The Snowman ~ Lost in Adaptation

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The Snowman may have been a confusing mess of a movie, but how much of it was loyal to the book it's based on by Jo Nesbø?
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[@Dominic-Noble]

Don't feel bad if you fell for The Room. I put SO MUCH WORK into it ^__^

[@hannahbrennan2131]

I didn't fall for it, but found it highly amusing and I appreciate your hard work. :)

[@evilblondgoth]

All I can say is... well played sir, well played.

[@BuddhaAtheist29]

I didn't fall for it, but it had more to do with when it came out. Other then that it was very convincing.

[@emmapavan4949]

I fell for it...it was very well done and I'd heard the vampire theory before so I totally bought it

[@Daalington]

One could tell, and it was Amazing

[@ZuriElysium27]

Not gonna lie, I love the mold guy. I love the trope of the weird suspicious guy who is completely innocent but does everything in their power to accidentally incriminate themself.

[@Gloomdrake]

Not guilty, just a little mischievous goblin

[@hanna-liminal]

I love that so much too!!! It's a great subversion and also a delightful nod to the fact that sometimes, weird people do just exist

[@wjzav1971]

Reminds me of Timothy Dalton's character in Hot Fuzz. Where at first he seems almost too suspicious to be the actual killer until it looks like he is, then it looks like he really isn't and then at the end, it turns out that he was really guilty, but not for the reasons the main protagonist thought he was.

[@davidmagee5671]

Flamethrower guy from Until Dawn, ftw

[@Poookoook]

@@davidmagee5671nah Paul Dano in Prisoner is way better, facts

[@blueblank8287]

“He ran his hand over the shorn bristles of blonde hair that grew precisely 192 cm above the frozen soles of his feet” genuinely sounds like one of those alleged student “try to come up with the worst description you can” exercises, like “he was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree”. The only difference is that it gets there by *trying* to describe two things at once, but the fact that it *does* try and isn’t an obvious joke like the tree thing just makes it more awkward to read.

[@katearcher8514]

It is pretty inventive tho, isn't it

[@moustik31]

Omg no the cringe. I used to love these books in my 20s. How did I miss it all?!

[@Lucifersfursona]

A lot of those “worst descriptions” are so unearthly and palpable I still remember them This, less so I think my favorite one was like, “he made a sound like a garbage bag of soup falling down a flight of stairs” and damn if that isn’t Real

[@Wintermute01001]

As a dumb American who doesn't use the metric system, I originally thought they were saying he had hairy feet.

[@TristanDonaldson]

Harry Hole has 192 cm long hair

[@imnotselma3305]

His name isn't localised, Hole is a common Norwegian last name. That's why a colleague of my dad, and I swear I'm not making this up, had to go to an international military convention wearing the name tag "Major Ås-Hole"

[@sndark6241]

Well... I guess Spaceballs _wasn't_ making that up...

[@Wednesdaywoe1975]

Oh no. A walking Spaceballs gag. The poor man.

[@Niobesnuppa]

The thing is, though, the name is only funny when it's mispronounced. The way it's actually supposed to be pronounced is more like "hoo-lé".

[@Rabbitlord108]

@@Niobesnuppa As a Yugioh player. I know how it feels. I giggle when I hear folks on KZbin call XYZ monsters "X Y Z" monsters cause there's already a trio of monsters with those letters in their names from the DM era (X Head Cannon, Y Dragon Head, & Z Metal Tank) the name of the mechanic is pronounced "IK-SEEZ"

[@1987MartinT]

Jesus, poor guy!

[@CJMGalaxy]

As someone who doesn't have nipples, the revelation that lack of nips was a plot point is the funniest thing to me. Like, a plot revolving around missing nipples. A tense mystery thriller about who stole my nipples

[@lucienfortner841]

"Who Stole My Nipples?!" Sounds like it's just a few words short of a Chuck Tingle story.

[@CJMGalaxy]

@@lucienfortner841 Pounded in the Butt by My Sudden and Disconcerting Lack of Nipples

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

"Who Stole My Nipples" needs to be a book, for real. 🤣

[@Xander_P.G.K]

Hopefully you don't have any degenerative disease because of that 🙏

[@CJMGalaxy]

@@Xander_P.G.K never heard of that being an issue, at least not in my circumstance. The lack of nips is just a bonus, not a symptom

[@Kulgur]

As a Norwegian, I refuse to believe that Jo Nesbø didn't know what he was doing when he named his main character "Harry Hole" (particularly when a lot of Americans pronounce "Harry" as "Hairy"). That's not an accident. Yes, I know he named them after a soccer player called Harry Hestad and a teacher called Mr Hole. The combination is still suspicious.

[@michaelsinger4638]

Isn’t the name meant to be pronounced “hoo-ley” or something like that in Norwegian?

[@MissCaraMint]

@@michaelsinger4638 Yes it is pronounced something like that. Thing is us Norwegians constantly make fun of how English speakers misspronounce our names. To the point where it’s kinda a running joke. I mean how could we not with names like Odd, Even, Bord, and surnames like Ås and Hole. Not to mention Hell which is a place not far from Trondheim.

[@kritrofla]

@@michaelsinger4638 more like «hoo-leh»

[@YggdrasilAudio]

He also made a series of five children books centered around a substance that gives people farts able to send them into space....the guy has a sense of humour is what I'm saying.

[@MissCaraMint]

@@YggdrasilAudio You should hear his music. All the lyrics are very funny.

[@iinvaderrand]

Legitimately I didn't even realise that your room review was a April fools joke. Lol

[@NSBWS]

Neither did I ... huh

[@ninawth]

I only knew because the comments gave the game away 😂

[@zachnoonan3662]

Thank god I wasn’t the only one

[@Dominic-Noble]

Lingering guilt over committing to the bit so hard might have been a factor in me mentioning it now....

[@KangarooMonkey]

Same, it was so well thought out.

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

I’d love if the book revealed that the sus mold man was a burglar. Imagine the final chapter of the book ending with Hairy getting home to find out the guy stole everything that wasn’t nailed down to the floor while he was out stopping the Snowman.

[@MarchingGrrl]

I’m still in the first 5 min of the video and this comment is delightfully meaningless to me.

[@commandermercury6654]

That would actually be kind of hilarious.

[@Starmadien2019]

That'd be fucking hilarious and I love it.

[@JamesTobiasStewart]

I mean it'd make his scenes make more sense. Plus we must acknowledge the excessive balls OR impressive obliviousness that man has, Harry literally shoots at him in their first scene together and then stands there holding a gun and the guy then happily walks up to him. Either he is fearless or he somehow completely fails to notice the gunshot or Harry still holding the gun.

[@d.o.m.i.]

that'd be very funny and give purpose to the red herring, I love it!

[@BeautifulBrittany18]

Hearing Dom refer to America as ‘the colonies’ actually made me laugh out loud. The way he just throws that shade so nonchalantly really hit me in the funny bone.

[@nolanmejia5510]

My patriot instincts almost made me throw a box of tea bags in the creek

[@J.R8765]

@@nolanmejia5510 this Congress does not speak for me!

[@Mmmkaramel]

@@J.R8765 let him be,

[@J.R8765]

@@Mmmkaramel they're playing a dangerous game

[@Mmmkaramel]

@@J.R8765 I pray the king shows them his mercy. For shame, for shalme

[@DocumentaryFanboy]

Fun fact I actually got a chance to meet Nesbo when he visited the Croatian capitol of Zagreb this year. He's a really sweet, fun and open minded guy with an endless amount of creativity in not only his books, but songs as well. He even signed my copies of The Bat and Snowman and wished me all the luck with my writing career.

[@talliaconner-flores5763]

That "rock concert" killed me. Not only because the...singing? sounds uncomfortably close to what my own father sounds like trying to sing, but the multitude horrified reactions of poor Luke. Dom, my good sir, you are going to give the man an aneurysm one of these days. XD

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

"OooooOOOOAAAAAAAaaaaaaaah-! Aaah-! AH!" That's what I heard and I don't know what to do anymore....

[@nicestpancake]

@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid it sounds like a tender old woman trying to reproduce what she thinks metal is. Almost endearing but you worry she's about to drop dead

[@rustyshackle8000]

It sounds like someone watched that horrible musical scene from Return of the Jedi while drunk, and then while hung over attempted to sing it form memory

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

@@nicestpancake "YaaaAAAAAaaaaaaaaa eh eh EH! ....did i get it right?"

[@beththingineverhad]

Maybe that's just what Norwegian music sounds like

[@mothiestman4995]

I love how Dom can say "egad!" And make it just sound normal

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

I’ve never read the books myself, but, if I remember correctly from accounts I’ve heard, these books are meant to be darkly comedic in tone. Like, the stuff about the obviously suspicious fumigator, the villain without nipples, the use of an obviously non-threatening snowman, and, of course, the main character’s name are meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Hell, I think in the first book, which is set in Australia, there’s a running gag about people pronouncing Harry’s surname as “hole” instead of “hoo-luh”, and him getting annoyed about it. So the fact that the movie tries to take itself and it’s premise so seriously is hilarious.

[@BehindTheFrames]

Funny story, I just met one of the producers and the writer of this film and the stories they have about the process of making this film is *gobsmacking*

[@FirstnameLastname-he1ov]

ohh are you at liberty to share any of them?

[@MariaVosa]

I think we all want a documentary on the making of this film. Or at least an oral history.

[@lyxla2579]

This made me so curious.

[@sciencefantastic]

Please indulge us

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

Also commenting to find out more, lol

[@kaziazx]

Luke's reaction to the "Slipknot" concert almost killed me i was laughing so hard.

[@fairelvenlady]

Honestly, the best part of this is the number of ways Dom found to say the protagonists name.

[@KristenRowenPliske]

The best part, absolutely!

[@auldthymer]

Harry "Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeplin" ftw

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

And he did not even get to "Harry Ho-Ho-Ho" :(

[@timothymclean]

Harry "the Father, Son, and the" Hole "-ey Ghost" was the best one.

[@Introspectivez]

As a someone who can attest to film projects falling apart in pre production I’m super curious.

[@EmoTimeLord]

"Harry Hole-d Me Closer Tiny Dancer" actually made me choke on my tea with laughing.

[@cesarg.5750]

Its so funny to me that even the Nostalgia Critic could get a member of Slipknot, even flight him to Chicago for his show, twice, but the Snowman had to settle with whatever the hell was that. Simply beautiful.

[@paulgibbon5991]

Not to mention...seriously, they couldn't find an aspiring band who would make a cameo for peanuts in return for some free publicity?

[@twentywordsorlessYT]

IDK if anyone else has pointed this out, but Michel Fassbender is actually German/Irish from the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland. I'd be a touch careful with calling him 'British'.

[@ElvhenRogue]

I was looking to see if someone pointed it out

[@simoneidson21]

As Northern Ireland is a part of the UK you could call a Northern Irishman British, even if technically Britain is England, Wales, Cornwall, and Scotland

[@Logitah]

That "Is this Corey Taylor?"- sequence made me rupture a lung...TWICE!

[@Gloomdrake]

Are you okay?

[@Logitah]

@@Gloomdrake Mostly! :,D

[@Gloomdrake]

@@Logitah good luck

[@dorkswhocosplay8908]

Our top story tonight; Man has mental breakdown about fictional nipples, his family grows concerned. How can people help, and will the question of snowman nipples ever be answered?

[@Phantom86d]

Our next top story, will the curiously beautiful watchers who read the above comment make the same mistake I did and Google 'Snowman Nipples'. Ugly sweaters and 'well-placed' carrots have scarred my retinas. Though strangely apt for the circumstances... I was expecting more stylized snowmen and not Sassy Granny's naught Sweaters...

[@B2WM]

Our top witchfinders are on the way.

[@rustyshackle8000]

Oh my GOD that fucking scene with the music killed me. It sounds like someone had an AI listen to every Star Wars song and had it recreate it

[@theotherghostgirl337]

The pseudo-slip knot bit made me laugh, dude sounds like that ghost noise from Scooby doo

[@ericawillis.]

"Mr police, it's a bit nipply outside" They'll never catch me now!

[@regularshowman3208]

I genuinely cannot describe how mindblowingly hilarious it is that *that's* what the movie's Slipknot impersonation sounds like. When I heard that in Dan Olson's vid I legitimately didn't even think that was real audio from the movie.

[@Leiliel1]

Hey, I'm not mad about you crying wolf. After all, you gave us all the clues ):

[@anubislover8989]

Oh thank the gods I thought this was about my favorite animated Christmas film and was VERY concerned when you started describing the book. Though it would be one heck of a plot twist if that film WAS based off a murder mystery lol!

[@wesleypatterson2989]

I did too lol it took me way too long to realize he was talking about something completely different

[@Nightlark100]

oh thank gods, i thought i was the only one

[@TVandManga]

Me too when I first clicked!

[@shadowheartart3898]

Me as well! I was sooo worried when I clicked the video

[@jhbadger]

This seems to be a trend in snowman-related movies. For example, there are two movies from the 1990s named "Jack Frost". One is a sappy movie about a ghost of a dead father who animates a snowman to see his son again, and another is about a murderer who animates a snowman. Don't confuse the movies especially when showing them to children!

[@JorWat25]

'Hole' is pronounced 'HOO-leh', by the way. "The word is pronounced as two syllables, with stress on the first (HOO-leh). In The Bat, the Australian police call him "Harry Holy.""

[@JorWat25]

Though yes, the film does pronounce like the English word 'hole'.

[@tristanhartup4936]

Harry Holy Moley

[@Roadent1241]

Here was me thinking at first he was saying Hull. Well the puns sorted that out.

[@lignjahal]

Honestly when I think of this name all I can think of is Dan Olsen's video where he hilariously repeats "HOO-leh" over and over just to prove a point.

[@jeremyroberts9065]

I'd have picked Harry Holly/Hawley for the localization personally, based on what you just told me.

[@ranciti7467]

I remember watching the film and wondering why it felt so… unsettling. Not creepy in a murder mystery way, but just bizarre in a “this doesn’t feel like a real movie” sort of way. Shots and scenes that were either to long or too short, weird cuts, story elements appearing out of nowhere and being dropped just as suddenly. There is one scene where Harry is talking to his boss, who says something like they don’t know if the missing women are connected and they don’t even know if anyone’s been murdered because they haven’t found any bodies… which takes place directly after a scene where Harry is at a murder site and has found a women’s decapitated head. Clearly, the discussion scene was meant to come earlier but was simply edited in the wrong sequence. It was then when I finally realized there was something deeply wrong with this film. As soon as the movie finished, I had to look it up because it baffled me how a film from a professional studio with such big name actors could be so categorically bad. Learning that they were on an extreme time crunch and didn’t film something like a full 1/3 of the script, leaving the editors to try and piece together an entire film out of what was fundamentally an incomplete story, definitely explained a lot. It is disappointing though, because there were parts of the film that felt like they almost could have been good, if only the whole thing wasn’t such a disjointed mess.

[@malaksafa4074]

Folding ideas has a really good video on this particular subject! I highly recommend it.

[@ranciti7467]

@@malaksafa4074 thanks for the recommendation! I'll be sure to check it out

[@malaksafa4074]

@@ranciti7467 :D

[@alanpennie8013]

​@@malaksafa4074 I learnt a lot about editing from that video.

[@denniswijker7162]

Dominic wearing a dollar sign tshirt while doing is ad read is a particular brand of malicious compliance that I highly enjoy ;)

[@enfercesttout]

twinsies

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

isn't that just a commentary on KZbin Monetization (or the flighty nature of such?)

[@denniswijker7162]

@@enfercesttout hello fellow Kirby!

[@iBenjamin1000]

I wouldn't really call that commentary. like I get it, you need to run an ad to make money. fine. but it doesn't make him clever for highlighting the fact that he's taking a sponsorship.

[@emmakane6848]

One thing I heard, from a different content creator, was how much they appreciated when people changed their shirt for the sponsored section so that viewers could go past it. I think this is just a very obvious example.

[@Krixwell]

Pronunciation guide from a Norwegian: Jo Nesbø - yooh NESbuh Snømannen - SNUHmahnnun Harry Hole - HAHrry HOOHluh ...but half of you won't be reading these pronunciation guides correctly because English is so bad for this kind of phonetic spelling, so here's some rough IPA for those who can read that: /yuː nɛsbʌ/ /snʌːmɑnːən/ /hɑry huːlə/

[@galaxionart9338]

I haven’t laughed as hard as I did at the Slip-NOT confirmation scene in so long. You have my gratitude for that and the end credits music. 😂

[@gabieldenstierna]

Mum is a murder mystery enthusiast and mostly reads Scandinavian works (we’re also Swedish) and she has A LOT of Jo Nesbø’s books. I grew up looking at their covers and she actually does have this book. She was very disappointed by the movie lol

[@HopeGardner3amed]

My mom is American and does the same thing with Stephen King.

[@SamLovesMovies25]

That "Slip-NOT" concert had me laughing so hard lol! I've gone to some big concerts such as Queen (my fave band), the Rolling Stones, and The Who, and I just couldn't help but imagine what it would have been like if those concerts had been like... that XD (they weren't btw, they were all awesome!)

[@EasterWitch]

I am not a big fan of murder mysteries, but as someone living in Norway I do know that Norwegians love these kinds of books, especially around Easter for some reason. Jo Nesbø books always fly off the shelves right before Easter time. If anybody actually wants to see a "good" movie about murder and snowy Norwegian landscapes, the horror comedy Dø snø isn't too bad

[@aliciabell6688]

@LiquoriceLover I think Scandinavians like to read snowy murder books when spring is definitely on it's way. That way the subject matter can be dispelled to the realm of fiction since winter is over.

[@MissCaraMint]

It can be traced back to 1923 when a publisher bought up the front page of a newspaper as ad space for their new book called “Bergenstoget plyndret i natt” or “The Bergen Train Robbed Last Night”. Lots of people didn’t see the ad disclaimer and really thought the train had been robbed. This naturally created chaos with people calling their loved ones and the police to figure out what was going on. It happened on the Saturday before Palm Sunday. Not sure exactly why we decided to mark the occasion by having Easter now be the designated crime season, but there you are.

[@Ketutar]

dir snir :-D

[@NotoriousLightning]

Gullgutten doesn't care particularly for murder mysteries either, but Easter just ain't the same without that glorious påskekrim.

[@Minilena]

In Sweden it's all the rage over summer, because people lazing in the sun apparently only want grisly murders and badly written sex scenes >_>

[@caerrie]

thank you for blessing me with the footage of what is CLEARLY an amateur ghost impersonator, it was not something i ever knew i wanted but I absolutely needed that in my life

[@maevalongchamp4063]

Bless you for this one. The seamless hole-pun entries had me cracking up. "DR. NO NIPPLES...-"

[@aaronmartin6108]

The bit with Luke made me laugh so hard, but your utter creativity in different phrases using the word Hole had me smiling the whole video.

[@MissCaraMint]

Honestly Jo Nesbø is an amazing man. Not only is a successful and rather good author (at least inntjening original language, havet read the translation), but he was a founding member of a pretty well known pop rock band. Di Derre met with pretty good success, but he still held down his accounting job while becoming a star. We still play their song “Jenter” today as an iconic classic hit, which Jo Nesbø wrote and is lead vocalist and guitarist on. Recommend checking it out actually. That’s Jenter by Di Derre. Edit: didn’t realized he was also a former Molde player. His music game definitely over shadowed that part of his carrier. It’s not fair. The man seems to succsed at everything he tries. He’s still an active musician by the way. I think he tours still with the band occasionally.

[@orkosubmarine]

that entire bit surrounding the "concert" had me in tears 😂

[@CableB_]

Surprisingly a lot of the Jo Nesbø books are set in Australia, also the detectives last is pronounced “hu-lah”

[@SamAronow]

This movie came out right after I moved away from the US. This coming week I'm returning to visit after five years away, so you putting this video out feels weirdly touching. Thank you.

[@zoeb3573]

I literally watched Folding Ideas' video yesterday! I guess it's not that big of a coincidence considering I've rewatched it like ten times already, but still. I had no idea the movie could be described as even worse/weirder, but knowing the plot they left out doesn't help.

[@Gloomdrake]

Dan Olson is so good at what he does

[@MJTRadio]

I'm a fan of the books. Never watched the movie, heard awful things. The books are not masterpieces, but I do like their suspense and nastiness. Also was always under the impression "Harry Hole" was intentional, because Nesbo just has an occasionally juvenile sense of humor. Also, Dom- you mixed up Raquel and Katrina Brat's names, Raquel is Harry's ex, Katrina is his partner/the dead sergeant's daughter. Unless they changed that for no reason. Apologies if I misspelled any names, I'm an audiobook guy.

[@TeruteruBozusama]

I read that intentionally he called him that as it'd be pronounced funny in English and requested that it wouldn't be changed..!

[@Painocus]

The first book is set in Australia and there are jokes about the Australians messing it up, so yeah, intentional.

[@stephenhall509]

Even the extras in the audience couldn't fake enjoyment for that concert 😂😂😂

[@kdisley]

Given that, as I recall, this came out just after Christmas (in the UK at least), my first thought upon seeing the advert was: "Oh God, they're even giving Raymond Briggs a gritty reboot!"

[@groofay]

I'm excited for this one, Dan Olsen's breakdown of The Snowman is one of my favorite videos about a film.

[@NotoriousLightning]

I stopped trusting him after he said he prefered Peter Jackass' LotR to Ralph Bakshi's.

[@aurifulgore]

@@NotoriousLightning ....ok dude

[@NotoriousLightning]

@@aurifulgore Okie dokie!

[@voidify3]

@@NotoriousLightning omg this type of guy is real? i thought the pinned comment on his lotr video was a joke

[@cathe8282]

You have no idea the psychological whiplash I got when I thought the sickly sweet animated movie with Aled Jones's song "Walking in the Air" was based on a graphic Norwegian murder-mystery!!!!

[@ZyllasAthenaeum]

I love how one of those silly faces you make at your friend is basically the bad-joke-husky meme. It's really quite impressive.

[@sydneylynskey7587]

I remember seeing the trailer for this movie, but I never watched it. Honestly, I thought it was about a literal snowman that would come to life and kill people.

[@iJustWannaBeNameless]

I once watched a movie like that, it's called Jack Frost edit: free to watch on youtube btw

[@mirjanbouma]

After discovering the existence of Sharknado, it would not surprise me one bit if that is a movie that exists.

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

I did initially fall for that review of The Room, in part because Wisseau has insisted that it really is based on a book that he can't seem to name. And there is the story that his character was supposed to turn out to be a vampire in a bizarre third act plot twist which they apparently only canceled because he ran out of money. When I realized it was a joke, Iaughed out loud all over again.

[@poniesandproteins]

The editing around 16:00 literally made me laugh out loud

[@bainbonic]

Ah yes, Dominic living out the story of the Boy Who Cried 'You're Tearing Me Apart, Lisa.'

[@aerieleah533]

Note to self. This is a bad one to nap to. I was about to fall asleep when that "singing" started. 🤣

[@ivahamernikova2751]

It's so weird to hear about "unknown book", it was really big in Europe :-D

[@MajaBiana]

Yes, and here in Denmark, Nesbø's books are still usually displayed in the big supermarkets along with the all other popular crime authors.

[@mirjanbouma]

I'm Dutch and haven't heard of it, but it's nowhere near my usual reading tastes so it's possible I just never registered it of I came across it.

[@Vickyeverythingelsewastaken]

Yeah, I'm German and Nesbøs work is on every parents coffe table. "Vaguely nordic crime stuff" is the biggest genre as far as sales go.

[@palomarodrigues2483]

They are quite popular here in Brazil as well.

[@oktopussy9628]

@@MajaBiana It's totally a book you buy for your aunt in the supermarket 30 min before you go to her birthdayparty.

[@JesseDCrespo]

Bro this is what I get for skipping intros, I'm rewatching this now and only just learned you duped the hell out of me with that room bit.

[@CheesyLizzy]

Oh gosh, for the first 3 minutes of the video I thought we were going to be talking about The Snowman, as in the cute little Christmas animation from 1982 I was surprised and fully convinced that it was apparently inspired by a crime novel for a good couple minutes there 😆

[@slothbearsrule1564]

Same

[@MeeplandHeights]

The "singer" being a comedian makes that scene better in the end haha

[@isaacschmitt4803]

If you've ever seen the show Leverage, there's anepisode where the team infiltrates a scummy music studio in order to retrieve an original recording of a person's song to prove that they are the one that wrote it and not the shady music industry mogul who is trying to steal it. Anyways, one of the team is dressed up as definitely-not-Lady Gaga, and to provide a distraction, she improvises an incredibly weird and jarring performance that almost perfectly mirrors that wailing they're trying to pass off as music. Alternatively, he might be ripping off Yoko Ono.

[@voidify3]

"This is Moe's Tavern" "Hi I'm looking for Inspector Hole. First name Harry"

[@danaeckert6824]

I get a certain perverse joy out of being referred to as "The Colonies."

[@apollo1493]

Michael Fassbender isn’t British, he’s German Irish

[@c.argelfraster1291]

I've rewatched this video three times already just for the Dom-Luke-SlipNOT segment. High quality entertainment 🏆

[@hansjb9274]

Jo Nesbø is one of the biggest crime authors in Norway, I can't go into a book store without seeing his name everywhere in there. He also wrote one of my favorite children's books of all time, Doctor Proktor's Fart Powder, in which a man invents a powder that makes you fart so powerfully you can use it to fly.

[@gianna526]

Bruh the Room killed me, I actually thought it was real, and I was planning on researching the author once I finished the video.

[@MOONSUN4Life]

The way Dom tries so hard to disguise the protagonist's name is pure gold.

[@atiredfloridian777]

The most entertaining part of this was you coming up with new names for Harry every other sentence. Goodness, this book wasn't good at all but DAMN did the movie do it dirty.

[@Kulgur]

Hearing Jo Nesbø described as a "professional footballer, reporter, and author" is funny. In Norway, he is most famous for his band Di Derre - though he was also all of those other things, as well as a stockbroker. Admittedly, the football days (a brief and very minor part of his career) is the bit he is most proud of, so he'd appreciate you mentioning that first. And globally, his writing is far more well known than his music; probably because it's easier to translate books than songs. A few days before the Snowman movie was released, there was an interview where he refused to answer whether he would see the movie or not. It was an early sign that maybe the movie wasn't going to turn out too well.

[@PFiction24]

According to Norwegian KZbinr Andre of Midnight’s Edge, the joke about Harry Hole is that 90% of Norwegians speak English, but his parents were apart of the 10% who don’t.

[@overwhelmed_cactus6820]

Two years later and this is still one of my favorite videos of yours, Dom. Great work as always

[@laterkater4213]

I love when Dom calls up his friends to pretend to be mean to him. 🤣

[@blacksun3185]

The music literally sounds like some weird Mario impression. I can't get over the fact that this is actually in the movie. That can't be true.

[@seekthevisceral]

Dominic, it pains me to see you have to slough through fiction that doesn't quite scratch the itch, but an A+ for your valiant effort. Thanks, amigo.

[@jessiemccrea6274]

I thought this was going to be about the movie where this snowman is actually alive and is killing people, but I still wasn't disappointed

[@evilblondgoth]

It was a April fools prank?! Lmao I love the fact that my Autism, Dyscalculia and other linked neuro diversities... enabled me to completely miss the date of it's release, and to also not pick up ony any sarcasm or indication etc. that it wasn't a 'real/genuine' review. Dam it, it made so much senses to my ND brain and I got all excited that I finally understood the full context. 😭🤣😉

[@blacksun3185]

I also didn't know. I only found out once another channel mentioned that this was a joke.

[@EliseArainai]

Gotta give him credit for playing that whole thing completely straight; I almost fell for it until I remembered what day it was XD

[@metanight788]

i was fooled by that video as well, but in my defense the story behind The Room and its director is so bizarre already you could have told me it was made by Venusian Molepeople on a drunken dare I I'd give it at least a thought before realizing it was a prank.

[@j.n.h4977]

I found out from this too.

[@EliseArainai]

Forgot to mention before, but my hubby now considers the fake explanation present in the Room video as his headcanon cuz that’s the only way it makes sense in his head xD

[@Awells89]

Luke's Micheal Scott "Why are you the way that you are" face just kills me.

[@sconesandjam]

I only saw the title for this and assumed it was the graphic novel that inspired the beloved Christmas short that plays every year. Glad it's not, I don't need to get misty eyed in the middle of summer. (Great work as always though, Dom)

[@bobbobbing4220]

same my dude.. i was like "this is gonna be a wierd adaption" when he started talking about jerking off. "maybe it was a different kinda snow"?

[@francespyne7316]

Same here,

[@elizabethmartin6707]

Oh, it wasn’t just me then

[@Jan-gh7qi]

As someone who read his fair share of Nordic-Noir, I think a lot of Nesbo is real hard to get for people, who are not used to the genre. Nordic Noir started out with people like Larsson or Mankell as this super dark, nihilistic but also hyper realistic subtype of crime story, but over the times it functionally became it's own genre with it's own tropes. For example, that there are a ton of red herings, because the moral of the story is, that some people are just A-Holes if they are serial killers or not. Another trope there is, that some people are just crazy and weird. And Nesbo gives all these dark deconstructions of tropes which became tropes themselves a sort of comedic twist. For Fantasy-Readers, the best coparison might be Joe Abercrombie. It is so Grimmdark, that it's kinda funny again...

[@Painocus]

The war between English-speakers' inability to understand the concept of an E sound at the end of a word VS every other language on earth continues.

[@Lnpitalo]

Lol. My Boss LOVES all of Nesbo's books. He told me that every book is translated and that's why the syntax is a little wonky. Also he says it's pronounced Hol-lay.

[@astrinymris9953]

The expressions you and Luke pulled while listening to that bizarre concert scene were hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing. Also, you've made me Google to see if that nipple thing was accurate, damn you! Bad Dom, no kitty pets.

[@Pinkstarclan]

sometimes when my buddy & i are putting on music/podcasts while doing art stuff, one of us will go "wanna listen to Nipples?" and then we put this on

[@JohnnyElRed]

Honestly, if Taylor Lautner appeared and starting munching on them, I doubt most people would complain.

[@LaRana2315]

I watched the film in theaters with my friends. Not bc any of us had read the book or where fans of it, but because we were a group of bored 16-17 yrs olds that had JUST enough babysitting/allowance money between all of us to watch what we thought looked like a cool horror film n do some light shopping afterwards. I don't remember anything except that during the film we got told off for propping our feet up on the empty chairs infront of us and laughing like the teenage assholes we were anytime a snowman came on screen. We left the film mourning the money we just wasted. Luckily we still had JUST enough money left over to buy some snacks from Carrefour and spend the rest of our afternoon snacking, gossiping, and window shopping, which was MUCH more fun and enjoyable, but I'm still bitter about the 60 lei (15 USD) ticket, that was 12 hours of babysitting payment I was never getting back >:(

[@Foxcheese]

I really came into this video thinking I was about to find out that the 1982 animated christmas movie The Snowman was actually based on a crime novel.

[@Obstreperous_Octopus]

This is a very different movie than comes to mind for me when I hear "The Snowman" lol (which I just now found out was ALSO based on a book that I wasn't previously aware of)

[@prettyface146]

Hey Dom, just letting you know that the partner/daughter of Val Kilmer’s name was Katrine and the ex-girlfriend is Rakel

[@rhodrage]

You're right. I wouldn't take "Detective Harry Hill," seriously

[@michaelsinger4638]

This is a blatant example of “the change as made no sense and just made the story worse.” Poor Rebecca Ferguson got REALLY shafted with what they did with her character vs. the book.

[@lancerguy3667]

It's for the best that the main character of this book was a detective, and not a loose-cannon american cop. Can you imagine if he'd managed to earn the nickname "Dirty" Harry Hole?

[@giulia5024]

I remember watching the trailer for this movie and laughing so much at the little drawings of the snowman, like who would find that scary it looks so silly lol. Also as a suggestion I would love to see an analysis of the adaptation to Blindness by José Saramago.

[@Pan-optic]

I remember a TV skit when the movie came out where it was just a black screen for several seconds and then someone shouting "I liked the book better!" That'd be such a good episode. The book was so sensory and feels so different from the movie.

[@kirstenc4279]

I know I’m late but I love your tie so much. We need more wearable dinosaur stuff.

[@adambaumgartner6683]

Hey Dom if you need a pallet cleanser for a project try "Flight of Dragons" it's based off of two books. The dragon and the George as well as Flight of Dragons both by Gordon R Dickinson

[@Jim4815162342]

The "Harry Hill" change may be to avoid copyright issues. *Harold* Hill is the protagonist of the musical "The Music Man."

[@valkyriagrey2551]

Hey Dom, love your videos, but I gotta point out that Micheal Fassbender is Irish, not British. I'm sure this was a simple mistake, but it always feels like a big 'oof' when people call Irish talent British.

[@alisaurus4224]

I thought the same. He’s currently living in London but was raised in Ireland, has an Irish accent & is half-Irish by parentage.

[@michaelsinger4638]

He’s Irish-German I believe. His wife, Alicia Vikander, is Swedish.

[@leviwuzere07]

Holy crap, i'm only just now realising that the room LIA was an april fools joke. I would not have known had you not brought it up at the start of this video. I would have also probably gone on to tell people that it was based on a foreign book and that the MC was actually dracula. God damn masterful work on that one

[@Panda-cute]

I laughed so hard at the nipple chant omg that music.... who approved that hahahahahha

[@StrawberryShorty]

I love the sad snowman drawing in the thumbnail.

[@NotSoFinalProductions]

Pity the film is so bad, because Jo Nesbo is a fantastic author and Alfredson is the director of the fantastic Let The Right One In.

[@ulvegutten2056]

His name is Hole, its the name of a famus preaster farm in Røysehalvøya. The Surname name Hole is a command name in Norway, as in the Norwegian County Hole where the famus farm Hole lies on top of a KNOLL(I think is the closest word to hóll in English). So he would be named Harry Knoll, hehe. After the black death that word/place became a command surname. Like the writer, Jo Nesbø`s old teatcher who was named Mr. Hole and detectrive Hole is named after him. We in Norway pronounce the name Hole like an american would say HOO-LEH. So he could be named Harry Hooleh alwso.