When played as a proper march, this is an excellent military procession. Literally the only reason it can’t be taken seriously is because it has been inexorably linked to the collective unconscious with the idea of clowns.
Iirc whenever a problem occurred backstage in a circus and the show had to be halted, this song would be played while the clowns came out to do an improv act until the issue was resolved.
My high school band conductor thought this piece was a good choice for the processional at our annual prizegiving. She was completely oblivious. The senior staff were not impressed.
@Petr Zeman I agree, I also think it didn’t help a lot when Franz Ferdinand was killed. If the Serbs had left him alive they would’ve gotten what they wanted in the first place without a war, Franz wished for peace and equality within the Empire.
@@kingrobotnik6950 it would be better if the aliens landed and just played this across the world they weren't hostile they just kept finding humans to play this song to
It's very, very hard to not think of circuses and clowns during the intro. That association has become too ingrained. However, i haven't heard the rest of the song a lot. I quite like it! (i loved 1:22-1:58 especially) Generally, i can totally see it as a military march again from 0:47 onwards.
Gotta say, near the end there's a tinge of sadness and despair. When you put a happy song over signs of "the end" it almost creates a "blissful melancholy," kinda like we'll meet again over nuke footage
I find it interesting that most of the march beyond the jaunty start could actually pass as a serious marching song; it's almost as if it had grafted on lol
Once you get to about 0:46 the opening medley subsides to a more normal march. I definitely like the latter plus few people know this march past the timestamp.
When you think about it this is like an old meme. Like the medieval "end them rightly meme" taken from a medieval german duel manual where swordsmen where supposed to unscrew the pommel(which takes ages) and then throw it at the opponents head. Who is if everything goes right. Scratching his head and wondering what the hell your'e doing. There is actually a genuine old meme. Which was about this book of Hungarian phrases for non hungarian speakers. That had a phrase in it that went "My postillion(stagecoach driver)has been struck by lightning", "Our postillion has been struck by lightning". As if that is a common occurrence and is ever going to be useful. Mark Twain thought it was funny. Everyone around the world was wondering if stagecoach drivers in Hungary got hit by lightning enough for you having to learn to politely point it out to a stranger(who will supposedly give you a spare) Monty Python probably based their sketch on it.
I dunno if we should believe in everything that both sides say. The casualties are manipulated by both Ukraine and Russia. So most likely we will get real numbers long after the war.
@@kristhegamer3750 you're writing this as if you seen REAL number of casualties, not the propaganda numbers you won't be able to know real numbers, because every side will speak only about their vision of casualties, not the real ones
At some point in time, there must be a nation that establishes this as its national military march. I will see to it, with all my power, that this becomes reality, even if no one else will.
@@mr6johnclark yeah i know. But they did waste a lot of money by sending a 5th gen fighter instead of a cheaper plane like an f16 or something plus the couple of missles used. But hey? Im sure the taxpayers love it.
You're correct. A military parade was its original purpose, specifically the Austro-Hungarian Army. And this version is in march time. Play it in cut time and it suits as circus music, but there were lots of marches that were written in cut time as circus "screamers." Also: there's just something unsettling about the North Korean army.
To be fair, from about 50 seconds in, it really does just sound like a serious marching song. I don't know if this is what Fucik intended, but I can kind of picture the atmosphere of a colosseum battle in the song. The crowd is cheering and the mood is light hearted, then the gladiators march out proud and boastful (the beginning actually makes me think of a rooster strutting about). Then, as it gets closer to "go time", it's less "cheery" and more "all right, here we go". That said, the beginning is so ingrained in me as a clown song that it's still hard not to laugh at the beginning part. Current events make it even harder when the Russians are on screen.
I remember attending Stanford home football games and the Stanford band would play this when other bands would march onto the field, particularly the "spit and polish" type bands such as USC, Michigan or The Ohio State Uni. Good times.
This video right here just shows, how silly and unnecessary militarism, wars and violence truly are...and how much Fucik failed, when he tried to create a "badass gladiator-sword-deathmatch-fighter-march" XD I mean, would old Jules also think, that Beeo Bop Bo Shards from Neverhood is somehow ultra badass or really scary and/or royally magnificent?
Imagine you are a soldier and you took cover and think you're safe, then you hear this song and see your comrades drop dead one by one as gunshots ring in your ears as the song gets louder and you hear more and more commotion until you feel a cold barrel agaiant your upper back, and the cold turns into intense burning, as you slip out of consciousness as the song reaches it's peak, as your ears ring until you hit eventual silence, and never open your eyes again
Did you know, the composer of the song, Julius Fucik, was born in Austria-Hungary. Yeah, the biggest joke for a country. Before the 19th century, the empire was actually just known as Austria and it was actually a pretty good country. I don't know what happened after Napoleon did a bit of trolling with the Austrians that caused their all of a sudden crappiness. The point of my comment is that the Julius Ernest Wilhelm Fucik, wrote a clown song in a clown empire.
Some of the time, it works because the song fits the military, and other times because the military fits the song.
The military is made for the song. Mmm
nah
US military usually: we stronk
US military against some rice farmers:
There’s white and green of Austria Hungary are the colors of the circus. Coincidence? I think not!
LMAO
When played as a proper march, this is an excellent military procession. Literally the only reason it can’t be taken seriously is because it has been inexorably linked to the collective unconscious with the idea of clowns.
Clown psyop
Blame Canada for that one
It became a diss track against its will
Considering the quality of the military it was written for . . . perhaps it was inevitable.
@@vp21ct Indeed
You're not just the commissar, you're the entire politburo.
Entry of the Gladiators is a Circus Music, not a Miltary Song. I think he shouldn't put on that on a 🇰🇵 that might throw him in hard labor
@@dtc2024 please tell me that you're telling a joke rn
politburo is short for political bureau
@@The_FireExtremeProd I think he isn't
@@dtc2024 That Military Is The Biggest Joke Of All
Whoever decided to use this composition as circus background music is a genius
Iirc whenever a problem occurred backstage in a circus and the show had to be halted, this song would be played while the clowns came out to do an improv act until the issue was resolved.
It just has that goofy vibe so they used it in circuses and it worked
@@NathanielXVII Bombastic
Dreamworks
My high school band conductor thought this piece was a good choice for the processional at our annual prizegiving. She was completely oblivious. The senior staff were not impressed.
Oh, she knew what she was doing
@@josiahstreetman8806 She sure as shit did
The second half works pretty well ngl
I can imagine 😂😂😂
"not impressed" sounds like an understatement.
your not just the gladiator, you’re the entire damn colosseum
How do you use the wrong you're and correct you're in one sentence?
@@haunterghostpoison4651 skill based matchmaking
@@haunterghostpoison4651 it happens when someone is built quite differently
You keep saying the same stupid comment.
But today, it's all about the circus
"you are not a soldier, you are the entire army"
Nice make leutanaint Wojtek
as a Czech person I am proud that my country made such a serious military song that does not have anything to do with clowns :)
Cirkusy tu hudbu převzali ale myslím že se kvůli tomu Fučík obrací v hrobě, složil to pro armádu a inspiroval se u starých písni gladiátorů
škoda, že to nikdo nebere vážně
It was created for Austrian - Hungarian army
Me and the boys giving each other relationship advice
Just imagine some poor soldier trying not to laugh when this song is played at a high ranking officers military funeral.
d a m n
Marches are not played at funerals.
@@cooks37 ok 😓
@@cooks37 SHUT
@@cooks37,
"Funeral march" is an entire genre of (mostly European classical) music...
It was actually Made as A war March, But Now People are Referencing It with Clowns.
poor Julius.
The composer must be upset in after life seeing his military march use for clowns
He's dead. So I'm sure he doesn't give a rat's ass.
Man it's so sad Juicy Fuck's name has been driven to the dirt
@Random steel Man, It's almost like I was subverting the name to make a joke because they are so similar in spelling
@@PhoenixTwoFiftySix uhh its fucik not f*ck
I couldn’t help but start giggling uncontrollably at how well the North Korean marching synchronized with the music
There are a couple of standardized tempos that most purpose-written marches use so it's not surprising
Didn't know Twitter users applied for military. Amazing anthem
Nah thats an insult to every military, even the clown brigade
@@PhoenixTwoFiftySix When you insult even the clown brigade, you just gotta realize how much you suck at life.
@@PhoenixTwoFiftySix Twitter is an insult to humanity
Ain't gonna lie, this perfectly fits Austro-Hungarian army.
Hmm, I think they were not clowns. Just unmotivated. If only the reforms were made after 1848 protests, the history would have been very different.
@@petrzeman2860 By WW1, they were pretty much just s circus show.
And USA
With all LGBTQ now in it
@Petr Zeman I agree, I also think it didn’t help a lot when Franz Ferdinand was killed. If the Serbs had left him alive they would’ve gotten what they wanted in the first place without a war, Franz wished for peace and equality within the Empire.
@@Uncool516 did you see what the Serbs did in Yugoslavia? Those guys didn't want peace they wanted violence
Just imagine all of the world armies marching together in one single place with this masterpiece of a song
That would be like as big as france o
After we defeat the aliens X-COM style. Hell yeah 😎
@@kingrobotnik6950 it would be better if the aliens landed and just played this across the world they weren't hostile they just kept finding humans to play this song to
How to diss an entire nation and all their military efforts in one well timed video
It's very, very hard to not think of circuses and clowns during the intro. That association has become too ingrained. However, i haven't heard the rest of the song a lot. I quite like it! (i loved 1:22-1:58 especially) Generally, i can totally see it as a military march again from 0:47 onwards.
Yeah the second half of this thing is slept on
Watch at 2x speed for a more authentic experience
x1.25 is enough 😆
.75 is even better
I like how you timed the boats to the smooth part of the song
THIS, it was beautiful and perfect.
Might you call it smooth sailing?
@@ernstschmidt4725 I could definitely imagine "Anchors Aweigh" in that style... has that sort of vibe to it.
You just summed up world history
The helicopter at around 2:08 was perfect
Underrated comment
If every army was required to parade with this music, there would be no more wars
Gotta say, near the end there's a tinge of sadness and despair. When you put a happy song over signs of "the end" it almost creates a "blissful melancholy," kinda like we'll meet again over nuke footage
I find it interesting that most of the march beyond the jaunty start could actually pass as a serious marching song; it's almost as if it had grafted on lol
Once you get to about 0:46 the opening medley subsides to a more normal march. I definitely like the latter plus few people know this march past the timestamp.
All the other countries: Normal marching
North Korea: B O I N G
The Mexican army walking to any armed conflict using decade's old equipment vs drug Lords supplied with the latest in weaponry be like.......
I can't stop giggling like a 4 year old watching this
The Army Russia pretends to have: "Hell March"
The Army Russia really has: "Entry of the Gladiators"
When you think about it this is like an old meme. Like the medieval "end them rightly meme" taken from a medieval german duel manual where swordsmen where supposed to unscrew the pommel(which takes ages) and then throw it at the opponents head. Who is if everything goes right. Scratching his head and wondering what the hell your'e doing.
There is actually a genuine old meme. Which was about this book of Hungarian phrases for non hungarian speakers. That had a phrase in it that went "My postillion(stagecoach driver)has been struck by lightning", "Our postillion has been struck by lightning".
As if that is a common occurrence and is ever going to be useful. Mark Twain thought it was funny. Everyone around the world was wondering if stagecoach drivers in Hungary got hit by lightning enough for you having to learn to politely point it out to a stranger(who will supposedly give you a spare) Monty Python probably based their sketch on it.
At least his greatest work "Florintiner Marsch" was saved from a similar fate.
The Russian army waltzing into Ukraine expecting to be welcomed as liberators be like
They are in the Donbass and in Crimea since 2014
@@mcj2219 said no one with more than 100 IQ points
@@mcj2219 but have you SEEN the amount of casualties they have taken?
I dunno if we should believe in everything that both sides say. The casualties are manipulated by both Ukraine and Russia. So most likely we will get real numbers long after the war.
@@kristhegamer3750 you're writing this as if you seen REAL number of casualties, not the propaganda numbers
you won't be able to know real numbers, because every side will speak only about their vision of casualties, not the real ones
The transitions are on point
If you squint it does sound like one of the quirkier themes from Star Wars. Like somewhere in the middle of the Cantina song and the Imperial march.
In an alternate universe if this was taken seriously.
You’re not a soldier, you’re the entire army!
Was... Was a serious military song...
why does 0:22 make me laugh so hard? i dont know why??
At some point in time, there must be a nation that establishes this as its national military march. I will see to it, with all my power, that this becomes reality, even if no one else will.
It was composed for the Austrian Empire as a marching song in the early 19th century.
@@terra1310
Late 19th century, in the 1890s. Not long before WWI and the dissolution of the Hapsburgs.
The last parts do sound kind of majestic ngl.
Its hard to imagine that this is what this song was originally intended for
“You’re not the Commander, you’re the entire military base”
Certainly suits some of those clowns marching.
After the first minute ngl it kinda works. Once you get over your associations it sounds pretty patriotic
"You are not the circus, you are the entire clowning industry."
this just makes them more clowny than they already are. I already cant take the military seriously but with this song it just blows it
the RT watermark in the beginning makes it so much fucking better lmfao
Why the fuck does it fit
Because this was made for wars
This was meant for parades. Now, these show-of-force parades look like political clownery.
@@redsusoverparadise2700 Correction: EVERY military parade EVER looks like clownery.
@@redsusoverparadise2700 If you think parades are made to show-off, you are the one this song fits for well
@@DmitryySergeevich
No, it’s usually meant to make dictators feel validated and powerful by jerking off their ego. Y’know, like yours.
The perfect soundtrack to the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine. 2022/2023
And also the recent Balloon Tower Defense session in America.
@@imza5535 baloo defense didnt loose any lives.
@@mr6johnclark yeah i know. But they did waste a lot of money by sending a 5th gen fighter instead of a cheaper plane like an f16 or something plus the couple of missles used. But hey? Im sure the taxpayers love it.
@@imza5535 to send a message.
@@mr6johnclark el classico
When in hoi4 you call your AI allies to a war and they fuck up:
Me and the boys getting ready to go in an esports tournament
Este es el verdadero "En su mente sonaba epico"😂😂
You're correct. A military parade was its original purpose, specifically the Austro-Hungarian Army. And this version is in march time. Play it in cut time and it suits as circus music, but there were lots of marches that were written in cut time as circus "screamers."
Also: there's just something unsettling about the North Korean army.
This feels like everyone's been fooled into going to war.
Pretty impressive that the song still works as intended in the right context, despite such heavy historical use in the circus.
you are not the soldier, you are the entire army
To be fair, from about 50 seconds in, it really does just sound like a serious marching song. I don't know if this is what Fucik intended, but I can kind of picture the atmosphere of a colosseum battle in the song. The crowd is cheering and the mood is light hearted, then the gladiators march out proud and boastful (the beginning actually makes me think of a rooster strutting about). Then, as it gets closer to "go time", it's less "cheery" and more "all right, here we go".
That said, the beginning is so ingrained in me as a clown song that it's still hard not to laugh at the beginning part. Current events make it even harder when the Russians are on screen.
I love how this version of the piece perfectly matches the marching pace of the Chinese, in both normal and slow time.
You're not a soldier, you're the entire military!
What the fucik???
People: The military is serious business.
The Military:
0:39 just imagine one of them missing a step because of the helmet, falling and tearing down the rest. There, you've got another episode of Mr. Bean
You’re not a soldier. You’re the entire army.
I remember attending Stanford home football games and the Stanford band would play this when other bands would march onto the field, particularly the "spit and polish" type bands such as USC, Michigan or The Ohio State Uni. Good times.
You're not just a breakthrough, you're the entire operational failure.
North Korea be like:
It has to be played in the right tone, honestly. That's what makes me think it sounds like a "military" piece or a "circus" piece.
This IS the right tone and tempo. The Circus version (the screamer) is just sped up...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Exactly. This is the right tone to give it the military association.
The fact that these clips generally have right foot falling on one hurts my soul
This video right here just shows, how silly and unnecessary militarism, wars and violence truly are...and how much Fucik failed, when he tried to create a "badass gladiator-sword-deathmatch-fighter-march" XD
I mean, would old Jules also think, that Beeo Bop Bo Shards from Neverhood is somehow ultra badass or really scary and/or royally magnificent?
The parts with the russian army are aging better every day
the fact that this is North Korea fits the "circus clown" theme
1:21 made me spit my soda on the screen
Nicely done!
At exactly 0:50 it sounds like a normal marching song but before 0:50 sounds like a circus
Instead it's the whole circus.
it works with marches because it is played in a 2/4 march rhythm (i think, but i know its two beats per measure 99%)
Imagine marching to the flank in one of those lines and trying to hold in diarrhea.
The struggle is real.
This needs to be new “Hail to the Chief “.
definitely fits the Chinese military lmao
you have not seen what is happening in Russia on May 9th.
Impeccably edited.
The ministry of silly walks
Seeing our army featured make me chuckle
It was initially for combatives to fight as a performance, so of course it would fit the military.
like how the guy puts the ottoman trade mark in the top corner when ever turkey is on screen lmao
Ummmm, maybe because the ottoman and Turkish flags are the same?
I love how the brits are walking in perfect unisson with the music
As a Russian Supporter, this is a good theme to the next Russian military march
Wait a minute
how to indirectly call the country you're supporting in a war, a clown.
Based
Based
Based
Wouldn’t it be funny if all the soldiers were clowns?
isn't that right?
“If”
Imagine you are a soldier and you took cover and think you're safe, then you hear this song and see your comrades drop dead one by one as gunshots ring in your ears as the song gets louder and you hear more and more commotion until you feel a cold barrel agaiant your upper back, and the cold turns into intense burning, as you slip out of consciousness as the song reaches it's peak, as your ears ring until you hit eventual silence, and never open your eyes again
"your not a soldier, your the military base"
Its supposed to be a terrifying show of force, but they all look so ridiculous its funny.
I wonder if the composer was alive long enough to see his work being associated with clowns and circuses.
just clowns are the extra...
Panem et Circenses....
weren't the gladiators the "performes" of the old circus?
HAHA...HAHA...IT'S A GIRAFFE!!!
You aren’t a soldier, you’re the entire army
the rise of the clowns
“We will make the west tremble!”
The west in response:
wheels on bus round and round
The last part is epic tho
Did you know, the composer of the song, Julius Fucik, was born in Austria-Hungary. Yeah, the biggest joke for a country. Before the 19th century, the empire was actually just known as Austria and it was actually a pretty good country. I don't know what happened after Napoleon did a bit of trolling with the Austrians that caused their all of a sudden crappiness. The point of my comment is that the Julius Ernest Wilhelm Fucik, wrote a clown song in a clown empire.
After napoleon Imagine every minority has their own version of the IRA and a serbian subhuman kills the only man that can fix this clusterfuck
Entire russian army agaisnt some farmers with tractors:
If you forget all the connotations, it’s kinda powerful
improved by watching at 1.5 speed