The Ben Shapiro Cinematic Universe / Part Two: Lady Ballers - SOME MORE NEWS

Hi. Last week, we looked at why The Daily Wire is putting out original content that they claim is apolitical. This week, we're doing a deep dive on Jeremy Boreing's magnum opus: Lady Ballers.

Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by John Conway
Written by David Christopher Bell
Edited by Gregg Meller
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell

00:00 - Intro
03:12 - The Basic Elements of Filmmaking
12:27 - Lady Ballers is a... comedy?
16:34 - Their political obsessions undermine the film.
26:07 - The character arcs are all over the place or nonexistent.
44:44 - They don't understand what they're attempting to satirize.
51:28 - Lady Ballers is bad even at being propaganda.
58:45 – This movie really hates women.
1:03:21 - The whole thing is based on a false premise.
1:07:36 - Here's some other dumb shit in the movie.

[TheKeyote]

So the inciting premise of the film is "The whole world has moved on from me and left me behind" and the resolution is "The whole world should regress until I am comfortable again"
Which really just is the plot of any of these right wing or christian movies.

[touchthesun]

"Conservatism has only ever consisted of a single proposition: That there should be an in-group, whom the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group, whom the law binds but does not protect. It has never meant anything more or less, in any time or place." - Frank Wilhoit

[kuno]

I feel like by coach straight up telling Alex they're wrong, and then physically assaulting them, he kind of validated Alex as a woman. Because what is the female experience if not a man telling her she's wrong and hitting her if she talks back?

[Bryzerse]

I'm not entirely sure why no one's pointing out that getting rejected from Hollywood is essentially the modern equivalent of getting rejected from art school.

[lukisprieston]

“Trans women become women to have it easier in life” is just so… offensive coming from the crowd that tries very, very hard to make trans women’s lives hell

[Dayman]

The reminder that more than half of the Daily Wire crew's supervillain stories involve them being rejected by Hollywood is funnier than anything in Lady Ballers.

[UltimaPowers]

They didn't give Jordan Peterson lines because it would cost them a fortune to pay Jim Henson's estate to licence Kermit's voice.

[Zandorv]

Can I point out that a gag revolving around the idea that squirrel is so gross to eat that you spit it out even when you thought it was delicious is an *incredibly* soft-handed city boy take? Make it roadkill or at least like armadillo or something, squirrel is such a normal thing to eat if you live in an even remotely rural area.

[MonsterTurner]

Even when Jeremy Boreing is cast as the lead protagonist, in a screenplay he wrote and directed, he still comes off as the villain of the movie.

[alexisvandom]

Lady Ballers did have one good running joke:

The idea that the media actually talks about trans rights.

[tzisorey]

"This movie committed the worst crime a movie can commit. It's not that it was bad, bad can be fun - *it was **_boring."_*

[kevinhengehold]

I feel like we don't dwell enough on b-shap's interview where he says "originally, it was a documentary, but everything about our premise was false, so we had to make it a fictional story."

Like - what is their purpose? It was shown to them, in painfully clear terms, that their ideology is incompatible with reality, and so they decided to build a fictional world where they're right, actually? Who does that? And Why?

[ratgurl]

I truly can’t stand how the daughter’s claim that men are better at “most STEM fields” goes unchallenged. What kind of father would be like “Well, that’s true, you can never be as smart or successful as a man no matter how much work you put in” ??? Most STEM fields are about innovation and inventions, of which millions come from women and other folks with marginalized identities. It’s not a “ranking” system where we’re competing based on IQ or some bull… but nvm, I’ll go trade my degree in for a diaper changing station or something

[ihaps]

The liberal lady leaning in and whispering "I'll cancel you" is kinda funny since it's a conservative's biggest fear. I'm sure the audience shrieked or shuddered.

[marcsullivan]

I teach a film class to high school students
Eye-line is literally one of the first things I teach to demonstrate that “some films are objectively better than others, it’s not all entirely opinion”, showing them examples of clumsy formal technique of different kinds

[sirtrino]

Thinking about how even in a movie explicitly “about” woman athletes, they still didn’t bother to call up Gina Carano, an MMA fighter.

[Alexander_Stern]

Jordan Peterson on “Lady Ballers”: “You ask me, ‘Do you think that “Lady Ballers” is funny?’ Well, before I answer that I have to ask, What do you mean by ‘do’? What do you mean by ‘you’? What do you mean by ‘think’? What do you mean by ‘that’? What do you mean by ‘lady’? What do you mean by ‘ballers’? What do you mean by ‘is’? And what do you mean by ‘funny’?”

[phagtacular]

It hit me after the “Jeremy sure loves winning“ segment that his daughter’s name is “Winnie.“

[carlcoetzee]

Every time I see that scene where he tells his daughter she’s supposed to be better at having nebulously “feminine” traits I hear the voice of Beatrice Horseman going “Now why don’t you sprinkle some sugar on a lemon? That’s a nice tasty Girl Snack.”

[AGNOSTIC_incomprehensibleXIV]

It's interesting that @The Critical Drinker criticizes a lot of Hollywood movies for female characters not having much of an arc or needing to change because the world changes for them, yet it's apparently not such a big deal when the male protagonist in Lady Ballers is exactly this.