A$AP Rocky, Glen Powell, LaKeith Stanfield & Callum Turner Watch Iconic Videos

I love that.

You just gave away the sauce, though, like

now everybody about to... [everyone laughing]

You gotta gatekeep just a little bit!

Totally, totally my fault. I'm playing, I'm playing.

Oh yeah, well my entire education

is just this YouTube channel. [A$AP Rocky laughing]

[laid-back music plays]

[waves crashing]

Hey, I'm Glen.

LaKeith.

I'm Callum.

I'm handsome, [all chuckle]

and we're going to go through some videos that we all love.

I watch YouTube videos all day 'cause usually,

I guess, essentially, when I'm creating,

I put a a video on mute,

and I kinda like use that as like, you know,

the visual component to whatever I'm making sonically.

Mmm.

I'm around music all day every day, so yeah.

I like it, so you don't have any sound,

but that helps you sonically?

That helps me.

I love that. I don't know why.

What kind of video?

Man, public domain,

Betty Boop,

uh, you know, drag racing,

fashion shows.

Really? Just like anything that's like no sound,

visually stimulating.

Exactly.

You know what drives me crazy is the ones where

they haven't seen their mum or dad for two years

and then they show up.

Like a soldier returning home from war video?

Tear-jerker!

Yeah!

Gets me every time. Every time.

Honestly, I'm gonna be real, man.

Guilty pleasure.

I like watching preds get caught. That's my-

Yeah!

[laughing] To Catch a Predator?

I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah.

That's one of my favorite things,

to watch predators get caught.

Old school To Catch a Predator

was always like such a, like,

when Chris Hansen would walk-

Chris Hansen! [Glen and A$AP Rocky laughing]

Dateline NBC!

Yeah!

He'd walk out and they're just like

I had, you know, like...

just like the human reaction of like my life is over.

Over! Yeah.

And it was so funny too

because you could tell he loved doing it.

[A$AP Rocky laughing and clapping]

Oh yeah!

He just loved catching 'em. You know, he was like-

Can you imagine the amount of power

coming from behind that curtain?

[A$AP Rocky sharply exhales]

That is-

That was a big set-up too, right?

Yeah!

Like the whole house was done up and-

Yeah!

Cops waiting outside. Yeah!

He'd be like, you can leave right now.

You run out and they tackle him.

[all laughing]

Totally! [A$AP Rocky clapping]

You got nowhere to go!

What did you mean when you said,

I want to blank your blank?

[all burst out laughing]

And you're like, whoa!

Shout out to Chris Hansen, man.

[producer laughing]

[Producer] Does anybody want to go first?

Man, fuck it. I'll go first.

Yeah you can.

No one ever wants to go first.

Yeah, I'll go first. I love Tim Burton, man.

I've been inspired by him as a child.

I think what he does with claymation

and how he transcended into just like live action movies

and the parallels between 'em

and he seamlessly kind of included it

from matte painting to German expressionism.

I think he's a fucking genius.

The Nightmare Before Christmas.

[Callum] I knew you were gonna say that, yeah!

[A$AP Rocky] I'm a child!

[Callum] That was my movie when I was growing up, too.

[A$AP Rocky] Right? Come on, bro! That was a classic!

Fun fact!

His composer, his name's Danny Elfman,

he just did my album with me that I'm putting out this year.

No way! Hmm!

Yeah, Danny Elfman.

That's sick!

[A$AP Rocky] He scored a bunch of the songs on my album.

Wow!

So we had this shit on mute

and just like making music to all of the old films.

Pee-wee's Playhouse,

The Simpsons,

all of that,

that's with Danny Elfman.

Have you seen him live in concert?

Yeah, of course!

You saw him at Coachella?

So sick.

[A$AP Rocky] Killed that shit.

Insane.

[The Nightmare Before Christmas score playing]

Like this changed like claymation and stop motion,

you know?

I had this on VHS. Me too! [laughs]

Have you ever seen people actually do this stuff?

Like the actual claymation?

Like have you ever gone to a claymation studio?

[A$AP Rocky sharply exhales]

Yeah. I've seen it, yeah.

It's so impressive. It's crazy.

They build worlds with the miniatures and shit.

Yeah! Yeah.

It's crazy, man! Yeah.

It's insane.

[This is Halloween by Danny Elfman plays]

♪ This is Halloween ♪

♪ Everybody make a scene ♪

[A$AP Rocky singing along] ♪ In this town of Halloween ♪

[Glen and A$AP Rocky laugh]

My favorite holiday is Halloween.

I got this on VHS cassette.

Both of us did.

I was probably like

around five or six years old when I got it

and I've been addicted to it since.

I like cartoons 'cause they allow you to imagine, you know?

Mmm.

And that's something I held onto even in my adulthood.

Like, I prefer to do things that like

would consider me as a man child, you know?

I still got gadgets, toys, and Rubik's cubes

and just, you know, fun things.

Can you do a Rubik's Cube?

I suck, bro.

[Glen and Callum laugh]

It's all aesthetic purposes.

You come in my spot-

There's 800 in your house.

[all laugh]

I think you up next!

No pressure at all, though.

This video is Mean Streets,

it's a Scorsese film that is one of his first movies.

And this scene in particular

was one of the reasons that I wanted to get into acting

because I loved it so much.

Johnny Boy is like a proper unbelievable character

and he's larger than life,

but he's got this soul that you really connect to,

and Harvey Keitel's kind of his cousin

and tries to keep him on the straight and narrow and-

Like and then what happened today

you ain't gonna believe 'cause it's just incredible.

And I can't believe it myself.

[A$AP Rocky laughs]

I was in a game.

I must've had like $600 or $700, right?

You gotta be kidding.

Yeah, on Hester street.

You know Joey 'Clams'? Yeah.

Joey Scala, yeah.

I know him too, yeah.

Yeah. No, Joey Scala is Joey 'Clams.'

Right. Right.

They're the same person. Yeah!

[A$AP Rocky laughs]

Hey! Hey!

Now, anyway, I'm gonna cut the story short

'cause I know you don't want to hear all that.

[A$AP Rocky laughs]

I know, I know, I know.

[LaKeith speaking in New York accent]

I'm gonna be him.

We gotta talk like that for the rest of the thing now!

[Glen laughing] Yeah, totally!

[LaKeith speaking in New York accent]

You know what I mean? It's badda-bing badda-bang.

[speaking normally] That was brilliant.

That's a fucking great scene.

Have you seen the movie?

No, I haven't seen it.

It's one of my favorites.

It's fantastic.

Scorsese's like never missed.

Yeah!

I could tell he was just letting him riff, too.

It was like real-

I think most of that is improvised.

Yeah. Wow.

And then he went and did Godfather 2 after that

and then Taxi Driver

and the difference between the performances is so clear.

When I was like auditioning,

like when I was younger, like I watched, you know,

it was like freaking De Niro and Pacino,

like they're like the great actors

and so like I thought like good acting was like

using an Italian accent.

[all laugh]

A guy from Texas that had like a slight Italian accent

like did not work at all.

[all continue laughing]

[Producer] Do we get to hear any of that?

Yeah, I'd like to! No!

[Glen, Callum, and A$AP Rocky laughing]

[A$AP Rocky clapping]

It's gone! It's dead. It's dead.

That part of my life is over, my Italian days.

If you could have done any gangster movie in the past,

what would it have been?

Goodfellas.

I knew you was gonna say that, man.

That's a perfect movie.

I love A Bronx Tale. It's...

A Bronx Tale is great.

Yeah, that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

De Niro, he directed that shit and killed it.

Yeah.

How about you? If you could have been in any-

I think Mean Streets or Goodfellas.

Maybe even Casino.

[A$AP Rocky whistles] Yeah, Casino is great.

Casino, that's a beautiful movie.

And the clothes in that!

[A$AP Rocky sharply exhales]

I think that was all Armani. It was fly.

How about you?

Um, Menace II Society.

Damn! Yeah.

Wow!

Yeah, I like that.

It's just specific like West Coast, inner city.

Like we don't even talk about that a lot.

We don't see it a lot.

And I think it's like a beautiful world

and there's so much to say in it.

You can have an interpretation of these characters

that are just vastly different

'cause you meet geniuses that are parts of gangs,

you know what I mean?

Like people who are really like intelligent.

Absolutely!

They have all these layers of thought-

Absolutely!

You wouldn't even think!

And you meet the most kind people who also will get off,

you know, if something, you know...

[A$AP Rocky chuckles]

And so I just think it's so interesting.

There's all these layers and complications

within these groups that we just don't see.

Yeah.

So I would be a part of something like that.

That's sick. What about you?

[A$AP Rocky sighs]

It'd probably have to be Juice or-

Mmm!

Or New Jack City. Mmm!

Yeah, I love that film.

What's New Jack City? I don't know that one.

It's about this guy from Harlem, played by Wesley Snipes,

named Nino Brown.

And basically it just takes place during the crack epidemic

in the 1980s in New York City

and how this guy turned into

basically a street kingpin overnight,

and, you know, the trials and tribulations of that.

Do the intro scene to Belly.

[Belly intro song by Soul II Soul plays]

♪ Belly are you ready ♪

♪ Are you ready ♪

♪ What's going on ♪

♪ What's going on ♪

1998? Yeah.

We're gonna get some dope voiceover, I have a feeling.

[all laugh]

That's a first! [all laugh]

[A$AP Rocky whistles]

Here we go.

Craziest intro.

[LaKeith] That song come in...

[A$AP Rocky sharply exhales] [intro song continues]

Soul II Soul.

Shout out Jazzie B, man.

The plexi shot with the blunt was crazy.

♪ Belly, are you ready ♪

♪ What's going on ♪

His contrast in his films are always dark.

Hype Williams, this guy's next level.

[LaKeith] This scene is iconic.

The perfect marriage of like cinematic excellence

at a time where these kinds of things weren't seen

and through a perspective you don't usually see it through.

[A$AP Rocky whistles]

But the fact that it was somebody

that their main preoccupation is music

means that there's rhythm in every single cut

and in the edit.

Which people often forget like,

the movie's made in the edit

and if you have rhythm and you know where to cut it,

it just is like, it's like music.

And that's what this is.

And also the contrast in colors.

The beautiful black light against the dark skin,

it's the light,

it's just like a beautiful piece of cinema

that's like not appreciated enough.

Belly, it's classic.

The whole thing from start to finish. It's just fire.

So many were like that in the nineties, too.

[lively, intense music plays]

[Tony Zhou] Hi, my name is Tony

and this is Every Frame A Painting.

Some filmmakers can do action, others can do comedy.

But for 40 years the master of combining them

has been Jackie Chan.

One of my favorite YouTube channels.

It's called Every Frame A Painting.

So if you wanna like break down any filmmaker's style-

Wow!

Just like, this thing will basically break down...

like, just play this one real quick.

This breaks down why Jackie Chan's action

is better than other people's action.

Hmm.

So basically you see like

Jackie Chan will like use the environment.

He'll basically do it practically,

which a lot of other people rely on like doubles and CGI.

But you'll see how Jackie will also use the environment.

So it kind of gamifies all the actions,

so it kind of like incorporates comedy and all the stuff.

But this will break down like Spielberg,

Kurosawa,

Scorsese- Wow!

...all this stuff to like all of their filmmaking styles.

So if you guys are about to work with somebody-

What's it called?

It's called Every Frame A Painting.

[Tony Zhou] So, how does Jackie create action

that is also funny?

First off, he gives himself a disadvantage.

Please! I said I don't want trouble!

Hell yeah!

[Lakeith and A$AP Rocky laugh]

[Glen] Yeah, so sick.

That was Rush Hour, right? - Yeah!

I love Rush Hour! Me too.

Yeah. You start to go like,

I love this movie. It holds up.

And you're like, why?

And it breaks it all down.

[LaKeith] Yeah. It's really cool.

I just worked with Edgar Wright

and this is how I discovered Edgar.

I watched this.

I mean, I saw like Shaun of the Dead as a kid,

but how I became to appreciate him,

I was like,

why do I like this guy's filmmaking style so much?

It was this like this video series

where he breaks everything down musically.

[A$AP Rocky] Mmm.

So there's a musicality to it.

So I had like, on The Running Man,

I had an earwig in my ear on certain scenes

and there was a metronome going and sometimes even the song.

So my blocking and stuff would be to music.

That's dope.

Wow.

And so you realize there was like intention to everything.

So I'm like-

That's smart! It's really sick.

Wait, were other actors also wearing the metronomes?

In certain scenes. Yeah, yeah.

There's like this opening montage where I'm walking

and so as people are passing me

and I'm doing certain things,

it's all to music.

That's cool!

He did it in Baby Driver,

but he's one of those guys that's like musically inspired,

but it's really cool to watch.

Like all of a sudden I was like,

Why is this guy so great?

But it breaks it all down here.

I love that.

You just gave away the sauce, though, like

now everybody about to... [everyone laughing]

You gotta gatekeep just a little bit!

Totally, totally my fault. I'm playing, I'm playing.

Oh yeah, well my entire education

is just this YouTube channel. [A$AP Rocky laughing]

Thank you guys.

You know, we was just chilling, you know-

Yeah.

...talking with each other,

going over our favorite videos.

Until next time.

[LaKeith imitates a machine gun]

[everyone laughs]

Wait, are you serious? That's our outro?

[A$AP Rocky imitating machine gun]