WEBVTT - Austin Powers with Atsuko Okatsuka 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.760 On the beck Dol Cast, the questions asked if movies 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:07.440 have women in um, are all their discussions just boyfriends 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:11.640 and husbands or do they have individualism? The patriarchy? Zef 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:19.959 invest start changing it with the Bechdel Cast. Oh yeah, baby, groovy? 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:25.640 Do I make you Horney? I'm the girl that gets horny? Hello, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.320 and welcome to the Bechtel Cast. My name is Caitlin Darante. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.720 My name is Jamie loft Tost, and we have a 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:38.040 podcast about the representation of women in movies, and we 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.000 use the Bechdel test as a jumping off point. And that, 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.960 of course, is a media metric created by cartoonist Alison Bechtel, 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.840 sometimes called the Bechtel Wallace test, and it requires that 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.360 two female identifying characters with names talk to each other 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.560 about something other than a man. Can we test it 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:05.040 really quick? Yeah? Baby? Okay, this question will maybe not 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.840 seem immediately relevant, but maybe we'll a little later in 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:15.160 the show. Okay, Hey, Caitlin, Yeah, Jamie, have you seen Bombshell? Yes? 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.600 I have seen Bombshell and I know what the connection is, 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:26.000 but I won't spoil it. Stan passes yes, Yes, so 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.600 today this movie is not about bombshell. Today's movie is 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:35.360 about a man, an international man of mystery. If you will. Um, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:40.160 we're covering the Austin Powers movie, focusing on the first one. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.520 Although I embarrassingly watched the entire trilogy and have some 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:51.960 things to say. But why we're in a quarantine. We 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.760 I have What else am I gonna do? Here's the thing. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.880 I feel like bad movies in the quarantine. We still 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.280 we don't have to watch them. That's true, I do. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:02.960 I mean I'm excited to talk about it though, because 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:07.120 I I it's my general understanding and vague knowledge that 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:11.200 they get worse as they go on. Is that true? Yes, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.320 I definitely think the third one is the worst one. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.560 Although none of them are good now, I mean, none 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.160 of them are well, especially especially for our purposes. Uh, 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.200 they're bad, bad, bad, bad bad bad bad spoiler alert. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.600 But as I was doing some reading, I was reading 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.639 through the plots, I was like, oh, these do see 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.600 them too? Uh to slip from a slippery place in 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.920 the first place. Oh? Yes, indeed. Well, we've got a guest. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.080 You know where your lover quarantine guest. She's all cord out. 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.520 She is a comedian. She's the host of Let's go 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.720 ots Go, which is a weekly podcast and also sometimes 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.240 a live show when we're not in a quarantine and 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.960 you remember her from our Shrek episode, Never forget Shrek. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.840 It's Otsko Okotska. Hi, why do you keep giving me 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:16.000 Mike Myers? Isn't it fun? It's we just did Wayne's World, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:17.640 or we would have brought you on to do that 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:22.560 one next. Dang, well, we're not doing love Gurus so hard, 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.400 too hard to know what else we're gonna do. Thanks 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.680 for letting me miss out on that one. I don't 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.880 I don't get it. I thought it was me for 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.440 the longest time with Mike Myers. For the longest time 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.520 it was I was like, it's me, it's it's it's 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.760 because I didn't grow up here. It's because I don't 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:44.080 get American humor. You know, something's wrong with me. But no, no, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:48.119 it's something's wrong with Mike Myers, and something's wrong with 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:54.080 the culture. Yeah, because there's just so many movies. There's 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.320 so many pop culture things that you just grow up 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.680 with like an elementary school, like everyone doing at one point, 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.240 like so good, you know, from wrestling, or like everyone 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.920 doing you know, like a Jim carey voice, everyone doing 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.600 sucking baby from you know, uh what we're about to 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.960 talk about? What's that movie called Austin Powers and me 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.359 being like I never laughed, I never even gave like 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.480 a nice you know, being being polite kind of laughed 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.400 to it. So I'm glad you made you had me 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.320 rewatch it. Yes, sorry, I think you bring the freshest 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.880 possible perspective. And also we're so sorry, no, no problem. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:39.120 It's good to review what you know, human beings were 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.960 capable of doing and the progress that we've made. Exactly. 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.679 What's your experience with the Austin Powers, I mean this movie, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.240 but the fran tries in general. I think I watched 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.800 it once, like a long time ago. I remember seeing 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.840 vague like I remember seeing clips of like the one 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:05.200 Beyonce was in which everyone that was gold member gold member. Yeah, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:09.280 Kitten's like, I watched it yesterday, that's right. Caitlin also 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:14.599 recently watched both National Treasures, which actually sounds like it 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.400 was a more fun task than this, right it was 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.359 for sure. Yeah, well, God bless National Treasure. I'm going 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.840 to need to see that map. That's That's my only 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:33.599 impression of Nicolas Cage spot on. But yeah, back to 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:39.200 Austin Powers, Jamie, what's your relationship with the franchise. I 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.279 have not really much of a relationship with this franchise. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.479 I'd never seen this first movie. I have no love 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:51.160 or attachment to not to Brat, I have no lover 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.320 attachment to this era of SNL and like all the 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.760 over the top nineties guys, I just it's never I 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.360 wasn't there really for it or was like too young 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.039 for it, and then it just has never done anything 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.760 for me. I did see gold Member at a drive 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.719 through with my cousins because I really liked Beyonce, and 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.200 I remember it being one of the first movies I've 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.280 ever seen that like as a kid, you're like, this 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.400 movie is not good, you know, which is kind of 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:25.200 like a jarring you feel like of like an intellectual 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.960 master because you're like, wait, every it's like that John 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.280 mulaney sketch where it's like every movie is the best 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.600 movie it kid has ever seen. This was maybe my 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.839 first movie where I'm like, this was not my favorite movie, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.880 and just like the first time, I actively remember like 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:48.159 recognizing that Beyonce deserved better. Um. So I have no 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.200 attachment to this franchise. I don't really give a funk 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.880 about Mike Myers outside of Shrek, and that's on me. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.359 So Caitlyn, what's your history with this franchise? I embarrassingly 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.760 used to love these movies, No shame, thank you. I 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.360 saw the first two when they came out. So when 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:13.160 I was eleven in and the first Austin Powers movie 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.840 came out like the demo, like I was the and 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.000 then the second one came out two years later, I 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:24.240 was thirteen. I still did not have very refined taste 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.520 in cinema, so I also loved that movie. By the 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.080 time the third one came out, I feel like I 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.120 had outgrown the franchise. And I did not see that 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.080 one ever until I watched it like two days ago. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:41.680 But I saw the first two multiple times. I used 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:46.120 to quote them constantly. My mom and I to each 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:51.160 other would say, um, how about no Scott, like times 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.360 a day. These were a big part of my you know, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.680 tween years. I guess, yeah, I didn't even realize that 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.280 Green is in this movie. I didn't. He's every like 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:09.160 he's my boss, and I was like, oh, he's every 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.000 movie that came out in this span of five years. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.760 And it's so funny, Like there the doctor Evil Scott scenes. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.440 They work for me still for the most part. Yeah, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.280 there there's some funny stuff there. And ultimately, I mean 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.840 and that for me like ticks the box of all movies, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.960 which is that ultimately this is a movie about fathers 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:34.720 and sons, and so this movie is no exception. He 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.040 might have been the only one that was close to 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.440 how the viewers are feeling. Yea, his character, his character 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.360 being like the outside voice being like you suck, I 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.240 hate you. You know. I do love that scene where 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.800 he's like, why don't you just shoot him? Like like 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:55.160 that's pretty funny. Yeah, I resented this movie for making 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.000 me laugh a little bit. I did an l O 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.079 L once. I I was, I just I still didn't 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.520 get it. I was just like why and why three? 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.280 Why three is a good question, you know what I 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.959 mean that that's so much money. It's so so so 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.520 much money, and I know I get it. It's very quotable. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.080 I can see it. It's very catchy. You know, it's 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.280 very like the brand. They know the brand very well. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.079 But yeah, I wasn't I wasn't mad. I was more 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:24.960 just like I don't get it. I didn't and I 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.280 didn't get like the ace venturas and stuff. So again 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:33.760 maybe it's me. I don't get it. I don't get masked. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.240 I don't know. But well, like I grew up on 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.280 a lot of slapstick, you know, but it was when 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.400 it came to like Western slapstick, it was like I 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.280 love Lucy, you know, Charlie Chaplin, like you know, things 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.880 that were like a hundred years old. But even with 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.240 like Japanese comedy, you know, the slapstick, I feel like 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.320 it was still like sticking to the old formula. So 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.160 it was more reminiscent of like Charlie Chaplin type or 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:05.280 Buster Keaton instead of you know whatever, like like wacky 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.839 for wacky sake, Do I make you honey baby? Yeah? 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:14.360 A lot of me two situations, you know. It was 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.320 also like I don't know, It's like even if like 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.920 I hadn't seen this movie, but as I was watching it, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.440 like I just it was so huge that like I 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.560 feel like I had taken up a lot of it 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.800 through cultural osmosis, and then most of the details that 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:34.400 I didn't know were um, you know, horrifying. Ye can't 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.680 wait to talk about it. I do remember I wonder 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.240 if any listeners will remember there was an a I 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:44.240 M chat bot that was Austin Powers themed that I 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.280 think it was released as a promotion for the third movie. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.520 But I was in like I don't know, like maybe 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.160 fourth or fifth grade, and I was at a sleepover 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.080 all night where like me and the other girls at 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.199 the sleepover would write like dirty things to the Austin 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:04.319 Powers and his it would just auto reply yeah baby, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.440 and we'd be like, Ah'd be like, You'd be like, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.319 my mom is a beach and it would be like 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:19.679 shag Adelic class remember that right? It was. Yeah. I 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.680 liked chat bots. They always knew their character. It was 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.160 always consistent. It was the only consistent thing about the 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.520 Internet at that time, you know, was chat bots would 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:33.920 always like say three things invitation. Everything else was scary. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.240 You didn't even know when you would connect to the internet, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.640 you know, Oh yeah, I could take hours, you don't know. Yeah, yeah, totally, 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.160 but that you could count on. Speaking of Austin Powers 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.480 themed things, have either of you been to that Austin 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.440 Power's theme pop up bar in Glendale that is still there, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.720 like over a year later. No, I've I've almost gone 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.600 a couple of times and then I'm like, wait, I 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.520 don't know what that is. I'm not going to go 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.720 what Austin Power was themed bar in Glendale. What I've 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.320 never heard this. This is a real thing. It was 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.240 supposed to be a pop up but it I guess 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.880 it was popular enough that people just kept going and 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.440 that it stayed around. Obviously, it's closed now because of 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.440 all the lockdowns and everything. But it's called like the 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.720 Electric Pussycat or something, and it's themed after the club 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:25.640 in the first movie called the Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.680 And I went to it, and they have various Austin 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:34.000 Powers like actors dressed up as Austin Powers characters. They 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.600 have a bunch of Austin Powers themed cocktails. Um, I 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:43.920 think I drank one called like Horny something something Horny, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:51.320 I don't know, shag something. But apparently Austin Powers is 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.400 still relevant enough that people were like, yeah, let's make 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.120 a pop up bar in twenty nineteen for sure. I 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.560 mean it's like all the movies I've been to, I 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.719 guess the embarrassing pop up bars I've been to, or 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.679 beetlejuice them. Because I wanted to see what the Scabs. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:13.040 Sitch was Yeah, that's fun. That that was fun. And 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.400 then I went to a Big Lebowski themed bar many 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.440 years ago where they only served white Russians, which is 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:25.040 a funny idea but in practice very gross. R They 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:29.080 have one in Iceland for Big Lebowski they do. Yeah, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.400 my friend went to in Rakovic and it was like 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.920 white Russians too. Um it's so funny to see like 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.000 what other cultures like really like about, like you know, 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.480 which movies really spoke to them or whatever, to the 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:47.200 point they make whole themed bar like that. Um. I Okay. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.200 One time I did have to do like a benefit 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.920 where they hired a bunch of like actors who could dance, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.760 so like we had to dress up in like groovy 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.600 ware or whatever sixties like we were like, what does 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.720 that go go? Girls? We had to learn dance moves 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.880 and it was like rich people that we were performing 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.840 for two it was like Austin Powers theme and uh 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.480 so in Austin Powers and impersonator kind of led us 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.040 the whole time. And I remember at the end of 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.840 the gig we got like twenty bucks for doing it. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:21.720 I remember at the end of the gig, I was 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.040 like talking to the impersonator and he was like, okay, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.560 well I gotta go, and he valid his car but 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.920 he had the same exact car as Austin powers to 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:35.800 oh my god and my mind being blown, and yeah, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.960 his license plate was off. It was like swingers, like 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.600 twelve or something, you know what I mean. But yeah, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.920 not all spelled out. Yeah, but I was like, oh 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.760 my god. The level of commitment as an impersonator, you know, like, 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.320 how far does it go? I love a good committed impersonator. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.880 There's nothing like him in the world. Yeah. And how 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.480 do you feel as an personator about other impersonators you know, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.640 of like the character that you do? How Yeah, how 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.040 intense is the competition? How intense is the demand? I 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.880 mean you don't really know. Yeah, I don't know. Well, 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.720 should we get into the recap and go from there? 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:21.160 I suppose ha ha, let's do it. Okay. So the 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:26.720 film opens, It's nineteen sixty seven. We meet Dr Evil. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:32.440 He has a very cute cat named Mr Bigglesworth and 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.000 that cat, of course, has eight nipples, and that's cafex 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:41.240 with Caitlin. He is trying to have a Dr Evil, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.120 not Mr Bigglesworth. Dr Evil is trying to have Britain's 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:51.360 top secret agent assassinated. And this man is Austin Powers. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:59.400 And Austin is groovy. He's Randy. All the women love him, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:06.960 keep keep going. He's horny, baby, and he and Randy. Yes, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.600 he's horny, and he makes everyone else horny. I guess, um, 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.160 all the women love him. He meets up with Mrs Kensington, 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:22.440 his like spy partner, and they receive a message from 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.760 Basil exposition. Um hilarious. I guess that is pretty I mean, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:32.200 that's pretty funny. The message says that Dr Evil plans 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:36.800 to go after Austin Powers at the club tonight. So 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:41.000 Austin and Mrs Kensington try to stop Dr Evil there, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.840 but he gets away and then cryogenically freezes himself and 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:50.760 shoots himself into space. Right. We cut to thirty years 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:57.440 later and Dr Evil returns, and Austin Powers had also 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.960 offered to freeze himself if Dr Evil should ever return, 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.880 so they thought out Austin Powers and partner him up 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:13.320 with Mrs Kensington's daughter, Miss Kensington a k a Vanessa 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:18.000 a k a. Elizabeth Hurley. Right, he proceeds to sexually 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:26.960 harass her relentlessly and almost Yes, it's cute, it's hilarious. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.720 You can tell that sexual harassment is actually really awesome 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:32.960 when he does it for two straight minutes and then 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.920 she turns around. It's like me right, She's like, oh, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:45.600 maybe I do like that. He's wearing me down. Meanwhile, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:51.760 Dr Evil and his cronies, including this guy named Number 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.000 two who And then this is the point in the 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:58.280 movie where you're like, what happened to Natalie would? Wait? 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.560 What why was he? Yes, he was Natalie Wood's husband 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.120 and he was on the boat and he knows more 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:10.240 than he's saying, even more than Christopher Walkin does. Interesting, 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.879 every movie to me is ultimately about what happened to 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.119 Natalie Wood. This is why you all have this podcast. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.159 This is why you do so good. That's what we've 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.720 been trying to figure out. That's all time, and we 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.520 have not gotten any closer. Um, so that's what I 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.280 But yes, he plays Number two, but also he's he's 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:29.840 you know, you can see in his eyes he's got 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.439 a secret or want his one eye right. So his 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.560 character Number two and Dr Evil, they all are forming 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:42.000 a plan to hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:49.480 world ransom for one hundred billion dollar. I'm so sorry 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:53.120 for that. Then Dr Evil is introduced to his son 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.119 that was made from the sperm sample that he had 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.240 left behind before he cried genically freezes himself, and this 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:06.119 son is Scott Uh and that's Seth Green's character, of course. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.320 Then Austin Powers and Vanessa go to Vegas to try 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.600 to get some intel on Dr Evil and whatever scheme 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:18.280 he's cooking up, and they play blackjack with Number two, 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.280 And then there's a scene in the bathroom where we 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:26.000 realized that the character was named number two to set 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:31.280 up a very long, extended poop joke with um, what's 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.119 his name, Tom Arnold? Yes, he is in the stall 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:39.199 next to him, and we're like, al right, well, I 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.000 guess you can't say they didn't think about things when 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.280 they were making the movie. There's actually quite a bit 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:54.000 of thought. It's actually all very clever and good wink wink, 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.920 nudge nudge to it. The jokes had to come first. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.040 They were like, okay, poop joke, how do we make 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.480 this work with the rest of the plot, you know? Yeah, 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:07.240 then they like reverse engineer it totally, totally, this is 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.040 what I want a poop joke and okay, well his 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.919 name is number two. That's it. We solved it. I 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.600 guess it wasn't a lot of thinking. Possibly it was 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:21.160 cut it printed, I mean, screenwriting at its best. So 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.960 then nothing happens for a while except that Austin Powers 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:30.520 relentlessly and repeatedly sexually harasses Vanessa, which she seems to 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:34.320 become more and more receptive to. And then Austin Powers 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.679 is tasked with getting information about something called Project Vulcan 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.359 from a character named A Lot of China. And now 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:47.400 we're like, now this, Now that's why I call feminism. 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.640 Oh boy, there for I mean this, I don't. This 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.639 isn't a compliment. It's just an observation. There's far more 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.840 women in this movie than I expected there to be. 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.880 But that is where that's where it's just, that's where 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:10.000 it ends. It's not like and the representation is incredible. 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.560 There's more female characters than I thought there'd be. Well, 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.280 and we're we're coming to some of them, including one 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:22.360 of the Dr Evil's Hench people, Hench. Women. Women can 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:27.920 be Hench. Now, yes, women can be Hench. And that's feminism. Yes, Hench. 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.800 She's so evil she could hang out with the boys. Yeah. Yeah, 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:38.160 it's from a big Sheryl Samberg energy. And this is 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:44.119 of course Frau Forbissena, played by Mindy Sterling, is amazing. 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:47.080 She's been in like everything ever. She's like one of 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:51.639 the great character actors. I am indeed, I wonder I 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:56.200 bet you. I bet I would bet five Quarantine bucks 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:06.040 five hundred one dollars Squaringen bucks that Mindy Sterling and 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:10.600 Alfred Molina know each other. Oh. I thought the all 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:13.480 care directors know each other and they're all friends, and 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:15.560 this is maybe just my fantasy world, but I feel 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:17.919 like they know each other. No, I think that's true. 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.800 I I want to believe that as well. Yeah. So anyway, 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:27.920 feminist icon Fraul Farbissona unveils her latest weapon because she's 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:32.639 a woman in stem and she developed the fembots. They 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:35.960 are these killer robots who look like hot women. So 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:39.399 even more women introduced into the narratiora. This is I 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:42.119 feel like that was a pretty to me. It was 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:47.560 like a very cut and dry, like Barbararella parody reference 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:51.480 which I have not seen. But is it just bos 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.760 and they attack Barbara Ella somehow portrays women even worse, 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.679 it's like one of Jane Fonda's earliest movies, Jane Fonda, 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:02.280 who who truly is a feminist icon. But she, you know, 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:04.760 she she really grew into it. And maybe it wasn't 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:08.120 all the way there at Barbaralla, but like, yeah, it's 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:12.880 a movie about like a sexy space android lady. I mean, 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:18.000 it's not satire, but it looks like it. Sure, sure, 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:21.160 and at least we can give credit to Austin Powers 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:25.440 for that is that they are satire. I think I 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:29.439 don't know, I can't tell it's definitely satire, but I 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:32.040 feel like it makes that like the thing that some 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:35.840 like satires do where they just are like, oh, well, 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:37.879 we're just gonna say it's satire, and then we're going 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:41.439 to assume that we're absolved of anything even to the 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:45.400 term of like satire theoretically is supposed to make commentary, 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:48.920 which for As and Powers, that's shaky. Well, that's why 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:50.959 I don't think it is satire. I think it just 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:53.880 as closer to parody, which is not making any sort 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:57.600 of commentary. There's like one angle that I feel like 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:00.639 it could be considered satire. And then but as as 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:02.680 it pretends to its treatment of women. I think it's 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:07.240 like total parody, oh for sure. So what happens next 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:12.400 is Austin and Vanessa sneak into Virticon, which is Dr 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:18.440 Evil's company or something, and they but they are captured 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:23.200 and brought to Dr Evil's secret layer, and he's about 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:26.800 to use this giant drill to burrow to the Earth's 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:32.639 center and release his nuclear weapons. He's fracking, He's like, RuPaul, 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:39.800 he's fracking. Wait is RuPaul pro fracking? RuPaul literally? Okay, 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:42.919 I'm just breaking all sorts of news. RuPaul and his 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:46.560 husband own a large ranch in Wyoming where there is 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:52.240 active fracking, and he just like said it recently out 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:55.040 of nowhere on fucking fresh air. He was just like 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:57.760 he described fracking in the longest way. He's like, well, 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:03.200 we contract out so of the land for purposes related 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:10.560 to PETRELLI embased so and You're like, it's fracking. We 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:14.400 can't have anything in this world. RuPaul's literally fracking. He's 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:17.040 like a Republican, isn't he. I feel like all rich 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:23.160 people just are chaotic evil and like we can't have anything. Well, 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:28.240 speaking of evil, Dr Evil, thank you, thank you, Caitlin 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:33.400 Hey anytime he tries to kill Austin and Vanessa with 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:38.160 mutated sea bass, but it doesn't work and they escape 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:41.440 and Vanessa goes to find help and Austin stays behind 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:45.719 to go find Dr Evil and he comes across this 0:25:45.760 --> 0:25:48.840 group of fembots who try to seduce and kill him, 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:53.920 but he starts dancing around and making them so horny 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:59.240 that they all malfunction and explode. Meanwhile, Dr Evil starts 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:03.040 his drill up and Austin and Vanessa burst in and 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:07.720 they stop him, but Dr Evil gets away shoots himself 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:10.679 back out into space, and then Austin and Vanessa have 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:13.840 to escape the layer right before it self destructs. And 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:17.400 then we cut to three months later. Austin and Vanessa 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:21.480 have gotten married, and Dr Evil and his cat are 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:25.840 in space and they're all cold, and he's like, I'm 0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:29.320 gonna get to Austin Powers. And then they're like, all right, 0:26:29.359 --> 0:26:34.080 there's gonna be a sequel. I guess, I guess no 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:38.879 way around it. So that's the end of the movie. 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:41.879 Let's take a quick break and then we'll come right back, 0:26:47.720 --> 0:26:54.879 and we're back. Uh feminism in Austin Powers. Where do 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:58.480 we begin? I mean, just some quick observations off the 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:01.280