Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome to movie Crush Many Crush a dish.
Speaker 1: I'm in the captain seat. Nol Is behind me. Is
Speaker 1: my my Steward? No Steward, huh that my first mate. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll say Kim Steward's cool. That's like a Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones thing. That's uh yeah, they're the ones who attend
Speaker 1: to the generals and of the king. Okay, I'll tell
Speaker 1: that sounds good. That sounds good. That makes me the king,
Speaker 1: though I don't want to be the king. You can
Speaker 1: be whatever you want. Shock, it's uh, it's Hollywood. How
Speaker 1: other be the Queen? Have you seen the Queen trailer?
Speaker 1: The Queen the Freddie Mercury movie? No, No, but he
Speaker 1: that guy's got an uncanny resemblance. You haven't seen the
Speaker 1: teaser yet? Are you avoiding it or didn't? Right? It
Speaker 1: was dropped yesterday, And I gotta tell you, man, I
Speaker 1: am a huge Queen fan, a Freddie Mercury like he
Speaker 1: for My money is one of the top maybe three
Speaker 1: all time greatest performers. Shuman and um Love Love Love
Speaker 1: That band and the trailer got me excited. But I
Speaker 1: just think it's gonna suck. You think it's gonna suck.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna look great and sound great, but
Speaker 1: you know, famously, Sasha Baron Cohen left the film because
Speaker 1: they weren't going to tell the real story. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: heard they were gonna leave it. We're gonna whitewash it,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna whitewash it. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: see that version. I want to see the real deal.
Speaker 1: And I think the movie even I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the movie doesn't have Freddie Mercury, and that's how
Speaker 1: the band carried on after his passing. Interesting, it makes
Speaker 1: sense to that. I mean, like I said, Rommy Malick
Speaker 1: uncanny resemblance, and I'm sure he does a fine job,
Speaker 1: but he does strike me as like he's more of
Speaker 1: a TV guy. They could probably push him around a
Speaker 1: little more, and he was. He was just stoked to
Speaker 1: play such an iconic role, and he wasn't. He looks
Speaker 1: this trailer. He looks great in it, and I know
Speaker 1: it will look great and sound great, but ultimately I
Speaker 1: think it'll be another kind of lame movie biopic. You
Speaker 1: know what, I don't care about what biopics at all. Ever,
Speaker 1: never want to see him. You don't really care about him? No, hu, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's a good one? Give me a good one? Oh well,
Speaker 1: I mean I certainly loved Walk the Line the Johnny
Speaker 1: Cash movie. Yeah, I preferred Walk Hard the Dewey Cox story.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get going. Let's get going this week
Speaker 1: with the trope time. My favorite segment is it. It's
Speaker 1: I like the mom but this is a good one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've been overdoing troupe time, but
Speaker 1: who cares? Right, So we're gonna pick up on my
Speaker 1: internet list, and then once this list is out, people,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start calling on you. But we're gonna start
Speaker 1: with the un The interrupted kiss such a trope. The
Speaker 1: music swells, they're looking to each other's eyes. Almost there,
Speaker 1: and then hey, guys, then it's saves the clock tower
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Yeah, that's right, that was That
Speaker 1: was last night. I'm sorry I watched Back to the
Speaker 1: Future last night. You're like, that happened to me last night.
Speaker 1: I gotta kiss interrupted. Yeah, that's a very famous one,
Speaker 1: obviously when she shakes that can in their but yeah,
Speaker 1: very very heavy, heavily used trope. The one in Um
Speaker 1: Infinity War is is awesome with star Lord and and
Speaker 1: go mora and then uh and then dracks Tracks has
Speaker 1: gotta eats a chip and then it cuts over to him. Man,
Speaker 1: it's good, very good moment, all right. Next one is
Speaker 1: the keys or in the visor. Have you ever known
Speaker 1: anyone that kept their car keys in the visor? Maybe
Speaker 1: like in the seventies, I don't know, really was that
Speaker 1: a thing? I don't know, man, I'm asking you. You
Speaker 1: were around the seventies, So thanks for pointing that out. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Why not. I mean, just leave me
Speaker 1: in the ignition. If you're gonna leave in the visor,
Speaker 1: it just seems like a very irresponsible thing to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's it's become such a movie thing that. Um,
Speaker 1: people when they get in the car, sometimes they're not
Speaker 1: in the visor, but you know, they're frantically get in
Speaker 1: the car and they look at the butt in the visor. First,
Speaker 1: my my thing is, why why not put him in
Speaker 1: your pocket? Why why leave him in the car? And
Speaker 1: ever ever, when when is that ever like the better
Speaker 1: solution to leave them in the car? Yeah, or hide
Speaker 1: them in the car. That is certainly not a hiding place.
Speaker 1: Put him in one of those rocks, those fake rocks.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, the funny thing is is we're
Speaker 1: also conditioned by films. If I were in a dangerous
Speaker 1: situation and I jumped in some random car, I would
Speaker 1: probably look at the visor, probably just out of sheer,
Speaker 1: you know, movie embedding movies into my brain. At the
Speaker 1: same time, like a jerk, I'll hide my key under
Speaker 1: the doormat occasionally. Well that's a trope only if it's
Speaker 1: for somebody Specifically. I wouldn't, that wouldn't be like the
Speaker 1: regular place. But if I and someone needs my key,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna show that under the doormat. Really not
Speaker 1: even the plants are pot all right, I deserve to
Speaker 1: get robbed. Key under the mant That's another good one. Truly,
Speaker 1: No one really hides their key into the match, No
Speaker 1: I I do. I'm I'm being I'm telling the truth, Chuck.
Speaker 1: That was That's a thing that I do. But I mean,
Speaker 1: nobody would do that, right, No, just a just a
Speaker 1: jerk like me. All right, here's the trope that's been
Speaker 1: troped up so many times now it has been made
Speaker 1: fun of. That's when you know you've truly troped the trope.
Speaker 1: The baby carriage in the street, My baby with with
Speaker 1: the car chase happening, like that's the opening scene of
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters too. Oh yeah, sure, big time. I think it
Speaker 1: was already a trope at that point, and they're almost
Speaker 1: making fun of it in Ghostbusters too. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't know, I should have should have done some search
Speaker 1: and found the if there are first times for these tropes,
Speaker 1: like the Origin, the O G, the O T. But
Speaker 1: of clearly in Fringe Connection, one of the great car
Speaker 1: chases of all time. Uh, there's a baby carriage and
Speaker 1: that one. And I have even a joke in here
Speaker 1: on the blog post. The Pew Research Center found that
Speaker 1: of women walking babies and a stroller had a sixty
Speaker 1: seven percent chance of narrowly missing being squashed by a
Speaker 1: car chase. It's a real pole man. I don't like
Speaker 1: those odds, my baby. And then, of course in some
Speaker 1: movies it's been either made fun of or was its speed?
Speaker 1: Were they hit the baby carriage and it turned out
Speaker 1: it was like recycling it's full of cans. It was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like a homeless ladies and she got she
Speaker 1: was mad, been collecting those cans all day. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: everyone was like, oh, thank god, it wasn't a baby,
Speaker 1: but no one was like, oh, I feel bad, we
Speaker 1: just ruined that, ladies, SERI, yeah, I know that that
Speaker 1: that that was actually a pretty clever use of that trope.
Speaker 1: And yeah, because the tensions there and then you never
Speaker 1: expected to hit, and then it hits, and then there's this, yeah,
Speaker 1: get busted. Couldn't show down. I'm trying to find it
Speaker 1: on the online. I'm typing in Runaway Baby Carriage. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm coming up short, but I'm sure. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll report back on that. That's it. I think
Speaker 1: that would be a fun thing to add to these
Speaker 1: the original trope. I agree, Um, all right, how about
Speaker 1: this telephones Emily were commented last night while we were
Speaker 1: watching something, Uh die Hard, Actually no one ever says
Speaker 1: hello and goodbye on the telephone in films. It's become
Speaker 1: such a thing. It's just a film thing. That's the
Speaker 1: way people act in movies. Uh, you just don't do it,
Speaker 1: especially goodbye. Well, actually both kind of equally, And it's
Speaker 1: just I think it's become such a thing that it
Speaker 1: would seem really odd if in the film someone picked
Speaker 1: up the phone and said hello, well, hey, how are
Speaker 1: you doing, and then had their conversation and said, okay,
Speaker 1: well i'll talk to you later then goodbye, now goodbye.
Speaker 1: You just don't do it. I mean, part of it
Speaker 1: is the economy of words for films, I think. So
Speaker 1: maybe that's why, like you don't need to say hello
Speaker 1: and goodbye in a movie to get that you're on
Speaker 1: the phone. And they always kind of tell you the
Speaker 1: screenwriter to get rid of all that superfluous shit. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little rude. Yeah you ever noticed too, there's
Speaker 1: very rarely a dial tone when people pick up the
Speaker 1: phone in movies or like the way phones work, it's
Speaker 1: sort of just a movie way right, sort of like
Speaker 1: early depictions of being on the internet. Yeah, yeah, or
Speaker 1: you know another trope actually with that dial tone is
Speaker 1: the hang up on someone like you didn't get a
Speaker 1: dial tone, that's I'm sorry, you know what, That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking, chuck, exactly, I'm on the phone. It
Speaker 1: would go, yep, that is that is not how that didn't.
Speaker 1: I know, all your kids out there you have no
Speaker 1: idea what a dialtone even is. But in the old days,
Speaker 1: when you pick up a phone, uh, you would hear
Speaker 1: a dial tone before you started dialing. They just needed
Speaker 1: an extra layer of this person definitely hung up, even
Speaker 1: though it makes absolutely. I just looked it up on
Speaker 1: on there's a video in old movies. Why the dial
Speaker 1: tone after someone hangs up? It's definitely it's on. There's
Speaker 1: a there's a site actually called movie tropes dot com
Speaker 1: that that catalogs a lot of stuff. Yeah, that's well.
Speaker 1: And while I'm on that, I just gotta pair of binoculars.
Speaker 1: And uh, Emily could not. She she can't work binoculars right.
Speaker 1: She can never get it right. And I'm telling him, like,
Speaker 1: you can. You don't put them right up, agintry, eyeball,
Speaker 1: you gotta hold them out a little bit. And we
Speaker 1: figured out the problem is that she is looking for
Speaker 1: the classic movie binocular look, which is two round uh
Speaker 1: you know, two round things joined together, and that is
Speaker 1: not how binoculars work. It becomes one, one becomes one thing.
Speaker 1: And she went really and she was like, I've never
Speaker 1: had a binocular experience that worked. Because of that, I said,
Speaker 1: because the movies. Probably she's trying to make it look
Speaker 1: like that thing in movies to signify you're looking through binoculars.
Speaker 1: That's fine. We just discovered a trope. Noll um, how
Speaker 1: about a couple of more here, we've got never turn
Speaker 1: your back on the dead guy or the bad guy.
Speaker 1: I mean that one's that's a super trope. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's been done so many times in horror movies
Speaker 1: and action films. They're never dead, They're never dead. They're
Speaker 1: never dead. Yeah, even like after that's happened a couple
Speaker 1: of times already, they're still they're probably never dead. I
Speaker 1: heard to watch it last night, as I just said, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Carl is hung from the neck by a chain,
Speaker 1: and in real time, probably ten minutes later, he's alive.
Speaker 1: He's just imbued with the power of evil keeps him going. Uh.
Speaker 1: And finally, the the kung fu fight, not always kung fu,
Speaker 1: but whenever it's one on ten, they always kind of
Speaker 1: fight one guy at a time. Every time I see
Speaker 1: a movie fight where it's like eight or nine guys
Speaker 1: against the one guy and they do like one at
Speaker 1: a time and he turns and fights the other guy,
Speaker 1: I'm always like, everybody run at him. Well, they just
Speaker 1: want to give their buddies a chance to shine chuck
Speaker 1: show off their sweet moves, and the other guys are
Speaker 1: just kind of standing there like, all right, when's it
Speaker 1: my turn? When's it my turn? No, just everyone run
Speaker 1: at him, beat up on him, and beat him the ship.
Speaker 1: That would be more efficient. It's true, all right, that's
Speaker 1: it for troupe time. It's funny that a lot of
Speaker 1: these things chuck that you say this stuff and you
Speaker 1: look at the movie and you said, why didn't they
Speaker 1: do this? I'm like I said, if they didn't do this,
Speaker 1: there'd be no scene. Everything would have ended in five minutes.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna skip this segment because we are
Speaker 1: running short on time today and I will go straight
Speaker 1: to stream this Captain fantastic. Did you see it? Loved it?
Speaker 1: I think we talked about a little bit and Emily
Speaker 1: and I might actually do a crust to judgment on
Speaker 1: this one soon, so I'm not gonna get too into
Speaker 1: it here. But uh, I feel like I picked this
Speaker 1: one because I feel like it was underseen in two
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, written and directed by the actor Matt Ross,
Speaker 1: who many of you probably know as the leader of
Speaker 1: Huli in UH Silicon Valley. He was also the creepy
Speaker 1: brother in Big Love, Yeah Yep, and UH, one of
Speaker 1: the American Psycho years ago he was in that. Um.
Speaker 1: So it turns out Matt Ross is super talented as
Speaker 1: a writer and director because he wrote this movie starring
Speaker 1: Vigo Mortenson as a father raising his children. Is his
Speaker 1: pack of kids, uh, in the woods and in the
Speaker 1: y old and teaching them, homeschooling them and teaching them
Speaker 1: to hunt and fish and live off the land and
Speaker 1: grow organic foods and farm. And they're incredibly intelligent and
Speaker 1: be communists. Uh maybe anarch gets communists. But it's just
Speaker 1: a wonderful movie, so much heart so real. I think
Speaker 1: Vigo got nominated for Best Actor. Actually, so it did
Speaker 1: get a little bit of kudos. But criminally underseeing to
Speaker 1: me and a very very touching, heartwarming and sad and
Speaker 1: and also uplifting film for sure. Yeah, I I I
Speaker 1: knew very little about it. I went in cold and
Speaker 1: it just it got me. Yeah. And it also like it.
Speaker 1: You think it's gonna do a thing. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit schmaltsey and cliche, and it doesn't do it. It
Speaker 1: really does a good job of kind of subverting your
Speaker 1: expectations and um, you come out on the other side.
Speaker 1: It sort of puts you through the ring, but you
Speaker 1: still come out with this kind of cathartic experience, but
Speaker 1: doesn't do it in like a sappy, saccharine kind of way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: totally agree, So check it out everyone. Like I said,
Speaker 1: Emily and I might do a crush to judgment on
Speaker 1: that because we recently watched it and loved it so
Speaker 1: so much. And then finally we're gonna finish up with
Speaker 1: comic cardinal five questions from you folks to us, Ben
Speaker 1: masters one of my favorite questions in a while, very
Speaker 1: succinct Streets of Fire or Eddie and the Cruisers. Do
Speaker 1: you even know what I'm talking about? All right? Ben
Speaker 1: is clearly a man of my age. These were two
Speaker 1: movies in the nineteen eighties that came out kind of
Speaker 1: near each other that really aren't very similar other than
Speaker 1: the fact that they feel similar somehow, but they really aren't.
Speaker 1: But somehow they're linked in my mind. I am just
Speaker 1: gonna straight up answer this Eddie and the Cruisers and Ben.
Speaker 1: I was such a fan of that film that I
Speaker 1: bought the record soundtrack, and I actually saw John Cafferty
Speaker 1: and the Beaver Brown ba And in concert when I
Speaker 1: was a good and they provided the music they played,
Speaker 1: They did the music as the real band of the
Speaker 1: fictional Eddie and the Cruisers in the film, and they
Speaker 1: had a big hit. One of their one of those songs,
Speaker 1: on the Dark Side was a legit I think probably
Speaker 1: top ten hit. I didn't look that up, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: good stuff. The Beaver Wet Band John Cafferty and the
Speaker 1: Beaver Brown mand Nice really not a good name, but
Speaker 1: that's what they're most well known for. Checkout Eddie and
Speaker 1: the Cruisers. I think you would dig that. Who's in it?
Speaker 1: It's Michael Perey plays Eddie and he was in a
Speaker 1: band in the guess sixties or fifties called Eddie and
Speaker 1: the Cruisers who and he disappeared, he vanished, And the
Speaker 1: movie jumps back in time from the from the modern day,
Speaker 1: one of the guys in the band telling the story
Speaker 1: and trying to find Eddie and then telling the story
Speaker 1: of of being in this band that really got super popular,
Speaker 1: and then what happened to Eddie and what what Streets
Speaker 1: of Fire and why are they related? Well, Streets of
Speaker 1: Fire was around the same era, but if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: it was sort of a post apocalyptic thing. Um, And
Speaker 1: I think they're related because Michael Perey is in both
Speaker 1: of them, quite honestly, and they both came out kind
Speaker 1: of around the same time. But other than that, they
Speaker 1: really have nothing to do with one another. The poster
Speaker 1: for Streets of Fire looks very much like The Warriors
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, but it's like a post apocalyptic Warriors
Speaker 1: or like a Mad Max ish kind of thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Directed by the great Walter Hill, So certainly we're checking
Speaker 1: out as well. But yeah, that's probably why they're length
Speaker 1: of Michael Peree for sure. He was great. Man. Megan
Speaker 1: Broil's what's your favorite Robert Altman film? I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: name one, Megan, because it's just too hard for me.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say the Player shortcuts Nashville, and believe
Speaker 1: it or not, I'm gonna throw in Popeye. That's like
Speaker 1: a musical, right it is? And it is. Doesn't Harry
Speaker 1: Nilsen do the music for that? Maybe I think he does.
Speaker 1: It was widely panned, but um, I was a huge
Speaker 1: fan of that movie as a kid, and it still
Speaker 1: holds a place in my heart. And as far as
Speaker 1: creating a world of like a comic book cartoony world
Speaker 1: and making it real life and the casting, um it
Speaker 1: didn't get any better the world he created, and Robin
Speaker 1: and Williams is Popeye and Shelley Davallo's Olive Oil. I
Speaker 1: mean it was all on point to me. Um, plot wise,
Speaker 1: maybe that's where it falls apart. But I love that
Speaker 1: movie when I was a kid. Robin Williams has those
Speaker 1: ridiculous swollen biceps too. They just like the Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that was just you know, a prosthetic. Yeah. No, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it's just like it's it's comical. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: much they tried to do that, dude, I love that
Speaker 1: movie so much when I was a kid that I want.
Speaker 1: I tried to figure out a way to do that
Speaker 1: for Halloween and I could not figure it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how what would be a d i
Speaker 1: y way to do that. I don't know. I'm sure
Speaker 1: these days, like maybe some sort of they probably have
Speaker 1: applications now they would make it easier. It's funny. Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Harry Neilson did do the soundtrack, and Pitchfork gave the
Speaker 1: reissue of it an eight point oh so totes, coming
Speaker 1: back into favor with the with the hipster record review scene. Um,
Speaker 1: you know what I watched, I watched the flint Stones
Speaker 1: movie with my kids. I never saw that it's not good,
Speaker 1: although it did the first one. The first one, it
Speaker 1: does look cool though, like the dinosaurs and all the
Speaker 1: dinosaurs mowing the lawn and all the stuff from the cartoon.
Speaker 1: It looks great, but it like has this plot involving
Speaker 1: like embezzlement and like corporate fraud. The problems with some
Speaker 1: of those movies is like we can create it and
Speaker 1: look cool, but like, oh the story, yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: just like is this for kids? Who is this four?
Speaker 1: But it did, it did well. Um, it's about embezzlement.
Speaker 1: It's about embezzlement topic. It's very strange. Nicole Park says,
Speaker 1: which movie defines your childhood? Um, as much as ET
Speaker 1: was up there, I probably would say Empire Strikes Back
Speaker 1: or Raiders of the Lost Ark. Those were two big
Speaker 1: ease for me when I was just at that right age.
Speaker 1: Maybe war games too. I was really deep into those.
Speaker 1: Um Don Bluth animated films like um, The Secret of
Speaker 1: Nim and Land Before Time and American Tale and all that.
Speaker 1: Any of those. Yeah, they're the really bummer ones. They're
Speaker 1: all like sadder than Disney and way more intense, like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there's what all Dogs go to Heaven, where
Speaker 1: like they literally go to hell and there's a demon
Speaker 1: dog thing, and those movies kind of messed me up
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, but I have a very
Speaker 1: distinct memory of seeing a lot of those in the theater,
Speaker 1: and um that's a very kind of time and place.
Speaker 1: Childhood movie memory for me is all those movies. You know,
Speaker 1: I think our ages are compliment each other well for
Speaker 1: the show, because we're just far enough for part where
Speaker 1: we had some different ship as as our our kids stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, because all the all the stuff was I
Speaker 1: was like in high school, so I was not going
Speaker 1: to see American Tale, yeah, I mean, but I also
Speaker 1: remember seeing et on VHS. Well yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: uh all all those um you know, the Indiana joneses.
Speaker 1: I do remember renting the Indiana Jones movies and being
Speaker 1: like there they were PG or something and it's like
Speaker 1: the guy in the Temple of Doom, dude gets his
Speaker 1: heart ripped out, and I was like, how is this? Well,
Speaker 1: I believe Temple of Doom was the movie that uh
Speaker 1: spurred one of two movies that spurred the PG thirteen ratings.
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken because Back to the Future, which I
Speaker 1: watched the other night. Um, a lot of swearing and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's p g a lot of like pretty
Speaker 1: adult talk. Yeah, yeah, totally. Kevin Herban or Airben says,
Speaker 1: a blind person just had their site restored, what movie
Speaker 1: do you suggest they see first? What a great question. Um, obviously, Kevin,
Speaker 1: you would think you would lean towards something like a
Speaker 1: piece for the eyes, and I did. And so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give two answers, one animated and one just straight
Speaker 1: up film. I'm gonna say Coco, even though it's super recent, because,
Speaker 1: and I've said it before, maybe the most visually, um
Speaker 1: fantastic film I've ever seen in my life. Unbelievable. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it's it's insane, like all of the backgrounds and the
Speaker 1: stuff when they're in the the underworld or afterlife. It's
Speaker 1: some very very beautiful filmmaking for sure. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Days of Heaven because it is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies of all time. It is.
Speaker 1: Uh so it's a great film, and there's just visually
Speaker 1: it's just so beautiful. Um. Most of the movie, as
Speaker 1: if you listen to the episode with Brooke Adams. We
Speaker 1: shot at Magic Our and it's just gorgeous. So really
Speaker 1: great question, Kevin, That's what I would suggest, William Angus. Finally,
Speaker 1: question number five, what is an older film whose visual
Speaker 1: effects hold up amazingly well? He said, for me, it's
Speaker 1: got to be the first Jurassic Park. I agree. I
Speaker 1: think that holds up big time, And that was one
Speaker 1: of the ones I remember, you know, that first really
Speaker 1: great use of c G I to where it was
Speaker 1: goose bumpy, you know in the theater. It even looks
Speaker 1: good on TV, like I've seen it on TV with
Speaker 1: my kid recently, and it really you can usually kind
Speaker 1: of see the edges and uh see the kind of
Speaker 1: flaws and and it looks it looks as good as
Speaker 1: anything they're doing today. I think in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna go though, with some older movies. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Alien and Blade Runner, the original
Speaker 1: Blade Runner Runner. Those movies hold up remarkably well visually.
Speaker 1: They do not look dated. I think one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why is because they didn't. They went obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of practical effects and models. It's lighting. It's all
Speaker 1: like you know, good use of lighting and stuff, and
Speaker 1: they didn't try and like, hey, let me look futuristic,
Speaker 1: because when you try and do the future, you end
Speaker 1: up looking dated because no one ever gets it right.
Speaker 1: They went with like this sort of retro, dumpy garbage
Speaker 1: e look for both and that just makes it hold up.
Speaker 1: I think, did I tell you about when I got
Speaker 1: to go to Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco
Speaker 1: and just walk around take a tour with Holly Fry
Speaker 1: a little bit. Well, they had all of the original
Speaker 1: Matt paintings from a lot of those films like um
Speaker 1: Et for example, they had the Matt painting of the
Speaker 1: l a city scape with lights and for anyone that
Speaker 1: doesn't know Matt paintings that they used to do. Instead
Speaker 1: of superimposing things digitally, they literally would have these highly
Speaker 1: skilled artists paint a backdrop that looked like, you know,
Speaker 1: a scene, and then they would film it and light
Speaker 1: it in a way that it like it's pre blue
Speaker 1: screen screens, but they would composit it with other stuff
Speaker 1: using um It's called optic printer, which was invented by
Speaker 1: U Eye Works who worked with Disney, and this giant machine.
Speaker 1: They had one of those the original ones they used
Speaker 1: for all these movies like Temple of Doom and E
Speaker 1: t at M I l M. But the the the
Speaker 1: Matt paintings were actually done on shower doors, like glass
Speaker 1: shower doors, um, and so you can light it through
Speaker 1: it from and there would be like holes kind of
Speaker 1: not punched, but there would be a little spots where
Speaker 1: there would be city lights and they would light it
Speaker 1: from behind, so it would like twinkle and they would
Speaker 1: have the lights move. But you look at it, you
Speaker 1: look at it up close, and you see the brushstrokes.
Speaker 1: And there was even a tiny movie theater for the
Speaker 1: E T one where it says Star Wars like on
Speaker 1: the Marquee, but you can see the brush strokes, and
Speaker 1: then when you step back, it just looks like what
Speaker 1: it is. It's such just you know, delicate, artisanal kind
Speaker 1: of work, and you don't have that anymore. But that
Speaker 1: stuff holds up the best, I think, because it's they
Speaker 1: knew what they were doing. Yeah, I will say this,
Speaker 1: it's easy, I think to fall into that thing where
Speaker 1: you like, oh man, they were just such artists then,
Speaker 1: But I think it's just a different version of that today.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no, doubt you know, but um,
Speaker 1: it is very cool to see those old school like
Speaker 1: in camera effects and tricks and models and Matt paintings.
Speaker 1: Very good stuff. All Right, that's it, Noel, that was fun.
Speaker 1: You feel good about this? Why I feel very good
Speaker 1: about it? Chuck your homework This week, everybody is Tokyo Story.
Speaker 1: We have had a run on musicians lately, and I
Speaker 1: was very pleased with this one because I had Mr
Speaker 1: Louden Wayne right the third actually not in the studio.
Speaker 1: I went next door to the City Winery in his
Speaker 1: green room on location. And Louden's the father of my
Speaker 1: friend Lucy Wayne Wright, who played Jerry on the Stuff
Speaker 1: You Should Know TV show. And that's how I got
Speaker 1: hooked up with this one in Louden is also an actor. Um,
Speaker 1: he's he was on the TV show mash he was
Speaker 1: in Knocked Up and quite a few of the Judd
Speaker 1: Apatile projects and so he's kind of run the gamut.
Speaker 1: He's he's a Grammy Award winner. So now I've had
Speaker 1: a Grammy winner, a Tony winner, and Emmy winner. And uh,
Speaker 1: we had a really good conversation about Tokyo Story. It
Speaker 1: is a tough movie. Everyone just throwing it out there.
Speaker 1: It is in black and white, it is from uh
Speaker 1: the early nineteen fifties, and it is Japanese. And all
Speaker 1: of these things combined to make it a tougher film
Speaker 1: maybe for today's audience, is to get through, but a
Speaker 1: very rewarding film if you manage to sit with it
Speaker 1: and UH and take it all in. And it is
Speaker 1: very slow and languid and um and and it has
Speaker 1: great rewards, That's what I will say. And is known
Speaker 1: as one of the great films of all time. UH.
Speaker 1: And we had a great conversation about that, and about
Speaker 1: his life and music and his career, and about what
Speaker 1: it's like to be in San Francisco in the summer
Speaker 1: of my Lord, what a time. So Tokyo story brush
Speaker 1: up to crush out loud and Wayne write the third
Speaker 1: coming Friday, and until next week we'll be here in
Speaker 1: the studio camping out together. I can't wait. Man. I
Speaker 1: brought my my thermos and my sleeping back. Great. Well,
Speaker 1: I've got some buny in the sausages and a huge
Speaker 1: bag of wheat. It sounds like a good time all
Speaker 1: right by everybody.