Is this AI generated? The music is a bit annoying.

it is insanely good essay, wish you'll make more of them!

I think your mathematical approach to structure undermines the subject, and the way you dismiss the two-part theory makes this clear. Percentage doesn't really matter. Content does.

The whole time I was like “yeah right… it’s just a freaking Vietnam movie who cares?” Then you said the “it’s not about this warface, it’s about THIS warface.” And I literally got shivers all down my spine

More Kubrick please

Agamemnon survived in reality and menelaus takes back Helen, Paris dies in war.. This movie is totally different😂

Cake is flour, eggs, milk, and a pinch of salt. You can absolutely tell a story just by watching and listening to them. This book bologna is only to make money at the expense of making movies similar and similar.

This deserves more views. Well done

excellent. Thank you.

it's structure isn't "confusing", it's just atypical.

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Incredible analysis, really. Thank you for the video.

Thanks a lot for the tips Your videos really disserve more views

I too love plot, but I kinda prefer Aristotle's analysis better than this one, as it seems to explain great stories that lack conflict, calls to adventure, etc, while this one does not. It also doesn't require (but does allow for) character arcs. Since I yawn at character arcs, this better matches my preferences.

this is amazing, such a great video. you actually made the amazing spider-man 2 sound like a good movie

Thank you for this. I'm going to watch it again and take notes.

Act 2 starts when they leave the Hidden Fortress.

Quality work! Thanks

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Good analysis a few things,The "prostitute" was not one that was the whole point she would not do it, she was a refugee caught up in the war. Im shocked you had any criticism for this masterpiece of cinema.

Well done! Just got done reading the Iliad so the timing is perfect!

What if I put all the ingredients on a table and come back 200 millions years later, would I find cake?

This was great!

If there is a structure, it's First Act, up to the death of Pyle; Second Act, Joker in Vietnam; Third Act begins with entrance of Animal Mother, ends with killing the sniper, the mercy killing, then the song.

Is it possible Kubrick just likes his "non-submersible units" and is not concerned with overall structure ?

It always amuses me that critics call Hidden Fortress "Light Entertainment" It's a pretty deep story, and a cinematic masterpiece! One thing you missed is a Japanese song sung in three styles: 1 the fire festival, 2 the Generals attack 3 the princess sings the song from memory... Its a great introduction to Japanese music, which is pretty alien to most of us... IMHO

Great analysis man!

One of the best videos about structure that I seen. Thank you for providing so many examples. I appreciate it.

Outside of the first ten minutes, Star Wars feels less like the Hidden Fortress than most western films of similar vintage inspired by Kurosawa.

Dude, this is crazy helpful. You deserve way more love!

This is a really good video. Hidden gold.

What it the background Music?

I might actually be the only person who actually loves jurassic world but i got to say that you’re version is really cool too. The fake ending moment is really original

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Great video, also a nice touch that the midpoint discussion aligns with the midpoint of the video itself.

This is really excellent work.

The scene with the gold is oddly reminiscent of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Great analysis but wdym he fumbled his gun didn't the gun gumed?

Another thing-- you mention that what made Star Wars so unique in the 1970s was how it broke from the gritty, pessimistic tone that dominated most American films of that period. It's funny because now I find a lot of Disney Star Wars tries to aim for grittiness (Rogue One, Andor) when that's just going against what made the series so unique in the past. Even if the good versus evil theme does still become more nuanced in Empire and ROTJ, the films were never necessarily "gritty" or bleak, aesthetically or tonally.

Great breakdown on a film that most might think is over-analyzed. I too find it fascinating how this movie delays showing us the protagonist. However, it works well-- we get to set up the universe AND we get to see just what Luke is up against (the Empire, Vader, etc.).

Great analysis of a wonderful movie! The message feels very spiritual, very Buddhist. I also loved your point about Kurosawa's shot compositions and editing compared to modern movies. I've seen people claim older movies are "stagey" because they just let scenes play out that way, but I find these claims ridiculous. The lack of constant whiz-bang editing is why i tend to gravitate more towards classic cinema and Kurosawa's masterful command of his craft is a great lesson in how absorbing such cinema could be.

Great job man!

I really enjoyed your interpretation of the meaning of this film. But I think you could have pointed out how the two peasant protagonist Tahei and Matashichi showed the Toshiro Mifune character Rokurōta a plausible escape route. Rokurōta showed great pleasure in the irony that these illiterate peasants figured out an escape route that he, a great general, had not considered. This reinforces your thesis that humanity is equally valuable regardless of rank or life station.

My favorite movie. A good mix of comedy. action and adventure. I've watched it more than 100 times. A couple things - 1) Although the general tells the two peasants his name and the peasants recognize the name as that of a famous general, the peasants do not believe him and do not find out he really is who he said until the courtyard scene at the end of the movie when all is revealed. Until then they believe him to be just a bully. 2) The peasant girl bought from the slave trader is not a prostitute. Wikipedia also falsely labels her as a prostitute. Quite the opposite. She refuses to take John's. That's why the slave trader is eager to sell her. She was recently captured from the princesses land. That's why they bought her. To free one of their own. She is billed as a farmers daughter. Thanks for reviewing. I like hearing other people's take on this movie.

The plot is easy to understand, taxes are implemented on trade routes, the Trade Federation doesn't like that, Sidious manipulates Gunray by promising him riches, Gunray blockades Naboo, the blockade causes debates in the Senate and Valorum sends two Jedi to negotiate. That's the set up but now you think about why this happens. The debates will delay any response, and if it takes long to actually deal with the blockade, Naboo will suffer heavily. By telling them to invade, Palpatine will cause even more debate. First they were debating the legality of the blockade then they'll be debating on whether or not the invasion is real and if it's legal then once the treaty is signed, they'll debate on whether or not the treaty is legal. When the debates end, Palpatine makes Valorum out to be an incompetent buffoon for being unable to control the Senate and will point to the devastation of his home planet to show the cost of keeping Valorum around. Would it not be effective propaganda to ask "how could such a nonsensical treaty be allowed to exist?" Palpatine calls for a vote of no confidence and becomes Supreme Chancellor. Pretty obvious how he deals with the Trade Federation's blockade from there. There's also the possibility of having Maul kill a captured Padme and make it look like the Trade Federation did it, that would drive up sympathy for Naboo even higher. Gunray doesn't know about being a pawn and believe that his lobbyists (we see one of his lobbyists in the Senate meeting scene later on) will push for the Senate to try and repeal the taxes once the debates end. Padme escaping and arriving on Coruscant wasn't what Palpatine expected and he turns the situation around by manipulating her into being the one to question Valorum's rule. This makes it even better for him because his original plan draws a lot of attention to himself but now he's just a humble guy who just so happens to replace Valorum as the Republic's new leader. You completely misunderstood Padme's character in TPM. You're meant to see the Queen as a persona, Padme and her handmaiden doubles wear her like a mask. They use the persona to command respect and authority, you can see pieces of Padme in scenes like the Senate meeting where she calls for a vote of no confidence but you get a clearly look at her character when she's in her handmaiden disguise and in her third act because she's able to be herself without the fear of not living up to the powerful persona of the Queen. Obi-Wan does things like disregard Jar Jar and Anakin as pathetic life forms and the movie never said he was impulsive, it's just that he clung to the Jedi Code too hard. Qui-Gon does things like take Jar Jar and Anakin simply because his instincts tell him to and because the Force exists in this world, it's implied that he's allowing the Force to guide him through his fate. Also Qui-Gon trying to train Anakin is a very rebellious move and even though he ends up listening to the Jedi, he still brings Anakin to Naboo as a way of getting around being told no. If he can't directly train him, he can just take Anakin with him instead so Anakin learns by picking up on Qui-Gon's behaviours. We are told that Leia is a Princess but we never see her do any ruling, this argument is very bad lol. Padme's issue is that she can't do much ruling with this blockade causing issues for her. If loads of countries in real life need imports, loads of planets in Star Wars need imports. He literally rebuilt C3PO and his podracer, sure we didn't see every step but why is that an issue? We see Anakin do some final adjustments to his podracer and he even tests it, joyfully exclaiming "it's working!" Seriously? Maul literally tries to run over Anakin on Tatooine for literally no reason and then tries to take down Qui-Gon. Also he's working for Palpatine and looks like Satan, how is this hard to understand lol? Why would we need an extra scene of Maul doing evil things when we know he's the big bad's apprentice? Jar Jar guides the Jedi to the Gungans and there's two payoffs here, the immediate one which is getting a faster way to get to Theed and the later one which is knowledge of the Gungan Grand Army. Jar Jar speaking with Padme also shows her that the Gungans aren't people to avoid, they think and feel just like her people. Comparing TPM with ANH and saying we can see these things without being told makes your points against the characters of TPM even worse because both movies are doing the same thing lol. We can feel Qui-Gon's wisdom, we can feel Obi-Wan's annoyance with Qui-Gon's attitude, we can feel Padme's strong will to help her people, we see Anakin fix things (he does it more than Luke, we can feel Sebulba's arrogance and even see his aggressive behaviours. "All that visual storytelling is gone in favour of overt expository dialogue with no subtext". Oh my God lmfao seriously? There's no way you unironically said that and picking that line about Anakin saying he's a pilot is such a cheap move, I can do that with so many random lines from the originals, "Owen he can't stay here forever, most of his friends have gone. It means so much to him". We already know it means so much to him, this is overt expository dialogue. This isn't a knock against the originals, I'm just showing that Lucas created a certain style and used it since the very beginning. Here's some sourced quotes from two Star Wars OGs. “I told him: ‘You can’t say that stuff. You can only type it.’ But I was wrong. It worked.” - Harrison Ford in Time Magazine May 30 1977 "Some of my lines cost us take after take. 'You'll never get this bucket of bolts past that blockade.' 'I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit.' "Stilted is a kindness. We used to go to him (Lucas) and say, 'You can type this, but you cannot say it.' But he made up a language - stilted was actually what he was looking for." - Carrie Fisher in Star Wars Insider issue 59 These quotes aren't hard to find at all and they give a lot of insight as to why Star Wars dialogue is the way it is. The originals relied more on the body and facial acting than the dialogue and it's the same for the prequels. You can get the emotional context without the words and the words are there to fill in story context. Take Qui-Gon's death without the dialogue as an example, it's framed as a young man holding his dying father in his arms as he listens to his father's final request. Qui-Gon even touches Obi-Wan's face like a father and Obi-Wan hugs him like a son once he finally passes. The visual storytelling is all there if you pay attention. The dialogue in this scene brings story context so we know what Qui-Gon's final request is. It's the same as the originals if you treat them both fairly. (1/6)

Can you do the LOTR or the Matrix

One sentence really summed up these prequels well: 'extended toy commercials and shallow politics' 😂 A bizarre blend indeed My feelings on the prequels have evolved wildly over the years. As a kid, I unrelentingly loved them. I grew up watching them with my brothers and they were my childhood movies. Then my exposure to the internet at around 10-12 years old lead to the discovery of "the prequel hatred". Some of which was well-worded, but most was intense and "fanboyish" to say the least. I was conflicted as a kid, feeling too embarrassed to admit that I liked them. So I forced myself to hate them for a good few years. Now, it's an even more bizarre time. There's a resurgence of prequel love and the internet hatred has moved over to the sequel trilogy (I actually quite like them, but that's a whole other tangled web). The prequel trilogy is a fascinating and frustrating landmark in cinema. A trilogy that has had director's free reign control, merchandising, toxic fanbases and nostalgia constantly changing the quality and perception of it over the years. As for my current verdict, I'm choosing to view them as just a flawed series of films that was crucial to the bonding experience I had with my brothers. We loved them. We had a blast. And we still quote them to this day. Even if they are flawed. Great breakdown as always. It was an interesting note at the end about how this trilogy's theme could be viewed as 'losing freedom' then the original trilogy is about 'attaining freedom'. Hope you take a well earned break! 👍

Great video, mate!

Great video! Thank you :)

Loving these prequel videos. Listening to this will make the commute to work so much better tomorrow