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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

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Speaker 3: And I am Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema,

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Speaker 3: we're going to be talking about the nineteen sixty two

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Speaker 3: fantasy adventure The Magic Sword starring Basil Rathbone, directed by

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Speaker 3: bert I. Gordon, the director of another film we've covered

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Speaker 3: on Weird House Cinema at least one other. Gordon was

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Speaker 3: the director of Attack of the Puppet People. Also known

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Speaker 3: as Mister Big Big his initials, he was well known

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Speaker 3: for shrinking and blowing up things in his movies, either

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Speaker 3: making little things big or making big things little, and

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Speaker 3: we get some of both in this one.

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Speaker 2: That's right. One of the things about The Magic Sword

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Speaker 2: from nineteen sixty two is that it is a special

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Speaker 2: effects spectacular. You're gonna there's so many special effects coming

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Speaker 2: at you, some of them very noticeable and and others

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Speaker 2: you can easily take for granted, especially today, where you

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Speaker 2: know various things like, for instance, the magic mirror that

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Speaker 2: we see in the movie. You know, it's an impressive

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Speaker 2: special effect, and it's it's one of just many, many

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Speaker 2: special effects that are used to create this magical world

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Speaker 2: of love and happiness, but also horror and mutilation.

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Speaker 3: Now, Bert Eye Gordon was well known for making sort

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Speaker 3: of low budget, B grade movies, movies that a lot

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Speaker 3: of people would would call hack but or in many

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Speaker 3: ways quite enjoyable. You know, the King Dinosaur and stuff

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Speaker 3: like that, movies that ended up on Mystery Science Theater

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Speaker 3: three thousand.

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Speaker 2: As did this one.

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Speaker 3: I've actually never seen that episode, but this, from what

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Speaker 3: I understand, is widely regarded as one of his best movies,

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Speaker 3: and I can see why it it has it still

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Speaker 3: has some of the hallmarks of his other stuff. Like

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Speaker 3: it has some i would say, texturally or tonally inappropriate

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Speaker 3: special effects that actually do look pretty good, but they

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Speaker 3: don't fit the vibe of the movie. Like the movie

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Speaker 3: is ostensibly, you know, sort of a fun, magical adventure

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Speaker 3: almost maybe aimed at a younger audience, aimed at kids,

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Speaker 3: but it also has just absolutely unnerving, almost perverse gore

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would compare it in a way to Peter

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Speaker 2: Jackson's King Kong in that respect. You know, moving made

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Speaker 2: a film that is aimed at a very wide audience,

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Speaker 2: very mainstream audience, but ends having some moments of just

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Speaker 2: extreme horror or well, I don't know. In the case

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Speaker 2: to say extreme horror, but still are that does seem

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Speaker 2: at the time. I mean, there were some seemingly strong

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Speaker 2: reactions to this. I was reading that upon initial release

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Speaker 2: the British Film Board gave it an X rating. They right, No,

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Speaker 2: you were not having any of this. And later, you know,

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Speaker 2: some things get adjusted and it comes out.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of like if you imagine Disney's The Sword

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Speaker 3: close ups of nights being melted by acid and radiation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, And in that, you know, radiation

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Speaker 2: is a hallmark of other bird Eye Gordon pictures and

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Speaker 2: that element is at least visually present in this that

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Speaker 2: nobody's calling it radiation.

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Speaker 3: But another one of the things that I would single

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Speaker 3: out this movie for is it has some deliciously hammy

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Speaker 3: performances especially the ones from Estelle Wyndwood and Basil Rathbone

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Speaker 3: as the two main sorcerers in the movie, they are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of other bird Eye Gordon films don't

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Speaker 2: necessarily have as strong of human performances, and this is

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Speaker 2: the the the actual special effects. So yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: it is a really solid, enjoyable picture, and yeah, it

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Speaker 2: is often sided just one of Burnye Gordon's best.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm trying to think, have we done another high

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, I mean we did Crawl. I mean you

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Speaker 2: you could. You could also think of another sword. You

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Speaker 2: can think of a thrilling, bloody sword, though that's a

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Speaker 2: and I imagine I'm forgetting one or two. But you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a I guess all of those have elements

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Speaker 2: Yet there are a number of just real bonkers elements

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Speaker 2: like just in terms of like, yeah, like the textures

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Speaker 2: the things that the screenplay does with it I ended

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Speaker 2: up really admiring. All right, So what would your elevator

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Speaker 2: pitch be for the magic sword?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Can I not do sword in the stone? But

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Speaker 3: with radiation melting? I guess we already said that. Let's see, that's.

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Speaker 2: Olid, we can stick with it, stick with what works.

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Speaker 3: Let me try another one. Let's say George A an

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Speaker 3: perils and curses along the way, and it's gonna be gross.

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Speaker 2: The curses are all amazing. The titular magic sword is

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Speaker 2: probably the fakest looking thing in the whole picture. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so it is kind of weird that, like, that's the

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Speaker 2: selling point. And the poster says the most incredible weapon

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Speaker 3: So funny because yeah, it does not look incredible. It's

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Speaker 3: It looks very flimsy, very plastic. It's the sword is

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Speaker 2: Its special power is set manipulation, and it fails halfway

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that is funny. It has the power to

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Speaker 3: open doors. Wow. But you know what I do like.

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Speaker 3: I like a version of the sword that completely misrepresents

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Speaker 3: what it's like in the movie. The I think it's

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Speaker 3: either the Italian or the Spanish poster for the movie

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Speaker 3: La Spada Magica that makes the sword look really cool.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's glowing. I don't think it ever really

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Speaker 2: glows like this. And you also have a great image,

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Speaker 3: All right, should we do some trailer audio.

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Speaker 2: Let's do that trailer audio.

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Speaker 4: I am Sir George, possessor of a magic saw, my his powers.

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Speaker 4: I will lead you on the sun great adventure.

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Speaker 2: Each one might hear the leon.

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Speaker 4: Together we will go where no man has ever gone,

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Speaker 4: into the land of terror itself, where the superman of

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Speaker 4: evil is king. Let no man race my seven cousins

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Speaker 4: and reached the dragons. Together we will dare the demon

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Speaker 4: of the green Flame. See the white hot face of

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Speaker 4: the fiery rock. Enter the mammoth cave that closes behind you,

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Speaker 4: where humans are trapped and tombed. Brave the volcanic inferno

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Speaker 4: of the boiling crater. See the miracle of the magic Sword.

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Speaker 4: Battle the gigantic ogre.

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Speaker 2: Ah.

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Speaker 4: You will be thrilled to the hill by the magic sword.

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Speaker 4: None like it since the world began two thousand year

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Speaker 4: old legend Hollywood waited until now to tell the Magic Sword.

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Speaker 2: All right, So you might be wondering at this point, well,

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Speaker 2: where can I watch the magic Sword? Well, it is,

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Speaker 2: at first glance, widely available. You know you can. You

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Speaker 2: can find the mst through K version. I think Riff

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Speaker 2: Tracks did a version of it. You know, usual caveats

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Speaker 2: recommendation for watching The Magic Sword is make sure you

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Speaker 2: it in high depth, it looks really nice, has some

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Speaker 2: physical media. Kale Studio Classics put it out on Blu Ray.

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Speaker 2: on fifty four Serpent Island, and he moved on into

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Speaker 2: fifty five's King Dinosaur. We talked about him a greater

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Speaker 2: we absolutely will do if we get a proper release

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Speaker 3: Did we ever figure out what's going on with the

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Speaker 3: a good Blu Ray of that?

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Speaker 2: something's been announced and I haven't missed it. I try

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Speaker 2: what's holding that back. Far lesser films are getting elaborate

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Speaker 3: Agreed, And I do want to emphasize again I sort

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Speaker 3: of said this up top, but despite Bird Eye Gordon's

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Speaker 3: this one is I would say this is a well

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Speaker 3: Now, maybe we should save this for later, but I

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Speaker 3: just want to say it now so I don't forget.

434
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 3: I feel like we should do a compare and contrast

435
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 3: on Vincent Price versus Basil Wrathbone, because I feel like

436
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 3: they have a lot of qualities but also some hard

437
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 3: to define differences that are nevertheless important.

438
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 2: Hmmm, well, yeah, I feel like Vincent Price was better

439
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 2: at conveying kind of like the the internal mechanisms of

440
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 2: his scheming, you know, whereas wrath Bone, especially in this

441
00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 2: there is a sense that he's he's not considering you

442
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 2: much at all. Like his enemies, He's very dismissive of

443
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 2: their abilities, you know. That's his level of vanity and arrogance,

444
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 2: at least as he plays it up in this character.

445
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 2: And I feel like in you know, certainly Vincent Price

446
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 2: could play some vain and evil characters but there was

447
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 2: always a sense that no, he wasn't he wasn't underestimating

448
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,439
Speaker 2: you per se. He was thinking long and hard about

449
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 2: your various strengths and weaknesses.

450
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 3: I think that's right. Yeah, that's very astute. I would

451
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 3: say if Vincent Price had been in this role, I

452
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 3: think you would have played it a little bit colder

453
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 3: and would you would have seen him taking the stock

454
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,479
Speaker 3: of George and his allies more than just kind of,

455
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,159
Speaker 3: you know, batting at them like a gnat that's bothering him.

456
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, he would have seen Sybil as more of a

457
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 2: rival and not as an ant. He seems to see

458
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 2: everyone as just mere pieces on the chessboard.

459
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 3: Oh but hey, Basil Rathbone is not the only bad

460
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 3: guy in this movie. We actually get multiple Hammi villains.

461
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 2: That's right. We have Sir Brandon, who is a romantic

462
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 2: rival for the princess's heart and a seemingly brave knight

463
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 2: at first, but we get a series of twists that

464
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 2: reveal that no, he's not here to make friends, he's

465
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 2: not here to play fair. He'll do whatever it takes.

466
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 2: He's here to kick you in the acid, Yes, kick

467
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 2: you in the button, make you fall on the Acid,

468
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 2: played by Liam Sullivan, who lived nineteen twenty three through

469
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety eight. Yeah, very very fun character, and the

470
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 2: performance here provides I think, a nice dry counterpoint to Lodac.

471
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 2: You know, like you're not gonna have You can't have

472
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 2: two villains that are going for that level of hammed

473
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 2: up villainry. This is the right level for your secondary villain.

474
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you're right about that. I did identify

475
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 3: him also as a hammy performance, but it's in a

476
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 3: different way than Basil Rathbone, not at the same level,

477
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 3: and it has a different quality. It's more kind of sneering.

478
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 3: It has a sneering, snidely whiplashiness to it.

479
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, still solid villain for sure. Sullivan was an

480
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 2: American actor of TV and film. I'd say mostly TV.

481
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: He did episodes of Star Trek Original, Twilight Zone, Original

482
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 2: Man from Uncle, and his film credits include sixty Five's

483
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 2: That Darn Cat, eighty four is What Waits Below, and

484
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty six film Wisdom all Right. The next

485
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 2: character is credited as Mignonette. I don't remember if they

486
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 2: call her this in the film. She's a seducer, a witch.

487
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 2: We find out some sort of a hag creature.

488
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 3: The false magical mask of a witch that is used

489
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 3: to seduce a knight who is French. And they explain

490
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 3: this in the plot. They're like, well, he's French, you know,

491
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 3: so he's into pretty ladies. So she is the pretty

492
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 3: lady form of the evil witch who wants to bite

493
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 3: his neck and I don't know, drink his blood maybe,

494
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.

495
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 2: Blood blood there for sure. Yeah, And she falls into

496
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 2: some of the other schemes of Lodak as we see.

497
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 2: But she's played by Nielle de Metz born nineteen thirty eight,

498
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,959
Speaker 2: French born actress who worked in American film and television.

499
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 2: She appeared in nineteen fifty nine's Return of the Fly,

500
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 2: which you know, if you haven't seen, you might remember

501
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 2: from the Misfits song, and she had a small part

502
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 2: in Blake edwards nineteen sixty eight film The Party. Mostly

503
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 2: active in the sixties and seventies, she was nominated for

504
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 2: an Emmy for a special guest part on The Man

505
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 2: from Uncle in nineteen sixty four.

506
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 3: I don't believe I've seen Return of the Fly. Does

507
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 3: she become a fly?

508
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just I haven't seen it either,

509
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 2: have just seen stills in which a fly headed man

510
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 2: is approaching her and she is screaming. Well, so, I

511
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 2: don't know if she's like the main heroine of the

512
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 2: picture or if she's just like an early victim. I'm

513
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 2: not entirely certain, but there are a number of stills

514
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: of her in the picture.

515
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 3: Nobody likes to get cornered by a flyhead guy at

516
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 3: a party?

517
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not all right? And then finally, the score

518
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 2: is by Richard Markowitz, who lived nineteen twenty six through

519
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,439
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four. Emmy nominated composer best known for his

520
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: work on such TV shows as Murder. She wrote Mission Impossible,

521
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 2: though I knew do need to stress that he did

522
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 2: not write the theme music for either of these series.

523
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 2: He's the father of singer Kate Markowitz, who also worked

524
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 2: as a backup singer for such artists as James Taylor,

525
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 2: Randy Newman, Katie Lang, and Warren Zevon. Her two thousand

526
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 2: and three solo album was Map of the World. But

527
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 2: as far as as Richard Markowitz's work goes, there are

528
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 2: plenty of places in this score that are very traditional

529
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 2: highlighting either like the sweeping mainstream drama of the thing

530
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 2: or some nutty high jinks, nutty magical hijinks. But it

531
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 2: also gets weird and I believe electronic at times. There's

532
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 2: some nice suspense in a later cave scene, and there's

533
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 2: this wonderful Sibylis cooking sequence that features an absolutely bonkers

534
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 2: track full of bleeps and bloops and monster croaking. It's fabulous.

535
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a nice mix of things. So in the

536
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 3: traditional end, we've got the you know, the King of

537
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 3: the Castle horns bump bump, bump, bump bump kind of stuff,

538
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 3: and then we've also, yeah, in the funny scenes, we've

539
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 3: got plenty of doom do Doom do doom. But I

540
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 3: know what you're talking about with the experimental moments. Yeah,

541
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 3: I liked those parts.

542
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well let's jump into the plot of

543
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 2: the Magic Sword.

544
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,479
Speaker 3: All right, Well after the credits. The credits just are

545
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 3: pretty straightforward. They're like red credits playing over a painted

546
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 3: backdrop that looks like Saint George slaying the Dragon, which

547
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 3: I suppose is loosely the inspiration for this movie, but

548
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 3: I would place emphasis on loosely. The action opens with

549
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 3: a shot of a witch's layer So there's a bubbling

550
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 3: cauldron and a table with a polished human skull as

551
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 3: a centerpiece, and it's all saturated in red light. This

552
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 3: movie really likes the red gel lights, especially in Sibyl's

553
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 3: sort of fortress of magic.

554
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she has so many red gels going in there.

555
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 2: It's like a dark ring. You would think, yeah, she's

556
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 2: developing an Eastern Kodak film in there or something.

557
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 3: So we pan up and we meet Estelle Winwood as

558
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 3: Sybil the Sorceress. She's wearing kind of a sorceress dress

559
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 3: with like the big dangly open sleeves, and she's got

560
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 3: jewels around her neck and all that. She looks very magical,

561
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 3: and she's talking to herself. She says, he's gone again.

562
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 3: What good is my sorcery if I can't help my

563
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 3: own boy? Answer me someone? So like, who's there to answer? Well,

564
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 3: we're going to pant around the room and see. First

565
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 3: of all, we've got a chimpanzee dressed in a red

566
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 3: tunic and a leather belt who's sitting at a chair

567
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 3: at the dinner table here. He has no input, He's

568
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 3: just sitting there scratching his head. And then Sybil says,

569
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 3: he's not fooling me. I know where he is. He's

570
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 3: at the magic pool again. Now commenting on that, we

571
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 3: suddenly hear from Sybil's other I don't know, like her

572
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 3: coworker or friend or help her here, which is a

573
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 3: two headed man who's two heads say simultaneous lee, love

574
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 3: is his curse. He is in love?

575
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 2: Now.

576
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: One thing I noticed about the two headed man here

577
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 3: is that the way that the two heads here they

578
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 3: behave in a way that sort of defeats the purpose

579
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 3: of imagining this, this creature with two heads, because they

580
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 3: always say the exact same thing at the exact same

581
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: time in unison.

582
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well, I assume that they've just worked together

583
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 2: for a very long time and it just had to

584
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 2: They had had to come together in agreeance on a

585
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 2: number of things here, because we don't know the origin

586
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 2: of this character or characters, I mean, she might have

587
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 2: made them through her sorcery at some point or another.

588
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 3: I guess.

589
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 4: So.

590
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sybil says, yes, I've tried to cure him of

591
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 3: this love? Why have I failed? Am I losing my

592
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 3: skill as a sorceress? Doesn't my witchcraft cure snake bites

593
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 3: chill Blaines, carbuncles, pink eye, hangnails, and unhappy memories. And

594
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 3: I'd love to imagine who is coming to sibyls like

595
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 3: red Witch Cave and the chimpanzee and saying I have

596
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 3: pink eye.

597
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 2: I feel like the movie kind of like cut to

598
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 2: the chimp when she said pink eye, and it was

599
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 2: like implyed that, like this chimp is just can pink

600
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 2: eye like crazy, like every week having to cure this

601
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 2: chimp with pink eye.

602
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 3: But her two headed friend here assures her, yes, her

603
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 3: powers are still strong, so why can't she cure her

604
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 3: son George of his love infection. She sort of argues

605
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 3: with the two headed guy about this that they say

606
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 3: George is a man and he's human, so you know

607
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 3: he's going to fall in love, but she says he

608
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 3: is not a man. He is only twenty years old,

609
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 3: which means he is still a child. She obviously does

610
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 3: not approve of his decision to grow up. At first,

611
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 3: I didn't understand what this whole thing about, like her

612
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 3: repeatedly asserting that a twenty year old is a child.

613
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 3: But I think it's because she is an immortal sorceress

614
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 3: who is I think she says four hundred and twenty

615
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 3: years old, So compared to that lifespan, it's like, oh, yeah,

616
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 3: he is a child.

617
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he should not get the keys to the

618
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 2: car until he's like at least sixty five.

619
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,479
Speaker 3: So meanwhile, we go to meet George at the magic

620
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 3: pool that Sybil was talking about. So he's leaning over

621
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 3: the water's edge, the water's bubbling, and he starts begging,

622
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 3: begging the water to show him the princess. So first

623
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 3: we see a castle, and then we cut inside the

624
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 3: castle to the throne room, where like the whole court,

625
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 3: the king is sitting there on the throne holding his scepter,

626
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 3: wearing his crown, and then everybody in the court is

627
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 3: gathered and they're just watching a belly dancer perform. Yeah,

628
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 3: nothing going. Princess is not there. Everybody's just like a

629
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 3: good show.

630
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 2: Good. I mean, he apparently spends a lot of time

631
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 2: just watching, spying on the castle so that he can

632
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 2: see the princess that he's in love with. Yeah, this

633
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: is our first hint at like the idea that George's

634
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,479
Speaker 2: whole upbringing is just weird, Like he's he's grown up

635
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 2: in this magical crypt. He has access to all of this,

636
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: you know, privacy defying, magical pools and mirrors and so forth,

637
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 2: and then gets fixated on people he's never met.

638
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 3: That's right, and the privacy violations get worse because he's like,

639
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 3: all right, she's not in the throne room. Show me

640
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 3: the pond in the palace garden where yep, that is

641
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 3: where she is. In fact, she's bathing in the pond

642
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 3: there with her lady in waiting, hanging out and like, dude,

643
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 3: respect the princess's privacy please, But you know he's just watching. Yeah, yeah,

644
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 3: so this is Princess Helene. She gets out and starts

645
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 3: talking to her lady in waiting, and she's talking about

646
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 3: how she's upset with her situation in life. She's like,

647
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 3: you know, even though I'm a princess, I'm unhappy because

648
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 3: I'm not allowed to fall in love. Essentially, she can't

649
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 3: even speak to a man, she can't meet people or

650
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 3: talk to them. She's sort of like kept away apart

651
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 3: from the world in a tower. And she tells her

652
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 3: lady in waiting, quote, you can do whatever you please,

653
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 3: fall in love, fall out again, a squire one day,

654
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 3: a stable boy the next, and the lady in waiting

655
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 3: does not take offense to this. She's like, it's the

656
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 3: cost of being a princess. But suddenly a voice calls out. Oh,

657
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 3: it's like a ghostly, otherworldly voice. It says Princess Helene.

658
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 3: And she looks around and then sees the kind of

659
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 3: insubstantial figure moving toward her. It's like the figure of

660
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 3: a lady with a green veil over her head, some

661
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 3: kind of fairy like queen. And this lady is coming

662
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 3: toward her, and she says, Princess, I'm going to take

663
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 3: care of you, and then her eyes flash green and

664
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 3: I don't think we ever see this lady again. Do

665
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 3: we have no idea who she is?

666
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean presumably it is some sort of agent

667
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: of Lodac, but not someone that is named or featured later.

668
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: This is also a great scene where the ghost is

669
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,240
Speaker 2: coming right at the camera, right out at the audience.

670
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 2: And there are a number of moments like this in

671
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 2: the picture, because again, this is all about special effects.

672
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 2: It's about thrilling the audience and so Bert's come and

673
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 2: ride at you.

674
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 3: This movie would have been a great candidate for three D.

675
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm kind of glad it's not three D

676
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 3: because I enjoy it in the two D format, but

677
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:15,919
Speaker 3: it has a lot of stuff coming at you. Could

678
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 3: have been a three D option for sure. So anyway,

679
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 3: George witnesses this magical fairy abduction of the princess through

680
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,280
Speaker 3: his magical spy pool. He jumps up and he shouts Helene.

681
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 3: Then he runs back home to Sybil and explains that

682
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 3: the princess is in danger and he's got to go

683
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 3: rescue her at once. But Sybil is very dismissive of this.

684
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 3: Her points are the following, You're only a boy, You're

685
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 3: not old enough to be in love. You can't be

686
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,240
Speaker 3: in love with somebody you only saw in a magic

687
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 3: pool and have never met. That's a good point, and

688
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 3: also just basically, like I love is silly. But I

689
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 3: guess they're like, well, we'll get some more information. So

690
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: she takes George over to her magic mirror, which is

691
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 3: yet another long range magical surveillance device. And this sad

692
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 3: me wondering, wait, why did George have to go use

693
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 3: the magic pool if they've got magic mirror at home?

694
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 2: You know, I guess it's like sometimes you know, you

695
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 2: have like two TVs in the household, you know, perhaps

696
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 2: so the dad can watch football and the kids can

697
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 2: watch cartoons. It's like she has witching stuff she needs

698
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 2: to do. She can't have George in the way spying

699
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 2: on princesses the whole time.

700
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 3: She's got to call into her sorceress Zoom meetings. Yeah,

701
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 3: so Sybil tunes into Throne Room TV and she sees

702
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 3: the King, presumably done with his belly dancing session. He's

703
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 3: talking to his court about his daughter's disappearance. Now in

704
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 3: the scene, we're going to meet a couple of other

705
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 3: major characters, Sir Branton and Lodak. Sir Branton we meet first.

706
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 3: He is this haughty, arrogant, goateed knight wearing a blue

707
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 3: tunic with a blazing sun emblem over the top of

708
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 3: his mail, and he explains to the King that Princess

709
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 3: Helene cannot be found anywhere. And while they're in the

710
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 3: middle of discussing what to do, suddenly a palace guard

711
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 3: enters the throne room escorting Basil Wrathbone. Basil Wrathbone here

712
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 3: is dressed in a black sorcerer's robe with a golden

713
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 3: dagger at his belt. He's got a giant jewel encrusted

714
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 3: pendant on his chest. He's wearing a red and silver

715
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 3: cloak with almost Santa CLAUSI implications. He's also wearing some

716
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 3: kind of wound cloth head covering. I don't know if

717
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 3: this technically is a turban or is supposed to be

718
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 3: a turban, or if it's something else. Everything he's wearing

719
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: pretty much has gold trim on it, and he just

720
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 3: looks really smug.

721
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, very smug, very colorful. Yeah, it's a fabulous

722
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 2: presentation and just absolute confidence oozing off of them. Here.

723
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 3: The guard is like, we found him skulking on the

724
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 3: castle grounds. He won't speak, and Sir says there are

725
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 3: means to make him speak. So I love that Branton

726
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 3: is going straight to suggesting torture with no information whatsoever

727
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 3: on the sky. But also, look at him. This guy

728
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 3: is going to speak. You can look at him and

729
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 3: know he's about to speak. You don't need to worry

730
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:17,720
Speaker 3: about him not speaking.

731
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 2: Also, I'm gonna have to ding the script here, or

732
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 2: at least the way the script was performed, because this

733
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 2: is not a character that has ever skulked in his life.

734
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 2: This is no sculptor. I think you mean to say

735
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 2: vainly awaiting his audience with the king.

736
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, you skulking, I think requires a down a downturned

737
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 3: angle of the head, like you know, the head is

738
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 3: sort of down, but this guy's chin has never even

739
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 3: like been parallel with the ground. Right. So Basil raises

740
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 3: his arms up. He stirs up some kind of magic.

741
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 3: The lights go dim, thunder cracks, and he says, your

742
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 3: most serene majesty, you can call off the search the princess.

743
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 3: Your daughter is in my castle under lock and he

744
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 3: So the king demands to know who this sorcerer is,

745
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 3: and he answers Loadak. So they know who this is.

746
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 3: They know him by reputation. He is a bad sorcerer.

747
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 2: Yeah it's not Lodak the Great, the terrible. Just all

748
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 2: you need to know is Lodak. It's great branding.

749
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 3: I don't know why, but I imagine I always imagine

750
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 3: Lodak's name when I heard it here as an acronym,

751
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 3: like it's all capital letters. I don't know what it

752
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 3: stands for.

753
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 2: I mean, lord of damnation, and I don't know. Pick

754
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 2: a sea word and you got it, I think.

755
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 3: So they ask him, you know, why did you kidnap

756
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 3: the princess, and Lodak says, this is the quote. The

757
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 3: answer is very simple. Your father executed my sister for

758
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 3: witchcraft when she was only eighteen years old. I have

759
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 3: waited until your daughter reached that age so that my

760
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 3: dragon could relish the flesh of the princess. I don't

761
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 3: know if that's very simple. It's moderately simple. I guess.

762
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 3: So Lodak has a dragon. He's going to feed the

763
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 3: princess to the dragon to get revenge on the king's family,

764
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 3: or so, he says.

765
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't even know if we should believe him.

766
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 2: This never comes up again. He doesn't seem to be

767
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 2: dwelling on this too much, and Lodak doesn't seem like

768
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 2: a sentimental type.

769
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like if some king executed his sister

770
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 3: for witchcraft, he'd be like, shouldn't have gotten caught. But

771
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 3: in reaction to this, Sir Branton, he's coming out hot.

772
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 3: He says, I'm not afraid of some warm eatn sorcerer.

773
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 3: I'll come straight to your castle and rescue the princess.

774
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 3: But then Lodak warns them all. He says, look, it's

775
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,959
Speaker 3: not hard to find my castle. It's right down the road.

776
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 3: It's a week's journey from here, but between here and

777
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 3: there you'll have to face Lodak's original recipe of seven

778
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,720
Speaker 3: signature curses. No one has ever passed through all seven

779
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 3: curses and survived. Then he explains that his dragon is

780
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 3: going to eat the princess in seven days time, and

781
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 3: he starts to show himself the door by the way

782
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 3: he like. He turns and starts walking toward the door,

783
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 3: toward the camera with his arms just raised up in

784
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 3: the air, and then suddenly he changes course and then

785
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 3: turns into a crow and flies away. That had me

786
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 3: laughing out loud.

787
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 2: It's so showy, it's wonderful.

788
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 3: Also, right after this that I did a still frame.

789
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 3: You can look out here Rob the King and Sir Branton,

790
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,280
Speaker 3: they have this look on their face, just like okay,

791
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 3: but anyway, Sir Brandon, he's still saying he's going to

792
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 3: save Helene. He says he does not care about the

793
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 3: seven curses. For Helene, he would face seventy curses, and

794
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 3: the King promises him that if he succeeds, he will

795
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 3: receive half of his wealth and the princess's hand in marriage. Meanwhile,

796
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 3: back in the Witch hole. George and Sybil have been

797
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 3: watching all this in the magic mirror. I kind of

798
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 3: forgot about them while the scene was going on, but

799
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 3: I guess we've been watching what they are watching. And

800
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 3: George is not happy. He's mad. He does not want

801
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 3: Sir Branton to save Helene. He does not want Sir

802
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 3: Branton to marry Helene. He's the one who loves her,

803
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 3: even though than never met. So he begs Sybil to

804
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 3: let him go rescue the princess, and Sybil is like, nonsense,

805
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 3: you are only a child. So here we're about to

806
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 3: get some backstory. First of all, we learned that three

807
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 3: hundred years ago, Sybil's father and brother were eaten by

808
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 3: Lodak's dragon, and they were excellent sorcerers, so Lodak is

809
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 3: far too dangerous for them to face. She says, I

810
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 3: fear him almost as much as I hate him. And

811
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 3: after all, while Sybil is a sorceress who is hundreds

812
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 3: of years old, George is a mortal and still a child.

813
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 3: And we're also told that this is not framed as

814
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 3: a revelation. It's just more like, as you know, George,

815
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 3: when you were only a week old, your royal parents

816
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 3: died of the plague, and then I took you in

817
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 3: and raised you as my own son. And we learned

818
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 3: that Sybil has been a kind and loving mother to George,

819
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 3: but being an ancient sorceress, she doesn't get him because

820
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 3: he's mortal, so she doesn't really understand that humans are

821
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 3: not children at the age of twenty.

822
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's a difficult age right now. But

823
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 2: on the other hand, it I think there's a lot

824
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 2: of evidence to support the idea that Sybil has just

825
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: had to do a lot of guess work in how

826
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 2: to raise a boy, a mortal boy like he seems

827
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 2: like maybe he hasn't been as exposed to like other kids,

828
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 2: growing up into a wider world. He's had maybe a

829
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,240
Speaker 2: little bit too much access to magical items, and she's,

830
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 2: as we'll see, you know, kind of spoiled him a

831
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 2: bit too. So again it makes for this George ends

832
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 2: up being this very weird hero in this picture because

833
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 2: you know, he doesn't have the same sort of origin

834
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 2: story introjectory that you would expect of your Dragon Slayer character.

835
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 2: He's lived a very privileged in many ways upbringing, but

836
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 2: also a very there's been a lot of deprivation in

837
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 2: his upbringing, it seems. Yeah.

838
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. Also, this is where we get the scene where

839
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 3: he's really he's moping. He's upset because of you know,

840
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 3: her denials here, and then she tries to cheer him

841
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 3: up by turning into a panther. But she doesn't do anything.

842
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 3: It's not like she turns into a panther and I

843
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 3: don't know, like spins plates on her head or something.

844
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 3: She just is a panther. And then she's not.

845
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 2: That should be enough.

846
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 3: I can't do that, That's true. I can't either. What

847
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 3: am I gainsaying this for? Yeah, okay, she turns into

848
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,240
Speaker 3: a panther and doesn't do anything, But that's that's pretty impressive.

849
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 3: But he says, mother, not that trick again, Like she's

850
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 3: like blowing raspberries on his belly or something. Anyway, this

851
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 3: leads Sybil to take George on a She like takes

852
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 3: him down into a kind of dungeon to show him

853
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 3: the birthday presence she's going to give him next year

854
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 3: when he turns twenty one. And these presents include a

855
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 3: magical white stallion called Bayard that is faster than any

856
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 3: horse on earth, a magical suit of armor that cannot

857
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 3: be pierced by any weapon, and a magic sword that

858
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 3: has a name. I was trying to hear what I

859
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 3: think it's called Escalon, which that sounds right, okay. Escalon

860
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 3: defies all swords in battle, neutralizes black magic, and it

861
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 3: can open or close any door, portcullis, or portal with

862
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 3: a touch.

863
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 2: So basically, she's like, George, you're gonna be a level

864
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: one character, but I have three legendary magical items for you.

865
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 2: That's just right out of the gate. You're going to

866
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 2: totally destroy these cobonts.

867
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a level one fighter with the with the

868
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 3: Saber of Doors, I guess. Yeah. Oh. Also, George just

869
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 3: starts like groaning with pleasure when he holds the magic sword.

870
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 3: He's like, Oh, it feels like it's part of my

871
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 3: own body. Also in the room, she just happens to

872
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 3: mention these are not presented as part of his birthday presence.

873
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 3: It's just like, oh, yeah, those six night statues there

874
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 3: against the wall, these are the six most valiant knights

875
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 3: in the world, which were turned to stone by Sybil's brother,

876
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 3: which makes me wonder, Wait a minute, was Sibil's brother

877
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 3: a good sorcerer? Or a bad one.

878
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Yeah, it sounds like maybe he was the

879
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 2: bad sort, because these are six noble knights that were

880
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 2: evidently defeated, imprisoned, you know, made eternal servants of this

881
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 2: Witchcraft family. Yeah. I think there's a lot to suggest

882
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 2: that this is not a beneficial fate that was bestowed

883
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 2: upon them.

884
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 3: But here George comes up with a clever trick. He

885
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 3: manages to trick Sibyl into going down into an enchanted

886
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 3: sub basement to I don't know what he did, just

887
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:44,280
Speaker 3: to go down there and look at it, I guess.

888
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 3: And then as soon as she goes down ahead of him,

889
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 3: he taps the stone trapdoor of the access to this

890
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 3: basement and it closes behind her, trapping her inside. Now

891
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 3: he's free to go save the princess.

892
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, barries his mama so that he can

893
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: god and pursue his love.

894
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 3: Seems kind of cruel, Yeah, But also they do. I

895
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 3: feel like they drop a few things to emphasize that, like, oh,

896
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 3: she is an immortal sorceress, so it's not like she's

897
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 3: gonna die of thirst down there or anything. But she

898
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 3: still doesn't like it.

899
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 2: She's like, oh, you scamp.

900
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 3: So he then uses his sword to unfreeze the knights

901
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 3: because I guess they were frozen by black magic. And

902
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 3: we're going to meet all the knights in the next scene.

903
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 3: But they wake up, and then there's one with a

904
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 3: French accent who is like, oh, thank you. But here

905
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 3: we go straight to a scene another scene in the

906
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 3: throne room room of the castle, where at the beginning

907
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 3: of the scene it's just like a repeat of what

908
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 3: we already saw, like Sir Branton is promising to rescue

909
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 3: the princess, but at this point he kneels in front

910
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 3: of the king he makes this solemn vow to rescue her,

911
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 3: and the king is like, hmm, that's a strange ring

912
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 3: with a picture of a dragon on it. Sir Branton, Well,

913
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 3: let's not pay any attention to that. They are interrupted

914
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 3: by George, who is now calling himself Sir George. He

915
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 3: barges into the throne room. He's dressed in his magical armor,

916
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 3: he's got his magical sword, and he is accompanied by

917
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 3: his six unfrozen cave men lawyer knights, and they all

918
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:18,720
Speaker 3: introduce themselves and show off their accents. So we've got

919
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 3: and they're they're each like from a country of Europe.

920
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 3: So the strange thing about this is it's not set

921
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,240
Speaker 3: in like an alternate land. It's not you know, Middle

922
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 3: Earth or something. It seems to be set in Christian

923
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 3: Europe in Earth. So we have Sir Denis of France,

924
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 3: they say, Dennis. I don't know if that would be

925
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 3: Deni in real life, but Sir Denis of France, Sir

926
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 3: Pedro of Spain, Sir Patrick of Ireland, Sir Anthony of Italy,

927
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 3: Sir James of Scotland, and Sir Ulrich of Germany, and

928
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 3: they all sort of like say a hello in their accents.

929
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 3: The German Knights. Sir Ulrich said he looks at the

930
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 3: king and he's like mine Kaiser.

931
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 2: And that's actually the voice of Paul Freese, the noted

932
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 2: voice actor who worked on such things as The Bullwinkle Show,

933
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 2: The Last Unicorn and just tons of of of various

934
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 2: animated shows of old like he was in you know,

935
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 2: The Return of the King, The Flight of Dragons, you know,

936
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 2: the Frosty Snowman specials and so forth.

937
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 3: Oh I did not know.

938
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's a he's a frequent name and all

939
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 2: of those.

940
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 3: Well, here we get some conflict because Sir George is

941
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 3: he shows up, he stands next to Sir Branton. He's like, yeah,

942
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 3: I'm also going to save the princess, and I'm also

943
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 3: going to marry her. And Sir Branton doesn't like this.

944
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 3: He tries to fight George. George doesn't want to draw

945
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 3: his sword, so Branton strikes first, but just ends up

946
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 3: shattering his sword on George's magical armor. And eventually the

947
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 3: King he's he literally says, I like these knights. So

948
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 3: he decides, well, they're all going to have to go

949
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 3: save the princess together. They'll have to work together, George,

950
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 3: the six Knights, and the scheming creep Branton.

951
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 2: Yeah. The King sort of reminds them here that, like,

952
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 2: actually the important thing is saving her from the wizard.

953
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 2: We're getting a little sidetracked in the whole, like who

954
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 2: should get to marry her things? Yeah.

955
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 3: Yeah. Meanwhile, at Lodak's castle, we are going to check

956
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,720
Speaker 3: in with the princess. Now, Princess Helene is being taken

957
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 3: to her cell and there she meets a couple of

958
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 3: other princesses who are sisters. And this scene sort of

959
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 3: suggests that Lodak is running like a full time princess

960
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 3: dragon feeding operation. Like he's processing incoming princesses on a

961
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 3: bi weekly basis, so he always has some princesses in

962
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 3: the hopper when he feeds the ones that have already

963
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 3: been there to the to the dragon. So I think

964
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 3: he's like seasoning them in the dungeon while the dragon

965
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 3: eats the ones that have been there already.

966
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it also makes me wonder are there attached

967
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 2: skins for these princesses as well that result in some

968
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 2: sort of revenue income or magical item income. Yeah, it

969
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 2: seems like a big operation because this is not some

970
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 2: dusty old sorcerer. This man has a fabulous wardrobe, He

971
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,240
Speaker 2: has a big cut castle to upkeep, He has various

972
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 2: pets and curses to take care of. You know, you

973
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 2: gotta stay busy to keep that afloat.

974
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 3: It is indicated that that he asks for ransom. He

975
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 3: doesn't for Princess Helene because he says that she is

976
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 3: a special case. But what we're led to believe is

977
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 3: that normally, yeah, he's got princesses coming in all the time,

978
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 3: and he gets there, he gets their king fathers to

979
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 3: pay money. So these princesses think that they're going to

980
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 3: be fine because their father will pay the ransom required

981
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 3: to save them. Unfortunately, Lodac says their father did not

982
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 3: pay up, and instead he sent a company of knights

983
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 3: to rescue them, and the knights all died facing his

984
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 3: seven curses. I have questions about this, like would there

985
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 3: be an enough princesses to sustain this kind of operation indefinitely?

986
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 3: Like how does Loadak not exhaust the supply of princesses

987
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 3: at this rate?

988
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe he's working internationally. We don't know, Like

989
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 2: he's just in Christian Europe, Medieval Europe at this point,

990
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 2: but maybe he's also jetting off to uh and to

991
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 2: you know, to East Asia. At times he's heading he's

992
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 2: heading to Africa, South America, like he's got a full,

993
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 2: full global operation going here. Maybe he franchises.

994
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 3: I wonder if sometimes like he can't get a princess

995
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 3: and it's just like this week, I had to feed

996
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 3: my dragon an earl. Anyway, he tried a basil rathbone,

997
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,439
Speaker 3: tries to make Helene watch the other princesses being fed

998
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 3: to the dragon, but she won't look, and we don't

999
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 3: get to see the monster yet. So then Lodak explains, Hey,

1000
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 3: you know, there are some Knights who are coming to

1001
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 3: rescue you, but don't worry, they will fail. First of all,

1002
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 3: he says, Sir Branton is coming, and she seems not

1003
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 3: excited by this prospect, so I guess she doesn't like him.

1004
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 2: She's like, I'd like to be saved, but.

1005
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 3: Not a big fan of Sir Brant.

1006
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 2: Here.

1007
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 3: But there's also somebody coming named Sir George, and despite

1008
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 3: having never met him and not knowing who who he is,

1009
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 3: she's like, oh, George sounds cool.

1010
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and his main main attraction being that he's not

1011
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 2: Sir Branton.

1012
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 3: I guess, oh, that's a good point. Maybe she's just

1013
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 3: excited that it's anybody but Sir Branton. So Lodak is like, well,

1014
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,240
Speaker 3: I'll show you the young fool. And then once again

1015
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 3: we tune into Magical Remote Surveillance TV. So, like on

1016
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 3: a screen on the wall, Lodak shows George Branton and

1017
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 3: the other Nights approaching the First Curse. What is the

1018
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 3: first Curse? Well, you know what, I really like the

1019
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 3: set and the landscape they set up here. It is

1020
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 3: quite creepy. So they go into this this landscape of

1021
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 3: strangely shaped trees that at first I was like, what

1022
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 3: are we looking at? It almost looks like trees that

1023
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 3: have been pulled up out of the ground and you

1024
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:01,800
Speaker 3: can see the whole root structure around in this pyramid

1025
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 3: shaped kind of structure. But no, I don't think that's

1026
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 3: what it is. I think it's actually supposed to be

1027
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 3: trees that have been knocked over in some way at

1028
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 3: like ten feet up off the ground. But I gotta

1029
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 3: give him credit. I really like this set. It does

1030
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 3: make me feel uneasy what lives here? And then we

1031
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 3: find out it's an ogre. It's a big old ogre

1032
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 3: that starts trying to smash the knights, And I also

1033
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:31,320
Speaker 3: the ogre design. It's gross looking, it's creepy.

1034
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, this monster has like that. Obviously this is going

1035
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 2: to be something akin to amazing Colossal Man, but yeah,

1036
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 2: in terms of just being this giant humanoid. But yeah,

1037
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 2: also has this kind of like were wolfy wolfman quality

1038
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 2: to it, and also seems I don't know, I ended

1039
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 2: up feeling more sorry for this creature than anything because

1040
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 2: he doesn't really do much. He just kind of stands

1041
00:55:56,640 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 2: there and howls while Knights attempt he's got like.

1042
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 3: One thing that looked creepy to me about him is

1043
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 3: that it's like he's got different kinds of teeth in

1044
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 3: his mouth, So they're not just like a row of

1045
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 3: sharp teeth. It's like he has teeth from three different

1046
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 3: kinds of creatures all in the same mouth.

1047
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:16,879
Speaker 2: This may also be the character I've read. I think

1048
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 2: Michael Weldon points out that Richard Keel is in this

1049
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 2: movie but is completely uncredited. This would seem to be

1050
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 2: the role you would have him in if you had

1051
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 2: an uncredited Richard Keel.

1052
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 3: I wonder, But I know what you're saying about feeling

1053
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 3: sad for the creature, because it almost does seem like

1054
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 3: he's just trying to hang out in this little blasted

1055
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 3: landscape here, and then these things come in and start

1056
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 3: poking at him with spears.

1057
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 2: And yeah, I know what's happening. Yeah, he didn't ask

1058
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 2: to be the first curse maybe, I mean, that's the thing.

1059
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 2: He's somebody who is cursed.

1060
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. So there's a long battle scene. George

1061
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 3: eventually defeats the Ogre by galloping in circles around him

1062
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:59,879
Speaker 3: on his magically fast horse, and the Ogre is trying

1063
00:56:59,920 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 3: to like follow him in order to crush him, but

1064
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 3: round he goes round around in circles, and then the

1065
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 3: Ogre becomes dizzy and falls over, and then George pokes

1066
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 3: him in the heart with his sword.

1067
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. Can't be that satisfying of the victory, honestly.

1068
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 3: Oh, and some of the Knights are killed here. So

1069
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 3: Sir Ulrich and Sir Pedro are killed by the Ogre

1070
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 3: and they have a little funeral for them and show

1071
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 3: them being buried, and Sir Brandon skips the funeral he's

1072
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 3: scouting ahead. Meanwhile, there are just like some scenes in

1073
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 3: the castle where Helene is running around. She like sneaks

1074
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 3: out of her cell and is running around getting scared

1075
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 3: by various things, one of which is shrunken people inside

1076
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 3: a cage. There's like dull sized people in a little

1077
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 3: cage saying help us, help us, like attack of the

1078
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 3: puppet people. Yeah, a Lodax castle also has like these

1079
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 3: like blue ghules and guys with conical heads, and people

1080
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 3: in plague doctor like bird masks, and just various people

1081
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 3: being scary.

1082
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, but mostly cone heads. There a lot of coneheads.

1083
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 3: So on the road the Knights travel on to the

1084
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 3: next curse, which is a vile, misty swamp full of

1085
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 3: bubbling acid pools. In this swamp, the Knights become separated

1086
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 3: from one another and Sir Anthony falls into a bubbling

1087
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 3: acid pool. George tries to go save him, and Branton

1088
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 3: intentionally knocks George into the pool. Somehow, George doesn't realize

1089
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 3: this later. I don't know if he thinks it was

1090
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 3: an accident or he doesn't realize somebody kicked him. I'm

1091
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 3: not sure.

1092
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 2: But the result is pretty gruesome because we don't get

1093
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 2: You might expect it from a movie like this. You

1094
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 2: might expect it to be like that high school biology

1095
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 2: classroom skeleton rising to the surface. No, what we get

1096
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 2: is is a big grimmer.

1097
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 3: It's like a skull with very bleached white, gritted teeth,

1098
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 3: and then where the flesh would be over the skull

1099
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 3: is just like bubble gum has been stretched over the bone.

1100
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 2: But the bubblegum that's had all the flavor chewed out

1101
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 2: of it.

1102
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a nasty looking And it happens like

1103
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 3: immediately Anthony's He's like swimming in the pool, going and

1104
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 3: being like help, help, and then it cuts away and

1105
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 3: then cuts back and now he's just the skull.

1106
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 2: Done for fatality.

1107
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 3: But George survives the acid pool. I think because of

1108
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 3: his magical armor. I assume that's the reason.

1109
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's indestructible on this stuff. Now.

1110
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, back at the witch Hut, Sybil finally escapes the basement.

1111
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 3: She realized owing her her friends there in the witchholder

1112
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 3: like playing chess, and she realizes George is in danger,

1113
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 3: so she decides she has to intervene to save him.

1114
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 3: But first she's gonna watch him on magic TV. So

1115
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 3: we see her watching in the magic mirror. The camp

1116
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 3: of the Knights after Anthony also has died, So now

1117
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 3: there are only three of the other Knights left, I think,

1118
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 3: Sir James of Scotland, Sir Patrick of Ireland, and Sir

1119
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 3: Denis of France. And at the camp, Sir Branton is

1120
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 3: giving a speech trying to convince the other Knights to

1121
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 3: abandon the journey. He's like, go home, you, you don't

1122
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 3: have to risk your lives anymore. But the other Knights refuse,

1123
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 3: and Sir Patrick mocks him. He says his tongue is

1124
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 3: like the honey from a clover patch. Is that an expression?

1125
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 3: I've never heard that.

1126
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 2: I've only ever heard it in this movie.

1127
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 3: So while the other night's sleep, Sir Branton sneaks off

1128
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 3: alone to a house in the countryside, all for an

1129
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 3: illicit rendezvous with Loadak. So here we get a big twist.

1130
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 3: Turns out they have been conspiring together from the beginning.

1131
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,959
Speaker 3: Remember that ring with a dragon on it that Sir

1132
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 3: Branton had and the King noticed and then nobody said

1133
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 3: anything about. So it works like this. Lodak lost his

1134
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 3: magic ring a while back. Sir Branton found it. Lodak

1135
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 3: wants the ring back, but he can't take it because

1136
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,920
Speaker 3: the ring protects itself against being taken by force. So

1137
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 3: they make a deal. In exchange for the return of

1138
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 3: the ring, Lodak will help Sir Branton win the hand

1139
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 3: of Princess Helene and the reward of half of the

1140
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 3: King's kingdom for her rescue. So he would do that

1141
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 3: by staging this abduction and then allowing Sir Branton to

1142
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 3: bring her back.

1143
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 2: I love it. Yeah, a nice side scheme to everything here.

1144
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 2: The plot dickens.

1145
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 3: It is a good twist and but clearly the party.

1146
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 3: One thing I like about it is that they're not

1147
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 3: just cleanly in league like the parties involved here distrust

1148
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:28,880
Speaker 3: one another. They are both snakes, and they're both wondering,

1149
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 3: how will the other one try to betray me? Right?

1150
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, either one will stab the other one in the

1151
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 2: back once they have what they want.

1152
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 3: Oh and then suddenly, while they're talking, Lodak is like, oh,

1153
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 3: Sir Denis of France is coming, you know he So

1154
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 3: Sir Denis noticed Branton leaving the camp early in the morning,

1155
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 3: and he followed him to investigate. While everybody else is sleeping.

1156
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 3: Lodak detects he's coming, but don't worry. He has a plan.

1157
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 3: It's some kind of horrible love trap, Like he sees

1158
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 3: Sir Denis coming and then he's like, ah, he's a

1159
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 3: Frenchman and so I will get him with a pretty woman.

1160
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 3: So suddenly, a while Dennis is approaching this house that

1161
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 3: he's trying to investigate, just like a pretty lady just

1162
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 3: wanders onto the screen singing Freira Shaka, and Sir Dennis

1163
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 3: is like, there can't be anything suspicious about this. So

1164
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 3: he's just like monto more, I'm in love. He is

1165
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 3: successfully catfished by magic. I guess you would call this witchfished.

1166
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 3: And so he's like they're just sitting there smooching, and

1167
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 3: then suddenly she transforms into a witch and tries to

1168
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 3: bite his neck. And the witch has like the witch

1169
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 3: is creepy looking, she's got like one eye melting off

1170
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 3: of her head. She tries to bite him in the neck,

1171
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 3: but Sir George comes to the rescue. Dennis is saved

1172
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 3: because George does something like with his magic shield and

1173
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 3: it like emits light that scares the witch and makes

1174
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 3: her vaporize. Oh and then I like how Dennis is

1175
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 3: He just fully plays into the Lodax assumed seo type

1176
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 3: here when he's talking to George, He's like, yeah, Lodak

1177
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 3: got me. He must have known I was French.

1178
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean it's enough to make you wonder are

1179
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 2: these knights even real? Were they really captured knights or

1180
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 2: were they just made by sorcery and therefore based on

1181
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 2: just broad stereotypes.

1182
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 3: That's funny. Yeah. Oh, and then there's a confrontation where

1183
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 3: George and Dennis go into the house to see Sir Branton,

1184
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 3: but Branton lies his way out of it. And there's

1185
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 3: also after they leave, there's a funny scene where the

1186
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 3: witch like they have a performance review the witch does

1187
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 3: with Lodak, and she's like, I almost killed him.

1188
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 2: I tried, but you know that's not gonna cut it.

1189
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 2: So what does he do? Bam, turns her into a spider.

1190
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 2: All right, So how far into the curses are we now, Joe,

1191
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 2: This is a good question.

1192
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 3: I sort of got confused trying to count the curses.

1193
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 3: So the ogre is the first curse, and the swamp

1194
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 3: with the acid pools, I think that's the second curse.

1195
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:06,600
Speaker 2: Okay, we're at least two.

1196
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 3: In third curse is I think the witch who looks

1197
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 3: like a French lady.

1198
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so that would mean we're ready for four

1199
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 2: at this point.

1200
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 3: But when when I think about the rest of it,

1201
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 3: it doesn't add up. I'm like, what are the seven curses?

1202
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 2: Well, the next one is definitely a doozy.

1203
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 3: Oh my lord? Yeah, okay, So at this point I

1204
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:37,480
Speaker 3: think somehow Sir James of Scotland and Sir Dennis of

1205
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 3: France like, go ahead to investigate what's down the road,

1206
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 3: and that leaves Sir George, Sir Branton and Sir Patrick

1207
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:50,440
Speaker 3: of Ireland and the three of them they they they're

1208
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:54,120
Speaker 3: approaching their their comrades. But the comrades who went ahead

1209
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:58,800
Speaker 3: are now just like melted. They're horribly irradiated, covered in blisters.

1210
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 3: Their hair is gone, their skin is like peeling away

1211
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 3: like old wallpaper.

1212
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 2: Is.

1213
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 3: It's disgusting, absolutely disgusting. You see them in like a cave,

1214
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 3: I think, staring into this yellow spiral and they're shirtless

1215
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 3: and their hair is gone. And then they turn and

1216
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,440
Speaker 3: look into the camera and they're all messed up, partially melted,

1217
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 3: and then you see their like silhouettes coming over a

1218
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 3: hilltop and then they just disappear. It's like they turn

1219
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 3: to dust.

1220
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, in a way, almost like a decade appropriate version

1221
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 2: of the Robocot melt scene, you know, because it's like

1222
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:38,439
Speaker 2: they're coming right at us. They look horrible, they look

1223
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 2: in pain. And it's this moment especially where I can think,

1224
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 2: I can rationalize. It's like, Okay, I could see where

1225
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 2: some sensors might have had a problem with the tonal

1226
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 2: inconsistency of this film. One second, it's a chimpanzee playing chess,

1227
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 2: and then later on it's this.

1228
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, can't you just imagine Sir Branton here in ray

1229
01:05:56,840 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 3: wise fashion and being like, don't touch me in yeah,

1230
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 3: all right, So those nights. They're gone melted, blasted by

1231
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 3: whatever that the yellow spiral thing was. Now somewhere in

1232
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 3: here this may actually have already happened, or it's somewhere

1233
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 3: in here that there's a whole scene where Sybil back

1234
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 3: at home, is trying to intervene to help George. She

1235
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 3: wants to like brew up a potion and do a

1236
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 3: spell that will help him somehow, but she ends up

1237
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 3: having the exact opposite of her intended effect, and she

1238
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 3: accidentally disables his magic powers instead.

1239
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 2: This is the sibyl is cooking scene that I referenced earlier,

1240
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 2: And even though it doesn't pay off for her, it's

1241
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 2: still a fabulous sequence because again, the music just gets

1242
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 2: super weird. You got those red gels, and yeah, she's

1243
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 2: just cooking away and I love it.

1244
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 3: And you could tell she's improvising, like she she doesn't

1245
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 3: remember the recipe, so she's you know, it's like she's

1246
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 3: playing a solo here, making it up as she goes, Yeah,

1247
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 3: well I think I need the ear of a rabbit.

1248
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 3: That's right, that's it.

1249
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, she doesn't have the recipe in front of her,

1250
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 2: she doesn't have everything prepared, but oh man, her cauldron

1251
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 2: is an upturned monster skull.

1252
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 3: Yeah that's good.

1253
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 2: So I love everything about this sequence, even if it

1254
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 2: doesn't really pay off the way she's hoping it will.

1255
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 3: So after this, Sir Branton leads George and Sir Patrick Ireland,

1256
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 3: the last of the six Nights, into a cave and

1257
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 3: then he like leads him into the cave I can't remember.

1258
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 3: He kind of like taunts them somehow and makes them

1259
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 3: follow him, and then they go into the cave and

1260
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 3: then he leaves the cave and it the door of

1261
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 3: the cave closes behind him, so they're trapped inside. And

1262
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 3: then these weird green mask ghosts come out. They're like

1263
01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 3: floating in the air and wailing, and one of the

1264
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 3: ghosts kills Sir Patrick sort of just by flying into

1265
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 3: his face and then seeping into him.

1266
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's kind of a hard to follow sequence,

1267
01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 2: but the ghosts are creepy, the music is good. The

1268
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 2: ghost kind of looked like shrunken heads, and like you said,

1269
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 2: also like masks. So uh, yeah, it mostly works. It does.

1270
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 3: The one thing that works less well is that the

1271
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 3: tone of what follows. So Sir Patrick dies and he

1272
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 3: can be heard violently screaming George help me. It's like

1273
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 3: really painful to hear ragged screaming desperate. But then a

1274
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 3: ghost face flies into the wall of the cave and

1275
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 3: a door opens to the outside, so like they were

1276
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:35,120
Speaker 3: trapped inside. Oh and George had tried to use his

1277
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 3: sword to open the door because it's supposed to open

1278
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 3: any doors, but it has been deactivated from afar by Sybil,

1279
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 3: so that didn't work. And so yeah, this ghost face

1280
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 3: flies into the wall, the wall opens up yet again,

1281
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 3: and then the voice of Sir Patrick, still screaming in

1282
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:54,880
Speaker 3: exactly the same way, says George.

1283
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 2: Through the wall. Yeah, and yeah, it's hard to follow

1284
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 2: exactly what has happened here, and which character is it

1285
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 2: that then tells us in a bit here and explains that, oh,

1286
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:08,480
Speaker 2: well it's Patrick's faith.

1287
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:13,519
Speaker 3: That yeah, Lodak explains it. Actually, So George escapes the

1288
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 3: cave because of whatever that was, the like face flying

1289
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:18,840
Speaker 3: into the wall and the screaming voices door it opened.

1290
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 3: George gets out. There's this lingering shot of Sir Patrick's

1291
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,120
Speaker 3: dead body in the cave as the wall closes behind

1292
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:27,639
Speaker 3: George on his way out. Then we see once again

1293
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:32,679
Speaker 3: somebody watching magic remote TV Loadak and Sir Branton are

1294
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 3: looking upon a magic fire scheming, and Sir Branton says,

1295
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 3: was it magic? Loadak says, no, not magic. Sir Branton says,

1296
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 3: then how did George escape. Loadak says, I think, yes,

1297
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 3: something stronger than magic, the power of Patrick's faith.

1298
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, where does that come from? We have not

1299
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:59,639
Speaker 2: There's been nothing to establish that Patrick was particularly religious.

1300
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 2: All we know is that he is Irish and he

1301
01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 2: doesn't even like call out to God or Jesus or

1302
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 2: anything during that final encounter, Like that alone would have

1303
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:13,639
Speaker 2: been if he was like Jesus Christ, save our hero

1304
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 2: or something anything, But no, it's it's just apparently his

1305
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 2: faith was strong enough that God intervened.

1306
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, I agree with all of that very strange,

1307
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:26,720
Speaker 3: but I think it's funny that Lodak acknowledges that his

1308
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:30,200
Speaker 3: powers are helpless in the face of like prayer, so

1309
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:33,040
Speaker 3: his enemies would just like pray to God to defeat

1310
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:33,800
Speaker 3: him they could win.

1311
01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 2: I guess he's kind of like, well, God only gets

1312
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:42,000
Speaker 2: involved directly on rare occasions, so it's gonna happen every

1313
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:43,800
Speaker 2: now and then, but not to the extent that it's

1314
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:45,599
Speaker 2: going to actually derail my plans here.

1315
01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 3: Yeah. So anyway, this seems to be the last of

1316
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,599
Speaker 3: the seven curses somehow, or maybe there's one still at

1317
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 3: the castle something like. George gallops up to.

1318
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 2: No way, we're past five here this don't know.

1319
01:10:57,800 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 3: Where are the others. George gallops to the castle on

1320
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 3: his white horse, and as he wanders through the deserted courtyard,

1321
01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 3: a heavy wooden door creaks open by itself to allow

1322
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:13,880
Speaker 3: him inside. And Lodak and Branton they know he's here.

1323
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 3: They're watching as he heads towards helene cell, and Lodak says,

1324
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:20,479
Speaker 3: don't worry about it, Sir Branton, It'll all work out

1325
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 3: just fine. So George gets to Helene's cell, he greets her.

1326
01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:28,320
Speaker 3: Helene says, George, Oh, I must be dreaming, but you are,

1327
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 3: George or is this just more of Lodak's magic? And

1328
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 3: he I guess he has to be like, Hi, you

1329
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 3: know I've been spying on you in the magic pool

1330
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:41,280
Speaker 3: for years but we have not met. But she is

1331
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 3: happy to see him, and there's some type of parody here,

1332
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 3: because she says Lodak has been showing her visions of

1333
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:51,599
Speaker 3: him just to torture her. So they like both only

1334
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:55,640
Speaker 3: know one another from magical remote surveillance, and this is

1335
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 3: the first time either one has seen the other in person.

1336
01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:02,200
Speaker 3: They start smooching. Of course there's kissing there, and what

1337
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:05,519
Speaker 3: about Sir Branton? Who cares? So they try to sneak out,

1338
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 3: but just as they are able to reach the front door,

1339
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:13,640
Speaker 3: Lodak springs a trap. His weird minions magically materialized in

1340
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 3: front of the exit, and George and Helene are caught.

1341
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:21,920
Speaker 3: Sir Branton's treachery is revealed. Branton, thinking that the deal

1342
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 3: has been finished, gives the magical ring back to Lodak,

1343
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 3: and then Helene says she will happily leave with Sir Branton. Huh,

1344
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 3: I thought she didn't really like him. Why was she

1345
01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:34,080
Speaker 3: so happy to go with him? I mean, I guess

1346
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:35,680
Speaker 3: it would kind of make sense, you'd be happy to

1347
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 3: leave with anybody. But you know, it's surprising to the viewer.

1348
01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 3: But guess what, it's another double cross. We sort of

1349
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 3: saw this coming, didn't we. You can't trust Lodak captured

1350
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 3: well in this production still that I drug rob or

1351
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:54,559
Speaker 3: so Sir Branton is like embracing Helene and she it's

1352
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 3: the witch double cross again.

1353
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 2: Hagged again, but he's not going to get off that.

1354
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 3: No, of course, no, Loadak says, did you think I

1355
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:05,479
Speaker 3: did you really think I'd keep my word once I

1356
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:10,680
Speaker 3: had the ring? And Brandon seems genuinely shocked and betrayed.

1357
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 3: Did you notice like it's weird, how like surprised he

1358
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 3: seems by this?

1359
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:17,799
Speaker 2: But I made a deal with an evil wizard.

1360
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like we already even talked about this, Like

1361
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:24,679
Speaker 3: how does he I don't know, but Sir Branton says

1362
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:28,080
Speaker 3: she belongs to me. We made a bargain, and Lodak says,

1363
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:31,599
Speaker 3: I don't bargain with mortals. I destroy them. And then

1364
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:34,799
Speaker 3: we get the magical destruction of Branton. What does Lodak

1365
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:37,320
Speaker 3: do to him? Does he summon an ogre to crush

1366
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 3: him like a grape? Does he create another heat tornado

1367
01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:41,599
Speaker 3: to melt his flesh away?

1368
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 2: No?

1369
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 3: He transforms Sir Branton into a mounted head on the wall,

1370
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:49,599
Speaker 3: like a stuffed deer head at a hunting lodge.

1371
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 2: And the effect is pretty funny here.

1372
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 3: Yes, it does look funny. In fact, I don't I'm

1373
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 3: not even sure it's not just the actor sticking his

1374
01:13:58,120 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 3: head through a hole in the wall.

1375
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 2: Been it might have been that simple, or it might

1376
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 2: have been some you know, some optical special effects that

1377
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 2: especially to a modern view, or you know, we're liable

1378
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:10,719
Speaker 2: to miss because we take that sort of thing for granted. Yeah.

1379
01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:15,080
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, back at home, we see more of Sybil trying

1380
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 3: to help George. She is trying to remember the words

1381
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 3: to a spell that she knows she could use to

1382
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 3: save George and defeat Lodak, but she can't remember the words.

1383
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:26,840
Speaker 3: She knows, like, there's like a number of lines and

1384
01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 3: they all rhyme with sack, I think, but you can't

1385
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 3: remember the last word in the last line. Turns out

1386
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 3: it is attack.

1387
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:34,519
Speaker 2: I think.

1388
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:36,760
Speaker 3: The last line when she finally does remember it later,

1389
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:41,200
Speaker 3: it's help my son to attack. It seems like that'd

1390
01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:44,600
Speaker 3: be kind of obvious, but magic's complicated, It's true. She

1391
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 3: decides to transform into a bird and fly to Lodak's castle,

1392
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:50,679
Speaker 3: and she's going to figure out the spell on the way.

1393
01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:55,679
Speaker 3: So at Lodak's castle, Lodak brings Helene to a dungeon

1394
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:58,880
Speaker 3: room where George is shirtless and tied to a rack,

1395
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 3: and he he's, uh, this part's creepy. Yeah, He's like, hmm,

1396
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 3: show me what young mortals in love dude to bid

1397
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 3: farewell before they die. So I think he just wants

1398
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 3: to watch them make out a little.

1399
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:15,519
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and and and mock them. But he's like

1400
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 2: two feet away from them, maybe.

1401
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 3: Yes, standing right there, and they're they're smooching, and then

1402
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 3: he's like, m how tender. Uh yeah, but too bad,

1403
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:29,680
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's too late for love now. Now

1404
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,040
Speaker 3: you're gonna die. Uh. So they both say they love

1405
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 3: each other, and George is the plan is he's gonna

1406
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:38,080
Speaker 3: have to watch through the window as Helene has fed

1407
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 3: to the dragon, much like she was supposed to watch

1408
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 3: as the other princesses were fed to the dragon.

1409
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 2: Now, have we had the part where Lodak and Sybil

1410
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 2: have their final zoom conference with each other and he

1411
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 2: destroys her mirror. We may we may have skipped over

1412
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:52,639
Speaker 2: that by one.

1413
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I think I forgot to mention that scene.

1414
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:59,280
Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's wonderfully spicy because like it's like Zdak

1415
01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 2: calls in on the magic mirror and he's like, hmm, Sybil,

1416
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:05,639
Speaker 2: you're looking old, and I just stop to a really

1417
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 2: toxic start between these two and they kind of talk

1418
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,880
Speaker 2: trash to each other, and then he destroys her mirror

1419
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 2: and he's like, you're not getting interfere with my plants.

1420
01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 3: Oh, but Lodack's in for a surprise. So we get

1421
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 3: a scene of Lodac's minions preparing a feast, and one

1422
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,600
Speaker 3: of them is supposed to go get the cage of

1423
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:27,000
Speaker 3: shrunken people like the puppet people to put in the stew.

1424
01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:30,559
Speaker 3: But he drops the cage and they escape, and it's

1425
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:32,759
Speaker 3: a repeat of attack of the Puppet People. It's literally

1426
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:36,559
Speaker 3: like the shrunken people get out and start like setting

1427
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:38,920
Speaker 3: up traps and wreaking havoc within the room.

1428
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 2: It's nice they condensed all of that into a short

1429
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 2: segment in a much better film. Yeah.

1430
01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the puppet people, for some reason, they break

1431
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:50,799
Speaker 3: into George's cell and they bring him his magic sword

1432
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:53,000
Speaker 3: and they use it to cut the ropes that are

1433
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:56,479
Speaker 3: binding our hero. They set him free. George thanks them.

1434
01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:58,679
Speaker 3: He tells them that even though the sword has lost

1435
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 3: its magic, it's still a which.

1436
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like an escalator, you know, it breaks down,

1437
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 2: nish Hedberg pointed out, still stares. That's a good point.

1438
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the dragon is coming to eat Helene and

1439
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 3: she's you know, like tied up there for the dragon

1440
01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:16,120
Speaker 3: to eat. She's screaming in terror. And you know what

1441
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:20,040
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, This dragon looks surprisingly good. I would say,

1442
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:23,720
Speaker 3: actually shockingly good. For a Bert Eye Gordon movie. This is,

1443
01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:27,639
Speaker 3: without doubt the best looking special effect I've ever seen

1444
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:28,519
Speaker 3: from mister Big.

1445
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:32,200
Speaker 2: Absolutely looks looks amazing. You know, obviously you see it

1446
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 2: in motion. You know that it's an effect, you know,

1447
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:38,839
Speaker 2: but it's it is very well done, and it's shooting flames.

1448
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:40,280
Speaker 2: It looks dangerous and wild.

1449
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:43,719
Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's like a big two headed dragon breathing fire.

1450
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:47,960
Speaker 3: It has frills on its head heads. And George comes

1451
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 3: in on his horse. He's trying to save Helene, squaring

1452
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 3: off against the dragon with his lance. And then Sybil arrives.

1453
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 3: She she like parks next to Lodak, who is looking

1454
01:17:57,479 --> 01:18:01,360
Speaker 3: down from above on a parapet, and Lodak says, Sybil,

1455
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 3: come to watch your boy die. But Sybil, she's busy

1456
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 3: trying to remember the next line of the spell to

1457
01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:11,559
Speaker 3: restore George's magic. I gotta say in the performance here,

1458
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 3: she does not seem to have the appropriate sense of urgency.

1459
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:18,479
Speaker 3: She's still just doing her kind of absent minded, only

1460
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 3: half present, you know what was that next line? But

1461
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 3: eventually she does come up, she doesn't just remember it.

1462
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:29,639
Speaker 3: Lodak cues her, you know. Lodak sees that George's magical

1463
01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 3: weapons are not working against the dragon, and Lodak says

1464
01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 3: he's even lost the power to attack. And then Sibyl's like, oh,

1465
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 3: that's the word attack. Give my boy the power to attack,

1466
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:42,800
Speaker 3: and so now I guess he's powered up once again.

1467
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 3: Oh and then while Lodak is distracted, Sybil steals Lodak's ring.

1468
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 2: That's good, yep, yep. I'm a little foggy on how

1469
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 2: it works though, because we were told earlier you couldn't

1470
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 2: be taken by force, but I guess it can be

1471
01:18:56,880 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 2: slipped off while you're looking the other way. Too much

1472
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:02,519
Speaker 2: wizard grease on your fingers there.

1473
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 3: Now, Loadak doesn't consider himself defeated yet. She takes his ring,

1474
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 3: but he says they will still die. I curse you,

1475
01:19:09,560 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 3: curse upon curse, and so George, Oh, here's how the

1476
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 3: math works out. Now that I'm remembering it, I think

1477
01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:21,080
Speaker 3: the dragon itself is the sixth the curse. And then

1478
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 3: Lodak explains that the seventh curse is himself is Lodak.

1479
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 2: That's fitting. That's fitting.

1480
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Lodak seems ready to blast out some kind

1481
01:19:31,240 --> 01:19:35,720
Speaker 3: of killing magic, but then, in a fantastic payoff to

1482
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 3: what seemed like a really pointless setup that we were

1483
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 3: even making fun of earlier, Sybil turns into a panther

1484
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 3: and mauls Lodak, killing him. It's George's favorite trick when

1485
01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 3: he was a boy.

1486
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 2: And now it's paid off once more. It's great and

1487
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:54,519
Speaker 2: it's a great moment when Sybil gets her come up

1488
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Speaker 2: and see her because again Lodak has not considered her

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01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:00,160
Speaker 2: threat at all the entire time, and now she she

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01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:03,160
Speaker 2: has completely defeated him. For George, I get, you know,

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01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:05,240
Speaker 2: George is the hero. I get. I don't know. I

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01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:06,360
Speaker 2: feel like Sybil's the hero.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Sybil does most of the work, like she

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01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:12,240
Speaker 3: enchants all of the items that allow George to defeat

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01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:16,479
Speaker 3: these monsters and stuff. I would say the most the

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01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:19,800
Speaker 3: craftiest thing that George does of his own accord is

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01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:22,599
Speaker 3: actually when he tricks Sybil into going in the basement

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01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 3: at the beginning and traps her there and his it

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01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,720
Speaker 3: is and most of his equipment does the.

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Speaker 2: Rest yeah, which again she supplied.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, okay, so all is all is restored, All

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01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 3: is happy now, and we go back to the castle

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01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:41,240
Speaker 3: where the king is and Helene and George of return

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01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 3: and it seems like the king approves of George now,

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01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:47,080
Speaker 3: so of course they're going to get married somehow. The

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01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:50,320
Speaker 3: Six Nights are alive again. They just are shown walking

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01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:53,160
Speaker 3: into the throne room. I don't think there's any explanation

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01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:57,120
Speaker 3: of how they're not dead. Did you pick up anything there?

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01:20:57,479 --> 01:20:59,439
Speaker 2: I kind of I was thinking about this and I

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01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 2: was like, oh, I guess it's because you know, Sybil's

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01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 2: brother whenever he froze them, like he made them his

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01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:09,040
Speaker 2: sorceress slaves forever. So it's like, you guys are not

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01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 2: getting out of this just because you died horribly in

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01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 2: this quest. Like no, no, no, Sybil. You belong to

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01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:18,120
Speaker 2: Sybil forever and you have to serve her son or

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01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 2: whoever happens to have the reins here.

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Speaker 3: It's like a Warlock pact. It's like, yeah, if you die,

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01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:25,799
Speaker 3: you still you go to your you're in a Vernas,

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01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 3: and you still have to serve the warlock. The patron.

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01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:31,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, they still seem upbeat about it, but I don't

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01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 2: think they have any choice in the matter.

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01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 3: Well, who's complaining. We get to hear all those wonderful

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01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 3: accents again. And and then Sybil is also hanging out

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01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:41,880
Speaker 3: in the throne room. I guess she's like the court sorceress.

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01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:45,639
Speaker 3: Now she's gonna she's gonna heal the king's pink eye.

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01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:49,680
Speaker 3: And I think that's that's as about as happy an

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01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 3: ending as one could ask for.

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01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 2: It's really the rise of Sybil too, because she's gonna

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01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:57,759
Speaker 2: basically be running the place I was not super impressed

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01:21:57,760 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 2: by the king. Uh, Sybil is totally ruling this kingdom.

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01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:04,120
Speaker 2: Now there's a huge power vacuum left by the death

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01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:07,280
Speaker 2: of Lodak. So yeah, this is the reign of Sybil

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01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:07,800
Speaker 2: day one.

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01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:12,439
Speaker 3: I agree with that. The king's previous most decisive moments

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01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 3: were things like I like these nights.

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01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:19,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, more belly dancing please. Yeah.

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01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 3: Well, I pledge fealty to Lady Sybil. It may she

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01:22:22,600 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 3: rain for ten million years.

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Speaker 2: All right. Well this one was a really fun one. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I encourage everyone out there to see this one. If

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Speaker 2: if you were a fan of the old MA St

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Speaker 2: three k version or the newer Riff tracks. Yeah, do that.

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01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 2: It's a great film to enjoy rift, but it also

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01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:41,920
Speaker 2: more than stands up on its own and again, if

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01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:43,640
Speaker 2: you do seek it out to watch it, watch it

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01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:45,439
Speaker 2: in the best quality you can get your hands on.

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Speaker 2: All right, Just a reminder that Stuff to Blow your

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Speaker 2: if the math is all right, I'll correct here. This

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Speaker 2: was one forty eight, so we're almost a one fifty.

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Speaker 3: Wow, how time goes by?

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