Errol Flynn: The Existential-Hedonistic Philosopher

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  • @trevorgwelch7412
    @trevorgwelch7412 3 роки тому +71

    " The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced . "

  • @coreybeth9639
    @coreybeth9639 9 місяців тому +8

    Just finished reading My Wicked, Wicked Ways myself. I too was impressed with his philosophical musings. His life was so fascinating!

    • @CarlosFernandez-r8o
      @CarlosFernandez-r8o 7 місяців тому +1

      His book changed my life.

    • @metacosmos
      @metacosmos 7 місяців тому +2

      HE READ A LOT OF PHILOSOPHY WHEN KID FROM HIS FATHER'S LIBRARY.

  • @johnzeszut3170
    @johnzeszut3170 Рік тому +9

    A man with talent and a smooth speaking voice. You do not see guys like Flynn too much no more!

  • @daringthorpe
    @daringthorpe Рік тому +1

    One of the best I have seen on Errol Flynn a real insight into his mind

  • @johnbiela9442
    @johnbiela9442 8 місяців тому +10

    The last line from The Adventures of Don Juan sums Flynn up: There is a little of Don Juan in every man; and, since I am Don Juan, there must be more of him in me.

  • @susanedrington4878
    @susanedrington4878 10 днів тому

    I was I. The hospital recovering from my second stroke in 2023 and woke up to Flynn. I thought who is that handsome man? I plan on watching EVERYTHING FLYNN.

  • @errol-ih4jy
    @errol-ih4jy 5 років тому +98

    he could ride a horse, he could Box, he was a fence master, he could charm the pants off the girls, he was a writer, he could sail a schooner, he was extremely handsome, im glad I lived in his time, nobody came close to this man in Hollywood, he was also a good father, when he was there, Tyrone Power, Gable, Bogart, didn't come close, his Genius was, nobody looked at anybody else on screen, when Flynn was in the same scene, heres to you ERROL FLYNN you were the greatest, also I think he would have laughed his head off, that hardly anybody came to his funeral, that's how false he knew the business was, I believe a case of Johnnie Walker Whisky, was put in his coffin, to send him on his way, heres to you Errol thanks for the memories, that only you could have left.

    • @peterfranks6243
      @peterfranks6243 5 років тому +7

      I was born on his birthday, June 20 1969 ....60 years to the day of his birth...been in awe of him since

    • @kenkrausse3624
      @kenkrausse3624 4 роки тому +3

      My sentiments exactly,

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg 4 роки тому +1

      He was certainly charismatic, but his looks and his voice and his charm weren't enough for him to conquer off-screen reality. Peoples' taste changed after the brutal only-too-real war from period swashbuckling fantasies to hard-boiled film-noir and Flynn and his looks just didn't have anywhere to go in cheap black-and-white flicks (as seems the case with Britain's Anthony Steel, whose born-gentleman/hero persona was washed-up when the 'kitchen sink' film dramas came along post-1954.
      Flynn's drinking was reportedly wrecking his health by the late '40s and the financial and marital problems that snowballed from the early '50s must have pushed him into a depressive downward spiral into oblivion that was exacerbated by the booze (etc.).His looks, health and life-chances were gone and (by 50) he could only look forward (if that) to character- and bit parts. Sad.

    • @DJVMFVME
      @DJVMFVME 3 роки тому +7

      I compare Flynn going toe toe with Betty Davis in “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” to Cruise going toe to toe with Nicholson. Flynn was an underrated actor. Robin Hood thrilled me and Charge of the Light Brigade was a minor masterpiece. There’s so much more.🙏🏽

    • @petermihacerar1137
      @petermihacerar1137 3 роки тому

      Who!?!

  • @theharpsichordofmozart4258
    @theharpsichordofmozart4258 3 роки тому +5

    An interesting philosophical upload. Great stuff. Thank you.

    • @TOCC50
      @TOCC50 Рік тому

      I can’t wait to get back to the spiritual realm of living after life on earth is finished

  • @lourdesprudencio5647
    @lourdesprudencio5647 Рік тому +1

    Wow!!!!!!!!!!!. Beautifully said......

  • @openrealm
    @openrealm 4 місяці тому +1

    He reminds me of that super brief radio ad in Midnight Cowboy, "Take it easy... but Take it!"

  • @immaterialimmaterial5195
    @immaterialimmaterial5195 Рік тому +3

    Amazing man!

  • @nicolettapasquini6614
    @nicolettapasquini6614 Рік тому +1

    Nostalgia di divo favoloso che ha fatto sognare ❤❤❤❤

  • @alfieblue
    @alfieblue 5 років тому +5

    Cool Video Neural. I first read My Wicked Wicked Ways at age seventeen during one boring, nothing to do week. Found the book for a dollar at a second hand store. I realised that there was actually lots to be doing and have been chasing enigmas ever since. I didn't know there was an audio version, I will keep a look out for it.

  • @queenslander954
    @queenslander954 Рік тому +5

    There’s a bit of Errol in every Australian , it’s why one of Oz’s favourite bands of the 1980’s wrote a song about him
    .‘Australian Crawl’ Errol

    • @metacosmos
      @metacosmos 7 місяців тому +1

      there are a lot of surfers at the Australia's beaches who recall Errol Flynn when he was a gigolo.

  • @octofish
    @octofish 4 роки тому +12

    "In like Flynn". He's where that came from.

  • @jamesdunn9714
    @jamesdunn9714 4 роки тому +13

    Flynn's looks were inherited from his mother as his father was only average looking. Known as much for his debauchery as his movie stardom nowadays, he was accomplished at both. He was a complicated, intelligent man.

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg 4 роки тому +3

      His father looked gaunt, humourless and De Valera-ish to me: maybe someone else was Flynn's father.

    • @jesusofnazareth6254
      @jesusofnazareth6254 Рік тому +2

      He had his father's long face and jawline but definitely inherited the high cheekbones and eye area from his mamma

    • @CarlosFernandez-r8o
      @CarlosFernandez-r8o 7 місяців тому

      That he got from his dad.

  • @coeenc123
    @coeenc123 3 роки тому +2

    This was a great video.

  • @raven_ous2585
    @raven_ous2585 4 роки тому +1

    A GORGEOUS, charming man xx

  • @wendellthomas179
    @wendellthomas179 Рік тому +2

    The greatest generation was young during Golden HOLLYWOOD'S ERA, Errol Flynn is from that unique period of the early 20th century There could never be another ERROL FLYNN....He was as facinating as that time in American HISTORY, world history....

  • @eileencole1780
    @eileencole1780 5 років тому +2

    Excellent!

  • @kenkrausse3624
    @kenkrausse3624 4 роки тому +2

    Many thanks that was most impressive,

  • @ann-marie8035
    @ann-marie8035 5 років тому +9

    His philosophical mind could not save him. Unfortunately when he died he had another experience that he cannot tell of.

  • @ThePiratemachine
    @ThePiratemachine Рік тому +3

    The two people I met about 30 years ago who knew him, immediately said "He was intelligent." From what I can see he was a frustrated writer. And his best film in my opinion is "Uncertain Glory" that his own company made and is film literature. It is a story of redemption of a playboy-criminal. It seems to me that Flynn was lucky ( as he himself said ) and never really had to work in a humdrum 9 to 5 job and escaped the conformity that involves. It must have been quite something for him ( especially when older ) to find himself never having had to work especially in mundane jobs. He got away with it, tricked the prison of jobs system and lived separately from the mundane. He said that anyway - "I allow myself to be known as a colourful fragment in a drab world." That's how I see him anyway. Incidentally I believe he was given 4 years to live when about 30 - malaria from New Guinea. That may have had something to do with his wicked wicked ways? A reviewer in 1960 said his book was up there with the romantic classics of Casanova and Maupassant. Incidentally he had to dictate it all to Earl Conrad as he couldn't hold a;pen at the end - apparently. Brought wonderful hours of joy to me, he has with his films. Still does.

    • @CarlosFernandez-r8o
      @CarlosFernandez-r8o 7 місяців тому

      What an assenine point of view to have,where so many loved and admired him.

  • @CantaloupeJones
    @CantaloupeJones Рік тому +1

    Thanks

  • @moviestarmemories630
    @moviestarmemories630 2 роки тому +1

    Well done.

  • @greg4161
    @greg4161 Рік тому +1

    Handsome to an extreme

  • @citizenkent1223
    @citizenkent1223 7 місяців тому +4

    Freud knew it before Flynn acknowledged it in his words! Unfortunately we stopped teaching Freud after the women's liberation movement in the 1970s....

  • @timlies3627
    @timlies3627 6 місяців тому

    Thank you

  • @peterfranks6243
    @peterfranks6243 4 роки тому +3

    Born the exact same day as me...exactly 60 years earlier...always thought that was a little odd as I've always been a huge fan of his before I realised that information

    • @ThePiratemachine
      @ThePiratemachine Рік тому

      Born the exact same day I was married.

    • @peterfranks6243
      @peterfranks6243 Рік тому

      OMG, that's amazing. I've got a good one. The date of my wedding IS also the date of my first child's birth three years later AND twenty years later my father passed away on the same date.....

    • @_big_man_69_
      @_big_man_69_ 5 місяців тому

      What are the chances! 1 in 365 😂

  • @jesusofnazareth6254
    @jesusofnazareth6254 Рік тому +3

    It's easy to enjoy life and be charming as a hedonist when you're as good-looking as Errol Flynn

    • @TOCC50
      @TOCC50 Рік тому +1

      The spirit world is our natural habitat of being

    • @ThePiratemachine
      @ThePiratemachine Рік тому

      Although he did say "My face made me but it also stood in my way" - typecast.

  • @frankbargatze2115
    @frankbargatze2115 4 роки тому +10

    Let's tread carefully in saying Flynn was agnostic. Disagree. Flynn told David Niven in 1958 he was reading a tremendous book that was changing him. And this change was noted by Niven. Flynn now had an "inner calm" about him that astonished Niven. The book was Errol Flynn was reading was the Bible. Very encouraging that Flynn was finding faith. He cried out for faith in his auto-biography "My Wicked Wicked Ways."

    • @seveglider8406
      @seveglider8406 Рік тому

      I've read the Bible. It is an interesting book. However, I am an Atheist. Just because someone reads the Bible, doesn't mean they're person of faith.

    • @ThePiratemachine
      @ThePiratemachine Рік тому +1

      Yes. You are quite right. Ida Lupino said he had a spiritual dimension.

    • @giselamarch1994
      @giselamarch1994 8 місяців тому

      Oh god, not another holy one. Reading the bible, it is bloody, cruel, intolerant, and racist. no thank you.

    • @CarlosFernandez-r8o
      @CarlosFernandez-r8o 7 місяців тому

      Beautifully said.

    • @julienielsen3746
      @julienielsen3746 4 місяці тому

      He probably knew his health was failing. Like some people do, they start thinking about eternity. Sad that some wait that long. And some never. Then it's too late, and they repent for eternity. But, it'a too late for that.

  • @BharatBhushanBhagatMegh
    @BharatBhushanBhagatMegh 4 роки тому +5

    Very impressive. To me, it is very important that Flynn was satisfied with the contradictions within him.

  • @gettinoveritgettinoverit1062
    @gettinoveritgettinoverit1062 9 місяців тому

    🎭 Debauchery & Existentialism Combo 🤔 💭 great YRbook quotes ???

  • @ChipRohlke1
    @ChipRohlke1 5 місяців тому +1

    I read the Moons a Balloon by David Niven who was Errol’s roommate for many years.
    I’d say Errol was a card carrying narcissist who I think only thought of himself and only at the end of his life realized the folly of his ways.
    As I learned in existentialism class in college the 3 main tenets of it are despair, anguish and forlorness…I always who the hell wants to live with that philosophy?
    Errol chose the way of Lucifer “ my will be done”
    When at the end of it all he realized “Thy will be done” is a far far better life and death.

    • @Goaskval
      @Goaskval 5 місяців тому +1

      Thanks so much for this. Too many try to glorify the ‘bad boy’ syndrome and not highlight their darkest hours of regret and torture. Eye opening indeed to value our own life and the gifts of other souls around us.

  • @marcmeinzer8859
    @marcmeinzer8859 Рік тому +6

    He was definitely the most fascinating matinee idol of all time and originally a pirate captain of sorts in real life. In the apartment building where I lived for two years during college, or Campus Courts Apartments, Oxford, Ohio, we had an Errol Flynn cult in which all of our buddies there took turns studying this dog eared paperback coffee table book of the films of Errol Flynn which was supplemented by reading BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES by David Niven, his onetime roommate in their Los Angeles bungalow Cirrhosis by the Sea named in honor of Marion Davies, William Randolph Hearst’s mistress, since Hearst was the owner of the property. And we all literally memorized his entire filmography although he’d been dead for some fifteen years at that time and we’d all been little boys of four or five years of age at the time of his death. His legend was further enhanced by the disappearance of his son Sean in Cambodia while on assignment as a photojournalist.

    • @peterm1826
      @peterm1826 Рік тому

      😏

    • @CarlosFernandez-r8o
      @CarlosFernandez-r8o 7 місяців тому

      The most fascinating individual I have ever heard off.

    • @marcmeinzer8859
      @marcmeinzer8859 7 місяців тому

      @@CarlosFernandez-r8o He was also a writer. Then as the captain of a trading schooner in the Dutch East Indies he was actually trafficking. In slaves, a hanging offense at the time. Two of his books were My Wicked Wicked Ways and Beam Ends. I met a retired merchant marine captain in Cleveland who as a 17 year old boy crewed on his famous sailing yacht.

  • @CarlosFernandez-r8o
    @CarlosFernandez-r8o 7 місяців тому +1

    I went to mount Sac. Took Parapsychology 101 and 102.

  • @davidcaledonia5187
    @davidcaledonia5187 2 роки тому +9

    Interesting character, being in films helped him in his chosen kind of lifestyle, many years ago I came across MWWW in my local library and was entertained by the biggest load of nonesense I had read up to that time.
    I have come across him quite a few times since and I have never altered my views, and he has confirmed my views about we humans, we can't be trusted to tell the truth about anything LOL

    • @harryleighton7500
      @harryleighton7500 Рік тому +1

      I bet you would give your right arm to live just one hour in his shoes , Mr . Cardboard .

    • @ThePiratemachine
      @ThePiratemachine Рік тому +2

      I don't think it's nonsense at all. It's very psychological and deep.

  • @stevenfry3233
    @stevenfry3233 5 років тому

    What’s the background music at 7:40 ?

  • @honeyowen3163
    @honeyowen3163 2 роки тому +5

    If I were to describe him in four words: He believes in nothing. He loves nobody but himself. He claimed love of his son but I believe only because he was an extension of himself.

    • @seveglider8406
      @seveglider8406 Рік тому +5

      Your description contains more than 4 words.

    • @ZippyG
      @ZippyG Рік тому

      @@seveglider8406 😂

    • @seveglider8406
      @seveglider8406 Рік тому

      @@ZippyG Your comment confirms You're not capable of engaging in a meaningful dialogue. TRANSLATION ... You're a brainless idiot!

    • @ThePiratemachine
      @ThePiratemachine Рік тому +1

      But then David Niven said he met him in 1958 and he ( Flynn ) told him he's found a great book - The Bible.

  • @williamallison417
    @williamallison417 8 місяців тому

    What book did he write these quotes in?

  • @LindaKordich
    @LindaKordich 6 років тому

    Hi David - have u ever listened to Ishwar Puri? He’s an initiate of GM from the 1930s. He’s still alive and teaches everything about Sant Mat without any restrictions.

    • @neuralsurfer
      @neuralsurfer  6 років тому

      Yes, he gives very interesting talks.... How have you been?

    • @LindaKordich
      @LindaKordich 6 років тому

      I’m doing good. Jay died in 2017 which was very difficult to endure.i loved him deeply. Ishwar initiated Jay six months before he died which was wonderful. I’m intimately involved with Ishwar’s group and have been for several years now. I quit following BBJ because I didn’t feel any pull and it was quite ritualistic and restrictive. I just felt With Ishwar I’m able to write to him and he tells the truth - he is only in my play because I want to go back to our true home and he’s the reflection of this desire here on earth. He’s very frank....says he only speaks from his own personal experiences. Anyways it’s all good. How are you? I remarried a few months ago - a satsangi.....(Radical). Hahahaha....thanks for the postings. I always watch them. And it’s really good to hear from you.

    • @neuralsurfer
      @neuralsurfer  6 років тому

      @@LindaKordich Thanks for replying. Always good to hear from you. Happy to know that Jay got initiated. Can you write me at neuralsurfer@yahoo.com and tell me more about your involvement with Ishwar? Look forward to hearing from you. Dave

  • @errol-ih4jy
    @errol-ih4jy 4 роки тому +4

    i can sum Errol up in a few words, and it is, CONFLICT IN YOUR LIFE WILL KILL YOU, YES YOU CAN HAVE OPPOSITES, THAT YOU CAN LAUGH AT, BUT THE CONFLICT OF TIME, AND THOUGHT, WILL DESTROY YOU, AS IN ERROLS CASE IT DID.

    • @NSLZ6
      @NSLZ6 2 роки тому

      So I should think straight at all times and have the discipline to not contradict.?

    • @ThePiratemachine
      @ThePiratemachine Рік тому

      That's not a few words. Ha! Oh - life IS conflict.

    • @errol-ih4jy
      @errol-ih4jy Рік тому +1

      NO LIFE WITHOUT CONFLICT IS POSSIBLE, THEN YOUR REALLY LIVING.@@ThePiratemachine

  • @kymlardnerofficial
    @kymlardnerofficial 11 днів тому

    The music

  • @guddiejain9530
    @guddiejain9530 6 років тому

    Hi David I have been watching your videos. How are you involved in spirituality? Can you tell me more?

    • @neuralsurfer
      @neuralsurfer  6 років тому

      Guds Jane yes email me at neuralsurfer@yahoo.com and I will be happy to answer

    • @CarlosFernandez-r8o
      @CarlosFernandez-r8o 7 місяців тому

      The man,the myth,the legend. Nuff said.

  • @derekjohnsonyoutubechannel7322
    @derekjohnsonyoutubechannel7322 7 місяців тому

    I am who i am .Damn the torpedoes..to thy own self be true..or be danmed ...

  • @JaefarSABNW
    @JaefarSABNW 6 років тому +1

    Errol Flynn could certainly be seen as a real hedonist; instead of just another celebrity following desire wherever it goes with no deep thought to the outcome. An epicurean can certainly work towards control and understanding past all doubt and unknowing.

    • @jesusofnazareth6254
      @jesusofnazareth6254 Рік тому

      Not really... he was a full-blown hedonist out of his mind

    • @JaefarSABNW
      @JaefarSABNW Рік тому

      @@jesusofnazareth6254 Perhaps not eternally, but some really know what they are in for and have considered it worth the risks.

    • @ThePiratemachine
      @ThePiratemachine Рік тому

      @@jesusofnazareth6254 He was much deeper than that.

  • @carllazarraga2858
    @carllazarraga2858 Рік тому

    I don't know about the most attractive man.. if I had to choose between being errol flyn or marlo brando, I would rather be marlon brando everytime.

  • @svipdagx7291
    @svipdagx7291 4 роки тому

    Funny he emphasises"opposites attract".

  • @IanPREVAILA1
    @IanPREVAILA1 6 років тому +9

    Errol is singing a different tune now. What a sad example of the nihilistic tendencies of unregenerate man.

    • @billypoppins9138
      @billypoppins9138 5 років тому +1

      You don't know Tasmanian people... Nihilism is not a good way to describe his ideology. He was in touch with his shadow and he lived like he was ment to

    • @kenkrausse3624
      @kenkrausse3624 4 роки тому +3

      And You ,must be perfect or at least think you are,

    • @lindseycarribean5113
      @lindseycarribean5113 4 роки тому +1

      @@billypoppins9138 how tasmanian people are ?

    • @ThePiratemachine
      @ThePiratemachine Рік тому

      That must make you happy.

    • @ThePiratemachine
      @ThePiratemachine Рік тому

      @@lindseycarribean5113 Tasmanian Devils. General Montgomery was brought up there too. Oh, and my auntie.

  • @MrRatherino
    @MrRatherino 6 років тому +7

    I believe not a single soul attended his funeral...PS I;ll take Tyrone!

    • @emmabenedek646
      @emmabenedek646 4 роки тому +2

      19.9.20 Time To Wake Up? Utter nonsense.E Flynn. If he had a damaged face or other injury noi one would stare at him. He was just an actor. That industry is totaly corrupt. We ought to know we spent many years involved with that scene and the BBC for many yrs. If those dopes got off their backsides. Stopped admiring themselves and went and reformed the society then they might be worth considering. They dont and there fore are not. Philosopher? You kiddin.UTUBE FILMS.UK.Anyone know where I can find films depicting- Nite Clubs. Perfect Police. Perfect Courts With Granpa Judges. Diners. Hotels. Office Desks With An Intercom. Wharehouses Full Of Boxes. Fire Escapes. Always Wrong "Criminals".Skinny Women With Curly Hair Draped In Dead Animals.Trains With Black Attendants With Eye Issues. Views Of Horrific High Rises. Fist Fights. Gun Shooting. Gambling. Smokin. Drinkin. All of this perfect for clueless public who would not get off their backside to change all the unfairness. 12 yrs hike thro Cent London. 1000pp evidence crrptn. Death threats made to us by US based security firms who in earlier years attacked workers in US to prevent strikes. Pinkerton Burns. US Embassy offers violence. Public said this- Its nothig to do with me or F-off. F-book destroying 1000s mails. Millions people sit watching acted violence. US president press says was handed business by father who created it from property speculation and prostitution.Handwriting shows same tendancies as leaders of 3 rd Reich. (aggression). Apparantly forces self on women then pays out millions whilst denying it. Builds Casinos. Illegal immigrants used on Tower at cheap rate. Issues death threats on F-bk but they destroy our accounts not his. And, hes "religous". No guilt? Of course not that was commented on by A Einstein.BBC said- Hide The Evidence Abroad. We knew over 200 people there. Actors? No thanx. Heres one more sworn truth every HM prefix org we investigated was is crrpt. No reply any Govt dept. UK out of control. The answer for the public is- Art. Sport. Drama. Educatiom .Money. No wonder theres a virus. But its not the complete answer is it. Heres a good idea "Pray To God". It worked for two selfish opt out off the gridderrs. It brought their two lost dogs back. They failed to reason why it never worked for 5 million jews.

    • @RipperBravo
      @RipperBravo 3 роки тому +3

      Mickey Rooney did.

    • @MrRatherino
      @MrRatherino 3 роки тому

      @@RipperBravo yes, Mickey did? M was old school faithful friend..I believe you...

    • @plantagenant6789
      @plantagenant6789 2 роки тому

      @@RipperBravo that was nice of him.

    • @mikeostrander5406
      @mikeostrander5406 Рік тому +2

      Ridiculous, look at some of his funeral footage

  • @JosephLewis-i7h
    @JosephLewis-i7h 3 місяці тому

    Young Angela Thompson Deborah Allen Cynthia

  • @jademoon5103
    @jademoon5103 Рік тому

    Probably a narcissist