4 Theories To Explain Those Awful YouTube Motivational Videos

1This Is All One Really Long Movie

Another pattern in Dhar Mann’s videos is that they all look the same. He re-casts the same actors over and over again and often uses areas of his company’s office building as sets. That’s why every kitchen in his movies looks like a break room, and every living room gives off the vibe of a receptionist’s area that’s trying way too hard to feel “relaxing.”

Dhar Mann

For house scenes, he definitely uses one of those homes where they shoot porn

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Mann’s obviously taking a cue from Roger Corman. With more than 500 films over 60 years, Corman would often film multiple movies simultaneously with the same cast using the same sets to get the most bang for his buck. He would even commission a script for a new movie just to have something to shoot while he had extra time left at a location. Corman’s films were low-budget, and he stretched every dollar he could. The joke around Hollywood was that Corman could negotiate the production of a film on a payphone, shoot the film in the phone booth, and finance it with the money in the change slot.

But one cue Dhar Mann didn’t take from Corman was to at least try to make each movie feel different. Watch more than one of his movies in a row, and you’ll probably see a different story take place in the same place with the same actors as before, and the storylines can tend to blur together. You’d think that guy making fun of the single mom would have more sympathy for her situation, seeing as we just saw his wife die of cancer. Okay, lady, you’re gonna mock that guy at the bar for being poor after you couldn’t hold down a babysitting gig? Get over yourself.

Dhar Mann

Definitely the same kid AND the same mom who bought Dhar Mann merch in that other vid

4 Theories To Explain Those Awful YouTube Motivational Videos
Source: Pinoy Daily News