 We've finally watched Barfee, starring none other than Alien Number Two. No. Yes. Welcome back to our Stupid Rags video. It's I am Corbin and this is Rick. If you're new to our channel go and smash the like button and subscribe. Ring that little bell to be part of the notification squad. Please follow us on Instagram. Twitter. Oh, juicy golden. It's so juicy. Hi there. And thank you to everybody who supported us on Patreon. Yes. As always. As always. There's exclusive content on there. Every single video we do is up before it's on YouTube. Sometimes days before. And then obviously any funds we get there is going to our first trip to India. India we come to you. Hopefully soon. But we finally, finally watched Barfee after all of you screaming at us. For a couple, that could be a couple months now. Yeah. Because it was one of the first things people were saying to watch. No, I think we watched, did the trailer reaction a couple, like a month ago. And yeah, it was weeks. Just feels like months. Yes. I'm sure it does to YouTube. Well, we do at least two videos a day. So that's true. But it's a, I remember not liking the trailer very much. Really? Yeah, remember? Because I was like it looks very, what was that, Mr. Bean. Oh yeah. I liked the shout out to old school silent films. Yeah. So that was our, but they ever kept saying, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it. Right. It's amazing. So if you want to read the, I do want to read the three young people learn that love can neither be defined nor contained by society's definition of normal and abnormal. Interesting. That is an interesting synopsis. Yeah, it is. I don't know why, but synopsize it as such. Fine. But anyways, the, so this is our first introduction to the other Kapoor. Correct. Alia's current boyfriend. Correct. Who I hear they're getting married. Oh really? Yeah. Congratulations. If that's not the case then. We'll be expecting a invitation. Of course. And to be part of the wedding party. Yep. So. The starring Renbeer and Priyanka Chopra. Correct. Who? Spoiler. Spoilers. Obviously. Don't watch this if you haven't seen it. Go watch the film. Go watch the film and then come back. Now we've seen her. Yes. Before in things here in America. Mm-hmm. The first thing we saw and the only thing we've seen her until now was we saw her in Pastrami Mastinai. Mm-hmm. Pastrami Mastinai. She did amazing. She did. She did. She was a heavyweight. So shall we start with Priyanka? Yeah. As we talk about Barfi? Yes. Because I believe she's knocked her out of the freaking park. She was mind-freaking- I didn't boggle her. I didn't recognize her off the bat. Neither did I. And I had to look up because I was like that main girl's not Priyanka. I forgot she was in it. Yeah. And I'm watching this girl and then it was probably three or four minutes in. She turned her face a certain way and I went in the couch. I went, wait a minute. Yeah. Wait a freaking minute. That's freaking Priyanka. Yeah. Yeah. I think I had a very similar experience. Yeah. And once you looked really, really young too. Right. Like, I mean the other one she looked more my age. Yes. And then this one she looked almost 16. It seemed like. Come on. Keep talking. But she was so, so brilliant in this. In every single moment. Like we've seen now other films. It's one of the amazing things of Indian cinema. Yeah. How many much this subject. Yeah. Is put on film. Right. Because I can tell you maybe in one hand where maybe one film where the person with I believe she had autism in Asperger's. Right. On those spectrums. And on the very severe spectrum. Yes. Is shown in American film. Right. But now we've seen what four or five films. Yes. That just. And she was. They tackled it. She was just so pure and brilliant and honest in everything she did. Come on. On screen. And she, you just couldn't take your eyes off her. And then the whole story was just so good. I wanted to start with her because she was obviously my favorite part of the whole. She was for me too. And this will be a good segue because I can talk about her all day. And read something I wrote while I was watching her. I had no idea that this woman was at that level as an actor. Neither did I. Neither did I. I had no. And my bet is we'll probably have a similar kind of reaction when we watched Margarita with a straw just from the trailer. Right. But this was even more surprising because we didn't, I don't remember this trailer. I just, I was so caught off guard. And I mean every word of this and it'll be a good segue into the other star of the film there. Okay. I wrote. Priyanka is nothing short of a revelation. A pure delight who is riveting at all times, brutally honest in every moment with a bravery and her vulnerability comparable to any of the great performances I've seen captured on screen. And a dedication to the work as complete and disciplined as I, as I've ever seen. For me, she towers above this film in the way ledger towered above dark night. This for me is all about Priyanka. She is the preeminent reason to see this film for me. It was a very similar performance, not film wise, but a performance to I think Leo in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Yes. Great, great comparison. Perfect comparison. Both brilliant performances and just kind of transcended what we thought about those actors. Great comparison. And obviously very similar, but I think they both had similar. Yeah, that's a great comparison because until that point and people knew who Leo was, but that was the movie where everybody went, Oh my goodness, this guy's like Oscar level. Yeah. This is the real deal. And then 20 years later, he would win an Oscar. It would. But she, she was so, so brilliant and I love the character. It was the whole journey they took us through that I did not expect. Yeah. Because obviously we can talk about Ranbeer. Yeah, we will. For sure. Ranbeer. I think he was really, really good. I think obviously I think she stole the show. And I want to talk about the director too. Yes, we will get that. Obviously we're actors. So we're going to talk about it. So pull up. But he I think had a very difficult role, one being this the first experience we've had with him. And I think this is going to be a very Ranbeer relationship with him. The first time we saw Ran, Ranbeer, it was in gully boy. And it was a almost a right. This character wasn't normal. Right. But I hope that's the case. He wasn't, he was a, he was more on the, like a base level. He had a very, what I compared this film to was if any of you haven't seen it, Benny and June. I, dude, you and I have the same brand with this frickin movie. It is my favorite Johnny Depp film ever. And I love Johnny Depp. But the film itself is, it's, it's that film is on, not as it's on the high level spectrum, but these two people with social, what do you call it? Social oddity, oddities, different outside the box and unacceptable because of their differences. And then obviously Johnny's character had the very Buster Keaton thing going on. And he had a very Charlie Chaplin thing going on. But he obviously was mutant and couldn't hear. Right. And I thought he did really, really well. And I thoroughly enjoyed his performance. I thought he did everything the director wanted him to. It's just that Priyanka kind of almost stole the show. She did. And let me write, let me read some notes. You're going to like what I have to say at the fact that you brought up Benny and June. You ready? So first of all, this is for him. There is an aspect of innocent delight and charm and wishing was there, but isn't. I saw it in PK, an innocent charm. And I saw it in my name is Khan. And I see it in Priyanka. I wasn't seeing it in there and I kept looking for it. I don't think he needed an innocent charm. Well, there's an innocent charm and I wrote this. It wasn't innocent. This had the chance to be on the level of Johnny Depp and Benny and June. Part of what was missing was, and again, I said this to you before we started recording. I am 100% willing to accept that my opinion of how Ranbir did was purely me. My take away from it for whatever reason, whether it was because Priyanka so upstaged him for me in the way way more than Alia did for Ranbir. I mean, this is off the charts comparatively. I'd be willing to go back and watch it again as fresh of a slate as I possibly could. There was actually, I put this on my notes as well, as I watched him and I was rooting for him. I was really rooting for him to go beyond the physicality of what I saw as impersonating versus Johnny Depp and Benny and June doesn't impersonate Buster Keaton. He embodies Buster Keaton. I saw Ranbir doing more of an impersonation of that comedic style versus it being who he is. That's just me and there was also, and I'm getting super technical and subjective, so just hear me out. I was watching him intently and I'm rooting for him. There was an underlying current of anger in him and I didn't want that and I didn't understand why there was that one. What I wanted from this character was a sweetness. I don't think that's who the character is. And that very well may be the case. Very well may be I was imposing upon him something that isn't there and I'm not being fair to him. I completely accept that. I understand what you're saying maybe about him trying to be too much Charlie Chaplin. I get that and that could be a directorial thing. Sure. That was his choice but that I get. I don't think he needed the sweetness because I don't think he was a sweet carry. I think he was actually kind of almost a dick. That's how he expressed himself because he couldn't talk. He couldn't talk and he can't hear. And so he kind of put all this stuff out in that way to express himself. And so he probably has a bunch of pent-up anger honestly. Sure. Because I would be freaking pissed all the time if I couldn't talk. I am 100% ready to accept the fact that because I prefer sweet characters like a PK or the sweetness I sensed in Johnny Depp kind of a sweetness, a sympathetic character like a forest gum that I've imposed that on this character when he wasn't scripted or directed or portrayed that way and that's just my own filter that that's why I'd go back and watch it again. If the character really isn't supposed to be the sweetness I would go back and watch it again because I was rooting for him and to say all that I didn't think he did a bad job. I thought he did a solid job as an actor. He was believable. I didn't think he was fake. He just didn't convey for me a level of believability anywhere remotely close to Priyanka. And the character leaned more toward the anger side than he did on the hurt and vulnerable side and that could purely be me. I think it is. I thought he did really well. I agree that Priyanka was far and away the superior performance but I think this is going to be a very similar thing to Gully Boy. We've seen him obviously as Alien number two which is the greatest role in his cinema history. And you can't forget to the level where he's at. I think his crowning performances in Rockstar which we've seen the trailer for. Correct. And that looks completely different. I'm in no way saying I know what this guy's capable of. The lesson we learned with Ranveer again I take full ownership of the fact that this could be my own bias, my overthinking and not letting the role just be what it's supposed to be. Yeah, I thought he did really well. It just frustrates me as well. I was frustrated. I think everybody else did really well as well as two. That's a beautiful story. Yeah, he's going on to the director. Yeah, great transition. This was one of the most beautiful films outside of Bistrami, Mastanani and Padma Bhatt. Right. Those are completely different level. But in terms of just the natural shots obviously his was more CGI'd and all that kind of stuff. Right. But this is kind of more the exterior shots. They're just so beautiful. Unbelievable. The way you shot it was all very... Everything was almost... What's the word? Symmetrical. Symmetrical. On screen. And then obviously the way he directed this and the writing, it didn't see coming. Kind of almost a love triangle. Yeah. I didn't see that coming either. And then how they handled it. Yeah. Because obviously he fell in love with this one and then she, her mother convinced him that she should go with the other one. Which there were two scenes in this that were directly out of the notebook. Which I haven't seen so I wouldn't be able to tell. Directly. And I don't know if... It had to be like that they loved the notebook. Not the trailer we've seen recently, notebook. But the notebook Ryan Gosling. Right. When the mother took her to the site. Okay. And to talk about the guy she loves. That is directly out of the notebook. Directly out of the notebook. Directly. And then the end... Hold on. Are you going to watch the notebook? Because I don't want to spoil it. No I won't. I won't. I won't see the notebook. They die at the end together. I figured. I heard that. Yeah. It's a term breaking at the end. Obviously the film wasn't the notebook but those two scenes were directly out of the notebook. So do you think that was the same way in which he had that very cute moment where he was doing the singing in the rain moment of make him laugh for her? So you think they were complimenting the notebook probably? I think. Well I mean it was almost a direct, direct shot. Okay. Maybe they stole it. Yeah. I'm wondering if I think they probably just didn't love the notebook and they wanted to incorporate that. Well and I wrote this about the directing which we're looking at the page. It's very rare to have two people credited as directors and it'd be this seamless in its vision. I mean I think one's an AD but they got director credit as a dual direction. But I wrote this watching the direction. Directed kites too. Okay. The majority of Indian directors we have seen are more caring, detailed and aware of visual aesthetics than most directors. It's a testament to their deeply passionate emotional expressiveness and desire for artistic perfection. There are so many moments in this film and you would know this from theater classes that I've taught where I would just want, I did this with open range where I showed people how editing speed can change the way you feel about the emotion of a film because open range starts in the open range and it's at least five or six seconds for each edit. Then when they get into the town Costner starts doing edits every two seconds to make you feel that it's more fast paced. It's not as predictable. It's a little bit edgy. I could do so many scenes just on the directing from this. Yeah. And all in all, as much as I was frustrated by Rambeer, I loved this. I really did like this movie a lot and I would watch it again. Yeah. I thought it was brilliant. My favorite part was the whole love triangle. Yeah, me too. Because I was saying before he fell in love with the first girl and then that went away. And then he fell in love with this girl which I didn't see coming. And I thought he was just going to be almost a friend to her. Me too. I didn't see that coming at all. And then they kind of just understood each other because the one had, he was a mute and he couldn't hear. Right. And then the other was on the autism and Asperger spectrum. Right. And so they kind of just understood each other. Right. In the little pocket. Yes. But then she came back in and then she got jealous and so she ran away. And then you were figuring out what was going to go on that. That's the girl, right? That's the third. The third one. She did really well. She did really well. I thought she was absolutely fantastic and she played such an important part. Her character is so selfless. Yes. She so loves him. And let's just, can we just say one really negative thing for sure? What? The old age makeup on this was as bad as Edward Scissorhands. Yeah. No, no. Yeah. That was definitely awful. I didn't also understand, and this is the only other nitpick, I didn't understand why the police officer was there in the end. Well, I was surprised he outlived Barfi. Yeah. It's like, how did you make it in Barfi, didn't you? Yeah. That was a little strange. But I didn't care too much. But yeah, the story. Yes. Very sweet story. Love this film. You even liked the ending? Because it had a happy ending, as it were. Well, it was a happy film, so I was expecting that. So when he's walking away, and I'll get emotional, think about it, and you hear Priyanka go, Barfi. Mm-hmm. And you know, he can't hear her calling? Oh yeah, that was too hard. So it's up to her. Yeah. I was wondering what she was going to do. Oh, that's such a great moment. It was a great moment. She had the choice at that moment to lie and keep him. Yeah. Or be honest and let him go. And she freaking let him go. Yeah. Did that, did any mistake? Oh, no. No, that part got me. That was not even close to getting me. Oh, that part got me. I just started crying when she said Barfi. But no, they had two great scenes in this when Barfi couldn't hear when the dad died. Oh yeah, that was brilliant. A brutal scene. And I was like, oh. And he throws, he almost gets it up there. He throws the shoe up there. Yeah. Or the book, whatever he throws. Yeah, brilliant scene. I was like, oh my goodness. Yeah, this is definitely, you know, when I'm telling people here at the movies you need to see that are coming out of India, I'm definitely recommending this one. I think so. I am certain my frustrations are purely subjective about Ranbeer's character portray. I think when you go back and watch it after we see more Ranbeer content, I'm sure we will. Once we watch Rockstar, which everybody's recommending, I think it's going to be another Ranbeer thing. Yeah. Where we started off with almost their basic character, even though this one wasn't as basic as Ranbeer's character. Yeah. I think it's going to be one of those things that you're going to see how different he can be and that's the genius of it. I'm sure it is. And I'll rewatch it and let it be because the more I think about it, and even as I was reading my notes, like I said, I really do think my own expectations and desires of seeing a character like this be more like Benny and June or PK is probably not a fair thing to have done to the character. And who knows? Ranbeer may have said, you know what, I wanted to make him sweet. He wasn't written that way. He was supposed to be a dick. And the director wanted me to make sure he said, hey, stop making him so sweet. I think he was just a sarcastic asshole. And I related to him in that way. I wouldn't even equate him that way because I don't think he was mean. That's not what I was. Well, I don't equate that to being mean. I just go, that's who he is. No. For me, it was really, because I'm watching to see, I'm always asking this question when I'm enjoying a performance and I was enjoying his performance. What are you using? Like with Priyanka, wow, my goodness, what are you using? What's your emotional recall? What is it that you're doing right now that's keeping you in this character and I was watching him, I felt, and this is subjective, I felt like there was that he was defaulting toward anger which is the easiest emotion to default to as an actor versus something more complex than just anger. And I think I was probably unfair to him. Yeah. I think so too. I think you're an idiot. Well, there you go. Please let us know what other films we should watch next. Yes. We've got nothing to watch. Yeah, but you guys haven't recommended us to watch anything, so maybe get on with it. Oh, what's that Student of the Year film? Yeah, Student of the Year 2, that's probably the next one. I'm watching that one right now. Actually, that's not out yet. We'll watch Dahum 3. Oh, yeah, Dahum 3. Here we go.