5 Ways to Beat Brightburn

[Music] this video is sponsored by skill share and I'll tell you all about that in a little while but for now let's focus our attention on bright burn a movie that asks the question what if Superman was bullied in high school why are you always talking about Maggie's must be bright Bern was directed by David yurov eski best known for his work on the hive this is a movie and it counts because he made it and maybe some people watched it the plot of bright burn and we will now be moving into heavy spoiler territory is about Brandon brayer a seemingly normal boy living in small-town America however over time it's revealed that his parents actually found Brandon in a crashed spaceship near their house and decided to raise him as their own they keep the ship in the barn and one night when Brandon is having fun fun sleepy time the ship calls to him it tells him to take the world take the world apparently Brandon's real parents sent him to earth because they couldn't be bothered to raise him themselves the joseffer is what's called a brood parasite they've lost the ability to make nests so they use brute force to make other wasp species raise their young foreshadowing is a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted sometimes foreshadowing is relatively obvious Brandon learns that he has some extraordinary abilities that definitely have no similarities to Superman and uses them to get revenge on the people who have slighted him his adopted parents grossly mishandled the situation in between being bullied at school his inept parents and the urgings of the ship Brandon decides to become the worst thing imaginable a scary movie cliche Brandon eventually becomes a full-on slaughter enthusiast then he murders his parents and the film ends with a montage of Brandon bringing on the apocalypse in my opinion brightburg is a great concept that stumbled on the execution mostly because there are several ways Brandon could been dissuaded or eliminated before he becomes a supervillain and the tragic events of the film could have been entirely avoided but before we can talk about those solutions first we need to outline Brandon's powers and weaknesses as well as the specific conditions of the scenario so that everyone is on the same page then we can talk about how to beat Brandon brayer from bright burn Brandon has many abilities that he uses to terrorize his victims and I think you'll find them incredibly familiar he first learns that he has super strength tossing away this lawnmower like I toss out celery because I always had the best intention when I bought the celery I think this week I'm gonna turn it around and actually eat healthy for once but then the week goes by and I've spent more money on pizza delivery than mr. beast spends on just one of his YouTube videos so now I'm looking at the celery a week later and I forgot to put a wet paper towel in there so now they're all bendy and rubbery and it's pathetic because what I really see when I look at this celery is my own incompetent willpower which is just as bendable and weak as this now inedible celery so I throw the celery away in shame but the next week do I not buy the celery because I know I won't eat it of course not i buy the celery anyways because I still have the naive belief that this week this is the week I'm gonna eat the celery and then I do it the exact same goddamn thing and I don't eat the [ __ ] celery could I'm a [ __ ] [ __ ] that's how Brandon throws this lawnmower only moments later Brandon finds out he's also involve ice ticking his hands into it we learned that he has super speed when he draws his symbol in the windows of this sad food store that symbol by the way is just his initials BB for Brandon Breyers which is you know super cool he has heat visions just like another popular super person who is a man and can also change into his costume in an instant lastly he has a somewhat vague ability that messes with electrical devices such as lights and radios but it's unclear if this is Brandon's ability or caused by the ship in the barn or both the only thing capable of injuring Brandon is the ship itself since it came from his home planet you could say it says his kryptonite thank you very much thank you no but seriously it functions exactly like kryptonite with the exception of the electric powers Brandon's abilities are essentially cut and pasted straight off of Superman which is personally what drew me to the movie in the first place bright Bernie's a shot-for-shot retelling of Superman's origin story if Superman were destined for evil the similarities are so numerous that I'm curious as to whether bright burn could be considered a breach of copyright because Warner Brothers who owns the film rights to Superman had nothing to do with bright burn nor did the director ever ask permission to use Superman's qualities well the first question I'm sure you got in a million times is that um how you how are you guys legally able to do this movie characters you know so that's what sold it out I mean toss Riley is the most massive Superman because running into me it's running and saying listen there's a trailer out there right now it's crazy and he's like it's dark Superman it's crazy did you have any correspondence or did you talk to Warner Brothers or DC Entertainment at all about this there was no there's no legal problems at all and do you dislike it being called dark Superman and the fans well I I don't know who you guys keep saying this super person thing I've never heard of that person in any case the only powers that Superman has but Brennan does not are super breath x-ray vision and super hearing or at least he never uses these powers in the film as for the scenario that the film presents there are few other important factors to consider Brandon always had these powers but the film is somewhat misleading suggesting that Brandon only got his powers after the ship summoned him when in reality he had them the whole time look like us and sound like us but he's never bled once in his whole life this means that killing Brandon at any point in his life would be incredibly difficult because his body is essentially indestructible the film takes place in the fictional town of bright burn somewhere near southeast Kansas but this is simply to imitate the origins of Superman and does not play any meaningful role in the scenario now I'd love to tell you all about the ways to beat bright burn but I'd love to tell you even more all about Skillshare Skillshare is an online learning community for creators with more than 25,000 classes in design business and more I want to include more live video in my work so I took Ryan booths class on cinematography I used that lesson to craft this masterpiece of celery shots I think my genius speaks for itself but it probably couldn't have done it without skill share whether you want to feel your curiosity creativity or even 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government would have taken Brandon and studied him the government would have studied the ship and possibly discovered something about it like where it came from or what its purpose was they would be far more likely to discover that Brandon is a threat the government would also be more likely to figure out what Brandon's weaknesses plus if the government were hiding an alien baby at least people would have had a good reason to storm area51 the government might even find a way to stop Brandon for me coming a supervillain and instead raised him to become a force for good in the world now some of you may argue that having a Superman raised and controlled by the US military wouldn't be a great outcome either but it would probably be a better outcome than this I would much rather that an alien baby with godlike powers be in the hands of the military rather than some farmers in Kansas but hey that's just me the other option would be to just leave Brandon there and pretend you never saw anything the area of Kansas where Brandon landed had a population density of 5.9 people per square mile and the movie doesn't give any indication that anyone else either found the crash site or inquired about it the residents did see the ships streaked across the sky but they did not know it landed the official story was that Brandon was adopted and no one questions that narrative which means that if the Breyers had left Brandon in the forest no one else would have found him and he would have starved to death and that would have been problem solved right there unfortunately it's not a guarantee because if Brandon is indeed meant to be a knockoff Superman than we have a problem because Superman doesn't actually need to eat as long as he gets enough sunlight per day Superman does eat food but it's more of a hobby than an actual biological requirement the only time Superman needs to eat is when he's low on sunlight Brandon is shown eating several times throughout the film but just because he can eat doesn't mean he needs to so if the Breyers had left Brandon in the woods it's possible he would still survive if he's powered by the Sun just like Superman a less drastic method of beating Brandon would be to just talk to him the biggest frustration I had with this film is that no one seems to talk to anyone about anything Brandon destroys the lawnmower but no one asks him about it or apparently even notices Kyle sees Brandon chewing on a fork at breakfast but he never shares this information with Tory nor does he even talk to Brandon about it after Brandon crushes Kaitlyn's hand Kyle and Tori never ask him about it and pretend like nothing happened Brandon then kills all the chickens in the chicken coop for some reason and Kyle knows they was him but never approaches the subject with Brandon the school counselor Meredith who happens to be Tori's sister does sit down to talk to Brandon do you feel bad about what you did to Caitlyn sometimes when bad things happen to people it's for a good reason but when he tells her some very disturbing things instead of doing what counselors are supposed to do and help Brynn and work through his issues she instead threatens to tattle on him to Tory and to the police but does neither of those things anyways I'm supposed to update the sheriff tomorrow and have to be honest with him lastly at the end of the film Brandon literally asked story for help but instead she tries to kill him he says that he wants to do good there were at least nine times in this film that Tori Kyle or Meredith could have tried to help Brennan with what he was going through and stopped him from bringing on the apocalypse all they needed to do was have an honest conversation about who he is what he's feeling and what they can do to help him there was a real chance here to turn it around but no one stood up to properly counsel Brandon if they had done so I believe they could have prevented Brandon from becoming a supervillain the totally opposite approach they could have taken would be to decisively kill Brandon after he crushes Kaitlyn's hand Tori discovers that the ship is able to hurt Brandon and at the end of the film she tears a piece off the ship to try to kill him this doesn't work because by this point in the movie Kyle already tried to kill him so naturally he's ready for it when Tori tries to do the same he was incredibly stupid of Kyle to try to kill Brandon when he already knew that Brandon was indestructible look like us and sound like us but he's never bled once in his whole life however Tory never told Kyle that the ship is able to hurt Brandon so again the solution just comes from the characters actually talking to each other if Tory had told Kyle that the ship is able to hurt him Kyle could have taken the metal from the ship melted it or shaped it into a bullet and then take Brandon hunting just like they did in the movie except this time before it actually would have killed him if Tory had just shared this vital information with Kyle Brandon would have been stopped well before he brings on the apocalypse in the end it doesn't actually matter if they try to kill him or save him as long as they commit to one or the other indecision is ultimately what ends up killing Kyle and Tory but the best solution by a long shot is also the simplest and the least risky all they need to do is destroy the ship in the second solution I propose that they could have just talked to Brandon in order to prevent him from becoming a supervillain but I neglected to mention entirely for dramatic effect that throughout the movie the ship is actively encouraging Brandon and telling him to destroy the world talking to him still could have worked since Brandon was still asking for help at the end of the film so he wasn't entirely brainwashed by the root cause of Brandon's evil deeds was the ship encouraging him to do evil the ship is basically the equivalent of a flame king in Adventure Time evil evil evil evil evil so all they need to do is destroy the ship they should have done so when they first got Brandon and they definitely should have done so the first time Tory learns that the ship was calling to him we know that the ship can be destroyed because Tory literally rips a piece off of it near the end of the film it is not indestructible if they destroy the ship then Brandon won't be encouraged to become a psychopathic mass murderer that being said this should still talk to Brandon and tell him about his origins but maybe tell him that the ship was destroyed on impact without the influence of the ship Brendan would have had a childhood much like Superman's and a crisis would have been entirely averted but if you disagree and you think that I got something wrong or that you have a much better idea to be Brandon please let us all know about it in the comments if you're interested in this kind of Superman except he's bad story then I would highly recommend a comic book series called irredeemable in which a nearly omnipotent superhero suddenly turns evil this video would not have been possible without the support of my patrons and if you want to be as cool as them head on over to patreon comm slash film Herald thanks for watching and until next time this has been the film Herald [Music]

Channel: Film Herald

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Keywords: film, herald, movie, brightburn, review, analysis, david, yarovesky, superman, trailer, bright, burn, cartoon

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Length: 15min 31sec (931 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 30 2019