So what REALLY went wrong with Jared Letos Joker? (Audio) - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2016-08-29 | Here's a quick audio vid going over some specifics of how the Leto Joker was used in Suicide Squad and why I think people have had negative reactions to it.
Why are things Oddly Satisfying? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2024-09-18 | Once the internet connected the world on a massive scale, and people started talking about how they felt, a lot of ideas emerged, such as the concept of things being "Oddly Satisfying." It seems to cover a lot of different occurrences, from sounds, deeds, and personal experiences. But if we look closely at them, and how our brain works, we might find a single thing that they represent, and learn something else about what our brain does for us. And I get to sneak my Minecraft world into a video yet again. :)Follow me on Twitter!http://www.twitter.com/Storybrain1Or on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelThanks!
What happened to the Rings of Power? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2024-07-28 | Touching on some current things going on in the movie business. There's been a serious trend over the last few years to go into existing franchises and replace characters of certain categories with characters of others, and it's had a bad effect on the profits of those franchises. What subconscious things have caused people to make these changes to the franchises, and why has that caused these franchises to "go broke?" We'll delve into that in this video, and why in the past these types of characters have done fine, but these latest films and shows are not faring as well.http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannel
Batman is not based on a bat. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2024-06-11 | Obviously Batman is human, but his character design, and particularly his mask, are not based on a bat at all. In this video we'll discuss what animal was the actual inspiration for Batman's mask, talk about why he's not actually a bat, and apply the same principle to Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers to see their underlying inspiration.
What went wrong with the Metaverse? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2024-04-30 | Despite having all the promotional power and all the financial resources in the world, Facebook's Metaverse has struggled to get off the ground. If it doesn't do so, it may go down as one of the biggest business mistakes in history. People have discussed its struggles, but they may not have focused on what caused Facebook to go down that path in the first place.
Why your mixtape is fire and you know it. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2024-03-14 | The mixtape we have sitting on our computer, or on Youtube, Soundcloud, or another place might be pure inferno. Or just hot garbage. But some peculiar aspects of how our brains mean that we'll think it's incredible, no matter how good it actually is. We'll also take some time in this video to talk about what's necessary to see our work ACTUALLY judged accurately, and some of the trials it faces after it leaves your hands.
The Dylan Mulvaney & Bud Light Debacle. A Deep Dive. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2024-02-13 | A major blunder in media history happened last year when Bud Light managed to lose nearly one-third of their entire customer base off of a single ad campaign. A helluva lot happened, people didn't really touch on a lot of things, and I was talking to my screen by myself most of the time, so now that the channel is back, I can put all of it into a video! Follow Me On Twitter @StoryBrain1!
The real, actual reason that the Mona Lisa has that smile. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2024-01-30 | Happy 2024 everybody! For a very long time, people have pondered the Mona Lisa's facial expression. Let's bring the channel back by first revealing the real, genuine reason that the Mona Lisa has a half-smile on her face, and then discussing a bit about why we feel such a strong attraction to her face, as part of the painting in general.
Why Ric Flair is the best pro wrestler ever. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-10-22 | As I've mentioned, before I ever got into movies or the workings of the brain, I was really into professional wrestling. You can learn a lot about the fundamentals of storytelling but studying how it works. And I never saw any pro wrestler who understood and delivered on those fundamentals like Ric Flair. He was doing things in his prime that I didn't fully understand myself until many years later. In this video, I'm going to go into detail about those things. I think it should be interesting even if you aren't a wrestling fan.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
How Mumble Rappers hack your brain. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-09-13 | There's a new genre of hip-hop that's emerged in the last few years, and traditional rappers like Eminem and Snoop Dogg have gone nuts feuding with it. It features oddly dressed people repeating specific phrases over and over with no lyrical content and often boring musical beats, but it's become incredibly popular. How could a genre that's based on performance, wordplay, and musical talent get overrun by the equivalent of a zombie apocalypse? Well, it has to do with the mental triggers that actual good music hits in our mind, and how those can be hit in other ways. Which is today's topic.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
How professional athletes ACTUALLY make their money. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-08-14 | Pro athletes obviously are some of the best people in the world at what they do. And they also, of course, have huge endorsement contracts to sell products to people who want to be like them. But there are other people in the world who are the best, and who are well-liked, who don't make nearly as much. This is because pro athletes' incomes are based on something unrelated to all of that. Let's talk about what that is.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Did JK Rowling RUIN Harry Potter? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-07-18 | For many years, JK Rowling has shared her political opinions on her Twitter account. Normally she leans one way, but recently she has made some statements that others deem as insensitive and have angered her normal base of fans. Many have said that they'll never be able to read Harry Potter again. We know of course, that the book is not separate from the author, but let's take some time today to talk about exactly what the emotional reaction is that causes us to be unable to enjoy artistic work by people we don't like.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why Star Wars toys stopped selling. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-07-05 | Starting with the Last Jedi, Star Wars toys experienced a massive drop-off in toy and merchandise sales. Including a lack of attendance at the Galaxy's Edge amusement park. Considering that Star Wars was once the greatest merchandising phenomenon in entertainment history, and it was back with a huge marketing push, it must've taken something major for this to happen. I think that changes and confusion in the basic formula of the Star Wars story caused this to happen. So let's talk about that, and what makes people actually buy toys, merchandise, and theme park tickets.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
The REAL reason girls love Barbie. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-06-05 | Barbie is probably the most successful entertainment product for girls that's ever existed. Toys, movies, TV shows, games, altogether, it's grossed an incredible amount of money. And the effect an aisle of Barbie toys has on a girl is almost hypnotic. There's something about the character, her look, lifestyle, and the colors that are used, that connects with the psyche of most young women. Especially because we can see a lot of the same colors and conventions in women's television. In this video, we'll dive into all of it, and see if there's a clear explanation.___________________________________________Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Pulp Fiction and the Secret of Non-Linear Storytelling. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-05-14 | Viewers Choice! People voted to see a video about Quentin Tarantino and how non-linear storytelling works in movies. So here it is. We're going to dive into the principles that made Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction the most influential films of the 90's, and which were so hard to reproduce for countless other filmmakers that followed. This will also let us talk about a point that can help us when confronting many other problems.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
A Novel Solution to Academic Publishing (Video Version) - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-04-26 | Last week I put up a paper showing how things I learned about entertainment publishing applied to the weirdness and politics of the academic publishing process, and how the traditional theories about why the process was so flawed all turned out to be wrong. This included a proposal to adopt a trick from computer network hacking as a way to actually get the mind to make semi-rational decisions. Here, I read the paper, with some video visual aids, and discuss it in more detail.The paper is on several preprint sites, here's its page on Philpapers.philpapers.org/rec/ENNANSAlso, interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
What is a Big Break? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-04-20 | A few years ago, Maggie Rogers became an overnight musical sensation when Pharrell Williams listened to one of her songs in a music class and loved it. She's since become a professional performing artist. In this video, we'll analyze that clip, as well as discuss the emotional situation of having your art critiquing as well as critiquing others, and how that played into Pharrell's exaggerated reaction, including how that does or does not transfer to different people who might hear the song.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why the new She-Hulk is doomed. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-03-29 | According to reports, Marvel is developing a new She-Hulk for television, and there may be some significant changes to the character to represent modern women. In a lot of cases, this can be a good thing for a story. But in this case, if they do it, it's going to get them a lot of praise on Twitter, and then tank in the ratings. And it's not because the character has to be "hot" or attractive.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Commentary - Michael visits Pams Art Show (The Office) StoryBrain 2020-03-15 | Hi everybody, I've been working on some other things involving the channel, to see what options are available besides dealing with algorithm. In the meantime, here's a quick commentary on a scene from the Office which illustrates and underlines some important things that we talk about here on the channel.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why do we HATE movie spoilers? (Spoiler-Free Edition) - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-02-25 | I noticed a study recently that claimed that we don't actually hate movie spoilers. I shared it on twitter and pointed out that it was wrong, and later, another study came out that discredited the first one. But I never really got into exactly WHY the study was wrong, what happens in our minds when we hear a movie spoiler, and how it effects our viewing of a movie. So I made this video to go into that.This video will not spoil any actual movies, and stay tuned to the end for a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
What the sports media didnt know about Kobe Bryant. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-02-12 | Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and 7 other people were lost in a tragic helicopter accident last week. I've been a basketball fan for a long time, and in the process of being one, I noticed several things about how Kobe Bryant thought and played basketball that the sports media never quite understood. This also shows us some things about Lebron James and why he struggled with pressure early in his career, and even Michael Jordan himself.I'm not putting ads on this video.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Pulp Fiction meets Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. The difference between a good and a great movie. StoryBrain 2020-01-23 | You can hear a lot of explanations about what makes one movie good and another movie bad. But not nearly as many about what makes one movie great and another just good. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood are two movies that fit in those categories, and I think by analyzing the writing and other issues involved with them, we can show how that line is actually drawn.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why actors pretend to be friends with everyone. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-01-14 | It's obvious to most people that Keanu Reeves, Matt Damon, Christian Bale and a lot of other actors pretend to love everyone while promoting their latest Hollywood films. It also seems obvious that there's nothing to lose by being nice, and they're trying to promote the movie. But if you actually examine it, you'll find that famous people in just about every other field, from sports, to math, to table games, tend to actually treat fans and the media terribly, and it's only actors who pretend that everyone they meet is long-lost family. The reason for this, in my opinion, is pretty interesting, so let's talk about it today. Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Phoenix meets Ledger. Whos the best Joker ever? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2020-01-03 | One of the most popular videos we've done on the channel is a comparison of Jared Leto and Heath Ledger's Joker characters. At the time, we said Heath was clearly the best Joker ever and one of the greatest villains ever put on screen. But now, a new challenger as emerged. Joaquin Phoenix's Joker has made a huge splash, and I think it's time to review the new film, and compare how each Joker works on our emotions. Which should be especially interesting, since they actually function in opposite ways.The following videos are referenced in this one:Leto vs. Ledger: Why Heath's Joker was so special.youtube.com/watch?v=SlrwjpX0FTYWhat is the Special Something?youtube.com/watch?v=m6O2DRmHLKYThanks!Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help.
Why todays Disney Company wouldve FIRED Walt Disney. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-12-31 | With the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the 2020 version of the Disney Company has wrapped up a decade of plans that have been controversial to fans. But perhaps the most interesting part of it is how today's approach to entertainment relates to the situation in which it was founded. Walt Disney's philosophy in creating the company was caused by his experiences with another movie studio that actually mirrored the exact way the Disney Company operates today. Let's go into that, and why today's company would've fired Disney in the same way he was in the 1920's.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why do amateur viral videos get more viewers than Hollywood movies? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-12-26 | You might have noticed that movie clips and trailers get a lot of views online, but silly cat videos and amateur uploads actually draw bigger audiences and have more effect on people. Of course, the actual Hollywood movies aren't free to watch, while these videos are, but the real processes involved, I think are much more interesting. And show you how seeming randomness with some simple selection mechanisms can produce better results than systems run by expert gatekeepers.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why Youtube couldnt handle being actual creators. (Rewind 2019) - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-12-13 | Youtube Rewind 2019, featuring Pewdiepie, T-Series and other channels, shows that Youtube actually didn't have any experience creating original content on their own channel. In this video, we'll analyze the subtext of the creative decisions, or lack thereof, in their 2019 Rewind, and also prove that Youtube has been deliberately mucking with their content creators, and propose some actual potential solutions to Youtube's advertiser problems, which might help them stay in the good will of their creators as well.My previous upload about the producer and what causes individual people to break consensus:youtube.com/watch?v=IWzLjRpn-7sInteract with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1 http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannel Support me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more! http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrain I'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
The Death of John Connor. Analyzed. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-12-03 | In Jim Cameron and Tim Miller's Terminator: Dark Fate, a decision was made that likely ruined the entire franchise. Since the film's bad showing in the box office, a number of excuses have been offered by the filmmakers for this decision, including that it provides "Rocket Fuel" for the story's plot. In this video we'll address, and debunk, those excuses. And in the process, we'll provide an alternate explanation for how people balance moral and aesthetic desires, and the existence of what some call "System 1" and "System 2" thinking.Interact with me on social media! http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1 http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannel Support me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more! http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrain I'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why does Wonder Woman beat so many other female action movies? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-11-25 | With the release of Charlie's Angels, Batwoman, and Terminator: Dark Fate, Hollywood has been trying to put more women into action stories. But these recent properties have struggled in the box office, while Wonder Woman, The Hunger Games, Aliens, and many other female-driven franchises have done phenomenally well.People have figured out that the quality of the writing, and the political tone of the movies plays a factor, but I noticed something else recently, that is just as important. So let's go into that.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why people wanted Sonic to be less realistic. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-11-20 | In a rather unprecedented move, Paramount re-edited the entire Sonic the Hedgehog movie to make the character look like the original video game version. This actually made Sonic look far less realistic (well, compared to the previous talking blue hedgehog), but the fans liked it more. So let's talk about how the positive associations that we attach to video game characters are different from movies, how the uncanny valley actually works, and the role believability plays in generating our emotions.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
How Dark Fate Terminated its own audience. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-11-10 | Several movies recently have decided to completely ruin their main character, like John Connor in Terminator: Dark Fate, and claim that it's to "subvert the audience's expectations," or otherwise surprise them. The results of this have been pretty bad for the movies and the fans themselves. So I figured I'd talk about that, and how surprise actually works in films.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Can a movie studio be too big to fail? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-11-05 | The franchise era is at the absolute peak of its profitability, but I found some surprising parallels between the current situation Disney is in, controlling all the major properties in entertainment and ignoring anything new, and a company called World Championship Wrestling in the 1990's. That company went from #1 in 1997 to being out of business in 2001. Let's talk about the financial, creative, and psychological processes that I think could cause something like that to happen.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Is Marvel killing Hollywood? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-10-29 | In the last few weeks, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jennifer Aniston and a number of other famous names have come out against Marvel Studios, saying their movies are "not cinema," "diminishing the film business," and even "despicable." What's causing all this negativity, why do comic book films not make movie stars, and is this good or bad for the movie business? Let's do a deep dive into these topics with my longest video commentary ever!Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Gemini Man Review. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-10-23 | Ang Lee and Will Smith's Gemini Man is in theaters, and somehow I ended up seeing it. So, let's do a quick review of the movie, how it was executed as a story, and the outside emotional elements related to it, and how those came together for my own personal response to it.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why people hate Michael Bay. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-10-19 | Few filmmakers have as strange a combination of high box office and low review scores as Michael Bay, and particularly his Transformers films. Part of this is due to how audience's of different demographics react to his creative choices, and another part of it is due to how our emotions aren't rigged for endless climax scenes. Let's talk about both of those.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
What Jack Nicholson was actually doing in The Shining. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-10-02 | In terms of film fundamentals, The Shining should be one of the worst movies ever made, and Jack Nicholson's performance should have failed miserably. He mugs his whole way through, and the movie has no hero, an unlikable child, and a frightening and unsympathetic heroine. But yet somehow, people, including me, consider The Shining to be the scariest movie ever made. I never quite understood how it worked, until I was working on the last video about Deepfakes which had a clip where Jim Carrey replaced Jack Nicholson in this movie. Something clicked with me then, and after that, I think I got what Stanley Kubrick and Nicholson were doing the whole time. And I've never seen the movie explained this way, so let's talk about it.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Are Deepfakes the future of movies? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-09-25 | This year, we've seen computers gain the ability to simulate people's faces in real-time, and in the last few months, they've passed the point where they are almost indistinguishable from reality. I've been thinking a bit about how that will effect the movie business, and something interesting that it reveals about how we process fiction.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Should Rey turn evil in Rise of Skywalker? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-09-13 | I was going to make a video about how to potentially save Star Wars: Episode IX, and the main thing I was going to suggest, they ended up teasing in the movie trailer! So in this video, we'll delve more deeply into the story issues in the new Star Wars Trilogy, and how Rey as a Sith Lord would effect them.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Daisy Ridley just gave away the Rise of Skywalker twist (really). - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-09-08 | Hi all, I'm mostly done with the next video on Star Wars, but I took a detour to make this video as well, because when looking at this clip, I noticed that Daisy Ridley totally gives away whether or not Rey turns evil in the movie. I used to pay my bills playing online poker, so I learned a lot about ways that people try to deceive you that actually give away the truth, especially when they aren't experienced bluffers, and in this case, Daisy has a CLASSIC physical poker tell. Check it out.I'm also reading scripts and books if you want to hire me, for a dollar a page. It's a great way to support the channel also! Message me on Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes Twitter doesn't show me the message for a few days though, so tagging me or replying to a tweet might help. Thanks!
Why the Rise of Skywalker is doomed. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-08-28 | Hi all, I've gone down the rabbit hole lately of examining the new Star Wars trilogy, Galaxy's Edge, the poster situation, and everything else that's been going on there, and I want to do a couple vids on that topic. In this first one, let's talk about the general approach to the new trilogy, and why I think it distorted the entire process from the beginning.http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelhttp://www.patreon.com/StoryBrain
Why polls about Donald Trump are always wrong. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-08-19 | The 2016 election was one of the greatest failures of mathematics and statistical modeling that we've ever seen. But it's embarrassing to the media, so you never hear them talk about it. But it was a great opportunity to see how some lesser-known psychological mechanisms in our brain work, and how they overcome our supposed objective thinking and reasoning, in ways that no one seems to properly describe. So let's focus on that today, as well as how it may show up in 2020.This is part 5 of the Social Media Series. So enjoy!Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainThanks!
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Breakdown. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-08-03 | Quentin Tarantino's latest film, with Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio ... is currently in theaters, and I actually saw it. Quentin Tarantino's writing style had an interesting interaction with how he was perceived in the 90's, and since then the context has changed, and I think that has a huge effect on how this movie works, and Tarantino's life and tastes themselves have also had an interesting effect on his filmmaking. So I decided to do a breakdown of that, and also give my thoughts on the movie as a whole.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainThanks!
Should Jurassic Worlds dinosaurs have feathers? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-07-23 | The Jurassic World series, which currently stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, has always struggled with the disconnect between what is the most visually impressive for audiences and what has turned out to be scientifically-accurate. I think this includes some interesting stuff also about how different groups of viewers emotionally react to not just what they see on a movie screen, but also how what they see makes them feel about the creators of the film, and how those can contribute to what people think of the movie. There also seems to be a solution to this problem that works best for most viewers, which we'll also talk about.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainThanks!
Why the Crocs Guy mascot is scaring the hell out of people. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-07-12 | So the image of the Crocs mascot started making the rounds this week on Twitter, and a lot of people find it to be an abomination unto god. They're not actually scared by it, but more disgusted, and the obvious cause is trypophobia. So I decided to take some time to talk about where I think trypophobia comes from, and why wikipedia doesn't seem to mention it.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainThanks!
Why the Ice Cream Licking video drives people NUTS. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-07-05 | Hey everyone, I wanted to take a quick break from what I was working on to touch on the girl at the Wal-Mart in Lufkin, Texas, who licked the Blue Bell Ice Cream then left it on the shelf. We've seen a lot of people enrage the public far beyond their worst nightmares with thoughtless or rude behavior, and I think it's a good time to analyze one of these videos and talk about why it might happen.Follow me @StoryBrain1 on Twitter, support me on Patreon, and check me out at Facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannel.Thanks!
The Eye of the Storm, or, Why Famous People Give Bad Advice. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-07-03 | This week, a new movie about the Beatles and the entertainment industry is in theaters. It's a fantasy where a guy wakes up in a world where no one knows the Beatles' music but him, and he uses it to become famous. Could you really do this? What would happen if you tried? The answer actually, could shed some major light on how the quality of an artist's work actually relates to their success, and I think every creative person should know about it.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainThanks!
The Nolan Batsuits: Form vs. Function. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-06-22 | Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight series brought a lot of new elements to the Batman canon. I figured I'd take some time today to look at one of the most important, the Batsuit itself, and compare the choices he made with it in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Some people prefer the first version, others the second, why might that be? And what can that show us about superhero costumes in general?Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelBack me on Patreon and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainIf you'd like me to do a breakdown or give you feedback on something you've written, contact me. It's a great way to support the channel as well.Thanks!
What REALLY happened with Yoko Ono and the Beatles. - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-06-16 | John Lennon and Paul McCartney were two of the greatest songwriters who ever lived. But yet, somehow, Lennon abandoned his musical talent began making strange "avante garde" music when he began dating a Japanese modern artist. Why would love cause him to throw away his skill and start making a form of art he had openly hated before? What makes "avante garde" artists do such strange things in the first place? And why does love sometimes make artists create great work, and other times destroy it? That's today's topic.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainIf you'd like to support the channel by hiring me to look at a screenplay or book you've written, contact me on Facebook or Twitter. Thanks!
Why are we obsessed with leaving society? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-06-03 | It's time for summer, and everybody (including me) is really happy. You can see the same joy in the overwhelming success of movies like The Beach, The Endless Summer, The Blue Lagoon, and Into the Wild. But what is it about us that makes us inherently want to escape a life that's given so much more than we had in our past? Let's get into that one today.Interact with me on social media!http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainI'm also now reading screenplays and books, it's a great way to help support the channel too. Contact me on Instagram or Facebook if you're interested.Thanks!
Should Spider-Man save his girlfriend, or a trolley full of kids? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-05-28 | Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man included a classic philosophical problem, when the Green Goblin tried to force Spider-Man to choose between saving the lives of a railcar full of innocents or his girlfriend. The nature of that situation, which we call the Trolley Problem, and Spider-Man's response, can show us a lot about human nature and how we may not understand ourselves.Interact with me on social media! I'm reading scripts and books for feedback as well, message me.http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainThanks!
What if Christopher Nolan made Batman vs. Superman? - StoryBrain StoryBrain 2019-05-23 | The DCEU started out with Zack Snyder and Ben Affleck's Batman v. Superman. But DC's momentum really started with Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight series. What if Christopher Nolan went on to start the DCEU, adding Henry Cavill's Superman and Lex Luthor to his own universe? I couldn't help thinking about it.Interact with me on social media! Besides Patreon, I'm also now reading books and screenplays if anyone is interested, it's a good way to have some great conversations about our work and to also support my channel. Contact me here:http://www.twitter.com/StoryBrain1http://www.facebook.com/EverythingStoryChannelSupport me on Patreon and get Skype chats, video shout-outs and more!http://www.patreon.com/StoryBrainThanks!
