect for the goncharov mention
Jerry Lewis was really a genius and pretty respected in the US too. He was a star and a producer. He also invented video assist.
Jerry Lewis' fascinating tribulations remind me that to this day, people still blithely accept Directorate and Napoleonic propaganda-slander against Maximilian Robespierre as a monstrous, bloodthirsty dictator - though his character was in fact precisely the opposite of that; he was only one of 24 completely independent legislators collectively responsible for executing the revolutionary national government of the 1st French Republic against a massive foreign invasion and brutal civil war; and the infamous Revolutionary Tribunal of 1793-94 was entirely run by radical local-level politicians in the Paris Commune. Even across centuries, Winston Churchill's famous observation that "history is written by the victors" remains tellingly relevant.
Word.
This is the most in depth video about this topic I have ever seen! Thanks as always for your in depth research!
Note to Gen Z: Genuine curiosity about past cultural phenomena > snide, smug Wiki-dismissal of same. "I was born in ___, so allow me to condescend to all that existed before my arrival." /Note to podgabbers: Film commentary works best as a result of actual, venturesome *film watching* rather than cramming-for-finals-style article skimming.
Is it a badge of honor that I looked at the thumbnail and immediately knew the movie name and actor name? I'm under the age of 30. Haha
I love that you use Subways of Your Mind for the intro. Its such a fitting song vibe and lore wise lol this channels awesome dude
What a compelling story, I’m so glad I found this channel
Omg i was waiting the whole time for you to mention Life is Beautiful! Just such a banger film, got goosebumps just thinking about it. Better than Schindler's list imo
Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon is what I remember
Honored to be this early to a Tor video
I grew up on older movies, mostly on VHS but occasionally we'd get them from Netflix in the mail (things that make me seem old to my kids). I remember actually really enjoying Jerry Lewis movies when I was little, but the thing is, looking back, I don't really REMEMBER them. Compared to say Hope and Crosby Road movies or Marx Brothers movies or Abbott and Costello where I can quote some of the quips to this day, his comedy tended to be more a "vibe" than anything that stuck with me ... with one exception. There's a movie called the Bell Boy where he plays a silent Bell Boy who kind of has a charmed way of surviving all this chaos at a big hotel and in the end he's finally asked why he never said anything, and... I can't even remember the line, but it was a joke (no one ever asked me anything? Maybe?), and I just remember being blown away that a whole movie could basically be setting up one single gag like that. It honestly feels very modern just for that.
The whole Holocaust Comedy didn't phase me, and Life is Beautiful is why. For years my friends tried to convince me to watch the Holocaust Comedy. I said that that was bonkers and that it must be terrible insensitive. Eventually, after coaxing from multiple other people and my history teacher (she specialized in the impacts of media on the image of Nazis and their death camps) I finally watched it. It was pretty great for what I was expecting and one of the most 'literary' movie I had watched (no idea if that is the term or not, LiB is the first movie I watched for 2 or 3 years that I did for the movie's sake and not just for social connection, and I haven't watched one since). Movie premises don't mean anything to me anymore.
kinda wild how consistently good this channel is lol. like these are well researched videos that are quite long, uploaded several days after each other. like how do you even have the time to do all of this? i suppose not much editing but the quality is still good either way
Lol you're just like me, when I first heard of Jerry Lewis I was a teenager and thought "oh you mean Jerry Lee Lewis"? If you haven't, you should watch The King of Comedy with him and DeNiro, it's funny as hell
I was the exact opposite. I grew up watching Jerry Lewis and only heard of Jerry Lee Lewis as a teen. I'm under the age of 30 too. No, I'm not normal haha.
Although you requested that I comment "I do not like your spikey banana" I do like your content. It goes right up there with the interesting comment about "Schndler's List" that "somehow a movie was made about the one good Nazi in Germany". It seems that a lot of scholarship is now moving on the "The Grey Zone" as the best film in the category, though it is quite distressing that we even have such a category and a discussion of its contents. Being remembered for a movie that wasn't completed is a pretty meta joke on the populace, and I shudder to consider what would happen if John Malkovich found the script.
TCM recently ran the doco The Darkness To Light and it contains Jerry Lewis discussing the film from before he passed and lots of footage of the film. Intriguing stuff, a shame we can’t see it in full and decide for ourselves.
The A-Ha clips in the intro are wonderful🦄
Wait this is a brand new vid??? Sweet ❤
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Dude your confidence during the intro after the warning right before the title card...fuck yeah dude...fuck yeah. Looks good on you. We see it bro. Keep it up man.
Dude, you have been a recent favorite of mine! If I may make one suggestion, your theme-song card was WAY louder than your audio. It is undoubtedly a bop, but I'd recommend boosting your own audio (after doing some eq and filtering) so that the whole video is level. I've edited podcasts in the past and helped with several youtube channels. if you need a sound guy, or just want some pointer, hit me up! Keep up the good work
I remember hearing rumors and mentions about this movie when we talked about depictions of the holocaust. Its crazy to know there was such a backstory behind it!!
You sound eerily similar to the host of a radio drama from the 30s called Suspense. I feel like you're going to break out into an ad for Roma Wines at any moment.
Came for the content, stayed for the durian(but also the content lol) great work!!
I'm hardly a connoisseur of films about the Holocaust, but of all the films about it that I've heard of, 3 1/2 are comedies, "Life is Beautiful", "Striped Pajamas", "To Be or not to Be", and maybe "The Day the Clown Cried". Of the serious films, there's 1/2 that I've heard of, "Schindler's List" and maybe "The Day the Clown Cried".
WHOA WHOA, don't say "thrust into middle school" like that. There might be libertarians listening!
i had recently been thinking about watching life is beautiful again but it breaks my heart so much every time
This is the first video from Tor about a topic I knew something about before watching. This movie is really like the holy grail of lost media. Or like, unreleased media I guess.
I actually do enjoy JL's comedies, but I'm half-French so I have an excuse.
Yessss, more videos!
Thanks for the early Hanukkah gift, my friend. I gave you a sub for X-mas. Happy New Year!
Love ur videos!!
Folks in SE Wisconsin younger than those born before 1980 know Jerry Lewis due to his telethon and the need to avoid Channel 58 on Labor Day. Every other channel that carried the telethon would cut away for literally everything except local news, Channel 58 never cut away. All day Labor Day, a day you tried to watch as much TV as you could because school started the next morning.
to be fair, the MDA telethon he did was a nationwide affair (broadcast from Las Vegas), but as someone from in SE WI born in 1984, i sure can confirm.
@@elen5871 My understanding is that 58 was the only channel to never preempt it once in its entire run.
@@Dhampy yeah for sure, i was just trying to (clumsily) say probably a lot of people born after 1980 know of him because their Labor Days were ruined by their favorite channel cheaping out and buying syndication rights for the MDA telethon and preempting Pinky and the Brain. I was never too bothered about channel 58, they never had anything on anyway. 18 and 24 are where the fun stuff was. Between those two channels, i grew up watching 2-3 hours of The Simpsons every day.
there's this great Mr. Show sketch where a supervillain (played by Bob Odenkirk of "better call Saul") does a telethon to raise money for him to not blow up the earth with a giant death ray. that one always stuck with me, lmao.
@@elen5871It was also broadcast on Canadian television for a few decades. I'm 50 and i don't remember a time it when wasn't on Labour Day t.v growing up
I feel like the way he refused to ever even talk about it indicates he was aware that he'd turned it into something about himself, and that was the real problem.
So, Tor I really like your shoelaces.
Thanks, but I didn't actually steal them from the president. I stole them from Strange Aeons.
I think lewis making it more about his own career/life is the most disrespectful thing about it, aside from that i absolutely believe it could have been good
wow, what wonderful intro music! what is the name of that song? 😮
this is a rlly beautiful analysis of this film, from the title i knew it sounded similar and thats because i had heard of it some 2 years prior and it caught my attention as that's when i was most interested in ww2 and the holocaust, so ty for reminding me of this, btw what's the music in the back? it sounds like something out of homestuck or something of the like
Howard Stern used to talk about this movie like it was the Holy Grail.
We will be able to see large portions of it starting in a few months, when the Library of Congress' copy becomes available.
is Jollibee the same durian in every video or do you have to replace him periodically
the same. he's plastic
I'm a French Gen'X from Bordeaux, the only time we heard about Jerry Lewis was on TV where the "TV aristocracy" was incensing him. Never saw a real fan in the real people, most "elder" I've heard found his movies stupid. It's like some privileged class from Paris showbusiness was trying to advertise him and was telling to the crowd how a genius he was but that didn't really spread to the whole population...
The only thing I remember is that play where he "covers" the typewriter song, that was... funny.
I think it was a snobbish fanbase because he was "dubbed" "The King of Comedy" (title of one of his movies), and Parisian TV hosts were trying to get the hype for France, and he was during the "French New Wave", but it's a microcosm intellectual fame which showed on newspapers and in TV but was not a mass phenomenon in the country.
The clown from the movie that wasn’t released moved to San Francisco to sell blue jeans and direct The Room
You're tearing me apart!! 😂
Nice to see a fellow Oregonian on here
wait have the videos always had background music? I just noticed it this video… great edition though
I'm not gonna lie, when I first heard about this, I thought it was fake. Given I heard about it from a certain japanese inspired imageboard filled with a ton of other spooky fake creepypastas, I don't think anyone could blame me. But knowing that it was actually made, and the somewhat understandable reasons behind it, is pretty fantastic tale. Whether or not this is a better tale than the actual movie is left to the imagination.
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A new upload! I'm there dude!
HOLY SHIT GONCHAROV now i KNOW you're a real one ✌
For a second I thought you were going to show some clips from the movie, boy was I mistaken
I will watch this after chores.
I am currently watching this after I did my chores
I have watched this after chores
Dude, 4 hours of chores? I'm impressed.
@@williamdixon-gk2sk well I had to go to the store as well but yeah
16:35 so basically Jerry Lewis wrote The Joker, but instead of Arthur Flex, he named him Helmút Doork?
thank u for the video sir
I think it’s always sad when any media is lost to censorship which is kinda the case for this. Any story deserves to be told no matter how messed up it is. Just like how any criticism of messed up media deserves to be heard. Let it exist, and let it be criticized if needed. And in this case the movie has a good chance of being good apparently.
When I think of movies like "Jacob the Liar" which was an American attempt to compete with the more renown masterpiece "Life is Beautiful", It WAS the movie that starred Robin Williams. I think the Lewis film could have been good, it just wasn't the right time. Only in a post "Life of Brian" world could TDTCC be made. This was the time that "Cabaret" got made and won an academy award. As for the personal sense of decline, I'd also compare that with Peter Sellers adoration of his last character, Chauncey Gardiner, where he worked hard in declining health to complete "Being There" as he felt that this was how he wanted to be remembered...and was.
Oh, one of the pieces of media deemed so offensive to group of people no others shall consume and/or enjoy them in anyway...that whole thing.
That TV show they gave Lewis in the late 80s shows you that he had been out of touch with reality for decades.
who knew Tor was Mr. Fancy Pants
Memes are ubiquitous in life though, the internet seized the term, but it’s actually a real sociological phenomenon. Internet memes are just the perfect example of what memes are and how they work.
The meme was coined discussing all societal transfers of behaviour that the population at large all takes up without any formal consensus or discussion. It is a behaviour that is universally understood within a group.
That can refer to anything. If you can point at a mullet and say, “business in front” and someone else can finish, “party in the back” then they’re from the same cultural group and share the meme about mullets.
Memes are a serious field of study in sociology and psychology lol it’s just that people generally are not made aware of the theory of memes and thus believe internet memes ARE memes. Like that’s all memes are. But Internet memes are just a small subtype of social memes.
Okay I think that the Title "The day the 🤡 cried" is supposed to be a Double entandre cause 🤡 can be read as Clown but also because it's a Photo of him "the day Louis cried" which would Put even more of a Point on Louis
There is a Jerry Lewis flim I would like to suggest that you look into One is called Funny Bones ( he plays an aging American comic who has to reconcile with a strange British son) I point these out because it's clear that Jerry Lewis did at some point become more known for his dramatic than his comic persona
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I didn’t find Jerry Lewis very funny as a kid in the 70s, but he is easily best compared with Robin Williams. To me, his comedy was like Robin when he was not funny, so just pick whichever of his roles you find have the least warmth and humor and you are close to Lewes territory.
I’m going to give you two Jerry Lewis movies that you might watch to get a feel for him in a decent light.
The first is Cinderfella, as you might guess, Jerry in the Cinderella role (innovative at the time), the plot straightjackets him somewhat, a good thing, as it limits at least some of his insanity, and the character naturally engenders sympathy. It’s not a great movie, but it is a gentle comedy (in full color), a cozy movie.
And I recommend Visit to a Small Planet, this black n white movie feels like the director really has control. You have to find a way to inject a bit of sympathy and control into a Lewis movie, just like a Williams one, or you just vapidity. See what you think.
This comment is a bit convoluted, but i agree with all that you have said here. Good form.
So he’s basically the French boomer equivalent of Adam Sandler…
I would love to have sat in on the pitch meeting for this movie
What’s the name of the song in the intro?
I think someone mentioned it's "subways of your mind".
@ yes thank you I found it!
just from the title "the day the clown cried", is the movie about the person MatPat suggested someone should make a perfect Oscar bait movie about?
The true comedy is the fact that in real life so many people believe it actually happened.
Caught ya a couple weeks ago and watched a few vids since. Only my personal opinion here, but I might suggest shortening the intro music and lowering it a touch to be more in balance with your voice. Otherwise, keep up the awesome work.
I love the intro as is, but perhaps the sounds tweaks aren't a bad idea.