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But similar to if you saw the Joker one where we discussed who would play the Joker there Who could be the best Joker or from the actors we know from India very excitingly just I believe yesterday it was that India announced that their official selection that they chose not the Oscars the Oscars does not choose it India chose to send a gully boy right as their officials their free mission to the Oscars for the best foreign film right which we are very excited about and very It's like what are the there's so many things that have happened in our lives and on this channel where you can say What are the odds of this yeah the first trailer we ever saw the first film we ever saw in theaters? Yeah, and every little review of Depth of how that connected. I mean I got a freaking tattoo that says up in a time. I got so yes We are very excited for it And so we're not gonna do another review of it obviously, but we're gonna discuss It's chances of actually one getting the nomination and getting an Oscar Because we the moment this happened I know you got it on Twitter and our OSR thing just hundreds hundreds of messages about What do you think about this as the submission and I've seen everything from how cool and awesome is this too? Why did they choose this yes, so that's why we're touching on the controversy Yes, and so we're gonna discuss that and why One if we like it or if we think it's a brilliant idea Which I will discuss later in the program There's multiple get ready there's multiple reasons but so the other Films because this is that I put actually up a poll on YouTube last night Because I wanted to see what people thought about it. I said okay, so basically here are the films that were being considered by Yeah, by India. Well here. I first submission. I put the films that I've heard most people say they wanted to be submitted Okay, do we have an actual yes? I will show you okay, but We are I said what do you who do you think should have been the selection of? for the 2020 I said golly boy Uri on the Honda Honda super dogs or tombad Uri Blew it out of the water I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that it's very patriotic and it's great It's the core sure a lot of Indians of course and I 100% agree Uri is a fantastic film. You know we love that film. Yeah, if it had been selected I would have not been unhappy. No, absolutely I don't think obviously we haven't seen tombad or Super dogs, but I would have actually been happy with all three of those There's a reason I think actually golly boy is probably the best especially for being selected feel the same way of those options Yeah, that for me and again It's hard sometimes to differentiate the personal depth of the impact of that But if I put on just my critical hat away objectively of those options I too would have selected but here are the ones that were They're actual so these are the ones that the film Federation of India So the FFI are the ones that at the film Federation of India. You probably all know this They're the ones who select they have got these options and they decide this is the one We want to send to the Academy to represent India in the foreign film category. Yes And so gully boy is their selection. These are choices. They're the main ones that right We're but I hope And I'm done article 15 who have been an interesting choice would have been a very interesting choice Uri bad luck Kasari and the Tashkent files and some others Yeah, and there was a I mean because they have a ton of other things It says this apart regional language movies So they did include regional language movies to represent India. Yeah, okay any that we know no no not that we saw or Dear comrade a lot of people really enjoyed. Okay. That was a consideration So you know if you haven't seen this list to give you the regions They do them obviously with language and they've got pretty much everybody covered in some way shape or form But they looked at they've got Marathi to Lugu Gujarati cannot Bengali, but they picked Tamil obviously they pick gully boy But I want to discuss what the the other options that I put in the poll because there were what how many? 56,000 votes, which is crazy 50-60,000 people mostly 40% 40% said Uri and I believe once again It's fantastic But I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that it's so that's the core of Indians, right? And it's a great and it's a relevant story. Yeah So that was actually my first interesting way on the hunt a hun Got a higher score than gully boy in your poll Yeah, well a lot of that has to do with the fact that gully boy was selected and so people often want to go against it, right? But also people love that film and how the twists and turns so they wanted originality Which is something we can talk about with the Oscars, right and their selection process. Yes But the other options on the hunt a hun Super deluxe obviously we haven't seen but people who were really passionate about these two toon bad and super Yeah, the personal messages that I got which by the way, thank you for your messages a lot of the messages I just go in and see and don't reply to because it's just it's impossible to keep up with my messages on Instagram It's just I can't do it anymore a lot of I got a lot of people in my messages saying It should have been super deluxe. Yeah, and so obviously we haven't seen so we can't speak specifically to that Right, but from what we saw in the trailer. I think super deluxe would have been too complicated for Americans to understand. I Think I don't I haven't seen that so I can't say right. We don't know but I'm sure it's amazing and we will watch it Right. Don't worry, right toon bad. I know you don't say it is But it's a horror those do not unless they are transcendent of the genre like a get-out They do not get nominated for Oscars. I know you say it's not a horror, right? But it looks like a horror it would fall based on what we know about it because we haven't seen it In fact, we've talked about probably watching it. We'll watch it We were probably gonna watch it in October no promises because that's Halloween season and scary movies are popular in the history of the motion picture Academy Only one film has ever won the Oscar for best picture that was horror and that was the silence of the Lambs It won best director best actor best actress and best film the first and only film in the genre of horror to ever get an Oscar I think you can count on one hand Well, I think it's exorcist signs the Lambs and then get out get out or the three that got nominated That had a nomination and that's in the main category not foreign film, correct So that's why I odds of you getting a nom on a foreign film horror film is not gonna happen Once again, we know you say it's not a horror film. We will the Academy would see it that way We'd see it that way also in foreign category. They don't treat it the same as best picture, which is one of the issues I had a Right away with gully boy is because a lot of people the way we have a lot of problems with the academy As a lot of people do a lot of people do they get it right a lot of the time and they just freaking blow it And also their process as well. Yes, of course, they got in trouble a while back for being what 90 white men And so and they're trying to their credit to their credit make drastic changes quick But anyways, but still uh, but most of the time they don't actually have to watch these films to vote on them Which is really really sad Makes us both really hard But foreign film is one of the ones that often gets pushed on the wayside. Yeah, normally for foreign film You need one of those things. I believe It was the last year the year before that that one with the transgender girl from uh, uh, yes, yes, yes Fantastic film saw it loved it. Um, but you need something like that It's political and almost cultural so they like everybody that's the hype around it for those. Yeah, for example Academy members won't watch what they should be voting on Therefore they will select the film that they've heard the most about yes so Going into gully boy. This is why I think Obviously, we love the the direction. We love the acting. We love this music. And so it's an all-around fantastic It's a great movie. Yeah, um, and it has worked in the past. Obviously eight miles a similar story It's not I think it's not the exact same story. Obviously at all Yeah, uh, some people were upset because they think that it only nominated because it was in the slums again For no, it's very different than slumdog millionaire. So I don't think very I don't think that's that's the vibe you get from this film Not at all But here's the reason I think this is actually a brilliant choice I'm glad to hear you say that for the oscars. Yeah, because I'm with one because here's the main reason actually um The oscars are not above political and reasons to um Voting picking something specifically for a to help their views Wait a minute. Are you saying The academy might make choices not based on artistic merit, but based on the fact that there's an agenda they want pushed Yes, you're 100 And once again not we you know, we love gully boy and we're rooting for it hard and we think it's an amazing film Yes, but here's why it should be the uh a selection The oscars have struggled with viewership For years now To pick a film that has the two biggest stars Well, two arguably stars in india, correct to be at the oscars, correct You would get those views Just by picking it. Yes to the nomination and academy Members and people at the academy and the pre guy whoever's producing the oscars now It used to be gobert kates who's who's not here anymore If you guys don't have run beer and alia at the oscars, you're morons. Yeah, you are your absolute idiots One to see what brand beer is going to wear for one hundred percent. That's going to be amazing He's going to be talked about on a red carpet and that will immediately Catapult also american consciousness hollywood should want and this is one of the selfish reasons Why I want it to be the nomination. I want people to see alia. Yes, and I want people to see rand veer Yes, and I want colky and I want people to see the director. Yes I selfishly really want them to be seen. This is a golden opportunity For the people that we have seen and have come to love I think it was a conscious decision shoved into the consciousness of america by india. Yes to pick their biggest Yes stars a hundred percent and be like this because they've struggled obviously not with the content Because they've obviously put out good content, right? They've struggled with getting a seat at the table exactly at the oscars Exactly So this is their shot. This is their shot at just getting a nomination And I gotta say alia is probably thrilled because I know She has aspirations to be successful in hollywood. This is an absolute beautiful open door possibility Her people Her management her publicist and everybody pushing hard. You all better be working 24-7 over the next six months and for that girl and you're in america And the uh the oscar process another huge problem is that the fact that you have to campaign A lot a lot. It's sad. It's terrible. We have a lot of problems with the oscars But that's a fact that you have to do you have to campaign for your film Is who wants it like who would you rather have campaign for you than alia and rand veer come on Come on seriously fantastic choice. It's one a brilliant film. We're not saying it's like like You know Legend film like you know how people think of mother india or you know, we know it's not like the or even in terms Let's just say a film. There's any given movie at any given year. It's header Yeah, that's the artistic film that's at the top of the top where you go This should win best picture if I get foreign film. Yeah, but what you have to consider is Sadly you have to take into consideration All of these other factors because we've yet to really talk about the artistic merits because I do feel While it is there are probably other films out this year that would hit the artistic level of oscar caliber worthiness This is not a selection where I look at it and go. Oh, this was just politics This has artistic to it worthy of an oscar nom 100 there's acting. There's music. There's directing. It's all amazing Even the member when we watched the behind the scenes and we realized how How detailed the production design was that the entire production design of this thing. It was intentional for What's her? What's her name? Zoya? Um, uh, the director of gully boy. I've got to have her name on the on my Zoya, I got it. Uh, that zoya It was important for her for everybody in production. That's the art department costuming lighting everybody She didn't want any hues of blue. That's awesome The entirety of that film you don't get any blue which by the way That's probably the most wonderful color on camera is blue. It's a good color But she did it for an artistic reason and the artistic Relevance as well as there's another thing about this movie, which is what resonated with us when we saw the trailer Gully boy was our first bollywood india trailer We've ever seen in our life next year and the first film we ever saw in a movie theater And I will tell you I remember our reaction both to the trailer and to the film As americans who know nothing about india and this is gonna be A lot of people's experience here who watch the academy awards They will never have heard of renvir and alia. They will not know about this film But the fact that this is such a universally relevant story connected to a genre of art The hip hop world that so many in this country can relate to This movie has the capacity to be an international sensation the likes of which Americans would gravitate toward it the way we did and recognize this isn't just some indian film This is a great film with a personal story that we can relate to this film If it wasn't american made film would have been nominated for best picture It would have just because you don't need to be political to get nominated for best picture because lala lands you got the shape of water You know, there's a bunch of films that are just fantastically made films that are political and that's a good comparison Using for example lala land in shape of water two films that were nominated for best picture And for me were the ones I wanted to win best picture Uh shape of water on an artistic level Was about as good as you can get with making film because Guillermo is an absolute master of cinema. Yes Lala land though for me it was best picture quality. I would not put it in the shape of water No, no, definitely not but it's still a best picture gully boy falls for me in that same category of a lala land This original piece of work with original music that was created for it That is 100 believable that tells you a story that everybody on the planet can relate to the way that people Could relate to the story of rocky you've got this underdog that nobody expects including himself to do anything great with And it is for us the very reason our eyes were open to everything else in india and you have the Two I'm obviously we know what we said brand beer was fine when we saw it because we didn't understand idiots But yeah, we are uh, but you have alias powerhouse performance. Yep And remember we we said this girl's a revelation Any americans who see this? Oh, yeah, are gonna go. Who's that girl? We need her in films that girl Yeah, and then when they see renvier show up on the red carpet Oh, and they're like, who's this freaking male lady gaga man? Who is this guy? Yeah, come on guys Come on. So this is when you have to think about Um, I know because a lot of people want tombad. They want they want on the hunt They want they want regional. No. Yeah, they want a new they want these um Films that are very unique and uh very original and these creative ideas But you you're thinking as an indian and you've seen other indian film You have to think as an american who most of the time are quite stupid and have never seen an indian film So you need a digest like we talk about almost all the time with any review we do Yeah, would we introduce this to an american right away right away? This this I would put this before I mean pretty much everything. Well, this or urie Yeah, but I think this has more artistic merit than urie. Yeah This this is by far anybody I introduced to indian cinema I say you should start where we did you should start with gully boy because what this will do for you as an american viewer who first of all Has a particular mindset about the runtime of a film. That's one Number two has a particular idea in mind guys I'll talk about this a lot in the future reviews But as I'm learning more about indian cinema and I'm learning more about uh satyajit ray and I'm learning more about the aesthetic of The way india approaches storytelling. Yeah, right like when we watched, um The last one with srk the the cricket film of uh, uh, right chopped india People kept saying it's this isn't a movie. It's an emotion. Yeah, I didn't know what that meant until I started reading satyajit ray's book American audiences are westernized guys and this is what I mean by that Their ability to comprehend emotion picture is going to be built on socrates and that Understanding of catharsis the creation of character and plot being the most important thing in a story We've got to see a climax a conflict a climax a resolution and character arcs in a span of 90 to 120 minutes That's the american mindset when you give them something other than that where in india Especially some regional films where you're not necessarily going to approach it from a western Socrates mindset of storytelling greek. It's going to be eastern There's going to be films that they would see that have no arc for the character because the character needs to stay As they are they're the rock for the whole so for a western mind would be I saw no growth in that character And for an eastern mind said it would be you're not supposed to you're supposed to see what's going on around them It's the difference between Western film is storytelling eastern is storytelling, but has a lot of films that are just poetry And for people here who don't know what poetry even is You're not going to get a film that would be more of the artistic kind who love film As a part of the academy to look at it's got to be something that they're once Once they're introduced to it like us I believe once a film like a gully boy Gets attention You could then start to introduce the more artistic films because they would have then begin to understand where you're coming from Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they'll see they'll see ali and they'll be like, oh, what else you got? And they'll just be highway. They'll see all the stuff renvia. They'll be like, oh, they'll watch bottom of bottom But stronger musta none exactly and then they'll start to go look at the cinematography Yeah, and then they'll get deeper and look at deeper. Yeah, then they could watch a header This is why I think this is a brilliant then they can watch a dev doc for For the oscars to submit really. No, it's not the nomination yet, but I think it has a good chance I think it has to be one great chance because of all the things you just talked about also because Oscars want those views. Yes And and let's point this out. I hate saying it. We've got to say it But it's a woman who directed it. It's true So the oscars are going to pay attention to that guys The the the the federation in india I guarantee they looked at that and thought we've got a better shot at submitting something that has a woman at the helm Because women are underrepresented here and it's talked about all the time. It has a female director a strong female leader Lead yes in the film Uh, and so this has a lot of the elements that you would need We know great users that might be more original But that's not you want you need to seat at the table first Yes, uh, and then we can discuss like if every single year india starts putting Not that they don't put out films that are quality and could be nominated for the oscars We know that's they do that every single year, but we're trying to get americans to realize Yeah, you've got you've got in this film. You have a very rare Thing indeed in that you've got a film that makes sense politically for the oscars But also has enough clout artistically For the diehards who want to see something of meritorious artistic elevation That I I think everybody in india needs to be jumping up and down right now. Yeah And I would be very excited and we're going to be rooting hard for oh my like if gully boy If you want to come on the channel if you want to we will help promote this anything Everything we can do like We know where the red carpet is we can be down there In fact, we should probably find out how we can get a spot interviewing some folks because I would love to get Ranveer and alia and just do like an interview on the red carpet You know how hard in india would be to get an interview with Ranveer or alia I know but how easy it would be here easy because they're gonna go walking by and everybody's gonna be like who's that? Yeah, they might not even get the pictures. Who's that? Well, actually india said in india Let me tell you who whoever we don't know all these details. We don't need to look them up But I'm here to tell you whoever is representing Ranveer both management agent publicist everybody same thing with alia The production company behind gully boy and whoever rep zoa Every single one of you needs to be all in 100 on board. Do what you need to do get here Do the the pitching do everything you need to do to make this happen because you guys have a very Very good shot with this film now granted. We're gonna watch the other films. Yes And another thing the academy will take into consideration when they're choosing especially those who don't watch the films They'll see how long it's been since that country's won. Has that country ever won? Okay. Well, I haven't seen the films Let's do that one because they probably deserve a win. It's been 40 years Crap like that happens. They actually don't watch the films and say that's the one I think is better But this has a great shot. Yeah, so yeah, let us know what you think about in the comment section below Now I want you to get the best film Which if you actually think this has a chance that one get nominated And then win because once it gets nominated and hopefully it will we can discuss its minds Against the other competition of actually winning but to get a seat at the table Would just be so freaking excited to see Ranveer and alia at the Oscars So and when you know when when the nominations come out, we're the ones because here in the states it happens at five in the morning Oh, yeah, we'll be watching we always watch We're always up when the nominations come and we're messaging each other and freaking out and screaming and yelling because the things We got nominated got nominated and then we talk about who's the one who got completely Yeah, what's the word they use? You know doubt. Yeah, whatever that whatever it is If they if we see gully boy on that screen We will be so excited. We will lose our freaking minds. Well, I'll let us know what you thought without a comment section below You uh, will you cry? No