WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema: Reptilicus

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

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<v Speaker 2>And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema,

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<v Speaker 2>we are going to be talking about a movie that

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<v Speaker 2>has two faces, but one slimy toxic heart, and that

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<v Speaker 2>is the nineteen sixty two English language version of the

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<v Speaker 2>euro kaiju movie Reptilicous, directed by Sidney Pink. Now, one

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<v Speaker 2>thing to mention right at the beginning here is that

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<v Speaker 2>this movie is kind of weird. There exists two different

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<v Speaker 2>versions of the film, one in English and one in Danish,

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<v Speaker 2>and neither one is simply a dub of the other.

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<v Speaker 2>There were actually two different movies shot separately, but sharing

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<v Speaker 2>the same story and most of the same cast, but

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<v Speaker 2>with different lines in each language and two different directors.

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<v Speaker 2>So the Danish version you'll get was directed by Paul

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<v Speaker 2>Bong and the English version by Sidney Pink, the latter

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<v Speaker 2>of which, again is the one we're going to be

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<v Speaker 2>talking about today. Both of these movies have the same

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<v Speaker 2>basic storyline, the same scenes overall. Both films are set

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<v Speaker 2>in Denmark and concern Danish paleontologists attempting to investigate the

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<v Speaker 2>remains of a giant frozen dinosaur tale uncovered from deep underground,

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<v Speaker 2>which eventually turns into a big dragon thing is named Reptilicus,

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<v Speaker 2>and then just goes nuts on Denmark, runs around eating

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<v Speaker 2>cows and attacking people at the beach, attacking the city,

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<v Speaker 2>attacking famous beautiful landmarks that you should visit by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>if you're ever in scene at Copenhagen. And yeah, and

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<v Speaker 2>so this is a giant monster movie like many others

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<v Speaker 2>we've talked about before, but with I don't know, some

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<v Speaker 2>interesting distinctions we can get into as we go along.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so I guess you could say it's it's kind

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<v Speaker 1>of like the situation with nineteen thirty one's Dracula, where

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<v Speaker 1>you have the Mexican version that is shot on the

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<v Speaker 1>same sets, though that one doesn't have the same actors.

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<v Speaker 1>This one has almost exclusively the same actors. They're just

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<v Speaker 1>we just have them delivering their lines in different languages

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<v Speaker 1>in separate shots.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly. It would be like if the thirty one Todd

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<v Speaker 2>Browning Dracula and then the Spanish language version were It

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<v Speaker 2>would be like that situation if they used mostly the

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<v Speaker 2>same cast, but not entirely.

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<v Speaker 1>If they had been like okay, Bella, how's your Spanish,

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<v Speaker 1>that they went a different direction. Obviously.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, Now we were talking about something before we came on, Mike,

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<v Speaker 2>which is that I think both of us really enjoyed

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<v Speaker 2>watching Reptilicus. But I do have to be honest about

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<v Speaker 2>this one and not over sell any of its individual merits,

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<v Speaker 2>because I don't think it has a lot of extreme

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<v Speaker 2>merits in any particular direction. I would not honestly be

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<v Speaker 2>able to say that this is a great idea or

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<v Speaker 2>a great script. I would not honestly.

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<v Speaker 3>You know.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes we can say, like the story's kind of weak,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's got a great cast. No offense to any

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<v Speaker 2>of the wonderful cast members involved here, but it is

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<v Speaker 2>not an especially stand out screen presence we're dealing with

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<v Speaker 2>with anybody here. The I would say, even the special

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<v Speaker 2>effects are not really that impressive. They're they're enjoyable in

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<v Speaker 2>a certain way, but none of the they're not even

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<v Speaker 2>on the level of Gorgo, which we'll get to in

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<v Speaker 2>a minute. So there is really no element of this

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<v Speaker 2>movie I can point to and say, well, at least

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<v Speaker 2>that's really great. And yet overall, I love Reptilicus.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's it's a charming picture, like it's a feel

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<v Speaker 1>good monster picture, and the areas where it's rough around

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<v Speaker 1>the edges adds to its charm. But indeed, it's hard

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<v Speaker 1>to recommend it to folks unless you are looking for

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<v Speaker 1>a picture like this. You gotta be on board for

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<v Speaker 1>something that has this vibe.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So maybe despite not being stellar filmmaking in any

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<v Speaker 2>particular direction, Reptilicus has many appealing things. One of them

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<v Speaker 2>is just the word reptilicus, which is one of the

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<v Speaker 2>most pleasing words to say that I've ever come across.

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<v Speaker 2>I discovered before we came in to record. I was

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<v Speaker 2>walking around the house with my wife, and I discovered

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<v Speaker 2>that the word reptilicus has the same stress pattern as

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<v Speaker 2>the word america, and then for that reason, can be

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<v Speaker 2>subbed into any song lyrics containing the word America. So like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, Reptilicus the beautiful. I'm proud to be a reptilicon.

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<v Speaker 2>They've all gone to look for reptilicus and so forth.

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<v Speaker 2>There's been a lot of that going on at the house.

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<v Speaker 2>So you know, take reptilicus into your vocabulary and use

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<v Speaker 2>it with whatever gusto you please, But I will say

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<v Speaker 2>another big appeal of Reptilicus for me is conceptual. For

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<v Speaker 2>some reason, audiences seem to have long reacted to this

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<v Speaker 2>movie with amusement at the idea of a giant monster

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<v Speaker 2>attack film set in Denmark, and I recall a similar

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<v Speaker 2>sense of fun in the way that people including us

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<v Speaker 2>reacted to another movie we covered earlier this year, Gorgo,

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<v Speaker 2>from nineteen sixty one, so right around the same time period.

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<v Speaker 2>I think these were produced within like a year of

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<v Speaker 2>each other, And Gorgo was a movie in which an

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<v Speaker 2>enormous rat like god monster emerges from the sea off

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<v Speaker 2>the coast of an Irish island, is captured and transported

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<v Speaker 2>for display in a London circus, and then triggers a

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<v Speaker 2>monster rampage in the streets of London, sort of a

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<v Speaker 2>rat god amphibious attack from the Thames. Yes, and so

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<v Speaker 2>of course no one language or culture owns the idea

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<v Speaker 2>of a giant monster. Giant monsters go back in you know,

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<v Speaker 2>literature of many different cultures deep into history. But I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's safe to say that Japan in general and

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<v Speaker 2>Toho Studios in particular really grew and perfected the art

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<v Speaker 2>of the giant monster movie, though of course, the creators

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<v Speaker 2>of films like the nineteen fifty four Godzilla were inspired

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<v Speaker 2>at least in part by American films like RKO's King Kong.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's plenty of trading back and forth of inspiration

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<v Speaker 2>and creative energy across borders, as there always has been.

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<v Speaker 2>But many of the greatest and most enduring giant monster

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<v Speaker 2>movies ever made are Toho productions from Japan, and in

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<v Speaker 2>the Gorko episode, I think we had a brief discussion

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<v Speaker 2>about the question of why people seem to think it's

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<v Speaker 2>inherently funny or counterintuitive for a giant monster to attack

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<v Speaker 2>and crush office buildings in London or in the case

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<v Speaker 2>of today's movie, in Denmark, in a way that it's

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<v Speaker 2>just not counterintuitive or funny for that to happen in Japan, or,

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<v Speaker 2>for that matter, in the United States. So like a

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<v Speaker 2>monster from the sea, giant monster comes out and attacks

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<v Speaker 2>Tokyo or New York. Yeah, we buy that monster comes

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<v Speaker 2>out of the copper minds and attacks Copenhagen. That just

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<v Speaker 2>makes people laugh. And I feel this as well, but

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<v Speaker 2>I don't quite fully understand it. I was trying to

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<v Speaker 2>think of reasons. And I was thinking, maybe it's as

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<v Speaker 2>simple as this is the only Danish kaiju movie that

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<v Speaker 2>I know of, so it's just unfamiliar. If there were

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<v Speaker 2>more of them, it would feel normal. Or maybe it's

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<v Speaker 2>something about the like the cultural or geographic setting that

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<v Speaker 2>just doesn't interface as naturally with the soul of a

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<v Speaker 2>beast like Reptilicus. Could it be something about I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>predominant styles of local architecture. I really don't know the answer,

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<v Speaker 2>but I do think it's it's interesting that people quite

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<v Speaker 2>consistently have this reaction, So it's just something to think about.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think part of it is that from very

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<v Speaker 1>early on, we associate like New York City and Tokyo

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<v Speaker 1>with giant monster attacks and it kind of sticks, and yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it would we would maybe expect, like Copenhagen have its

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<v Speaker 1>own thing, like I don't know, like you know, killer

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<v Speaker 1>mermaids come out and attack Copenhagen. That tracks, Oh that'd

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<v Speaker 1>be great. But I mean, but then from Danish perspective,

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<v Speaker 1>why not Copenhagen As we learn in this film, it's

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<v Speaker 1>a beautiful city with a lot to offer.

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<v Speaker 2>That's all right. I was not able to research this

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<v Speaker 2>before we recorded today. But I would love to know if,

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<v Speaker 2>like the I don't know local the Copenhagen Tourism Board

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<v Speaker 2>or something was a producer on this film, if they

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<v Speaker 2>put some funding into it, because there is a segment

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<v Speaker 2>in the middle of the movie that is an almost

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<v Speaker 2>too good to believe just travel brochure for the city

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<v Speaker 2>of covid Look at all of the beautiful local landmarks.

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<v Speaker 2>You can visit the swinging you know, nightlife district. Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>check out this gorgeous bridge and fountain. Great place to

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<v Speaker 2>take the kids.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, everything that they say during this ten minute travel

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<v Speaker 1>brochure section of the film, you could easily imagine Rick

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<v Speaker 1>Steet's saying all of it in an episode of his

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<v Speaker 1>show or his podcast Love Rick Steeves by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, I can imagine him saying, like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>many people say that Danes were born on their bicycles

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<v Speaker 1>and when you travel through Copenhagen and so forth.

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<v Speaker 2>And it it ends with a scene of it's like

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<v Speaker 2>two military guys who are both on a date with

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<v Speaker 2>the same woman at the same time. That's what it's showing.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what that means, but they go out

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<v Speaker 2>on this date and they just go to a nightclub

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<v Speaker 2>and like watch a musical number, and we watch too.

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<v Speaker 2>Here we are.

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<v Speaker 1>But I love that the film felt as if the

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<v Speaker 1>film knew that American audiences might say, why Copenhagen, and

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<v Speaker 1>so here's the answer, Here's why Copenhagen.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay. Another thing to consider this also has come up

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<v Speaker 2>in past episodes where we talked about giant monster films.

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<v Speaker 2>The surprisingly sober themes that come out of some of

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<v Speaker 2>these movies. Now, many of them are just deliberately and

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<v Speaker 2>consciously silly, just some good wholesome atomic beast rastling, but

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<v Speaker 2>other Kaiju movies have some pretty serious ideas in mind,

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<v Speaker 2>at least in the back of the mind. I think

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<v Speaker 2>it's well known that the original fifty four Godzilla obviously

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<v Speaker 2>had nuclear weapons on its mind. Later Godzilla films have

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<v Speaker 2>some pretty clear environmental themes, like the idea that we

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<v Speaker 2>have polluted the earth, and the Earth is striking back

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<v Speaker 2>in the form of like an embodied monster, a sort

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<v Speaker 2>of meat form immago of the the very real but

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes more invisible and diffuse human consequences downstream from pollution,

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<v Speaker 2>pollution of the air and water, and destruction and natural habitats,

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<v Speaker 2>and so forth. So I was wondering, does Reptilicus fit

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<v Speaker 2>into this picture. Does Reptilicus have any serious themes in mind?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure, but we could come back to this

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<v Speaker 2>question later.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, if they're there, it's a very and we can

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<v Speaker 1>always speak to the American version here, something like this

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<v Speaker 1>could be more stressed in the Danish version. But I

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<v Speaker 1>got maybe mild vibes of the importance of international cooperation

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<v Speaker 1>against threats, regenerative threats, but it's it's very shallow, it's

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<v Speaker 1>there at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, should we hear some trailer audio?

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<v Speaker 1>Sure? Sure? My? Oh my elevator pitch. By the way,

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<v Speaker 1>is springboarding off? Is something you said? Is they're coming

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<v Speaker 1>to Reptilicus today. I'm not going to sing it because

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if we'll get pained for that anyway. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>the US trailer for this is pretty fun. Let's have

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<v Speaker 1>a listen.

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<v Speaker 4>Somewhere in the Forbidding Tundra mountains of Lapland, high above

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<v Speaker 4>the Arctic Circle, a group of mining engineers were prospecting

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<v Speaker 4>for copper. But what they on earth was a story,

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<v Speaker 4>a story that was to terrorize the whole world. Fossil bones.

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<v Speaker 3>I have never seen bone fragments like this before.

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<v Speaker 4>I'll work with the army through Captain Brant, Commander Svenson,

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<v Speaker 4>you'll buy for any naval action required. As chief of police,

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<v Speaker 4>I'll rely on you to handle the population. Handled Grayson

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<v Speaker 4>where day out of his way? How long do you

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<v Speaker 4>expect me to continue this hill?

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<v Speaker 3>All right?

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<v Speaker 1>If you want to go out and watch Reptilicus yourself,

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<v Speaker 1>we encourage you to do so. The Vinegar Syndrome Blu

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<v Speaker 1>ray is clearly the best choice here, features a restored

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<v Speaker 1>cut of the American version of the film, as well

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<v Speaker 1>as the original Danish version, or I guess it's the original.

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<v Speaker 1>I will say it's the original version, but anyway, both

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<v Speaker 1>English version and Danish version.

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<v Speaker 2>I own this Blu ray set from Vinegar Syndrome and

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<v Speaker 2>it is gorgeous. I highly recommend it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they do great work. Sadly, this version was checked

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<v Speaker 1>out when I went to rent a video drome. They

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<v Speaker 1>were very apologetic. They were like they were like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, you're not gonna be able to watch it

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<v Speaker 1>in the best quality possible. And I was like, it's fine,

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<v Speaker 1>it's this is a time constraint situation and so forth.

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<v Speaker 1>So I had to rint an older DVD of the

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<v Speaker 1>American cut of the film, which was fine. I thought

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<v Speaker 1>the quality was certainly watchable, though I did have French

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<v Speaker 1>subtitles that I could not make go away, but that

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<v Speaker 1>did not get in the way of my enjoyment of

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<v Speaker 1>the film.

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<v Speaker 2>What was the movie that we watch that had hard

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<v Speaker 2>burned Dutch subtitles was that the Hawaiian Werewolf movie.

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<v Speaker 1>It was, Yes, there was a TV movie, so we

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<v Speaker 1>were having to watch like a YouTube cut of it,

0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.760
<v Speaker 1>YouTube up load of it that had been like ripped

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<v Speaker 1>from from television.

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<v Speaker 2>Over there, you know, with a verk beast.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Death Moon. Death Moon is the motion picture. Someone

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<v Speaker 1>needs to put it out on Blu Ray. Someone make

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<v Speaker 1>that happen. All right, Let's get into the connections here,

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<v Speaker 1>starting with the director we already referenced. This is Sydney W. Pink,

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<v Speaker 1>director of the US version, producer I believe of both reptilicuses,

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<v Speaker 1>and one of the credited writers. He lived nineteen sixteen

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<v Speaker 1>through two thousand and two, American director and producer, often

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<v Speaker 1>singled out for his contributions to three D cinema. In fact,

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<v Speaker 1>he was an ap on the associate producer on the

0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.640
<v Speaker 1>first widely released feature link three D film Bwana Devil

0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.160
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen fifty two, a film we mentioned in our

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<v Speaker 1>previous Weird House Cinema episodes talking about three D pictures.

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<v Speaker 1>He also gave us the cinemagic technique in nineteen fifty

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<v Speaker 1>nine's The Angry Red Planet, in which a pink red

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<v Speaker 1>tint is applied to black and white film to give

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<v Speaker 1>us the surface of Mars to take us to the

0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.920
<v Speaker 1>surface of Mars. He also directed Journey to the Seventh

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<v Speaker 1>Planet right before the picture in sixty two starring John Agar.

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<v Speaker 4>There you Go.

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<v Speaker 1>Also, I'm always into a good I was a title

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<v Speaker 1>that always catches my interest. So I'll just point out

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<v Speaker 1>that his first film, both as a director and a

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<v Speaker 1>producer was nineteen fifty three's I Was a Burlesque Queen,

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<v Speaker 1>which also had three D dance sequences in it.

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<v Speaker 2>I Was a teenage Reptilicus, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>The other writing credit goes to an individual that's come

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<v Speaker 1>up on the show before. It's Ebe Melchior, who lived

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventeen through twenty fifteen, Danish American screenwriter with some

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<v Speaker 1>impressive credits. We previously referenced him as one of the

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<v Speaker 1>writers of Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I knew I recognized the name.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, it's a name that stands out. He

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<v Speaker 1>wrote and directed The Angry Red Planet fifty nine, Time

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<v Speaker 1>Traveler sixty four, co screenwriter on Robinson Crusoe on Mars

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<v Speaker 1>And sixty four, and his nineteen sixty five short story

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<v Speaker 1>The Racer was adapted to the nineteen seventy five Corman

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<v Speaker 1>produced Paul Bartel directed movie Death Race two thousand.

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<v Speaker 2>Ooh, yeah, man, I haven't seen that one in many years,

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<v Speaker 2>but I have some fond memories about it. Is it

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<v Speaker 2>as good as I remember? I don't know Frankenstein Frankenstein, Yeah, Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>that's the Chardine character, right, yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>And what's Stallon's in it? Right, Cass like one of

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<v Speaker 2>the villains. He's like machine Gun Joe V Turbo or something.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't remember him. I just remember Franken STETI. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but I also remembered as being fun, all right. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>getting into the cast, there are a lot of folks

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<v Speaker 1>that kind of fade into the background here performing various

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<v Speaker 1>bureaucratic kaiju fighting duties. This is often the case in

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<v Speaker 1>some of these older Giant Monster films you have governmental

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<v Speaker 1>bodies in organizations responding to the threat. And so there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot in this movie and other movies of like

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<v Speaker 1>folks setting around having meetings and smoking cigarettes, and it

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<v Speaker 1>can get a little boring. It can be also incredibly thrilling,

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<v Speaker 1>as we know from films like Shin Godzilla. Yes it's

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<v Speaker 1>not an inherently boring idea, but it can be boring.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, Reptiloicus has many pleasures, as we've said, but I

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<v Speaker 2>do not think it is a highlight in the stretches

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<v Speaker 2>where we're just like watching military men stand around a

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<v Speaker 2>table and like you know, talk about their strategy. They're like,

0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:19.879
<v Speaker 2>we're going to have to flesh them out here, we

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<v Speaker 2>will position our artillery. It's not very thrilling.

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<v Speaker 1>All right. So I'm not going to have as much

0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:29.680
<v Speaker 1>to say about some of these actors because a number

0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.440
<v Speaker 1>of them, like almost almost have not exclusively worked in

0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.359
<v Speaker 1>Danish cinema. And if there's more to add about some

0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.280
<v Speaker 1>of these folks that we don't get into, if you

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<v Speaker 1>were familiar with Danish cinema, if that's like your area

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<v Speaker 1>of expertise, or if we have any Danish listeners or

0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.840
<v Speaker 1>listeners of Danish heritage out there, and you recognize these

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<v Speaker 1>names right in. We'd love to hear from you. So

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<v Speaker 1>let's go through some of the names here. We have

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<v Speaker 1>Karl Ottosen who live nineteen eighteen through nineteen seventy who

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<v Speaker 1>too playing General Mark Grayson. He was a Danish actor

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<v Speaker 1>who was also in Journey to the Seventh Planet. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the dark haired general guy.

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<v Speaker 2>He is. I think it took me a while to

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<v Speaker 2>realize this, but he's like the voice who's narrating at

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<v Speaker 2>the beginning of the movie, and then he shows up

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<v Speaker 2>halfway through.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, all right. Then we have Anne Smyrner playing

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<v Speaker 1>Lisa Martin's. She lived nineteen thirty four through twenty sixteen,

0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.000
<v Speaker 1>Danish actress who appeared in a handful of Sydney Pink movies,

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<v Speaker 1>mostly worked in German cinema though until her retirement from

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<v Speaker 1>acting in the seventies. And then we have Mimi Heinrich

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<v Speaker 1>as Karen Martin's she lived nineteen thirty six through twenty seventeen,

0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.440
<v Speaker 1>Danish actress who was also in Journey to the Seventh Planet. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>and then we have Asjorn Anderson as Professor Otto Martins.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the he's also the parent of the character

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<v Speaker 1>I just reference. This actor lived nineteen oh thirty through

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy eight. Danish film actor and director who plays

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<v Speaker 1>one of the more memorable parts here as the kind

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<v Speaker 1>of l Ron Hubbard looking professor who is studying the

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<v Speaker 1>rise of Reptilicus. He mostly worked in Danish cinema, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>he's memorable here. I do like him a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>The movie plays him like a hero, but he's kind

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<v Speaker 2>of low key the villain of the movie. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>he's like, yes, let's grow Reptilicus some more.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, he's not presented like a mad scientist, but

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<v Speaker 1>he does mad science for sure. Yeah, all right. We

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<v Speaker 1>also have Bent Midgeing playing Svend Vitroloft. He lived nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>thirty seven through twenty twenty four. This is our slim

0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.119
<v Speaker 1>blonde sort of leading man type. He's the guy who

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<v Speaker 1>goes in parties on the beach, played by award winning

0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.399
<v Speaker 1>Danish actor here only in his third film role, but

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<v Speaker 1>he would go on to have a long career in

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<v Speaker 1>Danish cinema. So this is definitely I think one of

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<v Speaker 1>those names where if Danish cinema is your sweet spot,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, this guy and you can tell us all

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<v Speaker 1>about it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, for most of the runtime, he is completely superfluous

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<v Speaker 2>to the plot, which makes me think that originally this

0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.280
<v Speaker 2>movie was just written to be about like the old

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<v Speaker 2>scientists and the military guys, and the producer might have

0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.600
<v Speaker 2>been like, what is going on, Why don't you have

0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.840
<v Speaker 2>any like young attractive characters in here? So they just

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<v Speaker 2>wrote in like, oh, yeah, there are just like several

0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.080
<v Speaker 2>good looking people in their twenties who are standing around

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<v Speaker 2>in whatever scene. So that's when we get Svinn and

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<v Speaker 2>Lisa and Karen and that problem solved.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah. And then also we have Connie here. The

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<v Speaker 1>character of Connie, who I think was probably brought in

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<v Speaker 1>for the same reasons, almost definitely played by Marley's Barons

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<v Speaker 1>born nineteen thirty nine. You know, occasionally a former nationwide

0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.200
<v Speaker 1>beauty pageant winner pops up in the movies we watch,

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<v Speaker 1>and including Miss Mexico's. I think we've had a few

0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.960
<v Speaker 1>different Miss Mexicos pop up, and so I was not

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<v Speaker 1>shocked at all to read that this majorly attractive minor

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<v Speaker 1>character in this film was played by Miss Germany nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>fifty eight.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, wait a minute, is this the actress who plays

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<v Speaker 2>this role in the American version or in the Danish version,

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<v Speaker 2>because I believe this role is the one that where

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<v Speaker 2>they actually swapped out the cast, wasn't it.

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<v Speaker 1>This is yes, you will only find her in the

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<v Speaker 1>English cut of the film because the actress who plays

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<v Speaker 1>Connie in the Danish version apparently she couldn't do the

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<v Speaker 1>English lines, so they needed someone else to play the

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<v Speaker 1>character in the English version. Okay, she didn't appear in much,

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, her presence here kind of highlights some aspects

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<v Speaker 1>of the filmmaking process.

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<v Speaker 4>Well.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, as I was saying this, this movie is full

0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:39.880
<v Speaker 2>of characters who there's no plausible reason that they would

0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.600
<v Speaker 2>actually be in the place where this scene is happening,

0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:44.800
<v Speaker 2>but they're just standing around to sort of like fill

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<v Speaker 2>out the cast. So it's not just you know, General

0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:51.440
<v Speaker 2>Grayson standing there being sad and like, oh, we gotta

0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.200
<v Speaker 2>fight Reptilicus. So let's just have Spinn and Lisa and

0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:57.760
<v Speaker 2>Karen and Connie and everybody kind of pile into the

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<v Speaker 2>shot and they'll be like, what's happening with Reptilicus?

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<v Speaker 3>All right?

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<v Speaker 1>But as far as the cast goes, we save the

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<v Speaker 1>best for the last. In my opinion, because we have,

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<v Speaker 1>for my money, the most visually stimulating performance in this film.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not another former Miss Germany, but rather the legendary

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<v Speaker 1>Danish comedian and character actor Dirtsch Passer who lived nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>twenty six through nineteen eighty.

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<v Speaker 2>He is the true star of the film. He only

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<v Speaker 2>gets a couple of scenes and we never learn what

0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:31.480
<v Speaker 2>happens to him. We never learn of Dirtsch's fate. Does

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<v Speaker 2>he does he succumb to Reptilicus or does he make

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<v Speaker 2>it out and live happily ever after? We don't know

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<v Speaker 2>knowledge at all.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>He plays Peterson, who is very much a comic relief character,

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<v Speaker 1>a sort of bumbling janitor slash security guard slash occasional

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<v Speaker 1>sort of lab assistant. And he may or may not

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<v Speaker 1>sleep in the building on chairs. It's unclear, unclear what

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<v Speaker 1>his job is.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a guy in overalls who is broad in by

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<v Speaker 2>one of the professor's daughter, is almost as if like

0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:06.200
<v Speaker 2>he's her boyfriend or something, and she brings him in

0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:08.520
<v Speaker 2>like here he is father, and he's just this guy

0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.040
<v Speaker 2>in overalls who's like, yes, hire me, and I will

0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.560
<v Speaker 2>keep an eye out for anything fishy. And then he

0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:16.040
<v Speaker 2>walks around the halls and like sticks his hand in

0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:16.880
<v Speaker 2>eel tanks.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he has some great comedic moments because Pat Passer

0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:24.880
<v Speaker 1>in this film is a big man and he has

0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:27.359
<v Speaker 1>one of in wearing the overalls, and he has one

0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.240
<v Speaker 1>of the most comedically expressive faces. I think you could

0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:32.960
<v Speaker 1>ask for the eyes, the mouth, the energy he's able

0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:36.960
<v Speaker 1>to project through his face. We started you and I

0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:39.680
<v Speaker 1>started talking about him when he showed up instills for

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<v Speaker 1>a movie that came up in our discussions on our

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<v Speaker 1>train episodes for stuff to blow your mind. It's a

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy six what is this? I think this may

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<v Speaker 1>have been a TV movie, a Danish TV movie called

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<v Speaker 1>ghost Train.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, which was an adaptation of this. I think it

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<v Speaker 2>was British play. There's like a play about a ghost train.

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<v Speaker 2>People trapped in a station with a story about a

0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:04.200
<v Speaker 2>ghost train, and then it all turns out to be

0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:08.320
<v Speaker 2>a ruse covering up a like secret espionage caper where

0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:13.160
<v Speaker 2>like communists are infiltrating Britain by way of a secret train. Yeah,

0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:18.280
<v Speaker 2>which is okay, but then yeah, so there were many

0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:22.240
<v Speaker 2>adaptations of this plot, and one of them is this

0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:24.640
<v Speaker 2>one that has Dirt Passer in it, who I don't

0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:26.400
<v Speaker 2>remember which character he plays.

0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:29.080
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, he ends up on some of the promotional

0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:31.560
<v Speaker 1>materials for it because he had that very expressive face,

0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:34.639
<v Speaker 1>which I think he could use for sort of terror

0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:37.600
<v Speaker 1>as well as comedy, like he could open his mouth

0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:42.680
<v Speaker 1>really wide, and yeah, I was instantly impressed by those stills,

0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:44.480
<v Speaker 1>Like you know, you see a still like that and

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<v Speaker 1>you're like, who is this hyper expressive actor. Indeed, he

0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:54.240
<v Speaker 1>was a pretty legendary within the Danish world of entertainment

0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:56.480
<v Speaker 1>as an actor, a kind of a character actor, but

0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.000
<v Speaker 1>also as a comedian, noted for his improv skills and

0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:03.960
<v Speaker 1>apparently also just really explosive loud performances. Though in his

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<v Speaker 1>private life, as is often the case, you know, he

0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:08.720
<v Speaker 1>was said to be a very quiet, reserved man, huh,

0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:12.159
<v Speaker 1>that's funny, but on the stage a loud speaker for

0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:15.439
<v Speaker 1>the absurdity of the human condition. He was also apparently

0:25:15.480 --> 0:25:20.159
<v Speaker 1>had a clown act and famously slash tragically died in

0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:25.120
<v Speaker 1>his clown makeup. He suffered cardiac arrest in the midstore

0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:29.000
<v Speaker 1>immediately following a performance, and so, you know, I guess

0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:30.720
<v Speaker 1>this is one of the things that cannot help but

0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:34.280
<v Speaker 1>sort of add to one's legendary status. But he's apparently

0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:38.719
<v Speaker 1>highly influential within the Danish acting world, and I can

0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:40.840
<v Speaker 1>see why. Like this is a guy that even in

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<v Speaker 1>this small, you know, just comedic role, like he stands

0:25:45.840 --> 0:25:48.720
<v Speaker 1>out like he's the main actor that sticks in my

0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:50.119
<v Speaker 1>mind from this picture.

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<v Speaker 2>Agreed, there are some shots where as we were discussing,

0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:56.200
<v Speaker 2>he has a bit of a Stephen King in the

0:25:56.280 --> 0:26:00.879
<v Speaker 2>eighties energy going on. Yeah, he brings with him the

0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:05.520
<v Speaker 2>great suggestion of tom foolery soon to follow. Like when

0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:08.120
<v Speaker 2>he's walking down the hall and you see the eel tank,

0:26:08.320 --> 0:26:11.000
<v Speaker 2>you just know before it even happens, is like he's

0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:12.920
<v Speaker 2>going to end up at least part of his body

0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:14.240
<v Speaker 2>is going to be in that eel tank.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, thank goodness it happens. But again we'll just

0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:22.280
<v Speaker 1>going to prepare you for disappointment. He does just disappear

0:26:22.400 --> 0:26:24.160
<v Speaker 1>at some point in the film and does not come

0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:26.400
<v Speaker 1>back for more comedic misapps.

0:26:26.800 --> 0:26:28.840
<v Speaker 2>They should have had him defeat Reptilicus.

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<v Speaker 1>I would have bought it. Yeah, he seemed like a

0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:34.560
<v Speaker 1>big guy. I think he could handled it all right. Finally,

0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:36.879
<v Speaker 1>the music for this picture of the US version anyway,

0:26:37.000 --> 0:26:40.240
<v Speaker 1>it's another Less Baxter score. I lived nineteen twenty two

0:26:40.280 --> 0:26:42.720
<v Speaker 1>through nineteen ninety six. We've talked about him numerous times

0:26:43.200 --> 0:26:47.040
<v Speaker 1>for some of his very traditional scores, his weird score

0:26:47.240 --> 0:26:51.160
<v Speaker 1>for a very minimalist electronic score for Frogs in the seventies.

0:26:52.320 --> 0:26:54.600
<v Speaker 1>This is another film score by the master of exotica

0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:57.880
<v Speaker 1>music that I guess mostly doesn't hit any exotica notes,

0:26:57.920 --> 0:26:59.680
<v Speaker 1>at least until the very end, right, it gets a

0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:02.040
<v Speaker 1>little exotica right there at the end.

0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:06.159
<v Speaker 2>No, there's some I mean, so, there's nothing wrong with

0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:09.280
<v Speaker 2>the music in this movie except the way it is

0:27:09.520 --> 0:27:13.800
<v Speaker 2>matched with what's happening on screen, like persistently funny music

0:27:13.960 --> 0:27:19.200
<v Speaker 2>choices throughout. It'll have these these like stings and stings,

0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:23.560
<v Speaker 2>the orchestra stings that are timed strangely. It'll have the

0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:28.040
<v Speaker 2>use of like blustery march music like seventy six trombones

0:27:28.119 --> 0:27:30.600
<v Speaker 2>kind of marches playing over scenes where it doesn't feel

0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:32.760
<v Speaker 2>like it makes any sense, just like a car's pulling

0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:36.520
<v Speaker 2>up to a building. And then one of the funniest

0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:38.880
<v Speaker 2>things is like right at the end, when they're looking

0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:41.960
<v Speaker 2>out over the water and it's like, well we killed reptilicas,

0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:45.600
<v Speaker 2>and it's while the guy is saying this. It's playing

0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:49.359
<v Speaker 2>like the nightclub music that we heard earlier, like the lounge.

0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:53.200
<v Speaker 1>Song it needs it feel good film.

0:27:53.720 --> 0:28:04.920
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, all right, time just talk about the plot.

0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:06.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, let's get into it.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay. So we begin with the glorious AIP logo as

0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:13.879
<v Speaker 2>we pan over a vista of rippling hills dotted with

0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:16.680
<v Speaker 2>green shrubbery, and then we get a voice over. This

0:28:16.840 --> 0:28:19.240
<v Speaker 2>is later going to be revealed to be I'm pretty

0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:22.920
<v Speaker 2>sure it's the Milt, the General, Brigadier General Grayson, but

0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:26.000
<v Speaker 2>we don't know that yet. It's just somebody saying somewhere

0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:29.960
<v Speaker 2>in the forbidding tundra mountains of Lapland, high above the

0:28:30.080 --> 0:28:34.359
<v Speaker 2>Arctic Circle, a group of mining engineers were prospecting for copper.

0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:38.440
<v Speaker 2>But what they unearthed was a story, a story that

0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:43.040
<v Speaker 2>was to terrorize the whole world. I'm already fact check

0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:46.840
<v Speaker 2>they did not. This movie does not have worldwide implications.

0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:48.360
<v Speaker 1>This is more regional conflict.

0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:52.480
<v Speaker 2>Yes, And so what we see, by the way, when

0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:54.600
<v Speaker 2>this is happening, we see some guys in like khaki

0:28:54.720 --> 0:28:57.800
<v Speaker 2>jumpsuits and white helmets working on a bunch of mining

0:28:57.840 --> 0:29:01.040
<v Speaker 2>equipment in the middle of a four forest. What looks

0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:02.920
<v Speaker 2>to me I could be wrong. What looks to me

0:29:03.080 --> 0:29:06.080
<v Speaker 2>like a pretty warm forest wherever this is. I don't

0:29:06.160 --> 0:29:10.000
<v Speaker 2>think this is the tundra, as he says. But then

0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:12.840
<v Speaker 2>he goes on to say, when the events began that

0:29:12.960 --> 0:29:16.400
<v Speaker 2>were to place a burden of decision involving the lives

0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:22.840
<v Speaker 2>of an entire city on my shoulders, I was far away, unsuspecting, unknowing.

0:29:24.120 --> 0:29:25.960
<v Speaker 2>And then we zoom in on one of the miners

0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:29.600
<v Speaker 2>who is busy retracting a drill bit from a borehole

0:29:29.720 --> 0:29:31.760
<v Speaker 2>in the earth, and as the drill comes up out

0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:34.520
<v Speaker 2>of the ground, he feeds it onto a pulley system

0:29:34.640 --> 0:29:38.000
<v Speaker 2>above his head and then notices that the drill is wet,

0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:42.240
<v Speaker 2>not with water or with oil, but with some viscous,

0:29:42.480 --> 0:29:47.480
<v Speaker 2>bright red substance. He says, it's blood, and then we

0:29:47.720 --> 0:29:51.480
<v Speaker 2>zoom on his bloody hands and then get the tidal reptilicus.

0:29:52.360 --> 0:29:54.120
<v Speaker 1>I mean it's it's a great start. It's shocking.

0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:58.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm in dried, yeah, chiller font reptilicus. It's all dripping everywhere,

0:29:59.400 --> 0:30:02.040
<v Speaker 2>and the orc extra is like stinging again and again.

0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:05.320
<v Speaker 2>But after the title we rejoined the scene where the

0:30:05.400 --> 0:30:07.840
<v Speaker 2>miners are freaking out about the presence of blood on

0:30:07.920 --> 0:30:11.880
<v Speaker 2>their drill. They start digging at the mudcaked threads of

0:30:11.960 --> 0:30:14.560
<v Speaker 2>the drill bit with their hands and then they start

0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:17.960
<v Speaker 2>pulling all of this weird gore off of it, floppy,

0:30:18.360 --> 0:30:22.080
<v Speaker 2>moist red flaps of something, and one of them says,

0:30:22.320 --> 0:30:24.200
<v Speaker 2>it's a piece of skin, like leather.

0:30:24.760 --> 0:30:28.200
<v Speaker 1>This is effectively gross that I was reminded of the

0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:32.640
<v Speaker 1>music video for a sober bitool. They're like scenes of

0:30:32.760 --> 0:30:35.360
<v Speaker 1>like meat moving through a tube at times, and like

0:30:35.480 --> 0:30:36.680
<v Speaker 1>that's similar vibing.

0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:40.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, So more gore comes off of the drill,

0:30:40.160 --> 0:30:45.280
<v Speaker 2>and it's like sometimes it's sometimes it's these flaps of stuff.

0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:48.360
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes it's something rigid covered in blood. And to the

0:30:48.480 --> 0:30:53.800
<v Speaker 2>rigid stuff, the head miner says, bones, fossil bones. And

0:30:53.960 --> 0:30:56.720
<v Speaker 2>then this other guy says what kind of thing is

0:30:56.840 --> 0:30:59.600
<v Speaker 2>down there? And the head miner says, I don't know,

0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:03.320
<v Speaker 2>but I intend to find out. And he decides they

0:31:03.360 --> 0:31:06.200
<v Speaker 2>have to halt operations until they figure out what's going

0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:09.560
<v Speaker 2>on with the drill. And there's some great dialogue here.

0:31:09.720 --> 0:31:12.200
<v Speaker 2>The main guy who later will learn this guy is

0:31:12.520 --> 0:31:17.920
<v Speaker 2>the character Spin. So Spin says to his friend Henry,

0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:20.800
<v Speaker 2>as an American, you have drilled all over the world,

0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:23.840
<v Speaker 2>What do you make of it? And Henry says, it

0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:28.160
<v Speaker 2>can't be a living thing. Let it be. And so

0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:32.600
<v Speaker 2>spin here is tall, blonde, handsome. He's going to be

0:31:32.720 --> 0:31:35.600
<v Speaker 2>our geo hunk for the film. He's a minor and

0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:39.960
<v Speaker 2>he's just a good looking, strapping lad. He says to

0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:43.280
<v Speaker 2>his friend that he's going to radio someone named Navik

0:31:43.440 --> 0:31:46.440
<v Speaker 2>at the University of Copenhagen. But first they're going to

0:31:46.480 --> 0:31:49.840
<v Speaker 2>take some polaroids of this wheelbarrow full of bloody slop.

0:31:50.600 --> 0:31:53.200
<v Speaker 2>And what they don't see, like they take some pictures

0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:55.400
<v Speaker 2>and then walk away. What they don't see is that

0:31:55.560 --> 0:32:00.760
<v Speaker 2>the gore starts breathing. These little sacks are inflating deflating

0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:04.640
<v Speaker 2>in the gunk. Then the same voiceover from earlier resumes,

0:32:04.840 --> 0:32:09.360
<v Speaker 2>saying within hours two Danish scientists had joined the mining engineers,

0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:14.960
<v Speaker 2>Professor Martin's from Copenhagen's don Mark's Aquarium and his associate,

0:32:15.160 --> 0:32:18.960
<v Speaker 2>doctor Peter Dalby, as well as a third man, Hans Carlson,

0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:22.440
<v Speaker 2>a newspaper reporter. So we see all these guys sitting

0:32:22.440 --> 0:32:25.960
<v Speaker 2>around a campfire wearing hats with ear flaps, and the

0:32:26.080 --> 0:32:29.640
<v Speaker 2>narrator says the two scientists had examined the startling find

0:32:29.760 --> 0:32:32.600
<v Speaker 2>hidden beneath the frozen tundra and brought up by the

0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:35.720
<v Speaker 2>drill bit. They reasoned out the meaning of the gruesome

0:32:35.800 --> 0:32:40.680
<v Speaker 2>puzzle without ever dreaming of its full deadly secret. So

0:32:40.880 --> 0:32:44.320
<v Speaker 2>one of the scientists explains the results of their investigation.

0:32:44.840 --> 0:32:48.200
<v Speaker 2>They're like, these are the bones of a gigantic creature

0:32:48.520 --> 0:32:52.240
<v Speaker 2>which lies fossilized down in the ground below us. And

0:32:52.560 --> 0:32:54.600
<v Speaker 2>then the miner is like, but how do you explain

0:32:54.720 --> 0:32:59.440
<v Speaker 2>the blood? And Professor Martin's then says, there is quote

0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:03.400
<v Speaker 2>a street of icy muck underground. The creature must be

0:33:03.640 --> 0:33:08.080
<v Speaker 2>embedded in it, frozen solid. And then this was great,

0:33:08.200 --> 0:33:13.200
<v Speaker 2>Dalby says, not unusual really, So they say, the drill

0:33:13.640 --> 0:33:18.080
<v Speaker 2>cut through this frozen creature's flesh, the friction of the

0:33:18.200 --> 0:33:21.920
<v Speaker 2>drill thawed the flesh out, and bam, there you get wet,

0:33:22.040 --> 0:33:22.680
<v Speaker 2>wet blood.

0:33:23.400 --> 0:33:26.240
<v Speaker 1>It's pretty I mean, for the time and for the

0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:30.040
<v Speaker 1>relative vibe of the picture, pretty gory. Like it's an

0:33:30.080 --> 0:33:30.960
<v Speaker 1>effective slop in.

0:33:31.000 --> 0:33:36.960
<v Speaker 2>This sure, yeah. So Dalby explains that normally when this happens,

0:33:37.120 --> 0:33:40.479
<v Speaker 2>the frozen animal underground is a mammal, like a wooly mammoth.

0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:43.680
<v Speaker 2>In this case, the flesh brought up by the drill

0:33:43.960 --> 0:33:47.800
<v Speaker 2>is instead from a giant reptile, and that is totally unique.

0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:51.840
<v Speaker 2>So the scientists explain that they're going to excavate and

0:33:51.920 --> 0:33:55.200
<v Speaker 2>then ship the remains to the aquarium in Copenhagen. So

0:33:55.640 --> 0:33:58.960
<v Speaker 2>let's go straight straight to Copenhagen now, So we get

0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:03.480
<v Speaker 2>like a Openhagen title in yellow text in this metal

0:34:03.520 --> 0:34:06.720
<v Speaker 2>band font. People are walking around in the streets. We

0:34:06.800 --> 0:34:10.239
<v Speaker 2>see lots of bicycles, motor traffic, old buildings and so forth.

0:34:10.800 --> 0:34:13.560
<v Speaker 2>The music in this part is funny because it's just

0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:16.440
<v Speaker 2>playing this march when what we're seeing is like a

0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:20.000
<v Speaker 2>red convertible pulling up to a building. So the people

0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:22.880
<v Speaker 2>in the car are Professor Martin's who've already met Otto

0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:26.800
<v Speaker 2>Martins is his name, and his adult daughter Lisa, and

0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:30.720
<v Speaker 2>she's dropping him off at the aquarium, and Lisa says,

0:34:31.000 --> 0:34:33.919
<v Speaker 2>don't spend all your time with those old fossils, father,

0:34:34.200 --> 0:34:37.600
<v Speaker 2>you might become one. And then Otto says, with two

0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:40.840
<v Speaker 2>daughters like you and Karen, it's a pleasure to retire

0:34:40.960 --> 0:34:45.239
<v Speaker 2>my old bones. From what I can tell, this was

0:34:45.320 --> 0:34:49.000
<v Speaker 2>written in English and not in Danish, and then like

0:34:49.640 --> 0:34:53.200
<v Speaker 2>losing something in translation, but it feels like something where

0:34:53.239 --> 0:34:54.600
<v Speaker 2>we've lost something in translation.

0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:56.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, there are a lot of lines like this

0:34:56.760 --> 0:34:57.280
<v Speaker 1>in the picture.

0:34:57.719 --> 0:35:00.480
<v Speaker 2>So we follow Professor Martin's as he wandered through the

0:35:00.840 --> 0:35:04.799
<v Speaker 2>don marx Akvarium to his laboratory. He's like passing through

0:35:04.880 --> 0:35:07.799
<v Speaker 2>exhibit tanks full of fish and sea turtles on the way,

0:35:08.160 --> 0:35:11.000
<v Speaker 2>and what I just noticed. They've got these sea turtles

0:35:11.040 --> 0:35:13.759
<v Speaker 2>in a tank that looks quite small, and then the

0:35:13.840 --> 0:35:16.360
<v Speaker 2>professor stops to bang on the glass.

0:35:16.280 --> 0:35:19.440
<v Speaker 1>At them, and everyone knows you're not supposed to do that.

0:35:21.000 --> 0:35:23.040
<v Speaker 2>So they get to the lab and there are various

0:35:23.120 --> 0:35:27.560
<v Speaker 2>technicians at work. Martin's and Dalby discussed the remains they

0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:31.640
<v Speaker 2>unearthed from the mine. Dalby has been trying to reconstruct

0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:34.800
<v Speaker 2>the creature, and so far his attempts have all failed.

0:35:34.920 --> 0:35:38.000
<v Speaker 2>He expresses his puzzlement, saying, I don't know why we

0:35:38.080 --> 0:35:40.680
<v Speaker 2>can't put this thing back together. We've got plenty of bones,

0:35:41.080 --> 0:35:44.680
<v Speaker 2>and Martin's says, too many bones. We aren't even sure

0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:47.839
<v Speaker 2>they belong to the same animal, but Dalby is sure.

0:35:47.960 --> 0:35:51.560
<v Speaker 2>He says it's unlike anything in the fossil record, completely unique.

0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:56.560
<v Speaker 2>So anyway, Otto's other adult daughter, Karen arrives with a

0:35:56.680 --> 0:36:00.919
<v Speaker 2>telegram from Spinn, the handsome miner, that apparently he found

0:36:01.040 --> 0:36:03.400
<v Speaker 2>more bones and he's bringing them to the museum and

0:36:03.520 --> 0:36:06.400
<v Speaker 2>he'll be here in an hour. You need somebody to

0:36:06.400 --> 0:36:08.360
<v Speaker 2>pick him up at the airport with the bones. So

0:36:08.640 --> 0:36:12.279
<v Speaker 2>Otto sends Karen and his daughter to pick him up

0:36:12.320 --> 0:36:16.040
<v Speaker 2>at the airport, and Karen is portrayed as boy crazy.

0:36:16.320 --> 0:36:20.680
<v Speaker 2>She's like, ooh, is he handsome father? And he tries

0:36:20.760 --> 0:36:22.960
<v Speaker 2>to dissuade her. He says, like, no, he has three

0:36:23.040 --> 0:36:26.600
<v Speaker 2>eyes in a false mustache. Now hurry up. But the

0:36:26.680 --> 0:36:29.560
<v Speaker 2>next scene is that Savin and the bone fragments are

0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:32.200
<v Speaker 2>already here, and this is where we get that great

0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:36.160
<v Speaker 2>delivery where Otto says like, I have never seen bone

0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:42.319
<v Speaker 2>fragments like this before. Well, what's so weird about the bones? Well,

0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:47.440
<v Speaker 2>the professor explains they are resilient but very strong, almost

0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:51.920
<v Speaker 2>like the cartilaginous bones of a shark, That's what he says. Meanwhile,

0:36:52.080 --> 0:36:56.080
<v Speaker 2>they discuss how they have identified the frozen piece they discovered,

0:36:56.560 --> 0:36:59.399
<v Speaker 2>and it is from the creature's tail, and now it's

0:36:59.480 --> 0:37:03.600
<v Speaker 2>being kept under deep freeze conditions beyond this heavy iron

0:37:03.760 --> 0:37:06.600
<v Speaker 2>door in the wall of the laboratory and we get

0:37:06.640 --> 0:37:08.879
<v Speaker 2>to see inside and this actually looks kind of cool.

0:37:08.960 --> 0:37:12.160
<v Speaker 2>They've got it under like blue green lighting, sort of

0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:15.280
<v Speaker 2>frosty and shimmering. I thought it looked like the texture

0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:17.600
<v Speaker 2>of a puppet from The Nightmare before Christmas.

0:37:17.840 --> 0:37:19.439
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that's good. Yeah.

0:37:19.640 --> 0:37:21.560
<v Speaker 2>But then later we see a cross section of it

0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:25.960
<v Speaker 2>and it looks like a beef roast. It's like an oxtail. Anyway,

0:37:26.000 --> 0:37:28.880
<v Speaker 2>they can estimate just from the tail that this creature

0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:32.440
<v Speaker 2>would have been among the biggest reptiles or dinosaurs ever

0:37:32.600 --> 0:37:35.560
<v Speaker 2>to live. They say ninety feet or more. They don't

0:37:35.560 --> 0:37:39.000
<v Speaker 2>specify in what direction, and they say it lived seventy

0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:43.239
<v Speaker 2>to one hundred million years ago. And then also in

0:37:43.320 --> 0:37:47.160
<v Speaker 2>this scene, Karen Martin's daughter is just coming on so

0:37:47.560 --> 0:37:51.120
<v Speaker 2>strong to Spin. She says, like, father, now that you've

0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:54.320
<v Speaker 2>told Spin about frozen matters, can I thaw him a little?

0:37:57.920 --> 0:37:59.160
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Oh?

0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:02.400
<v Speaker 2>But then the other professor otto daughter shows up again.

0:38:02.800 --> 0:38:05.440
<v Speaker 2>This is Lisa, And now Lisa brought a guy with

0:38:05.560 --> 0:38:08.680
<v Speaker 2>her as well. But this is Dirt, So I don't

0:38:08.840 --> 0:38:11.840
<v Speaker 2>think they actually meant that like dirtch is her boyfriend,

0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:14.320
<v Speaker 2>but that's almost how it comes off. She like brings

0:38:14.400 --> 0:38:15.600
<v Speaker 2>him up like here he is father.

0:38:15.920 --> 0:38:18.800
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, because again this is Peterson. He appears to

0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:21.120
<v Speaker 1>work here, or at least he is here and is

0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:22.960
<v Speaker 1>ordered around to do things right.

0:38:23.080 --> 0:38:25.720
<v Speaker 2>So he's this strange looking guy in a gray flannel

0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:28.239
<v Speaker 2>shirt and denim overalls. And by the way, in the

0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:31.719
<v Speaker 2>scene like this, the sisters are mocking and sniping at

0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:35.279
<v Speaker 2>each other like they're fighting over the handsome minor, the geohunk,

0:38:35.760 --> 0:38:39.680
<v Speaker 2>literally pulling him in opposite directions, you know, they each

0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:41.799
<v Speaker 2>take one of his arms and they're fighting over him.

0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:45.359
<v Speaker 2>And then these two old scientists Martin's and dalby are

0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:48.520
<v Speaker 2>acting like creeps one of them. Dalby's like, Auto, I

0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:52.240
<v Speaker 2>envy that young man and running off with your daughters,

0:38:52.280 --> 0:38:55.640
<v Speaker 2>and Auto is like, yes, he will be very busy now.

0:38:56.880 --> 0:39:00.560
<v Speaker 2>And this gives way into the dirt passer scene where

0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:04.480
<v Speaker 2>he is explaining that he is there to help them

0:39:04.600 --> 0:39:06.719
<v Speaker 2>keep an eye on things when no one's around. He

0:39:06.800 --> 0:39:09.800
<v Speaker 2>will be there to keep a lookout. So he seems

0:39:09.880 --> 0:39:15.359
<v Speaker 2>to me more security guard than janitor, but it's still

0:39:15.520 --> 0:39:17.719
<v Speaker 2>never very clear. Like basically what he does is he

0:39:17.880 --> 0:39:20.439
<v Speaker 2>just walks around in the hall and gets into gets

0:39:20.480 --> 0:39:20.959
<v Speaker 2>into trouble.

0:39:21.040 --> 0:39:22.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it gets in little mishaps. Yeah.

0:39:23.880 --> 0:39:27.560
<v Speaker 2>Now, the scientists stressed to Peterson that the most important

0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:32.239
<v Speaker 2>thing is to always keep this reptilicous tail frozen, never

0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:37.160
<v Speaker 2>let the freezer thaw out. And he's like, okay, got it, boss.

0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:42.279
<v Speaker 2>And so I really had my expectations subverted because as

0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:44.320
<v Speaker 2>soon as I saw this scene, I was like, I

0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:47.440
<v Speaker 2>know what's gonna happen. Dirt dirt passer is going to

0:39:47.520 --> 0:39:49.600
<v Speaker 2>mess this up. He is going to thaw this tail.

0:39:50.160 --> 0:39:51.880
<v Speaker 2>But it is not Dirt's fault, is it.

0:39:52.160 --> 0:39:55.239
<v Speaker 1>No, No, not at all, which is surprising. Again, like

0:39:55.440 --> 0:39:58.400
<v Speaker 1>generally when someone says, hey, make sure this doesn't happen,

0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:02.440
<v Speaker 1>a thing is going to happen. And if you have

0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:07.719
<v Speaker 1>a comic relief bumbling security guard like who better than

0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:11.240
<v Speaker 1>to accidentally thaw the reptilicus.

0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:13.400
<v Speaker 2>That's right. But so he's not the one who thows it.

0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:17.040
<v Speaker 2>He does get into some other trouble. He is walking

0:40:17.120 --> 0:40:19.520
<v Speaker 2>down a hallway and just in the middle of the

0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:22.600
<v Speaker 2>hallway there is an open tank that has all these

0:40:22.719 --> 0:40:25.640
<v Speaker 2>like electricity warning signs on it. I guess it's got

0:40:25.680 --> 0:40:29.000
<v Speaker 2>electric eels in it, and dirtch is like, I just

0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:30.919
<v Speaker 2>got I gotta stick my hand in the tank.

0:40:31.080 --> 0:40:32.800
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, well we build up to right. It's the

0:40:32.840 --> 0:40:34.560
<v Speaker 1>first is it the first scene where he just passes

0:40:34.600 --> 0:40:37.280
<v Speaker 1>by and he's like he says, like, yep, everything around

0:40:37.280 --> 0:40:40.320
<v Speaker 1>here runs on electricity, which is a line I genuinely

0:40:40.440 --> 0:40:42.120
<v Speaker 1>laughed at. I thought, oh, yeah, it's pretty good.

0:40:42.520 --> 0:40:44.680
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, okay, No, he doesn't stick his hand in

0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:47.520
<v Speaker 2>it yet. That's later, but he he comments on the

0:40:47.640 --> 0:40:49.760
<v Speaker 2>fact that they're electric, just like the lights.

0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.759
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but you know that hand is going in there.

0:40:53.320 --> 0:40:55.239
<v Speaker 1>You know we're going to come back to that electric eel.

0:40:55.520 --> 0:40:59.560
<v Speaker 2>It's Chekhov's eel. Yeah. So later that night, Delby is

0:40:59.680 --> 0:41:03.640
<v Speaker 2>taking some Reptilicus samples and analyzing them under the microscope,

0:41:04.440 --> 0:41:07.960
<v Speaker 2>but he is overworked and drowsy and soon falls asleep

0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:12.240
<v Speaker 2>at his desk. Meanwhile, outside there's a lightning storm raging,

0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:16.480
<v Speaker 2>and somehow this leads to the freezer door falling open.

0:41:16.600 --> 0:41:19.000
<v Speaker 2>I think that Dalby like didn't shut it right or

0:41:19.080 --> 0:41:21.440
<v Speaker 2>something when he was getting the sample out and the

0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:23.160
<v Speaker 2>freezer begins to thaw.

0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:27.160
<v Speaker 1>That's right, you can't nail Peterson for this. No hand

0:41:27.239 --> 0:41:28.880
<v Speaker 1>in this right, not his fault.

0:41:29.239 --> 0:41:32.160
<v Speaker 2>It was Dalby. And then the next morning, Professor Martin's

0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:34.920
<v Speaker 2>and Lisa. They come into the office and discover the scene.

0:41:35.120 --> 0:41:38.640
<v Speaker 2>Dalby is asleep head on the desk. The freezer's hanging open,

0:41:39.080 --> 0:41:42.120
<v Speaker 2>and the Reptilicus tail is dripping blood on the floor,

0:41:42.480 --> 0:41:44.800
<v Speaker 2>and we see it in its thawed state after it

0:41:44.840 --> 0:41:47.000
<v Speaker 2>has come up to room temperature, and it now looks

0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:50.239
<v Speaker 2>much nastier than before, like it's covered in a red

0:41:50.400 --> 0:41:55.800
<v Speaker 2>brown damp wool. Obviously unhappy to see this that everybody

0:41:55.880 --> 0:42:00.680
<v Speaker 2>rushes in and Auto is like unfrozen. There's some general

0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:05.000
<v Speaker 2>fretting and chewing out of people until they discover something shocking.

0:42:05.560 --> 0:42:09.200
<v Speaker 2>The drill hole in the tail that the handsome miner

0:42:09.320 --> 0:42:13.440
<v Speaker 2>made with his drill bit. It is now healing, and

0:42:13.640 --> 0:42:16.839
<v Speaker 2>the scientists say, you realize what this means. You let

0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:21.080
<v Speaker 2>it thaw and now it is alive. So the next

0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:24.440
<v Speaker 2>scene is Professor Martin's having a meeting in his office

0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:27.279
<v Speaker 2>with somebody we haven't met before. It turns out this

0:42:27.440 --> 0:42:32.160
<v Speaker 2>is a UNESCO official named Connie Miller, and the first

0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:35.560
<v Speaker 2>thing he says to her is some casual sexism. He's like, oh,

0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:38.520
<v Speaker 2>we don't often see women as beautiful as you associated

0:42:38.600 --> 0:42:42.520
<v Speaker 2>with science, and she's like, dude, I am qualified, and

0:42:42.640 --> 0:42:46.840
<v Speaker 2>he's like, ah, yes, I'm sorry, I am old. But

0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:51.720
<v Speaker 2>I'm still unclear on exactly what Miller's job is supposed

0:42:51.719 --> 0:42:53.320
<v Speaker 2>to be here. I take it this is like a

0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:56.759
<v Speaker 2>job interview where they're having this meeting here, but they

0:42:56.800 --> 0:43:00.680
<v Speaker 2>don't explain exactly what she's doing. It's something related to Tilicus.

0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:03.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what this character is supposed

0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:04.800
<v Speaker 1>to be doing. Like I was mainly distracted by, like,

0:43:04.840 --> 0:43:06.359
<v Speaker 1>who's this actor playing this role?

0:43:07.200 --> 0:43:07.360
<v Speaker 3>You know?

0:43:07.560 --> 0:43:12.520
<v Speaker 1>And this is where I came upon the miss Germany factoid. Yeah.

0:43:12.680 --> 0:43:16.080
<v Speaker 2>And then also for some reason, the dude's daughter Lisa

0:43:16.280 --> 0:43:20.600
<v Speaker 2>is just looming over this lady during the interview. Just

0:43:20.719 --> 0:43:24.200
<v Speaker 2>one of many, many examples of throughout the whole film

0:43:24.360 --> 0:43:28.160
<v Speaker 2>why would this character be here? But then suddenly we

0:43:28.280 --> 0:43:33.680
<v Speaker 2>meet another new character, the American brigadier general named Mark Grayson,

0:43:33.760 --> 0:43:36.399
<v Speaker 2>who again this is I think this was the guy

0:43:36.560 --> 0:43:39.879
<v Speaker 2>narrating in voiceover earlier, but we meet him through one

0:43:39.920 --> 0:43:43.480
<v Speaker 2>of those sentence completed from across the room by a

0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:48.040
<v Speaker 2>newly arrived character intros. So I think Martin's is saying,

0:43:48.120 --> 0:43:50.680
<v Speaker 2>we have a general coming in. His name is and

0:43:50.719 --> 0:43:53.200
<v Speaker 2>then he's looking amongst his papers, and then the guy

0:43:53.960 --> 0:43:57.560
<v Speaker 2>you hear another voice and he says Mark Grayson, and

0:43:57.719 --> 0:44:00.480
<v Speaker 2>I have never seen a man introduce him himself in

0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:04.399
<v Speaker 2>a movie with such apparent disgust. He says his own name,

0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:07.479
<v Speaker 2>the way that cop talked about hippies and the living

0:44:07.560 --> 0:44:08.719
<v Speaker 2>dead at Manchester More.

0:44:10.480 --> 0:44:11.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's so weird.

0:44:12.040 --> 0:44:15.480
<v Speaker 2>So Grayson wanders over to Professor Martin's. He's scowling, he's

0:44:15.560 --> 0:44:18.879
<v Speaker 2>not happy about whatever's going on. The professor welcomes him,

0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:22.359
<v Speaker 2>and Grayson says, I think the line is I don't

0:44:22.400 --> 0:44:26.560
<v Speaker 2>know why I'm here, Professor, I assume you'll let me know. Classic,

0:44:27.640 --> 0:44:30.960
<v Speaker 2>didn't We just talk about movies with the scene of

0:44:31.200 --> 0:44:33.720
<v Speaker 2>the scene convention of like we're all here for a mission,

0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:35.680
<v Speaker 2>but we don't know what it is. Now we're going

0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:36.400
<v Speaker 2>to get the briefing.

0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:38.439
<v Speaker 1>Yep, yep. We have kind of like a mini version

0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:38.960
<v Speaker 1>of that here.

0:44:39.440 --> 0:44:41.439
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, though, I guess we talked about how the most

0:44:41.480 --> 0:44:44.040
<v Speaker 2>believable context is when it's a military things.

0:44:44.200 --> 0:44:47.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I guess it makes sense here.

0:44:47.480 --> 0:44:50.279
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but here all of the characters are introduced to

0:44:50.360 --> 0:44:56.200
<v Speaker 2>each other. He got Miller, Lisa Grayson all saying hello, introducing,

0:44:56.320 --> 0:45:07.200
<v Speaker 2>and it's very stiff all around. Now, the next scene

0:45:07.400 --> 0:45:12.360
<v Speaker 2>is a news conference hosted by Otto Martin's highlights. So

0:45:12.480 --> 0:45:14.520
<v Speaker 2>the press is gathered and he gives sort of a talk,

0:45:14.640 --> 0:45:18.719
<v Speaker 2>and the highlights are, this creature is alive. It is

0:45:19.120 --> 0:45:22.920
<v Speaker 2>quote regenerating, and he explains that by saying a lizard

0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:26.719
<v Speaker 2>can regrow its tail when it's chopped off, a flatworm

0:45:26.840 --> 0:45:29.960
<v Speaker 2>can regrow whole parts of its body, even its brain

0:45:30.120 --> 0:45:34.120
<v Speaker 2>after being cut in half. And that's what's happening right now. Also,

0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:37.480
<v Speaker 2>we learned that the animal is called reptilicus. The name

0:45:37.680 --> 0:45:41.719
<v Speaker 2>is suggested by a journalist and Martins is just like reptilicus.

0:45:41.880 --> 0:45:42.160
<v Speaker 4>It is.

0:45:44.920 --> 0:45:47.719
<v Speaker 1>I think the standard, right. It's like the journalist gets

0:45:47.760 --> 0:45:51.839
<v Speaker 1>there first, they get to officially name a new organism. Yeah,

0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:54.399
<v Speaker 1>don't matter what publication they're from.

0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:59.480
<v Speaker 2>What if we name it the Daily Maelosaurus. So all

0:45:59.520 --> 0:46:02.360
<v Speaker 2>the journals come in and flock to look at the tank,

0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:05.000
<v Speaker 2>like they're clamoring up the staircase to look in the

0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:07.960
<v Speaker 2>window inside, and they're murmuring. And then we see newspaper

0:46:08.000 --> 0:46:11.640
<v Speaker 2>headlines spinning at the screen. We see prehistoric monster growing

0:46:11.760 --> 0:46:14.919
<v Speaker 2>in huge tank. And I really like that one because

0:46:14.960 --> 0:46:17.120
<v Speaker 2>it's got the word huge in it, but it refers

0:46:17.200 --> 0:46:23.320
<v Speaker 2>to the tank. And then another headline prominently featuring the

0:46:23.640 --> 0:46:27.840
<v Speaker 2>concept of tank, it is incubator tank feeds monster from pass.

0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:32.640
<v Speaker 2>So after this there's a scene of Brigadier General Mark

0:46:32.680 --> 0:46:37.320
<v Speaker 2>Grayson sulking because he is being relegated to the command

0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:40.800
<v Speaker 2>of in his words, two captains, three office boys, and

0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:44.560
<v Speaker 2>a damn lizard. And he's like, I'm a war hero,

0:46:44.800 --> 0:46:47.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm worthy of prestige. How dare they put me on

0:46:47.440 --> 0:46:52.719
<v Speaker 2>Reptilicus detail. Now, the next scene we get is a

0:46:52.760 --> 0:46:56.080
<v Speaker 2>good old dirt scene. Here we're not at the eel

0:46:56.200 --> 0:47:00.440
<v Speaker 2>part yet. Instead, here he's eating a sandwich and painting

0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:04.200
<v Speaker 2>something on a microscope slide and then looking through the microscope,

0:47:04.280 --> 0:47:07.799
<v Speaker 2>then putting his sandwich under the microscope and seeing lots

0:47:07.800 --> 0:47:10.799
<v Speaker 2>of bacteria, and then he burps, and then we get

0:47:10.920 --> 0:47:13.480
<v Speaker 2>like harp music playing and we cut to black.

0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:15.279
<v Speaker 1>I have no idea. This is a scene where I

0:47:15.400 --> 0:47:18.640
<v Speaker 1>really was trying to figure out what Peterson's role here is,

0:47:18.760 --> 0:47:21.040
<v Speaker 1>Like he did not before the scene. He did not

0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:24.440
<v Speaker 1>seem like a character who had microscope access.

0:47:25.000 --> 0:47:29.000
<v Speaker 2>You know, It's like he's just now discovering that there

0:47:29.160 --> 0:47:30.560
<v Speaker 2>are microbes on his food.

0:47:30.680 --> 0:47:34.920
<v Speaker 1>I guess, I guess maybe I would not be surprised

0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:37.279
<v Speaker 1>if they this was not a scene where they were like, hey,

0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:40.439
<v Speaker 1>let's just improve some stuff. Let's just get the camera

0:47:40.520 --> 0:47:41.759
<v Speaker 1>on this guy and just see what he's got.

0:47:42.239 --> 0:47:45.400
<v Speaker 2>Turn dirt loose in the lab. See. Yeah, he's like

0:47:45.480 --> 0:47:50.600
<v Speaker 2>Billy Crystal and h oh. Also, this right after this,

0:47:50.680 --> 0:47:52.600
<v Speaker 2>I think is when he actually does cram his hand

0:47:52.640 --> 0:47:55.879
<v Speaker 2>in the electric Guell tank. Yes, so he's like going

0:47:56.480 --> 0:47:58.319
<v Speaker 2>down the hall and just wants to get a little

0:47:58.360 --> 0:48:02.440
<v Speaker 2>taste a free sample of electric geel, and I don't know,

0:48:02.520 --> 0:48:04.759
<v Speaker 2>I guess it shocks him. I assume we were to

0:48:04.840 --> 0:48:09.200
<v Speaker 2>take it as him really being electrified, not him pretending

0:48:09.320 --> 0:48:09.480
<v Speaker 2>to be.

0:48:09.600 --> 0:48:11.759
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I think it was supposed to be real electrocution,

0:48:11.840 --> 0:48:15.000
<v Speaker 1>because we get, we get as we're hoping, like full

0:48:16.160 --> 0:48:18.920
<v Speaker 1>like a full array of facial emotions. Here he goes

0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:21.160
<v Speaker 1>to the seven stages of being shocked by an eel

0:48:21.640 --> 0:48:22.439
<v Speaker 1>and it's pretty great.

0:48:23.040 --> 0:48:26.120
<v Speaker 2>But while this is happening, there is distraction because he

0:48:26.280 --> 0:48:29.640
<v Speaker 2>hears a rumbling in the Reptilicus tank and he gets

0:48:29.719 --> 0:48:32.840
<v Speaker 2>very alarmed, in fact, so alarmed that he pulls an alarm.

0:48:32.880 --> 0:48:36.600
<v Speaker 2>He pulls the fire alarm. Everybody comes running. They're like,

0:48:36.680 --> 0:48:41.000
<v Speaker 2>what's happening. What's wrong Peterson? And he explains, but then

0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:45.520
<v Speaker 2>Martin's says to him, don't worry Peterson. Here's the quote.

0:48:45.520 --> 0:48:49.600
<v Speaker 2>He says, reptilicus has no conscious life. Yet what you

0:48:49.760 --> 0:48:52.880
<v Speaker 2>heard was merely involuntary embryonic movement.

0:48:55.880 --> 0:48:56.480
<v Speaker 1>So you know.

0:48:56.600 --> 0:48:59.400
<v Speaker 2>In the meantime, we learn more about reptilicus. The scientists

0:48:59.440 --> 0:49:02.359
<v Speaker 2>are constantly studying it as it grows. Martin's is like, yes,

0:49:02.680 --> 0:49:05.960
<v Speaker 2>grow more reptilicus, and they learn he has big, strong

0:49:06.040 --> 0:49:09.799
<v Speaker 2>scales on his back, slimy secretion from his mouth which

0:49:09.840 --> 0:49:15.440
<v Speaker 2>has a corrosive effect, like highly concentrated acid, and so

0:49:15.520 --> 0:49:18.160
<v Speaker 2>they're like, yes, keep keep growing it. Oh, and this

0:49:18.360 --> 0:49:21.080
<v Speaker 2>is the part where we get to the Copenhagen tourism reel.

0:49:21.280 --> 0:49:21.480
<v Speaker 1>Oh.

0:49:21.640 --> 0:49:26.040
<v Speaker 2>Yes, like there's this I think I don't know. German general.

0:49:26.120 --> 0:49:29.160
<v Speaker 2>There's a general from somewhere named Brandt who is working

0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:31.479
<v Speaker 2>with Grayson, and he comes into his office and he says,

0:49:32.280 --> 0:49:34.160
<v Speaker 2>is there is there anything I can do for you?

0:49:34.400 --> 0:49:36.920
<v Speaker 2>And Grayson says, yeah, get me transferred out of this

0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:40.719
<v Speaker 2>damn place. So he's being grumpy as usual, but then

0:49:40.840 --> 0:49:43.239
<v Speaker 2>Brandt suggests to him, why not go out for a

0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:46.279
<v Speaker 2>night on the town and see all the sights in

0:49:46.400 --> 0:49:50.560
<v Speaker 2>this beautiful locale, and Grayson is like splendid idea actually,

0:49:50.800 --> 0:49:54.000
<v Speaker 2>So they go out together and we see all of

0:49:54.120 --> 0:49:58.040
<v Speaker 2>the fountains and the bridges and the trams and the

0:49:58.239 --> 0:50:03.359
<v Speaker 2>bicycles and the the palace, and then we end up. Oh,

0:50:03.840 --> 0:50:07.120
<v Speaker 2>they go over the longebro Bridge, which is an important

0:50:07.200 --> 0:50:10.280
<v Speaker 2>landmark in the movie that will happen we will encounter

0:50:10.440 --> 0:50:14.960
<v Speaker 2>again later when Reptilicus is rampaging. But this is the

0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:19.560
<v Speaker 2>part where Brant and Grayson both take Connie Connie Miller

0:50:20.040 --> 0:50:23.439
<v Speaker 2>from Unesco on a date to dinner, and she's walking

0:50:23.440 --> 0:50:26.120
<v Speaker 2>around holding both of their arms, and it's playing what

0:50:26.239 --> 0:50:30.600
<v Speaker 2>the subtitles referred to as soft sultry music, and this

0:50:30.880 --> 0:50:33.880
<v Speaker 2>like nightclub singer is singing a song called Tivoli Nights,

0:50:34.040 --> 0:50:36.320
<v Speaker 2>Tivoli Knights. So what a sight. This might be a

0:50:36.400 --> 0:50:39.000
<v Speaker 2>standard I wasn't familiar with it though, but it does

0:50:39.080 --> 0:50:41.640
<v Speaker 2>include also some pretty good Danish scat singing.

0:50:42.040 --> 0:50:48.040
<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love this whole sequence here again,

0:50:48.120 --> 0:50:51.239
<v Speaker 1>it just it's so overt, you know, it is like

0:50:51.280 --> 0:50:53.400
<v Speaker 1>a travel brochure. But at the same time. This is

0:50:53.440 --> 0:50:57.600
<v Speaker 1>probably a sequence where some viewers are saying, Hey, didn't

0:50:57.640 --> 0:51:01.040
<v Speaker 1>I pop in a monster movie? Isn't there supposed to

0:51:01.080 --> 0:51:02.759
<v Speaker 1>be a monster rampage at some point?

0:51:04.040 --> 0:51:06.560
<v Speaker 2>Well, if that's what you're thinking, you're in luck, because

0:51:06.960 --> 0:51:10.320
<v Speaker 2>it is finally time for Reptilicus to break loose. So

0:51:10.760 --> 0:51:12.120
<v Speaker 2>one night, I don't know if it's supposed to be

0:51:12.160 --> 0:51:14.439
<v Speaker 2>the same night, but it's continuous with what we just saw.

0:51:14.800 --> 0:51:18.960
<v Speaker 2>There's another frightening thunderstorm. Only Dalby and Peterson are working

0:51:19.080 --> 0:51:22.279
<v Speaker 2>late in the office as usual, and they hear what

0:51:22.400 --> 0:51:24.200
<v Speaker 2>sounds like a crash, and they go out in the

0:51:24.280 --> 0:51:27.560
<v Speaker 2>hallway looking toward the Reptilicus tank and they see something

0:51:27.680 --> 0:51:30.719
<v Speaker 2>with horror in their eyes. Dalby sends Peterson off to

0:51:30.800 --> 0:51:33.920
<v Speaker 2>the police, and then there there's like a weird exchange

0:51:33.920 --> 0:51:35.560
<v Speaker 2>here where I thought it was building up to some

0:51:35.680 --> 0:51:38.800
<v Speaker 2>big comedic payoff, and then it doesn't. It's just Peterson

0:51:38.880 --> 0:51:41.560
<v Speaker 2>and this cop playing chess with himself, going back and

0:51:41.680 --> 0:51:43.640
<v Speaker 2>forth over and over trying to figure out what they're

0:51:43.680 --> 0:51:45.600
<v Speaker 2>talking about about the monster being loose.

0:51:46.160 --> 0:51:49.000
<v Speaker 1>There's some fun lines, there's there are more electric eel jokes.

0:51:49.640 --> 0:51:53.279
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, oh that's right. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you're right,

0:51:53.360 --> 0:51:55.879
<v Speaker 2>because what do they say is like the electricity went out,

0:51:56.040 --> 0:51:58.879
<v Speaker 2>and the cops like really, and then Peterson, yeah, even

0:51:58.920 --> 0:52:00.000
<v Speaker 2>the electric eel went out?

0:52:00.440 --> 0:52:01.160
<v Speaker 3>Wonk, wonk.

0:52:01.320 --> 0:52:01.759
<v Speaker 1>It's great.

0:52:02.640 --> 0:52:03.000
<v Speaker 4>I like it.

0:52:03.600 --> 0:52:06.040
<v Speaker 2>So next thing that all the other characters arrive at

0:52:06.080 --> 0:52:09.800
<v Speaker 2>the lab and Reptilicus is gone and so is Delby.

0:52:10.000 --> 0:52:14.520
<v Speaker 2>Only his glasses remain. And then meanwhile, some military guys

0:52:14.600 --> 0:52:19.080
<v Speaker 2>find Reptilicus's tracks leading down into the water where they vanish,

0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:23.839
<v Speaker 2>And here the movie shifts into rampage and response mode.

0:52:24.480 --> 0:52:27.360
<v Speaker 2>So there's going to be a lot less fewer dialogue

0:52:27.400 --> 0:52:30.640
<v Speaker 2>scenes from now on, and more of people running around

0:52:30.760 --> 0:52:33.920
<v Speaker 2>trying to set up artillery and soldiers and jeeps and

0:52:34.080 --> 0:52:37.919
<v Speaker 2>tanks and everything to face off against Reptilicus. And Reptilicus,

0:52:38.040 --> 0:52:40.280
<v Speaker 2>is he going to be put down by the artillery?

0:52:40.360 --> 0:52:41.719
<v Speaker 2>Of course not. We're going to have to have some

0:52:41.840 --> 0:52:44.040
<v Speaker 2>kind of secret weapon in the end, but we're not

0:52:44.160 --> 0:52:44.640
<v Speaker 2>there yet.

0:52:45.040 --> 0:52:47.560
<v Speaker 1>Pretty standard stuff. So when she reached this stage of

0:52:47.640 --> 0:52:50.279
<v Speaker 1>a Kaichu film, you know, the stock footage is coming out.

0:52:50.719 --> 0:52:52.640
<v Speaker 1>You know, they're going to be a few different plans

0:52:52.760 --> 0:52:56.480
<v Speaker 1>to kill or capture the beasts. One or two are

0:52:56.520 --> 0:52:58.080
<v Speaker 1>not going to work, and that third one is going

0:52:58.120 --> 0:53:01.080
<v Speaker 1>to be what really is effective?

0:53:01.520 --> 0:53:03.919
<v Speaker 2>That's right. So one thing that's different at this point

0:53:03.960 --> 0:53:06.480
<v Speaker 2>in the movie is that General Grayson is in charge now,

0:53:06.719 --> 0:53:10.000
<v Speaker 2>so what he always wanted. He's very excited, so he's

0:53:10.760 --> 0:53:13.560
<v Speaker 2>he's like chasing around after the monster. The first attack

0:53:13.880 --> 0:53:17.240
<v Speaker 2>is at what they call a small farm on the coast,

0:53:17.800 --> 0:53:20.120
<v Speaker 2>So we see a lot of footage of people, you know, soldiers,

0:53:20.200 --> 0:53:23.080
<v Speaker 2>loading up into transport vehicles and heading down the road,

0:53:23.560 --> 0:53:26.319
<v Speaker 2>and we get to the farm and the farmer there

0:53:26.360 --> 0:53:29.520
<v Speaker 2>he's like, oh, he killed fourteen of my best cows.

0:53:29.880 --> 0:53:32.360
<v Speaker 2>And we see a bloody skinned cow head on the ground.

0:53:33.160 --> 0:53:35.680
<v Speaker 2>And then it's a bunch of military dudes driving around

0:53:35.760 --> 0:53:38.120
<v Speaker 2>and barking things back and forth on radios, trying to

0:53:38.160 --> 0:53:42.600
<v Speaker 2>find the monster until finally they do. And I like

0:53:42.719 --> 0:53:46.640
<v Speaker 2>this line delivery because it has kind of unintended implications.

0:53:47.160 --> 0:53:50.439
<v Speaker 2>This soldier like he looks up when he finally sees

0:53:50.480 --> 0:53:55.359
<v Speaker 2>Reptilicus and he says, it's my god. It is your god.

0:53:57.120 --> 0:53:58.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean really it could be.

0:53:58.840 --> 0:54:01.240
<v Speaker 2>You know, you were created serve it as a character.

0:54:01.360 --> 0:54:05.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Reptilicus is pretty it's pretty cool looking, you know,

0:54:06.040 --> 0:54:08.280
<v Speaker 1>though the effects, like we say, are rough around the edges,

0:54:09.719 --> 0:54:13.960
<v Speaker 1>hard not to love, but also difficult to believe. At times,

0:54:14.360 --> 0:54:17.000
<v Speaker 1>he seems to he has like little stationary jazz hands,

0:54:17.920 --> 0:54:21.600
<v Speaker 1>you know, yeah, when he's writhing about. But I like him.

0:54:21.600 --> 0:54:23.360
<v Speaker 1>I think he's a memorable kaiju.

0:54:24.440 --> 0:54:27.359
<v Speaker 2>Reptilicus is kind of like a snake. Like he has

0:54:27.440 --> 0:54:31.080
<v Speaker 2>a long, thin neck, but it's covered in very raised,

0:54:31.200 --> 0:54:34.920
<v Speaker 2>layered scales. He has fangs like a snake and a

0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:38.840
<v Speaker 2>head like a snake, and then he has big spiny wings.

0:54:39.520 --> 0:54:41.560
<v Speaker 2>So I don't know, maybe these wings are We never

0:54:41.600 --> 0:54:44.280
<v Speaker 2>see Reptilicus fly from what I recall, so the wings

0:54:44.360 --> 0:54:47.120
<v Speaker 2>might be more like, you know, neural spines. It might

0:54:47.160 --> 0:54:49.680
<v Speaker 2>be more for cooling purposes. To go back to a

0:54:49.719 --> 0:54:51.200
<v Speaker 2>core episode we just talked about.

0:54:51.080 --> 0:54:54.279
<v Speaker 1>Would you say that Reptilicus is a cross between a

0:54:54.400 --> 0:54:58.640
<v Speaker 1>sorrow pod and an aquatic lizard that is striving to

0:54:58.719 --> 0:54:59.360
<v Speaker 1>become a mammal?

0:55:00.080 --> 0:55:03.640
<v Speaker 2>Ooh yeah, wow, the perfect yes, because.

0:55:03.400 --> 0:55:06.319
<v Speaker 1>That's how it presented a couple of times in the film.

0:55:07.239 --> 0:55:09.080
<v Speaker 2>Aren't we all striving to become a mammal?

0:55:09.320 --> 0:55:11.320
<v Speaker 1>I mean yeah, I mean every day it's it's you know,

0:55:12.480 --> 0:55:14.800
<v Speaker 1>it's you get up every morning, and you strive to

0:55:14.840 --> 0:55:17.719
<v Speaker 1>become a mammal, stay a mammal, be a mammal, and

0:55:17.800 --> 0:55:18.279
<v Speaker 1>so forth.

0:55:18.600 --> 0:55:22.399
<v Speaker 2>I just want to live up to my destiny. So yeah,

0:55:22.680 --> 0:55:26.399
<v Speaker 2>the military guys unleash artillery and machine gun fire at Reptilicus.

0:55:26.480 --> 0:55:28.799
<v Speaker 2>They and then they even so that doesn't work at first,

0:55:28.840 --> 0:55:32.120
<v Speaker 2>but then they try a giant flamethrower, and Reptilicus really

0:55:32.280 --> 0:55:37.360
<v Speaker 2>does not like the flamethrower. Reptilicus squeals quite repetitively. The

0:55:37.440 --> 0:55:39.600
<v Speaker 2>same sound effect is used over and over.

0:55:40.040 --> 0:55:43.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's terrifying stock footage of a military flamethrower, Like

0:55:44.040 --> 0:55:47.200
<v Speaker 1>not one of these like novelty. You know, I'm still

0:55:47.400 --> 0:55:50.240
<v Speaker 1>dangerous things you see like it, you know, burns and whatnot,

0:55:50.320 --> 0:55:54.080
<v Speaker 1>but like the real jelly gasoline horror show. So I

0:55:54.520 --> 0:55:56.120
<v Speaker 1>understand Reptilicus's response here.

0:55:56.360 --> 0:55:59.479
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's not mega weapon. It's like, actually you're seeing

0:55:59.560 --> 0:56:04.040
<v Speaker 2>the jet come out. It's scary as hell. Yeah, but Reptilicus,

0:56:04.160 --> 0:56:06.840
<v Speaker 2>after being hit with the flamethrower, gets really upset and

0:56:06.880 --> 0:56:10.200
<v Speaker 2>then slithers off into the sea. So all of the

0:56:10.320 --> 0:56:12.640
<v Speaker 2>characters are standing here on the beach. Why are they

0:56:12.680 --> 0:56:14.719
<v Speaker 2>all here? I don't know, But they're like spins here.

0:56:15.040 --> 0:56:18.279
<v Speaker 2>The daughters are here, they're all here on the beach.

0:56:18.600 --> 0:56:22.120
<v Speaker 2>They're watching what's going on. Grayson is like, maybe he'll die,

0:56:22.440 --> 0:56:25.640
<v Speaker 2>and then Connie, for some reason says, not a chance.

0:56:25.840 --> 0:56:28.719
<v Speaker 2>He's just taking time to let his wounds heal. And

0:56:28.800 --> 0:56:31.040
<v Speaker 2>then Grayson says, regeneration.

0:56:32.239 --> 0:56:34.440
<v Speaker 1>You know, I just dawned on me. The thing that's

0:56:34.520 --> 0:56:36.680
<v Speaker 1>missing that I guess Connie's kind of filling in for

0:56:36.920 --> 0:56:40.240
<v Speaker 1>here is we need a child. We need a child

0:56:40.360 --> 0:56:43.560
<v Speaker 1>that is having revelations about the kaiju. Like that's what's

0:56:43.600 --> 0:56:45.760
<v Speaker 1>missing here, Timmy, if you will.

0:56:46.000 --> 0:56:48.080
<v Speaker 2>Yes, we do need that, yeah, to like sort of

0:56:48.200 --> 0:56:52.000
<v Speaker 2>intuit the intentions and spirit and meaning of the monster. Yeah,

0:56:52.400 --> 0:56:55.520
<v Speaker 2>but in lieu of child, Connie, we don't even know

0:56:55.760 --> 0:56:58.640
<v Speaker 2>if Reptilicus is a friend to all children. It's possible

0:56:58.719 --> 0:57:01.400
<v Speaker 2>he is, and nobody and just nobody ever gets to

0:57:01.480 --> 0:57:04.480
<v Speaker 2>say so. So it's like not even considered, nobody thought

0:57:04.560 --> 0:57:08.160
<v Speaker 2>to try. So. After all this, the military and scientists

0:57:08.239 --> 0:57:12.759
<v Speaker 2>regroup and they launch a naval search operation to find Reptilicus.

0:57:12.760 --> 0:57:14.319
<v Speaker 2>So we're out on the water and we see all

0:57:14.360 --> 0:57:18.720
<v Speaker 2>these you know, battleships and destroyers going around and again

0:57:18.920 --> 0:57:23.840
<v Speaker 2>Why is Spinn the miner on one of these battleships. Yeah, yeah,

0:57:23.960 --> 0:57:27.479
<v Speaker 2>So they find Reptilicus with sonar and then they launch

0:57:27.520 --> 0:57:30.040
<v Speaker 2>a depth depth charges as he is slumbering on the

0:57:30.120 --> 0:57:33.080
<v Speaker 2>ocean floor. Connie tries to get them to stop. She's like,

0:57:33.160 --> 0:57:36.080
<v Speaker 2>don't you realize what you're doing. If Reptilicus is hit,

0:57:36.200 --> 0:57:40.120
<v Speaker 2>you'll never find all the pieces underwater. He'll regenerate Mark.

0:57:41.040 --> 0:57:44.040
<v Speaker 2>But it's too late. We see some bloody Reptilicus chunks

0:57:44.080 --> 0:57:46.840
<v Speaker 2>floating around in the water column, so it's too late.

0:57:47.880 --> 0:57:51.120
<v Speaker 2>And then there's fallout from this. Martin's, who was also

0:57:51.280 --> 0:57:53.440
<v Speaker 2>on one of the boats, has a medical event and

0:57:53.640 --> 0:57:58.200
<v Speaker 2>is taken to the hospital. Later we learned that Reptilicus

0:57:58.440 --> 0:58:01.520
<v Speaker 2>has been attacking ships in ports throughout the Baltic Sea

0:58:01.640 --> 0:58:05.840
<v Speaker 2>and retaliation, so it's very oh the humanity. And then

0:58:06.200 --> 0:58:09.200
<v Speaker 2>we get a scene of Spin, the handsome minor, being

0:58:09.320 --> 0:58:12.600
<v Speaker 2>consoled by Karen the I think by Karen, the daughter

0:58:12.880 --> 0:58:18.560
<v Speaker 2>of Martin's, and Spinn says Harbor's freighters, I had the

0:58:18.680 --> 0:58:22.600
<v Speaker 2>blood of Reptilicus on my hands. Sometimes I feel that

0:58:22.680 --> 0:58:28.400
<v Speaker 2>it's perhaps also the blood of all those people, Yes,

0:58:28.920 --> 0:58:31.200
<v Speaker 2>of all the ridiculous dark Knight of the Soul.

0:58:31.120 --> 0:58:32.160
<v Speaker 1>Scenes in movies.

0:58:32.280 --> 0:58:33.880
<v Speaker 2>This is one of the best.

0:58:34.080 --> 0:58:34.280
<v Speaker 3>Yes.

0:58:35.520 --> 0:58:38.480
<v Speaker 2>Oh, anyway, next, this movie has been very short on

0:58:38.600 --> 0:58:41.400
<v Speaker 2>like bikinis up to this point, so they just bring you, like,

0:58:41.480 --> 0:58:44.120
<v Speaker 2>what if we did a Jaws style beach scene, beach

0:58:44.160 --> 0:58:46.880
<v Speaker 2>attack scene, So that's what's next. We just go to

0:58:46.920 --> 0:58:49.640
<v Speaker 2>the beach, a bunch of young hip people hanging out

0:58:49.640 --> 0:58:54.000
<v Speaker 2>in bathing suits, lounging in the sand, and then here's Reptilicus.

0:58:53.760 --> 0:58:56.320
<v Speaker 1>Yep, shooting green slime out of his mouth. That everyone

0:58:56.520 --> 0:58:59.800
<v Speaker 1>the effect here is marvelous, not believable at all, but

0:59:00.320 --> 0:59:01.160
<v Speaker 1>but charming.

0:59:01.600 --> 0:59:04.280
<v Speaker 2>Agreed. So when Reptilicus rears up out of the water,

0:59:04.840 --> 0:59:07.200
<v Speaker 2>everybody panics and runs away. And then we see more

0:59:07.280 --> 0:59:10.360
<v Speaker 2>military personnel and vehicles getting into position to face the

0:59:10.440 --> 0:59:14.200
<v Speaker 2>Reptilicus menace. And we just know now is the time

0:59:14.320 --> 0:59:17.440
<v Speaker 2>for Reptilicus to attack all of those beautiful tourist friendly

0:59:17.600 --> 0:59:22.680
<v Speaker 2>landmarks and affordable locations in Copenhagen, not the Little Mermaid.

0:59:24.920 --> 0:59:27.600
<v Speaker 2>So we see like the you know, the military, they're

0:59:27.640 --> 0:59:30.160
<v Speaker 2>just shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting. They unload

0:59:31.400 --> 0:59:34.320
<v Speaker 2>zillion bullets into Reptilicus but it's just making him matter.

0:59:34.480 --> 0:59:37.840
<v Speaker 2>Reptilicus rides around, he slams his head into little models

0:59:37.880 --> 0:59:42.360
<v Speaker 2>of buildings. They say, we can't use our flame throwers,

0:59:42.560 --> 0:59:45.200
<v Speaker 2>which he didn't like last time, because we can't get

0:59:45.280 --> 0:59:48.680
<v Speaker 2>close to the acid slime. Now Reptilicus is like spitting

0:59:48.800 --> 0:59:51.480
<v Speaker 2>green goo at people so they can't get too close.

0:59:52.520 --> 0:59:56.960
<v Speaker 2>And next we see Reptilicus attack the lungebro Bridge where

0:59:58.240 --> 1:00:00.800
<v Speaker 2>s Vin the miner I think to have a heroic

1:00:00.960 --> 1:00:04.240
<v Speaker 2>moment because like somebody has to operate the controls of

1:00:04.360 --> 1:00:07.680
<v Speaker 2>the bridge to lower the drawbridge so that the panicking

1:00:07.760 --> 1:00:10.920
<v Speaker 2>civilians can run away, but the guy who's supposed to

1:00:11.000 --> 1:00:14.320
<v Speaker 2>lower it is paralyzed by fear, so Spinn has to

1:00:14.400 --> 1:00:19.320
<v Speaker 2>do it. I think that's what happened. Yeah, so the

1:00:19.400 --> 1:00:21.800
<v Speaker 2>military tries more plans. They're going to try to like

1:00:21.920 --> 1:00:24.680
<v Speaker 2>steer Reptilicus in one place or another to so they

1:00:24.720 --> 1:00:29.200
<v Speaker 2>can use certain weapons. Reptilicus attacks the stock exchange. Oh no,

1:00:29.520 --> 1:00:33.400
<v Speaker 2>not the stock exchange. More rampaging and shooting, all heading

1:00:33.440 --> 1:00:36.680
<v Speaker 2>toward a final confrontation. So we get the lead up

1:00:36.720 --> 1:00:40.800
<v Speaker 2>to that final showdown where there's another plotting scene where

1:00:40.800 --> 1:00:42.880
<v Speaker 2>they're all like standing around in a room over a map,

1:00:43.000 --> 1:00:46.600
<v Speaker 2>and Grayson says he wants to use bombs, but Martin appears,

1:00:46.760 --> 1:00:50.800
<v Speaker 2>now recovered from his medical event, to argue. He says

1:00:51.040 --> 1:00:55.280
<v Speaker 2>Reptilicus cannot be blown to bits because the pieces of

1:00:55.400 --> 1:00:59.360
<v Speaker 2>him will regenerate, and Grayson says, I'm a soldier, not

1:00:59.480 --> 1:01:01.960
<v Speaker 2>a science That's the way I know how to kill,

1:01:02.600 --> 1:01:05.040
<v Speaker 2>and then Martin says, then you will have to learn

1:01:05.120 --> 1:01:07.720
<v Speaker 2>another way. So what's it going to be? We have

1:01:07.840 --> 1:01:13.080
<v Speaker 2>a showdown here between these worldviews, is like science versus militarism,

1:01:13.720 --> 1:01:16.440
<v Speaker 2>and who's which one is going to triumph over Reptilicus.

1:01:16.800 --> 1:01:18.880
<v Speaker 2>It seems like they go for a synthesis of the

1:01:18.920 --> 1:01:22.600
<v Speaker 2>two because ladies and gentlemen, the solution to all of

1:01:22.920 --> 1:01:26.520
<v Speaker 2>the Reptilicus problems in this movie is a drug Bazuka.

1:01:26.720 --> 1:01:30.040
<v Speaker 1>Yes, the drug Bozuka another one of my favorite aspects

1:01:30.080 --> 1:01:30.680
<v Speaker 1>of this picture.

1:01:31.120 --> 1:01:34.720
<v Speaker 2>So they get the idea from like they're just having

1:01:34.760 --> 1:01:38.800
<v Speaker 2>a conversation. I think it's Vin and Lisa are talk

1:01:39.080 --> 1:01:41.880
<v Speaker 2>Svin and Karen are talking and he's like, how's your

1:01:41.960 --> 1:01:44.600
<v Speaker 2>father and she says sedated? They gave him a hypo

1:01:45.160 --> 1:01:49.240
<v Speaker 2>And then somebody says, what about reptilicus, and somebody says,

1:01:49.400 --> 1:01:52.000
<v Speaker 2>if only we could give him a hypo, and then

1:01:52.040 --> 1:01:54.560
<v Speaker 2>you can see it dawn on them and they're like, bye, George,

1:01:54.720 --> 1:01:55.160
<v Speaker 2>that's it.

1:01:55.800 --> 1:01:58.800
<v Speaker 1>There's some great lines here, like they're they're like, well,

1:01:59.160 --> 1:02:00.840
<v Speaker 1>is there some sort of we could give him? And

1:02:00.840 --> 1:02:02.560
<v Speaker 1>they're like, could we get enough of that drug? And

1:02:02.680 --> 1:02:04.600
<v Speaker 1>somebody in the midst of this I don't remember who's

1:02:04.680 --> 1:02:07.520
<v Speaker 1>like drug, Like they'd never heard the word before.

1:02:08.800 --> 1:02:11.680
<v Speaker 2>One of them says, by my calculations, we'll need a

1:02:11.800 --> 1:02:17.840
<v Speaker 2>gallon of it for reptilicus. So yeah, they well, they

1:02:17.920 --> 1:02:21.160
<v Speaker 2>kind of split up into different teams, like the young

1:02:21.240 --> 1:02:24.760
<v Speaker 2>attractive people all go to get a gallon of reptilicus drugs,

1:02:24.960 --> 1:02:28.560
<v Speaker 2>and Grayson is like rigging up some way to deliver it,

1:02:30.440 --> 1:02:33.480
<v Speaker 2>and I love that. After this spart there are repeated

1:02:33.560 --> 1:02:37.280
<v Speaker 2>scenes of people explaining the drug bazuka concept to each

1:02:37.320 --> 1:02:41.120
<v Speaker 2>other in detail, as Reptilicus is raging in the background,

1:02:41.640 --> 1:02:43.920
<v Speaker 2>and they keep saying things like I'm going to take

1:02:43.960 --> 1:02:48.760
<v Speaker 2>a crack at reptilicus. So eventually they load up the

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<v Speaker 2>drug bazuoka and shoot, Grayson does it. Of course, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>he's the he's the real hero. In the end, he

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<v Speaker 2>shoots and it's a hit. It hits Reptilicus right in

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<v Speaker 2>the mouth, which was the only place they could get him,

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<v Speaker 2>but it works, and then Reptilicus thrashes around a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit and then falls asleep. So afterwards we surveyed the destruction,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the burned and crushed buildings, and everybody wandering

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<v Speaker 2>around looking like what happened? What has Reptilicus wrought? But

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<v Speaker 2>then the weirdest thing I mentioned this earlier, the what

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<v Speaker 2>the subtitles describe as soft, sultry nightclub music starts playing

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<v Speaker 2>and Grayson is standing there with Connie and he says,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a good thing that there's no more like him.

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<v Speaker 2>And then we cut to the bottom of the ocean

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<v Speaker 2>where one of Reptilicus's legs, severed legs, is walking around

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<v Speaker 2>by itself.

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<v Speaker 1>And then the end, you know what that means. It's

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<v Speaker 1>going to regenerate into a full Reptilicus, And then the

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<v Speaker 1>whole problem emerges again.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right, Reptilicus can never be defeated unless they launch

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<v Speaker 2>him into space.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right. I mean, I guess that's where we're going

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<v Speaker 1>in the sequel, Like maybe sedated reptilicus versus new regenerated reptilicus,

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<v Speaker 1>and then we have to just yeah, we to launch

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<v Speaker 1>both of them into space today.

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<v Speaker 2>How long does the drug sedate reptilicus for?

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<v Speaker 1>Though, I don't know. They don't really get into that, Like,

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<v Speaker 1>what's the plan next? Yeah, launch him into space, freeze him.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't know. It just we have to trust that

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<v Speaker 1>the scientific world will take care of it this time,

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<v Speaker 1>even though they're the ones that accidentally thawed the foot

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<v Speaker 1>to begin with and did the mad science that got

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<v Speaker 1>us to this predicament in the first place.

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<v Speaker 2>They had to do that with one of the villains

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<v Speaker 2>on the Boys, right.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right, they did, like I forget his name, but

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<v Speaker 1>like the evil take on Captain America.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, like couldn't be destroyed. They had to just keep

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<v Speaker 2>him permanently sedated.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I mean sometimes that's the way it is

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<v Speaker 1>with your area. As we've discussed on weirdhow some of

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<v Speaker 1>your various takes on vampires and werewolves, Like, is the

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<v Speaker 1>what does the stake do to the unholy creature? Does

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<v Speaker 1>it murder them or does it just hold them in place?

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<v Speaker 1>A steak that may one day be removed And free them.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like a lock, yeah, which you know, it's an it.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like if Reptilicus does have any kind of

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<v Speaker 1>like deeper meaning, it is getting at the idea that, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>solutions to problems are not permanent solutions. They are They

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<v Speaker 1>are all inherently temporary, you know, and you have to

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<v Speaker 1>you have to keep at it and or keep solving

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<v Speaker 1>the same problems over and over again. In this case,

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<v Speaker 1>giant lizards that regenerate.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, I guess Reptilicus is an update on the

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<v Speaker 2>tail of the hydra, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, the hydra is very much like the classic

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<v Speaker 1>telling of that story.

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<v Speaker 4>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>The problem not only a problem that keeps springing back up,

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<v Speaker 1>but springs up, you know, with additional problems. Every time

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<v Speaker 1>you cut away the head, you get more heads, and indeed,

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<v Speaker 1>every time you defeat one reptilicus, you potentially get more.

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<v Speaker 2>So you got to think outside the box. For Hercules,

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<v Speaker 2>it was what it was like cauterizing the stumps with fire.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and help from your cousin, right, but his cousin

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<v Speaker 1>helping them. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>In this case, it's it's a drug bazuoka.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, well, and that we're going to go ahead

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<v Speaker 1>and close it out here. We hope everyone has a

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<v Speaker 1>or an unofficial thing even to sort of to do

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<v Speaker 1>a film that has been covered on Mystery Science Theater

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<v Speaker 1>three thousand, you know, thinking back to those Turkey Day

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<v Speaker 1>marathons of old and they still put it on, So

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<v Speaker 1>look for that if you're into it. But this movie

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<v Speaker 1>of Mystery Science Theater three thousand, so just a reminder that, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>This is a fun movie. This is a good one

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<v Speaker 2>I think it was the first episode of the reboot.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, it was a Jonah episode. I think it

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<v Speaker 1>had a fun song in there about how every country,

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<v Speaker 1>every culture has its monster. So oh yeah, all right,

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