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[Weekly Update] My most "pretentious" hobby
🕑 Added 2023-04-24 01:18:03 +0000 UTCSo, I finished playing Yakuza Kiwami. That means I can start working on my next video: The 2007 live action adaption of the game, directed by Miike.
You know what's the most frustrating part of this is? Playing the game probably will not help me understand this movie any more. Because it's freaking Miike.
WEEKLY UPDATE
Our next video will be about Porco Rosso, mainly its setting and discussion on Fascism. The video assumes you have watched the movie, so give it a rewatch if you haven't! The film is way more enjoyable as an adult.
As stated above, the video after may be about the Yakuza live action film, or it can be about the Ong Bak series. I haven't started working on it yet.
I also wrote a short script idea about Male Gaze vs. Female Gaze, as a continuation to the discussion on Desexualization. However, that topic is way bigger, and I'll have to do some research before I can write it.
For this month's Patreon bonus video... I honestly have no idea what to talk about. If you have any requests or suggestions, hit me!
MEDIA TALK
So here is something I love to do, and I wish more people would do it with me. But every time I do, people think I'm pretentious: Watching comedies from 1950s and 1960s
For SOME reason, enjoying comedy is perceived as this "snobby hobby", even more so than watching classics. I guess with classics, people assume you are studying. But if they catch you watching Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, they look at you weird.
It's extra strange, because Monroe movies were the blockbusters of its day. I'm literally watching mainstream movies. Just old ones.
So, in order to combat this stigma, I'm going to preach to you all and make you part of my cult. Here are some of the movies from that era that I would wholeheartedly recommend.
My top choice is, of course, Some Like it Hot. It's a comedy about two musicians who dressed up as women and joined an all girls band, in order to evade the mafia. Despite its rather provocative premise, the film is surprisingly progressive for its time. As a result, a lot of its humor dates remarkably well. It's undoubtedly the best Monroe movie.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes didn't age nearly as well, but it's worth a watch for a different reason. I think this might legit be the first ever "chick flick". With Jane Russell and Monroe leading the film, you'd think you'll get to see them being all sexy and seductive. In reality, they serve more as audience surrogate to gawk at hot and muscular dudes. It's so rare to see a rom-com from this era where the women is in control.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a stunningly star studded slapstick comedy, featuring legends like Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney. I'm not entirely sure if this started the trend, but it definitely is one of the early example of stunt-work comedy, and higher budget of slapstick that involves a lot more destructions and action set pieces. If you love Blues Brothers, you'll love this.
And there is, of course, the original Pink Panther. As one of the earliest example of a spy spoof, this film is a bit hit or miss. For me, the film is made better because I'm familiar with many of the early Bond films, as well as the films that Pink Panther inspired, such as Austin Powers and Get Smart. The film is part funny, part fascinating, and worth a watch just for that.
There are of course many other classics that need no introduction, such as Breakfast at Tiffany's and Dr. Strangelove. Hercules in New York is technically a 60s movie. It was also the only Arnold movie I couldn't finish. So if you want a challenge, give it a go.
In any case, that's the update for today. Video is already finished and will be up in a few days. See you then!
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Comments
J. Francis
I love Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires!
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My favorite older comedy(ish) is The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. Not technically comedy, but the fact that the premise is played straight against a silly concept, plus the fun of seeing the hammer horror actors in a shaw brothers esque film is so inherently weird that it just puts me ina good mood. Most hammer horror is like that for me though. Ditto the Corman Edgar Allen Poe series. Lovely films but so campy.
J. Francis
I am already a proud member of this cult. Classic comedies are considered classic for a reason—they hold up! Few decades early, but have y'all watched the Marx Brothers comedies? I am a big fan of those too.
Michael Everett
You aren't alone in this. My wife is a big Monroe fan, so I took her to the Hotel del Coronado which is where Some Like It Hot was filmed. She loved it and took a ton of pictures, but when she tried to show them to her friends not a one had seen the movie, and most hadn't seen any Monroe movies at all. One of them thought Monroe was an 'older insta model'. That said, I'd love to help you convert people. Here's a few more: Kind Hearts and Coronets: A lot of people only know Alec Guiness as Obi-Wan. This is a genuine shame. Even though this movie is technically from the 40s since it was 1949 I'm going to count it. The movie is about a Duke reminiscing about the people he killed to gain his title, and every single one of them was played by Guiness - and Guiness loved every second of it. Sometimes he plays a new character so differently that you can't tell immediately that it is him. Sometimes he makes fun of the audience for even believing this kind of thing is possible. It is the kind of film you can't help but smile while it plays. Ace in the Hole: A down on his luck reporter stumbles onto a story and uses it as his ticket back to the big leagues by intentionally dragging it out. The story? A man stuck in a hole. How does he drag it out? By manipulating EVERYONE involved into extending it out so much that a simple rescue becomes a major excavation that others try to make their careers off of as well. Nobody is a decent person, everyone is working an angle, and the guy stuck in the hole thinks everyone is being really nice to him. It suggests what Network screamed decades later: that the power of the media is immense and that some good stories leave a trail of bodies in their wake. Monsieur Hulot: Not a film but a series of films made by the same director as the lead character. Jacques Tati was a performer in the old sense of the word - he was a mime, an actor, a dancer, a comedian, you name it. His most famous character was one he made a series of movies about who is basically an extra that thinks he isn't. As friendly as he is simple, Hulot was a man who couldn't understand the modern world he found himself in, but was fascinated by it. These aren't the kinds of films you can find clips of on Youtube - you have to let them warm you over with their vibe and get on their level, but when you do it is well worth the effort. Pillow Talk: Rock Hudson was in a slump. He was an action and drama man, but his last couple of films just didn't work. Doris Day was trying to branch out from being part singer, part actress into being a full-time actress, but wasn't having the kind of success she wanted. But a producer Rock worked with frequently had an idea: he could turn Rock into a 'funnyman' and could mold Doris from average into a sex symbol. This came together as Pillow Talk, a movie about two people who hate each other until they fall in love. Day frequently talked about how much fun she and Rock had making the movie, and how they had to extend the shoot multiple days because they just ruined takes by laughing. And it shows - watching this you can see the two of them are great friends.
