8:30 Completely agree. BCS is a more nuanced, and I'd say *mature* story. From the beginning, BB relied on big thrills, kills, gore, and surviving implausibly high stakes. Watching BCS afterwards makes BB seem a little bit lurid, and almost cartoonish by comparison. And that is NOT me saying BB is a worse show... those things are very entertaining, and were very cleverly navigated in the mechanics of the action. But it seems fitting that as the audience of the Gilliverse had matured by nearly a decade, that BCS offered a more patient, studied approach to a more complex character in Jimmy McGill-- and the audience was now able to appreciate it more. Apologies for the very old reference, but it felt a bit like moving from the Mary Tyler Moore Show to the more serious Lou Grant. Which is interesting, since Jimmy was a main source of comic relief in the original show. Anyway, just some thoughts...

An insanely under-appreciated film.

After watching "A hidden life", I have concluded he is the best director.

Agreed! Finally watched this movie and it was so fun. Shyamalan has always been an amazing visual storyteller. I recently watched The Sixth Sense special features and he is meticulous with his story boarding

Sinister...

I spent a summer reading a whole slew of King books too some years back. Lot of good stuff there.

Supposedly we read for enjoyment. That said, the more time a book can fill, the bigger. It's not a race to the finish line.

TOTALLY agree that you should start with The Gunslinger. I'm with you - I just don't believe in "rearranging" an author's work.

I would say the Crimson King was more like Morgoth I think Randall Flag was like Sauron. If I was a little disappointed in anything at all in the Dark Tower it was how it "reduced" Randall Flagg to a relatively bush league villain. After reading The Stand, I had him pegged as "not Satan/the devil", but a VERY senior subordinate. But the Dark Tower cut him down quite a bit in my opinion.

Oh my gosh - the minute the video first came up I was like "Those guys look SO much alike." Then you said you're brothers. 🙂 Very cool, guys - great to see you sharing something as wonderful as the Tower. Long days and pleasant nights!

The only thing wrong with the pitch early on is the "...to save it" part. Roland's goal is to get to the top. Period. The only reason to save the tower is so he can get to the top; saving everything is an aftereffect and not the goal.

Mr. Shyamalan is very talented! Nice review.. BTW...people are forgetting that The Happeing was made during late 90s and early 2000s when Global Warming was the hot topic and people were concerned about our planet and wanted to encourage recycling ...this was the time when Shyamalan did his part of bringing attention to this topic. It was his way of getting people's attention to the important topic. I remember back then lot of scientists were saying bees are dying and this is impacting our planet and our lives. Can't blame the guy for trying.

Great work. Probably the most profound 5 minutes Ive had in some time.

Great analysis, this show is incredible

I think every single student going to college should have to watch this before attending

There's a more fundamental explanation of the movie. David Bowie's crisis, and Walter Tevis's as well, was based on paralysis generated by our dying world (during the 1950s and 1960s climate science culminated in the Manabe/Wetherald atmospheric model, generating the belief (even if we avoided nuclear annihilation) that human extinction was approaching. Previous to this the Western population was moving toward the center of the universe, so the desperate frantic development of technology, the race between escape and extinction, was deemed lost, and all of the shame, failure, despondency, and terror of that determination claimed the lives of many of David Bowie's friends and became his crisis and primary mode of being. Paralysis occurred when movement toward the center of the universe was deemed no longer important. During the Heliocentric period (roughly 1600 to 1917) the Sun was the center of the universe, subsequently (leading to the career of H.P. Lovecraft) there is no center of the universe, but in pursuit of it that leads us countless light years away from Earth, into the deep recesses of outer space. After 1917 the Sun has no relevance in terms of human behavior and Bowie, Tevis, and Roeg are all firmly dealing with the Void, or rather, paralysis from the lack of belief in our ability to traverse the Void. The "falling to earth" of Tevis and Roeg is the failure of escaping Earth, also covered by Bowie's "Space Oddity". The Sun has nothing to do with this fall. In the movie Newton wants to escape Earth but can't. While this is deemed "his own weakness" that weakness is covering up for his understanding of his own terrible belief that Bowie never reckoned with over the course of his life.

I absolutely loved that point made that Roland is an archetype for all our favourite characters in books. Roland is Gandalf, falling into the deeps of the world with Durins Bane for the 20th time, it is Paul riding the sandworm for the 10th. That we, in an abstract way make these characters live in loops. I love that.

This kicked me off to reread the books as I have done before. No spoilers and maybe a bit meta but this is journey number 3 😉

still a great movie

I think it’s about a world without mercy.

Your essay is so well thought out. Loved your editing and critique, you articulate so well why this movie and PTA is genius.

Don’t focus on totalitarianism too long. I’m not saying you are wrong but the movie is shot so vague that we can still interpret it in today’s context. Let’s ask the question of how is a commercial different from Caligari? You see a future and therefore in sleepwalking state you buy it but in the end you don’t feel better. Furthermore, aren’t commercial not created by people who do nothing else in their life to study human behaviors and needs and dreams and so on? This movie is more subversive than They Live by John Carpenter and I wouldn’t have thought it would be possible.

I passed 6 kidney stones in about 4 months. Small ones. I passed 1 years later that hurt worse than the others combined. Take care, I needed a procedure to remove scar tissue from a really 'sensitive' area after passing so many.

Complete trash. Couldn't watch past 30 minutes.

The demon that eats sick children souls is easily the most terrifying monster in the series

You call this the golden years of television? What are you smoking?

TIMELESS!!

Love this! Great video and the inclusion of Truby's The Anatomy of Story was well done.

GLENN!!!

You can NOT skip The Gunslinger! It establishes Rolands all encompassing focus on the man in black and the Dark Tower. Roland is never again this single minded in the whole series. I would have preferred this Roland to the one he becomes for the entire series. It is a necessary drive to match the seriousness of the task (saving EVERYTHING)

I feel like Sally bugs may have tried to strangle Frank if he had sat in the front seat and Frank knew this which is why he insisted to sit in the back during the fish in the back seat scene

Im falling a sleep watching this

I loved this movie.

Great explanation. Have a different respect for the movie now.

So true about the mindset. The second watch, I knew what I was in for and it was a much better viewing experience

Long days and pleasant nights.

Nice.

*_Jimmy With A Law Degree Is Like A Chimp With A Machine Gun_* ~ *Chuck Mcgill*

I honestly enjoy both more, they're both perfectly acted, brilliantly paced, and MAGNIFICENTLY scripted, I'd give them both a bravo Vince

Did i like the irishman? yes. but also i’m only 30 seconds in and shut up nerd.

I didn't realize till I started my (rather haphazard) rewatch was, SOOO MUCH FORESHADOWING throughout. Makes rewatchig more fun.

Nice video :D

Great Video! The fact that this came up in my recommendations as I am in season 3 of binge watching this show makes me question everything I know about the concept of privacy.

I do not like this movie it was way too much with the audio. It got in the way.

so beautiful.

what were the song titles in the background

I kept thinking she’d wake up 😥

Thanks, I enjoyed the video. The Art Of Dramatic Writing is an excellent book more new writers should study.

You speak too slow

Walter didn’t use his skills to deal meth as a way to his hospital bills