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Speaker 2: We're just chomping away on our food. I was eating
Speaker 2: a piece of sour dough with some cottage cheese on it.
Speaker 2: Oh God, there's nothing else, there's nothing else to be at.
Speaker 1: I hate cotton cheese so much, really, I love Oh
Speaker 1: it grosses me out. I can't. I can't get that,
Speaker 1: though I get it. Cottage cheese, sour cream, Oh, it
Speaker 1: really goes along with those any sort of like bagel schmear?
Speaker 1: What cream cheese? Cream cheese is the worst? Strong with you,
Speaker 1: I can't do it. The older I get, the more
Speaker 1: lactose intolerant I get, and the smell itself just makes me.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm so hungry right now to eat any
Speaker 3: of those things.
Speaker 1: Well, I can't talk any of blueberries and dike especially.
Speaker 2: It's contradictory, but blueberries are so good for you. Okay,
Speaker 2: Today is a very special day. Today is a very
Speaker 2: special day.
Speaker 1: And I would just like to say that this is
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie because it ends with snow and lights.
Speaker 2: This is also an all year round movie for me,
Speaker 2: it is a comfort film. I watched this all the time.
Speaker 1: I can't believe this is a comfort film for you
Speaker 1: because it is heavy.
Speaker 2: It is heavy, but like most of it, like the music, like,
Speaker 2: it's just very like the Newsy's is comfort for me,
Speaker 2: Chicago's is comforting me. Mostly musical movies are comfort for me.
Speaker 1: You know what really gets Jena go in consumption. So
Speaker 1: we're talking about the one and only Mulin Rouge. Very exciting,
Speaker 1: incredible movie that came out June first, two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: which is also two thousand and one. It's been happening
Speaker 1: a lot this week in the dressing room at Spelling
Speaker 1: b We've been listening to We've been visiting two thousand
Speaker 1: and one a lot. Musically, Wow, what is musically Bump
Speaker 1: Bump Bump by Beata k no no, I mean okay,
Speaker 1: musically like literally the number one song in the country
Speaker 1: at the time was Lady Marmalaye appropriate Christina Guiler Litt
Speaker 1: Kim I Am Pink from this movie. The number one
Speaker 1: movie was Pearl Harbor. Believe it or not, I saw it, yay, oh,
Speaker 1: I saw it. Fun fact that I was in the
Speaker 1: music video for it.
Speaker 4: You were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what the fatal music video that Michael Bay directed.
Speaker 1: I did not know this.
Speaker 3: How did you end up for that music video?
Speaker 1: I had an agent in Texas and it was I
Speaker 1: thought it was for the movie Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 3: That's even better. I booked with Michael bayfilm Yeah.
Speaker 1: And they're like, no, it's the Fat Till music video
Speaker 1: even better, Okay. And so I was like an extra
Speaker 1: in the music video and I was like a little
Speaker 1: Newsy boy at like a little camp with my big years.
Speaker 3: Can we actually see you in that movie in music video?
Speaker 1: Yes? I have it is like it's me and like
Speaker 1: faith what and Michael Bay is like five feet from me?
Speaker 1: I do not know directing me. I do not know this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really strange. I don't know how Like it
Speaker 1: was also weird that he even directed the music video.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's not so surprising.
Speaker 1: It was like my first time though, being on a
Speaker 1: set like that because they had like the movie magic things.
Speaker 1: They had the posters on the side of the buildings
Speaker 1: to make it look like the time period.
Speaker 3: And that's why he directed it, because he wanted to
Speaker 3: look like the film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was and I remember like it was
Speaker 1: going to be premiered on VH one, and I woke
Speaker 1: up early to like wait for it to start being
Speaker 1: played on VH one.
Speaker 2: Very special, Kevin, I had idea about learned something new
Speaker 2: every day. Okay, So here's a snapshot of some pop
Speaker 2: culture from two thousand and one, since there was no
Speaker 2: Glee News obviously, two thousand and one was dominated by
Speaker 2: classic TV classics like Friends, which had just aired, Monica
Speaker 2: and Chandler's Wedding. Huge Survivor was a national obsession still
Speaker 2: kind of is She was like Gilmore Girls, Buffy, the
Speaker 2: Vampire Slayer, West Wing sopranos were all divining, defining character
Speaker 2: driven television was like the Golden Age of television if
Speaker 2: you asked me, and then yeah, we had TRL like
Speaker 2: MTV was a peak power rip MTV, I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was also like you had Brittany and Backshorye
Speaker 1: and Sync releasing like huge things. So Tierro was it
Speaker 1: Janet Jackson's All for You? Oh my god, I remember
Speaker 1: when I think of that time, I remember Carson Dailey
Speaker 1: interviewing Janet Jackson about that album on Tierro. So good,
Speaker 1: so good.
Speaker 2: Pop culture was also fully and It's why to Hey
Speaker 2: Glow Up? Era we had just we had survived two thousand.
Speaker 2: The world was gonna blow up and all the lights
Speaker 2: were gonna go out. Rhinestones, glitter, makeup, meallic tops, low
Speaker 2: rise jeans, flip phones, which charms you name.
Speaker 3: It feels like we're back there again.
Speaker 1: So it does I mean DVDs or like all the
Speaker 1: rage It was just starting to take over VHS tapes,
Speaker 1: which is wild. Blockbuster was still a thing. Blockbuster, for
Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, it was a store
Speaker 1: where you would go in and rent movies.
Speaker 2: What if you weren't a Blockbuster on a Friday night,
Speaker 2: you weren't living God that feeling your pjs walking to Blockbuster,
Speaker 2: holding that the sleeve would be there, hoping that there
Speaker 2: would be a box behind it.
Speaker 1: It was like a library, but for movies. God.
Speaker 2: Lots of celebrity couples benefer for the first time obviously, Yes,
Speaker 2: Brad and jan Yeah, Justin and Brittany. It was big,
Speaker 2: big Did you do you okay? So let me ask
Speaker 2: you a question. This was directed by boz Lehrman. Were
Speaker 2: you a boz Lehmon fan?
Speaker 3: Are you abouz Lermon fan?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, and yes yes we too, absolutely big, big, big,
Speaker 1: I mean, big bas Lemon fan, also objective. I think
Speaker 1: about his movies, I think, mmmm, I think I'm way
Speaker 1: with everything even you know, like Beyonce is my number one,
Speaker 1: But I can still be objective. I think, yeah, pretty much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you you always are.
Speaker 3: Romeo and Juliet is on the top of my list,
Speaker 3: is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 2: Mellen Roge is definitely on the top my top five
Speaker 2: to ten movies of all time too.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about baz Lehrman and how he does
Speaker 1: sec does every movie he directs? Is every movie a musical?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, yes, no, but it has a musical element, And
Speaker 1: I think that's why I started doing all this research
Speaker 1: at the bas Lehman whilst watching this movie, because I
Speaker 1: was just like, what is the deal? Like where did
Speaker 1: he come from?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Like why does he make am like this? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it makes completely sense, like he comes from the opera world,
Speaker 1: like directing operas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. It all
Speaker 1: makes and so music going into any baz Lemon movie,
Speaker 1: music is used more as like a leading storytelling device.
Speaker 1: Obviously like score and music concept, tones and feelings, which
Speaker 1: are super important for movies. His is almost even in
Speaker 1: Romeo Juliet. It's another component to the script. It is
Speaker 1: a character and it fully drives every scene.
Speaker 2: And that's why his musical movies do or this one
Speaker 2: does so well, is because like.
Speaker 1: The character.
Speaker 3: Well in this one in particular, like the music is
Speaker 3: just so good on his own, but.
Speaker 2: The music, every piece of music that he includes, drives
Speaker 2: the story or elevates the story, or brings it to
Speaker 2: life in or brings it all around in this like
Speaker 2: very encompassing, like stylistic way that like it all makes sense.
Speaker 1: It doesn't come out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: Even like when Youwan breaks into your song, my song, song,
Speaker 4: your song, thank you, your song, He's like mah, and
Speaker 4: like it's like that moment is there was no other
Speaker 4: place for him to go but to break into song.
Speaker 1: Well, I think the way the way Baz clearly appreciates
Speaker 1: and understands and like needs music, Yeah, in his story
Speaker 1: telling makes it work almost all the time because I
Speaker 1: mean he intentionally does this. I think in everything where
Speaker 1: a lot of what he does are you know, is
Speaker 1: a set and it's a period piece with modern music,
Speaker 1: and the way those two play against each other to
Speaker 1: make us understand what's going and like put it in
Speaker 1: today's like whatever, Like rome and Juliette. It was like
Speaker 1: Radiohead is a Shakespeare's story, and so you're understanding where
Speaker 1: those characters are at because of the songs that are playing,
Speaker 1: totally more so than just some under than underscoring. And
Speaker 1: but I think this movie, it's about damn time he
Speaker 1: did like a musical musical, yeah right, yeah, And the
Speaker 1: way he was able to use contemporary songs set in
Speaker 1: eighteen ninety nine was just unmatched. So for those of
Speaker 1: you who don't know Mulan Rouge the official summary. Set
Speaker 1: against the backdrop of a spectacular mul and rue show,
Speaker 1: an idealistic young writer is drafted into a bohemian entourage
Speaker 1: and falls in love with an ambitious but doomed showgirl
Speaker 1: who was caught between the hero and a ruthless duke.
Speaker 1: Basloman also I think appreciates like classic stories, classic storytelling,
Speaker 1: because I'm looking this up. This is sort of a
Speaker 1: very loose reinterpretation of like the Orpheus and Euryticity. Yes,
Speaker 1: like Journey and you have the Great Gatsby. He takes
Speaker 1: on later, and he obviously did Romeo and Juliet And
Speaker 1: so the way he sort of swings big in like
Speaker 1: the classic yes storytelling moments, but he also like.
Speaker 2: There's just such an eclectic mix of his like inspiration
Speaker 2: for this from like Hollywood musicals, cabaret culture, vaudeville, opera, Bollywood,
Speaker 2: and he was in India studying researching how Bollywood films
Speaker 2: like and all of it together.
Speaker 1: Right works like La bo m et cetera. It is
Speaker 1: also like strange to me how Bollywood movies don't necessarily
Speaker 1: really cross over here and being able to see, like
Speaker 1: what you were saying, how Bollywood like can combine all
Speaker 1: of these different genres into one movie and make it
Speaker 1: spectacular and make it really heartfelt and have these like beautiful,
Speaker 1: grand and humble stories all in one thing. Like this
Speaker 1: movie is very much all of those things, but done
Speaker 1: in a very specific bas Leerman way. And what I
Speaker 1: also love about bas Leerman and I think it works
Speaker 1: in some movies better than others, is like Wes Anderson
Speaker 1: or where that you know a bas le movie by
Speaker 1: a single frame. They always have a certain look to them.
Speaker 1: That's why I love I love both of them very much.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. It's I think it's so hard to like
Speaker 1: have a really specific like movie or film language like that.
Speaker 1: Not everybody, not everybody has that and everybody needs that.
Speaker 1: But no, it's just you can tell he is bursting
Speaker 1: into creativity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And he's not doing it just to
Speaker 2: do it, like I think they're they're creators that like
Speaker 2: could be out there that want to have that staple
Speaker 2: of that luck or that thing. But this isn't just
Speaker 2: for the sake of doing it. This has like a
Speaker 2: very specific intention behind it, which is why. But it's
Speaker 2: done so successfully. Yes, And he's like I think his
Speaker 2: brain is just full of so much information and so
Speaker 2: many different things that he loves that he wants.
Speaker 3: To incorporate, so like breaking the.
Speaker 2: Barriers of like it having to be one thing is
Speaker 2: refreshing to have a musical movie with all of these
Speaker 2: different pieces of other art forms and cultures and you know,
Speaker 2: it's just everything it's like and things that have come before,
Speaker 2: all the different works, Like it's very inspired, and it's
Speaker 2: just it's I don't know, I think it's why it's
Speaker 2: one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: Is like, uh, this like.
Speaker 2: Modern day contemporary music mixed with all these you know,
Speaker 2: the things that came before, Like all these wonderful pieces.
Speaker 2: So this film premiered as the opening Nights selection it
Speaker 2: can the Film Festival in two thousand and one, and
Speaker 2: it received an enormous reaction.
Speaker 1: Uh this, we also did it in Glee, so come
Speaker 1: what may.
Speaker 3: One of our favorites was featured in season four episode
Speaker 3: fifteen Girls and Boys in Film, performed by Curtain Blaine.
Speaker 1: That was one of the songs. I was so sad
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I obviously did not fight for that, Like it makes
Speaker 1: total sense for them. I loved how they did it,
Speaker 1: but I was just like, oh man, I recently that
Speaker 1: one missed opportunity. Yeah, I mean I was obsessed with
Speaker 1: this movie. Jenna, Like, do you remember when this came out?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I remember. I think I was
Speaker 1: like nervous to ask my parents to like take me
Speaker 1: to the movie theater to see it. And I waited
Speaker 1: until remember like the dollar movie theaters. Oh yeah, because
Speaker 1: I had to be out for like a couple of
Speaker 1: months or something. Yeah, And I remember I convinced my
Speaker 1: mom and dad. I remember my dad was like, oh god,
Speaker 1: it's a musical. I don't want to go see it.
Speaker 1: And I already had the soundtrack. I remember the smell
Speaker 1: of the booklet of the CD with all the words
Speaker 1: in it. I was o sacessed. And I remember sitting
Speaker 1: there in that really the Dollar Theater and watched this
Speaker 1: movie and I just I couldn't believe it. And also
Speaker 1: it wasn't like my reaction was very different than Chicago,
Speaker 1: because like Chicago is like the squeaky clean. It's fun,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's it's glamour.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's style, but it's specific in like one lane,
Speaker 2: like it's very clear where you're headed.
Speaker 3: It's very clear what it is.
Speaker 1: You know, run this, Yes, Lulan Rouge has everything going
Speaker 1: like I feel like there's so many reasons why this
Speaker 1: movie should not be gone wrong. Yeah, yeah, like it
Speaker 1: should not work on every level. And when you get
Speaker 1: to the end of it, I felt so uncomfortable for
Speaker 1: so much of the movie because bas Lehman creates like
Speaker 1: tension and like that weird awkward like am I about
Speaker 1: to pass out? Feeling well if this spinny spinny? Yes,
Speaker 1: And it's like so motion and the way he cuts
Speaker 1: it edits a movie in the and like her, you know,
Speaker 1: being sick and all that. I remember leaving this movie
Speaker 1: feeling like I was sick, but I loved it.
Speaker 2: Let's just go through the casting a little bit before
Speaker 2: we got talk more about this, Okay, So I had
Speaker 2: no I didn't know this, but bos Lorman auditioned several
Speaker 2: major actors, including Leonardo DiCaprio, obviously fresh off there, you know,
Speaker 2: their film together Romeo and Juliet, one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: And uh, Leo came in and read with Boz and
Speaker 2: according to Lerman, the moment they tried singing together, it
Speaker 2: immediately became clear that Leo could not sing this role.
Speaker 2: This would have This is one of the things that
Speaker 2: could have gone terribly wrong. I love Leo, but this
Speaker 2: is just not it. So other actors were seriously considered.
Speaker 2: Heath Ledger, Jake Jillen Hall, Ethan Hawke, Jake Joon Hall
Speaker 2: would have been great, but different like Ewan is you
Speaker 2: McGregor is actually.
Speaker 1: It's it's beyond perfection.
Speaker 2: I would not see this, and I think this is
Speaker 2: why I've resisted the musical seeing the Broadway musical for
Speaker 2: so long, because I know I would love it, and
Speaker 2: I know that they obviously changed some of the music
Speaker 2: and all the things. But I resisted this so terribly
Speaker 2: because there's nobody else that could play Christian in my
Speaker 2: mind other than you and a writor, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to hear anybody sing it.
Speaker 1: Talked about his powerful voice, and the thing is one
Speaker 1: of the things where I think this movie should not
Speaker 1: work and my eyes specifically should hate it. It's like
Speaker 1: Ewan and Nicole aren't vocalists by any means, right, but
Speaker 1: the Ewan's voice, the tone, the tone have goosebumps, and
Speaker 1: also just his performance, it's so attached to his performance,
Speaker 1: like there was no separation between you and speaking and
Speaker 1: you and singing and the emotional through line between those things.
Speaker 1: My singing voice, I think sounds quite different than my
Speaker 1: speaking voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So as soon as I
Speaker 1: start singing, like who is that? It just, yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds like Ewan's voice. His speaking voice is powerful and emotional.
Speaker 1: Obviously we know he's an incredible actor, like he had
Speaker 1: already done train spotting by this point, Like, yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: He's amazing and so to be able to and that's
Speaker 1: something you're just born with, Like your tone when you sing,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. You can't change that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the way he just like belts everything out is beyond.
Speaker 1: It evokes something in me. Also, he's like beautiful and
Speaker 1: like it doesn't hurt that he was like the performance good.
Speaker 1: He's gorgeous. He's gorgeous. Like he actually sounds good. The
Speaker 1: tone is good.
Speaker 2: I actually sound gat. Yeah, it is great. This the
Speaker 2: whole thing, the whole of the package is the whole
Speaker 2: thing is just one hundred and ten percent. Like there's
Speaker 2: nobody else. There's nobody else.
Speaker 3: So he's just the vulnerability that he gives to Christian
Speaker 3: is just outstanding.
Speaker 1: You know, like fun fact also is so Nicole Kidman
Speaker 1: got injured several times during this. She broke ribs, so
Speaker 1: they were like filming things of her sitting down because
Speaker 1: like she couldn't be walking around in the corset and things.
Speaker 1: But because of that, things got delayed and they had
Speaker 1: to move off of their stages because this whole set
Speaker 1: everything was built right. Nothing was actually shot in Paris
Speaker 1: at the right. It was in Australia and they had
Speaker 1: to get off the sound stages because Star Wars was
Speaker 1: coming into film and it's like you and McGregor is
Speaker 1: in both of these things, like this is the height
Speaker 1: of you and McGregor, like becoming a household name, and
Speaker 1: I like, musicals have never been a popular thing to do.
Speaker 1: Musicals have never been the cool thing to do. And
Speaker 1: for Baz Lerman and Nicole Kidman and you and McGregor
Speaker 1: just sign up, it was like a really big risk
Speaker 1: and a really big swing. And I just love because
Speaker 1: we know where their careers have gone since right, like
Speaker 1: you McGregor was twenty eight when he was filming this,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, and it's it's nice to see somebody
Speaker 1: who did train spotting like several years earlier, Yeah, then
Speaker 1: do this and right exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And Nicole Kidman has obviously had her career, which
Speaker 2: like we all know, but this one felt different to me.
Speaker 2: There was like an innocence and a softness to her
Speaker 2: but yet like this wise woman that the performance was
Speaker 2: like so open and so real raw, like she had
Speaker 2: to love doing this. I cannot imagine her not loving
Speaker 2: doing this. This is my favorite, Oh I know, And
Speaker 2: I agreed, And like she's not a singer, but her
Speaker 2: tone too for this, Like there's something about it that
Speaker 2: is just so so magical that I love listening to.
Speaker 3: This is one of my favorite things to ever listen to,
Speaker 3: is the two of them together.
Speaker 1: I don't know how she does not have a good
Speaker 1: singing voice.
Speaker 2: No, she objectively does not have a good singing voice,
Speaker 2: but there's something about it that is so charming and
Speaker 2: so satisfying that like, it doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 3: I don't I really don't know. I think it's the
Speaker 3: tone and like the breathiness that.
Speaker 1: Because she's so good at acting. Yeah, maybe she's so
Speaker 1: good I also Okay, So speaking of their singing voices,
Speaker 1: I was wondering how they recorded these vocals, because, yes,
Speaker 1: tell me how this movie is mixed. I think is
Speaker 1: maybe the best I've seen because there is no sound difference,
Speaker 1: and how they are speaking and how they are singing,
Speaker 1: like the quality of what's going on. Obviously you can
Speaker 1: tell these things. Some of them are at least most
Speaker 1: of them or all of them were pre recorded, and
Speaker 1: I was just like, how are they doing this? Because
Speaker 1: that connection makes the emotional connection I think for us
Speaker 1: as a viewer so much greater in a subtle way
Speaker 1: that we don't even realize it, at least for me,
Speaker 1: because it feels so defent. Well, it was a mix
Speaker 1: of everything. It was. I think that's what I love
Speaker 1: about I'm fascinated by Baz Luhrmann's a creative process because
Speaker 1: this whole thing was one gigantic collaboration from all the departments.
Speaker 1: Obviously every movie is like that, but what I mean
Speaker 1: is like he was so involved in every single department that,
Speaker 1: like post production in this was so much longer than
Speaker 1: they thought it would be that they delayed the release
Speaker 1: of the movie by six months. And I think that
Speaker 1: is why it works so well. So, yeah, they pre
Speaker 1: recorded everything, but then when it came time and they're
Speaker 1: actually shooting things well, and they also did a full
Speaker 1: year of paperduction by the way, and so like they
Speaker 1: knew the music so intimately and how it was going
Speaker 1: to be used, but when they were actually filming it,
Speaker 1: it's they still allowed for, oh, I think maybe this
Speaker 1: vocal or this line should be filmed live, huh. And
Speaker 1: because they also had like the whole rig on set,
Speaker 1: like with pro tools and everything that they could move
Speaker 1: around where the music was and so in the moment
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, actually, if you sung this line a
Speaker 1: little later or earlier, like they could do all of that.
Speaker 1: And so some of those things are live, some of
Speaker 1: them are pre recorded, and they just allowed it to
Speaker 1: happen and I think in post production mixing all those
Speaker 1: things together, you get.
Speaker 2: They had the availability to play and to fix and
Speaker 2: to workshop almost because they had it all.
Speaker 1: Yes. And I mean obviously with those things that time
Speaker 1: is money, so that takes budget. It takes someone probably
Speaker 1: like bad Lerman who has like the weight, like the toll.
Speaker 2: The time and the budget and the things to say
Speaker 2: like I need this and I need to extend and
Speaker 2: I need to do yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, And ultimately, what I'm realizing about Baz Luhrman or
Speaker 1: any director, and I think this is what makes the
Speaker 1: difference for a lot of directors is taste.
Speaker 2: You have to have.
Speaker 1: You have to know your taste. You have to have
Speaker 1: great taste, and you have to have the wherewithal to
Speaker 1: see it through. And I think all this music works
Speaker 1: and how it is sung and how it is mixed,
Speaker 1: how is edited, is because Basil Lherman has incredible taste,
Speaker 1: specific taste. It's not for everybody, but he knows his
Speaker 1: own taste and he need and he will do what
Speaker 1: he has to do to make it come alive. And
Speaker 1: I think that was just fascinating because I think what
Speaker 1: happens a lot and when we get to they miss
Speaker 1: they miss it a similar thing where they pre recorded
Speaker 1: some and did my vocals, and that post production process
Speaker 1: was also really long. Yeah, but there's something going on.
Speaker 1: I think maybe with the more modern like how it's
Speaker 1: being recorded on set, and even in Wicked, where there's
Speaker 1: a really big difference in like sound quality then you know, speaking,
Speaker 1: and I feel like bas really just like figured out,
Speaker 1: like refined. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It feels like you're inside
Speaker 1: of it and you're not taking in or.
Speaker 2: Out of it through the vocals and through the dialogue,
Speaker 2: like you're just in one immersive world versus sometimes in
Speaker 2: musical movies you can be like hyper aware that you're
Speaker 2: in a song versus you have seen and.
Speaker 1: Because such this is dramatic, this is drama, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be taken out of it.
Speaker 2: No, That's why I just feel like this, the world
Speaker 2: that has creates, like in general, is like very immersive
Speaker 2: and you feel like you're very much in it.
Speaker 4: So the.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about that world?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: By the way, like.
Speaker 2: The sets, costumes, that's everything is like larger than life
Speaker 2: but feels so believable.
Speaker 1: How does he do that? It's just like a courage
Speaker 1: of conviction.
Speaker 2: Maybe, I mean obviously that everybody at the top of
Speaker 2: their game, all these incredible department heads and people like
Speaker 2: just really and and Bas is like vision. I'm sure
Speaker 2: that Like Rian, the vision is so clear and it's
Speaker 2: like whether he's collaborating and saying this, you know, let's
Speaker 2: try this or let's do that, or saying like I
Speaker 2: know what I want, it's so clear.
Speaker 1: Does it remind you of Ryan? Yes, definitely. I don't
Speaker 1: know Bas, I've only met him once, but like, but
Speaker 1: the work is reminiscing. Yes, what is that? I feel
Speaker 1: the same way?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: I feel like Ryan has great taste. Yeah, Ryan has
Speaker 1: a very specific vision and he's really good at executing.
Speaker 1: And I think maybe that's those are the overlaps there, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like really clued into also music. So Bas's wife
Speaker 1: was the costume designer. It was Coke costume designer and
Speaker 1: co production designer all of his projects. She went two
Speaker 1: oscars for this and two oscars for Great at Speed. Interesting,
Speaker 1: she's got four oscars, the most of any Australian ever.
Speaker 1: So they have a language as well, sure well, and
Speaker 1: the language between Baz Co wrote the script and he
Speaker 1: and Greg Pierce do all their movies together, so they
Speaker 1: also have a language. They had done Romeo and Juliet together.
Speaker 1: So yeah, doesn't it feel like some big creative collaborative. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: definitely your people. Yes.
Speaker 2: This opened at number four in the US, behind Pearl Harbor,
Speaker 2: Shrek and the Animal, and it became a major word
Speaker 2: of mouth hit, which I could understand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, how do you market this movie? How do
Speaker 1: you sell this movie?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know, honestly though, like you market it with
Speaker 2: those like those top twentieth century hit songs, right like
Speaker 2: as they in the early development the team, they said,
Speaker 2: the team filled entire rooms with lists and charts of
Speaker 2: songs until it became very clear that the emotional heart
Speaker 2: of their musical already existed inside the great pop pits
Speaker 2: of the twentieth century.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like Glee.
Speaker 2: It's like something that you do and you take something
Speaker 2: familiar and then you twist it and you turn it
Speaker 2: on its head a little bit and you make people
Speaker 2: see it in a different way. And there's already a
Speaker 2: way in I think that is so key to people
Speaker 2: taking a risk and like seeing something like this that
Speaker 2: they wouldn't normally see. They're like, oh, Elton John and
Speaker 2: you know, I mean everything, every artist that's in you know,
Speaker 2: lend their music to this, to this film.
Speaker 1: I wonder how much of an inspiration consciously or you know,
Speaker 1: subconsciously this was for Ryan when doing Glee, because this
Speaker 1: is Glee. The exception of it was like six years later.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that far off.
Speaker 2: No, for sure, I'm sure there was some element of it,
Speaker 2: whether he was thinking about it before or not. Like
Speaker 2: you know, there's definitely like, oh, it's being done right
Speaker 2: and people are doing it and they did it really well.
Speaker 1: And something you and I have talked about is like
Speaker 1: stage musicals and two movies often works so well because
Speaker 1: the movie that music is proven, they've workshopped it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and how they did this was in a similar way,
Speaker 1: even though it was not a stage musical, they workshopped
Speaker 1: at all. Like Baz would, like you said, in the audition,
Speaker 1: like Baz tried to sing, He's literally singing with the
Speaker 1: actors in the audition room. Bas and peers would sing
Speaker 1: together and workshop worship call yes, and so you see
Speaker 1: what feels right in the moment. You're not just putting
Speaker 1: things in there just to put things in.
Speaker 2: There right exactly exactly, so the is for anybody who
Speaker 2: didn't watch this or has not seen this, please go
Speaker 2: watch it. But also, you know, there's like this, there's
Speaker 2: a few things going on, but the main story is
Speaker 2: that Christian you McGregor and Zetine Nicole Kidman they accidentally
Speaker 2: fall in love. But Satene was promised to the Duke
Speaker 2: who holds the deeds to the Mulan Rouge kind of
Speaker 2: handled by Harold Ziggler and who also who is like
Speaker 2: the head of the Mulon Rouge what do they call him,
Speaker 2: like the Master or whatever. And then you know there's
Speaker 2: that whole thing of jealousy with Ian McGregor and you know,
Speaker 2: and Christian and Satene. But Setne's also, unbeknownst to her
Speaker 2: as dying of tuberculosisciety. She started dying of TV and
Speaker 2: she doesn't know it until she tells Ziglas she's going
Speaker 2: to run away from the Duke with Christian and Ziggler
Speaker 2: with his own selfish for own selfish reasons obviously with
Speaker 2: the deed to the Mulon Rouge, and because he does
Speaker 2: kind of low Setine in a very messed up way.
Speaker 2: Uh is like you're dying and you can't you can't
Speaker 2: and they're going to Christians, so you better tell them
Speaker 2: you don't love them. So and then there's this whole
Speaker 2: theook the duke is putting on that or Duke is
Speaker 2: producing that. They're doing it the lam rouge that is
Speaker 2: going to make Shutina star, but that also mirrors the
Speaker 2: story that Christian wrote and is living at the same time.
Speaker 2: Just so you know, let's talk about some of this music, because.
Speaker 1: Another thing for me working against it. I hate jukebox
Speaker 1: musicals and I loved every second of them. This is
Speaker 1: a different one for you. It's like I'm into all
Speaker 1: of it. So, like obviously, because these are all huge
Speaker 1: songs before ever being in this movie, they had to
Speaker 1: get the rights to all these songs and pay for
Speaker 1: the rights for all these and it took years. It
Speaker 1: took like two and a half years. Wow.
Speaker 3: Ellen, John was one of the first to do to
Speaker 3: allow your song to be in this movie, which.
Speaker 1: Was always on the pulse. He likes on the pull.
Speaker 1: He is always supporting like new artists still to this
Speaker 1: day more maybe more than ever.
Speaker 2: Doing collapse with new artists, always knowing what's coming. So
Speaker 2: and then of course you're like, oh and John gave
Speaker 2: a song to this film. Why wouldn't anybody else? So
Speaker 2: that's pretty spectacular spectacular.
Speaker 1: I would like to see a show called spectacular spectacular. Well,
Speaker 1: there is a musical called roof I know there.
Speaker 2: There's amazing songs in this I mean one after the other, NonStop,
Speaker 2: hit after hit. I think the ones that stand out
Speaker 2: for me are obviously I'm on the Rooftop, you know
Speaker 2: your song, Elephant Love Medley, Come What May, out the Window. Also, though,
Speaker 2: one of my favorite songs, which I didn't know that
Speaker 2: everybody loved, was Roxanne.
Speaker 3: Like I didn't know that people loved Roxanne.
Speaker 2: Like I loved Roxanne. I thought it was not a
Speaker 2: fan favorite, and then I come to learn it is
Speaker 2: the fan is it? Yeah, it's like because I didn't
Speaker 2: know it until just now watching it.
Speaker 1: Oh it's one.
Speaker 2: I think that's the most listened to, next to Come
Speaker 2: with May on that album that I listened to, and
Speaker 2: I didn't know that like people, everybody loves that one.
Speaker 1: What I learned. What I learned is that as I've
Speaker 1: seen this movie probably in twenty years, like I've not
Speaker 1: seen it in so long, is that the moments I
Speaker 1: really didn't love as much as a kid wore those
Speaker 1: darker moments so like the last third of the movie
Speaker 1: like made me feel uncomfortable because I was jamming to
Speaker 1: come What May and jamm in to Elphant Love Medley.
Speaker 1: Elfant Love Medley was my jam. Yeah, I wanted the
Speaker 1: pop hits. I had to pause it during El Dango
Speaker 1: de Roxanne because I was so overwhelmed. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: so overwhelmed by how good it is. I literally ran
Speaker 1: to the other room and I was like, Austin, you
Speaker 1: don't understand what is happened. He's never seen Walan Rouge.
Speaker 1: By the way, what yes, stupid idiot.
Speaker 3: What is rockinha? Get kick him out?
Speaker 1: I would I would like to talk about the Roxan
Speaker 1: scene if we can, well please any time. It's r Actually,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about so many of these. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but Roxanne one.
Speaker 3: By the way, it took ten days to shoot this
Speaker 3: good and it feels like.
Speaker 1: It in a good way. Yeah, like with Greece. Never
Speaker 1: thought I'd be comparing these this way. Yeah. Every single
Speaker 1: frame of this movie, and obviously more so than Greece,
Speaker 1: is still with rich textures and so much depth, not
Speaker 1: just the sets but by the costumes and the people
Speaker 1: acting the music, and you take Roxane, a famous police song, right,
Speaker 1: and you mix it with a famous Argentinian tango, and
Speaker 1: then you're also adding original operatic lines for you and
Speaker 1: McGregor on top of it. And then you also have
Speaker 1: like three different story points, storylines happening. And what's also
Speaker 1: really important to know about this movie is that a
Speaker 1: huge inspiration for it for Baz Luhrmann were like the
Speaker 1: technicolor musicals of the forties and fifties, And to me
Speaker 1: that is most like glaring or blaring. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's the right word here. The most obvious is during
Speaker 1: this scene because the colors are so rich and like
Speaker 1: the way like Hello Dolly or any of those musicals
Speaker 1: were filmed and lit and colored. They're like you, I
Speaker 1: just want to eat them, like they're so beautiful to
Speaker 1: look at. And this scene has so much like powerful,
Speaker 1: powerful story going on and like three different plot points,
Speaker 1: and the yes, it's just it's so unbelievable, Like I
Speaker 1: literally I had to stand up and walk around because
Speaker 1: I I mean.
Speaker 3: If you back and listen to it now, also listen
Speaker 3: to you in vocal performance.
Speaker 1: In this.
Speaker 2: It's something about the release of like how he can
Speaker 2: release his voice in that way that like for somebody
Speaker 2: who doesn't isn't a professional singer, and maybe he does
Speaker 2: consider I was shocked.
Speaker 3: And also here's it's very satisfying to listen to his
Speaker 3: performance his vocal.
Speaker 1: Do you think the difference is for you and and
Speaker 1: Nicole and why we buy them so much singing in
Speaker 1: this that's not English?
Speaker 3: I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for following everyone. Yeah, my brain is
Speaker 1: moving so much faster than my mouth about this movie.
Speaker 1: Is that like when Adam Shankman came into the studio
Speaker 1: with us to record on a much smaller, simpler level.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to compare these two. Yeah, was in
Speaker 1: the studio with us. He was having it. He was
Speaker 1: placing us in the mindset of being in the actual scene.
Speaker 1: It's like how we're going to feel and sound doing
Speaker 1: these movements and things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there had to be a lot of
Speaker 2: conversation between THATZ and the like the vision had to
Speaker 2: be there beforehand, right to say like this is where
Speaker 2: we're going to get.
Speaker 1: To, where they were going to be emotionally and physical.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, It's it's a different thing than like getting
Speaker 2: on a TV set and being like, okay, so today,
Speaker 2: like this is what where the director sees the scene
Speaker 2: going versus where the actors is the scene going. Like
Speaker 2: there was a very cohesive moving, you know, movement forward
Speaker 2: that was like clear that like everybody knew where they
Speaker 2: were going or what they were doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I think that had to be.
Speaker 3: Part of it for sure.
Speaker 1: Maybe Ewan's voice just sounds like that, and maybe Nichole's
Speaker 1: voice just sounds like that. You know, like they could
Speaker 1: just be like a happy coincidence. But even you can
Speaker 1: tell them like their lip syncing of everything. Lip syncing
Speaker 1: is hard and they are so on it, and it
Speaker 1: matches the exact emotion they're doing in all of those scenes,
Speaker 1: and that is like you have to have some level
Speaker 1: of foresight. He the whole foresight for that. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: talked about We talked about Elephant Love Medley as well.
Speaker 1: That whole section of the movie was really astonishing to
Speaker 1: me because he built all these sets of what they
Speaker 1: imagined Milan Rouge looked like in eighteen ninety nine, and
Speaker 1: for so much of that whole section they're only in
Speaker 1: like they don't really move beyond like a couple rooms, right,
Speaker 1: obviously like on top of the Elephant room and you
Speaker 1: see like this huge, very fake skyline and things, but
Speaker 1: they're really using these sets and I you like for
Speaker 1: not really moving location that much in this section, like
Speaker 1: you're never bored. You're never wondering, okay, like what's next?
Speaker 1: Are we seeing anything else? And like that is really
Speaker 1: hard to do. And it's like it's it's a watch.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, there's like a magical feeling to it. It's
Speaker 2: bigger than life.
Speaker 1: There's like always a little bit of movement somewhere.
Speaker 2: It's not too much that like keeps your eye going,
Speaker 2: but yet not bored with like the chemistry between the
Speaker 2: two of them two and the music being so good
Speaker 2: and the visuals being so pleasant, like it all really
Speaker 2: works well, where like it's like this feeling of euphoria
Speaker 2: that you get like without having to like do anything,
Speaker 2: You're just sitting there like I'm you for it right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And also I mean that's very true because leading into it,
Speaker 1: you have like that whole weird sound of music thing
Speaker 1: like you were coming from like this really silly like
Speaker 1: almost comical world of You have Kylie Minogue as the
Speaker 1: Green Fairy, which I obviously did not realize as a
Speaker 1: kid who Kylie Minogue was, you know when I first
Speaker 1: saw this and I'm watching, like, oh my god, there
Speaker 1: there's yeah pop icon global sensation Kylie Minogue. It was
Speaker 1: also really great in that little cameo and you have
Speaker 1: like John the Gazamo doing a crazy voice and he
Speaker 1: is by.
Speaker 3: The way his performance and this is really unhinged and
Speaker 3: yet perfect.
Speaker 1: It's perfect. I love how like silly this movie starts out, yes,
Speaker 1: and I just kept being shocked by so I guess
Speaker 1: maybe my creation depth of my one like critique is
Speaker 1: the very beginning of this movie. And for those of
Speaker 1: you who have not seen it or haven't seen it
Speaker 1: in a long time, is you know, is be patient
Speaker 1: because the first like ten to fifteen minutes of this movie,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, maybe this isn't that good because no.
Speaker 1: One of my little things that I don't love that
Speaker 1: bas does is like this kind of bad visual effects
Speaker 1: of you know, when he sets up the world and
Speaker 1: you like see these big sweeping shots of like you
Speaker 1: McGregor on a train or all of Paris, and it
Speaker 1: looks like not great. It doesn't look I think very good. However,
Speaker 1: I also think that's sort of intentional with because it
Speaker 1: does look almost like a painting or intentionally not realistic
Speaker 1: because bas isn't trying to do realism in any sort
Speaker 1: of way. So like there's that adjustment period. And I
Speaker 1: also don't scessartainly love. Like he always uses this like
Speaker 1: choppy slow motion effect ish in all these movies, which
Speaker 1: bothers me sometimes and it bothered me in the beginning
Speaker 1: of this movie, but once you adjust to it into.
Speaker 3: The dramatic parts of it, it works really well.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I think like as the movie goes on
Speaker 1: and he starts to use it, especially with her sickness, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's really effected, like the breaths, like because it
Speaker 1: makes you feel like you're sick and right, yes, right right,
Speaker 1: and also shout out to Nicole's performance during that to
Speaker 1: like sell that. But so like, yeah, it took me
Speaker 1: a minute to like get into the world. But like
Speaker 1: once he is on those sets, it does feel like
Speaker 1: really deep and moving and it all of that big,
Speaker 1: opulent stuff you would think would be distracting and take
Speaker 1: away from Like, no, the story is still so grounded somehow,
Speaker 1: I know. Come what May was originally written for Romeo
Speaker 1: and Juliet what. Yes, it's an original song. It was
Speaker 1: originally written for Romeo and it never got used. And
Speaker 1: so I mean, could you imagine this movie without Come
Speaker 1: Up May? And also imagine Julia with that song? Right,
Speaker 1: none of it would work. That's insane.
Speaker 3: That is absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: Come Away, Come Up.
Speaker 2: It's also were you and I listening to Come Up
Speaker 2: May on the airplane to Australia?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 1: On the wa Australia?
Speaker 3: Listen to this like a hundred times because it's.
Speaker 1: The greatest song. Yeah, that's also just like the emotion,
Speaker 1: Oh God, to build into the plot of this movie
Speaker 1: that there is a song, it's so meta, like there's
Speaker 1: a song being put into the show. So Nicole, so
Speaker 1: Setine and Christian, well, because they are part of this
Speaker 1: forbidden love, right, m that whenever they have whenever they
Speaker 1: hear that song or sing that song, is because they're
Speaker 1: thinking of one another and being like, we're here for
Speaker 1: each other, right, And then to have that song used
Speaker 1: so well and effectively outside of the show within the show,
Speaker 1: and then it is the song of the movie, like
Speaker 1: it is the emotional heart of this entire movie. And
Speaker 1: what pisses me off? I think baz Lehman should have
Speaker 1: won Best Song Oscar twice twice. This did not qualify
Speaker 1: for the Oscars because it was written for Romeo and Juliet,
Speaker 1: even though it was never used. And then the Lonna
Speaker 1: del Rey song from Great Gatsby he co wrote with
Speaker 1: Anna del Rey, and that didn't even get nominated. I
Speaker 1: think it should have won.
Speaker 3: This is giving, it's giving. Zach Woodley energy mm never
Speaker 3: got nominated for an Emmy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, sorry, come on, sorry, I had to
Speaker 1: get that out comes. You could turn me down in
Speaker 1: your headphones or speakers whatever it is.
Speaker 3: No, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: What's ridiculous is that like a Virgin the Madonna song
Speaker 1: also we have I just need to acknowledge Jim Broadbent
Speaker 1: as Zidler. This is unbelievable. It's a little bit funny.
Speaker 1: Like I even I'm like, I know it's Jim Broadbent,
Speaker 1: but I just don't believe it, and I had to
Speaker 1: look it up. I'm like, of course it is him,
Speaker 1: and how is he so good? How is he so good?
Speaker 3: It's like Jonathan Zamo in this.
Speaker 2: It's like there's this level of like it's campy and
Speaker 2: it's it's almost satirical and and like hyper realist, like surrealist,
Speaker 2: but like also he's grounded in this world like it
Speaker 2: doesn't like it shouldn't but it does.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: And then also when he's like in the office of
Speaker 2: Sigla in the in the Elephant and he's like or no,
Speaker 2: when they're doing the meeting about the deed and he's like,
Speaker 2: I don't like people touching my things.
Speaker 1: So ridiculous. I think that's also it's probably a bass
Speaker 1: thing where this sounds dumb, but like everybody knew what
Speaker 1: movie they were in, and I don't know how you
Speaker 1: communicate that, because this is unlike anything I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: and I think it's unlike anything that's ever been made
Speaker 1: up to that point in the history of film. And
Speaker 1: it's like how you communicate that? Like that that's what
Speaker 1: you're doing, because everybody was understood the tone of the
Speaker 1: movie and they could be big and grounded like it
Speaker 1: was just I don't know, it's just so so just tremendous.
Speaker 3: We can't create all these performances. We've talked about a
Speaker 3: few of them.
Speaker 2: Obviously your song I'll Wandell Flyway, I'll Elephant Love Medleie,
Speaker 2: Come what May like a Virgin, the Tango roxand one
Speaker 2: other song that I loved Our Diamonds Are a Girl's
Speaker 2: Best Friend and material Girl Diamonds Are a Girl's best Friend.
Speaker 1: That number.
Speaker 2: There's something about Nicole Kinman's voice on that also, and
Speaker 2: the performance. You're so sultry yet so innocent and so
Speaker 2: believable and so vulnerable that this all just it's like, naturally,
Speaker 2: I don't know that I would have loved that number,
Speaker 2: but I love that number.
Speaker 1: She sold it for me. Oh God, when they get
Speaker 1: to like the spectacular spectacular show at the end of it,
Speaker 1: and she comes out of the stage and is like
Speaker 1: being held in that costume which apparently is like one
Speaker 1: of the most expensive costumes ever or no, the diamond
Speaker 1: costume she's in not then is one of the most
Speaker 1: expensive costumes ever made for a film. But the lighting,
Speaker 1: like the way they lit the show within the show
Speaker 1: is like unfathomable to me, Like, no, I know, That's
Speaker 1: why I want to see that show. It just is
Speaker 1: so crazy and stunning. What I think also doesn't get
Speaker 1: enough love is there's this little thing when Setne finds
Speaker 1: out she's dying. I believe that's when it is I'm
Speaker 1: sorry for incorrect, and she sings this part it's called
Speaker 1: the song is called like Fool to Believe? Oh yes,
Speaker 1: and it's yes, I think just written for this movie.
Speaker 1: And it's just like a couple of lines. It's not
Speaker 1: a full song, and I don't even know, like how
Speaker 1: how that gets made. I don't know who's writing that.
Speaker 1: But it's so beautiful and it's so personal, and it
Speaker 1: goes into like the one day I'll Fly Away reprise
Speaker 1: between Setina and Zidler, and it's like all these moments
Speaker 1: where this this does feel like an opera.
Speaker 2: Yes there, Yes, it's like little bits and pieces of
Speaker 2: what could be kind of be in dialogue with songs,
Speaker 2: and yet it just gave it like that extra, that
Speaker 2: extra yeah that you bought that in any other movie
Speaker 2: you'd be like, why is this song? This could have
Speaker 2: just been spoken, but it's the opposite for this.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And that's a good musical Okay. So Sparkling
Speaker 1: Diamonds a plus plus plus plus like also Rhythm of
Speaker 1: the Knight and smells like teen Spirit Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Courtney Love audition for the movie and gave Baz the
Speaker 1: permission to use smells like teen Spirit. I Bass's ability
Speaker 1: for mashups is unmatched.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is where I do think that like
Speaker 2: Ryan had to have that like the mashup or Adam
Speaker 2: like you know adam Anders, like they all were like,
Speaker 2: whether they knew it or not, were affected by this, right, which.
Speaker 1: Also makes sense. Why when we ran into Baz at
Speaker 1: that after party, I think it's for the saga words
Speaker 1: or something, and he like bline to us and we're
Speaker 1: just talking to all of us about the show and
Speaker 1: about the music, and he clearly knew the show, and
Speaker 1: I I think at the time I was just so
Speaker 1: like starstruck and like, oh my god, why is he
Speaker 1: talking to us? Of course, nobody has a deeper understanding
Speaker 1: of what we were doing than best lemis.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, that's right. And I don't think that
Speaker 2: hit me until now. Yeah, idiots, let's do some tarty takes.
Speaker 1: Auchies, Okay, auchies.
Speaker 2: I'm I mean the whole like like a virgin thing
Speaker 2: with or not like Tango Roxanne thing with the Duke
Speaker 2: and Stine and like the attempted assault and like all
Speaker 2: that was kind of you know, very.
Speaker 3: Sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they were like very blunt about like you know,
Speaker 1: calling Satina whore and the whole thing was like prostitution
Speaker 1: and all that felt a little yeah, but that is
Speaker 1: like central to the story. And I think there's also
Speaker 1: something about like John, like Zambo, his character, like who
Speaker 1: he was trying to play?
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, uh okay, best dance move, oh my god,
Speaker 2: the tango Rexan and then also shout out to like
Speaker 2: the lady Marmalade, sparkling diamond. Like the whole opening, like
Speaker 2: those opening segments like on the Big Floor, those were
Speaker 2: all excellent.
Speaker 1: Yes, best song, come what may, Come what May, and then.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Elton love Medalie and then tango Rexan, Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: performs very a prop.
Speaker 1: The swing, Oh my god, the swing, the blood. I
Speaker 1: also cannot with.
Speaker 2: The like a virgin at the end when the case
Speaker 2: is flying and he's like above him and they are
Speaker 2: just singing opera and it was just it is one
Speaker 2: of my favorite.
Speaker 1: Moments when is the moon singing. The starts singing opera
Speaker 1: at some point too, I don't even remember when that was.
Speaker 1: It's like this is camp.
Speaker 2: Yes, best line, Oh, this is my favorite is when
Speaker 2: he's singing they do the thing for him.
Speaker 3: The performance, and then he responds, He's like, it's a
Speaker 3: little bit funny, this feeling inside.
Speaker 1: I had to look him up too, because he was incredible.
Speaker 1: That's something I didn't like. I was so creeped out
Speaker 1: and hated him so much as a kid that this
Speaker 1: time watching I was like, you are great. It's so good,
Speaker 1: incredible casting, so so good. I think my like, it's
Speaker 1: probably my favorite moment of the entire movie is when
Speaker 1: she looses in the rafters and you can't remember his
Speaker 1: line and then Elma Gregor is leaving. He called her
Speaker 1: a whore. He's done, He's throwing money at her in
Speaker 1: front of this whole audience of people, and he just
Speaker 1: shouts out, the greatest thing you'll ever learn is just
Speaker 1: to love and be loved and returned. Cinema like that
Speaker 1: is what movies are for. That moment, Oh god, performance
Speaker 1: MVP and Nicole. I mean, there's a couple of turns
Speaker 1: in there. When Nicole, you know when you and a
Speaker 1: Christian accidentally says like, because she doesn't love you, doesn't
Speaker 1: love him. And then Nicole goes from like performing and
Speaker 1: being in this like rehearsal mode and then goes into
Speaker 1: let's go have supper and then yeah, we will like
Speaker 1: the lovers will like, the ending will change.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's really just so good. She's so my favorite God
Speaker 1: Dicky talking. It just feels so silly after this.
Speaker 3: I know, I kind of want to watch it again.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm definitely gonna watch it again.
Speaker 1: Okay, tante pos it when your chance of getting a
Speaker 1: solo is over. Because Mercedes and Already's son Aston Martin
Speaker 1: Abram joined the Glee Club and this is like a
Speaker 1: crazy version of the Thong song. What is this version? Unclear? Oh,
Speaker 1: Motown nineteen Oh it's Ai. It's probably Ai, but nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty's Motown choir version of the Thong song and it's incredible,
Speaker 1: and yes, that would be our sons. Is hilarious, mar Abrams.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're getting crazy, you guys. Well, I hope you
Speaker 2: guys love mo and as much as Ash or else.
Speaker 2: You just literally want to listen to his gab for
Speaker 2: an hour about how much we love this movie.
Speaker 1: I would really like to talk to Baz, I mean
Speaker 1: because I really I really want to know how he
Speaker 1: did this and like how he does like I think
Speaker 1: I would love to just watch him on set to
Speaker 1: see how I would I mean it would be my
Speaker 1: great Yeah, like how.
Speaker 2: Does he do this?
Speaker 1: And I also know like he takes a long time
Speaker 1: to film things and like things run over always, and
Speaker 1: I just I just want to know. I just want
Speaker 1: to pick his brand. A man of taste, gotta know. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 2: So this was our official last official recap of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: But next we have a very fun conversation with Alex Putsavas,
Speaker 2: who's a Grammy Andammy nominated music supervisor currently Senior director
Speaker 2: of Music and Creative Production for a TV at Netflix.
Speaker 2: What she did like soundtracks for shows like Gray's Anatomy
Speaker 2: and Gossip Girl and Scandal, and like Twilight soundtrack, So
Speaker 2: stay tuned for that one. And then obviously, in the
Speaker 2: spirit of the holidays, Kevin, it wouldn't be a holiday
Speaker 2: season without us revisiting the Glee Christmas music, So come
Speaker 2: back for that one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh, don't miss that. And that's what you
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