Bright: Magic, Prejudice, and the Cop Who Holds a Wand | Code Flix Season 3 Episode 10

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He goes outside to get the fairy, right?
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You know, it's like, you know, when somebody, my wife would send me off a cockroach,
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got you afraid of them, right?
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I'm going to go after a cockroach And you know what I'm saying I don't catch
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it You know what I'm saying I'm going to talk about the cockroach A fight You
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know what I'm saying But this was like a real crazy thing Right,
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Answers Just moments away.
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Welcome to CodeFlix, where we analyze sci-fi and fantasy TV shows and movies
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through the lens of reality.
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I'm your host, Andre Bonner, and today I unpacked bright fantasy,
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prejudice, and power in a modern world.
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Orcs magic modern society
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those three words alone are enough to make bright standout from just about every
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other fantasy film i remember watching this movie and thinking that beyond and
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beneath all the magic, mythical creatures,
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and ancient prophecies, it felt surprisingly familiar.
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In many ways, Bright is less about fantasy and more about our own world.
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Its divisions, prejudices, and struggles just viewed through a different lens.
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The story follows a police officer played by Will Smith who finds himself caught
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up in events bigger than he ever imagined.
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Alongside his orc partner, he becomes entangled in a magical conspiracy involving
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a powerful one, alien forces and a prophecy that could bring about the end of the world.
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What makes Bright interesting is how it blends the classical fantasy elements
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with a modern urban setting.
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Elves live among humans, orcs face discrimination, magic exists in the shadows of everyday life.
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It is a world where fantasy didn't stay in the past. It evolved alongside society.
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Whether the film succeeds in all its ambitions is a conversation worth having
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but there's no denying that it
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presents a unique vision of what a modern fantasy world could look like.
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So join me as we take a deeper look into Bright, a world of magic,
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mystery and social commentary and explore the questions it leaves behind because
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sometimes the most fascinating fantasy stories are the ones that reflect our own reality.
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Bright is a 2017 American urban fantasy action film produced and directed by
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David Ayer and written by Max Landis, the son of John Landis.
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The film is set in an alternative present in which humans and mythical creatures
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coexist and details a LAPD police officer who was portrayed by Will Smith and his work partner,
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Joel Edgerton, confronting racism
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and police corruption while protecting a magic wand and the elf girl,
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Lucy Fry. who wields it.
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Noemi Rapace, Edgar Ramez, and Ike Barronolz also star.
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Principal photography began in November 2016 in Los Angeles.
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The film was released worldwide on Netflix on December 22, 2017.
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While it had received generally negative reviews from critics,
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it was exceptionally popular with viewers.
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Netflix called it one of the company's most successful original programs as of January 2018.
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It spawned an anime spin-off film, Bright Samurai Soul, in 2021.
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These are my personal insights and interpretations of bright,
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including favorite moments, themes, and characters.
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You're bright.
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You know, I had to just say that, right? Because in Jamaican culture,
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when somebody says you're bright, it means that you are brilliant,
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exceptional in some way, shape, or form, right?
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So this name or nomenclature that is given to the character in this film will
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kind of give us that kind of same vibes, you know?
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And I think that's particularly why it's so interesting to see how this film progresses, right?
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One of the things that really stood out for me was just the way how the social
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commentary piece of it really digged its heels in and pulled out something.
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Yeah, it may not have been packaged in a way that most persons would accept
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it, especially the racism, but at least it gave some insight.
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You know, and even at 2017, this was considered one of those things that,
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you know, was on the top conversations in the news, you know, on the internet, right?
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So people that thought about it and, you know, writers decided that,
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hey, we need to make sure that we are also giving some props to it.
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You know, bring it to the screen, you know, and, you know, progress the conversation
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even further, right, as we go into it.
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So, without further ado, let me jump into the deep dive.
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All right, so, if you haven't watched the film already, as I said before, go and watch it, right?
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Humans are coexisting with other sentient species, right?
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The orcs and the elves them right but
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magic is very real
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right it's practice however
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is illegal right magic
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ones exist right but only a few exceptional individuals called brights can wield
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them without dying right i mean like this is some serious crazy stuff right
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because if you take up a one right,
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You know, the only way, right, it's explained in the film that the only way
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to find out that you're bright is to actually touch a one, right?
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Now, if you're not a bright, you explode, right? And everything around, you know, just goes too.
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So, basically, you have to be really crazy.
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You have to really want, you know, the magic powers to really do that kind of shit.
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And I can bet how many of you who might be listening And people who you can't
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find in the body If you explain that to them If you have a magic wand in reality And you tell them that,
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The only way to find out if you can really use it.
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To bet that either you don't
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die or you live to become a
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most powerful being right because of the
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wand yeah not a lot of persons gonna
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be taking that up like nah you know i'm saying
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all the people who definitely like yo
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really believe are people
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who be like yo man have nothing
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else this is what i'm gonna be doing right and we
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see quite a few individuals you know characters in
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this film that actually do that kind of thing you
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know you know craziness craziness all right
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so in the opening scene we see
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a little montage that starts the scene you
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know over the credits the credits is rolling and you see my police
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car moving and stuff and it's you you know
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we're going through the city of los angeles right there's
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graffiti of all over the place and all of that from what
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i understand you know and i've never been to los angeles
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myself but what i understand is that you
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know they they have a lot of that you know
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imagery there just to show that hey you know things
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have gotten to a point where it's out of control you know certain forces are
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at work you know whether magical or not you know i'm saying then when the music
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kind of cues a little bit we get, after the montage.
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We get a little scene where we see Officer Daryl Ward and,
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Nick Jacoby, the orc, right?
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Nick is standing by the police wagon in the car.
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And Daryl, sorry, I have that backwards.
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So Daryl is the one standing by the car. And Nick, he is getting some food.
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You know what I'm saying? At that point in time, I didn't realize that he was
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actually getting it for Daryl, right?
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And I'm going to ask him one bag of things. Like him and say,
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yo, you want the red sauce or the green sauce?
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And, you know, and Daryl does look very annoyed. Like, yo, bro,
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just hurry up and do what you do.
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You know what I'm saying? He literally says, yo, hurry up and do what you do.
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And then there is a robbery inside of a store, you know, and Daryl is literally
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outside, you know what I'm saying?
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And the perpetrator is an orc, right? And he runs out.
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And he shoots Daryl, right?
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Daryl goes down and Nick pursues him, right?
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And at that point in time, we don't really see much, only that,
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you know, it looks like he lost the perp, right? The suspect gone.
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Then the next scene, I think, is Daryl waking up in bed at home.
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And he goes into the kitchen where he sees his wife.
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And she immediately, immediately lets him know, hey, I need help with one fairy out there.
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And that is where the film transitions from like an ordinary film to like fantasy to me.
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I mean, the orc thing was, you know, it was a definite thing there.
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But when you see him talk, boy, yo, his wife say to him, say,
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yo, listen, you need to deal with that fairy out there.
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So the fairy are going with things out there.
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So, you know, them are like, yo, all right, I'm going to deal with the fairy, you know, and thing.
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And them are going to talk and thing. And we get to realize he was out of the
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force for a little while because of his injury.
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And he's going to return that very same day, right?
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And hope, but I definitely can't do anything else right now because he needs his pension.
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And many persons, you know what I'm saying, they find themselves locked into
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a job or a position like that, and, you know what I'm saying,
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that's all they know, and they can only do that, right?
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And then, you know, the other day, some of them get, you know,
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kicked off benefits, and even people who have served in the military just get
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you know what a dot get so you know that's the best way I can put it right without
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you know not having this video this audio go viral right.
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What, you know, happens is that, you know, right after that,
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as I mentioned, he goes outside to get the fairy, right?
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You know, it's like, you know, when somebody, my wife would send me off a cockroach,
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got to free to them, right?
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I'm going to go off a cockroach and, you know what I'm saying?
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I don't catch it, you know what I'm saying? I'm going to fuck me,
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I did cockroach, I fight, you know what I'm saying?
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But this was like a real crazy thing, right?
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I'm going to try to get the theory.
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He has some neighbors, you know, and you can see that as a police officer,
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he's not even in a reputable community, you know.
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You can see, say, yo, we're in there. He's in one of them neighborhoods there.
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You know what I'm saying?
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We have little gangsters on the lawn, and them just out and proud,
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and them just do them things.
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And it's like, yo, officer, you better get that theory, you know,
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like yo you know and like yo mind your
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own business you know will already you know
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will smith has this with most roles he brings across that kind of thing like
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yo mind your own business you know just like call him in slap arm chris i want
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award ceremony because if they
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ever want keep his wife name out of your mouth anyways you know said so.
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I you know at that point i'm like yo
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you know you can you can see say yo
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this is something the mafia deal with you up on a regular basis
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and thing then guess who now show up home
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yard drive up police wagon
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on the lawn you know the man jive up
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no nick jacobi the ark
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right and he come up there and thing anyone say
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yo you know he thought it was a good idea to come and you know take him to work
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for the first day and thing and man like yo never you show up at my dad you
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know the police screws up basically yo you know i'm saying yeah you know don't
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do that again you know i'm saying.
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Anyways they you know they're going for work that day and thing and so there
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was an investigation I must mention this, right?
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There was an investigation into what happened to the suspect that Jacobi failed to apprehend, right?
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Internal affairs, them are suspects, say, Jacobi is seen as always an orc.
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And when orcs are being orcish, you know, them kind of have them clique and
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them, you know what I'm saying, them will make things slide.
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And this mirrors reality again with how, you know,
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corruption can play into these circumstances, especially, you know,
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people in authority and people being able to, you know, do certain things, right?
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Now I call no name, right? You know who me I talk about.
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So, basically, you know, everybody just don't like the orcs, right?
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So, when Daryl is in the changing room, basically, I change,
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everybody in there, I change with him and thing, other officers and stuff.
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Them basically come to him like, yo, brother, you need to get rid of Dracobi,
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you know what I'm saying?
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And them give advice as to how we can do it. and you know I'm saying in terms
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of take him to one neighborhood and let him just deal with him case or you know
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one bag of sitting and thing you know and Daryl is he must stand him going like him and say yo,
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what you ask me for do what kind of foolishness you ask me for do you know I'm
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saying he cuts them out and thing you know he cuts them out in nothing a way
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for say yo he must defend Jacobino he's more like yo,
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this are the situation right now and but now i'm gonna do them the f-top stuff
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when one asks me for do because but just wanna get this guy out and whatever you know i'm saying,
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at least give him a little chance and thing and really make him mess up himself
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and thing and you know i'm saying we have good reason for letting him off and
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thing right later on there's a police briefing and,
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Right after the police briefing and thing, and them, you know,
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them getting my assignments for the day, them beats and so on, Nick.
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Daryl, asked Nick, say, listen, me, when you go set up the, the car and thing,
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I'll be out there shortly, you know what I'm saying, I'm going to join in a
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few and thing, but just need to talk to the Captain Bosom.
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Now, Nick, kind of push back, like him and say, but, you know what I'm saying,
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like, my partner, and him and say, no, just go and do it, do what I tell him to do.
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He goes and he does it While Daryl goes to the To the Captain and basically
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be like yo I want Jacobi out Can you put him with another car like Yo me need him out and thing,
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And she's no better She don't give him no good advice You know I'm saying re re re re re Right.
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At some point Internal affairs also accost him Right,
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because I think they go out and oh yeah they go out and catch this guy with
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a sword right this guy have this long hell of a sword right and you can see this
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sword look like one of the King Arthur kind of sword thing and he go out with
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some things and things with it and he say yo put the sword down you know and
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you know they apprehend the guy and the guy start to speak orcish to Nick and
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And basically, I tell him, say, yo,
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Daryl is to be protected because he's blessed or something like that.
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Like, yo, you know, I'm special, you know, re, re, re.
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And so that's when we realized, hey, yo, Daryl, I got to be the bright,
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you know, he's going to be the bright, you know.
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They end up taking the guy in to the station and when they reach the night station
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and thing, that's when internal affairs stops Daryl and they talk to him and thing and say, yo.
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We know things say Jacoby, you know what I'm saying, re re re,
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so what we want you to do is to get him to confess on tape and then give him
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on tape recorder, get him to confess on tape and say, yo,
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he allowed the Ark to go, you know what I'm saying and thing and re re,
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and and all of these things so and put jacobina basically had you know one of
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them who was there where in can't come out all right so,
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Daryl be like yo all right may do it may do it because me really want get this
00:20:27.565 --> 00:20:32.565
guy out in probably a thing and I'm also a thing so yo get these guys off my
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back Right If you come to me every minute But this that that You know what I'm saying,
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So Then you know Go back up on
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a beat With him and things So You know Then they chat
00:20:44.025 --> 00:20:48.145
and things And him And kind of bring up Certain conversations To try and force
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him To come clean And for say certain things You know But that could be He's
00:20:52.725 --> 00:20:56.285
kind of smart You know So that could be A catchy rake On certain things So he's
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on site Kind of general Without being specific About certain things On rare ways You know Mm-hmm,
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and thing and he's like yo you think someone will do this and thing to you Daryl,
00:21:06.925 --> 00:21:12.845
no I'm going to do that and really he's like hmm alright if you say so if you say so.
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So, later on in the night now, right, them respond to a disturbance on a safe house.
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See, this is a safe house for the shield of light. Yes, you heard me right. The shield of light.
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Them people, them supposed to be the ones that are at the gate guarding against the Dark Lord, right?
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So the myth or the legend is that the Dark Lord, he was able to control the orcs, right?
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In the past, and, you know, they had one big, you know, war,
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you know, orc armies against the humans and the elves, right?
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And, you know, that kind of does make it even worse because the orcs,
00:22:03.131 --> 00:22:06.491
them in our good light not at all and that's why,
00:22:07.011 --> 00:22:10.031
we get to understand more that hey that's why
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they don't like orcs because they were a part of this thing but it was not of
00:22:15.631 --> 00:22:20.451
their own volition which is what Nick keeps saying like yo I don't want to fool
00:22:20.451 --> 00:22:24.051
fall because you know what I'm saying anybody would have been under the spell
00:22:24.051 --> 00:22:28.291
of the dark lord you know what I'm saying and you just have to do what you have to do right.
00:22:29.791 --> 00:22:32.911
Anyways you know the dark lord
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was repelled by the shield of light you know
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and so they basically are
00:22:38.851 --> 00:22:42.291
staying i guess vigilant and waiting you
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know for the the circumstances when
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the prophecy will be fulfilled because they must say someone about
00:22:49.271 --> 00:22:54.251
try for someone but the dark lord to the realm and then you'll be able to do
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all of these things right yeah it kind of sound weird for me if i switch from
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normal police procedural kind of thing into magical fantasy stuff a while ago.
00:23:08.827 --> 00:23:11.167
That's the awesomeness of this film, right?
00:23:13.327 --> 00:23:18.307
So, when them go in there, it was so crazy because, you know,
00:23:18.467 --> 00:23:22.627
them say, you know, that there's evidence of magical use.
00:23:22.767 --> 00:23:26.167
And once them see that, yo, them say, yo, them need to talk to the feds and
00:23:26.167 --> 00:23:27.367
the feds are elves, right?
00:23:28.287 --> 00:23:32.207
So, you know what I'm saying? The first thing them start to kind of start go through.
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But they might, you know, try to clear the scene first before they call in anybody,
00:23:37.487 --> 00:23:37.887
you know what I'm saying?
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Then call back up you know But if you call like the feds and stuff They want
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to make sure it's everything You know what I'm saying So they go through one
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thing And they find a lone survivor named Tika Right who's an elf girl And she
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have a one Right and that's important because,
00:23:55.487 --> 00:23:56.827
As I mentioned before,
00:23:57.687 --> 00:24:04.387
Anybody who get a one Right and who want a one No say yo You know if the sacrifice
00:24:04.387 --> 00:24:10.547
is worth it They can become like gods They can literally become a god They can
00:24:10.547 --> 00:24:14.507
do anything They can get a million dollars They want it,
00:24:14.567 --> 00:24:18.167
no, they can get it They can do anything,
00:24:18.667 --> 00:24:22.687
You know what I'm saying I don't know why the bad guys They can't get anything
00:24:22.687 --> 00:24:26.787
Why the heck you're going to take You're going to take the one and summon the
00:24:26.787 --> 00:24:32.687
dark lord You know what I'm saying Why would you do such a thing Anyways,
00:24:33.627 --> 00:24:34.587
Let me say you know.
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So You know Them Them Them Take Tika Outside And Thing Right Yeah.
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The backup arrives later on.
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The officers, the same officers from the morning, who would have been telling
00:24:55.204 --> 00:25:01.044
Daryl, say, hey, listen, you need to get Jack a bit out and thing or whatever.
00:25:02.784 --> 00:25:08.704
Now, everybody, even the captain, and they're like, yo, it's a one that,
00:25:08.784 --> 00:25:12.064
you know, and the whole of them, they like, you know what I'm saying?
00:25:12.064 --> 00:25:17.924
Them get all them all them get rose colored glasses you know what I'm saying over them
00:25:18.284 --> 00:25:24.304
eyes you know like when you watch cartoon yesterday the money sign start flickering
00:25:24.304 --> 00:25:30.204
in the people's eye a sudden eye look in Jamaica what call it red eye they see
00:25:30.204 --> 00:25:32.324
one and they red eye if they want,
00:25:33.164 --> 00:25:37.084
right and now they must say yo brother I don't know,
00:25:38.044 --> 00:25:41.944
you want to do so and so you want to retire good you know And them are trying
00:25:41.944 --> 00:25:44.244
to convince Daryl And Daryl is like yo,
00:25:44.724 --> 00:25:50.444
What y'all talking about really And thing And them you know them start to get
00:25:50.444 --> 00:25:54.984
uneasy So tell them put them on The rest of the hand and then gone You know
00:25:54.984 --> 00:25:59.264
like when police are Go you know do certain things And the rest of the hand
00:25:59.264 --> 00:26:03.224
and then gone Everybody are rest of the hand and gone now They see me are saying,
00:26:03.764 --> 00:26:08.044
Who land there You know kill me for the one You know what I'm saying That's
00:26:08.044 --> 00:26:09.964
literally the way of the other boob Like yo,
00:26:11.144 --> 00:26:17.264
And thema say alright Then you better do this then You better take care of Jacob
00:26:17.264 --> 00:26:21.264
And we mean permanently You know what I'm saying And when you take care of him
00:26:21.264 --> 00:26:26.324
And think you can come in back and re-re But their plan was to take care of
00:26:26.324 --> 00:26:28.964
him too Take him out totally Right.
00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:36.060
So, of course, as I mentioned before, I don't have to state this,
00:26:36.320 --> 00:26:42.840
what happened in the car with Jacoby and Daryl, they were talking and must say, yo,
00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:48.640
you know, really want to know what did happen the day I got shot and thing and
00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.480
whatever, and he never really want to kind of come clean. So come back now to him and thing.
00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:57.820
Before him even say anything to him, he must ask him the same question again
00:26:57.820 --> 00:27:02.100
and Jacobi getting annoyed. I'm like, what is this all about?
00:27:02.280 --> 00:27:03.760
Daryl and ting and re-re-re.
00:27:04.420 --> 00:27:09.420
You know, them time, you know, before that, Jacobi did a thought to Tika and
00:27:09.420 --> 00:27:12.740
like Tika, that tell him something and ting and re-re-re.
00:27:13.320 --> 00:27:20.180
And him start get edgy now, right? Because Tika, you know, she's a magical user,
00:27:20.300 --> 00:27:23.620
so she probably sensed something was going to pop off and ting.
00:27:26.380 --> 00:27:30.480
Now the officers them come out and them shout to Daryl like them and say yo
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.340
a time now in a Daryl you see me and say hurry up on the way I do,
00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:42.800
so Daryl in that split moment he asked Jacobi him say yo how many of them are there.
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We'll be right back after these messages. In a world where elves run the city,
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And that was before him tell him, say, Jacobi, tell him, you know,
00:29:13.973 --> 00:29:19.053
admit to him, say, me lose sight of the man and thing.
00:29:19.253 --> 00:29:23.833
And when me go catch up back to somebody, me feel like me catch up back to another
00:29:23.833 --> 00:29:26.353
alley. It was actually another orc.
00:29:27.233 --> 00:29:32.433
And that orc was not the same perp, right? And he must say, oh,
00:29:32.513 --> 00:29:34.073
you know, oh, you know, say not him.
00:29:34.933 --> 00:29:40.053
But no one's telling him because of him smell because we orcs have good smell, right?
00:29:40.813 --> 00:29:43.093
Ability. They don't smell bad.
00:29:44.193 --> 00:29:47.333
You know what I'm saying? Get the rift. All right. Sorry.
00:29:47.473 --> 00:29:52.473
I don't want to harp on that one. If you don't get it, you just don't get it, right? So.
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No. Because him really lie. Him say. Him lie because him no say. The mother say.
00:29:59.653 --> 00:30:03.813
You know. Him corrupted because him do it. You know what I'm saying?
00:30:04.073 --> 00:30:07.433
Because I want or can really really and you
00:30:07.433 --> 00:30:14.333
might explain team say yeah me Jacobi I am NOT bloodied right and you can only
00:30:14.333 --> 00:30:20.093
be bloodied if them consider you a brethren right and you're not bloodied it
00:30:20.093 --> 00:30:24.693
just come like say yo use nobody in the orc society and I'm saying,
00:30:25.950 --> 00:30:30.490
And they would have probably go after the orc youth and kill him, right?
00:30:32.190 --> 00:30:40.010
So, at that moment when Ward asked Jacoby, how many police officers are out there behind him?
00:30:40.610 --> 00:30:43.130
Him just spin round and him just take out the whole of them.
00:30:44.810 --> 00:30:48.890
Yeah, because he learned the truth and things, and he wanted to understand more
00:30:48.890 --> 00:30:50.230
about what happened, you know what I'm saying?
00:30:50.870 --> 00:30:57.910
Now this attracts the attention of an Hispanic gang now, right?
00:30:58.730 --> 00:31:04.070
Yeah So the gang leader, you know, they see the officer and say,
00:31:04.290 --> 00:31:05.710
yo, officer, goodnight You know what I'm saying?
00:31:05.830 --> 00:31:11.130
They might deal with them cool and things But they might demand Here,
00:31:11.430 --> 00:31:18.390
say, rumor go around Say, one magic wand in the vicinity, right?
00:31:19.190 --> 00:31:23.870
And so him one the one so I don't have to do is just turn over the one remember
00:31:23.870 --> 00:31:30.290
you know him just take out in backup police officers he does not do help you
00:31:30.290 --> 00:31:34.230
know what I'm saying with the one so Daryl and Jacobi after just face off with
00:31:34.230 --> 00:31:38.890
the two of them you know what I'm saying and they're there and they might try everything there now.
00:31:40.813 --> 00:31:48.393
The owner of the one, right? That's the character played by Naomi Rapace.
00:31:48.893 --> 00:31:51.213
Leela, I think her name is.
00:31:52.093 --> 00:31:58.733
She's a part of one radical sect of the elves, named the Inferni, right?
00:31:59.193 --> 00:32:03.913
And they come to the scene, right?
00:32:04.493 --> 00:32:14.693
And thing afterwards. Now, Cadmere, I may remember what him name, but one FBI elf, right,
00:32:15.613 --> 00:32:21.073
him get assigned to the Federal and Magic Task Force and, you know what I'm
00:32:21.073 --> 00:32:23.433
saying, them show up too, right?
00:32:23.973 --> 00:32:27.833
They think there and, you know, then see what I'll go on and think.
00:32:28.673 --> 00:32:30.793
So, that's afterwards.
00:32:32.093 --> 00:32:35.313
They have to flee, right?
00:32:35.313 --> 00:32:43.353
That's Daryl and Jacoby and Tika and they end up going to one strip club right
00:32:43.353 --> 00:32:50.553
now you know I'm saying that that that that's awesome crazy stuff that you know
00:32:50.553 --> 00:32:53.473
pop off in there and I'm saying because.
00:32:56.426 --> 00:33:01.486
The other reach there, so really, is that the magic wand, right,
00:33:02.106 --> 00:33:07.346
kind of seeing my camera rambling here, but the magic wand, it won't allow you
00:33:07.346 --> 00:33:11.006
to leave the city, right, or leave a certain distance.
00:33:11.226 --> 00:33:14.706
There's a certain, you can't go too far from the owner of the wand.
00:33:15.526 --> 00:33:19.806
And so when they might drive out, to drive out a city, basically,
00:33:20.086 --> 00:33:24.266
or the community, the wand stop them, right?
00:33:24.446 --> 00:33:30.366
I mean, like, The car does implode, basically, with the three of them in there.
00:33:31.286 --> 00:33:35.666
Them have to get out of the car because they're still being pursued by the gang, right?
00:33:35.866 --> 00:33:38.546
And that's how they end up in the strip club. Now, you know,
00:33:38.986 --> 00:33:44.006
they must try to disguise themselves and, you know, keep, you know, thing there.
00:33:44.286 --> 00:33:48.986
Now, the gang have them locked down in the club.
00:33:49.386 --> 00:33:54.706
A bus, you know, shut off of them and thing. And they basically out because
00:33:54.706 --> 00:34:00.166
the little ammo they were able to take from their vehicle, the police vehicle, it's done.
00:34:01.866 --> 00:34:07.046
So, as I mentioned before, the Inferni, they show up, right?
00:34:07.306 --> 00:34:10.426
And they just take out the whole of the gang, right?
00:34:11.406 --> 00:34:17.426
Tika and she did start getting educated since that, you know, they were coming.
00:34:17.966 --> 00:34:21.386
So, they run out and thing and, you know what I'm saying?
00:34:22.126 --> 00:34:26.146
They end up on gas station, right?
00:34:27.715 --> 00:34:35.695
Well, Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff Rodriguez, where Daryl knows, he shows up at the station and thing.
00:34:36.335 --> 00:34:39.615
And, you know, they might explain the situation to him and they might say,
00:34:39.735 --> 00:34:44.075
yo, listen, we can't involve no cops right now because everybody wants a one
00:34:44.075 --> 00:34:46.595
and thing. And they might tell him, say, no and thing.
00:34:46.995 --> 00:34:51.115
You know, I'm ready to apprehend them and make sure they see justice.
00:34:51.275 --> 00:34:54.815
That's what his plan was, right? however it's
00:34:54.815 --> 00:35:01.355
short-lived because yeah the inferno show up again and they totally you know
00:35:01.355 --> 00:35:08.895
done um Rodriguez right and the three of them go again running out hunting right
00:35:08.895 --> 00:35:13.655
them get captured by some fog-teaped orcs right.
00:35:15.364 --> 00:35:21.604
Them or gang basically and them leader Him one the one of course and him didn't
00:35:21.604 --> 00:35:24.784
I'm a top boat it and thing. No the one is hidden, right?
00:35:24.944 --> 00:35:28.364
They don't know say you know where the one day and thing right,
00:35:28.664 --> 00:35:35.564
so the mob torture Jacobi the my torture Darrell for the one,
00:35:36.844 --> 00:35:43.884
right, so The leader tell him son in son name Mikey to kill Jacoby.
00:35:44.444 --> 00:35:49.864
Right? And we didn't see, you know, initially before him give him the order
00:35:49.864 --> 00:35:54.964
to kill Jacoby, he looked at Jacoby in such a way like him know him.
00:35:55.704 --> 00:36:07.664
He couldn't kill Jacoby because he was the same orc boy that Jacoby helped to escape.
00:36:08.144 --> 00:36:11.284
Yeah? So he could have been dead. and I'm
00:36:11.284 --> 00:36:17.044
saying so he basically returned the favor for Jacobi and I'm saying however
00:36:17.044 --> 00:36:26.104
the leader say yo go on home Mikey go on home and him killed Jacobi himself
00:36:26.104 --> 00:36:29.564
now when him ready for kill Ward now.
00:36:31.281 --> 00:36:34.941
She could just pull out the wand. I don't know where she pulled out the wand
00:36:34.941 --> 00:36:38.221
from, but she pulled out the wand because of her magic, you know. Pull out the wand.
00:36:39.141 --> 00:36:46.701
Right? Is this what you want, basically? And she used the wand for resurrect Jacobi.
00:36:47.281 --> 00:36:50.301
Right? And they showed it to them so she's bright.
00:36:51.301 --> 00:36:56.501
You know what I've said? Now the fog teeth among them, they have one shaman there.
00:36:56.741 --> 00:37:00.421
And the shaman pronounced this to be a part of the prophecy.
00:37:01.701 --> 00:37:05.161
Right so the whole clan them start
00:37:05.161 --> 00:37:07.921
finniel in front of every one of
00:37:07.921 --> 00:37:10.921
them basically and then load them then come
00:37:10.921 --> 00:37:13.821
out so when they come out now that is
00:37:13.821 --> 00:37:18.561
like you you could um you could do that all this time you have the budget one
00:37:18.561 --> 00:37:23.421
and you could do all it yo warm to you and they start talking to english and
00:37:23.421 --> 00:37:27.281
he's like you can speak english all along you could have speak english you know
00:37:27.281 --> 00:37:32.601
what I'm saying and she said yes but me never trust you that's why me never talk so.
00:37:34.141 --> 00:37:40.661
She explained that the inferni them believe so that if them assemble the three ones,
00:37:41.441 --> 00:37:49.561
right that will allow them for resurrect the dark lord right she was once a
00:37:49.561 --> 00:37:55.801
member of the inferni as a matter of fact she is the sister of the lead of the inferni,
00:37:56.901 --> 00:38:03.201
But she fled the group and she was sheltered by the shield of light So that
00:38:03.201 --> 00:38:06.221
is how she end up with the one because she would have had access to the one
00:38:06.221 --> 00:38:10.541
as her sister one and then she does go over there and thing,
00:38:11.521 --> 00:38:16.541
so Leela would have loaned her one right and.
00:38:19.047 --> 00:38:24.527
I mean, she lend one to an assassin who, you know, is also a magical user, right?
00:38:25.407 --> 00:38:32.207
In order to kill Tika, but Tika, turn around and kill the assassin on Techie One.
00:38:33.867 --> 00:38:39.707
So, of course, when you use such great power, especially if you resurrect an
00:38:39.707 --> 00:38:47.367
orc like that, it's going to cause you to be very drawn off your energies, right?
00:38:47.367 --> 00:38:52.147
So she's very drawn and thing and whatever so they must get her back to the
00:38:52.147 --> 00:38:54.447
safe house, the same one where they escaped from.
00:38:54.567 --> 00:38:59.527
They must carry her back there, right, and put her into the magical pool.
00:39:00.187 --> 00:39:03.367
Of course, you know, them were like, yo, we need to get ourselves,
00:39:03.607 --> 00:39:05.507
you know, to the feds. They need to deal.
00:39:05.747 --> 00:39:08.367
Yo, we need to get ourselves out. Yo, we're not going there,
00:39:08.727 --> 00:39:10.347
right? And they end up going there anyways.
00:39:11.447 --> 00:39:17.127
Of course, when they return there, Leela and her enforcers, they're ready for them, right?
00:39:17.367 --> 00:39:21.647
In other confrontation Leela guards get killed right?
00:39:22.127 --> 00:39:26.987
Even Leela did almost get half killed and thing but You know they never know
00:39:26.987 --> 00:39:31.027
associated use magic for you know Revive herself.
00:39:31.507 --> 00:39:35.807
Yeah, it's the X machina moment, you know after,
00:39:36.667 --> 00:39:39.347
Wad take her and that stick and put her
00:39:39.347 --> 00:39:42.547
into the Pool of water and thing and
00:39:42.547 --> 00:39:45.207
then I watch Wad go on and thing and wait can I
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say yo just believe just believe and I say believe what me no no what
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what it happened what it happened no you know I'm saying put it out of
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the water I'm going out of the water what I buy to do
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now right so Lila come down you know and you know she threw out the two of them
00:40:02.527 --> 00:40:06.967
out of the water and you know I'm saying and she did and she said how could
00:40:06.967 --> 00:40:13.187
you do this Tika you know well I'm a sister and re-re-re-re-re and ting and whatever.
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Now the one end up very close to ward, right?
00:40:19.659 --> 00:40:26.699
Course they are told him to believe right and so what you know recognizing Seb
00:40:26.699 --> 00:40:33.979
why probably something for hap no one thing he takes the wand right now,
00:40:34.439 --> 00:40:38.239
Leland everybody did that one day from the gold data or what and thing you know
00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:41.379
yeah yeah either take out kill yourself and thing you know I'm saying and say
00:40:41.379 --> 00:40:45.919
yeah me can make a blow up but me know so when my blow up because well when
00:40:45.919 --> 00:40:50.959
you when you see them blow up then you know i'm saying kill everybody in other room so,
00:40:51.659 --> 00:40:58.999
he was prepared for a self-sacrifice there right and i guess in doing that yeah
00:40:58.999 --> 00:41:06.839
he didn't die and that reveals that he is a bright indeed right so the prophecy has been fulfilled,
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you hear me the prophecy has been fulfilled.
00:41:11.782 --> 00:41:16.362
Click that okay please do not click that now him
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kill Lila with the one and that trigger
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explosion that sets the entire building on
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on fire right while coming
00:41:26.282 --> 00:41:29.322
out but no one thing in lose Tika in
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there so in run go back in Jacob
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be come out and thing and I'm like yo where where
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is Darrell and thing oh him inside and
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then run go back inside for him right and then come
00:41:41.942 --> 00:41:45.042
out when he come out no teeka she disappear right.
00:41:45.042 --> 00:41:47.882
So the act
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of bravery of jacobi is
00:41:51.622 --> 00:41:55.202
witnessed by the fog tea clan and then
00:41:55.202 --> 00:41:58.362
see you know in seeing this because an act
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of bravery by an orc is what
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makes him bloodied right so then
00:42:04.822 --> 00:42:07.822
blood jacobi now hunting right as it's a
00:42:07.822 --> 00:42:11.162
great respect now in that work society so he
00:42:11.162 --> 00:42:13.982
he is a he is
00:42:13.982 --> 00:42:17.322
the prophetic orc and now he's also
00:42:17.322 --> 00:42:21.702
blooded right so we
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at the end of the film we see ward
00:42:25.762 --> 00:42:29.182
in a hospital bed with jacobi
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you know sitting near him hunting and you know
00:42:32.062 --> 00:42:35.062
i must say you know why were there and thing
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and whatever realize we think
00:42:37.782 --> 00:42:40.622
says a regular hospital I look he actually they in
00:42:40.622 --> 00:42:43.502
a custody of arm of the
00:42:43.502 --> 00:42:47.462
FBI so the FBI
00:42:47.462 --> 00:42:52.062
man them come come come they know come constant up in front I two of them and
00:42:52.062 --> 00:42:58.482
before they ask any question Jacobi the deal I read off everything I tell them
00:42:58.482 --> 00:43:02.622
everything must say yo yo you foresee when time war take up the one I have to
00:43:02.622 --> 00:43:05.502
see when this up none thing and this up none this up none.
00:43:07.434 --> 00:43:10.754
And what is like yo yo yo
00:43:10.754 --> 00:43:13.714
yo Jacobi they didn't ask any questions
00:43:13.714 --> 00:43:17.614
let them ask some questions let them ask some questions right
00:43:17.614 --> 00:43:20.454
there are some questions right I did
00:43:20.454 --> 00:43:24.674
did anybody look for David I did you know
00:43:24.674 --> 00:43:28.734
say yo all right that is all that I've got to carry and
00:43:28.734 --> 00:43:31.534
then what said to them say
00:43:31.534 --> 00:43:34.614
there was no one there was
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no this that that it almost you know
00:43:37.394 --> 00:43:41.354
reminds me of how and give the the
00:43:41.354 --> 00:43:44.214
people in a men in black always make with
00:43:44.214 --> 00:43:48.634
a no day the nebulizer and I say there wasn't this there was no this there was
00:43:48.634 --> 00:43:52.454
no and so just basically I tell them said nothing like that never happened it
00:43:52.454 --> 00:43:58.214
was just a regular thing would respond to a call and some stuff happened and
00:43:58.214 --> 00:44:01.714
the place blow up and rear it. That's it. End of story.
00:44:02.714 --> 00:44:06.834
By that time, Jacobi catch up on it and say, oh, I see what's happening here.
00:44:08.114 --> 00:44:12.654
And the FBI man dem shit in the head and say. So that's what happens, right?
00:44:13.174 --> 00:44:21.374
So we see in the final scene that there's a public ceremony where Jacobi and
00:44:21.374 --> 00:44:24.914
Ward, they are celebrated as heroes, right?
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And of course, the rest of the Officers then where they get shot that same night hunting, you know?
00:44:34.774 --> 00:44:39.054
They are very peeved that they're up there. But you know what I'm saying?
00:44:39.334 --> 00:44:41.114
If they ever thought the truth of what really happened.
00:44:41.574 --> 00:44:44.794
You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it wouldn't look good. And you know,
00:44:44.894 --> 00:44:48.614
probably to protect their family from the truth about them.
00:44:48.794 --> 00:44:50.934
Them do that as well. Yeah.
00:44:51.914 --> 00:44:57.254
Then we see Tika moving through the crowd. And Ward see her and him smile.
00:44:57.694 --> 00:44:58.594
You know what I'm saying?
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So. And she's in disguise. You know, so nobody really see her and thing.
00:45:04.014 --> 00:45:08.354
But yeah. you know it's almost like they wanted to set up you know something
00:45:08.354 --> 00:45:10.174
but yeah it didn't happen,
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so those are my insights and interpretations what do you think how did i do
00:45:18.414 --> 00:45:20.894
this time let me know in the comments.
00:45:32.074 --> 00:45:39.054
These are my theories on unresolved mysteries and plot points.
00:45:43.934 --> 00:45:54.594
Fantasy cop movie where humans, orcs, elves, and magic coexists in a modern society, Los Angeles.
00:45:55.034 --> 00:46:02.274
They're leading a case involving dangerous magic wand usage.
00:46:03.314 --> 00:46:08.274
Here are some of the answer questions What exactly is a bright?
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So the movie suggests that a bright can safely wield one But it never flesh out,
00:46:20.434 --> 00:46:27.454
You know, how Tika qualify And what the limits of the power really are It sounds
00:46:27.454 --> 00:46:33.154
very unlimited It sounds like a MacGuffin Like they can do anything that they want to do.
00:46:36.395 --> 00:46:42.955
Right might just be like some natural conduit for the poor, right?
00:46:44.595 --> 00:46:52.255
And the term itself, it kind of have this kind of spiritual compatibility tied
00:46:52.255 --> 00:46:56.935
to it or some kind of hereditary thing. Probably something in the genes, right?
00:46:57.115 --> 00:47:04.695
Or tied to some ancient bloodline, right? And that's why some of the characters
00:47:04.695 --> 00:47:09.375
are so, you know, certain things can happen to fulfill a prophecy.
00:47:09.595 --> 00:47:16.475
Like the fact that Jacobi and Ward, you know, they would have teamed up.
00:47:17.115 --> 00:47:21.495
And it's similar to the way how they tell off the ancient stories where,
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you know, you have the shield of light coming together and all of that.
00:47:28.155 --> 00:47:34.175
Why is the wand so important? Everybody, I chase it down, I try to get it.
00:47:34.675 --> 00:47:43.155
The film does leave the wand's origin, you know, very vague, right? On purpose.
00:47:44.055 --> 00:47:51.695
So the theory is that the wand is a less powerful weapon and it's more of a
00:47:51.695 --> 00:47:55.915
symbolic key to the old magical order, right?
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And that is probably why you have so many different factions who treat it like
00:48:01.275 --> 00:48:03.595
a world-changing relic, right?
00:48:04.035 --> 00:48:08.115
It's not the one that gives the power. It's the person who's connected to it.
00:48:08.395 --> 00:48:14.095
The one that's helped that person to ascend to that state of being, you know? Yeah.
00:48:14.955 --> 00:48:18.235
What is the Dark Lord's full backstory?
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So, they called it one for resurrecting, right?
00:48:27.455 --> 00:48:35.155
But the film kind of give this broad strokes thing about the past and why it matters so much, right?
00:48:37.898 --> 00:48:40.858
Is that him probably is meant
00:48:40.858 --> 00:48:45.038
to be the franchisee's central
00:48:45.038 --> 00:48:47.998
metal you know villain I'm just
00:48:47.998 --> 00:48:55.638
the big bad right and him lower is intentionally just you know kind of because
00:48:55.638 --> 00:49:05.598
of how many things you know they probably wanted to do you know where they saw this going, right?
00:49:05.838 --> 00:49:10.938
So they could come up with a film tomorrow and we get to find out that the Dark
00:49:10.938 --> 00:49:16.818
Lord is just a simple human being living in Los Angeles and he was there the whole time,
00:49:17.278 --> 00:49:21.418
probably watching, you know, Daryl getting powers and all that stuff or something,
00:49:21.438 --> 00:49:21.858
you know what I'm saying?
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Or it could be the very CMFBI guy.
00:49:26.378 --> 00:49:33.678
How long has this society existed? So the world feels like You know it's kind
00:49:33.678 --> 00:49:45.678
of You know mash up of some Modern time Policing and ancient Fantasy you know But The movie,
00:49:46.818 --> 00:49:54.498
Explained Right Clearly what you know You know how it actually happened How
00:49:54.498 --> 00:49:58.058
the whole social order Come into play all of those,
00:49:59.278 --> 00:50:02.198
of course the theory is that
00:50:02.198 --> 00:50:08.898
magic and I'm saying might have been you know hidden and suppressed similar
00:50:08.898 --> 00:50:14.058
to the way whole you know be like yo is just a myth or it's just a tale that
00:50:14.058 --> 00:50:18.738
you tell to your children you know I'm saying to get them to you know sleep
00:50:18.738 --> 00:50:21.358
or you know to get them not to do certain things right.
00:50:23.918 --> 00:50:28.758
And the power kept on shifting, you know.
00:50:30.098 --> 00:50:33.398
That's why the elves them, the way how their institutions are set up,
00:50:33.458 --> 00:50:35.458
the way how their things are, right?
00:50:37.118 --> 00:50:41.978
And, you know, it has this kind of mix of what we are used to,
00:50:42.058 --> 00:50:46.338
like the prejudice and the politics and the whole secrecy behind all of this.
00:50:47.238 --> 00:50:52.758
Why are elves in power? You know, that is the question that comes in right after
00:50:52.758 --> 00:50:53.578
this, you know, the facts.
00:50:53.918 --> 00:51:00.558
Where the film strongly imply that elves occupy elite positions, right?
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I mean, them actually have orcs working for them, right?
00:51:05.878 --> 00:51:09.638
It's kind of implied that they're kind of slaves, enslaved, you know what I'm saying?
00:51:10.918 --> 00:51:16.578
But it not really explain how them gain that, you know, balance or whatever,
00:51:16.778 --> 00:51:22.618
probably because of the whole myth again, you know, about the elves that do
00:51:22.618 --> 00:51:23.678
this and that and really.
00:51:26.250 --> 00:51:30.710
Is that the control come from
00:51:30.710 --> 00:51:34.730
a long-term access to magic right and probably
00:51:34.730 --> 00:51:37.670
that's why the fbi guy is an elf you
00:51:37.670 --> 00:51:41.870
know he keeps the magic within their community right and
00:51:41.870 --> 00:51:44.650
that's what helped them to gain wealth so it's almost like
00:51:44.650 --> 00:51:49.390
a systematic preservation of the
00:51:49.390 --> 00:51:52.510
power right because you know
00:51:52.510 --> 00:51:55.490
just like how people say boy if moving the lotto tomorrow
00:51:55.490 --> 00:51:58.410
me don't really want a body for no me no i'm a family for no because
00:51:58.410 --> 00:52:01.970
if that happens everybody
00:52:01.970 --> 00:52:07.250
i come i'm a doorstep i beg me right all who never know me from before all who
00:52:07.250 --> 00:52:13.610
never call me who never talk to me in years it's gonna show up right and it's
00:52:13.610 --> 00:52:19.490
the same thing right with this power can you imagine if they were to just be
00:52:19.490 --> 00:52:21.770
like, all right, we have the power,
00:52:22.430 --> 00:52:24.230
you know what I'm saying? Everybody going to be showing up.
00:52:24.630 --> 00:52:31.190
Everybody going to have a dead sister, auntie, uncle, brother who need this and that.
00:52:33.810 --> 00:52:37.910
So probably they have a systematic way, you know, they have a disciplined approach
00:52:37.910 --> 00:52:41.190
to meeting out the thing, you know?
00:52:41.330 --> 00:52:45.530
So, you know, no one is
00:52:45.530 --> 00:52:48.790
fully in control of anything and
00:52:48.790 --> 00:52:53.250
that is why you have factions that develop because they know about this thing
00:52:53.250 --> 00:52:58.350
right and so they want it for themselves they want it all for themselves or
00:52:58.350 --> 00:53:05.370
they want to expose it as being so and that's why they do that right yeah because
00:53:05.370 --> 00:53:06.930
they want to control society,
00:53:07.990 --> 00:53:10.890
although the other one they want to control society but they're controlling
00:53:10.890 --> 00:53:12.990
it through a disciplined approach where.
00:53:16.663 --> 00:53:19.663
Go excessive with it no one person is
00:53:19.663 --> 00:53:22.463
greater or you don't know
00:53:22.463 --> 00:53:26.043
you know so they kind of share it around share wealth within
00:53:26.043 --> 00:53:28.803
their community there are some plot
00:53:28.803 --> 00:53:38.223
points obviously that aren't fully finished right jacobie's status as the first
00:53:38.223 --> 00:53:44.163
or cops right it was central to the whole driving the narrative and stuff but
00:53:44.163 --> 00:53:46.743
the movie you know resolve it at the end of the film right,
00:53:47.763 --> 00:53:50.763
at the end of the film is status still is the
00:53:50.763 --> 00:53:57.863
same as the cop right yeah he's a blooded orc now and thing but that doesn't
00:53:57.863 --> 00:54:04.583
say much right it's just like if you know i'm saying me have family and thing
00:54:04.583 --> 00:54:07.983
and all my family them them adore me and love me they do,
00:54:09.143 --> 00:54:16.843
and but you know you have somebody out there so in society who you know work with and thing,
00:54:17.643 --> 00:54:22.323
they don't care about you know i'm saying me and my family and how my family
00:54:22.323 --> 00:54:27.263
interact with me right i'm gonna work i'm just a normal guy to them right my
00:54:27.263 --> 00:54:31.123
family might love the hell out of me but you know outside of that.
00:54:32.876 --> 00:54:35.916
A regular guy same way and society hasn't
00:54:35.916 --> 00:54:39.416
changed really yeah you know their their
00:54:39.416 --> 00:54:42.296
view on even if he was heroic and stuff
00:54:42.296 --> 00:54:45.196
their view on our cup wouldn't change
00:54:45.196 --> 00:54:52.596
and we know this because of how society treats you know the minorities in in
00:54:52.596 --> 00:54:57.696
all societies right here in jamaica we have a problem with that too right you
00:54:57.696 --> 00:55:03.356
know enough people might not see the blatant racism out here and things you know,
00:55:03.596 --> 00:55:07.236
Jamaica man, all things good it exists,
00:55:07.496 --> 00:55:14.216
but how it is and how people treat one another and treat people.
00:55:15.716 --> 00:55:22.756
They just put you in a box and leave you there and that's a societal thing now
00:55:22.756 --> 00:55:28.816
the LAPD corruption and its racial allegory as I was explaining just now that,
00:55:29.676 --> 00:55:32.776
these are introduced by the film now going
00:55:32.776 --> 00:55:39.916
to this deeply either and real reform the way how it should it would look in
00:55:39.916 --> 00:55:47.096
the film compared to real life would be to be able to put certain things into
00:55:47.096 --> 00:55:52.236
perspective right so it's not just about saying all right you're gonna just put,
00:55:52.956 --> 00:55:55.836
one of them over here one of them over here one of them over there
00:55:55.836 --> 00:55:58.916
it's more like having an entire
00:55:58.916 --> 00:56:04.816
unit for them and doing more you know i'm saying building them out you know
00:56:04.816 --> 00:56:10.456
making them into persons respectable just like everybody is having the same
00:56:10.456 --> 00:56:16.976
class and the same treatment no nothing different right yeah.
00:56:18.941 --> 00:56:24.261
So they can also, you know, once them can meet the requirements,
00:56:24.361 --> 00:56:29.261
of course, because people are meeting the requirements and how, you know,
00:56:29.621 --> 00:56:34.661
they have to be able to do this, they must have degrees or whatever and thing.
00:56:35.561 --> 00:56:43.281
And you know i'm saying meanwhile them just hire any any other person for do
00:56:43.281 --> 00:56:48.981
the job just because they look a certain way or they talk a certain way for them.
00:56:51.101 --> 00:57:00.241
Now tika's fate and agency right this is very important she would have mostly
00:57:00.241 --> 00:57:04.941
functioned as a plot device right she advanced the plot in such a way because
00:57:04.941 --> 00:57:08.781
you know she allowed the actual,
00:57:09.761 --> 00:57:12.601
lead in the story to get his
00:57:12.601 --> 00:57:15.641
powers right that's all i know about you
00:57:15.641 --> 00:57:18.741
know certain things that she was just there for that
00:57:18.741 --> 00:57:21.561
circumstance so we don't we don't really see her
00:57:21.561 --> 00:57:25.681
play a major role outside of that right
00:57:25.681 --> 00:57:29.141
we know she's a magical character we
00:57:29.141 --> 00:57:32.501
don't know our origins really and stuff so you
00:57:32.501 --> 00:57:39.561
know there is much that could have been there so all of these theories point
00:57:39.561 --> 00:57:47.821
back to one central thing that bright was trying to reach to a point where it
00:57:47.821 --> 00:57:51.021
could have a larger mythos right.
00:57:53.725 --> 00:57:59.165
It only had a certain amount of time in that movie to flesh it out, right?
00:57:59.705 --> 00:58:02.665
And perhaps like a series, right?
00:58:02.825 --> 00:58:06.385
Even though I love, you know, movies and stuff, but series, you know,
00:58:07.485 --> 00:58:10.725
could, you know, expand on this world, right?
00:58:10.865 --> 00:58:13.785
And give us more details, right?
00:58:15.165 --> 00:58:20.385
This film was just like a setup basically for something bigger.
00:58:20.385 --> 00:58:27.045
And it hints at a lot of centuries old magical history,
00:58:28.025 --> 00:58:38.245
and it's only given that much support because of the whole one chase that happens
00:58:38.245 --> 00:58:40.205
through that midsection of the film,
00:58:41.005 --> 00:58:48.165
the back and forth having the one and not being able to stand still because
00:58:48.165 --> 00:58:52.825
I run from here to there to there and you get caught into different circumstances.
00:58:53.125 --> 00:58:55.025
So that was interesting for it, right?
00:58:57.185 --> 00:59:03.605
So if you like these theories, let me know. If you don't like them, let me know too.
00:59:03.845 --> 00:59:06.105
But I'd love to know what your thoughts are.
00:59:07.045 --> 00:59:12.825
So share your favorite moments from the film, right?
00:59:13.425 --> 00:59:18.705
Where they think I represented it well or I didn't represent it well.
00:59:18.705 --> 00:59:23.165
That's the only way that we grow here on this podcast right.
00:59:36.864 --> 00:59:46.064
This episode we looked at bright fantasy prejudice and power in a modern world,
00:59:47.404 --> 00:59:54.184
and of course you know when you look at the way how i mean the structure of
00:59:54.184 --> 01:00:01.664
this thing is just telling so many things right i mean fantasy is just brimming
01:00:01.664 --> 01:00:05.784
with so many potential right As I mentioned,
01:00:06.204 --> 01:00:10.724
I feel like this could benefit from follow-up movies,
01:00:11.404 --> 01:00:16.744
follow-up TV show, whatever they want to do, but kind of build out the world
01:00:16.744 --> 01:00:24.304
more, because it has so many things that can be attributed to it.
01:00:24.304 --> 01:00:26.644
Especially with the fact that
01:00:26.644 --> 01:00:34.324
it has so many social messages around prejudice and how we as humanity,
01:00:34.324 --> 01:00:49.764
we have not gone far enough to root out these issues injustice and corruption with power Right.
01:00:50.804 --> 01:00:54.584
Even, you know, me mentioning that whole, you know, theory about.
01:00:56.696 --> 01:01:00.636
Say that you have a society a
01:01:00.636 --> 01:01:03.736
part of society you know that have decided
01:01:03.736 --> 01:01:06.856
to basically do everything for
01:01:06.856 --> 01:01:09.956
themselves and exclude others or they
01:01:09.956 --> 01:01:13.196
only include them when they need them right
01:01:13.196 --> 01:01:16.316
the elves them include the orcs them because they
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need them for do the minor tasks you know
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do the little things right while
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they are in you know guarding the power right it is very poignant that yeah
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the elf is the head of the fbi it shows that the power will never leave that sector of society.
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Right and if we
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look at how reality is we
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can point it out we can say hey that's the
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parallel here that is what it is right and
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at the end of it you know this is what this podcast is about every week you
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hear me coming on here and i speak into this microphone and i say that science
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fiction and fantasy is a reflection,
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a mirror into our reality.
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And this film, this film is one of them that is so close.
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Even if you're blind, you will pick up those little things.
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Yeah. And as I say every week.
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And today, I unpack light. I mean bright.
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You're right. Maybe right. so many fantastic and fantasy stories are the one
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reality yeah that's probably where i want to go,
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you're too bright you're too bright you're too bright you're too bright you're
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too bright man You're too bright You don't see the light You're too bright.