Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome to movie Crush Mini Crush Monday Monday Morning,
Speaker 1: Monday Monday. We love this day the best. We're like
Speaker 1: anti Garfield. We're the opposite of Garfield. We love Monday's right. Although,
Speaker 1: to be fair, it is Thursday. Whoa, whoa chuck. He
Speaker 1: just blew my whole world open man is ruined everything.
Speaker 1: I'm too busy. Yeah, it's Thursday morning here, and I
Speaker 1: just finished my triple latte. We just finished recording another one.
Speaker 1: We'd do these two at the time generally spoiler mm hmm,
Speaker 1: and let's just get right to it. No, I'm ready
Speaker 1: because this is jam packed. We got a great social
Speaker 1: studies segment, so this turned out to be a really
Speaker 1: fun question. I went to Facebook and asked, what is
Speaker 1: your favorite music que? And I even said, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the score, because not everyone knows
Speaker 1: what a music que is. It's a specific song usage
Speaker 1: in a film, and about of the people got that right,
Speaker 1: but some people still said, well, the score of Star Wars.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, it's not exactly a music que. I mean,
Speaker 1: technically I guess it is, but you know what I'm
Speaker 1: it's different. We're talking, you're talking about a tune like
Speaker 1: a song by an artist that's used a song placement. Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna go well, I'll say mine at
Speaker 1: the end, but I want to go through a lot
Speaker 1: of these because man, people, people really got on board
Speaker 1: with this one. Megan Carroll again for the second week
Speaker 1: in a row. You are blown in my mind with
Speaker 1: how similar we are. She says, Oh my god, my
Speaker 1: dream job is music supervisor on the film. Uh these
Speaker 1: days in the Royal Tannem Bombs is just so fucking perfect.
Speaker 1: That is wonderful. It's with Gwyneth Paltrow's character getting off
Speaker 1: the bus just walking SloMo kind of well, her brother
Speaker 1: and the Navy midshipman cross in slow motion. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's one of those directors that just nails the sound track.
Speaker 1: I mean to it. His music cues are all over
Speaker 1: this list. It's almost a joke. It's almost become a
Speaker 1: cliche how good his music cues are. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: My buddy Jeremy Kane in Washington State, he actually texted
Speaker 1: me or and maybe on Facebook to me and it's like, man,
Speaker 1: I didn't because I take these down after I get
Speaker 1: enough answers. Just so you know, yeah, people don't clog
Speaker 1: it up, and he said, man, I didn't get to answer,
Speaker 1: but he said a quick one while he's away my
Speaker 1: mind in Rushmore by the Who Man's been all right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna go through a lot more of these, Kin Turpin. Uh.
Speaker 1: He got the most up likes up votes on the
Speaker 1: Facebook page for Damn It Feels Good to be a
Speaker 1: Gangster from Office Space, one of the classic music cues.
Speaker 1: Very good. Michael Hilton, Um and a bunch of people
Speaker 1: said this, and I will give it to him for
Speaker 1: a more recent film. Immigrant song and Thorne Ragnarok doesn't
Speaker 1: get much better, really good usage. It's also one of
Speaker 1: those songs that's so like potentially could be cliche and
Speaker 1: overused the way it's used in that line, it's just
Speaker 1: crush crushes really good. Uh. Anna Marie Guido says down
Speaker 1: by the River to Pray by Alison krausson Oh Brother
Speaker 1: Where Art? Though? Um, that whole movie is chock fullo
Speaker 1: good music. Sean McFarlane head over heels by Tears for
Speaker 1: Fears will always remind me of high the high school
Speaker 1: scene in Donnie Darko Um, and then Jesse's Girl and
Speaker 1: Boogie Nights when Dork and his friends are trying to
Speaker 1: rip off Albert Molina. It's pretty epic. Donnie Darko is
Speaker 1: all through here too. That that movie, you know, that movie? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it managed to have some really great, great music cues.
Speaker 1: I'm just starting to doubt your commitment to sparkle motion, Chuck. Oh.
Speaker 1: That actress is so great. I can't remember her name,
Speaker 1: but character director, She's wonderful. Chris Ortado one of the
Speaker 1: hardest hitting songs again in Donnie Darko when Mad World
Speaker 1: plays another great one. Actually, I had heard that version
Speaker 1: of it, the kind of bummer piano version, before I
Speaker 1: heard the Tears for Fears version. I definitely prefer the
Speaker 1: Tears for Fears version, but that just the song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it made me just love fall in love with that song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that movie. I loved that. I mean I still love it.
Speaker 1: But I really really really loved that movie. When it
Speaker 1: came out, I was I saw it several times, and um,
Speaker 1: what happened to Richard kelly Man. He made a couple
Speaker 1: of weird ones. He made like a weird musical kind
Speaker 1: of with the rock and the well the Southland Tales
Speaker 1: was just it was like I think it got the
Speaker 1: Razzy for worst movie. Some people really dig it. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen. I know it's got a cult, kind of
Speaker 1: a cult following. Maybe i'll check it out one day.
Speaker 1: I avoided it because I heard it was so bad.
Speaker 1: How can you make something like Donnie Darko and then
Speaker 1: just fall off the rails? Like what's that thing where
Speaker 1: you have your whole life to make your first movie
Speaker 1: planet and then you keep pumping them out and maybe
Speaker 1: it's you know, same with records. Mike Pintola, gimme shelter
Speaker 1: the opening of The Departed. Yeah, Martin Scorsese loves him
Speaker 1: some rolling Stones. Greta Konig says, uh. In Fast Times
Speaker 1: at Ridgemont High, Mike tells Mark one of his five
Speaker 1: dating tips, one of which is when it comes to
Speaker 1: making out play side one of led Zeppelin for and
Speaker 1: Mark play, is that a good deman? Oh? Yeah? Mark
Speaker 1: plays the song Cashmere in the car, and Greta very
Speaker 1: astutely points out, which we all know is from physical graffiti.
Speaker 1: That always stood out to me. How could they make
Speaker 1: that mistake? Oh, that's funny because it was Cameron Crow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wrote that. That's hilarious. Why why not just say,
Speaker 1: physical graffiti. I don't know. It had to be on purpose.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of cure us about that. There's gotta be
Speaker 1: a story there, because that's a high profile mistake to make.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and throw in she's got to
Speaker 1: be somebody's baby or somebody's baby from Jackson Brown, also
Speaker 1: from Fast Times at Ridgmond High, Brittney story says Um
Speaker 1: Stuffy and Stevens when Chicago by Stuffy and Stevens plays
Speaker 1: in Little Miss Sunshine as a family drives in silence,
Speaker 1: great movie in a van with my friends. Uh, Pete, boy,
Speaker 1: I have no idea. There's a lot of consonants in
Speaker 1: your name, buddy. I'm gonna go with holand holand edge.
Speaker 1: I bet Pete's laughing right now. People. Sometimes people really
Speaker 1: dig it when they just just do a delightfully horrible
Speaker 1: pronunciation of their name. So well, there's got to be
Speaker 1: some silent letters here. It's h O, l O, d
Speaker 1: in y J Holny. I don't know, maybe yeah, I
Speaker 1: love it pez he said, good Fellas. That beautiful single
Speaker 1: tracking shot, of course, as Henry leads Karen through the
Speaker 1: bowels of the Copacabana, all set to and then he
Speaker 1: kissed me by the crystals, absolute perfection. Agreed. Another Donnie Darko,
Speaker 1: Ryan Nims, and we've covered all of Donnie Darko at
Speaker 1: this point. Echo and the Bunny Man's killing Moon at
Speaker 1: the beginning, huge fan really good nic holiday, Oh yes,
Speaker 1: sweet emotion by Aerosmith as that orange gt O rolls
Speaker 1: through the car park at the started Days and Confused,
Speaker 1: classic classic beginning of the movie. Tammy Mitchell says, I
Speaker 1: love this question pretty much every west Anderson movie. She said,
Speaker 1: but if I had to choose, I would pick Needle
Speaker 1: in the Hay by Eliot Smith and Tannebombs. That's a
Speaker 1: real heavy scene to very heavy scene. Man r I
Speaker 1: p Eliot Smith. I loved him. Uh, Don Morris. This
Speaker 1: woman's work by Kate Bush and she's having a baby,
Speaker 1: And I told Don on Facebook, I'm I get teared
Speaker 1: up just reading that host because that song, placement and
Speaker 1: what was going on in that movie is so sad. Uh.
Speaker 1: I can hardly even think about it without getting little Tarry,
Speaker 1: Marybeth Ward McDonagh. You've got a lot of great names there.
Speaker 1: Sixteen candles, Sam walks out at the very end of
Speaker 1: the church and if you were here starts as she
Speaker 1: sees Jake Ryan standing by his car, t J. Danny,
Speaker 1: the Save Me sing Along, Montage, and Magnolia. It's probably
Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful movies and music moments I've
Speaker 1: ever witnessed. Amy Man. Yeah, she killed it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have her own one day. She is so awesome. I've
Speaker 1: been a fan of hers for many years. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: almost got her when she came through town in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: but she was doing a because we have mutual friends
Speaker 1: who actually got in touch, and she was doing a
Speaker 1: radio interview and said she didn't like doing more than
Speaker 1: one thing in a day on a show day. And
Speaker 1: I respect man. I know amy Man would much rather
Speaker 1: have done this than a radio interviewer. Yeah. Man, that
Speaker 1: seemed like a drag that they just got to her first. Yep. Alright,
Speaker 1: Teresa Barker, Uh, that's the way from Led Zeppelin and
Speaker 1: Almost Famous with the band bus heading into the rising Sun.
Speaker 1: I agree, Theresa. I would say that the Elton John
Speaker 1: tiny Dancer moment is the one probably most often referenced
Speaker 1: from Almost Famous. But I'm with you that that's the
Speaker 1: way music I think is greater than subtly, greater than
Speaker 1: all right, a few more here. Richard mouse um Vienna
Speaker 1: from the Great Billy Joel featured in thirteen Going on thirty,
Speaker 1: Richard and everyone else, I'm here to say thirteen Going
Speaker 1: On thirty is one of my guilty pleasures. I love
Speaker 1: that movie. Which one is that it's Jennifer Garner and
Speaker 1: the old switcher Ruth, like the Freaky Friday kind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was a kid who wished she was older, and
Speaker 1: then she was older, but she still had the kid's brain.
Speaker 1: And then she she's like this gorgeous statue asque woman
Speaker 1: acting like a goofball twelve year old or thirteen year older. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just a wonderful movie. And I am a also.
Speaker 1: I was about to say closet Billy Joel fan, but
Speaker 1: I'm not because I'm way out with that love. Billy
Speaker 1: Joel in Vienna's one of his greatest, greatest tunes, and
Speaker 1: the usage in that movie is really really key. Edwin
Speaker 1: Forrest Klynn a great one from Rushmore Um Cat Stevens
Speaker 1: the wind when they start flying the kite there at
Speaker 1: the end take dictation. I can't believe no one has
Speaker 1: mentioned Harold and Maud. Someone did, and I didn't write
Speaker 1: it down, Carold and Maude, you know, Wall to wall.
Speaker 1: Cat Stevens man turned me onto his music in a
Speaker 1: way that I had never quite experienced before. And such
Speaker 1: a fantastic film and the use of that music just
Speaker 1: really like takes it over the edge. Yeah, that move
Speaker 1: that the wind is in that film as well, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah. I always loved Cat Stevens and
Speaker 1: in college I was huge into Cat Stevens and my
Speaker 1: buddy Eddie was huge into Bob Dylan, and we were
Speaker 1: both into both of them. But I was Cat Stevens,
Speaker 1: he was Bob Dylan, and we always joked that we
Speaker 1: were going to start an acoustic cover band called Bobcat.
Speaker 1: That's funny. I think we still might do it one day.
Speaker 1: Janet James Almond Misrulo at the beginning of Pulp Fiction.
Speaker 1: Hard to argue with that one. Funny to call back
Speaker 1: to the last episode we're talking about credits, Um Tarantino
Speaker 1: does that old school style of credits where he always
Speaker 1: has his credits up front and then Rolling Yellow is
Speaker 1: at like times new Roman now, but it always gives
Speaker 1: him a chance to have like a hot track, you know,
Speaker 1: and really set the tone and like that so good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was one of the first songs I learned to
Speaker 1: play on guitar where I've realized like, oh, I'm not
Speaker 1: that bad a guitar. I can pick faster. Yeah. That
Speaker 1: saw Dick Dale Ye play live. He uses I can't
Speaker 1: remember what gauge guitar string, but it's basically like piano wired.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous because he just you know, whales on that
Speaker 1: day he played around here not terribly long ago, actually
Speaker 1: the Earl or a smaller venue. Oh yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: great thing about Dick Dale's you can see him with
Speaker 1: like eight people in the room. Uh. And then finally
Speaker 1: we're gonna finish up so studies with Kristin Egan. Another
Speaker 1: one from Rushmore, wes Anderson, You're doing it right and
Speaker 1: special shout out to Mark Mother's ball. Of course, I
Speaker 1: can't mention wes Anderson without giving him credit. But she says,
Speaker 1: you La La from the Faces, great great song. I
Speaker 1: have a quick question for you, Chuck. It's kind of
Speaker 1: combining this question with trope time. Are you ready, yes,
Speaker 1: give me your top three most cliche on the nose. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: it's the sixties songs from movies. Oh, top three. That's tough.
Speaker 1: That'd be better to think of one, but give me one.
Speaker 1: Give one. It seems like, um, I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of Vietnam movies that used or Vietnam, Yeah, Arra movies
Speaker 1: that used If You're going to San Francisco, that seems
Speaker 1: to be sort of kind of tops on the list. Cool.
Speaker 1: That is not one that would have occurred to me,
Speaker 1: but I respect your choice. Mine are all along the
Speaker 1: watch Tower, White Rabbit and the times they are changing.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've heard that one a time.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just there's that Watchman movie that they used
Speaker 1: that song over this montage of like the sixties. To me,
Speaker 1: I was just kind of like, Okay, we get it.
Speaker 1: It's the sixties. We don't need to hear this entire song.
Speaker 1: And I just was watching Kong, the new King Kong
Speaker 1: Skull Island movie, and then have you watched you? I
Speaker 1: watched it on a plane, and then I watched it
Speaker 1: at the house the other day, just like HBO was
Speaker 1: just on and it came on and I kind of
Speaker 1: sat doing stuff around the house and I heard them
Speaker 1: just the soundtrack, and it had like all of those songs.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's the sixties. It's like work a little
Speaker 1: harder along the watch Tower for sure. That's been way
Speaker 1: you re used and all its myriad versions. All right. Now, Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of tropes, we are going to do another or
Speaker 1: episode or a segment of trope time. It's my favorite.
Speaker 1: Where did we leave off last time? We did the
Speaker 1: Banker's Box in the shopping Bag. That's it, I think,
Speaker 1: So that's the last one that I think we've only
Speaker 1: done one of these. Yeah, but we only did uh.
Speaker 1: I think we did a few more things in that.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my list. Yeah we did. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: the bulletproof vest reveal and Cliffhanger Yep, yep, the grip,
Speaker 1: the grip. I'll go through a few more of these,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna run out soon, so we're gonna start
Speaker 1: sourcing these from people to um. I don't think we
Speaker 1: have done this one yet. The get Ahold of yourself.
Speaker 1: You know, when somebody slaps somebody that's behaving hysterical or
Speaker 1: gives them a real rough shake by the shoulders. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And that was famously aped an airplane when the lady
Speaker 1: is losing it on the plane and there's just a
Speaker 1: line of people that one after the other slapper Yeah, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: this one, I'm gonna call it um alcoholic relapse. Certainly
Speaker 1: do not want to make a light of alcoholism, but
Speaker 1: as a movie trope, whenever there's an alcoholic relapse, they
Speaker 1: they take that first sip of of booze and as
Speaker 1: I said on the website here, it may as well
Speaker 1: be dragon's blood the way they take it to their mouth.
Speaker 1: And then next thing you know, cut to yeah, two
Speaker 1: days later and they're on the floor right and you know,
Speaker 1: covered in urine or something, and there's just empty Jack
Speaker 1: Daniel's bottles everywhere. You know, it's funny. I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: had a friend one time who wrote a script that
Speaker 1: was like two dred and something pages long, and God
Speaker 1: bless him, he he just wasn't a writer. And I
Speaker 1: was like, man, you gotta you gotta shortness by like
Speaker 1: a hundred pages. And he's like, what do you mean.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, the for instance, there's a scene
Speaker 1: in a bar where you walk through them doing shots
Speaker 1: and it's like five pages long. And he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I had to show you know, they show them
Speaker 1: gett drunk. I was like, no, you don't it's like,
Speaker 1: think about movies. You sit down, you show them order
Speaker 1: a shot, and then you cut to an hour later
Speaker 1: with tendency shot glasses and theirselves. Yeah, it's like that's
Speaker 1: how movies work. You don't show them ordering food, deciding
Speaker 1: what's on the menu. And that's kind of what you
Speaker 1: did through the whole thing, and it was just a
Speaker 1: labor I mean, unless just like the dialogue is just
Speaker 1: solid gold and you you get to walk through all that, like,
Speaker 1: but even then there's gonna be cuts. Yeah. No, I
Speaker 1: guess I'm thinking of like the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs,
Speaker 1: where it feels like that's a relatively real time kind
Speaker 1: of moment, but it certainly doesn't show them like going
Speaker 1: through their whole meal. No, no, no, no, it's true. Alright.
Speaker 1: Movie trope. Western movie trope is the gun is empty,
Speaker 1: and what do they do? They throw it away? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see this a whole lot anymore, but that
Speaker 1: used to be a big thing in Westerns. You're shooting,
Speaker 1: you're shooting your six years empty, you throw it away,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's just out of frustration to share. It's
Speaker 1: a rage throw. There's also the trope of you you
Speaker 1: you you ran out of bullets and you think you're
Speaker 1: about to do the big kill and click yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Jim Jarmish, I think I don't think it was
Speaker 1: an interview. It might have been in oh, what is
Speaker 1: that movie? Um, the one set in Brooklyn and the
Speaker 1: cigar Shop that Jim Jarmish acted in Blew in the Face.
Speaker 1: I think I'm not sure about that one. I think
Speaker 1: that's what it's called. But Jim Jarmish is talking about
Speaker 1: that movie trope in a scene and he says he
Speaker 1: was like, guns are expensive. It's like you don't throw
Speaker 1: a kna seriously, very funny, especially on the range. Like
Speaker 1: how what are the chances you're gonna you're just gonna
Speaker 1: find yourself another gunsmith, you know, exactly, hold onto that thing.
Speaker 1: Haunted house, boy, we could do just haunted house movie
Speaker 1: tropes forever. But here are a couple um horror movie
Speaker 1: I call it horror movie rule number seventy four. When
Speaker 1: you enter a haunted house or any generic bad place
Speaker 1: and you loudly announced that you're there, is anyone there, Hello, Randy?
Speaker 1: Are you in here? If like Randy is the boyfriend,
Speaker 1: you always got to do that. Uh. And then Finally,
Speaker 1: we'll finish with this one. The probably the most overused
Speaker 1: horror movie trope of all time, aside from the cat jumping,
Speaker 1: uh jumping down from from whatever cabinet and scaring you
Speaker 1: like you jump scare, is the mirror gag. Oh sure is?
Speaker 1: You open these you're looking in a mirror, You open
Speaker 1: the medicine cabinet, you close the mirror, and there's someone
Speaker 1: else there. And the thing about all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: then we talked about this before, is now they're so
Speaker 1: overused and cliche that people play with them and kind
Speaker 1: of like, if you do a good job, you can
Speaker 1: kind of mess with people's expectations and kind of get
Speaker 1: because you know, you know what they're expecting and you
Speaker 1: can kind of toy with that and make it effective.
Speaker 1: But yet I still see people just doing the traditional
Speaker 1: mirror gaina cat jump. You know, you're right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's part homage, partly because it works. But I have
Speaker 1: seen what you're talking about when they do the mirror
Speaker 1: gag and set you up and they close it and
Speaker 1: no one's there and then you go oh, and then
Speaker 1: it happens like around the corner exactly. It's very nice
Speaker 1: waited to way with the audience, and the mirror gag
Speaker 1: has been has been mocked on YouTube. I think there's
Speaker 1: a pretty funny supercut if I remember correctly. All Right,
Speaker 1: so that's troupe time for this week. UM, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start sourcing these pretty soon, so just start paying attention people.
Speaker 1: We are gonna move on now to stream this. This
Speaker 1: is when I recommend a movie that I believe is
Speaker 1: available for streaming. Well kind of everything is almost these days.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the two thousand thirteen psychological thriller Enemy.
Speaker 1: Have you seen this? Love It? The great great film
Speaker 1: from Dennis Villa Nuebe. It's it's a Denny. What is
Speaker 1: it vill Because he's French, you know. It's like Thomas
Speaker 1: Mars from Phoenix. It's Toma. Yeah, it's it's definitely Denny.
Speaker 1: But yes, I only learned that recently because I heard
Speaker 1: him speak his name. Come on, Dennis. I always feel
Speaker 1: like such a dumb American. It's it's it's it's easy,
Speaker 1: all right, Denni villaniu Um written by Javier I don't
Speaker 1: know that one, but that sounds good and it is
Speaker 1: very loosely adapted from a from a novel from two
Speaker 1: thousand to by jose Saramago. And this is a movie.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give too much away, but it
Speaker 1: is a movie starring Jake Jillen Hall, who I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of, in a dual role. As it's a
Speaker 1: doppelganger film. Uh, it's a man who in who who
Speaker 1: basically sees himself one day or a guy who looks
Speaker 1: just like him obviously freaks him out. They are physically identical,
Speaker 1: and he ends up kind of tracking down this guy
Speaker 1: and facing him, and uh, where it goes from there
Speaker 1: is is very interesting and strange, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to give anything away. It stars um Melanie Lauren, who
Speaker 1: I am a huge fan of and have a big
Speaker 1: crush on from what else was she? She kind of
Speaker 1: came on the map with inglorious bastard That's right? Was
Speaker 1: she the French girl? Yeah? Yeah, exactly, the real badass.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, she's great. Um, and Sarah Gaddon and Isabella
Speaker 1: Rossellini are also in it, the great Isabella Rossellini. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't want to give too much
Speaker 1: away with the plot, um, but suffice to say it
Speaker 1: goes in all sorts of weird directions, And this is
Speaker 1: a movie that really hangs with you after you see it,
Speaker 1: and it's one of those movies that you want to
Speaker 1: read about because there are a lot of metaphors, um
Speaker 1: and symbolism involved once you start. I'll just say that
Speaker 1: spiders and spider webs play a big art. It's very lynch,
Speaker 1: very lynchy, and and maybe one of the weirdest, most
Speaker 1: disturbing final shots of the movie of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it leaves you feeling feels, feeling feels and also like,
Speaker 1: what the funk was that last shot? All No, it's
Speaker 1: it's awesome. It's a it's a really it's a very
Speaker 1: special movie. It's not for everyone, but I still think
Speaker 1: everyone should watch it. Yeah, agreed. It was one of
Speaker 1: those where right like literally five seconds after ended, I
Speaker 1: opened up my laptop and I was like enemy ending
Speaker 1: explains and it is it all ties into the symbolism
Speaker 1: and it's it's not it's not one of those movies
Speaker 1: we can take everything at face value. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of hidden Easter Eggie kind of things,
Speaker 1: and it's just a it's a real cool movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from people about that ending to
Speaker 1: see what you thought. And then we're gonna finish up
Speaker 1: with comic Card, where I take your your Facebook questions
Speaker 1: for Nolan I, and we're gonna go with Abraham uh Schink.
Speaker 1: He says, have you ever s a stranger in a
Speaker 1: movie theater shushed? And have you ever been shushed? Um?
Speaker 1: I've never been shushed for sure. Yeah I'm not that guy. No,
Speaker 1: I I haven't been shushed. But and I want to
Speaker 1: defend myself here. I went to a screening of the
Speaker 1: very challenging Russian film Stalker, which is great with with
Speaker 1: Casey some work pals. That's what's Tarkowsky, Yeah, Tarkovsky. Um.
Speaker 1: And I got in a little late right was the
Speaker 1: movie was starting, and I kind of got separated from
Speaker 1: my friends. So it was like the very beginning, it
Speaker 1: was just the like the name of the production company,
Speaker 1: and I real quick tried to shoot my friend to
Speaker 1: tech saying hey, I'm sitting here like or I'll see
Speaker 1: you after the movie or something like that, and this
Speaker 1: guy next to me was like, dude, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: got it. I got dud it hard. And so from
Speaker 1: then on I was super self conscious. Well in the
Speaker 1: shame you felt like you don't want to be that guy. Didn't.
Speaker 1: I really was trying to be thoughtful and like. It
Speaker 1: was literally the opening Janis Films, you know screen, and
Speaker 1: I was just like and I was like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: give me a break. I was. I felt like he
Speaker 1: he overreacted. Well, here's what I will say is, certainly,
Speaker 1: do not take out your phone in a movie people,
Speaker 1: But if you do, shame on you. But if you do,
Speaker 1: for God's sakes, have that screen down at its lowest
Speaker 1: setting to him it man, I was definitely, damn. This
Speaker 1: is a packed screening too. It was like a wall
Speaker 1: to wall, you know. So that was I don't know
Speaker 1: it was it was. It was not one of my
Speaker 1: proudest moments. Chuck. So here's my deal with shushing people.
Speaker 1: I've never really shushed anyone either because I am afraid
Speaker 1: of direct confrontation and I am passive aggressive. So I've
Speaker 1: done definitely done the look a bunch of times and
Speaker 1: the kind of the half turn um, but I've never
Speaker 1: directly shushed somebody, but I've wanted to, although I will
Speaker 1: usually these days if the movie is not crowded and
Speaker 1: it's clear I'm near a problem person. Who was you know,
Speaker 1: a repeat offender. I'll just get up and move. I'll
Speaker 1: take the path at least resistant. I thought you were
Speaker 1: going to say you'd report them to the movie cost
Speaker 1: the usually won't do that. It would have to be
Speaker 1: egregious to do that. I've turned around and given a
Speaker 1: sharp look. The shush is a is A is a
Speaker 1: bridge too far? Man. I don't think I would ever shush,
Speaker 1: like literally, go come on. Yeah, you're also part of
Speaker 1: the problem at that point, right, Yeah, A loud shush
Speaker 1: that's you know, just as distracting as people talking, right.
Speaker 1: I would say the very adult way to handle it
Speaker 1: would be to lean over and say, Hi, you're really
Speaker 1: kind of disturbing me, would you. I would appreciate if
Speaker 1: you'd keep it quiet. Yeah. But then they're like, dude,
Speaker 1: why are you? Are you giving me a lecture? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I guess the thing too, is like
Speaker 1: movies are expensive, and it's like if I ever go
Speaker 1: to a movie and there's someone that clearly is not
Speaker 1: respecting the fact that we've all paid money to be here,
Speaker 1: and you know what, why are you here? Go somewhere else,
Speaker 1: do something else? You know, it bothers me. Although I'll
Speaker 1: say the other thing that's bugged me lately, and for
Speaker 1: some reason, this has happened in New York, maybe a
Speaker 1: New York thing the past, Like three movies I've seen
Speaker 1: in New York there's been a dude snoring full on
Speaker 1: sleeping and snoring really really loudly in the theater. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have been guilty of that as well, really not
Speaker 1: to that extreme. Let me let me, let me again
Speaker 1: defend myself. I have a problem going to late movies,
Speaker 1: so I don't do it. But if I go to
Speaker 1: like a like at nine o'clock movie, I'm kinda like
Speaker 1: nod from time to time, but I end up like
Speaker 1: waking myself up with a single snore because I'm really
Speaker 1: self conscious about it. So I will never like full on.
Speaker 1: But when I get with my girlfriend and this happens,
Speaker 1: she always elbows me in the ribs, you know. So
Speaker 1: I don't go to I don't go to late movies. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hesitate to bag too much on the New York
Speaker 1: thing because it occurs to me now that is it
Speaker 1: possible that this is a homeless person who was scrapped
Speaker 1: up eight bucks to just go sleep in the warmth
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours? I don't know that's true.
Speaker 1: I don't. It seems like they're there are alternatives to that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe, I don't know. It's a good point. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: especially if it's like winter, you probably could be pretty
Speaker 1: pretty desperate to find somewhere like that. Alright, so our
Speaker 1: our compassionate side is now coming out. But what do
Speaker 1: you do there? You go shake some tap him on
Speaker 1: the shoulder, say sir, you're really snoring loud. That's complicated.
Speaker 1: It is really opened to Pandora's box here chart all right,
Speaker 1: we spent a lot of time on that one. Megan
Speaker 1: Broyle says, what is your favorite John Candy movie? Oh?
Speaker 1: I miss John Candy. I'm gonna go with um. Probably
Speaker 1: two movies. He's most known for playing Strains and Automobiles
Speaker 1: and Uncle Buck, great great John Candy performance. I like
Speaker 1: Uncle Buck a lot, wasn't he? It was he in
Speaker 1: strange Brew? No, No, he's not. Who's in strange Brew? Well,
Speaker 1: the two guys are Dave Thomas and Rick Morana's. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't that kind of his scene though, weren't weren't that? Like, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, he haven't seen that a long time. He
Speaker 1: may have had a small party. They were all part
Speaker 1: of this can City uh team, So he may have
Speaker 1: had a small part in that. He was also fun
Speaker 1: in uh in home Alone. He's in the Poco band
Speaker 1: that that gives them a ride, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was fun. Uh. Nick Ericsson says Chuckers, this is
Speaker 1: two questions, one for you, one for me, Chuckers, what
Speaker 1: got you interested in film in the first place? And Noel,
Speaker 1: and I'll let you think on this one, where'd you
Speaker 1: learn to write and make such awesome songs? Theme songs? Uh?
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna answer first, what got me interested in
Speaker 1: film in the first place. I'm gonna say my brother
Speaker 1: Scott had to be him. Um. My parents were not
Speaker 1: super into movies. They never certainly my father I've joked
Speaker 1: before that the the last movie truthfully joked that the
Speaker 1: last film my father is seen in the theater I
Speaker 1: believe still to this day is Bo Derek's Tarzan movie
Speaker 1: from the eighties. Yeah. Sure, my dad, Yeah, he just
Speaker 1: I mean a little bit maybe like I think he
Speaker 1: remember him seeing war movies occasionally. Uh. And and I've
Speaker 1: said on the show before he took me to see
Speaker 1: The Big Red One, the World War two movie, but
Speaker 1: they just I don't know, they weren't into it. They
Speaker 1: into it and such. It's not like they hate movies.
Speaker 1: But my mom likes movies now. But they never was
Speaker 1: never important for them to sit me down and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know these are movies, this is film, this is
Speaker 1: this is great, this is important. You should see this.
Speaker 1: Uh So my brother for sure got me into movies
Speaker 1: at a young age. Uh No, talk about your music background.
Speaker 1: I just I grew up playing violin. My parents were
Speaker 1: both opera singers, so it was really important to them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that saw been part of my life. And my mom,
Speaker 1: you know, to where she was actually, UM had a
Speaker 1: contract with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, UM
Speaker 1: for twenty years, and so I grew up kind of
Speaker 1: going to her performances and she would go over Europe,
Speaker 1: and UM I would go see here in New York
Speaker 1: when she was at the MAT And I think I
Speaker 1: might have known that in the back of my brain.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about your dad and my dad. So
Speaker 1: they met in the opera. UM he was less, his
Speaker 1: career was not quite as big as hers, but UM,
Speaker 1: they both definitely were professional singers for many years, and
Speaker 1: so I got played violin when I was six, and
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, my dad was trying to groom
Speaker 1: me to be some sort of classical musician, and it
Speaker 1: just wasn't for me. I got more into you know,
Speaker 1: started discovering indie rock and different different bands and kind
Speaker 1: of wanted to play guitar and write songs and played
Speaker 1: in many bands when I was younger. And you still
Speaker 1: play violin at all. I have a violin. I could
Speaker 1: play it if I chose to. I actually my experience
Speaker 1: with violin was pretty ultimately negative. It was something I
Speaker 1: was saying, which I have a violin. I took a
Speaker 1: couple of lessons. It is hard just to make that sound.
Speaker 1: It's sort of like riding a bike, though you don't
Speaker 1: really I can definitely still do it, and I I
Speaker 1: actually my bow is messed up. I want to get
Speaker 1: a new bow so I can use it for recording.
Speaker 1: But now I mainly just have a little home studio
Speaker 1: and have the you know, great opportunity to be able
Speaker 1: to make music for work occasionally and also you know,
Speaker 1: do stuff like what we're doing right now. So it's
Speaker 1: neat that I've been able to still keep fresh with
Speaker 1: those skills. Even though I don't really playing bands anymore.
Speaker 1: I did up until yeah, yeah, but I've kind of
Speaker 1: just don't anymore. I don't have time, I hear you, So,
Speaker 1: how what all can you play? I play guitar, drums, keys, violin, bass,
Speaker 1: most streamed instruments that can make a sound with. I
Speaker 1: could play a cello if I needed to. I played
Speaker 1: upright stand up bass in the school orchestra for a
Speaker 1: while as well when I was younger. Um, but I
Speaker 1: can't play like a wind instrument or a flute or
Speaker 1: anything like that. UM. And I'm sort of like, okay
Speaker 1: at a lot of things. I'm not incredibly proficient in
Speaker 1: any one thing. But I'm kind of cool with that
Speaker 1: because I can sort of, you know, make it go
Speaker 1: and use it to make records and record myself. So
Speaker 1: that's that's what I do. No's a very talented guy. Everybody, oh, Chuck,
Speaker 1: very lucky to have him. I actually can play a
Speaker 1: little bit of drums now. And here's my theory is
Speaker 1: that if you grew up playing air drums, then when
Speaker 1: you sit down at a drum kit, then you can
Speaker 1: if you have a decent sense of rhythm and you
Speaker 1: feel like in your head. You can divide things up
Speaker 1: between hands and feet, then you can maybe play drums
Speaker 1: a little bit about And that's what happened to me
Speaker 1: the first time I like sat down at a drum
Speaker 1: kit because I was used to playing air drums and
Speaker 1: not just aping air drums, but really kind of playing
Speaker 1: with my feet in my hands. I got sticks in
Speaker 1: my hand. I was like, wait a minute, I can
Speaker 1: play a little backbeat. Nothing flashy super producer Casey Pegram
Speaker 1: who used to do the stuff you should know videos
Speaker 1: and is um you know, an amazing talented person in
Speaker 1: many ways filmmaker. He is an incredible drummer really, and
Speaker 1: most of he was in like the marching band and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and most of what he does that
Speaker 1: continues him to kind of still keep those skills freshes
Speaker 1: play rock band and then yeah with the dry and
Speaker 1: he has like the whole kid with like the pads
Speaker 1: and all that. Like the case he's a good drum
Speaker 1: case He's a really good drummer. We need a stuff
Speaker 1: media band that would be awesome. Yeah, it would be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Alright, great question, Nick. Two more here,
Speaker 1: Anthony Nor says, movies with the best plot twist Uh, well,
Speaker 1: we've talked about Fight Club of course, one of a
Speaker 1: great plot twist of all time for sure, and fight Club.
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna go with a movie called Primal Fear.
Speaker 1: What year was that actually mid nineties? Um. It was
Speaker 1: based on a novel directed by Gregory Hobblet, and it
Speaker 1: starred Richard gear and the first thing that I ever
Speaker 1: saw Edward Norton in. I think it was definitely the
Speaker 1: first high profile movie that he was in for. Did
Speaker 1: I love it? Well, I'm not gonna give anything away,
Speaker 1: but um, what what a great, great plot twist in
Speaker 1: that movie. I did not see it coming at all.
Speaker 1: I did not know that there was It didn't feel
Speaker 1: like a plot twisting movie. Those are the best ones
Speaker 1: where you're like, like a lot of movies, you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, I know there's gonna be some twist here, probably,
Speaker 1: but that one just sort of smacked me in the
Speaker 1: face out of the blue. So I'll go with Primal Fear.
Speaker 1: And then finally, Elena Barton says, do you have a
Speaker 1: favorite musical or do you even like them? Well, Elena, yes,
Speaker 1: I do like musicals. Um, not all music goals, but
Speaker 1: I love the sound of music. I love Chicago. I
Speaker 1: love Annie and he's great either film versions as well.
Speaker 1: You enjoy all those films vers. Yeah, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: mainly talking about the films. I'm sorry. I sounded music
Speaker 1: I think is exclusively a film. But Chicago, there was
Speaker 1: just the more recent one with Katherine Zada Jones. My recent,
Speaker 1: I guess I mean ten years ago. But yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: it feels recent. Um, great movie version. But I I
Speaker 1: did see Chicago on Broadway in New York. And I
Speaker 1: did see Annie um at the Fox Seater here in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: the touring Broadway show. Um, so yeah, I've seen those
Speaker 1: some stuff. Well, lay miss, she's fucking amazing. That movie
Speaker 1: was so cool because they did they did all their
Speaker 1: own singing, like in the scene. Yeah, the recent movie
Speaker 1: version like a year piece in where they could hear
Speaker 1: the hear the track or what. That made all the
Speaker 1: difference in man that Anne Hathaway's dreamed a dream, Yes,
Speaker 1: my Lord, very powerful, But I did Uh. I did
Speaker 1: not see Lemas on Broadway yet, but that's on the list. Um, Phantom.
Speaker 1: I did not enjoy so much the Broadway show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's schmaltz. It's pure you know it's it's
Speaker 1: a little on the nose, but I saw it when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, so I really liked it a lot.
Speaker 1: I saw Rent recently at the Fox, which I think
Speaker 1: we may have even left to go get dinner. Yeah
Speaker 1: we did. We left during intermission, me and my friends
Speaker 1: Eddie and Allison, who listened to the show by the way. Um,
Speaker 1: I think we were just hungry and we weren't so
Speaker 1: into it got it. You know. One that I've never
Speaker 1: understood was Cats. I saw it even you know, in
Speaker 1: my my youngest days of going to musicals with my
Speaker 1: mom in New York. When you should have liked Cats,
Speaker 1: I should have liked it. I just didn't get it.
Speaker 1: I just did not like it at all. And um,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I like it more now. I just know
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like it had much of a plot.
Speaker 1: It felt like it was all in service of like
Speaker 1: this kind of spectacle of just these you know, people
Speaker 1: acting like Cats, and I just it's not not for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I like musicals generally, So those are my faves.
Speaker 1: A good question, Elena, So that's it. This week your homework,
Speaker 1: everybody is the movie Arrival. I had Albert Hammond Jr.
Speaker 1: It's about to say in the studio, but this is
Speaker 1: on location, so the sound is going to be a
Speaker 1: little different than what you're used to. We recorded Albert
Speaker 1: Hammond Jr. By the way, as a musician, he is
Speaker 1: best known as a guitar player, one of the guitar
Speaker 1: players for the Strokes, but I am a huge fan
Speaker 1: of his solo work more so than Strokes even And Uh,
Speaker 1: it was kind of one of those things where I
Speaker 1: was like, I wonder, I want to meet Albert Hammon Jr. Hear,
Speaker 1: wonder if you'd do it? And he did. It was
Speaker 1: very nice. So I went to uh terminal west of
Speaker 1: any where he was playing, got to see the second
Speaker 1: half of his sound check, which was kind of fun.
Speaker 1: And UM talk to him about The Arrival, which, UH,
Speaker 1: to be fair, is not his all time favorite movie. UM.
Speaker 1: He didn't quite get the message through his pr people,
Speaker 1: but he picked a movie that he really loved. UH
Speaker 1: recent movie that he really loved I wanted to talk about,
Speaker 1: which was kind of cool. I'm a huge fan of
Speaker 1: that film. Yeah, and it was It was fun to
Speaker 1: talk to him. We talked about music and life and
Speaker 1: he's a very contemplative. UM. Interesting, kind of deep sensitive guy.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the conversation. I look forward to that one.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Check, I want to compliment you
Speaker 1: on the Paul Schneider episode. I thought that was such
Speaker 1: a fantastic conversation. It is gotten uh almost unanimous, like
Speaker 1: best episode yet Ruby. It was just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was not around for that one, so I got
Speaker 1: to listen to it like as a fan, and it
Speaker 1: just made made my day. He seems like the sweetest guy,
Speaker 1: and you guys just really had a great, uh great rapport. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny. He texted me yesterday because at the end
Speaker 1: of the thing, I was like, I wish we lived
Speaker 1: in the same town, and he texted me Ester and said,
Speaker 1: I wish we lived in the same town too. Bromance,
Speaker 1: bromance big time. All Right, So that's it. Watch the
Speaker 1: Arrival and look for Albert Hamm and Jr. This Friday.
Speaker 1: And thanks a lot for listening everybody. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next Monday. S