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Death of a Salesman Sources:
Making Willy Loman: www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/01/25/making-willyâŚ
Interview with Mike Nichols: deadline.com/2012/05/mike-fleming-interviews-direcâŚ
Arthur Miller vs. Columbia Pictures: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1537-472âŚ
Mike Nichols, Following in Kazanâs Footsteps: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/20âŚ
LâArrivĂŠe dâun train en gare de La Ciotat Sources:
Lumiereâs Arrival of the Train: Cinemaâs Founding Myth: muse.jhu.edu/article/171125
Did A Silent Film About A Train Really Cause Audiences To Stampede? www.atlasobscura.com/articles/did-a-silent-film-abâŚ
War of the Worlds Sources:
Radiolab: War of the Worlds: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/warâŚ
The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic: slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-âŚ
America under attack I: a reassessment of Orson Welles' 1938 war of the worlds broadcast: www.proquest.com/openview/2c129259dc4d373b566d4c1câŚ
AT&T Operators Recall War of the Worlds Broadcast:    â˘Â AT&T Operators Recall War of the Worl... Â
Iliad/Enargeia Sources:
Memorial by Alice Oswald, 2011
From Enargeia to Immersion: The Ancient Roots of a Modern Concept: www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.51.1.0034
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"He's married, owns a house, has two kids"
Even one of those things these days could qualify as a life goal.
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Being able to support a wife and two kids on a salesman's salary AND owning your very own house sounds like a success story by today's standards. This dude was a rockstar and didn't even know it.
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âwho actually had their tv on live at 9:48 in the morning that dayâ kills me as a question because all i can think about is my mother. she worked at a blockbuster. she and her coworkers were surrounded on every side by screens of the second tower getting hit and falling. everyone was told to go home, and she said she didnât know what to do with herself until she got a call from my brotherâs school saying that broke his arm, so she focused on the only thing she could; being a mom.
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Creative writing teacher here.
One of my students suggested your channel and Iâm absolutely floored. This was a sublime piece of academic eloquence.
Enargeia got referred to in the class last week as âSpeech 100â and itâs nice to know that this is where the mention came from, as she must have probably just seen your video before our class started.
Thanks, for the suggestion, P. đ¤đž
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Jacob out here giving English teachers a free lesson plan.
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I don't think Jacob Geller has ever put out a un-interesting video, all of the content he makes is consistently interesting, in depth, and very well made. Keep up the good work!
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Notably, the âtrain crashes through a stationâ scene in Hugo is also heavily based off the real life Montparnasse Derailment, where a train overran its final stop. In fact, the final position of the train in the movie is made to mimic a famous picture of the aftermath of the Montparnasse Derailment.
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I only ever saw my Dad cry once, at his Mothers Funeral. Sitting on the pew in front of me, almost bent double, sobbing uncontrollably. The only boy among 5 sisters. My aunt put her arm around him and hugged him. It was the first time I ever realised how close he was to her, and not having a dad how he had been raised entirely around women, she had been his rock.
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This is gonna be existential isnât it?
Hell yeah it is.
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"The Men Who Couldn't Stop Crying" would make a good title for film or novel.
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When we think about existential horror and the authors who have best explored that theme, we think of H. P Lovecraft, Jeff Vandermeer or even Junji Ito. Arthur Miller's name doesn't usually appear on the list of authors in that genre but I think it should. With Death of a Salesman Miller perfectly described the horror of the mundane, the ordinary and the monotonous. With The Crucible he described the horror of a community turning in on itself, trying to make sense of the world by blaming their ills on demonic powers when the real demons haunting them are all the pent up resentments and petty hatreds that anyone who grew up in a small country town will probably be familiar with. The horrors in Miller's work are the fears and anxieties of daily existence.
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I had a film theory and history teacher who said that audiences ran out of "L`arrivee d`un train", not because they were afraid that the train would literally come out of the screen and run them over, but instead because they feared for the cameraman's safety and they they would be watching essentially a combination of Blair witch and snuff film.
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I love how Jacob Gellerâs general appearance and video aesthetic is just slowly edging more and more towards a late 1800s doctor. Like at some point he could just be inserted into a movie of Jekyll and Hyde and Iâd be like âyeah looks right.â
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"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality."
This video in particular struck me pretty deeply. Thank you, Jacob.
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The other thing to note about the play âDeath of a salesmanâ that might also play into the fears of the men who cried, a lot of these men probably fought in WW2 or were sent over seas.
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I mean, we like to joke about âooh people got scared of a train coming at them from a screenâ but seriously I still flinch when seeing an object like a baseball fly towards the camera unexpectedly in a video
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Seeing people react to VR headsets always made me think of that train story. Stuff like the reactions to falling off a cliff in VR where people would scream and even fall over in real life. It made me wonder if one day VR would be so common that reactions like that would seem ridiculous in the same way.
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The last time I saw my Dad was just two days after the release of this video (the Saturday night) so the bit where he says: "Imagine your Dad crying" reminded me of when we would make fun of him for crying at Armageddon, but not the bit where Bruce Willis dies but instead he cried at the bit in the film a boy sees on the TV a man who had come to the door earlier but his mother just dismissed him as a salesman, so the boy sees him on the TV and shouts: "Mom, that salesman's on TV!" and so his Mum responds: "That's no salesman. That's your daddy."
He cried at that before he even had children.
I don't think I have clarified this: he died, he did not leave.
I really enjoyed writing this comment. I really miss him.
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My late grandmother was born in 1915. She used to tell me stories about her youth and childhood, some of which sound so alien to someone born in the late 80s such as myself that it took knowing her to actually believe it, if it makes any sense. She told me stories about how people genuinely believed you couldn't move from a country like Mexico to a colder climate such as Canada without dying of hypothermia, how slavery was very much present during her childhood, just not called slavery anymore and, more relevant to this video, how she wanted to watch Nosferatu when it was released but her mother thought her too young, so only her older sister was allowed. Returning home that evening, her sister was terrified, she was genuinely afraid that a vampire would attack her and drink her blood, so as a small act of revenge my grandma waited patiently until the middle of the night, sneaked through the house and slowly opened her sister's door with her pale hand just to hear her scream.
I've lived in small cities where a man once asked me "didn't this guy die in the last soap opera?". I've seen actors being attacked on the street for playing evil characters. I have no doubt people were afraid of trains moving towards the screen, it may be an exaggeration that people ran from their seats, but that's all, an exaggeration based on a real observation.
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