WEBVTT - Sinners with Mx. Dalia Belle 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.920 On the Bechdel Cast, the questions ask if movies have 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.920 women and them, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands, 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:12.400 or do they have individualism? It's the patriarchy, Zephyn Beast 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.320 start changing with the Bechdel Cast. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.880 Hello, and welcome to the Bechdel Cast. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.280 My name is Caitlin, my name is Jamie, and this 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.560 is our podcast where we take a look at your 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:30.240 favorite movies using an intersectional feminist lens, using the Bechdel 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:35.600 Test as a jumping off point for discussion. Kitlin, it's 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.240 a thousand degrees and we have an incredible movie today, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.640 So hit them with what the Bechdel Test is and 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:41.760 then we'll just jump in. 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.960 Happy to do it. It is a media metric created 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.040 by our best friend in the whole wide world, Alison Bechdel. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.160 Is our way of saying we met her twice. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.280 Yes, exactly, And it's a media metric. It has many 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.560 different versions. The one that we use is do two 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.160 characters of a marginal life gender have names? Do they 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.080 speak to each other? And is there conversation about something 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.040 other than a man. And we also like it when 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:13.120 it's narratively meaningful and relevant to the story and. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.840 Today, we are I think it's been a while since 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.560 we have covered a movie so close to its release date, 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.520 but we've gotten so many requests for this movie and 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.000 we're very, very excited to bring a returning guest to 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:31.320 discuss twenty twenty five. They wanted only Ryan Coogler's Sinners. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.680 And our guest today is a comedian and cat mom 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.520 and you remember her from our episode on Tangerine. It's 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:40.600 mixed Aliabell. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.280 Hello, Welco, yay, thank you so much for having me back. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:45.119 Welcome back. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:46.360 Oh, we're so happy to have you. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.360 Thank you for bringing Sinners. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.320 That's my specialty. I'm all about sin. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.520 Yeah, we love sin we love sinning. Over here on 0:01:54.560 --> 0:02:00.760 the Bechdelcast, what's your Since this is such a new release, 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.040 a recent film, there's you know, not much history to 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.880 be had with it, but what's your kind of relationship? Slash? 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.440 Maybe just like overall impression of the film. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.920 Uh wow, that's so much to unpack. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.200 So slash like vampire movies in general, I guess Yeah, 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:21.519 are you a vampire movie head? 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.520 I am gay so I have watched more than my 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.600 fair share of vampire movies For the listeners at home, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:34.280 I am also black. So you know, Sinners hits on 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:40.720 a lot of subject matter and history that's pretty intrinsic 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.000 and personal to me. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.320 H yeah, excited to dive deeper into that. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.840 Oh and also, I've had a crush on Michael B. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.560 Jordan for quite some time. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:55.200 I mean, you're not made of stone exactly. He's just 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:56.960 one of the handsomest men alive. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:01.040 Yeah, it's like, I'm just I guess that everyone on 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.079 the Zoom Call has a rush on Michael B. Jordan, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.400 and he's and and here I mean, yeah, what is 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.160 better than Michael B. Jordan? Well two of. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:11.760 Them, yes, exactly. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:16.000 So I didn't really watch any like behind the scenes things, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.200 but there are some things that happened in this movie 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.919 where I'm like, how did you do that? I imagine there's 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.080 body doubles and stuff like that. But I'm like, but 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.639 sometimes they're fighting each other and we can see both 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.560 of their faces at the same time, and it's just 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:30.320 movie magic. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.120 I just hope it's not AI. I don't know. Oh yeah, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.840 but I also did not look into it. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.400 I choose to believe they cloned Michael B. Jordan. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.680 I think that would be the responsible thing to do. Honestly. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:49.080 Mm hmmm, yeah, yeah, like a like a the Prestige style. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.600 Only without you know, obviously without killing the double exactly. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.880 Yeah, I'm saying that he had a good two body 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.200 double named Percy Bell. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.560 Okay, yeah, Jamie, what's your relationship with the movie? 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.680 I saw it right when it came out. We had 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.839 just covered a couple of vampire movies in a row, 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.600 and I was not sure I knew. I guess I 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.200 was bummed. I think this was true for a bunch 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.800 of people. I was bummed that someone tipped me off 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:19.120 that it was a vampire movie, because I know a 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.640 lot of people were like, c Sinners, don't look up anything, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.960 because it was not really marketed that way, which is 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:27.000 kind of brilliant. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:27.520 It was not. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:29.760 So I was bummed that I knew it was a 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.200 vampire movie going in. I wish I could have seen 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.920 it for the first time not knowing that. But I mean, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.880 this movie is doing so much in a way that 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.160 I feel like I didn't really fully appreciate until I 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.880 was watching it to prep for this, because it's also 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:49.400 you know, it's a period piece, and a really thoughtful 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.840 period piece of that. Like, I just I don't know, 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.560 I really loved it. I saw it twice in theaters 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.640 and just sort of let wash over me, and it 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.600 was very fun. It was fun learning how this movie 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.280 was made. Basically, Caitlyn, what About You? 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.960 I also saw this in theaters and I was able 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.880 to go in without knowing jealous that it was a 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.000 vampire movie. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.599 I thought the day after it came out and someone 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.279 I don't even know who it was, but I placed 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:18.000 a curse on them. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.520 I just like kind of stay off of social media 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:22.760 in general. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.440 And I also healthy talk. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.280 To people question work. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:26.720 I don't know. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.280 I just like I managed to avoid any spoilers, and 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:36.000 I was like dazzled by the movie and the twists 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.919 and everything. And vampire movies are like a subgenre that 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.960 I tend to be quite into. I love I love 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.480 a vampire. We've covered a lot of them on the show, and, 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.719 like you said, Jamie, a few recently. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.440 The vampire movie that felt like most akin to this 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.560 one that I've seen is from Dusk Till Dawn. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.720 Which Ryan Kogler cites as one of his inspirations for Sinners. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.599 But yeah, similar in the sense that, like most of 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:07.960 the movie takes place at some sort of raucous nightclub 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.480 kind of place, and then Vampire's attack. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.919 Did you think it's important to note that this is 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.360 a very different genre a vampire for sure, you know, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:24.080 like we hit Nosferatu, the sort of creepy, mothball parasitic 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:29.760 type vampire. Vincent Pryce gave us the very dignified kind 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.960 of sexy vampire. Then we had the era of the 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:39.719 bisexual seducer vampire from an interview with the vampire. You 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.799 had the sparkle vampire of course. Brilliant innovation from Twilight. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.520 Yeah, incredible. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.800 Yeah, and now we've made it all the way to 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.160 cultural vampurism. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.040 So yeah, there's always innovation to be had in the 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:56.880 vampire space. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.240 So true, let's take a quick break and then we'll 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:14.880 get into the recap and we're back. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.800 Yeah, I guess let's just jump into it because a 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:19.600 lot happens. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.040 Yeah, and my recap is quite long. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:23.520 Okay. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:29.560 So there's a prologue with voiceover talking about people born 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:34.680 with incredible musical talent that can pierce the veil between 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:39.120 life and death and conjure spirits between the past and future. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.720 It's a gift that can bring healing to communities, but 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:52.320 it also attracts evil ooh, foreshadowing. We're in the Mississippi 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:57.440 Delta in nineteen thirty two. We meet a young man 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.640 named Sammy played by Miles Ca. He stumbles into a 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.240 small black church. He's covered in blood. He's holding a 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:11.000 broken guitar. He embraces the pastor, who is his father, 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.560 who begs Sammy to drop the guitar and leave his 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.280 sinning ways in the past, and we're also seeing flashes 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.160 of something scary that has happened, but we're not really 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.640 sure what's going on. We cut to the day before. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.960 We see Sammy going about his day. He lives in 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:38.920 a community of mostly sharecroppers who work on a cotton plantation. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:45.920 Then we meet twin brothers, Smoke and Stack, both played 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:46.480 by Michael B. 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:51.600 Jordan, and they're doing the amazing twin shorthand where one's 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.880 wearing a hat that's one color and one where is 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:59.800 wearing a hat that's another color. And I just twin media, 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.120 I was getting I will say I was getting burnt 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.400 out on famous men playing their own twins, because that 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.920 was happening a lot, like maybe ten years ago. But 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.520 when Michael B. Jordan does it, it's just something completely different. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.520 Yeah, it's a special street, it. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.600 Is, and he does an incredible job of like building 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.240 out two very distinct characters. Like when I was seeing 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.959 it for the first time, I forgot a few times 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.920 that you know, it's the same actor. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:25.880 I think a lot of people did. They were like, wait, 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:27.640 does Michael B. Jordan have a twin that no one 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:28.240 knows about? 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.839 Yeah? Like it's like, nope, Rammy Mallick style. That's one 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.520 of my Like what Rammy Malick has a twin and 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.439 his name is wait for it, Sammy Malick. Whoa wow 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.360 to something I think about a lot. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:42.400 That's totally fair. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.400 Yeah, doesn't Vin Diesel have a twin brother too? 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:46.000 Oh? 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:46.360 Really? 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:47.720 But not identical? 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.280 That's so wild to think of two Vin Diesels at 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.200 once that I don't know if I would want. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.160 Well, I don't even want one Vin Diesel. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.000 I don't know. I'm here for it, but I would 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.600 be for us straight to be Vin Diesel's brother. But 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:00.560 not identical. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.080 That's true. Oh my god, Vin Diesel's fraternal twin. That 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:05.559 is a curse of sorts. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:11.800 Yeah, in any case, Yes, there's one brother who wears 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.520 blue and that's smoke and the other one wears red 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.640 and that's Stack. They have just arrived back in Mississippi 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:28.040 from Chicago. We learn that they were bootleggers there. They 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.640 have a lot of cash from that, and they meet 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:35.520 up with a white man named Hogwood, who sells them 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.880 an old sawmill which they plan to turn into a 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:44.400 juke joint. And the twins tell this guy Hogwood, like, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.280 our business here is done. If we ever see you 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.640 or your clan buddies on this property again, will kill 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:58.840 them parentheses more foreshadowing. Then Smoke and Stack link up 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.880 with Sammy, who's their cousin and who's going to play 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.360 guitar at the juke joint that night, and they start 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.720 getting everything else ready to open the joint, which they're 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.560 going to do that night. And I was like, oh 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.720 my god, that's the fastest turnaround I've ever heard of. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.240 It's a pop up. It's a pop up. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.760 Yeah, yeah, I mean, and they put together something incredible. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.480 So good on them. I would not have been able 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.080 to turn that around so quickly, but I. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.439 Did enjoy sort of the thought experiment of if literally 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.240 one person says no to the Twins throughout this day, 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.120 the plan is pretty thoroughly fucked but they just I mean, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.680 it's to Michael B. Jordan's. They know no one's going to. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.680 Say now exactly. You can't say now. Yeah, yeah, yes. 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:49.640 So Smoke goes into a market owned by a couple 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.960 Bo and Grace Chow played by Yao and Lee Jion 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:58.160 Lee to place an order for catfish and to commission 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:03.280 a sign for the juke joint. Meanwhile, Stack and Sammy 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.920 go to the train station to hire another musician named 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.079 Slim played by Delroy Lindo. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.720 Also no complaints on this side. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:18.640 Great casting. Love Delroy Lindo the voice Alion. Yeah, truly, like, 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.720 oh god, he's just the best. I used to I 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.679 wrote fan fiction about him in college, which wow, is 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.520 a lor reveal like erotic. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:30.600 Fanfic or no. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.880 It was literally just fiction about like what do I 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.720 think he's up to at his house? 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:36.480 Amazing? 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.599 It was for like a class, But anyways. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:40.679 That's a beautiful excuse. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:46.200 I was just waiting for an excuse to speculate on 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.880 what he's up to and he was. Also I think 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.120 he should have won an Oscar for the five Woods 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.000 and didn't, and I will not let that go anytime 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.240 soon anyways, and. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:01.280 You shouldn't They hire him, and they hire a man 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:06.680 called Cornbread to be the bouncer of the juke joint. Also, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:12.040 Stack runs into a woman named Mary played by Hailey Steinfeld. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.280 She's a former lover of his who he grew up 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:21.240 with and who seems like he ditched back in Chicago 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:26.040 like you do, like you do, so their relationship is 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:31.720 a bit contentious at the moment. Meanwhile, Smoke pays a 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.720 visit to a former lover of his, a woman named 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:40.079 Annie played by one Me Musaku. They have a lot 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.760 of history as well, some of it is painful, including 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:50.440 a baby they had together that died. And Smoke shows 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:55.040 up he wants to reconnect. He asks Annie if she'll 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.960 cook at the juke joint tonight, and then they start 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.360 smooching and having sex with each other. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.720 A very horny movie. As for me, I mean all 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.480 of the we'll talk about this in the discussion as well, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:15.080 but just the costuming in this movie is unreal. Everyone 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.000 looks i mean, I'm assuming period appropriate, but also just 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:24.520 so profoundly hot. It's wild. As every character is introduced, 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.920 You're just like, this is the greatest outfit I've ever seen, which. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.880 Is very, very true for the period. I feel in 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.360 African American culture to just always be dressed the nine. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:40.640 Yeah, the tailoring and this, I hope this wins her 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.880 another Oscar. But this is Ryan Coogler worked with her 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.760 on Black Panther and Black Panther Wakonda Forever Ruth E. Carter, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.160 and she won Oscars for costume design on both Black Panthers, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.960 and she should win again. Yeah. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:04.920 Everyone looks amazing, very hot. Yes, so they're they're smooching 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:10.960 and then and sex and sexing. Then we cut to 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.240 a mysterious white man who seems to fall out of 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.200 the sky and his skin. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.280 Is burning again like they do, like. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.360 White people do. This is period appropriate. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.760 Yes, this is just a universal truth. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.040 There were cursed Irish vampires falling from the sky. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:35.440 This time he approaches a house and he tells the 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.160 white couple who live there, who are clan members, that 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.880 a group of native men tried to rob and kill him, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.800 so the couple takes him in. Now, the chalk Taw 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.400 people show up a little while later and tell the 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.280 couple that they're pursuing someone very dangerous, someone who's not 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:59.120 what he seems. Because it turns out this man Remiic 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:04.120 played by j O'Connell is a vampire who attacks the 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:08.280 couple and turns them into vampires. Yes, and speaking of 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:12.880 quick turnarounds, the vampire incubation period in this movie seems 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.080 it's very sweat a matter of minutes. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.040 Yeah, yeah, as long as long as the plot needs. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:18.840 Yeah. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.880 And if there was any question if this couple is 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:27.360 wildly racist, they are sooner to uh let a man 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.520 who's obviously lying and covered in like sores and boils 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:36.720 into their home than have a conversation with a native person. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.280 Yeah, and that's called white privilege. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.680 Yeah. Yes, it is covered in sores and boils and 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:43.960 somehow got in the door. 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.440 Yeah, and had to be invited in which they do. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.840 Yeah. That it seems to be the one rule of 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.600 vampires here. Although you get the garlic, you got the classics, 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.800 the classic garlic, the sunlight. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.640 Yes, yeah, they retain the classic. 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.600 Yeah, the stake through the heart, Yeah for sure. Then 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.240 we cut to the Duke Joint. It's opening up. People 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:11.399 are arriving. The clientele is entirely black, aside from Mary, 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.040 who does have some black ancestry. She says that her 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.080 maternal grandfather was half black, which I believe is also 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.520 true for Hailey Steinfeld as well, thinks so yeah, though 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:29.439 she passes as a white woman. We also meet Perline 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.280 or I think we've already met her. She's played by 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:38.600 Jamie Lawson, and she and Sammy are vibing. Then Sammy 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.160 starts playing his guitar and singing the blues, and then 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.720 we get like the sequence of the movie, the one 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:51.680 where we see people playing music and dancing from the 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:56.520 past from the future, with the same voiceover from the beginning, 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:03.200 suggesting that Sammy has this spiritual musical talent that was 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:11.040 previously discussed and this music seems to attract that vampire man. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:15.200 Remic with him is the couple that he just turned 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.720 into vampires. This is Joan and Bert, and they all 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.640 show up outside the Duke joint saying that they are 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.199 musicians and they want to come in and eat and 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.800 drink and play music. Cornbread the bouncer and Smoke and 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:34.040 Stack and everyone are very suspicious of them, but Smoke 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.800 and Stack and some of the others kind of like 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.840 weigh the pros and cons of letting them in, of course, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:42.879 not realizing that they're vampires. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:47.919 Well, and also like they make it disturbingly clear that 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.639 they're like, will be right over there, so they're also 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.720 like leering nearby, lingering, yeah. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:59.679 And they realize that they could use these white people's money, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.119 so Mary suggests she goes and talks to them to 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.720 kind of find out what their deal is. And they're 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.399 weird and creepy, and it seems like they're about to 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.200 attack her, and I think that. 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.760 Like they specifically prey on the fact that her mom 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.719 recently died, because that was the one thing that I 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.120 was like, why did we learn that detail? I didn't remember? 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.080 And then it seems like that is like one of 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:24.560 the tricks. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:33.000 Then a short time later, Mary goes back inside via cornbread, 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:37.080 saying like, go ahead on in, which is how she's 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.120 able to get back inside because she's a vampire now. 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.160 And she seduces Stack and they go into a room 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:48.320 and start having some more sex, but oh no, she 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:53.800 bites him and sucks his blood, which Smoke walks in on. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.800 So he shoots Mary a bunch of times, but she 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.560 gets right back up on account of being undead and 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.919 runs off into the night, and everyone's like, what the 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:10.240 fuck was that all about? People rush to Stack's aid, 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:15.280 but he dies kind of in the way that vampires do, 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.440 and Smoke is devastated. They send all of the patrons home, 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:26.240 though people like Sammy, Annie, Slim Pearlein, Bo, and Grace 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:31.240 stay behind, but Grace wants to leave, so Bo goes 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:35.960 out to pull the car around. Meanwhile, Cornbread had gone 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:40.320 off to use the bathroom and he's attacked by the 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:44.160 vampires and he comes back. He's acting weird. He wants 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.159 to be let in, and then Stak, whose body they 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:52.760 locked in the room, starts trying to get out, pretending 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:54.840 like he's not a vampire. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.840 I love the shots where they're having like a conference 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.240 outside being like I don't know, Oh should we? I 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.080 don't know, I don't know, And then you cut back 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:06.640 to him and he's like going full vampire mode at 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.800 this like wild angle. It's just it's awesome. 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.120 He's like, I'm not a vampire? What are you talking about? 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:12.320 Him? 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.520 He was like, guys, come on, come on, what's the 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:15.639 where is that gould happen? 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:21.720 So he bursts out and runs out into the night, 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.600 after Annie throws pickle garlic on him because she realizes 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:30.800 they're dealing with vampires, which means the plan is to 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:36.080 stay in the juke joint until sunrise and gather whatever 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:40.760 weapons they can in case they need to fight. Meanwhile, 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:45.040 the vampires have turned basically everyone who was at the 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:50.600 juke joint, so it's like several dozen people into vampires 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:56.960 and they're all doing an Irish jig. Back inside, Annie 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.879 has everyone eat a clove of garlic to make sure 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.840 that no one is a secret vampire, and it turns 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:07.240 out they're not. But then Bo comes back around, acting 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:13.320 very vampirey, and Remick is right behind him, saying that 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:19.359 he knows everything that Bo knows because the vampires kind 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:24.240 of share like a collective consciousness, and Remick says that 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.320 Sammy is the one he's after. He wants to absorb 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:32.520 this musical gift so that he can travel through time, 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.600 so to speak, and be brought back to his people. 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:43.879 Remick is also caring on about how this vampire group 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:48.280 is all about like free love and fellowship and family, 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:54.400 but actually their vibes are very sinister, and Remiic threatens 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:57.880 to go after Bo and Grace's daughter Lisa if they 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:03.720 don't let the vampires inside, so Grace starts freaking out 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:09.280 and screams like, come on in, you motherfuckers effectively inviting 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:14.800 the vampires inside, so they russian. A battle ensues. Vampire 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:20.280 Stack goes after Annie and bites her, so Smoke has 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:22.760 to kill her because he had promised that he would 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:25.600 drive a stake through her heart before she turned. 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:31.240 Because Annie is a pragmatist to her core, she is like, 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:35.880 let's stop being sentimental. This is a vampire movie, which 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:39.119 is always my favorite character in the vampire movie, right, right. 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:45.360 So then Stak goes after Smoke so that they can 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:49.840 be immortal vampire brothers together, and so Smoke has to 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:53.439 decide if he's going to kill his brother, can he 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:59.760 do it? Cut to Remick descending on Sammy and he's 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:04.639 a to turn him, but just then Smoke gets Remick 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:08.600 with a steak in the heart and saves Sammy. And 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:12.119 then the sun comes up and they watch as Remick 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:16.720 and the other vampires burst into flames and perish. But 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:21.800 the battle is not over because earlier, Remick had revealed 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:25.359 that Hogwood, the white man who sold the brothers the 0:24:25.440 --> 0:24:30.160 juke Joint, is the Grand Dragon of the KKK, and 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:36.760 he intended to kill everyone at this establishment. So Smoke 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:41.600