Leo D.M.J. Aurini - Aurini's Insight： A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 This episode of Arini's Insight is brought to you by Jorge, who requested that I review

00:00:34.860 the Seth MacFarlane film, A Million Ways to Die in the West.

00:00:39.940 And Jorge, I don't know if I should be thanking you or cursing you right now, because after

00:00:47.980 watching it, I know exactly why you wanted me to review it.

00:00:51.860 And yet that was a painful two hours to sit through.

00:00:55.900 Oh.

00:01:00.000 Now, one of my favorite internet reviewers, Confused Matthew, he once started off one

00:01:05.740 of his reviews by saying that he was always taught, if you can't say anything nice, don't

00:01:10.480 say anything at all.

00:01:11.680 And I think that is a very good policy to work off of.

00:01:16.920 And yet, by me saying these nice things, in certain respects, that's the most damning

00:01:25.780 statement I could make.

00:01:28.400 Because the thing about Seth MacFarlane is that he is absolutely hilarious.

00:01:34.100 The guy has a comedic talent that is just astronomical.

00:01:40.160 It is absolutely amazing.

00:01:43.800 Quite frankly, Family Guy is not a very good show.

00:01:49.120 It has incredibly flat, boring characters, terrible animation.

00:01:55.380 There's really only two characters to speak of, Stewie and Brian.

00:01:59.660 But it's absolutely hilarious.

00:02:03.960 You know, compare that to something like The Simpsons, which has very complex characters,

00:02:08.060 developed plots.

00:02:10.780 It's...

00:02:11.820 And yet, Family Guy is just stunningly hilarious.

00:02:17.060 Which is why I'm so disappointed in him as a man.

00:02:23.820 You see, like, if I were reviewing...

00:02:27.020 I'm not going to name anything specific, because maybe there's some artistic angle I'm missing

00:02:31.280 on it. 0.97

00:02:31.580 But there's a lot of garbage on Adult Swim.

00:02:35.540 Okay, there's some real gold, like Archer or Rick and Morty. 0.80

00:02:40.780 You know, there's some stuff with really good plots and really good comedy. 0.97

00:02:45.840 But there's a lot of garbage, too. 0.84

00:02:48.900 And if you gave me... 0.99

00:02:50.700 If you asked me to review one of these garbage shows, and it's like, oh, look, they're going 0.99

00:02:54.800 for the standard joke about, look, cops are racist. 1.00

00:02:58.540 Or whatever, you know, look, it's a stupid dad. 1.00

00:03:03.200 You know, I just... 1.00

00:03:04.320 I cannot get offended by that stuff, because it's not like it's good comedy to begin with.

00:03:08.500 You know, it's really...

00:03:09.880 It's schlock.

00:03:10.840 It's derivative. 1.00

00:03:12.040 It's garbage. 0.99

00:03:13.020 Whereas Seth MacFarlane is a true talent. 0.98

00:03:16.360 The man is absolutely brilliant, and yet his own worst enemy is himself, as I think we'll

00:03:23.200 see as I get into the film.

00:03:25.400 And, you know, on the off chance that he sees this, Seth MacFarlane was supposed to be on

00:03:33.840 one of the flights on September 11th.

00:03:36.680 He was supposed to be on one of the flights, I believe it was flight 11, or 111.

00:03:41.580 And he missed the flight by five minutes.

00:03:46.360 And, you know, like, listen, I don't know if you believe in God or not, Seth, but even

00:03:55.420 if you don't, even if it's a completely atheistic mechanical universe, you know, you win the

00:04:01.740 lottery, that comes with a huge moral burden.

00:04:07.200 You know, it's...

00:04:08.100 Yeah, you win the lottery, you go and you buy a fancy car and you have fun for about a

00:04:11.880 week.

00:04:12.300 After that, you have to start thinking about, how am I going to invest this into a business?

00:04:16.440 How am I going to improve my community?

00:04:17.920 How am I...

00:04:18.540 I'm not just going to blow all this money, but, you know, how am I going to do something

00:04:22.180 good with this?

00:04:23.780 When you're given this incredible bounty in life, whether it's by luck or if it's an

00:04:29.100 act of God, that comes with a heavy moral obligation.

00:04:33.320 And the fact that you almost died on September 11th, that's something you should be carrying 1.00

00:04:40.820 with yourself.

00:04:41.820 That's something you should really be dedicating yourself to.

00:04:46.020 And from what I've seen, he's rather flippant about the matter.

00:04:48.500 But, you know, maybe that's just his public position.

00:04:52.780 The point is that I think Seth MacFarlane has an amazing talent as a comedy writer and even

00:04:59.040 as a writer in general.

00:05:00.180 He actually is a very good writer.

00:05:03.060 Why do you have to waste it on this ugliness?

00:05:07.100 All right.

00:05:07.720 So, A Million Ways to Die in the West.

00:05:10.700 If you didn't see the trailers or if you simply forgot about them, it's a series set in the

00:05:17.760 Old West with basically a sarcastic millennial being stuck in this nitty-gritty, you know,

00:05:27.020 true grit type era, complaining about everything, complaining how dangerous things are.

00:05:32.420 And I left.

00:05:34.760 It was very funny.

00:05:36.820 It overstayed its welcome by about an hour.

00:05:39.260 But it was very, very funny at times.

00:05:41.400 And yet I think the entire film really sums up this deficit of masculinity that we have.

00:05:53.600 Like, this film perfectly encaptures everything that is wrong with the modern man.

00:06:00.460 So, the first question I'd like to explore, why do we love the Western genre?

00:06:09.100 Why do we love cowboys?

00:06:10.320 Why do we love cowboys?

00:06:14.520 The core of it, it's the romanticism of the male soul.

00:06:21.140 You know, it was, um...

00:06:23.380 Who was it?

00:06:26.380 I forget.

00:06:27.060 A writer I follow.

00:06:28.540 I'll remember him by the time the video's down.

00:06:30.400 There's a link down below.

00:06:31.280 So he wrote an excellent piece about how men are the true romantics and how the idea of going off into the range with nothing but a horse, a hound, and a rifle is something that every man lusts after.

00:06:49.160 That opportunity to truly test ourselves, to not be so protected and safe, to not be so comfortable, but to prove our mettle, to prove that we deserve to exist.

00:07:04.700 That is what we are so attracted to by the genre.

00:07:09.060 Now, in actual fact, the cowboy era was not that violent.

00:07:16.440 Ironically, it was the places where the federal government was administering law, from what I understand anyway.

00:07:21.840 Places like Texas actually had more violence because you were getting companies, corporations were exploiting the federal government to get monopoly and screw other people out of business, leading to violence.

00:07:33.740 In actual frontier times, there was very little violence, actually.

00:07:39.920 There was a lot of work.

00:07:41.500 There was a lot of hard work setting up your homestead.

00:07:43.680 But this idea of bandits wandering around and shootouts at high noon, grossly overstated.

00:07:50.880 The, oh, which one was it?

00:07:53.560 The shootout at the OK Corral, I think there were only like three or four people that died.

00:07:59.720 Like, it's really small.

00:08:00.500 When you do a movie reenactment, there's like 20 people that die.

00:08:03.420 It's this huge, drawn-out gunfight.

00:08:04.920 Like, the actual gunfight that happened was much smaller.

00:08:12.400 Essentially, it would be like nowadays we have occasional shootouts.

00:08:17.260 We have the occasional bank robbers, you know, mostly in L.A.

00:08:20.100 We have the occasional, you know, convenience store robbery.

00:08:24.500 But it would be like comparing the levels of violence that we actually have to Grand Theft Auto.

00:08:32.100 Cowboy times really weren't that violent.

00:08:34.860 And yet, in our media, in our video games, you know, in our, you know, even stuff like, like Cowboy Bebop, for example, is heavily inspired by the Western genre, which is why I absolutely love it.

00:08:48.220 And it's way more violent, ridiculously more violent than things actually were.

00:08:56.800 And that's because in narratives, there's a certain catharsis to the violence.

00:09:00.680 Because realistically, real-world violence, like, let's talk about gun control.

00:09:07.120 Let's talk about guns and how they stop violence.

00:09:09.680 You know, because the gun grabbers love to point out that you're more likely to accidentally shoot yourself with a gun than you are likely to shoot a criminal.

00:09:21.300 And the reason that's a thing is because guns don't stop crime by shooting bad guys.

00:09:29.920 Guns stop crime merely by being there on your hip. 1.00

00:09:33.140 See, in a video game, like, imagine, you know, Fallout New Vegas.

00:09:38.640 I've been playing that recently, so it's on my mind.

00:09:42.320 In that game, imagine in that game, every time the bandits showed up to attack you, you just showed the pistol on your hip, and they said,

00:09:49.920 Whoa, Haas, we're going to back down.

00:09:53.040 Not a very fun game.

00:09:56.340 That'd be quite tedious, quite frankly.

00:09:58.480 In real life, however, in real life, if you were about to be assaulted by a number of people,

00:10:06.020 and you brandished your peacemaker, and they back down,

00:10:11.760 you might need to sit down and have a cigarette after that.

00:10:14.700 It'd be pretty high stress.

00:10:16.080 It'd be a pretty exciting thing.

00:10:17.860 That'd be a story that you'd tell people about at the bar for the next 20 years.

00:10:21.640 So, it's, again, men want to, real men want to challenge themselves.

00:10:32.640 You know, they own guns not because they want to kill people,

00:10:35.840 but because they're well aware that a situation like that could develop.

00:10:39.600 And so, the romantic notion of the West isn't that we were shooting people left, right, and center.

00:10:46.640 It's that it was a true challenge.

00:10:49.540 It required true grit to survive in the West.

00:10:53.180 And any man worth his salt, any red-blooded man, wants to test himself, wants to push himself,

00:11:02.060 wants to know that, because growing up, there's always this question.

00:11:06.320 In that scenario, would I choke?

00:11:12.580 You know, and you can't really know yourself until you have faced death, until you've faced danger.

00:11:19.720 And that doesn't necessarily mean a gunfight.

00:11:21.900 It could mean as simple as protecting your cattle from some coyotes.

00:11:29.640 But see, that's why we love it.

00:11:30.720 It's because we want to be tested.

00:11:32.220 Now, A Million Ways to Die in the West.

00:11:41.960 Let me explain what it isn't.

00:11:44.920 Okay, now, maybe you just saw the trailers,

00:11:47.620 and obviously it's an exaggeration of how dangerous things were back then,

00:11:51.320 because, yeah, there were lots of ways to die in the West.

00:11:55.240 Rattlesnakes, bulls, cholera, surgery, etc.

00:12:00.180 And so the idea of transposing a modern millennial who's used to, you know,

00:12:09.600 antibiotics and painkillers and etc.,

00:12:14.180 to transpose that person into the West,

00:12:16.340 that's comedy gold right there.

00:12:18.380 And the really good comedy portions involve that.

00:12:21.080 But see, there's more going on.

00:12:25.900 This, that right there, that, if that had been what the movie was,

00:12:30.500 I probably would have loved it.

00:12:32.640 You know, it would have been very tongue-in-cheek, 0.97

00:12:34.880 would have been very silly, 0.93

00:12:36.640 but it would have also been bloody hilarious. 0.89

00:12:40.180 And certain moments were hilarious.

00:12:42.440 But there's a little bit more going on in the story.

00:12:48.780 And the best way to sum it up

00:12:50.040 is to talk about the gamma male. 1.00

00:12:54.440 The sexual loser. 1.00

00:12:59.820 The guy that does not know 1.00

00:13:02.120 how to be manly,

00:13:03.940 how to attract women,

00:13:05.000 and is just a little boy

00:13:08.340 that's afraid of growing up.

00:13:11.320 Because that is the character Seth MacFarlane wrote.

00:13:14.940 And that is the character he played.

00:13:21.200 So, MacFarlane's character

00:13:23.000 is a sheep farmer 0.98

00:13:27.220 and a coward. 0.98

00:13:29.860 And the main arc of the story 0.99

00:13:31.600 involves him

00:13:33.140 meeting this woman

00:13:34.340 who teaches him

00:13:36.540 to be a real gunslinger

00:13:38.720 because some poof stole his ex-girlfriend 1.00

00:13:41.200 and they're going to have a gunfight

00:13:42.560 or whatever.

00:13:46.040 But it's this narrative

00:13:47.740 that I've seen cropping up

00:13:49.180 in a lot of places.

00:13:50.560 The mummy character.

00:13:53.640 Where

00:13:54.280 this chick comes in 1.00

00:13:56.340 and she's all

00:13:57.840 badass, 0.86

00:13:59.080 super lawyer, 0.96

00:14:00.080 ninja cop.

00:14:01.340 You know,

00:14:01.620 she is the best shot.

00:14:03.460 She's Calamity Jane 1.00

00:14:04.580 with her pistol.

00:14:07.320 You know,

00:14:08.260 hot blonde too. 0.58

00:14:09.460 But for some strange reason,

00:14:12.040 she goes after Seth MacFarlane 1.00

00:14:13.620 who is a whiny loser 1.00

00:14:17.180 who doesn't know how to shoot a gun, 1.00

00:14:20.000 who's afraid of rattlesnakes,

00:14:21.460 who's afraid of being a man,

00:14:22.820 who complains constantly,

00:14:25.140 whines constantly

00:14:26.120 about living in the West

00:14:27.220 and has absolutely no masculine virtue.

00:14:30.640 He's not the sort of man

00:14:31.980 that could protect his family.

00:14:33.540 He's not the sort of man

00:14:34.760 that inspires other men

00:14:36.640 to follow him. 1.00

00:14:38.780 He's pathetic. 0.99

00:14:40.580 You might overlook this in the film 0.99

00:14:42.300 because Seth MacFarlane's

00:14:43.520 a very good-looking guy.

00:14:44.620 But replace Seth MacFarlane,

00:14:47.480 in your mind,

00:14:49.120 replace him

00:14:49.900 with some

00:14:51.260 cheeto-eating,

00:14:55.060 cheeto-eating, 0.99

00:14:59.000 cowardly, 0.99

00:15:00.340 sniveling 1.00

00:15:01.580 rat man

00:15:03.940 and you'll get a more

00:15:05.540 accurate view.

00:15:07.860 See,

00:15:08.300 the gamma male

00:15:08.920 fantasizes.

00:15:11.360 Like,

00:15:11.560 the gamma male,

00:15:12.360 for him,

00:15:13.460 sexuality is not

00:15:14.640 winning a woman's heart.

00:15:17.480 It's not

00:15:18.100 being

00:15:18.960 such an excellent man,

00:15:20.800 being of such good

00:15:21.600 caliber

00:15:22.260 and courage

00:15:23.740 and virtue

00:15:25.220 that a woman 0.98

00:15:27.720 willingly follows you.

00:15:30.840 This is absolutely

00:15:31.760 absent from his

00:15:32.520 understanding of reality.

00:15:34.000 Instead,

00:15:34.320 for the gamma male,

00:15:35.780 the gamma male

00:15:37.080 tries to be a good

00:15:38.200 little boy

00:15:38.740 for mommy.

00:15:40.320 He can only understand

00:15:41.440 romantic relationships

00:15:43.120 as he understands

00:15:45.480 his relationship

00:15:46.260 to his mother.

00:15:48.360 He has no relationship

00:15:49.900 to masculinity,

00:15:51.240 to fatherhood,

00:15:53.140 to leadership,

00:15:54.400 nobility.

00:15:55.880 His only

00:15:56.620 guide in life

00:15:58.000 is the feminine,

00:16:00.800 is his mother.

00:16:03.080 And so he tries

00:16:03.820 to be a good

00:16:04.580 little boy.

00:16:05.780 He tries

00:16:06.600 not to

00:16:07.780 stir up problems.

00:16:10.120 He,

00:16:10.480 when he does

00:16:11.920 have a complaint,

00:16:13.760 when he does

00:16:14.320 want something,

00:16:15.820 he whines.

00:16:17.340 He cries

00:16:18.000 like an infant

00:16:19.000 so that mommy

00:16:19.960 will come fix it.

00:16:21.940 And in his

00:16:22.500 fantasy world,

00:16:24.400 his fantasy lover

00:16:26.480 is mommy,

00:16:28.100 who teaches him

00:16:28.840 how to tie

00:16:29.420 his shoelaces

00:16:30.260 and how to 0.61

00:16:31.460 shoot a gun.

00:16:33.000 And when his 0.99

00:16:34.000 ex-girlfriend

00:16:34.540 leaves him

00:16:34.980 because he's 1.00

00:16:35.400 a loser, 1.00

00:16:36.140 she's the one 1.00

00:16:36.660 that comes

00:16:37.060 and says,

00:16:37.460 here,

00:16:37.740 here,

00:16:38.500 cry on my chest.

00:16:40.000 She doesn't know

00:16:40.860 what a great guy

00:16:41.740 you are.

00:16:43.120 When the reality

00:16:43.860 is she left him

00:16:44.520 because he's 1.00

00:16:44.900 a frickin' coward. 1.00

00:16:45.820 Now there's a 1.00

00:16:51.340 second element

00:16:52.100 to this

00:16:52.900 gamma male

00:16:53.360 fantasy

00:16:53.860 that plays out

00:16:54.940 in this movie

00:16:55.480 because

00:16:56.980 Calamity Jane,

00:16:59.460 whatever the

00:17:00.020 character name

00:17:00.520 was,

00:17:01.640 Calamity Jane

00:17:02.400 is originally

00:17:03.340 introduced

00:17:04.200 as the

00:17:05.560 wife

00:17:06.440 of this 0.98

00:17:07.600 evil

00:17:08.300 bandito,

00:17:09.720 this

00:17:10.160 evil

00:17:11.760 guy 0.54

00:17:12.780 that's just

00:17:13.100 a bully 0.98

00:17:13.800 and he 1.00

00:17:15.280 kills a 0.98

00:17:15.660 prospector

00:17:16.380 at the

00:17:16.560 very beginning

00:17:17.000 of the

00:17:17.240 movie

00:17:17.420 for no

00:17:17.800 reason

00:17:18.080 whatsoever

00:17:18.480 just to

00:17:18.980 prove

00:17:19.700 how

00:17:20.360 bad

00:17:21.220 he

00:17:21.480 is.

00:17:23.660 And in

00:17:24.320 the movie

00:17:24.600 it's an

00:17:25.040 absolutely

00:17:25.400 flat

00:17:25.760 character.

00:17:26.660 Now all

00:17:26.980 the other

00:17:27.260 characters

00:17:27.540 are very

00:17:27.900 well

00:17:28.120 developed.

00:17:28.800 As I

00:17:29.060 said,

00:17:29.320 McFarlane

00:17:29.680 is an

00:17:30.040 excellent

00:17:30.400 writer.

00:17:31.400 He knows

00:17:31.820 how to

00:17:32.100 write good

00:17:32.520 characters

00:17:33.020 when he

00:17:33.560 bothers.

00:17:35.840 But

00:17:36.120 these

00:17:36.380 characters,

00:17:37.560 or this

00:17:38.040 character

00:17:38.440 rather,

00:17:38.800 the

00:17:38.900 bandito,

00:17:39.760 the bad

00:17:40.200 guy,

00:17:40.540 the ultimate

00:17:40.980 antagonist,

00:17:41.960 is

00:17:42.420 completely

00:17:43.100 flat.

00:17:46.340 So his

00:17:47.440 love interest,

00:17:48.580 McFarlane's

00:17:49.100 love interest,

00:17:50.200 is Calamity

00:17:50.760 Jane,

00:17:51.280 who is

00:17:51.820 originally

00:17:52.220 married to

00:17:53.280 the evil 0.95

00:17:53.980 Alpha.

00:17:56.020 This is

00:17:56.760 never

00:17:56.960 explained.

00:17:58.180 Why is it

00:17:58.600 that this

00:17:58.840 woman that 0.97

00:17:59.620 apparently has

00:18:00.440 a heart

00:18:00.860 and morality

00:18:01.500 and does

00:18:01.920 not like

00:18:02.460 murdering

00:18:03.260 prospectors 0.93

00:18:04.300 for no

00:18:04.660 particular

00:18:05.060 reason,

00:18:05.740 why is she

00:18:06.280 married to

00:18:06.720 this incredibly 0.99

00:18:07.260 evil guy

00:18:08.100 that is 0.99

00:18:09.180 just a 0.96

00:18:09.580 bully and

00:18:09.980 pushes

00:18:10.200 people around?

00:18:11.560 This

00:18:11.960 makes no

00:18:12.420 sense in

00:18:13.100 the film's

00:18:13.560 narrative,

00:18:14.160 but it

00:18:14.560 makes perfect

00:18:15.340 sense through

00:18:17.220 the eyes

00:18:17.940 of the

00:18:18.440 Gamma

00:18:18.740 Male.

00:18:22.240 See,

00:18:22.760 the Gamma

00:18:23.160 Male,

00:18:23.840 they see

00:18:24.960 the Alpha

00:18:25.360 Male as

00:18:26.840 a threat.

00:18:28.660 You know,

00:18:29.100 when men,

00:18:30.100 and I don't

00:18:30.660 want to

00:18:31.040 obsess too

00:18:32.420 much with

00:18:32.660 these Alpha

00:18:33.100 Beta terms,

00:18:33.840 because if

00:18:34.420 you obsess

00:18:35.460 too much,

00:18:35.960 listen,

00:18:36.200 it's just a

00:18:36.940 heuristic,

00:18:37.440 it's a rule

00:18:37.800 of thumb,

00:18:38.260 okay?

00:18:38.520 It's not

00:18:38.920 the truth

00:18:41.360 from Jesus.

00:18:42.140 Jesus didn't 0.94

00:18:42.580 write about

00:18:42.980 this.

00:18:43.760 But it

00:18:44.400 is a

00:18:44.740 useful

00:18:45.020 heuristic.

00:18:46.240 And so

00:18:46.660 men,

00:18:47.860 Alpha Beta,

00:18:48.440 like real

00:18:48.760 men,

00:18:50.120 we talk

00:18:52.180 smack to 0.87

00:18:52.700 each other

00:18:53.080 all the

00:18:53.380 time.

00:18:54.220 The way

00:18:55.040 that you

00:18:55.620 can tell

00:18:56.160 that a

00:18:57.160 guy loves

00:18:57.740 and respects

00:18:58.200 you is

00:18:59.500 that he'll

00:18:59.880 insult you. 0.88

00:19:01.860 Because

00:19:02.340 men,

00:19:04.180 if we insult

00:19:04.800 somebody,

00:19:05.160 it's fighting

00:19:05.520 words,

00:19:06.040 so we

00:19:06.420 seldom insult

00:19:07.220 other people.

00:19:08.800 If we

00:19:09.340 insult

00:19:09.740 somebody

00:19:10.180 nine times

00:19:10.940 out of

00:19:11.160 ten,

00:19:11.360 it's one

00:19:11.680 of our

00:19:11.940 really good

00:19:12.520 friends.

00:19:12.920 And what

00:19:13.100 we're saying

00:19:14.040 to each

00:19:14.280 other is,

00:19:14.640 I love

00:19:14.940 you and

00:19:15.160 I respect

00:19:15.560 you.

00:19:15.900 I know

00:19:16.080 that you

00:19:16.300 can take 1.00

00:19:16.680 shit 1.00

00:19:17.040 from me 1.00

00:19:17.840 without

00:19:18.500 crying

00:19:18.900 like a

00:19:19.200 little

00:19:19.360 girl.

00:19:23.460 Men

00:19:23.860 punch each 0.75

00:19:24.280 other in

00:19:24.540 the shoulder.

00:19:26.760 Now,

00:19:27.200 the Gamma

00:19:27.620 male sees 0.61

00:19:28.100 this happening.

00:19:29.200 The Gamma 0.77

00:19:29.600 male sees 0.61

00:19:30.580 this brouhaha

00:19:31.500 that the

00:19:31.940 real men

00:19:32.320 are up to,

00:19:33.220 and he

00:19:34.360 is terrified

00:19:35.100 by it.

00:19:36.640 Because,

00:19:37.060 again,

00:19:37.220 he only

00:19:38.620 understands

00:19:39.320 the feminine.

00:19:39.940 He was

00:19:40.180 raised by

00:19:40.700 the feminine

00:19:41.100 and to

00:19:41.460 be a good

00:19:42.000 little boy

00:19:42.580 and not

00:19:43.360 upset

00:19:43.680 mummy,

00:19:44.500 always obey

00:19:45.440 mummy.

00:19:46.720 And

00:19:47.000 masculinity,

00:19:48.200 true masculinity,

00:19:49.120 is inherently

00:19:49.620 disruptive.

00:19:50.780 It's inherently

00:19:51.520 disruptive to

00:19:52.300 what women 1.00

00:19:52.680 want.

00:19:53.620 Now,

00:19:53.900 real women,

00:19:55.620 well,

00:19:56.400 depending on

00:19:56.840 the date,

00:19:57.140 sometimes they

00:19:57.620 absolutely love

00:19:58.260 the disruptive

00:19:58.800 nature.

00:19:59.480 Hey,

00:20:00.020 what?

00:20:00.900 The nonsense

00:20:01.880 that guys

00:20:02.360 do.

00:20:03.100 It's hilarious,

00:20:04.220 they love it.

00:20:05.120 Sometimes it's

00:20:05.840 too much and 1.00

00:20:06.400 they bitch 1.00

00:20:07.200 about it. 0.98

00:20:08.440 But that is

00:20:09.200 normal,

00:20:09.900 healthy masculinity.

00:20:11.120 The Gamma male 1.00

00:20:11.900 who is raised

00:20:13.240 with his

00:20:13.560 mummy's apron

00:20:15.180 strings around

00:20:16.560 him,

00:20:17.780 you know,

00:20:18.100 he's been

00:20:18.360 slapped down

00:20:20.380 every time he

00:20:21.800 acted remotely

00:20:22.880 masculine.

00:20:23.500 and so he

00:20:24.800 sees that as

00:20:25.400 a threat.

00:20:26.360 He sees

00:20:26.700 these guys

00:20:27.360 lobbing

00:20:27.860 friendly insults

00:20:28.900 at each

00:20:29.160 other and

00:20:30.000 he sees

00:20:30.580 vicious

00:20:31.160 nastiness. 0.88

00:20:32.940 He sees

00:20:33.800 the alpha

00:20:34.780 male passing 1.00

00:20:36.060 a shit test 1.00

00:20:36.800 from his 1.00

00:20:37.200 girlfriend and

00:20:38.300 he sees

00:20:39.140 an abusive

00:20:40.420 man, 0.91

00:20:41.340 a controlling, 1.00

00:20:42.500 abusive, 1.00

00:20:43.740 cruel man. 0.56

00:20:44.740 so the

00:20:47.060 antagonist in

00:20:47.800 this film

00:20:48.260 is what

00:20:50.120 a Gamma male

00:20:51.200 thinks an

00:20:52.620 alpha male

00:20:53.120 looks like.

00:20:55.180 And what he

00:20:55.980 then does,

00:20:57.720 he tries to

00:20:59.020 be the nice

00:20:59.580 guy,

00:20:59.840 and this is

00:21:00.220 how the

00:21:00.720 Gamma males 0.99

00:21:01.260 try and get

00:21:01.720 laid in real

00:21:02.280 life,

00:21:03.220 is they

00:21:03.780 sidle up

00:21:04.820 to a

00:21:05.840 taken woman,

00:21:06.540 they sidle up

00:21:07.260 to your

00:21:07.500 girlfriend or

00:21:08.160 they sidle up

00:21:08.780 to your

00:21:09.040 wife,

00:21:09.380 and they

00:21:11.060 start being 0.57

00:21:11.660 a whiny 0.99

00:21:12.160 little baby,

00:21:13.960 but being a

00:21:14.460 good little

00:21:14.840 boy and

00:21:15.440 encouraging her

00:21:16.260 nurturing instinct,

00:21:17.280 her mothering 1.00

00:21:17.880 instincts.

00:21:19.140 You know,

00:21:19.380 this is what a

00:21:20.180 nice guy does.

00:21:21.500 They're nice.

00:21:23.260 The nice guy

00:21:24.140 hangs out with

00:21:24.800 the girl that

00:21:25.340 keeps getting

00:21:25.660 her heart broken

00:21:26.240 by the bad

00:21:27.260 boys because

00:21:28.260 he wants to

00:21:28.960 sleep with her.

00:21:29.840 He won't admit

00:21:30.380 it, he won't

00:21:30.780 be upfront about

00:21:31.540 it, he won't

00:21:31.900 be direct, but

00:21:32.540 he wants to

00:21:33.100 sleep with her.

00:21:34.180 Doesn't care about

00:21:34.860 her at all,

00:21:35.380 just wants to 1.00

00:21:36.160 have sex with 1.00

00:21:36.740 her. 1.00

00:21:37.320 Wants her to

00:21:37.900 be responsible

00:21:38.540 for him,

00:21:39.100 to take care

00:21:39.800 of him,

00:21:40.300 because he

00:21:40.860 can't take

00:21:41.300 care of

00:21:41.600 himself.

00:21:43.080 And so

00:21:43.340 he views

00:21:44.000 the Alpha

00:21:45.040 as evil,

00:21:46.520 as the

00:21:47.260 enemy.

00:21:49.800 He's just 1.00

00:21:50.180 a nasty 1.00

00:21:50.800 piece of

00:21:51.260 work.

00:21:53.560 And in

00:21:54.180 the movie,

00:21:54.620 this ultimately

00:21:55.200 culminates

00:21:55.900 with Seth

00:21:57.920 McFarlane having

00:21:58.760 a shootout

00:21:59.420 with the

00:21:59.880 Alpha,

00:22:01.180 but poisoning

00:22:02.720 his bullets

00:22:03.900 with

00:22:04.520 rattlesnake

00:22:05.260 venom.

00:22:07.420 He resorts

00:22:08.620 to poison,

00:22:10.380 which has

00:22:10.760 long been

00:22:11.440 recognized as

00:22:12.440 a woman's 0.56

00:22:13.140 weapon.

00:22:14.660 He does

00:22:15.500 something sneaky.

00:22:17.000 He is a 0.87

00:22:17.660 sneaky male. 0.79

00:22:23.660 And he's not

00:22:24.620 even aware of

00:22:25.200 this as far as

00:22:25.740 I can tell.

00:22:26.200 a million ways

00:22:32.300 to die in

00:22:32.780 the West 0.98

00:22:33.220 is the

00:22:35.300 gamma male

00:22:35.940 narrative

00:22:36.720 writ large.

00:22:38.400 It is the

00:22:39.080 whiny, 0.89

00:22:40.120 obsequious, 0.99

00:22:41.520 feminized, 0.98

00:22:42.960 castrato male.

00:22:44.360 and this is

00:22:49.040 really

00:22:49.380 everything wrong

00:22:50.160 with our

00:22:50.520 culture.

00:22:51.980 And the

00:22:52.680 saddest part,

00:22:54.000 and this is

00:22:54.760 really what

00:22:55.200 breaks my

00:22:55.640 heart,

00:22:56.600 that the

00:22:58.060 fact that

00:22:58.680 Seth

00:22:58.980 McFarlane

00:22:59.500 wrote this,

00:23:01.440 you know,

00:23:01.640 I'm sure he

00:23:02.140 understood that

00:23:02.640 his character

00:23:03.480 was a bit

00:23:03.900 of a dweeb,

00:23:04.540 that his

00:23:04.760 character wasn't

00:23:05.280 really a

00:23:05.960 badass cowboy, 0.83

00:23:06.800 but I don't

00:23:07.500 think he

00:23:07.700 understands the

00:23:08.480 depth of the

00:23:09.580 pathology he

00:23:10.940 displayed with

00:23:11.520 this character,

00:23:12.620 just how

00:23:13.820 sick,

00:23:14.700 how ill 0.97

00:23:15.580 this character

00:23:16.940 is,

00:23:17.500 that his

00:23:17.960 bad guy

00:23:18.660 in reality

00:23:19.960 is one of

00:23:20.320 the good

00:23:20.620 guys,

00:23:20.960 is one of

00:23:21.240 the leaders

00:23:21.600 of men

00:23:21.960 that builds

00:23:22.420 society,

00:23:23.720 and that

00:23:24.620 his protagonist

00:23:25.340 is one of

00:23:26.280 the most

00:23:26.640 destructive 1.00

00:23:27.460 and pathetic 0.99

00:23:28.460 forces in 0.99

00:23:30.760 our civilization.

00:23:34.320 The movie

00:23:34.960 was absolutely 0.92

00:23:35.460 disgusting,

00:23:36.100 it's absolutely 1.00

00:23:36.540 pathetic, 1.00

00:23:37.100 and you've 1.00

00:23:37.620 got this

00:23:37.940 guy,

00:23:38.180 you've got

00:23:38.360 Seth

00:23:38.520 McFarlane,

00:23:39.320 who is so

00:23:40.080 incredibly talented,

00:23:40.920 and good

00:23:42.240 looking,

00:23:43.220 and well

00:23:43.900 off financially,

00:23:45.860 and yet

00:23:47.480 this movie

00:23:47.960 would suggest

00:23:48.640 that he is

00:23:49.140 still a little

00:23:49.680 boy inside.

00:23:51.380 I mean, 0.99

00:23:52.240 it's pathetic, 1.00

00:23:52.960 this guy 1.00

00:23:53.260 manages to get

00:23:54.120 laid because

00:23:54.660 he has

00:23:55.000 money,

00:23:55.820 but he is

00:23:56.360 an absolute

00:23:57.060 simp,

00:23:58.300 he is an 0.99

00:23:59.040 absolute

00:24:00.080 little

00:24:00.740 weenus

00:24:01.500 of a

00:24:02.760 man.

00:24:06.180 And,

00:24:06.720 you know,

00:24:06.960 the fact that

00:24:07.380 he's a

00:24:07.660 Democrat

00:24:07.980 seems to

00:24:08.520 support that,

00:24:09.420 you know,

00:24:09.680 you can't

00:24:10.020 really say

00:24:10.360 that much

00:24:10.780 about his

00:24:11.100 character

00:24:11.380 just based

00:24:11.900 upon the

00:24:12.260 movie that

00:24:12.760 he wrote

00:24:13.840 and acted

00:24:14.860 in.

00:24:17.200 But it

00:24:17.740 really does

00:24:18.320 seem like

00:24:18.760 that's the

00:24:19.120 case,

00:24:19.420 that we've

00:24:19.660 got this

00:24:20.040 generation of

00:24:20.900 simps,

00:24:21.620 men that

00:24:21.960 don't know

00:24:22.300 how to

00:24:22.520 take responsibility

00:24:23.140 for themselves,

00:24:24.280 men that

00:24:24.680 don't know

00:24:25.740 how to

00:24:26.020 attract women, 0.99

00:24:26.640 that don't

00:24:26.960 even want

00:24:27.380 a wife.

00:24:28.500 Okay,

00:24:28.760 you need to

00:24:29.180 be a man

00:24:29.620 before you

00:24:29.960 can have

00:24:30.200 a wife.

00:24:30.720 These guys

00:24:31.080 want a

00:24:31.440 mummy.

00:24:32.740 They want

00:24:33.200 somebody to

00:24:34.220 change their

00:24:34.680 diapers for

00:24:35.440 them.

00:24:35.920 Somebody to

00:24:36.500 pay the

00:24:36.940 bills for

00:24:37.580 them.

00:24:38.360 And,

00:24:38.640 quite frankly,

00:24:39.580 all these

00:24:39.880 feminist career 1.00

00:24:40.540 girls, 0.91

00:24:41.320 these people

00:24:42.320 deserve each

00:24:42.980 other.

00:24:43.700 It's absolutely 0.96

00:24:44.520 disgusting. 0.91

00:24:45.260 It is utterly 1.00

00:24:45.960 pathetic. 0.99

00:24:46.640 And, yes, 1.00

00:24:47.060 civilization is

00:24:47.760 falling apart.

00:24:48.780 But, you

00:24:49.480 know, let

00:24:50.300 these people

00:24:50.920 have each

00:24:51.560 other.

00:24:53.400 Folks,

00:24:54.260 be thankful

00:24:55.240 thankful that

00:24:56.760 you are not

00:24:59.980 one of these

00:25:00.760 people,

00:25:02.020 one of these

00:25:02.840 utterly

00:25:03.740 destroyed,

00:25:04.640 these feminized 0.98

00:25:06.420 men or

00:25:07.220 these masculinized

00:25:08.500 women. 0.81

00:25:10.320 You know,

00:25:10.720 be thankful.

00:25:14.820 You know,

00:25:15.040 this guy,

00:25:15.540 so many gifts

00:25:16.140 in life,

00:25:17.740 and yet,

00:25:19.780 he's a 1.00

00:25:20.500 pathetic 1.00

00:25:21.040 simp. 1.00

00:25:22.240 You know, 0.97

00:25:26.320 quite frankly,

00:25:28.040 you folks out

00:25:28.620 there,

00:25:28.840 the poorest

00:25:30.000 amongst you, 1.00

00:25:31.200 the ugliest 1.00

00:25:32.780 amongst you, 0.99

00:25:35.480 are at least

00:25:36.120 ten times

00:25:36.920 the man that

00:25:38.180 Seth MacFarlane

00:25:38.900 is.

00:25:39.780 And how sad

00:25:40.400 is that?

00:25:43.680 Oh, and if

00:25:44.360 you enjoyed the

00:25:44.860 movie, I hope

00:25:45.320 I just ruined

00:25:45.820 it for you.

00:25:48.580 Irini out,

00:25:49.380 folks.

00:25:52.240 Bye.

00:26:10.140 Bye.

00:26:10.900 Bye.

00:26:11.260 Bye.

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - March 08, 2015

Aurini's Insight： A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

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