ALL KOPS ARE BUFFOONS - The Bigger Picture
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During the tumultuous political protests touched off by the renewed #BlackLivesMatter protests during the Summer of 2020, the Big Picture aired a quartet of episodes dealing with the complex history of depictions of law enforcement in films, television and other popular media; specifically centering on the transition of "The Police" as viewed by American pop-culture as minor public functionaries and even comedic objects of ridicule in "THE KEYSTONE KOPS" films to virtuous symbols of order in Jack Webb's "DRAGNET" and eventually larger-than-life superheroes often in conflict with the society they ostensibly protected in "DIRTY HARRY" and the like - rendering later attempts to explore or even satirize (as in the "POLICE ACADEMY" franchise) law enforcement as a subject difficult and confused at best.
This installment of "THE BIGGER PICTURE" collects these episodes - edited and streamlined into a single narrative for clarity - along with other related episodes of the series and select reviews of police-themed films from "ESCAPE TO THE MOVIES" to provide further context and expand on specific themes and the work of filmmakers like Clint Eastwood or series' like "BAD BOYS."
"THE BIGGER PICTURE" will collect (primarily) more recent episodes of THE BIG PICTURE on a single or related subject into a convenient longer-form feature; edited, annotated and (in certain cases) expanded for topicality. All source content originally published on The Escapist, now property of MovieBob Productions 2020.
#BlackLivesMatter #BLM
I feel like at some point we should get a REALLY THAT GOOD: ROBOCOP, seeing as how deep he goes into everything about the films he does in that series would be great to hear him go over his favorite film. I have watched the Robocop video about how great it is in this compilation many times over the years, and I would love to see him go more in depth into this film, especially considering how relevant this film's satire is right now
Seconded.
Thirded
Fourth es.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
No, seriously, I'd join Bob's Patreon if I heard that he was doing a "Really That Good" ROBOCOP".
Robocop and the first Ninja Turtles movie from 1990 are two movies I'd love to see Bob do RTG episodes for one day. Fingers crossed.
12:59 Funny thing Friday, they did in fact protest car safety standards which caused the passing of new car safety guidelines which caused car fatalities to plummet. Don't compare deaths from pointless war to death in car accidents caused by inadequate safety features that were subsequently fixed.
I maintain that the one and only good part of the Robocop remake is the scene when Murphy asks to see what's actually left of himself, so they dismantle his robot parts until only the mangled head, single hand, a few vacuum-bagged internal organs remain. It was the one moment in which Joel Kinnamen sold me on the ghastly body horror of Murphy's situation.
That scene was great, though the fact that they kept Murphy's hand when the original movie threw it away always felt like the remake admitting it wasn't capable of matching the original.
@@Gigas0101 Apparently, in the novelization, the hand is actually explained. IIRC, if someone tries to shake Murphy's hand, as a thank you or whatever, they're less likely to be creeped out touching a flesh and blood hand, since that's what people are used to.
@@ranwolf76 Also the rules-lawyery difference between a drone and a not-a-drone being "a human hand on the trigger".
@@Foxpawed predator drones are still piloted by people especially if they're armed. being remote control doesn't change that fact
@@ranwolf76 Not in real life, in the fiction of the narrative.
I like how you say "Chevy Chase and Bill Murray" and just cut between two different shots of Bill Murray.
It's how Bill would want it, I like to think 😁
@@moviebobcentral agreed
I think you should do a series like this about the military. The way authority has been presented in our media for the last couple generations is the root of many of our current problems socially and politically.
That Dragnet rap clip gets whiter and more 80's every time I watch it.
My brain is screaming "please make it stop" but my eyes can't look away...
I kind of love it tho🤣
Good analysis, but I wish you could have mentioned how one of the most popular comic strips, Dick Tracy, was created by Chester Gould in the 1930s partially in disgust of gangsters like John Dillinger getting lionized in the media and he wanted the police to get a fictional hero of its own.
Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, and their bank-robbing contemporaries were being lionized for the same reason the cops were an easy target for comedy in the Keystone pictures: it was the Great Depression, a lot of people were out of work or otherwise poor, and it was a nice break from their misery to see someone stick it to The Man.
@@digitaljanus Dick Tracy got started in 1931 and got going in the depth in the Great Depression as well.
@@digitaljanus not just "sticking it to the man," but more specifically, the vicarious thrill of hearing about somebody robbing banks and getting away with it. Banks were basically the catchall villain of the public imagination, so the idea of robbing the cause of mass misery basically turned Bonnie & Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker boys, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Dillinger into folk heroes and sex symbols. At least it was thrilling to hear about these guys from the safety of the home radio.
OMG! ED-209 is a Keystone Kop!
LoL Someone needs to take all the ED-209 shots make them black and white speed them up and add the old timey piano music to them
@@Hanmerhack Yakety sax would probably be pretty good too.
It's been awhile since I watched the Robocop commentary but I think that was one of the ED 209's inspirations.
The Escapist lost one or two Infinity Stones when they let Bob go.
Wait, what?!!!
Sorry, I genuinely didn't know that happened. Could somebody explain it to me?
Remember the first time Bob got fired? Same thing the second time, except even dumber
Literally the only reason I visited the site.
Which is why I unsubscribed again.
I always got the impression, from the comments sections, that the fans of The Escapist and the fans of moviebob were non-intersecting sets.
So, the time stamps that are provided at 0:21 are pretty inaccurate and also not listed in the comments. So, Here are the time stamps for the individual episodes.
0:10: Title Card
0:25 Intro
3:37: Cop Blocked
8:28: Just the Facts
17:59: Truth Hurts
25:09: The Survivor
30:37: Copped Out Part II (I could not find Copped Out I, so as near as I can tell it is not included in this collection).
37:09: Review: Dragged Across Concrete
42:28: Review: Bad Boys for Life
46:59: Why Robocop Still Rules
53:52 Review: Robocop (2014)
59:34: Credits
Appreciate the efforts, man
Looks like N.W.A. had the right idea all along.
I thought it was over... but no you did it multiple times... that damn dragnet rap
Bob was silent for just long enough that I worried the whole Escapist exit might have been health related. Then: bam bam bam. Here’s a mountain of great fucking content. Trust da Bob.
you could say reno 911 would fall into the category "keystone" like.
The thing about shows like Bob's being free advertising is definitely true of me, as probably 1/4 of the movies I've seen since 2009 or so have been because someone on UA-cam or Blip mentioned it
Ahh Blip. I remember them. The only "UA-cam Killer" that had a chance
Yeah, now I gotta go watch RoboCop again when I get home. It's been a while. I love that movie.
Thoughts on the BLM intro:
Bob was just about the most recurring face on The Escapist who openly acknowledged on a regular basis that times were hard and it's ok to feel bad about it. Still baffles me why they let him go just like that.
From what Escapist and MovieBob himself said, Bob just decided to not renew his contract. Is there any other information that suggests that isn't the case?
Either way, yeah, it sucks that he's not on the Escapist anymore but it was cool of them to let him leave with all of his copyrights so he could keep doing his shows.
I can’t even watch the original Law & Order. Seeing a man shot live for seemingly doing nothing, other than possibly being the wrong color, is terrible but doesn’t shake one’s faith in society. Seeing the police chief dealing with said event by playing it off as ‘no big deal, happens everyday’ -that is what shakes ones faith in society. Imagining 2/3 Lt Van Buren’s police force shooting unarmed people and/or covering it up, spoils the whole premise. And seeing these really did make me question what is the exception and what is the rule for police violence/corruption, considering the media back patting of police.
Police are the enemy of the common man, never forget that!
@@sd-wc9ep Perhaps it will change one day. But at the time of writing it certainly isn't important enough to the Pigs to bother with PR, let alone real clean-up.
20:58 - Ah yes, I remember this now. Atlanta, well-known as a small, sleepy rustic hamlet with no opportunities for ambitious journalists. /s Aren't a whole lot of Hollywood productions filmed there nowadays? What's the excuse for this level of ignorance?
For folk in Hollywood 'making it big' means either NY or LA maybe Chicago maybe. There is also a certain dislike for southern cities. At the end of the day Atlanta is still in Georgia and still carries that stigma.
35:07 full confession: I really liked the Police Academy series as a kid. I saw the fourth one and saw the rest up until they went to Russia. Didn't know about the cartoon.
Same! I keep thinking I should rewatch them all but no cant. I only remember the live action tv show and movies though.
I love those movies.
In response to 8:25 : The cops in GTA5 seem like the best contemporary example of this aesthetic.
Robocop is also one of my favorite movies ever!!! It's the best of pure 10 year old Guns, Boobs, and Guts thrills with adult satire and sociopolitical commentary
Gorram, Cap'n. You persist in your mission to inspire awe, you delightful Ser. Whether or not you still reside in your hometown, the contrast of your Bostonian origin with your personal values and resulting body of work arouses my curiosity, which brings me to the question confounding me: How do you fit into the space for recording VO, when those solo booths are typically too cramped to accommodate the wheelbarrow that I assume you need in order to contain your burly/burlap bag of brass bollocks.
I've said it all my life: Once you're the biggest gang in the picture, you just rebrand yourselves like so: You're not criminals; You're the authorities.
"Even if you've never seen or heard about it, you probably heard the theme music."'
Well, you were right about that. Never knew this was a TV show's theme.
28:43 I had no idea that this movie was a fantasy version of the Zodiac killings until I saw Zodiac.
I’ve certainly thought plenty about American Hustle in the six years since. One of my favorite films ever about the nature of the American Dream. I’ve never understood why so many critics claimed it was one of the lightweights of that year’s Oscar class.
It genuinely is interesting to learn how the perception of the police has been shaped by their media portrayals.
Not just that, but how people treat the current portrayal as "the way it's always been" People think hero cops who are morally upstanding are just, the way it is and always has been because of these media portrayals. It's wild.
@@jcsturgeon Myself included. I knew of "Keystone Cops" as shorthand for incompetent police, bit never realised that used to be closer to the norm of how they were portrayed. I definitely spent a long time labouring under the mistaken view of the cops that copaganda instills in you.
21:29 I think I heard this joke in an Olsen twins sitcom where it was set in Chicago. The really nice and rich part of Chicago.
I can't believe you made me fast forward through that Dragnet rap video twice. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
I have never ever heard of Keystone cops until now.
Assigned Killer (Klown From Outer Space) At Birth
Moviebob is on an uploading rampage and no one can stop him!!!
Thanks for doing these, and for fixing the post-it note.
I remember all these episodes. Great work Bob.
He didn't talk about Robocop the series. A live action show that I think was what the sequels should have been
Grabbed a copy of Dragnet because of this video. I'm going to give it a watch. I don't think I've seen this movie despite watching Dragnet as a kid via Nick at Nite. It is weird that bob talks about being old, because I'm his age and OH MY GOD I'M OLD!!!!!!
Police Academy may not be very good, but I still love it.
I like all of this and it is also great to see Michael Jai White cast for his acting skills but it's worth mentioning that when he's cast for his fighting skills... well... it's awesome!
30:08 it was very odd to say the least. when I did a marathon of the Dirty Harry movies a couple months ago, when I got to Magnum Force, I was like “the whole “police brutality is bad” message is nice but it’s kind of hollow coming from a franchise whose main character was blowing suspects’ heads off willy nilly one movie ago. And who only beat the bad guy because of extrajudicial vigilante justice involving lethal force.” It was very weird. Dirty Harry being all “cops shouldn’t kill people” is like Gordon Ramsey being all “you shouldn’t yell at the chefs you’re training.” Like you’re not wrong but it’s kind of weird coming from you.
Love your work, the escapist isn't the same without you
for all of you who dont know, recently cops kidnaped a child out of their mothers car (at gun point) to take a photo op claiming they found the child walking the street alone
i saw that post, the pigs will really surprise you with the lows they'll sink to
wait what?
@@ranwolf76 at one of the protests this mother got turned around in her car and the cops pulled her over and yanked her out of her car and wailed on her for no reason in front of her baby, he was like 3 i think? then the cops took a pic of the baby being held by a thin white female cop and posted the story on their social media saying this baby was just out randomly lost in the mob and needed help and that the lady officer found him and only cared about getting the child to safety spinning the story as some feel good bullshit meanwhile they yanked that kid away from his mom and brutalized her for driving in the wrong area ? if i can find the link to the post explaining it better ill post it for you
@@percyperanamus7432 Yeah, I found it a few minutes after I posted. fucked up
Nice to see this collected!
Since when are you not with The Escapist?
Since earlier this year when they decided not to renew his contract.
This all happened in like the last month. Bob decided not to renew and go back to being independent.
I'd heard it was Escapist that decided not to renew. Either way the breakup seems reasonably amicable (In public anyway).
Also this is the best Bigger Picture compilation yet
oh boy, the rap..
I actually did binge all the Police Academy movies when they came out in a DVD set in like... 2003? or 4? City Under Siege is surprisingly good, but Back in Training is still my favorite.
49:37 this was probably told to us but it's been a long time, what happened to his family?
I am strangely saddened by Bob’s implied dislike for Robocop: The Series
MovieBob, why did you not include timestamps in the description?
Thank you! I missed most of these because they were on the escapist
It is good to know that I can watch these videos ad-free if I sign up for Escapist+.
Get them engagement algorithm plugs, Bob!
So the Mystery of the Druids detective is just the Adventure Game version of Dirty Harry then?
So does "Stripes" belong on the list of Caddyshack inspired comedy ensemble location movies that does not really work (like Police Academy), or is it in a separate category. Looking Caddyshack was a 1980 movie and Stripes a 1981 movie so Caddyshack probably could not directly inspire Caddyshack given Stripes was presumably in production when Caddyshack came out, still it seems they have more in common than just having Bill Murray on payroll...
I watched Stripes recently and found it somewhat entertaining. However that just may have been because I like spotting actors I recognize form SCTV and later performances.
16:12 yeah, I wonder when Hanks will go back to comedy. Probably when he's elderly.
Keystone kops is more realistic than all this "cops are heroes" bullshit...
Badboys4life
Bob, let's be honest It's either Russians or Mexicans.
Because they aren't going to go after the chinese. I don't think they even want to try the Koreans like Olympus has Fallen.
😂
How about white supremacists? I would find them being shredded by bullets very entertaining.
@@mattsherlock9636 yes (pleasurably yes) but I think they missed the "woke-train" on that one. (And they might lose their Blue lives matter audience)
But who knows...
@@V4Now they opened the second movie with a shootout with the Klan.
sherlock True but that was then. Times change ☹
@matt sherlock: I remember that the terrorists in "White House Down" were white nationalists
In retrospect, Kathy Scruggs was a Karen
Still want to see a procedural about some stereotypical Internal Affairs officers, only they actually do their job instead of obstruct some paragon of virtue.
I don't know whether it's stereotypical, but the IA were the good guys in Copland (1997). Maybe not the main good guy, but on the side of right.
I'm pretty sure that is not a legal recitation of the Miranda Rights
In that if an actual police officer told you "I believe you are a violent criminal and I'm going to catch you, but you do have the right to remain silent and call a lawyer" you very well may have a case to throw out whatever is said in that interview
Bob is a great writer these are always so well made
‘..for what today passes as an adult.’
Wait. Ok, I'm out of the loop again, did you leave escapist AGAIN?
The Escapist's parent company chose not to renew their contract with Bob after its original term was fulfilled. In mid-October, they publicly announced Bob would not be part of the Escapist's content rotation going forward. By all accounts, it was a relatively amicable end to things.
@@masofdas6475 Well. That's a bummer. I was happy when they brought bob back, even as an amicable end it's frustrating to see him leave the same job twice, I hope that you're right and it's not another hidden drama thing. Thank you for illuminating that for me. :)
@@marzgamingmaster Have you watched "Stop me if you've heard this one?" Bob's been treated like a pariah by the upper echelons ever since he began reviewing/commentating
@@marzgamingmaster Yeah, I'm still pretty bummed out about it myself, especially since I know it meant a lot to Bob to be part of the Escapist again, but as far as I can tell, at least this time there's no real hard feelings about it, so that's something, at least.
You're welcome. ^_^
@@cottonballs185 If I remember right, that video is in reference to a different group of people running the Escapist (Bob's return was in part facilitated by new Editorial control of the site) who aren't only not the ones running the site anymore, but also aren't involved with the company that made the choice not to renew the contract.
Superbad is a semi-critical honest portrayal of police
Great collection.
Wait, was that... was that James Spader's face on the Touched By An Angel poster? Are you gonna make me look up the cast of Touched By An Angel, Bob?
No, it's actor (and director) John Dye. They only marginally look alike, really, though they DID look more alike in the 90s.
nice to see this here since it was one of the better series of videos bob ever did
13:09 wow. Just wow. Friday, buddy. Seriously?
That blanket not-holding-up on 80s ensemble slapstick comedies that showed young Gen Xers boobs doesn't include Airplane! and Top Secret!, does it? Tell me it doesn't, both because it means something dear to me is not good and because it means I am Gen X
Great.
When is Really That Good: Adam Sandler gonna be finished?
REALLY THAT GOOD: ROBOCOP when?
That'd be a perfect candidate. The sequels, imitators, and remakes were different kinds of suck, but the original was a unique classic.
Geez, did Bob get fired from Escapist again?
56:53 - I agree that the original _Robocop_ 's Det. Lewis is super-awesome and one of the best sidekick characters ever because she so completely subverts so many tropes without anyone saying anything about it - just by being _her_ - you can't call Michael K. Williams "just a guy" - he's fuckin' _Omar_ dammit, show some respect! ;-)
tbh I haven't seen, and don't intend ever to see, this or any other thing called "Robocop" besides the actual _Robocop_ , so I don't know if he's any good in it.
"Keystone" is probably a play on "Cornerstone"
A keystone is the uppermost stone in an arch, the ‘key stone’ that holds the arch together in place. A cornerstone, is, well, the corner of a foundation where two walls are joined. It’s usually the first stone laid, hence it’s use in metaphor.
It's almost like cops shouldn't be armed! minute point 55:45 ... The larger rhetoric is out there, I'm not in a nuanced mood.
Excellent and educational compilation.
16:07 I thought he was the nephew.
I own both the TV series and the 80's movie re: DragNet. They're great for different reasons.
I like the 80s movie a lot, even still, but don't know how much of that is because I was 12 when it came out, so it was exactly the kind of Dragnet movie I wanted 😄. But it's in that weird category of movie that was a big hit in the moment, but kind of got forgotten just a few years later as Aykroyd's cachet faded and Hanks moved away from zany comedies, so it's not often considered a beloved comedy classic.
Is keystone cops the reason why the police in the pirates of penzance exist?
Love your content Bob
I agree on Touched by an Angel.
I am amazed this machine still has fans
just the facts mam was oringaly a dragnet parody.
FUCK THE ALGORITHM!!!!
PARDOY 😂😂
This was neat!
Counting down the minutes until I hear on Twitter and everywhere else that Bob has been me too for harassing women and creeping all over him acting like you're real good friends but you're not you secretly trying to get in that he's sick bastard
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Max sennett, my brotha.... or great uncle or whatever.
11 commerical breaks?! Fuck this, I'll wait till I get home and have an ad blocker up.
Damn you greedy, Bob!
Imagine showing your face after being roasted to hell by the girl you’ve been stalking.
Overboard with the fucking adds, Bob
31:10 lmao I'm a millenial and I've never been inclined to watch those old ass tv shows and movies. yer background noise, Bob.
Too many ad brakes. I can't trust such a purely capitalistic video.
I'm the opening manager at a local McDonald's, and whenever a police officer comes through the drive thru in the morning, I'll give them their coffee for free.
#IBackTheBadge
did u see the video of the cop who had a meltdown cuz they took too long with her coffee
that include the bad cops?
@@ranwolf76 Maybe they live in one of the half a dozen towns in the US that only have good cops.
Jesus bob give the TDS a rest