Why Movies Need Masculinity

Life is easier than ever. The only challenge men today have that is greater than ever before is finding a good male role model in cinema.

In this video essay, you'll find out why as we go through the history of movie manliness, showing why joking machines as the Marvel heroes and brooding bores as the DC heroes do not teach you proper male principles.

John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable. These three will teach you everything needed to understand what it means to be a man. Strength, courage, kindness, honesty and respect; in other words: masculinity. And Theodore Roosevelt. Whenever someone says "manliness" he just shows up; we can't help it.

Basically, you will finally find out whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong silent type.

00:00 Movies are failing men
01:17 Wisecracking Overgrown Men Children
02:27 Suicidally Self-Loathing Sacks of Sadness
03:08 Real Men (John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable)
05:41 High Noon
06:36 Rio Bravo
07:25 How action and violence changed cinema
08:26 The Wild Bunch
08:58 Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson
09:32 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone
10:33 The Manly Ball of Despair & The Fighting Jester
11:17 Manly Men Today (The Edge Epic Interlude)
12:08 Refuting "toxic masculinity"


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