What Shall I Pull From The Video Mines Next?

Hello everyone yet again! If you're kind enough to think my work is worth a dollar a month, then you get to help choose my next project!

As with the last poll, I plan on doing all of these ideas eventually - this poll is just to decide what I'll do next. If something isn't picked this round, it'll still be on the docket for the next poll once this project is done.

The Options ARE:

Parasite: English, Language, Movies

A look at how the first non-English language winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture  uses the English language, and what Bong Joon-Ho's barrier-shattering 2019 class drama says about English, language, and movies. We'll talk Hallyu, the history of Korean-American relations, and the 'one inch barrier' known as subtitles. (captions are, of course, provided)

The Top 20 Comic Book Movies OF ALL TIME

Hell yeah, comics can be cinema! From the page to the screen, these are my TOP 20 COMIC BOOK MOVIES OF ALL TIME! There will be costumed punch-em-ups! There will be intimate slice of life dramas! There will be at least one silent film! There will be a film praised by Martin Scorsese! I might include Popeye! WHO KNOWS!?! (spoiler - Honorable Mentions: The Dark Knight, Blue is The Warmest Color, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!)

Network: Thoughts On Being Mad As Hell

Sidney Lumet's timeless masterpiece re-examined as a precursor to the age of the streaming Debate Bro and performative anger. What being Mad As Hell means when, in the age of the internet, everyone has the chance to become Howard Beale.

Bisexual Lighting REDUX

It's been three years since I did a video about so-called Bisexual Lighting. Revisiting the concept after years and after the fad has since become standardized, what that color scheme has come to mean in cinema, and in bisexual culture.

Bo Burnham: Inside and the Cinema of the Interior

Ah, the Great Indoors. Filmmakers (and online content creators) have long explored interior spaces and their effects on human psychology, but after a year of global quarantine, Bo Burnham's feat of filmmaking hits hard. Where that puts him in the canon of great interior films - from Maya Deren and Shirley Clarke, to Martin Scorsese and Chantal Akerman, to Liu Jiayin, Jafar Panahi and Joel Potrykus.

Sins. Cinema.

Ding. I know this is beating a dead horse. Ding. But nonetheless a certain YouTube film criticism channel remains popular. Ding. And without spoiling anything, let's just say I have A Take. Ding.

mother! - God Is A Woman

A theological deep dive into the universe of Darren Aronofsky's widely mocked cuckoo bananas, Oops, All Allegory! fest, mother! Topics to be discussed include The Great Cosmic Mother, passion plays, the concept of the midrash, and noted contemporary theologian Ariana Grande.

Trash Humpers Might Actually Be Brilliant

This would be another "Redux" video - going back to an old thing that I mocked and reexamining it through a new lens. And Harmony Korine's, er, mid-period work could be reexamined through the lens of, of all things: Queer Theory. Hear me out. We'll be talking John Waters, the Kuchar brothers, Jack Smith, Barbara Hammer, and TikTok.

Zardoz: The Gun Is Good

And another Redux video idea: revisiting the bonkers sci-fi flop that I made fun of years ago. We'll glance at its minor cultural impact and go over its weirdly relevant politics. How Zardoz predicted Incel culture, and how many people IRL think that the gun is good and the penis is evil. Please do not vote for this one.

William Shakespeare's The Avengers

A while back I was given a review copy of Ian Doescher's latest in his iambic pentameter pop culture adaptations: a compilation of all four Avengers movies: The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, rewritten as an Elizabethan drama. I suppose I should review it? Fair warning: I'm on Martin Scorsese's side.

Polling will last a week, and the winner will be announced at next week's livestream on my YouTube Channel.

Can't wait to see the results! DTF stands for Death To Fascism,

- K