It's Robert Wiene, not Weine.

It is very disquieting how many times the villain in action movies are not the perpetrators of injustice, but people who are angry about injustice.

"And he grew up and married, and raised a large family, and brained them all with an axe one night, and got wealthy by all manner of cheating and rascality; and now he is the infernalist wickedest scoundrel in his native village, and is universally respected, and belongs to the Legislature."

The Story Of The Bad Little Boy
By Mark Twain, 1875

"Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot, those who clothe themselves in good deeds are very well camouflaged...Vigilance...that is the price we pay for our freedom"
-Captain Jean Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart)

I've never been so chilled by that line from Ghostbusters until now.

conrad veidt played a lot of nazis in his day. (though the only other one i've ever seen besides casablanca is Escape, which wasn't too good script-wise) but i think he said at one point that he was just so disgusted by the nazis and what they did and stood for that he was happy to take nazi villain roles, because he wanted to show the audience just how terrible nazis were. i love the guy. he was such a great actor and very smart too.

4:07 This is what's known as a 'tone shift'.

Also jesus shitting christ, I had no idea that Cesare from Caligari and the Major from Casablanca were the same actor. Fuck me sideways, paint me green, and call me a jolly surprised giant.

Its always funny to hear a well spoken man say "I dont give a shiiiite"

slow. fucking. clap.

Nice way of making that scene from Ghostbusters haunting. Takes on a whole new, scarier feel in this context.

This will probably be presented in history classes some decades from now.

I'll never understand how millions of people saw a racist, billionaire, sex criminal and thought it was just like them.
And I don't want to.

Much like with the Gerry Redux video, I really like how he manages to bring forward his own opinions on a certain matter of the day... without necessarily bringing the impetus for that opinion into the video itself. Sure, this could have easily just descended into a long rant with Trump as the punchline. But considering how often he talks about propaganda and its uses, he knows well enough when to let us connect the dots ourselves and not just wave topical issues in front of our faces; this makes these kinds of videos a lot more timeless than they could have been.

I sometimes wonder if our powerful superheroes who use strength to defeat villains by themselves, caring little of the destruction needed to do so, is indicative of American's potential acceptance of fascism.

That speech at the end... Whoo! Best part of the episode. Good work, Kyle.

13:26 "But it's not like our society would fall to Fascism again, right?"
Oof.

I did not expect the "I don't give a shiiiiiiiiiiiit" line and it made me giggle for hours.

So, I guess Kyle's point is that our notion of looking to heroes for answers and action naturally leads to tyranny even if we believe that we're above "the system".

"Kracauer didn't place the blame on the individual, but on the masses. Considering symbolic interpretations of their problems, and, in their imaginings, finding potential solutions."

This statement poses a troubling question. Isn't that the point of all media? Isn't all art a search for answers for our problems? And if that's the case, is it wrong for us to want answers?