1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Powered by the radio WAB from ninety six air M 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: to whereever you're listening today. This is Clearsy and Lisa's podcast. 3 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 2: Read the flick with ben o'she. 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 3: Well, everyone should have their own, but you get one. Yeah. 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 3: It's fantastic too. It's so jaunty. It put me in 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 3: such a good mood and in such a well let's 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 3: talk Hollywood. I'll tell you what. Who has Hollywood at 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 3: their feet right now? It is Austin Butler. So we 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 3: saw him as Elvis a few years ago. Great job, 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 3: he was amazing. He transformed into Elvis for Baz Luhrman 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 3: and he made that movie in Australia. At the start 12 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:43,639 Speaker 3: of the pandemic, Tom Hanks got COVID he was. That's 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 3: when everyone and Australa thought, I hang on a minute, 14 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 3: maybe this everyone and so and Austin he went so 15 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 3: deep into the character of Elvis. A lot of people 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 3: in the industry questioned whether he would ever climb out 17 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 3: of that role. And it appeared he's a Californian, but 18 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 3: it appeared that he that southern drawl of els kind 19 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 3: of hung around for a little while after he finished 20 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 3: playing Elvis, and it did look as though he maybe 21 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 3: he took the character on a little bit too deeply. 22 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 3: And then earlier this year he blew that out of 23 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 3: the water, that idea when he played the villain in 24 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 3: June Part two. He played this character fade rather success, 25 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 3: huge success. It was an incredible performance. He was a 26 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 3: real scene stealer, which is not that easy to say. 27 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 3: When you've got you know, you've got Timiitate Shalome, you've 28 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 3: got Zendaya, you've got Josh Brolin, it's all you know, 29 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 3: superstar class and worms those huge of course, don't forget 30 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 3: the worms, and but he upstaged all of them. He 31 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 3: was amazing and completely different to Elvis. It was exactly 32 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 3: what he needed to show people. Okay, this guy has 33 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:45,559 Speaker 3: got some range. He can do lots of different things. 34 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,559 Speaker 3: People might have seen him recently in Masters of the Air, 35 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 3: the Apple TV Plus series Bombs. 36 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: He's great in that heavenly. 37 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 3: High class TV. And so now in this movie The 38 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 3: Bike Riders, it's set in the nineteen sixties about outlaw 39 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 3: motorcycle culture, and these were motorcycle clubs, not motorcycle gangs 40 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 3: back then. And I think it's an important distinction to 41 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 3: make because these days, we think bikes and we think okay, well, 42 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 3: like you know, you're down at the court, there's some 43 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 3: crimes being committed, drugs, all this kind of stuff. Back then, 44 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 3: it was more of a counterculture thing. You know, you 45 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 3: think about movies like The Wild One and Easy Rider. 46 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 3: It was about people that didn't fit into society, outsiders 47 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 3: who wanted to get on their motorbikes, usually without a 48 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 3: helmet and go fang in law back and fanging down 49 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 3: the open road in Middle America. Like that's what it 50 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 3: was about, in their leather jackets with tassels. And you know, 51 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: it's kind of like a adjacent to hippie culture. I 52 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 3: guess in a way, it's just a different version of it. 53 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: Really a culture. 54 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 3: And so this movie is based on a photo book 55 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 3: by a journalist named Danny Lyon that was published in 56 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty eight and followed one of these motorcycle clubs 57 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 3: in Chicago. And in the film, it's a fictitious group 58 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 3: called the Vandals. And the film opens with Austin Butler 59 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 3: sitting in this dive bar by himself in his Vandal's 60 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 3: biker jacket, sitting at the bar looking at you know, 61 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 3: his glass of whiskey, deep in thought, and then some 62 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 3: locals come up to him and say, mate, you're not welcome. 63 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 3: Your type is not welcome in this bar. Take that 64 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 3: jacket off, and he just he just stays looking at 65 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 3: the whiskey and just says, you're gonna have to kill 66 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 3: me to get this jacket off me. And then what 67 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 3: happens next. You have to buy a ticket to see it. 68 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 3: But this first sort of ten minutes of the movie 69 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 3: is one of the coolest scenes that I've seen in 70 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 3: cinema in a long time, because Austin Butler is so great, 71 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 3: Like he brings a kind of a James Dean energy 72 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 3: to this role, and you look at him and go, man, 73 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 3: this is this is a real throwback to those guys like, 74 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 3: you know, Marlon Brando on The Wild One and Jay 75 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 3: Dean the Rebels. You know, it's really it's really a 76 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 3: lot like that. And so here is this young new 77 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: member of this Vandals gang, and the leader of the 78 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 3: gang is played by Tom Hardy, this sort of enigmatic character, Johnny. 79 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 3: Johnny doesn't say a lot, but you can see he's 80 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 3: got this kind of which, to be honest with you, 81 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: that's I sometimes feel that Tom Hardy does his best 82 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 3: work when he's not talking. He's like something about him 83 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 3: just when he but he's got this like energy, like 84 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 3: a coiled spring. When you see him on the screen. 85 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 3: He's got a charisma, There's no doubt about that. And 86 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 3: so he is running this club started off as just 87 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 3: a bunch of blokes who liked riding motorbikes, and then 88 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 3: the film follows it over eight or nine years as 89 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 3: it evolves into something very different, something that maybe Johnny 90 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 3: and Austin Butler's character Benny, weren't really prepared for when 91 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 3: they started it. Along the way, Benny meets a local girl, 92 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 3: Kathy played by Jody Comer, who was from Killing Eve 93 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 3: and Full and Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds. Reynold, YEP, 94 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 3: great film. And so she kind of is, you know, 95 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 3: she falls in love with Benny. This is kind of 96 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 3: like edgy guy, the bad boy. But then she realized 97 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 3: she doesn't really want him to be part of the 98 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 3: gang anymore. So she's kind of trying to pull him 99 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 3: out of that world. That doesn't go so well because like, 100 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 3: ultimately he loves motorbike riding more than he loves her, 101 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 3: and you know, so it kind of goes around in 102 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 3: circles for a little while, and then you've got the 103 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 3: introduction of this young punk who comes in who has 104 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 3: a very different perspective on what the motorcycle club should 105 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,359 Speaker 3: be kind of gets kind of gets perverted along the 106 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 3: way right to something more sinister. And this young punk 107 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 3: that comes in is played by Toby Wallace, who for 108 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 3: fans of Australian movies, there was a movie a couple 109 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 3: of years ago called Baby Teeth which was phenomenal, one 110 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 3: of the best, one of the best Australian movies you'll 111 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 3: ever see. And he was a young kid in that. 112 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 3: He's a little bit older now he's amazing in this film. 113 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 3: Hollywood's going to be knocking at his door, and so 114 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 3: he comes in. Everything kind of changes and goes off 115 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 3: the rails when he comes into the picture. You've got 116 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 3: Michael Shannon is in the in the film as well. 117 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 3: It's directed by Jeff Nichols, who has worked with Michael 118 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 3: Shannon a bunch of times and made movies like Midnight 119 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 3: Special and Mud with Matthew McConaughey, so it's a great director. 120 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 3: The film is beautiful to watch, really interesting snapshot at 121 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 3: the time It's not perfect though, I have to say 122 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 3: I think the the evolution of the club and the 123 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 3: introducer introduction of this kind of like young Turk who 124 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 3: wants to mix things up. That's a really great storyline. 125 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 3: The romance side with Austin Butler and Jody Coma maybe 126 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 3: not so great. Like it's it kind of doesn't really 127 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 3: ring true Jody Comer, who is an Irish actor. 128 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 2: I think it's. 129 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: Kind of to get a bit more sort of broad appeal, 130 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: you know, like The Titan. Of course, everyone wanted to 131 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: see The blokes wanted to see the ship sink, and 132 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: you know, yeah, the ladies wanted to see it. 133 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 3: Takes it, It takes away from it, unfortunately, And the fact 134 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 3: that it goes over so many years I think takes 135 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 3: away some of the impact of the story as well. 136 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 3: Because anytime you see a movie where it's like, okay, 137 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 3: here's some big drama and then on and now all 138 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 3: of a sudden, we're two years into the future. How 139 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 3: did that previous drama finish up? What happened? Then? Now 140 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 3: everyone's friends again. So like sometimes I feel that movies 141 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 3: like that a bit ambitious and it works against them. 142 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 3: And the conclusion didn't didn't one hundred percent work for me. 143 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 3: But Austin Butler is about as cool as you're ever 144 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 3: going to see an actor b on the screen. He 145 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 3: nearly came off his bike during the making of the movie, 146 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 3: and again no helmet, so there's a few risky moments. 147 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 3: I would have thought he got a face full of bugs, 148 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 3: but apparently he didn't swallow one bug while he was 149 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 3: driving riding around, And so yeah, I would say, you know, 150 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 3: like if you love those movies from the seventies about 151 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 3: this kind of like that kind of stuff, like, there's 152 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 3: so much to like about this movie. Really, really solids 153 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 3: do you have? I'm going to give this three and 154 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 3: a half three rev all your way into. 155 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 2: The Cinema's that's high revving. Well, I've noticed it did 156 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: get a good score on Rotten Tomatoes, over eighty percent, 157 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 2: so it's obviously well worth a look, well worth a look. 158 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 2: All right, they agree, and you agree. So the bike 159 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 2: Riders and that's in cinemas as. 160 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 3: In cinemas next Thursday or next thursdaday giving you a preview, 161 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 3: early preview. 162 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 2: Wow, all right, head along and see it all right? Hey, 163 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 2: thanks Ben, thanks for next week. 164 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 3: Thank you with a new movie Crazy, and Lisa says 165 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 3: m