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Speaker 1: Great the flick with Ben o'she on ninety six. Morning

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Speaker 1: Ben your friend.

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Speaker 2: Good morning guys. I've got an exciting one to tell

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Speaker 2: you about today, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, I hear that you. So, do you think this

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Speaker 1: might be the best movie you've seen so far this year?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah, best film I've seen so far this year.

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Speaker 3: The North Man by American director Robert Eggers. So his

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Speaker 3: name is not instantly familiar as one of like the

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Speaker 3: superstar directors of Hollywood, but he's built himself a really,

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Speaker 3: really impressive resume. Initially with this sort of like low budget,

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Speaker 3: sort of indie period horror film called The Witch, which

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Speaker 3: starred Anya Taylor Joy from of course The Queen's Gambit,

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Speaker 3: which made a ton of money and made him look

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Speaker 3: very good as a director. And then he did The

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Speaker 3: Lighthouse with Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, which was like

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Speaker 3: a really also very weird black and white period thriller,

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Speaker 3: I guess, psychological thriller, which critically was just by everybody

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Speaker 3: around the world. And so the studio thought, you know what,

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Speaker 3: this guy has clearly got a sort of a visionally

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Speaker 3: approached he's got a lot of talent, So let's give

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Speaker 3: him ninety million dollars to make a Viking epic, and

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Speaker 3: that's basically what he's done by making a film with

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Speaker 3: Alexander Scarsguard, who is amazing. Everyone loves Alexander Scarsguard on

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Speaker 3: the old Scandinavian folklore of amleth So, which is spelled

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Speaker 3: a M L E T H, which probably doesn't ring

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Speaker 3: a bell with many listeners. But if you take the

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Speaker 3: H off the end and put it at the front,

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Speaker 3: you know what to get to.

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Speaker 2: Get Hamlet.

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Speaker 3: Hamlet. So it's basically the same story that William Shakespeare's

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Speaker 3: Hamlet was based on. But instead of you know, Danish

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Speaker 3: blow swaning about in tights wondering whether it's better to

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Speaker 3: be or not to be and alas poor Yorick and

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Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff, this is Alexander's Scarsguard ripped

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Speaker 3: as anything. Like he put on something like ten kilos

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Speaker 3: of muscle just just going around on this revenge epic.

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Speaker 2: It's brutal. I got to say. It is a brutal,

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Speaker 2: viol violent.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we just see the try. He is massive,

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Speaker 1: he's got some Schwartzneker like arms. And how does it

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Speaker 1: stack up against the superhero franchises?

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Speaker 3: Ben Oh, I think very well, like you're talking like

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Speaker 3: a film, like like Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Like this

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Speaker 3: is better than Gladiator, which might be blasphemous to some Australians,

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Speaker 3: but I'm telling you, like it is so authentic. It's

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Speaker 3: co written by an Icelandic poet who specialized in this

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Speaker 3: sort of stuff. They really researched it historically accurate. But

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Speaker 3: it is violent though, Like it's got enough violence to

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Speaker 3: make the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones look like,

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Speaker 3: you know, Brooklyn Beckham's wedding.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty, it is pretty pretty confronting some of it,

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Speaker 4: but you know, like it's the Viking era, so I

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Speaker 4: guess it was a violent period in history.

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Speaker 3: Like there's no way around that. And Robert Eggers works

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Speaker 3: again with Antya Taylor Joy, who plays you know, sort

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Speaker 3: of this this slave girl who's very sort of canny

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Speaker 3: and savvy and sort of teams up with Alexander Scarsguard's

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Speaker 3: character to achieve this kind of revenge on the death

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Speaker 3: of his father by his uncle. So you know, the

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Speaker 3: whole Hamlet thing it comes through, and it's of course

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Speaker 3: it's got the greates Austrai actress Nicole Kidman or some

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Speaker 3: people don't like her, but I would say, you know,

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Speaker 3: she's probably the only let down in the film, Like

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Speaker 3: it's just you know, because she's Nicole Kidman, right, So

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Speaker 3: you're seeing all these vikings and this dirty muddy wearing fur,

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Speaker 3: all this kind of world, and then you see Nicole

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Speaker 3: Kidman looking exactly like Nicole Kidman and she's his mother, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: she plays his mum, and so yeah, like maybe a

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Speaker 3: bit miscast. I think you can't sort of escape.

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Speaker 1: Well, they were married in big little Luss.

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Speaker 2: That's nothing compared to the weird relationship the habit.

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Speaker 1: I read what happens on the old Wikipedia page. Killing

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Speaker 1: the father doesn't have to wash my eyes out.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's like, I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty

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Speaker 3: sure the story of Hamlet was like one of the

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Speaker 3: key things for the Freud or whoever it was, when

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Speaker 3: he came up with his complex he based it on

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Speaker 3: instead of Hamlet.

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Speaker 2: But you know, you know, you know where we're going.

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Speaker 1: With the last poor Yoric. I knew him, but not

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Speaker 1: that well. Burke also, yeah, she makes a bit of

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Speaker 1: a great actress.

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Speaker 2: I reckon she.

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Speaker 3: Makes a bit of a blink and you miss A cameo,

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Speaker 3: but it's great. It's great to see her in it

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Speaker 3: like this is this is just an absolute ripper. It's

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Speaker 3: violent to be aware of that anybody who's going along

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Speaker 3: to watch it.

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Speaker 2: But jeez, it's such a special film.

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Speaker 1: It's got sorcery, it's got muscles, it's gonna special relationship

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Speaker 1: with mum, Wrap up dead in cotton wool. Are you

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Speaker 1: ready to rate it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to give this one four and a half stars.

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Speaker 1: Who for the vikings. Wow, that's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is, okay, beautiful. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Be good to hear your voice, you guys say, talking

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Speaker 1: movies this morning.

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Speaker 3: I mean I'd rather that than a than a superhero.

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Speaker 1: Mean, rather that than the Captain America or something, for sure.

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Speaker 1: Sure almost he's almost as big as Thor in this.

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Speaker 1: Alexander is a massive you know. I loved him in

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Speaker 1: True Blood Very Good and Succession as well