Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Welcome to Movie Crush. Friday Interview Edition, Friday
Speaker 1: Special Day After Thanksgiving edition, Because today, you guys, I
Speaker 1: had a conversation with actor Scott Poythress about the wonderful, wonderful,
Speaker 1: all time classic Thanksgiving movie from Planes, Trains and Automobiles,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies. Scott is a great guy.
Speaker 1: He's a local actor here in Atlanta, and you've probably
Speaker 1: seen him on TV before. Most notably recently, he was
Speaker 1: in a pretty great horror movie called I Trapped the Devil.
Speaker 1: It's a low budge horror movie that got some really
Speaker 1: good marks. And uh, and Scott was a lead in
Speaker 1: that one. And he's a good dude. He's a friend
Speaker 1: of fellow guests Dan Bush and uh, we have some
Speaker 1: other common friends here in Atlanta. But Scott is a
Speaker 1: great guy. We had a great conversation about acting and planes,
Speaker 1: Trains and Automobiles. And here we go with Scott Poythress.
Speaker 1: This is a movie I've seen many, many times, but
Speaker 1: you've always got to rewatch them for these for these
Speaker 1: talks totally, you know, even if you think like and
Speaker 1: I know a lot of this movie by heart. It
Speaker 1: had been a few years though. Oh yeah, yeah, everythank's
Speaker 1: giving put it all. Well, I'm cooking. I'm a big
Speaker 1: turkey friar, and now we have this oilist friar. Here,
Speaker 1: pull that over close to your mouth. Were we going on?
Speaker 1: They always just find an entry point. I love brianing.
Speaker 1: I'll Brian for about Okay, do you do a wet
Speaker 1: Brian or a dry I do a wet because I
Speaker 1: do a wet. But I'm doing the turkey this year,
Speaker 1: and this is my first turkey. It's I'm a little nervous,
Speaker 1: your first try. You grew up in the South, is
Speaker 1: your first turkey? My first turkey? That right, Remember the
Speaker 1: peanut oil days, the deep frying into fo Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Fire hazards. Yeah, I've never done it myself. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously we have turkey every year, but we're hosting for
Speaker 1: the first time. Nice and you know, turkey usually goes
Speaker 1: to the host, right, the host, absolutely, So tell me
Speaker 1: your dry brine or your wet brine. I'd like to
Speaker 1: do a mix. Sometimes I'll throw in I'll also do
Speaker 1: an injection to Okay, the wet brine, Alright, um apple, cider, vinegar,
Speaker 1: all the spices, all the fixings um for to thirty
Speaker 1: six hours over ice, keep it on the porch. And
Speaker 1: then this oil was fryer made by char Broil, so
Speaker 1: it works like an infrared in this thing, so you
Speaker 1: don't have to deal with oil at all or clean
Speaker 1: up is no fuss, no must and it up just
Speaker 1: like h like a fried turkey. Totally interesting, very well
Speaker 1: m m, well, I think I don't have to go
Speaker 1: the standard oven round, but I've got a nice oven,
Speaker 1: very accurate. But this is going to be the first
Speaker 1: big thing because we redid our house recently, so the
Speaker 1: oven has not even been I mean it's been test driven,
Speaker 1: but not turkey driven. So I'm a little nervous. Season
Speaker 1: that bad boy seasoning is key. Yeah yeah, yeah, sage,
Speaker 1: we're just like just heating it period season the actual
Speaker 1: device of whatever you're gonna cook something. Sure, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been on a lot, but the gate is that it
Speaker 1: kind of stunk a little bit at first. But do
Speaker 1: you recommend even turning it on like some this week
Speaker 1: and just getting it hot could probably four degrees for
Speaker 1: a while. Okay, yeah, let's let us smoke. Yeah, where
Speaker 1: are you from. I grew up in Charleston until I
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite I love it. Yuh Ala Palms,
Speaker 1: Mount Pleasant Soli Palms is where I vacation every year,
Speaker 1: no kidding, It's incredible how much has changed. So they
Speaker 1: do a lot of production out there, which brings actors
Speaker 1: there sometimes, So growing up there and yeah up till
Speaker 1: us five memories. But I've been back to work on
Speaker 1: a few shows since then. But it's insane, hell congested,
Speaker 1: the people and just the landscape completely different. Much like Atlanta.
Speaker 1: The Olympics change based started to change the skyline here
Speaker 1: Now every time you got to town for a month
Speaker 1: or two would come back into the news. Insane. It's
Speaker 1: not even a month. Like I'll go down the street
Speaker 1: I haven't been on in two weeks and there's like
Speaker 1: a new building or apartment complex or something. No, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's renamed. Yeah it is crazy. Shoutouts to United Grand Park.
Speaker 1: What when did you make it to Atlanta? My dad
Speaker 1: worked in the UH in a government facility UH in
Speaker 1: US with him, my brother seven years older, and my
Speaker 1: mom Mariatta, So essentially Mariatta, I say Atlanta. But did
Speaker 1: you act? Did you act in your early years in
Speaker 1: high school and stuff. It's funny. I wanted to be
Speaker 1: an animator for Walt Disney until I was about fifteen,
Speaker 1: and when I so you can draw, I can? Okay,
Speaker 1: I can? I'm not. Uh yeah, I don't continue the
Speaker 1: practice often at all, but I did for a long time. Um.
Speaker 1: And then I also played football in middle school and
Speaker 1: into high school, and I had learned it was not
Speaker 1: my bag. And when I quit, I got bullied a
Speaker 1: good bit for quitting football, for quitting football, for quitting
Speaker 1: the scene. So I would literally I would I found
Speaker 1: myself hiding in the theater until always cleared out and
Speaker 1: I can't kind of escape safely. So that's real deal
Speaker 1: bullying then totally, and uh, they would put productions on
Speaker 1: This was Pope High School, he cop. I went there
Speaker 1: a freshman year and then finished up at last year
Speaker 1: because we moved. Um, I would literally I'd find myself
Speaker 1: like outside the the light booth and people would wonder
Speaker 1: what I'm doing there. And I kind of got looped
Speaker 1: into running the following spot on South Pacific and one
Speaker 1: other show Christmas, some kind of a Christmas show, and
Speaker 1: so I was like, yeah, cool, I'll it keeps me
Speaker 1: out the hallways from I'm down, Well, say I'll run
Speaker 1: your following spot. And I did that for like that
Speaker 1: whole production of a show. It was like, they're having
Speaker 1: so much more fun. I want to do that. This
Speaker 1: is lane is dark and cold up here, and they
Speaker 1: look like they're having a blast. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: how there's girls girls like my odds are exponentially greater already.
Speaker 1: H And I did that for a while and UM
Speaker 1: realized it also at church. It's already got looped into
Speaker 1: getting on stage at church at the time. So high
Speaker 1: school and church at the same time merged into getting
Speaker 1: this bug and then realizing how much fun I was
Speaker 1: having doing it and really enjoying it, and then pursuing
Speaker 1: it at the University of Georgia and I went, seriously, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was eighty nine to We're probably had the taco
Speaker 1: stand together. I was at the ducking stand a lost.
Speaker 1: I worked at Vision Video for a little while and uh,
Speaker 1: but my main gig was I waited tables at MEXICALI grill.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you remember very well. And it's funny. My
Speaker 1: mom just texted me of the day and said, I
Speaker 1: found an old MEXICALI grill T shirt. You want me
Speaker 1: to throw that out? I went like please. It was
Speaker 1: just like there's one that remains out of like the
Speaker 1: eight that I had over my career. There as asty
Speaker 1: good tease tease it was. It was a scary dive tease. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think I know tease. I'm miss speaking. Skies
Speaker 1: sky Teas isn't merry. That was a bar that we
Speaker 1: would freaking up after I waited tables. Uh, Sky's Place. Sure,
Speaker 1: I went to Skies Um ceilings like seven and a
Speaker 1: half feet right, and sky was like eight feet tall,
Speaker 1: big right? Yeah? And it was It was one of
Speaker 1: in one of the cheap hotels, wasn't it. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that where they stumble up because I lived in Russell
Speaker 1: a freshman year, so stumble up the cobblestone. That's what
Speaker 1: we called it, Baxter. The Sky's is where you could
Speaker 1: drink fourteen year olds. Yeah, that's pretty pretty liberal with
Speaker 1: the I d S had the worst fake idea ever.
Speaker 1: It was I never had one. I never needed it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had Wes, you just don't. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean I looked super young back then and I had
Speaker 1: not only was it not me in the picture. Um,
Speaker 1: it was not a driver's license. It was a military idea,
Speaker 1: and it was a fake military idea. It was one
Speaker 1: of those things. It's uh. It wasn't a baller move.
Speaker 1: It was a you know how you well you didn't
Speaker 1: have one, but you know, they're passed down from person
Speaker 1: to person, and then I was like the third person
Speaker 1: to get this thing. It worked, okay. I guess I
Speaker 1: wasn't really hitting the bars though. At Georgia until I
Speaker 1: was probably twenty one, I wasn't either. You have some
Speaker 1: house drinking and stuff. Yeah, Russell Hall, they would fire
Speaker 1: bottle rockets on the hallway and Russell I was on
Speaker 1: the tenth floor. You have heard stories about you're out
Speaker 1: onto the tennis courts if you remember the tennis for
Speaker 1: the basketball court. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. I lived in
Speaker 1: read which was a little calmer, and then just for
Speaker 1: one year and then I you know, got smart and
Speaker 1: went the apartment house route. Being there players Club, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like the first year. I think when they opened,
Speaker 1: we lived in a players Club. Do you ever get
Speaker 1: back over there? Rarely? Really? Yeah? Maybe, I mean it's
Speaker 1: been probably two or three years. I don't go to
Speaker 1: the games I wish I did. Yeah, I went to
Speaker 1: I go to I go there once or twice a
Speaker 1: year maybe for various things, either a show at the
Speaker 1: forty watt or I am going to the game this weekend.
Speaker 1: But I haven't been to a football game and pbably
Speaker 1: five years. I just I just never get out there anymore.
Speaker 1: But Athens is great. But talking about changing a lot, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: nuts big time. Uh yeah, like the the Community Center.
Speaker 1: I don't know when the last time there, but Tate
Speaker 1: Center Center crazy. It's so different now. So you acted there?
Speaker 1: I did? Yeah, like it? Did you take class? Because
Speaker 1: I took one acting class at Georgia even though I'm
Speaker 1: not an actor and had never wanted to be. But
Speaker 1: it was just seemed like a fun class. Remember your
Speaker 1: teacher's name. I don't remember his name. His first name
Speaker 1: was Greg and he was bald on top and had
Speaker 1: the hair around the sides and had a mustache. And
Speaker 1: he was in Woody Allen's radio days. He had a
Speaker 1: very very very small, little two liner part. But that
Speaker 1: was like the thing. I was like, oh man, he
Speaker 1: was in a Woody Allen movie and he was teaching
Speaker 1: at Georgia. So I took one acting class and really
Speaker 1: enjoyed it, but was no good at it. I can't
Speaker 1: remember his last name, Greg Bernard. I remember there was
Speaker 1: Stanley Longman with Chuck Charles Idswick who was a film professor. Okay,
Speaker 1: I remember I didn't take the class, but he was
Speaker 1: supposed to be pretty great. Yeah, um gosh, I took
Speaker 1: a class over the journalism department, and I believe I
Speaker 1: think he since passed on, but he started the Peabodies.
Speaker 1: It's like, right, I feel terrible. I can't remember his
Speaker 1: name right now. Well, did you act in plays? There?
Speaker 1: Was it? Just? Yeah? Yeah, I never went to any
Speaker 1: of those. What were the productions? Like? They were great
Speaker 1: because we had a nice, big facility stage. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw the main stage did it was cool?
Speaker 1: It was cool? So um handful of shows that I
Speaker 1: remember doing hair Towards the end of my What's So Funny,
Speaker 1: everybody literally gets naked in the show. Literally. I was
Speaker 1: asked to play the cop who comes in and busts up,
Speaker 1: like al right, sure, sure, sure, right is it? Because
Speaker 1: why why do you want me to play? Like? And
Speaker 1: then I've been self conscious ever since because you didn't
Speaker 1: get to get naked and the production. I could naked
Speaker 1: not in the production. Did you feel like you uh like,
Speaker 1: when did you feel like you really learned about acting?
Speaker 1: Was it did you get a lot of great instruction
Speaker 1: there or was it more kind of post I did,
Speaker 1: and there was technique. Uh, whether it's uh Meisner or
Speaker 1: or movement we have mask work, I mean, whatever it is. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm still learning quite a bit. And I have learned
Speaker 1: more exponentially since we started an acting studio in the
Speaker 1: past seven years than I think I ever have cumulatively
Speaker 1: in my in my journey as an actor. Well, let's
Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit. You're telling my Drama Inc.
Speaker 1: Druma Inc. Which you had started with some of my neighbors.
Speaker 1: Some of your neighbors live right down the street. Jason
Speaker 1: oh Curse east Lake represent Jason McDonald, Katherine Dyer. They're
Speaker 1: married couple, My wife and myself, Claire Bronson. The four
Speaker 1: of us were with the same agent, so seven eight
Speaker 1: years ago. We had the same agent at the time
Speaker 1: and realized that we lived very close together. So we
Speaker 1: would get together, you know, once a week every two
Speaker 1: weeks and sit on what we called the screamed in
Speaker 1: porch and just bullshit, have a glass of wine. Event
Speaker 1: about auditions we were getting weren't getting what your agents
Speaker 1: sending us on right, They're not, you know, just um,
Speaker 1: information is currency in our business, honestly, UM. And we
Speaker 1: learned what we had to offer because actually it was
Speaker 1: actually pretty valuable that the knowledge that we had accumulated
Speaker 1: over the hundred plus years of all of us together,
Speaker 1: and how long we've done it, multiple coasts, and how
Speaker 1: much I wished I had this getting out of college,
Speaker 1: kicked out the nest with a theater degree. How am
Speaker 1: I supposed to do with that? Where do I? What
Speaker 1: do I? And then in the future production capital of
Speaker 1: the world. Now, um, realizing we could have something valuable
Speaker 1: to to offer, whether it's self taping, headshots, demoials, classes,
Speaker 1: just the people within that we know, the information that
Speaker 1: we've gathered just through contacts, casting directors, what they like,
Speaker 1: what they don't like, and um, we realized, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's let's start a studio. Jason had had the idea,
Speaker 1: He had marinated on it for a long time, literally
Speaker 1: with the logo with the name his business sense is incredible.
Speaker 1: His um coming at it from a financial standpoint because
Speaker 1: he ran stone suit for a very long time. He
Speaker 1: has things that he's wired differently than I am. I'm
Speaker 1: more of a tech geek, so I can I can
Speaker 1: set up our WiFi extenders, know whatever, you know, stuff
Speaker 1: like that, cameras, UM and we all different things that
Speaker 1: we bring to the table, which is really cool. So
Speaker 1: we realized, holy crap, we actually have something really cool
Speaker 1: and we have. We're so blessed to have grown into
Speaker 1: accidentally a conservatory because we didn't set out to do that,
Speaker 1: and we're very picky about who we bring on. Teachers
Speaker 1: who specialize in specific techniques, practical aesthetics, Meisner movement, improv
Speaker 1: voice dialects, whatever it is. UM have just helped us
Speaker 1: grow into something really really cool. And the biggest sense
Speaker 1: is the sense of community. So our actors are coming in,
Speaker 1: getting into each other, they're writing for each other, they're
Speaker 1: off in the weekends making their own movies, and it's
Speaker 1: so freaking satisfying. Yeah, that's really need. The idea that
Speaker 1: you get creative people in a room together and like
Speaker 1: something's going to happen, you know, yep, like it will
Speaker 1: bear fruit totally. That's really great and it seems like
Speaker 1: it's going really well, it really is. Yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: really cool. Or in we're in our seventh year where
Speaker 1: just south of Zoo Atlanta, so we have the belt
Speaker 1: Line little literal really once it's completed, running through the
Speaker 1: back just outside the back parking lot. Oh that's fantastic,
Speaker 1: that's cool, a little bit of serendipity there, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for people listening, the belt line is uh, it sounds silly,
Speaker 1: but it is a a walking path that has changed
Speaker 1: the city right by connecting all the neighborhoods of the
Speaker 1: city that we're never connected before by foot pedestrian walkway.
Speaker 1: And I think it's the same developers who made the
Speaker 1: is it called the high Line, Yeah, the Highland, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: just repurposing the train track which is sitting there decrepit.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Yeah, I wish you know, I wish I
Speaker 1: grew up here like you did, and it would have
Speaker 1: been great to have something like that back then. If
Speaker 1: they've come a long way though, it's really cool. Well
Speaker 1: what about um, I would like to talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about auditioning, because we have people that listen, that act,
Speaker 1: people that are experienced all the way down to people
Speaker 1: that have are just like putting their toe in the pool. UM.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you guys teach auditioning. What what what
Speaker 1: are tips like? You know? What's interesting because we live
Speaker 1: in this market which is um, there's so much work here. Um.
Speaker 1: But it's all literally, well not all, I would say,
Speaker 1: eighty five self tape. So the net that casting directors
Speaker 1: local casting directors throw that seems to be the way
Speaker 1: now it is the way, and it just it makes
Speaker 1: sense financially, uh, for people's time. The number of actors
Speaker 1: that they can see with self tape, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: casting directors themselves. Uh is hundreds or thousands versus you
Speaker 1: have X amount of hours in a day, how many
Speaker 1: people can you see? Depending on the size of the role,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be there for ten fifteen minutes. Um. This way,
Speaker 1: they can start watching a tape, they'll know in their
Speaker 1: first eight to ten seconds if this is their guy
Speaker 1: or their girl. Skip it, move on, Nope, Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1: Imidating it is. It is. At the same time, it's
Speaker 1: empowering because if you get good at it, it's an
Speaker 1: art form in and of itself. Self taping you're video
Speaker 1: and audio. I've got to be good. You need a
Speaker 1: good reader with an actor, you know, all these all
Speaker 1: these things that we've learned since we started doing it
Speaker 1: in two thousand eight. We lived in l A at
Speaker 1: the time, and we were literally self taping on like
Speaker 1: the camera on your laptop, just set it up in
Speaker 1: the dining room and I'd take for army wives or
Speaker 1: whatever was happening at the time, which wasn't not much.
Speaker 1: A couple of things dropped that Diva started to kind
Speaker 1: of happen around that time, and we've been doing it
Speaker 1: since then, so we've kind of we've perfected it and
Speaker 1: gotten very good at self taping, and actually I enjoy
Speaker 1: it quite a bit. Really we teaching it or or
Speaker 1: just audition boat both. I miss being in the room
Speaker 1: and getting feedback and redirect from directors, casting directors, whoever,
Speaker 1: because that's an art form in and of itself, to
Speaker 1: just being in the room and shooting yourself in the
Speaker 1: foot not tripping over the light. You know. Just there's
Speaker 1: so much desperation that goes with I need this job,
Speaker 1: I need it, I need I need right and and
Speaker 1: it comes through. I can smell it down the hallway
Speaker 1: before you walk in. Yeah, I have heard that, you
Speaker 1: know the best thing to do is to not care
Speaker 1: or not think you're going to get it totally. Auditioning
Speaker 1: is the job. This is our job. Yeah, the bookings
Speaker 1: are icing. When they happen, it's wonderful. I can't cannot
Speaker 1: rely on it. Yeah, it's um. It's an interesting bag
Speaker 1: to get into where you there's such a limited success
Speaker 1: rate just booking anything. But you still have to like,
Speaker 1: you've gotta love it. I guess deep down you do,
Speaker 1: you really do. Yeah, I don't have a plan B
Speaker 1: right kind of hope I book it right. But I
Speaker 1: also have the luxury of being around it every day.
Speaker 1: Was starting the studio and being with people that I love,
Speaker 1: very good friends, a woman I'm in love with. I
Speaker 1: cannot call that work and very fortunate to be able
Speaker 1: to do this. And you guys have classes every six
Speaker 1: days a week, days a week. Ever if seven days
Speaker 1: a week really? Yeah, we we don't always have classes
Speaker 1: on Sundays, but kids classes on Saturdays. We pop up classes, workshops.
Speaker 1: We have a taping room. It's a very much like this.
Speaker 1: It's a soundproofed room. Thankfully one of our neighbors when
Speaker 1: they moved out, it was a recording studio. So when
Speaker 1: they moved out. We're like, we took over that least,
Speaker 1: and we expanded, knocked a door in between the suites
Speaker 1: and took it over. So we have a sound proof
Speaker 1: room that we can work because our building is it's
Speaker 1: a tin roof. If it even drizzles, there is deafening.
Speaker 1: It ruins any audio. Yeah, you can't do it. So
Speaker 1: this is a room like this isn't it's critical for
Speaker 1: self taping. So we have that going. I mean not
Speaker 1: literally twenty four hours a day, but um, we have
Speaker 1: a full taping team that are in that they can
Speaker 1: we kind of take shifts and get in there and
Speaker 1: take people. And that's awesome man. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really is. Yeah. So it's called Drama Inc. And um,
Speaker 1: I imagine people in the Atlanta area can find it
Speaker 1: easy enough, but do you get people that come in
Speaker 1: from uh you know, I imagine people don't travel too far.
Speaker 1: But do you get people from out of town? We do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: for classes too, we have people coming in from Knoxville, Cleveland, Orlando.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's great. Weekly man, it's nuts. It's dedication,
Speaker 1: it's really it's it's humbling. Yeah, that's really cool. It's
Speaker 1: really very cool. Well, congratulations, that's thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, people who are in town working on stuff,
Speaker 1: they hear about our facility. So let's say series regulars
Speaker 1: on whatever show is shooting Walking Dead right there on
Speaker 1: the hiatus or they're not shooting that day, and then
Speaker 1: auditions from their next gig. Because we're constantly auditioning for
Speaker 1: our next job. We always have that literally our job,
Speaker 1: wondering where our next job. So they'll come in and
Speaker 1: tape with us all the time. Oh cool, that's great.
Speaker 1: Before we get going on planes trains, I want to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about I Trapped the Devil um
Speaker 1: which came out earlier this year, and I got to
Speaker 1: watch um. I got to watch about a third of
Speaker 1: it today before I came in right before the clock
Speaker 1: was taking spirit. I had to get on playing strains.
Speaker 1: But man, I liked what I saw so far, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to watching the rest of it at
Speaker 1: night in the dark. It needs to be, yeah, lights low,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of really really dark imagery. Yeah. Literally,
Speaker 1: like most of the time when we're in the basement,
Speaker 1: we have like a red bulb, so it's it's literally
Speaker 1: hard to see so you need your lights low in
Speaker 1: whatever environment we're watching and sound up because Chris Sullivan
Speaker 1: voices a character in the film and listeners may know
Speaker 1: him from This is Us and I fell in love
Speaker 1: with him on um the nick Oh yeah, ste and
Speaker 1: he plays this Irish ambulance driver. He's incredible, incredible on
Speaker 1: the show. I I don't watch This is Us, but
Speaker 1: that's what how the world knows him and I still
Speaker 1: can't believe we got him to do the role in
Speaker 1: the movie. Very excited and people. Man. Yeah, and I know, uh,
Speaker 1: I read a little bit about it as well, and
Speaker 1: I know it was sort of um not based on
Speaker 1: necessarily a Twilight Zone episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a little
Speaker 1: bit make the reference and it it does live in
Speaker 1: there for sure. And Josh Lobo, our director Young Guys,
Speaker 1: is the first film. H he's aware of the reference.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a cerebral a conscious decision,
Speaker 1: but it probably lived in there somewhere. Cool. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's a we just got finished with our October
Speaker 1: sort of horror movie homages, and that's one that will
Speaker 1: throw on the list for next year to get out
Speaker 1: to the folks. Yeah, it's really cool. Yeah, it seemed
Speaker 1: like it's getting good reused everywhere I look, We've got some.
Speaker 1: It's polarizing, as most horror or genre films are. People
Speaker 1: are like, sure this movie for making it, or they
Speaker 1: really really enjoy it. It's just what it is. But
Speaker 1: I mean, even just to get covered by the New
Speaker 1: York Times and Variety and absolutely have a release at all,
Speaker 1: I mean to be in theaters period, just monumental. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we're in like twenty cities. We had a day
Speaker 1: and date release, So that's great. I have seen Midnight
Speaker 1: released this. Yeah, that's really cool. How old is the director?
Speaker 1: I want to say he's twenty six now, maybe twenty seven,
Speaker 1: God bless him. Right, it sounds to dude, I remember
Speaker 1: being a movie but I didn't. That's the difference. You
Speaker 1: gotta do it. Yeah, just grab buckets of blood and
Speaker 1: toss among your friends and work for free and work
Speaker 1: for pizza. Yeah. All right, Well let's get into Playing Trains,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies from seven um, written, produce
Speaker 1: and directed by the great John Hughes. Note and um,
Speaker 1: so let's hit play and we'll watch the movie together, starring,
Speaker 1: of course, Steve Martin Is, Neil Page, John Candy del
Speaker 1: Griffith and then boy, just a murderers row of character
Speaker 1: actors in this movie, like one after the other. Favorite.
Speaker 1: Uh boy, it's really hard because I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Michael mckinson ninety seconds of this movie. But he's great
Speaker 1: in that scene as the as the highway patrolman. I think,
Speaker 1: if I had to be honest, my true just because
Speaker 1: he's said, I don't I can't think of the guy's name.
Speaker 1: I've seen him in a bunch of stuff. But the
Speaker 1: scene where um, Steve Martin is trying to it was
Speaker 1: after the car fire, and we'll jump around all over
Speaker 1: the place, so don't worry about going on order. But
Speaker 1: when he's trying to negotiate the hotel room, the guy
Speaker 1: who plays the hotel clerk, is he the same from
Speaker 1: the second motel now the first guy in the second
Speaker 1: hotel when he has like the burned credit cards from
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park. Yeah, yeah, it was great in that part
Speaker 1: because he's just so weird and are credit cards. His
Speaker 1: line readings just themselves are just hysterical. Um, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to say good night. He was just so odd.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, when he displaced the cassio on the arm
Speaker 1: so classic. I have two dollars. Um, but I mean
Speaker 1: it's hard to just hard to pick because so many
Speaker 1: of them come from the John Hughes a verse. Yes,
Speaker 1: from other films. Yeah, like you get Ferris's dad is
Speaker 1: the first guy right and the uh you'll never make
Speaker 1: the sale, never make a six, that's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite lines. But it's the doors closing. It's such a
Speaker 1: dick move. You know. Well, do you have a favorite
Speaker 1: from the Carretter actors? They're they're there two. I love
Speaker 1: Michael McKey, but but Dylan Baker, my brother and I
Speaker 1: have been bit for a third two years. Sero. It's
Speaker 1: like favorite sequence in the movie is that part last
Speaker 1: one came out people train run out of stubbles cattle. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean we'll probably just be doing like throwing quotes
Speaker 1: at each other back and forth. And then Dye mcclerk,
Speaker 1: who as Rooney's as Grace. Yeah, yeah, from Ferris Bueller. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's so great that scene is and apparently she improved
Speaker 1: that she did the Thanksgiving bit. Yeah. Um, from what
Speaker 1: I this was like making of stuff on the plane
Speaker 1: trains supplemental wonderful supplemental stuff on iTunes. If you buy it. Well,
Speaker 1: I bought it today and I haven't dug into that
Speaker 1: stuff yet. It's good. Yeah, it's really good and and
Speaker 1: sad and heartbreaking and wonderful all of it. Are there
Speaker 1: A bunch of interviews and stuff. Yeah, man, I gotta
Speaker 1: say that, I can't imagine everybody all the all the
Speaker 1: usual suspection. Yeah, it's great. Yeah. The John hugheser versus
Speaker 1: so cool because he's you know, he was well known
Speaker 1: for populating these characters and early on, well, one thing
Speaker 1: I noticed was, and this had to be outside of
Speaker 1: the John he was a verse. Was that great opening
Speaker 1: scene and the ad agency the head boss he is
Speaker 1: either his father or his father in law, Kevin Bacon's
Speaker 1: and she's having a baby. Yes, So that's where it
Speaker 1: gets a little disrupted because Kevin Bacon obviously has that
Speaker 1: great cameo a taxi racer, and there's speculation that that
Speaker 1: is Jake from She's having a baby. Huh um. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true or not. Yeah, it makes
Speaker 1: sense a lot. I will never know, but I don't
Speaker 1: think that can be true because his father or father
Speaker 1: in law would not have been running that ad agency, right,
Speaker 1: And I know this is getting like, seriously, John, he's
Speaker 1: a nerd out time. But that's fun of me. But
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. Yeah to think about it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't even realize that, but that move. I think they
Speaker 1: shot around the same time because Kevin, they told John,
Speaker 1: I'm live in Chicago, right, do you want me for anything,
Speaker 1: I'll do it? Yeah, right, extra roll or whatever. He
Speaker 1: had this little bit and he lived in Chicago. It's like,
Speaker 1: come come race Steve Martin down park Ov. That's so
Speaker 1: great and he um and they I think they did
Speaker 1: shooting around the same time because there is the part
Speaker 1: where Neil's wife was watching She's having a baby on
Speaker 1: the television in this movie, but that movie hadn't come
Speaker 1: out yet. That's so funny, so when you see it
Speaker 1: in you don't even know, like Elizabeth mccovern's in the
Speaker 1: background of the scene like yelling. Hious and I've been
Speaker 1: trying to track down a copy of The Canadian Mounted.
Speaker 1: It doesn't right, is that there is amazing the Canadian Mounted. Um.
Speaker 1: We should also mention too that the well not inexpsplicably,
Speaker 1: because there's a very good reason why this movie is
Speaker 1: rated are because of the classic F bomb scene. But
Speaker 1: it's got to be the cleanest, sweetest R rated movie
Speaker 1: of all time totally because that is the only part
Speaker 1: in this movie that is not pretty family friendly. A
Speaker 1: few of the cussboards here and there in some sort
Speaker 1: of you know, suggested stuff sexually, but nothing, it's just
Speaker 1: those eighteen fox in a row. And I love that
Speaker 1: Johns was like he didn't he didn't sacrifice that bit
Speaker 1: to uh to get his ratps a ratings board, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which could It would have been very easy to do,
Speaker 1: you know. I think my first I mean this was
Speaker 1: sixteen Candles and that was PG right, remember correctly, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that was because there's a shower scene and
Speaker 1: there are there are breasts, ye, female breasts. I remember,
Speaker 1: never forget it. It was a very big when I
Speaker 1: was nine. Yeah, sure, yeah, I was a little older
Speaker 1: than that, but sure I remember it was clearly a
Speaker 1: body double. Of course, you're right, but still just for
Speaker 1: that to happen at all, I mean I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: back then there was a little more leeway because it
Speaker 1: was pre PG thirteen was around Porky's. That was a
Speaker 1: that was a hard around there. It's hard art, right,
Speaker 1: but the he uh kind of tempered what he was doing.
Speaker 1: It was kind of in a similar vein similar world, um,
Speaker 1: especially with like European Vacation, right, uh, just some dirty,
Speaker 1: dirty stuff in the European Vacation. Yeah, I think once
Speaker 1: PG thirteen rolled around, they could, um there was a
Speaker 1: little more envelope nuance, you know because subtext, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: couldn't like you know, one nude shot didn't warrant an
Speaker 1: R rating, but it certainly would warrant a PG thirteen
Speaker 1: once that eight called around eighteen bucks get you such
Speaker 1: a classic scene. Um, and there are supposedly a two
Speaker 1: hour and a three hour cut of this movie. Um,
Speaker 1: it was a hundred and forty five page script, which,
Speaker 1: as you know, it's just crazy. And how quickly do
Speaker 1: you think he wrote it? Well, I know, because he
Speaker 1: wrote it in a few days. Would turn and burn,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, that was his deal. Like he would
Speaker 1: write and apparently would rewrite a ton, but would write
Speaker 1: a draft in like three or four days. I read
Speaker 1: he wrote Weird Science on a weekend. Nuts that It's
Speaker 1: just it's amazing, astounding. I mean seriously, his body would
Speaker 1: like breakfast Club, European European Vacation, Weird Science, pretty in
Speaker 1: paink Ferris Bueller's kind of wonderful right writing planes, trains,
Speaker 1: She's having a baby, The Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck, Christmas Vacation,
Speaker 1: had a long career, opportunities, Dutch and curly Sue. I'm
Speaker 1: stopping before we get to Beethoven. And he's like, because
Speaker 1: he took on a pseudonym, Uh, Edmond Dante. He wrote
Speaker 1: a few of the Beetho maybe all the Beethoven movies
Speaker 1: under Edmund Dante. And that's the protagonist from the Count
Speaker 1: of Monte Cristo. So it's it's his Alan Smithy ye.
Speaker 1: So um the Beethoven movies, maybe Dennis the Menace movies.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of what else that um maid
Speaker 1: in Manhattan, Uh towards the end of his career, sadly
Speaker 1: drill Bit Taylor, that was under Edmund Dante. I wonder
Speaker 1: what he would be doing now. He's one of those
Speaker 1: would be really interesting to see. I think he's still
Speaker 1: be on his farm. He bought a huge plot of
Speaker 1: land outside Chicago. He left l A. I think he
Speaker 1: got really disenfranchised and sad and just kind of beat down.
Speaker 1: I think he was very um, very emotional, he very
Speaker 1: connected to all the things that he wrote and directed
Speaker 1: an actually but yeah, he literally bought a farm and
Speaker 1: he got into botany. It was planting trees, and so
Speaker 1: you think he would have not done this anymore. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like he's God knows what kind
Speaker 1: of scripts he had just in drawers, because he wrote,
Speaker 1: that's what he just wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote, wrote,
Speaker 1: And he was so in love with music and started
Speaker 1: his own record label, yeah, Hefty Hefty Productions. It wasn't
Speaker 1: what it was, and that it didn't take off, But
Speaker 1: I think he was wanting to literally kind of gather
Speaker 1: your arms around music because music is so in the
Speaker 1: DNA of every one of his films. Yeah, absolutely special. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, even this one that's not um a teen
Speaker 1: romance with all the great new wave and eighties music
Speaker 1: that he used, like the music and this is key
Speaker 1: in so many ways, even though a lot of it's
Speaker 1: silly and fun. Um, it's just yeah, starting out that
Speaker 1: kind of sessed the tone. But you're right. It goes
Speaker 1: to complete one eighty with ah trying to think of the
Speaker 1: the name of the bands, but there's there's two and
Speaker 1: they revisit over the course of the film too, like
Speaker 1: two the instrumental tracks. Oh yeah, that's like the score. Yeah, unofficially, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it wasn't Iron Newborn and it was because he
Speaker 1: did the score. Yeah, these are actual bands who have
Speaker 1: these licensed tracks its music. Um, I can't think of him.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't Tangerine Dream was it, because they did like
Speaker 1: every other score. So it's just a guess. I love
Speaker 1: that one bit of score that comes in about two
Speaker 1: thirds of the way in the on the Chatty Cathy,
Speaker 1: I like me, no, no, no, that's great. Is the
Speaker 1: the jaunty fun one towards the end the dude Dude, dude,
Speaker 1: dude do yeah, yeah, d oh god. Just in the
Speaker 1: band it's the red River red River Rock. I think
Speaker 1: it's the name of the try really don't think that.
Speaker 1: I can't remember that, man. Like when I knew I
Speaker 1: was gonna be watching that today, that song just started
Speaker 1: like going through my head. Yeah. They revisit that throughout.
Speaker 1: It's so wonderful. Um. And it was sort of a
Speaker 1: you know, a change of pace for John Hughes. He
Speaker 1: had done all these high school movies and this was
Speaker 1: right after Ferris Bueller. He sort of did his two. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess more adult movies this one and She's having
Speaker 1: a baby kind of went back to back, but um
Speaker 1: it was interesting as a kid to like go through
Speaker 1: that change with him because I was a sixteen year
Speaker 1: old seeing she's having a baby and like crying and
Speaker 1: think and so moved and looking back and it's like
Speaker 1: hysterical because it's so not a movie for teenage boys,
Speaker 1: you know. And I was so Breakfast Club. He came
Speaker 1: out of the gate right with sixteen Candles, so that
Speaker 1: was what eight. So I'm nine, I'm watching high schoolers.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, this is gonna be what high schools
Speaker 1: like when I get detention. This is what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be doing. So I was like, this forms like who
Speaker 1: I kind of am? So John Who's literally is like
Speaker 1: in ingrained in me as I'm growing up and a
Speaker 1: lot of us and our music and sensibilities and and
Speaker 1: and tone for what I like in film performances. And um,
Speaker 1: so it's interesting you say that the time period because
Speaker 1: I was, like I said, nine, watching Breakfast Club and
Speaker 1: then sixteen Candles, uh or sixteen Kennels, and then his
Speaker 1: sophomore film is a Breakfast Club. Man. It's crazy. I
Speaker 1: remember distinctly. The first time I saw that in the
Speaker 1: movie theater, the Dollar Theater, North Lake. Uh, it was
Speaker 1: movies and we used to go with our church group
Speaker 1: all the time. And I went and saw The Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club and it just it rocked my world and and
Speaker 1: ages fine, I think for a movie that's so firmly
Speaker 1: about it's time and place totally, you know, if you
Speaker 1: could suspend your disbelief with social media and access to information,
Speaker 1: because I'll walk around today sometimes and forget that I
Speaker 1: have access to everything immediately, like just just kind of
Speaker 1: how we grew up and what we think. You know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting to know that there are people born after eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know this world, that's that's the world that they know.
Speaker 1: I got a four year daughter, man, she's grown. Yeah wow,
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a weird thing to see a
Speaker 1: kid that age already be tech savvy and um talk
Speaker 1: about buffering and stuff like that. Were taking apart my
Speaker 1: Amiga comment over sixty four and yeah, I mean we
Speaker 1: we had more root of entry versions of the same stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had our screens they were just shitty, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean we had I mean I had all those
Speaker 1: all the handhealth games. You could have the football game
Speaker 1: in the Merlin and have a little handheld Space Invaders
Speaker 1: and a handheld pac Man, and we just had twenty
Speaker 1: five of them instead of everything being on one device,
Speaker 1: you know, my da. Well, that's why I when I
Speaker 1: hear people complaining about and in screen time is out
Speaker 1: of hand now for sure for all of us. But
Speaker 1: I always like to remind them, like, you know, we
Speaker 1: had the same stuff. It was just I was glued
Speaker 1: to my crappy television. Sure, I watched as much TV
Speaker 1: as I could get my hands a much in different
Speaker 1: strokes on what's happening and everything. That's my babysitter totally.
Speaker 1: So early on in the movie, um, we get Dell's
Speaker 1: trunk on the ground that he trips his introduction, right,
Speaker 1: because that's how he loses the foot race with Kevin
Speaker 1: Bacon's right, tripping over this trunk. Yeah, it turns looks
Speaker 1: del Griffith and little do we know that that trunk
Speaker 1: becomes almost a character in this movie, the third character
Speaker 1: in them, no doubt. Yeah, it's the three of them
Speaker 1: on this journey together because they can't go anywhere without it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and there are a lot of moments with
Speaker 1: the trunk, they keep referencing it um whether he recognizes
Speaker 1: it again as like you're the guy, or the great
Speaker 1: scene after the train breaks down where he's struggling across
Speaker 1: the field and Steve Martin goes over and helps him
Speaker 1: carry it, like that look back so good. It is
Speaker 1: well in such great character arcs to um, maybe the
Speaker 1: obvious character arcs like I don't think he was like
Speaker 1: breaking dramatic ground in the story, but it was just
Speaker 1: so well executed, you know, for the you're talking about
Speaker 1: performances or John Hughes well the two three, the two
Speaker 1: characters for Neil Andel like great good drama too, and
Speaker 1: that's some of the best comedic performances and comedic actors.
Speaker 1: A lot of times comes from the trauma and the
Speaker 1: tragedy and the sadness. Some of the funniest stuff that
Speaker 1: we're laughing at is is uh tyber l like for
Speaker 1: lack of current analogy. Phil Dunfie on The Modern Family,
Speaker 1: his world is falling up parts tragic, but we're laughing
Speaker 1: our asses off because how funny it is. Yeah, Robin
Speaker 1: Williams was a master of course at right. Jim Carrey
Speaker 1: is great at it. Yeah, Adam Sandler, it's phenomenal at
Speaker 1: it um for people had to take or leave Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1: I think he's a fantastic actor. He's great, right, and
Speaker 1: when you do both it's a and John Candy, god boy,
Speaker 1: he was one of the best. Yeah, what could we
Speaker 1: have gotten from him? And the like Canadian Bacon. I
Speaker 1: think that might have been his last film, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I miss him so much, right, he was
Speaker 1: so great and he's so good in this. And Dell
Speaker 1: is such a lovable character because he knows and he
Speaker 1: even says in that in that great scene after Neil
Speaker 1: attacks him in the hotel room and it's so mean.
Speaker 1: You know they're going at each other, but then he
Speaker 1: crosses that line and he's just he's about to cry
Speaker 1: and he's he's like, I know, I know who I am,
Speaker 1: and I would like me. My wife likes me. In retrospect,
Speaker 1: he just revisiting that, um seeing it's like knowing what
Speaker 1: we know now right seeing it again, Well, there's so
Speaker 1: many little he always he always has that framed, the
Speaker 1: picture of Marie too, was always next to the bed.
Speaker 1: By the end of time, he's in the hotel, he's
Speaker 1: got that little frame picture of her well, and those
Speaker 1: are some of the little hints laid along the way,
Speaker 1: um about Marie, And of course you know that's sort
Speaker 1: of the big reveal at the end that Marie has
Speaker 1: passed away, which is just tragic. It's funny you mentioned
Speaker 1: the trunk too, because after the LaSalle van Buren in
Speaker 1: the Chicago station they part ways. The music is playing
Speaker 1: the Dream Academy Power to Believe in the Book of
Speaker 1: Love Dream Again. Those are the two tracks that we revisit,
Speaker 1: so he's piecing together. Wait a minute, Dell is probably
Speaker 1: on his own. Tell what are you doing? What are
Speaker 1: you doing here? Right? Uh? And he gives the admission,
Speaker 1: the confession the little train station boom cut to them
Speaker 1: carrying the trunk. My I was crying, was good And
Speaker 1: the music hits right there and they're carrying the trunk
Speaker 1: up towards Steve's house just in time for thanks again.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, that that smash cut to them
Speaker 1: carrying that goddamn trunk down the middle of his street,
Speaker 1: his own street. It's just like it's one of the
Speaker 1: great moments, and you know, it really is. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's like hyperbole at all. Um, And it sort
Speaker 1: of occurred to me watching at this time through this
Speaker 1: sort of more studied lens, that everything that like it's
Speaker 1: Neil's fault that he's in this because at the very
Speaker 1: beginning he could have let it go. He recognizes him
Speaker 1: as the cab steeler, and he could have the funniest
Speaker 1: moments in the airport because they have this thought, this
Speaker 1: fun trick where they do they bring in a taxi
Speaker 1: door in the airport, so we see Niel's POV and
Speaker 1: he turns behind the door inside the airport and he's
Speaker 1: got the little cab and he reenacts I think I
Speaker 1: noticed that that was it's it's brilliant. That's really, it's brilliant.
Speaker 1: They're just bringing this prop door to stick in front
Speaker 1: of this candy in the airport and he has a
Speaker 1: little hat on him and he recreates the face. Well,
Speaker 1: he could have let it go though, and nothing, none
Speaker 1: of this would have happened. But he had to say,
Speaker 1: like you stole my cab, and that's what kicks off
Speaker 1: this whole thing. You know, if he could have just
Speaker 1: let it go, he wouldn't have been in that pickle.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't have he would have ended up sitting by
Speaker 1: him on the airplane again, but probably wouldn't have reconnected,
Speaker 1: although probably would have looped him into conversation, and it's
Speaker 1: clear that Dell would have like made him speak totally.
Speaker 1: That might be one of my their two favorite moments
Speaker 1: of mine in the film. And just after repeating, I
Speaker 1: don't even know how many times I've seen hundreds same here,
Speaker 1: maybe probably more. One is when he's on the plane
Speaker 1: they're finally leaving New York from Chicago, and Del's sitting
Speaker 1: in the seat and he looks up and sees Neil
Speaker 1: coming towards him. He said whatever, he says like, um,
Speaker 1: here the recognition and just the look on Steve's face.
Speaker 1: There's incredible, priceless, priceless moment. The other is when the
Speaker 1: in Stubb No no, it's after the car is the
Speaker 1: debacle of the fire there and they finally get the
Speaker 1: little the two singles in the room, Oh yeah, the
Speaker 1: little and they're having their little slumber party, Doritos everywhere,
Speaker 1: and where do you gonna go? Tequila right, Um and
Speaker 1: has to go to the bathroom and they're cutting up,
Speaker 1: there's laughing, and he goes into the bathroom. He's still
Speaker 1: let's all hear him laughing, and he opens the door
Speaker 1: back up, and there's that moment of him just we're
Speaker 1: on the same page. I'm laughing, We're having such a
Speaker 1: good time, and here's me opening the door just to
Speaker 1: show you my face and see how hard I'm laughing, right,
Speaker 1: And it's just so real and so special. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, man, there's so many moments like that,
Speaker 1: so many little I mean, this movie is all about
Speaker 1: the little touches. There are so many great broad slapstick
Speaker 1: moments that are just so silly and dumb and fun,
Speaker 1: but little touches like that, And like the wolf in
Speaker 1: the cab, like there was no reason to make that
Speaker 1: just not a cab ride. But John, He's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, let's bring in another great character actor.
Speaker 1: I don't know the guy's name. Larry Hankin. Yeah, Larry Hankin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's bring him Dubis Taxiola Chariot of Sin. It's written
Speaker 1: on the cab the lights. I mean, there's no reason
Speaker 1: to do that. And to bring in someone you recognize
Speaker 1: and make it a little bit more fun, just a
Speaker 1: little bit greater than the into the braidwood end. He's
Speaker 1: proud of his town these days. Uh. And when they
Speaker 1: go into the Braidwood I don't know if you've noticed this,
Speaker 1: but oh my god, cracked up about this, I don't know,
Speaker 1: the past few months or something, just upon revisiting the nasty,
Speaker 1: nasty Braidwood end the first you know, where he gets
Speaker 1: athletes foot and literally he got athletes foot, and yeah,
Speaker 1: the water and the just trash. That little bed that
Speaker 1: they're sharing. There's a painting above the bed, and there's
Speaker 1: I believe there's a headboard on the bed itself, but
Speaker 1: here's the paintings. No way on either side of the
Speaker 1: painting prints, whatever nefarious thing happened in that bed, it's
Speaker 1: so funny because the place as nasty as hell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just that little touch wonderful. Another on that same plane,
Speaker 1: that very first plane scene when he he squashed between
Speaker 1: them and he in the dark and he leans over
Speaker 1: and John Kenny just opens his eyes and says six
Speaker 1: bucks and riding my right nuts says we aren't landing
Speaker 1: in Chicago. So many great lines. Yeah, which is the
Speaker 1: next things that happens, But shoes in the sock and
Speaker 1: oh my god, yeah, I mean imagine Steve Martin does
Speaker 1: such a good job as I mean, priceless guys, so
Speaker 1: so good. You're on that journey with him for sure.
Speaker 1: Uh and then he's really sort of Del is kind
Speaker 1: of like this the sage he really if you pay attention,
Speaker 1: is offering really wonderful advice throughout the movie, whether it's
Speaker 1: like like your work, love your wife, or just being
Speaker 1: comfortable with who you are. Like there's a great message
Speaker 1: that he's he's getting through all this comedy. You know,
Speaker 1: it's really pretty great. Yes, we'd have more like playing
Speaker 1: pick up sticks with the ben Stein has one great
Speaker 1: little line and the greatest thing about that is he
Speaker 1: announces the flight cancelation and then maybe the only time
Speaker 1: I've ever seen ben Stein smile. He does that little smile.
Speaker 1: It's like it brought him great pleasure to announce this flight.
Speaker 1: It's really great. Um, So Del has a hook up
Speaker 1: like everywhere he goes because of his job as a
Speaker 1: shower curtain ring salesman American light Fixtures, which is hysterical.
Speaker 1: I wonder how many things John Hughes went through to
Speaker 1: come up with that job, Like what would Dell do
Speaker 1: for a living? Seriously? You know it's so good because
Speaker 1: there's no such that's not a thing. Ulter chronicite moon,
Speaker 1: a lot of graph Darryl Strawberry. Yeah, that's a crazy
Speaker 1: st Darryl Strawberry line. But um, the the sort of
Speaker 1: the classic scene when they finally get to that hotel
Speaker 1: and they go in, and I love a good camera gag.
Speaker 1: I'm always a sucker for when the camera plays a joke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're doing it. The camera it stops or goes past
Speaker 1: the bed and then back to that single bed and
Speaker 1: then over the candy's face. Yep, it's so great, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And and I know there's a two and
Speaker 1: three hour version, but this, this ninety minute version just cooks.
Speaker 1: It does and it's the right length, I think, you
Speaker 1: know anything more. Always I'm never like, what's this scene over?
Speaker 1: It's like such an inertia and energy does it. It's
Speaker 1: like maybe it's because it's a travel movie, but it's
Speaker 1: just always moving. It feels like yep, completely um, but
Speaker 1: they get out, it's over. I'm seen, and you know
Speaker 1: it's gone down in movie history that those aren't pillows.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's got to be on the list. Well,
Speaker 1: sweet little kiss on the ear that's I'm glad you
Speaker 1: did that, because that's everyone goes to those aren't pillows
Speaker 1: as the moment in that scene, the funniest part of
Speaker 1: the scene are those two little nibbles that he takes
Speaker 1: on his ear so good. I think they must have done.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how many it takes, but apparently
Speaker 1: there's a cracking up every take over above them and
Speaker 1: and Steve Marta said, the cameras they started shaking laughing
Speaker 1: before they even got to their moment, and they would
Speaker 1: just bust up. You imagine those two little sweet kisses
Speaker 1: because we accepts them. He's they're not kind of snuggling up,
Speaker 1: nustle into it. And what does he say there? Um?
Speaker 1: What was the line that he first says? Why why
Speaker 1: did you just kiss me on the ear or whatever? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why are you holding my hand? And the back and
Speaker 1: forth they do there, Yeah, why why you're my hands
Speaker 1: are between two pillows? Of course? And that's the line
Speaker 1: everyone his face drop well, and before that, even when
Speaker 1: they when they go to the room, he says, uh,
Speaker 1: do you want to take a shower? He oh no, no,
Speaker 1: he so well, you thought, of course not. And he's
Speaker 1: just layering on the bits and the jokes, like the
Speaker 1: next day when he goes in and it's the socks
Speaker 1: are in the sink and you're like, and you think
Speaker 1: that's it, and then he watches his face with the
Speaker 1: drives up. One of the funniest moments for Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: just to him getting out of the shower and realizing
Speaker 1: that disarray. Yeah, that little thing nightmar wash cloth on
Speaker 1: that empty rack and like it's all perfect. It is.
Speaker 1: It's almost unfair how many jokes he's throwing at you.
Speaker 1: You know, it's overload, and it's yeah, like thank you
Speaker 1: gotta what's your song around? Making more Apparently Steve Martin
Speaker 1: took this movie based on the eighteen Fox scene and
Speaker 1: the the seat adjustment scene in the car when Yeah
Speaker 1: and again messed around with the sound effects. You know,
Speaker 1: that's part of the humor. There's so many layers of comedy,
Speaker 1: like just that motorized sounded that sea. It was so funny.
Speaker 1: Um oh, and I forgot the other line I love
Speaker 1: too much when he when they're in bed together finally
Speaker 1: and he goes, you know, I had no idea those
Speaker 1: beer cans we're gonna blow like that. You left him
Speaker 1: on a vibrating bed. What did you think was gonna happen?
Speaker 1: And that's funny because it's funny or not seeing that
Speaker 1: they may have shot that, who knows, they may have,
Speaker 1: But yeah, we do see Candy on the bed having
Speaker 1: a cigarette and enjoying the vibration while while Steve's taking
Speaker 1: a shower. But it's funnier just to reference it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you see the I don't think we see
Speaker 1: beer the bed, but I don't think so. I sleep
Speaker 1: in a love of beer. I just want to go
Speaker 1: to bed. I mean, if there is a two and
Speaker 1: a three hour version, he probably did shoot all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But that's like I think, and you're you're an editor
Speaker 1: as well, like so you understand fully, like sometimes stuff
Speaker 1: is funnier with less not seeing it. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: Hitchcock was so effective to a lot of things that
Speaker 1: he implied we don't see that's right, that just terrorized you,
Speaker 1: just letting your imagination wonder. Right. We don't need a
Speaker 1: bucket of blood tossed on us to know that something
Speaker 1: scary whatever. But yeah, absolutely, Um And back to Hughes
Speaker 1: and his proficiency and masterful technique, the way he uses
Speaker 1: timing and music is unmatched. Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah, those
Speaker 1: needle drops like it's always maximum effect. Uh so special.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Um, he's uh, he's reading by lighter light
Speaker 1: and he's cracking his knuckles in his neck and he's
Speaker 1: scratching his balls and he's he's clearing his sinuses. The
Speaker 1: wonderful odd couple familiar with the Walter math out lemon Old, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the original I think it's tossed about throwback to that,
Speaker 1: but that the sign is clearing, especially God and just
Speaker 1: watching Steve be patient because we're on him right, and
Speaker 1: then candies things. Yeah, yeah, I lost my mind too.
Speaker 1: It's just literally I would have lost my mind and
Speaker 1: got them, would lose your patients. That's what that kicks
Speaker 1: off the whole the chatty cathy and crossing the line
Speaker 1: the moment that we talked about, Well, they put them
Speaker 1: in just close, such close physical proximity. Um, when you
Speaker 1: start kind of studying the just the blocking. They're always
Speaker 1: jammed up against each other. And sometimes it's by nature
Speaker 1: of the fact that it's bus seats are playing seats,
Speaker 1: but even like in the diner and everywhere they go there,
Speaker 1: they're practically touching each other. And that gives the real
Speaker 1: sense of this claustrophobia that Neil is feelings time back
Speaker 1: of that truck. Yeah, they're always sitting on each other.
Speaker 1: If you think it is one, Yeah, just a nip.
Speaker 1: I still say that too, And uh, when it's super
Speaker 1: cold and people are like, jeez, what do you think
Speaker 1: it is? Always go why one? Such a great line.
Speaker 1: There's so many great dumb jokes. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of dumb jokes. Um, they you know, they get robbed overnight,
Speaker 1: which is very silly because I don't think that happens.
Speaker 1: But it was like John, He's like at the same time.
Speaker 1: I think it was the same year. His name is
Speaker 1: Gary Riley. He played Dave. Remember Dave and Chainsaw from
Speaker 1: uh Summer School. Oh sure, I'm Dave. I'm but I'm
Speaker 1: chaining that. Yeah yeah, interesting another little uh cameo. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: alright school. I don't know if you're a fan, but
Speaker 1: I love That's when I saw unapologetically. Really it's great.
Speaker 1: It's great. Even going back and revisiting is a wonderful
Speaker 1: fun as hell. Yeah, I gotta go check that out again.
Speaker 1: That's one of those I saw back in the day.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I like kept up with it.
Speaker 1: They're the die hards for Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They keep
Speaker 1: one screenings of Texas Chainsaws. Right, Yeah, that was Dave
Speaker 1: the longer blonde hair. Another one of my favorite lines
Speaker 1: is right after that scene when he goes, uh and
Speaker 1: if they told you wolverines would make good house pitts,
Speaker 1: would you believe them? There's such a wonderful throwback quality
Speaker 1: to a lot of Hughses comedy writing, Like a lot
Speaker 1: of it feels like, you know, Bob Hope or you
Speaker 1: know these sort of classic old super clean comedy bit Yeah,
Speaker 1: almost like one liners singers. I love how he tailored
Speaker 1: the right He'd write a script, but then he would
Speaker 1: go back and Taylor for whoever was playing them. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I did that specifically with with both of them. That's
Speaker 1: why everything feels so seamless, like something they would obviously say,
Speaker 1: and whatever scenario that they were in, yeah, felt so real. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he's such a collaborator. He didn't care where a
Speaker 1: great idea came from. It's just so that's all special
Speaker 1: and yeah and rare and how it should be. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: this is the most collaborative art form filmmaking on Earth Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Oh sure, I mean what else I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about like orchestras and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But even so, Hony people are going to
Speaker 1: be making a well it depends on the budget and
Speaker 1: obviously this is the project utually. But but you know
Speaker 1: how it is on a set, You've got thirty two
Speaker 1: hundred people all with their own job to make it
Speaker 1: all happen. And he welcomed ideas from Wardrop Department, from them,
Speaker 1: from transpot. It doesn't matter. If it's a good idea,
Speaker 1: I'd love to use it. Yeah, he didn't claim credit
Speaker 1: or anything. That's great. He wanted he was he was
Speaker 1: concerned about the final project. Yeah, and that's a doctor
Speaker 1: you Uh, if you check your ego at the door,
Speaker 1: great things can happen, you know. Yeah, it sounds like
Speaker 1: that was the case with John Hughes for sure. Um,
Speaker 1: they they all right, so they're they're they've done the plane,
Speaker 1: they have done the bus. The bus ride is great,
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. I don't know, if you start taking a
Speaker 1: bus trend a wonderful awkward scene. Yeah. Yeah, have you
Speaker 1: ever traveled by bus? I have? Yeah, Yeah, it's long.
Speaker 1: Bus rides I have to man, it's the word I
Speaker 1: didn't went from Arizona to Atlanta, and it was just like,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where that's a lot, that's
Speaker 1: it's a hall because you know how long it takes
Speaker 1: forever because you got to stop so much. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, no one's bathing on that bus for four
Speaker 1: days at that one tight little bathroom in the midd Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's bad. And um, I'm glad they put the bus
Speaker 1: in the bus trip in here, because there's something very
Speaker 1: specific about a long haul bus ride. It's just the worst. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even has a great line you ever traveled by
Speaker 1: bus before, your mood probably isn't going to improve much.
Speaker 1: And of course he has. And and that's part of
Speaker 1: the fun of this movie is this fishot of Water
Speaker 1: thing was kind of upper middle class guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's rich. It's kind of hard
Speaker 1: to tell. I wonder if it's the same house from Home.
Speaker 1: It looks exactly like the house from Hold alone. It does.
Speaker 1: Chicagoan suburb also read that they built this house, but
Speaker 1: surely they didn't build the exterior because it said that
Speaker 1: they built this house from scratch. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: it was in a neighborhood. I doubt if they meant
Speaker 1: they must have just meant the interior or something, but
Speaker 1: I don't know that would have made much sense. Apparently
Speaker 1: he spent like a hundred grand in the studio was
Speaker 1: all piste off at him because they were like, why
Speaker 1: did you do that? I don't know, but right the
Speaker 1: first time we see Emmy's in this, Uh, it's funny.
Speaker 1: The office could looking over the boards, right, the marketing boards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're too fireplaces in this office, old office, right, So
Speaker 1: I mean it definitely makes money. Yeah, and it's absolutely
Speaker 1: funny throwing him on a bus and throw him him,
Speaker 1: throwing him into the braidwood end, putting him in that
Speaker 1: burned out car. Yeah, I'll leave up. The radio still works.
Speaker 1: I always wonder about movie props and where they end up, um,
Speaker 1: partially because we uh smoking the Bandit was shot, you
Speaker 1: know here in Atlanta when I was a kid. It
Speaker 1: was my elementary school is in one of the scenes,
Speaker 1: and my my dad's car was in one of the
Speaker 1: scenes because he was the principal of my elementary school
Speaker 1: and my dad ended up with the uh Jackie Gleason's
Speaker 1: card door the sheriff's card door that gets knocked off ship.
Speaker 1: We had that in my garage for years until it
Speaker 1: was one of those things that was just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you just threw it away, but you wonder
Speaker 1: what happens to this stuff? And I found myself today
Speaker 1: thinking what the where did the fund did that car
Speaker 1: end up? That great burned out car that they they
Speaker 1: may just look so perfect for this, Like where did
Speaker 1: that go? I'm sure it's in a in a junkyard somewhere.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say hopefully in a museum somewhere, but
Speaker 1: but there's no point. You know, it's like it should
Speaker 1: be in a muse it is. It's because again, like
Speaker 1: the trunk that's a character this film, and there are
Speaker 1: Hollywood car museums that have like the Batmobile and the
Speaker 1: Dukes of Hazzard car, But like, why is it that
Speaker 1: car in the museum? You know you honestly think this
Speaker 1: is safe for the road? Yes I do, Yes, I
Speaker 1: do so Earnest in that scene and not of your
Speaker 1: instruments work, not a one. He was like, Oh, I
Speaker 1: could believe that you would know better than me, dude,
Speaker 1: because you know, like I said, it's phenomenas melted, ripping
Speaker 1: their fingers out of the dash. Yeah. Well, in the
Speaker 1: highway scene, I think that whole sequence, starting with the
Speaker 1: car rental, which the car was modeled after the Vacation
Speaker 1: Family truckster, gotta be clearly wooden paneled, metallic beat. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that she wrote vacation. I didn't realize that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he worked for National Lampoon for years. I
Speaker 1: mean his record is impeccable. As we're saying, they started
Speaker 1: writing jokes for Roddy Dangerfield and uh and Joan Joan
Speaker 1: Rivers that's ridiculous, and then come out of the gate
Speaker 1: with right and Vacation right off the bat. But that
Speaker 1: whole car sequence I think is my favorite, starting when
Speaker 1: they get to the car. I love the planes and
Speaker 1: the trains and the bus and all that, but starting
Speaker 1: when they get that car is when things really really
Speaker 1: heat up for me. Um, because they had that great
Speaker 1: sequence on the highway at night with the John Candy
Speaker 1: trying to get out of his coat, which is just
Speaker 1: some of the best, like physical comedy, smoking toss the button,
Speaker 1: You forget about the butt until they're sitting on that trunk,
Speaker 1: sit on the trunk. Right after the cheat they cheated death,
Speaker 1: the great devil turnency and and the scraping of that.
Speaker 1: All right, it's like eight seconds later, out of the
Speaker 1: way of the past. Thank god we got through that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they sit on the trunk and uh and yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the great sound effect and you see it on
Speaker 1: their backs, right, the flection of the fire. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: the taking off of the coat scene is some of
Speaker 1: the best. Like, it's so easy to take that for granted, Uh,
Speaker 1: but it's such a great acting like comedy acting bit
Speaker 1: is him trying to get out of that coat and
Speaker 1: then the panic that sets in in both of his arms,
Speaker 1: like you see it on his face. And he's driving actually,
Speaker 1: and he starts talking to himself, right, comtence back and
Speaker 1: I'll be all right, I just need to just it's
Speaker 1: so great. You know, he's starting to sweat, and it's
Speaker 1: just really easy to overlook, Like what a great bit
Speaker 1: of comic acting that that part is. Seriously, Yeah, kick
Speaker 1: your part off. Yes I will yes, which again is
Speaker 1: a very sort of corny old school like a tag
Speaker 1: joke at the end. I love how he embraced that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's ah, it is very much an old
Speaker 1: sort of throwback movie in a lot of ways, a
Speaker 1: road movie, odd couple movie. It's sort of one of
Speaker 1: the classic comic duos. Is you know these the obnoxious
Speaker 1: sort of a barbarian and the and the well to
Speaker 1: do you know, it goes all the way back to
Speaker 1: like British stage, you know, based on stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: putting these the odd couple together, right, the straight man,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't would mean nearly as funny without
Speaker 1: the straight Steve Martin, Yeah, you know, which is kind
Speaker 1: of an undersung role period is to to do the
Speaker 1: straight man role. It's not as fun considering what he
Speaker 1: was doing, I mean up into his career up until
Speaker 1: the yea cocaine fused through the head, you know, crazy
Speaker 1: wow and crazy guy. You know that's kind of a
Speaker 1: chick um. But he's so good at the at the
Speaker 1: dramatic stuff too. Yeah. I think he really sort of
Speaker 1: in this period with this and like Rock Sane, he
Speaker 1: really started to kind of evolve as an actor. Do
Speaker 1: you ever see Leap of Faith? Yeah, great movie, and
Speaker 1: he plays the shyster, the tent pole preacher going around.
Speaker 1: It's great in that role. Yeah, Steve Martin is just
Speaker 1: one of the greats, I think, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's undersung or anything, because he's certainly gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of accolades. But he's seventy four years old now
Speaker 1: and like his his career is like, well, it's hard
Speaker 1: to tell with him because he went gray in his twenties,
Speaker 1: Like when I was a little kid and he was
Speaker 1: doing Wild and Crazy guy gave the mop of gray hair.
Speaker 1: He's always been kind of hard to tell. But a
Speaker 1: Spanish prisoner, I mean, he's just he's such a quality actor.
Speaker 1: Shop Girl. He wrote this too, especially, Yeah Girl is amazing. Yep, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: My brother met him once and I saw him on
Speaker 1: a back lot once, riding a bike just across the
Speaker 1: back lot and he just smiled NodD at everyone that passed.
Speaker 1: And he apparently still does this. But he has a
Speaker 1: card he gives you rather than a photo or an autograph.
Speaker 1: He carries her on these cards that says I certified
Speaker 1: that I had a personal moment with Steve Martin and
Speaker 1: I found him to be charming, funny and blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And it has this little signature ere yeah,
Speaker 1: and a great idea if you're always getting stopped, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's a joke. You know, he gives someone a
Speaker 1: card and then they have a story and something tangible
Speaker 1: and away with love that it just seems like such
Speaker 1: a good dude. So Neil breaks up with him a
Speaker 1: few times in this movie. The time when he finally
Speaker 1: breaks up with them in the diner is I think
Speaker 1: one of the most heartbreaking is because he just he
Speaker 1: pulls no punches because they had already bonded. Though. I
Speaker 1: think that's what makes it so tough. Is John Candy
Speaker 1: thinks you're a team at this point, and he reminds
Speaker 1: him that they're not. Uh He shortly after this, because
Speaker 1: he makes a nice water cash tries to pay him back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's heartbreaking, it is. But yeah, with the exchange of money,
Speaker 1: it's just like I'm just gonna leave it on the table,
Speaker 1: and he's just so like he's he can tell he's
Speaker 1: just about to bust out crying at any moment. And
Speaker 1: the way he wants to save face and leave before
Speaker 1: he exactly such a tough moment it is. But of
Speaker 1: course fate will keep them together in the truck. Um.
Speaker 1: Then we get to finally that that carminal scene. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know it's it's got I know that that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some of these publications keep track of like best movie
Speaker 1: lines and best movie moments and things like that. This
Speaker 1: has got to be a top twenty all time great
Speaker 1: comedy scene. It better be. It better be a you know,
Speaker 1: I'll raise hell. It's like people that have seen this
Speaker 1: movie once remember this scene above all else. So good,
Speaker 1: the great what's her name, Eadie mcclark, Eadie mcclark, mcclark,
Speaker 1: she's so great well, and she has that wonderful line
Speaker 1: because that's a you know, he's still he's obviously the
Speaker 1: has that the great run of f bombs. But she's
Speaker 1: got to hold her own on her end, and she
Speaker 1: has a great line where she goes, I really don't
Speaker 1: care the way you're speaking to me, smile because she's
Speaker 1: still got to keep up that customer service thing, you know,
Speaker 1: until the end, and she she gets to steal the
Speaker 1: show away your yeah, oh dear what oh man? Uh.
Speaker 1: Then that gets us to one of my other favorite scenes,
Speaker 1: which is the taxi scene. Um, after he tries to
Speaker 1: rebook a flight in Chicago and that great taxis dispatcher
Speaker 1: stated like a slab of meat with mittens. He goes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he goes, he goes Chicago. You know you're in St. Louis.
Speaker 1: If I wanted a joke, I'd follow you into the
Speaker 1: john and watch you take a link man picked up
Speaker 1: by his testicles before Yeah, and and then the face
Speaker 1: that Steve Martin makes when he gets punched in the face,
Speaker 1: that little like again it goes. It's like Charlie Chaplin stuff,
Speaker 1: right totally, you know, Yeah, it's like such a throwback. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch this movie another hundred times, watching Tonight
Speaker 1: over the years. It's so good. Tays the season two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Turkey and putting planes trains on a loop. That's right,
Speaker 1: And well I did buy it, So I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: this a definite tradition. I don't watch it every year,
Speaker 1: but it's uh, I'm gonna start. I think, um, I
Speaker 1: do that with holiday holiday films around Christmas side you
Speaker 1: like emmitter, I'll put that on a loop Halloween, right?
Speaker 1: Have you? Have you seen it at the Puppetry Art
Speaker 1: Center that it's amazing. It's hard to I did a
Speaker 1: play in two thousand one. It was January two Thoe
Speaker 1: called Light Up the Sky at the Alliance Theater and uh,
Speaker 1: I did a One of the other actors from New
Speaker 1: Yorker name is Maryland Sokol. That's okay o L. I
Speaker 1: don't know she's still around. I hope she is. Um.
Speaker 1: She voiced my Otter. So I lost my mind when
Speaker 1: I learned this news because she'd have stories about Jim
Speaker 1: Hinson and how he just courted her and was like
Speaker 1: in love with her. I mean, who knows how much
Speaker 1: she's fellishing. Um, but just my dad turned me onto
Speaker 1: Paul Williams as a as a child, so and then
Speaker 1: and then emmet Order very big part of my childhood
Speaker 1: and growing up absolutely man as probably us around that age.
Speaker 1: It would come on HBO. Remember um now they have
Speaker 1: the supplemental fun stuff like Kermit is now in there. Really,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't know if you've seen the
Speaker 1: blue ray or the DVD of the updated version, No,
Speaker 1: I haven't. Um, it's different than what we saw growing up.
Speaker 1: The music is indelible. Yeah, river Bottom Nightmare, Right Bottom Nightmare.
Speaker 1: They actually scared me when I was a fine. I
Speaker 1: tried to show that to my daughter last year and she, uh,
Speaker 1: she didn't get into it. My heart was a little broken,
Speaker 1: But I think it was just a little too soon,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna gonna try again this year. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe kids like the animated stuff more or do they
Speaker 1: like the practical she would she would dig it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think at that age, you're you're still
Speaker 1: game for whatever, you know, we should show her the Mandalorian.
Speaker 1: Yeah you watched that? I have you think? Oh? I
Speaker 1: love it so far? Right. It feels like a wonderful
Speaker 1: throwback to a new Hope. Yeah. Tone, it's like what
Speaker 1: I remembered as a child. Yep, And it feels like
Speaker 1: this new friend now. I really like the direction it's
Speaker 1: headed a lot. And I like the thirty minute format.
Speaker 1: I've seen other people saying they wish it was an hour,
Speaker 1: but I think that thirty minute is just like just
Speaker 1: the right night, little nice, little sweet spot. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And and we're so used to binging things. I kind
Speaker 1: of appreciate the fact that they're dolling it out a
Speaker 1: little by little yeah, because now he's not having everything
Speaker 1: immediate and accessible now, I know. I like the anticipation
Speaker 1: of imagination. Yeah, and that little jeez and everyone's calling
Speaker 1: baby Yoda even though it's not Yoda. But what a
Speaker 1: what a genius thing for Jon Favreau to think to do,
Speaker 1: you know, it's brilliant. Yeah, he's really usually putting together
Speaker 1: quite a career for himself. The dude from Swingers soon knew.
Speaker 1: Uh So the car gets impounded, Dell comes through with
Speaker 1: the truck there at the end, the the cheese truck
Speaker 1: where they have to ride in the back, but he
Speaker 1: gets some home. Yeah, which, oh my gosh, that's what
Speaker 1: says on which sounds so midwestern of course. But that
Speaker 1: great scene at the train station that you you talked
Speaker 1: about earlier is I mean, that's where it all comes together.
Speaker 1: And um, just that look on Neil's face when it
Speaker 1: just watches over him, and that the character arc coming
Speaker 1: full circle for him, Like he could have just gone home,
Speaker 1: but he wouldn't have been able to live with himself
Speaker 1: in all these pieces together, everything he's been through. He
Speaker 1: could easily just say, oh screw Dell, Yeah I'm done well.
Speaker 1: And he shows that sign of relief when he gets
Speaker 1: on the train at first, even like thank god, that's over, yep, done,
Speaker 1: I know, go home, give me back to my wife,
Speaker 1: my kids. Yeah. The one thing that he wants to
Speaker 1: do smash cut to them. Where's that prop? Right? Like
Speaker 1: that should be an amazing fixtures. You know, if that
Speaker 1: ended up and it's got it's got him, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: track it down. I'm gonna good, well, I'm gonna buy it,
Speaker 1: or I'll go in again. Or if it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's like Raiders of the Lost Ark, it's just sitting
Speaker 1: in some prop warehouse in Los Angeles somewhere. Funny. You
Speaker 1: know how those things end up. It's probably rented and returned.
Speaker 1: That that was the trunk from whatever, you know, some
Speaker 1: other dumb movie. You just slap some stickers on it
Speaker 1: and said del Griffin Stincil. But the very end is
Speaker 1: such a great payoff because they there's a lot of
Speaker 1: ways you could have handled that final scene where they
Speaker 1: go to the house. They could have shown the hand
Speaker 1: of very heavily, no doubt. Yeah, they could have shown
Speaker 1: him having dinner. They could have carried that a little more.
Speaker 1: They may have shot that stuff, but just I think
Speaker 1: Hughes having the restraint to know that there was so
Speaker 1: much more power and that introduction and how they did it. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is my friend like that said at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the first time he uses that phrase. Very
Speaker 1: first time Del refers to Neil as his friend to Gus,
Speaker 1: I think when he's trying to get the hotel to
Speaker 1: my old friend, Neil says no, and he says, this
Speaker 1: is my friend, and it's so like it's such a
Speaker 1: gut punch in all the right ways. And when his wife,
Speaker 1: I don't know who that actress. She does such a
Speaker 1: good job in this movie though, that's sort of this
Speaker 1: like behind the scenes heartbeat. Um when she says, hello
Speaker 1: Mr Griffith, Hello Miss Page, Mrs Page. It's just it's perfect.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's no better way to it. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: and she you get the sense that she knows, like
Speaker 1: there may have been six other phone calls that we
Speaker 1: don't know about where she learns all this stuff. Seriously,
Speaker 1: what do you think Neil saying, I'm sure I'll believe
Speaker 1: this bullshit I'm dealing with. Yeah, and I'm right he's
Speaker 1: trying to kill me three t like literally yeah, but
Speaker 1: her warmth is so welcoming. Yeah, it was so special.
Speaker 1: And then we does he know we freeze on his smile.
Speaker 1: I know it's just like now you see that, And
Speaker 1: all I can think of is like John Candy and
Speaker 1: memory that literally that's what Yeah, do you think is
Speaker 1: about to pop on the screen. Yeah, but this has
Speaker 1: been final cut since since seven right years before Candy died.
Speaker 1: Candy died, do you know, I don't know the mid nineties.
Speaker 1: Maybe I feel like I was in high school. It
Speaker 1: might have been like ninety four. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: was a senior of the great one of the greats.
Speaker 1: He's a big dude, six tooing that much weight around
Speaker 1: six too, that's not that's a lot of dude. He
Speaker 1: was a large man, Yeah, but just a giant and
Speaker 1: by all accounts, just a sweetheart of a guy. Like
Speaker 1: every story I've ever heard is just you know that
Speaker 1: John Candy was just as great as he would helpe
Speaker 1: him to be. Like he has everyone's uncle Buck, you
Speaker 1: know what a great body of work. Yeah, and cameos
Speaker 1: that he did the splash and stripes, Yeah, everything against
Speaker 1: stripes and then he played a big asshole and you
Speaker 1: know it's kind of the only time he ever did that,
Speaker 1: I think. And I stumbled across SETV growing up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I watched and ever watched it. I was like, what
Speaker 1: is who are these Canadian weirdo sor I don't even
Speaker 1: know where I found it. Was it like w N
Speaker 1: or some probably? Yeah, I bet it was. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: stumbled across a lot of movies because there was a
Speaker 1: guy named Danny or Denny who would host w g N.
Speaker 1: It was based out of Chicago and the Saturday and
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoons, would you get home from church, we'd ever
Speaker 1: miss Winners, KFC whatever, and I plopped in front of
Speaker 1: TV and watch Swamp Thing Poison ivy whenever they're showing
Speaker 1: at the time, early mid eighties. But he was a
Speaker 1: Daniel Danny, and I've actually looked up trying to find
Speaker 1: this guy what he was doing, and he was the host.
Speaker 1: He was the host of of these movies that would
Speaker 1: and I'll bet you anything SETV was on yeh, watch
Speaker 1: you let it b g N. Yeah. After was there
Speaker 1: anything better than getting out of those church clothes? Right?
Speaker 1: It's like people that didn't grow up going to church,
Speaker 1: that feeling at like twelve fifteen just to get home
Speaker 1: and like take off those shoes and socks and like
Speaker 1: get on your shorts totally such such the great thing.
Speaker 1: Well you got anything else? Man? I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's one of the best endings ever, certainly the best
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving movie. Yeah, I'd vote that number one. I mean,
Speaker 1: there aren't a ton of Thanksgiving movies, but nothing touches
Speaker 1: um Dutch. Yeah. John Hughes wrote, there's a few those
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving right now. Yeah. I mean, this movie manages to
Speaker 1: be sentimental. It just strikes just the right tone. I
Speaker 1: think it does. You know, there's got to be a
Speaker 1: bit of that, but it's not so over the top
Speaker 1: and you need that valve release every once in a
Speaker 1: while too, with with anything watching, if it's because dramatic, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a comedy, but they're definitely some heavy dramatic moments.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, oh yeah, um it does. It's a perfect blend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wonderful film. Yep, R I P. Mr Hughes and Mr
Speaker 1: Candy and uh thanks for coming on. It's been great.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. I'll crush it anytime with you, please, every love.
Speaker 1: I love movies. Yeah, we'll have to get you back
Speaker 1: in you all right, all right, everyone. I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed that. I hope your belly is full of I
Speaker 1: guess on a Friday it would be cold turkey sandwich
Speaker 1: with cranberry, maybe a little mayo, but I hope you
Speaker 1: cued up planes, trains, and automobiles today. It's kind of
Speaker 1: a tradition in our house to watch this one every year,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies, and we had a great
Speaker 1: chat about it. So I hope you enjoyed it, because
Speaker 1: I sure did. So sit back, eat some more turkey,
Speaker 1: maybe fall asleep on the couch listening to the sweet
Speaker 1: dulcet tones of Neil Page and Delve Griffith. Have a
Speaker 1: great weekend. Everybody. Movie. Crush has produced, edited and engineered
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