 It's just sitting in your head It was what we were after that one to do we did Yeah, it's catchy Hey, welcome back to our stupid Still in classic month gonna be till the month is over hence And then we will never watch it in the classic until next classic month. That's right. That's not true But Sorry, was he my Jello? Yeah, it's catchy, right? It just stays in your head. It does when you can have a song and I say whether it's English or whatever But especially if it's like a foreign film If you can have white people be able to sing along to it. Yeah, even in a foreign language Yeah, you got a hit on your hands. Yep, but anyways, we watched our first ever Raj Kapoor film the 1951 film a water Also known as the vagabond, which is what it translated to in English Some people said that wasn't the exact translation For them for the word. Yeah, what was it? I don't know you guys can let us know some people just said it that wasn't the like an Exact translation makes sense to me because the vagabond is more like the little tramp Charlie Chaplin's character and this character is more of like the outcast or the The the fee for the criminal. But anyways, it's our first Raj Kapoor film from 1951 starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis Nargis. Is that you pronounce her name? Nargis? Nargis. I just I feel white saying it Nargis. Have you looked in the mirror? No. Am I white? Yeah, very and also a couple other people, but Oh Yeah, Pritharaj. Oh, you know who that is, right? Yeah. Yeah, did you how well how long did it take? Uh, I the very end I did after I didn't really I didn't realize it He was on screen for three seconds. You know it. I looked at my mind. Oh monty Martin, exactly. I just that face those eyes and I knew it immediately I just noticed this young Raj is Shashi Kapoor, which I did not realize. Did you dude? Yes Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, yes, and you Ready for this? What? In the very opening scene. Mm-hmm. There's a judge sitting on the bench. Mm-hmm The judge sitting on the bench is Devan Kapoor, Prithiraj's dad. So this whole thing is nepotism Full blown nepotism kids! Full blown Bollywood nepotism. This is probably when the nepotism started. If you don't like it. Yeah Yeah, right there the Kapoor's are the Kapoor's are it who are the like the original two families with the Kapoor's on the Duts, right? Yeah, but it's the Kapoor's, right? And there's there's nothing. Nargis started the Duts, right? She was the wife of that. I don't know. Mr. Dutt? Yeah, nepotism. So you had Devan and then you had his son Prithiraj And then you had his sons Raj and Shashi who Raj is the dad of Rishi. Who's the dad of Ranbir? My brain. Okay, but anyways, yeah, we're doing a movie of a war up the 1951 film directed produced And I think now and starring Raj Kapoor Obviously we needed to get to Raj Kapoor at some point. Yeah, and so we decided to this classic month So obviously it's gonna be a hundred spins for you came out in 1951. It's almost it's over 70 years old Yeah, which another thing is crazy the film we just watched with Kamal San and which came out in 78 right and this quality of This film that came in 1951. I know obviously there's a ton more money and it was restored You saw the opening. Yeah, it's been restored. It's not comparable to budgets that these two no, no, no, no But or even international popularity. Yeah, but anyways, so hundred spins for review They want to go watch it. We saw it on movie is what it's called. Yeah movie movie If you need English up titles, they have it there, but Rick your initial thoughts, please I don't have a paragraph. I just have a sentence. Okay, and I'm ready to fight about it This movie's better than Citizen Kane You don't fight me You know, I don't give a shit about something came. I don't understand why I said I don't either That I do on the technical side of things. He did some things technically that hadn't been done And I understand where people talk about it was Really one of the first times that Hollywood went into being Really strong in a both social and political message. But other than that, I think Citizen Kane's one of the most boring It's it wasn't well received when it first came out It was nominated for nine Oscars one the one for screenplay and I've been told I wasn't there I was told that when Citizen Kane when each of the nominations were announced people booed and Part of it. Yeah, part of it was because they didn't like the fact that it was very clearly a personal vendetta And and crucifixion that Wells had toward William Randolph Hearst and it is a wonderful observation on the spectacle of Capitalism in its worst place when you have a mogul that becomes so narcissistic that their entire world caves in There will be blood as a much better film than Citizen Kane in that regard this film. I Thought it at every level. This is one of the greatest films I have ever seen one of the greatest classics. I don't care about region country language I was utterly flabbergasted at how good on so many levels. This movie was yeah Yeah, and I totally agree this film is absolutely it lived up to what I've Heard about not only Raj Kapoor, but the film as a whole yeah Because it came as a highly regarded film. I just I was in I was riveted from the outset and just stayed yeah from everything from acting to to the story, but obviously a very notably the production design and the songs We'll get to the score but the production does not get less We could make a you could do videos on just the chemistry of Nargis and Raj Kapoor alone I have great chemistry. Oh my goodness great chemistry But yeah, the some of the the set design's rival. I think what and he's like Mughal is on anything that Yeah, I agree that view He's probably going potty the whole Unexpected like the movie was already a classic and fantastic and I was gonna add it to my all-time favorite list Then we got into that musical number that took you to the clouds of the dream sequence in hell We'll talk about that in a minute because that's one of the most epic parts of That it's jaw-dropping right jaw-dropping I couldn't believe it But let's let's start with the one who I haven't seen before Raj Kapoor when he came on screen Well, obviously he came on screen at the beginning But obviously when you really got introduced to him you could see the the immediate kind of charisma He has and obviously the character was kind of inspired by the the trans yeah Charlie Chaplin's and that's but that's It's more than I think more the costume. It's just in kind of the cost But obviously he came on screen with the Yeah, it's classic all-time classic song But he you can see the immediate kind of charisma that he has and the acting talent he has similar to even though I think He even though it was still kind of the time stylized at some point as opposed to like what's his face from? Devdas and Oh the original Devdas Me too, I know you're talking about Anyways, him who obviously brought the kind of method. Yes style even though he did at times. Sorry Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that But you same kind of like I want to I like what I'm seeing. He's really really talented. Absolutely a lot of charisma I mean, I loved his performance in this. I did to him and the kid Yeah, it's young yourself, which was Josh or Sasha. I thought it was great It really does. I'll get on it right now because also I want to talk a lot about Their dad yes, we'll get you all over right now, but we've set up a forum. We'll say it over and over again And it's in all industries But I Understand because we haven't seen all of his work, but whenever we watch coffee with Karen There's always the list that he says and put these actors in order of who you think are the best Mm-hmm, and if Ranbir is in the list Ranbir is number one Yeah, oh, yes always. Yeah, and I don't think it's just because his last name is Kapoor No, I think it's pretty obvious in just the limited exposure that we've gotten to the Kapoor family That this isn't yes, there is favoritism that happens when you're in a family in a family business That's the nature of a family business But if they can deliver on the goods That why would you not want that? Why wouldn't you be why wouldn't you have? somebody like Anybody that's great at what they do and want them to have kids and hope that their kids are as good if not better than them Because what they contributed was so great and it's very very clear that this is a movie making family The likes of which I don't think there is in any Cinema anywhere on earth. Yeah, I can't think of a comparable Hollywood family. Yeah, no, there isn't one maybe In like the producing side of it like who've been in yeah who've been who are like the people behind the money people Money people but in terms of talent making directing star. Yeah, so yeah, I he he he really impressed me Absolutely, not only in his acting in his directing his directing was off the frickin charge It was worse and well as good. Yeah in terms of what they did Let's really talk about this all the time when we ever watch a black and white film What they can do which is why you often don't like it restored or I mean colorized because obviously especially in Hollywood It was made because they were like we can't we can only do black and white So the lighting is made for black and white though and this one I want this one that way because give you for example My bizarre and move a liaison. Those are such epic ornate films. Yeah that colorizing them helps you appreciate what went into the production Design and the ornate-ness of it. Yeah This one doesn't have any settings that are ornate. Well, I might have liked to see that the dream I might have But yeah, but even still I And I like the citizen Kane ask yeah black and white use and his use He's as good with he's as good with black and white and with shadow and with lighting and with angles as Orson Welles ever was if not better. Yeah, and Just some of the moments he captured I don't even know how long he took to get that were so great Just for example this little one when the knife gets thrown and it hits the door Yeah, it hits and some blood drips down and then the door opens. I Don't know if that was serendipitous Or if that's what he wanted and he's like I want the knife to hit and then hopefully we can get blood to drip down Right where the knife hit. I wonder if they like just soaked it. Yeah, just so I think it was it was a soak We're gonna hit it and then hopefully it won't splash. It'll just hit and then drip it Little things like that. I don't know. I did it brilliant. Ah, and just brilliant. I probably should have inches the cinematographer as well Yeah Radu Carmacar forgive. I miss pronunciation. It was also composed by say these names a combo of folks Jaikishin Diabolo Patel. I know I butchered that forgive me Shankar Singh Raghuwanshi and we'll get back to the actors just second, but Man, that was one of the best song sequencer I mean this whole film is full of great songs every single song with it And it's not Nargis and Raj and they had great great songs great songs and great score throughout such calm Flex violin arrangements, but the one that really just steals the show incredible is one of the most amazing sequences I've seen in cinema in cinema especially old cinema unquestionable Mike what they were able to do with the set design Unbelievable the way that was she's in the clouds and he's down in hell He's down in hell and then he gets caught behind the skeletal arms And of course they made wrap around him and he's walking through literal fire Getting into the thing then Raj decides he wants a POV shot from within the thing so that the skeletal arms are in front of camera He did that so many so many times he wanted your POV to be from Raj's his character's perspective it's It's one of the greatest acting directing films. I've ever seen in terms of I It's mind-boggling that he was so good in both aspects. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah that number and if they were's a Production design person. I would name him because yeah, or whoever yeah or her Because this this rivals what I said like Mughal Izzam. Yeah, the Akbar those epic films obviously very different Those are those are historical epic style, but this brought just the same amount of Beauty to some of the sets some of the ones like when they were on water and it was obviously clear It was a backdrop set. Yeah, they built that. Yes, I love. Yes One of my favorite parts of old Hollywood is what the stuff they had to do and they still have to do it But there you're so much more you can do with CGI now that that you can get away with I also know There's probably no footage of this but man what I have loved to have been a fly on the wall To watch how the things worked dynamically on the set and the way that Raj worked with his dad Because at this point his dad's a legend, you know, he's a extraordinarily well-known actor in Indian cinema He was considered as a time to be the most handsome of riveting screen presence. We haven't talked about him yet but I Wondered what it was like. He's directing his dad in this film You know and I wonder what that dynamic was like where he's deferring and offering respect But how much his dad freed him up how much he Asked his dad for help or maybe didn't I would have loved to watch But can we talk about him or do you want to tell you about him or Nargis first? Let's go to Nargis. Let's go to Nargis Nargis Quickly becoming we've seen this is our third. Yeah mother India was first, right? And then there was another one, right? forgetting because I feel like Yeah, I feel like there was another film we saw her in maybe it's just songs that I'm thinking of it can that Case to I just obviously we know mother India was the first one and we were impressed with her in that I Feel like there was another there was a black and white one that we saw her in Maybe maybe not I guess you guys can let us know. Maybe I'm just forgetting anyway, but yeah She's I think she's such a talented actress. I love her with obviously a great screen presence But yeah, she we saw her acting jobs in mother India. Yeah, she freaking just killed that. Yeah, especially in the first half of That but yeah, this one shows obviously a completely different character a different side of her who gets to play like the charming I Almost love interest, but obviously a highly educated Strong which is very different for the time obviously that this film was made And obviously she she stood well up against these other two Raj and And the provot is his name provathi Pretty Raj pretty Raj. Thank you Stands up well against both of them has Phenomenal and I think they were dating at the time. Oh, were they did they date did Raj and and they did for and Nardis date Okay, I thought they did but maybe I'm just wrong But they had great chemistry incredible if they didn't because they were just like there were a couple of moments I was like, you know, some of some of you making films right now or in the past like 40 years You just need to go back and watch they had more chemistry and some of their scenes then Entire full Musical numbers that we've seen from Indian films, but you know the Bollywood films where they try to get sexual tension Where they're you know kiss on the neck and you pull away and the veil comes across and this they didn't need anything But the two of them on screen looking at each other. It was very sensual. It's deeply sensual in 1951 The bathing suit sequence. Yeah, I freaking loved it and her getting undressed behind the thing And then he takes the thing down if we're split second You're like dang did he do that before she was changed? Yeah, they were sexy when he goes to kiss her I loved this shot. He goes into kiss her when he's standing behind like I guess it's the sail that was on that boat They were on that they said the sail could the ship could sink and he goes into the the thing with her and then The light goes out right as he's about to kiss her and I just it was so They're very sexy. Yeah, absolutely and another thing that Raj Just think of this one shot It was towards the end where he was singing a song as he just stole the necklace and given it to her Oh, yeah necklace empty box. She came he after he just sang a song it was on the beach She showed up in the back and the shadows were full over and the shadow was over his face. Yes It was a gorgeous shot. Absolutely the way he was able to utilize many shadows in the black and white is Impeccable so many shots the their on-screen chemistry was amazing And you were kind of just invested from the very beginning. Yes, even when they were kids You kind of just stayed invested to these to these two people to the very very end We'll get into the story in a second because let's talk. That's right guys. I Don't know that there's ever been for me a more enigmatic charismatic Magnetizing presence on screen. He does have a very Epic presence and my goodness charisma. Yeah, I mean, I just He's one of those actors Like Daniel Day-Lewis. He just let that you not only just want to watch him think You can't stop looking at them like they could just be eating and you just you're like this He I've he has I mean I already fell in love with him and wiggly is on right Which is crazy that that was almost ten years after this right? Yeah, it should have been before but he I Want to see everything he's ever done because he and I understand that he Founded a theater and this is ridiculous like in a span of 16 years did over 2,000 plays that he was the star in 2000 yes, so it was like a play a week How I I don't know feels like it's not real Well, he did he was he is a thespian and he did create a theater I don't know if that was the exact tally, but that was the the thing that I read. Yeah, I Absolutely Love this man. He's he is everything you could want from a screen actor. Yeah, absolutely And he brought exactly what you want you you hated him at times You were and then you're mad at him and you he's such an ass. Yeah He is but but all on his principles and and all that kind of stuff Yeah, you get so upset with him But film and that'll get into the story even though I still feel like he was all let off a little too easy Him yeah, the judge. Yeah, of course. I feel like he was let off. That's that's he's supposed to be Yeah, he's the he's the one with the power and the status and the education and the principles Yeah, so he get he gets let off easy while the criminal ends where he's supposed to be in jail Yeah, yeah, obviously, there's the whole social message. Oh my god Well, we haven't even gotten into that. There's quite a few social messages quite a few I guess but yeah the overall story which is three hours long, which is what we said at the beginning of the lesson We expect all these classes no problem at the runtime three hours No problem, especially with what they how they paste it. Well, there's a lot of songs And it's just so pretty to look at it's almost in black and white. It's almost like watching Orson Welles or yeah, it's time to leave inside but black and white. Yeah, everything was just so grandeur so epic And it was just it kind of helped the story just flow along for three hours Yeah, it was just one another testament to yeah, Raj Kapoor and he's directing But yeah, the the overall story I thought was a really good story the the overall message especially there at the end where he was talking about, you know Okay, I'm gonna go to jail But you think that's gonna stop all these other criminals, right that are out there because that's the situation They're put in that have been and for many of them because it has the nature versus nurture aspect Yeah, many of them are there because society has created that you know and continues to perpetuate it and doesn't help It doesn't help which is not only an Indian bro. No, we constantly talk about that in our politics here Just the 1% gets or the rich people get everything they want and they're kind of the middle or the lower class Yeah, it's completely forgotten and then you wonder why they You know are doing some of the stuff that they're doing and yeah, so it's it's a film for the film That was 1950 and it's still relevant for every I feel it sure is it sure is and we not Sweden just yesterday and drawn in and we're driving around and she asked me a question about you know Where because she was she's getting the lay of the land in LA and she recognizes that LA is like a lot of other cities and that The downtown area is and is where it's kind of the slums and the low income and the suburbs are where it's the nice Income and you can see the difference in skin tones as well Hmm, and I said, yeah, that's not a coincidence It's the suburbs were created by rich white people here in the 1950s and 60s They were they were not wanting to have black people live where they live And so they relegated them and put them into the downtown area And that's why you have that and they've done everything they can to keep it that way And it's not just that's not just a it's not an america thing and it's not even just a white thing It's a classist greedy thing and that's why I like this better than citizen cane for a lot of reasons Citizen cane for me is very one-dimensional I think this is so multi-dimensional because it covers so many universal truths and it covers so many strong things, but particularly on the political things Yes, I know this has a very strong socialist message Bernie Sanders, yeah No Let's we don't live in a perfect world and since we don't live in a perfect world Actually socialism is the one that's going to work the best. You know why real quick capitalism doesn't work because people are greedy Communism doesn't work because generosity shouldn't be forced So if you're without those two, you got to have somewhere in the middle And this film does a really great job of pointing out the nature versus nurture two of my favorite lines in the film One is his he's talking to the guy who's going to hire him He says you don't want to employ thieves. Would you rather they keep thieving their whole lives? Yep We do in america if you're a felon. Yeah, can't get a job Forever you could have had a clean record you commit one felony and the judge's lenient gives you three years of probation That is stamped on you forever. You can't get an apartment. You can't get a job. You'll never vote again And then this line this line is one of the greatest lines in my opinion in cinematic history So here is our hero, right? Here's raj He's tormented because he he has the the guilt of what he's done And he also knows he's guilty for the crimes But she loves him and he feels like he shouldn't even be loved by her She's like, but yeah, but you feel sorry for what you've done. He says, yeah, but you'd still be marrying a thief society Won't ever accept me and she says Your guilt will be this brides vermilion Shut up Shut up. Yeah The writing of this Frickin leaveable There was a lot of really great dialogue in this really poetic dialogue, especially between nargis and oh, yeah And then Raj Kapoor, um, but there was any parts you didn't like no There was one that just it was a part that made me laugh I just didn't like it as as much as they liked the rest of the film, which was the mom The her head rapping. No, the basically she stepped in front of a slow-moving car That didn't bother me and then they're wrapping your head. The head thing is a little weird It's it's similar to how the mom died in like, uh, i'm your rock bar anthony Yeah That's what I love. Oh the god. I loved our we didn't talk about him as an actor. I thought he did a great job Playing a bad guy. Yeah, but our our our henchmen, right? And I knew it. I knew that what was going to happen when you got Yeah, uh jogger who's played by can sing did a very good job throughout the whole thing but Andrani happened to be peeking over and watching with me at that time and Raj It's so great because uh, Raj Kapoor. Yeah, Raj Kapoor had the camera right there and he's reaching up at the camera And he goes Totally happy with that. Totally done. I'm bleeding to death. I'm bleeding to death. I'm gone And I I kind of chalked it up to kind of the time It was the time that it was made but yeah, like especially like when the mom got hit by a slow-moving car then they have her head wrapped and and All this kind of stuff was like, I know why you're doing it But at least hey at least Raj, I was like in the directing at least he put her in a really gnarly body position Did you notice that when they stopped camera and went she was really twisted underneath the thing? So he did he did try to make it look worse Didn't credit for that It actually thought the end part uh with them embracing between the the the thing was really I don't go through the chemistry again. Uh, that's that's and that final frame Down to the final I when it ended I I said out loud. I said just perfect The final frame of Raj He's standing and he's looking at the window and the fact that the window was positioned up so high You know, it's it's unattainable. His freedom is always going to be unattainable And he's behind bars and he's locked because the system Is created by people who have a power that isn't built upon anything other than what they want to keep themselves in power And good people get punished for things because they don't have power. Yep. Yeah, they're brilliant Yeah, absolutely everything for about this film is probably one of my favorite classics that we've seen absolutely Obviously, we've seen a bunch of great classics. It's been an amazing month, but especially this month. We haven't seen we've seen all great ones Something different. Yeah, freaking great movies. Yeah, overall I think this is probably one of the overall best no good classic book films that we've seen in terms of directing Acting cinematography writing score everything. It's a very complete actor actress supporting actor supporting actor His third directing film too incredible, and it really is apparently wasn't supposed to be the original director either. I don't know if you read that Uh, oh, yeah, I know first apparently they had a cast that's supposed to be attached cute Uh, which I don't know what casting that you did well this again The fact that you know, I've been interested in theater and film All of my life. I've been you know, I was a member of SAG at four years old. I grew up in the entertainment industry I studied my you know my years of theater in high school I then went as a theater major to cal state north ridge. I taught theater I created a conservatory of fine art You would thank somebody that's supposed to be as educated as I was would have known about a film That freaking good in cinema But no, you know why because it's indian. Yeah And he's racist good freaking grief pisses me off This needs to be Why citizen kane would be taught just because it impacted american cinema and not this which is a more universal film boggles the freaking mind. Yeah, absolutely phenomenal film. So let us know what should be our next classic In general, but also raj kapoor. Yeah, uh, and uh, gnarly rose and prithee raj all three of them as well For them because I know they've done they did quite a few films together. Yeah, raj kapoor and nargis quite a few I know they did shree 420 as well, which is Doing this kind of cinematic he's carrying the 20 you remind me of one other thing I don't know if you know about this little trivia, but his his prison number Which one his prison number I don't it's 308. I think oh Yeah, his prison number 308 That's the exact article number in the penal code in india that he is charged for for his crime Oh, really? So he so raj or the writer whoever gave the character when they call prisoner number 308 He's given the number of the penal code that he was charged for the crime. Interesting. Yeah, I'm glad I remembered that Let us know what the next classic should be down below