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Speaker 2: We're doing this morning's Mount Rushmore.
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Speaker 2: it's Tiper your big strong opinions on this week's Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2: There's only room for four, so make a strong case.
Speaker 2: This week we turn our attentions to movie baddies. Seventy
Speaker 2: great villains and baddies in.
Speaker 1: Movies that we've loved over the years.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a great movie, you need the classic
Speaker 2: story of good and bad and who is on the
Speaker 2: side of bad.
Speaker 1: Having an interviewed a lot of.
Speaker 2: Actors over the years, I've always loved asking in a movie,
Speaker 2: would they rather play a GOODI or Baddy?
Speaker 1: It's always Baddy.
Speaker 2: You longer opinions about the great baddies who have scared us,
Speaker 2: who are so evil.
Speaker 1: Who actually hate them at times don't you.
Speaker 2: You really are, But there have been some amazing performances
Speaker 2: from Actus and movie baddies, so they can only be four.
Speaker 2: So who has to be on a mount rushmore of
Speaker 2: movie baddies?
Speaker 1: Who is it for?
Speaker 2: You? Give us a call this morning, make your case
Speaker 2: nine four one four one four three Jack?
Speaker 1: Who are you going to be going for?
Speaker 3: Well, we were talking about Batman just earlier. Heath Ledger's
Speaker 3: joker is right up there.
Speaker 1: Why soul serious? What a performance? Brilliant?
Speaker 3: He was fantastic. I mean, are we going for the
Speaker 3: scariest or most lunatic? I mean all of that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that's what he was. A complete madman. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: want to come up against him any day of the week.
Speaker 1: Now. He looked terrifying as well.
Speaker 2: The makeup that was all kind of weird than just
Speaker 2: in those in that movie as well. When he's not
Speaker 2: in scenes, you're you're just twitching about where is he?
Speaker 1: What's he up to? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And Christian BeO is amazing the whole Dark Knight trilogy.
Speaker 2: Christian Bow is an incredible act. Time You've never seen
Speaker 2: Christian Bell in a bad movie just becomes these characters
Speaker 2: and you know he transforms his bodies and his accents.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't believe he's a British guy, but he's a great. However,
Speaker 2: you know, Christian BeO, I'm sure would admit he is
Speaker 2: blown off the screen by the charisma, the evil charisma
Speaker 2: of Heath Ledger's amazing performance as the Joker.
Speaker 4: When you think of the Dark Knight, you think a Hitler.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not to.
Speaker 3: Take anything away from Jack Jaquin Phoenix's call Jack.
Speaker 2: Jack Phoenix, home Mate Phoenix, Joe Phoenix, I love him.
Speaker 3: He would be my next best joker. Then Jared Lado
Speaker 3: in Suicide Sure.
Speaker 1: Go through a separate mount rushmore just jokers now a.
Speaker 4: Lot over the years there, and then Jack Nicholson last.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was more comical comedy joker. Yeah, But Heath
Speaker 2: Ledgers Joker, I think that has to go up there.
Speaker 2: Not just I think in movie history one the greatest
Speaker 2: performances from an actor ever. It's incredible and so powerful.
Speaker 2: But in terms of baddies, he is terrifying and that
Speaker 2: very good Patsy was it for you?
Speaker 4: It's got to be Hannibal Lecter, doesn't it. From Silence
Speaker 4: to the Lambs, he's got to be.
Speaker 1: Up there and Hannibal Letter is your spirit animal.
Speaker 4: To so many lines from that I ate his liver
Speaker 4: with some father beans.
Speaker 3: What's he for?
Speaker 4: I thought that was you playing it from the original movie.
Speaker 1: Now, I thought I'd find off the clip by accident.
Speaker 1: Then what a powerful accent there.
Speaker 2: You can't spot the difference between what parts he just
Speaker 2: reenacted and from the actual movie. Let's play it now.
Speaker 2: The census taker once tried to test me. I ate
Speaker 2: his lever with some father beans and a nice candy.
Speaker 4: Movie terrified me that movie.
Speaker 3: Because like, who's the worst bad guy in that? Because
Speaker 3: the Buffalo Bill guy is just as bad.
Speaker 1: You see the guy with that down that pits. Is
Speaker 1: he passed the lotion? Yes he is.
Speaker 2: Buffero Bill is actually more terrifying. But Anti Hopkins says,
Speaker 2: Hannibal Letter is a terrifying Baddy Patsy. And what is
Speaker 2: the last scene of the movie where he's chilling just
Speaker 2: on the phone, you know what he calls her?
Speaker 1: Is he at the airport and he's somewhere else? Isn't
Speaker 1: he on.
Speaker 2: In the white suit in the Panama hand? He's about
Speaker 2: to kill and eat somebody else, isn't he? So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think you make a strong case there, Patsy.
Speaker 1: For me, it has to be this guy, I am
Speaker 1: your father to me.
Speaker 2: As a kid, I've been a big fan of Star
Speaker 2: Wars movies. I found him terrifying. It was everything about him.
Speaker 2: He was just Darth Vader was just huge in so
Speaker 2: many ways, not just as evilness, but he just feels
Speaker 2: he was this big.
Speaker 3: He was this.
Speaker 2: Huge, the cloak, the helmet, and way ahead of COVID.
Speaker 1: He had that mask. No COVID for old Darthy boy.
Speaker 2: The whole breathing and the even when he wasn't talking
Speaker 2: or choking out his henchmen or villains and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: He was incredible.
Speaker 2: And then there's the fact that he goaded his son
Speaker 2: Luke into a lightsaber jewel and chopped off his own
Speaker 2: son's hands.
Speaker 1: That's how evil he was a father.
Speaker 4: You guys are parents, You would never do that.
Speaker 1: I'd like to think not, but you can never.
Speaker 3: You know, home schooling's getting a bit annoying.
Speaker 2: So for me, it has to be Darth Vader. I
Speaker 2: was terrified and amazed and equal measures as a kid
Speaker 2: by Darth Vader.
Speaker 1: I just thought it was an incredible performance.
Speaker 2: And many many years ago I was doing something and
Speaker 2: I managed to actually go round to the actor that
Speaker 2: is inside. Dave Prowse was the guy who was Darth
Speaker 2: Vader the originally he was inside there. But Dave Prowse
Speaker 2: is a big, big British guy who was a bodybuilder
Speaker 2: and he got Christopher Reeve in shape for Superman. He's
Speaker 2: a massive guy, and that's why George luc was like,
Speaker 2: that's dark Fader, that guy would put him in the outfit.
Speaker 2: Dave didn't know. Dave is from the West Country in England.
Speaker 2: What you need to understand that is it's a lot
Speaker 2: of farmers down that way and they speak a bit
Speaker 2: late there. You know, it's not gonna be terrifying, Luke,
Speaker 2: I am your father, that kind of They sound like bumpkins.
Speaker 2: Dave didn't know, so he does the films all the
Speaker 2: bits right, he doesn't. It takes his family to the
Speaker 2: premiere of what's about to become the biggest movie in
Speaker 2: the world and they see dar Vader and then they
Speaker 2: hear and see another voice and it's not him. Jes
Speaker 2: Lucas had forgotten, you know, when they just would tell
Speaker 2: Dave later on that obviously he's not gonna be his
Speaker 2: bumpkin voice as Darth Vader. We'll get James L. Jones
Speaker 2: in post production. Here be Darth Vader. But no one
Speaker 2: ever told. So he did all the lines in that
Speaker 2: bloody great hell.
Speaker 4: That's amazed.
Speaker 3: You would think on set when he's going like, oh,
Speaker 3: you want me to take that line again?
Speaker 1: About that?
Speaker 2: Dave, you have told Jane you're going to do it today,
Speaker 2: weren't you in get him up there, he gets his taxi,
Speaker 2: you know, and then Dave still has there.
Speaker 1: But they made two original Dark Vader. He still has them.
Speaker 2: And I went around his house and he showed me them.
Speaker 2: I they're huge, really really heavy, and he said that,
Speaker 2: you know, when you have home and contents insurance, yeah,
Speaker 2: to put down if there's a certain I think there's
Speaker 2: a limit. Isn't that of what they cover? Five or
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars? Because he's got the original Darth Vader helmet,
Speaker 2: he had to apply for an extra kind of limit
Speaker 2: on his Home and Contents insurance. And you know you
Speaker 2: do it all over the phone, don't you. And it's
Speaker 2: just someone in the call center just going through. You're
Speaker 2: just a name on it is going.
Speaker 4: To you estimate like the plus your car.
Speaker 2: How would you describe this, and he had to say, wow,
Speaker 2: it's a large, kind of like this is a bit
Speaker 2: like a Darth Vader helmet. And the pus went, oh,
Speaker 2: it's not the actual one, as he went, yes it is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's the Dark Fader helmet. So it's also a fully
Speaker 2: insurance
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