alien movies suck, so did this 😅lol

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have mercy on me a sinner.

I hate HATE *HATE* this film. Firstly, it should be noted that the people who made this trash subsequently went on to make The House Bunny, a film that treats the Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion as a sweet, supportive, sorority that treats women with respect. In other words, the people behind these two films no NOTHING about ACTUAL feminism, and are instead pushing toxic tropes and 'aspirations.' Secondly, in REALITY no-one has ever been discriminated against for being blonde. But plenty of dark ethnic types like me were discriminated for being dark and ethnic-looking by the 'pretty' blonde girls and boys, just as the NAZIS murdered MILLIONS of people who weren't suffiently blonde and blue-eyed. Thirdly, in REALITY, blond(e) people are FAR MORE likely to be old money than dark-haired people. Blond(e) hair is a recessive gene and is considered a sign of 'pure white' breeding. In REALITY a lot of WASPy heiresses are blonde types. Donald Trump and his overprivileged brood are also blonde (although it's also true that two of his wives were relatively poor migrants). It's Jews, Italian-Americans, Armenians, Greeks, Hispanics and Eastern European types who are 'New Money.' They came to the US with NOTHING, unlike the blonde blue-eyed Anglo-Saxons who look like Elle and her blonde, blue-eyed clique and have maintained their 'pure' WASP bloodline over generations. It's striking that the 'evil' 'old money' women who are presented as Elle and Brooke's counterparts, are played by Selma Blair and Linda Cardenelli, a Jew and an Italian-American, respectively, whereas the blondes are played by Reese Witherspoon and Ali Larter, two genuine WASPs (i.e. the MOST powerful ethnic demographic in the US). HOW DARE the makers of this film try to present Jews and other ethnics as the 'old money' oppressors and the blondes as the 'victims' of class prejudice. Those blondes are only rich because they were born into money. They're not canny and clever Jews and Italian-Americans who had to work hard to get ahead in life, because their family came to the New World with NOTHING. No, the blonde Mayflower types are NOT the ones discriminated against by the country club set. They ARE the country club set. And giving Selma Blair's character a WASPy name (i.e. Kensington) is fooling no-one. If you can't cast a dark-haired WASP maybe it's an admission that there *aren't* any true dark-haired WASPs. All us darkies are from ethnic heritages unlike the blondes. I note that there's a scene where a bunch of students who give off Jewish and general ethnic vibes are portrayed mocking Elle for not having done an internship/voluntary/political work, as if being a minority and engaging in activism is something to be sneered at, and as if being shallow, vapid and vain are things to be praised...weird... Also, fwiw, the surname 'Woods' is arguably just as WASPy as 'Kensington' and 'Huntington.' It's hardly Woodstein or Woodwitz or Woodberg, is it? Fourthly, Reese Witherspoon herself is from a wealthy old money family, albeit a Southern one, rather than a New England one. She's clearly got a chip on her privileged white blonde shoulder because the year after Legally Blonde she made ANOTHER stupid rom-com that tried to rewrite the narrative, Sweet Home Alabama, in which white blond(e) Southerners are the heroes and urban types (you know, the liberals who actually embraced diversity) are the 'evil' ones. No, this film is EVIL. It subverts reality and presents a false narrative where dark-haired lower-class strivers like me, who studied hard to get into law school, are BIZARRELY portrayed as privileged blue-bloods, when in fact the ACTUAL privileged blue-bloods in REALITY, tend to be, in my VAST exprience, blonde and blue-eyed types (you know, the type the Nazis would have regarded as 'pure'). ONLY old-money types can afford to be bimbos and himbos. Those of us born poor and lower-class aren't the ones 'studying' fashion. We're the ones using all our spare time in the libraries to study PROPER subjects that *might* get us PROPER jobs (i.e. ones that don't depend on the nepotism that dominates the media, fashion, modelling and entertainment industries, where OLD MONEY really does rule supreme). Reese Witherspoon and the people who made this movie are clearly assholes with chips on their shoulder about being the SECOND MOST privileged group in society (after blond blue-eyed white men).

One of the most brilliant videos I've seen about Legally Blonde. Bravo!!!

1:48 James Spader in the 1996 movie "Crash" filmed in Toronto, good movie! Also , Keith Gordon's acting in Christine, is just amazing!!

I'm here because Zach from The Try Guys recommended this video, and it was so totally worth it.

I’ve always loved this movie. But the ending has never sat right with me. It feels like it should be a tragic ending where Arnie realizes he was wrong to turn away from Dennis and Dennis is crushed seeing the man he loves die. That has always been my interpretation and it felt sour, like carpenter forgot how gay his movie was 3/4th of the way through and pivoted to a more comfortable ending. I like that your interpretation sees this not as a fault but as the point. It’s very meta, I love it and think you’re right. Great video

max teeth ur videos are so awesome and you make me laugh!!

This is by far, the best movie of the series and the older it gets, the better.

Love love love this video. Your work always manages to feel like it's really *saying* something, actual rigorous thinking-through of an idea, while still being fun and digestible!

1:18 hmm, tough question. Because she is humble, compassionate, passionate and strong. It's about qualities, not circumstance. That's what we ultimately care about in the people around us.

Eh....ehhh..... i think it is way more like the difference between Cali rich and New England rich.

I thought this analysis was very interesting from a class perspective. While I agree with you that this message is certainly indicated in the subtext, I dislike the fundamental question of the video, "Why do we view Elle Woods as an underdog, even though she is extremely wealthy?" You briefly point out that she displays a sunny disposition and a kind heart, but I really think that is all which is required to root for someone. The underlying idea to this question implies that it is very difficult to like and cheer for someone who extremely wealthy. Elle Woods is good. From what we are shown, she is just a good, nice person. The text is very clear that her wealth enables her to achieve her accomplishments in the film, but it also shows how motivated and hardworking she is. I fundamentally disagree with the idea that a character must be poor (or relatively poor to the people around her) to be worthy of praise, or relatability. Multiple times in the video, you ask how we can relate to Elle. Even though I do not come from a family of wealth (not at all), I relate to Elle's feelings of unbelonging. I relate to Elle's indignation of the men in the film, I relate to her dreaming, and I relate to her as a person. I am a bit tired of this online narrative that requires complete similarity in order to relate, or admire, a person.

Love this movie, so happy to see you talk about it ♥️ Edit: I wouldn’t have thought of these two films pairing so well together, but now I totally see it! This put a lot of seemingly disconnected ideas in Nope into perspective for me, really great analysis!!!

I think applying "gaze" and control to a thing that you literally don't control is an interesting way to show the limits of that (and any) ideology. You can *say* that taking a picture of a tiger means you've "taken control over it" but the tiger might not agree, and good luck using that control to make it stand on two legs and deliver a stand up comedy routine. Thanks for the heads up tho. Great video 🙏

reminds me of a mushroom

I hope you got more into the alien franchise. More fans are always welcome. There are plenty of books, comics, audio dramas to sink your teeth into. If you’re looking for a lesbian hero I suppose I’d recommend alien resurrection. But it’s kind of a very late 90s movie 😂 There’s some trivia I could share but it’s a bit off topic. But I would suggest watching the deleted crab walk scene. It’s cutting room floor so the canoniness is debatable. But it’s a lambert scene I didn’t see referenced. May interest you.

Omg, when I watched NOPE for the first time I immediately thought of the works of Koji Shiraishi, it’s wonderful to find out I wasn’t the only one

this is an incredible video. the ending "there is something money can't buy in America. Class" CHILLS wow I now see this movie in a whole new light! I've seen many video essays on legally blonde because it's an iconic feminist film and I could never get enough, but I've never seen this in depth commentary on the class system of the movie.

Love your t shirt, plus you know the whole video ha

So interesting!!

I love during the prison scene we still see an American flag in the prison guards office.

i watched this movies when supereyepatchwolf recommended it in his disturbing movies video and it was pretty good

I enjoyed nope but it felt like there were some angles I hadn't discovered yet. Your points about subjugating the (un-)natural world through the act of viewing and tacking on a narrative has given me food for thought - thank you :)

I LOVE OCCULT 2009 I LOVE KOJI SHIRAISHI'S WORKS (WHUEIOHESWRFGHJTWS(E$OIF THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

A new double-feature favourite. Reading Shiraishi and Ino's relationship in Occult as one fueled by the perverse incentives of mediatisation is a new and welcomed angle for me. I always thought of Shiraishi's character as more self-obsessed and superstitious-In the end, he alone falls into Ino's rabbit hole (as all found footage movies go) By the time that TV camera ends its eldritch journey, all pretext of doing a documentary is long gone.

Brilliant vid like always! The Rugrats motif made me laugh! Maybe this is a silly question, but do you have a Letterboxd?

I did not know I’d be interested in this

Awesome vid, always happy to see more nope + found footage discussions ^-^

Yay! I f*cking love this film! Koji's Occult and Noroi (2005) are both really disturbing. Highly recommend them. Just don't get tricked by the B-movie vibe. Thank you for the video

commentin', thanks for the video

On the point about capturing it on film in order to subjugate it: When you said that line, it reminded me heavily of the 2022 movie "Something in the Dirt" which I probably should re-watch before I can even think to recommend it to anyone, but two guys in an apartment discover something weird and attempt to document it which, as you stated, is them trying to make sense of something that can't be part of our natural world.

Someone else who knows about this movie!

Great video 💯

Glad the algorithm sent this my way. Nope is my favourite Peele film because it's so... vibes based? Like, you've done a lot of articulating what I've struggled to say the movie is about. I thought your descriptions about understanding and moving past versus the horror of the unknown to be a really insightful lens. I'm gonna check out your other videos, and Occult. Thanks so much for sharing!

Yaya more max teeth!!

I had no idea Rugrats had a Passover episode lmao. Anyway I'll have to check out Occult soon, it looks fun

I love that people are still bringing up Nope, it’s my favorite Peele film

No it’s literally about pregnancy lmao

The commentary is a piece of feministic interaction... My god, It's just a movie..

“Setting them up for failure by denying them any opportunity to rehearse any social situations that might threaten their relationship with God… rather than guide people through situations the could lead people to doubt, they just demand you avoid doubt at all costs” 10/10 astute observation. This is a thing I’ve tried to express to those both within and outside the Christian community for some two decades now, and I’m pretty certain you’ve managed to express it more clearly and concisely here than I have ever managed in countless attempts. I spent my teens through later 20s immersed very deeply in Christian communities (that were relatively progressive, but I’d posit it just draws attention to how emotionally stymied even the most liberal evangelical communities are) and the flanking 26 years of my life outside its borders but still in sympathetic and cordial communication with those within. This is a problem so stark that even when I was at the height of buying into the rhetoric, the mentality alarmed me and I really pushed my peers to consider the obvious faulty logic. Even in the context of pursuing faith (whether earnest or performatively), I saw it in action countless times that many are conditioned to avoid scenarios and lines of thought perceived as carrying a risk of challenging their faith, and time and time again these were the people least prepared to deal with the situation when they stumbled into it. “If your belief structure is collapsing upon examination, there’s nothing to lament”, I would say. A poorly constructed foundation warrants either fortification or abandonment, but avoiding your choice of which is just wasting time avoiding the inevitable. In the end while I left those communities, rather than losing my faith like some would suspect, my beliefs survived all manner of post-secondary courses from secular philosophy and ethics, hard and soft sciences, and the arts and pop culture others wrung their hands over. To this day I’ve largely retained my beliefs, rather what I lost all confidence in was the communities. The indoctrination of strange logic like what your quote above describes that are all about cohesion within the institutions to the detriment of the people in them.

I appreciate your argument but I disagree. While there's absolutely something to say about the type of wealth, it's mostly about anti-femme sentiments. Being outwardly feminine is looked down on in society and is falsely equated with intelligence deficits. I'm not extremely feminine, but I am very blonde and am perceived as more feminine than I am. I briefly dyed my hair dark, partially as an experiment, and I was treated extremely differently. Even my friends and my partner noticed. Blonde prejudice is a thing as silly as it might sound. It's not as salient or important as other forms of prejudice like racism and sexism overall but it's an important subset of sexism. I do absolutely think that a lot of anti blonde sentiment is wrapped up in classism- being blonde being seen as cheap and fake. However the anti-feminine sentiment extends to people we see as classier or old-money. We see this with Vivian who hides her bubbly femininity and begins to openly show it when she's inspired by Elle.

Whenever I hear these stories about minorities shilling for the establishment, I always think of the conversation at the end of HBO’s Chernobyl between Boris and Valery: The people who used to live in Pripyat knew that the ground they walked on was soaked in blood, that of Jews killed in pograms, Poles killed by Stalin, or anyone killed by Hitler. They knew that and lived there anyway: Dead Jews, dead Poles … But not them. No one ever thinks it’s going to happen to them.

One of the producers of this film did work on "Driving Ms. Daisy".