I'm just a middle aged woman looking up videos to learn how to make a music video for another middle aged woman......I'm loving your channel it's giving me a lot to think about. Thanks for sharing!❤

Another problem The Crown had was that in addition to being boring, they never factored lighting into their budget. The whole damned episode looks like it was shot in the dark. Is that supposed to be “cinematic”?

Dear Moviewise, as a film student I gotta tell you that what your channel is one of the most useful things ever. Your videos are challenguing, informative and funny af. 👏 Thanks for existing!

Something that makes a story interesting is stakes. You don't need to put the world in danger, you could just add personal or relationship stakes that make things matter to the people in your story.

What in the previous 3 series of The Crown suddenly made you think it was going to turn into Game of Thrones? With jets instead of dragons and penguins instead of White Walkers?

*What makes a story interesting especially on the first episode/chapter is when the main protagonist isn't trying....the scenario he/she is in specifically fits for them and what they stand for....*

No reversals. Ideally, every scene should present a reversal. Robert McKee's book 'Story' has reversal as one of his 'principles' of story-telling, meaning, if I recall, that the protagonist's sense of how things -or other people - work undergoes a change based on conflict between what he expects to happen and what actually does.

I've watched your other video essays, but this one I'm only 50/50 with.

Superb little video that I run across while looking for other stuff! Going to watch The Misfits again now!

I mean... You didn't even tried to analyze the episode you were critisizing

Just found your channel. You're a beast! Caught that two-second COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO clip. Please tell me you love that film as much as I do!

This channel is criminally under subscribed.

I noticed on the thumbnail to this video you've included the theatrical poster for Dark of the Sun...now THERE'S an exciting movie!

You're absolutely right. If Bond films were about an accountant, no one would go see them--unless they were written in an interesting way.

The glorified hissy fit at 5:11 really illustrates the utter lack of imagination and creativity that is Hollywood.

I agree about The Misfits being a great movie. I've seen it twice but the second time was especially brutal when you know the ending. The horse scene is heart breaking. The performances are great, Arthur Miller turned out a great script for the wife he'd soon divorce, Clark Gable was dead within a few months of the movie wrap (the stress of the final scene supposedly hastened his demise), and Montgomery Clift and Marilyn Monroe were not long for this world either. It kind of gives added poignancy to a really taut drama full of interesting characters. The direction is fantastic and the black and whiteness in the age of colour sets it apart as well. I'd highly recommend a watch. Another great video on a top movie topic!

Can anyone tell me the name of the song that starts playing at 7:15 and at continues throughout the whole Misfits discussion? Another great video, by the way.

Came for the insight about movies, stayed for the excellent summary of the Falklands War. That war contains all the ingredients for not one, but many gripping and epic stories. Two countries, in economic bad times, their glory days seemingly behind them go to war. One to assert its macho-ness and conceal its atrocities towards its own citizens (Argentina), the other to reassert itself after an afront to its smallest territory (the UK) in the face of an incredulous rest of the world, who think the Brits are clapped out. The UK has EVERYTHING to lose and it's not remotely prepared to fight on the other side of the world but finds the will do do so...that's the basis for a movie right there. If you read about how they assembled the task force, repurposed an obsolete bomber to fly the longest bombing raid in history, took a massive gamble in sinking Argentina's flagship, endured relentless bombing on its ships which they could not afford to lose...and, conversely, the story of the Argentinian pilots who had to fly what became suicide missions far from home in ageing aircraft against the British Harrier, a jet that could literally go straight up in the air to avoid being shot down, the story of Colonel H Jones sacrificing himself to ensure a desperate night battle could be won you can see the narrative possibilities...and that's just the first half of the war! Many excellent books have been written about the Falklands War, but very few films and the best of those is a TV movie called "An Ungentlemanly Act". But, sure, let's just meander around with a guy down on his luck instead so he can have a bit of a rant about "the message".

Does anyone know the song at 3:13? Can't remember the movie it's from.

Thank you thank you exactly interesting story’s and characters doing the impossible heroics in action thrills adventure and all that great stuff we don’t really see anymore these days

The montage, man, the montage over R.M. Hey, yor channel is giving me motivation to continue with my filmmaking. But this time in 4:3 and classic directing style:)

Making the audience identify with the hero as he has to make difficult choices "What would you do in that situation." Bruce Dern Silent Running 1972.

Brilliant stuff Thank you

Thatcher’s effect on common folk in the UK was intense

The Mule is a terrific movie.

Also raising a question helps making a story interesting. Questions such as "what makes a story interesting?" well played

Well done! Maybe your best video!

Funny is important but True is more important than funny When you have a funny truth then you have something. You have something here.

I loved this episode. They tied us into the working-class desperation of Thatcher's Britain, the reggae-ish, punkish vibe that we could hear in certain music from that time. And the final dialogue gave us an idea of how the queen still had some basic concern for people, despite how divorced her experiences were from the reality.

what movie is at 3:39 with that lion jumping?

I wonder what you think of Mike Leigh?

Feck!! A critique so lazer sharp the victim has been diced and sliced before he knows it 😅

I loved this episode. Thought it was fantastic, and a standout from the whole series. Oh well.

Thank you MOVIEWISE THAT YOU EMERGED FROM THE DEEPTH OF THE UNIVERSE with your VOICE!

Was that a Rhapsody of Fire song?

On another note, I think the BEST interesting movie that successfully maintains its intruige from beginning to end is DIE HARD. A movie about a cop from New York who travels to LA to see his estranged wife who suddenly gets caught up in a hostage situation as terrorists take over the building of the company she works for during their staff Christmas party. It is an unapologetic 80s action thriller, but a tastefully made one with an airtight no-nonsense screenplay and zero wasted characters, and is rightfully considered a classic. It is a machine of a script where every moving part has a purpose. And in spite of the plot being an extreme and unlikely scenario, it remains believable by showing a realistic sequence of events that could lead to such chaos and hysteria. Mostly to allow John Mcclain to be a badass and shoot guns without the audience asking "this isn't his business he should leave it to the other cops". His involvment in stopping the terrorists is wholly earned and necessary. And he is a... wait for it... HERO. Impossible to imagine, I know. Even BEFORE the guns come out, the writers make sure you're interested by showing you how John is seeing his marraige fall apart as his wife changes her last name, and you see this dickhead asswipe that's stealing his girl, giving her a prohibitively expensive rolex watch. It's intense before there is even a hint of danger. Furthermore, the amount of screen time where action takes place is surprisingly low. Most of this movie is tension and building stakes, and a lot of the time it focusses on characters who have little to no vested interest in the hostages' safety. But it doesn't waste your time because these characters actions MATTER. And when there is a MASSIVE EXPLOSION, and a huge chunk of the Los Angeles SWAT Team is knocked over like bowling pins in a blaze of destruction, it SHOCKS YOUR SOUL. That is a MOVIE.

It kind of shake my bones thinking of the deaths of the teenagers of my country that were forced to fight an unwinnable war, starving and freezing in a land they barely knew anything about as something exciting. I just, I don't understand how can it even be portrayed as epic or exciting.

If we're going to give credit where credit's due, we should note that 'Wall-E' lifted that line from the song 'I've Gotta Be Me,' the Broadway number that Sammy Davis Jr. had a hit with in the late '60s. There, the line is: 'I want to live / Not merely survive.'

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A Jay Peterman reference? How can I not like this video!

Hey you featured two monumental Belgian films in there... Were they an example of boring stories, or ordinary stories made interesting? ,-)

The kind of depth Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers have can't be taught in film school.

8:50 😂

Wasn't the first scene of The Crown a depiction of George VI coughing up blood into a dingy bathroom? Fans should know what to expect by now lol.

The editing with the boring movie 1080 dilenme 23😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Any f....cking use for it. 😂😂 Robert Mckee is amazing. And Adaptaion is ome of my favorite movies.

Loved the video! Will it be reductive to say that these characters have a strong "want"? And a character without a strong "Want" is very rarely interesting ?

I like your channel a lot although i dont agree with your views quite often. That's kind of impressive

Although not my cup of tea either, "slice of life" storytelling generally doesn't have big epiphanies or highs and lows. They still have melodrama but I think minimalism is generally the appeal of those types of stories. Though any examples I can think of tend be from Asian television. Trying to think of good examples in Hollywood though I guess it's more common in episodic television than cinema.

John Huston's Moby Dick is interesting because the ship is set up as a microcosmic world, and its sole purpose is to hunt down and kill a certain whale, but instead the what destroys the ship/world and everyone aboard except the guy telling the story.

I liked 'The Mule', but I wouldn't go to the theater to see it. It was fine as a TV movie

I have seen nothing of 'The Crown'...however, the title itself should indicate why the episode you mention at the start focuses on the knob who broke into the palace...where the Queen was. Queen wears a crown, 'The Crown' is (probably) primarily about the monarchy and, in regard to the Falklands conflict, the Queen would have held a purely peripheral position with the ultimate decisions being made by government/parliament. Otherwise the UK would still have a functional monarchy rather than the symbolic/hereditary one and all that historical, Cromwellian drama would have been for nothing.

This episode was brilliant. The guy isn't a 'poor random loser'. The war is the distraction...an island thousands of miles away to blow money on by a country with vast inequality

YOU ARE DOVAHHATTY!!!

is this guy Dovahatthy?

If you're so bored then play Subway Surfers on the corner of your screen.

Thanks very much for the video I am going to see the misfits it looks good

I thought I saw a short clip from “Marty”. I saw it when I was a boy. Bored me rigid.

For someone arguing for what makes a story interesting you sure chose one of the most bloated and boring examples of old school Hollywood to make your point.

Explosions and shaky-cam.

Feels like parody. So is avengers the best film ever?

It's a ball

Awww, why you gotta diss Jeanne Dielman like that? I get it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s not a movie where nothing happens.

I mean the crown thing is kind of a weird opinion of yours... its about the contrast. yeah, maybe If I hadn't lived in the UK and heard about the stuff shown maybe I wouldn't get that much enjoyment out of it but eh, its about the brits. the story of the Falkland war has been told time and time again, we know it. But not all stories need to be about great things, great people, or great events. Stories don't need to be tales of extremes, extreme evil vs extreme good. That's fairy tales and fables. Modern story telling is a bit more complex. There's a reason people love Metamorphosis by Kafka so much doesn't have excitement, I mean the biggest crazy action we get is an apple throw. and yet it still captures so many peoples imagination. sometimes we just need mirrors instead of fairy tales. sometimes people need to see themselves instead of what they want to be to know how to become what they want to be.

Tom Brooke the nobody from The Crown always looks like he just got punched in the face.

BEST EXAMPLE OF ALL IS TAXI DRIVER

It is as if though Schwarzenneger had a film critique channel

The future is now old man

You are brilliant but also ADHDAF.

[02:40] Too funny. And [3:57] is a lesson Chantal Akerman needed to learn. Everything else is a lesson I need to learn.

I will watch the misfits simply for that display of tostesterone, and probably appreciate all the other good stuff as well

Sorry this video has a big mistake. You said Falklands when in reality it's true name is Islas Malvinas

Ahh yes, Clark Gable - the most punchable face in Hollywood. He never adjusted his acting he just kept his 1930's schtick throughout. I didn't like 'The Misfits'. The dancing scenes almost went full threesome at some point. It was weird. It wasn't Gable's worst performance, it kinda reminded me of Errol Flynn's performance in 'The Sun Also Rises'. I guess they knew their livers would fail at any moment and that gave them incentive to give one final decent performance. Sometimes you have to wear down the actor in order to get to the core of that being and to access good emoting. Stanley Kubrick knew that. Rumor has it that he would often put arsenic in the coffee and serve it to the actors to get them sick and fatigued so he he could get acceptable performances out of them. Alright I made the last part up, he probably didn't put arsenic in the coffee.

but what if argentinian feelings would've been hurt?

after watching some of your vids I must say: damn man- you are a conservative and while it's ok when it stands for film grammar, etc, it's so annoying when it goes to ideology (ex. why movies need manly characters,... um, yeah), seriously, bro?

you're the type of guy that would include an extra action scene of a teenager murdering someone, in the movie 12 angry men. Some stories don't need violence or action. They are good as they are, or even stronger. Not saying I don't want to see any Falkland war scenes. just not in this episode because its about his POV.

being homosexual was so unusual in those days that "Gay" was a name.... good old times :)

moviewise You are my favorite film history critic because you didn't censor yourself . if you continue to do so, I'll see myself out 👎🏼

Bad take, very bad take

„everything what is between good vs bad is waste of time“ works either for children or for very primitive people.

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The problem is that showing Thatcher as a badass would have gotten the antimonarchist fanboys who stan The Crown into a tizzle since how dare you make Margaret Thatcher into anything other than an evil politician who hurt the little guy.

The whole Falkland War is downplayed in the Crown, maybe because if presented from the perspective of the Queen it should have spoken of prince Andrew, which is not too much politically correct nowadays

ITS NOT FALKLAND ITS MALVINAS

because he's a criminal, so we have to be shown how society forces him to commit crime, so that when we see a certain ethnic group commit crime, we feel bad for them and the racial explanation is not viable

Your channel is film school. Correction: your channel is what kids should watch instead of going to movie school and spewing woke propaganda.