1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Great the flick with Ben o'she on ninety six a FM. 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben, Good morning guys. Now we weren't kidding 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: about the cast in this were we Oh my gosh. 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: We'll get into the details about the movie, but I'll 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: run through. I'll run through the cast first. And normally, 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: you guys know, I don't have notes. I do it 7 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: off the top of my head. But in the case 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: of this Were's Anderson movie, the cast is so long 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: that I would leave somebody out. So in no particular order, 10 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: You've got Scarlett Johansson, Maya Hawk, Jason Schwartzman, Margo Robbie, 11 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, Adrian Brody. Let's see, We've got Ed Norton, 12 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: Brian Cranston, Tilda Swinton, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, a Jeff Goldblum, 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Wright, Rita Wilson, Leave Schreiber, Hong Chow, Jarvis Cocker 14 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: from POLP, Willem Dafoe. And it just goes Bob Balaban, 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: it just goes on and on and on. And it's 16 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: because we's Anderson who has got this reputation as a director, 17 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: everyone wants to be in his films. Yes, there was 18 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: a time when a new Wes Anderson film would come 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 1: along and it would feel like you've been given a gift. 20 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: It's this beautifully wrapped gift and you get to unpack 21 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: it and it's full of whimsy and it's an event, right. 22 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: And going back to really his second movie, Rushmore, his 23 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: first movie Bottle Rocket, no one really saw that, but 24 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: Rushmore is a classic. And then he did The Royal Tenembalms, 25 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: the Life Aquatic, the Dad Jealing Limited, and then there 26 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: was a Fantastic Mister Fox, the Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle 27 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: of Dogs. There was so many movies Moonrise Kingdom over 28 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: a number of years, with a lot of the same actors. 29 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: He recycles them, from Bill Murray to Jason Schwartzman, Adrian Brody, 30 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: Ed Norton. They keep popping up in his movies. And 31 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: he's got the Wes Anderson aesthetic right like it's you know, 32 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: quirky costumes, symmetrical framing, yellow text on the titles. He's 33 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: got this vibe about him that everybody has come to love. 34 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: But over the years is you know, he's I guess 35 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: he's leaning more and more into that aesthetic, to the 36 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: point where maybe it has become a little bit predictable. 37 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: And his last film, this previous film, The French Dispatch, 38 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: was a bit underwhelming, if we're being honest, certainly compared 39 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: to The Grand Budapest Hotel. And so along comes his 40 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: new film Asteroid City, and you can make the case 41 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: that this is the most Where's Andersen film yet. It's symmetrical, 42 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,239 Speaker 1: it's quirky, it's whimsical. There are there's the yellow text. 43 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: It's got all the same actors that we've seen him 44 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: feature over and over again. But I would say, personally, 45 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 1: I think it's better than The French Dispatch. But it's 46 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: a film that's not so easy to get your head around. 47 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: It's a meta exercise. It's meta which has got kind 48 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: of like, you know, a thing that's about another thing, 49 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: that references another thing. It's kind of like disappears in 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: its own belly button a little bit. So ostensibly it's 51 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: about a play, a theater, a stage production and a screen, 52 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: a stage writer who has written a play. That character 53 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: is played by Ed Norton, and then it's the production 54 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: of this play becomes the actual movie, if you know 55 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: what I mean. So, so you're talking, you've got people 56 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: talking about the play and then it cuts two scenes 57 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: that look like real life, but that's actually the play. 58 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 1: It is really quite confusing. And the real life world, 59 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: which is a highly stylized kind of version of Wes 60 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: Anderson's universe, is a small town in the desert in 61 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: America that's famous for having this Metea righte crater, and 62 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, all of these people gather in 63 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: this town for you know, the fiftieth anniversary of the 64 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: media right crashing down, and then all of a sudden, 65 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: an alien appears and takes the media right back alien 66 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: played by Jeff Goldblum, and all of the people in 67 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: this town then have to deal with the consequences of that, 68 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: with the US government coming in and holding them all 69 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: in quarantine, and some of those people include Scarlett Johansson, 70 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: who plays the play. Play the play, but you see 71 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: this as if it's real life, and then it turns 72 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: out at the end that, oh no, this has been 73 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: a play the whole time. Situation, but it's kind of 74 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: jumps around. It's not that easy to really understand what's happening, 75 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: but fascinating to watch though it. Scarlet Johnson plays an 76 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: actress who's kind of in the town by accident. Jason 77 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: Schwartzman plays a veteran war photographer getting over the death 78 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: of his wife with a couple of young daughters who's 79 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: just passing through but that car breaks down. Matt Dillon 80 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: plays the mechanic who's trying to fix their car. Steve 81 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: Carell plays the hotel manager in this town and the 82 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: town's one hotel, and so it's kind of until the 83 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: Swinton plays the US government scientist who's investigating the alien situation, 84 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: and so it kind of unfolds from there and these 85 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: characters start to, I guess, interact with each other, develop 86 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: relationships and deal with their own insecurities and issues. So 87 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: whether that's the grief, whether it's scarlets Johansson's actresses, kind 88 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: of like career sort of flaming out. There's a lot 89 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: of stuff going on, and then you've got the on 90 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: the other side, you've got the world of the theater 91 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: and what's happening there and how some of the actors 92 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,799 Speaker 1: in the theater are then also these real life characters, 93 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: and you know, how you navigate that is not going 94 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: to be to everybody's taste, But in the end it 95 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: kind of finishes with this really thought provoking scene, probably 96 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: one of the deepest things Where's Anderson has ever done, 97 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,239 Speaker 1: because he's kind of been accused of, you know, style 98 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: of a substance, and he really leaves you thinking about, now, 99 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: what was this all about? What's it mean? What is 100 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,160 Speaker 1: the meaning of life? Grief, loneliness, all this kind of stuff. 101 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: It does feel profound and Unlike a recent film that 102 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: was very highly stylized, the Barbie Movie, which sort of 103 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: kind of forced its meaning on you, Where's Anderson has 104 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: really left it up to the viewer to figure that out, 105 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: and maybe not everybody will be able to and there's 106 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: maybe no right answer anyway. All right, well, how many 107 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 1: what's it all about? Alphisy? You're giving it? Well? I 108 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: have personally no idea what it's all about, but it 109 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: was very pretty to watch. It has a lot of 110 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: incredible actors, some amazing performances. I'm going to give this 111 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: one three and a half starts, and it sounds like 112 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: I had a dreamer and dream after a really big 113 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,559 Speaker 1: meal or something, he said, dream, isn't it? Indeed? Thanks, 114 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: thank you guys.