Creator Charlie Brooker Explains… | Black Mirror: White Christmas
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Charlie Brooker, writer and creator of Channel 4’s Black Mirror, explains the inspiration behind the series, what the title means and how close the stories get to real life.
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This man's a genius. There's really nothing more to say other than how appreciative that I am that his ideas have made it into my brain.
Ryan Swanson I agree with you wholeheartedly
Rod Serling was a genius. But Charlie Brooker is a skilled writer to be able to live up to Serling's vision.
He's not really a genius, merely productive.
ah, the typical "ah, the typical comment" comment
Ah, they typical "ah, the typical "ah, the typical comment" comment" comment.
This man is a genius.
So why is it that he seems so clueless as to what any of it is really supposed to mean or is about? It's as though he's not even involved very much with it at all, not a gram of passion or insight?
Tomasina - I think it's his mannerism. He's unassuming.
Still a leftie media-lovie, though. Let's replace him with an equally talented black person, promptly!
@@awnnerd what do you mean?
@@X_BILSON He doesn't like the fact someone who created a very intelligent show lots of people appreciate doesn't have the exact same political views as him
Probably the best Christmas special - ever.
I wish I could speak that clear in 2015 :)
Agreed! Superb!
Oh no!
🎶I wish it could be christmas everyday 🎶
white christmas screwed me up for days.
It was, by far, my favorite episode. Such a mind fuck.
Paula Ingraham 'the entire history of you' fucked with my head
The clone ark got me
fire2box I felt really bad for the guy who really only committed an act of momentary madness [SPOILER] and certainly didn't deserve to spend millions of years in that kitchen
riversong isbae But even if he was a computer program, if he had a conscience and could feel pain then its just as bad as a normal person being in the same situation.
holy shit when he said "no one has blackmailed the prime minister into having sex with a pig, yet" my mind was blown
LCoolz Gaming How come?
ΞΞΞ ΞΞΞ Another politician wrote a story about David Cameron performing oral sex with a pigs head in Eton University, after this
LCoolz Gaming Ohhh
Yeah, but not because he was a politician.. and nor was he blackmailed
George Kearney No but still very similar details
This guy is a fucking genius! After every episode i watch, i end up numb, thinking about how am I gonna sleep at night.
Nour-Eldin Hafez I watched all of season 1 before bed last night. 0/10 Do not recommend
and this is a good thing?
A sick and twisted man. I love him.
Charlie Brooker: always right; never happy.
But how can one be happy if he is right? Thanks such noble persons like Brooker exist. I wouldn't call him a genius, though. But he raises topics that can teach people some *immensely* important lessons.
Black Mirror needs more attention.
Happiness is lack of information.
@@NetPathfinder cos everything he is right about is horrible.
Its so cool to finally see somene inspired by the The Twilight Zone and The Night Gallery! This is what television was missing all those years inbetween
League of Gentlemen, though.
+cx1735 "you're my wife now Dave" lol.
Kevin! I've never agreed with a youtube comment so much in my life. What's happening? I'm genuinely scared.
@reksub "Look Edward! Chilllll-dren!"
+Julia Hutchinson Just goes to show we both got taste in bomb ass television!
Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker, and explaining things? This is gonna be a good video!
My smartphone screen was loading as I saw my face... and it said Black Mirror, and it cracked, and I was hooked.
"Spooky Technology Time"
it's perfect.
TheOjkk Your avatar fits too.
+Chris Hansen I thought it was really quite popular in the US.
As a self hating American I'm torn between protesting you and agreeing with you.
Great.. * throws away his script called 'Spooky Technology Time' *
Spooky Technology Time: Episode 1
Computers with legs
no. take it back out. follow your dreams.
Jam oh god this made me laugh
If only it was called "spooky technology time"
James Wheeler "what if phones, but too much"
Sounds like a fricked up kids show. 😂😂
Well, Charlie, I knew you were a comic genius, now I know you're just a flat out bonafide mega-genius. Honestly, I'm floored. Best TV show since The Wire. Which is the highest praise I can give.
Excellent comment
Buffoon1980 Can't have said it better. I only know him because of his good taste in allowing Doug Stanhope to do snibbets on his Weekly Wipe series but Black Mirror has floored me as well as no doubt my outburst of a post just shows...
new season of black mirror!!! Ron Howard's girl!! She's a darlin'
Buffoon1980 Westworld has come close...
Utopia is up there.
I saw the Christmas episode, it was sick, not in the positive sense. I can't explain how horrifying it was from a psychological stand-point.
It was horrendous
Lol, calm down. It was brilliant.
yeah it actually fucked me up, like I sat in the dark for an hour afterwards with my head in my hands and felt more depressed than I ever have. Great TV!
mcr @six Ive just seen it. I felt physically sick after it, I felt like I was going insane, it hit me that hard. But yeah I can say it's a masterpiece, I just need some time to recover haha
I wish I have never watched it sick.
wow this episode was unreal. this is now my favorite tv series ever. can't wait for Netflix series
Mixedmovievids you watched it yet? What do you think?
Max Beckett no I've not seen the Netflix series yet but I'm so excited to
Max Beckett I just finished it the other night. Just as good, if not better then first 2 ssns. The only tv show to actually invoke true fear and dread and love and everything. Just SO good!
Give this guy a freaking medal! He created an amazing TV series
Two series in and I am completely amazed by it so far the writing and acting the story lines.
Oooo! How fantastic! He mentioned one of his inspirations.for writing the kind of devastating storylines in his series being a Twilight Zone episode called Time Enough At Last, which was directed by my father, John Brahm!
Like that women on twilight who saw a stranger stalking her as she travels ends up calling her family to learn she died of said accident both twilight and black mirror are great but their ideas are something I don't want to go to bed with because they can be a bit creepy at first but I actually do like how mirror was better paced twilight was good but at times it felt like it was taking its damn ass time
and do you follow in your father's footsteps?
sumishta that is SO COOL!
that''s awesome! My favorite Twilight Zone episode of all time.
sumishta Your dad is a monster. He made the main character too sympathetic and not nearly misanthropic enough for a Twilight Zone episode
Shut Up and Dance fucked me up so bad, I am actually deceased.
This series is brilliant. Hugely thought provoking and occasionally fucked up at the next level. Definitely in my top 5 ever of any type of tv series.
The guy is a genius.
Genius LOL, he's standing on the shoulders of giants.
scott logan surely to praise one is not to discount all others?
Genius is not applicable, what I'm saying is he bites the shit out of other genres and recreates. Nothing original
scott logan nothing is original, everything is borrowed.
Sarah
that statement!, it makes absolutely no sense at all. So where did the idea of the wheel come from and the steam engine, PC and do I have to explain this to you..
Dude, this "San Junipiro" episode just blew my mind. I should be a world renowned critic, so that when I insist that this is some of the best sci-fi storytelling ever, you guys can just go ahead and agree without argument. Thanks for making something worth watching Charlie!
You mean finding out that the place wasn't real?
clowntrooper61 , I was really more impressed with the love story meets sci fishing aspect of it. There are all kinds of "Hero loves Alien Queen" sci fi takes. The way the story made the extraordinary (futuristic tech) seem ordinary, and the ordinary love story seem bigger than life is a juxtaposition that's typically outside the realm of most sci fi writing.
A mind-blowing, absolutely brilliant piece of writing. This guy's a flippin' genius.
I'm never going to listen to "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" again without getting a second wave of the shock I felt at the end of this special. Props to Brooker for giving me a lasting feeling of unsettlement for the next few years.
This show can help us save the world! I love it! We need it. People need this. They should be using their minds
"Yet"...
beat me too it
Seems like Charlie is getting free publicity for Black Mirror. Unfortunately there's no new series to take advantage of this.
+scw55 netflix is making a new one
ooh. when will it be illegally allowed to watch?
i dont know it was announced like 2 days ago
when is spooky technology time gonna be on netflix?? cmon!!
now
December 27th 2020. Aka Death to 2020.
I love this show. I love Brooker's use of the phrase "worrying". I consider this show to be a perfect commentary on humanity today. While he says there hasn't been a PM blackmailed into a Baconback Mountin' scenario, the rubbernecking of society caught up in the mirror, glued to their television for their own differing reasons for watching... that is true. He's takes a perfectly feasible if not fantastic sideways glace at what humans feel is more important in their life... which is technology, despite it not necessarily being the bad guy, in some cases it's certainly the addiction the main character is wrestling with. i hope there are more.
A part of me felt like the Christmas Special was a fleshing out of some of his previous episodes, it was still poignant and frightening. I hope there's a third series on the horizon. I need more sci-fi like this...
I absolutely love the Black Mirror series, every episode has captured the ideas and feelings that Charlie speaks of. But the Christmas special really, really was something else, very distressing indeed.....
Black Mirror truly is one of the most groundbreaking, witty and darkly relevant shows of the past decade
A fantastic series honestly it's the the most well thought out and deep satire of real life ! I hope this continues
Black mirror is better than stranger things. Yes I just said it.
black heart isn't for the faint hearted. strangers things even kids watch it.
Your ASMR Bar i mean they’re both rated 15
Black Mirror is WAY better - not even close!
wtf stranger things is kiddy crap lol why are you saying that like it's something controversial and not an obvious fact O.o
Both of them are great..
A Claude glass (or black mirror) is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in a carrying case, Claude glasses were used by artists, travelers and connoisseurs of landscape and landscape painting. Claude glasses have the effect of abstracting the subject reflected in them from its surroundings, reducing and simplifying the colour and tonal range of scenes and scenery to give them a painterly quality.
I can't flipping wait..... I am in the process of rinsing out the first 2 seasons on netflix.
Thank you Brooker, you are a legend!!!!!
Best regards,
TGV
I have so much respect for this show. Utter brilliance! This happens way too rarely
it’s terrible how rare it really is, 99% of tv is pure garbage
White Bear is brilliant. The twist notwithstanding, I had to laugh when the guy drops his gun to take a phone call. Just priceless. I would love to write for this show.
i've always felt it was best to unsettle people with my writing and thanks to black mirror i've learned a lot about how to do that. a lot of it has to do with taking aspiration or desire or some human aspect and taking it to its inevitable conclusion and seeing all the new problems that arise from that.
best t.v written for ages.. really inspiring dude
This one was the best one. I plan to watch again over the holidays this year while getting stoned and drunk. Life is good
Charlie Brooker has been my hero since I was about 9 (well, it was him and Noel Gallagher,) and I started reading the pile of PC Zone magazines kept in our bathroom in true dad fashion. Before long I'd skim them to read everything he'd written, regardless of whether I'd heard of the game being reviewed or even liked the genre. It wasn't even funny half the time, just straightforward reviews, just there was something about his writing style I loved - and when it WAS funny, it was hysterical. I still think TV Go Home is the funniest, most well-written thing ever. Obviously he's done lots more, and now this! Amazing. In some ways I feel quite perturbed that something once only I knew about has found mainstream success (I have the same problem with Muse) - but it's inspirational too.
luckily enough i have a matte screen protector on my phone so all i can see is a blur
*****
haha
Black Blur?
ayy lmao
White cristmast fucked me up really bad.....the plot twist was just fucked up
#piggate - uncanny this has turned out to be sorta true with David Hameron!
i saw what you did there
+John Parker That's no way to talk about the Swine Minister!
You got me unsettled. Thank you (?), Mr. Brooker.
I've always thought that about the title. The black mirror is the way in which we see ourselves reflected in technology, literally and metaphorically.
I watched Crocodile the day it came out, totally unaware of what it was about, by myself at 2am...and I couldn’t sleep. Hit me full force and I was FREAKED! Well done!!!!
This guy is the most genius contemporary tv director, for sure.
I thought "Black Mirror" meant that the show was a dark reflection of ourselves and reality. Turns out my interpretation is more artistic and deeper than the reality. Though I do like the real reason he named the show. Ive never thought of a monitor/screen as a black mirror but its a great description.
I think it means both.
+NicosMind Wow, yeah, that is resoundingly artistic and deep. Well done you.
NicosMind I thought that was exactly the point - turning a mirror on the dysfunction of modern society and the human condition?
Can we not ever have those fucking eye upgrades (that are in most episodes). Like ever. Please.
Republic
The grain
Cuz you wanna be a bitch and cheat your partner???
It’s bound to happen.
Hope he makes Spooky Technology Time next.
This guy is psychotically creative.... The second in my loved psycho writers, the first is chuck palahniuk
'Spooky Technology Time" would have been a great name. an opportunity missed imho. they could have started each episode with charlie wearing a smoking jacket, sitting beside a fire place.
"Hello everyone, its SpOoky TecHNOLOgY TiME!" 0_o
also i would recommend "how tv ruined your life" which is a series charlie did about ten years ago, a number of topics in the series are featured in black mirror
Thank you, Charlie Brooker, for something thought provoking, different and interesting. For me, Black Mirror is a dark reflection of our society, it's values and where it's going. There's truth in this series and it's all the more horrific for it.
after knowing this guy for about a year... and only NOW discovering he created this show... i am amazed
Spooky Technology Time is a title i could get into XD
This guy puts together a more crystalized reality. Love your work immensely!!!
San Junipero broke my heart - and in more recent episode I fell in love with sweaty Miley Cyrus singing NiN - he’s a genius - from his days of covering video games , to tv go home, to Black Mirror. He’s a genius
Charlie Brooker's "Spooky Technology Time"
yeah, everything cool and all but there was nothing about the White Christmas episode, which is in the title :/
Thanks for your input. I thought the same and the amount of comments positively applauding the episode yet the video not having anything to do with it started having me feel like I was in an episode of Black Mirror myself.
Charlie Brooker has totally succeeded. I haven't gotten completely caught up with the entire series yet (I've seen more than half of the eps so far), but every episode I watch is very unsettling.
WOW WHAT GREAT EXPLANATION ON THE WHITE CHRISTMAS EPISODE
Only discovered the blacmirror a few days ago.. I'm completely hooked and wonder how could I have missed this amazing show until now 😆
there really needs to be more episodes of for this series! AT LEAST 21 episodes! I just started it last night, seen all the episodes and im fiending for more! White Christmas is hands down in the top 3 creepiest episodes.
He is an absolute genius
I seriously love this show !
"Spooky Technology Time" would've been awesome.
04:55 Definitely should have gone with plan B and called it "Spooky Technology Time"
so Charlie has now predicted 2 things...sort of, the first being the Brazilian prison and the second being the Prime Minister shagging a pig (though the second one wasn't a national broadcast)
Trump was reflected by the blue bear episode
The prime minister shagged a pig? Sorry for the english hahahaha
Yiorch your English is fine, though I am having trouble understanding if you're asking what "shagging" means or if you're just straight up asking if the British prime minister "got busy" with a pig. luckily I can answer both questions: it was found out fairly recently that during some sort of initiation at a university the British prime minister had sex with a dead pig
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAA Thanks for replying i was searching for anwsers but i couldn't find anything
yeah it was kind of eerie how Charlie predicted something years in advance with at least 80 to 90% accuracy. the sad irony is that David Cameron might've got more respect if he'd fucked the dead pig to save a member of the Royal Family but nope...instead he fucked a dead pig because his university buddies pressured him to do it
I want this man to know that I’m not a big fan of Xmas songs, but now I have a new favorite.
Damn! Mr. Brooker you have nailed it. Someone on my fb posted a link and I jumped in and watched the first episode of Season 1 a few weeks ago. Love it! The series reminds me of The Dark Side. And yes... I'm watching on my laptop. Looking forward to more Dark Chocolate... Yum!
That "woken up in the cookie" scene was the most unsettling scene I have ever seen.
I swear that the resolution of the episode felt exactly like what I experienced when I had a really bad trip on acid. I'm just 18 and it was frightening as hell, now I'm still suspicious about whether I'm inside some sort of "psychological private simulation" made just for me or not... quite a scary thought
I actually find the black screen kind of calming. Just you admiring your sleek tools. Then again, I think spooky technology time would have been a great name
Loved it, writing is brilliant as always - first half had a weird sought of light-hearted intrigue, second half brutally intense...ofc all black mirrors are intriguing and intense, but I'm basically saying I really liked how this one was laid out, bloody good christmas special!
well, this interview really enlightened the viewing of the show. I think the mark of a good writer is that even in the world he created, he doesn't fully know the motivations of all of the characters or the concept. Like when he says he doesn't know exactly why and 15 million merits the recycling, and that he assumes it's because they're powering their own screens, but maybe it's because they're creating electricity for other consumption, is very interesting. And I never really thought of the title in the way that he explains it, but now that I know, it's just brilliant.
White Christmas is my favorite episode of any tv show ever.
I can totally see the ideas in the Christmas special coming true
You don't need to unsettle people charlie. The news already does that.
What a frickin genius. Black Mirror is in my top 3 favorite tv shows.
i watched all 3 series in one weekend now I'm hyped for the new series
THIS GUY IS A FOOKIN GENIUS, BEST SHOW IN YEARS, IF NOT ONE OF THE BEST EVER.
I would love to have tea time and a good conversation with this man
Well, thank you for unsettling me. Please keep doing so.
I loved how you used the song from 15 Million Merits in the White Christmas.
If you like this you’ll love inside number 9. It’s a similar vein but more dark comedy. Very unsettling brilliantly done.
Brilliant show.
I thought the meaning of the title Black Mirror was that we as watchers of the series were looking at a mirror of our society, only darker, more cruel and horrible.
Sort of as a warning: this could happen if we go on like this
I really want him to write one episode or maybe entire season of doctor who, it'll take a dark turn for the doctor
Excellent job cutting to black at the end of this video
Misleading title. He did not explain white Christmas, he was talking about the show in general.
this series ares amazing, I just watched the first episode and absolutely saw thru it, how dark and real it is, exactly what humanity fears the most today, amazing. im sure ill binge watch it and never be the same. more people need to watch this kind of cinema, this warnings to humanity.
He really is a genius indeed, I strongly suggest another work of his : How TV ruined your life (6 episodes, each one about an aspect, love, fear, death, aspiration etc). It's even available here on youtube, get back at me when you've seen episode 3 with the CEO on the ginger beer stool scene 🤣. Amazing creativity and foreseeing abilities.
If Id see this guy live id just hug him and said "man u are living genious"
Black Mirror is the main reason that I finally delete all of my social media. The Christmas special episode is the most heartbreaking, sick and shocking. The best one. I never felt such an experience in other series of movies like that.
The glasses smashing book reading thing happened with Peter Griffin's last brain cell!
I would watch a show called "spooky technology time"!
charlie you've outdone yourself yet again!
first really great series in a long time!
Whatever bad thing the main character did no longer matters, because what happened to him was worse. By torturing him, they cancelled out the bad that he did. That's the moral of the story.
That BLOCKING feature is Cold. LOL . The mumbled voice, had me dying of laughter. That's some cold shit!!