Discussing Literally Me Movies With
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Thanks to @Solar Sands for coming to the studio and hanging out with me. Hopefully, he watched The Brown Bunny after this talk. I know this is a much more casual video than I normally make. Solar Sands and I were hanging out and figured we should make something. You can probably tell that this was recorded a month and a half ago, but I wanted my video on The Northman to be my comeback video.
I hope you all enjoy our discussions and find it cozy.
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American Psycho
Gangs of New York
Taxi Driver
Evangelion Neon Genesis
00:00 Intro
00:13 Sponsor
01:15 Sigma Males
05:17 American Psycho Memes
07:14 The King of Comedy and After Hours
09:23 What binds the Literally Me characters together?
12:11 More American Psycho is funny
14:04 American Psycho's MPAA ratings
15:42 Horror or Comedy
17:15 Eva
18:45 Literally Me is a spectrum
21:00 Did Patrick Bateman Commit Those Crimes?
28:14 How do these characters resonate?
34:29 Virgin talk
37:17 Wrapping it up and Brown Bunny talk
42:13 Outro
The guy watching this video… literally me.
No, he's me!
Gentlemen you’re both wrong... because he’s literally me
It is me.
It is I!
“The watcher”
As a guy who has watched Solar Sands back in his DeviantArt cringe days alongside The Jackoon, The Fandom Menace and MagicFishKatz, it's wild seeing him as a regular guy and not a talking hourglass.
He looks like Troy Wagner with shades on, and that's epic.
Yeah it’s crazy lol
Did he work with TFM?!
Ditto. Has he done a face reveal before?
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recall pbs putin files? Podesta Nuland Hillary McCain deeply involved start ukraine crisis strike first blood but use woman that put severed finger in wendy chili 2.0 tactic shameless blame russia
wesley clark blackmailed by cia
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@@WorthlessWinner yeah he did.
It was in that one video about people who can't remember faces.
Do a tier list of "literally me" characters.
What’s interesting about American psycho compared to other “literally me” movies is that I have found just as many women romanticizing Patrick Bateman as men do
Women do be like that with serial killers
@@danjoredd He's such a boring character, I don't get the appeal. Reminds me of Onision. I've always thought of Patrick Bateman as Onision's dad or something.
@@danjoredd that’s the whole point of the movie
@@danjoredd In the book he isn't boring, he's just so deranged nobody could ever identify with him. He thinks Bono is the devil and he's his disciple and other completely off the wall weird shit. There is a part in which he walks around the beach in a psychotic stupor eating jellyfish. He also buys dogs just to torture them to death.
@@danjoredd when people say "he's literally me" to Bateman its more of an irony thing than it is an actual thing. infact mose of these "sigma male literally me characters" are ironic. like no sane person would actually relate to Bateman and Homelander.
"Squidward is literally me" - Solar Sands probably
Hear me out -- Achilles from The Iliad was the original "literally me" character.
He checks all the boxes; he's physically fit and traditionally masculine, so skilled in combat that he literally ascends to a higher tier than other men (achieving eternal glory being the equivalent of going from Alpha to Sigma).
He is also disillusioned with society, seeing himself as the hard worker who gets screwed over by an authority figure (Agamemnon), causing him to brood about how unfair everything is, giving a speech about his bleak outlook on life.
I wouldn't call him a full on incel, but a major plot point is that he wants a woman that he can't be with; he's mad that Agamemnon took Briseis from him, not because he's concerned for her safety, but because he "earned" her as a prize.
And true to most "literally me" characters, in the end, he snaps and goes a murderous rampage.
“Trojan Psycho”
Noticed a quirk about the name "Agamemnon". If you split it up into three three-letter parts (Aga-mem-non), each part is palindromic.
He has bussy tho.
@@redline841 his bussy is literally, conceptually impenetrable
I adore the Iliad and I hadn't really thought about it like that, thanks for the insight! I think the Epic of Gilgamesh might be an even older literally me story
Gilgamesh chillin in Uruk as king, swole and rich as fuck, and has sex with as many women as he wants - but he doesn't have any meaning in life. The people of Uruk hate Gilgamesh and pray to the Gods to put Gilgamesh in his place and the gods then create Enkidu. When Enkidu shows up, they fight, bro it up, and do some hero shit. Enkidu's death prompts Gilgamesh to get super depressed and seek out immortality. However, he fails to gain that immortality. From that Gilgamesh learns to appreciate what he has in Uruk.
He's not a standard literally me character, in an out cast sense, but he is a sort of outcast in his society (despite being at the top of it). He suffers through conflicts of meaning and loss throughout the story. Both he and Enkidu have moments where they are very expressive with their grief, depression, and how they work for it. And while the Epic is very focused on Sumerian society and beliefs, there's still a lot of relatability in how we struggle through similar things too.
BRO, THE MOST KINO CROSSOVER I COULD’VE NEVER EXPECTED!!!!!
Solar sands isn’t kino if he thinks NGE’s ending threw him for a loop
This podcast is my Black Panther
Black Panther starring Ryan Gosling as Black Panther?
I like the fact that you can say "literally me" to every Jake Gyllenhaal's character lol
Even the one in Brokeback Mountain?
@@hugebrain4149 Sorry bro, I didn't watch this one💀
@@hugebrain4149 yes
Bubble boy is literally me
Same thing with Ryan Gosling
Solar Sands is a psychopath that wears shades indoors and he's literally me.
I can't believe Kino and SolarSands made a 40 minute video all about me!
There is a lot of sigma male energy in this video.
all the characters are in worlds of decay and people on 4chan can relate
women sigma movie characters that are “literally me” include amy dunne(gone girl), nina sayers(black swan), lisa rowe(girl, interrupted), harley quinn, cassandra(promising young woman), and anna(possession). these are just a few.
Movies aren’t for foids
Women can't be me
I find the Amy Dunne one weird in an almost intriguing way because I've encountered many women that say ''she did nothing wrong'' unironically, maybe they think she was getting beat by the husband (which didn't happen it was just part of her story/complot) or maybe they're so vengative and deranged that they believe all she did was justified because he cheated and was a lazy and bad husand overall
Pearl is now in that list
Women couldn't understand the emotions of these movies
Kino Corner is the "Literally Me" character of film CZcamsrs
American psycho: The only movie where the Batman actually killed the joker.
Patrick bateman has a brother?! He's just like me fr
How beautiful is it that the term Chad started out as derogatory among incels and became a badge of honour among regular people?
I think the incels won
@@turtleboy1188 How?
Wdym. Being a chad is still seen as a good thing among incels as far as I know
@@reddotsxul8166 Really? I thought it was a resentful term. But I guess I should be thankful I'm not as deep into that world as I thought.
Chad just means someone who easily wins at life without putting any effort in because of his good genes and usually good family. Many incels just cannot attain what the chads can no matter what they do. Incels are more self aware than you think and they have very real pain
As someone who struggles deeply with diagnosed depression/anxiety and works out a lot to cope, I really relate to The Batman. I’m a big comic book reader and the trailer came out when I was at a very low point in my life and from the tone and characterization I could instantly relate. The rage and feeling somewhat insanity.
But an underrated Literally Me character is K from Blade Runner 2049. Great character
I really like K. It's almost an inversion of the 'literally me' trope because instead of lashing out at society by bringing harm and destruction, he choses to do it by bringing a sense of justice to the world, by doing what he believes is right. He helps a complete stranger fulfill his lifelong wish despite having no reasons to do so. In this sacrifice he really becomes something greater, he becomes more human than most actual people despite being a replicant. This movie really makes some powerful statements on identity and what it means to be human, as well as what is it that makes us 'us'.
There was this quote in the film about how dying for a cause is the most human thing one can do. It really stuck with me and I still often think about it despite not having seen the movie in several years. Perhaps one day I too will get the chance to do the right thing
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I think a common theme throughout a lot of these literally me characters is that theres always something kinda “cool” about them. These characters seem to reflect male angst, their loneliness, their sadness, but they always have something about them which can be distorted to be almost badass in a way. Even if many of these characters predominantly display male pain and desperation, they cant truly be vulnerable or “pathetic” they may be sad, but wow, aren’t they coooooooool?
Yeah they're cool, but saying they can never be vulnerable or pathetic is very disingenuous. The Driver basically ruined his life because he cared too much about some random girl, if that's not a vulnerability I don't know what it is, same goes for Bateman, the entire point of the movie is that he's a shallow, pathetic guy who end up doing horrible things because of his ego.
@@geovane19 that's not vulnerabilty
I’d say displaying male pain is literally showing vulnerability in these characters. Something that I’ve noticed is that male vulnerability isn’t always depicted in the same way female vulnerability is so women (of which I am one) don’t always pick up on it. It’s more intense and often angry. Where we just expect tearfulness, men display lack of control, bursts of anger allowing catharsis.
There’s a level of wish fulfillment with the cool factor of these characters. Its the same energy as making a Princess not only wealthy but beautiful. The coolness also offsets other more unlikeable parts of the characters.
The through line is male isolation and alienation. All of the characters are loners in one way or another
My man Solar Sands sounds chill and relaxed here.
WHAT THE FUCK SOLAR SANDS HAS A FACE
The /tv/& /ic/ colab i didn't know i wanted
I don’t know why, but in the beginning it looked like you and solar were in separate locations so when it showed that you were right next to each other i started laughing so hard.
I was never sure what someone with a voice like Solar Sands would look like, but it checks out perfectly & I’m not sure if I’ll be able to un-see-hear that.
Leo as Teddy Daniels in Shutter Island. 100% Literally Me character.
Travis did nothing wrong. Aside from being mentally unstable he’s a good person at heart. He chooses to go save a young girl instead killing his ex girlfriend or killing a politician. If anything more people should be like him. The kind of person who sees injustice and actively tries to stop it. He’s a more respectable person than all the people saying “uh you missed the point if you idolize him”. Travis actually tries to save people despite his cynical view of the world.
He still traumatised Iris though
He tries to assassinate a politician because he couldn't get pussy.
@@PolishGod1234 he saved her, that's what matters. she would've been traumatized worse from being used and abused by pedos. even worse she could have died if Travis didn't get her out of that environment.
You missed the point of the movie. He only chooses to save the girl because he couldn't assassinate the politician.
@@JeekayTenn dude he him saving the girl was him choosing to be a hero in his final moments. He went in there fully intending to die. Either in the fight or suicide. And the whole movie was building to that big choice on rather he be a vigilante or a terrorist. He wanted to be this hero who’d kill bad guys and save innocents. “Clean the filth”. The ending is just simply Travis accomplishing his fantasy of being a hero. It’s not like he just went “oh well guess I’ll just saved her” he planned to either kill the politician or save the girl, and clearly he went with the ladder.
Travis Bickle did nothing wrong
This concept of the "literally me" movie is incredibly descriptive and relatable TBH.
Ey! Love this crossover!
This is such a good discussion, I can't imagine I bailed on this when it was released because of the 40 minute runtime
Besides being an exploration of the literally me phenomenon, this is very easy to watch and digest because it is formatted like 2 buddies talking about their favourite movies. I could've easily watched this for hours.
Great selection of topics, great guest, please do more of these podcast-like episodes in the future
Edit: got to the part where you mentioned kinokast, absolutely going to check that out
Moving on up! 👆🙏
I love the wide shot. We need more wide shot podcasts
i love solar sands' videos so yeah this was a blast!
we need more convos like these! this was fantastic 👍 desperately waiting for the american psycho video omg
My favourite part about your channel is that you retroactively changed some of your previous videos to be a part of the literally me series, I find it hilarious and enjoyable, keep up the good work.
What the hell, solar sands isn't really an orange hourglass, he's just a dude???
An exquisitely kino crossover
I didn't except to see his face.
the collab we never knew we needed
Angst (1983)….literally me
Same homie!
I heard this guy beat Ornstein and Smough
Bateman's obsession with appearances mirror todays clout chasers and their drip.
Neve thought I get a legendary combo vid like this
If they had included more scenes from the book American Psycho would not be a "literally me" movie. Bateman is absolutely deranged in the book. Another great "literally me" movie would be Falling Down. D FENS is just a boring wagie nerd until his life gets upended by the defense industry collapsing, he also only attacks people that are assholes to him (except for the construction workers he shoots the LAW rocket at).
Wow I can't believe Kino made another video about literally me
I would like to submit the film 'Pain & Gain' as a Literally Me flick.
Impresive
"Brotherhood of misery" is a good way to put it
YEAHHHHHHHH SOLAR SANDSSSSSSS
"After hours" is one of my favorite movies.
American Psycho is my favorite Bale performance. He's so good in that movie.
When are you doing American Psycho 2 Angrier Deadlier Sexier?
Nice.
Came here to look at solar's pretty hands. Stayed for the weirdly interesting conversation.
Cool, it's Solar Sands
the guy in the video is literally me
Taste of cherry is my literally me movie
Everything in American Psycho happened up until the "feed me a stray cat" scene imo.
Top 10 anime crossovers
This is a great video. What do you think about the 'genre' "Movies Women Will Never Understand" like Master and Commander, Heat or Locke.
No one: What word starts with "V" and ends with "N"?
Travis Bickle: ...
Two of my favorite CZcamsrs is no relation collabed that's crazy
Taxi driver is the best film of this genre easily
Elliot Alderson from Mr Robot is literally me
Literally me
SOLAR SANDS FACE?!
just found out i also grew up in a town next to seaside florida
After Hours is also my favorite Scorsese!
I appreciated both your takes on the “You Missed the Point if You Idolize These Characters” memes. There’s a bit of truth but they miss the point of the movies themselves. It’s ironic.
Hey i really like your videos,but i have one question on the joker one
Isn't joker also "guy fall to almost zero and rise(technically, this is a villvan movie)"?i feel like not following the marvel formula isn't what makes the joker good,you can make a good mcu formula movies and bad non mcu formula movies
Smegma Male ☜ literally me
Hey solarr, u should do more collabs
The internet doesn't exist
How can the internet be real if our computers aren't real
98% of it is bots
the internet is not something you just dump something on. the internet is not a big truck. the internet is a series of tubes!
The reason why the "literally me" characters are so popular with young men today is because masculinity has been vilified and suppressed for years. They wanted to get rid of toxic masculinity but by suppressing it they made it more toxic than ever.
masculinity hassant been vilified for years what? the “woke green hair feminists” your talking about make no systemic change the most they do is be a little annoying. that’s not the cause of the incel crisis, and let’s be honest, no matter how sigma they may be it’s just inceldom
You both are wrong
bruhh can someone shoot me in the head dear god
@@justsomeguywithoutprofile7684 you are the best
@@justsomeguywithoutprofile7684 no
Can oldboy be a literally me movie?
Yes
Yes, but ensure you _know_ your family tree
4:54 it got so cringe it became funny then became based
Ah the 2 sides of the same coin
Yo soy ese.
based
Guys it’s so obvious also, the through line is all these characters show the male perspective not glorified but real. These characters have always existed it’s just men are now able to a bit more show their mental health issues and connect with these characters who act as avatars.
Men don’t have many avenues to be open about their mental health and despite what the best meaning women want men still need to hide behind a facade of strength and masculinity.
I've always felt like American Psycho was a thematic sequel to The King of Comedy. Patrick Bateman seems like exactly the kind of person a callous, shallow, and narcissistic guy like Rupert Pupkin would eventually devolve into after achieving money and fame.
I had no idea they knew each other. wtf
Patrick Bateman is a hero.
basedschizo, sigma bale and asimbawe
Talking point: Is rev tevye "literally me" or cringe?
the through-line is a disillusionment with reality and society
18:39
lol you crazy kids. you saw a dubs thread before you watched American Psycho. that's pretty funny though.
who do you work for? lol
Where SotM?
Ellis's I land
The question, I submit,
Is Patrick "literally" Bret?
A closeted gay, don't forget,
At the time the book was writ.
Sigma male? You mean me.
Can you make a literally me video on Venom snake from mgsv even if it is a game not a movie? If you don’t then me and my gamer friends will rise up and take away your Stacy and troll you in cod
Norman Bateman is the really concerning one, Lou Bloom, Travis Bickle and driver may be damaged and anti social but they do have redeeming qualities. Bateman has zero positive features and yet people connect with him? Real strange.
I don't think people really connect or identify with him in a real literally me way like with for example Travis Bickle, I think they just find him cool, based and sigma or whatever you want him to call it haha
I only know american pscyho in the old 2000s memes ..i dont know what sigma means but i think in the books its fairly obvious that his murders are just fantasies...mostly power trips and revenge against percieved slights . Hes also clearly not cool and smooth at all..the movie does a great job with material but its very hard to pull that off since if it really showed him as he is no one would believe his nonesense
You think capitalism plays a role in why these characters are so successful? Think about it: traditionally, men have always been providers and for our ancestors, this meant being a skilled hunter, later a skilled warrior, then physical labour. all these jobs require traditional masculine attributes: being physically and mentally strong. Nowadays, we work office jobs, men are exactly sole breadwinners any more and most of the work we do is at a desk, thus being a provider doesnt relate to traditionally masculine traits. You see it with the leading male actors in hollywood: tom holland and timothee chalomet both arent typically masculine. These litterally me characters are men who are typical masculine representations in a world where it no longer requires/ values them. They're men fighting against a society.
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Alpha makes the rules
Betas follow the rules
Omegas enforce the rules
Sigma follows his own rules