Rachel: "Cats is a musical for perverts" Patrick [scratching chin]: "Yeah I simply *cannot* figure out what it is about this movie that compels me.. Obsessively."
@Wired4Life2
5 жыл бұрын
I picture, sitting at a table, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Bryan Singer, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Matt Groening, and others, all going, "We accept him, one of us, gooble, gobble, we accept him, one of us, gooble, gobble..." at Patrick.
@whitneymouse
4 жыл бұрын
I take issue with that explanation. I love Cats and I loved the musical since we saw it in music class in grade school. As a child. It has good music xD
@sitcomchristian6886
4 жыл бұрын
It's....really not a musical for perverts. I thought that was a bizarre way of describing it.
@deadprivacy
4 жыл бұрын
@@sitcomchristian6886 DEFINITELY FOR PERVERTS, REALLY DISTURBING FURRY PERVERTS
@Jellyfishbrainz
4 жыл бұрын
deadprivacy No, actual furries disowned this, nobody is going to buy a pinup of cat Taylor Swift. It’s not hot, it’s disturbing.
@tangledfish
5 жыл бұрын
"Ok, we have to address the elephant in the room." That we all know a Cats reaction video is going to be the biggest Lindsay Ellis hit of the year and Patrick is muscling in on her gig before the movie is even in cinemas?
@MariMari_1798
5 жыл бұрын
tangledfish Are KZitemrs in competition in that way? When my faves cover the same content I still watch both people’s videos
@ajax2985
4 жыл бұрын
@@MariMari_1798 Unfortunately yes. While I'm the same as you and will eagerly watch videos from different channels on the same topics, many people are content with a single video. There is also the instance that viewers who aren't subscribed and just search for something will search for the most recent or most viewed video. In both instances, the result is a reduction of viewers for KZitemrs who aren't one of the first to post about the topic.
@hillarywoo4977
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for being the only one to say what we were all thinking.
@thespectralchannel
5 жыл бұрын
I was kind of shocked by the backlash since I was totally obsessed with Cats as a kid - I had a VHS of it that I watched religiously, the book of all the costume designs and dragged my parents to see it twice in theatres. I had never really considered how batshit insane the whole thing is compared to most musicals
@Hinatachan360
3 жыл бұрын
I love the musical myself. It's entertaining and the singing and dancing is top notch. It's a whole lot of crazy fun.
@goldiefatale
4 жыл бұрын
i'm obsessed with the reaction people have to this movie.
@clairepettie
4 жыл бұрын
Same. I think we need a support group. For connoisseurs, aficionados, and obsessives of KZitem "Cats" Reviews.
@annadushenkina3512
4 жыл бұрын
Ha-ha, me too. I actually liked the movie and found it fun and harmless. And trying to figure out why so many people is so distressed by it.
@jjsplay-hause6240
4 жыл бұрын
Seriously agreed, good thing I usually fall asleep and I'm normal the next day
@gregmcamp
5 жыл бұрын
"Jellicle cats" is a corruption of "dear little cats" and "Pollicle dogs" of "poor little dogs"
@Polisciandfries
5 жыл бұрын
Wow! Thanks! Spent my life wondering this
@Theyungcity23
5 жыл бұрын
Htf do you get jelly out of dear little?
@Polisciandfries
5 жыл бұрын
@@Theyungcity23 say it like an old woman with a Cockley accent..."djear lickle cats"
@tenlongfingers70
5 жыл бұрын
Theyungcity23 Actually, the corruption from d to j is actually pretty common in English. We got Cajun from Acadian and injun from Indian. The tongue is basically in the same place for both sounds.
@Polisciandfries
5 жыл бұрын
@@tenlongfingers70 ugh I love language facts 👏
@ScottRawlings1138
5 жыл бұрын
Love you, Patrick but as a stutterer I can see why Hooper made camera blocking that was isolating for King’s Speech.
@andrewwashiku
5 жыл бұрын
Finally, someone in this comment section who gets it
@carrrich6193
4 жыл бұрын
But why would the blocking also frame the therapist as isolated? Just had to rewatch it for a seminar and honestly, the framing felt really unmotivated...
@Flowtail
3 жыл бұрын
I just rewatched it and i do get why it started with the framing like that, but the lighting was so cold in the rest of the movie too that it felt a bit odd. Though not as bad as patrick made it seem, imo
@WeirdNeville
2 жыл бұрын
@@carrrich6193 I reckon to emphasise the class divide (and perhaps to foreshadow that the therapist is also a little out of his element, since he has no credentials).
@ambiguoussarcasm
5 жыл бұрын
“Cats is plotless!” *Proceedes to explain the plot of Cats*
@HannibalFan52
5 жыл бұрын
All the while leaving out the most important points of acceptance, forgiveness, and redemption.
@Ntyler01mil
4 жыл бұрын
@@HannibalFan52 - You left out euthanasia
@HannibalFan52
4 жыл бұрын
@@Ntyler01mil I didn't mention it because it has nothing to do with the show.
@HannibalFan52
4 жыл бұрын
@@JC-yy8iv Actually, it does have a plot, per Andrew Lloyd Webber himself, and it centers around Grizabella's hope to be accepted by the tribe again.
@HannibalFan52
4 жыл бұрын
@@JC-yy8iv Actually, it does. The Prologue is the exposition, when Munkustrap explains the Jellicle Ball. Every time Grizabella is rejected, that builds the tension (the rising action). Will she or won't she be accepted in the end? You don't actually know until it happens. The climax is not that 'climactic', I'll grant you, which is why people miss it. When Old Deuteronomy encourages Victoria to touch Grizabella, that heightens the tension again; when she actually does, and Grizabella closes her eyes in thankfulness, that's the actual climax. It's quiet, but it doesn't have to be overly dramatic. The falling action is her ascent to the Heavyside Layer, since the most important action (her acceptance) has already occurred, and the Ad-dressing of Cats is the denouement. It's all there; it's just not as obvious as in most stories.
@morbid1.
5 жыл бұрын
Kajit are cats, they have cat face, cat paws but they walk on 2 legs... in "cats" they have human face and human limbs... they are like CRISPR trial runs
@jennym4882
5 жыл бұрын
yeah thats the big difference for me, the Khajiit still have cat heads with slightly humanized featured to help them emote, while these CGI monsters are just hairy humans and it looks wrong
@johnnye87
5 жыл бұрын
Why imply "isolation" in a movie about "two people becoming friends?" ...A fundamental point of the movie is that one of those people doesn't have any real friends due to the burden of leadership and responsibility he feels has been thrust upon him against his will, and the walls of class and etiquette that creates which the other guy has to tear down to try and make a connection with him. The guy also happens to have a communication disorder that makes it nigh-impossible for him to be taken seriously in that very same job. "Isolation" is just... a huge theme of the movie?
@user-pg9sw2td7w
4 жыл бұрын
I liked the uncomfortable feeling in les mis. Poverty is uncomfortable.
@fearofowl5973
5 ай бұрын
then why is it used for scenes without poor people?
@ViveLRoi
5 жыл бұрын
Also, in your outline of American musicals of the 2000s, you forgot Hairspray.
@gorimbaud
5 жыл бұрын
As a remake, it wouldn't have been any kind of notable exception to the examples already given.
@dyonlemmen713
5 жыл бұрын
People don't give the musical Cats enough credit. It has a story but people just want to hate on it, so they say it doesn't.
@Hinatachan360
3 жыл бұрын
I agree. Munkustrap summaries the plot in the beginning in song. One should just listen to the lyrics and get the gist of the story.
@thetramp123
5 жыл бұрын
The King's Speech is shot with a lot of negative space and often isolating its subjects because it's only superficially about overcoming difficulty speaking. It isn't really an inspiring overcoming adversity movie, but it's a film about class differences and coming together in the end, first clashing and feeling alienated when out of their familiar setting, thus when Prince Albert goes to Lionel's home or when Lionel visits the royal family. The intent is to isolate these men to accentuate their possible discomfort in unfamiliar territory while the film is going about its real agenda, expressing the need to come together as a nation in their declaration against the rising Nazi threat in Europe. And I sort of get what he wanted to do with Les Mis. I don't like it, but I can kind of guess what his intent was. I think it was about wanting to really get a close personal emotional realism to their performances (ironically enough even though those wide angle lenses distort those close-ups), but paired with his decision to record vocals on set and on day with raw and unrefined vocal performances I think his intent as to try and capture some of that raw emotional weight to those characters and those performances, and the use of the close-up as the obvious closest window into that. It's just without much breathing room those sequences become unrelenting and those wide angle lenses distort those dirt smeared faces, which works to the film's detriment.
@HannibalFan52
5 жыл бұрын
Actually, 'The King's Speech' *is* about overcoming speech impediments, and some of the possible causes. (In this case, being forced to be right-handed was a contributing factor.) David Seidler had a speech impediment when he was growing up, and learning about Bertie's struggle was inspirational for him. He approached Queen Mother Elizabeth about making the movie, and she agreed that it was a story that needed to be told. However, she asked that Seidler wait until after she had died, as, in her words, the memory was too painful for her. And that's exactly what he did. By the way, including Derek Jacobi as the Archbishop of Canterbury was an inspired in-joke, as he came to international attention as the limping, stuttering Claudius in 'I, Claudius'.
@WeirdNeville
2 жыл бұрын
Yep, I think he was unfair to the kings speech here: the uneasy framing clearly imparts the kings unease in being in unfamiliar settings and undergoing another belittling process to try and correct his stammer. It pits the audience in his frame of mind, looking at blank walls, feeling like a fish out of water. I think it works well.
@dennile_7355
5 жыл бұрын
The whole point of this video is basically “This is going to be a M A S S I V E dumpster fire and I can’t look away”
@Irish_Soc
5 жыл бұрын
I had to study The King's Speech in secondary (Irish high) school, and I honestly don't think Hooper's techniques are just there for the sake of it. The shallow focus and negative space is used often to show the discomfort and isolation felt by the characters, but there is a definite humorous angle that felt completely intentional.
@elphaba4674
5 жыл бұрын
I would like to see the credentials of your "catspert"
@Oonagh72
5 жыл бұрын
The King’s Speech was very much about feeling isolation. A King with tan almost debilitating speech impediment. Being a King is isolating enough, considering every other person who has been in his position is dead. So he has no true peers. Then he avoids people as to not expose his “weakness”. Loved it.
@siniquezu
5 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't discuss actual musicals that have gained popularity in recent years starting off with wicked, and including Hamilton and book of Mormon
@jennym4882
5 жыл бұрын
bless u
@Picnicl
4 жыл бұрын
Every video that I've seen by Americans/Canadians, including this one, refer to there being a song called 'Memories' in Cats. It's just 'Memory' (and the word 'memories' doesn't feature in the song either).
@UnnamedAndUnindicted
5 жыл бұрын
I think its really unfair of that lady to say Cats is for perverts. Everyone that I know that has seen and loved Cats was introduced to it as a child.
@KateeAngel
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, cause kids don't have critical thinking skills yet
@acoasterbro
4 жыл бұрын
I think it's really naive to assume something for kids wouldn't have perversions 🤷
@valkyrie-randgris
4 жыл бұрын
@@KateeAngel As someone who likes Cat's, and was introduced to it as a child, I completely endorse this comment. (It's just so surreal and goofy and out there tho. It's fun.)
@TwighlightLugia
4 жыл бұрын
isn't there a thinly veiled orgy scene in the first act
@creepyscrawly113
4 жыл бұрын
Lia Luna what so sex is inexplicably perverted? Grow up.
@MeetDannyWilson
5 жыл бұрын
Every video should cut to a quote by Werner Herzog.
@711Rod
5 жыл бұрын
Well if there's one thing I definitely agree with you, is that Hollywood needs big budget risks Also: Baby Driver is a musical. The only good one I've seen that isn't animated too
@Jeagles
4 жыл бұрын
I’m English, as is the musical. I liked the musical, and this film hurt my national pride
@GoblinHero
5 жыл бұрын
"I don't know, noone knows, I think TS eliot was high" Yup welcome to the musical theatre fandom
@andrewpragasam
5 жыл бұрын
Tom Hooper is the pretentious art-house version of Michael Bay.
@KlingonCaptain
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, that really makes sense.
@grenbaygrl1
5 жыл бұрын
bruh.
@brianbrush5107
4 жыл бұрын
100th like And accurate
@serenacelestine
4 жыл бұрын
I see what you’re trying to say, but no. Their filming styles are nothing alike.
@Malkmusianful
5 жыл бұрын
Hooper knows what he's doing. Before Les Miserables, a lot of movie musical adaptations tend to either be shot as a straight-up documentation of the stage production or they tend to be shot either like a Bob Fosse '70s production or like Rob Marshall's version of Chicago. Very traditional. Granted Hooper's approach undercuts the epicness of big powerful moments from Les Mis, but his point isn't so much "can I make the thing grander in scale" as much as it's "can i put the audience directly into the scene? what are established ways of putting the audience in the scene?" Same reason why Bergman or Allen use close-ups in films - to make you effectively go through what the characters can go through. Hooper's logic is that when you see Les Mis on Broadway or at your local venue, you can distance yourself enough from Fantine, Valjean, Javert, Cosette, Marius, etc. to the point where you might think the songs are good, but you can wake up the next day and go on with your everyday life. The musical didn't affect you that much outside of the music and the scope of the production. With his approach to the film, he'll make you feel what those characters are feeling, goddamn it, with all their dread and their fears and their regrets exposed - why not approach relating to a musical from another avenue?
@KoolWithAQ
4 жыл бұрын
Saw the film today ... and all I can say is OH WELL I NEVER! WAS THERE EVER A CAT SO CLEVER AS MAGICAL MISTER MISTOFFELEES!!
@skepticalbadger
4 жыл бұрын
I hate all this shite, but "Jellical" isn't difficult. It's obviously short for "Angelical". It's literally in the TS Eliot poem that she read.
@D-Fritz
4 жыл бұрын
hate to be that guy, but it's not short for "angelical" it's a corruption of "dear little"
@sunshinepurple1043
4 жыл бұрын
As a person who has stuttered her entire life, 54 years, the work in "The King's Speech" makes perfect sense. The movie isn't about a friendship but the frustrating and, at times, dehumanizing therapy techniques and ableistic attitudes people who stutter endure everyday the weird camera angles are perfect.
@brianng7929
4 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised no one gets this. Jellicle Cats is a play on the British Pronunciation of Dear Little Cats
@hurricaneofcats
4 жыл бұрын
I went to see this with a friend knowing it was terrible. We were no kidding, the only two people in the entire theatre. Never in my life have I seen a theatre that large so empty
@tomkkemp4191
5 жыл бұрын
i just woke up from a dream in which Patrick H Willems and I were at a busy party. He was being extremely effusive and entertaining. His big crowd pleaser was to run to one corner of the room and do a Balducci levitation trick, facing the wall and shouting 'I'm floating! I'm floating!'. He would then immediately run over to a sofa in the room and jump up and down on it like Tom Cruise, shouting 'Now I'm couching! I'm couching!' This stunt was hugely popular, and he continued to do it all night as I looked after his baby daughter.
@annieboookhall
5 жыл бұрын
*talks about movie jukebox musicals released in the 2000s* FORGETS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
@timothylockwood3042
5 жыл бұрын
The word jelical comes from TS Elliot’s nephew trying to say “dear little cat” when he was very small and pronouncing it jelical by accident. My dance teacher was in one of the original London productions so that’s my source 😊
@coolvids841
5 жыл бұрын
I have to respectfully disagree about the camera angles not making sense for Kings Speech. I agree that Tom Hooper is generally pretty bland, but I think the angles served to show how uncomfortable King George really was. The wide angle lenses warped the images and helped show how terrifying and overwhelming the task of speaking was for him. I distinctly remember there being a close up of a microphone with the edges of the frame bowing outward, with the space of the scene accentuated to show how large imposing the microphone seemed to him. Framing him in the corner gave a sense of isolation, as it does in Mr. Robot. While I agree that the story of the film is fairly typical, I still think the visuals paired well with the performances to give a good visual representation of the emotions at play. Just my two cents, love your work!
@SSStephen_o7
5 жыл бұрын
6:50 I had always interpreted Hooper's use of isolating shots to represent the Prince/King's feeling of loneliness due to his struggle with a basic human function, communication. Which in turn made Albert feel ostracized from his subjects, his family, and his friends, or the lack there of. I also think his use of isolated shots during Rush and Firth's interactions helped visualize a juxtaposition between their characters. One character is a proper gentleman of royalty and the other a whimsical, goofy commoner.
@Kaixero
5 жыл бұрын
That you couldn't see the purpose of the shot framing in The Kings Speech is kinda wild, but other than that, yeah, I am 100% on board with this strange nightmare hellscape feline fever dream movie. If nothing else, it's ballsy. I am at least going to feel strongly about it.
@heighbeut99
5 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing something on the Broadway radio station talking about Cats. The guy was talking about the author’s mother(?) and imitated her manner of speaking when she talked to the cats, which was toothless and british. So Jellicle might be a contamination of “dear little”
@82517
3 жыл бұрын
every scene in cats begins with a new character appearing and being like “i’m peepety poopoo, the ass eating cat!” and then they sing a song with hardly any melody about how much they love eating ass then idris elba shows up and makes them disappear, this happens like 6 times
@darkesttimeline7026
4 жыл бұрын
This guy seems like a film critic version of Vsauce
@SmokeyLaBear
5 жыл бұрын
"Lindsay's killin' it with Game of Thrones." Oh no! Does that mean Patrick and Lindsay are competitors? Can't they get together and discuss more Michael Bay, or Star Wars, or frankly anything?
@CandygirlThe120
4 жыл бұрын
Need your review of Cats(2019) now that its out
@MariaVosa
5 жыл бұрын
If you and Lindsey don't do a joint video about your reactions to seeing Cats, the internet will have failed us.
@adamlevine1914
5 жыл бұрын
"Seriously, what's a jellicle cat?" "Nobody knows, we think TS Eliot was high." That was the best moment in the video. Perfect set up, perfect execution, perfect joke. And probably true.
@catanna213
5 жыл бұрын
It's kind of weird to rate a movie based on its 3 minute trailer but after watching it just once I was in love. The stage musical was brilliant and so was the 1998 movie but this is like nothing I've seen before. The choreography, singing, set design and the cats themselves - slightly strange but that just adds to the magic.
@deeman010gdj
4 жыл бұрын
I saw Cats twice and I loved it even more the second time. I think your reaction at the end perfectly summed up what I feel about the movie, it's so bizarre that I can't help but be captivated.
@Lazamattaz
5 жыл бұрын
Apparently "Jellicle cat" was borne from T.S. Eliot's young niece trying to say "dear little cat" but not getting it quite right
@emmanoelle6551
4 жыл бұрын
My friend and I saw this today and we left in the middle of the movie, and we also had the theater to ourselves 😂
@danielduff
5 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember the Kimmy Schmidt episode where Titus discovers that the musical Cats doesn't exist?
@kes6628
4 жыл бұрын
"Cats is somehow my most anticipated movie of the rest of the year, and I wanna know. Why?" "H I ! Vsauce Michael Here. So what is, CATS?"
@l1nus0nl1neproductions9
5 жыл бұрын
this movie seems to be very reminiscent or rathere it reminds me a lot of a Swedish children's book series that was adapted into a movie called ”Pelle Svanslös och den stora skattjakten” released in 2000
@emmanuelvlogs8743
5 жыл бұрын
Can people stop saying Cats has no plot? Like lmao they literally explain the plot in the “Invitation to the Jellicle Ball” song.
@acoasterbro
4 жыл бұрын
Cats. Doesnt. Have. Plot. The Jellicle Ball song only explains what is going on. That's not plot. Plot would be any of these songs being cohesive. It's just a giant playlist of songs describing each cat's personality.
@crazycatzg3481
4 жыл бұрын
@@acoasterbro basically, it's a musicals with tiny plots runs in a same location
@Candy26262
5 жыл бұрын
Honestly the first time I watched the trailer I was like “what the hell is that!?” Then I watched the trailer again and I was like “huh it’s not as bad as the first time watching it.” Now after watching it a few times I’m really excited for it and “Memories” sounds amazing in the trailer which made the trailer even better for me. Another thing I want to make a point as to why I don’t think the cats don’t look too bad to me is because when the first trailer for Aladdin came out I was terrified of how the genie looked and was beyond disappointed. Then when the last trailer before the release date of the movie came out I was surprised at how much better the genie looked. I am not going to trash the cgi until the final trailer comes out because I’m sure it’s not perfected yet they just wanted to release a trailer. I think people need to give it a chance before ripping it apart.
@monksnack
4 жыл бұрын
"It's a musical for perverts." Ouch.
@PKSiggy24wc
5 жыл бұрын
6:33 ... Having a stutter is a very isolating thing people have to deal with. This is why he chose those angles
@Noonycurt
5 жыл бұрын
The name "Jellicle Cat" is derived from how a child says "the little cat". Also the "Pollicle Dogs" in the musical come from "poor little dog".
@jarodlechadores4336
5 жыл бұрын
Ok I honestly might watch Cats over episode 9 now. Thanks Patrick.
@uptown3636
5 жыл бұрын
Patrick Willems is the only person on youtube who can make a Skillshare ad interesting. Still not going to try the free trial, but I didn't click away as soon as the plug started--I watched every second of it.
@Skatche
4 жыл бұрын
I just watched Tom Hopper's adaptation of Les Miserables tonight and I've cracked the code. He's not a bad director at all, in fact he's the best living director to adapt Broadway musicals. Cats and Les Miserables alike are excellent films. Background: my dad was a theatre nerd, and he took me and my siblings to see lots of plays and musicals when I was growing up. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Bertolt Brecht plays, Phantom of the Opera, plenty of Shakespeare, Showboat, The Importance of Being Earnest, you name it. So when I went into Cats (which I'd never seen on stage) I loved it. I went to see it a second time and I'd have seen it a third time (and maybe more) if it didn't stop playing where I live. The key to enjoying it was incredibly simple: pretend it's a stage performance. Yeah the CG looks weird at times, but for 90% of the film you can easily pretend they're just wearing high-budget costumes and makeup. Then the setpieces, the incredible choreography, the excellent acting and beyond-excellent music all add up to one of my all-time favourite musical experiences. Les Miserables was filmed the way it was filmed for a very specific reason. The writers were condensing a 1600-page epic into two and a half hours, and to be honest, I think they (barely) failed. I saw Les Mis when I was a kid and I could barely remember any of it. It just didn't stick the way other musicals did, and that's because it just moves too fast, presenting too much detail in too short a time. What Tom Hopper did was use long close-up shots to depict the staggering range of subtle emotional shifts the characters are going through at a breakneck pace. He actually made the stage musical _better_ in his adaptation. It's actually more true to the novel, and I enjoyed it immensely. So Cats (2019) and Les Miserables (2012) were undeserved flops. Literally the only thing you have to know to enjoy them is "Expect a stage production, not a movie." Tom Hopper knows how to do it.
@lovasip
5 жыл бұрын
I grew up on the Hungarian rednition of Cats, so I cannot judge this harshly cause nostalgia. However the cats look, I am sold already. The Hungarian translation is marvellous. Jozsef Romhanyi was a poet who traslated Cats on his deathbed. He even managed to translate Jellicles into something semi-meaningful: "Karmincák" which is a mixture of "karom" (claw) and "cica" (kitty).
@koraknight6995
4 жыл бұрын
That so called “Cats expert” is no expert at all. She didn’t even explain the plot properly and made it worse by saying it’s a musical for perverts. Cats is a plot that is explained through the music and the choreography please find a proper expert next time.
@breedlejuice8691
4 жыл бұрын
kora Knight It’s a basic overview of it. I don’t think this was to get deep into it. Especially since the video was of the point of view of someone that doesn’t like cats
@koraknight6995
4 жыл бұрын
Breanna Hempel Basic overview or not that’s no excuse. If you’re going to bring in an expert then it should be someone who tells actual facts, not biased opinions.
@johnhonker3362
4 жыл бұрын
Awww... You bad, bro?
@kneau
4 жыл бұрын
Three thousand pounds of Yak hair, for wigs... (1981)
@lexxiiandrada454
4 жыл бұрын
Girls dressed up as cats crawling everywhere um 😂
@Firestorm9214
3 жыл бұрын
For me I just wanted them to actually have the songs in their entirety rather than picking and choosing which ones don't get cut off or repeating over and over again before finishing
@Sideshowxela
5 жыл бұрын
Patrick I am so with you that I seem to have come to these same conclusions three weeks ago when I couldn't stop thinking about it. Glad to see that I am not crazy--or at least, in good company.
@androssteague
5 жыл бұрын
I love these videos because Patrick discusses topics I want to or didn't know I wanted to talk about and he says exactly what I'm thinking regarding those topics but couldn't put into words until he did. I saw this trailer and was like WTF in a excited and irritated way but I didn't know how to explain it. Thanks Patrick
@AceAttorny
4 жыл бұрын
I remember back when Cats came out my partner was really excited for it, and they wanted to see it in theaters and everything, as a joke. And then we finally watched it at home, and it was mildly amusing, and they just kinda... turned it off around the start of act 3. And I think that pretty much sums up Cats pretty well.
@AlienSpaceCat123
5 жыл бұрын
So, what is a Jellicle Cat? Well, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats was largely written for T.S Eliot's grandchildren/nieces and nephews and included a lot of references specific to their family. "Jellicle Cat" was how his very, very young niece said "Dear, little cat." There's a scene where the cats sing about "Pollicle Dogs." Again, it was how the same niece said "Poor, little dog."
@AlienSpaceCat123
5 жыл бұрын
Whoops, I don't know how "hope" got in there.
@rahullulla352
3 жыл бұрын
Nice to see a shoutout to corridor crew.
@jayyew2492
4 жыл бұрын
Oh god now it’s out I hope you make another video about it
@DragonMama-yt3zs
4 жыл бұрын
1. The word is Jellicle not Jellico. 2. Cats is not plotless, the plot is explained in the opening sequence at least in the 1998 stage play.
@DuePancho
5 жыл бұрын
You are the best movie related analysis guy. Extremely well done videos in every way. Also every one of them feel personal, like any good director would made his movies. Deserve at least a million sub. Peace.
@TalDSruler
5 жыл бұрын
Its like a boat that's caught fire. Its like a fire burning upon the water. You could look away... But its just so fascinating you can't look way.
@daishoryujin95
5 жыл бұрын
From what you showed of the king's speech, it looks like something Wes Anderson directed while drunk and tired.
@NukeOTron
5 жыл бұрын
If you saw the 1998 version's special features, you'd know that TS Eliot did not want them to "look like pussycats". It even shot down Disney with that terminology. I'm pretty sure that still applies today, for better or worse.
@woodencoyote4372
5 жыл бұрын
Bless you sir, because I can't stop obsessing about this film either. It's so bizarre but also so unlike anything else, it's haunting me. I'm going to have to watch this, even though the only one mainstream cinema is over 120 miles away... I have to see how this ends. I need closure.
@nestrior7733
5 жыл бұрын
I saw the musical in the old millennium as a small kid. I remember very little, only that it moved me to tears and that I didn't want to wash my cheek for a while afterwards because I got to interact with one of the actresses. This movie ticks that deep-rooted nostalgia in me and I want to relive that with the movie to some degree. Will it be good? I honestly don't know. I only know that I recognized all the cats by their costumes that have truly merged with them thanks to cgi. No names, mind you, I haven't seen the musical in two decades and have never revisited it. I don't know anything about this director and don't care. I just want to tickle a corner of my mind I didn't visit in two decades.
@Carina5707
5 жыл бұрын
Hey Patrick! Just thought I'd drop a comment on how I appreciate your unique approach to video essays. They're a really nice blend of KZitem genres. Vlog, skit, and essay. And your thumbnails are simple but the yellow bar instantly makes you stand out. Even with topics that countless others also approach, I never really know what to expect from you. And I really like that. Keep it up! Good work. Cheers xx
@Ntyler01mil
4 жыл бұрын
"I don't know. Nobody knows. I think T.S. Elliot was high."
@matthewwynne939
8 ай бұрын
The thing I found odd about the musical is how most of the songs had a generic "showtune" sound and the one hit song sounded nothing like the others.
@lucid1934
Жыл бұрын
In King's Speech, the characters are nominally becoming "friends," but the shots remind us that they are, and always will be, alienated from each other because of class.
@taylorplante2447
5 жыл бұрын
I wanna stress that theater basically gets away with the cat costumes in part because a lot of theater relies on the imagination of the audience. Theater sets and costumes can only do so much, and therefore the audience needs to, at least mentally, be in on the performance, filling in the blanks in the set and costume design. It is expected that the people wear costumes to imply that they are cats, and that the audience interpret them to be actual cats. Movies, however, portray their sets and characters far more literally due to their lack of similar limitations. So when a movie shows what is essentially a bunch of people in cgi cat costumes, the audience will interpret it to be exactly what it looks like, leading to the extreme discomfort.
@bgcyclops
5 жыл бұрын
Tom Hooper has made the mini-series Elizabeth I - it won 3 Golden Globes, has Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons and should absolutely be watched and mentioned!
@BrynnBeverly
5 жыл бұрын
Me, halfway through the video: Oh, so Hooper's weird shot choices and odd angles will actually add to the story for once because they will highlight the weirdness of the play. Patrick: He's using wide shots to catch all the dancing Me: And...I think I missed the point of the video
@Iconology
4 жыл бұрын
We need a follow up with the update that they’re going to re-edit and re-release. Jellicle as in An-gelical?
@1987MartinT
5 жыл бұрын
The fact that the characters look freaky in the stage musical is why I'm fine with them looking freaky in the film musical. It's just being faithful to what it's adapting. If anything the film toned down the freakishness.
@SamHarrisonMusic
4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it obvious why the kings speech is the way it is? The uncomfortable angles represent the unease of the King taking on a job that an anxious person with a stammer he is totally uncomfortable in. Maybe I'm missing something.
@kieraneustace2875
5 жыл бұрын
It's... not plotless. The plot is just SUPER subtle
@deckarde4919
5 жыл бұрын
This might be the most Willems-ian video yet. The "Cats Facts" gag is brilliant.
@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond
5 жыл бұрын
the theatre version of the cats creeped me out too. But the digital fur technology version scares the fuck out of me. There is something about it that just freaks me out in a weird way.
@androssteague
5 жыл бұрын
Tom Hopper is an artist. And like all artist he tries to push himself and challenge himself even with how he approaches a film. He's famous for isolating close ups. Now he's doing a lot of wide shots to emmulate a stage. He's still gonna do close ups though. I want to experience this film in a way I want to experiment with pahote. One time just to say I did it.
@drewdeviller7754
7 ай бұрын
OMG, I think I figured out why it is so disturbing...they have gone into the Uncanny Valley from the opposite direction of video games
@ravenswood118
4 жыл бұрын
"The director has no style of his own." *Goes on to talk about the same things he does in every movie* Sounds like he's got a style dude
@AliaslsailA
4 жыл бұрын
Jup
@RivkahSong
4 жыл бұрын
I get that Cats is not for everyone but if you are calling for an "expert" to explain something it usually helps when the person actually knows what their talking about and enjoys the subject well enough to understand and explain it to others rather than just sneering condescendingly at it and it's fans. Cats doesn't have the popular modern three act structured plot but it does have a plot. It has interesting characters and even character arcs. It's very much a musical theater production, though, and just doesn't work well for the medium of cinema. It's like trying to turn the Nutcracker ballet into a genre novel it just won't work because it was made specifically to play with the tropes, expectations, and physicality of a live performance. And that's before you get into the baffling decision to replace makeup and costumes with janky CGI.
@hetalianotaku7103
4 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree with you more. If it's a "musical for perverts" you could just as easily say superhero movies are movies for perverts because of the skin-tight costumes.
@QAshenFox
5 жыл бұрын
That transition to Skillshare was beautiful Thanks for this video
@zaftra
4 жыл бұрын
Actually, Webber wrote a song cycle based on the poems first, it was cobbled together to make a musical later.
@dampowl
5 жыл бұрын
This video fascinates me because I know exactly what you mean, and I know how strange it feels. It's like how multiplying two negatives makes a positive.
@arghjayem
4 жыл бұрын
Always thought the stage show looks like what a live action thundercats movie would look like in the nineties....
@HadalStreetlights
2 жыл бұрын
17:00 There's a bit here where we talk about dance in film. And I think this point is overall, very true, but I do wanna highlight some interesting things. Dance is still a feature in a lot of horror films. Surprisingly many, actually. It often plays a role in disarming the audience, or creating a sexual atmosphere, but it's just as frequently used as a way of bringing an audience into a particular emotional state. I have so many examples, but lemme just ram out a few good ones here: Suspiria, Midsommar, The Wicker Man (both), Cabin In the Woods. Each of these movies has its own view of Dance which is being implemented strategically to communicate an idea. Suspiria uses it as a form of "control" as in the mastery of one's body, and of others by proxy. Scary! Midsommar uses it as a communal process, a way of integrating with a community and becoming a part of them. Also scary, but in a different way. The Wicker Man uses it as a sexual thing, and in the original, this is intended to be frightening, but in the remake, it's significantly less scary, and much more sexual, oddly, considering the explicit nudity in the original was toned down for the remake. And finally, Cabin uses its moment of Dance to tell us about a character who is sexual, and to communicate that the film is aware of Gaze (in the Mulveyan sense) and to capitalize on it to build tension. It also attempts to make us uncomfortable by creating a sexual necromance with a taxidermied wolf head. This entire exercise is Joss Whedon attempting to justify his desire to put a sexy young lady on camera doing a sexy dance, but is also internally critical of that very desire and willingness to do so, despite, you know, doing it. Each of these films treats Dance as a powerful thing, despite using relatively little of it. just some thoughts.
@lsdell
2 жыл бұрын
4:38 Woah I didn’t know the Kings Speech grossed 400 times more than Endgame
@jhhwild
5 жыл бұрын
12:01 This movie actually looks pretty cool, I would have preferred if they decided to bring this version back instead of the version we got.
@NeighborhoodBasketCase
4 жыл бұрын
I think we all have enough morbid curiosity to watch the reviews but not enough to watch it in theaters
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