Zoologist Reacts To Famous Movie Snakes
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Movies like Snakes on a Plane, Anaconda, Indiana Jones, and even Harry Potter often depict snakes as frightening, deadly monsters. So how accurate is that portrayal? Are snakes really monsters, or does Hollywood get these slithery reptiles all wrong?
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What type of snake is that ??? The black one you were holding during Harry Potter
Cool mate
@@sauravsubedi390 Mexican black king snake
React to famous reptiles like Godzilla, the dinosaurs from jurassic park and maybe even bowser from mario
What was your Doctorial thesis on? :) I think you may have mentioned it in one of your videos but I forget which one
Fun fact, the monster anacondas from the film had heads modelled on vipers specifically because the creatives discovered that real anacondas 'look more like puppy dogs'.
kinda fitting considering that, depending on the breed, some puppers are perfectly capable of killing a person, per their trainers command, faster and more reliably than most snakes ever could.
Modeled on, not off.
@@christheghostwriter corrected
@@windhelmguard5295 you mean just constricter species right?
@@windhelmguard5295 like pitbulls for example, except they don't need to be commanded, they just attack and kill people because they can!
I watched Snakes on a Plane a little while ago and I was giggling the whole way through. "Oh no, a cornsnake! Such an aggressive and deadly snake!!"
don't they set up in that movie that they are pumping pheremones into the plane to make the snakes agressively horny?
I bet every resident of the everglades considers the movie to be a comedy
Getting killed in any way by a corn snake is honestly an achievement.
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Choked to death on a corn snake. Tombstone of the century.
@@error-try-again-laterYeah, but it's the Coral Snake's you have to be careful of and they are very dangerous. Often Corn snakes are mistaken unfortunately.
“..so he decides to replace a few dangerous snakes and a lot of harmless snakes and lizards with a gas fire.” Priceless.
My favourite part is always how loud the snakes are depicted. Hissing and huffing and breathing loudly. They probably recorded angry hognoses or something for it lol
I know right. The loudest creature feature I've met, in comparison to its size, is probably my young rescue savvy monitor, which is a lizard not a snake. A foot plus tail and you can hear her go off one story up and across the house. But snakes really aren't that loud even when thoroughly pissed off. There's a reason many snake bites come from humans not noticing they're there and the snake feeling threatened enough to strike.
This is true of a lot of animals in movies. Even if it is a completely fantastical or alien creature I still think it's wrong for whatever creature it is to vocalize for emphasis the way they do in movies and shows.
the American patriotic eagle screech is a hawk
@@tryingtotryistrying One time I heard that Red-tailed hawk scream on Star Trek DS9. It was on some planet in the Gamma sector.
Yes! Honestly the only thing scary about snakes is their stealth. You sit on a log during a hike. And you just found out that there's a snake a couple of feet near you.
(More) realistic anaconda movie: Anaconda constricts human, stares at him and shifts him around for three hours, finally puts his head in its mouth, slooowly swallows him over the course of another two hours, then hides somewhere and doesn't move for a month.
100%
Not nightmare inducing stuff tho?
@@marthahawkinson-michau9611 never said it was a horror movie
@@snekysneks lol
i feel like if i cluld speak to snakes most of my conversations would be like this
Snake :....Mouse?
Me : Nope, hand
Snake : ......... oh.....no mouse.....
Snake sounds disappointed lmao
"Harry Potter's Basilisk is a legless lizard" is honestly a take I never would've expected to hear. But it makes sense with your analysis, not gonna lie.
It's magical horseshit why even waste time on it
Where I come from, and honestly in basically every other story I've found, Basilisks are in fact Lizards. Lizards with legs. Harry Potter is just weird like that. The only other exception is when there is no difference between Basilisk and Cockatrice in my language. So they can be birds as well. They’re definitely reptiles. Just not snakes.
@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV Yeah, in fact, I've seen them with like six or more legs a few times. The Dungeons and Dragons ones have eight.
@@averageartistamberwilliams2776 I was actually also thinking about the DnD basilisk! That one is most definitely some sort of lizard.
@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV The legendary basilisk (I'm now not talking about the real life Corytophanid) was often depicted as legless and even called "the king of serpents" in European folklore and if Im not mistaken Ancient Greeks considered him to be a deadly desert snake. So Harry Potter didn't actually go wrong within the folklore framework.
Btw in Czech the translators made the same mistake, even though we actually do have a separate term for a cockatrice.
"I have no idea how they were all alive down in that cavern"
Clearly they had 5000 years worth of frozen rodents down there for multiple generations of snakes.
And a microwave
I just thought they were sleeping down there. Inaccessible to humans doesn't mean snakes can't get down there.
I think a lot of the snakes Indiana Jones scene can be explained with the filmmakers deliberately choosing the most harmless snakes and lizards in order not to endanger the crew,
with the exception of the cobra, but if you look closely, you can see a glass wall between it and Harrison Ford.
Also quite a lot of the "snake bodies" at the bottom of the snake pile are just pieces of rubber hoses.
@@CzechMircoAre they rubber hoses with the fire too?
@@pointyorb As far as I'm aware Indiana Jones doesn't have any actual animal death in it unlike other movies such as Cannibal Holocaust. However because rubber can make toxic fumes when burnt they probably aren't burning the bits of rubber hose just burning something else.
if anything is scary about these movies to snake lovers, it is the inaccurate portrayal of snakes in these movies not the snake themselves
Very true.
For me its any animal. I always roll my eyes when I see black Asian forest scorpions being used as desert scorpions.
@@xBloodxFangx would ya rather deadly scorpions? I don't think Hollywood wants the lawsuit
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As a snake love I agree it's so annoying
I'm such a snake love I even get upset when I see an expert holding them by their necks it looks like their choking them even though I know they're being very gentle 😂
Actually, snakes on a plane does point out in one scene how their aggresion made no sense
They were stored alongside a drug made to have them be aggressive, which made them...well, aggresive!
Obviously far fetched, but better than to just claim they are naturaly aggresive.
That's something
I was utterly triggered by the movie until that scene lol
A tleast it is really fun to see all the different species they portrayed, even if some were quite innacurate
I can appreciate them actually taking the time to explain that. That small detail is really all the writing department needed to do to suspend disbelief among the people who know literally anything about snakes enough for the movie to be enjoyable.
mind you, it's been forever since i half watched, half slept through that movie but i seem to remember the plot device being that the passengers were all covered in snake pheromones of some kind. one of those "we made an effort to give you an excuse, please don't think to hard about it and just look at the cool action on screen" kind of things.
the thing we should give them credit for though is the subplot of the people on the ground scrambling to find appropriate anti venoms for all the different snakes, which i remember to be pretty well done, but then again, take my memory with a grain of salt.
Ok actually just watched this movie for the first time last week. They had a special pheromone that was making the snakes aggressive. My husband kept making fun of me and say "well actually" in his Jerry Lewis voice and pretend to push up his glasses by the bridge because I kept pointing out flaws and identifying some of the real snakes in the scenes.
Snakes as murder weapon are bad ideas case and point: the cult synanon tried to kill an attorney who was working against them by putting a rattlesnake in his mailbox. The snake did pop out and bite him, but then he killed the snake and took it with him to the hospital where he not only lived but then helped to take down the cult that put the snake there in the first place and he is still around today doing pro Bono work for cult victims including the hosts of the podcast I learned this from. He also apparently still has the skeleton of the snake that is in the shape of the synanon logo which is very sad for the snake but also kind of badass
What an amazing story!!! Mind blown. Could you share a link to the podcast in question?
What podcast was this? What was the guy's name?
@@notsae66 Don't know about which podcast this was but Robert Evans has also covered this on Behind the Bastards (a podcast I recommend generally) in a two-parter on Synanon.
Better than getting bills in the mail imo
Fun fact about the Indiana Jones scene: They used actual cobras when filming. Despite this, the only injury on set involved a human, not a snake, getting hurt, and it was a person being bit by a burmese python.
Also, there was a pane of impossibly clean glass between Ford and the cobra. In later releases the scene is retouched to remove a slight, barely visible reflection on the glass, but look closely in older prints and you can see it.
@@misselizabethplays8070 Honestly, they shouldn't fix stuff like that in classics. Just removes the character and history!
The fun fact I know about Indiana Jones is that in the snake pit they used legless lizards for the majority of the 'snakes' which had a bit of a problem. Legless lizards are not afraid of fire, they go towards hot things.
I have a bit of a suspicion that quite a lot of them were made of rubber, too, with stage hands pulling them with strings.
@@hjalfi if you watch the special features, 80-90% of the snakes were glass or rubber, with real snakes mixed in.
Were any snakes or any other animals harmed in the making of that movie :'(
@@J.A.huscher were*
@@aapelikananena9699 I'm sorry
The Indiana Jones scene really makes me want to meet the person who supplied Spielberg with all of those legless lizards. Like where did he get them all?
same.
It was the 80s. You could get...damn near anything really
He probably got them from the 80's when they were more common.
@@apss5736 hi
@@glub9075 hi
Fun fact on the Anaconda film, the snake was based on the mythical Megaconda, a legendary Anaconda said to reach 50 feet in length. Be advised this was before the discovery of Titanoboa which actually could reach this size.
Also on Snakes on a Plane, they actually addressed why these snakes are much more aggressive than they are suppose to be, even any aggressive species. It’s because of some plant drug they placed with the snakes is making them more aggressive. Whether this plant is real or not, I don’t know, but it gives an in film explanation why these snakes are a lot more aggressive than in real life, and why they are pursuing humans. Including the Python that eats a passenger.
Source on the megaconda?
It is a seemingly made up story about a giant snake…but a 100 foot long snake isn’t something that you need particular creativity to come up with once you are aware of constricting snakes.
So why couldn’t the writers of the film also have just made a movie about a giant snake.
So I guess my question is if the writers or director said this at any point?
The fer-de-lance viper found in south America actually does act like those snakes. It takes little to no provocation for that deadly viper to nail someone. Just being within striking distance is often all it takes which is one of the reasons that snake is #1 on the netflix series deadliest animals: South America.
@CDRhammond If you, a predator, gets too close to it (most accidents happen when you actually step or touch it), and they are fairly common throughout the continent. But no, they do not act like this, they're only defensive, this is misinforming about them. It's better to not get your information from sensationalist series on netflix. I figure you're talking about Bothrops asper, I lived among various Bothrops species and encountered them many times. No, that's not true.
@@dstinnettmusic stories of 50 ft long snakes have been passed down from tribes of the Amazon for centuries. I think Megaconda is a recent name for a snake like this. It’s a word of mouth mythology and hasn’t been explored in great detail compared to other myths, legends and cryptids like the Yeti for instance.
But legends of Giant Snakes have been around in cultures for thousands of years.
As for the film directors I think it was just enthusiasm, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has heard of the stories.
I love that the basilisk is more like a lizard than a snake! Especially considering how often basilisks are depicted with some kind of legs in mythology
Right, they were portraying the Basilisk to be serpent, not a snake. Serpents to me are snakes, basilisks and dragons lol
It always gave me more eel vibes than snake. I think it's mainly because of the head shape tho. It looks like a Morey Eel
”Though the snakes where misidentified, largely harmless and in no cases from egypt; They did use real snakes, well - and lizards …, that behaved like real snakes and lizards! And a person put himself in much greater danger by trying to kill them. Seems pretty realistic to me.” Is now my forever favourite piece of reviev ever! 😂
One movie I can think of that didn't stigmatize snakes was a scene from Unfortunate Events (2004). As the character Uncle Monty, who is also a herpetologist, mentions that snakes are more afraid of us than we are of them, and all snakes want to do is retreat and hide to somewhere safe. There's also a milk snake joke and a fictional giant viper that acts like a puppy so that's a plus. I like to think this scene made me more interested in snakes than afraid
It's really good! If I remember correctly the incredibly deadly viper was based on a snake that actually does have a misleading name but I don't remember if that's true or not.
Snakes on a Plane is one of my favorite movies, especially after I became a snake owner. The menacing soundtrack ratchets up as the camera pans over a bunch of milksnakes slithering out of an air vent is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life.
Oh no! Anything but them!
It's not that Harry Potter's parseltongue grants him the ability to talk with snake like reptiles, but rather that the Basilisk is also a parseltongue. It is the 'king of serpents' and as such it must communicate with its subjects, even if it is not a serpent itself, just like the Norman kings had to learn French to rule in France and English to rule in England even though they weren't originally French or English.
At least the microwave on the plane had a snake setting. That made all the difference. You missed "The incredibly deadly Viper" from Lemony Snicket, a snake that is named as a prank on the herpetological society as it was very friendly in nature.
true
The visual of it literally, enthusiastically cuddling a baby (yes, cuddling, not constricting) like a big scaly puppy is just priceless
I’d love to see Clint do a part 2
Ha ha, I was wondering about that. The book actually kind of involved a mamba being used as a murder weapon too, except in that case, the mamba wasn't so much used as a weapon as a patsy for a murder using venom milked from the mamba.
I was waiting for that one! 😂
Imagine you're directing a movie and you know nothing about snakes and you get someone who says "no snakes but I got legless lizards" 😂
I believe the reason so many people are scared of snakes is because our ancestors genuinely had to avoid them. There was actually a study done that showed that most infants who had never even seen a snake still had a negative reaction. Thankfully, this trait seems to be becoming less common as humans no longer need to fear snakes, but hominid’s fear of snakes actually lead to the evolution of multiple lines of spitting cobra.
Strange then that we venerate animals such as lions. If fear of snakes is an evolved trait, it's odd that we evolved to fear something that (except for the very largest constrictors) has plenty more reason to be more afraid of us than the reverse, while large carnivores like lions which absolutely would have predated on ancient hominids are considered majestic and noble.
@@michaelbuick6995"What's that thing, it looks scary?"
"It's a snake, don't worry."
"Oh, that thing looks cool!"
"NO THAT THING EATS US RUN!"
@@michaelbuick6995 All the information of honoring Lions comes from when we had tools. Having long sticks and fire ensures we are safe as long as we don't flee. We can stand together and the Lion trying to kill us is literally its own death. Fight or Flight (Fear) gets us killed. So if we ever had that trait we evolved it away.
Snakes on the other hand are a much more practical threat, small, often deadly, you won't know they are here till they are in strike range so Fight will save you or Flight will save you. They don't intend to prey on you often due to them being slow and us being a social species. So that bite, which from some species is 100% fatal without modern treatments, needs to be feared for survival. You have to react in an instant without warning or you will die.
Fear in general is setting up instant reactions.
@@michaelbuick6995 Snakes are/were also venerated in a lot of cultures
"snakes make great ambassadors for themselves." Honestly couldn't have said it better!
These clips very much strike me as proof that people wouldn't be scared of snakes if they knew anything about them. Like it's telling that the least negative portrayals of snakes are the most realistic ones, but all the ones trying to scare you are absurd.
It may help a lot. But people with genuine phobia would still be afraid of them. I know at least two people who are terrified of literally all reptiles except turtles (and birds if you consider them reptiles). No logical reason why someone would be scared of a leopard gecko. But sometimes that just doesn't help knowing. I have the same for wasps
knowledge is the best antidote to fear!
@@zakosist right, fear is a natural reaction to a perceived threat, and phobias are excessive fear responses to things that present little or no danger. phobias are classed as anxiety disorders.
@@zakosist That's true, but it's also worth saying that the prevalence of phobias of snakes is at least in part cultural. Arachnophobia is far less common in cultures where spiders are not culturally demonized for example.
@@sampagano205 true but i can tell you even as someone who spends most of their free time learning about wildlife, i still cant handle it when insects or arachnids are near me. One time a mantis managed to fly up to my window above my desk (my room is on the second story) and hold on to the screen outside of it. it freaked me out even knowing it couldnt come inside just because it was constantly in sight and big, then i tapped on the window hoping it would scare it away but instead it decided to turn its head down and stare into my soul for the next hour. Even knowing i was completely safe and that a mantis cant do any more than pinch my finger i was incapable of focusing on my work at that desk anymore and just had to leave for another room since even after closing the blinds for a while and reopening them it was still following me around the room with its head movements.
Phobias are irrational so oftentimes learning more doesnt help because its an ingrained fear with no reasonable reason in the first place. I can look at and think about any wasp dragon fly or scorpion on a video but if its within 5 feet of me my brain just reacts on its own. I can tell you with certainty the whole "spiders are more scared of you than you are of them" thing doesnt help me when theres a spider in the middle of my bathroom, cause the only thing that brings to my mind is: what do animals do when theyre terrified and in a confined area? they fight back.
i'm lowkey mad he didn't include viper from kung fu panda, she is highkey underrated and one of the few instances where a snake is depicted as the good guy (she was one of the first kung fu masters to actually accept po)
I have a big boa constrictor named Jörmungandr and many my friends have been terrified of snakes mostly how they are depicted in movies.
They all got pretty surprised that my snake is very slow and friendly and is easy to handle for children too.
She does not mind people kissing her nose or any kind of handling for that matter.
Some of these friends want a pet snake now 😅
As you said snakes irl make very louzy villains.
My parrot is much more dangerous than my boa he could easily bite painfully anyone who is not attentive to his body language.
"Will the snake bite me?"
"No, but the parrot might!"😂
Birds have not forgotten the time they used to be dinosaurs.
You are right in concluding that the basilisk is not a snake, because the basilisk is in fact a bird. Both basilisks and their close relative the cockatrice are hatched from eggs laid by chickens. For the basilisk, it hatches from an otherwise normal chicken egg that is sat upon by a toad (and presumably involving some sort of dark magic) while the cockatrice hatches from an egg laid by a rooster (presumably caused by dark magic).
I never understood why the basilisk in Harry Potter was snake/lizardlike. The author could have made up her own Medusa beast.
@@Congiary Because basilisks are described as physically reptilian in features.
Also Medusa is a gorgon, which is its own thing/
@Congiary there is a real lizard called a basalisk, it isnt totally a mythological creature. It kind of looks like a small iguana with a really trippy head.
@@CongiaryReal talk the reason is JK Rowling was not very good at worldbuilding and opted to generally just rip of IRL magical monsters and such. In the case of the basilisk, it’s a “real” monster with those traits as in the movie/book, except she made it a snake to fit with the entire Slytherin motif (which I always find funny that snakes are depicted as bad guys. You mean the lazy scale noodles that eat once then chill for a month? I’d be more terrified of the lion chicken monster that has all the aggression of both a lion and more importantly, of a chicken)
How dare you call Snakes lazy.
I hate humans like you.
I will say this, Nagini is portrayed in GOF as an African rock python, and in OotP and DH as a reticulated python and if they were going for a really large snake with a awful temper, they made good choices.
Retics aren’t too bad. It depends on the individual
I raise Retics and must say that they honestly don't really have bad tempers. People mistake their eager food drives for them being amped, but when worked with, even the hungriest of Retics can be incredibly sweet and full of personality. I have 5 along with a Green Anny.
Every single one of them expects me to pick them up or allow them out rather than think they're getting food. They're rather surprised when it shows up even! I've worked with several outside of just my own as well. All the same results!
My retic is the absolute chillest of my 7 snakes, the other 6 being boas
All my relics are really sweat, they just have a really good food response
She’s also a python with venom which is how she kills snape
I saw raiders of the lost ark for the first time recently. Safe to say my flat mate was NOT impressed when I instantly went "those aren't even snakes they're legless lizards!" and then proceeded to point out every species present 🤣
Mostly asps, very dangerous, right??
Your flat mate sounds pretty lame then, who wouldn't be impressed by that?
@@Colopty someone who is trying to enjoy the movie ?
@@asrig3880 Reptile commentary is scientifically proven to increase the enjoyment of any movie, so that can't be it.
@@Colopty I disagree, it's like watching a horror movie (or any genre actually), in a high tension situation and someone say "The CG looks bad", "there's no way that killed him", "that's a toy gun".
OR FRICKING CHEERING SO LOUD IN MOVIE THEATER.
SHUT UP, THEY CAN'T HEAR YOU ANYWAY, IT WON'T AFFECT THE MOVIE IN ANY WAY *EXCEPT NOW I CANNOT HEAR THE MOVIE.*
It drove me crazy how many times Samuel l Jackson said "poisonous snakes" about all the venomous snakes lol. Snakes on a plane was just awful lol. They did say the snakes were more aggressive because of some pheromone mixture.
Some non venomous snakes can become poisonous after eating frogs
@chu Harry Google it. Venom is injected, poison is applied. Non-venomous snakes bite and grind, and if toxins from certain toads and frogs are still in the snake's mouth/teeth, it can poison you. It happens more often than one would think.
@chuharry5360yes that is true
"Snakes are pretty lousy murder weapon"
I heard that a Colt Python is pretty deadly though
Same with Bell Cobras.
I see what you did there
Also I learned what a bell cobra is. Neat
Dodge Viper and a fifth of vodka + enemy going for a brisk walk
This blinking python was bothering me since I was a kid! Great video, thank you!
You're not alone.
What bothered me the most was that it was a boa constrictor in the book
@@Djingoclottates ikr
If it hurt you that bad you should probably avoid movies and fiction
You say snakes make terrible villains, but what if they didn't murder...but did tax evasion?
Or the uncaring romantic rival in a romantic drama?
Great video, lots of fun :)
🤣 🤣 🤣 Underrated comment! 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟, good job mate!
They could also be the equivalent of a gun nut IRL - if the snake species used was a black mamba or other unusually aggressive one. It's just that there are several reasons that the main villain of the movie generally isn't an IRL gun nut or similar personality type. Minions, yes. Main villains? Nope. And the one time they did a version of a snake that was a workable villain, it had the ability to fire bullets from its tail. I'd figure - if you're going to make a snake a villain and still have its behavior adhere somewhat to reality, give it the ability to fire bullets or other projectiles. And maybe the hero defeats it by cutting off its bullet-firing device (if the hero defeats it at all).
If snakes were tax evaders, they'd be on far less good terms with tax-collecting, Alabama-accented wolves.
@@lsmmoore1ah, Rattlesnake Jake. Wish they made more creative villains like him, villains who adapted to their natural lack of certain physical traits like arms in ways like this.
@@logandelacruz2152 I bet you'd like Administrator from Season 3 of Sword Art Online. While she doesn't lack physical traits naturally, she shows an ability to adapt to having those traits taken from her during the battle, in which the hero is neurodivergent and has had to adapt to the realities of that, and the hero's best friend - there are some interesting parallels there too.
That was fun! Also, I was very pleased that Clint knows the proper usage of the terms parseltongue and parselmouth. (I read a lot of fanfiction, and you'd be surprised how many writers confuse them. And I wind up yelling at my ereader, "No, no, NO! Harry isn't a parseltongue! Parseltongue is the LANGUAGE! Harry is a parselMOUTH!")
It was developed for the film by Professor Francis Nolan who is a linguist at Cambridge University. It's a full language with grammar. There's probably a source for learning it somewhere.
The movie Anaconda I saw in theaters it was my first PG-13 movie. I must have been a messed up kid I was cheering for the snake. Eventhough it was a complete work of fiction it lead to me spending many hours at the public library getting excited about animals of the rain forest. It also lead to my subscription to Zoo books magazine. Thanks Clint for bringing back a postive memory for me.
I'm guessing they used a boa for the hissing snake in Raiders of the Lost Ark because, at least based on my experience, boas are fairly eager to hiss and do so quite impressively, lol.
Haha agreed! My juvenile boa hisses every time I open her enclosure and she makes so much noise that people will take a few steps back. All bark no bite though. Calms down within a minute or so and then she's super sweet.
Oh you should hear an adult female hiss when they are stressed... very disturbing.
@@ChaoticNeutralElf Same, lol. My female Central American boa (probably about a year and a half old now) hisses almost every time I start trying to take her out of her enclosure (especially if she was sitting in her hide). But as you said, it's all just a lot of show. She doesn't try to strike or bite, or even assume a defensive posture. She just complains. Then she's fine as soon as I have her out, lol.
@@Highlander77 Somehow I get the feeling that it goes something like the following every time you do get her out: "You can take me out without a bite but, I'm going to complain about it until I'm out of my house and then I'm going to briefly pout before 'begrudgingly' enjoy outside time and, given enough time, I will try to climb onto or into the nearest shelf, hidey hole, or thing that may or may not support my size or weight!"
My juvenile boa is stupid calm. I reach into grab her and she's perfectly fine with it. I haven't heard her hiss at all.
My mom HATES the scene where the snake gets kicked. She's afraid of snakes, always has been and likely always will be, but in her words, "He wasn't doing anything to you! Leave him alone, you big bully."
The best snake villain is jake the rattlesnake, well actually he’s a anti hero from rango
this. I rewatched the movie recently and I was blown away how accurate they were to real rattlesnakes (outside of the gatling gun tail lol)
Boy I really forgot how Anaconda was serious nightmare fuel for my young self. Shame it caused so many others to also be terrified of snakes.
yea unless you're trying to kill a three year old, in which case a reticulated python might just do the trick, a snake is a terrible instrument of murder, in fact a big hound with the right training is probably going to kill a person more quickly, more cheaply and more reliably than any snake ever could, just ask any military dog handler what those k9s can do to a person.
Or just use pigs
@@kaciek6893 or hell, just use some anthrax
Mind you, sometimes a dog will not go through with killing a person either - especially if they aren't trained to keep up their aggression - because a dog whose aggression comes by solely through bad experiences can sometimes relent, even after attacking, if they just so happen to attack a kid who reacts by holding still. So even there it isn't just "pick a dog any dog". You have to pick the dog that is trained to aggression if you want to use it as a murder weapon - and that dog has to have been abused, because dogs usually don't viciously attack each other or humans (though dogs do have a tendency to wrap humans around their little finger and have the human willingly go along).
What do you think about the intro card of Anaconda? It was one of the most hilarious and wrong things i ever read. "They are so evil that the will puke you and eat you again just for the lols"
Just watch one of Brian Barczyk's videos where he hangs out in the enclosure with Ivy, his massive anaconda, whom he refers to as his "therapy animal." She looks him over, gives him a curious sniff, maybe climbs on him a little bit, then just chills out, as gentle as a puppy dog.
This had me cracking up! Like 30 seconds in and it's already all sorts of wrong!
Loved this vid. Is “Zoologist Reacts To Famous Movie SHARKS” coming to a UA-cam channel we all know and love?? Sharknado, Deep Blue Sea, Jaws… hint, hint. 😁 🦈
Do not let me forget to do this!!!
@@ClintsReptiles Absolutely! Deep Blue Sea is an underrated shark movie, and LL Cool J makes that movie. 🍿😊
While we are at it, consider spiders!
As a T keeper, Arachnaphobia was literally just me taking frantic notes on everything they got wrong, interspersed with the occasional outburst.
Husband was not amused.
@@JiniriDancer i agree
@@JiniriDancer If you want a comically bad spider movie, might I recommend Eight Legged Freaks? 😅🤣
I'm revealing my age, but there's an awful movie from the eighties called, "Venom", that has the best snakebite scene ever. A black mamba is slithering through a mansion and killing people. The unfortunate victim encounters the snake, it crawls up his pantleg and tags him...with a crunch.
Thanks for this video concept. Loved it.
A... Crunch.
The poor snake
Snakes in a plane is on Netflix right now, I highly recommend for a good laugh! People sucking out the venom with their mouth, using tourniquets, snakes targeting eyeballs and other "sensitive" areas, and a gaboon viper that moves like a garter...the clip you saw was a tiny taste of the absurdity.
Mr. Snake from the bad guys is probably one of my favourite representations of a snake so far in a movie 😅
There is the possibility that Budd was allergic to venom, in which case the rapid paralysis might make more sense. I give Kill Bill credit, though, for using shots of an actual mamba striking in that scene.
The kill via cardiac arrest method that constrictors use (whether it’s a corn snake or a green anaconda) works also for prey that’s non-mammalian. It’s how green anacondas can feed on caiman, which wouldn’t die easily via asphyxiation
I remember watching the Anaconda movie as a kid and was afraid of snakes after. But recently started learning more about snakes and love them now♥️ thank you Clint for making this video
I hate it when movies depict snakes as bad
I was obsessed with snakes as a kid and remember thinking the movie was so cool, that I added an anaconda with the silhouette of a human in its belly, to my rainforest picture at school. My classmate told on me and the teachers weren’t amused. But hey, us outcast kids ( I was the only black person damn near in the whole town and poor as dirt) tend to be affectionate to the unloved animals.
@@katelynnehansen8115 exactly how I feel now as the Only hispanic in my entire family and circle that loves and keeps reptiles!😆😆
There is something else about the snake in The Sorcerer's Stone you forgot to mention. While they use a Python in the movie, the book uses a Boa Constrictor, and even correctly states that they are from Brazil.
This isn't a real mistake, as the snake in the book also winks, but I am rather confused as to why they made the change.
Thanks for the tips Clint! I'll try to get a boomslang for my next murder.
Upon further research, they're just as useless. Guess I'll have to go for a polar bear next time.
Or bomb shaped like a snake or a colt python.
Might I suggest a gun?
@@kathfitz7441 a Colt Python ?
(already replied that, but I just had to. lol)
trust me, anthrax is much easier
Tbh you'll have an easier time getting botulism.
Thank you! The movies normally use people's nightmares. I believe those who are afraid of snakes imagine them exactly like in those movies.
IIRC Peter Jackson is really afraid of spiders and the scenes with Shelob in LOTR were deliberately crafted to trigger his arachnophobia, because that's how he knew the audience would be scared.
you missed a few good ones, "Ssssss", "Cleopatra", and "The Scorpion King". In Raiders, did you notice the glass between Indy and the cobra ? I chuckle every time.
I always noticed that whenever I watched that movie. But Spielberg eventually had it fixed in one of the home video releases.
So happy about this video. Partially because movies with snakes in them always misrepresent and misclassify snakes and mostly because people that don't know anything about snakes take the misrepresentation as facts. Great video sir
The best way to make someone not fear snakes is making them hold a tame boa. Small fast ones are cute, but they can startle someone scared. But a lazy boa? It's just a long chill bag. I was never scared of them, but the first time holding one, I loved it. It's so nice and soft
I interned at a zoo in 1989 and did animal demos for kids. We had a ball python (and a chinchilla and a de-scented baby skunk and some various macaws) and I liked to describe the snake as feeling like a warm basketball. Kids loved it. We let them pet him, one kid at a time with one finger only, to be safe for the snake. But yeah, they feel very nice.
As much as Anaconda gets wrong, I love the movie. It’s so cheesy and corny and just straight out _bad_ but it’s heckin’ entertaining! Great video, Clint! Maybe next time you can try to figure out what Nagini is?
A retic who somehow is also supposed to be venomous.
@@johannesgrell4356 That's her movie depiction, the books describe her as what sounds like an olive-green King Cobra.
In reference to the end of the video I remember when I was a kid they brought a garter snake into our science class and I was one of the few student that was willing to hold it and was like ???
I feel like movies do definitely add a bit to the stigma surrounding these animals because even a chihuahua or a house cat presents a greater threat to humans then a small docile snake with little teeth and venom that can maybe give you a rash at best.
People are not going to understand. The symbol is more important than the truth sometimes.
I got to hold one in 3rd grade, all that happened was I got peed on, lol
For a guy that's meant to be terrified of snakes Indie reacts very calmly to them
I just want to say that any day that I can sit down and hear "well hi there" is a better day. Fun and informative content as always lol.
Weirdly enough, anaconda was the reason I got into snakes in the first place. I though the snake looked so cool and I just became obsessed
Great video, you should do sharks next. They are your typical animal movie "villain," but their behavior is vastly different than the media portrayal.
i feel bad for sharks, they are probably the least deserving of their bad reputation
My first snake encounter was with a red tail my moms new husband had one. A female name Rocky Bal Boa. I was afraid of her at first. She quickly won me over however. I later owned 2 of my own. I’d still have red tails if I could physically handle them myself. Time with a snake can win you over or at least show you don’t have to fear them.
Snakes on a plane, I watched that movie. Hated that they used non venomous snakes. I remember yelling at my TV the different species I recognized. It Made common snakes found in the pet trade scary creatures. I know why they did it so everyone was safe around the snakes, I get that I’d rather accidentally be tagged by a boa, or and colubrid any day than a venomous snake even if it doesn’t inject its venom. But people will see them and think they are deadly snakes and be afraid of a beneficial animal. Just playing on fears that people already have.
I regularly hear that before antivenom was available a black mamba bite was nearly 100 percent fatal!!
When there’s a snake (or a lizard even) on a movie or a tv show I really love to be a smartass and point out the flaws in its behavior, danger or keeping. It annoys the hell out of my family and friends
It is hilarious that you mentioned snakes won’t grab food with their tail like that because my Florida king snake slowly grabbed its ft rat like that just the other day. It wasn’t the weirdest feeding I’ve ever been a part of and made me laugh
Aren't king snakes the ones that eat themselves sometimes?
“Snake mountain, inside of a crate” … well, new quote to add to my favorite lines i have to find a way to use some day…
harry potter and the chamber of secrets is why I love reptiles to this day. Love the analysis! keep uploading!
thanks for the helpful advice on how to use mambas as murder weapons!
Always happy to serve!
Otters make better murder weapons tho, imagine training a few thousand to storm a local city near you....
Damn I didn't know you were a zoologist, I thought you were just a UA-camr that really liked reptile. You get more impressive by the day sir.
Thank you :)
Didn't realize you were in the reptile hobby, Lord Frieza. It's interesting to see *slices* of your life.
Haha, the little yellow one being mesmerized by your other hand moving is just adorable!
i love how you're holding a different snake in every section. you know what i just love snakes in general.
The "best" part of snakes on a plane, is the big heavy constrictor is actually a CGI of a ball python, just made huge.
Haha, I commented on Snake Discovery's channel that they should do exactly this style of video. I'm very happy that you actually made a video reacting to movie snakes; you did a great job#
So the Basilisk was originally supposed to look like a simple snake, but the sculptors began taking inspiration from other reptiles, such as the legless lizard, and adding osteoderms to the skin. This is why the belly scales look more like a monitor, and the head looks like that of a legless lizard with very sharp teeth. I thought it cool that this was an intentional design choice
If I'm not mistaken, the snake in the zoo that Harry talks to is a boa constrictor from Brazil in the book version. And it is described as being so large it could wrap around a car (I think they said it could wrap around it twice, but I may be mistaken). They probably realized that boas are relatively small when they were producing the film adaptation and opted for a burm instead.
Loved this video! Just recently saw Snakes On A Plane.... hoooo boy was that frustrating! I tried to just let it go and have fun with it, but it was sooooo hard. Venomous, face melting corn snakes? Really!?
Corn snakes are super scary.
@@ClintsReptiles if you're a mouse...they are serious eaters!
There were also some really dangerous milk snakes, lol
Problem wasnt the movie, it was def you. It was born from a meme and the title is snakes on a plane for christs sake
the thing about the Basilisk not being a snake is kinda interesting because in a fan magazine to harry potter it was stated that the Basilisk isn´t a snake at all at least not really but is in fact a "demon in the shape of a snake" so you could argue that it took all the scary parts associeted with snakes and created it´s form after that
2:53 LMFAO NOOOO the delivery on "he opts to douse the snakes in gasoline" cracked me tf up, I have not seen that movie so I was NOT expecting that 😂😂😂😂
The other day, John Oliver referred to a ball python as a dangerous snake. I laughed so hard.
If it is the one out here, I hope they find/found the poor thing in time. :(
Dear clint's reptiles: my good friend tiga the spotted salamander resently completed her journey and i was hopping to find a new friend this time a reptile that also live in temperate forest and one that captured my attention was the oriental garden agama but I was hoping to learn more about them and prepare for them before going to adopt one do they make good pets?🦎
Awww. Im assuming she passed? Im so sorry. Im pretty sure dav has a video about them on his channel.. Im sure clint does to i was just giving you a second person to ask advice about them too. Hope you have a great journey finding a new friend. 💛🐍
Clint: I wish I could speak Parseltongue
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Snake: I wish I could speak Clint
Growing up Anaconda was one of my favorite movies....to laugh at 🤣the screaming really did it for me. Just like in Jaws you can hear him growl in one scene. LOL!!
This video was amazing and I did not even realise that they were not snakes mate, thanks for the amazing video.
Also Hi Clint!
Loved watching this video, on a semi related note, I’m watching LOTR with my children who haven’t seen them, they’ve decided that a Gollum would make a good pet. I know it’s ridiculous but would you rank smeagol to see if he’s the right fictional character for us? 😅
Clint speaking parseltongue would be amazing.
"We'll talk more about mambas as murder weapons later." 😂 What a line! 😂
FINALLY!!! A video I will link to literally anyone that makes any reference to these movies when bringing up my Green Anaconda or any of my other snakes since they happen to be Reticulated pythons and other giants! THANK YOU CLINT!!!!!
I miss the reptile info videos, especially since you did so many on species that many wouldn't otherwise know about or have a good resource for. Still waiting for that video on Bredli, GTP, or any of the other 5 species of carpet python people keep other than the jungles.
You talk like we don't make them anymore.
I'm looking forward to something more unusual like "aquatic" snakes, insect eating snakes, etc
@@ClintsReptiles I mean - the last 2 were pixie frog and legless lizard 3 months ago- been a lot of fish, inverts, mammals and birds. Not trying to sound unappreciative or anything - I love your content and what you have been doing for the hobby/community but the species spotlights are for sure my favorites!
Clint, this is a great way to introduce people from outside the hobby to your channel, and it's the kind of content that could blow up online. I really hope it does.
My kids and I love and are inspired by your videos Clint. Never stop!
Anybody know WHY they used the legless lizards instead of snakes? It sounds like a ton of work to round up hundreds of legless lizards when any breeder could get you a heap of corn snakes or whatever for pretty cheap.
I'd like to know this myself!
They probably "knew a guy," so it wasn't as much work for them. And maybe the crew found lizards less "scary" than snakes, to work with, even though having a lizard pinch your skin and hold on for dear life can be more painful than a snake tag.
@@ElaMongrella I'd bet money that a full grown scheltopusik bite would hurt A LOT more than a corn snake bite.
9 out of ten times they do something looking like an anaconda or some other boa. and then just put some viper fangs on them to make it more dangerous. and then it still constricts😂
My Mexican black kingsnake likes to whip and “rattle” his tail at me after I feed him lol
This was fun, thanks! Good for baseless fear of snakes too. And I learned that boas actually growl!
I actually did research under Dr Stephen Secor at University of Alabama! Surprising that movie turned out so inaccurate given he consulted on it.
Oof but also, unfortunately for those looking to make horror scenes or even entire films based on actual creatures like snakes, the facts tend to be less terrifying visually than made in house fiction. That is interesting to know though.
I wish more people should see this... I hate how evil people think snakes are, when in reality they're just adorable little noodles!
One of my favorite videos yet! That’s fun!
When an expert looks like they’re having fun, it’s usually a good indicator you’ll both be amused and learn stuff and that was totally the case here