To Be or Not To Be is such a good movie thank you for talking about it. Also, poignantly, the actor delivering that speech is Felix Bressart, a German Jew who also fled the Nazis.

Never stop with the "Everyone" gag, I love it.

... I sincerely hope that Cinematic Antifa thing wasn't a joke. We need that.

@Demolitiondude

5 жыл бұрын

Watch any ww2 movie.

@ietsbram

5 жыл бұрын

you say we need that? shouldn't the quote : "If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" hold true towards those people as well?

@ThePa1riot

5 жыл бұрын

I sincerely hope it was.

@CatHasOpinions734

5 жыл бұрын

@@ietsbram Sure, but that's not relevant. That quote is meant to remind the listener of the humanity of the speaker, which is why it's particularly relevant to arguing against fascism, because much of fascism is about denying or minimizing the humanity of their targets (usually people of color and lgbt people). The same isn't really relevant in reverse, because anti-fascist action tends to care less about how you identify yourself and more about what you're doing. You can be a vaguely racist white person, but until you start publicly arguing for a white ethnostate, antifa probably isn't going to care. If you've been a vocal fascist, you can stop promoting fascism, and historically anti-fascists will tend to leave you alone if you do that, because the issue was never that they don't respect the fascist's humanity, just their actions. But if you're Jewish, or Black, or Trans, there's nothing you can do that will cause fascists to stop harassing you. This is not to say that I support violent anti-fascist action (I think that it can be justified in some cases but it's never something to be taken lightly), but it's worth pointing out that a lot of antifa action is non-violent, but obviously that sort of thing doesn't make the news the same way. If you want to know more about this, I highly recommend PhilosophyTube's video "The Philosophy of Antifa".

@ietsbram

5 жыл бұрын

@@CatHasOpinions734 thanks for the constructive comment, I can't do much but agree, however, in practice I do see some overgeneralization of fascism by which parts of the Antifa movement are turned into an anti-german movement.

Ah, classic Kyle. Bringing back Shakespeare Month/Season/how many videos he'll make about Shakespeare.

As a German history student currently having to read Mein Kampf for the third time (because thats the life I chose) I thank you so much for a movie to watch to relax my mind a bit afterwards and be able to laugh at the farce that is facism.

@SonofSethoitae

5 жыл бұрын

Jesus, that must be a depressing slog by now

@zvimur

4 жыл бұрын

One passage from Feuchtwanger's "The brothers Opperman" sticks with me for decades. 2(?) of the characters get together to read Mein Kampf... for laughs. Think it was at very end of Weimar Republic (Duh).

1. I would watch every single episode of Cinema Antifa. 2. I screamed with delight at the return of the "Everyone" bit. 3. You pretty much articulated exactly how I feel about Shylock when I read "The Merchant of Venice" for the first time last winter. He reads to me as utterly tragic--he doesn't really have any other options but to be a moneylender, which he's promply abused for, and all he really has in the end as a bedrock is his faith. He seemed to me very proud to be Jewish, and at the end he loses that too, along with all his money and Jessica. (It might be the very pissed-off Jew that I am talking, but I was on Shylock's side the entire play--Antonio is an anti-Semitic dick and I wouldn't have minded seeing him die for being as bad he was.) At the end I just think that while our "heroes" are off celebrating, he's struggling to process everything he's lost and is completely and utterly alone. He doesn't even have God to turn to--that's been stolen from him as well.

@peterprablo1331

5 жыл бұрын

Jews and Nazis are on the same team today.

@obiwanobiwan13

5 жыл бұрын

@@peterprablo1331 No. They're not. When our synagogues are being shot by goddamn Neo-Nazis, we don't need the likes of you shooting off untruths. Nice hot take, it's burned you completely, now vanish back into the smokescreen of clueless-ness from whence ye came.

@obiwanobiwan13

5 жыл бұрын

As a Jew and someone who did work on Shakespeare for my MA--as much as "Hath not a Jew eyes?" is rightly famous, it's another Shylock line which, even amidst the play's Antisemitism, helps save Shakespeare and Shylock from that poison--"For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe." Shakespeare, unlike any English and perhaps any European author who came before him, *understood Jews suffered, and that THIS is what made Shylock the bitter man he is.* Marlowe's "Jew of Malta" is a flat one-dimensional villain, the "Shylock Stereotype" the synagogue-shooting Pepe-posting Neo-Nazis of the world see. By contrast, even if Shylock's still (sadly) the "villain," Shakespeare gave him context and complexity and, ultimately, HUMANITY, making him the first "human" Jewish character in English literature. *And the first step in fighting injustice towards ANY group IS to recognize their humanity.*

"If we eat bad guacamole, do we not blow chunks?"

@rushguy1

5 жыл бұрын

Hath not a dude eyes? If you prick us, do we not get bummed?

@kolbykauffman4180

5 жыл бұрын

God, I love The Critic.

it just doesnt feel like summer without Shakespeare

Ah yes the Merchant of Venice. Did you know Orson Welles adapted that into a drama film in which he's plays the character Shylock, the film's partially lost.

Gonna have my heart ripped out by Avengers Endgame in an hour. So let's lighten the mood... WITH FASCISM!

@tk5800thesecond

3 жыл бұрын

"he set *hamlet* in nazi germany!"

ITS SHAKESPEARE SEASON BABY

I remember Gilbert Gottfried's reasoning for making a 9/11 joke like right after it happened. To say something is "Too soon" is more disrespectful than making jokes about it, it's implying like "Oh now that we're past that. Those people that sunk in the Titanic? Those people that died in the camps? We're past that, we can laugh at it now" Whereas making a joke after it's happened is better because it's an actual joke about the shock of the thing, it's a joke about how it's not okay to be making light of the thing

I'm all about a Cinematic Antifa series. This was great! Another fantastic job.

@ietsbram

5 жыл бұрын

would you look at that, 52 people either overcompensating or just happy to find a scapegoat. shouldn't the quote :"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" go all ways?

@spiritxdancer

5 жыл бұрын

Bram iets You don’t get to hate people for their existence and then plead tolerance when people fight back. Fuck you. Death to fascists.

@QuikVidGuy

5 жыл бұрын

@@ietsbram stop jumping around the comments telling everyone to be nice to nazis

@Feasco

5 жыл бұрын

@@ietsbram google Paradox Of Tolerance Death to fascism

I was not aware of this movie before. How!? It sounds fascinating. And horrendous. And amazing. Great start of the season (I'd quite like some more delving into the Merchant)

My only problem with a Cinema Antifa series is that someone thought of it before I did.

Thank you Kyle. Your video essays are the ones I look forward to the most, and it's always exciting to see you in my feed.

I remember getting to see this on a big screen in an intro to film theory class. The entire class was laughing hysterically, and me along with them. Best theater experience I've ever had. Funny enough though, that professor ended up being caught in a predator sting the following summer.

It feels somehow wrong to laugh as hard as I did at, "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland," but it's such a brilliant line.

My troupe just did merchant over the winter (we do the comedies during the summer and tragedies/ histories in the winter) and that alone should show how we handled the subject matter. We set it in the modern day and it was painful to watch. Painful in the sense that it brought out visceral emotions and made the audience uncomfortable in that there were no good guys. There was light comedy in innocent things (my gender bent nerisso being Portia's sassy gay friend and the kleptomaniac gender bent gratiano tricking me into marrying her by taking my ring during the breeding pair's little speech over the casket brought laughs) but I got to sit and watch during the understudy run, and we added an epilogue where you get to see the end of things play out in pantomime while "what about us" played over it, we showed shylock's forceful public conversion while the actor(actress in the understudy run) was sobbing on a pedestal while hateful onlookers made a spectacle of it, and you saw in our production that as Jessica and lorenzo parted ways with their friends Jessica placed a yamaka on lorenzo's head and that secretly it was him converting for her. It was a devastatingly powerful production, touching on fascism and its role in modern society, familial bonds, sexual harassment and gender power dynamics where they intersect with race and ethnicity(our antonio was Antonia, Evansville Shakespeare players gender bend roles quite often), I was skeptical at first about how we'd transform such a problematic script but man, did we pull it off. It's one of those I wish you could have seen, Kyle, since you're one of the people that made me fall in love with Shakespeare and I think so highly of you and your thoughts on the topic.

This essay is genius Kyle. Genius.

Your Shakespeare videos are probably the main reason I became interested in his work. Thank you so much. (Please make Cinematic Antifa a thing)

never knew that Mel Brook's film was a remake. Thank you for this!!

"What he did to Shakespeare we're doing to Poland". Yeah, I have to admit that is a great one-liner.

I love that this video includes the phrase 'hashtag problematicest.'

@orgluzman561Peace_IL_PS

5 жыл бұрын

yes me as well also Cinematic Antifa is the best thing ever

@dorialaura802

4 жыл бұрын

Same

Ah, I hoped Kyle would choose the AI Pachino and Jeremy Irons movie for a whole Merchant of Venice episode. But this is actually better, wow.

I'm so glad you covered this. This movie is so great.

I thought I might be the only person under 70 who has seen To Be or Not To Be. I discoved it watching AMC as a teenager back in the nineties. It so delighted me that I told my history teacher about it the next day. She smiled wide, hearing one of her students talk about Carole Lombard. AMC used to show all the old black-and -white movies, and I got quite an education in cinema history. Picture me, a nineties teen in ripped plaid who loved Ingrid Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock as much as Fugazi and PJ Harvey. On a side note, everyone takes that Shylock speech out of context. It does not begin with the line “Hath a Jew not eyes?” It begins with Shylock declaring that he will use a Christian’s flesh “to bait fish withall.” In the play, his speech is not a victim’s plea for mercy, but a villain’s self-justification. It confounds me that anyone could read The Merchant of Venice and argue that it, or Shakespeare, is not anti-Jewish.

A little thing I must correct you on. Mel Brooks didn't direct the remake, Alan Johnson did.

@TheMellowFilmmaker

5 жыл бұрын

I did not know that. I've always had the misconception since I was a kid.

@gamestation2690

5 жыл бұрын

@TheMellowFilmmaker Before this, Johnson had already been a choreographer on Brooks's movies, working on such scenes as "Springtime for Hitler" from The Producers, "Puttin' on the Ritz" from Young Frankenstein, and "The Spanish Inquisition" from History of the World, Part 1.

@Calpsotoma

5 жыл бұрын

That's true, but he did star and produce, so I see why someone would make that mistake.

@joseaguilar4845

5 жыл бұрын

That explains that we're cut in between the punchline and reaction. Mel Brooks liked to frame jokes with a master shot so we could see the punchline and reaction in real time.

@gamestation2690

5 жыл бұрын

@@joseaguilar4845 It's directed differently from Brooks's usual fair, you mean?

Kyle . . . There is not a video of yours I don't love. You are one of my favorite online personalities and it's **always** a good day when i see a video from you.

David Suchet was a brilliant as Shylock. He was very funny, angry, and sympathetic at the same time.

a comedy of avoiding catastrophic errors

I am sensing Starship Troopers to be the next Cinematic Antifa video.

@edisonmichael6345

5 жыл бұрын

​@@kiriruro Hm... the debate about the book being pro or against fascist ideals (a not exactly clear cut question, by the way) has absolutely no say in the fact that the movie is antifascist. The movie is so not beacuse it questions the book, but because it questions itself and the trappings of propaganda.

@NugicusStreetPhotography

5 жыл бұрын

@@kiriruro I thought the bugs were collectivist not fascist.

After watching this, I tracked down the film for movie night. Now I’m writing an essay on films from the era. Really sent me down a rabbit hole. Thanks man.

If you want Nazis being mocked in theatre you might want to have a read of Sandi Toksvig's book "Hitler's Canary", it's a darn good read about occupied Denmark.

@Bizarro69

4 жыл бұрын

Book, theatre, you jest!

You had me at Cinema Antifa. Glorious work, Kyle :D

@tatehildyard5332

5 жыл бұрын

It is but something I got to bring up is, what happens when the bad actor thrives from the booing? When the booing encourages his ticket sales? I hope the metaphor makes sense

@SomeRandomJackAss

5 жыл бұрын

@@tatehildyard5332 The "Any press is good press" type of guy? They're delusional. Really, all you need is enough people booing before someone throws something. He won't be so proud of his "any press" with a shoe hitting him in the face, will he?

@ThePa1riot

5 жыл бұрын

BadAssMutha006 What exactly is the shoe though in that metaphor? The same “shoe” Hitler used in himself? Or the “shoe” that hit JFK?

@SomeRandomJackAss

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThePa1riot The "shoe" that almost hit W.

@tatehildyard5332

5 жыл бұрын

@@SomeRandomJackAss To be clear, I'm talking about fascism. What happens when the forces that enable fascism don't go away with booing? When the booing strengthens it and the conviction of its followers. To be clear, I'm not referring to him as a "fascist", but as "a force that enables fascism".

This was amazing! Are you planning on making a video on Haider? It's Hamlet set in the Kashmiri conflict in the 90s. Directed by the same guy that made Omkara and Macbool

Finally Kyle!! I've been waiting for you to review this. My favourite Ernst Lubitsch's movie. ♥️

Thankyou, Kyle, that's brilliantly on point. The movie and your analysis both.

Ahhhhhhh! I love this movie, super excited to see Kyle talking about it!

It's so good to see a new video from you, Kyle. And with Shakespeare!

Holy shit this movie sounds amazing. Thanks for the analysis Kyle.

In 1983, Mel Brooks did a Fantastic and Tasteful remake of this movie, also starring his wife, Anne Bancroft - Pure comedy gold. Both, excellent films!

OMG this is one of my favorite films in the world, and has inspired my own writing. And I'm completely down for Cinematic Antifa.

@gamestation2690

5 жыл бұрын

His next Cinematic Antifa will be about Casablanca.

God, I missed seeing your work. Please keep it up. Your words are powerful and they make me want to stand up.

"Heil...myself! Heil to me!"

I watched this on Max recently and I LOVED IT I think it’s a new favorite movie

Thank you so very much. I had no idea that the Mel Brooks one was a remake. It's one of my favorite movies of his, I've always found it heartbreaking.

The ending of The Merchant of Venice always reminded me of Faust.

8:30 Everyone. Battle Angel Alita, Cyborg 009, Saga of Tanya the Evil, I'm noticing a theme here...

What a coincidence, I just rewatched this movie a couple of days ago. And it holds up so well! And my bf also had the idea that Tarantino got his inspiration from that movie :D

I'm glad Sheakspear season is back. :D

Wow. That's going onto my must watch list.

You have my approval as a Jew in this video, seriously Kyle, your videos are amazing so please continue doing such amazing work.

@orgluzman561Peace_IL_PS

5 жыл бұрын

me to

@Bizarro69

4 жыл бұрын

You're a Jew in the video?

Jack Benny's finest film, and one of my favorite films. Sorry, but Mel Brooks' remake REALLY doesn't work for me. Tura (as German officer): Surely, you've heard of the great Josef Tura?! Ehrhardt: Ah, yes. What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland. Jack's look after hearing that is priceless!

Yay, classic Kyle! Thanks man this was fab!

Your video made me watch the movie, and I am so grateful for that. Keep up the good work!

I always feel a bit more cultured after a Shakespeare-related BHH. The "Everyone" montage toward the end was great

Granted I haven’t seen the 42 version in full, ( something I will soon remedy) but I adore the Mel brooks version. It’s my favorite of his films. The delivery of the lines, the timing, and the performances are just wonderful. After all it got Charles Durning an Oscar nod. My favorite scene is when Mel Brooks is sitting alone in his apartment after fooling the nazis and saying to himself, ‘the finest performance of my career...and nobody saw it’. There’s a bit of a two fold irony in that line. First in the fact that we the viewing audience saw it. Then in the fact that Mel himself is saying it. This is what I consider to be his best role, but few people have seen the movie. It wasn’t a big hit at the box office (much like the 42 film) and in that one line we get to see Mel as a serious actor, playing a character that is letting the horror of the occupation of Warsaw just now sink in.

@sewthernbelle

5 жыл бұрын

Ps you forgot the clip of the Cuban boxer in that one Golden Girls episode quoting the play

Thanks for pointing me towards a great movie.

Kyle, I love your work!

This feels like it ties in very well with Lindsay's video on The Producers and satire... not surprisingly. Nice!

comrade kyle strikes again! great video, man

In the french Comedy "Oss 117, Lost in Rio", a nazi general got to quote this speech, but in a ironic way, moquing how Nazis use their persecution complexe to look like the victim of hate... intresting pick.

God dammit. Johnny 5 screams that speech shortly before he's beaten to near-death and left bleeding in the back alleys, unable to talk because his face has been so badly beaten. Comedy!

Dear Mr Kallgren, I write to you as a concerned fan and royal pain in the ass. The 1983 remake of To Be Or Not To Be was produced by and stars Mel Brooks.............. but was directed by Alan Johnson (4:00). I know, right?

Hell Yeah! A new Kyle video! And a Shakespeare themed one no less! :)

Fantastic video

thank you

Shakespeare season at Kyle's one year more... like ever before, this keeps me on tenterhooks!

One of my most favourite films.Brrilliant , briliant cast& performances.I have watched it quite few times and Iam overwhelmed and overawed every time I watch it. The script is an excellent &marvelous piece of writing. I must lookup the scriptwriters as I do notknow anything about them.Jack Benny made other good films but this is definitely his finest. I am also a fan of William Shakespeare and ChristopherMarlow.I saw a production of Marlow's Jew of Malta, which the narrator mentions, which I thought was a dramatic masterpiece, at Stratford on Avon

I've heard about productions of The Merchant of Venice that don't excuse Shylock's behavior, but divorce it from his religion. For example, I've heard of at least one production that had Shylock's friend Tubal with him in the courtroom, clearly trying to plead with him to give up his bloodthirst against Antonio, and when it became clear Shylock wasn't going to back down, storming off the stage in disgust. It became clear that Shylock's religion wasn't the root of his cruel behavior--Shylock himself was. (The Al Pacino version did much the same, with other members of the Jewish community in the courtroom with Shylock begging him to accept the terms and forget the bond.)

Taking a Shakespeare course right now so Shakespeare season is very welcome right now!

Don't really care if this is the start of more Shakespeare, or the start of Cinematic Antifa. I'm, very much, looking forward to what the next instalment is.

I have seen the adaptation of the Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, without even knowing the reputation of the play before hand, I actually sympathise more with Shylock than the "heroes", they seemed vain and arrogant, and I was totally shocked that Shylock didnt get his revenge. And I was totally pissed by the ending, angry at them, wondering what the hell just happen, and then years later I learned the reputation of this play that is equal to Taming of the Shrew.

@CrisSelene

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, elisabethan society wouldn't have vindicated a Jew, no matter how sympathetic his motives may seem to us today. Re: Tamimg of the Shrew, I hated that play from the moment I read the ending. My professors tried to to spin it like Catherine was taking her place in the patriarchal society or that she was just showing her fellow wives how a proper wife should behave. Imo she deserved better and I think other readers agree with me, otherwise John Fletcher wouldn't have written a "fanfic" fix it sequel to it.

Brilliant!

Kyle you are my hero!

Love this new series!

Great stuff Kyle, definitely looking forward to more Cinema Antifa!

A video on To Be or Not To Be? Subscribed!

Movie: Heil Myself Me: …. heil to me, I'm the kraut who's out to change our history... It's probably not coincidence since Brooks is apparently a huge fan of this film XD But for serious Kyle, please tell me that your Cinematic Antifa series is a real thing you're doing and not just a clever joke. That would be amazing, and really useful right about now.

@catherineelmore2004

5 жыл бұрын

Oh I’m so glad that I’m not the only one who immediately thought of the musical version of The Producers when I heard that.

@jenniferschillig3768

3 жыл бұрын

@@catherineelmore2004 Mel kept the "Heil myself!" line in his remake...that's why it shows up in the musical The Producers. (Mel had Easter eggs for his other works all throughout that--such as "It's good to be the king!")

Hooray, a new Shakespeare video from Kyle! The Mel Brooks version is on my to-watch list, but this looks excellent, too! The only question is which first?

I was wondering if you were going to mention the Mel Brooks remake (which I was surprised was NOT directed by him) also thank you for bringing back the “everyone” bit

You're going to be a little teed off at me, but my first and favorite version was the Mel Brooks one. You see, my father, who loved the original, took us to see the remake in the theater when I was a kid. Then they re-ran it on cable ad infinitum, so I practically had it memorized. Later on, when I finally saw the original, I thought, "Their names are supposed to be Frederick and Anna Bronski. Who are these 'Joseph and Maria Tura' people?"

0:52 Ah, now I know where those lines the gargoyles spout in Hunchback are from :) Heckling the facists off-stage. What better way is there?

Thank you for my life

So... Any chance we can get the Criterion Channel to let you do one of their picks on a recurring basis? Because I'd love to see what you came up with for them. Maybe even get it paired with one of these videos, in the same way they're currently pairing a short with a film

Summer of Shakespeare: the Quickening.

The Merchant of Venice sure made _me_ laugh.

So... How long before the first "KEEP POLITICS OUT OF SHAKESPEARE!" comment?

@CatHasOpinions734

5 жыл бұрын

It's like the left can't talk about plays about monarchies and succession and movies about Nazis without injecting politics into it. (I sincerely hope that sarcasm is obvious, but just in case: that was sarcasm.)

@kayEnt3rtainm3nt

5 жыл бұрын

Don't keep politics out of Shakespere. Keep sanity in politics.

@SonofSethoitae

5 жыл бұрын

They've already begun

2:29 Yes sir that does sound good!

May we have Britten's opera of Dream, please?

@CrisSelene

5 жыл бұрын

That would be amazing! I studied it in a musical adaptations of Shakespeare's plays class and it was one of my favourites.

OOF! That Mel Brooks rendition of the concentration camp joke was one of the worst things I've ever seen him do! And I've seen Dracula Dead and Loving it!

@gamestation2690

5 жыл бұрын

Is it because he said “Get it?”?

@bul13ts

5 жыл бұрын

@@gamestation2690 Oh that's a big part of it, but it was more that every aspect of his delivery, from his expression to his body language to his tone of voice, also screamed "Get it?"

I passed the movie on criterionchannel a few times. Now I'm gonna check it out. :D

OHHHH NEW VIDEO!!

Holy Crap was that Robert Stack?

I wonder why Shakespeare gave Shylock that speech. It seems counter-productive to demonizing a stereotype.

@eldorados_lost_searcher

5 жыл бұрын

Is it possible that Shakespeare discovered the humanity in the character, despite his own prejudice? Was it intentional or accidental?

@Jebbtube

5 жыл бұрын

@@eldorados_lost_searcher Hold on, lemme buzz my necromancer friend, and we'll hop on over to England.

I liked playing as the Venetian civ in Civilization 5 mostly because of the Merchant of Venis UU.

My brain decided that the title of this video was "To Be Or Not to Be HIgh". I'm disappointed but i'll stick around

Don't wanna change the subject off topic from this great video but have you seen Kenneth Branagh's All Is True? What did you think of it?

#DeathtoFascism #LifetoNotFascism