THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

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[MrGenericCola]

Excellent video! I love this :)

[robot797]

thats nice dear :P

[TheMimigirl516]

lawl

[MetaFish]

The ending had him with two heads, which represented both Jacks that existed in the movie. How can that suck? It shows both "sides" to him, which are ultimately the same-the strive to be unique, which exists if you're just a drone or a millionaire.

[greywolf107]

whoa.

[coveryfire]

End Sucked.

[Quusboy]

This sucks, its Canadian! I should know it sucks, I'm Canadian!

[thesquidley]

This was fuckin' awesome.

[MadaraXIII]

DAMN!!! I love how they portrayed the Giant!!!

There is some serious truth to this!

[dianatakehara]

life

[Montork]

smacks of disillusionment with the "American dream" and 1970s trippy shit.

[basspfosten]

Wonderfully trippy!

[jeobeahon]

your fantAStic.

YOU are WONDERFUL!

[Seraphim262]

danke für den upload

[DAZEOFTHESTONED]

Who ever said money cant buy happiness don't know where to shop...

[DanHadan]

What do Crap Cannons fire?

[curriejean]

But why did he grow another head?

[Ludamage]

One man who Thumbs down - is not a Jack and he definatly didn't want to be different )

[twowordrecordings]

i thought this was going to be chicago house music... JACK THE HOUSE!

[FissataKH]

that was...i don't know...distorted and strange...

[cluecluefinder]

@FissataKH by distorted i hope you mean a sad representation of society? then yeah, society is distorted then isn't it?

[FissataKH]

@cluecluefinder yeah...that's it...

[mirarostodo]

Typical American Arrogance and Cretinism seen from a Canadian P.O.V., inspired in late 1950's American government general info. public advetisement cartoons

(Existentialist, Moral), BTW, cute drawings... :)

[mashafasha5]

Genius

[pie153]

the evil husband in the sky is mister MONOPOLY!!

[totallycheeseboy]

thumbs uo if your names "jack"

[Erilis666]

nice statement about greed, but a bit sexist i must say. the women in the story could easily be replaced with nagging remote controls.

[KevinADCarter]

@Erilis666 Such was 1967. The archiver responsible for uploading to the NFB YouTube channel should really consider filling out the detail section with some basic information like the creation date and the name of the artist.

[Erilis666]

@KevinADCarter that's true. i was actually wondering if this was a new video just meant to look old... pretty sure it wasn't tho.

[CRAPCANNONS]

@Erilis666

Totally sexist. The filmmakers should be sued for sexism. Then imprisoned for life.

Then they should have all their property taken from them. Maybe after a public show-trial on state television they should be executed by a female-only firing squad (lesbians maybe?) No no capital punishment is wrong. Let's stick to taking their property giving it to the poor and sending them to a work camp.

That would serve as a lesson to all those horrible sexists in the world, right?

[Erilis666]

@CRAPCANNONS no! lol

[Soriua]

I'm stunned.

[SeargantMoody]

Nice. Deserves more views.

[DickensianDreams]

This channel uploads some of the best content on YouTube, and this is another gem.

[CRAPCANNONS]

I love anti-capitalist propaganda. It's been reliably consistent through the decades since the late 1800's; (w/ Frankenstein monster voice) "rich BAD, poor GOOD"

I love that bourgeois conformity is demonized, but Commune-ist conformity (CONFORMITY par excellence, as seen in China, North Korea, Cambodia, etc... multi-millions dead...) is seamlessly omitted.

Great work! I'm sure the people of Canada are delighted that they helped fund this choice bit of re-education.

[KevinADCarter]

@CRAPCANNONS Yes, we are, though we didn't imagine things that weren't there when it was nominated for an American Academy Award in 1967 when it was made.

[CRAPCANNONS]

@KevinADCarter

"we didn't imagine things that weren't there"

oh what's that, eh? a redistributive utopia, from/to each according to his ability/need? well put your shoulder to the wheel! put your back into it! Canada needs its NKVD, eh?

[KevinADCarter]

@CRAPCANNONS What cartoon did you watch? There was nothing in that animated short about anything you just wrote.

[CRAPCANNONS]

@KevinADCarter

An update of the Jack and The Beanstalk fable, a bourgeois conformist "tired of the rat-race", is driven by his boredom and vanity to dream of being a wealthy fat-cat. But his bourgeois boredom is replaced with the bitter loneliness of wealth. Lesson: abandon dreams of upward mobility through capitalist materialism or you will end up as unhappy as Jack.

What cartoon did YOU watch? I know to you this is probably standard anti-capitalist fare where you are so you're inured to it.

[KevinADCarter]

@CRAPCANNONS The morals of this film were that you can achieve great things if you just believe in yourself and that single-mindedly focusing on a career and the accumulation of wealth does not bring happiness. Those lessons hardly translate to a promotion of communism as you claimed in your previous two comments nor that one should completely abandon capitalism.

Without any introspection by the main character as to what went wrong or what truly matters to him nothing else can be inferred.

[Tolstoievsky]

@KevinADCarter what are you, 5?

[KevinADCarter]

@CRAPCANNONS Also, as he was clearly in the working class and controlling no means of production at the outset of the film, he was not a member of the bourgeoisie but rather a dissatisfied proletariat drone until his rise to power and wealth at which point he changed classes.

[gamatoilrefinery]

nice

[flightlessbird71]

@ubergossen definitely :D

[thefarmer32]

the wife is really annoying

[Megashehri]

Fantastic !! BRAVO! 

[ubergossen]

from 1967 if anyone's curious.

[WalkAwayCat]

@ubergossen oh, that's why it's sexist :P

[ubergossen]

@WalkAwayCat haha yeah definitely. still a sweet animation though

[WalkAwayCat]

@ubergossen I agree n_n

[EphraimRodrigez]

that was awesome