1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. Today I'm talking to Frederick Ya, 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: who is a harmonica player that got the attention of 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: legendary director Martin Scorsese and his sound right now is 5 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: being featured in Killers of the Flower Moon. I call 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: it the Death Harmonica, and I'll explain exactly what that 7 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: is in the movie review. I'll be talking about five 8 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: Nights at Freddy's and in the trailer Park we'll be 9 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: looking at Bradley Cooper's second movie that he's directing. It's 10 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: Netflix is Maestro and the issue I think Netflix is 11 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: having right now when it comes to their original movies. 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: So I'll get into all that. Shout out to the 13 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: Monday Morning Movie crew, and now let's talk movies. 14 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 2: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, 15 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like 16 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 2: never before in a movie podcast. A man with so 17 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 2: much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking IMTB with glasses. 18 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: From the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, 19 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: about to get into my car conversation with Frederick One 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: and that name you might not be completely familiar with. 21 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: But if you have seen or are planning to see 22 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: Killers of the Flower Moon, you are going to know 23 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: the sound of his harmonica. He is a French musician 24 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: and has such a distinct sound that Martin Scorsese knew 25 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: he had to have it in his movie to portray 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: the sound of death, which I don't always think harmonica 27 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: and death, but somehow they go perfectly together. And you're 28 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: probably wondering, what does that even sound like? Well, here's 29 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: a little clip of his work on the score of 30 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: Killers of the Flower Moon. Listen to that harmonica, So 31 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: that's a little bit of Frederick's work. He is also 32 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: friends with Dave Chappelle, which we'll get into later in 33 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: the interview, and here's what Dave Chappelle had to say 34 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: about him. 35 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 3: Fred is a musical anomaly. He plays an instrument that 36 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 3: I didn't even really know I liked till I heard 37 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 3: him when one other person play with two other people 38 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 3: play it. But I'm gonna say he's amongst the best 39 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 3: I've ever heard play it, fred if you would just 40 00:01:58,560 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 3: give them a little sample. 41 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 4: Sure of how he became friends. 42 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: Frederick has toured with legends like Stevie Wonder and Prince 43 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: and he's actually doing a couple of shows in DC 44 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: coming up on December first and December second. You can 45 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: get tickets at carlisleroom dot com slash shows or check 46 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: the episode notes of this podcast if you want to 47 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: go see them live. But now let's get into it 48 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: talking about his work on Killers of the Flower Moon 49 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: and how he met director Martin Scorsese. Frederick, how are 50 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: you doing? 51 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 4: I'm the one to fool my cars and everything with you. 52 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: I'm doing really well now. When I was in sixth grade, 53 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: I was in band and the instrument I got forced 54 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: upon me was the clarinet, which wasn't the sexiest of instruments, 55 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: but it was the only one that I could try 56 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: out for, So it was just kind of forced on 57 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: to me. When I think of you and you playing 58 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: harmonica again to a kid, probably not the sexiest instrument 59 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: to say, hey, here's a harmonica. How was that given 60 00:02:58,600 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: to you when you first started playing? 61 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 4: Well, you had the it's out of the stick. I 62 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 4: was actually introduced to music. I grew up in France, right, 63 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 4: so I was introduced to music through the recorder. 64 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:15,679 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember that. 65 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 5: So I went from the first trading experience of trying 66 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 5: to make the recordings sound good, to the amazing opportunity 67 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 5: to have something that fits in your pocket, that's very inexpensive, 68 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 5: and that creates a lot of. 69 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 4: Curiosity in the audience. The beauty of this instrument is 70 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 4: you know, it fits in your hands and when you 71 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 4: play it, you don't really know where the sound is 72 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 4: really coming from. It's almost like a magic trick. It's 73 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 4: also the only wind instrument that can generate music by 74 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 4: excelling through it or inhaling through it. So as you 75 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 4: play the harmonica, when you start inhaling through it, you 76 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 4: become a part of the instrument yourself, because the sound 77 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 4: is going to resonate through your torso, your throat, and 78 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 4: your head. Every basically your body becomes an amplification of 79 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 4: the frequencies generated by the instrument. So those are all 80 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 4: the reasons why I fell in love with the instrument, 81 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 4: but also the fact that I grew up with asthma 82 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 4: and as you know, as a kid. Instead of carrying 83 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 4: and in heller in my pocket every day, because you know, 84 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 4: I never knew when I as my attack was going 85 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 4: to show up, I started carrying this instead and one 86 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 4: day I realized that, oh, I was taking my harmonica 87 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 4: ever where I was going, but myn in heller was 88 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 4: still on my table at home. So the more I 89 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 4: played the instrument, the better my health was getting, the 90 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 4: more friends I was making. It's an easy choice. 91 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: Now. You have such a distinct sound, almost to the 92 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: point that if I hear your music, I just know 93 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: it's you immediately. How do you start developing that? Like, 94 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: where do you get this just tone that ends up 95 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: being yourself? 96 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 4: You know? I remember a long time ago I heard 97 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 4: an interview of Wynton Marcellis who said something in the 98 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 4: vein of there's going to be a lot of people 99 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 4: trying to do the same thing that you're trying to do. 100 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 4: In order to be better and to sound like yourself, 101 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 4: you just have to put more hours than anybody else 102 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 4: into the game. And that's really what I did. I 103 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 4: studied the I studied the harmonica from the perspective of 104 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 4: a music fan and not from a harmonica player's perspective. 105 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 4: I learned the instrument through and on to replicate the 106 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 4: sound of the blues, the sound of country music, the 107 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 4: sound of gospel, the sound every basically genre with the 108 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 4: musical genre with the harmonica was prominently being you know, featured, 109 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 4: and by studying all those styles, I started to create 110 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 4: my own. And I realized also that the harmonica was 111 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 4: not necessarily present in the music I really enjoyed listening 112 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 4: to the most which at the time was fusion and 113 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 4: jazz and reggae, R and B and pop music. So 114 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 4: created a lot of opportunities for me because you know, 115 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 4: not on whole lot of harmonica players saw it from 116 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 4: that perspective. And here I am today, you know, after 117 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 4: I have been performed with Prince TV at sharing and 118 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 4: now Martin Scorsese. 119 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, which I want to talk about, which I 120 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: saw the movie and I was completely floored by the film. 121 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: In movies, I always feel that the score gets overlooked 122 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: because there is so much impactfulness that just the sounds 123 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: in a movie make you feel, whether you realize it 124 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: or not, that sentiment from an instrument or from just 125 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: a song playing during a very specific point in the 126 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: movie changed the entire thing for me. So I think 127 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: it's something that we don't realize because we're just taking 128 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: it with our eyes, but we're also feeling something. And 129 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: with your sound of that harmonica, I just associated it 130 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: in the movie with greed and death and all these 131 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: dark things. So how does that feel to know that 132 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: your sound is associated with such just dark imagery. 133 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 4: Well, I mean, there's it's a mix feeling. The first 134 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 4: thing is I'm really honored to be to be featured 135 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 4: in the and to be a part of something so meaningful, 136 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 4: so impactful, so deeply disturbing. That is a true story, 137 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,239 Speaker 4: a true American story. I'm honored to have been chosen 138 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 4: to be the harmonica on the struct because obviously Scorcely 139 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 4: wanted a harmonica to express, to impersonate exactly what you described, 140 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 4: the spirit of greed, the dark thoughts of a whole 141 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 4: group of people who were seeking profit and put profit 142 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 4: ahead of their morals. Construct You know, I feel honored 143 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 4: to be a part of this, But I also find 144 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 4: it very interesting that the harmonica could be perceived as 145 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 4: a tool to actually channel that kind of emotion and energy. 146 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 4: I had never thought of it that with myself, because 147 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 4: when I play, I tried to connect my experience is 148 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 4: my experienced emotions, and tried to convey it into more 149 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 4: of them into a sound that hopefully my audience will 150 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 4: connect to. That's actually a very interesting point because when 151 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 4: I met Martin Scorcese at the premiere in ken earlier 152 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 4: in Mad this year, it was our first time meeting 153 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 4: and he, you know, introduced myself at the Harmonica for 154 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 4: the Irish Man and Kills of the Flower. Morning said, oh, 155 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 4: my gosh, Harmonica, ma. How you know he grew up 156 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 4: with the Harmonica as the soundtrack of his childhood and 157 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 4: his grandfather was a harmonica fan and he used to 158 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 4: listen to it a lot as it was growing up. So, 159 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 4: you know, we talked about this for a while and 160 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 4: after after we got comfortable, I actually sapped him and 161 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 4: I asked him, so, what is it about my plane 162 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 4: that makes you want to kill people? We had a 163 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:56,239 Speaker 4: good left without. 164 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: So how did our relationship start? If you first met 165 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: him this year but you worked on Irish Man, how 166 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: does he even discover you? 167 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 4: Everything started with Robbie Robertson. Robbie and Martin SCORSESEI have 168 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 4: had they had bless he saw he passed away in August. 169 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 4: They had a long term friendship and uh and and 170 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 4: they released a lot of movie They produced a lot 171 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 4: of movies together. Robbie was a part of the band. 172 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 4: He was in The Last Worlds. Backing up about Dylan, 173 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 4: he did Games of New York, of Wall Street. I mean, 174 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of major Scorsese pieces were 175 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 4: scored by Robbie Robertson, And when he and Martin Scorsese 176 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 4: he talked about the spirit of death in the in 177 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 4: The Irish Man and the spirit of greed and Killers 178 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 4: of the Flower Moon corses. He really wanted the harmonica 179 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 4: to be that particular lead instrument too, to impersonate those 180 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 4: spirits on the score. 181 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,319 Speaker 1: So when you're working with Robbie, who's the composer, is 182 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: the composer Irishman and Kells of the Flower Moon? What 183 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: is your direction when you're recording this music? Do you 184 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: know what's seeing it going to? Do you have an 185 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: idea of the sentiment that you're trying to portray and 186 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: you know, convey through your music? 187 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 4: So from what what you explained to me that the 188 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 4: movie was being filmed at the same time as music 189 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 4: was being produced, and he they had some conversations and 190 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 4: the guideline he gave me for The Irishman, he says, 191 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 4: stay cool, stay sexy, and be sneaky. Those were the 192 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 4: three directions which are very interesting because those are the 193 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 4: ideas of those are pretty much the you you can 194 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 4: see that there's gonna be characters of a hit man 195 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 4: as well. Yeah, so bye bye. By really focusing on 196 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 4: those three words, I started impersonating you know this this uh, 197 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 4: this ambiance, the atmosphere, this vibe, and that's what came 198 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 4: out on the on the theme for the Irish Man. 199 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 4: They had some melodies already written, they had some ideas 200 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 4: of how the music was to be interpretated, but at 201 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 4: the end of the day they decided to keep the 202 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 4: tracks that had more of my interpretation of his melodies, 203 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 4: more of my emotions, more of the way I was 204 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 4: mophing the instrument versus instrument was mophing me. I think 205 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 4: what they really wanted was harmonica that didn't really sound 206 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 4: like a harmonica that so sounded more like a human 207 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,680 Speaker 4: voice or a violin or sometimes a saxophone or guitar 208 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 4: or you know, sometimes a drum as well. So I 209 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 4: guess my ability to learn all those styles, all those 210 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 4: colors of the harmonica was actually implemented in this production. 211 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: Well, I think I fit so well. I think ultimately 212 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: a personified death in the film for me. So you 213 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: mentioned the premiere earlier when you go watch it at 214 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: the premiere. What is that feeling like of being able 215 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 1: to hear your work in a room full of all 216 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: these legendary people. 217 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 4: Okay, so I was born in France about twenty five 218 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 4: years ago. I met this amazing American woman who am 219 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 4: married to today, and I met her in Can during 220 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 4: the film festival, and she was there for her birthday. 221 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 4: And this year was really an amazing experience for all 222 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 4: those reasons. This is my fiftieth year on this planet, 223 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 4: and we had an opportunity to actually go to the 224 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 4: premiere in can where she and I met twenty five 225 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 4: years ago, and the movie was premiering in the most 226 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 4: prestigious movie theater of my country with thirty five hundred 227 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 4: more people. So that was kind of surreal, to be 228 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 4: completely honest, filed that's amazing. And every time the harmonica 229 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 4: kept popping up on the screen, I'm not going to 230 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,239 Speaker 4: lie to you, I had a huge smile phone and 231 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 4: I was probably the only one in the movie theater 232 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 4: who was smiling every time some the Speed of Greed 233 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 4: was the screen. 234 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: You're the one rooting for all the bad things in 235 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: the film, and it's like that's me. 236 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 4: So much so that so that we had to go 237 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 4: back to the premiere in New York where I finally 238 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 4: got to really experience the movie for what it really 239 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 4: was meant to be designed. 240 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 1: That's amazing. That's an awesome full circle moment. I was also, 241 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: you have one of my favorite tiny desk sessions of 242 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: all time, and just the first time I hear you 243 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: play harmonica and I was like, oh my gosh, like 244 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: this is amazing. The thing that stuck out to me 245 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: about that was the fact that Dave Chappelle introduced you. 246 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 1: How do you become friends with Dave Chappelle? 247 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, very It was very organic. I mean, 248 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 4: Dave's there is a comedian. But one thing you need 249 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 4: to know about comedians is they love music. The most 250 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 4: comedians know believe they are musicians, and most musicians we 251 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 4: know believe their community. I learned to step away from that, 252 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 4: from from that that that that genre. Just leave it 253 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 4: to Dave. But I met Dave in I think two 254 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 4: thousand and five, right after he came back from South Africa, 255 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 4: and we we we have this friendship. We actually have 256 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 4: a show together. We call it Dave Chappelle' Juke joint 257 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 4: and it features my band, which is he likes to 258 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 4: call it the band with no Name because all those 259 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 4: musicians are musicians I have met on the road when 260 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 4: I was touring with Prince and c TV. And on 261 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 4: the other side of the venue we have a DJ 262 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 4: called DJ de Nice, who you've probably heard of. And 263 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 4: it's the best party you've never heard of because everybody's 264 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 4: phone is locked in those yonder bands. Yeah, there yonder bags, 265 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 4: and you know, people just can't get who knowing that 266 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 4: there's no surveillance on site, and get really comfortable and 267 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 4: the party goes on for hours. So Dave is a 268 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 4: huge music fan, as you know, and that that ties 269 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 4: our relationship and friendship. 270 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. Throughout all of his work, he's 271 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: always made it a point to feature some kind of musician, 272 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: even on Japel Show or doing like a blog party. 273 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: There's always been a strong music tie with him. So 274 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: I think it's awesome that you guys do things together. 275 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's an honor to watch him do his things 276 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 4: as well. I mean, he's such a such an important 277 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 4: voice in in in today today's environment. 278 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: So what are you working on right now that you're 279 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: excited about? 280 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 4: My goodness, some producing music on a regular basis. I'm 281 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 4: on the tree preparing for a couple of shows. I'm 282 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 4: doing it the in in d C, in a in 283 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 4: a in a couple of weeks. I'm at the car, 284 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 4: out of room. If you're in d C, you're more 285 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 4: than welcome to Carl. I'd love to invite you come over. 286 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember this story, but during 287 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 4: the pandemic, we I had just purchased a house in Washington, 288 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 4: d C. And right before the pandemic, I got in 289 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:10,359 Speaker 4: the place, and when the pandemic occurred, of course everybody's 290 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 4: calendar got completely pulled down to zero, including all my 291 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 4: musicians and myself. So I was looking at contempling that 292 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 4: empty house completely got it with no dates on the schedule. 293 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 4: So I decided to create a virtual jazz club. And 294 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 4: it was at first just for the neighbors, so we could, 295 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 4: you know, share the neighborhood a little bit. So we 296 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 4: opened the windows and played on Sundays at six o'clock. 297 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 4: Who would play for the neighbors And then of course 298 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 4: it grew into something because CNN picked up on the story, 299 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 4: BBC picked up the story. The French TV Networks did 300 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 4: as well, so we started broadcasting it on social media 301 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 4: as well, and DJ denized let me use his Instagram, 302 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 4: so it became something that really grew and tied the neighbor. 303 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 4: The neighbors were a little closer. It canceled the idea 304 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 4: of social distancing, created you know, a community. Now the 305 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 4: project is done, so we're about to have one more 306 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 4: concept for the neighbors, but this time with a finished house. 307 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 4: So that's what I've been working on. Bailey. 308 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: Well, that's awesome. I encourage everybody listening now to go 309 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: check out your music and if they can make it 310 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: to a show in DC, go do that. And I 311 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 1: hope you get to see you live at some point. 312 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: And also everybody go watch Killers of the Flower Moon 313 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: and know whenever that death and Despair comes on screen, 314 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: that's Frederick right there, the sound of Greed. It's been 315 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: great getting to talk to you. I really appreciate. 316 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 4: It, Mike, thank you so much for your time. All 317 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:38,679 Speaker 4: the best to you, and hope to meet you in 318 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 4: person very soon. 319 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: All right, have a good one. Thank you, two care 320 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: of let's get into it a spoiler free movie review. 321 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: I want to talk about Five Nights at Freddy's, a 322 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: movie I picked could be my Halloween movie of the weekend. 323 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: I was so excited to sit down in the theater. 324 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: Kelsey didn't go with me because she doesn't do horror movies. 325 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: I got my middle seat would row up. It was 326 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: all cozy ready, just to have some fun, have some thrills, 327 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: have some scares, and this movie let me down. Ruined 328 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: my Halloween weekend. And I won't say that I had high, 329 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: even medium expectations going into this movie. After watching the trailer, 330 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: I saw some things that were some red flags, showing 331 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: a lot of the plot, showing a lot of what 332 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,400 Speaker 1: would be the most scariest parts of the entire movie. 333 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 1: So I knew it probably wasn't going to be the 334 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: best thing ever. But I can respect a video game adaptation, 335 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: which this is what this is. It's based on a 336 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,439 Speaker 1: video game. I'm not that familiar with the game, aside 337 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: from what I remember from people in high school talking 338 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,239 Speaker 1: about how scary this game was. I thought maybe some 339 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 1: of that would translate into the movie. It's also coming 340 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: to us from Blumhouse, who does really solid horror movies. 341 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: Just earlier this year, they created a horror icon with Megan. 342 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: And then you have Josh Hutchinson, who we all remember 343 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 1: as Peter Malark from The Hunger Games, the guy who 344 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: was supposed to be it for a minute, who's acting 345 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: career has taken a bit of a tumble. He never 346 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: went on to be that guy. I think that was 347 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: due to a lot of movies he was cast in 348 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: just weren't the right roles for him. And then you 349 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: have Matthew Lillard in this movie. You have Elizabeth Lao 350 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: who plays a cop who helps out Josh Hutchinson's character 351 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: in this movie. So why did I not like it? 352 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: First of all, the movie is about Josh Hutchinson's character 353 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: who is down on his luck after an incident went down. 354 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 1: He was working as mall security. He punched a guy 355 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: who he thought was abducting another kid, and it turns 356 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,879 Speaker 1: out it was just the boy's father, so he not 357 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: only punched him, he pummeled the guy and after that 358 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: has been bouncing around from job to job. He lost 359 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: his parents, he lost his brother, and is now taking 360 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: care of his sister. So in order to prevent his 361 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: aunt from taking custody of his sister, he has to 362 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: just have a stable job. Now, when telling his story. 363 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: In this movie, there were so many cliches that they 364 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 1: used to portray a person who is down on their 365 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: luck hit rock bottom, and that was one of them. 366 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: At the very beginning, trying to get a job, he's 367 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: listing out all the things he's had wrong with him. 368 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: What's your deal guy? That type of thing. It just 369 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: felt very generic and very forced, and I was like, Okay, 370 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: maybe I can get past that. We'll get into the horror, 371 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: we'll get into the fun. But even the way this 372 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: movie opened up was so generic. In that first kill. 373 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: In a horror movie, it's supposed to hook it in. 374 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: It's supposed to showcase what is going to make this villain, 375 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: what is going to make all these monsters great? And 376 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: it was so lame. It set nothing up tone wise. 377 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: It was just kind of there. And that is kind 378 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: of how this entire movie felt. It was a bunch 379 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: of random scenes cut and pasted together. So how this 380 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: character goes on, he's trying to find that job. He 381 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: gets offered this one job by Matthew Lillard's character, and 382 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: it's a security job working at this pizzeria that has 383 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: been abandoned the eighties. And they tell you this very 384 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: loose story of what happened there, but it's all about 385 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: him going there and figuring it out on his own, 386 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,360 Speaker 1: so I won't get into all those details, but essentially, yes, 387 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 1: he's working this graveyard shift at this pizzeria and you 388 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: have these animatronic figures that are very creepy looking, which, 389 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: aside from the girl in this movie who plays Abby, 390 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: his young sister, those were my other favorite part of it. 391 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 1: Just the way that they looked, not the way that 392 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: they acted, not the way that they interacted, or not 393 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: even the way that they killed people, just the way 394 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 1: that they looked, because I thought that was going to 395 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: be pretty novel. So then he takes the job, goes 396 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: and starts working at this graveyard shift, and then that's 397 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: where all the creepy things happened. Where this movie lost 398 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,160 Speaker 1: me really is that you have a character here working 399 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,919 Speaker 1: in a creepy situation, a late night graveyard shift. You 400 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: should have showed exactly how creepy it is to be 401 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: in a place that late at night, at dark, with 402 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 1: all these weird things happening, with these weird animatronic figures 403 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: shifting around, and you have this security cams. Somehow you 404 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: made that not scary. Not only did you make it 405 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: not scary, they made it boring. And this is coming 406 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: from somebody who worked an overnight shift like this. I 407 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 1: used to work at a radio station from twelve am 408 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: to six am, and let me tell you, from the 409 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: hours from about twelve am to three am, you get 410 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: pretty freaked out because you're just getting used to it. 411 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: You're there very late, you're fighting your body's natural reaction 412 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: to want to go to sleep at that time. You're 413 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: doing things to keep you awake. I'm drinking coffee, and 414 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: every single noise you hear you question because you're just 415 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: there alone. The radio station, Ivergain was this really big, old, 416 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: creepy building. Sometimes it would sound like there was somebody 417 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,919 Speaker 1: pushing a mop bucket down the hallway. I would go 418 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: look out and there would be nothing there. Probably not haunted, 419 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: Probably just a lot of things running in my brain. 420 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: But that's how creepy it is, and that's how much 421 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: your mind messages with you when you are working at 422 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: a place overnight and supposed to be the one looking 423 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: over everything. They didn't show that in this movie. It 424 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,239 Speaker 1: should have been creepy enough just to be there on 425 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: your own without the animatronics there and they completely fumbled that. 426 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: Not only that, the acting throughout this entire movie was terrible. 427 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: Did Josh Hutcherson even show up? Like was he there? 428 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: He was on the screen, but was he there? I 429 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,479 Speaker 1: don't think he was. And for somebody who needs a 430 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: movie to put him back in the spotlight, put him 431 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:26,199 Speaker 1: back on the map, this was terribly miscast. And I 432 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: feel like maybe they got him because he has some 433 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: name recognition. Maybe they were trying to find somebody else 434 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: to fill this role and they landed on him and thought, Okay, 435 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: maybe we can make this work. It did not work. 436 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 1: His performance was so flat. He had no great interactions 437 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: with anybody on the screen. And it was really important 438 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: to his relationship with his sister to have some kind 439 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: of big brother role, and another relationship in the movie 440 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: is a little bit complicated. It's supposed to be that 441 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: she's not speaking to anyone and she's having trouble connecting 442 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: with people, and you have this whole plot line of 443 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: her like drawing pictures and not really saying a whole lot. 444 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 1: So I get it on that front, but still it 445 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: felt like he wasn't acting with them, he was acting 446 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 1: at them. And not only that, the way they wrote 447 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: his character there was a whole lot of telling you 448 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: and not showing you. There's literally one scene in this 449 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: movie where he tells the female cop who is essentially 450 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: kind of the love interest, kind of the one helping 451 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: him navigate his new security shift. He sits down and 452 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: tells her his entire life story. How lame is that? 453 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: That is so lame. You're supposed to tell me through 454 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 1: his actions, through what he's trying to accomplish in this movie, 455 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: and build his character, not just sit down and say 456 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: these are all the reasons I am the way Like, No, 457 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: that is so lame and so boring and such a 458 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: cop out. I hated that, and also the fact that 459 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 1: this movie even tries to play itself off as a 460 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: scary movie. This movie was in no way scary whatsoever, 461 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 1: and that's ultimately why it lost me. The trailer was 462 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: creepy in its own way. It didn't look like it 463 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: was going to be terrifying, But there was no part 464 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: of this movie that had any horror element whatsoever. Very 465 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: minimal blood, no use of jump scares, which I find 466 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: cheap to begin with. But if you have a boring 467 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: movie like this, on your hands at least hit me 468 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 1: with a cheap jump scare. There wasn't even that, And 469 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: there wasn't even any playfulness, because that's really what this 470 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: movie was missing. It's a scary movie that takes place 471 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: in an abandoned pizzeria where there are fun child games 472 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: all around. It's essentially an old school chucky cheese but 473 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: with kind of a weird vibe to it, and you 474 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: make that boring. There's so many fun, creative things that 475 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: were going off in my mind of things they could 476 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: have done, so it led me to believe that they 477 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: didn't have enough money to make the movie they wanted, 478 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: that they were relying on the ip being five nights 479 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: at Freddy's and being that on a video game, and 480 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: thinking that so many people are going to be interested 481 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: in this movie because of that, that they didn't really 482 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: have to try hard. So maybe they spent so much 483 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: money making the actual animatronic characters, making those lifelike, which 484 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,719 Speaker 1: those were at least interesting to look at, but they 485 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 1: didn't really do a whole lot that gave me anything 486 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 1: to root for or even root against. So this movie 487 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: ruined my Halloween weekend and I want it back, even 488 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: though I had the Regal Unlimited, so I'm only out 489 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,360 Speaker 1: fifty five cents only out the tax I'm good with that. 490 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,919 Speaker 1: And the movie is rated PG thirteen. But rate this 491 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: movie PG I guess because of the blood and because 492 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: of the killing, But I don't see it anything worse 493 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: than you would be exposed to on your new speed 494 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: on Instagram. So it really wasn't that bad on a 495 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: horror level. Maybe there was some language in there that 496 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 1: I missed just because I'm so used to hearing bad 497 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 1: language in movies, but it felt really like a cautionary 498 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 1: tale to kids. I feel like parents should show this 499 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,239 Speaker 1: movie to their kids if they want them to. I'm 500 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: begging them to take them to Chuck E Cheese. Here. 501 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 1: Watch this movie, You'll never want to go see and 502 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: visit Chuck E Cheese ever. Again, that is what this 503 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: movie should be. So maybe that's the reason it classifies 504 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: itself as a scary movie. So there were so many 505 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: things that I did not like about this movie. It 506 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: just really lacked imagination. The only thing that redeemed it 507 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: was I feel like Matthew Lillard is a gem that 508 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: we don't appreciate. He was really committed to his role 509 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: he really shined in a movie where there weren't really 510 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: that many things to be excited about. There were some 511 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 1: cool shots, so a couple maybe a half point for 512 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 1: the cinematography in this movie, but really, the entire tone 513 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: was off on this movie. The acting was terrible, the 514 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: horror elements were subpar at best. I'm just thinking about 515 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: how much this movie annoyed me, and I'm getting angry 516 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: again as you hear. So if I had to rate 517 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: this movie, first of all, don't go see it in theaters. 518 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,120 Speaker 1: Don't waste your time. I don't even think it's worth 519 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: a stream because the only thing that really kept me 520 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: watching it was the fact that I was in the theater. 521 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: If I would have been at home watching this movie, 522 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: I probably would have stopped it in those first thirty 523 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: minutes because it was just so bad and boring to 524 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: even get going, and there were only little breadcrumbs that 525 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,959 Speaker 1: kind of strayed me along. It was kind of like 526 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: a trail of Eminem's leading me to something that I'm like, Okay, 527 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: maybe this is going somewhere, and about halfway through, I'm like, 528 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: I just have to know how this ends. I just 529 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 1: want to know what the conclusion is here so I 530 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: can get on with my life. And even as I 531 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: was leaving, the guy who was about to clean there 532 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: at the Regals said, hey, you want to stick around 533 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: for the post credit scene. I was like, no, I'm good. 534 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: I didn't like the pre credit scene the entire movie. 535 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: I'm not going to stick around for the post credit scene. 536 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: So for that reason, five nights at Freddy's. Am I 537 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: giving it five? 538 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 2: No? 539 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: I am given it one point five out of five Animatronics. 540 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 2: It's time a movie, Mike Trey Lar Paul. 541 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: I want to keep the music theme alive and take 542 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: a look at Netflix's Maestro, starring and directed by Bradley Cooper. 543 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: This is the second movie he is directed, the first 544 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: one being A Star is Born, so he is continuing 545 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: the music theme, which I feel at his core. Maybe 546 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: it's because of his performance and A Star is Born, 547 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: but I always feel that Bradley Cooper has wanted to 548 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: be a rock star his entire life, and he has 549 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: had quite the trajectory in his acting career. I mean, 550 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: the same guy that was in The Hangover is now 551 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: directing and starring in a movie of this quality. So 552 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: to see that kind of change over his life he 553 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: was almost just the rom com guy for a while 554 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: even there in the two thousands. He's playing a composer 555 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: named Leonard Bernstein. He is starring alongside Carrie Mulligan, and 556 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: this movie will be a deep dive into their complicated 557 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: love interest. A lot of things strike me as visually 558 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: appealing in this movie. I'm also interested to get to 559 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: know a lot about this composer that I really don't 560 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: know a whole lot about. And I find myself enjoying 561 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: biopics more when I don't know so much about the 562 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: person and I'm learning about the aspects of their life. 563 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: I also like when it's people who aren't the most 564 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: famous people, because I feel like these are the stories 565 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: they need to be told. And I'll get into more 566 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: of that here just a little bit. But this movie 567 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: is coming out on Netflix on December twentieth. Before I 568 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: get into my full thoughts of Maestro, here's just a 569 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: little bit of the trailer. 570 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 4: I love people so. 571 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 1: Much that it's all for me to be lone. I 572 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: have music. It keeps me glued to life. 573 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 4: I don't people know how much you need do. 574 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 1: So, Like I said earlier, this is Bradley Cooper's second 575 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 1: attempt at directing, not to say that his first attempt 576 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: was a flop, because The Star Is Born did really well. 577 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: So I feel like he's found his lane of doing 578 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: music movies and in this one he plays a different 579 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: type of rock star. And breaking down the visual aspects 580 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: of this trailer, first, I love the way it looks 581 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: when it shows his early life. It is black and 582 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: white four to three ratio, which is like that square, 583 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: old school TV look. If you want to get me 584 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 1: interested in a movie, give me some four to three shots, 585 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: especially in black and white, because it feels so artsy 586 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: and cinematic. I love the look of all those shots. 587 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: That being said, when it translates from the four to 588 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 1: three shots to the regular wide screen in color, just 589 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: that dynamic gives me that this movie is wanting to 590 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: be Oscar bait. And Netflix is really good at putting 591 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 1: out movies in November and December that just appeal to 592 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: Oscar voters, and this very much feels like that. So 593 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: I do go into this a little bit with the 594 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: little trepidation because, to be honest, I feel like Netflix 595 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: has a problem when it comes to their films and 596 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: their longevity because nothing that has come out on Netflix 597 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: in the last two to three years has been substantial 598 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: to the point that I remember them they are very forgettable. 599 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 1: I feel like Netflix has the quantity over quality approach, 600 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 1: and sometimes I feel that they put out films that 601 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: feel more like content than art, and I feel the 602 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: reason I love movies is because they are works of 603 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: art that have been worked through. But with Netflix just 604 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: a couple years ago putting out that big campaign of 605 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: We're releasing one new movie every single week, which I 606 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: was excited about when that first happened because it felt 607 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: very hype to me to know that I would have 608 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: a brand new movie I could watch it in my 609 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: home every single week. But nothing from that year of 610 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: movies stuck out to me, and it just felt like 611 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: they were trying just to churn out a bunch of 612 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: content in order to generate subscribers, because at the end 613 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: of the day, Netflix is a business trying to make 614 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: money and stay afloat and keep your money there with 615 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: giving you new things all the time. But I feel 616 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 1: like that has resulted in them just putting out really 617 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: lackluster movies that we watch one time and never think 618 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: about again. Now they have been nominated for a lot 619 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: of Oscars. I think it's somewhere in the fifties now. 620 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: They've been nominated for Picture before, but Netflix has not 621 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: won a Best Picture Oscar to date, so I do 622 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: think they have a problem when it comes to their films, 623 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: and Maestro again, I think, is going to be their 624 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: one that they're going to push to try to be 625 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: nominated and win Best Picture. And if any of their 626 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: movies had a shot, I feel like it would be 627 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 1: this one just by the look of it, judging that 628 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper has had some history there at the Oscars 629 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: with a Star is Born. But in this movie, what 630 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: I feel like is different than other music biopicks is 631 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 1: that I feel it's going to focus on one aspect 632 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: of this composer's life, which I feel is really really 633 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: important when making a biopick that I think some directors 634 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 1: forget that you have to make a good movie. At 635 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: the end of the day. You can't just throw in 636 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: all these cool things and accomplishments that these people have done, 637 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: throw them all into a movie and think, ah, there's 638 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: my movie. Here are all these cool things. You still 639 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: have to have a storyline and find that one thing 640 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 1: about them that would create a memorable movie that even 641 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: if you're watching it and this person did not exist, 642 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: it was an entirely fictional story, it would still be 643 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: entertaining and engaging to watch. I think this one is 644 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: going to focus heavily on his complicated relationship with his 645 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: wife in this film, played by Carrie Mulligan, who was 646 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 1: a great actress. I've loved her ever since I saw 647 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,839 Speaker 1: her in Drive, and I love the way they look 648 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: together in this movie, where the complicated relationship I think 649 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 1: comes in by the looks of the hints we are 650 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,719 Speaker 1: given in this trailer is Leonard may have had some 651 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: relationships with men, and she starts to become suspicious of this. 652 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if she's going to catch him cheating 653 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 1: or what exactly is going to go down, but I 654 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: feel like it's going to be him just wanting to 655 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: be always around people and sometimes maybe romantically, because in 656 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: the trailer you also hear him say that he loves 657 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: people so much that whenever he's not around them, he 658 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 1: feels really lonely. So I think there's some aspect of 659 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 1: that of him wanting to be around people, but also 660 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 1: his love of music and his love of composing being 661 00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:00,120 Speaker 1: the thing that keeps him together and ties him to everything. Well, 662 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a pretty interesting 663 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: character study, and Bradley Cooper is the guy to do 664 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,719 Speaker 1: it and also direct himself in doing it, because I 665 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:13,240 Speaker 1: really feel like he takes on roles and becomes that person. 666 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,440 Speaker 1: We saw that with him and a Star is Born. 667 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: I don't think he's doing the full method acting approach 668 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,280 Speaker 1: to these roles, but he is really good at learning 669 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,280 Speaker 1: about his characters, learning what makes them tick, and learning 670 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,799 Speaker 1: how to live inside their skin. Which leads me to 671 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: the next controversy around this film is because he decided 672 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,359 Speaker 1: to wear a prosthetic nose, and even though he had 673 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: the approval of the family, a lot of people have 674 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 1: a lot of issues with that because he is representing 675 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: a Jewish character. I don't love it, and I've told 676 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:48,240 Speaker 1: you before on this podcast whenever the biggest argument about 677 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 1: somebody playing somebody in a biopic is that they don't 678 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 1: look like the person. I argue against that because I 679 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: don't think you have to look entirely like the person. 680 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: I think through some this general makeup and wardrobe, as 681 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,839 Speaker 1: long as we know who we're looking at here, what 682 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,279 Speaker 1: is more important is how they portray them and how 683 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,719 Speaker 1: they show them through their actions and the way that 684 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 1: they just feel on screen is more important to me 685 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 1: than how they actually look. We had this controversy with 686 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 1: Austin Butler of people saying he didn't look like Elvis whatsoever, 687 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: But I said that he really encompassed the spirit of 688 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,520 Speaker 1: Elvis on stage and off stage and gave us a 689 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 1: great representation of what he was like. I think that 690 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,799 Speaker 1: is more important than actually looking like the character. So 691 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 1: I don't love the choice of using the prosthetic nose, 692 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 1: even though you're really trying to look like him, you 693 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,440 Speaker 1: have the approval of the family. I just think when 694 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: it comes to real life people, I always think if 695 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 1: you're going to be comfortable with that in five to 696 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,440 Speaker 1: ten years and look back on it, because there have 697 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: been some choices made. You know, back in the seventies 698 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,240 Speaker 1: and eighties that seemed fine at the time, but now 699 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,879 Speaker 1: in the twenty twenties you look back and think, why 700 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,399 Speaker 1: did they even do that? So here I would say, 701 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,520 Speaker 1: you don't even need it, And I don't want to 702 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 1: make less of his presence or his fame, but he 703 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,279 Speaker 1: wasn't the most well known as far as it would 704 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,479 Speaker 1: take me out of it by not seeing his face 705 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,279 Speaker 1: portrayed exactly how it was in real life. I think 706 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,239 Speaker 1: what this film is trying to do is teach us 707 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 1: about somebody we need to know more about and was 708 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 1: an important figure in music. We don't need that aspect 709 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,720 Speaker 1: of seeing somebody who looks exactly like them. So maybe 710 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper did it because he wanted to fully live 711 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: inside the skin of Leonard Bernstein and that was taking 712 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,759 Speaker 1: it a step forward. Maybe he wanted to look in 713 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,480 Speaker 1: the mirror and see Leonard and not see himself. I 714 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,560 Speaker 1: think that's probably the logic that went into making this decision. 715 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,000 Speaker 1: But still I don't think you do it here. So 716 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:44,920 Speaker 1: where would I put this on my excitement level? Let's see, 717 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,720 Speaker 1: I would put this one at about a three point 718 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,000 Speaker 1: five out of five. It's coming out on December twentieth, 719 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,799 Speaker 1: which is the time that I'm fully into watching all 720 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 1: of these Oscar Worthy movies, so I feel like this 721 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 1: is one and I'll take a deep dive into and 722 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,279 Speaker 1: really spend some time with. And the fact that I 723 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 1: can watch it at home. I like that aspect of it. 724 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,799 Speaker 1: I'm also interested in the career of Bradley Cooper as 725 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,960 Speaker 1: a director now, probably more so than his acting, and 726 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how this film affects the trajectory 727 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,520 Speaker 1: of his directing career. Is he going to keep doing 728 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,360 Speaker 1: just music biopicks? Is he going to maybe do a 729 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,279 Speaker 1: thriller down the line or something completely different which I 730 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,560 Speaker 1: feel like a star is Born really made his name 731 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,200 Speaker 1: known as a director, so this could be that one 732 00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:35,040 Speaker 1: that elevates him even more into being an Oscar Worthy 733 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,200 Speaker 1: level director. And again, I also love Kerrie mulligan and 734 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,160 Speaker 1: Maya Hawk and Sarah Silverman are also in the film, 735 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 1: so I think this movie has a lot of potential 736 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,480 Speaker 1: if you want to see it in theaters, though it 737 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,560 Speaker 1: is coming out on November twentieth in select theaters because 738 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:51,120 Speaker 1: any movie that wants to be considered to be nominated 739 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 1: at the Oscars has to have a theatrical run, so 740 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: for those who want to check it out there, But 741 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,720 Speaker 1: for me, this is one I'll just wait to watch 742 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,719 Speaker 1: on Netflix. And that is my stro head. That for 743 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:05,360 Speaker 1: this week's edition of Movie by Framer Bar. Oh yeah, 744 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 1: and that's gonna do it for another episode here of 745 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,200 Speaker 1: the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my 746 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,000 Speaker 1: listeners shout Out of the Week, which last week we 747 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 1: had an interview with the director of Blue Beatle, so 748 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 1: I asked you to comment on my Instagram reel and 749 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,360 Speaker 1: TikTok with a clip from that interview with a Beatle emoji. 750 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 1: And this week's listener shout Out of the Week goes 751 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,279 Speaker 1: to Jacob Gutieredis who commented and said, I love the 752 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,080 Speaker 1: interview this week. Hit me with that Beatle emoji. There 753 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,920 Speaker 1: were so many great comments over there, a lot of 754 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,799 Speaker 1: people really enjoying last week's interview. So I came back 755 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,359 Speaker 1: this week and hit you guys with another interview. So 756 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,680 Speaker 1: we gotta do it again, So comment on this week's 757 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,239 Speaker 1: Reel and TikTok post with Frederick Yanna hit me with 758 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,120 Speaker 1: the music note emoji on that video. Pick somebody who 759 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 1: leaves the music note and give you next week's listener 760 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 1: shout Out of the Week. And thank you all for 761 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 1: the comments about enjoying the interviews and saying my interview 762 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,480 Speaker 1: skills have grown over the years, and just how much 763 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,000 Speaker 1: this entire podcast has grown over the years. Thank you 764 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,600 Speaker 1: for being a part of it. I hope you have 765 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,839 Speaker 1: a great rest of your week, and until next time, 766 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,800 Speaker 1: go out and watch good movies. Have a great Halloween, 767 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:09,800 Speaker 1: and I will talk to you later