@@lem01ne Was so perfect they were allowed to purchase the movie. Something I don't think has ever happened before or since. Was an amazing moment for this band. This video made a huge impact, hats off to the whole thing.
Most people miss the key lyric in this song. it is also in the title of the song. "now the world is GONE i'm just ONE" the song is about the terror of being trapped in your own body fully aware but unable to communicate or interact with the world in any way.
Was about the experimentation that follows war. You have those that wish to die, and those that wish to live after every conflict. Advancement in medicine comes from it. It's about the moral issue from the 'no choice' perspective. Those arguing about what is right or wrong is beyond your control. But the movie is about them keeping him alive and the horrors of them doing so after war. Who has the right to pull that plug? The other has a different perspective and motive. Which is more important?
I know every single song to heart. Memories attached. My very first listen & experience to Metallica was 1990. Buffalo had a 'Monsters of Rock' compilation concert. I was 18. Fell in love with Metallica on the spot. I'm female & was a die hard fan
My very first listen & experience to Metallica was 1990. Buffalo had a 'Monsters of Rock' compilation concert. I was 18. Fell in love with Metallica on the spot. I'm female & was a die hard fan!😊
Pretty much everyone reacting to video this misses the part at 8:24 In case you didn't notice, the nurse is clamping off the Endotracheal Tube that was inserted to his throat to allow him to breath. By doing so, it will cut off the flow of oxygen to his body and he will die in a matter of minutes if he isn't resuscitated. In the song he says "Thank you".
The Song and Movie are based off of Johnny Got His Gun, By Dalton Trumbo. The book itself is a horrifying masterpiece. Written from the perspective of Joe Bonham, It is written in stream of Conscious. The forward to the book gives an unbelievable history of the book, as well as some sober facts and equations. Chapter 10, is the breaking point...and in my opinion the voice of this book in its entirety. Metallica did the book Justice!
Someone commented on a soldier and doctor but they were mistaken. The general asks the priest (Padre) if he had something to say to the guy and the priest tells the military guy that "he's the product of your profession..." war.
I’m a so called boomer from my kids and at the age of 13 listening to Metallica until today has encapsulated my life. I’m 55 still with long hair like 1985, AR if you ever need any kind of help with rock and so called metal would love to be your friend and talk about anything and everything. Love your reaction to this music because I had these feelings 40yrs ago until now and yet this music continues to do the same for you years later!!! Welcome to the family my brother 👊🏻💯
I was in High School when this released. I went to our local video store and rented the movie that’s used in the video, I was 16 at the time. It was absolutely one of the most depressing 3 hours of my life. I watched it in the afternoon and by the time it was over I had no energy or will to do anything at all. I just rolled over and went to sleep because I was so down and drained. The movie ends exactly how the video ends, with the guy saying “SOS….help…me….” Over and over. The chat got it right, it’s very much an anti war song about a man hit by a landmine that resulted in him losing both arms, both legs, his eyesight, his hearing and his voice as well as paralyzing him from the neck down. The doctors think he’s essentially brain dead with just the cerebellum working, which is the part of the brain that runs our breathing, heart beating…anything that’s involuntary. So they thought he was brain dead, unable to have any thoughts or consciousness of any kind. The problem is, he’s fully awake. He’s still in darkness since he’s blind. He’s still in silence since he’s deaf and he can’t move anything except his head. That’s where the line about not knowing if he’s asleep and dreaming or awake and remembering, because how could you tell? Doctors keep him alive as an experiment while he languishes in this hell. I can’t imagine being conscious in that state. There’s a real phenomenon called “Locked in syndrome” where a patient seems to be completely unresponsive. No response to stimuli and they don’t acknowledge anyone’s presence. Except they’re actually fully aware of what’s going on around them and experience the world just as we do, but they’re completely paralyzed and can’t move any part of their body, not even their eyes and they can’t speak. So you present as being in some sort of catatonic state, except you are fully aware. There are people who have been stuck like that for decades and then suddenly came out of it. I equate that hell to what the man goes through in the video.
Get out of here with that krap. Boomers are the ones that invented most forms of hard rock and meal, make up the largest percentage of legendary and influential rock artists and bands, and were rebellious as hell. Every generation EVER has its own subset of people that are offended or scared by everything, as will yours one day. I'm a boomer and I heard my parents (born in the 30s) say the same thing when I was a kid listening to Sabbath et al. I've heard it from Xers and those generations after. Blaming one generation for the belief that "metal is the devil's music" is narrow-minded and ignorant.
Unfortunately, I have to realize that you don't have the slightest idea about metal. The Boomer Generation has developed pretty much every musical style that was born after the 50s and 60s. Up to techno and rap. What came from your generation after that? TikTok videos?
@@Frank-M. I’m 50 in October religious and non-religious boomers literally told us that if anything wasn’t Christian music it was from the devil and did include rap music and R&B, calm down.
@@mztweety1374 But you already know that you're almost still one of the boomers? I'm from Germany and in the early 80s there were certainly a few weirdos who demonized everything, but who took them seriously?
Metallica has some of the best songs about the horrors of war. I'd recommend checking all of these out: For Whom the Bell Tolls Disposable Heroes Blackened Confusion Spit out the Bone
Clips from the movie Johnnie Got His Gun (1971), written and directed by Dalton Trumbo, the author of the original novel of the same name (1939). One of the most depressing stories I’ve ever read.
Everyone should watch the official video for their first time, it adds so much to the song. The main lyrics to keep in mind is "Landmine, has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing, taken my arms, taken my legs, left me with life in hell" Edit: You said Landmines have taken my eyes, My Hair?.....that gave me a chuckle, not in a bad way
I am 36, been listening to this song since 12..i am from Uruguay, so spanish is my native language..i speak english since 6..with all honesty, you are the only reactor that trully has understood the true meaning of this masterpiece..thank you
WOW! Rare people not into metal or Metallica get that the breakdown is the soldiers rage and the calm after is his acceptance of his fate! Almost like master of puppets their famous drug anthem having 3 parts any addict knows the craving, the high, and the crash! You sir know your music
Not combat or military related ! 10 years ago , I went through a long lengthy neurosurgery ! I was diagnosed with Meningioma generally and thankfully a benign brain tumor. The mass they found through MRI was 8cm in diameter and causing high levels of intracranial pressure from my brains ventricles being filled with CSF and having nowhere to go . I lost 80 to 90% of my vision in my left eye from hyperextension of my optic nerves. They took me in for surgery in April 12th at 8:00am until April 13th at 4:00pm. My doctor explained to me that I came close to having a stroke “ twice “ and if I would have had a stroke I would have been left in a permanent coma . Also was told they discovered an abnormality, my body had built a massive blood vessel super highway that bypassed the tumor and restored proper blood flow back to my brain , and essentially killed the tumor . Imagine a doctor removing blackened necrotic tissue , along with dying brain tissue from overexposure to the outside air . I was told the surgery went great , anesthesia staff said I was a very boring patient while being operated on lol , until they started doing anesthesia reversal . While you are under anesthesia for more than a 24 hour time period , the body becomes less and less self reliant. Well I find out during the reversal period, that I died and laid unresponsive for several minutes . Obviously the good news is they acted fast enough , and well I’m here to tell people about it ! It only took me 6 weeks to fully recover. I did have several memory lapse moments the first week in the intensive care unit. I could not remember who I was , where I was , or who anyone in my family was except for one of my brothers ! Other than that I could not remember a thing. Ironically I can’t believe I even remember this happening !
Mike Jeffrey - That's an Army Chaplain responding to an Army Officer. Army Officer - "Don't you have some message for him, Padre?" Chaplain - "He's a product of your profession, not mine." You can see the cross on the Chaplain's lapel.
It is not based on a true story, as some commenters have suggested. It is based on an anti-war novel, "Johnny got his gun" by Dalton Trumbo. A novel means it is fiction. It is not true.
Your positive summary is spot on. We all have problems, things going on with and around us we might not prefer. On the flip side is all the things we can appreciate and be grateful for (not being in the condition of the poor guy depicted in this song/video). We have a certain amount of control over what we focus our attention on, don't we? ❤
So many reactors and commenters alike seem to mistake the CHAPLAIN telling the COLONEL that Johnny “is a product of your profession, not mine” for a Soldier telling the Doctor. Which makes no sense. The chaplain, whom the Colonel calls Padre (Spanish for Father), is saying violence (the Colonels business) put Johnny in this state not his profession which is all about love and compassion. Consequently there is nothing the chaplain can do to alleviate Johnny’s suffering as they have caused him to be damaged beyond all hope of comfort through spiritual means and so it is the responsibility of the Colonel to alleviate his suffering and not try to make himself feel better by passing the responsibility off into him.
People get this all wrong. Watch the actual movie. It's not a soldier speaking to a doctor, it's a chaplain talking to a military officer: "he's a product of your profession, not mine". His profession entails the great commission to spread the gospel and have compassion and charity, not killing everything you see. Now I do admit this is hard to see because of the footage, but at 7:45 you can see Padre's cross on his collar.
Mike Jeffries in the livestream comments is having a hard time following along with the story… The LT asks the company “Padre” (priest) if he has anything to tell him… So the Padre tells the LT that he is a “product of your profession, not mine”.
It’s not inspired by a true story. Yes there was lots of soldiers with horrific injuries but there was no-one with all senses and limbs removed and communicated using morse code. Hetfields original idea for the song was a brain in a jar that was aware and it was then suggested he watch the movie Johnny Got His Gun which was originally a book.
This is an iconic song from Metallica, one of their classics. It's from their 4th studio album And Justice for All 1988. Written by band members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, the song portrays a World War I soldier who is severely wounded - arms, legs and jaw blown off by a landmine, blind, deaf, and unable to speak or move-begging God to take his life. It's a very harrowing story and based on a true story called Johnny Got His Gun written in 1938 by Dalton Trumbo. A film was made of it, in 1971 written and directed by Trumbo. 'One' is a fixture in all Metallica concerts, it is an epic song from their catalogue of music. This song and the video are very powerful and yes, it certainly does make you feel. Metallica is one of my favourite bands, they've been going for 43 years and still touring, it's fantastic. I've got loads of their songs on a playlist, and enjoy listening to their music so much. 😊👍
The nurse character in this film always breaks my heart and makes me feel uneasy. What most people don't pick up from the video even though a scene is shown, is that the mask this guy is wearing is actually sewn onto... Basically where his face used to be. This nurse is having to clean what I assume is half of a person's head, sew on a mask to protect the wound, and take the mask OFF the next day just to repeat the process. When the guy starts doing Morse code with his head to communicate, the nurse immediately notices it and the look on her face is unreal.... At that moment, she knows exactly what she perceived about this man still being mentally "alive" is real and that she has also been trapped into a cycle of the same existence over and over again. Creepy book, creepy movie, creepy song, creepy video. Full stop
The video contains segments from the movie Johnny Got His Gun - which is the movie adaption of the book the songs lyrics are based on. The video isn’t weird, it’s literally the movie of the lyrics. It literally ADDS to the song.
I really don't understand this generation. I watched this video when I was a young kid and I knew that it was a movie and I knew what the song was about. How come you guys have no bloody clue?
Im born in 2007 and I understand the difference between World War One and World War Two. I love old movies , idk why also some people don’t understand it’s sad tho like how can that be forgotten history ww1 was so horrific
Exactly, These guys ( Reaction guys ) Trying to understand , Like it's a riddle. ITS A RIPPING METAL JAM, WITH A SIMPLE PREMISE. ITS NOT TO BE FIGURED OUT , ITS MEANT TO BE FELT IN YOUR GUT. JEEZ MAN.
I watched the movie Johnny Got His Gun. Clips from the movie are in the music video for One. It is a communist propaganda film that blames democracy and Christianity for all modern wars. It depicts Jesus as a train conductor driving a train full of soldiers to the front during WWI while enthusiastically blasting the whistle. The movie attempts an emotional argument in which the audience is prompted to feel sorry for the soldier experiencing the worst fate imaginable after sacrificing himself for democracy and Jesus. Dalton Trumbo, the novel's author and director of the 1971 film adaptation, was associated with communist sympathies and blacklisted in Hollywood during the McCarthy era. The Jesus train scene is here: ua-cam.com/video/uUfBVLAY_pU/v-deo.html
Jesus in Johnny Got His Gun telling the soldiers it's time to get on the train. The soldiers then start talking about how they will all die, giving some details about their coming deaths in the war. ua-cam.com/video/uUfBVLAY_pU/v-deo.html
I think this is one of the very few music videos that actually make the song even better. One of the most important music videos ever made, imo.
Completely agree 👍
@@lem01ne Was so perfect they were allowed to purchase the movie. Something I don't think has ever happened before or since. Was an amazing moment for this band. This video made a huge impact, hats off to the whole thing.
@@bettyrose959they bought the movie so they didn’t have to pay royalties every time the video was showed on mtv
@@laan1956 Yes, kind of. They paid royalties for the video. It was when they wanted to add it to their live shows where they looked into the purchase.
@@bettyrose959nope, they bought the movie outright to make the video
I had liked them before, but the World Premiere of 'One' on MTV is what cemented me as a Metallica fan for life...
It blew me away! I remember it like yesterday.
They had a huge underground of fans. This song and album put them on the world stage.😊😊😊
Most people miss the key lyric in this song. it is also in the title of the song. "now the world is GONE i'm just ONE" the song is about the terror of being trapped in your own body fully aware but unable to communicate or interact with the world in any way.
Was about the experimentation that follows war. You have those that wish to die, and those that wish to live after every conflict. Advancement in medicine comes from it. It's about the moral issue from the 'no choice' perspective. Those arguing about what is right or wrong is beyond your control. But the movie is about them keeping him alive and the horrors of them doing so after war. Who has the right to pull that plug? The other has a different perspective and motive. Which is more important?
I know every single song to heart. Memories attached. My very first listen & experience to Metallica was 1990. Buffalo had a 'Monsters of Rock' compilation concert. I was 18. Fell in love with Metallica on the spot. I'm female & was a die hard fan
My very first listen & experience to Metallica was 1990. Buffalo had a 'Monsters of Rock' compilation concert. I was 18. Fell in love with Metallica on the spot. I'm female & was a die hard fan!😊
THE LEGENDS and TITANS of music 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘
Pretty much everyone reacting to video this misses the part at 8:24
In case you didn't notice, the nurse is clamping off the Endotracheal Tube that was inserted to his throat to allow him to breath. By doing so, it will cut off the flow of oxygen to his body and he will die in a matter of minutes if he isn't resuscitated.
In the song he says "Thank you".
The Song and Movie are based off of Johnny Got His Gun, By Dalton Trumbo. The book itself is a horrifying masterpiece. Written from the perspective of Joe Bonham, It is written in stream of Conscious. The forward to the book gives an unbelievable history of the book, as well as some sober facts and equations. Chapter 10, is the breaking point...and in my opinion the voice of this book in its entirety. Metallica did the book Justice!
Someone commented on a soldier and doctor but they were mistaken. The general asks the priest (Padre) if he had something to say to the guy and the priest tells the military guy that "he's the product of your profession..." war.
Great Job! You got it! Thanks for reacting to it. My favorite part is the rage!
I’m a so called boomer from my kids and at the age of 13 listening to Metallica until today has encapsulated my life. I’m 55 still with long hair like 1985, AR if you ever need any kind of help with rock and so called metal would love to be your friend and talk about anything and everything. Love your reaction to this music because I had these feelings 40yrs ago until now and yet this music continues to do the same for you years later!!! Welcome to the family my brother 👊🏻💯
you def not a boomer thats your dad19 45 to 55
I was in High School when this released. I went to our local video store and rented the movie that’s used in the video, I was 16 at the time.
It was absolutely one of the most depressing 3 hours of my life. I watched it in the afternoon and by the time it was over I had no energy or will to do anything at all. I just rolled over and went to sleep because I was so down and drained. The movie ends exactly how the video ends, with the guy saying “SOS….help…me….” Over and over.
The chat got it right, it’s very much an anti war song about a man hit by a landmine that resulted in him losing both arms, both legs, his eyesight, his hearing and his voice as well as paralyzing him from the neck down. The doctors think he’s essentially brain dead with just the cerebellum working, which is the part of the brain that runs our breathing, heart beating…anything that’s involuntary. So they thought he was brain dead, unable to have any thoughts or consciousness of any kind.
The problem is, he’s fully awake. He’s still in darkness since he’s blind. He’s still in silence since he’s deaf and he can’t move anything except his head. That’s where the line about not knowing if he’s asleep and dreaming or awake and remembering, because how could you tell? Doctors keep him alive as an experiment while he languishes in this hell. I can’t imagine being conscious in that state.
There’s a real phenomenon called “Locked in syndrome” where a patient seems to be completely unresponsive. No response to stimuli and they don’t acknowledge anyone’s presence. Except they’re actually fully aware of what’s going on around them and experience the world just as we do, but they’re completely paralyzed and can’t move any part of their body, not even their eyes and they can’t speak. So you present as being in some sort of catatonic state, except you are fully aware. There are people who have been stuck like that for decades and then suddenly came out of it. I equate that hell to what the man goes through in the video.
I did the same thing😢
Congrats on the new channel. Much success & hope the family is happy and healthy 🎉
They never did videos, this was the first.
Boomers told us heavy metal was devil music and Metallica was literally writing songs about war mental health and drug addiction..
Get out of here with that krap. Boomers are the ones that invented most forms of hard rock and meal, make up the largest percentage of legendary and influential rock artists and bands, and were rebellious as hell. Every generation EVER has its own subset of people that are offended or scared by everything, as will yours one day. I'm a boomer and I heard my parents (born in the 30s) say the same thing when I was a kid listening to Sabbath et al. I've heard it from Xers and those generations after. Blaming one generation for the belief that "metal is the devil's music" is narrow-minded and ignorant.
Unfortunately, I have to realize that you don't have the slightest idea about metal. The Boomer Generation has developed pretty much every musical style that was born after the 50s and 60s. Up to techno and rap. What came from your generation after that? TikTok videos?
@@Frank-M. I’m 50 in October religious and non-religious boomers literally told us that if anything wasn’t Christian music it was from the devil and did include rap music and R&B,
calm down.
@@mztweety1374 But you already know that you're almost still one of the boomers? I'm from Germany and in the early 80s there were certainly a few weirdos who demonized everything, but who took them seriously?
😂
Metallica has some of the best songs about the horrors of war. I'd recommend checking all of these out:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Disposable Heroes
Blackened
Confusion
Spit out the Bone
This Video is always so sad...😢but the Song is great staged live, a bomb🤘💣❤️🔥!!
Best song to hear next by Metallica
Fade to Black
Pls
Song is based on the book “ Johnny Get Your Gun” and his descent into madness
Johnny Got His Gun actually.
Johnny Get Your Gun was a comedy.
Notice that when they amp up, the drums explode like gunshots and the guitar solo sounds very chaotic like the guy's brain spinning out of control
Clips from the movie Johnnie Got His Gun (1971), written and directed by Dalton Trumbo, the author of the original novel of the same name (1939). One of the most depressing stories I’ve ever read.
scene from the movie --> Johnny got his gun .
When injustice for all was released, I went right out and rented it on VHS…..yup, I’m old
When my daughter was 15 she learned to play the intro on electric guitar and the cello
Everyone should watch the official video for their first time, it adds so much to the song. The main lyrics to keep in mind is "Landmine, has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing, taken my arms, taken my legs, left me with life in hell"
Edit: You said Landmines have taken my eyes, My Hair?.....that gave me a chuckle, not in a bad way
I am 36, been listening to this song since 12..i am from Uruguay, so spanish is my native language..i speak english since 6..with all honesty, you are the only reactor that trully has understood the true meaning of this masterpiece..thank you
Another moving (although very different) WWI song is Green Fields of France by Dropkick Murphys
metallica was so nice and raw back then beautiful explained story
WOW! Rare people not into metal or Metallica get that the breakdown is the soldiers rage and the calm after is his acceptance of his fate! Almost like master of puppets their famous drug anthem having 3 parts any addict knows the craving, the high, and the crash! You sir know your music
Respect. You don't jump on chair, don't screaming, just listen music and looking for the message of this song. Bravo.
Appreciate it, can't stand some other reaction channels. You know what I mean.
Johnny Got His Gun
Not combat or military related ! 10 years ago , I went through a long lengthy neurosurgery ! I was diagnosed with Meningioma generally and thankfully a benign brain tumor. The mass they found through MRI was 8cm in diameter and causing high levels of intracranial pressure from my brains ventricles being filled with CSF and having nowhere to go . I lost 80 to 90% of my vision in my left eye from hyperextension of my optic nerves. They took me in for surgery in April 12th at 8:00am until April 13th at 4:00pm. My doctor explained to me that I came close to having a stroke “ twice “ and if I would have had a stroke I would have been left in a permanent coma . Also was told they discovered an abnormality, my body had built a massive blood vessel super highway that bypassed the tumor and restored proper blood flow back to my brain , and essentially killed the tumor . Imagine a doctor removing blackened necrotic tissue , along with dying brain tissue from overexposure to the outside air . I was told the surgery went great , anesthesia staff said I was a very boring patient while being operated on lol , until they started doing anesthesia reversal . While you are under anesthesia for more than a 24 hour time period , the body becomes less and less self reliant. Well I find out during the reversal period, that I died and laid unresponsive for several minutes . Obviously the good news is they acted fast enough , and well I’m here to tell people about it ! It only took me 6 weeks to fully recover. I did have several memory lapse moments the first week in the intensive care unit. I could not remember who I was , where I was , or who anyone in my family was except for one of my brothers ! Other than that I could not remember a thing. Ironically I can’t believe I even remember this happening !
Mike Jeffrey - That's an Army Chaplain responding to an Army Officer. Army Officer - "Don't you have some message for him, Padre?" Chaplain - "He's a product of your profession, not mine." You can see the cross on the Chaplain's lapel.
"I'm not going to challenge his faith against your stupidity" I think was the next line. It's been a while since I read the book
@@Deano12345ist you are correct.
Metalica is always 🔥🔥🔥❤️
You should listen to “The Shortest Straw” by Metallica 🤘🏼🔥
Greatest Music Video of All Time!
It would suck to be that " ONE " in a million. The title alone is brilliant.
It is not based on a true story, as some commenters have suggested. It is based on an anti-war novel, "Johnny got his gun" by Dalton Trumbo. A novel means it is fiction. It is not true.
Yeah, Anne Mclean was a bit overboard in those comments about it being a true story.
Your positive summary is spot on. We all have problems, things going on with and around us we might not prefer. On the flip side is all the things we can appreciate and be grateful for (not being in the condition of the poor guy depicted in this song/video). We have a certain amount of control over what we focus our attention on, don't we? ❤
I clicked on this vid the second i saw the title
Ya its a horror story, WW1 soldier who lost sight sound both legs and arms. He just sits there in darkness.
Probably this was the second heavy song I listened to in my life,,master of puppets was the first one of course
Head Banger's Ball!!! MTV
Watch 'nothing else matters ' that was a different kind of genre from Metallica
awesome AR!
I recommend you watch Jacob’s Ladder with Tim Robbins sometime. It’s a movie about a guy trying to return after Vietnam.
Great, great song!!! WWI was a butchery and an atrocity like no other!! And sorry for my bad english.
So many reactors and commenters alike seem to mistake the CHAPLAIN telling the COLONEL that Johnny “is a product of your profession, not mine” for a Soldier telling the Doctor. Which makes no sense.
The chaplain, whom the Colonel calls Padre (Spanish for Father), is saying violence (the Colonels business) put Johnny in this state not his profession which is all about love and compassion. Consequently there is nothing the chaplain can do to alleviate Johnny’s suffering as they have caused him to be damaged beyond all hope of comfort through spiritual means and so it is the responsibility of the Colonel to alleviate his suffering and not try to make himself feel better by passing the responsibility off into him.
People get this all wrong. Watch the actual movie. It's not a soldier speaking to a doctor, it's a chaplain talking to a military officer: "he's a product of your profession, not mine". His profession entails the great commission to spread the gospel and have compassion and charity, not killing everything you see. Now I do admit this is hard to see because of the footage, but at 7:45 you can see Padre's cross on his collar.
the movie is jonny got a gun
I would say this is their defining masterpiece if it wasn't for Master of Puppets.
Such a old one😊
If you new to Metallica, check out my favorite album, Kill Em All, titled. “Seek and Destroy”
Mike Jeffries in the livestream comments is having a hard time following along with the story…
The LT asks the company “Padre” (priest) if he has anything to tell him… So the Padre tells the LT that he is a “product of your profession, not mine”.
Really should have CC on or a lyric video
YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF...
Chris Cornell: One
Metallica / U2 cover
Thank you for saying "Masterpiece".
It’s not inspired by a true story.
Yes there was lots of soldiers with horrific injuries but there was no-one with all senses and limbs removed and communicated using morse code.
Hetfields original idea for the song was a brain in a jar that was aware and it was then suggested he watch the movie Johnny Got His Gun which was originally a book.
Anne MacLean totally gets it
Except it's not actually a true story.
@@roaddog1973 She did say it was from a book, which it was :)
Ironically they won an emmy for this which cost them many .many fans .....they were now establishnent...
u gotta do war pigs by black sabbath !!
give your head a shake
I miss crazy shredds
Left me with life in hell👊
Do you also have another channel?
DİMASH KUDAIBERGEN NEW SUPERSTAR
🔥🤟
Duuude. Live perfomances please
Watching this video, I have one question.....was this based on a true story? Anyone know?? Maybe Anne Maclean can help! 😂
Taken my hearing, not hair
is that a 52mm watch your wearing 😂
Always hated the movie dialogue getting in the way of the song
♥️🇺🇸young generation nothing for Free anti- war division🤔short time now
🆘
toi aussi tu manges des brocolis?
This is an iconic song from Metallica, one of their classics. It's from their 4th studio album And Justice for All 1988. Written by band members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, the song portrays a World War I soldier who is severely wounded - arms, legs and jaw blown off by a landmine, blind, deaf, and unable to speak or move-begging God to take his life. It's a very harrowing story and based on a true story called Johnny Got His Gun written in 1938 by Dalton Trumbo. A film was made of it, in 1971 written and directed by Trumbo. 'One' is a fixture in all Metallica concerts, it is an epic song from their catalogue of music. This song and the video are very powerful and yes, it certainly does make you feel. Metallica is one of my favourite bands, they've been going for 43 years and still touring, it's fantastic. I've got loads of their songs on a playlist, and enjoy listening to their music so much. 😊👍
The nurse character in this film always breaks my heart and makes me feel uneasy. What most people don't pick up from the video even though a scene is shown, is that the mask this guy is wearing is actually sewn onto... Basically where his face used to be. This nurse is having to clean what I assume is half of a person's head, sew on a mask to protect the wound, and take the mask OFF the next day just to repeat the process. When the guy starts doing Morse code with his head to communicate, the nurse immediately notices it and the look on her face is unreal.... At that moment, she knows exactly what she perceived about this man still being mentally "alive" is real and that she has also been trapped into a cycle of the same existence over and over again. Creepy book, creepy movie, creepy song, creepy video. Full stop
Never thought keyboard warriors would provide info, and not just long angry texts.
Its uncomfortable when youtubers act like they haven't heard a song before
The video to this song is so weird. It’s good but it takes away from the song so…it isn’t? Lol
The video contains segments from the movie Johnny Got His Gun - which is the movie adaption of the book the songs lyrics are based on. The video isn’t weird, it’s literally the movie of the lyrics. It literally ADDS to the song.
@@zoeherriot I’m well aware of where the footage comes from. But it’s the most distracting video ever. Everyone that watches it is confused lol
@@LemmyGibbler are they though? I’m not confused. Perhaps they are stupid?
Studio audio version is better.
Video ruins this song. Gives you context but still ruins it.
I really don't understand this generation. I watched this video when I was a young kid and I knew that it was a movie and I knew what the song was about. How come you guys have no bloody clue?
Im born in 2007 and I understand the difference between World War One and World War Two. I love old movies , idk why also some people don’t understand it’s sad tho like how can that be forgotten history ww1 was so horrific
Exactly, These guys ( Reaction guys ) Trying to understand , Like it's a riddle. ITS A RIPPING METAL JAM, WITH A SIMPLE PREMISE. ITS NOT TO BE FIGURED OUT , ITS MEANT TO BE FELT IN YOUR GUT. JEEZ MAN.
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I watched the movie Johnny Got His Gun. Clips from the movie are in the music video for One. It is a communist propaganda film that blames democracy and Christianity for all modern wars. It depicts Jesus as a train conductor driving a train full of soldiers to the front during WWI while enthusiastically blasting the whistle. The movie attempts an emotional argument in which the audience is prompted to feel sorry for the soldier experiencing the worst fate imaginable after sacrificing himself for democracy and Jesus. Dalton Trumbo, the novel's author and director of the 1971 film adaptation, was associated with communist sympathies and blacklisted in Hollywood during the McCarthy era. The Jesus train scene is here: ua-cam.com/video/uUfBVLAY_pU/v-deo.html
Jesus in Johnny Got His Gun telling the soldiers it's time to get on the train. The soldiers then start talking about how they will all die, giving some details about their coming deaths in the war. ua-cam.com/video/uUfBVLAY_pU/v-deo.html