Existential Star Wars (In French)

Star Wars with a French existentialist twist. Almost all the subtitles (except for little things like "Despair!" and "I die!" and a few others) are actually quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre. And obviously this will make no sense if you understand French. If you do know it, hit yourself in the head repeatedly before watching this. And then hit yourself repeatedly when you're done watching.

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[Poodleinacan]

0:02 it should be "Un film DE" (the caps are for highlighting the correct form.)

[OneMinuteGalactica]

Weird. A couple places I just checked say to use "un film par" and two other places say "un film de." As a non French-speaker, all I can say is I tried to get it right, but if web sites can't agree, what can I do. I continue to take full responsibility for the Sartre misspelling, though. That still gets me mad.

[thomas reynolds]

If one examines the Star Wars postmaterialist narrative, one is faced with a choice: either reject the pre-constructivist paradigm of reality or conclude that the task of the observer is deconstruction, but only if sexuality is equal to truth. In a sense, Lucas shows us that we have to choose between postmaterialist narrative and Roddenberry-esque power relations.

[OneMinuteGalactica]

Finally, someone gets it.

[Jimmy Jones]

synergy

[Osian Evans-Sharma]

I know, I know. But Sartre believed that man ought to create meaning, whereas Camus preached 'embracing nothingness'. I bring this up purely because the description talks about Sartre's quotes. Still a great video!

[Therese Friedhaber]

I don't think it's so much the rare idea nor the lack of people to think them, but rather just that most people dismiss the thoughts as self-pity or go to the doctor for depression medication. Everyone has thought about the pointlessness of living, but society has told us to ignore it so we do.

[susypeti]

while Camus always stated he was not an existentialist philosopher he is generally regarded as one and shared many similar concepts with Sartre

[K1llerEel]

Luke, I am still dead.

[Brendan McGuire]

The ideas aren't rarer, there are just less people able or willing to have them. Neither 'admitted' there was a god any more than you could as both had just as much experience of one as you do, none whatsoever.

[Phoenix Singer]

This is a game changer, but what does this add to the discourse?

[Osian Evans-Sharma]

I thought the concept of embracing meaninglessness was a Camus...? Hilarious video though.

[dens54]

"un film par" is weird. "un film de" is really better...

[Ben K]

Now I want to direct a version of "Waiting for Godot" where they're dressed as the droids.