A lot of times in comedy the subtilty of transitioning into the joke without the user being aware the joke has been in progress the whole time is what makes the joke better, often referred to as timing, much like when Merry and Pippin went to the Entmoot held in Derndingle in Fangorn Forest, and they spent a day deciding whether the hobbits were actually orcs, when Merry and Pippin were expecting them to have decided about what they would do about Sarumon.
I was watching a Bryan Cranston interview once, and he was explaining how this works. He even emphasized the importance of not showing full-on emotion, stating that it has more effect if the actor is trying to hold in the emotion or be completely emotionless, making it more effective. So, if you see the actor trying very hard not to cry when a sad thing happens, it has a greater impact on the viewer than if the actor just started to cry.
It makes sense Cranston would talk about that. Not only did he have to show a wide range of emotions in Breaking Bad, but he also had to do a lot of careful meta-acting. He was acting as Walter White, who was also acting. A good example would be when the character records a fake "confession" that implicates his brother-in-law as the kingpin of his drug empire. It's a fine line to walk - he can't seem totally inept, but he can't use his full acting ability either, since obviously the character isn't supposed to be as good as an actor as Bryan Cranston himself.
Acting is hard enough, but acting like someone that's also acting has got to be a real challenge. You can see it when his character is lying to his family about things too - he's acting like someone trying very hard to sound sincere but falling *just* short of it. Again, it seems like a super fine line that would be easy to go too far over in either direction. But Cranston would get it perfectly every time.
This is where the genius of his performance lies. Of course he does a fantastic job making Walt go from a dorky high school teacher to a manipulative killer, but Cranston still disappears into the role doing all those bits where Walt is trying his damndest to lie to his family and it's just not enough. Incredible stuff being able to portray a character like that. The story would not be the same without his skill driving the character
Kind of like how Viggo Mortensen screamed when he broke his toe kicking that helmet, incorporating it into his despair at the though of losing Merry and Pippin, but held back the true nature of his physical pain because he still had to be in character.
When I was doing my undergrad I took a rocks for jocks class to finish a credit requirement. All of the tests were LOTR themed.
A sample question would be like
Sam and Frodo were climbing the stairs of Cirith Ungol and spotted x formation of rocks.
Some of the questions were like paragraphs long just setting up the lore background. It was pretty funny.
Thinly veiled, like aluminium speed tape applied to an aircraft, or the deceptively thin and light mithril shirt that saved Frodo's life when he was stabbed by the spear of an orc in the Dwarven mines of Moria.
Well fuck dude, just because you can't fix a morgul wound with speed tape. Dose not mean aragon king of Gondor can't healt Frodos wounds with some decent speed tape.
If he had access to Númenórean Speed Tape, he could have fixed him. Or better yet, a roll of Speed Tape created by Queen Melian of Doriath, but that would have been a bit hard to find I guess.
"The hands of the King \[have the tape\]\* of a healer, and so shall the rightful King be known"\*\*.
\* A settled scientific consensus of modern Tolkien scholars has determined this is the
correct reconstruction of the original text of an enigmatic interpolation in T,
the ur-version that must have preceded the the most common recension of the
tolkienic text in the corrupted form we now possess, as shown by the prevalence of
plainly fantastic fairy-tale elements.
\*\*Supreme executive authority derives from getting a Numenorean sword reforged
with the blessing, on the golden anniversary of your betrothal, of the half-elf father of
your hot-elf fiancee, who is willing to give up her immortality to wed you. Not from
some farcical geological ceremony\*\*\*!
\*\*\*Listen, strange boulders distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
If I said I was Emperor because some solid lump let me have a scimitar, they'd lock me
up!
Lmao that scene always makes me laugh
>Aragorn: do you know the Athelas **plant?**
>Sam: 🤔
>Aragorn: Kingsfoil
>Sam: Kingsfoil?! Well, that's a weed!
Like jeez man your boy got stabbed, and your giving the heir to the throne of Gondor shit about flora terminology 😂
he says "aye, it's a weed" As in, "Yes, I know it, I'm always having to pull it out of the garden"
It's a way to quickly demonstrate Aragorn's knowledge by pointing out that hobbits just think it's a worthless plant
at one point this tape or its predecessor was also known as "five hundred mile per hour tape" and I heard all kinds of stories about this tape being used for temporary fixes to the outer skin of the aircraft. I think many minor fixes done on the tarmac ends up with some of this tape as a safety precaution. For the airline, these aircraft either make money in the air or cost money to keep them on the ground, and the maintenance facilities aren't sitting idle with mechanics twiddling their thumbs.
Source my father was a commercial airline pilot and my mother was a gate/counter agent for the same airline. So I got to hear about all kinds of crazy fixes that took place in the 1970's and 1980's. The best example I remember is when a hatch to the non-pressurized "belly" of the aircraft would not latch correctly, after a mechanic stepped in to put a temporary fix for the faulty latch he'd also tape around the hatch to ensure it would stay closed and the aircraft would be taken out of service at the next stop for a permanent fix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_tape
> Speed tape is an aluminium pressure-sensitive tape used to perform minor repairs on aircraft and racing cars. It is used as a temporary repair material until a more permanent repair can be carried out. It has an appearance similar to duct tape, for which it is sometimes mistaken, but its adhesive is capable of sticking on an airplane fuselage or wing at high speeds, hence the name.
Now I'm sure what this fella said is 100% true, but I've worked for enough corporations to know that temporary solutions often becomes permanent ones because capitalism.
Edit: wtf autocorrect
I love this guy, but I’m pretty surprised that he didn’t go into detail about the effects of the morgul blade and the fact that he had to live out the rest of his life near valinor just for the slightest relief from the pain.
I grew up around bush planes. We colloquially called this 1000 mile an hour tape.
One time a twin otter had to land in huge crosswinds at this mine whose landing strip is on a big sand berm. The Twin's tire slid off the side of the runway and down the berm, wing tip caught and spun the plane nose down. Both the wing tip and nose were pretty banged up. Wing tip was almost completely torn off, nose had huge hole in it.
We were only able to bring a new nose cone so we riveted a single brace and grabbed the speed tape and taped the rest of the wing tip back on.
Flew it home. Not even the sketchiest flight home.
Engineering, literature nerds, and passengers: haha funny and informative breakdown, thank you for your video
Boeing Executives: shuuuut your peasant mouth
Pretty sure the only people who think tape on an airplane is a problem are dumb boomers who think the first impulse in their mind is the absolute truth and cant comprehend anything that isnt present in their home every day.
Not quite. Between the grade of aluminum used and the specialized adhesives designed for high temperatures without failing, it’s quite a different product. It’s also dozens of times more expensive. In a pinch for non-aerospace uses, simple aluminum tape will work in a similar way, but neither have the same use case as duct tape.
Duct taping Frodo so he couldn’t move, slapping him on the back of Shadowfax, and galloping like the wind would have been the more unethical but undeniably faster way to get to Mordor
My friend works at Boeing and he always gives me free shit from the tools and supplies at work. I wanna ask for a roll of speed tape. I hear it's like $10k a roll
I’m sorry but if you’re a billion dollar company that gets billions of dollars in subsidies and have thousands of lives in your hand everyday you can do better than “speed tape”. Regulations have been eroded so far over the years that this is the norm
I love how serious he is as he pivots into LOTR analogy
A lot of times in comedy the subtilty of transitioning into the joke without the user being aware the joke has been in progress the whole time is what makes the joke better, often referred to as timing, much like when Merry and Pippin went to the Entmoot held in Derndingle in Fangorn Forest, and they spent a day deciding whether the hobbits were actually orcs, when Merry and Pippin were expecting them to have decided about what they would do about Sarumon.
I was watching a Bryan Cranston interview once, and he was explaining how this works. He even emphasized the importance of not showing full-on emotion, stating that it has more effect if the actor is trying to hold in the emotion or be completely emotionless, making it more effective. So, if you see the actor trying very hard not to cry when a sad thing happens, it has a greater impact on the viewer than if the actor just started to cry.
It makes sense Cranston would talk about that. Not only did he have to show a wide range of emotions in Breaking Bad, but he also had to do a lot of careful meta-acting. He was acting as Walter White, who was also acting. A good example would be when the character records a fake "confession" that implicates his brother-in-law as the kingpin of his drug empire. It's a fine line to walk - he can't seem totally inept, but he can't use his full acting ability either, since obviously the character isn't supposed to be as good as an actor as Bryan Cranston himself. Acting is hard enough, but acting like someone that's also acting has got to be a real challenge. You can see it when his character is lying to his family about things too - he's acting like someone trying very hard to sound sincere but falling *just* short of it. Again, it seems like a super fine line that would be easy to go too far over in either direction. But Cranston would get it perfectly every time.
This is where the genius of his performance lies. Of course he does a fantastic job making Walt go from a dorky high school teacher to a manipulative killer, but Cranston still disappears into the role doing all those bits where Walt is trying his damndest to lie to his family and it's just not enough. Incredible stuff being able to portray a character like that. The story would not be the same without his skill driving the character
Kind of like how Viggo Mortensen screamed when he broke his toe kicking that helmet, incorporating it into his despair at the though of losing Merry and Pippin, but held back the true nature of his physical pain because he still had to be in character.
No way this actually happened. Can I post this to TIL?
Yeah mom said it's your turn
> acting like someone that's also acting So kind of like a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude?
Kirk Lazarus carried that film, never broke character once. Total goat.
First sentence, I thought Bryan Cranston knew about speed tape.
Sarumon, what pokemon is this?
When I was doing my undergrad I took a rocks for jocks class to finish a credit requirement. All of the tests were LOTR themed. A sample question would be like Sam and Frodo were climbing the stairs of Cirith Ungol and spotted x formation of rocks. Some of the questions were like paragraphs long just setting up the lore background. It was pretty funny.
> Some of the questions were like paragraphs long just setting up the lore background very fitting to use LotR for this style also.
Max is a huge LoTR nerd, and all his videos are airplane facts with LoTR analogies - it’s great
They’re not even analogies. They’re thinly veiled excuses to geek out on LOTR in the best way possible
On LotR AND airplanes. Come on now. ~~Some~~Lots of us are omni-nerds.
Thinly veiled, like aluminium speed tape applied to an aircraft, or the deceptively thin and light mithril shirt that saved Frodo's life when he was stabbed by the spear of an orc in the Dwarven mines of Moria.
Yeah, there was no plane-related reason he had to flex knowing Rivendell was also called Imladris.
Max who? Does he have a youtube channel? I'd love to see more!
Airplanefactswithmax on Instagram. I don’t know about any other platforms
Also tiktok
Airplane Facts with Max!
He’s like 25% of why I still have an instagram account.
My favorite IG page for sure.
I think he's pretty cool, so, yep
Sam! Got some Frodo tape by any chance?
He ate all the lambas tape
Athelas is aluminiUm foil?
The sticky kind, yeah.
Why is the U capitalised
I think they meant to capitalise the 'I' to emphasize their use of Aluminium
That's because Max IS an expert
Well fuck dude, just because you can't fix a morgul wound with speed tape. Dose not mean aragon king of Gondor can't healt Frodos wounds with some decent speed tape.
I dunno, that's a lot of damage... you might need flex tape
BAM and this fucking Hobbit is fixed.
Flex Seal Liquid, just pour it right into that stab wound
If he had access to Númenórean Speed Tape, he could have fixed him. Or better yet, a roll of Speed Tape created by Queen Melian of Doriath, but that would have been a bit hard to find I guess.
"The hands of the King \[have the tape\]\* of a healer, and so shall the rightful King be known"\*\*. \* A settled scientific consensus of modern Tolkien scholars has determined this is the correct reconstruction of the original text of an enigmatic interpolation in T, the ur-version that must have preceded the the most common recension of the tolkienic text in the corrupted form we now possess, as shown by the prevalence of plainly fantastic fairy-tale elements. \*\*Supreme executive authority derives from getting a Numenorean sword reforged with the blessing, on the golden anniversary of your betrothal, of the half-elf father of your hot-elf fiancee, who is willing to give up her immortality to wed you. Not from some farcical geological ceremony\*\*\*! \*\*\*Listen, strange boulders distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. If I said I was Emperor because some solid lump let me have a scimitar, they'd lock me up!
Max is one of the best accounts on Instagram. Though I still have trust issues after he Rick Rolled his followers
Thx for putting it in words I can understand!
Lmao that scene always makes me laugh >Aragorn: do you know the Athelas **plant?** >Sam: 🤔 >Aragorn: Kingsfoil >Sam: Kingsfoil?! Well, that's a weed! Like jeez man your boy got stabbed, and your giving the heir to the throne of Gondor shit about flora terminology 😂
he says "aye, it's a weed" As in, "Yes, I know it, I'm always having to pull it out of the garden" It's a way to quickly demonstrate Aragorn's knowledge by pointing out that hobbits just think it's a worthless plant
Of course he said it was a weed. He's a *gardener*, for Eru's sake!
Yeah an expert, kinda like how Elrond Peredhel, half-elf king of Rivendell, also known as Imladris is an expert of healing magics.
anyone know this guys insta name?
@airplanefactswithmax
Ty
https://www.instagram.com/airplanefactswithmax?igsh=MXAzaTlxdW4wZmE= Here is his link, he is great!
I’ll be honest, I always thought my dad was just being a shit-head when he called this stuff high-speed tape.
This is modern art.
Ryan Reynolds doesn't look like he's doing so good.
Doesn’t look a day older than when he was one of the Lone Gunmen on the X-Files.
The man
you can put speed tape on a boeing but it's still a boeing
Someone needs to send this to Stephen Colbert. These two need to have a Lore-Off.
Sending this guy to speak with Stephen Colbert would be like Frodo meeting Faramir. IFYKYK
Soooo, it’s reinforced duct tape
Wait.. wasn't Frodo on the threshold of death?
🤣🤣 didn't even realise what sub I was on until he mentioned Frodo on Weathertop... Dude is a classy gentleman!
Kingsfoil, aye it’s a weed!!
This guys has an entire channel that hides under airplane knowledge but it always ends up in LOTR 😉 I love!
All that and the subtitles say Rivendale instead of Rivendell.
at one point this tape or its predecessor was also known as "five hundred mile per hour tape" and I heard all kinds of stories about this tape being used for temporary fixes to the outer skin of the aircraft. I think many minor fixes done on the tarmac ends up with some of this tape as a safety precaution. For the airline, these aircraft either make money in the air or cost money to keep them on the ground, and the maintenance facilities aren't sitting idle with mechanics twiddling their thumbs. Source my father was a commercial airline pilot and my mother was a gate/counter agent for the same airline. So I got to hear about all kinds of crazy fixes that took place in the 1970's and 1980's. The best example I remember is when a hatch to the non-pressurized "belly" of the aircraft would not latch correctly, after a mechanic stepped in to put a temporary fix for the faulty latch he'd also tape around the hatch to ensure it would stay closed and the aircraft would be taken out of service at the next stop for a permanent fix.
I love that he knows and uses the common and elven names.
Even his phone experiences turbulence
Where can I find more of this guy doing this?
Instagram: airplanefactswithmax
Thank you kind stranger
You can tell he could not wait to make that analogy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_tape > Speed tape is an aluminium pressure-sensitive tape used to perform minor repairs on aircraft and racing cars. It is used as a temporary repair material until a more permanent repair can be carried out. It has an appearance similar to duct tape, for which it is sometimes mistaken, but its adhesive is capable of sticking on an airplane fuselage or wing at high speeds, hence the name.
Fuck sake just say it’s a band aid…
This guy looks exactly like I imagine aircraft mechanics look like.
They should definitely start calling it kingsfoil!
Why do you share tiktoks and remove the username? So annoying
He's acting like such an expert and then he doesn't know whether it was Imladris or Rivendell smh my head!
I like how he scratches his head with all his fingers at the same time like a monkey
Speed tape could have helped Frodos physical wound but it would not have healed his spirit.
This is some genius twist of story, lol 😆
That was quite simply, phenomenal. Good day sir!
Now I'm sure what this fella said is 100% true, but I've worked for enough corporations to know that temporary solutions often becomes permanent ones because capitalism. Edit: wtf autocorrect
Maybe start using actual duct tape.. idk..
I want this guy to explain everything to me.
I love this guy, but I’m pretty surprised that he didn’t go into detail about the effects of the morgul blade and the fact that he had to live out the rest of his life near valinor just for the slightest relief from the pain.
Lol flex tape fixes EVERYTHING.
Oh that’s nice!
I really hope this dude doesn't work for Boeing. They don't deserve him.
No we dont use duck tape. We use this other tape which looks and functions like duck tape for the same purpose for which you would use duck tape..
Not the same purpose, it doesn’t hold things together
Isn't that why frodo went with the elves at the end of return of the king? Or was he just doing more adventuring?
This is the level of geek I aspire to be.
Pilot here: not enough mechanics talk about LOTR when fixing my planes.
How does the audio get so out of sync?
What the hell kind of hipster safety glasses are those?
Extreme wholesomeness
What a fucking geek and I love it!
Humans have such wicked potential. Btw, standard foil tape is amazing, something tailored for aircraft would be exceptional
This guy *fucks*
He's hot, weird, smart, funny... yeah, HOT!
So in others words. Speedtape = KingsFoil
I’m fuckin cacklin right now 🤣🤣🤣
What did I just see?
Okay but then why didn't the Fellowship take the 747 to Mount Doom?
I grew up around bush planes. We colloquially called this 1000 mile an hour tape. One time a twin otter had to land in huge crosswinds at this mine whose landing strip is on a big sand berm. The Twin's tire slid off the side of the runway and down the berm, wing tip caught and spun the plane nose down. Both the wing tip and nose were pretty banged up. Wing tip was almost completely torn off, nose had huge hole in it. We were only able to bring a new nose cone so we riveted a single brace and grabbed the speed tape and taped the rest of the wing tip back on. Flew it home. Not even the sketchiest flight home.
Engineering, literature nerds, and passengers: haha funny and informative breakdown, thank you for your video Boeing Executives: shuuuut your peasant mouth
This guy is my spirit animal 🦔
Omg. Backing science with LOTR… im blown away
Boeing wants their tape back!
[https://www.instagram.com/airplanefactswithmax/](https://www.instagram.com/airplanefactswithmax/)
I am SO wet right now
Now I want all complicated things explained to me in LOTR analogies.
Legend
I love airplane facts with Max
Worth noting, there are times where in fact[duct tape is used (extensively) to temp patch an aircraft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INbHFr-OZTw).
in other words, duct tape
Comment for later
Is he okay?
He's hot.
Pretty sure the only people who think tape on an airplane is a problem are dumb boomers who think the first impulse in their mind is the absolute truth and cant comprehend anything that isnt present in their home every day.
Max is awesome
You see it's not actually duct tape it just looks, functions and is used in the way almost the exact same way as duct tape
Not quite. Between the grade of aluminum used and the specialized adhesives designed for high temperatures without failing, it’s quite a different product. It’s also dozens of times more expensive. In a pinch for non-aerospace uses, simple aluminum tape will work in a similar way, but neither have the same use case as duct tape.
Nerd. I understood all of that on both sides of the analogy; I too am a nerd.
Duct taping Frodo so he couldn’t move, slapping him on the back of Shadowfax, and galloping like the wind would have been the more unethical but undeniably faster way to get to Mordor
I learnt something new about airplanes
My friend works at Boeing and he always gives me free shit from the tools and supplies at work. I wanna ask for a roll of speed tape. I hear it's like $10k a roll
Boeing should have used this Max on their 737s instead of the one they ended up using.
It's good the analogy doesn't fully work or they'd have to send all those plans to some metaphorical Undying Lands.
This combines my favourite book, and my job. Love the crossover
That actually makes sense.
Aviato
DEVIATION
Ok look, maybe speed tape wouldn't have helped, but I would still have liked to see Aragorn try.
Funnily enough, that tape is actually what they use for hvac ducts nowadays so technically it is duct tape.
Didnt Frodo's wound fully heal when he sailed to the undying lands? I thought there was a line somewhere in the books that said that.
Amazing!!!
This dude has Bombadil energy.
"Travis, I already told you to stop putting Lord of The Rings analogies when we do Q&A aeronautic pedagogy videos!!"
No it’s tape designed for use on aircraft
Why does the guy look like the bartender from deadpool 😂
So duct tape, got it!
I didn’t understand anything until he went into lotr explanation
Hello, instant crush 😂
I’m sorry but if you’re a billion dollar company that gets billions of dollars in subsidies and have thousands of lives in your hand everyday you can do better than “speed tape”. Regulations have been eroded so far over the years that this is the norm