The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe – Thug Notes Summary & Analysis — Transcript

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1. 0:13What’s good y’all?
2. 0:15This week we sip sip sippin with "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, my man.
3. 0:24Da narrator of this story got major beef with some fool named Fortunato.
4. 0:28He been burned so bad by this cat dat he ain’t bout to let it slide.
5. 0:33Dat hater has got to go.
6. 0:35Da narrator wanna get revenge, but he ain’t gonna just ghost a brutha in broad daylight.
7. 0:40So he start thinkin, “If there’s one thing I know bout dat bitch, it’s that he love to get his drink on.”
8. 0:46So he decide to use Fortunato’s mad love for wine to GIT DAT SUCKA.
9. 0:51So da narrator roll up to Fortunato while he shit-faced at a carnival.
10. 0:55Boy like, “Say dawg. I got a bottle of da cleanest wine you ever seen back at my place — might even be Amontillado.
11. 1:01If you don’t want a taste, I guess I could sip wit my boy Luchesi...”
12. 1:05“Yo hold up playboy — Luchesi don’t know Amontillado from his assh*le. Let's do this."
13. 1:10So da narrator take Fortunato to his family crypt, where he keep his stash of expensive bottles.
14. 1:15But da place all full of nitre, and Fortunato start coughin like a little ol' bitch.
15. 1:20Da narrator like, “Look if you can’t hang, we can just forget about it.”
16. 1:24But Fortunato like, “Naw bruh — I'm straight.”
17. 1:26Fool straight fiendin fo that Amontillado.
18. 1:29As they go deeper into da catacombs, da narrator make sure he keep Fortunato nice and liquored up.
19. 1:35These vaults got dead bodies from da narrator’s bloodline, AKA the Montresor fam, by the stack.
20. 1:42He start talkin bout his people's coat of arms and their hard-ass motto: “No one attacks me with impunity.”
21. 1:48Lata, Fortunato throw up a mason gang sign, but Montresor don’t recognize what da hell he doin.
22. 1:53Fortunato like, “Oh, you ain’t a mason?”
23. 1:56Montresor: “Oh fo sho, fo sho I’m a Mason.”
24. 1:57But when Montresor can’t prove he legit, he start feelin like a real scrub.
25. 2:02Eventually, they roll up on a little hole in the wall, and Montressor like,
26. 2:06“Well, there it is. Go in there and po up some Amontillado.”
27. 2:10Since Fortunato's wasted as hell by now, he ain’t even trip when Montresor chain his body to da damn wall.
28. 2:18Then brutha start layin bricks, trapping Fortunato in dat baby-sized room.
29. 2:22At first, Fortunato don’t know what da hell goin on.
30. 2:26Just as Montresor lay dat last brick, he hear da bells on Fortunato’s hat.
31. 2:31And fo fifty years after, Fortunato’s body still chillin in dem chains.
32. 2:36May he rest in peace... I guess?
33. 2:42The realest scholars be all up on this text’s nuts, sayin it’s Poe’s most perfect short story, since its strapped with irony.
34. 2:49Fo one, there’s some dramatic irony at the core of the plot:
35. 2:53Da reader know that Fortunato bout to get wrecked, but Fortunato ain’t got a clue what’s coming.
36. 2:57On top of dat, Poe slangin verbal irony like he don’t give a f**k.
37. 3:01Da name Fortunato means “da fortunate one,” and dat cat is far from lucky —
38. 3:06unless gettin tho’d and buried alive is yo thang.
39. 3:10Almost everything dat come outta Montresor’s mouth when he conversatin with Fortunato
40. 3:14got a different meaning from what he actually say.
41. 3:17Even though he want Fortunato to keep sippin his juice and cruisin deeper in to the vaults, he always saying sh*t like,
42. 3:23“Nah, bruh — let’s go back.”
43. 3:25“‘Come,’ I said, with decision, ‘we will go back; your health is precious.
44. 3:29You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy as once I was.
45. 3:34You are a man to be missed.
46. 3:36For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible...’”
47. 3:42But he know damn well dat Fortunato ain’t gonna back down, since he jonesin fo dat sweet Amontillado.
48. 3:48Even Fortunato’s stupid ass hat got irony to it.
49. 3:51Da last thing Montresor hear after he hole dat hater up is da jingle of them damn bells.
50. 3:57See, back in Poe’s day, peeps would put bells on da limbs of dead rich folk
51. 4:01so they don’t accidentally bury them alive.
52. 4:04'Cept this time, when da bells start jinglin, ain’t nobody comin to help — specially not God.
53. 4:10The last words Montresor say before he finish the wall?
54. 4:13“Yes for the love of God!”
55. 4:15But he sho as hell ain’t doin it for da love of God.
56. 4:18What he is doin it for, though, is revenge.
57. 4:20Sh*t, dat lust fo vengeance might even run through his veins.
58. 4:24I mean, da family motto is, "No one provokes me with impunity,” or in real talk:
59. 4:29"Don’t f**k wit me or it ain’t gonna be pretty."
60. 4:31Actually, da hell did Fortunato even do?
61. 4:34Montresor never give us the lowdown.
62. 4:36I mean, it gotta be something whack if he came up with such a crazy-ass plan to kill him.
63. 4:41Then again, maybe Fortunato actually didn’t do sh*t.
64. 4:45Maybe Montresor just hatin to rep them family values.
65. 4:47Check out what some scholarly hood named Thompson say:
66. 4:50“Montresor's lack of remorse, then, even after fifty years, should not be a wonder to us...
67. 4:56He has an obligation to his family; he carries it out, with relish, and savors deeply the satisfaction that success
68. 5:02in carrying out this obligation brings him. ... [W]hat he did, he is convinced, was justified.
69. 5:08He was carrying out an obligation to his family as he saw it — as he was culturally conditioned to see it.
70. 5:13Now, fifty years after the event, he can recount it with pride.”
71. 5:16All I know is dat if some fool named Montresor come trippin to yo face, just walk away, homie.
72. 5:22Cuz dem cats don’t play.
73. 5:24Yo, if you're feelin your boy Poe, then take a minute to click on this dumbass bird to be taken to my episode on "The Raven."
74. 5:30Catch ya later playas.
75. 5:33Peace!