>>Crazy Nate: You might be asking why we're talking about 1995 Jumanji
and why not Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle
or Jumanji The Next Level
Well, that's simple
for one Jumanji is where it all started and for 2, Robin Williams made Jumanji
But since most people voted that they like Jumanji The Next Level the most
maybe I should start off by showing you Jumanji The Next Level first..
>>Sarah & Alan: NOO
(intro music plays)
>>Crazy Nate: Since Jumanji was rated PG
Robin Williams thought his kids were a little bit too young to see the movie so they had to wait a little bit
of course our technology advances and as it does our older movies seem to be less scary than the newer movies
Either way viewer discretion is advised
"Well, I already saw Jumanji and I wasn't scared"
You know what happens when you're not scared of Jumanji?
It sucks you in the game
poor Alan
He gets picked on by all the kids in Brantford, New Hampshire.
I know what being picked on feels like
>>DepressedMemeGirl: They ask you how you are and you just have to say that you're fine...
when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would never understand
>>Crazy Nate: But if you look in the very beginning of the movie
They shed some light on why the kids may be actually bullying Alan Parrish.
>>Billy Jessup: Get him!
>>Crazy Nate: Traditionally if a small town is built around one big factory
It's safe to say that the family who owns that big factory are powerful in that town
and of course by being powerful in that town
They're gonna get special treatments towards their family
And Alan Parrish is the direct benefit of those treatments
good and bad.
The first time Alan shows up in the movie
You can see his power structure in play.
Alan breaks the law in front of a police officer and not only does he not get in trouble
but the police officer even reinforces the power that Alan has
>>Officer Bill: All yours Alan.
>>Alan: Thanks Bill
>>Crazy Nate: It's not by accident that the director lets us see the people patiently waiting their turn to walk across the street
And they make sure that you know, what's going on here to show you that the crosswalk clearly said don't walk
Allen also lives in arguably the nicest house in town and his name is plastered all over the walls
Alan even spells it out for people who aren't following along when he's fighting with his dad
Kids are on my case here because I'm a Parrish
Just wait till I'm living in a building named after me
Living in a building named yet. Besides the fact that he's hanging out with Billy Jessup's girl
This is also why Billy wants to beat him up
Because probably if he were to do that going across the street from the cop I would have got in trouble
Of course, that doesn't mean that it's okay to bully someone though
If you look at the board closely in this scene though, you'll see that pieces weren't stuck to the board that hard
We can see that the monkey found its way into someone else's path
>>Sarah: WOAH
>>Crazy Nate: Billy Jessup was played by Gary Joseph Thorup
and he's only been in one other production in his life
and that was law and order and in that
he played the victim of a bully
>>Mom: Oh my god
>>Kid: He roughed me up a couple of times
>>Crazy Nate: How ironic
A lot of the movie was centered around the relationship that Alan had with his father
and his dad wanted him to be more manly and strong and willing to fight
essentially
That's exactly what the character of Van Pelt was from the game
and oddly enough Van Pelt and Alan's dad Sam Parrish were both played
by the same actor
because in Jumanji the game makes your darkest fears a reality
Alan was scared of growing up and being a man
He was also scared of being alone and abandoned.
Hence the game sucking him in.
Alan also makes a mistake causing his friend Carl Bentley to essentially lose his job.
That's not cool
then Carl goes on to pursue a career in law probably because he didn't know who did that to his shoes and
He wants to fight for injustice just like what was served to him
This would also make sense since he joined the force in
1974 shortly after getting let go from the shoe factory
In the gun store the clerk asked van Pelt if he was a postal worker.
>>Clerk: You're not a postal worker, are you?
>>Crazy Nate: Because there's a term used for people who act in mass shootings as going postal
Because the post office seemed to be a very common place where co-workers snapped
kind of a dark joke
(survey time music)
Survey time
if you saw a magic Jumanji game in your friend's closet
would you take it out and roll the dice?
When Alan falls through the house if you look closely you can see the safety cables holding Robin in place
Not one, but two not only is this for Robins safety, but it's also to ease his mind since he had acrophobia
meaning fear of heights
If you're watching the Stampede, there was one Rhino that ran slower than the rest of the pack
and this was originally a mistake
But they left it in because it was funny
and they doubled down adding some effects for the Rhino
Wheezing
and they named the Rhino wheezy
of course
>>Woody: Wheezy?
>>Crazy Nate: Home Alone 2 came out in 1992 and fresh on everyone's mind
I think the scene in the store was a reference to Home Alone 2
And the bad guy gets the shelf full of paint dropped on him.
That sounds familiar
>>Marv: Uh oh
Who do you think won the dance-off?
Vote now!
Alan has a fancy watch probably given to him by his dad
And if you look when he comes out of the game 26 years later, he's still wearing that watch
The movie was based on the book Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
And Robin Williams also recorded an audio version of the book
Several of the scenes in the movie were calling directly to that book
like the lion showing up on the piano
directly from the book
or the monkeys in the kitchen
Directly from the book
another movie that came out in 1995 along with Jumanji was the Indian in the cupboard
There's possibly a little shout-out in Alan's bedroom on his nightstand
You can see little toy soldiers
and if you look over here
You might think that Frank's barbershop could be a shatout to Frank Oz the director of the Indian in the Cupboard
You might also think I'm crazy.
Well, look at the barber.
That's Frank Oz!
No I'm just kidding. I don't know who that is
They could be a random name or a shout-out to Frank Oz or Frank the sound effects editor
or Frank from special vocal effects
Or to be frank with you. It could just be a Frank
Okay, let's get real here. I dug deeper than that
>>What are you doing?
>>Crazy Nate: Digging
>>Why
>>Crazy Nate: You know why.
>>How deep are you going?
>>Crazy Nate: I don't know how deep do you think it is?
>> Pretty deep
It's actually the real-life barbershop where they filmed the movie
in Keene, New Hampshire.
Keene. Keene New Hampshire
Cane (?) Keene. Keene. Ken
(screaming)
And you can get a haircut from there to this day.
I think I need a haircut.
Another thing they did in that town is if you look on the wall here
You can actually see the Parrish shoe company to this day.
Not to mention the cannon and the cannon balls in this scene?
Still there. Go ahead. Take your Google car and drive around.
>>Cartoon: Wow
Kirsten Dunst plays the role of Judy Shepard and ironically almost gets bit by a spider
Seems like she spent her entire
Hollywood career getting tangled up with spiders
Kristen & Bradley who played brother and sister and Jumanji also play brother and sister in the movie siege at Ruby Ridge
political..
>>Alan: I Knew she still wouldnt live here
>>Crazy Nate: And Maddam Serena is a reference to the movie Teen Witch , which where the main witch was Madame Serena
Well the witch that helped the other witch become a witch
How witchful
Another thing that changed because Alan stopped existing is his parents died a premature death in 1991
Sorry Alan
And it was probably from a broken heart
If it wasn't for Alan his parents would still be alive
>>Scar: And if it weren't for you
he'd still be alive
>>Crazy Nate: To confirm this
Watch at the end of the movie who Alan is talking to on the phone in the future, which is roughly 1995
By the way, that's the same year that the movie came out listen Alan is talking to his dad.
No dad no, it's a new cross-trainers, its doing fabulous.
>>Crazy Nate: So clearly when Allen doesn't disappear at least his dad lives longer and probably his mother too
But when Alan references the next day, he doesn't say you guys he just says you
>>Alan: Yeah, Merry Christmas
We'll pick you up tomorrow at the airport okay.
>>Crazy Nate: So maybe his mom actually did die
(baby cries)
And after they finish the game and go on to live their life
Like normal people
Sarah is still very much into psychic readings in astrology
That's why at the Christmas party her dress has stars on it and she's wearing sun moon and star earrings.
The crocodile in the house was 12 feet long and modeled after the crocodile in Peter Pan
There was also a diver hidden underneath the crocodile.
Maneuvering it and Robin Williams got so excited one of the takes that he accidentally hit the diver.
>>Robin Williams: I was wrestling this crocodile I was like, ah yes
and I pounded it on the head and all of a sudden from inside I heard
(hey)
There was this guy in there going
"Hey its me man its Jim"
"Cut the overacting man, its hard in here, I just had a burrito, don't do that!"
>>Crazy Nate: A lot of the movie was also made possible because of the amazing
advancements in technology that were discovered in the making of Jurassic Park
We spare no expense
the monkeys in the movie don't look exactly like any specific type of monkey on earth
The idea here was that they wanted the monkeys to seem off a little bit
So it was Jumanji's own unique species of monkey coming out the game
unique species of monkey
Remember that
>>Alan: I've got it
Colonel Mustard in the library with a wrench!
>>Crazy Nate: This of course is a reference to the board game Clue
and ten years earlier just like in Jumanji
There was a movie based on the board game called Clue
only this time
Jumanji the board game was based off the movie which was based off a book
and the board game was also in this movie!
and if you look at this TV from the electronic shop, that's the movie Wizard of Oz that the monkeys are watching
A lot of stuff was changed in this movie because of the game.
The entire town was changed
But when the game is won and the world goes back to its normal self
It sucks all the stuff into the game
making it normal again
But some would argue that the gun in the bullet that Van Pelt fired was from the real world
and not the game so it shouldn't have dissolved
and it should have hit Alan
and to that. I say nay nay.
>> John Pinette: I say Nay nay. It's easier for me
>>Crazy Nate: They were living 26 years into the future
So we're living in an alternate universe that wasn't going to exist.
>>Alan: Holy smokes, Judy & Peter.
>>Sarah: Alan
They're not there
It's 1969
They don't even exist yet.
>>Crazy Nate: So not only would the gun and the bullet disappear
But the entire gun shop would have disappeared and never existed.
(ghost fart)
Did you guys hear that?
(ghost toot)
That wasn't me
I'm scared.
Once everyone is safe again, they grow up and live happily ever after
and at the Christmas party
We have a little hidden secret.
Look they're playing a piano and singing the song Hark the Herald Angels Sing
This goes back to the whole point of the story Jumanji.
Yes, Alan gets sucked into the game. But ultimately what's happening here
is he's getting to see what his future would have looked like if it wasn't for him
if he didn't exist
this is the same exact story plot that the movie
It's a Wonderful Life had where George Bailey got his wish to see what the
world would have been like if he never was born
>>George: Suppose it'd be better if I'd never been born at all
So what does that have to do with this Christmas party?
Well just like in Jumanji they both end with a Christmas party.
And they're both playing the piano
and they're both singing hark the herald angels sing
and an angel gets its wings
>>Baby Bailey: Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
>>George: That's right
>>Crazy Nate: And just in case you're wondering what was inside the presents
It was custom Jumanji shoes
but did you know that the Jumanji game actually cheated?
>>Carl: I did sir.
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