Which video topic should I do next?

Hey, hope you're doing well! While researching the video on Total Recall I came up with a couple of other video ideas, and since it’s been so long since I did a proper poll between different video topics, I wanted to give you a chance to choose which topic you’d prefer to see first.

1) This would be mainly based on a 90s essay by Alison Landsberg that became influential in memory studies, where she introduces the concept of “prosthetic memory” by looking at the movies Total Recall and Blade Runner. I would focus primarily on Total Recall as a postmodern take on the relation between memory, authenticity and identity. I might also use Blade Runner as an example. Could also touch on John Locke’s views on memory as constitutive of identity.

2) I would discuss 300, the Zack Snyder movie, as an example of right-wing ideology in cinematic representations of history. The movie has been really popular in right-wing circles and there’s a lot to discuss with regards to why that is, as the battle between Spartans and Persians has historically often been upheld as a symbol of Western superiority. I could talk about Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism (as the Persians in the movie represent the evil East), and perhaps Frederic Jameson on the loss of historicity in postmodern film.

3) Here I would discuss the way class functions in two completely opposing ways in The Dark Knight (2008) vs. Joker (2019), with The Dark Knight coming from a ruling class perspective that tries to mask class conflict in moral terms, whereas the Joker movie is more conscious of class, and presents the rise of Joker as caused by material factors, thereby also humanizing him. I’d also have to talk about The Dark Knight Rises, with its bizarre references to the French revolution. I’m not sure exactly which theorists I’d draw on, but I’d generally talk about class analysis and its relation to depictions of morality and evil.

4) There’s an Italian movie about Friedrich Nietzsche called Beyond Good and Evil (1977) that I’d like to talk about simply because of how completely bizarre it is. This would be a (hopefully) more fun video, and less theory-heavy. Perhaps it would be my entry into film commentary or movie reviewing, but I could talk about its biographical accuracy (or lack thereof), or perhaps expand the project and do a larger comparison of all movies about Nietzsche (four, to my knowledge) that have been made.

Looking forward to working on the next video, whichever one you pick. I'd like to get to all of them eventually so don't worry if you're unsure. Have a good week!