Why Did We Forget About DIVERGENT So Fast?

hello everybody and welcome to beer in a movie of course this is not beer this is wine i wanted to bring in the new year with uh with an air sophistication hence the wine that's not true i'm actually sponsored today that's why the wine sponsored by wine the whole industry the whole industry gathered together and they were like that's the face we want as the face of our products not really it's actually a company called bright sellers and i got so excited about our partnership that i actually went out and bought this glass which says i'm not drinking alone i'm social distancing i bought it because i thought it would be funny so i spent fifteen dollars on it and now i think it's a dumb joke and now i don't have fifteen dollars if you are unfamiliar with beer in a movie i like to find a movie or a franchise that i find interesting and not interesting just because of the films but something that surrounded the film for example the very first beer in a movie that i ever made was about fallen which is a twilight ripoff with a huge book fan base and a huge blockbuster movie budget except somehow it was just like abandoned and released on vod you might then guess what fascinates me about divergence i'm looking at this glass and i'm realizing i'm wearing white pants uh i don't think that was a good combination i better start sucking away at this thing what fascinates me about divergent is that it was this hugely popular book series and the first movie did so well that they just green lit all the rest of the movies and they even took it a step further they decided to split the final book into two movies so they made the first film success green light the rest of them they made the second film more success they made the third film less success and then they just left and didn't make the final film let me just explain to everybody the plot of divergence that no one's left behind so at age 16 in this dystopian city you have to choose between one of five different factions each faction has their own character trait there's the smart there's the brave there's the selfless there's the uh other two the peaceful selfless brave smart [Music] selfless selfless brave smart honest and intelligent honest they made a honest faction that is the dumbest one like oh we only tell the truth that's your whole life is just telling the truth what good are you so those are the five things that you can be in this world you could be peaceful honest selfless brave or smart if you are any more than one of those things you are divergent and they kill you that's the reason the book gains so much traction there's a choosing ceremony leaving your family for the first time meeting new friends and challenges along the way rising to the top you know all the basic y.a tropes that the hunger games did a couple years earlier choosing ceremony leaving your family for the first time meeting new friends and challenges rising to the top it's all there and stories have always had some of these elements but divergent seemed uniquely inspired by the hunger games and of course i love the hunger games the problem started to set in when the author had to do anything else besides the easy tropes let's just boil this down in an easy to understand way if i were to ask you what the hunger games was about you would say an oppressive government makes kids fight to the death now let's explain the plot of divergence it's um well if okay so it's like um no no let me actually try to explain the plot of diversion right okay so scientists crack the code to human genetics right and they start taking out all the bad stuff they take out stupidity repetitiveness and speech greed violence stupidity repetitiveness and speech turns out that this genetic manipulation is actually leading to people's genetics becoming damaged rather than perfected actually here's what wiki says it started when some brilliant scientists decided to improve people's genes through genetic splicing make them smarter more honest braver more peaceful and selfless but the experiment went horribly wrong those who have been made smarter braver and more honest became cruel those who have become peaceful became removed distant and attentive and those who became more selfless became so selfless it was unhealthy the genetic stuff is always just super vague the war that led to this dystopian city super vague apparently it was a civil war between the genetically modified slash damaged people and then regular people what happened in the war whatever happened in the war though it left earth looking like mars and sometimes it just rains toxic red rain how why don't know facts are unimportant veronica roth the author of divergent actually tells a story how she wrote divergent over winter break her senior year at northwestern university now i went to a scam college that recently closed for business that's a true story so i had to look up what a winter break looks like for a real college oh three weeks she wrote divergent in three weeks you can write a book in three weeks much like you can build a house in a day but don't think that just because you put a nice painting on the wall and a big plush rug on the floor that suddenly your your house is good to live in does that metaphor make sense i i might be a little bit tipsy and i know what you're thinking it's a little bit early in the video dylan to be tipsy but i can assure you that i hold my alcohol as well as my college holds itself in business which is to say not very well at all the painting in my metaphor is supposed to be like a choosing ceremony and the plush rug is supposed to be like a badass girl just kicking some ass pretty and fun things to distract you from the fact that your house will literally collapse in on itself at the slightest breeze anyway the regular people gather up a bunch of the genetically damaged ones after the war and they put them in a city they wipe their memories meanwhile the regular people watch over them as an experiment to see if the genes fix themselves over time i guess which is a weird experiment because the regular people they have like super intense technology to watch over the city so they know everything that's always going on all the time yet they don't do anything they just watch like a perverse reality tv show there's no trials there's no interference to try to fix the jeans instead they just put them there and watch it's the goddamn truman show it's that's all it is tris i know you i have been watching you your whole life i watched you being born i was watching when you were born i watched a little girl have a happy childhood i was watching when you took your first step okay this is the part of the beer in the movie that's really fun all right we're gonna actually go over the movies now first big thing that happens is tris chooses dauntless so she leaves her faction of abnegation everyone because she left her home faction which is something that not a lot of people do and she went to join dawnless let me tell you a little something about dauntless dauntless are supposed to be the brave because they're brave they're always running everywhere obviously i should have to explain this bravery and running are two things that just go hand in hand so tris has to get used to the dauntless lifestyle which is like the complete opposite of how she grew up so it takes her a while she gets her ass kicked in training until she starts kicking ass in training but she's divergent and she can't tell anyone shh we can't let kate winslet know otherwise we die then the worst [ __ ] thing happens everyone in triss's dogless faction gets brainwashed oh no the brainwashing serum doesn't take effect on her because she's divergent which makes no sense because every other [ __ ] serum in the world works on her this whole brainwashing scheme is led by eurydite which is the brainwashing factum what i gotta stop try again the whole brainwashing thing is a plot from eurodites which is the smart guys to take over leadership of society from abnegation by killing everyone in abnegation bold strategy cotton let's see if it pays off for interest oh [ __ ] i never talked about four uh okay so four is like the hunky fighter boyfriend whose name is four and i just know that the author as soon as she thought of this character's name is four she leaned one shoulder forward lifted a hand and patted herself vehemently on her back good job that's so smart because she knew all the young fans were going to be like oh his name's far that's so mysterious infection it's just painful to watch the end of this movie because it just removed all agency from every character what do i mean by that well imagine this instead tris bonds with christina and uh this guy in all these guys i don't remember the names do we care after building a tight bond through grueling training where they only had each other and they needed each other's help in order to survive and push forward an order comes down from the leader of the faction and he says we're moving out we're gonna kill all abnegation they say faction before blood so your faction comes first and foremost faction before blood so all these characters have a decision to make they can just fall online and follow the orders as they're expected to do put their faction first or they can become an outcast and risk death in order to do the right thing half the group chooses to follow orders while the other half joined triss in the rebellion and when it comes to the battlefield tris has a stare down with one of her close friends from training it's a standoff they both have their guns pointed at each other they're both frozen because they'd have to kill a friend of theirs and tris pulls the trigger boom kills her friend powerful stuff right she killed her friend in order to save her family and stop the insurrection is that what happens nope because this book was written in three [ __ ] weeks instead her friends are brainwashed and they can just do bad things and get away with it and this is the problem that most ya books have they focus so much on the protagonist and their love interest that all the other characters feel like two-dimensional play things she was just like how do i get a bunch of characters who don't want to do something to do that thing that i need them to do i could go back and rewrite their characters a little bit so that they uh you know they have like a good moral moment where they have to question their beliefs it's a lot of work though and it's already christmas winter break's almost over what if i uh brainwashing plot got it boom that's how you know oh no that was close oh it was close you see that anyway tris and four foil this takeover plan good job guys clap clap you are legends movie number two insurgent tristan four are on the run and they meet up with the factionless who are basically people that just don't fit into any single faction so they just they're homeless people but shocker they're actually an organized group preparing for a war wow a group of people that were an afterthought are actually organizing a mutiny against the government haven't seen that pop before oh what's this district 13 enters the chat the factionless get this they're led by four's mom because that's super convenient what veronica did you write this over the week and a half spring break you had the following year i just realized that there is a small percent chance that veronica might actually watch this video hey hey veronica listen hey hey you're a millionaire now i'm just the guy yelling at a green screen who's winning you went to northwestern a highly respected school i went to a scam college and now promote wines on my channel just take your victory and go i'm just kidding this is like one of the best sponsorships i've ever had meanwhile there's peter who is simultaneously super duper important while also somehow being completely irrelevant to the plot i don't know how to explain this but he does certain things in the story that are super crucial but at the same time if he wasn't there things would go the exact same way if he was now you have to remember janine she's like the the villain right and she's the divergent killer peter makes the mistake of telling her this i would like a position in your regime maybe dallas but i'm not just a meathead he just admitted to being more than one personality traits so she kills him on the spot psych no she just ignores it completely despite him admitting that he's smart and brave at the same time so he's two things which would make him divergent but he's not divergent because uh winter break yeah she just didn't have enough time damn you northwestern if only you had made your winter break four weeks maybe she would have been able to figure this out long story short the climax of the second one is when tris turns herself in to janine so that she can get experimented on she's going to try to open this cube which is only a movie edition that's not in the original books i know because i read the original books years ago don't remember a lot of it but there was no cube give me credit for reading it though because i did i did my research for this video i just did it like six years ago the problem is all the diversions up to this point that i've tried to open the cube have died and tris tries to open it and she dies oh no psych she doesn't actually die she's the protagonist she can't die yet bring her back peter actually shot her full of something to make her appear dead but she's not actually dead peter then surprises everybody by joining tris in four so he spent the entire time the first movie most of the second movie just tormenting triss but now he's changing allegiances all of a sudden super important pivotal moment right not really because tris is like hey instead of escaping like you had planned what if i go back and unlock the cube which is what i was going to do in the first place and i'll do it in front of everybody so peter put his ass on the line to try to get tris to escape and tris is like no thanks i'm good it just does the same thing as if she were trapped so tristan locks the box and it's actually a message from the outside world saying hey there's more people living outside your walls i know you've been living in a lie come on and join us come outside the walls four's mom takes over she's in charge now of society and she kills kate winslet so kate winslet's out of the picture ah this wine is really good let's actually take a second let's talk about bright sellers who were kind enough to sponsor today's video write sellers is a wine club and here's how it works so you go to their site and you take their wine quiz which just asks you about your tastes and your preferences they then send you wines that they think you're gonna like they send those wines to your door and then you try them then go to their site and rate them and then their algorithm takes over and it matches you to 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things that are good come from wisconsin except the colleges avoid them let's talk about movie three and i will not be harsh on movie three because it is far and away the best movie of the three divergent movies now if you look at it critically that's not true even remotely but what critics aren't taking into account about this score is movie three stops caring and it's so beautiful to watch the first two movies were like these moody dramas that were like the hunger games but worse but there were moments in the third one where they just completely stopped giving a [ __ ] and they just made it as campy and dumb and fun as they could seems like we're two peas in a pod case in point orange goo so tris four and the other unimportant characters break out of the city after there's a mandate that no one's leaving the city even though there was a cube that said leave the city we're not going to follow that damn cube they break out they traverse this mars-looking ass place and they reach a wall an invisible wall and it opens up and a bunch of soldiers come out to greet them and they're like hey you're tris nice to meet you wanna come back to our place we got wine you can drink all you want and instead of putting triss and four into these giant ships with like tons of space they instead say hold still and they send out these orange plasma globes that give tristan for the power of flight [Music] suits oh you need to be decontaminated no problem let's just shower you in orange at first i thought this is so dumb and then i thought hold on a second this is genius because it's so dumb that it suddenly became fun and four decides that this new society it's not so great because sometimes they go on missions out into the wilds and there's people living in like small little makeshift cities horrible living right so the soldiers of the city go out just evil soldiers they go out and they round up the kids horrible and then they bring them back to the city where the kids are well fed and they live longer and have access to medical supplies and they just live better lives it's horrible stuff really four is like i'm not having any of that i want these kids living in poverty let's [ __ ] overthrow the society and unfortunately for him the society that he's rebelling against also tries to assassinate him but don't worry four is like a super badass so he takes on like a whole ship of guys with again his bare hands and he wins because he's a badass protagonist but he accidentally shoots the pilots as well so the ship falls thousands of feet out of the sky and crashes into the ground where there's an explosion which of course leaves four with some pretty serious injuries as you can see he's got a slight limp now which are the injuries you get after you fall thousands of feet from the sky and crash and burn into the ground and he wasn't even strapped in either he was just hanging on and he's like ah darn i got a i got a little i got a little ache in my thigh ah this is gonna it's gonna be here for days what a nightmare tris at first likes the the guy that's running the experiments she's getting along with him he's telling her things about her mother that she never knew but then she realizes that as the city's about to go to war there's another war brewing within the city between four's mom and then there's another faction leader who's like rising up and tris is like hey man can you intervene and stop this war and the dude's like no not good tris takes matters into our own hands by stealing the guy's private aircraft and hilarity in zeus crazy there is literally a wacky zany car chase scene i love it i love it i love how tris is like i'm gonna have to override autopilot and take this thing manual despite not knowing that flying vehicles existed like three days ago and now she's gonna take over this super advanced technology and fly this ship away from pursuers who are trained in flying these vehicles i love their constant screaming i love the facts that they're getting missile shot at them and you know you just know that they're gonna break through the wall in the nick of time i just love everything about it it's grade a garbage ah i don't think i can call it garbage because it's so good i'd call it garbage that's when garbage is good it's garbage so now the leader guy is like oh no tris is gonna go back and tell everybody about the experiment so i'm gonna release a memory wiping serum and just wipe everybody inside the city's memory but don't worry tris stops him because she's badass girl except she didn't really stop him because it's an airborne gas and it clearly gets into the air but the movie thought that like having orange smoke looked really cool so they wanted you to ignore the fact that everyone is clearly breathing this in but it's fine because they they shut it off halfway through so i guess that no one lost their memory so all this is setting up to the climax two and a half books have been building to this moment all we have left is the climax of the totality of the story everything that you've been building to all the character interactions coming to a head all contained in this fourth and final movie and it's [ __ ] cancelled but don't let it get lost on you how ironic it is that the climax of the third movie is about a memory wiping drug and then the movie studio that's making the series completely forgets about the franchise it's just perfect irony hello you think you can ditch me like this yes i wanted to get to the bottom of this it's like the greatest blue balls in recent cinema history to build up three movies to a point of just finishing it off with one final movie and you're like i don't want to do it first film comes out boom 288 million dollars but we need to understand this figure a little bit better whenever you see how much a movie has earned half that amount because when a movie releases two theaters the theaters need to take their cut which is between 30 and 50 so let's just say 50 of the ticket sales went to the movie theaters the budget of the first divergent film was 85 million dollars now the budget doesn't include marketing costs so add another 50 million onto that 85 million and you still have a handy profit for the studio the next one had a bigger budget 110 million and it made 297 million i don't know how much they spent on marketing but it still did pretty well only oh they released the third one and it made a hundred million dollars less so now the studio starts freaking out then they have a couple options here they can pull back the budget on the final film maybe pull back on marketing as well try to break even they can maybe pull back on budget a little bit and then spend more money on marketing the epic conclusion to this fantastic story you know you can put a whole campaign around the conclusion you can cancel the movie and make zero dollars which is dumb you don't want to do that or you can try some wild [ __ ] they went with the wild [ __ ] they decided to lower the budgets and then release the movie as a tv movie on stars network they were planning on writing in some new characters into the final film and then do a spin-off tv show with those new characters just to try to milk the franchise for everything it's worth but you have to keep in mind that this was in 2016. no big movies were coming out straight to vod and the optics of that were horrible because the first three movies got theatrical releases and now you want to take the series climax which you've been building towards out of theaters all the actors opted out because you don't want to regress you don't want to make a film for less money and it's going to look worse and it's going to release on tv and no one's gonna watch it really that just looks horrible none of them wanted to do it so they all opted out and the studio had no choice but to cancel the series so now we know the technical reason why it was cancelled but why why why did people start losing interest in that third movie to be fair to divergence the hunger games suffered as well as each movie went on it started making less and less money most people pick up these series for the enticing concepts once you complete that enticing concepts you have to latch on to their interests and build a world that maintains their interest throughout the rest of the story the problem with divergent and the hunger games is outside of the concept the rest of the story is not that great the author had no plan for the series when she started writing she just wanted to write a cool book about factions in a choosing ceremony and fighting over the course of her winter break and then everyone looked at it like it was gold and you know she had no plan because you come to find out that the factions the whole concept of the first book the reason it's sold in the first place they mean nothing the whole city experiment is about fixing people's genetics putting people into factions based on their personalities has nothing to do with it whatsoever the factions are there just to maintain order i guess because that's the only way that you maintain order is by having factions of people separated which works super well i mean they had multiple wars so that so the faction system really worked out oh my god let me just make sure i am absolutely clear here the world of divergent is flawed from its very concept point the bureau of genetic welfare they're the ones overseeing the chicago experiments their goal is to get divergence people who are not broken genetically the bureau is the one that set up the faction system they said they did that in order to maintain peace however the faction system encourages people to only be one thing which is the antithesis of progress for the experiment also why would you let someone who's known as the divergent killer run loose she is literally a cancer within your experiment she is killing off all the progress that you are making she is literally wiping out the whole reason you have the experiment in the first place the author put the faction system in because it was like a cool sorting hat moments but she can never figure out how it related to the bigger picture story she was never able to connect the dots within her own story the series falls apart and i think the reason the last film failed so hard is because the series lacks one of the most vital elements that you can have in a story and that is a good villain she never added someone to root against and they added kate winslet into the movies but the character she plays in the books doesn't really come around much until book two and even at that point she's not really a compelling villain in the second one either and then she's defeated at the end of the second one and then at the start of the third one there's like a friendly guy who kind of morphs into the villain by the end of the third one but he's not scary or threatening in any way so he's a horrible villain you can have a convoluted worlds with characters doing stuff that you don't agree with and stuff that that doesn't really make any sense as long as you have a powerful opponent that you want to see toppled and defeated so we didn't really care if tris accomplished her goal because what was her goal who was she fighting against the man in charge of the experiments he's a small fish in a bigger pond he answered to a larger government who had approved the city experiment so we're just going to pretend like we wrapped up the story neatly because the guy who's in charge of the experiment is dead now one of the powers that be just send another person to overlook the experiment ah that's the story of divergent and it's premature end unfortunately the series at this point is dead and i don't see it being revitalized because the fad of why a dystopian stuff is over and by this point the actors have aged a number of years so i don't see them coming back and making the final film and i don't think there's a demand for it either which is a shame because you'd love to see it completed whether you like the series hate the series at least it's a full thing with divergent it's just this weird pseudo ending like a cancelled tv show that'll never come back i hope you enjoyed this beer in a movie if you'd like to get your own wine i'll leave that link in the description it's 50 off so it's cheaper than most wines thank you for watching and i'll see you next time where i'll probably talk about megan fox and the transformer series because what the [ __ ] happened there michael bay mega fox see you later

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Keywords: divergent, shaileen, woodley, insurgent, allegiant, movie, movies, reaction, review, dylan

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Length: 28min 51sec (1731 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 26 2021