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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Weird How Cinema Rewind. This is Rob

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Speaker 1: it's Weird How Cinema Rewind. This is an older episode

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Speaker 1: of Weird House Cinema. Uh, this is what a terminate

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Speaker 1: Italian Terminator rip off movie that we did. Yes, basically, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got some some John Saxon action in here. We've

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Speaker 1: got some George Eastman action in here. It's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff blows up. There's some arm wrestling.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this has it all the personable George Eastman

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Speaker 1: and it's an Arizona movie. So if you if you

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Speaker 1: haven't heard this episode, well now at the time, welcome

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Speaker 1: to Stuff to Blow your mind, a production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird How Cinema. This is

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Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick. And today we're going

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Speaker 1: to be taking a look at the nineteen eight six

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Speaker 1: film Hands of Steel, which is an Italian Terminator clone

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Speaker 1: that asks the question not just cana cyborg fall in love,

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Speaker 1: That's right. This one also known as a Vendetta dal

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Speaker 1: futuro I guess Vendetta of the future. Uh. And then

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Speaker 1: I've also seen it credited with another title, um um,

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Speaker 1: the Italian for hands of stone. Maybe that was a

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Speaker 1: working title. I'm not sure that many did. Pietra. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: why would it be hands of stone? This cyborg definitely

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Speaker 1: does not have stone in him. He has metal in him.

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Speaker 1: We see it up close. Now, there was a funny

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Speaker 1: thing about this. You might ask, Okay, is this movie

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Speaker 1: an Italian rip off of Terminator? And the answer is yes.

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Speaker 1: But it's more than that. It's also, as we've said,

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Speaker 1: it's about love and it's about arm wrestling. But I

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Speaker 1: would say there's a strange quality this movie has, which

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Speaker 1: is that it rips off movies that po to date it.

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Speaker 1: So when I was watching, I was thinking, it's not

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Speaker 1: just a rip off of Terminator, it's also in a

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Speaker 1: way a rip off of RoboCop. The RoboCop didn't come

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Speaker 1: out until at least a year after this movie was made,

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Speaker 1: and it's also kind of a rip off of Universal Soldier,

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Speaker 1: So actually it's uh, it's what's the word for that?

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Speaker 1: It's almost kind of a mystical concept of like the

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Speaker 1: idea that predates the thing from which it is derived. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is is a holy artifact. This this movie. I

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Speaker 1: could I was also thinking about this when it came out,

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, this was probably also influenced by

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Speaker 1: Over the Top, the stallone arm wrestling movie, but that

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Speaker 1: so you see a lot of that going on in this.

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Speaker 1: Now to your point, it does have elements from these

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Speaker 1: other films. I've seen it referred to as a hybrid

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Speaker 1: you know. Uh, They're varying degrees of artfulness of doing it.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, a lot of films came out influenced by Terminator.

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Speaker 1: Um not all of them. Uh, we're great, but but

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Speaker 1: Little known fact the state motto of Arizona the cyborg state. Yeah. Also,

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Speaker 1: that our hero in this is thirty percent human, se robot,

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Speaker 1: Not Nomda? Cinema of Italian director Sergio Martino, who is

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Speaker 1: One picture from Sergio Martino that is near and dear

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Speaker 1: But it's a it's a wonderful film about fish people

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Speaker 1: but he shares screenplay credit here with five other people.

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Speaker 1: Francis Turner, because he was played by John Saxon, who

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Speaker 1: but so John Saxon is weird because he's one of

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Speaker 1: betrayed betrayed people. It was like the worst kind of

423
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Speaker 1: betrayal as imagined by Dante. And they're like frozen in

424
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Speaker 1: ice together right at the bottom of hell before you

425
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Speaker 1: get to Satan himself. And it's Count Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggieri,

426
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: I think, and one of them is just gnawing on

427
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Speaker 1: the other one's head like it's a ham. Yeah. So

428
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: it's that energy without any of that um uh, without

429
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 1: any of that depth. Uh. But it's like, I think

430
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Speaker 1: he's supposed to have been a guy who in his

431
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,439
Speaker 1: family who were shipwrecked on this Greek island, and then

432
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Speaker 1: he had to eat them and it drew drove in

433
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Speaker 1: mad and so now he's just a cannibal wild man

434
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Speaker 1: who kills and eats anybody who shows up to vacation there. Uh.

435
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: He dies at the end, and the memorable scene is

436
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: that he's disemboweled and then he pulls out some of

437
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: his own intestines and starts chewing on them. Um, so

438
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's a notoriously grizzly scene and

439
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: um and otherwise it kind of I guess, slow film,

440
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 1: but it's one of those where kind of like Texas

441
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: Chainsaw Masker, where the the film quality is such that

442
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: everything feels slightly more real because it feels like you're watching, um,

443
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 1: like a documentary footage or something. Yeah. Yeah, Eastman, I

444
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: would say, generally exists at the nexus of a lot

445
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: of really gross movies. Yeah. Uh. They did a sequel again,

446
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: titled Absurd, and apparently the story on this was like

447
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 1: they're they're like, okay, we made money off of this

448
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: first one. It was actually a hit, so we're gonna

449
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Speaker 1: do a sequel, and Easton was like, I don't know,

450
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: and they're like and then and then Jodi Amat is like,

451
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 1: here's the script, and Eastman's like, yash. So Eastman rewrites

452
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: it and it's essentially a Halloween clone. Uh, but it

453
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Speaker 1: has some memorable scenes in it, and his character in

454
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Speaker 1: that is named Mikos, and it's a little more pronounced

455
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Speaker 1: that he has some sort of mutant healing factor. But

456
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 1: in that that one, he doesn't have any makeup. It's

457
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Speaker 1: just straight Eastman crazy face, which I think is one

458
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Speaker 1: of the appeals of character actors like Eastman, because in

459
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Speaker 1: a film that can't really afford any kind of special makeup,

460
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: special makeup effects, Eastman's face is the special effect you know. Oh, yeah,

461
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: I know what you mean. Uh. He was also in

462
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Speaker 1: n The Bronx Warriors nineteen after the Fall of New

463
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: York blast Fighter Rabid Dogs. He was in the seven

464
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 1: Barbarian Twins movie The Barbarians that I haven't seen yet,

465
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: but but I know you purchased for us, Joe. Oh

466
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Speaker 1: that's right, I forgot I had that. Well, that came

467
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Speaker 1: on like a double featured disc that I got with

468
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: some other B movie I've forgotten. Now I'll have to

469
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 1: go check in a bit. But yeah, you know, I

470
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: love my leather diaper Barbarian movies, and this this appears

471
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: to be a two diaper affair. Um. So one thing

472
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: that I love is that that Joe Eastman is in

473
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: all of this just righteous garbage. Uh. And yet a

474
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Speaker 1: number of Sunday school classes may have glimpsed Eastman when

475
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Speaker 1: they watched Richard Gere uh as King David in n

476
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 1: five movie King David. This is the one that that

477
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: had gear and then uh also had Edward Woodward in

478
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: it as King Saul Um, but in it, of course

479
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 1: as a King David movie. So you're gonna encounter at

480
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: least some flashbacks of David and Goliath. Who's Goliath. It's

481
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: George Eastman. Oh okay, yeah, that makes sense now. Um.

482
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: Eastman worked a lot with the Joe Diamato. They created

483
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: some against them, just really trashy films with each other.

484
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: But not only as an actor for Eastman, but also

485
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: as a writer. Uh. It turns out he did it

486
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: to in the Italian National Film School, and I guess

487
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: he was. I haven't seen any of I think any

488
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: of these later works, but he worked mostly as a

489
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: screenwriter for Italian television from the early nineteen nineties onward. Uh.

490
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: And he directed a couple of films as well, or well,

491
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: I think he stepped in and like did some scenes

492
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: on a couple of films, but there's only one that

493
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: he wrote and directed, and that's a nineteen nine mad

494
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: science horror film titled Metamorphosis, which I haven't seen it

495
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: in his entirety. I think that's when I started watching

496
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: late at night once and had to go to sleep instead.

497
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: And you have not resumed the journey since. No, But

498
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: now I want to know. I'm like, I want to

499
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: see see what he brought to the table on that.

500
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: But yeah, George Eastman always a treat when he pops up.

501
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: But also I guess when Eastern pops up. You also

502
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 1: have to question should I be watching this? Uh? See

503
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 1: other actors. Donald O'Brien is in it, playing Professor Ulster,

504
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: a short role. He was born in nineteen thirties a

505
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: French actor. Interestingly enough, he played to the character Petro,

506
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: who I don't really remember from the six film adaptation

507
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: of the Name of the Rose, but b horror fans

508
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: probably know him better as the titular Dr butcher m

509
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: D from Zombie Holocaust, which was also promoted as Dr

510
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: butcher m D. I'm not familiar. Oh, I I don't

511
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: think I've actually seen it, but I'm I'm familiar with

512
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: it by reputation. Uh so, Uh, it's it's sort of

513
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: on the list, I guess, just because I like the

514
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Speaker 1: idea of there being a doctor Butcher m d. But

515
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: then again, Butcher's not that uncommon of a last name,

516
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: so there have to be some Dr Butcher m d

517
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: S out there. So we know that George Eastman plays

518
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: the bad trucker in the movie, but there's also a

519
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: trucker who turns out to be a good trucker, and

520
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: that is the arm wrestling champion Blanco. Yeah, Blanco seems

521
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: to be the regional arm wrestling champ played by a

522
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: guy named Darwin Swalve who lived American Broadway actor who

523
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: played a heavy and a number of notable films because

524
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: he's just kind of like this big bulldog of a guy. Uh.

525
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: He was in Police Academy six, Heartbreak Ridge, Summer School Cry, Wilderness,

526
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: which is a terrible bigfoot movie. But he played a

527
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Speaker 1: wrestler in Barton Fink. Oh did he play Wallace Bury

528
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: in that? Uh? He's just credited as being wrestler, so

529
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: he might be the other wrestler in Barton Fink. I

530
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: don't specifically remember him. Now. One of the big connections

531
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: with this film is with the music, because this movie

532
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: has a score by Claudio Simonetti. Yeah, talk to talk

533
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: about legends. One of the biggest names on this picture

534
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: for sure. No notable for his his solo work, but

535
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: also his work as part of Goblin. Um. His electronic

536
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: and prague rock scores helped many an Italian genre film

537
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: to come to life, oftentimes more so at least I

538
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: don't know, and I think many people have been come

539
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: to life more than they would have with with any

540
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: other music. Um, and also the work of Seminettie and Goblin.

541
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: It ultimately influenced and inspired an entire generation of electronic artists.

542
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: Seeing Goblin in concert is is a real treat. And

543
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: I've seen Goblin in concert twice. These are really good shows. Uh.

544
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: They tended to be sort of split half and half

545
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: between stuff based on movie themes, so they do like

546
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: a I don't know what felt like a kind of

547
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: weird improvisation based on the score to Tenebrae or or

548
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: one of the other Dario Argento movies that they did

549
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: the score to. Those are some of their best scores.

550
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: But then also there would just be like Italian Prague

551
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: rock with shredding synth saxophone. Yeah, um, it's a it's

552
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: a it's a definite sound. Again, it's it's It's been

553
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: very influential. I would say probably some of the best

554
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: scores and the best known scores that he worked on

555
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: were Uh, Suspiria, Deep Red, Um, Tenner Brey. I'm also

556
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: extremely partial to his work on Warries of the Wasteland,

557
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: which I mentioned earlier from nine three Um but it's um.

558
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: And I guess another thing I love about Claudio Simonetti

559
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: in Goblin is that this means the music that has

560
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: kind of become Halloween music. I feel like increasingly, I

561
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: don't know, at least in the circles I moved through,

562
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: Like if you see a Halloween playlist, you're gonna get

563
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Speaker 1: some of Semonetti's sound. And I think that I love

564
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: Monster Mash, but I far prefer a great synth score. Yeah,

565
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: me too. So one thing that I would like to

566
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: point out about the music in this movie is that

567
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: I feel like the score of Hands of Steel is

568
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: very funny, but not because it's bad, like it's it's

569
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: it's a good type of whatever. This type of score

570
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: is mean in some ways, it's uh, it's sort of

571
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: a terminator score rip off, but it's also got the

572
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: great original Claudio Seminetti magic. And what's funny about it

573
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Speaker 1: is the way that it sometimes kicks in with a

574
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: sudden transition or cut in what's happening on screen. So

575
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: there's one example that you might recall. Uh, there's a

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Speaker 1: scene where I think there's no music in the background

577
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: at all, and it's just it's just our our protagonist,

578
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: our borg man sort of haggling with a junk car

579
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: dealer about whether or not to get a car. And

580
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: it's a slow moving scene and they're just talking about like, oh, yeah,

581
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: i'll give you that car for I'll give you give

582
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: it to you for two hundred extra bucks. And he's

583
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: like deal, okay, no music in the background, very calm,

584
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: and then just slam cuts to him driving on the

585
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: highway and it's like, yeah, I love it. Well, let's

586
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and see if we can get SETH

587
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: to give us the legal limit on the On one

588
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: of the tracks from this soundtrack, this is the that

589
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: the track titled Atomic Arm. All right, I have to

590
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: say if you if you love that and I I

591
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: loved it, then you can stream or buy Uh. Seminetti's

592
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: soundtrack for Hands of Steel on band Camp. It's on there,

593
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: published under Italy's rust Blade Records, and you can even

594
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: get it get a physical version on silver vinyl. And

595
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: this I was checking, this was just released last month,

596
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: so um that what luck. You'd think they sponsored this,

597
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: but they did not, because we did not get Silver

598
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: records in payment. How did you find this movie? By

599
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: the way, I just wanted something Italian, uh, you know?

600
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: And I started looking around and I wanted something that

601
00:33:54,480 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: what that wasn't like to ums Italian horror movies A yeah,

602
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: or you know, I didn't want. I didn't want something

603
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: too boring either, and so this seemed to be like

604
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,720
Speaker 1: Dead Center. This seemed to be like the good Punching Zone.

605
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: This is a good find, alright, So I guess it's

606
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: time to start breaking into the plot of this baby.

607
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if you had the same association I

608
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: did with the very beginning, the very beginning of the

609
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: opening credit montage, because what I immediately felt I was

610
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: watching at the very very beginning before the music changed,

611
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: was an industrial dystopian take on the opening credits of

612
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: Twin Peaks, though once again this predated Twin Peaks. Huh. No,

613
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 1: I didn't get the Twin Peaks note so much. But

614
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: but yeah, it starts setting the stage for some sort

615
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: of just near future dystopia, some hell City in the background,

616
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: but would not really go into hell City so much

617
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: because most of the seems to take place either on

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00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: the outskirts of of Hell City or more specifically, out

619
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: in Arizona. Yeah, it's only hell City for a few

620
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: minutes at the beginning, but no, I'm gonna hammer like

621
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: if you watch it again. At the very beginning, there's

622
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: this dreamy, almost Angelo Bottle of Mine type music sort

623
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Speaker 1: of sort of floating along over shots of drab urban

624
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: alleyways flooded with fog and oil refineries just belching smoke

625
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: and flames into the atmosphere. People just generally having a

626
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: hard time. It's showing you, like a lot of people

627
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: appearing to suffer. And then suddenly the soundtrack just shifts

628
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: into high gear from out of nowhere. The drums, bass,

629
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: and saxophone come along and it's clear that Nope, this

630
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 1: is going to be a NonStop thrill ride. This is

631
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: not a dream. You walk through Twin Peaks. One of

632
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: the funny things we see during the opening credit spontages

633
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: is showing you these scenes from like you know, blasted

634
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: industrial landscape and and uh in a dystopian city. But

635
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: it also keep showing these posters and banners with a

636
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: slogan that says you have no future and what appears

637
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,959
Speaker 1: to be a guy who says that like a guy

638
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: pointing a finger, the guy with a white beard. I

639
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:14,800
Speaker 1: think we're going to find out who this guy is

640
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: in a minute, and it's this dude named Reverend Moseley.

641
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: But I was just thinking, like, so, how did this

642
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: guy get so popular with the message, like bringing his

643
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: you have no future message to the nation tonight? Yeah,

644
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if something's lost

645
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: in translation there or um if it's more of a

646
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: situation where there's more to it, like you have no

647
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: future under the current administration. I think that's what it's

648
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: supposed to be. I think he's saying, like things are bad,

649
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: you need to take control of your life. But I

650
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: just don't think you have no future is a good

651
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: way to message that. No, I mean I don't. I

652
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to wear that on a on a button, right,

653
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,919
Speaker 1: But I guess so we we pretty soon meet this guy,

654
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: the old guy with the White Beard. He is this

655
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: guy named Arthur Moseley, Reverend Arthur Moseley, who seems to

656
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: be talking about his message seems to be an ecological one,

657
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: like he's talking about pollution and how industry is destroyed

658
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: this world and air pollution is killing people. And we

659
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: see him in the headquarters that's set up in like

660
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: a seedy hotel where he's got assistants who are helping

661
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: him out and talking with the police about how he

662
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: needs protection. And then there's a great piece of futuristic

663
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: technology in here where you see Mosley speaking into a

664
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: word processor that takes voice dictation. So we got that

665
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: on one hand, Mosley and all his friends and the

666
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: police who seemed to be like, whoa, you know, the

667
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: people want you dead. We gotta we gotta help protect you.

668
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: And then on the other hand we meet Turbolog. This

669
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: is the protagonist of the film. He when we first

670
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: meet him, he's driving a red muscle car and he's

671
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: just this this gentleman of beef who gets his own

672
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: high octane soundtrack. Yet again of those transitions, like when

673
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: it cuts to him immediately new music, really driving forward,

674
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: heavy beat. Yeah, I mean, you gotta get that electronic

675
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: in there. You gotta have your music be at least electronic,

676
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: because he's seventy electronics. Oh that's a good point. And

677
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 1: so we see him come into the same hotel where

678
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: Mosley and his people are hanging out, and as he's

679
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: moving around in the hotel, I gotta say, Claudio, we

680
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: know you do great work, but some of the music

681
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: in this sequence in particular, is as close as you

682
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: can get to the Terminator soundtrack without a lawsuit. It

683
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: was really on the nose. But anyway, we see Daniel Green,

684
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: the Gentleman of Beef, coming back to his apartment and

685
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: it's it seems to be on the floor below where

686
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: the anti pollution guy is, and so he's wandering around

687
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: his apartment. We also see another piece of great future technology,

688
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: which is the the Cyborgs watch, which is just like

689
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: a digital watch, but it's I guess it's got a

690
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 1: calculator on it. Maybe this was an early time for that,

691
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: I get. I mean, at the time, this is probably

692
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: a super advanced watch. But it's got like a an

693
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: l C D display. I mean, it's it's really special.

694
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: But so we see him in his apartment and he's

695
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: got mustard in his apartment. I want to know that

696
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: this is a store mustard at room temperature guy, because

697
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: it's just sitting on the kitchen table, not in the fridge.

698
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: And we watch him take a shirtless nap, and we

699
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: watched the sunlight glinting off of his well oiled body,

700
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: you know, it's like shining in beams off of his

701
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: packs in the side of his face. And then he

702
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: starts getting visions of faces and voices. Right there's this

703
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: David Strathern looking guy who suddenly pops up in in

704
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: the cyborgs head and tells him to proceed with mission

705
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: as directed and don't let there be any mistakes. And

706
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: this part I found very funny because we see the

707
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: beefy guy begin to obey the messages, like he leaves

708
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: his apartment and he's got these cold, dead eyes as

709
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: he's walking up the stairs. But then you also kind

710
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: of hear the the David Strauther and looking guy his

711
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 1: voice in the background, still talking, but it's quieter, saying

712
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: like neutralize, Did I say neutralized? Neutralize? That's part of

713
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: the problem. You need to be really firm with these instructions.

714
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: But so he goes up and he does an attack

715
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: on Mosley's headquarters. Right, he kicks in the door and

716
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: he's clearly there on a on a on a deadly mission. Yeah,

717
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: and he takes out like a security guy or an

718
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,439
Speaker 1: assistant an aid with one of the most ridiculous, um

719
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: martial arts maneuvers I have ever seen. Uh, it is

720
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: such a weird, weird attack that I have to if

721
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, I have to explain it to you. So,

722
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: if you were to cross your arms on your chest

723
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: like you've been mummified, and then you're to lash outward

724
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: so that your arms close like a pair of scissors,

725
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: presumably around the victim's head, but do so so that

726
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: you are you are smacking them with the backs of

727
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: both hands. It's a double backhand. Yeah, but it's it's

728
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: so weird because this can't possibly work. Like I'm not

729
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: a martial artist. Again, I should stress um, but this

730
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it would be effective even if you

731
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: had cyborg arms of steel. It's just I just can't

732
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: imagine how this would help generate any kind of force

733
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: or even that much surprise. Why do you need surprise?

734
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: You're a cyborg with arms of steel? Oh? Who made

735
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: you the expert on cyborg martial arts. What I would

736
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: just like to point out is that he kills this

737
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,760
Speaker 1: dude with the arm crossing dance move that Elizabeth Berkeley

738
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: does in Show Girls. Yeah, yeah, it is. It is

739
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 1: like that. Um. I mean there are some like pro

740
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: wrestling and even martial arts moves uh that have like

741
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: a double arm attack, like I guess the most one

742
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 1: of the most famous ones would be the double ear

743
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: clap double ear slap rather where you like, you know,

744
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: you slap the ears with both arms with both hands

745
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: at the same time. And there's like a work version

746
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 1: of that as well. There's also the dreaded Mongolian chop,

747
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: which is like doing to twin karate chops to like

748
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: the side of the neck or the shoulders at the

749
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: same time. And those make sense. They're you know, they

750
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: have impact to them, and you can also say, well,

751
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 1: they're you know, they're especially with the Mongolian chop. It's

752
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: a little theatrical and maybe surprising to an opponent, but

753
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this. I've never seen the

754
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: Paco Special before and I don't know if I'll ever

755
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: see it again, but it's it's beautiful in its absurdity.

756
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: Do we know who did the martial arts choreography in

757
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: this movie? I don't know. We should, we should, maybe

758
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: I'll look that up after the fact that it's interesting,

759
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: I'll report back. But it's not like the four The

760
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: fight choreography is bad in this There's some fun stuff,

761
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: especially later in the picture, uh, which we'll get to

762
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: in a bit. It's just that this was creative to

763
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 1: a degree that is just unbelievable. Like I applaud it though,

764
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, because he could have just punched them and

765
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be talking about it. He did this ridiculous

766
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: thing and it made the film more joyful. No, of course.

767
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: So he does that move to the assistant, and then

768
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: he moves on into the next room, and his target

769
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: is in the next room. His target is the the

770
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:10,280
Speaker 1: old guy with the beard, Arthur Moseley. And I believe

771
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: Arthur Moseley is supposed to be blind, right, so he

772
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: doesn't recognize what he looks like, but he just senses

773
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: his presence and he says, you've come here to kill me,

774
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: haven't you. But I'll but you'll never kill the work

775
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: I have begun. Well, go ahead and do it. And

776
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: so Daniel Greene starts hearing the voice in his head

777
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: against a neutralize neutralize, and then I swear what it

778
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: looks like happens next is that he kicks him in

779
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: the groin to death. Yeah, and the old man's like,

780
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and and that's it. But yeah, you don't

781
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: see him make any contact with him. You have like

782
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 1: a like a point of view from the old man

783
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: of him attacking. So it Yeah, when I watched it,

784
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, I guess, I guess he kicked him in

785
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: the groin, which is a weird choice, especially, I mean,

786
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it's in line with someone who does that

787
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: weird hand shoppy thing from the previous scene. I don't know. Now,

788
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: the movie makes clear later on that this is not

789
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: what happens. It's supposed to be that he just punched

790
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: him really fast in a way that's like not humanly possible,

791
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: but that that's not what it looks like at all. Right, Yeah,

792
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: so it's it's weird to watch, for sure. But so

793
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: Cyberlug escapes out the window, he escapes into the sewer,

794
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: and then it's not really a sewer, it's just like

795
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: a whole way under the street with a gauntlet of

796
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: eternally sparking high voltage cables on each side, and they

797
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: at some point I think the police look down there

798
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, no human being could get through here.

799
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: That's a clue. Um. And then we see him escape

800
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,919
Speaker 1: in a futuristic car, which is just some eighties car

801
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: with extra stuff glued to the back of it. It's

802
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: got some pipes and bars on the on the hatch. Yeah.

803
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can't afford the full free jag,

804
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: this is the way to go. Yeah. Uh. And then

805
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: there's one sequence I really loved, which is like he

806
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: drives into a forest. It's this pine forest that has

807
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: a sign in front of it. This says warning acid

808
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: rain ahead. Yeah. I love this. Love this part as

809
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: well because you know, it brings back headlines from that

810
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: time period about acid rain. And then the idea it's

811
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: a nice world, be a building. You know, this is

812
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: a place that's the world that's ravaged by pollution, that

813
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: mostly is trying to fight and our hero has to

814
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: drive through a bunch of of acid rains. Sadly, when

815
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: he gets to the other side, we don't have like

816
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 1: that cartoon moment where the car has been just melted

817
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: away to nothingness. But but you do smoking, right, you

818
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: do see it coming through. At one point, he's driving

819
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: through and it's dripping through the ceiling of the into

820
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: the cabin and it's like burning the seat next to him.

821
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 1: But he's fine. I guess I wonder why it could be.

822
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,320
Speaker 1: It's almost as if he's not destructible by the normal

823
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: means of harming a man. Uh. But so anyway, you

824
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: have the acid rain. And I love also the idea

825
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: that acid rain would be a constant, localized hazard in

826
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: this world. So it's not like there are clouds that

827
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 1: float around and could rain down acid in multiple places.

828
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 1: It's just like, here's one area where the road goes

829
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: under acid rain, and you can put a sign there.

830
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: I like it's very folkloric, right, It's like the Haunted

831
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: Woods or something. Yes, Humbaba's seven acid terrors. He takes

832
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: them off one at a time and rains them down

833
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,479
Speaker 1: on the car. Oh. And then we also we find out,

834
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: despite the fact that it looked like the old guy

835
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: Mosley got killed by the kick, in fact he is

836
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: still alive. And they wheel him out on a stretcher

837
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: and they take him to the hospital. Uh. And then

838
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 1: we get to meet the bad guys. We go into

839
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: the belly of the beast. We're in some kind of

840
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: evil bunker where we see the indoctrination voice guy, you know,

841
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: Mr Neutralize, and he is hanging out with round sunglasses

842
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: guy who we mentioned earlier, and they're trying to figure

843
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: out what went wrong with the assassination. Why was Mosley

844
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: not killed like he was supposed to be. And so

845
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: they start looking up digital files on the on the cyberlug,

846
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 1: and we find out Neutralized guys called Cooper and uh

847
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,280
Speaker 1: and I love these screens they pull up. I attached

848
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: a couple of shots I took of these screens. Rob

849
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: One is just a picture of Annual Green's face and

850
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: it says negative characteristics Colon Nune. But we also learned

851
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: things about him. We learned that his name is his

852
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: real name is poco Quiak, that he's from Page, Arizona,

853
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 1: that that his instructor was this guy Cooper, who's you know,

854
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: the Mr Neutralized, the guy talking in his head. He

855
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: was trained for thirteen months at Fort Bragg. He was

856
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: tested on August twelve, and then I think they couldn't

857
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: fit the rest of the screens they had already cycled

858
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: through into this summary screen. So what was supposed to say,

859
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: like efficiency maximum lethality, maximum negative characteristics none, but instead

860
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: they just shortened that to efficiency characteristics colon none. This

861
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: is this is not good design, folks. People will be

862
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: able to pause the movie in the future. Yes, Now,

863
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: the Page Arizona that is worth noting because it was

864
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: filmed A lot of it was filmed in Page Arizona.

865
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: So if we have any listeners out there who have

866
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: been to Paige Arizona or live in Page Arizona, are

867
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: you listening to the show in Page Arizona right now?

868
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: Let us know. So eventually we meet John Saxon and

869
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: he he's the big boss of the bad guys. He

870
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: is maximum suit and he's supposed to be some kind

871
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: of vicious corporate overlord. They're not really specific. I think

872
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:22,760
Speaker 1: the issue is that he's an evil, uh, polluting corporate

873
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: guy and Mosley has been saying pollution is bad and

874
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,240
Speaker 1: that can't be tolerated, so he has to kill him.

875
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: But his name is is Mr Turner, Francis Turner, and

876
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: uh he says, okay, we've got to find Paco Querrak

877
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: before the FBI does, and so he sends his guys

878
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: off to to do that. Now, now we cut back

879
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 1: to Paco on his on his journey through the desert

880
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: and one of the fun So there's a number of things.

881
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: He's cruising along the desert highway in the dark. Uh.

882
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: We we've seen that he's been through the acid rain area.

883
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: The acid rain leaked through the ceiling and was burning

884
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: the inside of the car. But also we see in

885
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: his car he has a TV embedded in the dashboard.

886
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: It's sort of down near the gear shift, which is

887
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: just amazing future car design? Are they? Are they doing

888
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: that now? Are they making cars that have a TV

889
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 1: in the dashboard? Surely if it's closer to the windshield

890
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: at least Yeah, I think it's at least higher up.

891
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: I don't have one, but you you see him. You

892
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: see cars around that have some sort of enormous screen there.

893
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: I guess it has like it's maybe supposed to have

894
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 1: a bunch of like road data on there. But I'm

895
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,919
Speaker 1: but it's I don't know. It looks like a TV

896
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,240
Speaker 1: to me. Sure you can hack it to watch Hands

897
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: of Steel on it while you're supposed to be driving.

898
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 1: I mean, driving is boring. You know, you gotta you

899
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: gotta have something to pay attention to while you're doing it.

900
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,240
Speaker 1: P s A. Keep your eyes on the road, folks

901
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: don't want Do not watch movies while drive, at least

902
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,240
Speaker 1: do not. But then we get the car trading scene

903
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: I already mentioned earlier with the funny musical transition out

904
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,399
Speaker 1: of it. He trades cars, I think because he's trying

905
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: to throw the people tracking him off the trail, and

906
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: uh and so Paco. Then he discards the second car

907
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: that he got and he like drives it off a

908
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: cliff and then just starts hoofing it through the desert.

909
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,720
Speaker 1: He's just walking through the bad lands and eventually comes

910
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: upon a highway motel that's going to be sort of

911
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: the home base for the rest of the movie. It's

912
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: called the Champions Oasis. As soon as he goes inside,

913
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: he notices that it is a mess. There are beer

914
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: bottles all over the place. There is rotten bacon on

915
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: the counter with earwigs crawling around on it, which was

916
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: a good touch. And I noticed something else about this place.

917
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 1: It's similar to the interiors in Terry Gilliam's dystopian movie Brazil,

918
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: in that there are just ducks everywhere, you know, snaking

919
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: from wall to ceiling in every direction for no apparent reason.

920
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: Though I think in in Brazil like that, there's supposed

921
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: to be some satirical value to that set choice. It

922
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: like it like in a way, it symbolizes that this

923
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: is a society that is extremely complicated, but nobody knows

924
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: how anything works or why anything is happening the way

925
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: it is. In this movie, it just seems to be like,

926
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 1: let's let's make this roadside bar look a little more futuristic. Yeah,

927
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 1: just throwing some ducks. You can get some ducts that

928
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: your your local hardware store, but and it'll look like

929
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: the future. And the thing is this is accurate because

930
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: it it kind of foretells the the office design choice

931
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: that would become fashionable in the decades to follow, where

932
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 1: instead of having uh, you know, the white tiles covering

933
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: up your duckt work, you have exposed duck work so

934
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: you can just which I mean. I like, I've been

935
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: in a couple of offices now that have that design

936
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: and it is kind of neat to stare up and wonder, Okay,

937
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: I see how all the air conditioning connects. I see

938
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: some weird. Um you know, keys and knobs and whatnot

939
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: and the that are I guess supposed to be accessed

940
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: by professionals. Uh so in a way, Yeah, this this

941
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: design is accurate. Champions Oasis has original brickwork. Yeah, no,

942
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: it actually doesn't. It's all like wood paneling. What do

943
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: you call that? Like really thin wood paneling that goes

944
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 1: over the walls. Oh yeah, yeah, it does look like

945
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: wood paneling. It looks, it looks. It does look just

946
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: authentically um gross, Like they found an actual gross bar

947
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: and they just threw up some ducts and uh and

948
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: started shooting. Oh. Another thing, I took a screen capture

949
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: of this because I noticed on the inside of the

950
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: door leading into the Champions Oasis is Garfield. It's just

951
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: a poster of Garfield says have a nice day, So

952
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: Garfield exists in this film's reality canon like that. Also

953
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: really funny detail was the full exchange that is the

954
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: very first meeting of the two main characters of this movie.

955
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: Janet Agrin walks out as as Paco comes into the place,

956
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: and she says, can I help you? He says, I'm

957
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: looking for a place to stay. She says, come in

958
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: you ever Arm wrestle. He says no, Well, because we

959
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: find out that is what this community lives for. They

960
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: are all about the arm wrestling. It's the the only institution,

961
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: aside from drinking, that that is holding everyone together. That's right.

962
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 1: This humble desert motel is a sort of an innocent

963
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: oasis of arm wrestling in this otherwise messed up world. Now,

964
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: of course they start arguing over whether he can stay

965
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: there at the hotel because does he have money? No,

966
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: he doesn't. I think. He says he can do work,

967
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: but she says something cynical about that, and then we

968
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: cut to uh, some stuff the bad guys are doing.

969
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,280
Speaker 1: So the bad guys go and they end up intimidating

970
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: this scientist who I think helped create cyborgs and there

971
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: and they're threatening his work that he's like, do whatever

972
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: you want to me. You can't, you know, you won't

973
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 1: get information out of me about how to catch this

974
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 1: cyborg because you're trying to use cyborgs for evil. And

975
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: they're like, well what if I do this? And they

976
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: just start smashing his stuff in his lab and he's like, no,

977
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: my precious work. So he gives them a clue. He

978
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 1: reveals that maybe the reason that Paco did not complete

979
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: his mission is that he malfunctioned because of memories of

980
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: his past, his childhood in Arizona. And they're like, oh, great,

981
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: that's what we need. And then they shoot him. And

982
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: then it's a double double cross and Sunglasses guy shoots Cooper,

983
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: the main guy who did the indoctrination, yeah, which which

984
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 1: in a way works as a nice little twist in

985
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: the film. It kind of drives home that ultimately Turner

986
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: is so evil that he's just that everybody's disposable, you know,

987
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: even the guy that seems to be his second in

988
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: command uh here, or at least his main guy on

989
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: the case. Uh and he'll do him in as well.

990
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: But out of film. I suspect that these scenes were

991
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: shot later in the production, after Claudio Cassinelli had died.

992
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: And you know, so again this is that the situation

993
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,760
Speaker 1: where Claudio Cassinelli, I'm guessing, was supposed to be central

994
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: here and more tied into the ending of the film,

995
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: But since he in that tragic crash, they had to

996
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: write and film around that. I think that makes sense.

997
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: Now we go back to Paco and Linda, the the

998
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: manager of the oasis, and they're there. I guess they've

999
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: already resolved whatever their original conflict was, because he's like,

1000
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,439
Speaker 1: it's okay, he's staying there now. And he's like, why

1001
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: did you let me stay? And she gives the backstory.

1002
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: She goes, who knows, maybe the memory of the girl

1003
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: who showed up afraid and broke thirteen years ago, lost

1004
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,479
Speaker 1: and now where to stay, or maybe it's because there's

1005
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,720
Speaker 1: a whole lot of wood out there that needs chopping.

1006
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: Uh so, And I guess this is the implication is, Look,

1007
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: this guy's got big muscly arms. He can be put

1008
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: to good use chopping wood. And he brings up the question, Uh,

1009
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: do people still use wood? I didn't know people still

1010
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: used wood? And she says yes, especially since the ecological

1011
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: movement led by Reverend mose Lee. And I'm very confused here.

1012
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,280
Speaker 1: So it seems that the anti pollution guy is causing

1013
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: people to burn more wood. Yeah, it does. It does

1014
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 1: seem weird. I guess they were burning worse things than

1015
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: would um stop heating your house by burning tires. Yeah,

1016
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 1: But then also there's the question, It's like, what would

1017
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: are you about to send him out to chop in

1018
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 1: the middle of Arizona, no trees anywhere around. And then

1019
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: when we see it the woodpile by the way, it

1020
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: just looks like a giant pile of garbage there is,

1021
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 1: they're tires and stuff in it. It doesn't seem to

1022
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: be primarily made of wood, though when he's done with

1023
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,799
Speaker 1: the job, we do see it is mostly would but uh,

1024
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: but of course here's another chance for Paco to take

1025
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,319
Speaker 1: his shirt off and get to work. And later we

1026
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: see that he finishes the whole week's work in a

1027
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: single day. So it's like Hercules and the Stables, you know. Yeah,

1028
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: and Janet is astonished. She's like, wow, what a man. Uh.

1029
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: And then we also get uh, John Saxon meeting with

1030
00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: with sunglasses guy and they talk about this euro hit

1031
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,879
Speaker 1: man that they're going to hire, who John Saxon says

1032
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: is infallible. They tell me, I think his name is

1033
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 1: supposed to be Peter Howell, but it always sounded like

1034
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: Peter Hollow. And this is Claudio Cassinelli, Yes, this is it,

1035
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: this is him. Then there are some scenes there's a

1036
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: whole b plot about uh, these agents at the FBI

1037
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: and scientists trying to figure out what was the weapon

1038
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: that was used to attack Mosley. So they're like asking

1039
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: him about what it was. He's like, it was small

1040
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: but very hard and there and they don't know what

1041
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: that could be. And they've got like a computer simulation

1042
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: that i think scanned his wound so they can determine

1043
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: what type of object made it. Yeah, it's weird, Yeah,

1044
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: that he hit him with something small but very hard

1045
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: and um, And of course we were going to find

1046
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: it out increasingly that what happened was is, yeah, that

1047
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: he had these flashes of his his past and that

1048
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: he pulled the killing blow. He didn't like put his

1049
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: full might into it. So I'm like, did he punch

1050
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: him with like just a thumb or something like? What

1051
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: accounts of this? Well, anyway, you knew we were going

1052
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: to get to some arm wrestling eventually, So the first

1053
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: of a couple of arm wrestling sequences is coming up.

1054
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: This happens because some some rough truck boys come into

1055
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: the Desert Oasis, the Champions Oasis, and they start being

1056
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: aggressive and threatening with Linda and Paco, and of course

1057
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: this leads to a confrontation because Paco is already protective

1058
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: of of of Linda and her place and this this

1059
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: leads to an arm wrestling challenge. The leader of these

1060
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 1: bad truck guys is Raoul, who is played by George Eastman.

1061
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: And Raoul is just constantly talking trash. Yeah, he's just

1062
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: he's just snarling and leering, like he's he's taller than

1063
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: everybody and so he's he's kind of just looming over

1064
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: everyone and just just he's just like a wolf. He's wonderful,

1065
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: thoroughly menacing presence, like if if he were actually in

1066
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 1: a restaurant I was in, I would leave. Yeah, he

1067
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: has some pretty fun lines to the one part he says,

1068
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: anyone know this piece of rat? So it leads to

1069
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: an arm wrestling challenge that he like insults Paco, and

1070
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: then Paco's like, I'll show you what cyborgs are made of. Uh,

1071
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,919
Speaker 1: And so they all start making bets on who's gonna

1072
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: win the arm wrestling. They say, Raoul's gonna wipe the

1073
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: floor with this bum, but Linda bets a thousand dollars

1074
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: on Paco to win, and of course Paco does win,

1075
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: right because he's got he's I don't know, it seems

1076
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 1: kind of not fair actually that he's like a machine.

1077
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: And George Eastman is just a human. But I don't know,

1078
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: maybe since George Eastman is like provoked him into it,

1079
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 1: it's not cheating. Eastman's character does just about everything imaginable

1080
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: to make you not root for him, so right, it's

1081
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 1: it's easy to forgive the cyborg cheat here. Yeah. But

1082
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: then of course a big fight breaks out after Paco wins.

1083
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: Everybody starts fighting and Paco has to has to beat

1084
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: up all the bad truckers. And then I realized that, Okay,

1085
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: this is actually Terminator meets road House. Did you think

1086
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 1: about that? Yeah, without the high minded um um bouncer

1087
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: philosophy that that makes Roadhouse so great, But yeah, it

1088
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 1: is very This setting is very roadhouse, and you get

1089
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 1: a roadhouse style um slopper knocker. But I don't know.

1090
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: At the end of the movie, there's some philosophizing that's

1091
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: very much on the level of pain don't hurt. Yeah, yeah, true.

1092
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: Now by this point, Linda is obviously falling in love

1093
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 1: with Muscle Borg. He's he's just walking around with his

1094
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 1: shirt off all the time, and she's like, wow, you

1095
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 1: must work out a lot, and he goes a little

1096
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: um and they're they're setting things up for another big

1097
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: arm Wrestling Showdown, because this time he's got to go

1098
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: up against the real champ Blanco, who is like undefeated

1099
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: arm wrestling. Uh dude, and uh, and it's going to

1100
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 1: be in a rattlesnake match, which I don't Maybe we

1101
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: can explain the situation there in a minute. But Raoul

1102
01:00:56,080 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 1: of course tries to cheat here by luring Paco out

1103
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 1: into the desert to do a good deed. They say like, oh,

1104
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: some children are trapped in a crashed car, and then

1105
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: Paco goes down to try to rescue them, but it's

1106
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: a trap by Raoul and his buddy, and they drag

1107
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: him on a tow truck and beat him up and

1108
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 1: leave him for dead in the desert. But he, of

1109
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: course is a muscle cyborg and so he survives and

1110
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:24,479
Speaker 1: escapes and makes it back in time for the big match. Yeah,

1111
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:28,880
Speaker 1: despite having been beaten with with metal pipes and left

1112
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: for dead in the desert, he shows up like Raoul

1113
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 1: is already already boasting. He's like, oh, I guess I

1114
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 1: guess you have beefy man. He's too uh, he's too

1115
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 1: chicken to show. And then he shows and when we

1116
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: get this fabulous arm wrestling scene between Paco and Blanco,

1117
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: and it's it's just so it is over the top.

1118
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: It's more over the top than I imagine anything in

1119
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 1: the movie over the top because again, rattlesnakes are involved.

1120
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: It's a rattlesnake match, and they have this this this mechanism.

1121
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 1: They have like these little enclosures for rattlesnakes, like see

1122
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: through plastic or plexi glass or something on either side.

1123
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 1: And then there's like a cuff, a locking cuff, So

1124
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: if you force your opponent's hand all the way down,

1125
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: uh their hand, their wrist will be locked in this

1126
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 1: cuff and that will also open the cage for the rattlesnake,

1127
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: and the rattlesnake will come out and bite you or

1128
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 1: I mean it will bite your opponent. So it's not

1129
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: just as simple as like there's a there's a basket

1130
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: of rattlesnakes on either side. Now there's like this whole

1131
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: elaborate mechanism. They put a lot of thought into making

1132
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:37,200
Speaker 1: the best possible high stakes rattlesnake um arm wrestling competition.

1133
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: Which of the five writers streamed this up, I think

1134
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: all of them. I think I think that's why it's

1135
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: so elaborate that it's someone's like, no, no, no, no, no, no,

1136
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: you can't just have a basket of rattlesnakes, because we're

1137
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: gonna want real rattlesnakes. You're gonna we're gonna need an enclosure.

1138
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: No no, no, how are you gonna trigger the rattle

1139
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: snakes to come out? Well, how's the arm gonna be

1140
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: held there? So all these ideas came together and they

1141
01:02:57,360 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: kept they kept all of them. This is the convoluted

1142
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: product of Rattlesnake arm wrestling group think. Yes, but it's

1143
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: a terrific scene. I mean, I love a good arm

1144
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: wrestling sequence. And you see him in like like in

1145
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of films, like there's one

1146
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: in the Fly. Uh yeah, it's just a primal test

1147
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: of strength. Now afterwards, I guess, even though Paco wins,

1148
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: he's sort of I think injured in what's going on

1149
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: or I don't know if he's injured by what what

1150
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: George Eastman did do him earlier or in the in

1151
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: the arm wrestling. But then we get a scene just

1152
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: straight out of Terminator is just like a copied shot

1153
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 1: where his arm is open and he's working on the

1154
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:37,440
Speaker 1: machinery underneath the skin, which you have metal stuff terminator moment. Yeah,

1155
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 1: and this is just the first scene in the movie

1156
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: I think where it's like fully confirmed, like, oh this, Yeah,

1157
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: he's definitely a real cyborg. I mean, I guess characters

1158
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: have been talking about it, but now you see the

1159
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 1: machine underneath him. Oh. Another important note about the big

1160
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 1: Rattle Snake arm wrestling event is that he wins. He

1161
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: gets Blanco's wrist into the cuff, the snake comes out

1162
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: to bite Blanco, but then at the last second, um

1163
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: our cyborg hero comes into the karate chop and cuts

1164
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 1: the head off of the rattlesnake, saves Blanco, saves him.

1165
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 1: That will become important later on. Well, but here I

1166
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: guess we're into the full the exposition backstory cyborg reveal

1167
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 1: part of the movie. Uh So, simultaneously, we're cutting back

1168
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: and forth between the police figuring out what's going on.

1169
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 1: One of them, who's I believed, like a police forensic

1170
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 1: scientist named Dr pekin Paw. Um, Come on, folks, um

1171
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: that named Dr peckin paw Who's like, I think we

1172
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: know what could have caused the wounds to Reverend Moseley

1173
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: a cyborg fist and they show it on the computer

1174
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 1: screen where it's a fist, but they're like, but no

1175
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: fist is capable of providing that amount of strength. And

1176
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: then also Paco just directly reveals his backstory to Linda.

1177
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 1: They have they have a tender romance where where he's like,

1178
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 1: you know, He's like, I was one it's uh something,

1179
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. He was a soldier or something like that.

1180
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: And then and then I remember I was in a crash.

1181
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: And then I awoke in Reverend Moseley's room and I

1182
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 1: was supposed to kill him, but something stopped me. And uh,

1183
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: and I realized I couldn't be just a borg. I

1184
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 1: had to be something more. And he escapes, and of

1185
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 1: course they talk about love. He's like, how can you

1186
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:25,360
Speaker 1: love me knowing that I am more bored than man?

1187
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 1: And and she's like, I care for you, Paco, and

1188
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: they kiss and it's just beautiful. It's like, like, how

1189
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 1: can you love me knowing that I am only thirty

1190
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 1: percent man? And she's like, I would love you if

1191
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 1: you were only twenty eight percent man. I guess I

1192
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 1: got it wrong if I said he's not more bored

1193
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: than man, because the organ is that he's how can

1194
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: you love me? Knowing I'm more Cybe than Org. But anyway, Uh,

1195
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: she is going to she loves him, and she's going

1196
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 1: to help him escape to the Mexican border later tonight

1197
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 1: because they know he's being hunted by both the FBI

1198
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: and I guess they know he's also being hunted by

1199
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 1: John Saxon's people. I think, so yeah, Well, I mean

1200
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: he's been he's been dodging people the whole time. He

1201
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: has to know that his handlers are coming after him, right,

1202
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 1: So John Saxon's henchman track him down with the help

1203
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,439
Speaker 1: of of treacherous George Eastman, who has who has given

1204
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: away his location, and so they got guns and helicopters

1205
01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: and surveillance all around the champions oasis. Uh. And then

1206
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,280
Speaker 1: we get a great scene where they're like some decoys

1207
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:31,040
Speaker 1: who show up at the hotel who presumably are just

1208
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:33,640
Speaker 1: trying to get a motel room, but instead it turns

1209
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 1: out there they're part of this nefarious plot. And just

1210
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 1: a note on the future fashion here, most of the

1211
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: fashion in this movie is not anything different than like

1212
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: what you I mean, Like they don't have like weird

1213
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: you know, back to the future to style futuristic clothing.

1214
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: It's just people wearing like flannel and jeans and stuff. Yeah,

1215
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: it's the hard times version of the future. For some reason.

1216
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 1: This one couple who shows up on a motorcycle. They

1217
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 1: are like back to the future to style stuff like

1218
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 1: so one is wearing football pads as a vest and

1219
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: the other is wearing see through plastic shorts, like just

1220
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 1: wearing like two ziplock bags for pants. And the great

1221
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 1: thing about the female here that's wearing the zip block

1222
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:20,280
Speaker 1: bags for pants is it's quickly revealed it's a trap

1223
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:23,480
Speaker 1: and she is a killer cyborg as well. It is

1224
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: cyborg versus cyborg, and this is this fight seems pretty great. Yeah,

1225
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 1: it's it's got it's not that long, but it's it's

1226
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 1: in a it's in a tight spot. It's in this

1227
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 1: hotel room. Uh. We quickly see that she like she's shot,

1228
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 1: but then she's up again. She's got cyborg damage, she's

1229
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 1: got killer cyborg nails. There's a there's a fun bit

1230
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: of fight choreography, and it ends with him he ends

1231
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: up putting the rival cyborg and a full nelson and

1232
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 1: then going from a full nelson to a full head rip.

1233
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 1: Just twist the head off, and we get that wonderful

1234
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: moment that you see in so many of these uh

1235
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: these films, the films of this caliber, where the head

1236
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,320
Speaker 1: falls onto the floor and then you have that effect

1237
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: where someone has like a false um floor around their necks.

1238
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 1: So you get that that that shot of the decapitated

1239
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: head talking, it's Ian Holman alien. Yeah, yeah, except she

1240
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: except the head is going they will destroy you. Yeah,

1241
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:19,640
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty much the voice. Yeah, oh yeah. And

1242
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: also I love how when she first announces uh is,

1243
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 1: she first starts trying to kill him. So she's got

1244
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 1: like these killer metal nails that she's stabbing him with,

1245
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: and she says, I am the perfect cyborg, and I

1246
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 1: have been sent here to kill a traitor, which sounds

1247
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:37,360
Speaker 1: like she's taken it too personal. I thought cyborgs were

1248
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 1: just supposed to do their mission. But she does not

1249
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:44,120
Speaker 1: sound like she is dispassionately executing programming. She's she's taking

1250
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 1: it personal. She she's like really mad at this guy. Well,

1251
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 1: I think one of the things to keep in mind

1252
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 1: is that it's it's early days with cyborgs, as as

1253
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,240
Speaker 1: they reveal more later in the picture. Uh and and

1254
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 1: he's the best. He is the even though he's flawed,

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Speaker 1: even though his humanity is leaching back in Like, he's

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Speaker 1: the best. So even though he's very cold at the beginning,

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Speaker 1: I guess this other cyboard is who's still like the

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Speaker 1: second best cyboard, the best thing you could possibly send

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Speaker 1: in to try and kill him. Um, you know she's

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Speaker 1: not perfect. She's clearly got too much human emotion wrapped

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Speaker 1: up in this whole killing the opposition thing, right. His

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Speaker 1: profile says negative characteristics none her says negative characteristics taking

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Speaker 1: it too personal exactly. But from here it basically just

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Speaker 1: goes on into a very long action chase sequence that's

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Speaker 1: got John Saxon's dudes chasing and shooting after Linda and

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Speaker 1: Buddy Borg. They're being pursued mercilessly by by the Saxonites

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Speaker 1: and uh oh, and there's a great part where while

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Speaker 1: they're running around from trying to escape them, Blanco shows up,

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Speaker 1: the the other you know, the arm wrestling champ. And

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Speaker 1: he shows up. He's a really stand up guy. He

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Speaker 1: he just like drives a truck in to help them

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Speaker 1: get away. Yeah, he ends up giving his life to

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Speaker 1: save our our hero in this film. So that's the

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Speaker 1: pretty good Yeah. In the meantime, meanwhile, you've got um

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Speaker 1: sunglasses guy. And then ultimately I think Saxon gets on

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Speaker 1: on this too, using shotguns to fire rockets. Like they

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Speaker 1: take a rocket grenade Robert rocket propelled grenade or something

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Speaker 1: and like stick it in the front of the shotgun,

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Speaker 1: and then used the shotgun to fire it, uh, which

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Speaker 1: which ultimately it looks it looks good. I'm just part

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Speaker 1: of me was wondering, like what that just looks like

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Speaker 1: you stuck like a nerf in the shotgun. But on

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Speaker 1: the other hand, it does it looks good. I still

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01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 1: bought it completely. In film. Now, when Blanco gets blown up,

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Speaker 1: you think that Linda has also been killed, but then

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Speaker 1: it turns out that she survived, and so, uh. Muscle

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Speaker 1: Borg is very upset because he had discovered what love was,

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Speaker 1: but now the one person he loved is dead, and

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Speaker 1: so he goes into a rage and these soldiers are

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Speaker 1: coming after him. They come after him. He like goes

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Speaker 1: into this old factory it's like some underground stuff, and

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Speaker 1: they come after him with a laser and he kills

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Speaker 1: all of the soldiers who were coming after him and

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Speaker 1: then John Saxon comes in after him personally, which, yeah,

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01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: that really seems like something that this corporate jerk would do.

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01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:10,599
Speaker 1: I'm going to physically personally go in there to shoot

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01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,559
Speaker 1: at the guy I'm trying to get um. But he

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01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 1: picks up the laser and is trying to shoot Paco,

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Speaker 1: but Paco, of course bests him, and then he grabs

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Speaker 1: John Saxon and he's like holding him by the neck

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Speaker 1: and he says, you thought you could own me by

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Speaker 1: controlling my brain. But what people like you don't realize

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01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:30,519
Speaker 1: is that you don't own a man until you control

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01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: his heart. And then he literally pulls out John Saxon's heart. Yeah,

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01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a quality kill. Um. Yeah there. It

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01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:40,479
Speaker 1: seems like there are some other ones too. He's doing

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Speaker 1: a lot of head crushing against the minions before he

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01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 1: finally gets to John Saxon. But yeah, then he finishes

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Speaker 1: John Saxon off with the heart. Rep Oh, and then

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Speaker 1: we get the reveal Linda is alive and it's a

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01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:55,640
Speaker 1: very love conquers All type ending. She's like he's in

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Speaker 1: the factory, running around with a gun outside shooting at

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01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: the police, like just in a rage. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: in a violent downward spiral because he thinks Linda has

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Speaker 1: been killed. But then she reveals that she's alive, and

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Speaker 1: she comes in to talk him down, and uh, he's like,

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Speaker 1: they won't let me live, and she's like, yes, they will.

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Speaker 1: She says, quote, they know that you were normal before

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Speaker 1: you ended up in that laboratory. Um, and she says,

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Speaker 1: and you saved the best part of you, the soul. Yeah. Yeah,

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01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:29,920
Speaker 1: the soul managed to bleed its way back into the

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01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: whole cyborg equation and uh turned to the the the

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01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 1: evil scheme on its head. But then I would say,

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01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:40,799
Speaker 1: so it is mostly a love conquers all ending, except

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01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: in the very last few seconds there's it suddenly gets

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01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:46,720
Speaker 1: kind of ambiguous and I don't know what to make

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01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:50,400
Speaker 1: of it. So Paco peels back part of his head

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01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:53,439
Speaker 1: and reveals something underneath there. I couldn't tell quote what

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01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: it was, something like some piece of metal in his

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01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 1: head is glinting, and and he's like, but is it

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01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 1: a soul? And then she's like and then it just

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01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 1: cuts to music. Yeah. Well, and then also there's some

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Speaker 1: some text on the screen that says it was a

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Speaker 1: day in our near future. The era of the cyborg

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01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:16,600
Speaker 1: had begun. Um, the t in this sentence is really confusing.

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01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 1: But and it also feels a little bit like Pucci

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01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:23,760
Speaker 1: died on his returning to his home planet right where.

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01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,559
Speaker 1: It just kind of comes out of nowhere. But but

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01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: I liked it nonetheless, So like, did did they get

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01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,040
Speaker 1: to go off and like have a nice peaceful life

1341
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: together after this? Uh? Sure? Why not? I mean maybe

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01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:40,640
Speaker 1: it was utah, Uh, don't placate me, but no, I

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01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 1: like to I like to imagine that they they settled

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01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:46,160
Speaker 1: in Arizona, they maybe maybe right there in page Arizona,

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01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, lived happily. Ever after Mosley brings around,

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01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: uh you know, brings about better environmental policies for the world. Um,

1347
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: but it is the age of the cyborgs. So maybe,

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01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, the cyborgs are an important part of

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01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:02,680
Speaker 1: bringing about a more environmentally sound future, maybe an all

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01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:06,599
Speaker 1: cyborg powered future. Yeah, I mean maybe maybe if you're

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01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:10,120
Speaker 1: only thirty percent organics, you end up caring more about

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01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:13,760
Speaker 1: those organics. You're like, look, I've already lost seventy of

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01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:16,720
Speaker 1: me too, machine, I've only got thirty percent left, So

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01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 1: I'm going to be environmentalist that's right. The cybe is

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01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:24,880
Speaker 1: not everything. You know, your organ is precious. Be good

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01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:27,639
Speaker 1: to your organ. Oh. By the way, that the bridge

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01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 1: where we have the big showdown at that bridge is

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01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:33,599
Speaker 1: Navajo Bridge in Grand Canyon National Park. In the film,

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01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 1: we see just a single bridge that was built in

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01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: since the filming of this movie, a second bridge was

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01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: built right alongside it. In The old bridge is still

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01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:47,400
Speaker 1: there though. It's open for pedestrian and equestrian use. So

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01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:50,960
Speaker 1: if you you find yourself in this part of Arizona

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01:14:51,479 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: check it out. You can apparently walk out there on

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01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 1: the on the bridge where the big showdown takes place.

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01:14:57,240 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 1: I do love a good pedestrian bridge. Yeah, I mean,

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01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: and it's a it's a gorgeous bread That's one of

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01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:04,760
Speaker 1: the things I enjoyed a lot about this movie. But

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Speaker 1: I did really enjoy getting to see the Arizona countryside,

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Speaker 1: even if the film quality is not, you know, perfect,

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Speaker 1: especially since I had trouble finding this one and ended

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01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 1: up watching one of there's several different rips of it

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01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:19,080
Speaker 1: on YouTube, so I ended up just picking the one

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01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 1: that looked like it had the best film quality. It

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01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:23,720
Speaker 1: looks like it has been streaming on Amazon Prime in

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01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:26,840
Speaker 1: the past, but it was marked currently unavailable right now,

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01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:30,160
Speaker 1: so I had to make do with this. That title

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01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:32,599
Speaker 1: is hands of Steel. I know at least a couple

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01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:34,720
Speaker 1: of times in here we said something like arms of

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01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 1: steel or I deal. I wrote arms of steel at

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01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:39,439
Speaker 1: least once and had to go back and correct it,

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01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 1: but probably said it anyway. Vendetta Adult, Futuro, Vengeance Future. Now.

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01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 1: I know you had some thoughts about the cyborg acting

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01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:50,320
Speaker 1: in this. Oh yeah, there was something that just popped

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01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:52,160
Speaker 1: up a few times in this movie. I can't remember

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01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 1: what the specific instances were, but it's a It's a

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01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:57,599
Speaker 1: thing you see every now and the now and again

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01:15:57,640 --> 01:15:59,679
Speaker 1: in some B movies, especially, I feel like I've noticed

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01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 1: it in some Italian B movies is actors delivering their

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01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 1: lines literally without acting. And and this is different from

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01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 1: bad acting. You know, bad acting is when a person

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01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 1: attempts to inhabit a character and does a bad job.

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01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's a poor reading where it is implausible,

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01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 1: not appropriate for the scene, something like that. Instead, this

1395
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 1: is a phenomenon where the line delivery is literally just

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01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: a delivery. It's like reading a sequence of words out

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01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 1: loud off a page. Yeah, and I guess sometimes that's

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01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: probably a product of dubbing. Oh, I think absolutely it

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01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 1: could be that. I don't remember what specifically had in mind,

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01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:38,960
Speaker 1: but I noticed there were a few of those in

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01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:41,800
Speaker 1: here when I was watching it. But then again, if

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01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: one character is a cyborg and therefore you know, seventy

1403
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,200
Speaker 1: pent machine, then a certain kind of a cold read

1404
01:16:47,280 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense. And then if another character

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01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:52,439
Speaker 1: is played by John Saxon, who often has that kind

1406
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:56,760
Speaker 1: of stern delivery anyway, you know, regardless of he's the

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01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: villain in a cyborg film or if he's Nancy's dad

1408
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 1: Nightmare on Elm Street, you know you're only going to

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01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 1: get a certain level of energy from Saxon. Intense but

1410
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 1: medium energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Saxon was always trying to play it cool,

1412
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: which is dangerous for an actor. Like you can have

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01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 1: a cool persona as an actor, but if you try

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01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 1: to be too cool, you limit yourself from you know,

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01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:22,639
Speaker 1: the full range of emotion you could display on screen. Yeah. Meanwhile,

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01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: George Eastman was not trying to play it cool, at

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01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:26,880
Speaker 1: least in this In that picture and most pictures I've

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01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 1: seen him and he's he's basically trying to be a

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01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:33,120
Speaker 1: cartoon wolf out of a Looney Tunes cartoon. He's Jim

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01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 1: Carrey's the Mask without animation pretty much. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go ahead and close this one out again.

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Speaker 1: As of this recording, I don't know of a good

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01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:47,920
Speaker 1: place to go and stream this aside from finding you know,

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01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 1: rips of it. But there have been some editions that

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01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 1: have come out on DVD before, so you might be

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01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: able to rent it or pick up a physical copy.

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Speaker 1: But if you are interested in the soundtrack again, go

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01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:00,600
Speaker 1: to Russ Blade dot band camp dot com because you

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01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:03,160
Speaker 1: can definitely listen to the whole thing there by yourself

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01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 1: a digital copy or get that precious silver vinyl. And

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01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 1: I looked and looked at it appears that a number

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Speaker 1: they have a number of different releases from that from

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01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 1: that record label. That's that seemed really interesting. I was

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Speaker 1: listening to a few tracks here and there, but also

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Speaker 1: multiple Goblin releases. And if you would like to listen

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Speaker 1: to more weird house cinema, well this publishes every Friday,

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Speaker 1: and the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast feed. Our

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Speaker 1: usual science episodes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We usually

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01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:36,639
Speaker 1: have artifact on Wednesdays unless it is being um uh,

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01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:39,920
Speaker 1: you know, preempted by something. We have our listener mail

1441
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,640
Speaker 1: on Mondays, but Friday is just a time for us

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01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 1: to discuss weird pictures like this, So come on and

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01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 1: cut loose at the picture show and one more thing.

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Speaker 1: I'll also include some of this media that we discussed

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Speaker 1: at the block at some uted SMUTA music dot com.

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Speaker 1: Huge thanks as always to our excellent audio producer Seth

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Johnson. If you would like to get in touch

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