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If you arrive in Saint Denis with nice clothes when looking for Bronte, the bar doesn't all stop and stare at you when you come in. The Bartender also doesn't ignore you as heavily. I only recently tried this after playing for years.

Bronte is a great villian for Dutch because he is an outlaw of the past coming face to face with an outlaw of the future. Bronte and his organization are proof that even the criminal underworld is leaving them behind.

“You boys found my pappys watch yet?!” John’s one liners will always be the best 😂

"Those were the days." Dutch biting his tongue and eating the insult is a great scene.

Red Dead gets a lot of praise but no one ever talks about the set work and shot composition, the way John, Dutch, and Arthur are reduced sitting all little on that couch across from Brontë when they first meet is a hilarious bit of physical comedy begat from the framing. It also highlights Arthur and John’s bewilderment. They’ve been taken off guard, and Brontë is reclined and relaxed - in emotional control of the situation, manipulating Dutch with ease. Video games have a tendency to turn off the part of my brain that appreciates cinematography because most of the game is a static third person view but if I manually pay attention it’s very rewarding and it’s certainly work that the developers deserve praise for

I remember the introduction to Saint Denis. The pure filth you felt seeing all the factories active, working all the poor people to death. I hated the very sight of it and you could feel Dutch and Arthur feeling the same. I think Rockstar truly perfected the "Wild west" and the civil world in one map. The way the people are so different compared to Tumbleweed or other livestock towns really makes you ponder if humanity ever really changed for the best.

What Dutch was too stupid to realize is that if that trolley station did have a shit ton of money, Brontë would have either snatched it himself or some other gang would have. Also it would have been heavily guarded to begin with.

I love freeing the Mayor’s assistant, did it in my first playthrough and seeing him becoming mayor when playing as John is a cool detail

Bronte is such a good villain. Seeing him power-play over Dutch is wild. Thanks for the great content as always!

I still think Bronte always intended to give Jack back, and he treated Jack like a prince because he knew that would sadden and anger the people Jack was going back to, hearing him talk about Bronte as "Papa". He's truly a sick man

Hearing how Bronte talks to the characters, it reminds me that feeding him to the alligator was justified.

Always loved the part where Arthur holds that guy’s arm to light his cigar😂”alright now get lost “

I just completed a replay and finally realized the blue restaurant with striped awnings by Algernon Wasp’s greenhouse is Commander’s Palace, a fantastic NOLA restaurant in business continuously since the 1800s, where several famous TV chefs started out (the tiniest details of New Orleans architecture are captured as well as the city’s legendary corruption)

It chuckled me how Arthur first met the mayor in his mansion with his beard looking well-shaped and came a second time with a full fledged Viking beard shortly after. The things Saint Denis offer you...

I like that the kid can lead you to a group of other young thugs who tell you where to go but man i’ve never wanted to slap children more in a game than that cutscene

Bronte playing Dutch in front of his face added a ton to both of them. All his life, Dutch mostly robbed dumb, country folks but he couldn't help it once he came into contact with a powerful man from the city who thought himself untouchable

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the quality of content he creates.

I think we can surmise that the State of Lemoyne was purchased by the United States from the French Republic in the very early 1800's (the Louisiana Purchase occurred in 1803). The city of Saint Denis still has a large French ex-pat population. On their first playthrough did anyone else try to draw their weapons to kill the guy who stole our bag?

the mission where arthur and john search the cemetery is so good. the fog, the darkness mixed with the lighting. ah, i adore it.

Saint Denis really feels like a bad city even to this day. Saint Denis has a physical taste, smell, and feel that you can feel through the screen. The sounds are garbled through the cranking of industrial gears, the cries of pain, the corruption. While Saint Denis seems at first glance like a world wonder in an old society, the truth is that for the average person, the pay off isn't worth anything. You lose everything in Saint Denis if you're not the exploiter of the people. Rockstar Games did an AMAZING job with making Saint Denis a supposed paradise, but a smog storm in person.

I think Lemieux is based on Pierre Lanoire, mayor of the French city Marseille in the 1860’s. He was corrupt but charismatic and well liked until the mafia that operated in his city were accused of burning down an orphanage which led to so much public outcry he had to resign and go into exile, being replaced by his former assistant Julien Gaiter.

Bronte is disgustingly evil. You could see Arthur noticing it when Dutch and Bronte were talking on the balcony

Dutch was so right when he fed Bronte to gators, it was also hilarious.

I really feel especially the police department is corrupt because even when the npc starts shooting I’m still the bad guy if I even tie him up

Oh you know it’s gonna be a great day when Fizhy posts a forty minute RDR2 minidoc. Keep up the great work!

Always love to hear interesting stuff about the bustling city of Sandy Knee

I just want to take a moment to appreciate that he realized that 90% of people would check Discord as soon as they heard that noise so he did us a solid and told us it was in the video

Funniest moment to me when you tell Dutch you got robbed, he was ready to put a bullet in the person’s head. When Arthur said it was children, Dutch stopped being angry.

Being from Louisiana born and raised, exploring Saint Denis was really cool as though its not an exact recreation its obvious its based on New Orleans so it was kinda like a blast to the past of a really cool place.

Dutch is right though. He does possess something Bronte never would or even could understand. Micah Bell aside, his men are 150% loyal to him. He's much more a "king" in the romanticized sense of the word, than Bronte ever managed to be. No one was loyal to Bronte, they were loyal to their wallets and others feared him.

You can still fish out that severed arm if you spare Jean Marc. Arthur says something like, "Jeeze, someone wanted you to disappear."

Fun Facts: Angelo Bronte is acted by the same guy that played Boozer in Days Gone. Also, you can go to New Austin during the graverobbing mission. John follows you there and back, and you can catch a Tiger-Striped Mustang!

These are always so well done. You really have a talent for storytelling. And I know I've probably said it a thousand times before in the comments but genuinely, keep up the great work 👊🏿. As many times as I've played this game, I can consume these breakdowns/analysis's endlessly and still find myself learning something new or thanks to your videos picking up on maybe details I'd missed.

You could say alot of things about Bronte but he was right on the money with Dutch and his personality

The best way to describe corruption in these games, other than complex, is with the line "It's so much bigger than you could ever imagine, it's the whole system" said by DA Gil Colson in "The Batman".

What i find interesting through all of this is how many people see right through Dutch and his rhetoric except for the people in the gang. The Grays and Baithewaits manipulated him into attacking their rivals, Bronte, who was too powerful to care about Dutch's posturing, saw Dutch as a kindred spirit, but not in a positive way. That imo is the significance of the Dutch killing Bronte scene. Bronte figured Dutch was doing what Bronte did and bought the loyalty of his men, keeping them in line with money. And when his offer to pay the gang more than double what he thought dutch does was met with stone silence, he realized Dutch was far more dangerous than he could have anticipated, because he kept his tools in line with faith and you can't buy that out. Fantastic story telling bits

Loving these detailed insights into RDR Stuff really like these types of videos. Keep it up man

06:43 when asked who he is, I would have LOVED to hear Dutch say: "Names are for friends, so I don't NEED one!" as he pulls the guy into the gate!

While playing this game , I became torn on whether to think Dutch was actually a storm for good. Yes, he put his gang in danger, but most of the time, they are getting rid of worse men.

*Arthur:* We each got 15 dollars. Ohh and a quarter. Don't. Forget. The quarter. *Dutch:* Shut up Arthur.... Gets me Everytime.

Great video! I feel like a video dedicated to the Van Horn Trading Post would be interesting because of how completely lawless the town is, and also how unnecessarily aggressive it’s residents are. I wonder how it came to be that way.

Another damn Fizhy lore video, thank you for that; it's always a good listen.

I never really picked up on it specifically while playing but it’s very interesting how nearly every villain of RDR2 is a personification of one of Dutch’s masks without the other to hide behind. Colm is his straight up outlaw mask robbing and killing for the fun of it without the fancy self assured idealist mask to cover it. Brontë is his idealist mask who speaks like he’s smarter than he is and thinks he’s bullet proof even with a gun in his face, and Cornwall is Dutch’s ideal life, he’s a rich man with so many avenues of money he can just sit around and muse on random things

7:05: The reason that Bronte has so many armed guards (and why he's specifically noted as being 'Italian') is because of the real-life history of Late 19th - Early 20th Century New Orleans (which Saint Denis is based off of; Lemoyne being a thinly veiled parallel to Louisiana, my home state). More specifically, it's based on the criminal history of New Orleans, which at the time was mostly ruled over by La Cosa Nostra, or "the Black Hand" in English, which was a kind of precursor to the modern-day Mafia and the Crime Families. They got their name from their calling card which they would put on a piece of paper they mailed to the target of their attentions or would paint onto the sides of buildings they were going to target... a black handprint, meaning that they were 'Marked for Death/ Harassment.' They often used brutal scare tactics of burning down properties belonging to folks that wouldn't pay their 'Protection' Fee, of mutilating and disfiguring those that had either publicly or unintentionally stood in their way leaving them in a state of agony but not letting them die before showing others what they were willing to do to anybody that opposed them, kidnapping and ransoming children or wives to extort money from desperate family members who didn't want to see their loved ones hurt, and other cruel, exploitative acts to assert dominance over the average citizen and to intimidate those law-enforcement officers who wouldn't play ball and become dirty cops in their employ, by showing them how far they were willing to go. In fact, there's some suspicion that the actual serial killer involved in the mysterious 'Axman Murders' of the early 1910s was actually a La Cosa Nostra hitmen sent to assassinate people for either refusing to work with or pay expected fees to the organization. The main crux of the arguments was that one of the main suspects at the time was a known associate of la Cosa Nostra, as well as most of the victims being either Americans of Italian descent or Italian immigrants.

Loving these new 40 minute or so video essays on big topics of rdr2 lore. Keep up the great work!

Honestly love this content grew up on rdr1 so its nice to have this part of me tickled love this shit

I wish we got more missions in Saint Denis like more robberies or making events of some sort go wrong for Bronté or see the gang explore the city and get get used to high society, maybe a companion when doing Henri Lemieux dirty work?? More characters to work with? Rival businesses? Targets for the Van der linde gang, like someone who knows who they are and threaten to send Milton, so they silence them. Idk R* should’ve expanded the potential of somewhere as huge like Saint Denis,

I did t know you could catch up to the little bastard! I thought the game coded the mission to where you can’t catch up but it felt good to see him surrender😭 played the story about 6 times and never caught that little sh*t😂😆

"You boys found my Pappy's watch yet" has gotta be one of the best lines in the series

I’m simple, I see a RDR2 video from Fizhy, I click.

11:44 if you watch the guy Dutch talks too, you can see him flick his hand out from under his chin. This is the Italian equivalent of flipping somebody off, and a detail that I absolutely love

Genuinely thank you for all the red dead 2 content all these years later, I look forward to every single video :D

I always stop whatever I'm doing to watch these videos right away. Keep up the great work Fizhy.

Your work is absolutely great ! 🔥 You transcribe the deepest part of the scenario in the most developed way , amazing work cowpoke !

33:24 I love how Arthur just kicks the dude until he gives up 😂

I love how the trolley car magically goes really fast all of a sudden none of the other ones go that fast

Honestly your videos are just some of my favorite to have ping my notifications. You have made the red dead games so much more with these incredible deep dives. Thank you so much

Absolutely awesome video, the effort you go to is amazing 👏

Best RDR2 content on the internet. Always in depth, informative, entertaining. The best part is it’s obvious you love the game as much as we do. Unlike some other clickbait creators on KZfaq who seem like they’ve never even played the whole story coughMrBossftwcough

Incredible quality in your videos. So much detail and solid narrating man. Fantastic work 🔥

"YOU BOYS FOUND MY PAPPY'S WATCH YET?" got me cackling

Bruh, I just got back home from a Nightshift (No Commodores) only to see a near hour video on RDR2 from the boy, Fiz... Lemme roll up and get comfortable. Love these videos and Do Not Stop!! I don't care if you're talking about the mountains, just keep em coming. Best Game Ever. Don't @ me.

I just love how Arthur goes from a tundra hunter to Rasputin in between his first and second visit with the mayor.

I love that u r still doing rdr videos brother👍 I will never tire of this game world..and I usually learn a thing or two in your videos I didn’t know b4. So thank u👍

You have a great voice for these stories. You always make it more mysterious

Fizhy, u knocked it outta the park again!! Always a pleasure, watchin your content. Cheers from ft. Lauderdale, Fl.😎🍻 Keep being great, bruh.

Hey man happy to see another upload so soon after the last! You’re on fire and we appreciate your hard and consistent work! Much love my friend

Just finished RDR2 for the first time. Came across your videos. Thank you, sir! These are extremely quality content.

In online, Sean works for Martelli because of the blood money missions, would have been funny if he came along and met Bronte or Martelli in chapter 4 :]

Great mini-doc. I gotta go back and play RDR2 again. I have been inspired now. Its such a good game. So immersive, I forget I am playing a game. Its so immersive and believable, like taking part in the lives and times of the gang. RDR2 is next-level stuff that any other open world game can not be compared to. Even GTA5 does not have the writing immersive quality that RDR2 has. It never feels like a list of chores or redundant gameplay. The 'grind' is blended with the world and the story so well. Its the best Western movie ever made, and we all get to be the lead role.

5:15 I always loved how Arthur says "give my thangs back :("

Also, in All my 4 playthroughs, I've Never been able to catch that kid 😂😂 Another cutscene I just discovered 🤦🏿‍♂️

Thanks Fizhy. Really love this game and your videos on it.

I appreciate the work you put in your videos Fizhy

thank you so much for your unbelivable content. your videos always a blast. the efford you bring in is so crazy. i love it . thx

I always loved the Bronte section. There's just something about the dynamic of the past vs the future of American organized crime.

ive been watching this type of content since you first started making it back in 2019 and im still nnot bored of it. keep it up

That mission reminded me of one of the first mission of gta vice city, when you go to a party in a yacht and are introduced to most of the characters that you will make missions for.

these types of videos are literally AMAZING. keep going. i dont care this vid was 8 months ago its still very good.

Love how RDR2 videos are still relevant 5 years later and I'm still finding out new things....ty

This is my first video of yours that I have seen but gawd damn you put a lot of effort in.

Ayo been watching for a few years now and really appreciate your work. Thanks man

That graverobbery mission usually takes me like 3 hours to finish because the glitch that allows you to go to new austin and do a bunch of stuff as arthur i love that mission

As soon as I think I’m done with red dead content - THERES MORE - from you and I be loving it.

Saint Denis is the pure example of the worlds city's and governments This is the whole massage that the producers showed

It’s so cosy watching these vids, great work Fizhy sire!

These videos are making me replay the game after leaving it for a few years

Love these vids and this game man. Four years and I still can’t get enough. Fuckin legendary.

This is why I love your channel keep up your amazing work

27:45 “LLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW”- Rico Dredd

I enjoy your content bro keep up the good work it's awesome 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

The music during the Saint Denis graveyard shootout is 🔥

The most underrated channel. The videos are a cinematic masterpiece.

Yet another phenomenal Red Dead video by the fishman!

I love these video’s! You make such good documentaries!

You have the best red dead, redemption, two content

You should do more like this , don't worry about repeat the themes! Red dead lore and your narrative skills are enough. 🤙

Really enjoyed this video, thanks fizhy

I love that contents still getting made for this masterpiece till this day.