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Speaker 1: On the beck Dol Cast, the questions asked if movies

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Speaker 1: invest start changing it with the Bechdel Cast. Oh yeah, baby, groovy?

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Speaker 1: Do I make you Horney? I'm the girl that gets horny? Hello,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the Bechtel Cast. My name is Caitlin Darante.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jamie loft Tost, and we have a

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Speaker 1: podcast about the representation of women in movies, and we

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Speaker 1: use the Bechdel test as a jumping off point. And that,

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Speaker 1: of course, is a media metric created by cartoonist Alison Bechtel,

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Speaker 1: sometimes called the Bechtel Wallace test, and it requires that

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Speaker 1: two female identifying characters with names talk to each other

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Speaker 1: about something other than a man. Can we test it

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Speaker 1: really quick? Yeah? Baby? Okay, this question will maybe not

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Speaker 1: the show. Okay, Hey, Caitlin, Yeah, Jamie, have you seen Bombshell? Yes?

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Speaker 1: I have seen Bombshell and I know what the connection is,

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Speaker 1: but I won't spoil it. Stan passes yes, Yes, so

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Speaker 1: today this movie is not about bombshell. Today's movie is

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Speaker 1: about a man, an international man of mystery. If you will. Um,

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Speaker 1: we're covering the Austin Powers movie, focusing on the first one.

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Speaker 1: Although I embarrassingly watched the entire trilogy and have some

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Speaker 1: things to say. But why we're in a quarantine. We

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Speaker 1: I have What else am I gonna do? Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I feel like bad movies in the quarantine. We still

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Speaker 1: I definitely think the third one is the worst one.

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Speaker 1: Although none of them are good now, I mean, none

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Speaker 1: of them are well, especially especially for our purposes. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're bad, bad, bad, bad bad bad bad spoiler alert.

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Speaker 1: But as I was doing some reading, I was reading

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Speaker 1: through the plots, I was like, oh, these do see

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Speaker 1: the first place. Oh? Yes, indeed. Well, we've got a guest.

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Speaker 1: You know where your lover quarantine guest. She's all cord out.

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Speaker 1: She is a comedian. She's the host of Let's go

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Speaker 1: ots Go, which is a weekly podcast and also sometimes

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Speaker 1: you remember her from our Shrek episode, Never forget Shrek.

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Speaker 1: It's Otsko Okotska. Hi, why do you keep giving me

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Speaker 1: Mike Myers? Isn't it fun? It's we just did Wayne's World,

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Speaker 1: one next. Dang, well, we're not doing love Gurus so hard,

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. I thought it was me for

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Speaker 1: because I didn't grow up here. It's because I don't

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Speaker 1: get American humor. You know, something's wrong with me. But no, no,

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Speaker 1: it's something's wrong with Mike Myers, and something's wrong with

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Speaker 1: was like, is it is it growth or is it fear?

420
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: You know? Sometimes totally fin line, you saying brown face

421
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 1: made me think about also the U N characters which

422
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: were just like very it's a small world type like that.

423
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right, the German guy literally I think had

424
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: a kill on and maybe a bagpipe. Oh yeah, the

425
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: Scottish guy. And then they're yeah, there's Scottish. I'm so sorry,

426
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: not Germany. I'm getting here. I am being racist. There's

427
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: a lot of broad stereotypes in every possible way in

428
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: this movie, where like, I think that Frau what's her name,

429
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: Mindy Sterling is almost supposed to be like this stern

430
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: like Nazish German woman. Right, So there's definitely a lot

431
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: of broad stereotypes that play. But like and then in

432
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: the u N scene that you're talking about Otsco, when

433
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: they cut to like the group of people and there's

434
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: I mean there's only like it seems like twenty different

435
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: countries represented, but one of them. Did you notice the

436
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: people that they have there to represent Japan? She's like

437
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: they sent a geisha, Yes, there's a geisha. And then

438
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: as sumo wrestler, and those are like that trend continues,

439
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: believe it or not, into the sequels, where it seems

440
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: like Japan specifically. I don't know if Mike Myers or

441
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: the director or someone has a fixation on Japanese culture,

442
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: and it gets referred to more and more and increasingly

443
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: more racist jokes are made in the sequels. There's one

444
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: in particular about Japanese twin sisters in the third movie

445
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: that is just excruciating to watch. I mean, and like this,

446
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: I mean, this entire generation of SNL men are guilty

447
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: of this thing. I mean, we see Will Farrell in

448
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: this movie, Mike Myers, the Love Guru, I mean, say

449
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: no more that whole the promises, Dana Carvey is in

450
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: brown Face and The Master of Disguise five years after this,

451
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: Like it's bigger than Mike Myers, but he's a big

452
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: offender of it too, especially in a movie that is

453
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: like so painfully white that it's like you really had

454
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: to put Will Ferrell in brown face, like it just yeah,

455
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: it couldn't be. But but no one thought anything of it.

456
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: And I like to the point where Will Ferrell did

457
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: brown face again, No totally, yeah, I mean I did

458
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: laugh for a second when you mentioned the sumo wrestler again,

459
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: and I had to track the laugh like in my

460
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: laughing because it was funny or was it because I

461
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I think you have to take

462
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: a step further if it's like parody or satire or whatever.

463
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know the difference between the language. Um well,

464
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: actually parody is more like if you don't necessarily have

465
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: a comment, right, it's more like I'm doing a similar version,

466
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: doesn't remind you of that thing? Uh. And the satire

467
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: is like actual, like possible social commentary behind way of

468
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: making okay cool. So I do know the definitions. Um,

469
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't know. I mean, this isn't my first language. Um,

470
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: but like if they took it a step further and

471
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: like the people representing the u N was like I

472
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: don't know, like a literal like sushi fish or something,

473
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And like, uh, maybe that's

474
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: not funny that that's why I would never be hired

475
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: in the writing room for you know, Austin Powers. But

476
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: well that's a compliment to you as well. I'm like,

477
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: what if it was just a little little bagpipe, you know,

478
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: and that was Scotland's leader. I don't know, this is bad,

479
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: so anyway, there's no way I can fix the movie either.

480
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: So what am I talking about? Well, speaking of the

481
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: whole satire and parody thing, so obviously the Austin Powers

482
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: trilogy is a parody of a few different things, that seems,

483
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: but it seems to be merrily the James Bond franchise,

484
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: especially the earlier ones from the sixties and seventies, and

485
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: this is a franchise that is ripe for satire and parody.

486
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: But Austin Powers is not really doing anything to meaningfully

487
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: comment or critique this franchise. It's really just portraying a

488
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: lot of the same problematic tropes that the Bond franchise does,

489
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: especially as we already hinted at it, when it comes

490
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: to female characters. There's no you know, intelligent commentary happening.

491
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: There's no meaningful subversions of of anything. It's just like,

492
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: and hey, remember how horribly the Bond films treated women.

493
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: Let's do the same exact thing thirty years later. Yeah,

494
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: Well that's the thing is that. Yeah. I think that

495
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: the one point that I could see this movie attempting

496
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: parody on is the masculinity aspect of these characters that

497
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,479
Speaker 1: I feel like Austin Powers himself, in some ways is

498
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: somewhat satirical with and it's not like smart satire or

499
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: even good satire, but I think that the fact that

500
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: like they make references to like, oh, he's this like

501
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: ladies man that you would see in the seventies, and

502
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: we didn't. None of us grew up with this, so

503
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: it's kind of like we're basing this on sort of

504
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: secondhand knowledge, but that's who he's based on, like a

505
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: James Bond type of like a character like that. And

506
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: then to give him like, oh, he he uses a

507
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: penis pump or like somehow sexually like quote unquote impotent. Um.

508
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: I feel like that's at least an attempt at some

509
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: satire of saying like, oh, well, maybe these hyper masculine

510
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: characters were not as like that's an unrealistic standard. I

511
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: don't think it's done smartly, but that's that was the

512
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: place where I saw like an attempt. But then but

513
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: even so, a lot of the out of the movie

514
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: undermines that were it's hard to make the argument that like, oh,

515
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: like Austin Powers is this like unconventional looking sex icon,

516
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: but he still only surrounds himself with like young, conventionally

517
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: hot white girls. So like you can't really give the

518
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: movie any credit for that because it doesn't extend the

519
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: same the same for women in any way where even

520
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: like it's so it is wildly ridiculous to be and

521
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: doesn't seem based and satire at all. Just like what

522
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: the writing is that we only see like Austin Powers

523
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 1: is partner originally in the seventies, is Vanessa's mother, And theoretically,

524
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: like I have, like a better version of this movie

525
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: is to like see her come back and them have

526
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: to like reconnect as she has like age, she's had

527
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: a family, she's done all this stuff, and then she

528
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: has to like reconnect with this guy she used to

529
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: work with in the seventies, Like that is more interesting

530
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: to me than like, and now she's got a hot

531
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 1: daughter and her mother and daughter are going to bond

532
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: over both inexplicably liking this guy. Like I just I was,

533
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: I thought it really sucked at that they just completely

534
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: wrote Vanessa's mother out immediately like that just the only

535
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: the only three line was that Austin possibly sucked her too.

536
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: It sounds like you definitely did, and that he loved her. Yeah,

537
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 1: he like really loved her. It was like a weird

538
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: it's like a weird Mrs Robinson kind of like, yeah,

539
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: I loved her, but she's not available anymore. But then

540
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: they dropped that entirely, and he's like, well, I guess

541
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: I'm just in love with her daughter. Now you're like, yeah, yeah,

542
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: they're different like they I mean, I feel like that

543
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: the logic of the movie extends as far as like

544
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: mothers and daughters are pretty much the same person, which

545
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: is fun, which is like, Okay, that's a new level

546
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: of not writing a female character has just been well,

547
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: they're related, so like you can actually have sex with either,

548
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: and it's basically the same thing. And they have the

549
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: same jobs, and they have the same spy partner, like

550
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: they you know, they do everything the same. The only

551
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: thing was different was I guess that you know, the

552
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: mom was married to someone else. It's it's just so

553
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: like lazy and just bizarre, I mean, and that like

554
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: reinforces the whole like the way that this movie views women,

555
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: which is that if they're over a certain age or

556
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: they don't look a certain way, then there's no point

557
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: in having them on screen. Yeah, but the guy got

558
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 1: to keep his hots because he was frozen or whatever.

559
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: But he's not even hot. Like it's just like like men,

560
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: men are allowed to look a lot like it's It

561
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: almost reminds me of like what we see an animation

562
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: a lot, because this is a very cartoony movie of

563
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: like male characters are allowed to look a lot of

564
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: different ways, and there's different body types, and there's like

565
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: Mike Myers has more body diversity in this movie all

566
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,919
Speaker 1: of the female characters. Like, it's just it's very true

567
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: that well, the only thing he was body shamed about

568
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: was his teeth, and he got to fix that at

569
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,919
Speaker 1: the end, he and and he still got the girl.

570
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 1: So like, I don't feel bad. It's he felt bad

571
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: about his teeth one time, ye, but I do you also,

572
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: I also don't remember, and correct me if I'm wrong.

573
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: But the moment where Vanessa did flip and she's like,

574
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: I do like him what happened? That was confusing to

575
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 1: me as well. Okay, yeah, I have this whole thing

576
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: beat by beat kind of mapped out because it barely

577
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: makes sense. But here's very good. Yeah, the story beats

578
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: as they relate to Miss Kensington. So she's introduced with

579
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: a very male gaze panning shot starting at her feet,

580
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: slow pan up her entire figure, objectifying to the extreme.

581
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: Austin powers then sexual harasses her for a few minutes,

582
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: she finally says, like, do me a favor and stop

583
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: calling me baby. You can address me as Agent Kensington.

584
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: Except she's going to backtrack on it in two seconds

585
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 1: exactly because he's like, oh, come on, and she's like,

586
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: all right, then, Vanessa, you can call me Vanessa. So

587
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: then we cut to a scene on Austin's private jet,

588
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: and this conversation is very frustrating, and it goes like this.

589
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: Austin says, how does a hot chick like you end

590
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: up working at the Ministry of Defense? And she's like, well,

591
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: I went to Oxford and I excelled in several subjects.

592
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: I ended up specializing in foreign languages. I really wanted

593
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: to travel, you know, see the world. He interrupts her,

594
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: and he says, that's fascinating, Vanessa, listen, why don't we

595
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: go in the back and shag amazing hilarious. She says, no,

596
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 1: please concentrate on the mission, like give your libido arrest.

597
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: And then he's like, okay, well let me show you

598
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: something and he beckons her over to his head. Then

599
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: he kind of springs this whole thing on her where

600
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: he's like, do I make you honey, baby? Do I

601
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: make you randy blah blah blah um. He pretends to

602
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: fall on top of her. She's like screaming and being like,

603
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: get off me, get away. She then jumps up and says,

604
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: I will never have sex with you, Mr. Powers. Ever,

605
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: if you were the last man on earth and I

606
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: was the last woman on Earth and the future of

607
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 1: the human race depended on our having sex simply for procreation,

608
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: I would still not have sex with you. And he's

609
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: like but then the scene ends with her like kind

610
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: of giggling at him and his antics, and it's it's like, yeah,

611
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,439
Speaker 1: I guess foreshadowing of what's to come, which is him

612
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: wearing her down and her changing her mind. So a

613
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: little bit later, they arrive at a hotel in Vegas

614
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: and again Austin Powers is like, when are you going

615
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: to have sex with me? And she's like stop it,

616
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, I was just kidding. I'm just

617
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 1: trying to get a rise out of you. Then she's

618
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: like oh you and it's like no, he is like

619
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: sexually harassing you within an inch of your life right now,

620
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: Like well, that was yeah, that was like something that

621
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: really stood out to me of like a major failing

622
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: of the movie. Where I read UM was it was

623
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: a g Q piece that came out on the twentieth anniversary,

624
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: so like three years ago it came out and the

625
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: um let me see the author of the piece made

626
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: I think a pretty like smart comparison writer named Tom

627
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: Philip who's great um. He draws a line from Austin

628
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: Powers to mcgrouper and basically says that mcgrouber succeeds as

629
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: a satire where Austin Powers failed because mcgrouber, if I mean,

630
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 1: I like that movie a lot, it's like at least

631
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: holds the character accountable for fucking up at least some

632
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: of the time. Where Austin Powers, it's almost like a

633
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: boomer uncle attitude towards him, where they're like, well, he

634
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: doesn't understand, so it's fine. He can't be held accountable

635
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: for his actions because he doesn't understand what things are

636
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: like and and and that like the movie does not

637
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: extend the logic any further where like Vanessa has to

638
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: forgive him for these things because he doesn't get it,

639
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: and like there's no onus on Awesome Powers to have

640
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: to grow as a person, right exactly except to accept

641
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: monogamy into his life. That's the one thing he has

642
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: to do right, and that comes pretty much next where

643
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: the next major thing that happens between them is um,

644
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 1: we see Vanessa on the phone with her mom, who

645
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: also does not seem to have really aged at all

646
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: in thirty years, so like even though she would be

647
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: thirty years older, like she's not visibly thirty years older,

648
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 1: because heaven forbid we have a woman like in her

649
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: sixties on screen. Um. And when we do have a

650
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:57,280
Speaker 1: woman in her sixties on screen, it's basil expositions mother

651
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: and she gets the face, gets called a man. Yeah,

652
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,479
Speaker 1: there's so much. God, I'm just being reminded of so much.

653
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: That was so upsetting because, just to sidetrack a little bit,

654
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 1: there's that moment in the beginning of the movie where

655
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: like they're still in like sixty seven, they're in that

656
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: club and there's a woman who approaches Austin Powers and

657
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: he punches her in the face and everyone's like, oh

658
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: my god, what just happened? And then it cuts to

659
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: this woman is now suddenly a man, and you know,

660
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 1: Austin Powers pulls the wig off and it's like, see

661
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: he was a man. He's trying to kill me, which is,

662
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: I mean, what the like, that's horrible obviously, and then

663
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: the same thing happens later in the movie, except this

664
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: time he just thought that an older woman was a man,

665
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: punches this woman in the face and then everyone's like,

666
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: oh my god, why did you punch Basil's mother And

667
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: he's like, ah, I thought she was a man. That's

668
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: the worst part is it's a callback. It's uh. Anyway,

669
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: So Vanessa is talking to her mother. She says something like,

670
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: oh wow, I can't believe you were able to resist

671
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: Austin Powers charms like you should want to have sex

672
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: with him because he's the most charming man alive, and

673
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: Vanessa is like, um, I don't see it. I don't

674
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. Blah blah blah. Then there's

675
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: a very quick scene where they're actually doing some work.

676
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: They're trying to find dr evil, but it lasts for

677
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 1: like thirty seconds, and then suddenly Austin Powers is like, Wow,

678
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: you're so beautiful. I'm going to take you out for

679
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: a night on the town. And then we cut to

680
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: this like romantic date that they're on. They're drinking champagne

681
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: bert back Iraq is serenading them, they're dancing, cut to

682
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: them playing twister in their hotel room, and then all

683
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: of a sudden, she's like, t he Austin, you're awesome,

684
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: You're so funny, Come have champagne with me. And then

685
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: there's this scene where, like the moment where she's trying

686
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 1: to come onto him because I guess her mother convinced

687
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: her that she should like him, Like that's my best

688
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,959
Speaker 1: guess for why she has suddenly made this shift, because

689
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: she's she's like, kiss me, blah blah blah, and he's like, no,

690
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: you're you're smashed. It wouldn't be right. I'm not going

691
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: to kiss you when you're drunk. Why that he became

692
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,879
Speaker 1: a gentleman right there, all of a sudden, right even

693
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: though he's been sexually harassing her NonStop for every moment

694
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: up till this point. And she's like, no, I finally

695
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: see what my mom was talking about. You're so funny,

696
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: you're so charming. And it's like, where is this coming from?

697
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: Like the choice to make her make this shift after

698
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: he's sexually harassed her NonStop, it's so frustrating. It's almost

699
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: like oh maybe, It's like, oh maybe she needed to

700
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: be told she was beautiful, because that's what set it off.

701
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: It was so weird, you know, in broad daylights, Like

702
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: he saw her in broad daylight for once outside and

703
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: he was just like, oh my god, you're so beautiful,

704
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: and she was like, yes, nine out on town. I

705
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: don't care. Can't make sense of it. And there's a

706
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: little bit of time where like Austin has sex with

707
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: a lot of vagina, which how could we not have

708
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: brought that up? I mean, that's an obvious like parody

709
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: for the pussy Galore character from whatever bad film that is.

710
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: But like, but again it's like, what is the commentary

711
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: I think it's just kind of doing it again. She's

712
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 1: like the she's the fem fatale, but her name is

713
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: even somehow goofier than pussy Galore. Like they're just there's

714
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: no commentary there. It just is you've got to be

715
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: smarter than what you're trying to make fun of exactly,

716
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: and this movie is not. But you know, he has

717
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: sex with her and then Vanessa's like, well, gee whiz,

718
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: if you want us to have a relationship, you gotta

719
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 1: get it through your head at the times have change.

720
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: This is the nineties because I guess now she wants

721
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:54,760
Speaker 1: a relationship. But it's like, Okay, all of a sudden,

722
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: they're in a relationship. That wasn't I thought I had

723
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: missed something too. I was like, because she didn't, I

724
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: was like, wait, did I like black? Like what? And

725
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: then she it's that classic move that movies do, and

726
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: by classic I mean bad where they're they're like, oh,

727
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: she's at the top of her field. She's really good

728
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: at her job. And then we kind of see that

729
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: happen like one time. But then for the most part,

730
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: she just becomes the love interest and she is like

731
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit jealous, and you're like, oh, my

732
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: fucking guy, like the bad look for everyone, like she

733
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: they're not in a relationship, but then when she says

734
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: that they are, he's like, oh, we are. And then

735
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: it just gets confusing. You almost feel like there's like

736
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: a missing scene there or something totally where like she

737
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: has completely come around, which like why would she? But

738
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: of course the movie makes her make the choice to

739
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: come around, and then suddenly they're in a relationship, and

740
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: then cut to the end and they are married. Um,

741
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: and then cut to the following movie, The Spy Who

742
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: Shagged me. That movie opens with Austin Powers discovering that

743
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: his his wife Vanessa, was a fembot the whole time,

744
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: who tries to kill him and then she explodes. You know,

745
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: it's this whole thing where he's like, oh wow, I

746
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 1: can't believe my beautiful wife, the love of my life,

747
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 1: was a fembott all along. And then he's like, wait

748
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: a minute, that means I'm single again. Yaya what that's

749
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 1: how they saw That's how they solve getting rid of her, Yes, exactly,

750
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: which okay, So I was like, maybe again it's I

751
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: guess it's sort of parody in terms of maybe it's satire.

752
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's I think the acknowledgement that, like

753
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: the Bond franchise and similar like action spy franchises, treat

754
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: women as though they are expendable and disposable, because at

755
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: the beginning of this movie, the main female character from

756
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: the first movie is made to be evil for no

757
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: reason and then killed off immediately. But again, there's no

758
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: commentary being offered here. It's just again participating in the

759
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: same sex as trope. I have. I have a question

760
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,320
Speaker 1: about that. Does that mean that Mrs Kensington is also

761
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: an evil person. She was in on it, and that's

762
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: not really her daughter that was. It makes no sense

763
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: that wasn't. And then I'm also like, why wouldn't they

764
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: have frozen Mrs Kensington Like, yeah, it doesn't make sense

765
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: to me because she was like in theory Austin Powers

766
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: is equal. I don't get it that. And after this

767
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: happens in the sequel, basil exposition is like, yeah, we

768
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: knew she was a fembot the whole time, and then

769
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 1: like Austin Powers gives this weird look and I guess

770
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: that excuses the lack of narrative justification for why they

771
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: killed her off. But it's just like, are you fucking

772
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: kidding me? Right right? You're just like what? Um? But anyway,

773
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: so back to the first movie, Um, yes, the way

774
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: that she is, I mean, it was just deplorable to

775
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: see her be sexually harassed by him NonStop, but then

776
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: to also see her like secretly be like t he

777
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,799
Speaker 1: I actually kind of like this, right, I mean, it

778
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:18,760
Speaker 1: just sets up every bad precedent that like movies, especially

779
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: especially at a movie that like realistically was targeted at

780
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: young men, Like that is just every irresponsible thing you

781
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: can do with the movie for young men is like

782
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: tell them it's okay to sectually her ask people that

783
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: this is what women actually want, that women are to

784
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: be viewed a certain way, like like it's it comes

785
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 1: down again to like the responsibility of like I think

786
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: Mike Myers thinks this is satire for them. I think, like,

787
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: and if that's the case, then it's like you carry

788
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: your responsibility with that you have, like you. It drives

789
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: me like up a wall when people suggest like, well,

790
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't actually need to take my audience into account

791
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: when I make things. I make whatever I want and

792
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, where it's like Mike Myers, you know,

793
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: your audience is like preteen, Like it's kids and like

794
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: and young people and like, you know, movies like this

795
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: definitely have like a lasting impact, even though it seems

796
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: goofy and stupid and mostly just something that annoying people

797
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: quote still for some reason, but it does have elastic

798
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:29,399
Speaker 1: effect on people. And it's like, yeah, if you that

799
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: was so that little giggle shot really killed me. I

800
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 1: hate you know it has it has a lasting effect

801
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: on people because there are people out there who go,

802
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: I am going to make money dressing up like him,

803
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: driving a car just like him and doing and doing

804
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: weird dinner parties because I mean, I guess you kind

805
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: of have to look like the person. You have to

806
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: be practical about that too. You can't just want to

807
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: impersonate anybody, right, You have to have at least similar features.

808
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: So maybe you don't have a choice, but you know, maybe, yeah,

809
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: maybe he was just he just looked already exactly like

810
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: Austin Powers, and he's like, well, I can make a

811
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,760
Speaker 1: career out of this. And for the people who don't

812
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: look like him, they set up a pop up bar

813
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: in Glendale, California. I liked seeing Carrie Fisher. I she's

814
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: deserved so much better. But it was like a bright spot.

815
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, there's someone here. I like, this is good. Uh,

816
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: We've got to take a groovy little break, but we'll

817
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: be right back, baby. There is a chunk at the

818
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: end that went a little better than I expected. It's

819
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: not to say that it's good at all, but I

820
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 1: was like, oh, this isn't as horrible as I was

821
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: expecting it to be, considering everything that's happened up till

822
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: this point. But um, at the end, both Vanessa and

823
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: Austin are there like near dr evils secret layer, and

824
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 1: they get captured and they are largely able to escape.

825
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: This is when they're like surrounded by the like mutated

826
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: sea bass or whatever. They're able to escape largely because

827
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: of all the dental equipment that she brought with her.

828
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: Then she goes and gets help and brings back an army,

829
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: so she was more active than I was thinking. I

830
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,800
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, she's probably just gonna get like tied

831
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: up and damseled and infringed, and that does happen a

832
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: moment later, when um a lot of vagina is holding

833
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: her hostage, but then Vanessa chops her and escapes on

834
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: her own. She does not need to be saved by

835
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 1: Austin powers. So I was like, Okay, that's a little

836
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: better than what I was expecting. I was, yeah, I

837
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: was like. The other thing I noticed about that scene too,

838
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 1: is like it was almost I don't know how intentional

839
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: it was, but it was a bit of an inversion

840
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: of like how you would normally expect this seems to

841
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 1: go because she was actively the action hero of the

842
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: scene while Austin is trying to use his sexual whiles

843
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: to get out of a situation and I feel like

844
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: normally you would see that dynamic in the reverse where

845
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: like a woman has to seduce someone to get out

846
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: of a compromising situation. We've seen that a billion, a

847
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: hundred billion times one hundred billion. I mean, in that scene,

848
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: at least Austin is the person that has to use

849
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: his like sexual whiles to get out of a compromising situation.

850
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: So it's not much, but it was better than like

851
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: you're saying, it was like slightly better than what I

852
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: was expected for it. But then that just means that

853
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: all those fembots have to die. We see like, oh, yes,

854
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: we love to see a woman get punched or explode

855
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: in this yes, because they couldn't handle a man, you know,

856
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: being so sexy. And with the fembots, it's like, I mean, honestly,

857
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: like I still think the aesthetic of the fembots is

858
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: like kind of iconic, but that's just because that it's

859
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: barbarella um and I you can draw a direct line

860
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: from do you remember that Katy Perry music video where

861
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 1: she shoots out of her booth? Thought of that, Well,

862
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: that's a brilliant commentary anyway, the but the fem bats

863
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: are ultimately like this, um you know, they're they're carrying

864
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: out I mean, I guess that Frau far Bisina did

865
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 1: invent them, but they're ultimately like these sexy ladies that

866
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: don't have names, who are meant to carry out the

867
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:36,760
Speaker 1: wishes of Doctor Evil. So not feminist icons. Fraul far Bisina,

868
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: I think is the best female character of the franchise.

869
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: She's pretty much the only consistent one. She and all

870
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,959
Speaker 1: of them. She's in all of them. Oh that's fine,

871
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: but she's not necessarily you know, treated I think the

872
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 1: second movie a joke has made at her expense. Where

873
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: so Dr Evil and Austin Powers go back in time too,

874
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: I think nineteen sixty nine, and that's where most of

875
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,320
Speaker 1: the movie takes place. So Dr Evil he's like, oh wow,

876
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: number two, you look so young and handsome in nineteen

877
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: sixty nine. And he's literally played by Rob Low, you know,

878
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: one of the handsomest mental A deleted scene from the

879
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: first movie too, I saw really interested. So I guess

880
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: he was there from the jump, I guess. I mean,

881
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: but he was in Wayne's world too, So maybe him

882
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: and Mike Myers are just like they're best friends. Maybe,

883
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: but anyway, so he so number two gets to be

884
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 1: played like the young version of number two gets to

885
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: be played by a very handsome actor. Whereas the joke

886
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: is made that she looks the same, exact same, she

887
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: doesn't get to be I guess the joke is like, oh,

888
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: she's you know, pretty average looking, no matter what decade

889
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, there is the good thing there,

890
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: which is that Mindy Sterling is getting paid. Yes, there's

891
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: no one in the second movie. It sounds like that

892
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:01,280
Speaker 1: knows what happened to Natalie Wood. That's true, that's true.

893
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 1: And just while we're on the second movie, a couple

894
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: things to say about that real quick that Heather Graham

895
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 1: Um plays a character named Felicity Shaguell. She is the

896
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: main female character, and like Um ally to Austin Powers,

897
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,839
Speaker 1: she is shown as being extremely horny for Austin right

898
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: from the jump. But the big obstacle of that movie

899
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: is that he can't do anything about it because he's

900
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: lost his mojo, which again might be slight commentary on

901
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 1: what you were talking about earlier, Jamie, with like the

902
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:43,240
Speaker 1: masculinity aspect of this type of like you know, British superspy,

903
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 1: but like again I don't I don't know what they're

904
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: trying to say with this the commentary, it's the audience

905
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,399
Speaker 1: of this movie is like I think a little bit

906
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: jarring and confusing, because it's like most people see this

907
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: movie are and like quoting this movie are kids and

908
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: teenagers who just based on the time the movie came out,

909
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: would have no like life understanding of what the movie

910
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: is parodying. But then it's making all these references that

911
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: seem to be for their parents. But that's not like

912
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: I'm sure parents are watching the movie, but not in

913
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: the same like what. It's just weird. It's just like

914
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: it's just kind of Uncanny Valley, and like I think

915
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: Mike Myers is not making it for kids, but that's

916
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: who's watching it, and so for the intended commentary just

917
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: gets completely lost. If there is any I don't know.

918
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: I wasn't alive in the sixties in England, I was.

919
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: It is so interesting with that said, is that like

920
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: the audience you weren't making it for or the fans,

921
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: and because they don't get the references, that means they're

922
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: taking it at face value and actually liking that. I

923
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: mean no, I mean not as a read at all.

924
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: On people who did watch it as kids and they

925
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: liked it, Caitlin, thank you, you know, but um, it's

926
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: it's so weird to It's kind of like some Sasha

927
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: Bear and Cohen movies where people who he's making fun

928
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: of like it and they have no idea he's making

929
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: fun of them, you know, right right, because they're just like, oh,

930
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: sex jokes, homo jokes or whatever, you know, and so

931
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: they don't get that there he's making fun of homo phobia. Right. Wait,

932
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: so how do he lose his mojo? Is it because

933
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: he lost his wife and he's sad about oh? He Oh,

934
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: I'd love to tell you. Nope, nothing like that. It

935
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: is that the character Fat Bastard steals it from him.

936
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: So of course we have Fat Bastard. This is one

937
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: long fat shaming joke. One of the worst, if not

938
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: the worst offender of a fat joke in movie history,

939
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: is the character Fat Bastard. He shows up again in

940
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: the third movie as well. It is despicable. Similarly, I

941
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: would argue that the mini Me character, many many jokes

942
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: are made at the pens of Verne Troyer and his

943
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: size and his body rest in power. Um so you

944
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: have all these This doesn't happen to a large degree

945
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: in the first movie, but starting with the second movie

946
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 1: of this trilogy, there is all these jokes made at

947
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: the expense of various people's bodies and and looks and

948
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: things like that, so that is obviously unacceptable. The most

949
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:32,439
Speaker 1: important thing though about Austin Powers too, is that when

950
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: they're tracking Fat Bastard, at one point Austin's like the

951
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: signals come through. He's at Paddington Station. So it's forgiven

952
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 1: it's for you. No, but there is the Paddington reference. Um.

953
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 1: And if only this movie about a British person wearing

954
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 1: a blue jacket was not about Austin Powers and it

955
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: was instead about Paddington Bear. If I may, I think

956
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 1: that maybe this I don't know, if this is this

957
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: isn't really an Alpha Molina type movie. No, No, he

958
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: would not set foot on that set. I don't think so.

959
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: And even if he was offered a part um, he

960
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: was probably busy shooting his iconic part in Boogie Nights,

961
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: which comes out the same year. True interesting, y'all know there.

962
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: I just have his Wikipedia page open at all times.

963
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: And then as far as like Austin Powers three, this

964
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 1: is the one I'm least familiar with. I only saw

965
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: it once, but there's just the Beyonce one. There's a

966
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 1: whole slew of racist jokes throughout the movie. Is she

967
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: his love interest? Um, she's like his like spy partner.

968
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: I don't think they ever have any sort of I

969
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 1: don't remember. I think they do kiss at the end.

970
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: I think yeah, but it's not quite it's not quite

971
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 1: framed the same way as it is in the first

972
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: two movies. I hate that B and I had to

973
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: kiss Mike Myers, But then I would also be pissed

974
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: if he had no interest in Beyonce at all, you

975
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: know right, That would also be racist, right, Like, oh,

976
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: is it because she's black? You know right? Well, yeah,

977
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 1: we've talked about that a lot in recent episodes of

978
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: like this, especially in this era, like a resistance to

979
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: showing any interracial couples on screen, and how like it

980
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: sometimes gets confused even by us at certain points of like, oh,

981
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: that's cool that they didn't force a love interest, and

982
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: and then like, I mean it was when we were

983
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: talking about bad boys, but it was like, oh, well

984
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 1: that was because in this time, it wasn't that they

985
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: were doing something feminists, is that they were doing something racist.

986
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: Oh totally yes, if if memory serves, they do share

987
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: They are like flirting a lot throughout the movie, and

988
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 1: they do share a kiss at the end, but he

989
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 1: is not trying to shag the time, not trying to

990
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: shag her relentlessly in a harassing way. Again, as far

991
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: as I was like watching like in the middle of

992
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: the night. So who knows what my memory is doing.

993
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: But either way, none of these movies are good and

994
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: they're all treat women terribly. Also, I mean, just because

995
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: we referenced it at the top of the episode, this

996
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:28,040
Speaker 1: movie this true. I mean they are all three directed

997
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: by Jay Roach Caitlin. Oh I believe they are. Yes,

998
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: so j ro okay. So this is like one of

999
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: my least favorite trends in recent movie history. I hate

1000
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 1: it so much. We've talked about it before on the

1001
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: Mate Treon, But this whole like trend of men who

1002
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 1: directed incredibly offensive broad nineties and early two thousands comedies

1003
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: getting this second act now directing movies that are supposed

1004
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 1: to be feminist or like or I guess progressive in general.

1005
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 1: Where you have the Fairly Brothers with Green Book, which

1006
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: is a trash movie that want a ton of oscars,

1007
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: Eric you have, I mean for but in Jay Roach

1008
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: directed Bombshell, which was supposed to be the feminist movie

1009
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: of the movie season. It wasn't. It didn't make any

1010
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 1: fucking sense and it wasn't very good. But this is

1011
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: the fact that like these prestige projects that are about

1012
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: women and people of color, and they're just being given

1013
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: to these guys that did these outwardly, like their whole

1014
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: resume is like across the board. J roaches resume is sexist, sexist, sexist.

1015
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: What I didn't say that right any of the three

1016
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: times understood, but like but but then that they're like, yeah,

1017
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 1: you know what, he should get an opportunity to direct

1018
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:54,439
Speaker 1: a movie about misogyny in the workplace, Like on what

1019
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 1: fucking grounds? It's just whoa, you're blowing my mind right now.

1020
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: I had no idea. That's wow, that this is the

1021
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: this is how the system gets recycled over and over.

1022
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 1: Of course it's the people who were here first, and

1023
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 1: it's dudes like him, and of course they wore in

1024
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 1: the times. That was what that's so fucked up. He's

1025
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: the one who directed bomb Yeah, I mean, they're not

1026
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:19,680
Speaker 1: getting you talent. No, it's like of all the I mean,

1027
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,680
Speaker 1: of all the stories that needed to be directed by

1028
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: a woman, and then also like why we are like, oh,

1029
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 1: the first Me Too movie is about like women on

1030
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: Fox News, Like all right, but so it's like shitty

1031
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 1: on a number of levels. But if you want to

1032
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: tell that story, why hand that to the director of

1033
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: all three Austin Powers? Just like, on what fucking grounds

1034
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: does that make sense? Well, Jamie, because he also directed

1035
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 1: Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. I like, I

1036
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 1: don't I've every I mean, I I don't know anything

1037
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 1: about this man personally, but you just like on on

1038
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: paper and on like the resume translating to that, it

1039
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: just makes no sense. And it just it's like it

1040
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: seems like a slap in the face to female filmmakers

1041
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 1: as a whole. Yes, oh my god. I wonder what

1042
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: side by side the scenes from Fembots, if there are

1043
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 1: any scenes and bombshell that kind of like side by side.

1044
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking it's like three three blonde women, you know,

1045
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: three blonde women. There were six blond fembots, you know,

1046
01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: like if if it's like there's some like shot the

1047
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 1: shot storyboard like similar. I don't know, I wonder if

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01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 1: he used that as a pitch, you know, like, oh,

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01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 1: this is a scene from Austin Powers. Okay, so I'm picturing,

1050
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 1: you know, how the fembots were like this, this is

1051
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:37,680
Speaker 1: how the girls and Bombshell are going to be standing.

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01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:41,880
Speaker 1: It's kind of like this. Yeah, so that's a not

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01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: very fun fact. My, my. The only fun fact I

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01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 1: could find about this movie that was fun was that scene.

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01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 1: I mean, there's like those two scenes that have those

1056
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 1: extended visual jokes about dicks and boobies because movies for

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01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 1: nine year olds, Um, but whatever, And what if they're okay, hilarious?

1058
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 1: Saw Jamie had while watching the movie. What if you

1059
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 1: watched the end and it was like cinematography Roger Deakins.

1060
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:18,240
Speaker 1: Just what if Roger Deakins literally orchestrated those boobies and

1061
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 1: PP shots anyways? Um, well it's not him, but that

1062
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 1: would be really funny if that was Roger Deakins. Anyways, Um,

1063
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: that scene, that last scene with all the melons and

1064
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 1: the boobies and all the whole booby thing that was

1065
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 1: shot at the Scientology Celebrity Center, what weird? What? Okay?

1066
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,919
Speaker 1: Hold on, there's just too many things. My mind needs

1067
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: to calm down. Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna explode like

1068
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:49,479
Speaker 1: like one of the thumbs. Wait okay, wait, everything's wrong

1069
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 1: with everything, Everything's very wrong. Hold on, I need to um,

1070
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 1: I need to calm down. Wait okay, So everything about

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01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:02,439
Speaker 1: this movie is remind me of just everything wrong with

1072
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 1: like the nineties, not just nineties. It's like very in

1073
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: cell from like the Judo Chop to now Scientology. It's

1074
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 1: this is all very like toxic in cell shit, you

1075
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 1: know what. Well, also because for some reason, like every

1076
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 1: guy loser who's like who gets toxic about not getting

1077
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: um laid gets really into like martial arts too, and

1078
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: so every time no for real, it's like um uh

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01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 1: you know, Putin is like a black belt, you know

1080
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's always like weird evil people. It's

1081
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 1: always like evil dudes like who are like not getting

1082
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: laid and like you know, are angry about it. Um

1083
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 1: that gets really so like the references to Judo freaked

1084
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 1: me out, to like Judo chop, you know, in Awesome Powers,

1085
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: because I was like everything like the obsession with Japan,

1086
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 1: you know, obsession with boobies, dumb sex oaks, and poop

1087
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 1: jokes and uh, I mean the scientology I can't explain

1088
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:08,800
Speaker 1: right now, but like did they just offer it? I

1089
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 1: don't know, I guess yeah, it was a free Everything

1090
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 1: else seemed kind of like they could shoot it for

1091
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: pretty low budge. I mean the u n was just

1092
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: like a dark room, right, Like the background was just

1093
01:08:20,240 --> 01:08:24,640
Speaker 1: black right. I think the first movie had a sixteen

1094
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 1: point five million dollar budget, which is yeah, not pretty

1095
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 1: low for a studio comedy at like action comedy. Yeah. Yeah,

1096
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 1: I wonder how much that budget goes up between the

1097
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 1: first and the second one. Oh, I have it right here.

1098
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:42,920
Speaker 1: It uh pretty much doubles for The Spy Who Shagged Me,

1099
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:47,599
Speaker 1: and then that again nearly doubles for the third movie. Um,

1100
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 1: these movies grossed. The first one didn't do super well.

1101
01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 1: It was a success, but I read that part of

1102
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: the reason it didn't do well is it didn't do

1103
01:08:57,280 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: well in England because it came out right after Prince

1104
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,680
Speaker 1: us Die passed away and no one was fucking with

1105
01:09:03,760 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 1: it at that time, because I think that they were

1106
01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:08,040
Speaker 1: really banking on it being very successful in England as well,

1107
01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:13,160
Speaker 1: but everyone in England was bummed out. Um, I'm seeing

1108
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:15,599
Speaker 1: two different figures here, and I don't know exactly which

1109
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 1: one is which, so I'll just stay the lower one

1110
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 1: to be safe. But worldwide these movies, the trilogy grossed

1111
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: about six hundred and seventy five million dollars um as

1112
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 1: a trilogy across the world. So you're like, You're like,

1113
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 1: the people were sad about Princess Diana's death and they

1114
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:39,719
Speaker 1: knew watching the movie would not make them feel better,

1115
01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 1: and so they just avoided it pretty much. I don't know,

1116
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: does anyone have any other final thoughts? I can't wait

1117
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 1: to do another Mike Myers movie? Oh yeah, you got

1118
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: what do you do? You want to come back for? Um?

1119
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 1: So I marry an axe murderer or whatever the book

1120
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 1: that movie is? Sure? I haven't seen that our our

1121
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 1: number one request. Most people haven't. Um yeah, Well, next

1122
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 1: time we'll have you on for a movie that you

1123
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: actually want to talk. We've punished you long enough. No, no, no,

1124
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 1: it's fine. Look, I have we have time right now.

1125
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,679
Speaker 1: I have time right now. It's like, yeah, we visit

1126
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:27,680
Speaker 1: awesome powers, we appreciate it. Yes, Uh, let's figure out

1127
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:32,439
Speaker 1: if the movie passes the Bechtel test. No it doesn't.

1128
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:36,000
Speaker 1: I had my fingers crossed for when Vanessa and her

1129
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 1: mother were talking, but they always talked about fucking Austin Powers.

1130
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:43,719
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's the only time women interact

1131
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:48,640
Speaker 1: in the entire movie, because like frail Farbistina does not

1132
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 1: interact with her femboss. They don't have names and they

1133
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 1: don't have names. Um yeah, maybe a lot of Vagina

1134
01:10:56,479 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 1: when she's like kidnapping Vanessa, but I don't know if

1135
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: they talk either. We didn't see that conversation. Yeah. No,

1136
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:09,320
Speaker 1: I don't think this movie passes the Bechtel test, and

1137
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 1: if it does, it shouldn't write unless the sea bass

1138
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,759
Speaker 1: the mutated sea beasts were all female fish and they talked,

1139
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 1: but we didn't see it. There better be a deleted

1140
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: scene where that happens. And if not pissed, let's rate

1141
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 1: it on our nipple scale zero to five nipples based

1142
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 1: on its representation of women. I think I'm gonna just

1143
01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:32,719
Speaker 1: go ahead and give this zero nipples. Give it a

1144
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: zero as well. I'm going to give it a concaved nipple. Yeah.

1145
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:43,840
Speaker 1: I mean, everything about it is despicable. It does not

1146
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 1: get any better as the franchise goes forward. There was

1147
01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 1: an opportunity to provide meaningful commentary on this type of

1148
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: like spy action franchise, because I mean, we talked about

1149
01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 1: one of the Bond movies so far on the podcast, um,

1150
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: and it was one of the more recent ones, and

1151
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: it's still do we have to talk about another one? No? Well,

1152
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:13,320
Speaker 1: so I was like, oh, we can do Austin Powers.

1153
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 1: Because originally, um, the newest Bond installment was supposed to

1154
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 1: come out in early April, but everything, you know, not

1155
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 1: being released in theaters. So that's why I was like, Oh,

1156
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 1: let's do an Austin Powers movie instead. So that's why

1157
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: we're releasing this episode. Now you know all of our

1158
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: plans that fall into ship. But it's actually fine. Mulan

1159
01:12:36,560 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 1: didn't come out, but our episode did, so basically it

1160
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:44,799
Speaker 1: came out basically Mulan came, yeah and look whatever. Oh

1161
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: by the way, I wanted to before we leave, I

1162
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:50,240
Speaker 1: said concave nipple, not to body shame, but because it's

1163
01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 1: like a negative nipple. Oh so yeah, what I meant was,

1164
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 1: it's a it's a negative one. Got it. God, I

1165
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:04,960
Speaker 1: think I've lost ability to really like swarm sentences because no, honestly,

1166
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:07,600
Speaker 1: I haven't seen people and I know anyways, thank you

1167
01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 1: for having me on that would be that's my last thought. Uh,

1168
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 1: we're we're so glad to have had you. Thank you

1169
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:16,920
Speaker 1: so much for being here. And a natsco. What would

1170
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 1: you like to plug? And where can people follow you

1171
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:24,559
Speaker 1: online and check out your stuff? You can just define

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01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 1: me at Outsco Comedy a T s uk O Comedy.

1173
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at. Yeah, and check out let's go

1174
01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: outs Go the podcast and the live show and the

1175
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:39,719
Speaker 1: future Quimby Show. Yes since the future equip Yes coming

1176
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 1: to your phone so we'll see you know, yeah, we'll

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01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:47,679
Speaker 1: see what happens. It's coming, It's coming. Yes, I can't

1178
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Speaker 1: wait on. You can follow us on all the places, Twitter, Instagram, Patreon, ak.

1179
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:57,080
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01:13:57,120 --> 01:14:00,680
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1184
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Speaker 1: baby Shagdelic or something Harney Harney that horny Bye bye