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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind. This is Rob Lamb,

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Speaker 1: and today we have an episode that originally aired five

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Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty twenty one. This is the in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: quite excellent and quite fun, nineteen seventy four Thaie co

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Speaker 1: production Hanaman versus seven Ultraman. It's this has been a

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Speaker 1: favorite of mine for a long time. Hanaman teams up

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Speaker 1: with the Ultra seven to defeat evil monsters and dastardly

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Speaker 1: human plots. All right, let's jump right into the action.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

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Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick. And today we're going to

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Speaker 3: be talking about a Thai kaiju movie, or at least

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Speaker 3: partially tie. I think this is a Thai Japanese co production.

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Speaker 3: Am I right about that? Rob?

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Speaker 1: Yes, though it is, it's the Thai aspects of it

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Speaker 1: are definitely tied to the max. It's filmed in Thailand,

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Speaker 1: has Thai actors, and features the really stars the Thai

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Speaker 1: variation of the god Hanuman.

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Speaker 3: Right, so this movie has a couple of different titles.

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Speaker 3: I think the English translation of the Thai title is

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Speaker 3: Hanuman Versus Seven Ultra Men. And then there's also an

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Speaker 3: English translation of a Japanese title I've seen it filed under,

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Speaker 3: which is the Six Ultra Brothers versus the Monster Army,

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Speaker 3: which I like out the titles do not agree on

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Speaker 3: the numbers of ultras.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it can also be sometimes confused because

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Speaker 1: there's another film from the same year in the same

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Speaker 1: directors that I think is the follow up to this,

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Speaker 1: titled Hanuman and the Five Common Writers. So that's a

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Speaker 1: different film but similar premise.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so this is not only our first Thai movie,

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Speaker 3: this is also our first false versus film false versus

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Speaker 3: because the title Hanuman Versus the Seven Ultramen is entirely misleading.

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Speaker 3: Hanuman never fights the Seven Ultramen. In fact, Hanuman in

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Speaker 3: this movie is created by the seven Ultramen and they

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Speaker 3: fight together against some bad demons that are released from

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Speaker 3: the earth by arrogant scientists who don't believe in the gods.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's more like seven Ultramen En list Hanamana or

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Speaker 1: team up with Hanuman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. But my one sentence review, this movie is just

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Speaker 3: a rush of endorphins. So it's so good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a Oh, it's a very colorful film.

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Speaker 1: I can't really stress that enough. Like when you think

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Speaker 1: of a Kaiju movie, there are certain things you expect.

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Speaker 1: You expect cool, kind of practical, sometimes goofy monster costumes.

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Speaker 1: This film has that. You expect model cities and uctures

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Speaker 1: blowing up and getting crushed. Definitely, we have that. You

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Speaker 1: often expect children playing a major part in it, because

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Speaker 1: ultimately these are films for kids, and yes, those who

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Speaker 1: are present as well. But there are these mythological sequences

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Speaker 1: involving Hanoman and sometimes other deities. There are cosmic scenes

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Speaker 1: that are in play, and as we will describe some

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Speaker 3: I was actually going to point out that there are

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Speaker 3: parts of this movie, in fact, I would say, especially

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Speaker 3: the first few minutes of the movie, going from like

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Speaker 3: the studio logo through the opening narration, that feature some

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Speaker 3: film techniques that you don't usually expect to see in

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Speaker 3: me of the experimental films of Stan Brackage, like The

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Speaker 3: was unusual manipulations of the film stock itself. It felt

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Speaker 3: of you know, mid twentieth century experimental film. But here

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Speaker 3: they are in a big in a big Kaiju slam.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's often invoked in a way that,

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Speaker 1: especially in the space scenes, it depicts a thoroughly mythological cosmos,

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Speaker 3: You know, one of the funny things we were talking

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Speaker 3: like the Gods Not Dead movies, except for like Hanuman

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Speaker 3: the Hindu Deities here and the Ultramen where an erg

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, there's a strong theme of that. There's some

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're also their major sin is that they

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Speaker 3: They don't respect the Buddha. They try to cut off

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's and that's another thing that I would say

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Speaker 3: You're absolutely right about that. And there's another way in

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Speaker 3: which I thought this was different than many of the

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Speaker 3: other giant monster fight movies I've seen. This one had

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Speaker 3: much more of an element of dance in it, yes,

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Speaker 3: there are other dance sequences in the movie, like a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you might find yourself watching this and thinking how

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Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, it is an extended sequence. And indeed,

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Speaker 1: not familiar. The Hanomon has depicted here is not like

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Speaker 1: some sort of like sci fi twist on Hanaman. For

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Speaker 1: the most part, it is Hanomon as Hanaman is depicted

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Speaker 1: of visual depictions but also performance depictions and traditional Thai dance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, so you get a lot of monkey

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Speaker 3: I just couldn't call them to mind. I didn't know

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Speaker 3: early two thousands. That's a movie called Frost Portrait of

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Speaker 3: a Vampire. It has Gary Busey a bit part in it.

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Speaker 3: But the funniest thing about it is actually that there

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I can't think of another film offhand where it's

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Speaker 1: a common, a common trope.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, you know, King Kong versus Godzilla, and

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Speaker 3: then actually they have to fight Mecca Godzilla or something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but in this it's I don't Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even recall a minor disagreement there. They're

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Speaker 1: Fine tune machine.

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Speaker 3: Well, maybe we should hit that trailer audio.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's hear a little bit of the trailer

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Speaker 1: and and hopefully if this is the right clip, you'll

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Speaker 1: hear some of the music in it, because there's a

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Speaker 1: fabulous Haniman theme song in this that just as delightful,

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Speaker 4: One easy Gone, We're not lawa Pawan get Yon playing up,

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Speaker 3: Oh. I don't know if we mentioned the year, we

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Speaker 3: should say this movie is from what year? Is it

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Speaker 3: nineteen seventy four?

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Speaker 1: Is that nineteen seventy four?

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Speaker 3: Yes, oh boy, that was a good year for for

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's get into some of the connections here.

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Speaker 1: Normally we talk about, you know, the human connections of Note,

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Speaker 1: But then again, Hahnaman is a god, so it's kind

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Speaker 1: of ridiculous, Steven, throw that out there. So yes, this

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Speaker 1: movie heavily features Hanuman. And it's not actually the Hindu

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Speaker 1: we're not talking Zeus or Poseidon. We're not talking Cthulhu

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Speaker 1: is still like very much in play now. Hanaman is

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Speaker 1: a fascinating figure in Hindu mythology. And while nothing is certain,

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Speaker 1: But then again Sun Wukong is very much a separate

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Speaker 3: Now Sun Wu Kong. Is this the figure who appears

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Speaker 1: important in Thai culture as well. I was reading a

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Speaker 3: Oh whoa. So is it possible this is something more

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Speaker 1: But another interesting credit that Sagawa has he worked on

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Speaker 1: a TV series what was apparently a horror anthology TV

433
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: series in Japan titled Horror Theater Unbalanced or I think

434
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Speaker 1: it's sometimes translated as Unbalanced Horror Theater from nineteen seventy three,

435
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Speaker 1: and I was trying to find out more about it.

436
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: I couldn't find out much, but it looks really interesting. Again,

437
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: I'm generally interested in any kind of horror anthology, but

438
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy three Japanese anthology TV series, it sounds

439
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 1: really rad YEP, sign me up. And finally, the music,

440
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: which I'm only mentioning because we tend to mention the music.

441
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: Toro Fuyuki did the music on this. It's nothing really

442
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: to write home about. It feels very old fashioned and

443
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 1: very you know, sort of cliche adventure music. But this

444
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: guy did a lot of ultraman music. Also Inframan from

445
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, which starred Danny Lee who was in

446
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Speaker 1: The Oily Maniac.

447
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Speaker 3: Well, are you ready to get into the plot.

448
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,400
Speaker 1: Let's get into the plot of this movie.

449
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 3: Okay. Now we start off with a once again a

450
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 3: beautiful film studio logo. I have to say I've noticed

451
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 3: many times since we started doing Weird House Cinema that

452
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 3: I really love a lot of Asian film studio logos.

453
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,479
Speaker 3: Loved the Shaw Brothers logo. I love the Toho logo

454
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 3: of course, and I would say the Chaio Film studio

455
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 3: here joins the list because it's just got these two

456
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Speaker 3: heavenly beasts, these kind of you know, like dragon tiger

457
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 3: type creatures cradling the studio name in a disk between

458
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,440
Speaker 3: their paws while a kaleidoscopic supernova just roars behind them.

459
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 3: It is really gorgeous.

460
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's quite beautiful and eye catching and flows

461
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: nicely into the rest of the film because it's it's

462
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: not like we cut from this to just a city

463
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Speaker 1: street or anything.

464
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 3: Like.

465
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Speaker 1: We're right into the into the the the blinding, you know,

466
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Speaker 1: astrological world of the mythic cosmos.

467
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the very first thing you see is the sun.

468
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 3: You are just right up in the sun's business, like you're,

469
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 3: you know, you're you can smell the Sun's breath. And

470
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Speaker 3: I also have to say a caveat on all that follows.

471
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Speaker 3: I can only judge the text content of this film

472
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 3: based on the English subtitles that I encountered, which were

473
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 3: maybe not professionally produced. I'm not sure so so, of course,

474
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 3: the quality of a film translation can vary a lot,

475
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 3: and any awkward qualities of the narration or dialogue that

476
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 3: I'm about to mention may well be a result of

477
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 3: the translation and not the film itself.

478
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, same here. I think we used the same

479
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: stream of this that had the imperfect subtitles, but it

480
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: was still an improvement over the original way. I watched

481
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: this film, which was on a tie DVD that I

482
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: bought off of eBay, which had no subtitles, and I

483
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: just had kind of had to figure it out. I mean,

484
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: you can figure out most of this film by watching it.

485
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: It's not too deep. But there were a few things

486
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: that I just I had no idea how they were

487
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 1: supposed to have happened, and we'll get to those here

488
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: in a bit.

489
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Speaker 3: So the very beginning, I wonder if you have some

490
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 3: insights into you might have some astrological knowledge that I don't.

491
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 3: But the opening narration that's showing us the Sun and

492
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 3: space and planets, and it says, in our universe there

493
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 3: is the Milky Way, the galaxy where our solar system

494
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Speaker 3: is encircling the Sun. Nine planets were born Wednesday, Mercury, Friday, Venus, Earth, Tuesday, Mars, Saturday, Saturn, Thursday, Jupiter, Uranus, nept.

495
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 3: I include, do you know what's going on there with

496
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 3: the days? And maybe something's lost in translation.

497
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: I think it's perhaps a connection to Hindu astrology. Yeah, okay, okay,

498
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: and the earlier associations of the of the planets.

499
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, or like days of the week on which

500
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 3: these planets were created. Maybe I was wondering, but I'm

501
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 3: gonna go with yours. And then next it tells us

502
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 3: three million light years away there is the Ultra galaxy.

503
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 3: Now brief astronomy note here, I was like, wait a minute,

504
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 3: what could that be referring to? So the distance from

505
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 3: our galaxy to the next nearest galaxy, which is the

506
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 3: Andromeda galaxy, is about two point five million light years away.

507
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 3: So that's you know, pretty clear ballpark of three million

508
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 3: light years away. But the funny thing about that is

509
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 3: it won't always be that far away. While most galaxies

510
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 3: in the universe are moving farther and farther away from

511
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 3: each other as the universe expands the Milky Way and

512
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 3: the Andromeda galaxies are actually on a collision course. They

513
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 3: will probably slam into each other at least pass nearby

514
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 3: one another within four to five billion years. So if

515
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 3: the Ultra galaxy is indeed the Andromeda Galaxy, then then

516
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 3: you know, maybe we'll get more ultraman movies a few

517
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 3: billion years from now as they get i don't know, closer,

518
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 3: and that reduces the required budget for recruiting them. But anyway,

519
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 3: the narration then tells us that there are sixty nine

520
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,239
Speaker 3: planets which circle around something called M seventy eight. Now,

521
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 3: at first I was like, is that supposed to refer

522
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 3: to Messia seventy eight, which is sometimes called M seventy eight.

523
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 3: I think it's probably not, because this, it turns out,

524
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 3: is a planet, and Messia seventy eight is a hazy

525
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 3: nebula within the Milky Way that's about sixteen hundred light

526
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 3: years away. So we learned from the narration that M

527
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 3: seventy eight is a planet full of light and happiness,

528
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 3: and quote there were born the Ultras. They have extraordinary

529
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Speaker 3: powers and are extremely intelligent. They guarantee the piece of

530
00:29:59,040 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 3: the galaxies.

531
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Speaker 1: And the Ultras are of course, this is Ultraman and

532
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: his kin.

533
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 3: Yes, his mother and his brothers. And then while we're

534
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 3: being told this, we're getting a pan over the surface

535
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 3: of HIM seventy eight. But it looks like a wall

536
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 3: on the satellite of Love. It's just a big old

537
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 3: mess of bike reflectors glinting in the stage lights and

538
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 3: Greebels on the loose.

539
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of greebels.

540
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, very good. Greebels. It's also really funny because as

541
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 3: we're being told that they guarantee the piece of the galaxies,

542
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 3: we see a close up on one of the Ultraman masks,

543
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,959
Speaker 3: which don't necessarily look benign, and they look somewhat evil

544
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 3: with orange eyes, and we hear a sound that is

545
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 3: kind of like rats shrieking in the darkness. It's not

546
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 3: the most piece of the galaxy sound, you know, audio

547
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 3: visual combination, you could imagine.

548
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I guess it's a tough job at times.

549
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: I mean, clearly it involves combating monsters half the time.

550
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 3: Uh huh. But then we get more facts delivered by

551
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 3: the narration. So talking about seventy eight, we learned that

552
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 3: piece is eternal. There, that's good. We also learned that

553
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 3: Ultraman Taro watches over the three hundred cities that in

554
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 3: the cities without sunlight, warmth is provided by nine hundred heaters.

555
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 3: I found these numbers very funny. Then we also learned

556
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 3: that Ultraman Taro teaches the Ultra brothers how to fight,

557
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 3: that Ultraman Zafi leads his brothers helped by their mother,

558
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 3: And then we meet Mother Ultra and Mother Ultra is awesome.

559
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 3: She is just a grand slam. I love her costume,

560
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 3: I love her movements. She's got this big red cape

561
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 3: that opens like bat wings. She holds it open kind

562
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 3: of like the Master and Manos the Hands of Fate,

563
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 3: and we see her framed by an aurora when we

564
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 3: first meet her. She's just awesome.

565
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: Yeah. They have Even though again we have we have

566
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: sci fi like superhero robot people, you know, colliding with

567
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: actual gods here, the ultra man, the ultra folk here,

568
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: they do have a mythic quality to the way they're

569
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: presented that ultimately makes things feel like they fit together.

570
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 3: I feel cohesive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And this comes back to,

571
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 3: you know, something we've talked about on the podcast before,

572
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 3: on our core episodes, which is that I'm not sure

573
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 3: the distinction between gods and aliens is something that would

574
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,719
Speaker 3: have been quite so well distinct to say, ancient people

575
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 3: as it is to us, because I think the main

576
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 3: distinction that we make in the modern world between gods

577
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 3: and aliens is whether you're talking about something that is

578
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 3: natural or something that is supernatural. And I don't think

579
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 3: the natural versus supernatural categories held as firmly in the

580
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 3: ancient world where you know, to many ancient peoples, the

581
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 3: gods would be not necessarily supernatural, but something that's defined

582
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 3: by sort of being of another place, maybe a place

583
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 3: above in the stars or a kind of pure land

584
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 3: or something, and then also being extremely powerful or being immortal.

585
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 3: And so if you were, say an alien from another

586
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 3: planet who had amazingly powerful technology, I mean that seems

587
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 3: basically almost the same as being a god.

588
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

589
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 3: Absolutely, But then we get an origin. So then we

590
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 3: cut straight from the Ultras to an origin story for Hanuman.

591
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 3: This all just sort of blends together. It's as if

592
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 3: it's all part of the same epic cycle. So it

593
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 3: has always been, yes, So you go, so straight from

594
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 3: the epica origins of the Ultras, we go to narration

595
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 3: that ten thousand years ago King Panela was raining in

596
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 3: India and you see natural disasters. There's wind and black

597
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 3: clouds blowing rocks over the ground and tree limbs snapping

598
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,239
Speaker 3: in the wind, water swirling, and the narration tells us

599
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 3: that it was under his reign that Hanuman was born

600
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 3: from Angana, pregnant from the god of the wind. And

601
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 3: we see her dressed in a splendorous out fit and

602
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 3: a red sky background, and there's wind being generated by

603
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 3: the wind to God, and she just vacuums it up

604
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 3: into her mouth.

605
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: Yeah. And this, by the way, is why Hanuman can fly,

606
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: because he is the offspring in part of the wind.

607
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then there's there's a very psychedelic birth sequence

608
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 3: for Hanuman. He's like, I don't know again, it's very

609
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 3: experimental film. It as these dog star man like textures,

610
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 3: and and Hanuman flies out of the ether toward the

611
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 3: camera with a fist extended. Then I guess that's all all, okay,

612
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 3: dust off the hands background is done. Time to roll

613
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 3: the credits over, which plays an original theme song about Hanuman,

614
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 3: which I love it. I love it. It's like green Slime time,

615
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 3: you know, green Slime. Every sci fi fantasy movie should

616
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 3: get its own original theme song with lyrics about the plot.

617
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. And this is a great song. I think we

618
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 1: probably heard part of it in the trailer audio earlier.

619
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: It just it has you know, even even though you know,

620
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't speak Thai, the Thai language

621
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: has this wonderful cadence to it, which which works perfectly

622
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: in songs like this.

623
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 3: Let's get another clip of that.

624
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 4: One.

625
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to cite some lyrics of this song. Again,

626
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 3: this is according to the translation that I had access to,

627
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 3: so this is the best I could do. It says

628
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 3: that Hanuman is invincible, armed with his incandescent trident. I

629
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 3: don't know if I remember a trident. Oh well, he's

630
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 3: got his slicing weapon at the Yeah, it.

631
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: Looks like a sigh what we might think of as

632
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: a sigh, and that's tradition.

633
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, I buy it. Now we

634
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 3: learned that he is immortal. He is the Master of

635
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 3: the Wind against five monsters. He fights aided by the

636
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 3: seven Ultras. Before fight, he prays that's why he is invincible.

637
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 3: And then finally the lyrics say, Hanuman and seven Ultramen

638
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 3: watch this great movie.

639
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: Yes, there there are there are some. I don't know

640
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: how much of it is the translation, but this would

641
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 1: be a couple of one of a couple of places

642
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: in the movie where they seem to be breaking the

643
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: fourth wall, like there's a part with the narrations like, hey,

644
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: this is our protagonist.

645
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that happened. In fact, that happens almost immediately.

646
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 3: We meet a boy named co who is at a

647
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 3: ruined temple with many other children, and they're praying and

648
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 3: dancing and playing music in order to get the gods

649
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 3: to make it rain because the earth is very hot

650
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the movie, like the sun is

651
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 3: too close to the earth, and it's very dry and

652
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 3: very hot, and they need rain to cool the earth off.

653
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 3: So they're doing these rituals. And when we very first

654
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 3: meet Co, he's dancing around in a Hanuman mask, and

655
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 3: the narration just says, this is the protagonist. Yes, yeah,

656
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 3: But actually before we meet Co, the first human characters

657
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 3: we meet are the clowns we were talking about earlier.

658
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 3: We see two dudes who were they're off roading in

659
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 3: a truck or a jeep or something that is spewing

660
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 3: these wonderful pink fumes, and they are wearing really good jumpsuits.

661
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 3: They're kind of Mario Super Mario Brother colors. They're red

662
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 3: and blue with white stripes, and their truck breaks down.

663
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 3: They're having car trouble and that turns into a bunch

664
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 3: of high jinks and tumbling around, and after they fail

665
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 3: to get their cars started and it spews a bunch

666
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 3: of smoke all over the place, they run away from

667
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 3: it and the car explodes, and then they laugh and

668
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 3: they dance. And I don't know if this is correct,

669
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 3: but in the version I was watching, there's a subtitle

670
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 3: annotation telling us that they are dancing like Hanuman in

671
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 3: order to receive better luck, though I don't know what

672
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 3: their luck could be now that their car has exploded.

673
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure either, but many are. Yeah, they are.

674
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: They are clowning hard in this, in this scene and

675
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: all subsequent.

676
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 3: Yes, And so we get more about how hot the

677
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 3: sun is, like they witness birds falling out of the

678
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 3: sky on fire and smoking because the sun is so hot.

679
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: And so the two clown characters here they run around

680
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:19,720
Speaker 3: chattering and they're doing like monkey like dances and talking

681
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 3: about how hot they are and how they need water.

682
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 3: And I think the implication is that their car exploded

683
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 3: because it was so hot outside.

684
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: Yes, I think so.

685
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 3: Eventually the two clown guys shed their their awesome jumpsuits,

686
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 3: which is sad, but they shed them because they see

687
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 3: a river that they want to swim in to cool off.

688
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 3: So they take off the jumpsuits, run and jump in

689
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 3: the water. They're wearing like one piece bathing suits under

690
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 3: their jumpsuits. Interesting choice. But then while they're enjoying the water,

691
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 3: they explain that someone named doctor we Suit has invented

692
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 3: a way to make it rain, and so everything's going

693
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 3: to be okay, And the narrator tells us that they

694
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 3: two guys are in fact famous pilots. Yeah, and they

695
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 3: do some really good camera mooning and such. But we

696
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 3: learn more about doctor Weesut's plan that he's going to

697
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 3: shoot some rockets into the sky that are going to

698
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 3: make it rain and cool off the world, and so

699
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 3: we go to doctor Wezut's lab to learn about his plan.

700
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 3: His lab set is really awesome. It's part sort of

701
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 3: green slime type set, you know, standard sci fi rivets everywhere,

702
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 3: but also it's part dangerous nineteen seventies playground with metal equipment,

703
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 3: which is my favorite kind of playground.

704
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really splendid to behold.

705
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 3: Like the background really should have a rusty swing set

706
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,919
Speaker 3: and a slide that just has blood all over it.

707
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 3: You know, it's like a lawsuit factory playground. But there's

708
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 3: an argument between doctor Weesut and another character somebody else

709
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 3: who works in the lab named Melisa, about whether they

710
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 3: need to ask the angels for rain in addition to

711
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 3: their rocket plan. Elisa is like, hey, you know, I

712
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 3: think we should appeal to the gods. That would be

713
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 3: a good idea. And doctor Weisud is like, no, it

714
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,240
Speaker 3: is foolish to believe in the gods. Hanuman does not exist,

715
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 3: and I will not ask him for rain, yep, because

716
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 3: I am arrogant. So some some very heavy handed science

717
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 3: versus religion stuff. Yeah, and then meanwhile, back at the

718
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 3: temple where the children are dancing and praying for rain.

719
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 3: Of course all the dancing goes on, but some bad

720
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 3: guys show up. There are these ruthless thieves who appear

721
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 3: in a jeep and want to steal a precious idol

722
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 3: from the temple complex. So they run up to a

723
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 3: statue of the Buddha and start chopping its head off,

724
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 3: saying soon we will be rich.

725
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is yeah, this is just super low, Like,

726
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: this is highly frowned upon. I mean, and we don't

727
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: you don't even need to be told that. Obviously they're

728
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 1: they're messing around with with on sacred grounds. But yeah,

729
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: to rip the head off of a statue like this

730
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 1: on temple grounds just the lowest of the low and

731
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 1: our hero instantly realizes this.

732
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, he sees what they're doing. He catches the thieves

733
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 3: in the act and Co tries to stop them. They

734
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 3: fight him off. In fact, this goes there's a long

735
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 3: sequence of him chasing the thieves around and them like

736
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 3: kicking him to the ground, and he's really insistent. He

737
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,479
Speaker 3: keeps getting back up. That's perseverance, you know, he's gonna

738
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 3: fight for that Buddha. Heead And eventually the robbers they

739
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 3: have enough of Co and they just straight up shoot

740
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 3: him in the face.

741
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, like three shots and then I mean, it's not

742
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 1: too graphic. It is a little surprising. When I watched

743
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: it for the first time, I'm like, oh my god,

744
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: that just happened. But you know, to be clear, it's

745
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: just like three gunshots and then suddenly he has red

746
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: paint smeared on his face and he's dead.

747
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 3: Yes, so the way it actually looks in the movie

748
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 3: is kind of benign and comical, but conceptually, yes, they

749
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,240
Speaker 3: shoot a child in the face. That is what kicks

750
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 3: off the rest of the plot. So Co is dead.

751
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 3: He's lying there dead in the road as the robbers

752
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 3: escape with their booty and the children. They come to

753
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 3: see their friends, and he's been killed and they start

754
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 3: to hold a funeral for him. And then meanwhile on

755
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 3: planet M seventy eight, the mother of Ultra gathers her

756
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 3: six sons and ooh, it is bad news for those

757
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 3: thieves because the Ultras saw what you did. They so

758
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 3: they reason about this. Here's how it goes. Co was good,

759
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 3: thieves are bad, so they deem this instance of shooting

760
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 3: a person in the face unfair. And then we learned

761
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 3: that the Mother of Ultra transports Ko's body to the

762
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 3: planet M seventy eight and then quote the Ultras merge

763
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 3: his body with Hanuman, so Co will be able to

764
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 3: return to Earth as an avenger.

765
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: Okay, So on one hand, I'm not entirely sure why

766
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: Earth is under the jurisdiction of M seventy eight, right,

767
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: But fair enough the other thing like this, So this

768
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: whole bit about how the boy Co becomes Hanaman, or

769
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: to what extent he becomes Hanaman, I was always unclear

770
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: about this watching it without any translations, I'm still unclear

771
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 1: unclear about it with a translation. So I guess it's like,

772
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:13,240
Speaker 1: because Hanaman exists, Hanaman has a reality, right, pre exists

773
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: and yet somehow they are stepping in and allowing Hanuman

774
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: to return to Earth by fusing him with Koe's body.

775
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: So there's some sort of the metaphysics on it are

776
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: a little foggy, It's what I'm saying.

777
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 3: Well, at one point, one of Ko's friends explains the

778
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 3: situation by saying, Co is dead, but he became Hanuman. Okay,

779
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. So I don't know to what extent

780
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 3: he's still Co, but to some extent he is. Yeah. Anyway,

781
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 3: So the form that the Mother of Ultra's intervention takes

782
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 3: here is that a giant hand reaches out of the

783
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 3: sky at Coe's funeral, picks him up, takes his body

784
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 3: to the altar of the Ultramen turns him into Hanuman.

785
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 3: And then we see Hanuman flying over cities in Thailand

786
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 3: in that iconic pose, you know, so upright sort of

787
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 3: posed with the arms in the air, just zooming around

788
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 3: over landmarks.

789
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I think the ruins are in a Yuthia.

790
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: And then we see Hanuman flying over what I believe

791
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: is Bangkok, and I think even flies over that the

792
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: Royal Palace that I was mentioning earlier that has the

793
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: fabulous murals. I think that's one of the locations you

794
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: see him fly over.

795
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 3: And there were like reports there are sightings of Hanuman

796
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 3: flying around. Because in doctor Weizut's lab, Melissa receives the reports.

797
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 3: She's like, hey, they're saying Hanuman was sighted flying through

798
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 3: the sky and we suit his smug and dismissive, and

799
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 3: he's like, Hanuman does not exist. That is foolishness. I

800
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 3: only need science. And then we get a bunch more

801
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 3: lore that I really enjoyed. It feels mostly superfluous to

802
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,280
Speaker 3: the rest of the film, but we get the legend

803
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 3: of fra Rahm and his brother Frau Loch. So Frau Looc,

804
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 3: we find out, fought against the demon thought Sakhon, and

805
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 3: he was wounded by a lance. And because a wise

806
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 3: man had said that only the sap of the flower Sangkon,

807
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 3: which was found on the mountain of Sapaya, could heal

808
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 3: Frauloc Hanuman had to go looking for this flower. But

809
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 3: he is warned by the sage that the flower must

810
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 3: be plucked before sunrise, and so in order to get

811
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,720
Speaker 3: it before sunrise, he has to slow down the Sun's cart.

812
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 3: So there's some drama with the Sun cart driver. We

813
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 3: see Hanuman going up to the guy who basically, you know,

814
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 3: like the Sun, the driver of the Sun, and the

815
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 3: Sun agrees to slow down because Frau loc is a

816
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,720
Speaker 3: saint who must fight a demon to maintain the universe.

817
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 3: And then there's a long scene where Hanuman chases the

818
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 3: flower around the mountain. They seem to kind of be

819
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 3: flirting with each other. The sequence is very good and

820
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 3: it has more of that psychedelic imagery. Ultimately, Hanuman wins

821
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 3: this chase by tying up the mountain with his tail

822
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 3: and he gets the flower.

823
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's this whole sequence is just like a marvelous

824
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: fever dream. But to your point, I'm not exactly sure

825
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: why it was necessary. It's nice. Yeah, it's great, and

826
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: it's about our main character, Hanuman, but I don't know

827
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: if it was super necessary for what is a rather

828
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: long movie about gods and Kaiji.

829
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not complaining. I will take this sequence. I

830
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 3: want it left in.

831
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, it's good.

832
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 3: Don't streamline it for me anyway. So co after this

833
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 3: returns to stop the thieves. The thieves are they're in

834
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 3: their car with the stolen buddhahead and they're like, Haha,

835
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 3: we're going to get some money for this. We're going

836
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 3: to sell it for our crime. And then they're driving

837
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,919
Speaker 3: along the road and then suddenly standing in the road

838
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 3: in fact dancing is Co, the boyk who they shot

839
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 3: in the face, and they're like, what is this? Is

840
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:05,320
Speaker 3: this a ghost?

841
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 4: You know?

842
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 3: They start freaking out and they shoot at him. They

843
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 3: empty their guns into him to no effect, and then

844
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 3: Co goes into Hanuman mode. He changes into Hanuman form

845
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 3: and becomes gigantic and just brutally murders the three thieves.

846
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 3: Brutally murders them with a preference for gory, crushing deaths,

847
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 3: like one of them he stomps on one of them,

848
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 3: he knocks over a tree on and that guy gets

849
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 3: crushed in is all bloody. And then the last guy

850
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 3: he grabs and crushes in his hand like a can.

851
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: That one I love because he's also kind of nodding.

852
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 1: Holly does it as if he's acknowledging us the viewer

853
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,240
Speaker 1: and saying, yep, yep, I'm crushing him in my hand,

854
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: Like there's kind of like a monkey's zeal to the vengeance.

855
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 3: Yes, And there's also this bniacal like Hanuman talks. You know,

856
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 3: he says, like, while he's chasing them around, we get

857
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 3: at least the subtitles I saw where Haha, you're all

858
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 3: going to die. You cut Buddha's head, and after the

859
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 3: three thieves are crushed, the buddhahead magically returns to the

860
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:11,240
Speaker 3: statue where it began. So next, now that he's sated

861
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 3: his thirst for bloody revenge, Hanuman has to fix the sun. Right,

862
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 3: He's going to protect Earth. So he flies up to

863
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 3: the Sun and much like earlier, so I guess that

864
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 3: here's one way it connects. You know, previously he has

865
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 3: talked to the Sun into slowing down. Now he flies

866
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 3: up and he tells the son. He's like, you're too

867
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 3: close to Earth. Your flames are too strong. You need

868
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:34,479
Speaker 3: to back up. And the Sun says okay, and the

869
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 3: problem is solved. Hanuman convinces the Sun to back off

870
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 3: and seems like things should be okay. Now the movie

871
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 3: should be over. It's only been about forty minutes, so

872
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:48,760
Speaker 3: something's got to happen, and incomes the evil atheistic science

873
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 3: to step in and ruin things. So doctor Weizut and

874
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 3: his rocket plan to cause rain. This leads to a fiasco.

875
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 3: There's a long sequence in the middle of the movie

876
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 3: you here where rockets start malfunctioning and blowing everything up

877
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 3: and whoops, the explosions of the godless science rockets open

878
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 3: up cracks in the earth and release ancient demons. And

879
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 3: now you know what. The rest of the movie is

880
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 3: going to be a good old fashioned Kaiju meat slam,

881
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 3: some some foam costume suplexes and Frankensteiner's and and here

882
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 3: it's just basically monster action for the rest of the movie.

883
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's pretty great. Like I say, you

884
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: might come into a film like this thinking, wow, you know,

885
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a Godzilla fan, I'm a Gammerer fan, and

886
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: if you hide the hold those particular films in high regard.

887
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: But this is some some fabulous monster wailing.

888
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 3: Yeah. And there are a lot of monsters. Five of

889
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 3: them wake up and they're running all over the place.

890
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 3: They're dancing in the rocket fields. That's a great but

891
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 3: again it's very dance oriented kind of fighting. Yeah, they're

892
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 3: almost there are parts where it looks kind of like

893
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 3: the demons are doing the dugie. And so there's first

894
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:05,720
Speaker 3: the classic human forces versus the giant monsters. That doesn't

895
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 3: go so well for the humans. They send in the

896
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 3: air force and the monsters breathe jets of fire on

897
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,479
Speaker 3: the airplanes and wreck them and so forth, and then

898
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 3: we get another phase of the movie that is Hanuman

899
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 3: to the rescue, Hanuman versus Demons. At first, Hanuman is

900
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 3: doing pretty well, but then all the demons gang up

901
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 3: on him and he starts getting whipped and they paralyze

902
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 3: him inside a crystal laser ball. And then there's a

903
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 3: big third phase of the fight where the Ultramen show

904
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 3: up and then the Ultramen join on Hanuman's side. The

905
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 3: tides turn yet again we get a classic destroy All

906
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 3: Monsters command and Rob I was wondering if is there

907
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 3: a term for this in professional wrestling, where like, you know,

908
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 3: the fights between this guy and that guy and it's

909
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 3: not going so well for the likable character, but then

910
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 3: another one runs into the rescue.

911
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: I mean it's run in. Is that the terminology for it? Yeah? Yeah,

912
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: so basically this would be this would be you know,

913
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 1: a run in where Hanuman is getting handled again. It's

914
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: five to one, yeah, but now it's it's soon going

915
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 1: to be uh what eight to five? And one of

916
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: the things that's very noticeable is that either side, either

917
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: the Monsters or Ultra the Ultramen, and in Hanuman, neither

918
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: side is afraid to use the numbers game to their advantage.

919
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're not going to insist on on Neither

920
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 1: side is going to insist on fair numbers in fair fights.

921
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: If it's like four to one, it's going to be

922
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 1: a four to one whaling.

923
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, to use the wrestling terminology and pardon my French,

924
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 3: but there there are several cans of whoop ass that

925
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 3: are opened. Yes, the they So the monsters gang up

926
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 3: on Hanuman and they're all just like pushing him around.

927
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,919
Speaker 3: It looks very they're bullying him, and that makes sense.

928
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 3: They're demons, they're from the earth. They're bad monsters. But

929
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 3: then the same thing happens when the Ultramen show up.

930
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 3: The Ultramen. You really start kind of feeling bad for

931
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 3: the monsters the way they gang up on them. And

932
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 3: then there is a really beautiful final slicing action on

933
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 3: the last big monster at the end. I just loved.

934
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is the one where they where they

935
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 1: cut him in half and then he explodes.

936
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 3: He is cloven and then he explodes.

937
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: Oh and they rip the skin off of another one. Yeah,

938
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: that's another one where they they again. This is it's

939
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: very in a way grotesque, and to this to a

940
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: certain extent, you do almost feel for the monsters, like,

941
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 1: oh man, these demons woke up because of an explosion.

942
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: They woke up out our earth, and they just thought

943
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: they were going to get to whale on the world.

944
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,919
Speaker 1: Turns out they were in for a very bad day.

945
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 3: But it's a good day for the audience. I mean,

946
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,760
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed this one, so so I think that

947
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 3: that does it for me. That's Hanuman versus seven Ultramen.

948
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, you know, there we could go

949
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: into more detail describing the the last thirty minutes of

950
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 1: the film, but basically a lot of the expected things

951
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: from the genre occur. You know, various humans are observing

952
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: the battle and reacting to the battle in different ways. Behavior,

953
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: more clown behavior, the you know, the scientists. Villain is

954
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: observing and learning his lesson that sort of thing, and

955
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: then we have some goodbyes said at the end. But

956
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: but yeah, the stuff that really stands out those those

957
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: psychedelic and mythological sequences. The final fight and also I

958
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: think it's just neat to see, you know, especially the ruins,

959
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: the Thai ruins in the background there. It just adds

960
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 1: to the flavor of the film.

961
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really appreciated the Ruins in setting up the

962
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 3: fights as well. I thought, I thought that was good. Yeah,

963
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 3: it's maybe this is the closest thing we'll ever get

964
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 3: to see to like, you know, a Kaiju fight at

965
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 3: angor watt.

966
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's yeah, ultimately, just this one's just packed

967
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: full of wonderful weirdness. I love it and I understand

968
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: it was it was. It was something of a hit

969
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,760
Speaker 1: at the time and really helped to cement the Ultraman

970
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: as being like a franchise in Thailand, you know, because

971
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 1: the Ultraman I think ultimately we're sort of a Japanese import.

972
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: But this made the made them, you know, authentically high

973
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:01,240
Speaker 1: to a large degree.

974
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 3: Do you know if the Mighty morphin Power Rangers were

975
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 3: inspired by the Ultramen, because I see some similarities in

976
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 3: the costumes and all that.

977
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I would imagine so given that some of

978
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: the same people were involved in the creation of the

979
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: show that became The Power Rangers.

980
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think. I don't know really anything about

981
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 3: the history of the Power Rangers. Was that the Japanese

982
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 3: show first.

983
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: Yes, Japanese show Super Sindai I believe, Yeah, and some

984
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: of the people involved in this film were involved in that.

985
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: But basically you just stripped out the human aspects of

986
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: that and replaced them with that with Western actors, and

987
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 1: you have the mighty morphin Power Rangers.

988
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 3: I see. Yeah, you might not have been in the

989
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 3: right age group. But when you were a kid, did

990
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 3: you ever have the flute that would play the Green

991
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:44,959
Speaker 3: Rangers song?

992
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: I did not. I remember Power Rangers. I was not

993
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: too old to enjoy Power Rangers. So I remember having

994
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: it on and watching some of it and liking the

995
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: bad guys. Yeah, but I never had any merchandise from it.

996
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 1: I think maybe played one of the video games at

997
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: some point.

998
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:06,439
Speaker 3: I remember really liking the monsters, but also noticing, even

999
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 3: as a child that the structure of the episodes was

1000
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 3: somewhat repetitive. Yeah, so, I guess you could say that

1001
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,479
Speaker 3: about the kaiju movies that I love today. In fact,

1002
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 3: many of the genre movies I love today, which are

1003
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 3: basically structurally identical, and it's just you know, whatever fur

1004
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 3: you're going to rub in between those checkpoints in the plot.

1005
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, but especially if it's a TV series and every

1006
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: episode needs to essentially have a big monster battle at

1007
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:31,919
Speaker 1: the end, you know they're all going to have sort

1008
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: of similar beats for sure.

1009
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 3: So really it's all about the fur. What does the

1010
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 3: fur feel like? Insert from the future. I don't don't

1011
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 3: know if we can run some kind of weird house

1012
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 3: specific siren there. So here we're coming back at you.

1013
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 3: This was not originally part of the episode we recorded,

1014
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 3: but after we wrapped up our wonderful journey with Hanuman

1015
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 3: and the ultramen rob you were kind of thinking about it,

1016
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 3: and you're like, you know what, we should talk more

1017
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 3: about some of the specific Kaiju beat down executions toward

1018
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,320
Speaker 3: the end of the film. So here's our makeup test.

1019
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: That's right, because you know, we like to dwell on

1020
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: what really works in a film, and certainly Hahneman's brutal

1021
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: executions of Kaiju that's what it's all about here. So

1022
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 1: we can't just let this go by. We've got to

1023
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,280
Speaker 1: get into the grizzly details.

1024
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,359
Speaker 3: Okay, let's hear it all right.

1025
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 1: So one of the Kaiju is just kind of electrocuted,

1026
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: slash exploded. Nothing fancy, but in a way it's perfect because,

1027
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 1: especially if you're used to less gory treatment of your

1028
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: Kaiju enemies in cinema, this seems like, oh, well, this

1029
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: is just what's going to happen. You know, there's going

1030
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 1: to be some rubber suit wrestling and there's going to

1031
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: be some mild exploding or electrocution. The rest of the

1032
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: kills are a lot more gory.

1033
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of slicing and use of blades,

1034
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 3: which I have not come to expect in Kaiju Meet slams.

1035
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: Right, So for two of the sort of nondescript Kaiju,

1036
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 1: and I think they all have names in this. I've

1037
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: seen like breakdowns where they each have a name, but

1038
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,280
Speaker 1: I don't know what these two are called. Hanaman uses

1039
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: his trident to fling chakrum discs of pure light at them,

1040
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: which cut off their arms and decapitate them both simultaneously.

1041
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: So then their bodies run around with bloody stumps where

1042
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: their arms and head. Once where they run around, they

1043
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: bump into each other comically for a few seconds, and

1044
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 1: then they just kind of lean against each other again,

1045
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: headless and armless, and then they explode.

1046
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 3: That's kind of a hyper bloody three stooges bit.

1047
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then there's this other kaiju. So we're working

1048
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: our way up the chain, there's this neat one that

1049
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: kind of has what I think of it is kind

1050
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: of like a dirpy head. Do you remember this guy?

1051
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 3: I think so.

1052
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's definitely more of a fighter. He's really put

1053
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: in the boots to one of the Ultras when Hanaman

1054
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: jumps in, gets the hot tag and so he stabs

1055
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: this Kaiju in the heart with the trident, and then

1056
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: while the while the other while the Ultra holds him,

1057
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: Hanaman puts the monster in a headlock and then pulls

1058
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: the flesh off of the Kaiju's head, leaving only a

1059
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: perfectly white skull setting atop his body.

1060
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 3: Very very strong. Why do we never see the skin

1061
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 3: head ripping move in the in real wrestling? I mean,

1062
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 3: like if Rowdy Roddy Piper had had peeled the had

1063
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 3: like d gloved ahead, that would be a popular finishing move.

1064
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it's hard. I mean the closest thing,

1065
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: of course is unmasking of a luchador, but in now

1066
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: you have the reverse where their mask is a skull

1067
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: their face is just a human face. You're you're you're

1068
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: stealing you know, the divine or the macabre from the

1069
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: normal human. But in this case, yeah, you're just ripping

1070
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 1: the skin off a monster's skull. But they're not done

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Speaker 1: with this guy yet. Hanaman and the Ultra they go

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Speaker 1: ahead and they just pull on both arms of the

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Speaker 1: sky and they rip the flesh off of the arms, leaving,

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Speaker 1: you know, leaving just a like skeleton there as well.

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Speaker 1: Then the Kaiju flails in pain for a second, and

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Speaker 1: then Hanaman uses his wind power to create a vortex

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Speaker 1: around the Kaiju, pulling off the rest of its flesh,

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Speaker 1: leaving only a skeleton, which then is like sort of

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Speaker 1: stands like a kind of like a marionette for a

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Speaker 1: few seconds before just toppling into a pile of bones.

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Speaker 3: It's very wily. Coyote is yeah, yeah, once you notice

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Speaker 3: the physics they then they apply.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, so at this point we have one Kaiju left,

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Speaker 1: and it's the big horned Kaiju with the rainbow powers,

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Speaker 1: the one that I believe is it actually was the

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Speaker 1: one that was able to sort of freeze Hanaman inside

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Speaker 1: of a sphere before the other Ultras were able to

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Speaker 1: come and save him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the crystal laser sphere that gets him frozen. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He also has the power to block out the

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00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: sun with smoke clouds, so he starts unleashing just untold destruction.

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Speaker 1: So Hanamon and all seven Ultras gang up on him

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Speaker 1: and they just beat him down.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's really bullying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not pretty. At one point, the monsters trying

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Speaker 1: to crawl away, like they've beat him down so much

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Speaker 1: that he's just to crawl to safety, and the Ultras

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Speaker 1: grab him and Hanaman just beats him with a club.

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Speaker 1: At one point he rallies. He throws a boulder at

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Speaker 1: the Ultras, but they use Hanaman uses the club to

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Speaker 1: bash it back to him like they're playing baseball, and

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Speaker 1: then hits the Kaiju in the head. And so finally

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01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 1: Hanaman creates a laser crescent with his staff and then

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Speaker 1: cuts the Kaiju cleanly in half vertically, and then the

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Speaker 1: Kaiju explodes in a shower of sparks.

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Speaker 3: I think this is the one finishing move that I

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Speaker 3: did mention previously, the cleaving in half.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's the big that's the big violent.

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Speaker 3: Finish, tremendous power, all honoring glory to Hanuman.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so a little more detail about the closing. Enclosing,

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01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 1: Hanaman and the Ultras say they're goodbyes. Then Hanaman says

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Speaker 1: goodbye to the human characters. Then Hanaman flies off into

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Speaker 1: the sunset, and then the film ends with the director

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Speaker 1: narrating thanking the viewer for having watched.

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Speaker 3: The film, and I say, you're welcome.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, well, I guess we'll go ahead

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Speaker 1: and close this one out. But we'd love to hear

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Speaker 1: from everyone out there, for instance, that you know, have

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Speaker 1: have you seen any Ultraman films before? Had you seen

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Speaker 1: Hanaman versus Seven Ultraman before? Have you seen the other

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Speaker 1: Ultraman Hanaman team up movie? We'd love to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: I'd also love to hear from anyone who who actually

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Speaker 1: saw these in Thailand or has a you know, more

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Speaker 1: of a connection to Thai culture and can speak to

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Speaker 1: some of those aspects of the film, like what is

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Speaker 1: this film's prevalence in Thai cinema? How about some of

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01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: those other titles we mentioned, the Japanese or Thai films?

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Speaker 1: Did are you familiar with any of those? Should? Should

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Speaker 1: we seek out the Unbalanced Tar theater. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: we could find it if we did seek it out.

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Speaker 1: It looks it looks like it's a little hard to get.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, we'd love to hear from everyone about any.

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Speaker 3: Of these topics. Yeah, definitely, especially Yeah. Please tie listeners,

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Speaker 3: let us know your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: And if you would like to listen to other episodes

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Speaker 1: of Weird House Cinema. This comes out every Friday in

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1141
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Speaker 1: cut loose and talk about some sort of weird or

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01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: interesting film.

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Speaker 3: Huge thanks, as always to our excellent audio producer Seth

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Speaker 3: Nicholas Johnson. If you would like to get in touch

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01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:23,760
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