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May Update: A Break From Politics
🕑 Added 2018-05-29 22:43:47 +0000 UTC Hey team!Videos New & Old
I've just finished the slides on the next video, and should have a rough cut to you tomorrow. Came in at a downright ludicrous 285 slides this time, by a long way the most for any episode of The Alt-Right Playbook. It's also the longest script for the series and I'm guessing will be the longest video so far.
Am, in fact, very happy with how it's shaping up! This one is pretty dense with information, which is maybe why it required so many drawings. It's also possible that I'm just getting fussier with the illustrations and making more than I have to, but let's assume it's the first thing. I'm proud of the way the script covers a lot of ground without getting cumbersome or overly-digressive. Can't wait to show it to you!
I had hoped to have this online earlier in the month. For May, I was enjoying a leisurely pace with work, pecking away at the next video and making room to research future projects, write the intro for the video after this, make a bunch of notes for some videos I have planned for later. It's been really lovely! But when I recorded the script, I realized immediately that it needed a rewrite, so now we're bunched up at the end of the month again. I swear I'm getting better at this! It's just maybe not that noticeable...
This video will conclude the loosely-connected "Mainstreaming Trilogy," and, counting Endnote 1, will be my fourth Alt-Right Playbook entry in a row. I dunno about you, but I am ready to work on something different.
There was an old proviso that I realize is not on the current text of the Patreon, where I gave myself permission to, on occasion, take two months to make a video if it was going to be in the 30-minute range. It meant doing the same amount of work as two 15-minute videos, just not releasing until the whole thing was done.
This is to say, I have a strong suspicion the next video - my first non-political vid since the Monkey Island video in February - will be around half an hour, so there's a chance it won't come out until July. The prep work I've been doing for it has been really fun, so I just want to make it as long as it feels it needs to be.
I suppose there's a chance it could still come out in June it comes out shorter than I'm expecting, or if the edit goes faster since I don't have to draw many slides for this one (after four political videos, I forget what it's like to make videos without a billion slides). I'll let you know which way things are headed as the month continues, but, unless there is a huge outcry, I wouldn't hold my breath on a video til July. But I think it'll be a good one. :)
Annotation Situation
It has come to my attention that EverytimeHQ may not exist anymore. It appears to have been purchased by a site called MediaTag and none of my login info works anymore.
This is only relevant to the $5-and-up patrons, but EverytimeHQ is what I used to do the video annotations. The bummer about the site being gone and all the old links being dead is that none of that stuff is backed up. I don't think I got any notice that EverytimeHQ was going away, and, to the best of my knowledge, there wasn't any way to download your annotations anyway.
So this is a super frickin' bummer! Not only do I have to find a new way to annotate videos, I guess I'm just going to have to re-annotate all the ones I'd already done. That's... a huge amount of work. I'm hoping I remember all my amazing insights when I do them over.
One way or another, this is going to take a while to get sorted, so I'll be thinking of some stopgap measures for the $5 patrons to make sure y'all are getting your money's worth. I dunno, maybe we'll have to rejigger the tiers or something, because I don't know when I'm going to have time to re-annotate 3 hours of old videos. (Let's just pretend I wasn't embarrassingly behind schedule already.)
Action Movie Homework
Part of the research for the next video has been watching a lot of action movies - I am not complaining! - so let's leave off with this call to action:
What are some of your favorite action films? Let me know in the comments.
Cheers,
-I
Comments
The dirtiest: 1999 Takashi Miike: Dead or Alive [Hanzaisha] The craziest: 1997 John Woo: Face Off 1989 John Woo: Killer [Die Xue Shuang Xiong] The prettiest: 2002 Zhang Yimou: Hero Americans: 1969 Sam Peckinpah: The Wild Bunch 1973 Donald Siegel: Charley Varrick 1990 Abel Ferrara: The King of New York 1973 Robert Aldrich: Emperor of the North (In case you haven't already seen them :) )
Ian Danskin
Oooh, I never did watch that one. How is Red 2?
Ian Danskin
OK, I just watched it, and that was pretty wild!
Ryan Aston
There's a South Korean film from last year called The Villainess that you NEED to watch. Finest action film since Fury Road. A primer on how to do inventive, meaningful, effective, visceral action sequences.
The Fifth Element is probably my all time fav. The John Wick/2 and The Raid/2 films also rate high on my list! Baby Driver, Hot Fuzz, really anything by Edgar Wright. Kick Ass/2 don't seem to get the credit I think they deserve, and while I'm on things no one else seemed to like, FFVII: Advent Children.
Pirate Arr
Hanna! Went out and bought the soundtrack too
Roo Khan
RED: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren as the gunner, based on a Warren Ellis comic novella, full of CIA history in-jokes.
Kait Hatch
Oh! And True Lies. Problematic, but also, great mockery of the genre & Jamie Lee Curtis MAKES that film.
Kait Hatch
I never think I'm not getting my money's worth. Jurassic Park—all of 'em. I love dinosaurs. Even silly, inaccurate CGI ones. Jurassic Park is like comfort movie time for me. :P
Martin Karsten
Mad MAx Fury Road, the first two Die Hards, The Matrix, Hero
Pierfrancesco Crivellari
The latest Mad Max has to be my favourite action movie. What a movie, what a lovely movie.
Zac Frazier
I watched John Wick a few months ago and thought it was a pretty solid action movie, a good time. But then I saw John Wick 2 and, my god. The way it expands the world teased in the first movie is just super captivating, and it left me craving the third one super hard.
Nathan Klassen
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has always been my problematic fave
The Packbats
I feel like I'm at a stage in my life where I don't trust the artistic judgment of my past self when it comes to stuff making me super uncomfortable in movies and books, and I don't trust the artistic judgment of my present self on stuff I haven't seen multiple times. And I haven't really been watching movies, so all I'm left with is stuff that I remember liking but have that aching but-will-it-disappoint-me doubt about. With that caveat ... the original Die Hard, Run Lola Run, 28 Days Later ... Stark Raving Mad was a really fun movie and did a lot of cool stuff, but I have <em>no</em> idea how I'd feel about it on rewatching because it's also pretty full of edgy jokes. Truth in 24 is Audi propaganda, but a good sports movie if you want to watch it as a sports movie. I could probably come up with others if I spent some time thinking it over.
Nikki
Naming only ones that aren't so mainstream that you definitely watched them already: Kong: Skull Island, John Wick, Atomic Blonde (amazing appreciation of german culture!), Jumanji - Welcome to the Jungle (surprisingly fun), Mad Max Fury Road, What Happened to Monday (only action to some degree, but definitely enough to count as a subgenre for it), X-Men - Days of Future Past, Hot Fuzz, Riddick (guilty pleasure), Sucker Punch (also guilty pleasure), Man of Steel (guilty pleasure #3), Ghettogangz 1&2 (french action insider tips), Dredd, Lockout (gets worse every time I watch it, sadly), The Rock (probably the oldest action movie I enjoy, along with Face/Off), Solomon Kane (the only movie in its time setting I can enjoy), Watchmen, World War Z.
