Speaker 1: Warning.
Speaker 2: This episode contains mild spoilers, but pretty concrete spoilers for
Speaker 2: a variety of swords and sandals movies in film history
Speaker 2: over the last fifty years, So be warned, be warned.
Speaker 1: Hello, my name is Spartacus.
Speaker 2: No, my name is Jason Gczepsio, and I am also Spotacus.
Speaker 3: I'm also Jason Cacepsio. No, I'm merthday Night, I'm merdy Knight,
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Speaker 3: In today's episode, we are exploring some of the best
Speaker 3: why how much fantastical Swords and Sandals movies in anticipation
Speaker 3: of gladiat It's two's released this Friday, and how did
Speaker 3: we pick them? Well, we're recommending the best movies to
Speaker 3: watch if you like certain very specific and hilarious moments
Speaker 3: from Gladiator.
Speaker 2: Let's get into it first, Let's talk about what we
Speaker 2: mean when we say swords and sandals. This is a
Speaker 2: film genre popularized in the middle of the twentieth century,
Speaker 2: and it encompasses movies that are often set in antiquity,
Speaker 2: that have often biblical themes or Greco Roman hystory Jeo
Speaker 2: Christian kind of basis, and they are set in the
Speaker 2: ancient world, you know, the levant to Greece to anciently.
Speaker 2: And there are various subgenres here and affect some of
Speaker 2: our picks, kind of our picks definitely, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: pushed the boundaries of the true swords and sandals mostly
Speaker 2: it's yeah, yeah, I think it's mostly swords and so
Speaker 2: and a lot of sandals. But the subgenres here are
Speaker 2: obviously fantasy movies, swords again, historical fiction, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: things like Master and Commander, gladiators and rebelling against their rulers,
Speaker 2: pirate movies, those kinds of things. Uh, they often contain
Speaker 2: elements of uh, you know, man struggle for freedom, that's
Speaker 2: basically it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, coming up against ambitious rulers.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's that's a lot of that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these epics were shot in Italy.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's very Spaghetti Weston in that way. Like lots
Speaker 3: of original like what were essentially cheap auctions made in Italy,
Speaker 3: like Cuivades or ulysses Co direct Benjamin Bava. Yeah, by
Speaker 3: the way, like claszy, crazy stuff. But yeah, Helen of
Speaker 3: Troy with Sergio Leone as uncredited second unit director, So
Speaker 3: you can see this was kind of the proto kind
Speaker 3: of wave of pre spaghetti Western.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think this was these this genre
Speaker 2: and this movement to film, you know, in Italy, I
Speaker 2: think was important for seating future talent from Italy and
Speaker 2: in countries with opportunities that they could then take to
Speaker 2: make the movies that they would then go on to
Speaker 2: be famous for Bava with his various Giallo horror movies
Speaker 2: and Leoni with his basically creating the Spaghetti Western genre
Speaker 2: whole cloth.
Speaker 1: What about the modern era?
Speaker 2: Lots of examples of this in the modern Gladiator, which
Speaker 2: is the most famously.
Speaker 3: And successfully I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's Oscar winning film, and it's the
Speaker 2: reason we're doing this episode. Gladiator from two thousand Troy.
Speaker 3: Not a good movie, no, but it was. It was
Speaker 3: an attempt to capitalize on the success of Gladiator and
Speaker 3: bring back this swords and sandals, space.
Speaker 1: And some there's some fun action there.
Speaker 2: Alexander, Oh, what about that? I Forget Don't Forget Colin.
Speaker 2: Colin Ferrell's Don't Forget Colin Farles Alexander, where.
Speaker 3: Angelina Jolie, who was only like three years older than him,
Speaker 3: played his mom famously.
Speaker 2: Very very strange. Although I will say valcam Are kind
Speaker 2: of stealing the movie three hundred of course, who could probably.
Speaker 3: The most culturally impactful release of that mid zero's era.
Speaker 3: That kind of obviously launched the career and stylistic chops
Speaker 3: of one of the most contentious but definitely successful filmmakers
Speaker 3: of his era.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: And then twenty tens Clash of the Titans and it's
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eighty.
Speaker 3: One, Yeah, eighty one. That's that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3: The one thing we didn't touch on here, and they
Speaker 3: are They are not as necessarily impactful now, but definitely
Speaker 3: when we were growing up, the Ray Harry Housen animated
Speaker 3: Clash of the.
Speaker 2: Titans, Argonauts, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Golden Fleece.
Speaker 3: Where you would have these kind of a fighting skeletons
Speaker 3: brought to life with stop motion. I think for me,
Speaker 3: those were definitely the most impactful and memorable movies, especially
Speaker 3: because in England. When I was growing up, we only
Speaker 3: had like four channels, Channel one, two, three and four
Speaker 3: literally ITV and Channel four BBC one and two, and
Speaker 3: whenever it was Christmas or Easter or Bank Holiday, they're
Speaker 3: showing those Harry House.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 2: I know that because of National Lampoon's European vacation exactly.
Speaker 3: And it's true. They were correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, we've set the stage.
Speaker 2: To this break and word from our sponsors, we will
Speaker 2: get to our picks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 1: Here's the format.
Speaker 2: We're gonna pitch these movies to you based on things
Speaker 2: from Gladiator or things that you may have liked from Gladiator.
Speaker 2: So for instance, you know, if you liked the action
Speaker 2: and Gladiator, you will like this movie. I'll start off
Speaker 2: if you liked this quote from Lucilla in Gladiator today
Speaker 2: I watched a slave become more powerful than the Emperor
Speaker 2: of Rome. Then you must watch Spartacus from nineteen sixty,
Speaker 2: an absolute classic. It's Stanley Kubrick. It's slyly subversive for
Speaker 2: a movie in nineteen sixty that deals with, you know,
Speaker 2: man's struggle from up pressers and being enslaved. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of winks and nods to then contemporary social struggles.
Speaker 1: That were going on.
Speaker 2: Here's a fun fact for you about Spartacus. This is
Speaker 2: based on the life of an actual freedom fighting gladiator
Speaker 2: took who basically sparked what was the last of the
Speaker 2: three slave rebellions in each Rome called the surviv Wars.
Speaker 2: These happened like two hundred ish years before, like you know,
Speaker 2: Augustus and all these guys. It's the first one, and
Speaker 2: then they happened like basically every fifty years until the
Speaker 2: last one, in which Spartacus broke free of his gladiator
Speaker 2: school and then just kind of rampaged across the southern
Speaker 2: Italian peninsula for two years. That's the thing that people
Speaker 2: don't dialize, yeah, when they watched this movie. That's important
Speaker 2: to think about. Spartacus was just out there for two
Speaker 2: whole years, running around freeing enslaved people and you know,
Speaker 2: looking for a way off the peninsula. Further fun fact,
Speaker 2: he was brought down by Marcus Lucinia's Crassis his army. Crassus,
Speaker 2: then known as the richest man in Rome, was later
Speaker 2: slayed by the Parthians in Syria, and like the legend
Speaker 2: is that after they killed him. The Parthians, as a
Speaker 2: mockery of his lust for wealth and his greed, melted
Speaker 2: gold and poured it down his mouth, an echo, of course,
Speaker 2: of the death of visaras Targarian in Season one of
Speaker 2: Game of Thrones.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite moments from this show.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the I Am Spartacus, which we
Speaker 2: were the I am Spartacus line, which we referenced, the
Speaker 2: iconic moment from the movie in which you know, the
Speaker 2: the victoriaious Roman legions promise their surviving gladiators that they
Speaker 2: will be mercifully dispatched if only they will point out
Speaker 2: who Spartacus is, like either his corpse or amongst those living,
Speaker 2: who are you know, sitting side by side of them,
Speaker 2: And just as Spartacus is about to rise up and
Speaker 2: say I'm Spartacus, various other gladiers saying I am sport,
Speaker 2: I am Spartan, not letting them get the satisfaction of
Speaker 2: finding him. And that is a moment that retains its
Speaker 2: like pop culture impact. The Office referenced it like there's
Speaker 2: a million references to this despite the movie coming out
Speaker 2: over half a century ago.
Speaker 3: I think, to me, the one that is most unbelievable
Speaker 3: and kind of showcases how you can put a moment
Speaker 3: in a movie and never know where it will go.
Speaker 3: In the fantastic Netflix series Sex Education, there is a
Speaker 3: episode at wonderful series does an episode where somebody shas
Speaker 3: nudes and people are mocking it, and there it's of
Speaker 3: an intimate part of somebody's body, and then it's causing
Speaker 3: a big problem in the school. And then all the
Speaker 3: girls stand up and do an I Am Spartacus saying
Speaker 3: it's their nude so that the girl won't get in
Speaker 3: trouble and so that people will stop, you know, mocking
Speaker 3: this intimate part of her body. And I remember watching
Speaker 3: that and thinking, like, Stanley Kubrick just never knew, but
Speaker 3: you know what you would Actually, you would probably have
Speaker 3: loved this, Stanley Kubrick, Actually this specific version of it,
Speaker 3: I think you would have been into it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: like the way that you could never imagine that you
Speaker 3: would have a bunch of teenage girls referencing I Am
Speaker 3: Spartacus about revenge porn. Sixty years later you're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: but that's the power of the I Am Spartacus moment
Speaker 3: and that kind of coming together of oppressed people to
Speaker 3: protect each other in the face of tyranny.
Speaker 2: You know we were talking about before we turned on
Speaker 2: the mics doing a episode about they had it coming scenes,
Speaker 2: And I'll just say the escape moment in Spartacus is
Speaker 2: one of the great things had it coming moments in film.
Speaker 1: What's your pick? What's your first pick?
Speaker 3: Okay? I love that I get to do this one.
Speaker 3: So if you like the opening battle scene and gladiator,
Speaker 3: which I do think is often forgotten about compared to
Speaker 3: the rest of the movie, is very different in tone
Speaker 3: in which the Romans squared off against the Germanic tribes,
Speaker 3: watch The Thirteenth Warrior. I was so happy when you
Speaker 3: picked this one, Jason, because this is such an enjoyable,
Speaker 3: fun movie, but forgotten and forgotten and great. It was
Speaker 3: a crushing bomb, the biggest flop of the box office
Speaker 3: year of nineteen ninety nine. The Thirteenth Warrior is a
Speaker 3: fun movie, and as Jason points out in this fantastic
Speaker 3: little note that he wrote a fantastic pedigree of cast
Speaker 3: stories by Michael Crichton, the novelist who gave us Jurassic Parks.
Speaker 1: Ever heard of It?
Speaker 3: Ever Heard of It? And director John McTiernan predator Diehard
Speaker 3: hunt for any One of all time, and the story
Speaker 3: is a kind of like a medieval tinge our Arab
Speaker 3: academic in the tenth century AD who finds himself attached
Speaker 3: to a band of Viking mercenaries who go north to
Speaker 3: fight an evil army of bear men. The film is
Speaker 3: thirty three percent on rot On Tomorrow's, which.
Speaker 1: Is really I think that's it's very unfair.
Speaker 3: Very unfair. It's actually very good and very fun and
Speaker 3: a complete riot to watch. I just actually think it
Speaker 3: was a bit ahead of its time. I think because
Speaker 3: tonally it is more akin to kind of the action
Speaker 3: adventure weird vibes of movies that would be made like
Speaker 3: ten years later rather than the late nineties.
Speaker 2: I completely agree with you. It kind of just doesn't
Speaker 2: fit anything. I see why it bombed. It's definitely the
Speaker 2: type of movie where we've talked about these type of
Speaker 2: movies the Friday night like blockbuster movies. Yes, yes, this
Speaker 2: would have excelled as a Friday night uh, you know,
Speaker 2: blockbuster movie.
Speaker 1: And it's absolute worth your time.
Speaker 2: Mc tiernan is a wonderful action director of the His
Speaker 2: camera moves in war wonderful ways. There's like this great
Speaker 2: shot of these like evil the evil army of bear men,
Speaker 2: which is a little bit of a spoiler, sorry about that,
Speaker 2: Like riding shoulder to shoulder on their like grim looking
Speaker 2: war stallions, like towards the cameras, the cameras like I guess,
Speaker 2: like on a jeeper the back of a jeep or something,
Speaker 2: and it's just like awesome, awesome battle scenes. One of
Speaker 2: the great like noble deaths in recent action history.
Speaker 3: And Antonio Bandera, who at this time was just playing
Speaker 3: so many outrageous historical characters he shouldn't have been playing,
Speaker 3: but he was doing a great job at every point.
Speaker 2: Here is my one, and I agree with you he
Speaker 2: is playing an Arab man in this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the here is the here is my one.
Speaker 2: Maybe it works, yes, yeah, the you know, the Arab
Speaker 2: conquest of Spain was complete by this time, and it
Speaker 2: was kind of like the pinnacle of as as this
Speaker 2: movie makes a lot of hay about. Yeah the tenth century, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Arabs were much more scientifically, medically advanced.
Speaker 3: And another reason I think this movie didn't do well
Speaker 3: because I don't.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great point, because you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's it's it's a lot like you know, the Kevin
Speaker 2: Costner Robin Hood.
Speaker 1: But that was like a side plot.
Speaker 2: Like this is the main character is the more advanced guy,
Speaker 2: and he's looking at these Europeans like, you guys are savages?
Speaker 1: What the fuck is going on? Good point? I think
Speaker 1: that is why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I think it is possible that like a
Speaker 2: guy from Spain could be and like any.
Speaker 3: And also, you know what else, at least they didn't
Speaker 3: cost Sean Connery.
Speaker 1: Okay, up next. If you love the bros.
Speaker 3: Being rose energy, my favorite, my favorite.
Speaker 2: Of Maximus, Juba and Hey from Gladiator just bonding over
Speaker 2: their shared trauma and learning how to how to be
Speaker 2: a team, then you're gonna love oh Rome, which aired
Speaker 2: from two thousand and five to two thousand and seven
Speaker 2: and is currently streaming on HBO and.
Speaker 3: Oh my God.
Speaker 2: In the days before Game of Thrones, folks, Little Old
Speaker 2: Rome was the most expensive show in the history of television.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, if this show hadn't been made, there
Speaker 3: would be no Game of Thrones, no question. This show
Speaker 3: is so underrated. I'm just sotterly fantastic. Like every time
Speaker 3: somebody actually takes the time to listen to our advice
Speaker 3: and sit down and watch this show. They always come
Speaker 3: back going, oh my god, how did I not know
Speaker 3: this existed? It's so so good.
Speaker 1: You will get sucked in.
Speaker 2: If you like Gladiator, and if you like the Extra
Speaker 2: Division podcast program, you'll likely like Rome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've probably heard us talk about it. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1: It costs a million zillion bucks.
Speaker 2: They built these wonderful sets to, you know, create this
Speaker 2: immersive feel that you are in ancient Romes. You watch
Speaker 2: characters move through the streets to the forum.
Speaker 1: Et cetera.
Speaker 2: Bruno Heller, the co creator of the show, talked about
Speaker 2: it being canceled after two seasons. He said this quote,
Speaker 2: I discovered halfway through writing the second season, and the
Speaker 2: show is going to end. The second was going to
Speaker 2: end with the death of Brutus, Third and fourth would
Speaker 2: be set in Egypt. Fifth was going to be the
Speaker 2: Rise of the Messiah in Palestine. But because we got
Speaker 2: the heads up that the second season would be it,
Speaker 2: I telescope the third and fourth season into the second season,
Speaker 2: which accounts for the blazing speed which which we go
Speaker 2: through history near the end. So that's true by season
Speaker 2: Season one ends on the most absurd high point.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's so so crazy.
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 2: Season two moves you through like twenty five years of
Speaker 2: Roman history and civil war in ten episod that said,
Speaker 2: and basically it ends with the rise of Augustus to emperor.
Speaker 1: That said, well worth your time.
Speaker 3: Casting in that is still to this day some of
Speaker 3: the best TV casting. I also think it established the
Speaker 3: notion of almost like a crossover between British historical fiction TV,
Speaker 3: like you know The Tudors, which was really big at
Speaker 3: this time too. That's a great point where it's this
Speaker 3: kind of like conversational chamber drama, a little bit scandalous,
Speaker 3: a little bit interpersonal, mixed with the huge Spartacus esque
Speaker 3: set pieces and incredible and that obviously became the pre
Speaker 3: cast to Game of Thrones. But this was definitely like,
Speaker 3: my mum loves historical fiction, she loved The Tudors, and
Speaker 3: I got her a box set of this and this
Speaker 3: was definitely one of those shows where I don't think
Speaker 3: she thought she was gonna like it, but it ended
Speaker 3: up becoming a fave.
Speaker 2: To your point, I believe that Bruno Heller was the
Speaker 2: producer of a series of of BBC programs that were
Speaker 2: like historical, uh dramatic reenactments of various moments throughout and
Speaker 2: he has Roman history and then they basically just turned
Speaker 2: that into this HBO show. And those reenactments and I
Speaker 2: forget which with the name of them are, but they
Speaker 2: cover various things, including like the Gracchis brothers and other
Speaker 2: moments ancient Roman history are really cool too. You can
Speaker 2: watch those on on YouTube probably. But to your point
Speaker 2: about the casting, I mean in Dera varba is niobi.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love her.
Speaker 2: Kevin McKidd who as Lucius Verinus, you know him from
Speaker 2: Gray's of Anatomy and many other things. The late and
Speaker 2: wonderful Ray Stevenson as Titus.
Speaker 3: Vernon maybe one of the best time.
Speaker 1: He's just truly wonderful. The always nude, full frontal nude.
Speaker 1: James Purfoy.
Speaker 3: I love him. I love so much this guys.
Speaker 1: Loves to show the meat in every role.
Speaker 3: He is such a blessing. And guys, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: you there's a James Perfoy show that you may be
Speaker 3: never seen. It's not in the context of this. If
Speaker 3: this is also only the first James Perfoy is gonna
Speaker 3: show up again, just in this episode in this list,
Speaker 3: but I will say it's off it's off topic, but
Speaker 3: go watch it. I'm not gonna tell you anything about it.
Speaker 3: There is a Kevin Bacon James Perfoy show called The Following,
Speaker 3: and you will watch the whole show in like twenty
Speaker 3: four hours. Everyone has ever said it again, nude in it?
Speaker 3: You know what? There are many near nude scenes. I
Speaker 3: believe it was actually I believe it was not like
Speaker 3: an HBO production and was instead a like broadcast TV production.
Speaker 3: But still he does get to be sexy and evil,
Speaker 3: which is what he loves to do most.
Speaker 2: James Perfoy is the villain in the recent adaptation Netflix
Speaker 2: adptation of Ultra Carbon Hyper Violent UH Future dystopian story
Speaker 2: and guess what, James before gets nude in it.
Speaker 1: I think he's just gonna get nude and everything.
Speaker 3: He's like, I can do it, baby. It's like it's
Speaker 3: like you know what us Love's James buffact is full
Speaker 3: frontal and the beautiful, very tall six foot lee pace.
Speaker 3: You know, he he doesn't wow, you know what. You know,
Speaker 3: that's just the Internet. You know, that's just the internet.
Speaker 2: Other wonderful folks in this Rome television program Kuren Hines,
Speaker 2: who's gone by to do a million things and to
Speaker 2: Bias Menzies as brutus, like, it's just great. If you
Speaker 2: haven't watched it, you're in.
Speaker 1: For a treat. You're gonna like it.
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Speaker 1: We'll go right back by the work and we're back. Wow.
Speaker 3: And I've been blessed because the next pick is one
Speaker 3: of the best movies ever made. People might not have
Speaker 3: got it at the time, but we get it, we
Speaker 3: get it, and now you know it's a masterpiece. So
Speaker 3: if you like the fact that Gladiator is actually a
Speaker 3: sports movie, which it is, lots lots of sporting men competitionally,
Speaker 3: it's lagitmily sports movie, then you've got to watch a
Speaker 3: Night's Tale, which I do think if we're pushed, I
Speaker 3: think this is pushing swords and sandals. We are more
Speaker 3: into that medieval space. But it's but they are. There
Speaker 3: are both swords and sandals, So I think we're doing it.
Speaker 3: We're saying it's it, and it is. So this movie
Speaker 3: is so great. Summer two thousand and one, very much
Speaker 3: in the era of like a post kind of you know,
Speaker 3: she's all that like the teen movie Craze Ten Things
Speaker 3: I Hate About You, and we get Heath Ledgers William
Speaker 3: who's a peasant pretending to be a knight, and then
Speaker 3: you think, oh, well, you know he's hunky. I love
Speaker 3: Heath Ledger. I'll watch it for that. No, you're gonna
Speaker 3: stay because you have Paul Bethany Stealings as Jeffrey Chaucer.
Speaker 1: A gambling addicted Jeffrey Chaucer.
Speaker 3: Who's like a crew as crude and crazy as you
Speaker 3: would think. The man who were at the Canterbury Tales
Speaker 3: was Mark Addie Game of Throne Zone Bobby b. We
Speaker 3: also have Alan Tudick.
Speaker 1: Doing we Gotta talk about This.
Speaker 3: One of the worst English accents of all time, which
Speaker 3: I think was the point, because this is a man
Speaker 3: who can do a great accent. I think he was
Speaker 3: doing it for fun. Laura Fraser from Breaking Bad and
Speaker 3: my own personal very seminal teen crush, Shannon Sosserman, who
Speaker 3: she's so underrated, her in this and her in Forty
Speaker 3: Days of Night, The Really Weird Forty Days and Forty Nights,
Speaker 3: The Really Weird Celibacy, Josh hartnet teen Romance. I don't
Speaker 3: know what that was about, but she was very hot
Speaker 3: in that and actor and former drummer in the La
Speaker 3: band Warpaint, and also one of my favorites who were
Speaker 3: about to bring up who is kind of on that
Speaker 3: Perfoy vibe. They're always evil looking rufus Sewell, who's been
Speaker 3: in like every kind of movie looking evil.
Speaker 1: This is like, he's just got an evil look.
Speaker 3: He's just got an evil vibe. He just loves to
Speaker 3: be vibing and being a little bit evil, and he's
Speaker 3: always in a great B movie. This is so funny
Speaker 3: because if you were really like, what is this movie about,
Speaker 3: you'd be like, Okay, it's a historical jousting drama that's
Speaker 3: also a comedy that is also an achronistic, like musical right,
Speaker 3: because they use contemporaneous They use contemporaneous music something like
Speaker 3: the movie opens with them singing like we will rock.
Speaker 1: You, so you stadium rock they throughout this movie.
Speaker 3: The costuming in this movie is fantastic, which I think
Speaker 3: you will appreciate if you enjoyed Gladiator. It is definitely
Speaker 3: more of that anachronistic style, like they're wearing clothes that
Speaker 3: are a little bit more fashion to the day. But
Speaker 3: I do think that the the sports nature of it,
Speaker 3: the interesting way that they bring jousting to life. The
Speaker 3: core intrigue is very gladiaty. Who is gonna get married to? Who?
Speaker 3: The Can you be a peasant and rise to your station?
Speaker 3: It's very similar to Gladiator. This is just such a
Speaker 3: fun movie. Every time I'm like some I'm just like
Speaker 3: check it out again, guys. This is like a delightful watch.
Speaker 1: It's so true.
Speaker 2: One of the things I thought while rewatching this was
Speaker 2: one how everything on TV looks better than this, Like
Speaker 2: this looks like if you were to throw this on
Speaker 2: now you your immediate reaction maybe that this looks like
Speaker 2: a Nickelodeon movie from c.
Speaker 1: W or a.
Speaker 2: Disney Channel movie. That said, the writing is so good
Speaker 2: and so witty, and all of these very talented actors
Speaker 2: are just going forward in wonderful ways, like ye Bettany is.
Speaker 1: Jeff Chaucer absolutely.
Speaker 2: Steals scenes because he gets to have these monologues in
Speaker 2: which he's like pumping up William and William's ability as
Speaker 2: a knight. William is pretending to be this night from
Speaker 2: like somewhere in Germany, and all of the characters have
Speaker 2: these like little scenes like that mark Addy has these
Speaker 2: wonderful moments where he's like he's leading high with his
Speaker 2: coaching William through stuff like oh, you know, if you
Speaker 2: turn your shoulder at the last moment and you'll be
Speaker 2: able to do this. Laura Frasier is wonderful as like
Speaker 2: this female armorer who's not respected in the world of armors.
Speaker 2: Just a great movie and way better than you think
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: Just are looking at a still from this movie.
Speaker 3: I think another thing that makes it really enjoyable and
Speaker 3: a reason why I think people will like it if
Speaker 3: they enjoy Gladia, is it has a similar kind of
Speaker 3: framing of like, oh, well, this is a fictional character
Speaker 3: meeting real historical people. Like it's the name is taken
Speaker 3: from The Knight's Tale from Chace as Canterbury Tales. They
Speaker 3: you know, James Perfuy is in it, as Edward the
Speaker 3: Black Prince. Obviously Chaucer is in it.
Speaker 1: Does not get nude in this On.
Speaker 3: To Our Hopes and Dreams because it's pg. Thirteen, But
Speaker 3: like it has that fun nature of like, well, what
Speaker 3: if I was just in this time and I could
Speaker 3: meet some famous people, you know, but not in that
Speaker 3: over the overwhelming forest Gump he did everything that was
Speaker 3: ever important in history, way more in that kind of
Speaker 3: If you're into the Canterby Tales, if you ever had
Speaker 3: to study it, if you're somebody who likes British history,
Speaker 3: you'll likely catch some fun historical nods. I just I
Speaker 3: really love this movie. I feel like I didn't even
Speaker 3: love it that much when it came out, but now
Speaker 3: I'm like, I am a big proponent of this movie.
Speaker 3: So I'm very glad, and you're a big proponent of
Speaker 3: the next movie.
Speaker 2: Oh, I am specific Kingdom. If if you liked the
Speaker 2: Will They Won't They? Between Maximus?
Speaker 3: Who do that?
Speaker 2: And and you like that, you know, kind of buried
Speaker 2: in a action epic, then you will love Kingdom of Heaven.
Speaker 2: The director's cut, Ridley Scott Director's Cut. Let's take you
Speaker 2: back to the post nine to eleven aughts, in which
Speaker 2: far and entertainment would struggle in trying to make sense
Speaker 2: of the era that it found itself in in which
Speaker 2: Islamic extremists apparently had a.
Speaker 1: Beef with America.
Speaker 2: You got always know why you got all these movies
Speaker 2: trying to unpack that, and the result was movies like
Speaker 2: the George Clooney vehicle Siriana, which is this very naughty,
Speaker 2: complex kind of bad film that has interesting elements to
Speaker 2: it and will we be feeling depressed? You have an
Speaker 2: absolute like propagandistic movie like The Kingdom that says, so,
Speaker 2: you know, if only we could all join forces, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, the Islamic world and uh and US imperialists
Speaker 2: side by side could take care of this problem. Bad
Speaker 2: movie with several good shootouts. And then you've got a
Speaker 2: movie like Kingdom of Heaven that tried that is Ridley
Speaker 2: Scott basically saying, let's go back to the beginning.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go let's go back to the Crusades and
Speaker 2: see where this problem started. Now, of those movies I
Speaker 2: just mentioned, only one is worth your time, and it's
Speaker 2: Kingdom of Heaven. And only one version of that movie
Speaker 2: is worth your time is the director's cut. It's just
Speaker 2: a fantastic, uh action set piece, historical drama. You have
Speaker 2: Edward Norton in one of his most underrated roles as
Speaker 2: the leper King of Jerusalem. And then you have two
Speaker 2: people who should have been stars, Rosie.
Speaker 3: Oh, let's talk about it, because this was we actually
Speaker 3: did it. We started recording maybe half an hour later
Speaker 3: that we were supposed to because we were, yeah, being
Speaker 3: about the potential of these stars.
Speaker 1: First will be Eva Green, Well, we'll mention her first
Speaker 1: because we can move all.
Speaker 3: You know, I've seen The Dreamers. I know that movie
Speaker 3: was I yes, she should they made her a bone girl.
Speaker 3: They killed her. She's a bonde girl, but like she
Speaker 3: should have been bigger, she should have been having and
Speaker 3: she had many missed opportunities, the Missus Pereguin's Home for
Speaker 3: Odd Children, that was obviously meant to be a franchise
Speaker 3: for her. She just never got the role she was
Speaker 3: supposed to. And I'm a huge stan I'll watch Jenna
Speaker 3: think she's in, but she still hasn't had that breakout
Speaker 3: moment and it was definitely supposed to be post this.
Speaker 1: Next is Wow Orlando Bloom.
Speaker 2: Now here is I unveiled my my hair dependency theory.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about it to.
Speaker 1: The production team this weekend.
Speaker 2: And here's my theory on what went wrong with Orlando
Speaker 2: Bloom's career. Not that he's not had a nice career.
Speaker 3: He's married Katy Perry, so he's a great friend.
Speaker 2: So very clearly after Lord of the Rings, the guy
Speaker 2: that everybody was betting on to be the star coming
Speaker 2: out of Lord of the Rings was Orlando Bloom.
Speaker 3: Now, the teens loved him.
Speaker 2: The teams loved him. Unfortunately, I think Orlando Bloom made
Speaker 2: one key mistake, and that is he kept taking notable
Speaker 2: roles in which he had to have his hair long.
Speaker 2: Of course, Lord of the Rings you get three movies
Speaker 2: in which, as Legolis, he's got that beautiful long flowing locks.
Speaker 2: He then follows that up with Pirates of the Caribbean,
Speaker 2: in which he's got to have the long flowing locks.
Speaker 1: Then comes Troy, a.
Speaker 3: Movie with long flowing locks.
Speaker 2: And then uh, you know, very sadly comes this movie
Speaker 2: Kingdom of Heaven, long flowing locks. Not to mention the
Speaker 2: various Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, long flowing locks, and
Speaker 2: what happened?
Speaker 1: What happened to Orlando Bloom.
Speaker 2: We reached a point where like Tom Selleck, like a
Speaker 2: clean shaven Tom Selleck or a clean shaven Sam Elliott,
Speaker 2: nobody wants to see it. We only want to see
Speaker 2: Orlando Bloom with long hair. And it continues he deals
Speaker 2: with to this day blowing hair.
Speaker 3: It really is, you know what we need? I think
Speaker 3: for Lana Bloom to get his you know, respect, to
Speaker 3: get his chops, to get recognized, that he to maybe
Speaker 3: let him know he has the juice. He's going to
Speaker 3: do like an Ariasta movie or something. I feel like
Speaker 3: he's got to be like he's going to short hair,
Speaker 3: but Pattenson route and do like a good time but
Speaker 3: with a shaved head.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you know, I forgot one. I forgot
Speaker 2: in this whole run twenty eleven's the Three Musketeers.
Speaker 3: Long flowing locks locks.
Speaker 2: I just think, you know, when you look at Robert
Speaker 2: Pattinson is somebody who I think he did this significently.
Speaker 2: Trap trapped by Brad pitt also who showed up in
Speaker 2: Film and Louise with the with the wonderful like you know,
Speaker 2: abs and hair, Legends of the Fall, grew it all out,
Speaker 2: then shaved it for you know, seven switched it.
Speaker 3: He had a different look. Even Leonardo DiCaprio, you know,
Speaker 3: because he is he was somebody who had the He
Speaker 3: had the curtains right, and that was like, you've got
Speaker 3: to have them. He has it in Romeo and Juliet,
Speaker 3: he has it in Titanic, but then he does Man
Speaker 3: in the Iron mask, and he has a long flowing
Speaker 3: locks wig, but his other character's short hair, and suddenly
Speaker 3: he's mixed out. He's not stuck anymore smart the Curtains lifestyle.
Speaker 3: I do believe the Orlando Bloom has been hampered by
Speaker 3: his long flowing locks. And I say this because I
Speaker 3: am a Tom Selik Stan I love magnum p I.
Speaker 3: But you're right. Nobody's nobody wants and nobody wanted to
Speaker 3: see Indiana Jones with a mustache.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted to see that. And he was trapped man.
Speaker 2: Sadly, Selik was, could not, you know, do anything. The
Speaker 2: only like quickly down Under is like an Australian Western
Speaker 2: where he's able to have the mustache is like the
Speaker 2: only hey he could make.
Speaker 3: It's like Chicago Fire where he can.
Speaker 1: He looks years of twenty years of blue Bloods.
Speaker 3: Because cops can have mustaches, Jason, And guess what we know,
Speaker 3: still rocking that thing, still rocking it, baby. And you
Speaker 3: know what, the aunties, the grannies, they still love him.
Speaker 3: They do maybe and maybe in the future Orlando Bloom
Speaker 3: will be on a long time procedural with long flowing locks,
Speaker 3: and we'll be eating our words. Because he'll be getting
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars an episode.
Speaker 2: Look at the stills. If you haven't seen the movie
Speaker 2: Grand Turismo, Oh twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Look at based on a true story.
Speaker 1: Look at Orlando Bloom in that movie with the with
Speaker 1: the below the ears hair that clearly they were like,
Speaker 1: he listen, Orlando, don't do that locks.
Speaker 3: Don't you dare show.
Speaker 2: Up as his film without your co star the long
Speaker 2: flowing line looks.
Speaker 3: They were like even in this driving movie Grand Tarismo
Speaker 3: based on a true story, which is a full and
Speaker 3: me and my friends were assessed with the fact that
Speaker 3: was the full title from a real story based on
Speaker 3: a guy who was a videot professional video gamer who
Speaker 3: then got to race in real racing. Unbelievably strange turn
Speaker 3: of events to make that your official Grand Tarismo movie.
Speaker 3: But yes, Orlana Bloom was there with his long flowing locks.
Speaker 2: He could have been a star. If the only cut
Speaker 2: his hair cut off that hair.
Speaker 3: He could have better stuff. Yeah. Maybe when the new
Speaker 3: Peter Jackson movies come, maybe he's gonna be brought brackets
Speaker 3: legal us. He's looking youngster. They maybe they're gonna put
Speaker 3: him back in those long flowing locks wigs and it
Speaker 3: will will be in our words next Okay, So this
Speaker 3: one is very close to my heart because I am
Speaker 3: a big fan of this director. If you liked the
Speaker 3: overstylized cinematography and like beautiful theatricality of like the rose
Speaker 3: petals falling in the final battle, which always kind of
Speaker 3: takes my breath away because it's very unrealistic and just fantastic.
Speaker 3: And from what we've heard about Gladiator too is continued
Speaker 3: over in the new movie, So very excited for that.
Speaker 3: You got to check out Immortal by Tarsem Singh. Now,
Speaker 3: this is definitely a Vibes movie because Tarsem is a
Speaker 3: Vibes director, after his two thousand horror classic The Cell
Speaker 3: starring Jennifer Lopez and his two thousand and six masterpiece
Speaker 3: The Fall, which I have to say is currently in
Speaker 3: theaters for the first time in like twenty years. So
Speaker 3: just go and see it. You don't need to know
Speaker 3: what it's about. It's got Lee pace in it. It's
Speaker 3: one of the best movies ever made. Tarsem then was
Speaker 3: like successful enough to kind of go for Hollywood with
Speaker 3: a high budget fantasy take on Grecian Roman mythology. It
Speaker 3: has like an unbelievably stacked cast, so you know that
Speaker 3: they thought that this was going to be super popular.
Speaker 3: Henry Carvill, Luke Evans, one of my favorites, John Hurt,
Speaker 3: Kellen Lutz, FRIEDA. Pinto, and Mickey Watt. Also Stephen Dorf,
Speaker 3: who look, you might be like, oh Stephendorf, but that
Speaker 3: man was in Blade, which really launched the MCU, so
Speaker 3: he always gets an extra shout out for me. They
Speaker 3: did Short Steve Short, King Loves Steven. This movie is
Speaker 3: not Sing's masterpiece by any realm of experience, because his
Speaker 3: other films have so much more freedom and strangeness. But
Speaker 3: if you like vibe visuals and you just want to
Speaker 3: like watch a movie where you're gonna see unexpectedly beautiful,
Speaker 3: strange cinematography and unbelievable use of color, fantastic production, besignd,
Speaker 3: this is the movie to watch in this realm.
Speaker 2: When I think of Tarzan Sing, I think, of course,
Speaker 2: those extremely trippy, melty, unforgettable visuals, and I also think
Speaker 2: of like the color palette, which is yeah, is it
Speaker 2: feels like this is obviously going to be an oversavment
Speaker 2: what I'm about to say, But it feels like you're
Speaker 2: looking at a epic painting. The colors are where the
Speaker 2: colors are so saturated and kind of on the darker
Speaker 2: side of the luminescence.
Speaker 1: The blacks are so black.
Speaker 2: And everything feels there's a depth to it, but it
Speaker 2: feels like you're watching something in two D. You're watching
Speaker 2: flat action like a painting. I just love the way
Speaker 2: his films.
Speaker 3: Look in The Fall, which is at least partially Swords
Speaker 3: and Sandals inspired, so I would say we can. But
Speaker 3: in that I mean the joke used to be that
Speaker 3: if you were lucky enough to have a copy of
Speaker 3: the DVD, which was out of print for many many
Speaker 3: years but is now streaming on movie and I'm sure
Speaker 3: with a new four K restoration there will be a
Speaker 3: physical release, you could pause it at any moment and
Speaker 3: it looked like you were watching a paint. You were
Speaker 3: looking at a painting. Like his work on his color work,
Speaker 3: his cinematography. He is truly I think a master, and
Speaker 3: Immortals is like a very interesting space of what happens
Speaker 3: when you take someone like that and you put them
Speaker 3: in the Hollywood system rather than just letting them kind
Speaker 3: of fight it out on their own, but yeah, great
Speaker 3: weird addition and definitely I think a very fun to
Speaker 3: see an entry to the swords and sandals genre, which
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Jason, what are the other underrated
Speaker 3: or notable swords and sandals movies that we didn't hit
Speaker 3: on here because they didn't fit into our kind of
Speaker 3: hilarious way of putting this together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if if you're listening to this, you're
Speaker 2: you're you might be saying, hey, what about this movie?
Speaker 2: First of all, I think we wanted to pick movies
Speaker 2: that maybe maybe you haven't seen. Maybe you haven't seen
Speaker 2: this movie, like why didn't we talk about three hundred?
Speaker 1: Three hundred was a massive hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and change the belief for a lot of people,
Speaker 3: and you've changed the game.
Speaker 2: You've probably seen it. I will say that I kind
Speaker 2: of like three hundred except for the the the the bad,
Speaker 2: like racial politics of this movie, where like all the
Speaker 2: good guys are white and all the bad guys are brown.
Speaker 3: Not realistic, but you know what, g butts, we love him.
Speaker 3: And also as well, it's very homo erotic, so that's
Speaker 3: like it's not a mean is it's not amazing.
Speaker 2: The most homo erotic action movie that has been released
Speaker 2: in the last twenty years.
Speaker 3: To me, I'm like, I'm not I'm not a three hundred.
Speaker 3: I'm not three hundred super fan. But if somebody is like,
Speaker 3: let's watch three hundred, I'll be like, I can look
Speaker 3: through the problematic aspects because it's Gerald Butler and it's
Speaker 3: homo erotic, which to me is to.
Speaker 2: This guys getting greased up and like doing it up,
Speaker 2: like do it like crunches all the time.
Speaker 3: The way that it avoids the realities of Spartan men
Speaker 3: being gay, which is like a very obvious historical thing
Speaker 3: that's been you know, looked at for many hundreds of
Speaker 3: years and thousands of years in history, it makes it
Speaker 3: more gay, which is like repression, and the homo eroticism
Speaker 3: is there. So you know what, we didn't talk about it,
Speaker 3: but that's because you've already seen it and it was
Speaker 3: a huge success and it launched that exit his career,
Speaker 3: so good for him.
Speaker 2: The same with Braveheart, which is directed which is a
Speaker 2: I think a really good movie that you've probably seen
Speaker 2: that's direct by a person that is terrible Style Gibson
Speaker 2: and starring a person's terrible and you've seen the movie
Speaker 2: probably which contains some of I think the greatest medieval
Speaker 2: action scenes that you'll ever see in a movie directed
Speaker 2: by a terrible person. Yeah, why didn't you talk about
Speaker 2: ben her Good?
Speaker 1: This is a notable one. Why are we talking?
Speaker 2: I've just never been whether it's the the more recent
Speaker 2: remake or the classic original, which I think is from
Speaker 2: sixty or fifty nine or something starring Charlton Heston.
Speaker 1: It's just too overtly.
Speaker 3: Jesusy for me, like very religi, big religious overtones in
Speaker 3: that movie, and.
Speaker 2: I've never been The chariot scenes are great, but like,
Speaker 2: I've never been a ben her guy.
Speaker 3: I also feel like, if you're our age like it was,
Speaker 3: ben HAIs one of those oversaturated movies that they always
Speaker 3: tell you to watch, that like if it's a faster times,
Speaker 3: always on a time that if you film, they're like,
Speaker 3: you gotta watch it. Action's great, True, but you guys
Speaker 3: have already had about it. You already knew about it.
Speaker 3: That's why we're out here recommending the Weirdow choices.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you pick if okay, okay, Rosie and Jason
Speaker 2: Weirdo picks, then why didn't you pick the Channing Tatum
Speaker 2: vehicle from twenty eleven, The Eagle.
Speaker 3: This is a great question. I will say that's a
Speaker 3: good movie. Actually did this one almost made the list,
Speaker 3: So Jason List talk about The Eagle momentarily.
Speaker 2: Twenty eleven The Eagle. Channing Tatum is a Roman centurion
Speaker 2: posted on Hadrian's Wall at the edge of the empire.
Speaker 1: It's at the border of you.
Speaker 2: Know, England and Scotland, although those nations did not exist
Speaker 2: at the time, and he's having a deal with this
Speaker 2: influx of Pictish warriors who have stolen his eagle and ambushed.
Speaker 2: This meant and I'll say this, Janitatum. When I saw
Speaker 2: this movie in twenty eleven when it came out, surprised
Speaker 2: me with this movie because I was like.
Speaker 3: Oh, Chanitatum, he's like a good acta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like his accent is passable, his acting is really
Speaker 2: good and this the action is wonderful.
Speaker 1: This is a good movie.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry he didn't make the list, but we
Speaker 2: liked the other ones better for it.
Speaker 1: But that's a good movie. The Eagle.
Speaker 3: Incredible cast to Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Jamie Strong, Tier
Speaker 3: Ryan who I love who is in this incredible movie
Speaker 3: called The prophet also in Madam Ware Hilariously that was
Speaker 3: a strange choice for him, But yeah, this is a
Speaker 3: fantastic cast, also very practical movie. That's actually why I
Speaker 3: went to see it, because there's this kind of march
Speaker 3: that they do. They had lots and lots of extras,
Speaker 3: and yeah, this is a weirder choice. Also what was
Speaker 3: going on in twenty eleven that they had this and
Speaker 3: immortals at the same time. That's very very deep impact
Speaker 3: armageddon of them.
Speaker 2: Them And then you might say, okay, what about The
Speaker 2: King twenty nineteen for Netflix, story thing.
Speaker 3: From Pattinson and Timmy Chamalay.
Speaker 1: Into wonderful roles by.
Speaker 3: The Australia some weird stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the hardcore Australian director David Michaude, who I
Speaker 2: love Ben Mendelsson seemingly in every single DA showed movie
Speaker 2: that said, Uh, I like The King. I think that Chalomey.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a schalome fan. I think he's good.
Speaker 2: I liked him in almost everything he's done, whether or
Speaker 2: not I like the movie, and I think that to
Speaker 2: your point, Pattinson as the French King, the French Prince,
Speaker 2: I forget. Yeah, he's the French air to the throne
Speaker 2: whatever the case is so good and weird in this,
Speaker 2: Like there's various points where the French king and Chalomey
Speaker 2: like have these like head to head like but like
Speaker 2: meetings where they talk about it you surrender me no,
Speaker 2: you know, And it's just Patterson is so good as
Speaker 2: the bad guy in this.
Speaker 1: I can't recommend that highly enough. You know.
Speaker 3: It's mostly a political intrigue movie, yes, or like a
Speaker 3: royal intrigue movie. So I think that was why it
Speaker 3: didn't fully make it.
Speaker 2: Also, I will say, and we would, we would only
Speaker 2: we could only put like one medieval thing in there.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I want to say, what it speaking of hair,
Speaker 3: what are the over unders on Timmy shallow May's future
Speaker 3: because he does always have the curly locks, and in
Speaker 3: the new movie that he's in where he is playing
Speaker 3: Bob Dylan, I feel like they were like, he's gotta
Speaker 3: have curly locks, so let's have him play Bob Dylan.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, is he gonna be trapped in the
Speaker 3: curly locks? Even Willy Wonka is Willy want had curly locks? Like,
Speaker 3: is he gonna keep them or is he gonna veer
Speaker 3: to what Is he gonna get like a shaved head?
Speaker 3: Is he gonna try and break out of curly locks?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 2: I think it's a good note. And I'll say this,
Speaker 2: Chalmy's got to have a beard in a movie soon.
Speaker 3: Can he grow a bit?
Speaker 1: We got to see we can we can paste something.
Speaker 2: Little spirit gum on there. But I think we need
Speaker 2: that big. I do think that we're we're almost at
Speaker 2: like full saturation of Timmy face card like in popular culture.
Speaker 2: I think to your point, the hair is the hair
Speaker 2: in the face together. We might need to patent sit
Speaker 2: it up, switch it up a little bit, because I
Speaker 2: do think we might be getting there with Tim who again,
Speaker 2: I am a fan.
Speaker 3: Of me too, big fan.
Speaker 2: It was great And since you mentioned the Bob Dylan thing,
Speaker 2: that looks fucking bad.
Speaker 1: I don't know that.
Speaker 2: Trailer felt like SNL like one of his appearances on SNL.
Speaker 1: I was a little concerned me too.
Speaker 3: I'm shocked because I feel like Bob Dylan, Timothy shallow May.
Speaker 3: I feel like that feels like it should be a
Speaker 3: kind of Indie Dolling Can movie. But I will also say, guys,
Speaker 3: Bob Dylan, we've had the perennial Bob Dylan like biopic
Speaker 3: already done with like ten of the most famous actors
Speaker 3: of all time. It was a game change are in
Speaker 3: the way movies were made. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: need to do it again, but you know what, good
Speaker 3: luck to me because I think you're always making me laugh.
Speaker 3: I love that you showed up to your own lookalike competition.
Speaker 3: You got good humor and honestly, like, I'm sure you'll
Speaker 3: be fine.
Speaker 2: I wish, I wish, I wish you, I wish you
Speaker 2: the best, and I wish our audience the best. As
Speaker 2: as we wrap up this culmination of Sword and Sandel's
Speaker 2: movie recommendations that have been inspired by Gladiator, on the
Speaker 2: next episode of x ray Vision, we're diving into Gladiator two.
Speaker 1: Here and go, Here we go.
Speaker 3: I want to see the Sharks in the coliseum.
Speaker 2: Show me the Sharks. Wrigley Scott, you crazy man crazy.
Speaker 2: And Tuesday we're doing our Canes series final. It's already
Speaker 2: it's already over, folks. And Wednesday it's Dune Prophecy episode two.
Speaker 1: That's it for this episode. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 3: Bye.
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