Rocket's Growth | Video Essay

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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 110

  • @ImplicitlyPretentious
    @ImplicitlyPretentious  4 роки тому +68

    Next character essay will go snikt

  • @stumpy1146
    @stumpy1146 4 роки тому +156

    After 60+ major surgeries, that bar scene with Rocket still makes me cry. It's exactly how I've always felt.

    • @3645darren
      @3645darren 4 роки тому +23

      Stumpy1 You are loved

    • @ImplicitlyPretentious
      @ImplicitlyPretentious  4 роки тому +27

      Aww I hope you're alright

    • @stumpy1146
      @stumpy1146 4 роки тому +30

      @@ImplicitlyPretentious I'm good, I've got an amazing support base and gf. After 37yrs I'm to stupid or stubborn to die! :)

    • @stumpy1146
      @stumpy1146 4 роки тому +8

      @@3645darren Tyvm

    • @scene247
      @scene247 4 роки тому +5

      Sames

  • @HydraulicDesign
    @HydraulicDesign 4 роки тому +149

    This CG puppet is one of the best-developed characters still standing in the MCU.

    • @Armakk
      @Armakk 4 роки тому +7

      Rocket is mo-cap. James Gunn's brother Sean acts him out on set, wearing green spandex and polka-dots. Sean got fifth billing in ENDGAME and he's not even on screen! Best job ever.

    • @pixiethealienkitty1894
      @pixiethealienkitty1894 3 роки тому +5

      He is my favorite character. Yes, this CGI rodent is what makes me cry at 3 a.m.

  • @jordanread5829
    @jordanread5829 4 роки тому +69

    I love how in Infinity War and Endgame, Rocket could just see through Thor's facade of using humour to hide his pain. As he was once in a similar state of mind. Using a facade to hide pain.Although Rocket's facade was being an asshole to everyone (excluding Groot). Which is something Yondo was able to see through. As he was in a similar state of mind at one point.

    • @snaketooth0943
      @snaketooth0943 Рік тому +4

      Rocket Raccoon even had a few mean things to say to Groot, which he actually felt bad about when Groot died.

  • @WhelmedCupCake
    @WhelmedCupCake 4 роки тому +69

    You somehow manage to reveal the subtext in each characters story, and somehow i learn something about myself as a person seeing these things brought to light. Everysingle video essay is a masterpiece!

  • @katherinealvarez9216
    @katherinealvarez9216 4 роки тому +53

    I will never not tear up at the end of GoTG Vol 2.

  • @ChampionAshley
    @ChampionAshley 4 роки тому +12

    "I didn't ask to get made! I didn't ask to be torn apart, and put back together over and over and turned into...some little monster!" now I get why I loved the quick team-up between Rocket and Bucky in Infinity War.

  • @pacman5698
    @pacman5698 4 роки тому +29

    I think many can relate to Rocket. A tale all about insecurity, the toxicity of some of the ideals we latch on to as a source of comfort, but when the time comes, we must realize that to overcome these things, we have to accept the fact we deserve to be loved.

    • @ImplicitlyPretentious
      @ImplicitlyPretentious  4 роки тому +4

      Aww that's a great encapsulating statement, I'm kinda wish I thought of it for the conclusion now! :)

  • @OirichEntertainment
    @OirichEntertainment 4 роки тому +52

    I like Rocket more and more through every movie

  • @qemuel
    @qemuel 4 роки тому +27

    Excellent and perceptive as always. Rocket is by far one of the best things to come out of the MCU.

  • @SisterCasendra
    @SisterCasendra 4 роки тому +26

    Thank you for another great video!
    Poor Rocket, he's had a rough ride in the MCU. He found a family then lost all of them (Groot for the second time!). It really says a lot for his growth in the Guardians movies that when we see him after the time-skip in Endgame, he's fighting the good fight and has made new connections - Nebula, Carol, Natasha, maybe Rhodey and Okoye as well. They might not be a new family, but at least he cares enough to show up for holo-meetings and send emails. And he comes running to Earth when the Avengers suggest that the snap can be undone. I loved him from the prison escape scene, but he's come so far!

  • @komang1224
    @komang1224 4 роки тому +33

    God dammit. Literally every one of your video essays are gold

  • @dmarmartin
    @dmarmartin 4 роки тому +18

    I hope Guardians 3 will highlight Nebula's and Rocket's time together during the snap

  • @Armakk
    @Armakk 4 роки тому +7

    "This is a Rocket who not only steals, but also shares."
    Rocket: "You better not throw up on my ship."
    I laughed way too hard at that…

  • @Seasonal-Shadow_4674
    @Seasonal-Shadow_4674 4 роки тому +25

    I swear if Rocket dies in Vol.3....................................

  • @mxmadifae
    @mxmadifae 4 роки тому +4

    Thank you for this insight into Rocket: helped me notice why I’m so drawn to him as his journey mirrors my own

  • @jessicastrike5640
    @jessicastrike5640 Рік тому +3

    I won’t spoil it but I really hope we get an update on this now that we have volume 3 because wow that is an emotional finale for our favourite raccoon

  • @benja2066
    @benja2066 Рік тому

    I thought I could never relate or understand the emotional pain Rocket was in in that bar scene. But after losing the key figures in my life simultaneously and working 50+ hours a week in an ER and taking college courses... I think I feel how he feels. Like Im being torn apart over and over emotionally. I love this character

  • @suto5704
    @suto5704 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for making this video, its much appreciated. Rocket is such an interesting character

  • @jonathan0225
    @jonathan0225 4 роки тому +9

    lol. loving that abrupt intro cuts. keep it up sir. just letting you know that your channel grew on me over time.

    • @ImplicitlyPretentious
      @ImplicitlyPretentious  4 роки тому +4

      Oh wow thanks! That's good to know, because I'm never ever sure how my editing comes off most of the time

    • @jonathan0225
      @jonathan0225 4 роки тому +3

      @@ImplicitlyPretentious I personally like the cliched references. cutting it abruptly actually gives me a good chuckle.

  • @debbiemoore2747
    @debbiemoore2747 4 роки тому +2

    Your content is sublime. This is so beautiful but it's very close to home. I have always felt ugly and worthless as a woman due to my childhood. I really resonate with rocket as a character. FYI. I keep watching this over and over lol

  • @snaketooth0943
    @snaketooth0943 Рік тому +1

    Are there really people who "push away anyone who's willing to put up with you because just a little bit of love reminds you of how big and empty that hole inside you actually is"?

    • @debbiemoore2747
      @debbiemoore2747 Рік тому +1

      Yes. I'm one of those. Deep seated trauma from being abandoned by my father and brother after my mother's death.

  • @williambaguhin7612
    @williambaguhin7612 4 роки тому +1

    you're amazing bro. because of this, I see why Rocket was paired with an emotionally fragile god in retrieving the ether.

  • @oliverm376
    @oliverm376 4 роки тому +3

    You're so well spoken and emotionally intuitive. I love all your videos

    • @ImplicitlyPretentious
      @ImplicitlyPretentious  4 роки тому +1

      Oh wow thank you! I'm never sure if I make sense or how convoluted I write, so that's actually incredibly relieving to hear!

  • @amadeuscrossing7061
    @amadeuscrossing7061 2 роки тому

    Man, you are the best therapist I have ever had

  • @kalfanalatallah5222
    @kalfanalatallah5222 4 роки тому +1

    I’d really love to sit down and have conversations with you about movies like this. You’re very perceptive and methodical, which I love.

  • @CrowJams
    @CrowJams 4 роки тому +1

    This video is so well-made and written omg 🥺 props to you, sir

  • @bigsexygoat8
    @bigsexygoat8 4 роки тому +5

    I always forget Bradley cooper is in the MCU

  • @AngusStewart01
    @AngusStewart01 4 роки тому +2

    He’s the character I connected with the most in the guardians of the galaxy films

  • @dannybenhur6123
    @dannybenhur6123 4 роки тому +3

    He's grown so much that he gives pep talk to Thor...

  • @Know0127
    @Know0127 Рік тому

    This video was perfect! Please do another updated version of this.

  • @peterlewerin4213
    @peterlewerin4213 4 роки тому +1

    In Vol 1, it seemed that Rocket would be just a Jerk With A Lonely Heart, but they went beyond that, and the others didn't exactly fix him with Friendship. (Rocket and Yondu are a remarkable pair, btw.)
    Anyway, thank you for the essay. I hope I understood everything (I have been programming for over 40 years and neither byte nor token confuse me, but quotes like the 8:27 one I find barely understandable). And now for the Patreon page...

  • @u710274
    @u710274 4 роки тому

    I don't think the writers of all the movies you make all these videos about have the same knowledge and clarity in the concepts like you do in order to work on character development driven by implementing all these specific ideas and theories. So, it really amazes me to see how these movies are coherent after being contrasted by all the studies you reference.

  • @0bong_
    @0bong_ 4 роки тому +2

    Interesting essay, great work man.

  • @papl20
    @papl20 4 роки тому +2

    Rocket and groot's relationship gotta be the best thing ever. It's so beautiful, and when Groot was lost in the snap and he said to Groot "dad"... My heart...

  • @OirichEntertainment
    @OirichEntertainment 4 роки тому +1

    You are the best video essayist out there

  • @dannypalin9583
    @dannypalin9583 4 роки тому +2

    I preferred Rocket with the Avengers rather than the Guardians. I don't know, it just seems that after the first Guardians movie, he and Groot barely interact with their teammates.

  • @OirichEntertainment
    @OirichEntertainment 4 роки тому +3

    Awesome video. You inspire me to make my own.

    • @ImplicitlyPretentious
      @ImplicitlyPretentious  4 роки тому

      Aww thanks and good luck! I'd love to see it when you're done!

    • @OirichEntertainment
      @OirichEntertainment 4 роки тому

      Implicitly Pretentious I am making one on Endgame this week. Do you have any tips?

    • @ImplicitlyPretentious
      @ImplicitlyPretentious  4 роки тому

      I'd say just, break it down into as many small peices and possible, be it in the editing, to the structure of each paragraph of the essay, so the transitions between ideas always feels earned and are attended to :)

    • @OirichEntertainment
      @OirichEntertainment 4 роки тому +1

      Thank you so much

  • @dannybenhur6123
    @dannybenhur6123 4 роки тому +1

    Music selection and Editing...as always lit...

  • @whitefang2312
    @whitefang2312 4 роки тому +1

    I've been WAITING for this man FINALLY

  • @pedrocatoira2695
    @pedrocatoira2695 Рік тому

    I loved this video, thank you

  • @Wolfsurfs
    @Wolfsurfs Рік тому

    Rocket takes floor and go now
    Rocket takes floor and go now
    Rocket takes floor and go now

  • @judeannethecandorchannel2153
    @judeannethecandorchannel2153 4 роки тому

    Exactly a hundred comments. So this is, at number 101. Just great that this channel can take the character and least interested in even though it's played by a great actor and turn him into...a poetic nexus...? Yeah, sure, let's go with that.

    • @judeannethecandorchannel2153
      @judeannethecandorchannel2153 4 роки тому

      Next: Vision!
      Interesting that this channel gets so much mileage out of these characters without reference the comic books (except so briefly in the Thanas video).
      I tend to think the comic books are cheaper than the movies, but these videos really plumb the depths of the movies

  • @ellinikoptero7355
    @ellinikoptero7355 4 роки тому

    Man, i like how you basically stretched the video to 10mins, while having no ads.

  • @sonny凡
    @sonny凡 4 роки тому

    When Thor receives that eye from Rocket had me laughing 😂
    Hey Leo, I enjoyed this video you done on rocket.

  • @duncanplatz9110
    @duncanplatz9110 4 роки тому

    I love your videos man, keep up the great work!

  • @ComicBookNostalgia
    @ComicBookNostalgia 4 роки тому

    Alwys just really really great stuff man. Thank you

  • @hedroxladimon321
    @hedroxladimon321 2 роки тому

    I'm here because a friend said I remind them of rocket racoon. I see it, he's my favorite character too

  • @takenname8053
    @takenname8053 Рік тому

    Waiting for that GOTG 3 review!

  • @noahbawdy3395
    @noahbawdy3395 4 роки тому

    I really love your channel :)

  • @marlomp3336
    @marlomp3336 4 роки тому

    Keep up the amazing work! 💫

  • @asharachae
    @asharachae 4 роки тому

    I really love your content, would be great to see you have a video analysis on The 100 characters

  • @brewdaly1873
    @brewdaly1873 4 роки тому

    I feel like your accent automatically makes your analysis sound deeper than it is.
    Regardless, I'm really digging the channel so far.

  • @Sean-mc2wn
    @Sean-mc2wn 4 роки тому +1

    I’d love to get a Wes Anderson styled Vol 3, and i don’t know why

  • @spacecadetlostintransit
    @spacecadetlostintransit 4 роки тому

    U could say I live for the simple thi-
    Best quote of 2020

  • @ahmedabdel-rahmanshamikh8420
    @ahmedabdel-rahmanshamikh8420 4 роки тому +1

    Very good Job Man ..
    Can you do one on the characters of the series Mad Men ?

    • @ImplicitlyPretentious
      @ImplicitlyPretentious  4 роки тому +1

      Thanks! And maybe one day, it completely depends on what people vote for

  • @Wildstep0
    @Wildstep0 4 роки тому +3

    hey i was wondering, how do you find all of your sources for these videos (i would like to read them as i am interested in the topic (i try to read the ones that you talk about but a majority of them seem to be behind a paywall/membership thingy for the APA)), and are you in a psychology course? if so whats you main goal in doing it? has it helped you create these sorts of videos? or are you just generally passionate about making videos about psychologically inclined topics?

    • @Duiker36
      @Duiker36 4 роки тому

      If you know anyone employed at a university, ask them for help in getting access to stuff. A lot of the stuff behind paywalls can be gotten via an institutional login because the institution pays for access in bulk.

    • @luisd2919
      @luisd2919 4 роки тому +1

      Same, I love to see the references he puts

  • @KryptonianBMW
    @KryptonianBMW 4 роки тому

    You made me realize how much I have in common with a digital raccoon. Fuck.

  • @bean5350
    @bean5350 4 роки тому

    still out here with that beautiful voice

  • @MrCesar90403
    @MrCesar90403 Рік тому

    GOTG 3 checking in

  • @sahilhossain8204
    @sahilhossain8204 Рік тому

    Lore of Rocket's Growth | Video Essay Momentum 100

  • @Condorito380
    @Condorito380 4 роки тому +1

    We are Groot.

  • @katherinealvarez9216
    @katherinealvarez9216 4 роки тому +1

    Has anyone read the first issue that featured Rocket?

  • @MinimumEffortMedia
    @MinimumEffortMedia 4 роки тому

    I am Groot

  • @ThanosDestroyeryearsago
    @ThanosDestroyeryearsago 4 роки тому

    Rocket’s ‘Growth’ I see what you did there!

  • @CatfishSprinkles
    @CatfishSprinkles 4 роки тому

    intro music was way too loud

  • @yanivsilvera3318
    @yanivsilvera3318 4 роки тому

    Please please darth vader

    • @ImplicitlyPretentious
      @ImplicitlyPretentious  4 роки тому

      I think I'd lean a bit more towards doing Anakin, because it's perfect for a study of trauma. But I'm gonna wait a while for Star Wars to cool down before walking into that minefield