Crypto "Trailer Analysis" Review

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And today I get to do something, uh, with the channel that, uh, uh, I like to do, and that's kind of combine the education with the entertainment. So 90% of this channel is about cryptocurrency, and interesting enough, uh, a movie about cryptocurrency is coming out starring Kurt Russell, uh, and, uh, many of us in the cryptocurrency space have long been awaiting something like this. Of course, we've had our concerns and fears being how, uh, our world is depicted, uh, and, uh, of course, with Hollywood movies, sometimes they have liberties that are not good for the, uh, image of you know, many areas, and cryptocurrency is in danger of being one of them. Cryptocurrencies have been depicted on television as well, and they always follow these themes of money laundering and drugs, but never talk about the human achievements of what blockchain technology could mean for our world. And so today what I'm going to attempt to do is analyze this trailer a little bit tell you some fact from fiction in the cryptocurrency space, try to separate what I see Hollywood doing with it from what is, uh, you know, what actually goes on in cryptocurrency. And, uh, we're going to, uh, see what we come up with. So I'm going to play a bit of the trailer and we'll do some analysis as it goes on.

Here to help if I can. Where did you find this kid?

Top of his class at Wharton. First-round draft pick on Wall Street.

It's uncertain to me how high these conspiracies go. You've made it impossible for a company with revenue exceeding $7 $1 billion to do business with us. They're reassigning you to Albany, New York. That's where I grew up. What's up, man? What are you doing here?

I'm gonna stop the trailer right here. And right off, it kind of starts off with this hotshot Wall Street guy. Uh, you know, it's kind of interesting because, uh, if people who watch the channel probably know about my background, I've worked for several investment banks. I've worked for venture capitalist firms, and I can tell you that this seems like a good point to start the movie from. It makes sense. There is an attraction for people in the, in the investment industry, people on Wall Street, to want to get involved in cryptocurrency because there's some similarities there. Um, and so I, I would say that that's a very realistic take on the movie, that, uh, people in those areas would grasp cryptocurrency before the average person. So they would be doing business in cryptocurrency, and you can see they're moving money. You can see where it shows the Bitcoin payments and all that stuff, right? So not a big problem with that part so far. That looks, that looks great to me in the trailer. Um, let's, uh, and it seems like, um, he's got in trouble with the boss. He's done something, uh, wrong perhaps with, with the business, with the trading, whatever the case may be. They're relocating him somewhere else, and it appears that he is going back, uh, home. That's a kind of another typical story a lot of these, uh, a lot of films go with. They kind of go from, uh, kind of this, uh, uh, story of, uh a rags-to-riches type situation where this guy, maybe he started off in a small town someplace and he went off to Wall Street, went to the best business schools, and then he comes back and, uh, he's amongst people he left behind. He was just a regular guy at some point in time, and now he's, you know, he's back to help them in some kind of way, right? People, maybe people he know, maybe people he love. So, so far it's— I, I don't have a problem with this. Let's, let's continue on.

I'm an AML officer, anti-money laundering. What brings you in today? I need to talk to the owner. You're acting like you want to find something wrong. You're acting like I'm going to. No phone number, no email, just $10 million in cryptocurrencies. I had a client who was interested in that stock. He could have found your daddy. He was offered 7 figures. When I see things like this, I get pretty worried. You must know all kinds of things back there behind the curtain. We have a serious problem here. I'm pretty sure the Russian mafia is laundering money through the Omni branch.

And here's the problem. This is the typical approach to cryptocurrency. So, you know, first what we see with him is, again, it looks like he's trying to help some people. They keep showing him in this setting with Kurt Russell, who is— something going on with his farm. And it looks like he probably knows him. He's trying to help him some kind of way. Maybe an old-time friend, maybe a relative, I'm not sure. Now I believe the lead character name is Bonap, and, um, he's, uh, I don't want to say he's unknown, but I haven't had a chance to watch any of his movies. But I'm aware of some of his movies. One is called The Signal. Uh, he was also in— he played one of the lead villains in Death Wish with Bruce Willis. Um, and, um, apparently he comes from a, uh, Hollywood family that produces movies. So maybe that helped him land a part in that. I, I don't know. He could be a great actor, right? Oh, he was also in a movie called Southpaw. I've heard people speak about a lot, so he could be a very good actor, right? I'm just not very familiar with his work. Uh, there's also— we get a scene from Alexis. I believe her name is Alexis Bledsoe, and she was a big TV model, actress person, a lot of CW. I think she got a lot of fame for— from CW movie, uh, Sorry, television shows like the Gilmore Girls. And then she went on to do some Hollywood movies like Tuck Everlasting and some other stuff. But she's in this film as well. We're still seeing the references to Bitcoin. Bitcoin keeps popping up, and then you get these obscure anonymous cryptocurrencies that are— I believe they're delivering the money back and forth from. But then there's this scene that he talks about he's an AML officer, right? Uh, anti-money laundering officer comes up, uh, and, um, you know, right away you know that it's going to go into, um, basically, uh, dealing with, uh, the money laundering, the, the, the drugs, the mobs, and a variety of things like that. It would appear that Hollywood hasn't gotten very creative yet when it comes to the cryptocurrency space about how to frame the cryptocurrency space. And that leaves a lot of people in the space to believe that, you know, there are hit pieces on cryptocurrency, that it might be a lot of propaganda being put out there on cryptocurrency. You know, in my viewpoint, I would have rather taken a more historical approach around figures in the cryptocurrency space. And I'll give you an idea of what I mean. There were movies like called "The Pirates of Silicon Valley," which kind of was about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in the early days of the internet, right? You know, it would have been just better, I think, to introduce the world to cryptocurrency with the start of Satoshi being this anonymous programmer and the evolution of it up until now with the billionaires it's made, with the companies that have been launched, what blockchain technology can do for the world, what is it, and just move along those lines, right? I think that would have been a great deal more appealing to introduce cryptocurrency as the new emerging technology that changes the world. But instead they go with these very negative tropes as usual of, you know, and I understand Hollywood movies have to be, you know, they need to be exciting because Funny thing is, the funny part of it is cryptocurrency is probably pretty boring for the most part, right? It's, you know, it's a lot of technical people who are basically working on the blockchain, working on servers, writing programs, algorithms. People who are doing a lot of research, wearing glasses, trading, just sitting there trading, it's boring, nothing happening. So in a Hollywood movie, you couldn't probably do that and expect people to be, you know, to be stand up there. So I get that they want to interject that into the movie to a degree, but what happens in these movies, they just don't balance that well, and it just becomes this cautionary tale type film for the most part, right? So that That's kind of where we're going, and that's kind of what we're seeing, uh, so far, or is getting ready to lead into, you know, many of these things we're, we're concerned about.

Hey man, you following me or something? Yes. You need to get this stuff organized and out there. I found this on the porch. Hey, I have Dad These people are dangerous. I warned you. Nobody could be prepared for whatever that was. You're a very clever boy.

So that language looked like Russian to me. And, uh, of course you see now the guns and the violence, and we're not even talking about cryptocurrency anymore, we're just talking about organized crime. So let's, let's, let's try to get into that a little bit and, uh, you know, and see what's, what's the reality of, of maybe these things happening in the cryptocurrency space, you know, because of course with the, with the film and television, you know, this stuff goes on every day. But let's talk a little bit about the reality of that. So, um, generally you see the money laundering going on with the cryptocurrency Russia. They have the poor Russians that they're always picking on. And, uh, you know, there's a lot of Russian Americans, a lot of Russians who do great things other than being part of mobs. But, uh, but apparently, uh, you know, they're just always in these movies now. Um, but you know, the reality is, uh, you know, as far as laundering money, you know, many people are realizing that cryptocurrency, a lot of it can be tracked, right? It can be tracked. It could be tracked easier than cash, much easier than cash. Not only that, but if you're moving illegal activity or illegal contraband or illegal products, or if you're moving drugs or anything like that, uh, for money for that, cryptocurrencies are also quite volatile. So unless you're Pablo Escobar, you know, and you have a profit margin out of this world, you're risking that cryptocurrency value going down tremendously by the time you attempt to exchange it for something else. And so it, at this point in time, it doesn't work that great, you know, for those type transactions, moving millions and billions of dollars. And, you know, again, of course, like I said, it could be tracked, whereas if I'm a drug dealer or I'm a mob or something, it's probably much easier for me to still use, uh, unmarked bill steal, right? Where I could just make an alley deal because, uh, and go through my network of people I generally use to do that because I, you know, you can't trace where that dollar came from, uh, in the back alley someplace like you can cryptocurrency, right? You can, you got records of that, you can track that in a variety of things. So a lot of times those things get left out of the you know, left out of the, uh, the, the, uh, the conversation about cryptocurrency as well. Uh, and so, uh, we get a lot of that in this, uh, in this film. Uh, now we also get to see— it looks like it's Luke Hemsworth in this film. Now a lot of people— I, I first got him confused. I was thinking Liam, you know, uh, maybe Chris when I saw him. So I said it was Kurt Russell. Kurt Russell was at one point part of the MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, when he played Ego, right? Ego the Living Planet in the, uh, in the, uh, um, uh, what's the, what's the great, uh, films the, that in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Oh my goodness, I'm, I'm losing it now. Uh, the Guardians of the Galaxy. That's right, Guardians of the Galaxy. He played Ego. And then I was thinking, okay, that'd be great, we have a Thor in there too, and they'll be back, you know, they'll have that 6 degrees of separation. But no, it's Luke Hemsworth. Uh, who is Luke Hemsworth? I believe he's the older brother of Chris and Liam, right? He doesn't, um, he, he, he doesn't, you know, he's not do a lot of movies like them, as big as them, but he's been acting. And so he's in this film, um, doing something. Looks like he's doing something with guns. Uh, he looks like a farm. He works on that farm, so maybe he's trying to help protect that farm from the Russian mafia. As we can see now, Kurt Russell being taken in by— it looks like this Russian. So I don't know if they got involved with the Russian— maybe they got a loan from the Russian mob. I have no idea, but, uh, that's what's happening so far.

What you want? No, let him go.

So comes out April 12th in select theaters. So, um, a lot of the, uh, people who still don't quite know what cryptocurrency is, probably gonna be millions of people see this film because Kurt Russell is going to be in it. They probably vaguely heard something about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. You know, they know enough about it to know what it, you know, have an idea of what it is. But this of course will add to their mental landscape that it's just what they thought, a scam, criminal activities involved in it. You know, if you speak the reality for me has been, as I speak to a lot of people who don't know about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, you know, I get feedback a lot that, is it a scam? Oh yeah, I heard something about it. You sure that's all right? Uh, and people are off the jump thinking it's a scam. And, and, and this type of imagery, it kind of consolidates their feelings because they're going to go watch this movie and they're going to be like, well, yeah, I— that's how I felt about it from the beginning. I was concerned about it. And, uh, um, now I have this to kind of, you know, validate it in a sense. So that's what the big concern is. Uh, whereas again, the reality of cryptocurrency is probably going to be mostly boring. Most people involved in cryptocurrency I know aren't on the run from the Russian mob. Most of them are, uh, kind of geeky and kind of nerdy and probably sit at servers and computers a long period of time. And, uh, they aren't— now, not saying that those things can't happen, right? I'm sure that, you know, we had something called the darknet and Stuff does go on where there's an element of that, but those elements, I think, overall are very, very, you know, small in the cryptocurrency space. Like, 90% of us are using centralized exchanges, you know, going through a hub that, you know, everybody knows what's going on and everybody has your data. In fact, one of our biggest exchanges being rumored that a bunch of people hacked them and were selling the data. 1, you know, across the, you know, so, um, you know, yeah, I mean, so the, the idea of cryptocurrency, uh, you know, being able to be this dark mysterious thing that this is what people use it for, uh, is, uh, very erroneous. Um, you know, I think for the most part, and, uh, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, there are many other great uses for it that our world is going to need Things like decentralized artificial intelligence that I talk about on this channel. Decentralized artificial intelligence democratizes what could be a problem if it fell in the hands of a foreign government that was not one favorable to ours, right? Decentralized AI democratize artificial intelligence using the same technology that runs cryptocurrency would stop all of this from happening, right? So, you know, again, you know, so this is a, this movie will not educate you about cryptocurrency. It will entertain you and that's fine. That's what movies do. That's what Hollywood's job is. But I hope that the people who watch this film don't try to walk away with an education about cryptocurrency. And again, I do wish that there will be a documentary film done on cryptocurrency, a really good one like we've seen done on, you know, many other technologies and spaces, ideas like the internet, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs. A film like that will serve us best at this point in time. But that's my analysis of the trailer so far. That's all I want to say about it, guys. If you like content like this, Don't forget to like and subscribe, and until next time, take care.