Speaker 1: Hey there, this is a bonus episode of You Ain't
Speaker 1: Seen Nothing Yet. I know there are parts of the
Speaker 1: world and indeed Australia, in particularly my home state Victoria,
Speaker 1: that are in lockdown again, so we wanted to hopefully
Speaker 1: give a little bit of cheer with a fantastic episode
Speaker 1: of You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. There is a warning
Speaker 1: there is some Saudi language and some sexual references in
Speaker 1: this episode as we drift off our favorite extra terrestrial
Speaker 1: and move into some police academy territory. You'll understand when
Speaker 1: you listen to it. Enjoy Welcome to You Ain't Seen
Speaker 1: Nothing Yet? The Movie podcast, where we check the movie
Speaker 1: lovers about classic or beloved movies. They haven't quite got
Speaker 1: around a scene until now. In today's guest comedian Ben Lomas,
Speaker 1: I will have my venues this life for the next.
Speaker 2: They life is lack a box at Choco. Let's haven't
Speaker 2: right now You seen nothing?
Speaker 1: Ben Lomass is a joy of a human being, a
Speaker 1: big hearted bloke with an even bigger heart. A stand
Speaker 1: up comedian. We often get compared to be honest, I'm
Speaker 1: told where our voices are strikingly similar. I can't tell.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can let me know. I've known Ben for
Speaker 1: quite a few years, having bumped into him on the
Speaker 1: stand up scene and doing the podcast rounds. He's also
Speaker 1: one of the best warm up guys in the business
Speaker 1: and he always has the projects crowd up and about.
Speaker 1: He also is a very own successful podcast called fit
Speaker 1: Bet with Derek dry Singer about their amazing weight loss
Speaker 1: over the last year or so. And the podcast itself
Speaker 1: is like Ben. It's hilarious, generous, and surprisingly emotional at times.
Speaker 1: I love that ben Cho's ET. It's one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: and there's great real living Steven Spielbert's classic Through Fresh Eyes.
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Ben Lomas. My favorite films in order, go
Speaker 3: ace Ventura already that Blues Brothers. We're on a mission
Speaker 3: from God and Police Academy one, okay, Mahony. Till this date,
Speaker 3: I am yet to see ET.
Speaker 1: Do I really need to give a synopsis for ET.
Speaker 1: A space full of aliens arrive on Earth, but we
Speaker 1: only give a shit about one of them. Et is
Speaker 1: discovered in the cornfields and befriended by Henry Thomass Elliott,
Speaker 1: who now with the occasional help of Drew Barrymore and
Speaker 1: his brother Mike have to keep the authorities from getting
Speaker 1: their dirty mits on our extraterrestrial. John Williams score is
Speaker 1: as iconic it's almost anything in this movie, which may
Speaker 1: just be the Great Steven Spielberg's most perfect film ever. Okay, Ben,
Speaker 1: before we get to et, welcome, take a podcast to
Speaker 1: you ain't seen nothing yet. We'd like to invite movie
Speaker 1: fans movie buffs. I didn't know three of your favorite
Speaker 1: films included a Ventura. You know, as a comedian, I
Speaker 1: can see how that slips through. Where does the Police Academy?
Speaker 1: How does that slip in? Is that genuinely one of
Speaker 1: your favorite films? Or is that is that Blues Brothers obviously?
Speaker 1: I mean that's great, that's awesome. How does Police Academy
Speaker 1: and Steve Guttenberg's fine working that find it's way in
Speaker 1: your top three?
Speaker 3: So when I was a kid, I grew up in
Speaker 3: North Carl and there are only two video stores. There's
Speaker 3: one Movie Land in Brunswick, and there was one art house,
Speaker 3: one on Rapdown Street called Wrapdown Rhythms. And the only
Speaker 3: video that I was able to borrow that wasn't R
Speaker 3: rated was Police Academy one, And that was the only
Speaker 3: one available, and I think I reckon. They laughed at
Speaker 3: us because I would hire it every time we'd go
Speaker 3: to the because there's nothing else there. There's like some
Speaker 3: art house from like you know art house film from Sweden.
Speaker 3: And then I just became I just fell in love
Speaker 3: because I knew every scene. Mahoney was my best mate.
Speaker 3: High Tower Shocks, the whole gang was. That was my first,
Speaker 3: like besides the Goodies, that was my first foray into
Speaker 3: into like comedy films. Police You can't even it was
Speaker 3: number one and I didn't know anything else. When when
Speaker 3: two came out, I knew there was a second one.
Speaker 3: I remember it was like the happiest day of my life.
Speaker 1: Did you become obsessed as a result with a The
Speaker 1: Police b sound effects out of the human mouth?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Or be blowjobs from Turns?
Speaker 3: Yep? That well, I didn't understand what that was till
Speaker 3: the fiftie time. I didn't understand. I was like, is
Speaker 3: she punching in there? Like I had no idea. I
Speaker 3: had no idea for those here.
Speaker 4: I think you'll find the presentation interesting as well as
Speaker 4: very very stimulating.
Speaker 1: Could we have the lads turned down?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is around the time of pork Is
Speaker 1: and this is not how I thought the ET episode
Speaker 1: would would start to be honest, So we'll get back
Speaker 1: to our favorable extra terrestrial or extra testicle as we
Speaker 1: used to laugh and joke back in the day. But
Speaker 1: so around Porky is Zappt was another one that was
Speaker 1: a big one in my house because that featured some
Speaker 1: boobs as well, Scott Bayo and Williams yep, some fine
Speaker 1: work later teamed up in Charles in Charge.
Speaker 3: The other one in that era I remember was weekend
Speaker 3: of Bernie's Yes Yeah, which is also like it was
Speaker 3: that era of those like they just started pumping them
Speaker 3: out like Fletch Fletch leave. The was a little bit.
Speaker 1: Later, but well, the idea of going to the video
Speaker 1: store is so foreign now, the idea that the whole
Speaker 1: trip to the video store are browsing. Sometimes you would
Speaker 1: know exactly the video that you wanted, but often there's
Speaker 1: a bit of browser because sometimes you wouldn't just come
Speaker 1: back with one, you'd come back with seven five six
Speaker 1: seven exactly what a deal. You can't walk past that,
Speaker 1: So you know, you take out, you take a chance
Speaker 1: on a couple of films. I reckon there's films like
Speaker 1: probably Mask with Eric Stoles as Rocky Dennis, and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have seen if I wasn't browsing through a video store.
Speaker 1: There's one called one eight two that I saw that
Speaker 1: I quite liked. But then and then you had.
Speaker 3: Took a pun on Turner and Hooch Turner and.
Speaker 1: Well took a pun on the Tom hanks film.
Speaker 3: Well, all I do was Academy. Yeah, this Tom Hanksky.
Speaker 3: Can you do no noises out of his mouth? No,
Speaker 3: he can't. Not interested.
Speaker 1: I remember hearing about Revenge of the Nerds.
Speaker 3: Hey gaes.
Speaker 1: Wondering Joint, And this is literally before I knew what
Speaker 1: the term nerd even meant. I actually thought it was
Speaker 1: a horror film. My my friend across the road said, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to see Revenge of the Nerds, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I sound scary.
Speaker 3: Well, I remember I didn't like that, And I remember
Speaker 3: as a kid the reason why I didn't like it.
Speaker 3: I was like too much overacting, Like I didn't believe
Speaker 3: the characters like police Academy. You know there's a guy
Speaker 3: who can convinced everyone that there's a chopper Land. How
Speaker 3: could you not believe Booger no, Yeah, I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3: I just didn't. I never warned those films like no,
Speaker 3: it's one two third.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think there's like a serven. Yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: really went for it. Just before you move on. Michael
Speaker 1: Winslow is an interesting character who plays what's his character
Speaker 1: name in Jones Jones? Yeah, so he have you ever?
Speaker 1: Have you met him?
Speaker 3: Or yes? I have.
Speaker 1: He will not put the sound effects away. No, he
Speaker 1: won't even when you almost had to say okay. I've
Speaker 1: interviewed him on television on the project and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you can you can stop that. It's almost like it's okay.
Speaker 1: It's almost like you need that good will hunting moment
Speaker 1: where you're going to it's it's not your fault, it's okay.
Speaker 1: We're just asking you about how you start. You don't
Speaker 1: need to land a helicopter in this answer.
Speaker 3: But it reminds me of that. You know, there's comics
Speaker 3: who like backstage just keep doing gear like they're still
Speaker 3: in that rhythm of when they come on stage that's
Speaker 3: still and you go, mate, you're upstage, you can just
Speaker 3: talk like a normal person. I was backstage with him
Speaker 3: once at a company club. And I was like, Wow,
Speaker 3: I get to meet him. I'm going to get a photo.
Speaker 3: And the same thing is I went to go to
Speaker 3: the bathroom and he made the noise of me. I
Speaker 3: loved it, but then I thought it was so weird,
Speaker 3: Like have you been doing this last thirty years every day,
Speaker 3: just making noises with stuff that already has noise.
Speaker 1: There needs to be an intervention. There needs to be
Speaker 1: a Michael Winslow intervention. Let's put Michael Winslow and the
Speaker 1: crew of the Police Academy aside, because there's another eighties
Speaker 1: film we want to discuss today. How has it taken
Speaker 1: you this long to see et?
Speaker 3: Wow? Some think it's pretty easy. There's only Police Academy that.
Speaker 1: I mean, now that I know it's your favorite films,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised it was weird.
Speaker 3: It never like I remember kids talking about it at school.
Speaker 3: I remember people going to the movies. I didn't go
Speaker 3: to the movie as much as a kid, like, so
Speaker 3: did you grow up? So? I grew up in one
Speaker 3: of the toughest neighborhoods at North Carlton, Batman was just
Speaker 3: Italian families and my parents have a local business, so
Speaker 3: they were the local physiotherapist. Now there's like a thousand
Speaker 3: of them, but they were the local physios there, and
Speaker 3: so we just because if you run your own business,
Speaker 3: family business, there's not much time to go to the movies,
Speaker 3: Like even the weekends, it was time to either you know,
Speaker 3: fix something out in the house or we just didn't go.
Speaker 3: Like I'm trying to remember the movies I went to.
Speaker 3: I think I went to Toy Story, the Robin Williams one,
Speaker 3: But then I went with my grandparents. Like so I
Speaker 3: actually only associated going to the movies with my grandparents
Speaker 3: rather than my parents because they were just so busy,
Speaker 3: so we never came et, never.
Speaker 1: Appeared like how old are you?
Speaker 3: Because it's so I'm thirty nine.
Speaker 1: You're thirty nine. So yeah, this was I think eighty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you would I was two too, Yeah, okay, and.
Speaker 3: Then so but then it wasn't until like I was
Speaker 3: six or seven. Everyone would talk about it, yeah, and
Speaker 3: I'd be like, oh, I don't get it. You know,
Speaker 3: does does the alien make noises out of its mouth?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Is it friends with high Tower? Like I'm not interested,
Speaker 3: Like I think largely I just wasn't interested. But also
Speaker 3: I remember seeing images of Et as a kid, and
Speaker 3: I just didn't like it. It made me feel uncomfortable. I
Speaker 3: couldn't put it in context. It reminded me a little
Speaker 3: bit of the Bookworm. Do you remember the Bookworm? There was
Speaker 3: a kids thing that taught kids how to read. Anyway,
Speaker 3: it kind of looks like ET, and I never liked
Speaker 3: that thing.
Speaker 1: It's really interesting. So I've got three boys, and I
Speaker 1: showed Lee and my oldest, he's he's about ten seventeen
Speaker 1: or he has turned seventeen, and he I showed him
Speaker 1: Et when he was about four, and I kind of thought,
Speaker 1: this is fine. It's it's kind of a kids film.
Speaker 1: It's everyone loves Et. And it freaked him out for
Speaker 1: so long up until the point, like we could not
Speaker 1: say his name. If you saw him like in the
Speaker 1: image in the street, he would like freak out. I
Speaker 1: think the thing with Et is, this is my theory
Speaker 1: that because for a portion of the film when he
Speaker 1: Elliott brings him home, he's in the closet in Elliott's
Speaker 1: literally he's not doesn't come out of the closet, but
Speaker 1: he's he's literally in a closet, and he like that's
Speaker 1: whenever you whenever every most kids have like a closet
Speaker 1: in their bedroom, like a wardrobe or a closet, and
Speaker 1: I always thinking, one, what's in that closet? Because they opened,
Speaker 1: the doors are open. It's probably better to have them
Speaker 1: open than.
Speaker 3: Closed, yeah, because then your imagination doesn't.
Speaker 1: Go like, yeah, wild, So I think he imagined may
Speaker 1: have been in his closet.
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's funny because the closet is the moment
Speaker 3: in the film when I started watching it that I
Speaker 3: started to realize that I was watching it in adult mode,
Speaker 3: because as soon as the closet appears in the film,
Speaker 3: I'm like, what kid has a walk in water? Like?
Speaker 3: This thing is huge, Like I've got one coming in
Speaker 3: my house. And there's like another room in Mike's rooms
Speaker 3: on the other side, and then and then Elliott's rooms
Speaker 3: on that side, and this is this gigantic walking like water.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that's the first thing you picked up because
Speaker 1: the opening sequence is, of course the spaceship landing and
Speaker 1: the ets kind of about et gets left behind. But
Speaker 1: then you go to Elliott's home and his brother who oh,
Speaker 1: it assumes probably fifteen Mike Young fifteen, fourteen, yeah, fourteen, yeah,
Speaker 1: man's smoking at the smoking Yeah.
Speaker 3: But is he smoking or you just see the ash tray.
Speaker 1: You don't see them smoke, but you see the smoke
Speaker 1: from the extra So unless it's the mum's smoke, But
Speaker 1: why is it on the kids table?
Speaker 3: Because at first I might these kids seem a little
Speaker 3: bit too young to be smoking and playing poker.
Speaker 1: Like that.
Speaker 3: Just that blow me away.
Speaker 1: And then then the mum hits one of the other
Speaker 1: kids around over the head because you know when they
Speaker 1: come up and they dropped the pizza and they yeah,
Speaker 1: the CVTs and he's not there.
Speaker 3: Or I thought the mum was dating one of the boys.
Speaker 3: I was like, wow, there's a really weird dynamic here.
Speaker 3: But what I want to add is, even when you
Speaker 3: get to that scene, because I've got young kids, so
Speaker 3: I realized that this is the first film I've watched
Speaker 3: by myself from start to finish since my firstborn five
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh wow. So that's the gift of the podcast.
Speaker 3: This because the first opening scene, I haven't had to
Speaker 3: sit down and watch a film because the first open
Speaker 3: to me, I'm like, okay, there's the spaceship, he's running around.
Speaker 3: Oh can we hurry this up?
Speaker 1: Well, That's really interesting because I when I watch older
Speaker 1: films now, and I'm sure he's probably happening, you know,
Speaker 1: to a lot of people, they feel slow. I watched
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, watched the Conversation, and that
Speaker 1: felt like forever to start. I watched a cot where
Speaker 1: car range for a Christopher Pine He's going to watch
Speaker 1: a cocker Grange forest and I watched that and that
Speaker 1: felt slow, you know, for for quite a while, and
Speaker 1: then it kind of paces up. You go, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is why it's a classic. But I love I think
Speaker 1: Et is one of these films that I really think
Speaker 1: holds up really well even Today's Pace Him because that
Speaker 1: first sequence it makes you lean in you are it's
Speaker 1: because you're trying to get a glimpse of what these
Speaker 1: creatures are. They ain't quite reveal Et. You never really
Speaker 1: see Et until Eliot discovers him in the cornfield with
Speaker 1: a torch.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well see this is this is This is what
Speaker 3: I love as well because in that opening scene where
Speaker 3: it's because then afterwards the film picks up, pays like
Speaker 3: there's no tomorrow. Yeah yeah, so this is what through
Speaker 3: me because I'm like, come on, let's go where's the alien?
Speaker 3: Show me? And then but also there's still I was
Speaker 3: in the parent mode, so I couldn't let go because
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, I get it. In the suburbs, where
Speaker 3: did this corn field come from? I was questioning it,
Speaker 3: like where are they on the side, because I check,
Speaker 3: they're at the end of the court ball and there's
Speaker 3: no cornfield. And then out of know where there's cornfield.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well it's it's a suburb on the
Speaker 1: edge of town. It's Springsteen territory perhaps in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, because it's an opening sequence, which
Speaker 1: I think is great. And Spielberg re released it with
Speaker 1: some alterations little bit of a George Lucas in two
Speaker 1: thousand and two for the twentieth anniversary. Because the first
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which version you watched, if it was
Speaker 1: the the original one, I gave you one on DVD,
Speaker 1: and then you realize you have a DVD player.
Speaker 3: Because the first time I trying to watch it, I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I sat down. I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I got my cup of tea, here we go. I
Speaker 3: don't have a DVD fight.
Speaker 1: Now people have like vinyl record players in the houses,
Speaker 1: but no DVD players. We're in a weird situation. But so, okay,
Speaker 1: do you remember when the later on the film, when
Speaker 1: the ET takes off over the over the cops when
Speaker 1: they're waiting, are they holding guns or are they holding
Speaker 1: walking to he said, you notice walky talkies? Okay, so
Speaker 1: you saw the two thousand and two version and it's
Speaker 1: really great. Like Spielberg I think did a good job
Speaker 1: of not.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised I remember that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, well it's because he felt later on because
Speaker 1: he'd had kids a few years after and he said
Speaker 1: he got serious backguns and he's like, I don't want
Speaker 1: guns in the in the movie, So he took the
Speaker 1: guns out, replace them with walky talkies. Still get the
Speaker 1: kids smoking, and ET still gets on the cans.
Speaker 3: That's another one where I had I had a parent
Speaker 3: moment and where you know, where he's drunk at school
Speaker 3: and then she calls up and you know, it's like,
Speaker 3: oh this is this doesn't sound like Elliott and he's
Speaker 3: been drinking and then she sayes the empty beer cans.
Speaker 3: That's it comes home like, No, I didn't tell him
Speaker 3: if you're not grounded or anything to pick you up.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it. I was like, where's the aftermath
Speaker 3: of this?
Speaker 1: Elliott when he gets drunk in class because he's feeling
Speaker 1: the effects. I assume everyone who's listening to this, you
Speaker 1: should watch the film and then listen to this. But
Speaker 1: when he's feeling the effects of ET because he's basically
Speaker 1: feeling whatever very t feels and he looks behind at
Speaker 1: that young girl is it was very close to being
Speaker 1: me too.
Speaker 3: It was just but that was it. I realized at
Speaker 3: that moment that so many turns around. He goes, he said,
Speaker 3: he goes, how you said that? Look how you doing.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's some good acting.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well let's yeah, we need a chat about
Speaker 1: Henry Thomas. Yeah, that's one of the best young actor
Speaker 1: performances I've seen. It's Hayley Joel Osman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that and with Drew Barrymore, those two together, like
Speaker 3: Drew Barrymore like right at the last scenere's another one
Speaker 3: where she's like, you know, they're going off to the
Speaker 3: playground to this where the spaceship is and she's fighting
Speaker 3: to put it. She's acting like like a perfect two
Speaker 3: year old.
Speaker 1: Would so Spielberg, which you know, let's you can judge
Speaker 1: you more you like. He basically created an atmosphere because
Speaker 1: the et is basically a combination of robotics, and when
Speaker 1: you're se him walking, there's actually was an actor who
Speaker 1: was a ten year old actor who was born with
Speaker 1: that legs, who actually was inside the suit when you
Speaker 1: see him walking around.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he tried to hide that as much as they can.
Speaker 1: So he actually had convinced them, particularly I think Drew
Speaker 1: Barrymore playing Gerdy, that he was real. And so when
Speaker 1: he's dying and they kind of I think Drew Berry
Speaker 1: Moore has said that she kind of knew that he
Speaker 1: wasn't real, but then Spielberg said, no, this is he's
Speaker 1: real and he's going to die like he's a puppet,
Speaker 1: but he's going to die.
Speaker 3: Now we are jumping around a bit with the film. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so just back on Henry. How old is he when
Speaker 3: that was filmed?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but I'll tell you
Speaker 1: this on YouTube. In fact, we might even play a
Speaker 1: bit of it now on YouTube. His audition because they
Speaker 1: could not find Elliott for years. And then Cissy Spacek's husband,
Speaker 1: who must be a producer of something, had worked with
Speaker 1: Henry Thomas in another film. He said, you should have
Speaker 1: a look at this kid. He brings him in and
Speaker 1: they get him to improvise a scene as one of
Speaker 1: the producers basically pretending to be a US agent saying
Speaker 1: we need to take your friend your at away and
Speaker 1: you just have to convince him not to and the
Speaker 1: performance is extraordinary. Uh, and we'll have to listen to it. Now,
Speaker 1: there's a knock on your door.
Speaker 4: A man comes to a grown man and that whole brother,
Speaker 4: and he's from NASA, you know, the National Aeronautics Space Administration,
Speaker 4: and he has found out.
Speaker 5: That you have a creature. He doesn't know exactly what
Speaker 5: he has thought.
Speaker 4: You have a creature in your closet, a creature that
Speaker 4: he's been looking for for a long time. And you've
Speaker 4: had this stitching over three or four whiks. You become
Speaker 4: best friends with it. He wants to take the creature
Speaker 4: of where, and he's come with a search warrant, and
Speaker 4: he's come with permission to take the creature of where.
Speaker 4: And you're not going to let it.
Speaker 6: Okay, now, young man, I understand that you have an
Speaker 6: alien somewhere in this house.
Speaker 5: Is that true? Well? Is it true. Is there an
Speaker 5: alien in this house?
Speaker 3: Yes, Well, as you.
Speaker 5: Know, I am from the government.
Speaker 6: I'm part of the United States government, and I am
Speaker 6: empowered to take that alien with me.
Speaker 7: But you can't take him away. He's mine.
Speaker 6: Well, but the government is bigger than you are, Elliott,
Speaker 6: and I really I have all the authority to take him,
Speaker 6: and I gotta tell you I'm gonna take him.
Speaker 7: You can't take.
Speaker 6: Him, Well, I'm afraid I have to Son.
Speaker 7: You can't take him away mine, but it's.
Speaker 5: Not my choice. The President asked me to come here
Speaker 5: and to get him.
Speaker 8: Don't killing the President's my best friend, and you can't
Speaker 8: get you away.
Speaker 6: Well, it's real possible, Elliott. You'll come back and you
Speaker 6: can have him again. But we just want to talk
Speaker 6: to him and see where it came from, and try
Speaker 6: to find out about other planets.
Speaker 5: And he probably is the key to a lot of
Speaker 5: things that we have to know.
Speaker 7: But how do I know you're going to bring him back?
Speaker 5: Well, afraid side, I can't guarantee you.
Speaker 7: I think he's afraid of you.
Speaker 5: That may be true, but the government tells me what
Speaker 5: to do. I just follow their orders.
Speaker 8: Well, he's mine, and then he lives with me. He
Speaker 8: likes me, and he wants to stay here. He likes
Speaker 8: it here.
Speaker 5: Well, we wouldn't hurt him or anything. All I want
Speaker 5: to do is.
Speaker 6: Talk to him.
Speaker 7: But I don't want you to take him away.
Speaker 6: You know, I've had to talk to your mom about it,
Speaker 6: and she knows that the government has the right.
Speaker 3: To do it.
Speaker 7: And who told you all this?
Speaker 5: Well, we learned about it. We know that he's somewhere
Speaker 5: around here. I mean, I do have a search one.
Speaker 5: I could look around the house. Tell me to keep doing.
Speaker 6: Right. Well, I'll tell you what, if you let me
Speaker 6: talk to him for five minutes, I'll tell my boss.
Speaker 8: That you can keep it.
Speaker 6: Would that be okay with you? If I could just
Speaker 6: talk for five minutes, would you feel better?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 5: Would you be happy? If you could keep me?
Speaker 6: Well, I had to talk for five minutes. That might
Speaker 6: make your hold anyhow might make your whole life?
Speaker 5: Huh? Then you be your friend forever and I wouldn't
Speaker 5: take them away? Okay, Okay, you got the job?
Speaker 3: How that is phenomenal?
Speaker 1: Now as we speak. Right now, I'm auditioning a few
Speaker 1: kids a very different ages for for how to say married.
Speaker 1: And I look at them and I kind of before
Speaker 1: they even start them, like, I like, I'm feeling for them,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, how brave are you just to do this?
Speaker 1: And like they're yeah, they're kids of different talents and
Speaker 1: all that. If in at that age to go in
Speaker 1: there and listening, to be taking direction and.
Speaker 3: Then to be so in the moment to them be
Speaker 3: able to cry and it's improvising.
Speaker 1: He's out improvising the producer, the producer. One that's going on.
Speaker 1: Bloody hell yea.
Speaker 3: That is. And what's really interesting is I did cry
Speaker 3: in the movie, and I wasn't expecting to. But what
Speaker 3: was really interesting is I was crying at that bit
Speaker 3: where they're both on the table where they don't take
Speaker 3: him away. It's like pretty much in that scene. But
Speaker 3: the reason is, I'm curious if I would have cried
Speaker 3: if I was little, because I just see my son
Speaker 3: and I see how he gets so attached to his
Speaker 3: toys that I just see my son talking and how
Speaker 3: heartbreaking it is when your child is doing it. That
Speaker 3: I started crying because I can imagine my son Teo
Speaker 3: being so attached to this, to this creature that has
Speaker 3: shown him so much love and that you know, his
Speaker 3: dad's in Mexico or wherever. Val but that is I
Speaker 3: can't get over that. If that's the audition. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: did get the job. He got the job there and.
Speaker 1: Then absolutely it was phenomenal. What I loved about the film.
Speaker 1: He could have easily have been just about Elliott and Et,
Speaker 1: but I do love how they included Mike and Gertie,
Speaker 1: Like they all do a really nice and satisfying Like
Speaker 1: there's a great scene, you know where Mike, you know,
Speaker 1: like he's you know, he's got a smart you know,
Speaker 1: he's a bit of a smart ass, and he's got
Speaker 1: you know, the little shit of her little brother. You
Speaker 1: know that he's setting out to get the pizza and
Speaker 1: you know, not really treating with that much respect. And
Speaker 1: then he realizes that Et is real and he's been
Speaker 1: telling the truth and that's the way. He goes to
Speaker 1: school and his mate's still giving Elliot shit. He doesn't
Speaker 1: say anything, but he's on the bus, yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: seeing everyone's like there's crazy is going on. He's just
Speaker 1: like you can see the change in him. And Gertie
Speaker 1: has her own kind of stuff going on, and you know,
Speaker 1: she kind of connects with Et and she teaches him
Speaker 1: how to talk, and the whole phone home.
Speaker 7: You want to cast somebody.
Speaker 3: I didn't think, like when I was watching the film,
Speaker 3: I didn't think Mike would find out till Ages and
Speaker 3: then before you know it, all three of them are
Speaker 3: found out within the first twenty minutes. I was like,
Speaker 3: I didn't know that was part of the film, because
Speaker 3: the thing with like such a big hit like that,
Speaker 3: if you haven't seen it, you've seen all the images
Speaker 3: like what the bike's going over through over the moon,
Speaker 3: Like I didn't know when I knew that was coming.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, what were your impressions and
Speaker 1: images and scenes that you kind of knew of the film?
Speaker 3: So Et itself always just looked like, I know, this
Speaker 3: sounds weird. It just always looked like a coffee table
Speaker 3: with eyes, like I had this kind of coffee table,
Speaker 3: are you out look, I've got European parents, we got
Speaker 3: some weird furniture at home, okay, But he just he
Speaker 3: just looked like a coffee like we'd sort of like
Speaker 3: side table of a couch. I never, I never, I
Speaker 3: never really like that. I just never believed, right, but
Speaker 3: in the image of kids on a bike flying over
Speaker 3: through that. So the silhouette, right, I think that was
Speaker 3: the first till the wee I'd ever seen, and so
Speaker 3: I always wanted to know that would be cool like
Speaker 3: that that component. I was like, Oh, that's going to
Speaker 3: be amazing, like like when I see that, I can
Speaker 3: imagine that. And then and the other one, the other
Speaker 3: scene which maybe I knew it was coming when they
Speaker 3: were riding at the end, because I was just like, oh,
Speaker 3: when are they going to all do it together? Because
Speaker 3: the first time he flies, it comes, it comes out
Speaker 3: of nowhere, Like that's the other thing. I had a
Speaker 3: feeling that it was going to build up to that.
Speaker 1: No, and even in that scene, it happens quite quickly.
Speaker 1: I think nowadays you'd they'd be riding for like a
Speaker 1: minute or so they'd really build up that kind of tension.
Speaker 1: But like they ride for a few seconds and it's
Speaker 1: like et and it's.
Speaker 3: Really funny because all those BMEX scenes are amazing. It's
Speaker 3: the only time I stopped and rewinded the film, like
Speaker 3: I was like, I won't let it go. But because
Speaker 3: I was convinced towards the end that they didn't fast forward,
Speaker 3: because I was like, I don't remember being able to
Speaker 3: ride a bike that quick, Like I wanted to check
Speaker 3: that it wasn't sped up, because they like it is
Speaker 3: some of the most amazing riding I've ever seen. Like
Speaker 3: I noticed like Bmex bandits and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: but this one was just like it was, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: got the r a.
Speaker 1: For Aulet's yeah, the way that the way they're synchronized,
Speaker 1: and the moon scene is kind of like, you know
Speaker 1: when he finds in the moon in the background, it
Speaker 1: was almost the image to the artwork they for the film.
Speaker 1: So you cried.
Speaker 3: I did cry, And it wasn't where I expected. I
Speaker 3: was assuming at the ending because I knew that I
Speaker 3: kind of knew what the ending was going to be
Speaker 3: like that he eventually goes home. I'd grasp that bit.
Speaker 3: But it's just when they turn the house into like
Speaker 3: some lab slash hospital with again that I love that
Speaker 3: where they there's a great scene because there are I
Speaker 3: want to watch it again and look for all the
Speaker 3: floors because there are quite a few. But but there's
Speaker 3: a scene where I think the whole house is kind
Speaker 3: of like glad wrapped to protect everyone, and then there's
Speaker 3: like and I just want to check it and there's
Speaker 3: that big funnel, so that a big thing where they
Speaker 3: all climbed through, but I swear to god, someone's just
Speaker 3: walking through the front door in the back. There was
Speaker 3: in that scene where they're all and it's funny because
Speaker 3: I reckon with those films and ones I don't let
Speaker 3: go of. Once Et appeared and the family dynamic was there,
Speaker 3: I was lost in the film. But then also it
Speaker 3: was the trigger of because my mum has been quite
Speaker 3: ill and I've gone through that whole hospital thing where
Speaker 3: you see someone you love, and because you're so attached
Speaker 3: to Elliott, and because I see my son in it,
Speaker 3: it came all flooding in because the pain of losing
Speaker 3: something you care about, yeah, you kind of associated with
Speaker 3: your family member, in this case my mum. But then
Speaker 3: I'm also seeing my son. So I took a fighter
Speaker 3: and said it to my partner and she goes you.
Speaker 3: I was balling. I was balling because I was like,
Speaker 3: even though I knew that it had a good ending,
Speaker 3: I was like, you can't take him away. He's dying
Speaker 3: and now the kids and it was really funny. I
Speaker 3: was surprised. I was like, yeah, the kid is getting better.
Speaker 3: It I mean what's the poet. Yeah, like it's really
Speaker 3: hard because I was like, you know, Eliot is getting better,
Speaker 3: but then ET's dying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's and it's yes, Spielberger said, it's his
Speaker 1: most personal film, and it's it's hard. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: probably his best film. I mean, She is absolute masterpiece.
Speaker 1: But but this is an absolute gem. It's really a
Speaker 1: personal film because he was his parents, his parents were divorced.
Speaker 1: Now he done it undaws before this, I think close
Speaker 1: gown as he's done before this. This started as a
Speaker 1: he had an idea that there's gonna be some aliens
Speaker 1: terrorizing a family, and then he wanted that he wanted
Speaker 1: to make a more personal film and a more family
Speaker 1: orientated film, so that idea became Poltergeist and then he
Speaker 1: and he made and it was written by Melissa Matheson,
Speaker 1: who this is. I mean, this this is where Spielberg,
Speaker 1: you know, genus just gets stuff done. Obviously, well actually,
Speaker 1: well not all geniuses do. Some genius is you know,
Speaker 1: they they had that one thing and that's they're a genius.
Speaker 1: But Spielberg was like making Raiders of the Lost Arc
Speaker 1: and developing this basically at the same time with Melissa Matheson,
Speaker 1: Melissa Matheson who went on and had a couple of
Speaker 1: kids with Harrison Ford. She I think she, I think
Speaker 1: she won the Oscar for this. This film did not win.
Speaker 1: The Oscar was beat by Gandhi.
Speaker 3: Really what did he do?
Speaker 1: Nothing? I didn't even know how to use the phone?
Speaker 1: So and was it Richard Attenborough or and he even
Speaker 1: said that this ET deserved the win, like it was
Speaker 1: a better film than the one, the one I made, but.
Speaker 3: Also like like because because after I finished watching it,
Speaker 3: I was like, I was trying to think like I
Speaker 3: was attached to ET, but I was surprised. I was
Speaker 3: attached more to Elliott's relationship with ET than ET itself.
Speaker 3: But then that's kind of a blessing disguise, because if
Speaker 3: ET did more and was more animated, then you'd probably
Speaker 3: lose the performance from Henry playing Ali. Yeah, because it's
Speaker 3: just that connection where he wants to build and he's
Speaker 3: teaching him things and and the globe and the whole
Speaker 3: time I was thinking, I was like, Wow, they've got
Speaker 3: to show him all this stuff, when now, if you
Speaker 3: made that film, you just show it all on the tablet.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's it's really funny because Et. I like
Speaker 1: the way they reveal Et because Et, it's at the start,
Speaker 1: is kind of scary, even though you still might find
Speaker 1: him a bit scary, and I said, my son certainly did.
Speaker 1: But the idea is that he kind of get glimpses
Speaker 1: of him. He's scary, even the noises he's making, and
Speaker 1: it's it's quite like a deep kind of growl. And
Speaker 1: then you learn to love him.
Speaker 3: But he comes in different shapes and forms.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, because he and he has the neck that
Speaker 1: kind of you know, the glow of the heart. It's
Speaker 1: a great nice moment.
Speaker 3: That's that's really nice because I mean as simple as that,
Speaker 3: that like that sort of just showing that imagery. It
Speaker 3: really because I didn't know that was coming and I
Speaker 3: forgot about that. So that's how good the film is
Speaker 3: that even as an adult, I was fooled. Towards the ends,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, this sucks, Like why is he in
Speaker 3: an eski? I was like this is no good. And
Speaker 3: then when his heart keicks in, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: he is alive. And then but then I kept because allways,
Speaker 3: like you tried o the question, I was like, do
Speaker 3: you do that? On purpose, because I feel like, how
Speaker 3: did he end up in the drain? Do you know how?
Speaker 6: They?
Speaker 3: They they can you explain that? Because they I was like,
Speaker 3: here we go, he's calling home, They said, up the gadgets,
Speaker 3: Elliott's seeking. He falls asleep and then he just disappears
Speaker 3: and it's next to next to a drain, like did
Speaker 3: he go on another bender?
Speaker 1: He got in the cans again? If you live where
Speaker 1: I live, if you do it down the local aquidut,
Speaker 1: you'll always find you cans down there. No, well, I
Speaker 1: mean this, it's funny some people and we when I'm
Speaker 1: writing scripts, it's often often a discussions. You'll have what's
Speaker 1: allowed to happen off camera? And what can what do
Speaker 1: we need to see? And some people and producers and
Speaker 1: directors and other writers are really finicky about needing to
Speaker 1: know the details of what happens. And sometimes they're absolutely
Speaker 1: right something like that. My mind just goes, well, he
Speaker 1: just went exploring because he's an alien from you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: well out of space and he's on Earth and he
Speaker 1: just went to explore it, and we really need to
Speaker 1: know what happened.
Speaker 3: And maybe and maybe that's the psychology of out today
Speaker 3: that like maybe thinking, hey, you got to get home.
Speaker 3: How do you get home? Well, that's your clear focus. Okay,
Speaker 3: you are stuck in another country, whereas you find your
Speaker 3: embassy and you make that call and you get out
Speaker 3: of that country. With him, I was like, what are
Speaker 3: you doing? What are you doing next to a creek fishing?
Speaker 3: Halfway through I tried to.
Speaker 1: Ma guy for himself. Here, you fine with the speak
Speaker 1: and spell and you know the blade?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that, like I thought, yeah, like I questioned it.
Speaker 3: But then already even if you question it for a
Speaker 3: split second, you are lost to oh no, he's sick,
Speaker 3: and then and then and then oh that's another one.
Speaker 3: The like is it a montage with the with the
Speaker 3: with the astronauts, So you know there's that scene where
Speaker 3: all the astronauts appear. Are they real people.
Speaker 1: Or is that a no? They're they're they're they're they're real.
Speaker 1: They're they're real people. I'm not sure why. I think
Speaker 1: there sposed to be like hazmat suits are okay, but
Speaker 1: basically but they were astronauts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, which because I thought there was they had.
Speaker 1: That written on there, so there they are.
Speaker 3: Because I thought that was a dream sequence, right, So
Speaker 3: when that happened. I was like, oh, no, he's dreaming,
Speaker 3: it's not happening. I was like, no, it is happening,
Speaker 3: happening now.
Speaker 1: Like but but even within that scene, and I'm really
Speaker 1: in script because we are literally like finishing scripts for say,
Speaker 1: married so, but there's a bit where she she goes
Speaker 1: to the door and a daughter's a national let's call
Speaker 1: them a national even though they're not national. There's a
Speaker 1: nationnaut there screen. They run back the other way through
Speaker 1: the kitchen, there's another astronaut, and then they it looks
Speaker 1: like the astronauts almost got them, almost like got their
Speaker 1: hands on it. And then the next scene they're just
Speaker 1: running through the loundes room and the astronauts are a
Speaker 1: fairway behind. It's like that doesn't quite add up, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't bother me. I'm just thinking it more from
Speaker 1: a you know details.
Speaker 3: It doesn't help that the astronauts are moving like zombies.
Speaker 3: They really slowly, like there's a monsters from amount of space.
Speaker 1: What I do love about Spielberg is his ability to
Speaker 1: kind of like, no, it's a movie, so it's about entertainment.
Speaker 1: Like that shot of the the next shot is like
Speaker 1: like six astronauts walking along the street kind of coming
Speaker 1: up over the horizon of the road, and it's brilliant
Speaker 1: and it's nobody who's walking like that? Where are they
Speaker 1: coming from? Yeah, nobody ever walks in a road like that,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: And also like it's the team And I love that
Speaker 3: because I questioned through it throughout the start. It is
Speaker 3: like the shot of the keys, the keys of the
Speaker 3: guy to start because.
Speaker 1: These characters called keys. Yeah yeah, yeah, they got keys. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well he's the actual character's name, but it's who what
Speaker 1: is credited as who?
Speaker 3: Then I love it. At the end of the film,
Speaker 3: you're like, you're like I love it because you go
Speaker 3: from who's this guy? Because I think is it a cowboy?
Speaker 3: Like is it a cowboy hunting aliens? Like is he official?
Speaker 3: Is he not? And then everyone else is hanging around him.
Speaker 3: It just seems like like a group of guys from
Speaker 3: the pub where let's go get some aliens.
Speaker 1: Well, it's really funny because you're in the first scene
Speaker 1: whether it especially takes off and there's like six or
Speaker 1: seven again kind of FBI agents who who kind of
Speaker 1: run with their torches and stuff. They're all that silly
Speaker 1: weather because you don't see an adult's face until the
Speaker 1: mum and they Yeah, they keep adults kind of away until.
Speaker 3: They really need stroke of genius.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant, it's so good. But they're all like the
Speaker 1: same shape, the same size, same light. It's that was
Speaker 1: kind of weird. Do you ever feel like you're watching
Speaker 1: Stranger Things?
Speaker 3: Haven't seen it? And this is and this is and
Speaker 3: I and I and I've been holding off because I
Speaker 3: wanted to see Et before Stranger Things. So I've actually
Speaker 3: been holding off because everyone's been talking about it, and
Speaker 3: I didn't want that to claud my judgment of ET
Speaker 3: and I reckon I'd probably even look at it differently
Speaker 3: or go, oh, maybe it's not as good as Stranger Things.
Speaker 3: That's what I was. I just wanted to see it
Speaker 3: it's entire and then just go, Okay, that's the film.
Speaker 1: I thin he's the right way to do it, because
Speaker 1: now you can just enjoy Stranger Things. No, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a homage to ET and Spilberd.
Speaker 3: Then I love it with keys because at the end
Speaker 3: I'm like, and again again you can you come back
Speaker 3: to script mode. But right then you're like, oh, Keith,
Speaker 3: he's hooking up with them. I was like, I mean,
Speaker 3: where's this? Like even then he doesn't weird. Look, I
Speaker 3: was like, I mean, after everything's gone, I mean, what
Speaker 3: a story to start a relationship.
Speaker 1: But it's funny to say that. I didn't think of
Speaker 1: it quite in the same way. But I did think
Speaker 1: that he is almost a father figure that Elliott kind
Speaker 1: of needs it, you know, like because his dad's you know,
Speaker 1: he's in Mexico or wherever he is. And yeah, he is,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's a good guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And then and like you don't know he's
Speaker 3: a good guy. And even then you think he's tricking
Speaker 3: him at the start, going hey, I've been looking for
Speaker 3: someone like this since I was a ten year old boy,
Speaker 3: Like you can't, I've still I didn't believe it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then right at the end where he's like, oh no,
Speaker 3: like you know, I want to be here. This is
Speaker 3: what I still didn't understand what he's ranking was because like,
Speaker 3: like a little bit of me is like everyone's going
Speaker 3: to jump to do and he's like he's got free rage.
Speaker 3: I was like, is he the CEO of NASA or
Speaker 3: like yeah, you know he was chasing them at the start.
Speaker 3: Is this a hobby of.
Speaker 1: One of those keys for yeah, really like who's getting
Speaker 1: around with that many keys if you are in a
Speaker 1: position of power.
Speaker 3: And keys with a little leather patch behind it. Also
Speaker 3: because I had, like I said, of keys with like
Speaker 3: you can flip them over like a pocket knife, which
Speaker 3: it was like this, you know every second person in
Speaker 3: Brunswick has one. And then I was like in his
Speaker 3: keys And then I was like and once you get
Speaker 3: out of film made, I was like, I'll tell you what,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of shut of the keys, Like this
Speaker 3: is going to have to be something down the track
Speaker 3: like yeah, it was like, there's more keys, there's more
Speaker 3: more keys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what does it open make the keys of the spaceship?
Speaker 1: Getting back to the writing, Melissa Matheson wrote that that
Speaker 1: the shooting script was basically the first draft that she wrote.
Speaker 1: What which that makes you a little bit sick, doesn't it?
Speaker 1: It makes it sicken and it gives you little bit
Speaker 1: of weird home.
Speaker 3: But then is it is it one of those things
Speaker 3: where and I've been reading a couple of books on writing,
Speaker 3: is it one of those things where everything you wrote
Speaker 3: leading up to that led to that moment that day
Speaker 3: where you sat down and it was just there and
Speaker 3: it was going to come out well.
Speaker 1: I think the way she wrote it was she would
Speaker 1: write for she would work with Spielberg. They would like
Speaker 1: brainstorm and come and get and then she would write
Speaker 1: for three weeks and then have another three weeks of
Speaker 1: work with Spielberg, write for another three weeks, which actually
Speaker 1: sounds like a great way to work because you are
Speaker 1: working with obviously the man himself, and then you're basically
Speaker 1: blocking out scenes and you're kind of working out you're
Speaker 1: breaking them down, and then you just go and write
Speaker 1: the scenes and once you've once you've done that grand
Speaker 1: work of this is a scene breakdown. This is what's
Speaker 1: going to happen if you get those right, the dialogue
Speaker 1: and you know, and the rest of it's kind of easy,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And how much I assume because he was so
Speaker 3: good at improv in there, like, did they let him
Speaker 3: do much improv on set? Because I assume back then,
Speaker 3: like as much as time frames are I mean, when
Speaker 3: they spend half the time with mechanical problems with that
Speaker 3: that thing, rather than having time to improve, Like.
Speaker 1: I don't know much about Henry Thomas's improv I've heard
Speaker 1: Drew barrymore improvd a little bit, yeah, quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I think there's a famous one where she says, you
Speaker 1: gotta be kidding me. That was she just improvised, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because she got the role because she rolled up as
Speaker 1: an eight year old or so younger, probably younger imagine
Speaker 1: what would you maybe five, and she was she was
Speaker 1: telling Spielberg that she was in a punk band and
Speaker 1: she just played like Madison Square Garden the night before
Speaker 1: and it was sold out, and I think Spielberg watching
Speaker 1: going to be where Spielberg said, I could actually use
Speaker 1: her imagination in this, like you may even bring something.
Speaker 1: Not only is she, you know, great lectress, but she
Speaker 1: could actually even help with this story.
Speaker 3: It's just and I was saying that to my partner.
Speaker 3: It was the one scene that blew me away. It
Speaker 3: is all the cute scenes, but the one scene is
Speaker 3: her in the car on the way there, where you know,
Speaker 3: and your kid is just clamoring all over you and
Speaker 3: you just want to just shut up and be able
Speaker 3: to talk to the adult. It's like in that scene,
Speaker 3: I was like, you are the mom. You are the mom.
Speaker 3: Like the chemistry that's so simple. But I was just
Speaker 3: like that is amazing, Like it's actually beyond acting. It
Speaker 3: is you are playing like it's make believe and it's
Speaker 3: become real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I feel like ET could be the most
Speaker 1: like magical film, so like the perfect balance yeah, of
Speaker 1: feeling like it's real, and I think it holds up
Speaker 1: really well. Like I was watching it this morning, I
Speaker 1: gave it a quick another you know, I flicked through
Speaker 1: a little bit. But I'm not sure if you can
Speaker 1: make films that are set in contemporary times of kids
Speaker 1: cheekly evading the police on bmx's or you know, yeah whatever,
Speaker 1: but the popular mode of transport would be today. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, you do it differently and all of that.
Speaker 1: So there's a kind of innocence to the film.
Speaker 3: But also when looking through the lens of nostalgia as well,
Speaker 3: which I think, you know, whether films can be made
Speaker 3: nowadays that in you know, thirty forty years time, that
Speaker 3: they'll be able to do the same because everything has changed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's just you get lost into that world. That's
Speaker 3: what I enjoyed. It was like ordering pizza with a
Speaker 3: landline that is so long, that can stretch so far.
Speaker 3: It just brought back such beautiful memories. I was like
Speaker 3: it's knocking stuff off the table. I did that as
Speaker 3: a kid, Like yeah, little things like that, or just
Speaker 3: like the cars themselves, like I feel like I got
Speaker 3: lost and they because it moves so beautifully and the
Speaker 3: pace of the film is so good that I don't know.
Speaker 3: There was a moment where I was like I was
Speaker 3: lost in that world again, and I just don't know
Speaker 3: if films because we produced so many more and and
Speaker 3: you know, and because you know, you know, with technology,
Speaker 3: it's moving so quickly, Like I'm just thinking, will my
Speaker 3: daughter have that? Like so, my daughter saw her first
Speaker 3: movie she's five, Toy Story. Of course, now it was
Speaker 3: a great choice, but it was the same thing where
Speaker 3: I was like, you know, we were trying to pick
Speaker 3: out what film to do it, and I was going
Speaker 3: to watch this with her with ET, and I'm glad
Speaker 3: I didn't because she got scared of Toy Story the
Speaker 3: first one. I was like, what is she going to
Speaker 3: be like this with ET? But it's those things where
Speaker 3: I was like, I want to look at my favorite
Speaker 3: kids films and and you know this ET is one
Speaker 3: of them now and a little part of me after
Speaker 3: watching it, I was like, oh, it's a bit sad
Speaker 3: I didn't watch it as a kid, Yeah, because I
Speaker 3: really enjoyed it as an adult. What I would have
Speaker 3: been blown away as a kid.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing it at the at the movies we
Speaker 1: went into the city. I remember for two reasons, one
Speaker 1: because of the film and just crying my eyes out,
Speaker 1: but before we went to see it, and I remember
Speaker 1: this for years, and I think I only just worked
Speaker 1: through that recently. I kind of spun around. It was
Speaker 1: my mom, my brother, sisters, and that's another family friend.
Speaker 1: And I spun around this on the spot, just kind
Speaker 1: of spun around and I started spinning. My mom was gone,
Speaker 1: and I was like, it took me a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: In my mind, it took me a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: to work out where they were, and I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I was lost. I remember I always had to see
Speaker 1: how I got lost before I went. I sawry T
Speaker 1: and I think what had happened. I just spun around,
Speaker 1: but I didn't quite make it the three sixty I
Speaker 1: decided I did. I did like a one eighty, and
Speaker 1: I just Mom was behind me. I it was probably
Speaker 1: it was probably thirty seconds where Mom didn't even know that.
Speaker 1: I thought I was lost. But I remember being already
Speaker 1: a little bit on edge when I saw the film
Speaker 1: and then I and I just I, yeah, lost it.
Speaker 1: I cried behard.
Speaker 3: But it's really interesting because, like I remember seeing Rob
Speaker 3: Williams Toy Story with my grandparents.
Speaker 1: So, which is when we used that.
Speaker 3: So that's the one way he's worse than a toy.
Speaker 1: Factory, right, is it's just called toy.
Speaker 3: It's just called toy, Okay, so it's just got toy.
Speaker 3: But I remember my grandparents told me that, and then
Speaker 3: my grandfather Imil was quite moved. It was quite It's
Speaker 3: got a bit of a dark but I remember watching it.
Speaker 3: And then we turn around and my grandma Grandpa's disappeared, right,
Speaker 3: and he's like, he just left the cinema?
Speaker 1: Did he spin around?
Speaker 3: This is so funny. We walk out, Grandma is just yelling,
Speaker 3: can't find him anywhere, and then his she visually comes
Speaker 3: out of another cinema, which was that that movie with
Speaker 3: Jeremy Iron's Damages, that sexda. I just remember just going
Speaker 3: because he walked down with the potion next to it,
Speaker 3: with his hers straddling him and they're having sex pitch.
Speaker 1: A tent was he My dad went like we're on
Speaker 1: very few, very few interstate trips. But he went to
Speaker 1: occasionally he would go to Canberra and he he said,
Speaker 1: ye had a night off, so he went and saw
Speaker 1: a movie. And he went and saw a crash like
Speaker 1: the idea of my David seen movie by himself. I
Speaker 1: it would be the only time I could ever imagine.
Speaker 1: But he went to the David Cronaber Crash. He got
Speaker 1: like an erotic people were turned on by buying car accidents. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event,
Speaker 1: a liberation of sexual energy. And he said, I didn't
Speaker 1: like it at all. But I'm like, surely when you
Speaker 1: looked up which movie to see, it would have explained
Speaker 1: that to some degree that it was an erotic kind
Speaker 1: of movie.
Speaker 3: It's funny you bring that movie out because when I
Speaker 3: was a kid, I when we go to the video stores,
Speaker 3: I would just be looking for a nudity and look
Speaker 3: at the title. That is all I would look at.
Speaker 3: And I remember I was able to get Crash and
Speaker 3: slip it in there, and that was the first time
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, this is gonna be a good movie.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I'm not enjoying this. There's nothing
Speaker 3: about this that you know, he's they're making love next
Speaker 3: to a car while she's stroking the scars.
Speaker 1: Don't find car accidents sexy at all, they would have thought,
Speaker 1: So can you understand? And you get I feel it.
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe answered. Do you feel that you
Speaker 1: can understand why this is considered the classic movie?
Speaker 3: Yes, totally, because well it's uh, well I can. At first,
Speaker 3: because I did the same thing. I looked at a
Speaker 3: little bit this morning. I looked at a cover of
Speaker 3: my favorite scenes. And then the fact that and that
Speaker 3: sort of hit me. The fact that I already had
Speaker 3: favorite scenes from a movie I just watched made me
Speaker 3: realize this is good. And then and then that and
Speaker 3: I was never bought for a movie that was that old,
Speaker 3: and I was, you know, invested, because I was looking
Speaker 3: forward to talking about a movie because it's been a
Speaker 3: while since I've done that. But the fact that I
Speaker 3: cried like that's I was not expecting that. And I
Speaker 3: wasn't going in there going this is going to be
Speaker 3: a tear jeker. I was actually just trying to find
Speaker 3: two hours in a day to be able to watch
Speaker 3: a movie. Yeah, that's pretty and then to be able
Speaker 3: to sit back and then get lost and get lost
Speaker 3: into the fantasy of it, like you know. And there
Speaker 3: were moments where I'd slip in and out because there'd
Speaker 3: be moments I'd been watching this going God, I wish
Speaker 3: I could buy a house that big, to just going wow,
Speaker 3: it's amazing. Those you know, little balls of played are
Speaker 3: in the air spinning around, going what a great way
Speaker 3: to explain where you're from, Like just all those tiny
Speaker 3: little things. Like I loved it so much. It was
Speaker 3: a laugh out loud moment. And I'd already seen the
Speaker 3: imagery before, but when Et stressed up, man, that's funny.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's really funny.
Speaker 3: It's so funny because my daughter has done it with
Speaker 3: every doll, she's done it with a little brother, and
Speaker 3: I was just like, of course you would do that
Speaker 3: with an alien.
Speaker 1: And it was really one of the changes I made
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two the version was to just
Speaker 1: change ET's the eyes because and this is like this
Speaker 1: goes to show that Spielberry wasn't looking at completely like
Speaker 1: he said, nothing's wrong with this film. There are just
Speaker 1: a few things that if I had an extra hour
Speaker 1: and a day here or the extra hours or the technology,
Speaker 1: I would have done it like this, and he just
Speaker 1: he gives in two thousand and the two version, which
Speaker 1: I really like. He gives Et a slightly more embarrassed
Speaker 1: look and that's all. And that's all this is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a really nice it's a really nice touch.
Speaker 3: And also the other touch I really like, is he
Speaker 3: the genius he is? And I don't think I've ever
Speaker 3: spoken about that about the Spielberg. I've never been I've
Speaker 3: never gone out going, Oh, he's made this film, I'm
Speaker 3: going to go see it. I've never really no, because
Speaker 3: if I was thinking about this as well, when you
Speaker 3: ask me to do that, I was like, as a kid,
Speaker 3: I was trying to remember all the films I went
Speaker 3: to like and I was more at TV like I
Speaker 3: Great with Faulty Towers and all the classic comedies that
Speaker 3: any movie I went to see the cinema was it comedy?
Speaker 3: Like people go like, what's one of the favorite movies
Speaker 3: I'd ever seen a cinema? Mine was what about Bob?
Speaker 1: Nothing of that, There's nothing Murray Bill Murray Murray or
Speaker 1: the other.
Speaker 3: One with that was that the one with Chunk Candy
Speaker 3: Catton Ball. There is another one, like like I love
Speaker 3: those classic once. I never went to see the Beg
Speaker 3: like I'd see a couple of the Bee hitters, But
Speaker 3: with this one, I was like the use of light
Speaker 3: in the room in Elliott's room is just that for me,
Speaker 3: it was just like, you know, not to go all
Speaker 3: you know technical on it. I was like every time
Speaker 3: I was in there, I was in his room, like
Speaker 3: I felt like I was sitting in there sharing the
Speaker 3: moment with him. And that's when I was like, now
Speaker 3: you've got the closet. Like for me, that was the
Speaker 3: real big selling a point. That's why I think when
Speaker 3: the whole house changes and it turns to a hospital's
Speaker 3: like how dare you do this to his house? Like
Speaker 3: I even felt that. I was like, you can't do that.
Speaker 3: This is this is where ET's first place was on Earth,
Speaker 3: like leave him alone.
Speaker 1: Well, that came from the idea that they couldn't find
Speaker 1: I think a hospital too, because I think it was
Speaker 1: written that they were going to move them off to
Speaker 1: a hospital. They couldn't find a place to shoot, And
Speaker 1: I think Spielberg was flying into La and saw these
Speaker 1: a bunch of houses being renovated and had those sheets
Speaker 1: on them. Okay, that's what. Yeah, it's like a makeshift.
Speaker 1: They basically come out. So again that's talking about.
Speaker 3: Being able to just make a movie on the run,
Speaker 3: like you know what it's like making television and you
Speaker 3: have to make those decisions. But nowadays, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, and I work forbid in television. You know,
Speaker 3: the scripts, the production, the money's already signed off. There's
Speaker 3: very little to move. Yeah, But as you're developing it
Speaker 3: and you be able to change it like that before
Speaker 3: you get.
Speaker 1: Very rarely though, when you are giving boundaries and they
Speaker 1: might be budgetary or they might be you know, we
Speaker 1: can't find the location, you come up with a better
Speaker 1: way of doing it. Yeah, So it happens more often
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 3: And it becomes exciting because it's a problem to fix
Speaker 3: creatively that you're already creating. Yeah, but then it's a
Speaker 3: problem that you're fixed in that same mindset and.
Speaker 1: You realize what's inant to actually to this scene. A
Speaker 1: lot of people have this image of Bilberg having this
Speaker 1: kind of idealic kind of view of suburbia, but it's
Speaker 1: actually reasonably bleaks. I'm not sure if the blea's wrong way,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of realistic, Like the house isn't it's
Speaker 1: not like a beautiful house. It's like a nice house,
Speaker 1: but the drinking soft drink, smoke. It's a messy house.
Speaker 1: There's broken toys.
Speaker 3: Yeah it felt real. Yeah, yeah, real in the sense.
Speaker 1: That it's a broken home, you know, as a family
Speaker 1: set up goes.
Speaker 3: Because I think I like that sense of suburbia. I've
Speaker 3: always grown up in a city, but I had that
Speaker 3: sense of community. I had friends across the road would
Speaker 3: all get together and go to the local park, and
Speaker 3: I feel like that's what I want from my kids
Speaker 3: as well, like we've got family next door. But it's
Speaker 3: that thing where people are moving around so much, like
Speaker 3: so much more that you kind of lose that sense
Speaker 3: of community. And then when you see a court bowl
Speaker 3: and everyone around it, like people know each other, the
Speaker 3: kids like I kind of again, I feel like that
Speaker 3: that was also nostalgic as well, Like I know it
Speaker 3: still happens and that, but I feel like that happens
Speaker 3: less and less and so in the film, I kind
Speaker 3: of like it that everyone knew each other and everyone
Speaker 3: right at the end when the when, and I love
Speaker 3: the symmetery where you know the guys and the bikes
Speaker 3: who are teasing him but they're here to help. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're back, you know. And then just the shot, I
Speaker 3: was like, I loved it as I was like the
Speaker 3: shot is like you know, like, yeah, he goes, puts
Speaker 3: the headphones back on, head birds. He said, the Bella clava.
Speaker 1: There's bella clava and there's like ann for doora but
Speaker 1: one of those old old star kind of racing caps on.
Speaker 1: My granddad used to wear one of these through.
Speaker 3: Me and I was like, okay, they help, No, they're
Speaker 3: gonna rob a back.
Speaker 1: Did you like some of the Star Wars references as
Speaker 1: a couple in there? There's you a Star Wars fan.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I've
Speaker 3: watched I've watched them.
Speaker 1: But you saw Yoda, Yeah, yeah, Halloween and the Halloween
Speaker 1: that was I thought that was a nice bit and
Speaker 1: also very figure the figurines, the figurines as well, which
Speaker 1: he starts playing with the figurines to show him. I
Speaker 1: thought it would have been nice though as a Star
Speaker 1: Wars fan, because he gets squeido and then he gets
Speaker 1: hammer hair and if you like the Cantaeen creatures from
Speaker 1: Star wars. But if he and then he has a
Speaker 1: little gun battle between Grido and Hammed, surely you put
Speaker 1: Han in there. He put Han Solo in there, which
Speaker 1: is also Harrison for reference.
Speaker 3: A genius, but he wouldn't have done it is if
Speaker 3: the guy delivering the pizza was Han Solo.
Speaker 1: Well, funny enough, Harrison Ford had a scene in the
Speaker 1: film after Elliott gets drunk in class. He goes to
Speaker 1: the principal's office and Harrison Ford is going to be
Speaker 1: the principal telling him and he and Elliott levitates about it.
Speaker 1: He's got his back. Never you were never going to
Speaker 1: see Harrison Ford's face. They shot it, they didn't put
Speaker 1: it in, and he levitates as Harrison was kind of
Speaker 1: looking at the window talking to him about responsibility and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But the Spielberg thought would be too
Speaker 1: distracting and took it out. It was going to put
Speaker 1: it back in the two thousand and two version, but
Speaker 1: this thought again, this film's perfect. Doesn't need extra scenes.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't lie to your son, see your own away,
Speaker 6: your own best friend or your own worst enemy's thing.
Speaker 3: Like I'm always curious now after watching it, like what
Speaker 3: are the deleted scenes? Like like other I assume there's
Speaker 3: a lot of them. It's a film. They always shoot
Speaker 3: too much. But it's like what could you have left in?
Speaker 3: What did you leave out? Because otherwise, yeah, as it
Speaker 3: flows like there was a bit where because you get
Speaker 3: sucked in at the start and then the pace picks up.
Speaker 3: I had to get used to the pace, like and
Speaker 3: I'm watching kids shows like I should be used to
Speaker 3: the pace. But even then I was like, I've gotta
Speaker 3: I've got to stay up, like where are we now? Okay,
Speaker 3: you know we're in the forest. You know. Now he's
Speaker 3: making the equipment like you know, now he's phoning home.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the other one I have for my whole life.
Speaker 3: E T Phone Home. I have heard, I have comedians
Speaker 3: reference it. I've heard it everywhere, and it wasn't until
Speaker 3: I actually saw it in its entirety where they're explaining
Speaker 3: him how to say ET phone home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really, they really do bang the idea of
Speaker 1: phoning home home home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, home. And then and whether if you were to
Speaker 3: put your child like you know, say, you know, when
Speaker 3: Minka turns eight years old, I'll stick with the go
Speaker 3: you need to watch ET.
Speaker 1: I don't say what age one of those what age.
Speaker 3: I reckon eight just now, because I mean, I reckon
Speaker 3: more than ever. We do wrap our kids in cotton
Speaker 3: ball like like, you know, they like the fact that
Speaker 3: Minka was scared at Toy Story. Oh my god. Our
Speaker 3: childcare they had a movie night. They'd rat it to you.
Speaker 3: I've never seen most kids scream and cry. It was
Speaker 3: just it was everyone like even and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we've made a mistake because at the start, it's my
Speaker 3: mincer was boiling. Other kid just ran out around straight
Speaker 3: into a door like it was it was Mayhem, like
Speaker 3: it was Mayhem. And then it's like, okay, well you
Speaker 3: kind of have to introduce those films, and but I
Speaker 3: reckon It's it's a really good one. I reckon. I
Speaker 3: reckon Minka because both my kids are quite empathetic. So
Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm really they've got you know, my partner's German.
Speaker 3: Not to say she's not empathetic, but I'm a very
Speaker 3: sensitive and emotional guy German.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you weren't going you weren't
Speaker 1: going there. Why I mention it because.
Speaker 3: It's stereotype, that's true, but it's it's where it's like
Speaker 3: they just cry easily. They just they feel other people's feelings.
Speaker 3: And I think especially with film and televisions, even simile
Speaker 3: television shows like Bluey, they're obsessed with at the moment
Speaker 3: something goes wrong, no cry, like especially my son, Like
Speaker 3: so with that film, and I feel like I want
Speaker 3: to get them ready and there's okay to cry and
Speaker 3: enjoy it because if I if I'm crying as an
Speaker 3: adult knowing what's going to happen, if they're watching it
Speaker 3: at the same time as a kid. And that's the
Speaker 3: other thing, the phone home bit, It's like will that
Speaker 3: translate with them? Because with technology, you just go, We'll
Speaker 3: just get your phone out, Yeah, get your phone out.
Speaker 3: The satellite's in there. Yeah, Like why wouldn't you Well,
Speaker 3: I think it.
Speaker 1: Still will because I mean, certainly the Australia's MBN wouldn't
Speaker 1: cover a phone call from a phone or any kind
Speaker 1: of communication between Australia and wherever ET's planet is. But
Speaker 1: it's still the idea that you need to have coverage, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sue ET's home planet.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah. And also and then understanding like when
Speaker 3: I was watching it as well, it's like it was
Speaker 3: part of me. I was like, but how far is it?
Speaker 3: How far is your home?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 3: Are they watching?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 3: It was nice to have those questions go and again again.
Speaker 3: It shows the side of a good film. Is I
Speaker 3: know what the ending? I just knew because of I
Speaker 3: know what the ending was going to be, Yet I
Speaker 3: was still sucked in to the emotion of losing et.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you become more emotional? I feel like this
Speaker 1: is a thing that's developing. Are you becoming more emotional
Speaker 1: watching movies post kids like that you've had kids?
Speaker 3: It is phenomenal?
Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't it is?
Speaker 3: It is bizarre And I think I have cried more
Speaker 3: in the last especially even with my son, with the
Speaker 3: second one, I've cried more in the last three years
Speaker 3: than I have I reckon the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: What's the film that you've cried in that you're a
Speaker 1: little bit embarrassed about.
Speaker 3: Well, the last time I cried with watching it was
Speaker 3: it was just a television series and the kid goes missing.
Speaker 3: And as soon as the kid goes missing, it wasn't
Speaker 3: a build up to it. I was like, what do
Speaker 3: you mean? The kid's missus? Like, I can't. There's is
Speaker 3: a scene when the door opened, there's no kid in there,
Speaker 3: and bang I was. I was just couldn't stop crying,
Speaker 3: like and it's like and we're halfway in, like we
Speaker 3: haven't even we don't even know what's having the start.
Speaker 3: I'm just crying because I was just like I think
Speaker 3: about this, like, you know, I make them. I make
Speaker 3: them recite the telephone number every second day so they
Speaker 3: remember our mobile telephone numbers in case that happened. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And it's not that I think about it, but it's
Speaker 3: just like as soon as something with a kid, yeah
Speaker 3: it is, I am just I am just crying, and
Speaker 3: then you'll love this, Pete And it's just like you go, yes,
Speaker 3: kids up, you know you've created them. But then it's
Speaker 3: only having a couple of days ago. I was like,
Speaker 3: I do cry a lot and I love it. And
Speaker 3: my kids are open about their emotions. And our daycare
Speaker 3: provided comes up, he goes, hey, can we just have
Speaker 3: a word with you. It's about mateo and we're like, oh,
Speaker 3: there's everything. It's like, no, no, it's it's it's beautiful.
Speaker 3: But we were having some quiet time and we were
Speaker 3: playing some meditation music and they all lie back and
Speaker 3: they just focus on their breathing I was like, yes,
Speaker 3: we are from Brunswick. I was like, of course you
Speaker 3: do this and you do yoga everything, and they said,
Speaker 3: she goes, but we were looking and they were all
Speaker 3: just looking up and they were thinking about stuff. And
Speaker 3: she looks across to Mateo tears quiet, just tears rolling
Speaker 3: down the side, just just crying but silently. She just
Speaker 3: goes up to him and she's like, are you okay,
Speaker 3: And he goes, I'm really I'm really upset, but I
Speaker 3: don't know why. It could be the music. I'm okay.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, like you are just
Speaker 3: about to turn three, and that you can listen to
Speaker 3: something and be moved and let the tears come out,
Speaker 3: but you don't know why, but you're not scared of it.
Speaker 3: I was like, if you are, Like, I just couldn't
Speaker 3: believe that that was. It's like because as a kid,
Speaker 3: I struggled crying ntil I was eighteen, Like, I struggled
Speaker 3: so hard because we migrated from Holland and when we
Speaker 3: left I don't remember that, but I remember, like, I
Speaker 3: don't remember everyone crying, but everyone cried at the airport.
Speaker 3: So when we migrated to Australia, I was three three
Speaker 3: so two and a half three, So for me, it
Speaker 3: wasn't until pretty much I was eighteen. I could cry
Speaker 3: the only time even then when we left Holland, I
Speaker 3: wanted to cry, but I couldn't. I throw up on
Speaker 3: the plane. It was bizarre. I just it was such
Speaker 3: a I think it was quite traumatic, but I never
Speaker 3: knew how to deal with it that I was so young.
Speaker 3: So when they told me that story a couple of
Speaker 3: days ago about how that my son already with something
Speaker 3: that I struggled with, and it took me so long
Speaker 3: to be able to let out that he can openly
Speaker 3: be that emotional and you know, not happily, not to
Speaker 3: his detriment. Like yo, I wanted to be able to
Speaker 3: hold down a relationship in the future and not cry
Speaker 3: after sex every time. But I was just like wow,
Speaker 3: Like I.
Speaker 1: Was, why is that guy crying at the lectern? Sorry
Speaker 1: I brought in the moment.
Speaker 3: Why is it so much spitt us? Look at this
Speaker 3: slide for a moment without comment.
Speaker 1: I think it speaks for itself.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so I'm looking forward because that's the thing.
Speaker 3: It's a great website I forgot what it is call
Speaker 3: where you can actually look up the title of the
Speaker 3: movie for kids, and it gives you, Yeah, it gives
Speaker 3: you marking and what bits to look out for, and
Speaker 3: it does make you realize that a lot of movies
Speaker 3: fully dated and there are references that you need to
Speaker 3: explain that we had to get the new versions of
Speaker 3: The Magic Faraway Tree.
Speaker 9: Recently because there's characters You're like, WHOA, come on to
Speaker 9: eat a light and come on in rate it in.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to, you know, because ET is
Speaker 3: another one, and there's a couple of other kid movies
Speaker 3: that I haven't seen, but now after seeing AT, I mean,
Speaker 3: holds up, we are there any others? There? Any other
Speaker 3: big ones?
Speaker 1: I say, I think AT is is, like I think, clearly,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say clearly the best because it works
Speaker 1: on both levels quite clearly. You have watched it, and
Speaker 1: what you said before, I think is worth this going
Speaker 1: over again, Like you watched it in a period where
Speaker 1: you just were trying to, you know, squeeze your shoehorn
Speaker 1: it into your day to do this podcast, and which
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful for. But I know it's like watching
Speaker 1: those and under those conditions, when you you're watching out
Speaker 1: of a sense of duty, and that emotionally got to
Speaker 1: you that you actually end up blubbering. You took a photo.
Speaker 1: We would love to get that photo up on the
Speaker 1: socials and that's like, that's incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I know and it really because in the
Speaker 3: end I was like I thought, yeah, if I'm comfortable enough,
Speaker 3: but it was just like you know that thing where
Speaker 3: I was like, you're running around kids, and and also
Speaker 3: I really wanted to watch it at night, but as
Speaker 3: we work every.
Speaker 1: Night, absolutely some of the picks up films are up
Speaker 1: is incredible.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the opening sequence to that is that will that
Speaker 1: has you in tears. Yea to begin me as the
Speaker 1: starting point yeah for that movie. Then it kind of
Speaker 1: works in reverse where you kind of makes you feel
Speaker 1: better by the end.
Speaker 3: Because I did. I did cry when I watched Up
Speaker 3: and that's that sequence. But then it's amazing where your
Speaker 3: mind goes, because when I watched that, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is so much better than Roger Rappers. I was
Speaker 3: just watched I know where I went there, and I
Speaker 3: was like, this is just so much better.
Speaker 2: I'm not bad, I'm just strong that way.
Speaker 3: Well done. It's just so weird where your mind goes.
Speaker 1: Well man, Thank you so much for it, first of
Speaker 1: all watching et for us where you ain't seen nothing yet,
Speaker 1: and for coming in and being so open and honest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't expecting that, Pete. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: It was I actually did not know where this was
Speaker 3: gonna go.
Speaker 1: And because yea, we are recording this before we release them,
Speaker 1: so you haven't yeh, haven't even had to listen to
Speaker 1: episodes as a reference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's also that same thing where it's like,
Speaker 3: it's great and it's the one thing I've forgotten about film,
Speaker 3: and it's really like, I think I'm gonna go book
Speaker 3: a movie night a day night with my partner because
Speaker 3: when you get it's the one time where you can
Speaker 3: generally escape and people always want to escape, but also
Speaker 3: be able to get in touch with feelings that you
Speaker 3: don't get to and crying is one. It's like you
Speaker 3: said it before, crying in cinema is great and that's
Speaker 3: what it's there for sometimes, and as a parent, you know,
Speaker 3: you can cry at the end of the day after
Speaker 3: hard day when you're both absolutely naked and you miss
Speaker 3: each other and you know and you just want do
Speaker 3: you want to have that moment when you were twenties
Speaker 3: and you were going to the cinema. But yeah, it's like,
Speaker 3: I think it's just a reminder because that yeah, et
Speaker 3: was great and I cried, but now I'm kind of
Speaker 3: excited to.
Speaker 1: Cry more, cry more. Yeah. Well, Mask is one that
Speaker 1: I remember at around the same time. Eric Daltz shir
Speaker 1: plays his mum. You know the basic story, dude, so
Speaker 1: he's got a certain disfigurement and and it's just kid
Speaker 1: having a No, don't get the two films confused. Alright,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why thought he was so sad. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, mate, and maybe we can find
Speaker 1: another film for you to watch. And yeah, come on
Speaker 1: another time. But thanks for joining us.
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