I think part of the popularity of these characters with men, is that they offer a positive spin on a lot of characteristics that men can get insecure about. For instance, I'm not quiet/awkward, I'm a cool lone wolf, I'm not bad at relationships, I'm protecting you from my awesome but totally dark mind, and so on. It's a character that's just as, if not cooler than the typical testosterone filled hypermasculine action movie star, but that most men can actually identify with. All this to say, this is literally me, if only I beautiful piercing blue eyes, perfect hair, a chiseled jaw, boatloads of charisma and an interesting life, but besides that? Literally me in every way I should sue for copyright infringement.
The quality of the archetypal analysis is high on this one. I definitely enjoyed the analysis of fashion, the fact-checking on the "Bushido quote" and the behind the scenes meta situations. It's fascinating to see this little niche of cinema, and how much it does things on purpose that have grown to instinctive myths that are decontextualised into stereotypes like "brooding man" and "lone wolf".
I definitly had a similiar "crisis" when accidently watching the trilogy on arte for the first time and I also had the similar epiphany, that this film was the defining point for the modern stoic male protagonist. This more than makes up for the "shortcomings" and on repeat viewings makes me appreciate the film and its heirs even more. I subscribed after your recent film noir video and I defenitly look forward to your future videos!
Léon: The Professional is another French movie that was inspired by Le Samourai , and shares lots of elements with other "literally me" movies, like the stoic criminal who's very good at what he do, who's very lonely at the beginning of the movie, and the relationship he gets with Mathilda will lead him to death.
this just makes me dislike Le Samurai (1967) even more, you do know that Leon's a pedophile movie right?! it romanticizes pedophilia and the director is a proven pedophile who married a 15 year old.. honest to god question, how do you live with yourself knowing you consume pedophilic media? how?!
Tons of details I didn't pick up and very interesting production info. I hope you keep doing videos of this high quality, I would love one on The Red Circle.
This gun for hire with Alan ladd and Veronica lake was a clear influence on le samurai. Alain delon even looks similar to Alan Ladd in this gun for hire. Jean Pierre Melville was definitely heavily influenced by American noir films.
I heard this movie is a sorta remake of “this gun for hire” starring Alan Ladd. I want to watch it and Le Samouri. Raven(this gun for hire) seems to be very similar to today’s introverted and melancholy youth.
paradoxically, while definitely nowhere near as good a film as Le Samourai, I feel like "This Gun for Hire" is much more realistic (at least in a sense) - there's no doubt that Alan Ladd's character is basically a loser because of his complete inability to function as a normal part of the society; while of course Le Samourai makes the same character into the quintessential sigma male to end all sigma males....
That schizophrenia bit is interesting. Long-term internet usage is associated with developing some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Perhaps that's why the "literally me" crowd tends to be terminally online.
I thought it was really boring and nuanceless, Jef had no character and the pacing was glacial, no interesting characters, boring filler and nothing to make me care, the film's only fine qualities lie within it's music, atmosphere and camerawork, that's it.
Well really pleased that you share your knowledgable. The good thing is people when you engage in à conversation sometimes they give you something back. When you talk about the man changing the car’s licence plate with his dialogue line that has a particular echo as the man is litterary dying… Melville did something similar in another film… Le Cercle Rouge, a gangster film is oddly cast with an actor named BOURVIL.. Yes I say ODD because that actor was known for his role in comedies and a singer of famous popular funny songs (save.. one quite tone down emotional..). It’s was like casting Charlie Chaplin as a though inspector tracking down Alain Delon as a gangster… Some of the best Classic french comedies star Bourvil and in an extremly weird way Bourvil reveals himself as an exceptional drama actor ! You cannot say that it is his best film because truly you feel as if Bourvil is an unknown actor that has only made one film !! The famous Bourvil and then suddenly Bourvil 2:0 Yes you see it coming… Bourvil was literaly dying of cancer… terminaly ill… one way ticket.. no return back. He died before the film was released. May be you already know the story… still a pleasure to share it with part of your audience.
I just finished this after earlier tonight deciding between watching this and rewatching Blade Runner 2049. Thought I should check some opinions out and decided to give this a go. Cheers.
@@benjaminleinen John Woo and Tarantino are much later though. The director of Le Samurai was a fan of American Noir films from the 1940's. People saying that Americans copied him have it backwards.
Yeah it's all about death and only about death before that is the style of the anti life. I laughed when people complained about Covid restrictions now they had a taste of the way. Those American characters are a Joke. Do they commit suicide at the end! No!. Wonderfull review. Hope you do more Melville again.
funny that you bring up how the pacing of modern films makes the older films feel really slow because I have to watch the old films in 1.25x or 1.5x lol if i watch at normal speed im reaching for the phone
am I the only one that thought this film was dull as dirt?! what do you guys see in this? is this all French New Wave is? boring uninteresting characters walking around or blathering about pretentious nothings? I wanna see a good French New Wave film, not tedious bores like Breathless & This!
Quel genre de film cherchez vous ? Peu de dialogues, de l'action, de belles images ? Le Samourai a pourtant peu de dialogues donc je ne comprends que vous trouviez les dialogues ennuyeux...
@@AbrasiousProductions Melville in France is not considered part of the new wave... What are you looking for because you find the samurai dialogues pretentious when there is almost none...
@@AbrasiousProductions The New Wave was a movement in French cinema that began in the late 1950s and lasted for about ten years until the end of the 1960s. It brings together directors who shot their first feature films during this period. Emblematic figures include Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
Alain Delon is literally me
He studies the blade just like me fr
I think part of the popularity of these characters with men, is that they offer a positive spin on a lot of characteristics that men can get insecure about. For instance, I'm not quiet/awkward, I'm a cool lone wolf, I'm not bad at relationships, I'm protecting you from my awesome but totally dark mind, and so on. It's a character that's just as, if not cooler than the typical testosterone filled hypermasculine action movie star, but that most men can actually identify with.
All this to say, this is literally me, if only I beautiful piercing blue eyes, perfect hair, a chiseled jaw, boatloads of charisma and an interesting life, but besides that? Literally me in every way I should sue for copyright infringement.
honestly think you hit the nail with this one👍
One of the greatest films of all time. A masterclass of show-don’t-tell.
Insanely well researched and thought out. There’s some great work on this channel
The quality of the archetypal analysis is high on this one. I definitely enjoyed the analysis of fashion, the fact-checking on the "Bushido quote" and the behind the scenes meta situations. It's fascinating to see this little niche of cinema, and how much it does things on purpose that have grown to instinctive myths that are decontextualised into stereotypes like "brooding man" and "lone wolf".
I definitly had a similiar "crisis" when accidently watching the trilogy on arte for the first time and I also had the similar epiphany, that this film was the defining point for the modern stoic male protagonist. This more than makes up for the "shortcomings" and on repeat viewings makes me appreciate the film and its heirs even more.
I subscribed after your recent film noir video and I defenitly look forward to your future videos!
Léon: The Professional is another French movie that was inspired by Le Samourai , and shares lots of elements with other "literally me" movies, like the stoic criminal who's very good at what he do, who's very lonely at the beginning of the movie, and the relationship he gets with Mathilda will lead him to death.
this just makes me dislike Le Samurai (1967) even more, you do know that Leon's a pedophile movie right?! it romanticizes pedophilia and the director is a proven pedophile who married a 15 year old.. honest to god question, how do you live with yourself knowing you consume pedophilic media? how?!
dude i'm a new subscriber and you are good at video essays, keen to see this channel grow!
Tons of details I didn't pick up and very interesting production info. I hope you keep doing videos of this high quality, I would love one on The Red Circle.
I subscribed after watching one of your videos. This one is even better! Glad I subscribed and keeps going. This will blow up soon
Excellent video
This gun for hire with Alan ladd and Veronica lake was a clear influence on le samurai. Alain delon even looks similar to Alan Ladd in this gun for hire. Jean Pierre Melville was definitely heavily influenced by American noir films.
Nice to see a good video, in a newborn channel.
incredibly well researched video. smashed it!
You deserve more for giving us these amazing videos.
Great Video !
I heard this movie is a sorta remake of “this gun for hire” starring Alan Ladd. I want to watch it and Le Samouri. Raven(this gun for hire) seems to be very similar to today’s introverted and melancholy youth.
paradoxically, while definitely nowhere near as good a film as Le Samourai, I feel like "This Gun for Hire" is much more realistic (at least in a sense) - there's no doubt that Alan Ladd's character is basically a loser because of his complete inability to function as a normal part of the society; while of course Le Samourai makes the same character into the quintessential sigma male to end all sigma males....
Good video and good channel
That schizophrenia bit is interesting.
Long-term internet usage is associated with developing some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Perhaps that's why the "literally me" crowd tends to be terminally online.
watched this movie 2 years ago, very good watch
I thought it was really boring and nuanceless, Jef had no character and the pacing was glacial, no interesting characters, boring filler and nothing to make me care, the film's only fine qualities lie within it's music, atmosphere and camerawork, that's it.
Great video!
Come on man make more content 🙏 👏 🙌
Amazing channel ❤
This gun for hire remake
Well really pleased that you share your knowledgable. The good thing is people when you engage in à conversation sometimes they give you something back.
When you talk about the man changing the car’s licence plate with his dialogue line that has a particular echo as the man is litterary dying… Melville did something similar in another film…
Le Cercle Rouge, a gangster film is oddly cast with an actor named BOURVIL.. Yes I say ODD because that actor was known for his role in comedies and a singer of famous popular funny songs (save.. one quite tone down emotional..).
It’s was like casting Charlie Chaplin as a though inspector tracking down Alain Delon as a gangster… Some of the best Classic french comedies star Bourvil and in an extremly weird way Bourvil reveals himself as an exceptional drama actor ! You cannot say that it is his best film because truly you feel as if Bourvil is an unknown actor that has only made one film !! The famous Bourvil and then suddenly Bourvil 2:0
Yes you see it coming… Bourvil was literaly dying of cancer… terminaly ill… one way ticket.. no return back. He died before the film was released.
May be you already know the story… still a pleasure to share it with part of your audience.
Bourvil as a joker : ua-cam.com/video/Dcc0nhHJTdA/v-deo.html
And the serious Bourvil that Melville suspected could be cast in a serious role : ua-cam.com/video/GXV-1ZebdBs/v-deo.html
Magnífico.
I enjoyed the first third or fourth a lot. The atmospheric or maybe charismatic parts, that is. The rest i thought didn't have a lot of appeal.
One of the favorites of all time
I just finished this after earlier tonight deciding between watching this and rewatching Blade Runner 2049. Thought I should check some opinions out and decided to give this a go. Cheers.
Bit of a stretch to give all the credit to Le Samurai. Le Samurai was based off American noir characters.
Le Samurai touched directors very specifically though: John Woo and Tarantino were both really taken by this film.
@@benjaminleinen John Woo and Tarantino are much later though. The director of Le Samurai was a fan of American Noir films from the 1940's. People saying that Americans copied him have it backwards.
The best
Yeah it's all about death and only about death before that is the style of the anti life. I laughed when people complained about Covid restrictions now they had a taste of the way. Those American characters are a Joke. Do they commit suicide at the end! No!. Wonderfull review. Hope you do more Melville again.
Frenchs know how to make a movie.
Infact Hollywood borrows a lot of character arks from Frenchs.
Shows how little you know. This director copied American Noir films. Noir, along with the Western are original American genres of film.
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17:29 That didn't work for me. The film actually got me with the opening scene. But as soon as he was a police suspect, I left again.
You reuploaded this?
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17:08 what is that movie?
I believe that is DRIVE.
I am only here to say one thing , please don't give this movie to tic tok makers they will ruin !
funny that you bring up how the pacing of modern films makes the older films feel really slow because I have to watch the old films in 1.25x or 1.5x lol if i watch at normal speed im reaching for the phone
I’m sorry but please don’t do this lmao
This is probably bait. If it's not, this is concerning.
@@shiven513 with zero attention span tiktok teens, it’s hard to tell
This is so sad
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am I the only one that thought this film was dull as dirt?! what do you guys see in this? is this all French New Wave is? boring uninteresting characters walking around or blathering about pretentious nothings? I wanna see a good French New Wave film, not tedious bores like Breathless & This!
Quel genre de film cherchez vous ? Peu de dialogues, de l'action, de belles images ? Le Samourai a pourtant peu de dialogues donc je ne comprends que vous trouviez les dialogues ennuyeux...
Pour des dialogues intéressants, je suggère " Hélas pour moi " de Godard ou " L'homme qui aimait les femmes " de Truffaut.
@@signefurax933 I don't speak French.
@@AbrasiousProductions Melville in France is not considered part of the new wave... What are you looking for because you find the samurai dialogues pretentious when there is almost none...
@@AbrasiousProductions The New Wave was a movement in French cinema that began in the late 1950s and lasted for about ten years until the end of the 1960s. It brings together directors who shot their first feature films during this period. Emblematic figures include Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.