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Speaker 1: Great, the flick with Beno Shape. So we've just seen

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Speaker 1: a new movie this week. Yes, we have Spit. And

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Speaker 1: you know, normally when they make sequels, the idea is

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Speaker 1: you cash in on a big hit. Right, the original

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Speaker 1: was huge at the box office. You have this ready

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Speaker 1: made audience, so you know, the studios think, do you

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Speaker 1: know what, let's go back to the well. There's surely

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Speaker 1: still some water in that well. And you know, generally

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Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense. And if anything, Hollywood

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Speaker 1: and movie studios do it too often, too many sequels,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't usually matter how long between drinks for

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Speaker 1: these sequels, like look at Top Gun, Maverick that came

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Speaker 1: whatever it was twenty something years after the original was

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Speaker 1: still a huge hit, Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice did pretty well as well.

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Speaker 1: Blade Runner twenty forty nine, coming thirty something years after

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Speaker 1: the original still worked out pretty well. So it doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to matter now. Spit is also a sequel. It

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Speaker 1: is the follow on typical. No, it's a spinoff. Yes,

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Speaker 1: if we're being technical of this two thousand and three movie.

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Speaker 1: It was two thousand and three movie Getting Square. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was great, which is a great movie. I think

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Speaker 1: what's important to remember here was that it was a flop,

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Speaker 1: like it was a box office bomb, but I loved it.

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Speaker 1: But this was the weird thing about that film, Like

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Speaker 1: when it came out the critics loved it. That ten

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Speaker 1: people who saw it, which was US three and a

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Speaker 1: few others loved it. David Wenham won an AFI Award

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Speaker 1: for playing Johnny Spitt, who is this heroin addict from

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Speaker 1: this original movie that starred Sam, a very young Sam

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Speaker 1: Worthington before he went on to do Avatar and all

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Speaker 1: this stuff. And it had a great ossie cast as well,

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Speaker 1: David Field, Gary Sweet and a few of Timothy Spall

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Speaker 1: was in it. But yeah, so generally speaking, you know,

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Speaker 1: a movie that's a flop at the box office disappears forever.

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Speaker 1: But Getting Square kind of became a bit of a

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Speaker 1: cult Ossie film in the years that followed there. It

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Speaker 1: was you know, I said it was a legal version

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Speaker 1: on YouTube, it was on DVD. People started watching it

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Speaker 1: and as a result, you know, as we know, David

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Speaker 1: Wenham has been asked about the character of Spit for years.

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Speaker 1: People follow him around say, oh, you know, have you

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Speaker 1: got your money for your bus fare? The classical lines

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Speaker 1: of the original and so about ten years ago they

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Speaker 1: decided to make this spin off and they had to

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Speaker 1: find a way to kind of freshen it up. And

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Speaker 1: how we're going to do it. We're not going to

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Speaker 1: get Sam Worthington. We're going to go in a different direction,

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Speaker 1: focus on Spit coming back into Australia. But he's still got,

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Speaker 1: you know, all the problems in the original movie. The

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Speaker 1: crooked cop played by David Field and the crime kingpin

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Speaker 1: played by Gary Sweet still kind of want to kill

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Speaker 1: him or frame him for you know, the murder that

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Speaker 1: he was a witness of all this kind of stuff,

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Speaker 1: and so they have this idea of bringing him into

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Speaker 1: the country, you know, as an illegal sort of alien.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't want to tell his real name to customs officials,

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Speaker 1: so they lock him up in a detention center, which

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Speaker 1: is a setup for you know, Johnny Spit to kind

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Speaker 1: of interact with asylum seekers who are trying to you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of get a visa to stay in Australia. He

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Speaker 1: helps them by teaching them how to be an Aussie

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Speaker 1: and and Spit you know, for people who remember the

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Speaker 1: original film, he is the quintessential Aussie Bogan, he's got

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Speaker 1: his skinny jeans, he's got his mullet. Now he has

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Speaker 1: got a bit of a bold patch at the back,

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Speaker 1: which is you know, if you've ever seen a dude

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Speaker 1: with a balding mullet, like you know, that's that's one

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Speaker 1: of the worst haircuts you can possibly have. It's so

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Speaker 1: hilarious to see David Whenham doing that. And you know

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Speaker 1: he teaches them, you know that all you really need

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Speaker 1: to be Australian is first you need a nickname. So

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Speaker 1: he one of them, what's your name. You're from the

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Speaker 1: Middle East, your name's g Had, or you're going to

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Speaker 1: be tremor you you can be Waza. And then you

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Speaker 1: know it's important to you know how to use the

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Speaker 1: F word. It can be you can use it in

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Speaker 1: a positive way. You know, you can say oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: or you can be a bad thing f that, or

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Speaker 1: it's a very very useful word. So he teaches these

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Speaker 1: asylum seekers all of these tips and tricks and then

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Speaker 1: and they're like, what's your name and like was A

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Speaker 1: and they're like your name is was Yeah, your name

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Speaker 1: very funny, this sort of first third of the film

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Speaker 1: of examining how Australia treats asylum seekers and even though

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Speaker 1: that hasn't really become a big issue in this current

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Speaker 1: kind of election cycle, in the past, we know, you

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Speaker 1: the needle for voters in Australia. So that's quite interesting.

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Speaker 1: And then he gets kind of moved out of the

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Speaker 1: detention center and then it becomes about how he stays

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Speaker 1: one step ahead of these all of these different groups

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Speaker 1: who are trying to get him, and David Wenham, you know,

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Speaker 1: like he really leans into it, you know, like it's

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Speaker 1: a transformative performance from him. On the run, Yeah he is.

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Speaker 1: He at times it's a bit Blues brother ish when

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Speaker 1: he's when he's like running away from all of these

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Speaker 1: different people. But in thongs, is always in thongs yea

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Speaker 1: which is and he David wehnhe himself, you know, we

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Speaker 1: see him Lord of the Rings in three hundred and

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Speaker 1: of course has dive and Dan is in Sea Change.

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Speaker 1: He's a very smart, softly spoken to He could not

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Speaker 1: be more different to Spit. But what you get is

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Speaker 1: just like in the Castle, you get these kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, these Bogan battlers, but they have hearts of gold,

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Speaker 1: you know, like they're genuinely good people. And that's the

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Speaker 1: thing with Spit. He is hopeless, like he's a recovering addict.

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Speaker 1: Everything he does kind of you know, turns to you

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Speaker 1: know what. But at the end of the day, anybody

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Speaker 1: who comes across his path, he will try and help them.

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Speaker 1: He'll try and do right by them. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: the color of their skin anything like that. And it's

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Speaker 1: the kind of you know, sort of quintessential Aussie Bogan

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Speaker 1: element that once upon a time, that's who we were

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Speaker 1: as Australians, and I feel like now maybe it's not

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Speaker 1: that's come into Bogan culture that maybe is not something

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Speaker 1: that we're all proud of. And so this is a

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Speaker 1: lovely throwback to the sort of Australia we used to be.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I really like that about this film.

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Speaker 1: It's got a great Aussie soundtrack as well, and there's

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Speaker 1: you know, a scene at the end where Spit is

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Speaker 1: kind of, you know, he's dancing away like one of

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Speaker 1: those you know, you get him in a lot of

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Speaker 1: movies they have a big dance off at the end

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Speaker 1: of the film, and it is a joyish experience. There

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Speaker 1: are moments there where you know, you've got some of

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Speaker 1: the humor that you'll find in the Castle people will

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Speaker 1: laugh at it's like, and but some genuine moments where

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Speaker 1: there's real, real emotion as well, So you kind of

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Speaker 1: get that juxtaposition between things that feel real and things

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Speaker 1: that are funny, and the overall result is a film

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Speaker 1: you know, this is This is probably you know, like

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Speaker 1: a really really solid Australian film, the sort of thing

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Speaker 1: we used to make all the time, and ken like

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Speaker 1: movies like Kenny in the Castle and Muriel's Wedding and

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Speaker 1: maybe not quite as good as there's the peak of

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Speaker 1: those movies, but certainly, you know, it's a really fun

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Speaker 1: throwback and a worthy spin off to get in Square,

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Speaker 1: definitely a worthy spinoff. How many Trevor's spelt, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: I go, I'm going to give it, im to give it.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give it three and a half half

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Speaker 1: of the exactly you need to see it. He's very spit,

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Speaker 1: very very Francis materia and lots of quotable lines in

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Speaker 1: it as well. Great cast, only missing ugly Dave Gray

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Speaker 1: from the Boom Boom. Thanks man, Thanks guys,