WEBVTT - Bedazzled with Laci Mosley 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.680 On the dol cast, The questions asked if movies have 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.720 woen inum, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands, 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:12.120 or do they have individualism? The patriarchy zef in best 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.720 start changing it with the beck Del cast. Most men 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.599 think they're gold. This one just happens to be right, 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.600 which is a quote from the movie Bedazzled and High. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.560 That's today's movies and hide. She did it? What's your name? 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:36.159 Oh mommy, Yeah, no, I'm sticking with it. What's your name? Now? 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.560 It's aggressive. But if I was like, I'm the devil, 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.120 I was hoping you would say that, Okay, yes, I'm 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.519 the devil. What does she say? Like? BL's above? But 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:49.680 she says like five, she's she's basically singing Bohemian Rhapsody. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:56.480 She Oh, it's so you're in for it today, because 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.480 I have no fucking clue what's going on in this movie? 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.800 There is This is a movie that I feel like 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.720 I could have only come out in two thousand and 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.440 I'm like, did it make sense then? Because I was really, 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.280 there's so much I'm not sure. Wait wait, wait, what's 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.360 your what's your name? Oh? Right, well, I'm Biel's abub 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.479 No I'm my name's Jamie. My name is Caitlin. We're 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.560 on a first name basis at this point. And this 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.800 is the backtel Cast. This is where we talk about 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.280 movies from an intersectional feminist lens, and we also talk 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:34.559 about Bedazzled, and that's what we're doing today backtel Cast 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:41.280 more like the Dazzle The why is this movie called Bedazzled? 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.720 We were talking about this before we got on. Mike. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:50.120 I think it's because the devil Lucifer beazl bub Satan 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.560 has the ability to bedazzle you with all you know, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:59.560 riches and respect and love and all that series of 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:05.320 law sketches in the middle of a movie. Yeah, I guess, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.679 so I get. That's as close as I got. Anyways, 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.600 this is our podcast. We use the Bechtel test as 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.919 a jumping off point for discussion. That is a media 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:19.359 metric invented by queer cartoonist Alice in Bechtel that requires that, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:24.480 for our purposes, two characters of a marginalized gender with 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:29.560 names speak to each other about something other than Brendan Fraser. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.079 And that's how the test is going to work today, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:37.720 and we'll just we'll just see what happens. We will indeed, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.560 and I say, without much further ado, we introduce our guest, 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:48.040 a fan favorite. First of all, she's also a comedian actor. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.280 You know her from ABC's The Con and she's the 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:57.480 host of Scam Goddess podcast. It's Lacy Mosley. Hi, Oh, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.760 welcome Backack. I would like to be addressed that satan. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:07.720 It's got an accent mark, so it's satan. Okay, we're 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.440 hitting the second syllable. It's funny that, y'all we're talking 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.760 about the title of this movie. I personally, I guess 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.320 because I was younger when it came out. I remember 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.000 talking to my friends about it. I'd be like, yeah, 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.640 you know, that's that movie bit, but there's what did 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.800 I call it? Bebazild. I was like, you know, maybe 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.520 I was illiterate, but I'm like, yeah, I know that 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:33.000 movie bevazled with with the British Javil. That's honestly enough 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:38.200 information to know what the movie is. Perfect. But I'm 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.839 so glad you brought us this movie because I had 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.880 no idea this movie existing. Oh really, wow, Yeah, I'd 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.720 never heard of it, and I thought that I like, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.720 I'm not like, I'm not a I'm not like a 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.600 Brendan Fraser fan, but I find him interesting as a person, 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.400 I don't think so. And then I hate Brendon Frae. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:58.760 It's just like I don't know what people are like, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.520 Oh yeah, give it at Brandon, like ione have a 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.960 poster in their wall. I don't know, he's like interesting 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.400 because I just I don't know. Anytime there's someone who 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.240 was like I look like a movie star, but I'm 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.000 actually a character actor, I'm like, that's kind of interesting 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.320 to me. But I had no idea this movie existed. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:21.479 What is this thing there? Uh? Lacy had what is 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.280 your history with Bedazzled? So my history with Bebizild is 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.080 I remember seeing it with my cousin as a kid, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.520 and you know, we're pretty religious, but not like I 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:34.960 was like I want to church a lot. But like 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.120 as soon as my mom had full control over how 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.039 much we went to church, then we didn't go to 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.640 church as much. You know, we had we hit the bobs. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.400 You know, we were there for the high holidays. We 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.479 were there for you know, the cute moments, the Easters, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.760 the Christmas is, you know, whenever Jesus would come back, 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.960 we would come back as well. Basically, but so I 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.960 remember watching it kind of like we were like sneaking 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.359 and watching it um much as we did most of 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.839 the television that we watched. And I remember having fun 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.560 watching it, much like when I was here from What 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.719 Women Want, which was a dumpster fire, the one with 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.360 Mel Gibson. I was like, I remember being like, bitch, 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.320 this is good, like so so I'm I was ready 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:23.800 to love it. The early two thousand's what a what 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.840 a cursed It was really just a free for all 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.160 you could do all sorts of ship that was our eighties. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.120 I mean like we were wearing skirts over leggings and 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.520 do outfits and and so for some reason, a flower 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:42.280 Indian hair anywhere, Like I wore flower in my hair 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.840 to my senior prom, please and thank you. I wore 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.560 one to the club there, poor decision. I remember like 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.320 being I don't know, I guess like at being a 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.599 kid around this time. I don't know why, but I 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.800 have like a really strong memory of being on the 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.440 school bus and having a T shirt that had like 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.920 as sass see a little phrase on it that said 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:06.680 like angel ten percent devil and thinking like there is 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.160 never gonna be a shirt cooler than this shirt, Like 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.560 I was so thoroughly convinced that early two thousand's child 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.120 fashion was going to be as good as we ever got. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:22.280 It was limited to Girl Limited too. It was great 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.640 Angel ten percent Devil. It fits perfectly with the Dazzles. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.000 Also feels like a little horny for kid apparel. I mean, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.000 like maybe the Devil's like a little devil. But I 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.880 don't know did either of you wear weirdly horny kids shirts? 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.600 Because I definitely I had my fifth grade school picture. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.279 I'm wearing a T shirt that says too young for Ashton, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:48.280 which is like fucked up. But I snuck at to school. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.880 My mom didn't want me to wear it, but my 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.000 aunt got it for me. My horny aunt was like, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.000 this is funny, and then I brought home the school 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.479 pictures and now it's in your life forever. I love 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.960 that your aunt is hilarious. But that shirt is who 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.480 made that? Who was like put that on the screen. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.120 They were just selling that at like I don't even 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.080 know where it would have been, like the Macy's clearance section. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.960 They just had that shirt for Like the shirt basically 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.600 was like I'm horned for Ashton, but he can't be 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.800 horned back. What did we say, it's like, thanks for 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:25.400 letting us know ten year old. I hope Ashton made 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.320 some coin off of it, because they just said and 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.600 they say culture. So he probably out here and gets 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:35.800 smeared and he didn't even get a coin. Oh my goodness, Caitlyn, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.040 what's your history of this movie? My history is literally 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.360 I didn't know it existed before before we started getting 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.440 ready for this episode. This came out when I was 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.600 in high school or I was like just about to 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.040 enter high school, so I was it was definitely on 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.560 my radar, and I thought I had seen this movie, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.120 But when I went to watch it to prep for 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.640 this episode, I'm like, none of this is familiar to me, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.320 except for one scene where he first wakes up as 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:06.800 a Colombian drug lord and he's figuring out that he 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:11.320 can speak Spanish, because this clip is featured as a 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.400 clip in the board game Seen It if anyone remembers 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.840 seen it, I do remember that. I don't remember that. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:20.960 So that whole scene plays out and then you're supposed 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.800 to like answer like trivia questions about that clip or 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.480 whatever in the game anyway, so that I was like, Okay, 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.920 I've definitely seen that part. Of it. I think I 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.520 must have been on at a sleepover or something like that, 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.840 because I have like bits and pieces of it were 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.640 familiar to me, but I didn't. I don't think I 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.440 had seen the whole thing. Um, we're too busy pillow fighting. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:48.959 I was too busy being angel Um. But yeah, so, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.880 uh should we just get into the recap and then 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.440 I'm so excited to hear you recap this movie, Like 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.840 what is going to happen me about you? While I 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:02.560 was watching the movie, I was like, I just can't 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:10.240 wait for Caitlin to do this. Thank you. Okay, So 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:15.440 we meet Elliott. That is Brendan Fraser. He works at 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.400 a tech company, and he's a loser. He's a dork. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.880 He's annoying, and nobody likes him. He's Brendan frasering out 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.160 at the beginning, like such a simple yeah, like he 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.360 this is Brendan Fraser. At the beginning of a lot 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:35.520 of movies. He's like really loudly not fitting in. I 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.000 just well, I kept thinking back to so we recorded 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:43.360 an episode on The Mummy a few years ago. Now, Um, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.480 but our whole thing with that episode that he is 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.960 that he was like Ferrell from a lot of the 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:52.240 movie because he like surprised kisses Rachel Weiss, and he's 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.480 just like being this horny Farrell, like we love a 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:01.319 surprise kiss, we don't, and this movie he gets surprised 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.720 kissed by the devil. So I just kept thinking about 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.880 like Brendan Fraser being feral and it kept making me laugh. Anyways, 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:13.840 So one evening he sees some people that he knows 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.640 from work hanging out without him at a bar, and 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.560 then the woman that he has a huge crush on 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.560 who he also works with or like she works in 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.640 the same building or something, Alison Gardner. That's Francis O'Connor. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.840 She comes in and his coworkers kind of like egg 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.480 him on to go talk to her because he's all like, yeah, 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.160 she and I are like good friends, and he goes 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.480 over to talk to her. She does not remember Elliott 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.400 at all, because it turns out they've only talked once 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.840 briefly four years ago, and then she walks away, but 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:55.160 just then Elliott comes upon a sexy woman in red. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:02.000 Yeah it does happen that quickly, Wait really quick on, Allison. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.160 I just I was waiting the whole movie to be like, 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:10.360 what is like one thing, What is one thing about 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.000 her other than she is She seems to reflexively, like 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.240 many people who are being aggressively hit on, be nice 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.600 to people instead of telling them to funk off. Like 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.880 that's I think the one thing I know about her. Yeah, 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.439 they didn't give us no information about her. She kind 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.560 of looked like Mariah Carey, which I was like, maybe that's, like, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.280 you know, for the Times, like Maria. You know, Maria's 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:37.000 always popping, she owns Christmas, move over Jesus, but she's 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.040 long bodded Jesus off the manger. Um, it's just her 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.800 and heels. But she. I was like, oh, maybe that 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.880 was for the Times. But also I didn't like that, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.160 like it gave such in cell vibes of like this woman, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.319 we don't know nothing about her. It's like if you 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.280 just saw a girl on Instagram and was like, that's 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.200 my wife, and it's like you've never seen, never talked 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.559 to her. We didn't even Instagram will get more information. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.440 At least she would have some cat she's we can 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.040 look at like this is like the sun, Okay, she 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.280 loves the beach all right, Like nothing, Yeah, we know 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.120 nothing about her. It's so weird, yeah, like slow mo 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.800 entrance shot, and then we never learned to the point 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.800 where like when she would show up in all these 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.840 like later like fantasy sequences, I would kind of sometimes 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.959 be like, wait, who is that? Oh, I guess it's 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.920 that lady Allison. Like I didn't recognize her because she 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.520 was in those weeks. She was just in a bunch 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.920 of wigs, and I was like, She's like, she was fun, 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.960 But I'm like, I don't who is this woman? What 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.920 is different about her? She's passionate about wigs, That's what 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.240 we know. She loves a good wig, so right, he 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.000 knows the way she likes to eat her bagels, and 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.640 that's all he knows about her, and that's all we 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.600 know about her. But anyway, so suddenly this very sexy 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.760 woman in Red is in the movie and she's played 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:53.439 by Elizabeth Hurley, and there's something very peculiar about her 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.720 because she's really good at pool and she seems to 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.280 be omniscient. And then she's like, by the way, Brendan Fraser, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.440 I have the power to give you everything you've ever 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.679 dreamed of. And it's because I'm the devil t he 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:14.559 She's really fun, Like when it's fucked up, she's still 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.959 fun and she's like hot off of Austin Powers too. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.360 It's like peak Elizabeth Hurly because I'm like, what if 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.559 I can't I can't tell you what Elizabeth Hurley did 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.480 after this. She's very naughty. I also think that like 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.959 having the Devil be British was just like just because 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.720 I just can't imagine American woman like, yeah, I'm the Devil, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:40.520 so what's up? You want some wishes or not? It 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.160 just doesn't sound as sexy is her. Also the fact 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.720 that the Devil is a genie, Like, there's so many 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.240 leaps of logic where I'm like, okay, I guess the 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:55.080 Devil is a genie and she's obsessed with Brendan Fraser 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.840 because of a CD ROM computer program that she has 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.800 I don't know right, Well, okay, So this movie is 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:10.800 based on a nineteen sixty seven movie of the same 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.559 name the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were in and 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.240 that who also co wrote that movie, which was also 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.360 an adaptation from the Faust Legend, which admittedly I don't 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.960 know anything about Faust. It definitely feels like something that's 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.960 been adapted from other stuff because some things. I'm like, huh, right, 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.640 what where did that come from? Like what triggered the devil? Like, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.480 I don't I didn't see him go like, oh, devil, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.360 I wish I could be with aliceon Like it was 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.880 nothing that, there's nothing that triggered the devil. He goes 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.360 He's like, Dear God, I would I would do anything 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.320 to be So he basically praised to God saying like 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.000 I would do anything to be with this woman, and 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.920 rather than God responding, so I don't say. Maybe this 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.760 movie is a commentary on like where's God when you 0:14:54.800 --> 0:15:00.520 need him? Because who SUPs at the end of the movie, right, right, Yes, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:02.920 God is in this movie. I can't wait to talk 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.880 about him. But um, so the devil is like, Hi, 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.840 I'm the devil and he's like what. So she has 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.440 to prove it to him because you know, Brendan Fraser 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:18.080 doesn't believe women or Devil's well she does like just 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.440 kind of start accosting. I don't know. All their scenes 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.640 together are like what is this dynamic? And then at 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.600 the end where he says like You're the best friend 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.840 I've ever had, Like that's the saddest thing I've ever 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:35.640 heard in my life and she hates you, man, she 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.520 hates you so much, she's just using you to get 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.680 your soul. Such a weird story. So I needed the 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.360 help of Wikipedia to understand what was happening at the beginning, 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.560 because the whole like intro is like we see people 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.320 being it's like a very early two thousands computer program 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.240 where I will like point at the person and then 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.280 say five adjectives like it's the next bus or something. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.120 I'm like, what, But apparently that's the Devil computer program, 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.680 which I didn't understand right. I was like, I didn't 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.160 get that until the second viewing. I was like, so 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.040 the Devil has a cd ROM that tells her that 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.520 Brendan Frasier is lonely. Like it's just weird, Yeah, yeah, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.560 because she's using it basically is like kind of like 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.560 an online dating site, but rather than to like find dates, 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:26.200 it's to like find candidates for souls she can snatch up. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.400 And some of that language was just so early two thousands. 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:30.720 I was like, this is like the ship you can 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.360 get away with. Like they pointed out one woman and 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.160 it was like tease and it's like, yeah, I feel 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.520 like that's not that's the word made up bout me 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.440 and who wanted to have sex with somebody who did 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.760 not want to have sex with them. That's not a thing. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.760 So some of the points I was like problematic, Yes, definitely, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.119 this is a very two thousand software program, like it's 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:59.360 not updated, it's running on fucking Windows. I like. But 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.200 then when it points the Brandon Fraser, it's like doormatt, lonely, desperate, oblivious, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.760 eager to please. And I was like, wow, feeling called out. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.159 That's so brutal. And then a million he holds the 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.560 door and a million people go inside. I was like, Brendy, 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.480 you could have got in there. You stuck up in there. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.760 Brendan have some self esteem. But then he does have 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.359 self esteem, but and it's really like aggressive at times, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.000 it's he's it is a weird character, like he's either 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.200 I feel like he falls kind of into that nerd 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.959 stereotype of like I'm going to force people to like me, 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.320 which is like, no, that's also scary. That's not a 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.520 good approach. I felt bad for that. In his working group. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.960 First of all, shoutout Orlando Jones, so funny. He's great, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:44.919 even though it's like he should have had more to 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.320 do it, but like there, I was glad he was there. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.439 And then there was also like token guy's Gal that 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.000 was with them, who was like, oh, like did you God? 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.520 It was just like such a stock character. But I'm like, oop, 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.800 I know who you are. You will never talk to 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:01.880 an other woman in this film. But she'll be there 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.040 with the guys. But not everywhere, because like, was she 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.880 ever in any of the cutaways? No, she was only 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:11.760 in like the non wish, like non fantasy. Why did 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:17.480 she come to the fantasy? She was just as she 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.080 was just as much of a bully to Brendan Fraser 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.960 as anyone else, and she wasn't invited. Rude, damn, I 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:25.679 didn't even that didn't even occur to me. I was 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.560 just like, wow, guys, Gal, they gave her like the 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.399 guy's gal Daria jacket and everything. Yeah, but she's not 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.560 allowed to participate in most of the movie. Okay, So anyway, 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.359 so um, he's like, I don't you You're not the devil. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.840 So she proves it to him by granting his wish 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.919 of a big mac and a coke, But it doesn't 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.320 seem that impressive because she just takes him to McDonald's 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.359 and he has to pay for it, but then she 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.760 takes him to her nightclub where everyone seems to know 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.239 him and love him, and then she presents him with 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.359 this contract where she will grant him seven wishes because 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:08.080 she's also a genie in exchange for his soul, and 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:12.040 because he really really wants to be with this woman, Allison, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.120 he signs the contract and then she's like, Okay, I'm 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.960 gonna give you this pager. If things aren't going the 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.560 way you'd hope, just you know, dial six six six, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:27.800 and then we'll sort it out. Classic two thousand's Devil, Right, 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:33.000 So what follows next is a bunch of sequences that 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:34.800 I'm just going to kind of breeze through because I 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.680 feel like we will break them down one by one 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.639 in the discussion, so I don't want to spend too 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.800 much time. And but basically, there's all these sequences where 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.520 he makes a wish. Things seem great at first, but 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.680 then he discovers like a catch and then he has 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.000 to page the Devil and go back to normal until 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.280 he makes his next wish. So the first one is 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.199 that he wishes to be very rich and powerful and 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:06.600 married to liston cut to he is now Colombian. Okay, 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.959 he lives in a mansion with his wife Allison, and 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.400 he's rich and everything, but the catches. Allison hates him 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.919 and is cheating on him, and he got his wealth 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.240 and power by running a drug cartel. This is where 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:26.000 I was like, what huh there is? This movie quickly 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:31.080 becomes just a series of really long sketches where Brendan 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:34.439 Fraser is doing the absolute most a person can do, 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:40.720 like just like a pile of wigs and a bunch 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.359 of things happening, and it's all ten minutes long, and 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.480 at the end you're like, and then all of a sudden, 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.359 he's talking to the devil again, and why did he 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.199 have to have a proces that it knows to be 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.560 a Colombian dread lorre? Wow? I mean that's not all 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.960 they do. They put him in brown face, yeah they did, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:01.479 Oh god, and that look get into him. But and 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:04.760 that's like God, they're all They're all like bad, but 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.320 all in like very distinct way. It's kind of like 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:13.000 a weird sampler plate of like problematic. They find a 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:18.560 new way to be extremely problematic with each new wish. 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:22.360 So the next one is after he finds out that 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.960 Alison wants a sensitive man. He wishes to be the 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.600 world's most sensitive man and for Allison to be in 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.879 love with him. So we cut to him being super sensitive. 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.080 But the catch is that he's too sensitive and overbearing 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:43.200 and she's turned off by it and it's disgusting. So 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:48.320 his next wish is to be tall and strong and athletic. 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:52.000 So the Devil turns him into a pro basketball player, 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:58.159 and Allison is now a sports reporter and she's really 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:03.760 horny for him, but the matches he has a very 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:08.959 small penis, which she sees because he starts to address 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:11.640 in front of her in the locker room as she's 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.439 like trying to interview him as a sports reporter. But 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:20.200 also she's like, yeah, like it's the the like gymnastics, 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:22.439 the logic gymnastics. The story goes to be like, no, 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:26.159 she is actually telling him that he has to strip 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.400 in front of her in the locker room because that's 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:33.080 what sports reporters do, and it's like it's oh boy, 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.280 it's a mind fuck. But so she sees his small 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.440 penis and now she is not interested in him. So 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.879 then his next wish is to be really smart and 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:49.040 educated and witty and sophisticated and for Alison to fall 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:51.760 in love with him, and that he has a big 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:56.359 penis so cut to him being a renowned writer who's 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.679 very charming and cool and everyone likes him. And then 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:03.119 he's Allison at some event and they hit it off. 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:05.480 But the catch here is that when they go back 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.920 to his place, it turns out that Elliott is gay 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.800 and has like a male partner and is not actually 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:23.040 interested in Allison. More gymnastics lay that one. Uh So, 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:27.360 the next wish is he wants to do something good 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.199 for mankind and to create a better world and do 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.080 something important. So he wishes to be the president of 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:38.160 the United States. So the devil makes him President Lincoln 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:42.000 right before he's about to be assassinated. Ah, he comes 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:44.520 out of that wish, and now he only has one 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:47.800 wish left because the devil is counting the big mac 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.760 and coke as one of his wishes, and he's like, 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:55.439 you know what, Devil, the deal is off. And he 0:23:55.600 --> 0:24:00.440 goes to a church to talk to God. So yeah, 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:06.639