He looks like a kid. Lol. Yeah, the british actor Thomas Brodie Sangster who played Newt was 23 when they filmed this movie. They all supposed to be teenagers,Chuck was the youngest, maybee 12 or so. But almost all in that cast was in their early and mid tweenties filming this. Thomas Brodie Sangster also played the 13 year old Jojen Reed in Game Of Thrones. He was then 23 years old. Lol. He's almost always played younger roles because of his young looks. He's now 34 and still looks much younger, he seems to never age. Hehe. He's an amazing actor. Fun facts: He was the little cute boy in Love Actually. He was 12 in that movie. 😄😃😁😊
Valerie hasn’t seen that movie. But I have a long time ago probably over 10 years ago. I don’t really remember it, but yeah, he definitely has some reverse aging thing going on! 🧡
If you know your classics, the "Maze Runner" is a pretty close retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur," of course. Naturally, Thomas is Theseus, the hero. Turns out, Thomas, in his pre-Glade life, was also Daedalus, a creative genius. Daedalus created the Labyrinth for Minos, just like Thomas created the maze for WCKD. Daedalus was condemned by Minos to the Labyrinth, just like Thomas went into the maze, but Thomas volunteered - sort of. The Glade is Crete and the Gladers are the Athenian youth of the myth, respectively. The Grievers are the Minotaur, the monster that feeds on the Athenian youth who have been offered as sacrificial victims. The Minotaur is half-man, half-bull. The Grievers are half-organic, half-machine. The WCKD mechanism that's found in the crushed Griever is Ariadne's thread, the key out of the maze. WCKD, as noted above, is King Minos. In the myth, 7 youths and 7 maids are sacrificed to the Minotaur every year. This strongly implies the existence of an all-female maze. Note the exterior of the Maze said Site A, implying other Mazes. The number 7, which has significance in the film, is undoubtedly an allusion to the myth, too. The maze motif is repeated in the "Scorch Trials" and "Death Cure." The Glade's Crete is, however, more like "The Lord of the Flies (LOTF)" than classical Greece. The Glade is, after all, an island inhabited by boys in the midst of an ocean-like maze. Like LOTF, there's a pig. At George's grave, we hear flies buzzing. Themes in that well-known classic include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. Themes we see in Thomas and the Gladers. Thomas seems to be a combination of LOTF's Ralph and Simon. His Simon attribute makes us think Thomas will die at some point. He is a tragic hero after all. In this film, Gally represents LOTF's Jack. The Gladers eventually split between Thomas (Ralph/Simon) and Gally (Jack) just as in LOTF. Late in the film, Gally proposes to make Thomas an offering to the Grievers/Maze. In LOTF's, Jack proposes to offer Ralph's decapitated head as an offering to the beast, which represents darkness/fear/the innate primordial savageness of the boys. Thomas represents rationality, individuality and morality. Gally denotes groupthink and emotionalism. Consider Alby's interactions with Thomas. He warns Thomas not to be nonconformist. Alby makes Thomas sign a contract of sorts with the Glade by having Thomas etch his name on the wall. The significance of the names that orbit closest to Thomas' on the wall will become clear in the later movies. When Thomas and the others are essentially born into the Glade, actually and symbolically. The fluid is the amniotic fluid, the glass cylinder represents the placenta, and the person is the foetus. The lift is the birth canal. Like newborns, the Gladers arrive as brand-new persons. They have no identity except a name, which they were christened with by WCKD. The Gladers don't remember their actual names, except for Thomas, only their WCKD name. No two Gladers have the same name. You want to be able to distinguish your test subjects for analytical purposes. Since we saw in this film that WCKD can monitor brain function of the Gladers remotely, we can conclude all the Gladers have brain implants. Clearly, they also would have an implant that would track/geolocate them. You'd want to be able to follow your subject. It's also safe to conclude that an implant is what affects their memory, and it can presumably be turned both on and off. The party the Gladers throw on the day Thomas arrives is his "birthday" party. The average Gladers is reluctant to answer Thomas' questions from ignorance and fear. The people who know answers, albeit very imperfectly, are the runners, Ably and Newt, and perhaps some of the other keepers. The runners function as a sacred priesthood in the Glade. Their map-hut is off-limits to the average Glader. Only when Thomas is anointed to the priesthood as runner does Minho reveal to him what is known of the maze's secrets. Why is Newt willing to answer some of Thomas' questions? We see from the get-go, there's an attraction, a closeness developing between Newt and Thomas. After Thomas is first introduced to Newt, Thomas keeps looking after him as Newt walks away, and Newt seems to glance back at Thomas. Thomas and Ava Paige tell us the maze is an experiment to stress and test brain function in order to find a cure for the Flare. The "Maze Runner" trials mean to develop, isolate and produce a curative enzyme that only occurs in immune's brains so humanity can be saved, even if it means killing some of the immunes in the process. The Flare is the trilogy's MacGuffin. In any experiment, you need a treatment group and a control group. The control group is the benchmark against which you compare the treatment group. The control group must be non-immunes, the treatment group immunes. Some of the Gladers are immune, others are not. The immunes are naturally immune to the Flare. The Griever sting cannot be Flare because all the Gladers have to be at risk of death for the sake of the experiment. Griever sting is similar in effect to the Flare, but it's 100% curable by WCKD. Also, it can't be communicable since WCKD would not want all the test subjects to die if one were stung. Thomas is clearly bothered by Ben being banished. It's a triggering event for Thomas. Our tragic hero, Thomas, is super intelligent, very curious and completely selfless. He is so selfless we might consider him impulsive. After Ben, Thomas has decided there'll be no more maze deaths if he can help it. That's why he jumps into the maze after Minho and Alby. This is a recurring characteristic of Thomas. On the other hand, why is Minho bringing Alby back if he's been stung? The three rules of the Glade make no reference to being stung. There is no punishment for being stung per se. We know the Gladers holds court to decide punishments since Gally prosecutes Thomas for entering the Maze in front of such a court. Ben was banished by such a court because he tried to kill Thomas, not because he was stung. Minho was bringing Alby back to the Glade out of duty and affection. A court would later have to decide if Alby was deserving of banishment or some other sentence arising out of the second rule. On the other hand, Minho was not obligated to commit suicide to save Alby. He should have left him when it was obvious they couldn't both make it out of the maze, but he waited too long. Later, of course, fear take over, and Minho briefly abandons both Alby and Thomas. Theresa is an anomalous figure in the first film. She's a girl, her arrival is untimely, and she heralds the end of the Gladers' supply lifeline. She completely breaks the Glade's paradigm. In a way, she doesn't seem a good harbinger. Also, after Newt asks Thomas if he recognizes her, why does Thomas lie? That's not in his nature. He clearly does recognize her from his dream-visions. Is he afraid that admitting it will make him even more suspicious to Gladers like Gally? Thomas is ambiguous, too. Is Gally right about Thomas? What do his dream-visions mean? Is he an agent for good or evil? It's certainly in his nature to be a catalyst. We know he was WCKD's favourite, the best at solving challenges. Is that why he came into the maze? Also, why are he and Theresa able to recall snippets of their past? None of the other Gladers can do that unless they've been stung. There's something mysterious about Thomas and Theresa. After Thomas and Minho first open the #7 gate using the Griever key, they trigger a reconfiguration of the maze which will funnel the Gladers to the #7 gate. This means the experiment is entering its final phase. Common sense tells us the sequence the runners noted previously, but starting at 7, will be the correct exit code. Thomas is the archetypal tragic hero. Tragic heroes are characters of elevated stature, both in birth and morality. Like most heroes, he has above-average intelligence, which means he has situational awareness; he's determined, which means he is firmly set in opinion or purpose; and he has a loyal close friend who guides, advises and helps him as he faces his trials. In the films, Newt clearly fits the role as Thomas' helper, his Ariadne. The Theseus myth also emphasizes the power of love. Ariadne helps because she has fallen in love with Theseus. Likewise, Newt is in love with Thomas. As a tragic hero, Thomas is subject to a collective fate, the will of the gods, if you will, which led the solar flares and the Flare virus. A common attribute of the tragic hero is that he once held a lofty position from which he has now been cast down. Thomas' hamartia has visited his own individual fate upon himself which prompts his present adventure-journey. His moral choices while part of WCKD led him to immoral behavior, the torture and deaths of the Gladers. In this way, Thomas assumed the role of a god over them. That's hubris. Humans, even if they're heroes, have to be taught they are not a god. Thomas' subsequent actions, which are unknown at present, eventually led to his downfall and the tragic course his life followed. Tragic heroes suffer, and Thomas will suffer throughout the films. The trilogy manifests several themes. The main theme in all the films is the question of whether the end justifies the means, a principle often associated with totalitarianism. The principle is part and parcel of consequentialism, a teleological theory that says whether an action is morally good or bad depends on its outcomes. The more good outcomes outnumber the bad, the better/more moral the action. Under this rubric if WCKD finds a cure, then WCKD is very good, indeed. Another theme which we see in this film in particular, is the question of how do different people deal with fear/unknown? This is also very much a theme in LOTF.
When browsing your videos it shows this as 54 minutes and 23 seconds, but when I try to play it it's literally 1 second long... haven't had this problem before lol
I thought this movie was SO AMAZING AND YET CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED!?!?! I thought the grievers were FUCKING INCREDIBLE MONSTERS!!! Just the whole cross between a mechanical spider, with a SCORPION TAIL?!?!?! That's just some straight BADASS fucking shit!!! Then when Alby randomly says "You were always their favorite Thomas..."... I was just like... "WTF BRO!!! HES WHO'S FAVORITE!?!?! WTF BRO YOU JUST SAY THAT AND THATS IT?!?!!".
@BreakingCinema That's great! I really recommend it, the movie is quite lengthy but such a work of art in it's more realistic and grounded version of Batman, played by Robert Pattinson :)
Ach! Maze Runner is completely unlike Hunger Games. The Maze Runner trilogy are adult films. No teenage love triangles and romances. Although there is a love story or sorts, but it's subtle. They also don't hold your hands. So, you have to pay attention, make the connections etc. These are adult films, not YA. So, there's an expectation the viewer can piece things together without a lot of hand-holding. When Thomas and Minho first opened the #7 gate, they triggered a reconfiguration of the Maze and the END of the Maze Trial. The Maze was then reconfigured to funnel the Gladers to #7 gate/exit. This is what was happening when Thomas and Minho were running back to the Glade. Subsequently, all 4 Maze entrances in the Glade were opened. The Grievers were sent in to evict the Gladers from the Glade. Remember what Teresa said to Gally? The Grievers are going to keep coming back until you're all dead. In other words, it's pointless to remain in the Glade. By the way, all those Grievers would have section #7 keys. The entire experiment has been a variation on "survival of the fittest." Only those Gladers who successfully exit the Maze pass Phase I. Those who stay behind will not survive. Remember when Thomas was appointed Runner, Minho took him to the Runner's Hut. He told Thomas the "pattern" the Maze's sections follow when they opened. This is the "code" to the 8 Maze gates. Since only #7 gate is available to the Gladers after the reconfiguration, it's reasonable to assume the code begins with 7, i.e., it's 71526483. If they had opened, say, #2 gate, the code would be 26483715 etc. After Alby is stung, the other Runners quit, except for Minho, the keeper or leader of the Runners. The ex-Runners were then seen talking to Gally, and probably stayed behind with Gally after Thomas and the others left. Gally was also one of the leaders of the Glade. It's reasonable to assume Gally knew the code either from the ex-Runners or because he was a leader. He certainly knew about the "key" inside the Grievers. After Thomas and the others left, either Gally and his mates followed them to force them back or they were driven out of the Glade by a round 2 attack by the Grievers. On the way to gate #7, Gally and his mates either killed a Griever or found a dead one and got a key. Apparently, only Gally made it to the gate, everyone else with Gally was killed along the way. Since Gally had a key and knew the code, if one was still required, he was able to exit the Maze and enter the Lab. Unfortunately, Gally picked up the pistol from the dead attacker, and you know the rest. The whole idea behind the Trials (Phase I: The Maze, Phase 2: ?) is to create specific engrams in identified areas of the brains of immunes. These engrams, in turn, alter the brain chemistry of the immunes and results in the production of a specific enzyme which has been found to be useful as a temporary treatment for Flare in the non-immune. This enzyme can be extracted directly from the brain of an immune or isolated in his blood. WCKD has discovered that subjecting immunes to life-and-death situations stresses the immunes in ways that creates engrams that sometimes result in a more effective enzyme. In its quest for a more efficacious enzyme or an enzyme that actually cures, WCKD may vary the type of stress inflicted, its severity or lethality and/or its duration. The experiment is an iterative trial-and-error process. The dangers of the Trials are real, and test subjects can and frequently do die as a consequence. The ultimate purpose of the Trials is to find the right combination of stresses that produce an actual cure to Flare. Any experiment requires a treatment group (in this case, immunes) and a control group (non-immunes). WCKD treats all test subjects as if they were lab rats, property of WCKD. All test subjects have brain implants which are used to control memory, provide limited tracking capabilities and to provide biometric data for WCKD researchers. With the possible exception of Thomas and Teresa, the test subjects are all involuntary subjects. They did not consent to be part of the Trials. To underline and bold it: The Griever sting is Flare-like but NOT the Flare. The Griever sting was 100% curable by WCKD, the Flare is not. The point is to find a cure for Flare. As remarked above, any experiment requires a treatment group (immunes) and a control group (non-immunes) for comparison's sake. So, some of the Gladers are not immune to the Flare. This needs to be remembered. Moreover, the Griever sting cannot be Flare because the immunes would be immune to it. It has to be something deadly that would affect both immunes and non-immunes because any Glader must be at risk of death from it for the sake of the experimental stresses. It also can't be communicable since if one Glader is stung, WCKD would not want all the Gladers to die. Yeah, the Mazes are a pretty big undertaking, but the entire resources of the planet are devoted to this project. And the Mazes had to be very real in order to set up Phase Two. Why do stung Gladers have so much hostility towards Thomas? Despite his youth, Thomas was a high-ranking WCKD official. In fact, he's a genius. He's a medical doctor/researcher as well. Another Doogie Howser, MD, if you will. He created the Maze, and he put the Gladers into it. Most likely he was in charge of the Maze, and was a direct report to Dr. Ava Paige, who runs WCKD. Of course, Thomas remembers only a tiny bit of this, hardly anything at all. In his memories, we see Dr. Paige interacting directly with Thomas, she wouldn't be doing so with some minor staffer. She tells Thomas: "Don't be easy on them (the test subjects)." No, Thomas was important in WCKD. After Ben is stung, he tries to kill Thomas. What does Ben say to Thomas? He tells him: "I saw you." In other words, Ben remembers Thomas putting him in the Maze. Naturally, Ben feels anger towards Thomas which the Flare-like WCKD virus magnifies into murderous rage. When Thomas tries to administer the WCKD serum to Alby, Alby yells: "You shouldn't be here!" Alby knows Thomas was WCKD, he put them all in the Maze, and he ran the show. Later, Alby tells Thomas: "We can't leave, they won't let us. I remember ... you (Thomas). You were always their favourite, why did you do this? why did you come here?" Alby doesn't understand why Thomas is in the Maze, because he shouldn't be, and it doesn't make sense to Alby. Right before he's killed, Alby tells Thomas: "Get them out!" Alby knows Thomas created the Maze, ran it and should know how to get out. Finally, there's Gally, who, after being stung and while pointing a pistol at Thomas in the Lab, intending to kill him, says: "No, we can't leave. Free? You think we're free out there? No, no, there's no escape from this place." When both Alby and Gally say the Gladers can't leave and won't be free, they're remembering they're all part of the Trials, that they're lab rats, and WCKD has absolute control over them. These films aren't teen romances with love triangles like Hunger Games. Maze Runner is clearly inspired by the ancient Greek myth of "Theseus and the Minotaur," "The Lord of the Flies," and an examination of the criminally inhumane Nazi medical experimentation programme of WW II. TMR's hero is a tragic hero, and the story the trilogy tells is a tragedy. Maze Runner explores quite a few themes, but the primary theme of the trilogy examines whether "The ends justify the means." This is a principle often associated with totalitarianism, and the phrase has its origin with Machiavelli, although the idea is much older. The principle is part and parcel of consequentialism, a teleological theory that says whether an action is morally good or bad depends on its outcomes. The more good outcomes outnumber the bad, the better/more moral the action. Under this rubric if WCKD finds a cure, then WCKD is very good, indeed. It's clearly rooted in Utilitarianism. It's also worth remembering that all heroic stories generally follow the same pattern. In his book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)", Joseph Campbell describes this narrative pattern as follows: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. This is the basic framework of TMR.
For me first part is the best. But in general the whole story is good and entertaining, so for sure, watch the rest. Some really like 2nd part. For me it was the weakest.
It doesn't matter how many views they get. The series is still good and popular. Just because you dont like it doesnt mean anybody else doesn't. People who dont like this series just have bad taste imo. Just dont watch the video if you don't like it and Bugger off with your negative comments and stop being a Troll!
It’s one of those where 2 and 3 are just as good if not better ❤ fantastic new generation of actors 🎉
Yeah this one really surprised us..
hey I’m Ryan I have a movie request Austin powers international man of mystery and if you can please wear gloves for the movie
Nice reaction, the next movies are pretty good too. Can't wait :)
Coming soon! 🧡
Ohhh Maze Runner. Fun! Also, you guys are required to introduce your cat to us. lol
Such a cute kitty! ♥️
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Thanks man, appreciate it!! 🧡
He looks like a kid. Lol. Yeah, the british actor Thomas Brodie Sangster who played Newt was 23 when they filmed this movie. They all supposed to be teenagers,Chuck was the youngest, maybee 12 or so. But almost all in that cast was in their early and mid tweenties filming this. Thomas Brodie Sangster also played the 13 year old Jojen Reed in Game Of Thrones. He was then 23 years old. Lol.
He's almost always played younger roles because of his young looks. He's now 34 and still looks much younger, he seems to never age. Hehe. He's an amazing actor.
Fun facts: He was the little cute boy in Love Actually. He was 12 in that movie. 😄😃😁😊
Valerie hasn’t seen that movie. But I have a long time ago probably over 10 years ago. I don’t really remember it, but yeah, he definitely has some reverse aging thing going on! 🧡
If you know your classics, the "Maze Runner" is a pretty close retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur," of course. Naturally, Thomas is Theseus, the hero. Turns out, Thomas, in his pre-Glade life, was also Daedalus, a creative genius. Daedalus created the Labyrinth for Minos, just like Thomas created the maze for WCKD. Daedalus was condemned by Minos to the Labyrinth, just like Thomas went into the maze, but Thomas volunteered - sort of. The Glade is Crete and the Gladers are the Athenian youth of the myth, respectively. The Grievers are the Minotaur, the monster that feeds on the Athenian youth who have been offered as sacrificial victims. The Minotaur is half-man, half-bull. The Grievers are half-organic, half-machine. The WCKD mechanism that's found in the crushed Griever is Ariadne's thread, the key out of the maze. WCKD, as noted above, is King Minos. In the myth, 7 youths and 7 maids are sacrificed to the Minotaur every year. This strongly implies the existence of an all-female maze. Note the exterior of the Maze said Site A, implying other Mazes. The number 7, which has significance in the film, is undoubtedly an allusion to the myth, too. The maze motif is repeated in the "Scorch Trials" and "Death Cure."
The Glade's Crete is, however, more like "The Lord of the Flies (LOTF)" than classical Greece. The Glade is, after all, an island inhabited by boys in the midst of an ocean-like maze. Like LOTF, there's a pig. At George's grave, we hear flies buzzing. Themes in that well-known classic include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. Themes we see in Thomas and the Gladers. Thomas seems to be a combination of LOTF's Ralph and Simon. His Simon attribute makes us think Thomas will die at some point. He is a tragic hero after all. In this film, Gally represents LOTF's Jack. The Gladers eventually split between Thomas (Ralph/Simon) and Gally (Jack) just as in LOTF. Late in the film, Gally proposes to make Thomas an offering to the Grievers/Maze. In LOTF's, Jack proposes to offer Ralph's decapitated head as an offering to the beast, which represents darkness/fear/the innate primordial savageness of the boys. Thomas represents rationality, individuality and morality. Gally denotes groupthink and emotionalism. Consider Alby's interactions with Thomas. He warns Thomas not to be nonconformist. Alby makes Thomas sign a contract of sorts with the Glade by having Thomas etch his name on the wall. The significance of the names that orbit closest to Thomas' on the wall will become clear in the later movies.
When Thomas and the others are essentially born into the Glade, actually and symbolically. The fluid is the amniotic fluid, the glass cylinder represents the placenta, and the person is the foetus. The lift is the birth canal. Like newborns, the Gladers arrive as brand-new persons. They have no identity except a name, which they were christened with by WCKD. The Gladers don't remember their actual names, except for Thomas, only their WCKD name. No two Gladers have the same name. You want to be able to distinguish your test subjects for analytical purposes. Since we saw in this film that WCKD can monitor brain function of the Gladers remotely, we can conclude all the Gladers have brain implants. Clearly, they also would have an implant that would track/geolocate them. You'd want to be able to follow your subject. It's also safe to conclude that an implant is what affects their memory, and it can presumably be turned both on and off.
The party the Gladers throw on the day Thomas arrives is his "birthday" party.
The average Gladers is reluctant to answer Thomas' questions from ignorance and fear. The people who know answers, albeit very imperfectly, are the runners, Ably and Newt, and perhaps some of the other keepers. The runners function as a sacred priesthood in the Glade. Their map-hut is off-limits to the average Glader. Only when Thomas is anointed to the priesthood as runner does Minho reveal to him what is known of the maze's secrets. Why is Newt willing to answer some of Thomas' questions? We see from the get-go, there's an attraction, a closeness developing between Newt and Thomas. After Thomas is first introduced to Newt, Thomas keeps looking after him as Newt walks away, and Newt seems to glance back at Thomas.
Thomas and Ava Paige tell us the maze is an experiment to stress and test brain function in order to find a cure for the Flare. The "Maze Runner" trials mean to develop, isolate and produce a curative enzyme that only occurs in immune's brains so humanity can be saved, even if it means killing some of the immunes in the process. The Flare is the trilogy's MacGuffin. In any experiment, you need a treatment group and a control group. The control group is the benchmark against which you compare the treatment group. The control group must be non-immunes, the treatment group immunes. Some of the Gladers are immune, others are not. The immunes are naturally immune to the Flare. The Griever sting cannot be Flare because all the Gladers have to be at risk of death for the sake of the experiment. Griever sting is similar in effect to the Flare, but it's 100% curable by WCKD. Also, it can't be communicable since WCKD would not want all the test subjects to die if one were stung.
Thomas is clearly bothered by Ben being banished. It's a triggering event for Thomas. Our tragic hero, Thomas, is super intelligent, very curious and completely selfless. He is so selfless we might consider him impulsive. After Ben, Thomas has decided there'll be no more maze deaths if he can help it. That's why he jumps into the maze after Minho and Alby. This is a recurring characteristic of Thomas. On the other hand, why is Minho bringing Alby back if he's been stung? The three rules of the Glade make no reference to being stung. There is no punishment for being stung per se. We know the Gladers holds court to decide punishments since Gally prosecutes Thomas for entering the Maze in front of such a court. Ben was banished by such a court because he tried to kill Thomas, not because he was stung. Minho was bringing Alby back to the Glade out of duty and affection. A court would later have to decide if Alby was deserving of banishment or some other sentence arising out of the second rule. On the other hand, Minho was not obligated to commit suicide to save Alby. He should have left him when it was obvious they couldn't both make it out of the maze, but he waited too long. Later, of course, fear take over, and Minho briefly abandons both Alby and Thomas.
Theresa is an anomalous figure in the first film. She's a girl, her arrival is untimely, and she heralds the end of the Gladers' supply lifeline. She completely breaks the Glade's paradigm. In a way, she doesn't seem a good harbinger. Also, after Newt asks Thomas if he recognizes her, why does Thomas lie? That's not in his nature. He clearly does recognize her from his dream-visions. Is he afraid that admitting it will make him even more suspicious to Gladers like Gally? Thomas is ambiguous, too. Is Gally right about Thomas? What do his dream-visions mean? Is he an agent for good or evil? It's certainly in his nature to be a catalyst. We know he was WCKD's favourite, the best at solving challenges. Is that why he came into the maze? Also, why are he and Theresa able to recall snippets of their past? None of the other Gladers can do that unless they've been stung. There's something mysterious about Thomas and Theresa.
After Thomas and Minho first open the #7 gate using the Griever key, they trigger a reconfiguration of the maze which will funnel the Gladers to the #7 gate. This means the experiment is entering its final phase. Common sense tells us the sequence the runners noted previously, but starting at 7, will be the correct exit code.
Thomas is the archetypal tragic hero. Tragic heroes are characters of elevated stature, both in birth and morality. Like most heroes, he has above-average intelligence, which means he has situational awareness; he's determined, which means he is firmly set in opinion or purpose; and he has a loyal close friend who guides, advises and helps him as he faces his trials. In the films, Newt clearly fits the role as Thomas' helper, his Ariadne. The Theseus myth also emphasizes the power of love. Ariadne helps because she has fallen in love with Theseus. Likewise, Newt is in love with Thomas.
As a tragic hero, Thomas is subject to a collective fate, the will of the gods, if you will, which led the solar flares and the Flare virus. A common attribute of the tragic hero is that he once held a lofty position from which he has now been cast down. Thomas' hamartia has visited his own individual fate upon himself which prompts his present adventure-journey. His moral choices while part of WCKD led him to immoral behavior, the torture and deaths of the Gladers. In this way, Thomas assumed the role of a god over them. That's hubris. Humans, even if they're heroes, have to be taught they are not a god. Thomas' subsequent actions, which are unknown at present, eventually led to his downfall and the tragic course his life followed. Tragic heroes suffer, and Thomas will suffer throughout the films.
The trilogy manifests several themes. The main theme in all the films is the question of whether the end justifies the means, a principle often associated with totalitarianism. The principle is part and parcel of consequentialism, a teleological theory that says whether an action is morally good or bad depends on its outcomes. The more good outcomes outnumber the bad, the better/more moral the action. Under this rubric if WCKD finds a cure, then WCKD is very good, indeed.
Another theme which we see in this film in particular, is the question of how do different people deal with fear/unknown? This is also very much a theme in LOTF.
When browsing your videos it shows this as 54 minutes and 23 seconds, but when I try to play it it's literally 1 second long... haven't had this problem before lol
Temporary edit bug which has been fixed!
Same here, thought I was tripping 😂
Premature reactilation?
I thought this movie was SO AMAZING AND YET CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED!?!?! I thought the grievers were FUCKING INCREDIBLE MONSTERS!!! Just the whole cross between a mechanical spider, with a SCORPION TAIL?!?!?! That's just some straight BADASS fucking shit!!! Then when Alby randomly says "You were always their favorite Thomas..."... I was just like... "WTF BRO!!! HES WHO'S FAVORITE!?!?! WTF BRO YOU JUST SAY THAT AND THATS IT?!?!!".
It really was an underrated movie. 🍿 🧡
love these movies!
The maze runner trilogy is so good
Fr Best Dystopian trilogy
It is criminal if you guys don’t watch the other two maze runner movies and you know it, they don’t make cliffhangers today the way they used to
You guys should definitely check out the Hunger Games movies
You should check out The Hunger Games. I think you'd probably like them. Comparing this to that is weird though. Their really nothing alike.
Yeah I feel like its the pinnacle of these types of movies! 🧡
The Hobbit trilogy next please❤
We gonna hit it soon (ish) 🧡
the books are so good
The kid (Chuck) dies in the book, so it wasn’t a directors decision about chuck dying
Hi guys
Waht a wonderful reaction ...
Don't forget to react on :-
1- The man in the iron mask 1998
2- John Rambo first blood 1982
that Edmund bullied my boy eustace,thats why he behaving like that.anyway thomas brodie sangster still looks like a 16 year old😅
The Maze Runner books are fantastic❤ Can I recommend The Batman (2022)? Only if you guys haven't seen it
We havent! 🧡
@BreakingCinema That's great! I really recommend it, the movie is quite lengthy but such a work of art in it's more realistic and grounded version of Batman, played by Robert Pattinson :)
great movie
You guys Should watch Teen Wolf its awesome series
Ach! Maze Runner is completely unlike Hunger Games. The Maze Runner trilogy are adult films. No teenage love triangles and romances. Although there is a love story or sorts, but it's subtle. They also don't hold your hands. So, you have to pay attention, make the connections etc.
These are adult films, not YA. So, there's an expectation the viewer can piece things together without a lot of hand-holding.
When Thomas and Minho first opened the #7 gate, they triggered a reconfiguration of the Maze and the END of the Maze Trial. The Maze was then reconfigured to funnel the Gladers to #7 gate/exit. This is what was happening when Thomas and Minho were running back to the Glade. Subsequently, all 4 Maze entrances in the Glade were opened. The Grievers were sent in to evict the Gladers from the Glade. Remember what Teresa said to Gally? The Grievers are going to keep coming back until you're all dead. In other words, it's pointless to remain in the Glade. By the way, all those Grievers would have section #7 keys.
The entire experiment has been a variation on "survival of the fittest." Only those Gladers who successfully exit the Maze pass Phase I. Those who stay behind will not survive. Remember when Thomas was appointed Runner, Minho took him to the Runner's Hut. He told Thomas the "pattern" the Maze's sections follow when they opened. This is the "code" to the 8 Maze gates. Since only #7 gate is available to the Gladers after the reconfiguration, it's reasonable to assume the code begins with 7, i.e., it's 71526483. If they had opened, say, #2 gate, the code would be 26483715 etc.
After Alby is stung, the other Runners quit, except for Minho, the keeper or leader of the Runners. The ex-Runners were then seen talking to Gally, and probably stayed behind with Gally after Thomas and the others left. Gally was also one of the leaders of the Glade. It's reasonable to assume Gally knew the code either from the ex-Runners or because he was a leader. He certainly knew about the "key" inside the Grievers.
After Thomas and the others left, either Gally and his mates followed them to force them back or they were driven out of the Glade by a round 2 attack by the Grievers. On the way to gate #7, Gally and his mates either killed a Griever or found a dead one and got a key. Apparently, only Gally made it to the gate, everyone else with Gally was killed along the way. Since Gally had a key and knew the code, if one was still required, he was able to exit the Maze and enter the Lab.
Unfortunately, Gally picked up the pistol from the dead attacker, and you know the rest.
The whole idea behind the Trials (Phase I: The Maze, Phase 2: ?) is to create specific engrams in identified areas of the brains of immunes. These engrams, in turn, alter the brain chemistry of the immunes and results in the production of a specific enzyme which has been found to be useful as a temporary treatment for Flare in the non-immune. This enzyme can be extracted directly from the brain of an immune or isolated in his blood.
WCKD has discovered that subjecting immunes to life-and-death situations stresses the immunes in ways that creates engrams that sometimes result in a more effective enzyme. In its quest for a more efficacious enzyme or an enzyme that actually cures, WCKD may vary the type of stress inflicted, its severity or lethality and/or its duration. The experiment is an iterative trial-and-error process. The dangers of the Trials are real, and test subjects can and frequently do die as a consequence.
The ultimate purpose of the Trials is to find the right combination of stresses that produce an actual cure to Flare. Any experiment requires a treatment group (in this case, immunes) and a control group (non-immunes). WCKD treats all test subjects as if they were lab rats, property of WCKD. All test subjects have brain implants which are used to control memory, provide limited tracking capabilities and to provide biometric data for WCKD researchers. With the possible exception of Thomas and Teresa, the test subjects are all involuntary subjects. They did not consent to be part of the Trials.
To underline and bold it: The Griever sting is Flare-like but NOT the Flare. The Griever sting was 100% curable by WCKD, the Flare is not. The point is to find a cure for Flare. As remarked above, any experiment requires a treatment group (immunes) and a control group (non-immunes) for comparison's sake. So, some of the Gladers are not immune to the Flare. This needs to be remembered. Moreover, the Griever sting cannot be Flare because the immunes would be immune to it. It has to be something deadly that would affect both immunes and non-immunes because any Glader must be at risk of death from it for the sake of the experimental stresses. It also can't be communicable since if one Glader is stung, WCKD would not want all the Gladers to die.
Yeah, the Mazes are a pretty big undertaking, but the entire resources of the planet are devoted to this project. And the Mazes had to be very real in order to set up Phase Two.
Why do stung Gladers have so much hostility towards Thomas? Despite his youth, Thomas was a high-ranking WCKD official. In fact, he's a genius. He's a medical doctor/researcher as well. Another Doogie Howser, MD, if you will. He created the Maze, and he put the Gladers into it. Most likely he was in charge of the Maze, and was a direct report to Dr. Ava Paige, who runs WCKD.
Of course, Thomas remembers only a tiny bit of this, hardly anything at all. In his memories, we see Dr. Paige interacting directly with Thomas, she wouldn't be doing so with some minor staffer. She tells Thomas: "Don't be easy on them (the test subjects)." No, Thomas was important in WCKD.
After Ben is stung, he tries to kill Thomas. What does Ben say to Thomas? He tells him: "I saw you." In other words, Ben remembers Thomas putting him in the Maze. Naturally, Ben feels anger towards Thomas which the Flare-like WCKD virus magnifies into murderous rage. When Thomas tries to administer the WCKD serum to Alby, Alby yells: "You shouldn't be here!" Alby knows Thomas was WCKD, he put them all in the Maze, and he ran the show. Later, Alby tells Thomas: "We can't leave, they won't let us. I remember ... you (Thomas). You were always their favourite, why did you do this? why did you come here?" Alby doesn't understand why Thomas is in the Maze, because he shouldn't be, and it doesn't make sense to Alby. Right before he's killed, Alby tells Thomas: "Get them out!" Alby knows Thomas created the Maze, ran it and should know how to get out.
Finally, there's Gally, who, after being stung and while pointing a pistol at Thomas in the Lab, intending to kill him, says: "No, we can't leave. Free? You think we're free out there? No, no, there's no escape from this place." When both Alby and Gally say the Gladers can't leave and won't be free, they're remembering they're all part of the Trials, that they're lab rats, and WCKD has absolute control over them.
These films aren't teen romances with love triangles like Hunger Games. Maze Runner is clearly inspired by the ancient Greek myth of "Theseus and the Minotaur," "The Lord of the Flies," and an examination of the criminally inhumane Nazi medical experimentation programme of WW II. TMR's hero is a tragic hero, and the story the trilogy tells is a tragedy.
Maze Runner explores quite a few themes, but the primary theme of the trilogy examines whether "The ends justify the means." This is a principle often associated with totalitarianism, and the phrase has its origin with Machiavelli, although the idea is much older. The principle is part and parcel of consequentialism, a teleological theory that says whether an action is morally good or bad depends on its outcomes. The more good outcomes outnumber the bad, the better/more moral the action. Under this rubric if WCKD finds a cure, then WCKD is very good, indeed. It's clearly rooted in Utilitarianism.
It's also worth remembering that all heroic stories generally follow the same pattern. In his book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)", Joseph Campbell describes this narrative pattern as follows: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. This is the basic framework of TMR.
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PLEASEE start the hunger games trilogy ♥︎ ♥︎
Were going too! 🧡
Hunger games next
Demanding is Crazy
For me first part is the best. But in general the whole story is good and entertaining, so for sure, watch the rest. Some really like 2nd part. For me it was the weakest.
2300 views. Pathethic view count compared to your other videos. I told you guys no one watches these movies. Dont waste your time with the sequels.
Well wrap up the sequels down the line when weve burnt through all the hits haha
Sorry, but you're wasting your time with these movies. The story doesnt go anywhere. Complete waste of time.
Really Mate
It's their channel. Why not let them decide for themselves?
Bros mad cause they are reacting to the movies they want to watch
You guys wont be getting many views with these movies. Just skip it already!
It doesn't matter how many views they get. The series is still good and popular. Just because you dont like it doesnt mean anybody else doesn't. People who dont like this series just have bad taste imo. Just dont watch the video if you don't like it and Bugger off with your negative comments and stop being a Troll!