The Neverending Story - The Nothing

[@Anonymous-iq3kc]

"Even a hole would be something. This was nothing." -an unforgettable line.

[@treehuger1978]

The Nothing is a metaphor for depression; people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So the Nothing grows stronger! its an emptiness, its a despair

[@Sorakeyblademaster37]

Close. Despair is the inevitable results, pr rather the symptoms. The Nothing represents the belief that existence has no meaning, no purpose. The belief that is devoid of the possibility of hope, salvation, freedom, and goodness. I don't mean people PRETENDING that existence has meaning; I mean that existence actually is meaningful on a _metaphysical_ level.

[@ameliawarfield5637]

Very true.

[@Zurealz]

"its a despair".. And that is OK. Don't worry.

[@alexadamickusefulideas]

It’s the bullshit voice in your head that tells you that you’re not good enough, even though at every moment it’s not any different in the way that you can ALWAYS do better, and that’s useful to notice.

[@Freedomofspeechisgod]

Yes and no. I do believe the nothing represents a spirit of spiritual poverty and childlike imagination. A sense of innocence and purity. A feeling of loosing yourself. And that’s the point. It first happens in your mind. Because once you loose your head. U have now lost everything. Freedom is in your mind and heart first. If the nothing can break your imagine and your connection to source. You can no longer manifest you can no longer create. That is what it is ment for. Sabastion was so important and powerful because he created that whole world. With just his thoughts and imagination. That child like innocence and energy that is often broken as we become adults. But if you can manage to keep that innocence there is no telling what you are able to manifest. That is why it is so important to heal every thing inside. It starts from with in. It has very little to do with depression. We surcome to the things we often tell ourselves not so much what ppl do or put on us. Remember everything is energy. Only we can allow truly allow it to affect us negatively. Continue to create as the Gods and goddesses you truly are!

[@davemillet4160]

Watching this again at 43 years old made me realize that this story has a lot more to it than I remember. I just love the ideas behind it. I also love the fact that the "villian" in this story is only seen as creepy, sporadic storms that can devour an entire world without taking a true physical form.

[@jackcoleman1784]

Technically the villain in terms of characters is Gmork. He's specifically a vampire wolf but he really is someone not from Fantasia but not necessarily from Earth either. The wolf is just the form he takes when he is in Fantasia.

[@Vladislak]

In the book, it was said that looking into the nothing was like suddenly becoming blind. You literally could see nothing, unlike the movie depiction of a giant black storm cloud. Granted, the original depiction would have been hard to create on the big screen anyways.

[@ameliawarfield5637]

You're right. I've read the book, and saw the movie.

[@Smug_Adam69]

I think it could be done on animation, just depict the nothing as well ,no animation

[@jackcoleman1784]

The book also says what happens when you touch it. It says someone stuck their arm in it and when they pulled back they had lost the arm up to the point they stuck it in. But it specifically says it didn't hurt there was no pain of any kind.

[@RootedHat]

that's some proper existential shit right there, dude

[@cagedlemp5184]

I remember when I was a kid, when he said " IT GOT BIGGER, AND BIGGER! " I was scared.

[@Adamguy2003]

Yeah. Between the implications of what Rockbiter's saying, and the ominous music playing during that part, it is surprisingly scary.

[@DanganHarmony]

omg this is so true

[@studentjohn35]

As someone who developed arthritis in the hands in later life. The Rock Biter is one of my favorite characters of any fictional movie

[@drizzo4669]

I remember staying up late some nights as a child with a friend of mine trying to figure out what "Nothing" is. The simple fact that it has a name makes it something so its impossible for nothing to exist. Nothing can only exist if you don't know about it and don't think about it but the moment you do....it becomes something.

[@lorjim94]

You are truly right. And actually, I really do know. For many days, I've been learning something alot about The Nothing.

[@spkanava]

1983

[@isaacsmith6878]

LSD has entered the chat...and 1983 ain't got shite to do with it

[@Rob-ExMachina]

The nothing is the loss of human hopes and dreams in the real world having a direct effect upon the realm of fantasia and destroying it, it's a metaphor for the depression and despair of growing up in a world that crushes those hopes and dreams at every possible turn.

[@noelsalisbury7448]

Nothing is intangible.

[@Amelia4111]

The Rockbiter used to scare me when I first watched this movie! He's nothing but a gentle giant! But when I heard about Atreyu, this movie became my all-time favorite!

[@loldozer]

Anyone not knowing what The Nothing is should watch the movie again. The Nothing represents the voids that fall when people stop dreaming, stop fantasizing, stop building Fantasia. To aid in the defense of our beloved Fantasia, call in sick from work today and eat 1/8 oz of magic mushrooms.

[@philosophyandhappiness2001]

The end of your comment😂

[@toddjonathanbradshaw3945]

Prophetic and foretold back in the 80's of times to come when we as children thought it was only just a fairy tale as WE were entertained in so much we loved the story itself when it was presented before us..

[@jakesmith5382]

"A hole would be something, NAWWW IT WAS NOTHING!" lmao

[@CupcakeHD25]

Jake Smith 😂😂😂

[@Gorboduc]

That line blew my mind when I was five.

[@spkanava]

1983

[@Theshark15z]

Normally the nothing would be a void "basically a black hole with no elements or matter" In this case it is a fairy tale so the land of Fantasia was created by believers and young dreamers who were interested in The Never ending Story. For the ones that have seen the film in it's entirely, would know when Bastian runs into the book shop, the owner was a mean old man and ask him to leave because he doesn't like kids. This was put to the belief that the old man dislike children do to the fact because they lack the imagination and creativity they he had as a child and feels that kids today are only interested in Comics, Television, and Video Games. As a result very few people at Bastian's age know about The Never Ending story so her comes The Nothing, created by Cynicism and Apathy, Fantasia starts to deteriorate and slowly all characters and scenery disappear because they is no more dreams and imagination to keep it alive.

[@PsychoJosh]

His mistake was thinking that comics/TV/video games can't or don't capture the imagination. They all do, just in a different way.

[@TheCrappyZipper]

@@PsychoJosh I feel this is only one way to interpret this scene specifically. I watched this movie when I was a kid so I remember no plot. But this lack of imagination can be applied to a lot more things than most modern entertainment beacuse I'm not saying there is a right or wrong way but modern entertainment can be used in amazing ways. We need to step back from story telling and look at the lack of imagination in our reality. That's what this scene gets me thinking like

[@silverpslm]

That moment when they all realize they are going for the same reason. Terrifying. 1:38

[@13Danjiri]

Rockbiter: "I swear it wasn't me! (Scout's honor!)" Hilarious!

[@mrjoe332]

This story still gets me because the threat is so terrifying. The end of existence as something you can't fight or resist

[@aprilking1105]

That was such a Great scene in the movie.

[@tacticwave3856]

Even better was the scene after this, or the scene that was cut and happened right after this clip. Rock biter seeing the nothing approach and in fear he runs away

[@CoralineJonesPinkPalace]

My God i loved this film as a child. I'd watch it and rewatched it 1,000x's 😅

[@mitchimusmaximus1]

The nothing = Lack of imagination Almost every Hollywood movie is a remake of an original idea, the nothing.

[@Crusader-Ramos45]

Good one! I even have some new fantasy ideas. Like, some epic fantasy novels based off of Native american culture.

[@GlitchMcGuffin]

The universe imagined itself into existence. Only when it became aware of itself could consciousness become reality and the big bang happened.

[@Sorakeyblademaster37]

The Nothing is the nihilistic sense of existence that has swept over the modern Western world. Creative sterility is one of the major factors of this. The root for nihilism, “nihi,” even means nothing. By “nihilistic existence,” I essentially mean the negative aspects of modern life. In the book, there’s mention of “those who sit above in shadow,” who allegedly have some influence over the Nothing. This is probably meant to refer fun sucking control freaks who have way too much power and use it to ruin everyone’s lives because they think they’re making a better world. For example, the school that’s filled with bullies? The one Bastien goes to? Those who sit above in shadow would be the bureaucrats whose policies make it that much easier for bullies to torment the actual victims because they don’t understand children, schools, or they don’t understand bullies. It’s the _banality_ of evil that’s overrun everything and the nihilism that inevitably results from it.

[@TheCrappyZipper]

@@GlitchMcGuffin is this more recent than we were thought to believe?

[@puterboy2]

There is still originality. You’re just not looking hard enough.

[@technologic21]

So the nothing represents nihilism. despair, etc. what happens when we give up on our imaginations as we grow up. i think many adults should watch this movie

[@billgreen4003]

very cool be safe in Christ God Bless

[@OneOfManyOfOne]

"Maybe it's already everywhere..." - This could allude to dark matter/energy, or antimatter, or another dimension. I don't really know, but the more we try to observe physical matter, the more we see it's just "empty" space, as if this reality is a holographic simulation. Either way, The Nothing is the greatest movie "villain" of all time!

[@OneOfManyOfOne]

Or to never exist... ;) lol

[@zacharymoss2994]

epic nightmare fuel may god save us all

[@spkanava]

1983

[@jvgsjeff]

The nothing grows every day and every night. I feel it within me.

[@rextransformation7418]

How's it going 12 years later?

[@Okus477]

@@rextransformation7418bro doesn’t exist anymore.

[@Thizzamajig]

The nothing ate you up by now.

[@FunnyBlackGuy]

Here in 2023

[@havocwing910]

It feeds (it feeds) It grows (it grows) It clouds all that you will know

[@ericconner1739]

Im here 12 years later to ask.....did you quote Metallica lyrics? Lol

[@spkanava]

1984

[@That-Guy-79]

The reason why its called the "Neverending Story" is because for us that watched it, as kids in the 80s.... we're still part of the story. Its part of us. And one day, we'll find we're part of the Nothing!

[@elijahmarshall475]

Night Hob: mocks the legitimacy of Rockbiter’s story Also Night Hob: “oh yeah it destroyed my land too”

[@patricemarie8394]

Hey it's the oopaloompa guy

[@ThePhillyfashionista]

My favorite childhood movie

[@cherylstevens4717]

Mine too i have it on dvd.

[@spkanava]

1984

[@Vladislak]

@Vladislak In the book the nothing didn't suck people or things into it as it spread, those who came too close to it had the uncontrollable urge to throw themselves into it. Throngs of people would march off in a disturbing ritualistic manner to throw themselves into it. If it weren't for Gmork (the wolf) biting down on Atreyu after it's death, then Atreyu would have thrown himself into the nothing as well. Also, those that entered the nothing became a lie in the real world.

[@caiuspostumiusturrinus1024]

What was before creation, before life, before reason.

[@Strawberrytabbyforpresident]

00:58 looks like the science fiction movie 🎬 turns out to be reality-based for 95 % of the people in 2024

[@enderlynxwilloze7935]

This movie was terrifying

[@cherylstevens4717]

In certain aspects it is i agree with you on that one.

[@spkanava]

1983

[@ameliawarfield5637]

The Nothing sure is scary. It's a void in our souls.

[@ArronBarringer]

Read the book by Michael Ende.

[@josephhernandez1885]

How is the book?

[@ArronBarringer]

@@josephhernandez1885 Well, the book has 26 chapters and the original movie covers the first five or six. The book is a masterpiece.

[@nicholasschrader7179]

When inexistence is the main antagonist

[@donnyboy8428]

that rock giant creeped me the fuck out when i was a kid

[@Decal0327]

The Nothing= Walmart, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Instagram, Publix...

[@brionbraziel7968]

The nothing is the absence or loss of your child like imagination to create, which is why the children are acting as adults. The nothing is nothing more than giving up, on yourself...

[@IcookiezL0V3R]

The dude from stranger things was right. the nothing man is scary LOL

[@mitchmiller6366]

If you think about covid durning this scene, it really makes sense.

[@PIXELSURPRISE]

100 percent

[@spkanava]

1984

[@maggs131]

I imagine when rockbiter takes a dump its just a pile of sand

[@noelsalisbury7448]

😅

[@DrownedInExile]

Darth Nihilus sends his regards.

[@RudyG210]

aristotle said "only rocks dream of nothing"..makes u think about reality.

[@dogman15]

Two thoughts: 1. Who else sees the similarities between this character and the Warpstone from Star Fox Adventures? 2. I got here via a link from Emily Hampshire's (she's an actress) website.

[@Slowpoke3x]

I think the lake is still technically there it's just that their perception became so warped that they couldent see it anymore except that since this is fantasia that perception became reality . It's the same logic that went you ask people what are they doing or what do they see they respond with " nothing"

[@E4439Qv5]

No. The lake is gone. It is lost. Nothing is there now. _That_ is problem. It's not perception, it's an approaching and pervading sense of loss. When what was _isn't,_ and no longer can be.

[@spkanava]

1984

[@dannyofthededd]

nothing is not a negative thing for everything comes from it originally

[@jeanclaudejunior]

What the Rock biter said is quite scary, true and ominous. Near his home in the north where all the gourmet rocks are known, there used to be a beautiful Lake but it was gone not thanks to a drought but thanks to the Nothing which sucked into it like every part of Fantasia. The Nothing grows stronger only if the people in the real world lose their hopes and forget their dreams.

[@KoshVader]

Am I the only one who thinks that the rock biter is kind of cute? lol

[@TioAe]

He has a soft spot 😉

[@spkanava]

1983

[@abrahamissacjocab2544]

Me Too 💘💝💖💗💓💞💕💌💟♥️❣️❤️‍🩹💔❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@noelsalisbury7448]

His name's H U D S O N

[@PerihelionmQQn]

Teeny Weeny/Gluckuk's voice is so different in the German version, it's a ridiculously twangy American Southern accent in the German version, they overdubbed it differently for the American release.

[@DOI_ARTS]

Awesome no CGI

[@kakashi76767]

@technologic21 i always thought of it as a great metaphor for depression. Depression is lack of desire, lack of pleasurable feelings, lack of motivation, lack of enegry, and feeling generally empty. More often than not it means not feeling sad, but feeling absolutely nothing.

[@elemileTLDR]

The Neverending Story is Heidegger for dummies. The movies make it little to no justice, though.

[@Kayla-xl8wi]

Stranger things brought me here

[@Marduk-05]

Same here, I wanna love you

[@enjoi62137]

@@Marduk-05 Haha no chick wants to love you

[@flotteluft]

This is so much better to use REAL masks instead of this CGI technic. I know creating artificial beings with the computer is much cheaper for the film companies, but it looks more unreal and it feels worse. Bavaria film studios were great as long as Wolfgang Petersen directed movies, watch Enemey Mine with Dennis Quaid. And the great mask they created for his alien friend. It looks so real and it was surely a hard work for the make-up artist and also for the actor. To sit still for hours is surely not very funny ;-)

[@kateburke1128]

This is US 🌏 2022 it is SERIOUS

[@hollyvelocitygrl]

Can't get over racing snail owners accent in German version. They made him sound like a gay cowboy

[@Quillz06]

1:16 Our current world wide situation...

[@seahawks1185]

Big strong hands...

[@legacyshy3035]

And it got BIGGER AND BIGGER !!

[@robertoorsi3203]

21st century Europe is in the exact situation.

[@yugen]

The author is German. He was thinking of the Nazi's when he created the Nothing. He has said as much.

[@spkanava]

1983

[@ACTUALLYRICH]

“Is he…..a nutcase?!”

[@rickstravels6364]

The giant sounds like the guard from skyrim and oblivion.

[@Adamguy2003]

He's voiced by Alan Oppenheimer, legendary 1980's voice actor (He was probably best known as the voice of Skeletor on 'He- Man').

[@spkanava]

1984

[@Deathmagnets69]

This a Kids movie for Adults

[@GabrielW386]

It reminds me of if CERN makes a black hole. First CERN gets devoured, then the rest of Earth.

[@Ducttapestuff]

lol rock biter was a boy scout. "I swear it wasn't me" scout's honor.

[@cherylstevens4717]

Rockbiter and his friends are so cute.

[@mariafermiau]

they should actually read the book, it a thousand times better :)

[@havocwing910]

@havocwing910 Chop suey by system of a down also

[@Clowning8]

Rock Monster: We're in troble I'm being chased! And the other little monsters are like:By What? (Rock Monster): Nothing! (Other): Oh,but that's nothing to worry about. (Rock): It is something to worry about! (Other): What is? (Rock): Nothing! (Other): I Thought you said it is something. (Rock): It is something! That something is nothing! (Other): Nothing? (Rock): NOTHING! (Other): So there is nothing to worry about? (Rock): YES! (Other): But whos on first? (Rock): THATS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW!!

[@azura13liss]

that indian dude dressed as Willy Wonka is the oompa loompa in the most current Charlie in the Chocolate Factory.

[@jrrrm3]

The big rock guy looks and sounds like the big rock guy from starfox adventures

[@Slowpoke3x]

Nobody brings me gifts anymore

[@KenshiroMLT]

They're talking about all that Jon Snow knows....

[@milesbbop9563]

Why are most videos with the childlike empress comments disabled?

[@danielbraine1742]

Who is here from stranger things

[@Starnerdz]

Well to all the atheists here, when theists mention something cannot come from nothing, you can use this video as a means to get a approval if this is what they mean by nothing, and then ask, so you believe in the nothing?

[@justinwallace390]

There is nothing after death. Just death my friend. That's why we should probably do our best to treat each other the best here in this world. Talking into thin air I know.

[@AntonioRamos-i8b]

Its my home where theres no jail or no rocks

[@olo6862]

@loldozer yep............

[@mario167100]

The nothing is death...

[@jaguar4u2012]

the nothing is the Black Hole

[@mario167100]

***** Maybe the nothing is all of the dark things combined into one. the loss of innocence, realization of the short time span of life, death, and all of that dark stuff.

[@Slowpoke3x]

whats the difference i see plenty of people walking around but their just dead on the inside

[@FilterBySubgenre]

death would be something no it was nothing

[@griffithmello9084]

+The Plains Jam Void.

[@crazybigyo]

What can we do? What will we do?

[@bradhilton2283]

I still love eat boat loads if marijuana edibles and get baked of my ass and watching this movie .

[@alchemi8085]

The CGI was cutting edge back then. What happened?

[@jhonnymark7581]

Well if he's talking about the nothing, then the nothing would be something if it has a name. ._.

[@uncreative2851]

then true nothingness doesn't exist, because to think of it you would have to be able to apply a name to it, but if it doesn't exist how can it not be nothing?

[@samuel.langhorne.clemens]

And now it’s actually happening in our world. 😒

[@123backflipman]

What is "nothing"? Can it be described?

[@noelsalisbury7448]

No thing

[@SaunKrystian]

The nothing is the most powerful movie villians of all time..could yoda beat the nothing? Superman? Thanos?

[@kingweeb3365]

Nope

[@spkanava]

Päättymätön Tarinoita 1984

[@TioMoka]

Oopa Loompa!!!

[@TheJoshGalt]

The Nothing = The Banking Industry

[@WaterboyPhx]

@technologic21 Well said!!

[@dogman15]

No reason to be rude, or imply it, though. And that was nine months ago I made that comment. I had forgotten about it. Have a nice day.

[@Nate-rl6he]

Then who’s from the East?

[@gladtobeangry]

There's not really a map of Fantasia, so I think that is left inconclusive. Possibly the Grassy Ocean, where Atreyu came from, but I don't think the book or the film ever specifies where that is in more specific terms.

[@yaphettbanks4936]

Is deep roy's character dubbed

[@OneOfManyOfOne]

lol yup

[@yaphettbanks4936]

Why?

[@Tv_bro127]

This is so old

[@havocwing910]

Respond to this video...It's does represent nihilism, anybody who's ever played final fantasy VI, Kefka is prime example of moses... God of emptiness by morbid angel....

[@keithwatkins6465]

"I KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED " ( THEN HE PUTS HIS STEM IN HIS MOUTH #80S )

[@jaredhatfield2806]

This sht is horrifying. They used to show this sht to kids??

[@olo6862]

um...

[@Hun.1236]

It’s like pollution

[@legacyshy3035]

WTF is the night.. whatever he is.. EATING..!!/ ??

[@Crusader-Ramos45]

He's a night hob.

[@cherylstevens4717]

@legacyshy3035 Nighthob is eating a stick.

[@Quillz06]

Thats what she said lol