The Great - Catherine invents Russian roulette

A compilation of scenes from Season 3 of the Hulu series, 'The Great' (2023), starring Elle Fanning (Catherine) and Belinda Bromilow (Aunt Elizabeth).
#thegreat #ellefanning #russianroulette

[@sneeringimperialist6667]

Nothing makes you want to live as much as someone trying to kill you...

[@magusperde365]

In my case it was having most of my friends actually kill themselves

[@The_OwO_Shogun]

"i am no longer fueled by my own personal will to live, i now live to spite those who want me to die."

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

@@The_OwO_Shogun Hella

[@TrueLegateDamar]

Like Tony Soprano who was done with life in the first season, until those two hitmen tried to kill him and he instead killed them.

[@relog]

@@magusperde365 sorry , rip

[@BreadCatMarcus]

It's funny to think there's a corner of the room with just a ton of random bullet holes.

[@Chris_no_father_figure]

Fr though💀

[@Jojec420]

damn that shit is funny almost laughed to death my man

[@yourarseismine1016]

@@Jojec420 You can't be seriously going around with that name acting sarcastic.

[@Jojec420]

@@yourarseismine1016 🤓

[@sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287]

The poor maid in the other room just gets taken out.

[@dedmnwlkn5796]

Man. You can see on her face how it broke her when she killed the guy with the pistol that was meant for her.

[@brcsephina]

sorry in advance if your comment was sarcasm but i don’t think she was broken after killing the guy. more like shocked because it actually hit her that she would be dead if she didn’t shoot him. i think that’s why she smiled after (i have never seen this movie and don’t know who it’s about)

[@tsmith4988]

@@brcsephina I think that’s what op meant- not broken over the guy who died, but the realization for herself. Never watched either lol but according to other comments she was already in a low point when she was doing this so makes sense

[@tehmarok]

The fact that when she finally chose the right pistol, destiny intervened again.

[@974OMG]

Im not sure, I took it more as one of those situations where when someone is very suicidal, but the moment the jump off the bridge, or kick the chair, they instantly regret it, and those that survive, like the rope breaking or just not drowning, end up completely having a different view of life. And I think that was expressed with her happily greeting her husband in the photo

[@kubli365]

@@tehmarok she didn't choose the right one since all three were loaded.

[@wolfyblue]

omg the fengshui room arrangement guy was right, never place the bed facing the opening of the door or you'll get assassinated... so now we know

[@nihil91]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@pandulce4447]

You mean Sheldon Cooper lol

[@tessalleyd7195]

best comment ever !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bubaaaaaaaaa]

Lol another reason for that is when you’re carrying a dead body out of the house its gonna face the door in a laying down position. The same position when you sleep

[@TinyBearTim]

Don’t you mean facing away ? Don’t you want to face the door so you can react quicker

[@RSpracticalshooting]

i just love the fact that she's randomly shooting the floor.

[@cix9420]

she was checking if they were all loaded, they were which meant that somebody loaded them all possibly knowing that she plays that game and knowing it would be an easy thing to get away with

[@RSpracticalshooting]

@hanksussyschrader I know what she was doing, but it's still funny that she's shooting a wooden floor on what's likely the second story of the building. It's just hilariously unsafe.

[@Hi-lu5vf]

@@RSpracticalshooting everyone's middle name in this show is 'hilariously unsafe'

[@justadams]

In Russian roulette one bullet will be in the gun and due to gravity it will always come and settle down. So the person cannot shoot themselves with it. It's just a way to test if the person is a spy or not . The person has to offer to shoot themselves to prove

[@atheniamathueis6441]

God forbid women has hobbies

[@jimb6554]

By trying to kill her, the assassin saved her life from the game & the game saved her life from the assassin. Meaning, if she didn’t have a loaded gun in her hand about to play Russian roulette, then the assassin would have been able to shoot her. But if assassin didn’t come to kill her, she would have shot herself. So the two deadly forces canceled each other out.

[@Marizyth]

wow really, never would've guessed!

[@Riskosi]

are you sure dawg?

[@shuttlecock58]

pemdas

[@systxmfails6262]

Two wrongs do make a right lol

[@scottishcheese13]

Good thing she didn’t shout herself, she would’ve been deaf for sure

[@Magicwillnz]

So there's no confusion - Catherine the Great didn't actually invent Russian Roulette. Nobody knows who invented it, but my best guess is that it was made up for a novel and then became kind of a real thing from that.

[@staomruel]

I can imagine captors with a sadistic streak force captives to 'play' games like that.

[@Magicwillnz]

@@staomruel It was done, but other 'games' were more common, like forcing POWs to go through minefields or having them run away and using them for target practice. War is full of terrible things like this.

[@staomruel]

@Antonio-Gransci in Dutch, 'Russian' is a synonym for tittyfuck.

[@ursosexmachina]

Mikhail Lermontov.

[@francisdec1615]

@Antonio-Gransci It's stupid and reckless enough to be typically Russian. It's like when Russians inject krokodil, although it often leads to septic shock and gangrene because it's so impure, and they know it. And you don't have to make things up about Russia. The truth is horrible enough, as demonstrated in the ongoing war. And you joined YT in January this year. Of course.

[@WitchyyChick]

Imagine if the assassin would have been just 10 seconds later. "Die bitc-.... oh...."

[@jomarch3141]

it just portrayed how depressed cathrine after losing her lover T_T

[@ssncns]

umm spoiler much?

[@Pamven]

​@@ssncns Literally happened in real life, it's called history?

[@audtea]

@@ssncns this literally happened in history…….. hundreds of years ago……….. 💀

[@kiimimo_9833]

@@ssncnsit happened forever agi

[@nicklas7377]

@@PamvenNot everyone is familiar with it.

[@PikaBolaChan]

0:22 hardest transitions in cinema history

[@thatsacoollookingmissl-]

🗿

[@hybrid6045]

WAIT THAT WASNT EDITED?!?!

[@user-aeb87825]

What is this, Powerpoint? lol

[@Lesaloote]

Star Wars aa transitions

[@animetiddies3424]

I think it was meant to be like that. I hope

[@hallie736]

I wasn't going to watch Season 3 after finding out what happens in it... until I watched this video. Time to go binge it lmfaoooo

[@paseykilo5788]

It’s soooooo good and eventful but take your time cuz half of it is very very depressing

[@Radikus]

@@paseykilo5788 w.. wait.. what happens in season 3?.. darnit.. now I got to watch it 😆

[@maximebaladre6765]

You are so lucky, you can watch the Season 3, me i can't because in my country there IS not The Great

[@Radikus]

@@maximebaladre6765 get a VPN provider.. it's legal.

[@kripo7398]

Where's your pfp from?

[@nooneofimportance934]

When you realize you want to live

[@kylegraham7363]

It's a strange yet warm feeling 😂

[@zackieburke9253]

​@@kylegraham7363it really is

[@TheGrenadier97]

Funny, she had this weird pastime but when confronted with someone solving her, she reacted in self-defense.

[@SM-qe4wd]

Destiny (or lack thereof, if you know how the season ends)

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

Rarely does anyone really want to kill themselves. In most cases, it really is just about getting someone to really notice a problem and give them help in life. In some cases, they "consciously" want to die...they're suffering and want the suffering to end...and see no possible solution but death itself. But in both cases, the instinct to survive is still mostly or even entirely intact. Very, very rarely is someone so broken that instinct itself also completely fails. In fact, it's psychologically impossible. You can't train out instinct. You can sort-of "add" pseudo-instincts through techniques like muscle-memory and such, or add-ons to existing real instincts. But getting rid of them requires some hefty genetic or physiological damage to the hindbrain. Which is usually lethal in the first place. Instinct is unbeatable. Uncontrollable. There is no "mind over matter." The mind only exists at all BECAUSE of matter. Your mind RESULTS from your brain...and absolutely never the other way around. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a quack or a con-artist.

[@StridersBored]

@@DoremiFasolatido1979it’s definitely possible but extremely destructive. Before I got over my self loathing I was a monster in my unit because I would work and push to the point where I would often black out after the work was done. In order to prevent someone from stopping me I would excuse myself to the side to momentarily pass out or catch my breath. I’ve aged my body significantly and I’m getting medically retired so mind over matter is possible if your brain is Swiss cheese but it’s definitely a horrible thing to do

[@AdrianRose046]

Natural instinct.

[@ChadoDragonslayer]

based Nietzschean​@@DoremiFasolatido1979

[@NationalDevin]

That is such a complex emotional twist man! Imagine having set up a game years ago from poor mental health, a degree of deniability for your unaliving thoughts, an all or nothing adrenaline rush for when you "need" it. And imagine you go to follow through, about pop yourself in the dome unknowingly. If it had happened, it would have been an betrayal of god, or just a brutal reality brought by her own hand, either one a valid interpretation. But imagine that complexity in the moment, feeling like it's time to put it all on the line, someone tries to take your life instead of your choice, so you take the chance to shoot back and the bullet meant for you to fulfill the purpose you sent into motion during times of mental illness, turns out to be your salvation. Thrilling. Then finding out shortly after that someone loaded them all that day.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Who loaded them all?

[@rkive7040]

pls spoil it i wanna know who loaded themmm

[@uwumarii]

TF are you talking about? I just binged watch season 3 and there's no mention that someone loaded them

[@JackOfAllMages]

@@uwumarii In the clip there are two pistols on the table. She picks up both and they both have rounds loaded.

[@kloothommel6569]

I like to think that right under the floor where she shoots is the quatures of a poor servant going like "BLYAT! SHE'S DOING IT AGAIN!"

[@delphinelavendermorgan4627]

When he came in, and she shot him, I shouted: Are you (curse word here) kidding me!

[@bleflar9183]

1:20 and at that moment she realised, why kill herself, when she can kill other people instead?

[@Kutsushita_yukino]

damm now thats what you call logic

[@jameshealer1395]

ok that was the most realistic death fall in a movie ever

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

Are we going to ignore the fact that you would literally be able to see the black powder in the pan of the pistol?

[@torg2126]

The frizzen pan covers the priming charge

[@kvassinc]

Perhaps had gunpowder, but the game was whether there was a percussion cap

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

@@kvassinc These are flintlocks, they don't have percussion caps. You can see the flints in the jaws. The weird thing is the flints didn't produce any sparks at all.

[@kvassinc]

@@Thor.Jorgensen You're right, I was wrong.

[@TheSundayShooter]

This really isn't even roulette, it's more like Monty Hall doors

[@sebuc]

a show that actually depicts headshots pretty accurately thats cool

[@waffler-yz3gw]

freaky, too

[@romeblanchard3419]

Luck level: 100000

[@Chubs.]

0:11 damn what an incredible shot. It's just like a painting or wallpaper.

[@Rena152]

"Miss Catherine we must do something about the assasins. Each day, one of the servants in the kitchen gets taken out by a sniper."

[@livelydodo]

and the sniper can see through ceilings and walls

[@agapmilla3345]

I only realized afterward the 3 charged pistol at the end was planned by Ant Elizabeth to kill Catherine... I explain myself. 1) she knew about the new Russian bullet game of Catherine 2) Catherine asks the Royal Guards to charged the gun 3) soon after Ant E show Catherine that the Royal Gards are more loyal to her (they redused to obey C because A.E told them so) 4) FINALLY A.E is *suprised* to see C after she sat on the chair I belive because she thought C had already killed herself after she loaded all the guns. And that why she guve back the chair I think my theory works. But nobody talked about it in the comment

[@Murasame13]

Clever

[@thomasawl]

‘Task failed successfully’

[@AgentQQ8]

So, uh … things not going so well with the empire?

[@plbeckman]

They need to give Elle a golden globe for this role.

[@xrayvisi0ns]

She’s good at this game

[@Progamerguy101]

I love how after the assassin is shot, it sounds like the Kalinka is about to start playing to emphasize the Russian in Roulette.

[@Swissswoosher]

When the guy who wanted to kill you saves your life.

[@Astro_seeker1987]

Yeah I’m definitely watching this show now. From reading the comments, I’m highly interested in this.

[@robertkarp2070]

It's too bad Peter had to die, the actor that played him was great.

[@playboikp]

Nicholas was fantastic

[@robertkarp2070]

@@playboikp He would take people's bones and make them into trinkets and hand them out to guests as gifts.

[@user-sf7mj8qt8k]

Creative! And no waste

[@adventtrooper]

@@user-sf7mj8qt8k A founding member of Just Stop Soil, protesting about the amount of land used for burials.

[@markvann9347]

Considering those are flint lock pistols. You'd visually see which one didn't have a flint. The first two pistols didn't even hit a flint spark. But every other one did have a flint spark when it fired.

[@pd28cat]

Good time to find out if it had a flint in it...

[@SenkaBandit]

you could also probably feel the weight of the powder charge and ball inside

[@spongebobsquarepants9146]

@@SenkaBanditnot really, considering they are all different guns

[@SenkaBandit]

@@spongebobsquarepants9146 if they’re similar in caliber then there wouldnt be a huge difference between them

[@waffler-yz3gw]

she just grabs a random one without putting much thought into it, the goal isnt for her to live

[@theoneandonlyever]

watching this clip on youtube made me watch the show and i'm really glad i did, it's quite the ride. brilliant performance by elle

[@Kv-Ai]

1:01 This is so funny out of context 🤣🤣

[@jorgebersabe293]

The sense of demureness and resilience of Catherine was inherited by her grandsons, Alexander I and Nicholas I.

[@boomchannel3291]

Thank you so much❤

[@orphanslayer6774]

That nervous giggle

[@CallMeJoy_wastaken]

She has the thickest plot armor.

[@gregtestagent]

The page peel transitions, now there’s something I haven’t seen in a long time

[@Juidodin]

damn i did wonder how i could have forgotten that scene ... but now i wonder how i missed that season 3 is out...

[@schulzmax4980]

the thumbnail is a perfect painting

[@PianoMeetsMetal]

Turns out all the guns were loaded at the end... Maybe a different assassin saw she was playing a death game, and decided to try and be smart. Only he ended up helping her.

[@8rynFarley]

THIS IS SHOW IS SO GOOD

[@bosskiss89]

Какая же Эль красавица

[@doopieduck3879]

i seriously can't unsee her as aurora from maleficent

[@Colorfullll]

The smug look on her face at the end is perfect. It shows the "comedy" of this scene.

[@bobbymoss6160]

Holy shit, she's great at everything! That's a killer shot! (punt intended)

[@haroldberserker]

That was a clean headshot, nice

[@familiamacias3994]

Great show

[@krustypotatowater2695]

0:43 this is gold

[@vollhov2370]

If there is a 4th season, it would be funny if Marie Antoinette and Louis 16 would come to Catherine, who could escape from revolutionary France =) Toinette would start throwing all sorts of parties that Catherine doesn’t really like :)

[@Jon6429]

Came here for the curiosity, left looking to download the series

[@violasses]

i love how russian nobility speaks english with a british accent

[@Sitti2300]

I'd hate to be the guy having to keep repairing the floor

[@ahhthatsjustgrand6502]

its hilarious to me because the lighter flintlocks that women often had were made with smaller caliber rounds in mind, meaning sometimes they would discharge in such a way that they could injure and not yet kill, due to the large amount of stopping power and the penetration power of.. well, a ball. try throwing a shot put into a cement wall - good luck getting it into the wall, much less through it. now imagine that interaction 50x smaller, and the wall is a human skull.. bouncing can happen

[@johndoe-sx5pv]

Then there's the woman who carries the man's flintlock just to make sure no "bouncing" ever happens. Also, the average flintlock ball/shot weighs just over 1oz of iron... it's kind of hard not to die after getting hit with 1oz of iron flying at 1,600fps!

[@ahhthatsjustgrand6502]

@@johndoe-sx5pv but a smaller chamber causes lower fps. Do you not know how firearms work? the reason women's flintlocks existed is because firearms are heavy and hard to aim

[@Ranger-tq9iy]

A true assassin would’ve secretly loaded all the weapons

[@Nuts437]

Thats what they end up doing, you can see it in the video at the end

[@mike.hawk_]

Oh man this looks fun

[@xrentonx]

Roulette="little wheel". Russian Roulette is played with a revolver because you can spin the chamber (i.e. little wheel). What she's playing here is not Russian Roulette. It's just a deadly game of chance with three single shot black powder pistols. The "roulette" part is key in Russian Roulette! You play it with one revolver and spin the chamber and pass it round and spin the chamber before pulling the trigger. What shes playing doesn't make sense if she's the one loading the ammo since they are single shot...she would know which gun has the ammo (assuming she was the one who loaded it) and defeats the purpose of luck altogether. Playing real Russian Roulette randomizes the chance every time the chamber is spun.

[@chef-kiss]

Also Russian roulette was not used by her

[@toffee1234100]

You just have to mix up the guns, easy

[@pepparmostheelder]

@@toffee1234100 Nope. If you load the guns and they arent *exactly* identical you will always know. And guns in this era was deffinetly not identical even if they were brand new. Not to mention in this scene we even see they are not even the overal same design

[@robertkarp2070]

@@pepparmostheelder Then she fired all three of them and they all fired. So someone loaded those guns.

[@robertkarp2070]

it's still Russian Roulette if you're not the one that loaded the one gun and didn't see which one was loaded. It doesn't matter if a revolver was used. The only difference is in her case she had a 33% chance of shooting herself and with a revolver, you have a 17% chance.

[@matheusrickson292]

Best game EVER

[@JZsBFF]

The odds are always stacked in the player's favor: one can win a thousand times... and only lose once.

[@Alexander-jl3sy]

She is sooo pretty

[@dominicviner6619]

This is explains why my mom likes the show

[@sheldonleecooper8468]

Nagyon szép ez a lány !

[@greensike8516]

would like to point out that you could probably tell which guns were unloaded bc you need powder in the pan to fire a flintlock

[@cloroxbleach9222]

The pans on all the pistols would be closed though so it would be hard to tell without having a good look

[@mr.pissedoff1903]

She’s feel the weight of the loaded one.

[@mysteranonymous7773]

That’s when she learned “why kill myself if I can just kill my enemies”

[@generalmalaise458]

I’m just hoping they had a different gun wrangler than the one on the set of that other movie.

[@dancingfire1534]

Love her sanity

[@mastersinthe5114]

She did a real life *Uno reverse*

[@job341kg]

Какая она талантливая. И сестра ее тоже.

[@comradecarl8105]

Looks like fun game!!!

[@supersizesenpai]

1:14 when that post nut clarity kicks in and you start questioning what you've done. 🤣🤣

[@infernoninja5195]

That assassin scene goes hard, and I've never even seen this movie

[@EdTheDragonSlayer]

"Blyat! What the fuck is that!?" "Moy droog, Catherine tries to kill herself again." "Ayy blyat I survived Chesma, hope for peaceful guard post in the palace and some psycho cyka shooting off in the middle of the night!"

[@thyengineer2859]

bro is fuming in the afterlife knowing he didnt even have to try to kill her

[@GordiansKnotHere]

She's a very pretty girl.

[@Beckwourth]

1:13 she hesitated which ironically saved her life when the assassin showed up and she didn't hesitate then.

[@TheFoshaMan]

1:26 THAT SMILE XD

[@shizy3049]

"Free Pandora from the angel accusations she's a batshit crazy scientist" Yeah I see that now

[@tranquilize2277]

Sparrow: It’s not even loaded 💥

[@helghastslayah1367]

1:01 Reminds of the story of one of the few people who survived jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. As soon as he jumped and realized he was in danger, he knew he wanted to live.

[@delos2279]

Darwin was giving out awards even before he was born.

[@sam23696]

The problem with this is flintlock pistols either have powder at the flint, or a blast cap. Which means either the loaded ones are visually obvious because they aren't missing the blast cap, or all three have a blast cap, with only one loaded with shot, and you burn your face from the blast cap.

[@BeetleBuns]

wtf are you talking about? Have you ever even SEEN a muzzleloading weapon in real life?

[@hugovinicius2068]

I like how in the end all three pistol were loaded hahahahah

[@CaptainPositron]

The most British sounding Russian monarch anyone ever did hear...

[@seshajelmaanularhitamtahks8275]

She is crazy!!

[@Namkify]

>when you vide along the intrusive thoughts

[@peterkim3370]

In just waiting for Fanning to put on her stitched Catwoman costume

[@herbertmartinez1735]

Nice

[@cpt4tap703]

I mean, it wouldnt really work with these guns since in order to shoot the gun you needed gunpowder on the flap up top (i have no clue what its called) so when it comes smashing down it makes a spark, which ignites the powder inside, which fires the gun. If one of them was loaded, then the one with powder on the metal flap would be the one you dont want to choose.

[@SuperChuckRaney]

you would then, power all the pans but only charge one gun with powder and ball in the barrel?? It's a simple concept. The pan is powdered after the gun is charged.

[@jeffreydpa8135]

very interesting haha 😅

[@VictorLarsen-fy9ls]

Sick country, sick plot of the film.

[@brianjones9780]

Discovering the will to life

[@mick-ericboettge8683]

Reminds me of that iconic scene in In Bruges

[@JZsBFF]

What scene was that?

[@Charlie----WWHG]

Russian roulette a game for people who are suicidal but not sure

[@elxaime]

1:02 "When you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!"

[@Mazer1995]

Does anyone know what song is used at 1:30? I'm looking everywhere but can't find any clue.

[@Rocky64]

Probably it'll be on the Season 3 soundtrack, which hasn't been released yet.

[@NatureFreak1127]

It's a motive from season 2, which wasn't on Spotify. Hopefully it's included in S3.

[@abifoggy2469]

It sounds a lot like the song "Love You" by "Jebroer", except performed in a regal instrumental style.

[@kingaling6701]

Yeah I've been looking for it desperately as well. I know it appears in Season 2 during the mass arrest in the finale. No luck so far!

[@UNLebanon]

360 no scope head shot

[@MrGriff305]

Damn.. Something about the eyeball aim is extra graphic

[@felipe1088]

all my five thinking that was the urss who invented that lol

[@user-qv2mc3dw5o]

The good thing about russian roulette is that it’s a form of gambling you can’t ever get addicted to.

[@Poland4life]

you can if you have amazing luck

[@114Mwaaaaaaaaaaah]

If you are adrenaline addicted, sure you can