Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. What was that?
Speaker 1: How you doing? Welcome to the nineties. I'd like to
Speaker 1: flip I made this look good. Messa Sheffield is nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: You can't handle the true, go.
Speaker 2: Say her.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell's eight Z of the Nineties. Yeah, baby, all right?
Speaker 1: The letter this week, it's all about this letter is
Speaker 1: letter F. Thank you very much? How get every week?
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Speaker 3: It's all about the letter F before we get into
Speaker 3: Ferby's and flip phones. The movie that Jack and I
Speaker 3: watched yesterday, it's about viewing number eight or nine for me.
Speaker 3: Was this seminal classic from the nineties, directed by John Woo,
Speaker 3: starring two megastars, John Travolta and Nick Cage face Off.
Speaker 2: I've been chasing this guy ever since I had joined
Speaker 2: the force. He's the most dangerous and brilliant criminal mind
Speaker 2: I've ever known. And now, after all this time, I
Speaker 2: finally figured out a way to trap him. Will become him.
Speaker 1: Try terrorism for hire. We'll blow some stuff up.
Speaker 2: It's more fine, plan B. Let's just kill each other.
Speaker 1: What a movie. One of the greatest comedies ever made.
Speaker 3: Only thing is they didn't make it as a comedy,
Speaker 3: as if watching it yesterday, seriously about the eighth of
Speaker 3: the length of time, and there's so many much what
Speaker 3: I'm crying with laughter because it's so over the top
Speaker 3: and ludicrous. It's very clear that they just came up
Speaker 3: with the title face Off, and then worried about the
Speaker 3: sort of plot, script, character development, all those proper things.
Speaker 3: Barely even wired about. This is because it's called face off.
Speaker 3: They have a surgical operation. They remove each other's faces
Speaker 3: and wear them so Jack, before we go any further,
Speaker 3: we're both very, very excited about face Off. How would
Speaker 3: you describe to people we've never seen this movie the
Speaker 3: actual plot.
Speaker 4: While try to do it justice. The king of all
Speaker 4: premises is it's John Travolta. He's an agent. He's the
Speaker 4: good guy. Nicholas Cage he's a terrorist, he's the bad guy.
Speaker 4: John Travolta catches him early in the film, puts him
Speaker 4: in a coma. While he's in a coma, he's still
Speaker 4: got a bomb somewhere in la that they don't know
Speaker 4: where it is. So in order to infiltrate his gang
Speaker 4: and his brother who built the bomb, he's got to
Speaker 4: wear surgically remove the face of Nick Cage and put
Speaker 4: it on his own, and then his own face goes
Speaker 4: in a little jar by his bed.
Speaker 3: It's just like, you know, this, this most dangerous criminal
Speaker 3: in the world, right there's not anyone guarding him. His
Speaker 3: Nick John Travolta's face is just in a bowl next
Speaker 3: next to a cage, right in like a like saaning solution.
Speaker 1: He've actually contact Lene.
Speaker 3: This in cage suddenly wakes up without his face from
Speaker 3: a coma just.
Speaker 1: Suddenly clays up and then guess what happened?
Speaker 4: It is he he galus John Travolter's. He finds John
Speaker 4: Travolta's face.
Speaker 1: That looks like what am I doing it?
Speaker 4: It's table He he puts the John Travolta's face on it,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, now our.
Speaker 1: Too face lips or eyes, and he has a cigarette.
Speaker 4: He's having a cigarette watching the He's watching the vision
Speaker 4: of John Travolta's face get transferred in the original surgery.
Speaker 4: And then he gets the doctor in the He's game,
Speaker 4: brings the doctor in to do the same surgery on him.
Speaker 4: So you've got the ultimate premise. You've got two arch
Speaker 4: enemies looking each at each other, and they've switched faces,
Speaker 4: and everybody believes that Nick Cage is John Travolta, And
Speaker 4: everybody believes John Travolta is Nick Cage in Sue, the
Speaker 4: best movie ever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is one of the greatest movies of all time.
Speaker 3: And the thing is John Travolta actually does take on
Speaker 3: an effect the mannerisms of Nick Cage. Nick Cage doesn't
Speaker 3: bother clear that he was given or they were scared
Speaker 3: of him, because when you watch this, it's a very
Speaker 3: heavily caffeinated performance. Well, I think actually they were just
Speaker 3: like we done to speak to him? Why is he
Speaker 3: yelling in every s.
Speaker 4: He's actually mad in this stage? Is actually mad in this?
Speaker 1: What about it?
Speaker 3: When the doctor's explaining what you know? And this isn't
Speaker 3: set in the future, it's set in the nineties. It's
Speaker 3: set there right where they're explaining the complex procedure, but
Speaker 3: suddenly the doctor is so matter of fact about it.
Speaker 3: It's almost like they're sort of repairing like a hamstring
Speaker 3: injury or something like that.
Speaker 2: The inside is modeled on your skull, all right, the
Speaker 2: outside in and out within the day.
Speaker 1: Then we fit his face on top, not a rap
Speaker 1: but the real thing.
Speaker 2: Then we simply connect the muscle, tear ducts and Nerbut
Speaker 2: so you want to Cage's face and mind.
Speaker 1: Incredible.
Speaker 4: Ha And that is crazily not even in my top
Speaker 4: three of most ridiculous parts of the film.
Speaker 3: All Right, so you've got a top three of craziest
Speaker 3: parts of Face Off.
Speaker 1: We'll get into them next well. Christian Connell's Show podcast.
Speaker 3: We're into our at s of the nineties this week.
Speaker 3: We're up to and into the letter f the movie
Speaker 3: Jack and I watched yesterday one of the greatest movies,
Speaker 3: not just of the nineties but all times, Face Off
Speaker 3: Tron Travolter. If you had to pick one movie where
Speaker 3: Nick Cage achieved ultimate Nick Cage powers, this is it.
Speaker 3: It's there's no way that he was directed. There are
Speaker 3: so many bits in it don't make sense. There's this
Speaker 3: yelling that doesn't fit the scripts or even the scene.
Speaker 3: It's a crazed, fueled, fueled performance by Nick Cage. And
Speaker 3: I can't, I can't, I wouldn't. I can't recommend another
Speaker 3: movie that would give you so much fun watching it.
Speaker 3: That's fair to say, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Jack?
Speaker 4: I saw The Batman this week, a big blockbuster movie,
Speaker 4: breaking all kinds of records. I much more enjoyed Face
Speaker 4: Off than I did The Batman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Looking, Yeah, it's like looking in a mirror, only not.
Speaker 1: So. She got Travolta and Cage.
Speaker 3: Travolta chasing Cage, finally works out away final another way
Speaker 3: they go, finally have worked out Where you get this
Speaker 3: guy who's been tracking for you?
Speaker 1: He killed his son? Why do we think of all
Speaker 1: the time?
Speaker 3: I mean they do all over the world, don't they
Speaker 3: law enforcement agencies. We'll just take his face off his
Speaker 3: and put it onto my right there, right there.
Speaker 1: That's simple eye.
Speaker 3: This is going to change law all over the world, now,
Speaker 3: won't it. And so they have each other's faces, and
Speaker 3: Travolter does do this amazing job of affecting all the mannerisms,
Speaker 3: and it doesn't do an impression, but it's almost like
Speaker 3: an impression of Nick Cage doesn't he The rest of
Speaker 3: the movie was Cage doesn't He's just Cage.
Speaker 4: Which Voltage, even though it's meant to be John Travolta's character,
Speaker 4: And also the face which leads to one of my
Speaker 4: favorite scenes in the film, where Nicholas Cage in handcuffs,
Speaker 4: ready to infiltrate the prison, is rubbing his face against
Speaker 4: the wall because his face itches after the surgery, and
Speaker 4: because he faces in handcuffs, he has to get his
Speaker 4: buddy at the force to itch his face for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also the doctor said, hey, listen, it's one
Speaker 3: of the rare movies as well that actually mentions the
Speaker 3: title in a scene as well, because the doctor goes,
Speaker 3: they just can't.
Speaker 1: Ever get into a face off and starts shooting each other.
Speaker 3: He goes to Travolta, who's now obviously Nick Cage. You know,
Speaker 3: whatever you do, you just can't get into a fight.
Speaker 3: Fast forward to he's in the prison being punched repeatedly
Speaker 3: like any UFC five ground and bound in the face.
Speaker 3: And then to escape the prison, he jumps, like I'm
Speaker 3: not exaggerating, one hundred foot into the sea. And what
Speaker 3: is it about all those sort of action movies where
Speaker 3: the helicopter likes shooting into the sea. He's escaped the
Speaker 3: buddet somehow, right, And is they gave up really quick
Speaker 3: looking for these evil criminals, didn't they. Once you're in
Speaker 3: a helicopter, they're going to come up for air. Just
Speaker 3: stay up there, eddicotchs as gone, they go in the sea.
Speaker 3: We never ever find them again. All right, Jack, what
Speaker 3: are your top three craziest moments in a crazy movie?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: Here are the top three takeaways from Face Off and Now.
Speaker 4: Despite being a violent movie with the crazy procedure of
Speaker 4: swapping faces, the most unsettling part for me was actually
Speaker 4: the way that John Travolta showed his family affection by
Speaker 4: slowly stroking an open hand down the faces of his
Speaker 4: loved ones.
Speaker 1: I forget this to his son and the baddy trying
Speaker 1: to blow us all up.
Speaker 4: He did it to his daughter, he did it to
Speaker 4: his wife.
Speaker 3: I've never seen that move from a dad anywhere. And
Speaker 3: ig you all and Jack goes you that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm a very affectionate dad hunging every day.
Speaker 4: I've never seen I tried to do it to Bianca Is, like, hey,
Speaker 4: will this feel nice? And she pulled her head away
Speaker 4: and said, don't do that. Feel it feels offensive for
Speaker 4: you to run your hand down my face. Take Away
Speaker 4: number two. So the FBI, when they're meant to be
Speaker 4: the good guys, right they're catching this terrorist, they go
Speaker 4: into this baddies lair and the terrorist son is in there,
Speaker 4: and John Travolta has to honestly save the son from
Speaker 4: getting shot to pieces by the FBI. Didn't There's no
Speaker 4: reason for the FBI to be shooting a little five year.
Speaker 3: Old boy not involved in it in any way. He's
Speaker 3: just an innocent bystander.
Speaker 4: That leads me to my final takeaway. And this is
Speaker 4: a spoiler, So turn off now if you want to
Speaker 4: watch Face Off. John Travolta comes home at the end
Speaker 4: of the movie. He's got the little boy, the son
Speaker 4: of his arch enemy, and without consulting his wife, essentially.
Speaker 1: Goes brings him adopted.
Speaker 4: We've adopted this movie.
Speaker 3: He comes to the house. Yeah, case, come in and
Speaker 3: look what I've got. Like he got a puppy from
Speaker 3: the pound and so I was like showing his room.
Speaker 3: It's like, uh, what, John, we need to talk about this.
Speaker 1: Who is that? Oh? You know that is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We've him?
Speaker 4: What about Hey.
Speaker 3: He's in surgery having his face put back on right
Speaker 3: towards in the movie, right for weeks, and they keep
Speaker 3: making a big deal about the agony, as be the stitches,
Speaker 3: the sutras and all this. Then suddenly right Travolta backs himself,
Speaker 3: just makes his own.
Speaker 1: Way home from the hospital.
Speaker 3: Every time I watched this movie, I'm like, she couldn't
Speaker 3: pick him up. She knows what he's been through, right,
Speaker 3: he's on his face removed, and he's got reattached. He's
Speaker 3: almost died. He's saved the world essentially. Well la, and
Speaker 3: what yes does this get a taxi? Got to make
Speaker 3: his own way home? It bugs me every time, like
Speaker 3: she couldn't go and pick him up.
Speaker 4: She looks surprised as well as if he didn't even
Speaker 4: call him say hey, just so you know, surgery went
Speaker 4: perfectly and my face is back on.
Speaker 1: He said it Friday. Now Now I've got zimber in
Speaker 1: an hour.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think there's some leftovers in the wedge rug shot.
Speaker 1: You said I was coming to get you right day? Wait,
Speaker 1: who's the little kid? That's our sun?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: My favorite?
Speaker 3: One of my favorite lines, And there are two great
Speaker 3: lines in this towards the end, Sorry I killed you Dad?
Speaker 3: That the greatest light in the movie ever. How could
Speaker 3: someone type don't think? Can we actually say this? And
Speaker 3: put it on Selnoyd forever? The other one is where
Speaker 3: they are facing off against each other. These two arch
Speaker 3: rivals wearing each other's faces, and they've got guns pointing
Speaker 3: at each other, and then other people from their rival crews,
Speaker 3: their sort of backups, all turn up. So at one
Speaker 3: point there must be all right, ten people with guns
Speaker 3: are pointing each other, and then travalter Is Gauge just goes,
Speaker 3: what a predicament?
Speaker 1: Ten out of ten. This movie is a ten out
Speaker 1: of ten.
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