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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

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Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema,

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Speaker 3: we are going to be talking about the nineteen sixty

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Speaker 3: six Japanese sci fi adventure Evil Brain from Outer Space,

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Speaker 3: starring Kin Utsui as the intergalactic superhero Starman, or at

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Speaker 3: least that's what he's called in the English dub. In

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Speaker 3: the original, his name translates to super Giant, So Evil

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Speaker 3: Brain from Outer Space is a type of movie that

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Speaker 3: I thought would be interesting to talk about because I'm

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Speaker 3: not sure we have done one like this on Weird

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Speaker 3: House Cinema before. It is a movie that was made

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Speaker 3: almost entirely out of repurposed footage, which originally belonged to

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Speaker 3: several different episodes of a nine part Japanese serial called

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Speaker 3: Super Giant, which ran from nineteen fifty six to nineteen

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Speaker 3: fifty nine. I was trying to think if we'd done

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Speaker 3: another movie like this, and I don't think we have.

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Speaker 3: We well, the idea of some repurposed footage came up

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Speaker 3: in a few episodes, like when we covered Queen of Blood,

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Speaker 3: which was a nineteen sixty six AIP sci fi horror

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Speaker 3: production directed by Curtis Harrington. That was the one that

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Speaker 3: had John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, and Dennis Hopper, and it

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Speaker 3: was like where the plot was like astronauts go to

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Speaker 3: pick up a green vampire woman alien. I think she

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Speaker 3: was supposed to be like an ambassador from another alien species.

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Speaker 3: But they pick her up and bring her aboard the

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Speaker 3: ship and she just starts drinking their blood, you know,

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Speaker 3: blood of the crew, one by one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun flick. I enjoyed that one.

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Speaker 3: So Queen of Blood did have its own original story,

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Speaker 3: and the majority of the movie was new footage based

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Speaker 3: on the original script, but efigant chunks of the film,

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Speaker 3: primarily special effects shots, were just lifted wholesale from two

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Speaker 3: pre existing Soviet sci fi movies. One was called mechde

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Speaker 3: NEVSTRETCHU from nineteen sixty three and another was called Battle

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Speaker 3: Beyond the Sun from fifty nine. So Queen of Blood

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Speaker 3: was an original story, but they cut costs and padded

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Speaker 3: the movie out with special effects from other movies. And

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about it, I wonder if it's notable

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Speaker 3: that they selected these things from foreign movies, which American

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Speaker 3: audiences would be less likely to have seen before anyway,

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Speaker 3: So that was Queen of Blood. Evil Brain from Outer

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Speaker 3: Space is not like that. It's not like an original

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Speaker 3: story that just lifts a few special effects shots. Instead

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Speaker 3: as a movie as a single narrative, it is a

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Speaker 3: holy synthetic product made by editing together scenes from three

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Speaker 3: different episodes of the Super Giant TV serial, using voiceover

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Speaker 3: narration as a kind of duct tape that holds everything

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Speaker 3: together and tries to make sense of the narrative to

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Speaker 3: varying degrees of success.

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Speaker 2: It's like if you were to take the first three

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Speaker 2: iron Man movies and then, in order to introduce iron

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Speaker 2: Man to a market that for some reason had not

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Speaker 2: experienced iron Man yet, you just take first three movies

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Speaker 2: and cut them into a single picture.

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Speaker 3: Right, and you try to make it feel like it's

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Speaker 3: all the same story by having a narrator come in

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Speaker 3: every now and then and like, explain why the villain

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Speaker 3: you're looking at now looks nothing like the villain from

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Speaker 3: the previous scene, and they're like, right, they can disguise

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Speaker 3: themselves in any form, so now they look like this

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Speaker 3: you know now it's sky Pierce.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but instead of just I guess the idea here

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Speaker 2: but you still work things out so that Jeff Bridges

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Speaker 2: the overall picture. So it's not just like sequential, like

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Speaker 2: let's speed it up and do part one, part two

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Speaker 2: and part three. No, we're gonna mix and match, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and create this broad sort of a plot that ties

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Speaker 3: And you know, as a result, I will say that

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Speaker 3: this movie is a really mixed bag in terms of

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Speaker 3: production elements. I don't know if you felt the same way, Rob,

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Speaker 3: but I felt like some of the sets and costumes

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Speaker 3: bat mutant that we'll talk about later, those are awesome.

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Speaker 3: Other sets in costumes quite terrible. In fact, I'm not

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Speaker 3: some work. It doesn't look the coolest. Same thing with

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Speaker 3: like some of the fight choreography, like some is incredibly fun. Again,

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Speaker 3: I think the best stuff is the bat mutant, like

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Speaker 3: very acrobatic fight scenes that are fun to watch, whereas

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's essential to note that this movie

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Speaker 2: has very strong vibes of American nineteen thirties and nineteen

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Speaker 2: old Superman shorts. These were you know, these have been

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Speaker 2: riffed by the riff Tracks crew, for example, and they

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Speaker 2: are a lot of fun, but they are they're slow,

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Speaker 2: viewed you know, episode episode like one after another. This

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Speaker 2: happening this week on the Phantom Creeps, that sort.

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Speaker 3: Of thing, And so it produces also a sort of

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Speaker 3: this set. You know, the robot Elders again, the bat mutant.

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Speaker 3: That's all great stuff. But essentially the movie is just

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Speaker 3: a long series of seemingly unrelated but thematically repetitive sequences

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Speaker 3: where like, someone gets in peril, starman appears, starman beats

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but not significantly different types of bad guys in

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Speaker 2: some cases, because it's like, again, it's like the serial energy.

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Speaker 2: You have your mad scientist, you have your villains and hoods.

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Speaker 2: You know, these are just like staples of the genre

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Speaker 3: So I was trying to learn more about exactly how

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Speaker 3: in a book called Outer Limits, The Filmgoer's Guide to

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Speaker 3: named Howard Hughes. He seems to have written a lot

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Speaker 3: like the titular great science fiction films. It's more sort

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not understanding super Giant is a key figure

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So this book is from twenty fourteen, and according

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Speaker 3: Akira Mitsua, and kore Yoshi Akasaka. This was all at

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Speaker 3: the Shintoho studio. This was a studio that worked mid

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So super Giant or Starman in the English version

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Speaker 2: there's also a Marvel super villain named super Giant, but

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Speaker 3: Okay, so no relation, unrelated. Yeah, that is a weird

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Speaker 3: to that later. So, this nine episode serial was apparently

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Speaker 3: the connections where it was re edited into four English

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Speaker 3: TV in the mid sixties, and Hughes writes that all

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Speaker 3: Interesting selection of three things. But I guess he already

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Speaker 2: Right, and he's already an excellent hand to hand combatant.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. So the four films cobbled together out

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Speaker 3: in which Starman has to track down a secret nuclear device.

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Speaker 3: Hughes in the book says that some of the sets

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Speaker 3: of interesting. One is called Invaders from Space. This is

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Speaker 3: and he also mentions there is a scene probably much

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Speaker 3: too scary for younger viewers, where children are menaced by

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Speaker 3: Maybe this is to make the stories more appealing to kids.

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Speaker 2: this wild sci fi world. By the way, I've looked

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Speaker 2: up Invaders from Space. I had to see what these

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Speaker 2: They are. They're hard to describe, a little bit like

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Speaker 2: Ye know, it's a little different from anything I've seen before.

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Speaker 3: It's an if they made it of the brain mutant

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Speaker 3: from This Island Earth and butterball cinobite. Do you see

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Speaker 3: it the glasses, Yeah, they're exactly the same.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, and I looked up the witch. The

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Speaker 2: I love it all right, Joe, what's your elevator pitch

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Speaker 2: of this film.

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Speaker 3: Well, wait, have we established which Super Giant films were

434
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 3: made into Evil Brain? Was it seven eight to nine?

435
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,439
Speaker 2: I thought it was seven eight to nine, But then

436
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 2: I'm not sure Ishi is credited on seven eight or nine,

437
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 2: So I'm confused. I will admit to my confusion on this, okay.

438
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 2: But Ishi definitely was involved, heavily involved in the Super

439
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 2: Giant franchise. And he's an interesting character to point out

440
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 2: because he went on to have a long career in

441
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 2: Japanese cinema credits, running from nineteen fifty seven through two

442
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 2: thousand and one, and these include a number of notable

443
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 2: Japanese exploitation films. In fact, he is sometimes known as

444
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 2: the godfather of jay'sploitation. His films include nineteen sixty eight

445
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 2: Showgun's Joy of Torture, sixty nine's Orgies of Edo and

446
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 2: Inferno of Torture, nineteen sixty nine's Horrors of Malformed Men,

447
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 2: and nineteen seventy three's Female Yakuza Tale. Now, not everything

448
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 2: he did seems to have been the kind of thing

449
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 2: you would classify as Jay's floitation, but he certainly made

450
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,199
Speaker 2: a name for himself with it.

451
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 3: Bite that I would be very clear that there's like

452
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 3: nothing in Evil Brain from Outer Space that feels especially

453
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 3: like adult or edgy. This feels like it is a

454
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 3: superhero adventure that is aimed towards like children.

455
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely right. There's nothing exploitive going on in

456
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 2: Super Giant, but that is where this director's career would

457
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 2: ultimately take him, at least on a number of his pictures.

458
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it does have some kind of

459
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 3: scary themes, a lot of stuff about like germ warfare

460
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 3: and nuclear devices and stuff, but the tone of it

461
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 3: is very much aimed at kids.

462
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think some I've seen some commentators onlines, you know,

463
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 2: drawing connections saying like, Okay, you can look at it

464
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 2: later Ichi films, and maybe you can look back at

465
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 2: some of these super Giants and see some threads of like,

466
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 2: you know, some of his choices and stylistic choices, you know,

467
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 2: showing up to these earlier pictures. But yeah, all right,

468
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 2: so that's another director. And then we also have Akira Mitsua.

469
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 2: I don't have dates on this guy either, and he

470
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 2: is credited again as Akira Mitsuwa on this film, but

471
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 2: I've also seen him credited as Akira Miwa director of

472
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 2: Super Giant seven, I believe, which is the one with

473
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: the bat creatures.

474
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 3: Okay, so we think maybe super Giant seven were not positive,

475
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 3: but that one is sort of the core of the

476
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 3: evil Brain from outer Space.

477
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 2: Narrative, I think. So it's only forty five minutes long,

478
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 2: so it's patted out with other stuff. Yeah, definitely patted

479
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 2: out with the Middle Eastern plot. Definitely padded out with

480
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: the disfigured mad scientist and witch daughter plot. Yeah. And

481
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 2: this particular director, he seems to have only had a

482
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: handful of writing and directing credits from this time period,

483
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 2: but also was involved in some other genres aside from

484
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 2: just superhero fair Okay, okay. Then the writer is Kiro Miyagawa.

485
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 2: Birthdate apparently not public record, but died in two thousand

486
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 2: and eight, Japanese writer best known for krim in Bat,

487
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 2: the Blind Swordswoman from sixty nine, Super Giant fifty seven,

488
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 2: and Odoshi from nineteen sixty six, as well as nineteen

489
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 2: sixties Jigoku The Centers of Hell, which we referenced earlier,

490
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 2: which is probably their best known work internationally. All right, now,

491
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: dipping into the cast here, we do have to talk

492
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 2: about our star Ken Utsui playing Starman or super Giant,

493
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call him. He is here to

494
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: save the day.

495
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 3: Now, on one hand, I would say he is not

496
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 3: as expressive as some of the other members of the cast.

497
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 3: He's a little bit stiff. But also I wonder if

498
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 3: that's a deliberate choice. He's like, he's very handsome, and

499
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 3: you know, he looks very heroic in the scenes where

500
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 3: he's supposed to look heroic, but his line deliveries are

501
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 3: almost kind of robotic. But then again, he is a

502
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 3: robot from another alanet, so I guess that's what he's

503
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 3: going for.

504
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not supposed to behave like a human being.

505
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 2: He's very stoic and also, as we've been referencing, he

506
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 2: gives strong, long Bell Lugosi vibes. I don't know if

507
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 2: I can completely explain it, but I look at him,

508
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: especially when he's in like full human costume with a suit,

509
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 2: and all I'm like, oh, it's Bell Agosi, Japanese Bell

510
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 2: Lagosi is here at save us. So Utsui was an

511
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: actor of stage, treen and TV who worked from the

512
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 2: nineteen fifties through the twenty tens. If I didn't throw

513
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 2: out his dates already. Sorry, I just blanked on this.

514
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 2: He lived nineteen thirty one through twenty fourteen. His first

515
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 2: credits go back to fifty three, and he actually has

516
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 2: a very small uncredited role in Akira kurosaw was seven

517
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 2: Samurai from nineteen fifty four. He's like apparently like a

518
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 2: samurai wandering through town and like the background in one scene.

519
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 2: He followed all this up with a supporting role in

520
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 2: the nineteen fifties Japanese pro wrestling movie. It would seem

521
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: I couldn't find out much about this, but it looked

522
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 2: like a like it's not like a high fantasy sort

523
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 2: of fair it's some sort of like a I guess,

524
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 2: a realistic pro wrestling film in the same way that

525
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: you had a lot of, you know, pro wrestling films

526
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: in the thirties forties in the US and so forth.

527
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,959
Speaker 2: But the Super Giant film seemed to have been an

528
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 2: early big break for him with Shintoho before moving to

529
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 2: another studio and getting into more TV drama work, and

530
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 2: that apparently included a lot of detective genre work, which

531
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 2: makes sense. He looks very sharp in a suit, and

532
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 2: he started in the nineteen sixty three crime drama film

533
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 2: Black Report, and starred in the nineteen seventy five film

534
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: The Bullet Train alongside Ken Takakura and Sunny Chiva.

535
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 3: I can see why they cast him as the bulletproof hero.

536
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 3: He looks like bullets would bounce right off of him.

537
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Now I would just say, yeah, I really

538
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 2: enjoyed the rest of the cast as well. I'm not

539
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 2: going to go into detail about everybody, but just real quick,

540
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 2: I want to call out hiroshiy Asami, who plays Kuwata.

541
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 2: This is a character we encounter early on who's on

542
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: the run with a mysterious briefcase. I also liked all

543
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 2: the scientists mad or otherwise that we encounter, including Akira

544
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 2: Nakamura is doctor Sakurai, and then we also have doctor

545
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 2: Okawa played by Tomohiko Otani. But I'm gonna skim over

546
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 2: the rest of them. A lot of them have sort

547
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 2: of like you know, interlocking interconnected credits. Some of the

548
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 2: movies we've already referenced, But for the most part, we're

549
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 2: just gonna move on. I am gonna briefly cover a

550
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 2: couple other folks so we go. We mentioned Walter Manley.

551
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: Walter Manley was the Purdue is a producer on this.

552
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: He is the one who brought these films to America

553
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 2: and had them cobbled into this current form as Evil

554
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 2: Brain from Outer Space. He lived nineteen eighteen through nineteen

555
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 2: ninety six, and he did a lot of this sort

556
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: of thing, beginning with the US release of nineteen fifty

557
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 2: nine's Prince of Space. Ah, this one, Yeah, I don't know.

558
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 2: I don't think we've watched it together for the show,

559
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: but this is a super fun slice of Japanese sci

560
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 2: fi serial goodness with a like evil, laughing Birdman as

561
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 2: the villain.

562
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love Prince of Space.

563
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 2: Then came the Super Giant Trilogy, if you want to

564
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: call it that, as well as a production credit on

565
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 2: the Italian nineteen sixty five film The Embalmer. I believe

566
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 2: this is another case of him involved in international releases

567
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 2: of various pictures. He was then involved in the US

568
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 2: release of Terror Beneath the Sea. He was involved in

569
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 2: the Antonio Margaretti space station films. These were the films

570
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 2: that led up to Kinji Fukusaku's The Green Slime in

571
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty eight, which we have discussed on the show.

572
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 2: We did a whole episode about Green Slime.

573
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 3: But the Green Slime of course, so that was a

574
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 3: Japanese production, but it was like an English film starring

575
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 3: English speaking actors.

576
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,239
Speaker 2: Right right. And then his last production credit was an

577
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 2: Italian war film, The War Devils in nineteen sixty nine,

578
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 2: And I couldn't find out any real information about what

579
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: happened to him after this, But this was this period

580
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: of activity in cinema. But it is an interesting scenario

581
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 2: to try and imagine. You know, nowadays, we're sort of

582
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 2: just so accustomed to various international pictures that are picked

583
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: up and distributed here in the States or in other

584
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 2: markets with a little or no changes, and we just

585
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 2: accept them for what they are. You know, we enjoy engage,

586
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 2: engaging with international cinema, and there may be some preferences

587
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 2: for you know, for for dub or subtitles and so forth,

588
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: but you know, we're all about it. But it's it's

589
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: interesting to imagine a time where someone's like, well, well,

590
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 2: we have a Japanese picture, how are we going to

591
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: release this to an American audience? Like at this point,

592
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 2: like there is so much loved, enthusiasm and appreciation for

593
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: for for Japanese cinema that you know, it's it's its

594
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 2: own product. You know, it's like we mean, it's a

595
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 2: known quantity and we know it's going to be successful.

596
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 2: But imagining a time where it's like, well, how do

597
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 2: we release this? I guess we've got to get an

598
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 2: American actor in there, we need to make King Kong win,

599
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 2: we have to make changes.

600
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting that they thought that these couldn't just

601
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 3: be released as in their original serial form with like

602
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 3: an English dub. They needed to be edited into synthetic,

603
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 3: composite narratives with a longer run time.

604
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And I.

605
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 3: Wonder if do you I wonder if that's like you

606
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 3: can imagine a lot of different reasonings behind that. And

607
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 3: I don't know what was operative here. Maybe it was

608
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 3: a question of like just pure business considerations about run

609
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 3: time or something. It's like, oh, we've got slots of

610
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 3: this time that we want to fill in TV programming

611
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 3: or something, So it could be something like that, or

612
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 3: or I wonder if it's just beliefs about cultural expectations,

613
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 3: like what kinds of run time and narrative structure and

614
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 3: length audiences would want to see. I don't know.

615
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does really feel like Green Slime is then

616
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 2: kind of a culmination of this where it's like, Okay,

617
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 2: we love so many of these elements in these Japanese films.

618
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: What if one of these Japanese film studios just made

619
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 2: a film for an international audience in an international market

620
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 2: using Western actors, you know. And then eventually, I guess

621
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 2: we get to the place where we realize, oh, you

622
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 2: don't even need that. You can just you can basically

623
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 2: just dub or subtitle the original product and audiences will

624
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: want it. Yeah, all right, And then finally I will

625
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 2: mention the music here, though I've also read that much

626
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 2: of the music from the original Super Giant films was

627
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 2: replaced with stock music here, so I'm not sure how

628
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 2: all this pans out. But Chume Watanabi, who lived nineteen

629
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 2: twenty five through two twenty twenty two, is credited. He

630
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 2: had a very long composing career, with such credits as

631
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty eight's Black Cat Mansion, nineteen sixties Jigoku, and

632
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty nine Yokai Monsters Colon along with ghosts. Oh.

633
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 3: I just had to do a Google search to check

634
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 3: and see if that Yokai Monsters movie is one i'd

635
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 3: seen screenshots before, and I think it is that one

636
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 3: looks worth a look.

637
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have never seen any of these various older

638
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 2: Yokai film I have. I've seen Takashi Mike's like Later Day,

639
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 2: the Great Yokai War film, which is a reference to

640
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 2: all of those and is also not connected to some

641
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 2: of his more notorious works. So this is like a

642
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 2: family film that he did.

643
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 3: Okay, you're ready to get into the plot.

644
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: The plot or plots, everyone to look at it. Let's

645
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: dive into Evil Brain from outer Space Save Us super Giant.

646
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 3: I see plots within plots, so the title in opening

647
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 3: credits run over what else shots about her space? And

648
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 3: even though this is probably unrealistic, I do like that

649
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 3: as we travel through space we see nearer stars moving

650
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 3: in the foreground at a different rate than the galaxies

651
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 3: in the background. Actually I say unrealistic, but I don't know.

652
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 3: Maybe that maybe it would work like that if you're

653
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 3: traveling really really fat. So there is a neat three

654
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 3: D effect to the outer space environment. Not always the case, obviously,

655
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's just a two D static image. And I

656
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 3: like the three dnus here. So we see some different

657
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 3: spaceships flying around. I think It's funny that it's never

658
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 3: made clear that these spaceships have any connection to the plot.

659
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 3: But you know, one is like a classic mid century

660
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 3: sci fi rocket with the torpedo shape the aerodynamic fins

661
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 3: on the back end. Another one looks like an attachment

662
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 3: for a garden hose. And then the voice overstarts, and

663
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 3: we better make friends with this voiceover narrator because they're

664
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 3: going to be coming in a lot. In fact, I

665
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 3: will say, once the plot really gets going, you can

666
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 3: know in advance that things are about to like shift

667
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 3: to different subject matter from a different original serial that

668
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 3: is not connected to what you were just looking at.

669
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:58,240
Speaker 3: Whenever the narrator starts talking, because the narration is used

670
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 3: to like patch the apps and say, now the aliens

671
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 3: could look like anyone and began robbing banks in order

672
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 3: to finance their evil. But anyway, here at the beginning,

673
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 3: the narrator is going to set things up for us,

674
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 3: So the narrator says, on the planet Zmar far within

675
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 3: the moving galaxy, a decontrolled robot assassinated the omnipotent Balazar,

676
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 3: who was known to possess the most brilliant mind in

677
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 3: the universe. So powerful was Balasar's genius that as he

678
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 3: lay dying, his brain ordered built a mechanism which would

679
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 3: keep it alive even though his body was destroyed, And

680
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 3: now Balazar's brain seeks universal conquest.

681
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 2: I love this.

682
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 3: That's good.

683
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 2: Balasar's brain sounds like it could be a philosophical thought experiment. Ye,

684
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 2: but I did have Looking back on the plot now,

685
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 2: I am curious, like, why didn't Balisar have like a

686
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 2: robot body built for himself if he's so powerful, we

687
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 2: never see him use something like that. Instead, it's a suitcase.

688
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 3: That is a good question. I wonder if it is

689
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 3: a suitcase to because they're repurposing shots from the Super

690
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 3: Giant show that were just about a suitcase that originally

691
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 3: had something else in it, or if it actually is

692
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 3: a brain in the suitcase in the original Cereal.

693
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 2: That's a great point, yeah, because on the other hand,

694
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 2: I guess you could make an argument that, well, he's

695
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 2: trying to work secretly here on Earth, so he just

696
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 2: can't walk around in a giant robot body. He needs

697
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 2: to be inside of a suitcase, which everyone will mostly ignore.

698
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 3: But they don't ignore it the only times we see

699
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 3: the suitcase in the movie. If people like chasing around

700
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 3: trying to get the suitcase.

701
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: Right right, but it draws less attention compared to like

702
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: giant robot body.

703
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 3: You're right about that, But I love how dentse The

704
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 3: details in this opening narration are we got the moving galaxy,

705
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 3: decontrolled robot assassination of omnipotent ballas, are as he lays

706
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 3: dying brain, genius brain ordered, built a mechanism keeps it

707
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 3: alive even though the body destroyed now wants to conquer

708
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 3: the universe. That's a lot.

709
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 2: I love it.

710
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 3: Then things get really good. We dissolve to the surface

711
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,720
Speaker 3: of a planet which is studded with jagged triangular rocks,

712
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 3: and we zoom in on a meeting of beings, and

713
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 3: I love these beings so much. It sounds kind of

714
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 3: like a let down to say. My favorite part of

715
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 3: the movie is the introduction right here at the beginning,

716
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 3: but it is this is the best part of the

717
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 3: film to me. So it starts with these swaying bipedal

718
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 3: robots starfish in black, but then you also see robots

719
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 3: that look like Lord Bucket heead, but with like giant

720
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 3: light up eyeballs on the outside of their cranial cylinders.

721
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 3: There are some basic humanoid robots with other head shapes.

722
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 3: There's like a spike head, a dome head, a globe

723
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 3: lamp head, a miniature sombrero head, an insect obelisk with

724
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 3: a beak head, and others in similar variations. There's one

725
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 3: robot I really liked that it's in the back that

726
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 3: has like a charcoal starter chimney for a head, but

727
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 3: is wearing a bikini bottom on its body. It's like

728
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 3: its whole body is covered in what looked like striped

729
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 3: tights and then it's just got like a white bikini

730
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 3: bottom on. But also it has silver shoulder pads.

731
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love this sequence because despite obvious, you know, limitations,

732
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 2: they do create something that feels wonderfully and charmingly sci

733
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 2: fi Like. It has all the energy and charm of

734
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 2: like nineteen oh two is a trip to the moon,

735
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 2: but also it's kind of like that Star Wars Cantena

736
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 2: feel to everything. You know.

737
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, the variety of the forms.

738
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 2: And I distinctly remember shots from this sequence in the

739
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two film. It came from Hollywood, which, if

740
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 2: you're not familiar with it, came from Hollywood. This was

741
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 2: made almost completely of old film clips, classic Hollywood and

742
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 2: also you know films like this that that were international.

743
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 2: We have narration skits and riffing, you know, kind of

744
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,760
Speaker 2: like pre Mst three K movie riffing by Dan Aykroyd,

745
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 2: John Candy, Gilda Radner and Cheech and Chong, And it's

746
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 2: generally hard to find a physical release of it. Came

747
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: from Hollywood due to various licensing issues with the clip,

748
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 2: because sometimes it's trailer stuff, but other times it's clips.

749
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: I think the version I watched as a kid had

750
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 2: been taped off of an NBC broadcast, but it definitely

751
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 2: had multiple clips from Evil Brain from Outer Space.

752
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 3: I think it came from Hollywood. As the source of

753
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 3: the joke about another brain movie, we watched the uh oh,

754
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 3: what's it called? The ones with the invisible brains attacking people,

755
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 3: and there's a scene where they become visible and one

756
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 3: out a face fiend without a face, yes, and one

757
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 3: of them says, we just sprayed for brains last week. Yeah,

758
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 3: but yeah, so it's funny. We didn't even think about

759
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 3: Evil Brain from Outer Space as being also another brain movie.

760
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 3: We've covered several brain movies, including the Canadian I Think

761
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 3: movie the Brain, in which a giant alien brain like

762
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 3: captures people like it brainwashes people through a TV program.

763
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 3: Then there was a Fiend Without a Face where just

764
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 3: like disembodied invisible brains attack a military installation. And yeah,

765
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 3: here's another one. This time it's a brain in a suitcase.

766
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, once again the brain is the threat, and this film,

767
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 2: the brain is like the ultimate organic enemy.

768
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 3: So the narration continues. But here on the Emerald Planet,

769
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 3: the Highest Council in the Marquette Galaxy considers the terrible

770
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 3: immediate menace to the Solar System of Earth and to

771
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 3: the planet Earth itself. And we pan over and see

772
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 3: all of these beings the High Council, and then they're

773
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 3: sort of flanked by just other similar robots standing around.

774
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 3: And there's something I really want to convey about the

775
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 3: movement in this scene. Rob I think you'll know what

776
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. There is this general pattern of slow,

777
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 3: rhythmic churning movements shared by most of the robots in

778
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 3: the High Council. So some of the elder robots at

779
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 3: the table are just pumping their arms alternately up and

780
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 3: down in this gentle, slow pattern, like they're being operated

781
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 3: by a common gear. You know, they're just going up

782
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 3: and down and up and down. And some of the robots,

783
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 3: like the the bipedal starfish robots, but the cone heads

784
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 3: are just swaying or softly twisting their bodies back and

785
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 3: forth like they are very very kind of softly dancing

786
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 3: along with a rhythm. And it creates this almost undersea

787
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 3: feeling to the scene, you know, like it's like you're

788
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 3: watching under sea footage of a fish just slowly moving

789
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 3: their pectoral fins or slowly flaring their gills in a rhythm.

790
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it reminds me of some of these Silent era

791
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 2: pictures where we journey to the bottom of the ocean

792
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 2: and we see this kind of movement going on.

793
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 3: So the narrator continues. Balazar's brain leads the infiltration of Earth,

794
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 3: preparing it for the attack forces which will follow, and

795
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 3: that attack will be with nuclear weapons. The flood of

796
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 3: radioactivity which inevi will spill out into space is what

797
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 3: primarily concerns these Emerald planet creatures. High radioactivity, the Emerald

798
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 3: creatures realize will soon poison even the distant reaches of

799
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 3: outer space. I think they're probably bigger radiation concerns when

800
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 3: it comes to space. You know, I think like stars

801
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 3: probably release more radiation than a planet that's contaminated would,

802
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 3: but I don't know.

803
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 2: Still, the idea is there is already this feeling that

804
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 2: it's like flesh is the enemy. Yeah, flesh leads to warfare,

805
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 2: leads to radiation in nuclear war, and the answer is robots.

806
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 2: The answer is machines. We need like the emotionless serenity

807
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 2: and calm of machines to save us from ourselves.

808
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 3: I want to come back to that in a minute.

809
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 3: So the narrator goes on to tell us that basically

810
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 3: they're running out of time and the High Council of

811
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 3: Elder Robots here is going to decide what must be done.

812
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 3: So they've learned that Balazar's brain is already on Earth

813
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 3: in secret, and it's commanding the Zimarian spies and saboteurs,

814
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 3: and the universe will not be safe unless they stop it.

815
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 3: So they agree on that there's only one way that

816
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 3: they can stop the brain, and the robots when they agree,

817
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 3: they all start raising their arms up in unison. So

818
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 3: instead of the swimming and alternate pumping of their arms

819
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 3: and swaying like before, now they're all like raising the roof,

820
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 3: and the narrator tells us the scientists of the Emerald

821
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 3: planet have invented one of the most ingenious mechanisms our

822
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 3: universe has ever seen, called a globe meter. It is

823
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 3: carried on the wrist. It enables the wearer to do

824
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 3: three things. To fly through space, to detect radioactivity, and

825
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 3: to speak and understand every language on planet Earth. And

826
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 3: then we get a real good shot of sort of

827
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 3: the chairperson or the chair Bot of the Council of

828
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 3: Robot Elders, who has this conical hit with scary looking

829
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 3: like eye holes in the head, almost like it's a helmet.

830
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 3: But I think this is supposed to be a robot

831
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 3: of some sort, I think. And then it's got a

832
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 3: crown on top with a globe light inside, and the

833
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 3: narrator says, finally, the Great Forum of the Emerald Hierarchy

834
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 3: reaches a decision. In order to save Earth from the

835
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 3: mass attack by the Zumerians, the Emerald men must once

836
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 3: more present their globe meter to one of their fellow

837
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 3: creatures and send him to Earth. And here we get

838
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 3: our first shot of Starman, standing posed ready among the

839
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 3: spires of rock. He's almost in one of those t

840
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 3: poses you see when like a video game character has

841
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 3: not started their animation yet. He's just standing there like

842
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 3: he's yet to be activated, and I guess that is

843
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 3: what's going on, So they activate him. We're told that

844
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 3: Starman is made of the strongest steel in the galaxy,

845
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 3: but he has the ability to disguise himself as an Earthling.

846
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,720
Speaker 3: And then we see him like leap up into space

847
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 3: and to Earth like Superman body horizontal arms out ahead.

848
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 3: And here I want to come back to that theme

849
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 3: that we brought up about the Savior being machines. So

850
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 3: the Earth is threatened by an evil organic brain, literally

851
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 3: a disembodied mass of fatty neural tissue in a suitcase.

852
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 3: It wants to destroy the Earth and contaminate the universe

853
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 3: with radiation. And our only hope lies with this council

854
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 3: of benevolent swaying fish like robots who live on another

855
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 3: planet far away, and they must send us a defender.

856
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 3: But this defender is also a robot made out of steel,

857
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 3: which must hide its true steel form behind an organic

858
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 3: meat mask in order to be accepted as our defender.

859
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 2: There's probably something to be said for the idea of

860
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 2: like salvation through industry here, but it does seem to

861
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 2: be the subtext here to the extent that Super Giant

862
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 2: has a subtext.

863
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 3: So next we cut to Earth into the street of

864
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 3: a modern city in Japan, and we see a man

865
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 3: running for his life, clutching a suitcase, pursued by police.

866
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 3: And I don't know if this is even intentional, but

867
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 3: there is this kind of dystopian film noir energy to

868
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 3: the very first sets we see. This character running through

869
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 3: the city is dark and filled with shadows and crevices,

870
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 3: and they're interesting plays on like levels under levels, like

871
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 3: there are these pedestrian tunnels with shafts of light bisecting them,

872
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 3: elevated walkways over train tracks, you get canals of rushing

873
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 3: water cutting through the city in the dark. I would

874
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 3: not say in general that this movie it has very

875
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 3: like emotionally expressive sets, but these very first shots we

876
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 3: get of Earth kind of are that way. Interestingly.

877
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there are strong noir vibes to the scene,

878
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 2: And honestly, this is one of the best sequences in

879
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 2: the film that doesn't have some sort of crazy sci

880
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 2: fi action going on.

881
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 3: I agree because the actor who plays Kawada, the character

882
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 3: we see running here is quite good, like he's you know,

883
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 3: he really conveys the desperation of trying to save the

884
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 3: earth from the brain. So he's on the run from police,

885
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,760
Speaker 3: and we're told by the narrator that the police believe

886
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 3: he is a bank robber, but in reality, what is

887
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 3: within the suitcase is the living brain of Balazar. And

888
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 3: the chase takes several minutes. He keeps like cleverly evading

889
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 3: the cops, but eventually he is cornered on some kind

890
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 3: of platform underneath a bridge and the police they go

891
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 3: to arrest him, and as they're arresting him, he drops

892
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 3: the suitcase into the river below and he's screaming, the brain.

893
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 3: If we don't catch it, we will all die. And

894
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 3: so the police haul him back to the station. They

895
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 3: discover he is not the bank robber, because the actual

896
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 3: bank robber was caught somewhere else with the money he stole.

897
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 3: But they can't let this guy go because, you know,

898
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 3: he ran from the police, so he must have done

899
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 3: something wrong. And he continues to insist that what was

900
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 3: in the suitcase was not stolen jewels, but a brain,

901
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 3: and they must go get the brain. At once. They

902
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 3: all perish and he insists it is not an animal brain.

903
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 3: It is a brain of a creature from outer space,

904
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 3: a creature that will rule the universe. And he tells

905
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:11,800
Speaker 3: the whole story. He says, you know, I was working

906
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 3: as an assistant to doctor Kura Kawa, and the brain

907
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 3: appeared one day, brought from the planet Zemar. I don't

908
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 3: know exactly, like if it appeared in the mail or what.

909
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 3: But somehow doctor Kura Kawa received this brain. And he

910
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 3: says that doctor Courrikawa has been working under the brain's

911
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 3: evil power. So Kawa to here, just decided one day

912
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 3: to grab the brain and run and that's how we

913
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 3: got here. So he, you know, he's ranting about how

914
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 3: the brain must be destroyed or the earth is doomed.

915
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 3: But then the detective here at the police station gets

916
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 3: a phone call from doctor Courrikawa and he's like, oh, yes,

917
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 3: is my assistant ranting about brains again. Don't listen to anything,

918
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 3: he says, he's always making up things about brains. Please

919
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 3: just release him to me. And then we see on

920
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 3: the other side of the phone doctor Courakawa, who looks

921
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 3: pretty cool. He's an evil looking scientist with with like

922
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 3: a goateee and or I guess just the beard part

923
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 3: of a goateee. Uh, and and glasses and he uses

924
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 3: a wheelchair, and he has a giant bird of prey

925
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 3: that sits on his shoulder. Looks like a cross between

926
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:17,800
Speaker 3: a hawk and an owl.

927
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, also kind of a cross between Dracula and Colonel Sanders.

928
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

929
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because he's wearing this white suit. So it's

930
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 2: it's it's interating you instantly see this guy. You know

931
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 2: this is a villain. There's no question about this anyway.

932
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 3: The police let Kaweda, the assistant, go free, and he

933
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 3: starts running around looking for the brain in a suitcase,

934
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 3: but he is quickly ambushed by brain goons and uh

935
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 3: so the narrator tells us as Kawalaa searches for the

936
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 3: precious suitcase and Balazar's brain orders his men to kill

937
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 3: the youth. Uh and these guys come out. You know,

938
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 3: they're menacing him again. There's so much menacing in this movie.

939
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 3: They menace him, and they're all wearing bandanas over the

940
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 3: lower half of their face like a you know, like

941
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 3: a cowboy, like a train robber, and they're coming at him.

942
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,919
Speaker 3: But I was also thinking, wait, the brain can give

943
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 3: orders from the confines of a lost suitcase.

944
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 2: The brain is super powerful. I mean we're gonna learn

945
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 2: in a bit the brain's like basically indestructible, right, So

946
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 2: it's like it's indestructible, it could command wherever it is.

947
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 2: So I guess that's why when we just saw the

948
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 2: suitcase fall in the river, it wasn't like, yes, maybe

949
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 2: the brain will die in the river. It's like, no,

950
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 2: the brain is free.

951
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:33,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the brain henchman. They attack Kwada. They drag

952
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,760
Speaker 3: him out to the forest and then they start kicking

953
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 3: him on the ground, but like very listlessly. This is

954
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,800
Speaker 3: not great fight choreography. It's almost like they're just nudging

955
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 3: him with their feet.

956
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 2: It's gonna take a while, but yeah, but Kalada is

957
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 2: saved because here comes our heroes.

958
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 3: Starman. Now, when he first shows up, he is not

959
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 3: in his Starman outfit. He just walks out of the

960
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 3: woods in a suit and tie and a bowler hat

961
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 3: looking yes you said this earlier, Rob but yes, he

962
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 3: looks like Bela Lugosi. Yeah, he's doing that kind of

963
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 3: intense face that like Legosi does when he's like, you know,

964
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 3: the do as I command you mode, and so Starman

965
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 3: starts beating up the bad guys and then at one

966
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 3: point does a little trick that will happen several times

967
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 3: in the movie where he ducks out of frame and

968
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 3: then immediately stands back up again into frame, and he

969
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 3: is suddenly in his Starman outfit. The bad guys shoot

970
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 3: him with guns, but the bullets bounce right off, and

971
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 3: then he beats them up and they run away into

972
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 3: the woods.

973
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 2: Now, in general, throughout the film, and which is to say,

974
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 2: across at least three pictures, Starman's offense tends to include

975
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 2: a lot of chops, some hip tosses, a little sort

976
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 2: of Judo esque action there. Sometimes they'll do some backflips.

977
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 2: But I loved it because, as we've discussed before, you

978
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 2: can really date a film based on the contents of

979
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 2: the fight choreography. And while there's a broad evolution in

980
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 2: this area of filmmaking, it's often refreshing to go back

981
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 2: and experience the old trends and standards. So I love

982
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 2: a good karate chop, I love a good punch onto

983
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 2: a collapsing table and a bar. I'm a little tired

984
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 2: of NNA style takedowns and arm bars. So I'm all

985
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 2: for let's let's bring back more karate chops. Oh.

986
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 3: Also we see another guy looking on, like we get

987
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 3: a view of him even though the characters don't see him.

988
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 3: There's some kind of hinchmen for the evil doctor Kurakawa

989
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 3: who's walking around on crutches, but we see later that

990
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 3: he also hits people with his crutches.

991
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a credited at least in Evil Brain

992
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,760
Speaker 2: from Outer Space as one legged man played by Shuji Kuwabi.

993
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 3: For some reason, both of our main human villains here

994
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 3: are depicted with physical disabilities.

995
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they won't be the last. Just kind of

996
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 2: standard for the day.

997
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 3: So Starman goes to help Kawada, and Kawada is like

998
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 3: the brain it will destroy earth unless we can use

999
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 3: science to stop it. And this is a theme that

1000
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,439
Speaker 3: you know, Starman can. He can do a beat down,

1001
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 3: he can defend us from the bad guy's hinchman, but

1002
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:03,359
Speaker 3: our Man himself cannot defeat the brain. Only science can

1003
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 3: defeat it.

1004
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 2: Hm.

1005
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 3: And after this there's some sort of debrief scene involving

1006
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 3: characters who must pre exist from other Starman adventures or something.

1007
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 3: It's like we're already supposed to know them. So Starman

1008
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 3: is hanging out with Kawada, who seems to maybe be

1009
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 3: new but also a kindly wise old scientist and named Sakarai.

1010
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 3: And also a family. There's like a mother and a

1011
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 3: couple of children, and again it's like it's like, we're

1012
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 3: supposed to know who these people are. Did you get

1013
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:33,760
Speaker 3: that same feeling.

1014
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really kind of felt like, Oh, we're going

1015
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:38,879
Speaker 2: to have a debriefing about a secret, deadly alien plot.

1016
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 2: Let's let the kids set in. They need to hear this.

1017
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 3: There's a lot of just kids being in places in

1018
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 3: this movie. Ye, there's a scene later where it's like

1019
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 3: spy kids, like the kids infiltrate the bat the evil

1020
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,760
Speaker 3: bat Dude's base, not the bat mutants, but the guys

1021
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 3: in the Batman suits.

1022
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like bat cultists that serve the aliens. Yeah.

1023
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:00,800
Speaker 3: So in the scene, we learned that it was trying

1024
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 3: to bring the brain to doctor Soakarai, and we learn

1025
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 3: that it is indestructible and impervious to all poisons, and

1026
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,880
Speaker 3: if you blow it up, its cells will regenerate and

1027
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 3: the brain will survive.

1028
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:15,800
Speaker 2: So again, this is why you can't just let the

1029
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 2: brain fall into the river, and your problems are going

1030
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 2: to be sold.

1031
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. So doctor Soakarai is the only man

1032
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 3: who can save the earth. Kawada says, only you can

1033
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,479
Speaker 3: kill the brain, and then one of the children says,

1034
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 3: that's right.

1035
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 2: It's like, doctor, you're always talking about your various ideas

1036
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 2: for killing indestructible alien brains. We know you can do it.

1037
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 3: Also in the scene, we learn that mutations created by

1038
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 3: the evil scientists of Ziemar have been attacking Earth. It's

1039
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 3: already happening, and sometimes they can be disguised to look

1040
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 3: exactly like humans. That's quite convenient, especially if you're editing

1041
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 3: in episodes of a show where just humans are doing things.

1042
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 3: But Starman explains that mutations can dig other forms. He says,

1043
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 3: quote a lot of them can be invisible and take

1044
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,800
Speaker 3: forms we can't even imagine. They await orders from the brain.

1045
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 3: By the way, Starman is back in suit and time mode.

1046
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 3: Now he's just sitting with the family here in their

1047
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 3: living room wearing a suit and tie, and before Starman leaves,

1048
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 3: he gives the two children his signaler and says that

1049
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 3: if they throw it, he will appear to help them,

1050
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 3: and then he says, well, children, now I'll try to

1051
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 3: stop the brain. So we're off to the races. This

1052
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 3: is sort of the setup of the movie. Starman has

1053
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 3: promised to stop the brain. Sakarai and his lab will

1054
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 3: be hard at work studying ways to destroy the brain

1055
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 3: with science, and the Xi Mariyans will be trying out

1056
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 3: various ways to attack Earth with mutations. Now I figure

1057
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 3: at this point I'm going to stop doing a scene

1058
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 3: by scene recap because some parts of this movie, as

1059
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 3: we've said, just really get They really become water logged

1060
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 3: with new characters and locations and premises that don't always

1061
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 3: really go anywhere. So from here I think maybe we

1062
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 3: should just focus on some of the highlights. And for me,

1063
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 3: one of the main highlights of the movie is the

1064
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 3: bat Mutants. The bat mutant attacks.

1065
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely, these this guy or these guys are amazing.

1066
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 3: Yes, it starts, I think as one guy or I

1067
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 3: don't know, it's unclear how many of them there are

1068
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 3: at first, I guess, but we get that classic editing

1069
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 3: style of like showing a disaster that's just like cutting

1070
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 3: together different images, so we see like a train chugging

1071
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 3: along the tracks, and then a flash of some kind

1072
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 3: of monster mask we will see in more detail later,

1073
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 3: and then a human face going like ah, And then

1074
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 3: we see a model train derailing, and then repeat this

1075
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 3: with other boats and vehicles and infrastructure, and then we

1076
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 3: see like people in hospital beds saying like the mutant,

1077
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:49,919
Speaker 3: the monster somewhere. Also in this section with the bat

1078
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 3: mutant attacks, Kawaeda tracks down the bad scientists Cora Kawa

1079
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 3: and his Hinchman, and they go into a secret base

1080
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 3: full of zee maarians. Except this is where they're all

1081
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 3: dres like Batman. You know, they don't have like the

1082
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 3: bat ears on their hoods, but otherwise they're pretty close.

1083
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 3: They've got black tights, hoods, utility belts, and a light

1084
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 3: colored symbol on their chest that does look vaguely bat like.

1085
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 3: It's basically like a bat wing shape with a skull

1086
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 3: on top.

1087
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they definitely have cowls going on here. Yeah.

1088
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. Anyway, later we're with Sakarai. He's working late at

1089
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 3: night in his office on the formula to kill the brain,

1090
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 3: when suddenly he senses a being, a presence, and there's

1091
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 3: actually a shot here that's kind of spooky. It's like

1092
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 3: you see darkness and then suddenly just eyes appear. To

1093
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 3: quote Rocky ericson eyes stare through the darkness with no form,

1094
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 3: and then the form materializes, and here it is, in

1095
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 3: its full glory, the bat mutation. And I love this creature.

1096
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 3: So it's a bipedal figure with its skin covered in

1097
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 3: branching exposed veins and arteries, with three large clawed fingers

1098
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 3: on each hand breathing out visible clouds of radioactive gas.

1099
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 3: The crown of its skull is just a wrinkly exposed cerebrum,

1100
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 3: so it's just brain head. And then behind the cerebrum

1101
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 3: it has kind of a halo, like a golden halo

1102
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 3: in the shape of bat ears pasted to its head.

1103
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 3: It has a bat like face, pointed ears and huge fangs.

1104
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 3: And then also it has a giant eyeball covering its

1105
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:31,919
Speaker 3: lower stomach. I love this mutation. My heart beats for him.

1106
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 2: Yeah. Words cannot express how wonderful every detail of this

1107
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 2: creature is. So it's it's like a cross between slim

1108
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 2: good body and a Buddhist grimlin, you know, like there's

1109
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 2: like it has this kind of crown that looks like

1110
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 2: you see in Buddhist iconography. Yeah, but Yeah, I love

1111
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 2: everything about this costume, right down to the tights. The

1112
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 2: radioactive gas is amazing. The creature also moves in a

1113
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 2: fashion that feels very fluid and dance like, which can

1114
01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 2: certainly generate laughs. But also it does give the Bat

1115
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 2: Mutant a distinct physical language in and out of these

1116
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 2: fight sequences. The encounter with this creature was prominently featured

1117
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 2: in it came from Hollywood.

1118
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 3: I yeah, and I can see why I love this creature.

1119
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 3: It looks great. It's I mean, it looks funny, but

1120
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 3: it also is just an impressive costume. It's so good,

1121
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 3: and it tries to attack Saker. I of course, you know,

1122
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 3: it's got to stop him from creating the formula to

1123
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 3: kill the brain. But what happens. Of course Starman intervenes

1124
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 3: to save the scientist, and this leads to a big

1125
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 3: fight slash chase sequence where Starman and the Bat Mutant

1126
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 3: are running all over the place fighting. They eventually end

1127
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 3: up on a bridge at a seaport, and at the

1128
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 3: end of this whole fight, the mutation seemingly like grows

1129
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 3: larger and then divides in half into two mutations and

1130
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 3: flies away.

1131
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love the part where they both dive out

1132
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 2: the window. Especially the whole sequence here is just evil

1133
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 2: brain from outer space that it's absolute best know if

1134
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 2: you're watching it for yourself and at least pressed through

1135
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:06,400
Speaker 2: this sequence because it's worth it.

1136
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 3: There's one part in here where they tell us that

1137
01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 3: one slash of the mutant's solid cobalt nails could be

1138
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 3: the end of Starman, which is funny because it's that's

1139
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 3: really the only time I recall, we get an indication

1140
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 3: that Starman is in danger, and it still doesn't feel

1141
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 3: like he's in danger. I would offer this as a

1142
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 3: major criticism of the Starman stories. Here, it never feels

1143
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 3: like Starman is in danger. There's never any moment where

1144
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 3: you're like, oh no, will he win. It's just like

1145
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 3: his he is indestructible, and his victory feels absolutely inevitable.

1146
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I guess we have to remind ourselves that again,

1147
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:46,240
Speaker 2: this is for kids. You know, this is maybe a

1148
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 2: film where you don't want it to seem like your

1149
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,439
Speaker 2: hero is in doubt because that's not what the kids want.

1150
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 2: And I guess so, you know, I mean, when my

1151
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 2: son was younger, I remember that was a real challenge

1152
01:03:56,200 --> 01:04:00,920
Speaker 2: to getting him into films and TV shows that were

1153
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:05,400
Speaker 2: very much age appropriate but had that kind of risk

1154
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 2: involved in them, like, oh no, something bad might happen,

1155
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 2: And he wasn't at the point yet where he understood

1156
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 2: that those kind of things are not going to happen

1157
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 2: in a children's movie. You know that it's gonna be okay,

1158
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 2: because that's how stories like this work. So yeah, that

1159
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 2: might have been part of the design of it. But

1160
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 2: I also really like the idea that these are cobalt

1161
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 2: nails and that's what makes them dead.

1162
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 3: Let's see, now, there's another sequence that spans a while

1163
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:41,280
Speaker 3: in the middle of the movie that are like the

1164
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 3: cocktail stick murders as Hughes was talking about, or I

1165
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 3: was thinking of them as like thinking of them as

1166
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 3: toothpick darts. So the narrator tells us that the multiplying

1167
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 3: zi Marian mutations come in from all parts of the world,

1168
01:04:57,320 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 3: and doctor Sakarai and his assistants are there's still work

1169
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,480
Speaker 3: round the clock to find the formula that can destroy

1170
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 3: the brain. We see them doing science, fiddling with tubes

1171
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 3: and all that. But then the narrator says, already many

1172
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 3: of the mutants disguised as human beings walk the streets

1173
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 3: of earth cities to pay for their food and clothing.

1174
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 3: They frequently conduct daring robberies, such as the one now

1175
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 3: being carried out.

1176
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I legit, laughed out loud at this, imagining these

1177
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:29,200
Speaker 2: naked alien mutants whose first order of business is just

1178
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 2: to steal food and clothing.

1179
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 4: You know.

1180
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 2: It's like they're walking into business and saying, I need

1181
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 2: you close your boots and your bentle box.

1182
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we see them robbing a jewelry store and

1183
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 3: there are kids in the jewelry store for some reason.

1184
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 2: Why are they there? I get for mom? I don't know.

1185
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, but these like shady looking guys in trench coats

1186
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 3: come in, so I guess they've already acquired clothing. They're

1187
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 3: just like, yeah, they're kind of creepy looking. They got

1188
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 3: the trench coats and the hats, and they throw some

1189
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 3: kind of dart at the shopkeeper and she collapses on

1190
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:03,640
Speaker 3: the floor, and then the creeps run out with a

1191
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 3: bunch of jewels and so the there's Oh and I

1192
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 3: also laughed out loud at the police meeting after this,

1193
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:13,440
Speaker 3: where they discuss how the thieves cannot be stopped with weapons,

1194
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 3: so they need to capture one and study it. And

1195
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 3: they say, so, let's watch all the big jewelry stores.

1196
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 3: And so later we see more of the aliens with

1197
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 3: the darts doing things like they throw a dart at

1198
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 3: an Earth scientist who's carrying defense plans and they use

1199
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 3: that to steal the defense plans. And then the children

1200
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 3: are in peril for some reason, Like we see children

1201
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 3: coming home from a neighbor's birthday party. The narrator tells

1202
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 3: us and they cross paths with the trench coat mutants

1203
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 3: in disguise.

1204
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they have their papers in order. Though. The

1205
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 2: children are like, we don't trust you, your sus and

1206
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 2: they're like, but look at our documentation and they're like, oh, okay, okay.

1207
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 3: And then the detective at this there's this whole weird

1208
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 3: subplot with like a fake hospital that is actually run

1209
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 3: by a aliens and like humans get sent to the

1210
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 3: fake hospital and then they disappear.

1211
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the whole section that I struggled to

1212
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 2: pay attention to, Like where are the bat mutants? Where

1213
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:15,560
Speaker 2: you just had this awesome sequence and now we're just

1214
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 2: robbing jewelry stores.

1215
01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, robbing jewelry stores, going to a fake alien hospital.

1216
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:24,080
Speaker 3: I mean that sounds like actually, now that I say it,

1217
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 3: like that, the fake alien.

1218
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 2: Hospital, it sounds neat.

1219
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like it could be cool. But I

1220
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 3: thought this part was fairly boring. But it does involve

1221
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 3: a kid, Like a kid going to the hospital and

1222
01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 3: then infiltrating a secret mutant bass Like, the kid sneaks

1223
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 3: in and starts like looking at the guys. I've got

1224
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 3: a screenshot actually for you here Rob where he's like

1225
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 3: looking in on this meeting of all the guys in

1226
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 3: the Batman suits. And then the kid is caught. They're like, look,

1227
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 3: it's an Earthling and the z Marians threaten him. But

1228
01:07:56,680 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 3: then of course Starman comes to the rescue. The narrator

1229
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,480
Speaker 3: kind of has to tell us what's going on here

1230
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:06,120
Speaker 3: because it's like, what is this base again? But Starman

1231
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 3: saves the day, drives away all the Batman Again. These

1232
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 3: are different from the Batan mutants. These are just the

1233
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 3: dudes in the suits.

1234
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 2: Right, These are just henchmen. So a big old battle

1235
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 2: with henchmen, lots of chops, lots of hyptos, is that

1236
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 2: sort of thing.

1237
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 3: There's a whole other plot in the middle where the

1238
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 3: Zi Mariians want to kill Earth leaders, so they stage

1239
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 3: an attack on a prince who's getting off a plane.

1240
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 3: But then the attack is foiled because the prince is

1241
01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 3: not the prince. It's actually it's actually Starman in disguise,

1242
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 3: and he takes off his disguise and he's like haha,

1243
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 3: and then the bad guys are like, if you stop me,

1244
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:44,719
Speaker 3: I will throw this nuclear grenade, and then he does,

1245
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 3: but then Starman just beats up the bad guys.

1246
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,719
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think all of this is from that Super

1247
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 2: Giant film with the Middle Eastern prince plot, and it

1248
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:53,919
Speaker 2: does not seem at all interesting.

1249
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 3: Then there's the thing about how the z Mariians attack

1250
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 3: people indiscriminately. There's a scene where we see kids at

1251
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 3: a carnival with a witch and the kids are well,

1252
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 3: not the kids, actually the like kid's mother I think,

1253
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 3: is threatened by the witch. And then the witch like

1254
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 3: the witch goes around appearing randomly in places and scaring people,

1255
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:15,719
Speaker 3: like ladies look at her and they faint.

1256
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:20,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is another witch character with that nice prominent

1257
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 2: like Japanese witch nose or Kappa nose. She's very suspicious looking,

1258
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 2: but is also also feels like a step down from

1259
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:30,799
Speaker 2: awesome bat mutants.

1260
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:33,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then we so then we go to another

1261
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 3: plot where there's like an Earth scientist who is betraying

1262
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:41,720
Speaker 3: our planet, who is delivering secrets to doctor Kurakawa, and

1263
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 3: we learn he is creating germs to attack Earth with.

1264
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:48,519
Speaker 3: And he like goes and looks at this glass, you know,

1265
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:51,759
Speaker 3: bell jar thing, and inside it is this throbbing mass

1266
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 3: of tissue, and he says, you are the original germ.

1267
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:57,599
Speaker 3: All the others are from you. You are the one

1268
01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 3: that made them. It's kind of cool, but it doesn't

1269
01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:02,919
Speaker 3: that also doesn't really go anywhere.

1270
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 2: I think it would make a great Valentine's Stay card though,

1271
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:07,760
Speaker 2: even the original germ, all the others made are made

1272
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 2: from you. You are the one that made them.

1273
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:13,200
Speaker 3: So Starman's got to find and destroy the laboratories that

1274
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 3: make the mutants and the evil germs. You know, he does.

1275
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 3: At some point somehow the germ turns into the Witch.

1276
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:23,640
Speaker 3: Wasn't sure exactly what was going on there, but like

1277
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 3: the evil scientist stares at this throbbing mass of the

1278
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 3: original germ in the jar, and then it turns into

1279
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 3: the witch we saw from earlier. And then the scientist

1280
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 3: sends the Witch to kill Starman, and she like tries

1281
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 3: to scratch him with her nails and they have a

1282
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 3: fight scene, but Starman is stronger. Starman does a chop

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Speaker 3: on the Witch and like hits her in the back

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Speaker 3: with his chop and then she explodes, and then the

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Speaker 3: original germ evaporates from its jar, and then we come

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Speaker 3: to sort of the final showdown part. There's the return

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Speaker 3: of the Bat Mutant where world leaders are attacked yet again.

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Speaker 3: They're like just gathered in a kind of living room

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Speaker 3: somewhere and the Bat Mutant shows up and starts attacking them,

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Speaker 3: slashing at cops with his cobalt cobalt nails, and then

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Speaker 3: Starman shows up to save the day. There is another

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Speaker 3: fight scene. Starman follows the mutant to the headquarters of

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Speaker 3: the zie Maarians on the Earth and beats all those

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Speaker 3: guys up, fights the bat Mutant once again, and oh no,

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Speaker 3: our beloved Bat Mutant is defeated. It lies down on

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Speaker 3: the ground and then melts and what's left behind is

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Speaker 3: some kind of like slime mold looking massive tissue.

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Speaker 2: It's a solid I would say Grimlins esque melt scene,

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Speaker 2: you know that kind of like everything's reduced to kind

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Speaker 2: of a slightly like pulpating mass of slimy tissue.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I have a laugh out loud moment

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Speaker 3: here where after the villain is defeated, all of the

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Speaker 3: heroes and the good characters like run into the room

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Speaker 3: at the same time, and they find Balazar's brain. It

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Speaker 3: is a brain and a jar. In fact, it looks

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Speaker 3: a lot like the massive tissue that we were told

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Speaker 3: earlier was the original germ.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, confusingly so.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. But they go up to it and I guess

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Speaker 3: this is supposed to be the evil brain from outer space.

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Speaker 3: And doctor Soakarai has figured out the formula to kill

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Speaker 3: the brain, so he goes up and he pours acid

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Speaker 3: over Balazar's brain and they're like, uh, it's dead. Success.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the poor red bull on the brain destroy

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Speaker 2: it and save the.

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Speaker 3: World, and Starman says, you'll be safe, children z Marians

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Speaker 3: will never come here again, and then he flies back

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Speaker 3: to the Emerald planet and that's just the end.

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Speaker 2: There you go, World saved. Thank you, super Giant aka Starman,

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Speaker 2: thank you for saving our world again.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting to imagine, like the the editing and adaptation process,

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Speaker 3: like when you look at the final product here, Why

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Speaker 3: did people think that this would be a better thing

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Speaker 3: to release than just like Super Giant episode seven with

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Speaker 3: English stubbing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like the whole the whole mission is weird here, right, Like,

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Speaker 2: or if you were gonna there are other ways you

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Speaker 2: could have potentially paded out the bat Mutant episode, you know,

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Speaker 2: get it up to a solid hour, But I don't know,

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Speaker 2: maybe those weren't cheap enough, and they're like, well, we

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Speaker 2: have the rights to all of them, let's you use them.

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Speaker 2: But then you also have this weird scenario, and I

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Speaker 2: guess you see this like literally all the time in film,

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Speaker 2: where on one hand, there is a business decision that

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Speaker 2: has been made, all right, cobble these together into one film,

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Speaker 2: But then that leaves you with the creative mission make

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Speaker 2: something watchable by combining three different films together. And they

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Speaker 2: clearly put some work into it. It's not, you know,

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Speaker 2: completely sloppy. Somebody had to figure out how to piece

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Speaker 2: these together, what kind of narration to stitch everything together with,

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Speaker 2: And it's admirable that it makes as much sense as

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Speaker 2: it does. Again, coming back imagining ourselves having to potentially

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Speaker 2: carry out the same exercise using like the first three

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Speaker 2: Iron Man films, or the first three Alien movies or something.

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Speaker 3: I can just imagine. Whoever it was, came up with

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Speaker 3: the idea that the narrator should say, now, remember, the

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Speaker 3: aliens can look like anything and anyone. Yeah, so it's

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Speaker 3: not a problem that these are just earthlings doing these crimes. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: does that wrap it up for Evil Brain from Outer Space?

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Speaker 2: I think it does. Yeah. Like I say, I part

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Speaker 2: of me would really love to see that at least

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Speaker 2: one of these super giant films in its original format.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I'm i'm my eyes are bigger

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Speaker 2: than my stomach on this this uh this request, but

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Speaker 2: I would I would be interested to see one in

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Speaker 2: its original format.

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Speaker 3: Definitely, the Bat Mutant. I would also be interested to

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Speaker 3: see the original arc of the Witch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what's she up to? Or well, you know

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Speaker 2: some of these other ones that weren't directly covered in

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Speaker 2: Evil Brain from Outer Space that also had some neat creatures.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, less so the tooth pick guys and the.

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Speaker 2: The nudging in the woods Yeah yeah, and all that.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, there's a lot of great creativity thrown into this.

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Speaker 2: It's it's worth it's worth checking out. This is one

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Speaker 2: that you can set down and pay those attention to,

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Speaker 2: or just have on in the background. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: of cool stuff. Throw some music on top of it

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Speaker 2: and have a good time.

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Speaker 3: Agree.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well, we're going to close the book

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Speaker 2: here on Evil Brain from Outer Space. But we'd love

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Speaker 2: to hear from you if you have thoughts on this

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Speaker 2: particular film, other exercises in editing and stitching together pre

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Speaker 2: existing cinematic properties. If you can think of other great examples,

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Speaker 2: write in. We would love to hear from you. We'd

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Speaker 2: love to discuss these and we may end up discussing

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