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Speaker 1: Too Much Information is a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to Too Much Information, the show

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Speaker 1: that brings you the secret history and little known stories

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Speaker 1: behind your favorite music, movies, TV shows, and more. We

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Speaker 1: are your wet bandits of banality, your filthy animals of facts.

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Speaker 1: You're listen competence of intel. My name is Jordan run

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Speaker 1: Tug and I'm Alexago, and today we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: a Christmas movie that's so good that I almost forgot

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Speaker 1: it's a Christmas movie. In fact, it's really one of

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Speaker 1: the few entries in the Christmas media cannon that really

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Speaker 1: stands up all year round. I would just have to

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Speaker 1: guess that the violence keeps it timeless. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: Home Alone holiday masterpiece from the mind John Hughes, which

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Speaker 1: went on to become the biggest live action comedy for

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Speaker 1: over twenty years, The Hangover to Broke the Street in

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Speaker 1: What can you say about this movie? It's a live

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Speaker 1: action cartoon, simple premise, flawlessly executed with expert precision by

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Speaker 1: young director Chris Columbus, brilliant performances by Katherine O'Hara, Joe

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Speaker 1: Pesci and Daniel Stern. And it's the movie that made

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Speaker 1: McAuley coke In the biggest child star of all time. Hoggle,

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Speaker 1: what do you think of this? No notes? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: love to hear that. I watched this a movie a

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Speaker 1: ton when I was a kid, and then I sort

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Speaker 1: of fell off, like I hadn't revisited in a bunch.

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Speaker 1: You should have fell off when he became of age,

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Speaker 1: when the booby traps actually just seemed harmful. Well, I

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Speaker 1: think I became I became of age when I started

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Speaker 1: identifying more with Joe Pesci. Yeah, it was a long

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Speaker 1: bit recurring bit my family to do it when he's

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Speaker 1: like picking himself up off the sidewalk and he's like

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Speaker 1: just like doing that around the house. Who wins the

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Speaker 1: best fake swearing competition? The dad from a Christmas Story

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Speaker 1: or Joe Peschi in Home Alone. Oh, it's definitely Darry

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Speaker 1: mcavan just because he has the jose is a kind

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Speaker 1: of uh and not you know, funny from a from

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Speaker 1: one register. Darren McGavin's comes back. All right, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be my new one. I have to bring back every

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Speaker 1: episode Darren McGavin fake swearing. Yeah, it's It's great the

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Speaker 1: whole Chris Columbus, John Hughes era of like Hegemony. Some

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Speaker 1: of it is hit or miss for me, be a

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Speaker 1: little cloying, but yeah, man, this movie is great. It's adorable,

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Speaker 1: it's so so Vipen. Did you watch it all year round?

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Speaker 1: There was just just come out of Christmas. No, it

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Speaker 1: And I think I did watch the second one. It's okay.

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Speaker 1: who's starting that, Alex de Lenz. Why do I remember

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Speaker 1: that kid's name. I can't believe he just pulled that

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Speaker 1: kid's name. Wow. Well, from the feud with a comedy

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Speaker 1: legend that helps set this production in mode, to the

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Speaker 1: insanity of McCauley Cochlan's literal Rags the Richest Story, to

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Speaker 1: the time Joe Pesci bit the kid's fingers so hard

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Speaker 1: and the reason why John Candy was pissed at the production,

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Speaker 1: plus all the ways they pull off those brutal booby

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Speaker 1: to you in real life. Here's everything you didn't know

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Speaker 1: about Home Alone. Well, the'll start. We basically have John

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Speaker 1: Hughes travel anxiety to thank for Home Alone. If you're

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Speaker 1: listening to the show, chances are your wealth familiar with

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Speaker 1: John hughes work. He's the king of eighties heartfelt comedies.

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Speaker 1: Haven't written and directed The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris

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Speaker 1: Weird Science. And I also didn't realize just how many

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Speaker 1: huge scripts he wrote that he didn't direct, like all

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Speaker 1: of the eighties vacation movies, Pretty in Pink, Beethoven, Dennis

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Speaker 1: the general movie mayhem comedies, And I'd say that Pretty

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Speaker 1: the really frenzy genesis of the script. Apparently, John wrote

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Speaker 1: episode on the Home Alone and some of the people

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Speaker 1: John Kenny obviously the star Uncle Buck, but watching Coulkin

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Speaker 1: After its release in the French filmmaker Renee Menzor alleged

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Speaker 1: of Hughes's scripts, Christmas Vacation. The chance to direct the

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Speaker 1: new installment of the beloved National Lampoon franchise was a

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Speaker 1: big deal, but unfortunately it came with some strings attached

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Speaker 1: by the name of Chevy Chase. Just nobody has a

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Speaker 1: Columbus was touched by the gesture, not only because he

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00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: McCauley did, but how often he did it. Premier Magazine

426
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,640
Speaker 1: rated k Culkin, McCauley's dad, as the forty most powerful

427
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,959
Speaker 1: person in the industry in the early nineties because of,

428
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,640
Speaker 1: you know, the power he wielded over his famous son.

429
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,880
Speaker 1: But his demanding control freak tendencies started to piss off

430
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: executives and producers for reasons I don't totally understand. He

431
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,439
Speaker 1: forbade McCauley from promoting My Girl when he appeared in

432
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: the film version of The Nutcracker. He demanded that his

433
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: son's co star Jessica Lynn Cohen not share top billing,

434
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: and he wouldn't approve a single candidate for director Ritchie

435
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: rich Uh. My favorite instance of Kick colchan's megalomania is

436
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: when McCauley hosted SNL November, becoming the second youngest celebrity

437
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: after Drew Barrymore. To do so, his dad apparently offered

438
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,199
Speaker 1: the following unambiguous warning before the show, do good or

439
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: I'll hate you. I'm sure not delivered like that. He

440
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 1: also forbade his son to use que cards, despite the

441
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: fact that every cast member on SNL uses QTE cards

442
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 1: Lauren Michael's demands it in case the writers have to

443
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 1: make any last minute changes to the scripts. So McCauley

444
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 1: not being able to use qute cards meant that nobody

445
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,719
Speaker 1: could use qute cards, which had a dramatic effect on

446
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: how the show was produced that day, all because of

447
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: McCauley's dad. McAuley did fifteen movies in seven years, all

448
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,199
Speaker 1: the for the age of fourteen. When you put it

449
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: like that, no wonder he got tight with Michael Jackson.

450
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,360
Speaker 1: This is some Joe Jackson level whip cracking. Obviously, McAuley

451
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 1: started getting a little tired. He told New York Magazine.

452
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: I just remember the exact point when I was growing

453
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: a little more tired during the movie The Good Son.

454
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 1: I had already done one or two things that year,

455
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: and I just said to Kit, listen, I'm really getting tired,

456
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: and I'm not school as much as I'd like to be.

457
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: I really need some time off. And he said, yeah, sure.

458
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: And then the next thing I know, I'm on the

459
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 1: next set doing the next thing, and it just kind

460
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 1: of clicked in my brain. Okay, there's basically nothing I

461
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: can do to make this stop. After Richie rich was

462
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: a comparative flop in, mcaulay stepped back from making movies

463
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: until two thousand three. He later said, when he retired

464
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: in he basically thought, well, I hope you all made

465
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,479
Speaker 1: your money, because there's no more coming from me. And

466
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: this is when it gets even messier. McAuley's parents split

467
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 1: up when he was a teenager and engaged in a

468
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: very nasty public battle over his custody and, more to

469
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: the point, over his fortune. It's thought that this was

470
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: actually one of the reasons that he stepped back from

471
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 1: acting in the first place because people were starting to

472
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 1: get wind of his messy family life and it sort

473
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: of took a bite out of the whole cute, precocious

474
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: kid thing um. The teenage McAuley said he had no

475
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 1: idea how much he earned because his dad would this

476
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: is amazing, would hide the newspapers from him so he

477
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't read stuff about both the family drama and also

478
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 1: how much he was making. So, as he later admitted

479
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: to New York Magazine, I could understand why they did that.

480
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: They didn't want me running off to my friends saying

481
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: I just made eight million dollars. But when he was sixteen,

482
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: he learned that he had a fifty million dollar fortune

483
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: five zero, which was getting eaten up by his parents,

484
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: escalating legal costs over who was going to have control

485
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 1: over him and his money, and Colchin later recalled, Basically,

486
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: I had millions and millions of dollars in the bank,

487
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 1: and my mother couldn't pay rent because she was spending

488
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 1: all her money on lawyers. We were about to get

489
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 1: evicted from our part it. The only way I could

490
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: get access to that money was to take my father's

491
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: name off it. But I didn't want to make it messy,

492
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: messier than it already was, so I figured to take

493
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: both their names off my trust fund. And because of this.

494
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: In the past, it's often been reported that McCaulay sued

495
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: his parents to emancipate himself, but he said several times

496
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: in recent years that this actually wasn't the case. During

497
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: Esquire interview, he said, it's often misconstrued that I emancipated

498
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,719
Speaker 1: myself from my parents. I legally took my parents name

499
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: off my trust fund, and father and executor someone who

500
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: would look over my finances just in case anyone wanted

501
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: to stick their pinky and the pie Jesus. Not really,

502
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: There's really no no sunny day there is there. Yeah,

503
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: but well the sunny day is that Culkin's landed. Okay, um,

504
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: you know he doesn't really have to work again, he

505
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 1: told Ellen Degenerous. I felt like some kid worked really,

506
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: really hard and I inherited all his money. Cool. That's

507
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: that's kind of devastating the way it's phrased. I had

508
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: kind of no real sense. It allows me to treat

509
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: everything like a hobby. I do nothing for my dinner nowadays,

510
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: so I can just do all kinds of projects that

511
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: I want to do, whether it's writing or painting or

512
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: new website or whatever it is. He married Rachel Miner

513
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: at the age of eighteen. They separated at age twenty,

514
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: and then he dated me the Cunas for eight years,

515
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 1: which I have no memory of. Oh yeah, I remember

516
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: Russell Brand did a whole bit on it because he

517
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: was trying to ask Mila Kunas out when they were

518
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: doing Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and she kept them like, oh yeah,

519
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: well my boy oh my boyfriend, my boyfriend Mac Mac.

520
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: And he was like, who's this Mac guy? And then

521
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: she was like, oh yeah, Max coming to the set.

522
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: Finally he was like, oh now I'm gonna see you know,

523
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: my competition is from Mila And like, wait a minute,

524
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: that's not that's about colleague Cokain. You're sleeping with the

525
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: do the face. Do the face like that. Don't try

526
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: to rebrand it. That's about colleague Coke. That's fair. Uh.

527
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: He returned to acting with two thousand threes Party Monster,

528
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: which he played the infamous club kid killer of New

529
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: York Michael ale aleg Alec. Do you know the story?

530
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,479
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I watched Party Monster a lot in high school.

531
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: Seth Green is great in that movie, and then when

532
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: I was at page six, we did a lot of

533
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: reporting on on him. Yeah, this story is it's about

534
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: as far as you can get from like cute child star.

535
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: If you want to give a quick rundown of the

536
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: Michael Alec case, Yeah, yeah. Uh. They were club kids

537
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: aleg Bus tables at Dance Tiria, which was very famous

538
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: New York City dance club in the what was the

539
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: late eighties early nineties, And they did a whole lot

540
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: of drugs and had these really elaborate, incredible costumes. And

541
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: then at one point they also murdered a guy and

542
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: uh kept the body in their bathtub and then dismembered

543
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: it and tossed him into the Hudson River. Mcaulay culkin Uh,

544
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: he lived in Paris for a while. Uh. I believe

545
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: he's currently married to Brenda's song uh and has a child. Yeah.

546
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: And the last time, the really big last story that

547
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: I remember from him as being in the Pizza Underground,

548
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: which I'd never heard of until this. Yeah. They were

549
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: very much a novelty band that got better bookings than

550
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: I ever did. Um. They parodied songs by the Velvet

551
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: underground with pizza related lyrics. As that's the bit. It's

552
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: right there in the name. That's it. That's the tweet. Uh,

553
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: scaling such heights of wit as all pizza parties for

554
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: all tomorrow's parties, Pizza gal for fem fatale, take a

555
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: bite of the wild slice. That's not even that was

556
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: not even clever. They're all, it's all stupid. I can't

557
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: I bear McAuley culkin no malice, but I hated this

558
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: story when it came out. It was the lowest common

559
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: denominator quote unquote funny sub weird owl and the delivery

560
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: man instead of waiting for the man is pretty good, though,

561
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: I will say, I just gotta let you dodge my

562
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: son air. I know they played like rough trade where

563
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: they was baby's all right around groceries or something. I mean,

564
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: the thing that makes me mad is that they didn't

565
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: commit to the bit. It was all like acoustic singalong

566
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: e kind of stuff, like it wasn't a real bit,

567
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: like saying it was incredibly half as. Yeah, they had

568
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: actually done like the alternate tunings or like they had

569
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: like Viola played a pizza he just he was like

570
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: banging a pizza box with like a drumstick. It was

571
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: the most half as in the world, and it was

572
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: like predictably all over media because people were like, oh

573
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: mcole Underground just oh my god, it maybe I I'm

574
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: so it's so to me that you didn't know about this,

575
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: because I know it sent me into apoplectic rage when

576
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: it happened. My favorite bit of all this right now

577
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: is that High Goals wearing new glasses i've ever seen

578
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: him in and he looks distressingly like David Kersh right now.

579
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: So I'm just David koresh yelling at me about Macaulay

580
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: Culkin and pizza and it feels very right. But I

581
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: tell you one thing, I would rather have the FBI

582
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: outside of my compound playing pigs being slaughtered than listening

583
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: to a pizza theme developed underground cover band. That's the

584
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: t M I guarantee. Uh. Mcaulay Culkin is reportedly close

585
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: with his mother and his other siblings, but has not

586
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: had contact with his dad since the last day of

587
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: the custody hearing when he was sixteen years old. He

588
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: claims that his dad took some of his acting mementos

589
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: out from under him. His very first costume pictures things

590
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: that he calls stuff was going to put in storage

591
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: and dig out when I was fifty or sixty for

592
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: a laugh. Ki Cokin reportedly lives in Oregon and is

593
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: supposedly in ill health. When The Daily Mail caught up

594
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: to him in and asked him about McCauley, Kit responded simply,

595
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: I don't consider him a son anymore. Graham, We're going

596
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: to take a quick break, but we'll be right back

597
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: with more. Too much information and just a moment. Alright,

598
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: Well that is all depressing. So now we got to

599
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: talk about the best part of this film. The Wet

600
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: bandits Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. They are brilliant as

601
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: the dumbest robbers on the face of the earth. Shockingly,

602
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: Joe Pesci was not the first choice for this role.

603
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: Chris Columbus and John Hughes wanted Pesci's raging bull Coo

604
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: star Robert de Niro to play the role of Harry Lime,

605
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: named for Orson Wells character in The Third Man. Apparently,

606
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: after Robert de Niro turned it down, it was offered

607
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: to John Lovitts, who also said no, Shade. They couldn't

608
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: have just waited like twenty years and then Robert DeNiro

609
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: do anything, yes from being your high school play if

610
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: you can make his day rate. John Lovitz told The

611
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: Huffington Post, I didn't want to play second fiddle. Can

612
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: you do with John lovetts? I don't want to play

613
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: second fiddle. All I can do is acting. Yeah, I

614
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: didn't want to play second fiddle as some kid. Then

615
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: it became the biggest comedy of all time. Oops. Uh,

616
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: this is the section that I've subheaded Joe Pesci being terrifying.

617
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: A brief history Joe Pesci. He had appeared in scorsese

618
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 1: He's Good Fellas earlier in the same year as All Alone,

619
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: and so he brought a bit of that energy to

620
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: the production. He went up semi method, I guess on

621
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: the set of homelone. He tried to avoid McCauley on

622
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: the set to instill a genuine sense of fear in him.

623
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: And then there was the time when he bit his

624
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: co stars fingers. As McAuley told Rule forty two. In

625
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: the first Home Alone, they hung me up on a

626
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: coat hook. You know it's the end of the movie.

627
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: Pesci said, I'm gonna bite all your fingers off, one

628
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: at a time, And during one of the rehearsals, he

629
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: bit me and it broke the skin, and he claims

630
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: he still has a little Joe Pesci's tooth scar on

631
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: his hand to this very day. And yeah, I guess

632
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: after decades of playing tough guys, he was just very

633
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: clearly used to film sets as being a a safe

634
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: place to swear. Left right in the center, muscle memory

635
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: kicked in on the set of Home Alone, and he

636
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: found it difficult not to drop F bombs all the time.

637
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: And Chris Columbus tried to curb this as much as

638
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: possible by suggesting he substitute Fridge instead, And as we

639
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, much like the Old Man of a Christmas Story,

640
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: Pesci developed this gibberish mumbling that feels like swearing by

641
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: it is not Lady Gentlem a friend of the pod

642
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: Fox swearing gibberish. Daniel Sturr meanwhile accidentally dropped an S

643
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: bomb in one scene when he's trying to retrieve his

644
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: shoe through a doggy door, which Columbus quietly left in

645
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: the film for some reason. Ah. Chris Columbus ran into

646
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 1: Martin Scorsesey just after he finished shooting the Irishman with

647
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: Joe Pesci a few years back, and he says Scorsese

648
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: told him, we're out in the streets shooting, and all

649
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: anyone wants to do is to talk to Joe about

650
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: Home Alone. Which how much did you think that pisces

651
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Speaker 1: off not only Pesci but also scorsesey for all the

652
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: movies that he's been in, And all anyone wants to

653
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: do is to talk about this movie. When he gets

654
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: hit in the face with a paint can by kid, yeah, yeah, yeah,

655
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: I mean, the man is an Oscar winner, but at

656
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: least he bit a child's finger so hard it scarred

657
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: him for permanently, literally scarred McAuley culchin for life. Yeah,

658
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: the whole production to him. Recalled Joe Pesci as being

659
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: more difficult to work with the mcaulay because he was

660
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: kind of a diva. He believed that some of the

661
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: dialogue that was written was beneath him, and he resented

662
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: the early call times because they prevented him I love

663
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: this from starting his day with his habitual nine holes

664
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Speaker 1: of golf, and I guess he complained to the director

665
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: about this by grabbing him by the collar and dragging

666
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 1: him to Chris Columbus's office. We're gonna go talk about

667
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: this any daily call times were moved back from seven

668
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: am to nine am to accommodate Joe Pesci's rounds of golf.

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00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: That's so funny. I would not have picked Pesci is

670
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: that much of a da know, I know, you know

671
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: a lot of those like tough guy actors are actually

672
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: very well well babies, but also like very like kind

673
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: of quiet and meta tative and like into the process

674
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: and very like thin skins. I had a friend who

675
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: did make up for uh Paul Sorvino, and he was sad.

676
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: He was a lovely, lovely guy, but like extremely unlike

677
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: his on screen persona like very well read, very quiet,

678
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: very like. Yeah, I feel like I've heard a few

679
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: other examples too of those kind of tough guys being

680
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: very like gentle. All the Joe Pesci is it's not

681
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: all that gentle. Daniel Stern, on the other hand, was

682
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: very gentle. He really wanted this part. He later said,

683
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: the script struck a chord with me. I hadn't gotten

684
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: a chance to express that kind of physical comedy since

685
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: I was a kid. I thought I could hit a

686
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: home run with this. I went into audition for Chris Columbus.

687
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: I wanted it so bad. When I left, I thought

688
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: I could do that better. It was the only time

689
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: in my life I called and said, can I come back?

690
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: Chris told me, lady, who's gonna cast me? But he

691
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: let me audition again. Uh. And it was just really

692
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: nice for him to work with Pesci because they had

693
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 1: already met years earlier when they were making a film

694
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: in nine two called I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can.

695
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: And Stern said, everybody assumed who were thrown together for

696
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: the first time on home alone, But we made each

697
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: other giggle on the set in another movie years before that.

698
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,479
Speaker 1: We were both cut out of I'm Dancing as Fast

699
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: as I Can. We played people in a mental institution.

700
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: Jill walked around all the time with this roll up

701
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: tube of architecture drawings. That was his character. And during

702
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: one of the takes, there's a ping pong table in

703
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: the middle of the room and Joe takes his tube

704
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: of paper and puts it up to his nose and

705
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: snorts the line of ping pong balls. I fell on

706
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: the floor laughing. I became his friend right then. And

707
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: Deniel Starn he actually backed out of this movie because

708
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: they added a few extra weeks to the shooting schedule

709
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: but wouldn't give him any extra money, so he backed

710
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: out on principal. But the new guy that got this,

711
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: guy Dan Roebock, who I didn't really know him. I

712
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: guess he had a recurring role as Dr Leslie Aren'ts

713
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: on Lost, had apparently no chemistry with Joe Pesci whatsoever,

714
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 1: So they went back the Stern and got him back in.

715
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: Probably by this point they were working with twentieth Century

716
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: Fox and had a bigger budgets, so maybe they could

717
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: give him the money that he wanted. But yeah, Daniel

718
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: Stern said he had a great time hanging out with

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00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: McCauley because he was used to being around child actors

720
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: from working on The Wonder Years. And both Joe Pesci

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00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: and Daniel Stern said that they had no idea they

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00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: were working on a major blockbuster, so they just intentionally

723
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: gave really over the top goofy performances just to keep

724
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 1: things fun. Totally unrelated. Do you know Daniel Stern directed

725
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year. I actually did, and he's in

726
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: my beloved Chud right. He's a a lot of good

727
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: like pre Home alone movies that I forget about Diners great,

728
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 1: Breaking Away is wonderful. I need to rewatch Breaking Away.

729
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: And he's a sculptor and his preferred medium is bronze.

730
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: And one of his children is a California state senator

731
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Speaker 1: whoa I went to school with his niece, and I

732
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: think he agreed to like act in one of her

733
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: short plays or something. I remember it was like somebodys.

734
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: I didn't get to see it, But I'm such a

735
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: huge Wonder Years fan. I was really molding didn't get

736
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: to see like one of my heroes. I'm just gonna say,

737
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: I'm sure that was big for you. But now we

738
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: have to talk about the true m v P of

739
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: this movie, John Candy. They had him on set for

740
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: just a day and he, you know, knocks it out

741
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: of the park. It's a classic John Candy, Chicago guy,

742
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: Gus Polinski, the Polka King of the Midwest. Candy is

743
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: obviously a regular player and the John Hughes rep Uh.

744
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: He starts not only his uncle Buck, but he's in planes, trains,

745
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: and automobiles and that is actually what inspired his part

746
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: in Home Alone. According to the aforementioned episode of Netflix

747
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: is the Movies that made us. John Candy did the

748
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: cameo and home alone as a favor to Hughes, and

749
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: they had him for one twenty three hour filming session,

750
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: which he ad libbed largely. Columbus told Insider he was

751
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: on the movie for only one day, but it resulted

752
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: in so much great in provisation. None of that stuff

753
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: was in the script, the funeral parlor story, that was

754
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: all improvised. At four thirty in the morning. We could

755
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: barely keep a straight face on set just listening to John.

756
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: What was this was that? The one was like are

757
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: He was, okay, you know, kids are resilient. I'm trying

758
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: to remember what I don't know. I don't have it.

759
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: I don't have it at hand. And this was done

760
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: as a favor. So he worked for scale, which was

761
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 1: the minimum that the sag will let you work for,

762
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: which is uh four and fourteen dollars came out to

763
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: him or less than the kid who played the pizza

764
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: delivery boy. And then it went on to become the

765
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: highest grossing live action comedy of all time, which kind

766
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: of upset John Candy, uh. Columbus said. There was certainly

767
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: little resentment on John's part. It was a deal between

768
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: him and John At the time, I never met John Candy,

769
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: but he came on the movie. I don't know if

770
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: he ever got any kind of compensation from Fox. And

771
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: then the following year, when Chris Columbus worked with Candy

772
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: on the film Only the Lonely, John Candy was still

773
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 1: piste off about it. He said there were a couple

774
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: of times on set when he would make a cutting

775
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: remark about Fox and what he was paid aid Ah.

776
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: But fate had worse ideas in store for John Candy.

777
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: His young son became obsessed with the movie Home Alone

778
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,240
Speaker 1: and went to see it in theaters all of the time,

779
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: and because of that, he started emulating Kevin smart ass

780
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: attitude towards his parents in the beginning of the movie.

781
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: So John Candy started complaining that his son was now

782
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: emulating the attitude of the child actor in the movie

783
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: that paid him no money and went on to make

784
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: all of the money. I remember as a little kid

785
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: watching Home Alone and like kind of thinking that his

786
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: family was really mean to him, and then they were

787
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: a certain extent, But rewatching Home Alone as an adult,

788
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: he was a little brat. I like forgot how noxious

789
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: he was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's bad. Continuing down the

790
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: cast list, Buzz, who plays McCauley's brother, the actor who

791
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: played him, a guy named Devin Rattray who started a

792
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: very strange movie in two thousand eight called Courting Condi,

793
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,479
Speaker 1: where atish filmmaker followed Devin as he tried to win

794
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: the heart of Condoleeza Rice. Don't I have no idea?

795
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 1: It's a very odd yeah sentiment. Yes, uh yeah, things

796
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: went south with a girlfriend from home alone. Anyway, you

797
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: gotta do. You gotta buzz your girlfriend rather than subject

798
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: an actual little girl to such cruelty. Chris columb His

799
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: famously got a crew member's son and dressed him up

800
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: as a pretty little girl as Buzzes girlfriend. Yeah. Uh,

801
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: do you want to do this next part? You're really

802
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: gonna stick me with this just now getting word? Which

803
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: is my earpiece right now quarters J Jordan's it's just

804
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: now a researching word. About a year ago, December, Devin

805
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: Rattray was booked for domestic assault and battery after allegedly

806
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: strangling his girlfriend in Oklahoma hotel room. They reportedly had

807
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: an argument over his girlfriend failing to charge fans for

808
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: his autograph. That's it's worse and worse. When they got

809
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: back to the hotel, according to the affidavit, he pushed

810
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 1: his girlfriend under the room's bed, pressed one of his

811
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 1: hands against her throat, pressed his other hand over her mouth,

812
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: and applied pressure, and supposedly told her this is how

813
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: you die. After this made headlines, an old friend of

814
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: his came forward, accusing him of rape a few years

815
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: earlier by drugging her drink, which is surely one of

816
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: the most dark left hand turns that we've taken about

817
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: a bit player and a beloved comedy since we discovered

818
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: the horrific real life atrocities of the act who played

819
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: Random Task in Austin Powers. Continuing down the macalister siblings,

820
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: there's Michael C. Morona who is most famous. I would say,

821
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: not just to you, but most of us is Big

822
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,280
Speaker 1: Pete on the Adventures of Pete and Pete. Most interesting

823
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: McCalister sibling non Pete and Pete category including this is

824
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: a cool store. I think, Okay, okay man, do you

825
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: do you like like aquatic? I mean because of you

826
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 1: and because of that anecdote, okay Man. Most interesting McCallister

827
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: sibling is Big Sister Megan played by Hillary Wolfe, who

828
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: later appeared in Big Girls, Don't Cry, They Get Even

829
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: and also Homo and two before she left the industry

830
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: to pursue a career in judo and two thousands she

831
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: was a member of the summer Olympic judo team for

832
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: the US. She should get together with Jonathan Lipniki and

833
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: started a former child actor self defense studio. You imagine

834
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: the pair of them rolling around is like paid protection.

835
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 1: Among the other improvised highlights of this movie clude the

836
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: aftershave scream. As written, mcaulay Culkin was supposed to lip

837
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: sync to White Christmas put the aftershave on his cheeks,

838
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,439
Speaker 1: but as Chris Columbus noted the Insider, if you put

839
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: something on your face that burns, most people move their

840
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: hands right away. So my direction to him was when

841
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: you pat your face, move your hands and scream. And

842
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: I think it was the first take that he kept

843
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: his hands on his cheeks. It's funny. The iconic moment

844
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: from Home Alone was an accident. Remember in Dogma when

845
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: Tommahayak is talking about being the muse or and she goes, uh,

846
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: the one with the kid and the scream, and she

847
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: said I didn't do that. Somebody sold his soul to

848
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: Satan to get the grosses up on. Um. Yeah, it's

849
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: like the last good Kevin Smith movie. Um. Columbus said

850
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 1: he liked it because it resembled the Edvard Munch painting

851
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: The Scream. He said, that's why McAuley was such an

852
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: interesting kid. No one else would have done that. And then,

853
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: uh Mac, we're just calling him Mac now, yeah, I was.

854
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: I got tired of typing it. Well, that's what the

855
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: Red letter media guys call him, actually, Mac. Yeah, that's

856
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: it just goes by. Yeah. Mr Culkin of the Oregon Culkins, Um,

857
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: the chipa Fall Caulkins, we have to go on the

858
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: Titanic reference and until we finally dropped that, uh he Mac.

859
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: Mr Culkin also allegedly made up the line do you

860
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: guys give up? Are you thirsty for more? And another

861
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 1: improvised moment is when Marvin Harry reconvened after being subjected

862
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: to the first round of booby traps and Mark SI's

863
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: Harry covered feathers and says, why are you dressed like

864
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: a chicken? Um, Katherine O'Hara, There were no other alternate choices.

865
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: It was only Katherine O'Hara was only ever Katherine O'Hara

866
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: could have only ever been Catherine O'Hara. Others were considered

867
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: for the role of Kevin's squasi deadbeat dad played by

868
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: the late John Heard. Michael Keaton, Brian Cranston, Christopher Reeve

869
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: were considered for the role in Yeah, Really, Um. John

870
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: Candy almost had a run for his money, though, as

871
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 1: the token plus sized white guy in the film Yeah.

872
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 1: Chris Farley, his air apparent, apparently auditioned to play the

873
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: role of the suburban Santa who lights up in front

874
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: of Kevin and offers him the Tic TACs. Yeah. The

875
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: actor who got that role, Ked Hudson Campbell, told Chicago

876
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: Magazine he was there when Farley came into audition, saying

877
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: apparently he was out on night and had just been

878
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: dropped off after a night of shenanigans. Shall we say

879
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: Farley was kind of making cat calls to the girls

880
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: who worked in the office. I was thinking, oh, boy,

881
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: just went first. It didn't go very well. He walked

882
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: in and walked right out. I went in and hit

883
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: what I wanted to hit. A few weeks later, I

884
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: got the call. But the only thing scarier than Chris

885
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: Farley after a night of marathon partying and low key

886
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: sexual harassing the morning after is old Man Marley, the

887
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: misunderstood neighbor played by veteran character actor Roberts Blossom, who

888
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: also started Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Christine

889
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: by John Carpenter. Blossom was like the scary hobo guy

890
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: in like all kinds of stuff, I justifiably so, well, yes,

891
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: it's that's that's very true. There was other stuff that

892
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: I know him from. Yeah, he's in Escape from alcatraz Um.

893
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: He's in the Last Temptation of Christ. Anyway. According to

894
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus, his name was inspired by Jacob Marley and

895
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: a Christmas Carol. Columbus made it a bigger role than

896
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: he originally had in the script um. But why was

897
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: that Jordan's I guess he wanted to introduce a subplot

898
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: that kind of, like, you know, brought an emotional heart

899
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: to the story. So it wasn't all you know, gags

900
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: with Kevin shooting robbers with a bb gun. Um. I'm

901
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: actually seeing some complicting reports as to exactly why this

902
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: role was changed, and some interviews. Columbus has said that

903
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: he introduced the subplot of Marley being strange from his family,

904
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: and he added that scene where he and Kevin are

905
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: talking in the church. But I've also seen interviews where

906
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,320
Speaker 1: he says it didn't change a word of the church scene,

907
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: but added the moment at the very end of the

908
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: movie when Kevin looks out the window and sees old

909
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 1: man Marley reuniting with his formerly a strange son and

910
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 1: hugging his granddaughter. Watching that Netflix documentary Movies that made us,

911
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: I got the impression that John Hughes didn't take kindly

912
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: to his scripts being rewritten and was maybe a little

913
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: prickly about it. So I almost got the sense that

914
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: after John hughes Is death in two thousand nine, Columbus

915
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: started downplaying how much he changed, just sort of ad

916
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 1: a tribute to him. I I don't know, maybe I'm projecting,

917
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: but Columbus said that the movie was originally going to

918
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: end on the family asking Kevin what he'd been up to,

919
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: and then he just does the oh, just hung around.

920
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: Everyone laughs, Freese frame on Kevin sitcom ending lame. So

921
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,959
Speaker 1: this whole bit with you know, the family reuniting next

922
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:03,240
Speaker 1: door gave a bit of sentimentality to this movie. Uh

923
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:08,280
Speaker 1: and also it was beautifully undercut by Buzz screaming Kevin,

924
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: what did you do to my room? But Columbus told Insider,

925
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: I added the moment when Marley talked about not being

926
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: able to see his granddaughter. I also added the very

927
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: end of the movie when Kevin sees that Marley's reunited

928
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: with his granddaughter. That's probably my proudest addition to the movie.

929
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna talk about the real enemy of this movie.

930
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: We gotta fight the real enemy, the bitter conniving, airline

931
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: crystal stealing cheapskate Uncle Frank played by Gary Batman. The

932
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 1: part was originally written for Kelsey Grammar. Yeah, I know,

933
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: Fraser started yet at this point, do you know what

934
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,720
Speaker 1: the original pitch for. They wanted to keep Lester, Glenn,

935
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 1: Charles and all these guys wanted to keep Fraser like

936
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,800
Speaker 1: they wanted that Fraser. They wanted to keep Kelsey Grammer around,

937
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: And they pitched a show where he was going to

938
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: play a air aplegic, millionaire, magazine mogul and motorcycle enthusiast.

939
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: So Larry Flynn basically this was this was scrapped. I

940
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: can't believe they scrapped that and went with Meet the

941
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: tortelis show so offensive to the Italian American community that

942
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: was canceled before it was decided that we were allowed

943
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: to be mocked roundly justifiably so. So I guess Kelsey

944
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: Grammer was apparently busy on cheers, so he wasn't available

945
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: to be at Home alone. There's a strong internet conspiracy

946
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: theory that goes a little something like this again really

947
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: just uphold my view the Uncle Frank is the true

948
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: villain of Home Alone. According to this theory, there's an

949
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: early version of the script where we learned that the

950
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: jealous Uncle Frank is actually the guy who paid the

951
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: wet bandits to rob the mccallus. Was home because he

952
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 1: knew they were going to be away and presumably he

953
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: would share in the bounty. There's no truth of this

954
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: that I've been able to find, but there is a

955
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: medium funny deleted scene that shows just what a dick

956
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: Uncle Frank truly is. He goes up to Kevin and says,

957
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: do you know where they're gonna call you? In France,

958
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: which you remember is where the family is heading for vacation.

959
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: When Kevin says no, he pants is him and delivers

960
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: the punchline. Yank, he sells it, he sells uncle stuff

961
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: though you know, you know pants kids. Yeah, it's true

962
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: unless you're another kid. Yeah, well sure, ethics of panting

963
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:44,320
Speaker 1: a debate on t I watching you, William F. Buckley

964
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:51,720
Speaker 1: will do a firing line on pantsing boy rolling right along.

965
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: Speaking of online conspiracy theories, we've got to talk about

966
00:54:55,719 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: one of my favorites involving my beloved Elvis. I'd say

967
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: one and maybe every three pop culture conspiracies have to

968
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: do with Elvis. But there's a persistent theory that Elvis,

969
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: who you must remember, supposedly died in nineteen years before

970
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: Home Alone was filmed, has a cameo as an extra,

971
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: and Home Alone in the scene where Katherine O'Hara is

972
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: arguing and begging and pleading with the ticket agent behind

973
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: the counter in Scranton, you know, I've been from Chicago

974
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: to Paris to Dallas to where the hell am I Scranton?

975
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: Quip a genuine shame in his voice. In the background

976
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: behind Katherine, you'll see a larger bearded man who really

977
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: kind of does bear a vague resemblance to middle aged Elvis.

978
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 1: Chris Colombos was actually asked about this, and he gently

979
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 1: shot the rumors down. He said, I remember having conversations

980
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: with that guy, and the movie I had just done

981
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 1: prior to Home Alone was Heartbreak Hotel, which was about

982
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 1: Elvis Presley. I'm in Elvis Presley fanatic, So if that

983
00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: guy were Elvis, I would have known people thought he

984
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: was really Elvis. It wasn't. They didn't think it was

985
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: like an Elvis impersonator. Like it's it's weird, like he

986
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: looks he looks like Russell, but like, no, I don't know,

987
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: like he he looks like if he looked exactly like

988
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: Elvis will be like two obvious. Like this looks like

989
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: like if Elvis just like got old and stopped being famous,

990
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: Like I actually kind of see what have you seen it?

991
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 1: I don't understand how people are like vociferously thinking that

992
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: that's Elvis. I mean, look at the one I just said, No,

993
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:32,760
Speaker 1: I'm seeing it. I mean, I don't think people people

994
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: don't honestly believe anything. I don't think people the Jordan

995
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: Jordan's articulated philosophy. People don't really believe in anything. I

996
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: don't think as you meditate on that. We'll be right

997
00:56:54,480 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: back with more too much information after these messages, Well,

998
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 1: now it is time to talk about the other main

999
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: character in this movie, The McAlister House. Chris Columbus and

1000
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: his crew spent weeks searching for the titular home and

1001
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: home alone, and ultimately they chose a house on Lincoln

1002
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, sixteen miles outside of Chicago, because

1003
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: they thought it was both warm and also menacing. Apparently

1004
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: I've enough for consideration for use in Uncle Buck. I

1005
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: guess because John Hughes loves to set his productions in

1006
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: the Chicago area, but it was not selected. Most movies

1007
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: would use exteriors and shoot the rest on the sound stage,

1008
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: but because of the intricate booby traps, they actually filmed

1009
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: a lot of the interiors as well in the actual house.

1010
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: The main staircase, the ground floor landing, the kitchen, the attic,

1011
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: the basement, and I think the master bedroom scene in

1012
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 1: the movie. We're all shot in this five bedroom residents.

1013
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 1: The home was owned by John and Cynthia Abshine, who

1014
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: were rented an apartment by the production for the duration

1015
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: of the shoot, but they opted to stay at home

1016
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 1: because the location manager explained that under the contract they

1017
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: had signed, if they needed to walk down a wall

1018
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: when they weren't home, they could do it. So Cynthia said,

1019
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: so we were told it was best just to remain

1020
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: on premises. Yeah. When they filmed the movie in um

1021
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: John Lennon's childhood home, which is now owned by the

1022
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: National Trust the state in England. UM, I think they

1023
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: were given permission, but they ended up knocking a wall

1024
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: down just to be able to get the cameras to

1025
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: fit in John Lennon's childhood home. Anyway. Uh So this

1026
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: family who owned the house hold up in the master

1027
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: bedroom suite for what they were told would be a

1028
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: four to five week shoot. Turns out it was five

1029
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: and a half months. John Absheine said, we put a

1030
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: hot plate up there to cook. We didn't have to

1031
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: cook that much though, because we had full access to

1032
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: the food truck that the crew used, which our daughter,

1033
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: who was six at that time, loved. And though the

1034
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: production didn't knock down any walls, they did do a

1035
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: little redecorating. The production team papered over the walls to

1036
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: provide a more holiday oriented feel with the reds in

1037
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,439
Speaker 1: the greens and all the practical lights and chandeliers used

1038
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: in the movie resemble little jewels, almost like a Christmas ornament.

1039
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 1: And they also installed Kevin's famous treehouse in the backyard,

1040
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: which unfortunately the owners declined to keep and it was

1041
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: demolished once filming ended. And the house became such a

1042
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 1: popular tourist destination after the film came out that the

1043
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: family asked Google to blur it out to deter visitors. Uh,

1044
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 1: these poor, long suffering neighbors really had their patients tested.

1045
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: As Chris Columbus told e W. People were extremely cooperative,

1046
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:53,919
Speaker 1: but I think they were starting to get a little

1047
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: annoyed with us because it was a low budget movie

1048
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: and we couldn't afford to build the exterior of the

1049
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 1: house on a sound stage, so all those stunts that

1050
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: happened outside the house happened at night. We will be

1051
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: shooting at like five at night to six in the morning,

1052
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: and I think the lights and the actors shouting and

1053
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: knee yelling action probably got on a few people's nerves.

1054
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: The Avon Shines ultimately sold the famous Home Alone House

1055
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: in for one point five eight five million, which for

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Speaker 1: what it is, kind of seems like a song, Big House,

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01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: Crazy History. Yeah, great location right outside of Chicago. But

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01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 1: when Home Alone was put on Disney Plus last year,

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01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 1: Airbnb did a promo thing kind of like what they

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01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: did for hocus Pocus, where they rented the house out,

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01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: complete with dangling paint cans and those weird angel candle

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01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: holders on the kitchen table and Buzzes tarantula for one

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01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: night only. They did a great job. Like if you

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01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: look at the site, it looks exactly like the house

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01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: in the movie. I mean, I know they filmed some

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01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: of the rooms but not all, but either master suite

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01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 1: looks just like it's got the big four poster bed

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01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 1: that Kevin jumps on at the popcorn Like. I did

1069
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 1: a really good job. I wonder what the trenchula got paid.

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01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 1: He did it for scale more than John Candy. Filming

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01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 1: began in February, shooting throughout the North Shore and Chicago area.

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01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: In the movie that McCallister families in Paris while Kevin's

1073
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: back home in Illinois, but production was located entirely within

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01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 1: the Chicago area. The scenes set at Paris Orly Airport

1075
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 1: were actually shot at O'Hare International. The scene with the

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01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: family sprints through the crowded airport was apparently one of

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01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 1: the toughest scenes to film and took days, with the

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01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: actress sent to Moses, who played Tracy, telling the Hollywood

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01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 1: Reporter there were thousands of extras, all expertly choreographs, so

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01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 1: none of us would be in danger running at full

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01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 1: speed through the American Airlines terminal. And we ran at

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01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: full speed. Sometimes we bump into each other like a

1083
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,439
Speaker 1: multi car pile up on the expressway, and just crack

1084
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 1: up laughing. There were so many setups and narrowly missed

1085
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 1: moments of disaster, but to my knowledge, no one got hurt.

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01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 1: The production team turned the basketball court at a disused

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01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: local school. Do we do you find out what high

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01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: school that was? Yes? Uh, it had like closed down.

1089
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 1: It was one of those cases where there were no

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01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: more kids in town, basically um New Trier Township High School.

1091
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: The production team turned the basketball court at the disused

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01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 1: local high school, New Trier Township High School into an

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01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 1: impromptu sound stage where they built the plane interiors, as

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01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 1: well as some of the rooms the McAlister home that

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01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: they didn't shoot at the real house. They also built

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01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: the sets of the flooded Murphy House in the schools

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01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 1: swimming pool. This abandoned school has an interesting cinematic history.

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01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: Who was apparently used to film parts of Ferris Bueller's

1099
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 1: Day Off and Uncle Buck John Us really love New

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01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: Trier Township High School. If you're a team movie director,

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01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: you got a freebee abandoned high school in a town

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01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: that you like to shoot in far away from the

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01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: studio systems. You're gonna hold onto that till the walls

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01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: fall off. Speaking of basements, you remember the evil furnace

1105
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 1: in the basement, which laughs maniacally in Kevin's imagination as

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01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: the doors snap open and shut. This was supposed to

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01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: be part of a longer dream sequence where Kevin would

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01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: be terrorized by various parts of the home, but ultimately

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01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: it proved just too expensive and so scrapped. A furnace

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01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: effect was stripped down to the point where they just

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01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: used two guys with fishing line and flashlights. Uh. Classic. Uh.

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Speaker 1: There's another internet fan theory that Kevin grew up to

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01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: be Jigsaw, the titular killer and the Saw franchise. Uh.

1114
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 1: There's a whole essay you can read that details the

1115
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 1: visual similarities between Kevin's furnace and the bear trap Us

1116
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: on the face of a victim in the Saw film.

1117
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: I guess that makes sense. Yeah, were you afraid of

1118
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 1: your basement? No, because I just was finished and we

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01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: had someone like we had like a renter there for

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01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 1: many years as well. Yeah, so, uh no, my basement

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01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: was very demystified for me. Yeah, I mean it wasn't

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01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:54,479
Speaker 1: like it wasn't like a creepy root seller or anything either,

1123
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:59,919
Speaker 1: although again I have been in basements like that. Uhn.

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01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: Sitaring how much money Home Alone made, it's easy to

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01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: forget what a relatively low budget film it actually was

1126
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 1: as far as major studio comedies. UM director Chris Columbus

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01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 1: really wanted to do snow dressing as part of the

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01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 1: background for the movie, but that costs a lot of

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01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 1: money and was deemed too expensive. Then on the second

1130
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: day of shooting, which was Valentine's Day, there was a

1131
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: blizzard and everyone rushed to set up the climactic scene

1132
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: where Kevin wakes up on Christmas morning and reunites with

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01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: his family in the newly fallen snow. Uh And they

1134
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: went with the classic Hollywood trick of potato flakes. Dried

1135
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:36,240
Speaker 1: potato flakes shot around the scene uh, and then they

1136
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: had to make do with piles of rehydrated and subsequently

1137
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 1: rotting potato all over the ground in the coming days.

1138
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: That is disgusting. Because of the snowstorm, the production team

1139
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: had no choice but to bring in snow machines subsequently

1140
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 1: so they can match the look of the property once

1141
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: the real snow had started to melt. One of the

1142
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: producers told Chicago Magazine that they refrigerated semis semitrucks of

1143
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:05,440
Speaker 1: shaved ice coming to the set with a crew of

1144
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 1: fifteen men dumping tons of ice in the yard every day.

1145
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: And then when the filming wrapped, the production donated some

1146
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 1: of the artificial snow they had created out of wax

1147
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 1: and plastic to the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where it

1148
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 1: has since been used in a number of their productions.

1149
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 1: That's adorable. That is a that is an all time

1150
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: t m I fact right there of a fake snow

1151
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 1: in Hull alone, which you you can visit folks. Wow,

1152
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about all the bad stuff Kevin

1153
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 1: did that didn't involve maiming people. First of all, well,

1154
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: obviously he went into Buzzes room and destroyed his shelves.

1155
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 1: Thus freeing his tarantula, but not before he thumbed through

1156
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: buzzes copy of Playboy. And to keep McCauley, who was

1157
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 1: nine years old, from actually seeing the porn, the crew

1158
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,840
Speaker 1: taped the pages shut, and then while McCauley jumps up

1159
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: and down on the bed eating pop corn, crew members

1160
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 1: laid on the floor and either side to catch him

1161
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: in case he fell. Come on, kids know how to

1162
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: jump on the bed. He also had a thirty year

1163
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: old stunt double, but I think it was Kevin himself

1164
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: who did the bit where the wet Bandit's van nearly

1165
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 1: runs him down. You know, he stopped right in front

1166
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 1: of his face as he's screaming. That shot was done

1167
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: by the van reversing away from McCaulay and then played

1168
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 1: backwards and then just sort of mimic the van suspension,

1169
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, as the brakes go on. Before the van started,

1170
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: they had crew members shaking you aside to make it

1171
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: look like it had just stopped. Clever and then, of

1172
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 1: course we can't forget the movie within the movie, the

1173
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 1: pitch perfect Gangster Passtiche Angels with Filthy Souls. I'll play

1174
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:47,760
Speaker 1: on the James Cagney movie Angels with dirty faces. This

1175
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 1: is the quote rubbish movie that Kevin watches that features

1176
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: the immortal line, can you do that? You able to

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01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 1: do that? I didn't. I didn't polish a quasi Cagney

1178
01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: for you. I'm gonna give you to the count of

1179
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 1: ten to get your ugly yellow no good key storout

1180
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: my property before I pump your guts full of let

1181
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: one to ten fifteen seconds of a Tommy gun. I

1182
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 1: wish I could do is keep the change of filthy.

1183
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: It's almost like John Layne. He really he's got the

1184
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 1: two voices, he's got this like nasal thing, and he's

1185
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:23,959
Speaker 1: got the John Wayne at the end. Oh my god,

1186
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,919
Speaker 1: that guy is so good. This movie was so well

1187
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: done that many have actually believed that it really is

1188
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:32,680
Speaker 1: an old movie from the thirties. A few years back,

1189
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 1: Seth Rogan tweeted my entire childhood I thought the old

1190
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,440
Speaker 1: timey movie that Kevin watches and Home Alone was actually

1191
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 1: an old movie, and this led a shocked Chris Evans

1192
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:44,920
Speaker 1: to respond, it's not. And part of the reason it

1193
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: looks so convincing is that they used the old carbon

1194
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: arc lighting system, which was popular back in the forties

1195
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 1: through the sixties. I'm not even gonna try to really

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01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 1: describe what that is. Google it if you're interested. Carbon

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01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 1: Arc lighting system. Columbus told Insider that richness of black

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01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:03,280
Speaker 1: and white made it look like a movie from that era,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's why some people think it's a

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01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 1: real movie shot in one day too. So this brings

1201
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 1: us to the truly naughty thing that Kevin did booby traps,

1202
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: most of which would have killed or at least severely

1203
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 1: maimed human beings in real life. Production designer John Muto said,

1204
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 1: I kept telling people that we were doing a kid's

1205
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,439
Speaker 1: version of straw Dogs, which is Sam Peck and Pa

1206
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:30,519
Speaker 1: thriller which concludes with Dustin Hoffman's character committing acts of

1207
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 1: really quite savage violence against the group of Home invaders.

1208
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:38,160
Speaker 1: Joe Paschi, Daniel Stern, and mccaullay Colchan didn't actually take

1209
01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 1: the hits and Pratt falls themselves. The stunt doubles actually did,

1210
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 1: and these were serious falls. Stunt coordinator Freddie Hints sat

1211
01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:48,880
Speaker 1: in a behind the scenes documentary in the old days,

1212
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 1: so somebody fell or slipped on marbles or whatever was

1213
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: in the script. Guys would just kind of fall down.

1214
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 1: We wanted to up the ante and make these guys

1215
01:08:56,240 --> 01:08:58,719
Speaker 1: literally look like they were hitting a patch of black eyes,

1216
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: feed up over your head, had flat on your back.

1217
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 1: It changed the way people did pratt falls in the

1218
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:07,240
Speaker 1: movie business. Every comedy we did for the next fifteen years,

1219
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 1: everybody would call for an interview and say, we want

1220
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:12,840
Speaker 1: that home alone fall. Give me that home alone fall.

1221
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 1: I gotta I want His discs actually slipped uh for

1222
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 1: years afterwards. In stunt circles, falls where you've got a

1223
01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:29,840
Speaker 1: lot of air and land on your back were called

1224
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: the home alone which it's not the first time we'll

1225
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:36,679
Speaker 1: see this movie spawn a verb. The stunts were tested

1226
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 1: in the school gymnasium with lots of pads and lots

1227
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,760
Speaker 1: of safety harnesses, but this was pre c g I,

1228
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 1: so they didn't have any resources to erase any kind

1229
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 1: of paths or harnesses or manipulate the shot I mean anyway,

1230
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 1: So these guys just fell down a lot. Chris Columbus

1231
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 1: later told e W every time the stunt guy did

1232
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:58,760
Speaker 1: one of those stunts, it wasn't funny. We'd watch it

1233
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:00,960
Speaker 1: and I would just pray that the eyes were alive,

1234
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: and then they would get up and we're absolutely fine,

1235
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: and then we'd watch the playback on video, and then

1236
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 1: we were relaxed enough to laugh even what seems simple,

1237
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 1: like the Joe Pesci character walking up the stairs in

1238
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: front of the house and doing a back flip. I

1239
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 1: really thought Troy, our stunt man, had broken his back

1240
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 1: on that first take, as I said, until we knew

1241
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:21,680
Speaker 1: those guys were alive and okay, and none of the

1242
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: stuff was funny. So I was surprised once we put

1243
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 1: the film together how well it actually worked for an audience.

1244
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,640
Speaker 1: And these falls were made all the more cartoonish by

1245
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: the outlandish sound effects. According to supervising sound editor Michael Wilhoy,

1246
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: the crew replaced the sound of bodies hitting the ground

1247
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 1: with frozen roast beef being hit and um. In the

1248
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:46,679
Speaker 1: scenes where people are burned. To make the flesh quote

1249
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 1: bubble and sizzle on the screens, they pressed a soldering

1250
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 1: iron into chicken skin. That's so gross. Yeah, that's the

1251
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 1: shot where Harry brands himself by touching a red hot

1252
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 1: door knob. Um, that hot door knob was actually just

1253
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: made out of neon tubing. That was my favorite prank.

1254
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 1: I thought that was like especially ingenious and also sinister

1255
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:14,679
Speaker 1: of literally branding your enemies with your initials. Well, speaking

1256
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:17,640
Speaker 1: of burning, the scene where Harry gets blasted by the

1257
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:20,519
Speaker 1: blowtorch when he opens the door and it burns his

1258
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 1: head and he just stays there. It's like Kevin with

1259
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 1: his hands on his cheeks and he's got the after tip,

1260
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: just just stays there, just let's let's it happen. They

1261
01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:32,960
Speaker 1: used an illusion called Pepper's Ghost, which, if you're interested,

1262
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 1: you should google more about this. Lots of great YouTube

1263
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:37,559
Speaker 1: clips about how this look was achieved. It's an old

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01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 1: camera trick that dates back to Victorian times. Again, it's

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01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 1: hard to explain with words, but in short, there's a

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01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: pane of glass set up in front of the camera

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01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:49,679
Speaker 1: angled at forty five degrees, and then just off camera

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01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: they set up a blowtorch and a black dummy head

1269
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,759
Speaker 1: and a black booth and this is just out of shot,

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01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:58,160
Speaker 1: and because it's all black, only the fire will show

1271
01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 1: up as a reflection on the glass. It's right in

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01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 1: front of the camera, and the flame looks like it's

1273
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 1: molding around the head because there's a black dummy head there.

1274
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 1: So Joe Petchi walks in the door. You see this

1275
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:13,200
Speaker 1: reflection that's just perfectly angled right around his head. So

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01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:15,880
Speaker 1: that's how they did that. Apparently they did not do

1277
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:18,040
Speaker 1: this for Home Alone, too, because in a recent interview,

1278
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: Joe Pesci said that he was badly injured with a

1279
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:23,880
Speaker 1: similar stunt in that movie. He said, and addition to

1280
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 1: the expected bumps, bruises in general pains that you would

1281
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 1: associate with that particular type of physical humor, I did

1282
01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: sustain serious burns to the top of my head during

1283
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:35,320
Speaker 1: the scene where Harry's hat is set on fire. I

1284
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:37,839
Speaker 1: don't know why they didn't use the Pepper's Ghost delusion

1285
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:39,760
Speaker 1: for that. Maybe the room is too dark, I don't know.

1286
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:45,040
Speaker 1: Friend of the Pod Pepper's Ghost. The shot where Kevin

1287
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:47,680
Speaker 1: Fire's BB gun directly at Daniel Stearn's head as he

1288
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:49,640
Speaker 1: pokes through the doggy door would have been easy to

1289
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: do in a post c g I age, but it's

1290
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 1: considerably more difficult. He had to pay a local artist

1291
01:12:56,560 --> 01:13:00,680
Speaker 1: working out of his mother's basement, UH in the neighborhood,

1292
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:04,360
Speaker 1: of six hundred dollars to hand paint the baby heading

1293
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 1: towards Marv's head directly onto six frames of the film. Uh.

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01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 1: Do you think the same guy also made the gold

1295
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:16,920
Speaker 1: tooth that Harry has sparkle, and the ghostly heads of

1296
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:20,520
Speaker 1: Kevin's family that are all insulting him as he's liked

1297
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: my family disappear. Yeah, that was rhodoscoping. Impressive. Uh. The

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01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 1: other traps were achieved in other low budget, clever ways.

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01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: The glass ornaments that Harry steps on or sugar glass

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01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 1: designed to break in a way that doesn't break skin,

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01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 1: although Stern did wear rubber feet for his barefoot scenes

1302
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,679
Speaker 1: on the basement stairs. The nail that Bar steps onto

1303
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:45,519
Speaker 1: it's the worst. Yeah, uh, is spring loaded so that

1304
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 1: there were tracks, doesn't actually stab him. The POV shot

1305
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:50,880
Speaker 1: of the iron falling down the laundry shoot and smashing

1306
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 1: Daniel Stern in the face it was achieved by putting

1307
01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:55,640
Speaker 1: a camera on a rope and dangling it down the

1308
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 1: laundry shoot, with assurances made to Daniel Sterton that they

1309
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 1: had measured the rope to the correct length and it

1310
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't actually hit him. The only trap that didn't require

1311
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 1: any special effects was the tarantula, which basically was filmed

1312
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:09,160
Speaker 1: the way that it looks in the movie. Macauley Culkin

1313
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 1: put it on Daniel Stern's face which they only had

1314
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:18,840
Speaker 1: one take to film, understandably. For years, it has been

1315
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 1: said in listic goals and behind the scenes featurettes that

1316
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 1: his scream was dubbed in post, but Daniel Stern has

1317
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: said that that is not the case. On Facebook, he

1318
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 1: wrote a lengthy post saying, in part, people who meet

1319
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:34,920
Speaker 1: me are always curious if the tarantula was real, if

1320
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 1: my scream was real, and if I was scared, crazy

1321
01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:39,919
Speaker 1: or both. The answer to all three of those questions

1322
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: is yes, and then he went on to detail the scene.

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01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 1: The wrangler introduced me to bury the tarantula. I am

1324
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 1: possibly misremembering his name. Apologies. They had Barry crawl around

1325
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 1: on my hand and head. I asked if Barry was trained,

1326
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 1: and was told they've been working with him for a

1327
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: few days, but tarantulas are kind of tough to train.

1328
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: I asked if his reason had been removed, and was

1329
01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 1: told if the poison was removed, Barry would die. I said, right,

1330
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 1: But if the poison isn't removed, then I'm going to die.

1331
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: See where I'm going here. Just don't make any sudden

1332
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,680
Speaker 1: threatening moves and you'll be fine. But I'm going to

1333
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: be screaming in Barry's face. Do you think he'll be

1334
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 1: threatened by that? Barry doesn't have ears, he can't hear. Relax.

1335
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: It was even freakier because I had to do that scream,

1336
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 1: which meant my mouth was wide open too, and I

1337
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 1: was afraid the little bastard might take a detour down

1338
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 1: my throat. Hence the scream came from a place in

1339
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 1: my soul that I've never before touched and never hoped

1340
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: to again. As a funny coda, he wrote, I then

1341
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 1: had to beat Joe Peschi with a crowbar, and we

1342
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 1: all know that even though it was pretend and funny

1343
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 1: and a fake crowbar, it's a thousand times more dangerous

1344
01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:46,679
Speaker 1: pissing off Joe Pesci than pissing off a venomous spider

1345
01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:50,680
Speaker 1: that's crawling on your face. That spider thing gets me, man,

1346
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: I don't like spiders. Yeah, and they all still worse though, Yeah,

1347
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:58,960
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, that's like just like a recurring thing

1348
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: in horror movie. They didn't ax, They did it in

1349
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: a quiet place. It's just something so primal about that

1350
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:09,360
Speaker 1: fear for humans that people just keep returning to it.

1351
01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:12,760
Speaker 1: With the nail. Yeah, but in the foot too, I

1352
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: feel like more so than yeah Yeah yeah, well as

1353
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:21,600
Speaker 1: cartoonish as all the violence aside from the nail is.

1354
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: I was really struck by how gruesome some of these

1355
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:28,600
Speaker 1: scenes are watching the movie as an adult, and so

1356
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:31,320
Speaker 1: was Lauren Hansen, a writer for the outlet The Week.

1357
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,719
Speaker 1: She contacted Dr Ryan Saint Clair of New York's Wild

1358
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 1: Cornell Medical College and asked him to diagnose the outcome

1359
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 1: of each of the wet band That's injuries and a

1360
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:43,600
Speaker 1: piece in twenty sixteen, and it's as hilarious as it

1361
01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 1: is distressing. Here are some highlights from Dr st. Clair.

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01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: First up, we have the red hot door knob. If

1363
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:52,599
Speaker 1: this door knob is glowing visibly red in the dark,

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01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 1: it has been heated to about seven fifty one degrees fahrenheit,

1365
01:16:56,439 --> 01:16:59,679
Speaker 1: and Harry gives it a nice, strong one to second grip.

1366
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:02,880
Speaker 1: By comparison, one second of contact with a hundred and

1367
01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 1: fifty five degree water is enough to cause third degree burns.

1368
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 1: The temperature of that door knob is not quite hot

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01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 1: enough to cause Harry's hand to burst into flames, but

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01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:15,680
Speaker 1: it's not that far off. Assuming Harry doesn't lose the

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01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:19,440
Speaker 1: hand completely, he will almost certainly have other serious complications,

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01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: including a high risk for infection and contracture, in which

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01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:26,800
Speaker 1: resulting scar tissue seriously limits the flexibility and movement of

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01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 1: the hand, rendering it less than useful. Kevin has moved

1375
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: from quote defending his house into sheer malice in my opinion.

1376
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:39,960
Speaker 1: Now we have the blowtorch, Harry has an interesting reaction

1377
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 1: to having a lit blowtorch aimed directly at his scalp.

1378
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,719
Speaker 1: I mentioned this earlier. Rather than remove himself from the danger,

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01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:48,080
Speaker 1: he keeps the top of a skull directly in the

1380
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: line of fire for about seven seconds. What is likely

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01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 1: a simple second degree burn is now a full thickness

1382
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 1: burn likely to cover in the crosis of the skull bone.

1383
01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:00,000
Speaker 1: This means that the skin and bone tissue on hairy

1384
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,599
Speaker 1: skull will be so damaged and rotted that his skull

1385
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 1: bone is essentially dying and will likely require a transplant. Okay,

1386
01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 1: the falling iron bit. Let's estimate the distance from the

1387
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:14,160
Speaker 1: first floor to the basement is about fifteen feet and

1388
01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 1: assume that the steam iron weighs four pounds, and note

1389
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:21,560
Speaker 1: that the and not that the iron strikes marvs squarely

1390
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:24,720
Speaker 1: in the midface. This is a serious impact with enough

1391
01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 1: force to fracture bones surrounding the eyes. This is also

1392
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:30,879
Speaker 1: known as a blowout fracture and can lead to serious

1393
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 1: disfigurement and debilitating double vision if not repaired properly. And finally,

1394
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:40,080
Speaker 1: the shovel from old Man Marley. Doctor st Clair says

1395
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:44,200
Speaker 1: seriously at this point Marvin Harry at both suffered potentially

1396
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,280
Speaker 1: crippling hand and foot injuries. Harry has proved to be

1397
01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 1: nearly impervious to burns, and both managed to retain consciousness

1398
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:54,639
Speaker 1: after taking a flying paint can straight to the face. Suddenly,

1399
01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:57,559
Speaker 1: a frail elderly man appears and weakly slaps them in

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01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 1: turn with a flimsy aluminum home depot snow shovel, and

1401
01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:02,839
Speaker 1: somehow this was too much for them and they collapse.

1402
01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:05,599
Speaker 1: This movie was way more believable when I was eight.

1403
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 1: And while we're on the topic of plot holes, there's

1404
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: a big one that's been noted on the Internet. The

1405
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: storm prior to the McAllister was leaving for Paris knocked

1406
01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 1: out the phone lines, thus making Kevin's family incapable of

1407
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: dialing through the home phone. That's why he thinks his

1408
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:24,800
Speaker 1: family have just disappeared. However, Kevin was somehow able to

1409
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 1: order a pizza, so kind of diffuses the entire movie.

1410
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:34,679
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, I know, for a pretty like unnecessary moment,

1411
01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 1: I guess, although he does try out the whole like

1412
01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:42,880
Speaker 1: firecrackers with the bad movie thing Rice dry Run. But

1413
01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he maybe he used to pay

1414
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: phone down the street. I'm not really sure where this goes,

1415
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 1: but the script originally included an additional post credit sequence

1416
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: where Harry and Marv watch Angels with Filthy Souls on

1417
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:58,760
Speaker 1: TV in prison, and then when they hear the dialogue

1418
01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:01,639
Speaker 1: that Kevin fooled them with the exchanged looks and grown,

1419
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:05,400
Speaker 1: which is cute. A few weeks before Home Alone's released,

1420
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: the chairman of twenty century Fox paid a visit to

1421
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:09,800
Speaker 1: George Lucas, who told him, you know you've got a

1422
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:12,639
Speaker 1: big hit coming, the one about the kid. When asked

1423
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:14,479
Speaker 1: how he knew, he said he'd seen the trailer in

1424
01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 1: the theater. The movie business is binary. The light is

1425
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:20,760
Speaker 1: either on or it's off. If it's on, there's nothing

1426
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 1: you can do to screw it up. If it's off,

1427
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do to turn it on. Lucas

1428
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: af fairly felt that the light was on, and he

1429
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 1: was right. In its opening weekend, Home Alone topped the

1430
01:20:30,479 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 1: box office, making seventeen million, one nine seven dollars. How

1431
01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 1: unnecessarily specifically, were the with a Sense not available or

1432
01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 1: were they just rounding up in just overs? The movie

1433
01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:52,320
Speaker 1: maintained its number one spot for a full twelve weeks

1434
01:20:52,360 --> 01:20:54,639
Speaker 1: and remained in the top ten until June the following year.

1435
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:57,840
Speaker 1: It became the highest grossing film of n and earn

1436
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 1: a Guinness World Record as the highest growth saying live

1437
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 1: action comedy ever domestically, pulling in two eight five point

1438
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: seven million in the US. Held on to that title

1439
01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:12,479
Speaker 1: for twenty seven years until the Chinese blockbuster Never Say

1440
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:15,200
Speaker 1: Die knocked it out of the top spot in seventeen.

1441
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 1: In his book Who Killed Hollywood and Other Essays, the

1442
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: Oscar winning screenwriter William Goldman admitted that the unexpected success

1443
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:26,679
Speaker 1: of Home Alone contributed a new phrase to the Hollywood

1444
01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:31,360
Speaker 1: lexicon to be home aloned, meaning the other films suffered

1445
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: at the box office because of Home Alone's long and

1446
01:21:34,479 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 1: successful run. Goldman wrote, more than one executive said to me,

1447
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:40,799
Speaker 1: my picture did forty, but it would have done fifty

1448
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 1: if it hadn't have been Home aloned. Home Alone pulled

1449
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: in about five hundred million dollars worldwide, making it the

1450
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:53,040
Speaker 1: third highest grossing movie globally ever at the time. Although

1451
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:56,400
Speaker 1: the title was changed for certain foreign markets, movies called

1452
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:59,599
Speaker 1: mom I missed the plane in Italy. In Brazil, it's

1453
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 1: called they Forgot about Me. In Argentina, it's Oh the

1454
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:10,240
Speaker 1: poor Angel. Okay. Showings of Home Alone have become a

1455
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:13,479
Speaker 1: Christmas tradition in Poland, where it has aired on national

1456
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 1: television since the early when it was one of the

1457
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,760
Speaker 1: first Western movies to be shown after Communist rule. In

1458
01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:23,160
Speaker 1: two thousand ten, I Polish Television network did not include

1459
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:25,519
Speaker 1: the film and its Christmas schedule, which was met with

1460
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: a protest of over ninety thousand people on Facebook, and

1461
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: their decision was immediately reversed. In two thousand eleven, more

1462
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:36,280
Speaker 1: than five million people tuned in to watch it, making

1463
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:39,639
Speaker 1: it the most watched show to air during that season.

1464
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 1: The movie cinematographer Julio Macatt, whose son You are a

1465
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:50,959
Speaker 1: classmate of shouts to Max mcat Uh, told Chicago Magazine

1466
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:53,720
Speaker 1: being foreign, I can tell you Home Alone has an

1467
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:58,040
Speaker 1: international theme. Other countries, especially poorer countries with less means,

1468
01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: have to be more resourceful. So seeing a little kid

1469
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:04,280
Speaker 1: who is resourceful and can protect his home resonated with everybody,

1470
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 1: especially kids who have nothing who put together a toy

1471
01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 1: from sticks and stones. I think that's why everybody responded

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Speaker 1: to it, because the theme is empowering kids. A lot

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01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:17,680
Speaker 1: of people also forget myself included that the film was

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Speaker 1: nominated for two Oscars for the score by John Williams,

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01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:24,080
Speaker 1: who was brought in at the last minute. If you

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01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,599
Speaker 1: see an early poster for Home Alone, the credits read

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01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:29,840
Speaker 1: music by Bruce Broughton, who did the score for another

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01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:33,040
Speaker 1: Chris Columbus movie, Young Sherlock Holmes. But as they were

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01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 1: getting closer to finishing the film, they got a call

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01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:37,200
Speaker 1: from Bruce saying that he was under deadline to finish

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01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 1: his score for The Rescuers down Under and he couldn't

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01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:44,000
Speaker 1: do Home Alone Wolf, so they were left without a composer.

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01:23:44,640 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 1: Columbus News Steven Spielberg through writing The Goonies for him,

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01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:51,519
Speaker 1: and John Williams is Spielberg's number one composer through the years,

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01:23:51,600 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 1: so that is how Williams came on. Do you think

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01:23:54,200 --> 01:24:03,360
Speaker 1: we have friendship bracelets? What's your favorite Wily score? Oh man,

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01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park is like, it's a good one, pretty up

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Speaker 1: there for me. Yeah, it's gotta be Star Wars. Well, yeah,

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01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: because it's just the Jurassic Park has one. Most of

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01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: the other ones have the one theme. Star Wars has

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01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:27,920
Speaker 1: like four instantly identifiable bangers. I'm like really trying to

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01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 1: think what else. Any of the Jones is pretty good too, Yeah,

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01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, yeah, that's a pretty iconic one that

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01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:37,680
Speaker 1: that's another one that has to too, because there's the

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01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: main and then there's the like creepy, the like the

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01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:49,240
Speaker 1: like mystery intrigue e Q. Yeah, Okay, we're not going

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01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:52,360
Speaker 1: to talk about the sequels to this this movie. Home

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01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:55,720
Speaker 1: Alone two is good, Home Alone three is bad. There

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01:24:55,800 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: was a fourth one, Yeah, I don't it was Home

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Speaker 1: Sweet Home Loan. Just now that there was a fourth malone, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't understand it. It was some kind

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01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 1: of streamer thing. The wait Holon four. There is a

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01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 1: hol Alone four that was that has French Stewart in it.

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01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:18,960
Speaker 1: Oh god, there's been six of these seven something called

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01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:22,719
Speaker 1: Home Alone Holiday the Holiday Heist. I have no idea

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01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:26,719
Speaker 1: what that is. The villains are Malcolm McDowell and Debbie maysar,

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01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:31,160
Speaker 1: I mean that kind of seems cool. Just Malcolm McDowell.

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01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:34,559
Speaker 1: Then there's preceded by Home Alone four, which is the

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01:25:34,560 --> 01:25:40,639
Speaker 1: aforementioned French Stewart Missy Pyle one, and yes, Home Alone three,

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01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 1: starring Alex de Lenz Scarlett Johansson plays his older sister.

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01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:49,559
Speaker 1: How about that? One idea that they had before embarking

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01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:53,960
Speaker 1: on this undistinguished string of spinoffs was to have Marv

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01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,800
Speaker 1: stars have his own series, probably because they couldn't get

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01:25:57,840 --> 01:26:02,160
Speaker 1: Peshi back for more than more than two bushwact Daniel

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01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 1: Stearn movie began life as a potential Marv spinoff with

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01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:08,080
Speaker 1: Marv being framed for murder after giving up his life

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01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:12,040
Speaker 1: of crime. This was eventually tweaked to be a delivery

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01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:14,759
Speaker 1: guy on the run, also after being crammed for murder.

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01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 1: Chris Columbus has been asked what he thought of a

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Speaker 1: rebooted Home Alone, which he says would not be a

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01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:24,760
Speaker 1: good idea. Talking to Entertainment Weekly, he said, I think

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Speaker 1: thirty three year old Kevin McAllister inherited the home from

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01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:30,479
Speaker 1: his parents and he's living there with his own precocious son,

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01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:33,439
Speaker 1: and Harry and Marv are sort of hanging out, still

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01:26:33,479 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: seething with revenge. They want to get back into that

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01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:38,840
Speaker 1: house and they want to get Kevin's kid. That's sort

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01:26:38,880 --> 01:26:42,000
Speaker 1: of my little fantasy. He wants taken, He wants to

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01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:49,639
Speaker 1: take taken with. That's actually kind of funny. Now listen

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01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: to me get under the couch, going to be taken.

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01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,840
Speaker 1: That's my lame And can you believe needsom telling people

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01:26:56,840 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: to keep the change? You feelthy keep the change, poorly Neeson.

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01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:06,639
Speaker 1: My man's been beat up enough my life. We don't

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01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:10,320
Speaker 1: have to, we don't have to dogpile on him. It's

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01:27:10,320 --> 01:27:16,160
Speaker 1: a tribute. It's a loving tribute. Well, speaking of loving tributes,

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01:27:16,240 --> 01:27:19,639
Speaker 1: given mccaully Coachman's harrowing childhood, I think we should check

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01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:21,360
Speaker 1: in with him and see how he feels about this

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01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 1: film that could be viewed alternately as the best thing

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01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: or the worst thing that's ever happened to him. And

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01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:29,920
Speaker 1: I'm delighted to report that he seems to have fond

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01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:31,920
Speaker 1: memories of it, or at least a fond this FROs

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01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 1: on screen Mom. During a two thousan interview and Watch

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01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 1: What Happens Live, Katherine o Harra told Andy Cohen that

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01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 1: she and Colchan had bumped into one another recently at

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01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:43,040
Speaker 1: an art event. She said, I haven't seen him for

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01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 1: years and years. When I saw him two years ago

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01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:52,559
Speaker 1: at a Martin Mall art opening, I'm not gonna and

1547
01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: he was coming out and he went mommy, and I

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01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:59,639
Speaker 1: said baby, and they took pictures, which unfortunately I don't

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01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:04,000
Speaker 1: think of surface. But I love that mcaulay culkin does

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01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:08,320
Speaker 1: not watch this movie alone norma Desmond style. However, he

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01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 1: said during his eleen de Generous appearance, I can't watch

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01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,280
Speaker 1: it in the same way that other people do. He

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01:28:14,400 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: just remembers, like what was happening on the set that day,

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01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:19,640
Speaker 1: and you know, he says, he remembers like hiding a

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01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 1: can of pepsi behind the couch before doing a take

1556
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:24,799
Speaker 1: and things like that, like as opposed to actually following

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01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 1: the narrative plot of the movie. But he does make

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01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:30,200
Speaker 1: an exception when it comes to watching Home Alone. He says,

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01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:32,720
Speaker 1: you got like a new girlfriend and she's flipping through

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01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:34,960
Speaker 1: the channels and then there's Home Alone and she's like,

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01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:38,520
Speaker 1: you want to watch it? He's talking to the Tonight Show. Also,

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01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:41,439
Speaker 1: I've indulged that and most of the time I'm just

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01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:45,280
Speaker 1: muttering lines under my breath. But hey, whatever gets her

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01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:48,800
Speaker 1: motor running. I guess that's a good place as any

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01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 1: to end our exploration. A full house. It's not full house,

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01:28:54,000 --> 01:29:07,960
Speaker 1: Jordan's I'm sundowning someone, get someone, get grandpa home. Uh well, folks,

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening. To do it right. No, it'll

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Speaker 1: leave that in there alright, folks. Sorry, folks, thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening. This has been too much information. I'm Alex

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Speaker 1: Heagle and I'm Jordan runt Talk. We'll catch you next time.

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