WEBVTT - The Color of Friendship 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.920 When you were growing up, did you ever have or 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.160 consider becoming an exchange student. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:26.920 I thought about this exchange student that I knew didn't 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.319 go to my high school, but went to my best 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:34.560 friend's high school. And it actually started with her friend 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:39.279 went to Germany and did an exchange program, met the family. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.239 I don't know if they started dating or not, but 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.800 the teenage boy that was the same age as her 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.720 came in did an exchange system with her family in 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.040 the States, and then he stayed and they got. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.120 Married, so then they were dating. My guess is if 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:55.800 they ended up married, they were probably dating. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:57.440 They dated definitely when they're here. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.360 I don't know if she started dating him while he 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.360 was in German, But I thought about them throughout so 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.839 much of this movie because I. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:06.120 Just kept thinking. 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:10.360 And obviously there's a difference within the seventies versus early 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.560 two thousands, but how scary it would be for both 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.560 the individual and their parents for your child to be 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.200 across in a different country with the family that you 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.280 don't really know. I mean, it was just I just 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.120 could not, like, my brain kept swirling. I had to 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.000 keep rewinding it because my brain started spinning off and 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.160 off of what it would be like to either be 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.840 an exchange student, have an exchange student, or be parents 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:37.360 of either of those situations. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.720 While my cousin lived with us, he was from Germany 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:40.920 and he lived with us for a year and went 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.160 to high school. Oh, it was awesome because he was 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:44.080 super popular. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.360 So he did he up your social game? 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.120 He did well? Yeah, so because I was in eighth grade. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.400 So then by the time I moved freshman year, all 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.160 his friends were senior so I got it, like I 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.200 figured it out out. So it was like they all 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.280 knew me by the time I got there. So I 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:01.840 had friends my freshman year. It was the only time 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.559 I had friends in high school. But it was fun 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:06.400 that one time, my time. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.520 You say something like that, I just want you to 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.040 know me, and the rest of the audience do not 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:11.600 believe you. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.160 That's great, I love that. The sad thing is it's its. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.600 One hundred percent chance you were not super cool in 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.280 high school. I just don't believe it. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.359 We had the same thing on pod Metro when my 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.880 dad came and and was one of the guests and 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.600 writer and Danielle. Danielle was like, Okay, we can finally 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.760 put this to rest. Can you please tell us how 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.840 many girlfriends Will had, and my dad's like, Will didn't 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.560 have any girlfriends, and it just shut them down because 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.920 it's true. I was not popular and had no girlfriends. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.320 Absolutely, absolutely fat is insanity to me. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.160 I just it's absolutely believe. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.160 Wow, I'm not sure if I'm there yet. I might 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:45.760 have to actually meet your dad. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.880 That's funny. You will, you will, he'll explain. And uh, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.720 they were my best friends. So that's who I was 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.200 hanging out with the whole time in high school. So cool. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.760 Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.120 want to grab your friends, your pjs, and your popcorn 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.440 and go back to a time when all the houses 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.440 were smart. The waves are tsunamis and the high school's musical. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.360 I'm Wilfordell and I'm Sabrina Brian, and. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.520 It is time to look beyond black and white, because 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.920 this week we're talking about a very special Disney Channel 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.920 original movie from the year two thousand, our second based 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.639 on actual events. Sabrina, do you remember the first one, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.800 No Gotta Kick it Up? 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.200 Oh that's right, yes. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.080 Yes, gotta kick it up. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:27.280 Yes that's true. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.360 So this is number two, and this week's movie is 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.440 the Color of Friendship. It first aired on February fifth 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.840 of two thousand, purposefully debuting during Black History Month. It 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.680 would be released on VHS two years later, and it 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.960 is one of the best review d cooms of all time. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.520 The La Times calling the film surprisingly compelling and stated 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.920 that although it is frequently predictable, it quote delves unexpectedly 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.600 deeper quote. The Seattle Times wrote that the film breaks 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.760 the nauseatingly simple after school special mold of most child 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.200 friendly Teleflix and that it is certainly one of the 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.320 better films you'll se on the Disney Channel, which again 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:03.800 I agree with all that, but we'll get into it. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:05.920 Ben a while since we've had a movie that made 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.440 this list, but Complex had it as number ten on 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.800 the top twenty five d COM's list, and Collider ranked 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.120 it at number fifteen. And I hate to bury the 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:19.119 lead here, but it is also our first Emmy winner ever. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.640 We thought Going to the Mat could have could have 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.320 been one, seriously could have been one. But this is 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.520 our first ever Emmy winner. It won the Award for 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.280 Outstanding Children's Program in two thousand. It also won the 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.880 Humanities Prize and NAACP Image Award. A WJA Award and 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.479 was nominated for a DGA Award. It is safe to 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.159 say that neither Luck of the Irish or I'm going 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.320 to throw in Fuzzbucket had a chance of winning it. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.160 A slightly slightly missed the mark on those, so. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.560 We are definitely entering a different type of category today. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.120 It is viewable on Disney Plus, so you can check 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:51.800 it out there, or maybe you already have. We're not 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:57.479 keeping track. You do you now? Amongst the critical and 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.320 industry praise, Sabrina, did you know about the Color of 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.479 Friendship before we watched it here on our Wonderful podcast? 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.119 I did. I was excited for this like this one. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:07.800 I did. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.839 I really did like this one. I was excited to 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:15.120 rewatch it again. It's crazy how I will remember loving 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.520 a movie and then when it starts, I just have 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.839 no recollection of where things are going to. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.599 Start because it's just been so long. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:23.960 Yeah it's been twenty four years. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.599 Yes, and I remember, and I still felt the same 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:32.800 way watching this of Wow, Disney took such a beautiful 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:39.080 leap into and exploring and explaining something that is super important, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.960 but they did it in an amazing Disney way. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:42.760 I just thought it. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.599 It was done so well and you know it, but 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.120 also a risk for them, right, critics and everything are 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.520 talking about this is not a typical thing for Disney 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.359 to dive into something that is very controversial, you know, 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.720 So I thought it was they just Disney blows. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:58.760 My mind again, Disney Channel. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.240 Jeez, you know what, I think this will surprise nobody 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.400 when I say that I knew nothing of it. I 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.960 am starting to realize that I've heard of maybe three. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.440 Things, see three different I've. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.560 Seen like i'd heard that, I'd heard of the Cheetah Girls, obviously, 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.760 I'd heard of high school musical. I've heard of my 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.360 date with the President's daughter because I was in it. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.520 Other than that, I really hadn't heard it. So yes, 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.360 so everybody out there, don't lock yourself in a room. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.400 Just that a room that's not even yours, by the way, 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.800 Just yet, it's time for the synopsis. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:29.600 Here we go. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.320 A white South African girl finds herself in a difficult 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.800 situation when she is sent to spend a term with 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.400 a black family in America. So I think we just 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.680 got your early thoughts. You loved it, right, Yes. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.240 I was almost nervous how they were going to handle 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.360 certain things though. I was kind of going, oh, here 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.760 we go, oh, and then it turned out it just 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:48.920 just was done really well. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:50.960 This is one of those movies. So first of all, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.120 I thought this movie was phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:55.240 I knew you were going to love it. 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.680 I loved this movie. I loved basically everything about it, 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.600 down to the music. I mean, I loved everything about 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.240 this movie. I really did. This one surprised the hell 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.880 out of me how much I liked it. That being said, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.200 I would love to have originally seen this in two thousand, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.040 to have watched it then, because you know, we live 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.200 in a different time now, a different contry. Twenty four 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.120 years is a very very different time. I would love 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.120 to have seen it first then to add initial thoughts, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.160 and then seen it now because there are some things 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.200 that you know, some language and things like that that 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.240 would never pass muster nowadays. But that were I think 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.080 was necessary and powerful and it was so this movie 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.040 blew me away. I absolutely thought it was great. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:37.440 The cast was wonderful. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.960 Oh, so let's get into that. To say it's an 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.520 impressive cast of actors is an Understatementally. Vindseay Hahn plays 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.760 Maury Bach the white South African exchange student. It was 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:52.320 an incredibly challenging and nuanced role that she I thought 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.880 knocked out of the park. The two leads, the two 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.800 girls that really headlined this movie. We'll get into the adults, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.840 but the two girls were so good, yes, and so layered, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.400 and oh, it was absolutely wonderful. You've seen Lindsay most 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.840 notably on True Blood, where she played Hadley Hale, but 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.200 you've also seen her on Melrose play star Trek Voyager 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.680 and her father. I know it's all about her, but dude, 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.760 her father is the guitarist for Air Supply, and I 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.520 know we can't afford it, but I'm still gonna sit 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.960 here and say I'm all out of love. I'm so 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.080 else with you. Sorry song. I knew every word too, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.200 I think I was three. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:31.040 I love that. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.200 Air Supply very important in Wilfordell's life, so that was 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:38.559 just an awesome thing to learn. Shaddya Simmons plays Piper Dellums, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.760 the daughter of the family Maury will be staying with, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.280 and she is so optimistic and happy about possibly gaining 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.280 a sister in the process of all of this. She 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.920 is a Canadian actress who has already appeared in another 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.560 dcon by this time A Saintly Switch, which again I 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:53.199 have not heard of. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:54.520 I have not heard of that one. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.600 Okay, I'm sure we'll get to it. She also appeared 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:00.240 in Xenon the zequel yet and also a movie called HS. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:01.720 But we're going to get more into that lady. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:02.000 Yeah. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.120 She is married to legendary soccer player Freddie Adou, who, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.160 at the age of fourteen, became the youngest player ever 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.600 signed to Major League Soccer. He was a phenomenon. He 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.600 was everywhere. They were hailing him as the Michael Jordan 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.959 of soccer. He was it. He put soccer on the 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:21.120 map for a lot of people, and what he accomplished 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.600 at his age is really amazing. And Shadia has since 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.720 retired from acting and she is a teacher in Canada. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:28.800 Wow. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.679 Carl Lumley plays the father of the House Congressman Ron Dellams. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.840 He made his acting Give You in the nineteen seventy 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.600 nine movie Oh Wait for It Escape from Alcatraz. Awesome movie, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.920 and hasn't looked back since. His recent appearance in This 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.880 Is Us and Marvel's The Falcon and Winter Soldier might 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.240 be the most recognizable, but there's also Supergirl, Doctor Sleep, 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.000 The Fall of the House of Usher, Obliterated, the shy 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.000 and opposite Robert Niro in Men of Honor. He is 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.080 an incredible actor. He also plays or is the voice 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.960 of Martian Man Huh in Justice League and Justice League unlmited. 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.680 I've gotten to work with him fifty times. He's the 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.360 nicest guy you will ever meet in your life. Phenomenally talented. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:09.440 He was so good. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.280 He is so good in this movie. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:12.680 I loved his character. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.000 I mean it was awesome. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.640 There was not There was not a week link in 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.600 this cast anywhere. I mean usually there's like one or 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.080 two you point to and you go like, yeah, that 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.160 wasn't the bit nowhere. They were all amazing. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:28.840 Even the annoying brother I thought, you're curious, were so good. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:29.640 I loved him. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.920 They were the whole group of friends she had together. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.960 Oh Penny Johnson Gerald is his wife, Roscoe Dellums. She 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.480 is already well known as Beverly Barnes on The Larry 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.439 Sanders Show, with appearances on Er and Star Trek Deep 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.440 Spase nine DSN, but she later on became a very 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.760 big star on the show twenty four Castle and the Orville, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.600 another just actress who has been working forever and is 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.840 amazingly talented. Another actor worth mentioning is a mod Stoner 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.920 who plays Daniel, Piper's friend. He's in the other two 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.240 story d com Gotta Kick It Up, so he is 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.960 in both of them and was no nap of the 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.320 Lost Boys in hook He was also on a little 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.840 known show called Boy Meets World. Ah, I'm on Good 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.480 Guy and the other thing we were talking about the 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:17.960 brother that's Ron Dellam's actual son and Piper's brother in 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.480 real life, Eric, who does appear in the movie. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.600 Yeah, that's very cool, super cool. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.240 This film clocks in at eighty seven minutes. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.640 Ah, we're so close, three minutes, three. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.560 Minutes away from the bull's eyes. Someday we are going 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.480 to watch the worst d common history. But we're not 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.960 gonna care. We're gonna give it ten nineties because it 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.720 made ninety minutes long. But that seems like a small 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.680 little complaint when this thing is an Emmy winner. It 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.719 was directed by Kevin Hooks, who received obviously very high 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.240 praise for this film and reviews. He's another person involved 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.480 in this movie with just an outstanding career. He started 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.640 as a director on TV shows like Sainte Elsewhere with 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.760 mister Bill Daniels, twenty one, Jump Street with mister Johnny 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.720 Depp twenty one, Jump Street, and er, then shifting to 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.600 movies like the Tommy Davison comedy Strictly Business and the 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:08.840 Wesley Snipes action film Passenger fifty seven. Great movie. He's 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.880 still a massive figure in TV directing with episodes of Lost, 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.400 This Is Us, ex Files, and Prison Break all on 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.960 his resume. It is written by Paris. I think it's 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.440 qualas is how you say it might be Qualls, who 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.640 was a writer on Quantum, Leap and Lewis and Clark 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.600 and moved on from this to The Rosa Park Story 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.720 starring Angela Bassett and a more recent rendition of Raisin 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.560 in the Sun, the TV movie. One other crew member 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.720 that is certainly worth pointing out is Stanley Clark, and 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.240 we need to talk about mister Clark because he is 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.960 a five time Grammy winner who's considered a living legend 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.880 when it comes to the bass and the birth of 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:45.720 jazz fusion. He played with Miles Davis, Jeff Beck, Ronnie 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.120 Wood and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones and George Duke. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.960 He is I mean, probably easiest to predict. He was 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.000 the lead of the Stanley Clark Band, makes sense since 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.360 his name is Stanley Clark, perfectly named and was given 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.640 what seems to be free reign to be the most 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.760 Clark he could be for this movie. He did the 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.640 music for Boys in the Hood, Romeo Must Die, and 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.880 the TV show Soul Food. So he is a real 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.559 bass genius. And I think that since the movie is 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.360 set in the seventies, it plays a big part. So 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.880 I think we should talk first of a little bit 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.560 about the music, because it was amazing. I mean the music, 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.760 every song that came on was had so much personality 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.600 in this movie. Yes, I am one of those people. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.080 As much as I would love to sit here and 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.240 be like, oh man, I hear the music in every 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.079 movie I watch, I don't. Sometimes, No, it's just kind 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.400 of in the background right for a lot of people, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.280 it is this was right there in your face. Amazing. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.000 I felt the music. It was really really cool. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.800 It was and it set like you said, it's set 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.320 the tone of the seventies. It also brought in, you know, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.680 the African drum. Like there was so many times where 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.320 you felt the cultural aspect that you needed to everything 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.640 really and everything really flow. Didn't feel sometimes you know, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.760 all of a sudden you hear a song and you're 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.560 actually hearing it because it just comes out of nowhere. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.840 The way the music is introduced and flows throughout this 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.240 whole movie is just it's easy. 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:15.319 It's an easy listen. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.480 Yeah, right, it was very organic. It just kind of 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.000 it worked throughout the entire thing. But it's also good 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:21.880 time to talk about when the movie was set. So 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.920 the real story was in nineteen seventy seven, and so 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.200 your Disney in two thousand is not only taking a 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.480 swing at subject matter that is very adult, very real, 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:39.840 very important, but they're also doing a period piece. Right, Yes, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:41.760 did you like the seventies vibe? 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.000 I felt the wardrobe could. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:46.720 Have been better. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:52.520 Oh really, Yeah, I didn't love everything. There were some aspects, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.640 so I'm thinking specifically about, you know, when they're in 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.200 the mall going getting ready for school, you know, the 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:00.440 first day of school, they're. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:01.120 Doing this this. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.320 In and out of dressing room type thing. I didn't 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.800 really love any of that. Out those outfits they either 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.040 were so kind of basic. And maybe it's because the 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.440 seventies has come back. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:16.240 In a lot of ways. 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.640 And fashion. Well, it's you know when you see bell 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.400 bottoms and things like that, you're. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.560 Saying, you know, like I'm going to know that fashion 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.600 is coming back. I have no idea what you're talking about. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.600 Well, I'm saying this is what I'm thinking. Because it 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.800 either looked basic or it looked very cartoony, like I didn't. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.240 There was no middle mountain or feeling of really authentic 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.280 seventies where compared to other movies. But then again, it's 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.080 the Disney channel that you know, you think about what 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.440 what the budget was right and things like that. But 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:50.880 then like I loved what Piper's mom was always wearing. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.920 She always was dressed so beautifully, and so there was 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.280 aspects of it that were great, but I feel the 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.640 age the kids stuff didn't really look that great. La 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.800 I wouldn't have loved that wardrobe for myself. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.320 So my dad is a big car guy and he's 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.200 passed that on to me. So one of the things 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:09.920 we used to do every time we watch period pieces 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.520 is you look in the background to see if they 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.800 messed up any of the cars, Like, wait, the seventies 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.360 and there's a nineteen ninety Dodge Dart behind whatever it. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.600 Is oh my, you know cars that well. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.720 Enough there, I mean enough to know if it's in 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.720 the right decade anyway, and I wasn't wasn't able to 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.960 spot any mistakes. So I though pretty impressive. And again 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.160 there's probably people watching that's like I saw six I 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.120 don't know, but I wasn't able to spot any mistake. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.760 Yeah, but I did the cars, actually I did notice, 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.440 you know, when they were in the driveway and things 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:37.800 like that. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:38.520 It looked great. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:47.040 Yeah. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.080 So we opened the film with shots that, of course 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.000 immediately caught my attention because it looked like My Date 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:52.880 with President's daughter. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.520 First thing on my Sabrina Sea Bill's movie makes sake cameo. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.520 It does look like My Date with the President's Daughter. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.040 Establishing shots at d C where the movie is supposed 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.320 to take place. But of course it's a dcom, so 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.560 it's either shot in Canada or in Utah. I think 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.200 they just flip a coin to decide where it's going 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.840 to be shot. This one was shot in Canada. It 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:21.320 was difficult to see some of the monuments without seeing 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.719 me green screen poorly in front of them, trying to 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.480 awkwardly kiss Elizabeth Arnoaugh, if I'm honest, right there in the. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.639 Beginning, I did think they're establishing shots were a little 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.240 bit better than than that green screen. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.879 That's true, that's very much a little better. It was 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:38.720 by that point it had been three years, and three 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:40.880 years in film makes a big difference, you could tell 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.760 it does. So there's the killer seventies music playing, and 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.879 we joined the Dolom family in their home. Now, this 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.840 is interesting because one thing that was really considered groundbreaking 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.320 at the time, and we love that this is based 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.120 on a true story, is depicting a black family as 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.879 financially well off. There they're the family of power. And 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.080 in these movies and in a lot of movies that 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.200 we've seen, it's an adjustment from what you normally see 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:06.720 in the media. Like we talked about during Got to 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.800 Kick It Up, it's a common trope of the white 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:12.760 savior and you know that, oh that it's an underprivileged 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.480 minority group, the white teacher, white whoever comes in and 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.159 saves the day, and that is you know, this is 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.320 literally the exact opposite. They took the trope, they flipped 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.880 it upside down. It felt fresh and real, and because 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.320 it's based on a true story, it also lends it 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.600 to the fact to like, well, why are we only 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.480 depicting them one way when this is based on a 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:36.720 true story, And this is how it what you know 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.120 what I mean, it was it was great. So yeah, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.520 we learn right off the bat that the daughter of 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:46.480 the family, Piper, is dead set on getting an African 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.080 transfer student, and her father, the congressman, is not so 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.920 keen on the idea. He eventually gives in. They talk 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.840 about it, and we're immediately then cut to South Africa, 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.119 where we meet Maury, who is part of the very 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:04.800 like fancy white family, at a dinner that you can 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:11.159 tell it is for upschedule country club whites in South Africa. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:15.120 She also wants to be part of the transfer program. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.880 They show something very interesting with the family dynamic right 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:24.399 away because it's her talking to her mom and she says, 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:26.600 I want to do this. I really want to do this. 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:30.359