Analyzing Evil: Colonel Jessup From A Few Good Men

Hello everyone and welcome to the one hundred fourth episode of Analyzing Evil! Our feature villains for this video is Colonel Jessup and his cronies from A Few Good Men. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!

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[shadowsnake]

The ending always got me with how Jessup, even after confessing can't even comprehend why he's being arrested.

[grapeshot]

I like the part when Colonel Jessup was like I'll be addressed as Colonel I've earned it. I don't know what hell of a kind of outfit you're running. And the judge was like you will address the court as your honor I'm sure I've earned it.

[jessmith]

Jessup also had a low key god complex as when the judge had to reprimand him for respecting his rank, just as he himself did to the lawyer and he was erked by it

[michaelkaduck]

Colonel Jessup's abuse of power is more vile to me nowadays. This film really dives into the degradation of soldiers in the military. Colonel Jessup very much reminds me of higher ups in the Canadian Armed Forces, who covered up crimes like hazing and sexual assault. The higher ups don't have the guts to actually take accountability.

"We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene!"-Col.Kurtz, Apocalypse Now

Jack Nicholson really sold Jessup's obsession with maintaining his status quo.

[boltzy_]

Out of all the evil characters you have gone over Jessup is arguably the scariest as people like him exist in real life in positions of power.

[chonkyseal]

This movie was hell of a ride, loved every second of it, and Jack nicholson's speech never gets old.

[redblaze]

YouTube: “DID YOU ANALYZE COLONEL JESSUP’S EVIL?”
The Vile Eye: “YOU GOD DAMN RIGHT I DID!”

[borissand]

The real reason why Santiago was murdered was because he told his fellow marines that crayons weren't supposed to be eaten

[GibsonYouTube]

My favorite part of the movie is how Colonel Jessup says constantly "We follow orders or people die", but by enacting a Code Red; he didn't follow orders and people (Santiago) died.

[artemismoonbow]

I was Airborne Infantry and a SGT, bottom line: If you can volunteer in, you should be able to volunteer out. If you are conscripted in and cannot make the cut, you should be let go. Cruelty over those that cannot keep up is not about their well-being, it is the misguided belief that if you are not cruel to them then others will not try as hard as is necessary to keep up. It is deterrence and retribution twisted to the service of evil and fear as the primary focus of life and courage. And whether you are of the persuasion that believes in deterrence and retribution (I no longer am) or not, the purpose is to stop evil, not perpetuate it. If in an attempt to end suffering you create suffering, all you have achieved is the creation of suffering.

[sgt_slobber.]

The ‘YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH’ scene was one of Jack’s BESTEST Performances

[j.rivera]

I’ve been in the Army for 20 years. Went from PVT to SSG and then from WO1 to CW4. I’ve been to Iraq/Afghanistan x4. I’ve never once had to “haze” a Soldier to get the best out of them. I’ve never insulted them or put hands on them. If you take care of people, they take care of you. To me, I don’t want systematic drones on my team. I want men and women, who buy into our mission and want to be here. To do that, you create the atmosphere where people enjoy serving, no matter how shitty the situation.

You are 110% in your assessment. It doesn’t take a military leader to figure this out.

[josefk]

The famous rant by Colonel Jessup is relatable. Anyone who ever did a favor for an ungrateful jerk could feel Colonel Jessup's anger, even though in his case, Colonel Jessup was not entirely justified.

[charlesboots]

Hot take; the Jessup we meet in the movie is a pogue. Maybe sometime back in the past, he was at the tip of the spear, but now he's just a careerist bureaucrat sitting in his office pushing paper. His only concern is how his current job will position him for his next job. That next job is to the NSA to push more paper, not to stand up MARSOC or be the operations officer at 2nd MarDiv.

If he actually walked his walk, he'd have told the investigators "This is a dangerous business we've chosen, and unfortunately, sometimes people accidentally die training for it. But we train that way so fewer die when actual rounds start being fired downrange." He tried that a little bit, but only after lying and throwing others under the bus for an hour.

All he cared about was his career. He made Dawson take the fall for the fence line engagement. He was repeatedly willing to have others make sacrifices to advance his own selfish interests.

But he was never willing to put himself on the line, only his subordinates. He was all talk and no action. He was a coward.

[stevencorey]

Military leaders like Jessup are almost always under the delusion that the rules don't apply to them, that their rank gives the privilege to ignore them...irony...one of the 1st things they beat out of you in boot camp.😶

[captaindishman]

Jessup was so intimidating. Nicholson played the character perfectly. Dude was so scary his 2nd in command killed himself to avoid backlash. What a wild movie.

[aegis]

Even before I saw this movie, I knew of Colonel Jessup's outburst of "You can't handle the truth!" It speaks a lot of the film, it's writing, and Nicholson's acting.

[xanderlowe]

I was in the military (Army). The worst people get promoted. The most petty, bratty man-children get to positions of authority, and then they reign over helpless grunts because their daddy never told them they were special. Colonel Jessup would fit right in to my experience.

[jicudi]

This script is very well-crafted. I'm five minutes in and my interest is rising by the second.

[oscarnewman]

Jessup also disobeys orders as he is ordered to stop code reds which proves it was never about any of that and is just about his ego