THE GOONIES (1985) BREAKDOWN: Every Detail You Missed | The Deep Dive

[Music] holy merry Mother of God [Applause] holy damn kids Adventure movie and it's really all in this shot a pirate ship on the Oregon coast technically this is Goat Rock State Beach in Sonoma County California but either way this remains a gorgeous contrast that makes every kid who watches this movie feel like they don't have to leave their sleepy neighborhood to find Adventure it can sneak up on you even in Astoria Oregon population 10 000. Adventure can be wherever your friends are and I think that's why this 80s ambling classic gave us same wise Genji Thanos last year's Oscar winner of our best supporting actor and his lawyer because Goonies Never say die I'm Eric Boss and this is the Deep dive a channel that dives deep into the films we love to reveal new Clues to buried thematic treasure this is the final analysis of our Spielberg summer series even though the movie was directed by Richard Donner written by Chris Columbus but is Story by Steven Spielberg whose style of foul-mouthed kids constantly breaking stuff is totally 80s amblin throughout this analysis I'm gonna make it very clear why this deserves to be on the list of a Spielberg rewatch Series so Goonies let's dive in the film opens by swooping into a skull and crossbones the eye hole on the right the eye that One-Eyed Willy doesn't have and we swoop back out from the same eye hole of another skull the dot on the Eye Of The Goonies title Jake Fratelli fakes his suicide to escape the county jail let's just acknowledge that this is a kid's movie and it opens with an apparent suicide not the kind of joke that you'd see in a kids movie today Jake's brother Francis Joe pantiliano and Mama Fratelli and Ramsey lead the cops on a crazy Chase through the streets of Astoria nearly running over poor Rosalita and passing truck for Mad Jack's Plumbing that's a company owned by mouth's dad and why mouth later knows so much about pipes mouth played by Corey Feldman watches Billy Wilder's 1959 Some Like It Hot a movie that also has a final shot of a boat my all-time favorite final joke of a movie that I won't spoil here but please go watch the movie and you'll know what I mean they passed data played by kihui Kwan the year after playing Short Round and Steven Spielberg's Temple of Doom testing out his gadgets you'll notice his belt buckle reads double 07 because the kid is obsessed with James Bond and his concealed Tech later we hear the James Bond music as the slides in through the window a move that Chris Columbus will later apply to Kevin McAllister and him alone data's accidental reel in also foils him later when he tries to use his gadgets on the fratellis on the pirate ship and yes I am wearing this Indie I love you shirt a quote from Keys big line in Temple of Doom and you can get this shirt to support the Deep dive over at nerd riot.shot Lawrence AKA chunk sees this Chase pressing his food against the arcade window [Music] oh yeah again a kids movie but notice how they put all their profanity in moments that would be easy for broadcasters to cut or dub over with other sound effects so if you only ever saw goodies on TV you wouldn't have heard any of these Jeff Cohen would later grow up to be a prominent La entertainment lawyer with kihui Kwan as one of his clients the Walsh house has a row of mailboxes with us written on one and them written on all the others a little detail showing how the country club types are moving into the neighborhood and forcing out the local Families Our opening shot of Mikey Sean Astin makes him out to be a bit of a pirate he's got a plastic skull from his chair and he peers out from a telescope as if he's spying for a Treasure Island he also has Superman bed sheets because before this Richard Donner directed Superman meanwhile his brother brand Josh Brolin is something of a pirate himself he's got a bandana around his head these were Aston and Brolin's first film roles Mikey says [Music] the goondox is the origin of their nickname The Goonies the goondox referred to a poorer part of Astoria that's now being overtaken by Rich Developers their lives are being erased from the map their worlds are ending they're forced out into adventure and there's pirate imagery all over the living room a ship in a bottle sailing ships printed on the sofa cover Mr Walsh is obsessed with the town's pirate history chunk shows up hey you guys yeah the kid is destined to meet sloth his soul mate mouth makes chunk do the Truffle Shuffle come on do it Jeff Cohen improvises these insane noises that Richard Donner said in 2015 was just Jeff being told to do whatever that's why the Truffle Shuffle lives on it's not a dated reference it's just pure unfiltered spontaneity and every kid can connect with it and reportedly this young actor had chickenpox while shooting and you can actually see a few of the bumps on his skin but he didn't want to lose the role so he showed up to work anyway Mikey triggers his complex gate opening device that involves a bowling ball a balloon a chicken scared and delaying an egg the sprinkler turning on and actually on that chicken coop is written rube g83 a not to group Goldberg known for these kinds of devices and of course the same kind of devices would be used by One-Eyed Willy now the others call on chunks tall tales that was even more amazing than the time you wait in Godfather's Pizza yeah notice how Corey Feldman actually said something else he had to dub in Godfather's Pizza because he originally said Straw Hat Pizza but Straw Hat Pizza refused to license their name out now another sequence that often gets removed from some TV airings mouth Miss translating Mrs Walsh's directions telling her that the drawers have drugs that the attic contains sexual torture devices but they usually leave in the last part of it where he threatens that she'll be locked in with the Cockroaches but in this sequence is a key bit of exposition that Mr Walsh doesn't want anyone in the attic and this line I would really like the house clean when they tear it down I just think it's interesting how Mrs Walsh doesn't want to be judged as a bad Homemaker after they glued back on the broken genitals on the Statue of David and chunk does it upside down I just love the little side eye from Rosalita she's wondering Geezer all these people sexual deviants now both Richard Donner and the actors have recognized Steven Spielberg's importance on this set and most of it really is just dealing with the rambunctious chaotic kids no everyone is shouting freaking chunk talking Big Max and when mouth and chunk run past the camera notice how it shakes but they leave it in because Goonies would not be what it is without this authentic chaos and it was all rained in by Steven Spielberg on set this penchant for breaking stuff leads The Goonies to stumble upon this adventure because Mikey wipes away dust from a frame to see a treasure map and he just knows to hand it over to chunk because he knows that he'll drop it because this is what Goonies and Pirates do they break production designer J Michael Reba aged this map by burning it standing with coffee and smearing his own blood on the edges mouth reads yay Intruders beware crushing death and grief suit with blood of the trespassing Thief now this film's storybook included a backstory for One-Eyed Willy that he was originally named William B portobell and he was a one-eyed court jester from the Spanish Netherlands in the early 1600s he was banished for his practical jokes and formed a band of pirate so marauded hundreds of King Charles the first ships his Flagship The Inferno was chased to the Oregon coast where he hid in the caves and was sealed in by an English cannon fire where he protected his treasure with these jokey booby traps and yes this character was meant to be a lot like Mikey Walsh and the original idea was that Willy was an asthmatic as well before people knew what asthma was and Mikey would have found an archaic handmade inhaler among the skeleton chunk finds an old newspaper photo of Chester copperpot which is actually actor Keenan Nguyen whom Richard Donner originally planned to play Perry white in Superman the buyers dropped by with paperwork and Mikey looks out over the goondocks neighborhood that's about to be erased and brand after dismissing his little brother in front of the friends on the front porch now that the others have gone inside and the brothers are alone brand allows his little brother this quiet moment of grief and consolation and Mikey latches into the hug allowing bran to put him in a headlock and drag him back inside and I can tell you as a little brother sometimes you just bait your brother to wrestle with you so you can kind of hug him and it's not that weird the four boys tie up Thanos with his spring chest expander I think my favorite gag in this movie is Rosalita dropping the groceries when she sees brand thinking that this is some creepy kinky sex thing Mrs Walsh yells after brand [Music] stop that's Harry Kerry Ma [Music] yeah we see where Mikey gets his that's what I said habit and data the kid who grew up next to them next door also does this in the movie bran takes data's little sister's bike and Troy wearing a douchey Country Club visor tries to freaking murder him there's a brief shot of Brand's bike going over a ledge frame just like Spielberg shot of Elliott and E.T when the bite goes flying but you know bran doesn't have a magical extraterrestrial in his handlebars so oof Mikey lines up the Doubloon with the two rocks the lighthouse and the restaurant which we're willing to buy for this kid's movie but man it felt pretty weird when Star Wars the rise of Skywalker tried to do this with a dagger to line up this shot perfectly so that the Doubloon would be in close-up and the kids would be behind it you actually can see how Jeffco and kiwi Kwan and Corey Feldman were all plated in over a separate background so they March 100 Paces to the restaurant and chunk finds the ORV with the bullet holes that he saw before but it all decides a lot of them yeah he was going to say bullet holes the size of matzah balls because chunk is Jewish and actually in the novelization chunks family adopts sloth and throws him a bar mitzvah Mikey sees Jake singing Puccini's Opera Madame Butterfly as he throws food at his brother sloth AKA lot near Fratelli played by John matuszak former Oakland Raiders defensive end notice how sloth initially wears a Raiders shirt the Raiders mascot is a pirate so you know it all fits matusack would spend five hours in the makeup chair and its deformed eye was actually mechanically operated along with his wiggling ears after bran carries him out of the restaurant mama says kids suck yeah I think we gotta pin that as the root myth of The Goonies kids suck but really kids are pirates this movie is not real life it's a pirate game a pirate game is a thought experiment and Game Theory in which a pirate Captain is to Think Through how to play the other Pirates against each other Mama fails because she doesn't value her baby lotney and lotney joins an alliance with the most undervalued goonie Lawrence chunk kids win this Pirate game because they have no limit they can smash and smash and annoy and annoy wearing the adults down and ultimately emerge Victorious Goonies Never Say Die hey look into my eyes well not all the way stop and look at the glasses look at my glasses 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glassesusa.com for sponsoring today's video Mikey gives a little preview of his later big speech well in a couple more hours he ain't gonna be home anymore come on guys this is our time they use chunk as their Hulk with mouth and reaching chunk by sending his photos of his mom taking a bath so he chunk smashes the door down Andy and staff join them giving us this older kids younger kids Dynamic that stranger things would use with Mike 11 Dustin and Lucas and will with Nancy Steve and Jonathan but I love how Steph is really the smartest one in the room I feel like I'm babysitting except I'm not getting paid yeah you gotta imagine this game from the filmmakers themselves Richard Donner feeling like he was babysitting I think the unique is part of working with kids and this many kids in the film is that every night I'm contemplating suicide in fact in the chaotic over talking of the scene it's easy to miss this nothing Josh Brolin Josh not brand I love it chunk tries to leave until I smell ice cream yeah how does one smell ice cream through a freezer door in this freezer they find the guy that Fratelli's killed foreign yes they mixed in some Hitchcock Psycho strings chunk is able to escape and he runs directly back into the fratellis I can describe all three of them yeah Jeff Cohen improvised some Hebrew here it's a Hebrew prayer translating to blessed are you God now this scene with the kids banging on the pipes was actually one of a few scenes directed by Steven Spielberg and you can see the humor is absolutely Steven Spielberg all these pipes connect directly with the Astoria Country Club Pricks one of the guys in the shower is an eye patch making this kind of pirate versus pirate in one way and Troy's toilet geysers to heaven so really just by breaking things these pirate kids unknowingly Advance their interests there's actually a deleted scene filmed but removed where banging on these pipes would cause zoo animals to escape and two gorillas would steal Troy's car yeah that might have been too crazy chunk confesses everything in his life to the fratellis including stealing his local bags of stupid and wearing it on his face or his Hebrew school play and pushing his sister eating down the stairs and blaming it on the dog Jeff Cohen actually improvised most of these he does have a sister named Edie and an uncle named Max he later confesses to making fake puke and bringing it to a movie theater to throw it over the balcony a prank that Steven Spielberg apparently was involved with as a kid when he lived in Arizona Spielberg also directed the scene with the wishing well which is really the most heartfelt moment of the film what do this what why there's somebody else's dreams oh my God these kids hopes are being challenged by the realities of their world's ending like think about it they would throw their pennies in this Wishing Well praying that their homes would not be taken away but Mouth voices the Heartbreak that they're now feeling this was my dream My Wish it didn't come true so I'm taking it back it's so important because it gives the gives Heroes a chance to turn back and leave the adventure Mikey repeats at the world they're going back to won't be their home that up there is their parents time down here it's our time it's our time down here so why does Mikey repeat the speech well it's because before when he gave the speech his brother brand and the girls weren't there and he knows now that they all have their best chance of survival if they stay together and you can see why Peter Jackson saw this and thought yeah this guy can bring the heat with the it's like in the great stories Mr Frodo's scene specifically this line which always gets me they kept going because they were holding on to something but there's some good in this world and it's worth fighting for Sam wise gamji Sean Aston the true hero of the Lord of the Rings and so Andy sends up the bucket but only with Troy's letterman jacket Andy yo Cody he means it as an insult but really it's a badge of honor and speaking of good in the world Mr Frodo we actually see the Buddy and friendship between sloth and chunk now you'll notice on the TV is the 1935 Errol Flynn movie Captain Blood which inspired sloth's swashbuckling heroism because sloth does this same move of slicing down the sail of the pirate ship later chunk gives sloth a Baby Ruth leading sloth to break out of the chains and share the candy with him it's so sweet sloth calls the sheriff just like that last prank about all those little creatures that multiply when you throw water on them this is a reference to the movie Gremlins the most recent movie Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Chris Columbus have worked on together and he tries to his brand but kisses the little brother Mikey by mistake another very sweet scene to escape the fratellis they all have to cross this boat Mast showing how One-Eyed Willy built these passageways using parts of his ships data uses slick shoes to make it slippery so really these kids are succeeding by playing one-eyed Willy's game making everything more and more booby-trapped they find this organ made of Bones forcing Andy to play the notes on the back of the map she hits a few wrong chords but it's interesting how one-eyed really designed all this so that they could make a few errors because he was a Chester he knows people make mistakes as Mikey points out here cooties always make mistakes Andy worries about playing the wrong notes we'll be flat yeah it's really just to set up the joke but a sharp and B flat are literally the same note though on the sheet music they are written completely different in general the notes she's playing do not match the sheet music we see on screen but Andy gets the notes right and they escape down a water slide woohoo fun this is actually a real working water slide that all these actors went down built by Fred Langford on the Warner Brothers stage 16 one of the biggest sound stages in America and they actually flooded this with over 900 000 gallons of water and here they find Willy's ship The Inferno it was a real life-size prop ship that they actually built so that the child actors would see it and be blown away now removed from this part of the movie was a deleted scene where a giant octopus attacks them oiled only by putting a cassette player in its mouth kind of like Brody putting the airtake in the shark's mouth but in this case it would cause the octopus to Groove Back Into the Depths yeah it's kind of silly and it explains why in the final minutes if you listen closely data tells the reporter this the octopus was very scary so Mikey makes it into Willy's treasure room and he cries as he makes his connection with One-Eyed Willy whom he calls the first goonie and he wipes away tears when the others find him how long have you guys been standing there long enough Mikey long enough yeah brand finally understands how important this was to his brother that being a goonie wasn't an incidental status an insult relegated to them by the rich Pricks being an outcast in an outlaw is really their historical Birthright and Mikey's spiritual connection with Willie is I think the only explanation for why he knows not to take the gold from the scales and remember earlier we saw Mikey with his bag of marbles in the house he empties the marbles now to fill with jewels and you know the back of marbles an important Prophet Steven Spielberg as that Michael's happy thoughts in hook another pirate Adventure but the fratellis catch up to them and make the kids walk the plank until [Music] yes hey you guys something chunk would say but this also came from Rita Moreno screaming this at the top of every episode of The Electric Company a kids show that sloth would probably watch from its TV hey sloth rips open his shirt [Music] yeah another Richard Donner Superman nod slot Depends off his family and helps the kid swim away but the fratellis distort Willy's Gold Spring in the booby trap sloth lifts a boulder with a super squat love chuck oh my God the outcasts of the outcasts The Goonies Goonies they save us all now Francis who previously fought with Jake claiming that he didn't have a toupee now you'll notice swims keeping that toupee clutching his teeth Richard Donner himself actually cameos is one of these ATV Rangers well I'll be damned them goobers now after they wrap production on this movie Richard Donner took a Hawaiian vacation and Spielberg's surprise crashed it by flying all the kids in the cast out to his Bungalow to surprise him ah Richard Donner is well earned peace yet again crash by The Goonies and all caught on camera by Spielberg himself outside chunks parents arrive his mom is actually played by Jeff Cohen's actual mother his Dad wears the same goofy Hawaiian shirt he does we get the sweetest goddamn exchange between data and his father it's okay Daddy you can't hug a photograph followed by you are my greatest invention sloth shows up lifting the cop and data says yes and Mandarin this translates to he is a big strong man Rosalita finds Mikey's Marvel pouch filled with jewels and tells them not to sign mouth finally translating it properly I like the idea though that Rosalita didn't keep the jewels for herself because she thinks his family is a bunch of psychos Mr Walsh rips up the contract and throws the scraps into the air I like how they throw a few more handfuls of extra shredded paper to make it look like confetti one-eyed Willy's gold scale booby trap actually connected to a Rube Goldberg device that knocks over the cave wall and allows the ship to sail out to sea so if you think about this anyone who touched this gold who made it this far wouldn't really be trapped but would be worthy of captaining this ship as it went out on the Open Seas the irony of the Fratelli's jumping ship is that they didn't know because they weren't worthy they didn't actually follow the steps of the map to get here they just followed a bunch of kids but technically according to International Maritime Salvage law the rights to a salvaged vessel in its contents go to the person who first successfully bring something off of that vessel since Mikey had the jewels with him that means the entire ship if anyone ever tracks it down would belong belong to him a rightful inheritance from the first goonie to the bravest goonie and setting Mikey on a new possible adventure to track that ship down someday because this story is not over it's just beginning Goonies Never say die I want to thank you all for joining me on this Voyage of Spielberg summer I'm going to close out summer 2023 in August with summer game changers deep dives into movies like The Dark Knight Iron Man other big Turning Point Blockbusters of film history subscribe to the Deep dive share this Channel and its videos with everyone you know follow me at E A Vos and I'll see you next time my divers of the deep [Music] thank you

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