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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: Come. Come, that's Charlie Xy Egg.

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Speaker 3: She's cast off her brat persona and channeled the torment

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Speaker 3: of Heathcliff on the Yorkshire Moors. For her complete soundtrack

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Speaker 3: to the hotly anticipated new adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Francisca Rudkin,

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Speaker 3: our film reviewer, is here this morning.

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Speaker 2: Francisca, good morning.

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Speaker 3: You've been to Wuthering Heights, so let's have a listen.

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Speaker 4: What should you do, Heathcliff if you were rich.

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Speaker 3: And Richmond Mill.

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Speaker 4: Take a wife, A wife, my wife.

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Speaker 2: Dan Dan Dan right.

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Speaker 3: Oh. The keenly anticipated adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel Maga

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Speaker 3: Robbie Jacob A lord, my goodness.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. There's been so much hostility and angst over this

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Speaker 4: film for about a year and a half Jack, since

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Speaker 4: midst of twenty twenty four, when Emerald for Now said

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Speaker 4: this this was going to be her next film. She's

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Speaker 4: well known for Saltburn and Promising Young Women, her two

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Speaker 4: previous films. She won an Oscar for the screenplay for

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Speaker 4: Promising Young Women. She's a provocative filmmaker. She loves dealing

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Speaker 4: with quite taboo subjects. She's not afraid to be shocking.

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Speaker 4: She likes to talk about class and gender and sex

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Speaker 4: and sexual assaults and all sorts of things. And everybody

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Speaker 4: got all, I'm all very concerned about what such a

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Speaker 4: modern director might do with this classic, this sort of

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Speaker 4: gothic novel. I felt like, go, well, we've made lot

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Speaker 4: of adaptations of this book, if you'd like to watch

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Speaker 4: something a little bit more classic and faithful that those

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Speaker 4: adaptations are out there. And I was just really keen

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Speaker 4: to see what she would do. And I knew that

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Speaker 4: she would push it. She would push the boundaries because

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Speaker 4: we know that she likes to go big. We know

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Speaker 4: that she's not afraid of outrageous costumes and art direction

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Speaker 4: and cinematography. So I was really interested because I think

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Speaker 4: she's a fascinating director.

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Speaker 5: I was interested to see what she would do with

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Speaker 5: this rather than kind of getting all up well upset

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Speaker 5: and worried about them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think the most important thing to know is if

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Speaker 4: you would like a historically accurate, merchant ivory version of

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Speaker 4: Bronte's Heights, this is not the film. This film feels

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Speaker 4: to me, and Emerald has said this that this film

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Speaker 4: is her teenage version of reading the book and what

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Speaker 4: it felt like to be clearly wrapped up in this sort.

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Speaker 5: Of toxic relationship.

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Speaker 4: This to me feels like a film which is aimed

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Speaker 4: at all the young women out there who were just

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Speaker 4: loving the TV series Heated Rivalry. The book is rather sexless,

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Speaker 4: and yet there is some sort of steamy, sexy moments

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Speaker 4: in it. But actually, for Emerald, I think she's been

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Speaker 4: quite restrained when it comes to that side of things.

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Speaker 4: We you know, we know her to be quite gratuitous

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Speaker 5: That's not in it.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of heavy petting and a little bit more,

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Speaker 4: but it's not It didn't go as far as I

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Speaker 4: thought she would actually, and I wonder whether that was

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Speaker 5: I wonder whether she should have just really pushed the

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Speaker 4: It's, as I said, there's something to look at in

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Speaker 4: this film. The costumes, the art direction, it's all highly stylized,

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Speaker 4: not historically accurate, but really interesting to look at. There

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Speaker 4: is the issue, of course, with the age of our

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Speaker 4: two actors. They're not teenagers, and there's the whitewashing, which

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Speaker 4: I do think is an issue with Jacob E. Lordie

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Speaker 5: But the story.

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Speaker 4: Itself, she's very much kept it just to Kathy and

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Speaker 4: heatless love story. She doesn't really go beyond that. It

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Speaker 4: is overly long, and it lacked the emotional hit that

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Speaker 4: I think she was trying to conjure up at the end.

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Speaker 5: I hadn't look.

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Speaker 4: I think she did a very good job, and they're

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Speaker 4: not hugely likable characters. I think she did a very

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Speaker 4: good job of making them not hugely likable, and maybe

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Speaker 5: Emotional pick didn't come at the end.

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Speaker 4: But the way it was presented was I think she

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Speaker 4: So look, not a total disaster, not a total success,

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Speaker 4: an interesting adaptation I think for her for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, all right, I mean I'm open to it.

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Speaker 2: So that's mothering heights. Its showing instead of as at.

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Speaker 3: The moment, you know, I've never read I've never read

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Speaker 3: the novel, so maybe I should start there, or maybe

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Speaker 3: that'll just start. I'll then be left comparing things. So

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Speaker 3: Wuthering Heights is showing in cinemas now, so too is

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Speaker 3: Francesca's next film. This is Crime one oh one.

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Speaker 5: Late Sharon, So what are we driving?

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Speaker 4: She can go, so I'll go be the keys to it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Chevy Shavell racing green right dollar, That is a

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Speaker 2: beautiful guy.

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Speaker 5: I need to be in your line work.

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Speaker 3: Bomb starring Chris Hemsworth tell us about Crime one on one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I quite enjoyed this. This is a Steinish,

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Speaker 4: entertaining crime thriller. You're probably not going to be thinking

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Speaker 4: about it in a couple of weeks time, but I

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Speaker 4: very much enjoyed sitting in the cinema and letting this

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Speaker 4: film unfold. It had a bit of an old fashioned

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Speaker 4: finger on it. And it's it's a little bit like

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Speaker 4: a nineties Michael Man film, like Heat or something. We've

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Speaker 4: got this sort of cat and mouse chase going on

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Speaker 4: between a cop and a thief.

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Speaker 5: It's character driven.

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Speaker 4: What I really liked about it is that we do

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Speaker 4: meet this group of characters at.

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Speaker 5: The beginning of the film.

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Speaker 4: They're quite clearly defined, but we don't really know how

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Speaker 4: they all fit together, and that made it quite intriguing

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Speaker 4: and it draws you in. Chris Hemsworth, he plays Mike Davis.

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Speaker 4: He's a notorious thief. He's super cool and super groomed.

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Speaker 4: He plans everything meticulously. He works alone, he likes everything,

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Speaker 4: he likes order, He does not like to see anybody

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Speaker 4: get hurt. And he does very sort of high end theft,

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Speaker 4: sort of diamonds and diamond transfers and things like that.

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Speaker 4: And he mostly does these jobs along the one oh

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Speaker 4: one Californian Highway. He's handled by a character played by

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Speaker 4: Nick Nolty, and their relationship kind of we understand bit

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Speaker 4: more about their relationship is that film unfolds McKnulty, though

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Speaker 5: Complete opposite to Mike.

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Speaker 4: He is chaotic and out there and he comes in

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Speaker 4: to play at some point as well. Mike meets a

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Speaker 4: played by Handy Berry. She's an insurance agent who he

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Speaker 4: contacts to potentially help with the job, and she's you know,

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Speaker 4: she's there, and Matt Rufflo, he's a cop. Now, what's

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Speaker 4: really interesting about all these characters is that they're all

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Speaker 4: reassessing where they're at. They're kind of outsiders and the

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Speaker 4: jobs that they do they're being pushed out or something.

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Speaker 4: So everybody's sort of up in the air. No one

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Speaker 4: mighte know, it's all going to fold. So that's the

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Speaker 4: sort of the joy of it watching the copp try

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Speaker 4: at the same time, and it's yeah, it's just unpredictable

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so's all right.

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Speaker 3: So that's Crime one oh one that's showing in cinemas

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Speaker 3: right now, Chris Hemsworth starring, and that one. Francisca's first

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Speaker 3: film was Wuthering Heights, which is also the movies. Hey Francisca,

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Speaker 2: One is getting a sequel.

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Speaker 3: Jerry Bruckheim has confirmed that your favorite film of the

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Speaker 3: year is Are They going to I wonder if we

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Speaker 3: whether or not it's going to be called IF one two.

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Speaker 2: Do you think.

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Speaker 5: It's a bit confusing, isn't it?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well I appreciated all the technical work that went

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Speaker 2: Backhan complement, isn't it? Just like I appreciated all of the.

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Speaker 3: Technical I appreciated that they tried.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, I appreciated the craft that went into

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Speaker 5: It's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 4: But you know, if you've got IF one backing you,

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Speaker 4: and they've got the money to distributor, you know, I

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Speaker 3: No, how do you suggest that money has anything to

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Speaker 3: do with this decision?

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Speaker 1: How?

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Speaker 2: Yes it does? All right, Hey, thank you so much, Francesca.

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Speaker 3: Those films for this week, Wuthering Heights and Crime one

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Speaker 3: Maybe it's absolutely soaking at your place and you feel

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Speaker 3: got our screen time picks, including Tom Sainsbury's Small Town Scandal,

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