History Creator / AtunSheiFilms

* NobleSavage: Mostly defied in his videos on Native Americans, especially King Philip's War. While their culture is somewhat different from the white settlers', the Natives are still canny, politically-minded, and [[MirroringFactions driven by most of the same things as their rivals]]. He's also up front and candid about the severity of the violence they often inflicted on white civilians. Atun-Shei is vocally critical of what he sees as ''Film/{{The New World|2005}}'' invoking this trope through its theme of "humanity decoupling from nature," pointing out that not only were the English themselves pretty close to nature as a pre-industrial agrarian society, but that the Native peoples were every bit as much the unquestioned masters of their environment as the Europeans were of theirs.

* SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike: ''Film/Ravenous1999'' is his favorite film by his own self-admission, and the two videos he's made on it so far are basically a cumulative hour and forty minutes of this, along with a heaping helping of EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory and WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical, which he also admits he's doing to "indulge the turtleneck-wearing, Creator/{{NPR}}-listening English major who lives in [his] head with a [[LongList bloated, long-winded, high-handed, eggheaded, grandiose, snooty, ostentatious, needlessly orated]] video essay in which [he uses] words like 'dialectic', and quote[s] from books with titles like 'the sexual politics of meat'". %%[[Invoked]]

* OldShame: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but he's more or less repudiated his old CausticCritic persona, which shows up in his older film reviews (pre-2020, thereabouts). He has now pinned a disclaimer under his ''Film/GodsAndGenerals'' review saying that the video was made when his channel had a different tone and much smaller audience, linking to more up-to-date and better-articulated versions of the points he makes.

** One of his major goals is trying to get people to understand how ''differently'' people thought and perceived the world in the past -- for example, poor white Southerners who owned no slaves themselves still putting their lives on the line to defend the institution because of how vital they thought it was to a functioning society, or people afraid of witchcraft because, from their perspective, the reality of supernatural powers and events influencing the world was as obvious as the sun in the sky. This isn't done to justify or excuse said views or behavior, but instead to educate people why such things were accepted.

* ShownTheirWork: As any good student of history would do, he cites his sources to back up his points and claims in his videos. For example, in his ''Checkmate, Lincolnites!'' videos, he'll provide letters or diary entries written by important figures at the time to either prove his claims or disprove a point made by Johnny Reb.

** The one notable exception to this is ''Film/GodsAndGenerals'', which he goes out of his way to trash on a historical, political, directorial and artistic level because it is just ''that bad''. Not only does Rakich despise the transparent Lost Cause apologia and revisionism rampant throughout the film, but that it's also mind-numbingly dull and overwrought despite its constant attempts at melodrama. All 45 minutes of his review on it have nothing positive to say whatsoever.

** Generally averted in his historical movie video essays, where he'll go out of his way point out things that the film does well or services the film by way of better storytelling. In fact, a large aspect of "Fixing ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''" is rebelling against this exact type of nitpicky "[[TheThemeParkVersion This film is SO historically inaccurate!]]" discourse which has dominated discussion surrounding the film and propping up its myriad qualities, such as its great battle scenes and its simple but relatable story of a rural hero becoming a RebelLeader which fundamentally works well even if it has little basis in reality and runs on BlackAndWhiteMorality.
** The one notable exception to this is ''Film/GodsAndGenerals'', which he goes out of his way to trash on a historical, political, directorial and artistic level because it is just ''that bad''. Not only does Rakich despites the transparent Lost Cause apologia and revisionism rampant throughout the film, but that it's also mind-numbingly dull and overwrought despite its constant attempts at melodrama. All 45 minutes of his review on it have nothing positive to say whatsoever.

* NightmareFetishist: In "Fixing ''Film/TheMummy2017''", he jokingly describes a bizarre fantasy of his where [[Film/TheMummy2017 Amanet]] and [[Film/TheMummy1999 Imhotep]] get it on while half-regenerated with scarabs crawling out of them.

'''Andrew Rakich''' (born c. 1991), better known on the internet as Atun-Shei Films, is an independent filmmaker, semi-amateur historian and [=YouTuber=] who has created and hosts several recurring series on his channel, as well as making numerous documentaries on New Orleans and New England, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War King Philip's War]], and assorted folklore. He also sometimes creates video essays on historical films such as ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''.

* AmbiguouslyBi: He's made reference to himself having a girlfriend, but he's also deliberately inserted HomoeroticSubtext of himself and Brandon F., a fellow history [=YouTuber=], into videos concerning him.

* NobleConfederateSoldier: Discussed in his video on ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales'', which he believes does this trope much better than ''Film/GodsAndGenerals''. Josey's not fighting for the South or "states' rights", nor is he interested in justifying either. His beef with the Union lies solely against the Redlegs who massacred his family and killed his surrendering men.

* VillainousValour: The cruel slaver Manuel Andry is described as acting in this manner. His slaves tried to kill him in his bed armed with axes and knives, and despite being unarmed himself he fought his way past them and escaped his plantation. Then, despite being injured, he mustered a militia of 80 other planters and ambushed Deslondes' army of 500 rebelling slaves. (A later video reexamining the revolt questions this sequence of events, noting that the only witness was Andry himself and that the physical layout of the plantation leaves more than a few questions.)

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