The Movie That Understood the Apocalypse: DELUGE (1933)
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Deluge is a film that came out at the height of the Great Depression and dealt with things like loss and immorality. It also contains one of the most spectacular disaster sequences in all of classic cinema.
If you're looking for a "review" in the traditional sense, then let me just say I like this movie. This video, however, is a "review" in the literal sense (using the Miriam-Webster definition "a retrospective view or survey"), in that I'm going over the history of the film and its place in cinema history.
In other words, please stop commenting on how my videos aren't what you consider "reviews."
#Deluge #TheEndOfTheWorld #DisasterMovies
00:00 Intro: Origins of the End
02:03 Synopsis
02:56 Production History
04:18 Casting
06:13 Special Effects
07:08 Release & Legacy
08:33 Shameless Self-Promotion
09:01 Opinion & Analysis
13:52 Outro
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“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak because a baby can’t chew it.”
-Mark Twain
Argument from personal incredulity
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Hahahahaha it's hilarious that he pinned and hearted this comment because he deleted my comment. Can't be woke without being a hypocrite...he actually LOVES censorship, wokies just call it "protecting people from hate speech" when they do it.
That's amazing that a film with these themes appeared so long ago, I had no idea, thanks for bringing it to light.
The miniature effects are actually quite grandiose! They look a lot like Earthquake (1974). I think that says a lot about effects heavy films. Precode films had some pretty ambitious visuals, with films like King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, etc. Then at some point after, they were reserved for low-budget B films. Effects heavy A pictures wouldn’t really be pushed until the ‘70s
You could NOT have picked a better day to post this! Thank you, my Friend!
As I watch the rising Mississippi through sheets of pouring rain, I feel the same. I picked a good day to talk about a deluge!
I read your notes at the end of the video, and the same thing I thought occurred to you: neither the book's nor the film's ending was neat. It's hard to say which would have been more challenging to readers and audiences of the 1930s. Accepting that the old moral order was gone and embracing polygamy sounds like something Heinlein would've written in the 'sixties.
Interestingly, when I watched this terrific movie I didn't view Claire swimming away as her ending her life but rather as her escape to a new life -- not death, but self-determination.
I’d never heard of it. Now I know
one I actually haven't seen. I'll definitely track this one down. Thanks for interesting content💗 as usual
I'm a big fan of both the film and the book. I started looking for some clue to what the film was back in the 1970s when a local Atlanta radio station used clips for a television advertisement. It took a lot of years but thanks to the internet I finally found more bits and pieces of the presumably "lost" film. Much like the way more complete versions of "Metropolis" keep surfacing, I was tickled when a complete "Deluge" popped up. Great review
This is a film that I’ve never heard of before, and definitely want to chase down. Thx for the overview!
What a fantastic review.
I really appreciate these.
A good movie and you made a good overview of it. I'm glad this classic was unearthed after being lost for so long.
I'm glad someone found this film. As IMDB would say, look in your attic. Thanks for sharing about it. A popular cliche in a love triangle is one person dies, saving a protagonist from making a questionable judgement. In this way the movie seems true to Hollywood form. Granted, taking a bigamy ending probably wouldn't have played well, then or now. Best disaster movie? "Things to Come", if it's allowed.
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Haven't seen this one yet -- thanks!
HEAR HEAR, good SIR! Censorship is both vile and evil!
The protagonist's moral dilemma reminds me of what I thought had to happen in the MC universe after the "Snap" was undone. Imagine all those people who lost their spouses in The Snap and had remarried in the intervening years, only for the spouses to show up suddenly, expecting to simply go home. When I was a youngster we had screenplays that dealt with the same idea, with the vehicle being an American soldier returning home after a few years, during which he was MIA but assumed to be KIA. Perhaps, as in the book "Deluge," in the MC universe, the overall response would've been a greater societal acceptance of polygamy and even polyamory.
I was disappointed that the MCU didn't deal with more morally thorny consequences like that to the snap. They mentioned stuff here and there, but never really dealt with it properly. The only example I can think of is Falcon & the Winter Soldier trying to show population displacement, but the series completely fumbled its own ideas.
Another variation on this idea is the 1940 comedy "My Favorite Wife" with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. One of my favorite comedies.
Both Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Kepler's "Somnium" as the first science fiction story. It depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earth's motion is seen from there. I translated it to Portuguese and yes, it IS science fiction, two centuries before Mary Shelley.
Major difference being Mary Shelley's work had a profound influence on modern sci-fi and horror litrature and movies that Kepler's didn't. For instance, Shelley's The Last Man influenced Richard Matherson to write I Am Legend which influenced George A. Romero to create flesh-eating zombies for his Night of the Living Dead.
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Don't hurt your back moving that goalpost.
@@SmartCookie2022, you are making the claim that Kepler had no lasting influence on Science Fiction? I think that you should seriously reconsider that position.
it's in between the two but i always wonder why Gulliver's Travels doesn't get more creds for its scifi themes.. i mean Laputa, seriously! also a lot of it feels very much reminiscent of Star Trek - i get it, there's not as much focus on technology, but i think honing in on that often misses the point of what scifi can and should do to begin with.
1:04 that guys back 😢
She did not invent Science Fiction single handedly. Many people were before. Many.
Not true whatsoever…..then name the books…..🙄😂🤡 Yep I triple checked YOU ARE WRONG. She’s listed as the FIRST in 1818….what you mad cuz it’s a WOMAN? 🙄🤮
@@6Haunted-Days Ramayana, depictions of "mechanical birds" in an Indian epic from 500 BCE. are you mad because they are brown!?!? well probably not, Ramayana is epic poetry and speculative fiction divorced from science fiction only by the authorial understanding of the concept of "science". you are both correct.. in a way.
Sorry dude who thinks Frankenstein was the first science fiction... Somnium was written in 1608 by Johannes Kepler(not published till 1634). Frankenstein was 1818. If you want to broaden the term "science" to include the "science of the time" you can go back to the second century. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story
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Absolutely! The Epic of Gilgamesh and Saga of Beowulf are good examples and the Indian/Hindu texts centuries before that! And who knows what those Aboriginal rock paintings and carvings were saying in Australia. Then there's the ENTIRE Ancient Egyptian religion--- Mary Shelly was late
She invented a lot of great stories but you would have to ignore a lot of prior works to claim she invented a genre. Presentism and motivated reasoning are definitely at play here
Wow, I had no idea that disaster movies as we know them today can find their roots that far back.
Felix E. Feist is the step-father of Fantasy author Raymond E. Feist.
Thanks!
Thank you!!
The censorious thing is quite an art destroyer.
Famous fable of Noah’s Ark? 🫤
Yeah I heard it too. Bygones be Bygones is how I'm going about it.
For it's time some impressive SFX & decent story. A good watch.
was wondering why more people don't talk about this movie.
I discovered Deluge only a few years ago. It's been on my top ten list of all films. I'll bet I watch it at least a half dozen times each year.
I first saw it a few years ago as well. It wouldn't be on my top ten list, but I was surprised at how good it was. I thought it would be totally corny, but there were so many interesting aspects to the film that I really enjoyed it.
earned a follow w/ this review. 🍻🗿
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I haven't seen this yet, but it sounds very worthwhile. I don't know how the 1930s-era public would have responded to the MC keeping 2 wives, but in the context of the story, doing so would have made a lot of sense.
holy shit @corridor crew needs to get in on this.
Poseidon adventure the towering inferno 😊
Cool review. But she was just swimming to Little Rock Arkansas, or Pittsburgh . She was a marathon swimmer in the beginning of the film and in the end.
Abel Gance had directed another film called THE END OF THE WORLD in 1931
So has this never had a home video release? I’m amazed, if not. I appreciate it was a lost film at one point, but given that I’d have thought someone would be keen to get a dvd/blu ray release out there.
Yes, yes! We must protect everyone else's feelings! What if this made someone uncomfortable!?! No! It shall not be! Ah yes.... It's much better to live in a dream world, a fantasy land! More CGI!! Less real human beings! Kow tow to the mob!!!!
Do you hear me!?!?! Bow down to the MOB!!!
Shame people who dare to think differently!
Ha ha yeah man, that's my rant.
Great video, I've never heard of this movie.
The dude does not abide.
"f you're looking for a "review" in the traditional sense, then let me just say I like this movie. This video, however, is a "review" in the literal sense (using the Miriam-Webster definition "a retrospective view or survey"), in that I'm going over the history of the film and its place in cinema history." Wheras I find this sort of this thing more interesting. But the title did give me the impression that you had uploaded the movie.
Oh.I see there are plenty of versions of it on youtube.
Favorite disaster movie, The Day After about the Cold War.
Favorite disaster movies? I'd pick The Day after Tomorrow and Dante's Peak. I also watched Moonfall some time ago and I actually quite enjoyed it. It's totally ridiculous and over the top, but that's exactly what I liked about it.
Youtoo is too concerned with the parsley
10:30 I had to do a double take on "censoriousness". Yep! That is indeed a word!
Are you taking us to Philadelphia next time?
Is it that transparent? 😛
The film is a bit stiff and "stagey," the effects hold up if you're willing to ignore the water. But what strikes me as "right" more than anything else is the dynamics of our hero. He isn't acclaimed leader because he's cool and the main character; he develops a clever plan to solve a problem by reintroducing the concept of money.
The ending is sad and disappointing, but you can't say it's not plausible. I don't think self-murder is a good resolution to the problem, but I can see why she chose it.
Good movie
It's a hurricane, not a quake.
Hmmm... Cultural milestone that should be venerated for originating so many elements of modern film? Inspiration for The Day After Tomorrow?
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Everyone get your torches!!
Noah isn’t a fable.
Favorite Disaster movies: any of the movies based on works by Ayn Rand
LOL. Mary Shelley did not invent science fiction.
Have you reviewed Frankenstein the True Story? I am only asking because I want fame by interacting with a famous UA-camr.
I have, as a matter of fact.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek have you seen the awful avalanche movie from the 70s 😂
@@mikesilva3868 no. The Polidorry death kind of messed me up when I was a kid.
I like the anime series "Tokyo Magnitude 8.0."
You say "anime", I say "documentary about something that is going to happen in the future".
Just like The Swarm!
That actress does not the shoulders of a swimmer!!!
Watched this during lockdown (which saved lives!). Amazing special effects for the time
Lockdown killed more lives than it saved...by far.
LOL. What?😂😂😂
Jules Vern invented science fiction.
Ramayana was the first sci fi story, 500 BCE.
Personally, I'm not sure if we can talk about Science Fiction predating Science. In that case, Science Fiction can't predate the 1720s, where the word was first applied to a systematic process of observation, theorizing, and exprerimentation. Naturally, the practice of science predates the word by centuries, and if I had to give it a hard start date I'd give it to Kepler's "Dream" from 1630.
But if we broaden that to include stories involving technology we cannot build yet, then we go back to antiquity. The Illiad, 8th Gentury BC, includes autonomous "Golden tripods" able to cook meat and serve the diners.
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The point is that as far as modern
SF is concerned Jules Vern is considered the first.
Mary Shelly wrote one novel.
Vern wrote several. A lot of them came true. What Shelly wrote was a one off fever dream that nobody considers the "first".
@@musicman8270 Only if you ignore everyone who did it before him.
@@pathevermore3683 what Im talking about is modern Sci Fi.
Nobody disputes the fact that Vern is the creator of the modern form of SF
He wrote about not just a submarine but a nuclear submarine. And various other things. Concerning actual science. When the steam engine was high tech he was writing about space travel
It makes no sense to credit Shelley as the first science fiction author because credit is given to her based on a modern definition of science fiction and a multitude of older stories fit within that definition. It's like saying Elvis invented rock & roll
You make a valid point. But we have to start somewhere for reference, even if it's arbitrary
@@prof.badfellow9868 Granted but even then there were plenty of authors writing as far back as the C14th whose works might be considered science fiction under the modern definition, like Christine de Pizan.
So genuinely hate when people say “it makes no sense” when what they really mean is “I disagree” or more often “That depends…”
Of course it “makes sense”. You even detailed the reasoning behind why it makes sense.
It makes perfect sense to credit Shelley if you’re trying very hard to revise history towards an idealistic goal of herstory lol
Brian W. Aldiss defined SF as man's search for meaning in the universe cast in a Gothic mold, and Shelley's Frankenstein being the first SF work.
Gothic here means a literature informed by fear and the supernatural. It might seem inexplicable, but the real connection being made is that of the sublime, in it's classical sense: the beauty and majesty of Nature being terrifying, heedless of man and his works.
I was a Literarure major and am a professional editor. Take my word for it. If yoy study Lit and some aesthetics, you'll see what Aldiss means.
There were stories of imagination before Frankenstein, but nothing like it. Remember, Dr. Frankenstein is a scientist seeking immortality. His works are for naught. He fails.
Quest for meaning in a seemingly meaningless world (that's where science comes in: we increase our knowledge, but not our understanding- science lends no comfort, for all its allure), tinged with fear and frightened by our Nature within and Nature without.
You can reject this, but come up with a better definition. As a Lit guy, Yes, I can see why Frankenstein is the first work of SF.
And don't forget, this is a major writer defining the genre.
Why do videos like this use so much pointless stock footage?? Sad. Interesting video apart from that.
It has to do with copyright rules, even on old movies like this one.