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Speaker 1: notice about him, ben but I have had a long

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Speaker 1: thing for Benitzio del Toro, who does it. But I

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Speaker 1: love Benicio del Toro as well romance, not in the

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Speaker 1: way I do, girl. He is wonderful. He is wonderful,

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Speaker 1: and he is the lead actor of this new Wes

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Speaker 1: I reckon, a lot of people either love him or

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Speaker 1: they don't really get into it because he's got a

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Speaker 1: very unique esthetic. His films are very whimsical, very stylized,

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Speaker 1: I'm on board people. Some people might find it incredibly infuriating, okay,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I'm one of those people who certainly

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Speaker 1: have loved Wes Anderson movies in the past. It's a

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Speaker 1: bit like getting a gift on a special occasion. You

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Speaker 1: look for to it, coming it arrives, it's elaborately packaged.

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Speaker 1: You open it up. Sometimes it's something that you can't

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Speaker 1: really find a use for, but that's okay. You try

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Speaker 1: and get your money back. But his best movies movie

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Speaker 1: is like Rushmore. Yeah, Grand Budapest Hotel was amazing. Those

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Speaker 1: some of the more recent ones, he's maybe leaned a

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Speaker 1: little bit too far into the style over the substance

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Speaker 1: Asteroid City. His most recent movie was It Was. It

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Speaker 1: was maybe a bit too whimsical, maybe a bit too silly.

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Speaker 1: And and the one before that, The French Dispatch, had

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Speaker 1: Benizio del Toro in it. He made a cameos, this

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Speaker 1: sort of mentally disturbed artist who is incarcerated for murder.

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Speaker 1: absolute scene stealer, as he always is. And that movie

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Speaker 1: and what and Wes Anderson watching Benincio in that film thought,

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Speaker 1: want to collaborate with him again. I'm going to write

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Speaker 1: a movie, write a character, specifically Benitzio del Toro, and

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Speaker 1: in it he plays this sort of It's set in

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Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties. He plays this kind of like European

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Speaker 1: unscrupulous businessman who does deals, maybe a little bit on

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Speaker 1: the dodgy side, and he has this idea of this grand,

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Speaker 1: you know, sort of the fictional country of Phoenicia, which

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Speaker 1: involves lots of different components. There's a canal, there's a

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Speaker 1: and it's going to make him super rich. It's going

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Speaker 1: to establish his legacy. The only problem is he has

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Speaker 1: So Pernincio Delta Torre's character, his playing has been blown

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Speaker 1: up six times. He always manages to survive and every

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Speaker 1: time he's in sort of a bit of a predicament.

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Speaker 1: His line throughout the film is, oh myself, I feel

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Speaker 1: And so his growing power and influence in Europe has

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Speaker 1: subterfuge to undermine this huge business enterprise, and they do

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Speaker 1: it in the most mundane Wes Andersen way. So they

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Speaker 1: so that sets up the plot for Jajar Quarter too

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Speaker 1: trumpy out of the deal vibes happening here. And so

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Speaker 1: as always Anderson Films do, it's got the most star

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Speaker 1: studded cast, like one faction is run by Tom Hanks

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Speaker 1: one on one with Beniciet del Toro, which sounds like

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Speaker 1: the most bonkers scene, and it's amazing. You've got Scarlet Johansson,

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Speaker 1: She is his moral compass, sort of the good angel

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Speaker 1: this dodgy dealing. What's whoever? And she's played by Mia Threppleton,

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Speaker 1: but she's nono baby. She is amazing, she is her

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Speaker 1: career is phil be incredible. She's amazing. And and Beniczio's

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Speaker 1: it's funny, it's whimsical. I will warn people. The first

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Speaker 1: even though some of it seems extremely boring in that

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Speaker 1: starts to make sense. And Benitsio that's why you go

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Speaker 1: see this film. He's a he's generally a character who

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Speaker 1: I'm giving it for WHOA. It's a fun film. It

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Speaker 1: might not be for everybody because of the Wes anders

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Speaker 1: it's a real genuine heart film playing a premium for

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