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So sit back, relax, and enjoy this snippet of what did we
just watch? So, yeah, the very first thing we tend to do
on this show is try to go over some of the characters. There's not
a ton of characters in this movie, so I'm going to describe the character
and you guys will buzz in and tell me the name of the character.
I pretty much only need first names. There's only like one character with a
last name. But so the first question, I have, what is the
name of our female lead, Jennifer August? Yep, Jennifer August, the
only character with a last name if you don't include I think her mom has
a first name, Jet has both, and I think she is credited as
Jen's mom. You're exactly right that she is credited as Jen's mom, so
she's not going to be one of the people I asked about. The next
question, I have what is the name of our male lead? Ken?
Yes? Ken, he doesn't have a last name. Yeah, sorry,
I said that a lot to myself at watching this last night. He was
so angsty. Yeah, he doesn't have a last name because, as we
find out, he's an orphan and that's how that works. Yeah, yeah,
well you can assume it's like Ken Snow or something like that. My
next question, what is the name of the head bell boy the captain?
No? Wait, oh oh that's okay. Danny, Yes, that's right.
Danny is the head bell boy who's also a dancer in this movie?
Like why not? Yeah? Surprises us? All, yeah, I know
we'll get into this, but I love the hierarchy that existed between the dishwasher
and the bell boy. Yeah. If they weren't all just like working class
folks right, well, and like the head bellboy who's like got management in
his future. It is like do we does everybody here understand how hotels work
and what what bell boys do? Well, you can say the same thing
about dishwasher too, the fact that it was just like, hey, dishwasher,
go change this guy's sheets. Yeah, as the hell head bell boy,
I'm directly above you, the dishwasher at this hotel. Sorry, to
be considered to be an executive, you have to have parents. If they
just called this guy like a general manager, it would have been fine.
Yeah, right right. Well, in the first scene we see him,
he helps her move her bags, and that's the continuity. It's like this
movie was written in like a stream of consciousness. Well, he's already the
bell boy, but he's also the main villain. It's like, well,
we're stuck the main villain in the lowest steaks way. Also a moron is
we'll get into true Yeah, a true idiot. And the Razzi for Best
Actor Best Worst Actor goes to Danny. The dubbing on like the dubbing across
the movie is really bad, but the dubbing on him especially, I don't
know what it was about his ad R, but it's so so bad it
never sinks up. In his defense, everyone had to do their own a
DR and he's not super familiar with them. By the way, I have
no maybe they did like have everyone do their own a DR, but I
couldn't find that on IMDb. So the next question I have here is what
is the name of Ken's dance partner at the beginning of the film. Oh
well, I was gonna say Shatsi, but okay, yeah, okay,
no, right, no, yes, Ken's partner is Shotzi, which was
really funny because then Jennifer gets mad because she finds out that Kenn's dancing with
Shatzi, even though he says, that's my dance partner. Shotzi. Yes,
like they're pre established, and Jen knows that information. But then she's
like, you're dancing with her. It's like, yeah, they've been probably
practicing for weeks. You came a week before the competition. Girl, you
have barely scratched the continuity error in the name Shotzi. It's like in nineteen
thirties Judy Garland movie, like like the third person on the casting list,
Like that's on the colleics, like shot in a movie with Jen and Ken
and Dan, there's shot Yeah, let me call I kind of love Shatzi
only because I've never heard anywhere else, and I think it's just like such
a again, a crazy name in this universe to have, like, but
yeah, I just I don't know. There's something about it. And I'm
like, yeah, of course she's shot Maybe maybe should put it on my
baby name list. Yeah, there's time. My next question, what is
the name of Jennifer's father? Oh, and don't say August. We do
know they do say it a few times, so I feel justified. No,
you're right. Okay, I buzzed in, but I'm not sure you
want to take a guess, Jerry, You're absolutely right, Jerry August,
Where did I get that? Yeah, he's one of the people who has
a pretty like big I m dB like list. He's played by Gary Daniels,
so he's got almost names of two other characters in this movie and his
name. But he's actually a real former. I don't know what kind of
martial arts, but I think a boxer. So in that one scene where
he's practicing boxing and that's yeah, Australian. I was trying to play his
accident. I love him up when we when I was watching the movie,
and he's English. He's English, but the accent really seemed Australian, So
I don't know, like you, maybe he was trying to actually do American
and that's where he landed in. Yeah, because when you mixed together American
and British, you get Australian. Obviously. The next question I have is
what is the name of the Camudgeny former choreographer in this movie, Hal Sanders
yep, Hal Sanders, Yeah, played by the director and co writer this
movie, David Winters. Yeah, the next question I actually had on here
because those are all the names that I wanted to say, like for questions.
The next question not the Captain. I was waiting for the Captain.
I love the Captain the well, questions about them might come up organically during
the because I'm a professional. But he was like a fairy god captain.
I love him. Oh no, he's yeah, and he's he's crumping the
whole movie, whether the scene calls for it or not. Captain my captain,
like, hell me guide my life. Yeah, the first question I
have here, I'm not going to ask it as a question because it's spoiled
by the whiteboard that we used to record our score. But where does this
movie take place? Yeah? And no, of course, Well at this
point we've already and we've also already discussed it. Anyway, this movie is
a love letter to Panama City Beach, a town that I've actually been to.
Weirdly, was everyone dancing when you were there? No? They all
strip malls and beaches. It's all and beaches, and there's the Ripley's believe
it or not, like little thing there there's Yeah. Like Weirdly, when
I first saw this movie, I'm like, hey, I've driven down those
like two bare roads that are here in Panama City. People didn't greet you
with dance. The beaches are amazing, Like I'm not trying to like slag
on Panama City Beach. The golf beaches there are beautiful. It does feel
sort of like a like a very tory, trappy place. So a lot
of the places that they go to, which I have questions about, so
I don't want to talk about them too much, like it's all on location.
But what I will say is I'm not the only person who enjoyed their
time in Panama City Beach. The Panama City heads come out for on the
IMDb page for this there are so many pretty much all of the trivia and
goofs on the IMDb page are people talking about specifics about Panama City and this
movie. And again, none of these are sets like or none of these
are sort of like fudged where it's like, oh, we shot this interior
in la or like it pretty much is all I think shot. Maybe some
of the interiors are I don't know about that, but it's like all exteriors
of places that you could find if you went to Panama City today. If
a hurricane hasn't already destroyed them since twenty thirteen. But yeah, so the
movie begins with an opening montage contrasting the lives of our two leads before they
meet, contrasting or doing this choreography. Yeah yeah, that was quite the
coincidence, almost like nearing each other. Yeah yeah, And it was cut
so it was almost like they were dancing together, like with each other,
like dancing against walls is normal, right, Yeah, yeah, it's on.
I didn't even realize that the several times I had to watch that scene,
like to do this like thing, that's that's interesting. Maybe maybe I've
just gotten like dance blindness after this movie, because I talk about it later,
like when they say some somebody is dancing better than usual or worse than
usual, or is like it never ends with the mistake, Just somebody sort
of frowns and then stops dancing, and it's like what happened? You know?
There was definitely a couple of moments when Ken like just kind of half
heartedly mark something out and then stomped off like a toddler, Like you could
definitely see his heart was not in the dance at that moment. Clear,
I'm glad we brought you on because I am not a dance expert. I'm
an expert on esoteric Panama City beach facts now, but not on dance.
But yeah, I know I'll get into the dancing because dancing it's on.
But I did kind of feel like that, and you mentioned this too,
Jael, like the dancing and the most of the movie was really non wow
factor to it. Like the end was great. They did some really cool
numbers, but it felt like they had a different choreographer for the end of
the movie than they had for the rest of the movie. Including the scenes
where they're rehearsing for the end of the movie, none of it really seemed
to sinc like it was just very boring. The stuff that we saw them
rehearse did not actually make it into the show, no, which you know,
I mean, I guess because like we they swapped partners up, so
then I guess they had to just like redo their entire number within a few
days. Yeah. I wrote a note while watching it, like I don't
know if this is good. Like they're good dancers, it just doesn't seem
like the choreography was that good. There was a lot of like, uh,
you know, putting their hands through their hair movement, and then like
putting their hand in front of their chest and like moving it a couple times,
and I'm like, I don't know if that's good. Yeah. Well,
and we also had the two couples that went before the Dan Schatzi and
Ken. Jen is like, where did they even come from? I wish
they were in the rest of the movie. Yeah. I know, we'll
get to that, but I wish they were. Throw them in. Like,
Jen didn't have any friends in the movie. She was just had a
love triangle the whole time. A friend, give you a friend to talk
to? Yeah, well she had the captain. She had the captain.
Yeah, what else do you need? Yeah, So we back to the
montage that's going on the first of many we find out that Ken and we
kind of already talked about it as a dishwasher, but he doesn't do a
lot of dishwashing. He does a lot of dancing. But he also in
this scene we have see him sweep the floor, do laundry, take out
the trash, seemingly move stuff around. He also does do some dishes,
but I think he cleans two dishes and then that's the end. Of the
dish cleanings. That really weird camera angle too, like the like the Hidden
Secret Boss or whatever that show was where it's like with like the hidden camera
that was right above the sink, it was just where what I mean,
There's a lot to be said about the way this movie was shot, but
that one particular camera is like, what what were we trying to accomplish here?
You see it a couple of times we simply don't have the time.
Yeah, and this is the first time we see David Winters in this montage,
Ken like runs past him. Jennifer says goodbye to her friends at school
at the end of the montage and drives away in a fancy like older it's
like a Rolls Royce. Yeah, and this is something again in the in
the light of seeing the whole movie, I'm like, Oh, I guess
she's a college student because she's an adult woman. But I guess she's supposed
to do this is a high school. Yeah, Yeah, it would have
made more sense because she did say see you next semester, and it felt
more college like. But there's the school that we see her at and the
activities that she's engaging in, and like her this you know, the sense
to what she has no real control over going to see her father, that
this is a thing that is happening, not a thing that she is invited
to do. She's a teenager. Yeah, there's that scene in the montage
where she's Britney spears ing in the hall and like, I cracked up because
at one point somebody like turns to look like why are you dancing? I
think they shot it like at a real high school, like well, classes
were actually happening. She's like, what is happening here? Yeah, I'm
in a flash mob. That other person's dancing now too. Oh flash mobs.
That was very twenty thirteen. Actually I was very twenty thirteen. Yeah.
So she takes her parents, rolls Royce to her parents, like fancy
house. Well we find out it's just her mother's house. Her and her
mother are having dinner and she expresses that she doesn't want to spend the summer
with her father, and yeah, I do want to comment on her extra
curricular activities because she had a full schedule. She did cheerleading, dance,
gymnastics, Like there was a lot going on there. Yeah. Well,
and the fact that later on she says that she's been dancing for five years.
Yeah, the ballet that she was like, the ballet she was doing
at the beginning, it was were just warm ups. But nobody dances the
way that she is ultimately dancing at the end after dancing for five years,
let alone cheerleading like that is. I wasn't sure if that was like,
oh haha, me too, Like I'm just gonna make myself smaller because this
boy is cute and I don't want to be like more. You know,
I don't want to say that I make more money than you sort of thing.
But even though she does that many other days, right, yeah,
yeah, well, I mean, you know, he says he's been dancing
for five years, and like there are things that he's doing there that you
cannot do in fire, And why not these are dancers in this movie.
Why not just say they've been dancing for long as long as they've actually been
dancing, like make it more like themselves. Yeah, they obviously are very
good if it's their life. I mean, like, I didn't do ballet
because I had bad ankles. But every person that I knew when I was
that the age that Jennifer is supposed to be not the age that the performer
actually is. Every dancer that I knew when I was in high school who
was doing ballet had started when they were like four years old, and it
like the ones who thought it was their life, like this is what they
do. They're not any other extracurriculars. They're going to school and then they
are going to ballet. That was it. I think you have to star
young for ballet. You have to I thought the same thing. My guess.
My only guess as to why they would say something like five years when
it's clearly you need more time than that might be because maybe their audience is
young people and they don't want somebody of high school age who might be interested
in dancing in this movie to be like, oh I can't do it.
Like that's aspirational. Yeah yeah, I could see that, but like in
that there's no reason for it to be ballet. Yeah, yeah, Like
there are certain dance forms that you can get really good at in five years,
and she performer has a ballroom dance background. She did Dancing with the
Stars, so like Latin ballroom, those are types of dance where if you
really commit yourself to it, you can get very good in five years,
you can pick it up as an older person, right too, because ballet
is one that like it. As you said, if you have bad angles,
you can't do ballet well, like that kind of technical work I think
you have to do for a much longer right time. I just met a
woman who's seventy two years old who started ballroom dancing a couple of years ago,
and now her retirement plan is to teach ballroom dancing. So I love
that. Yeah, I think it's awesome. She was a very very cool
lady. But you know, that's that's the sort of thing that like you
can pick up later in life. And there's also you know, there's not
like the expectation that you have a ballerina body for some of these these other
forms of dance. So like, just why why ballet it doesn't come up
again at all? Just one scene? Yeah, Well, it's an easy
scene to do in a montage to establish that she practices dance. She couldn't.
I mean, she could have done anything in a dance studio, even
even me. I'm a dummi. I'm like, that's dance. Back to
the dinner her and her mom are having. As you said before, she
has to go see her dad. She doesn't really seem to have a choice.
I wrote down one of the lines from this scene where the mother says,
I understand this particular hotel is quite unique. Jennifer responds, what's that
supposed to mean? And then which is fair question? I had to write
it down like no, Mark, this is what she said, not what
your like node next to this line is and then her mom responds, you'll
find out tomorrow. And this scene is important because we establish the difference between
Ken and Jen, where Jen has money and parents yes, yeah, really
making her better than Ken exactly. I was trying to figure out, like
is the rolls Royce and the to the butler per person in their house and
the formal the formal dining room, like they dress for dinner, sort of
feeling there is that money that mom got in the divorce or does mom do
something else that like she's got that kind of money, because this was it
was like an absurd amount of money for a girl who I think is going
to a public high school. It's like Daddy war Bus. Yeah, levels
of the money, the like the rolls Royce and the dressing up for dinner
give the impression of like old money. Yeah, yeah, you know,
yeah, maybe both her parents are just like maybe the dad's new money.
Maybe that's clearly new money. He got his money like as a prize fighter.
Yeah right, So, but they're both equally rich and she is also
spoiled. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of the few facts on Wikipedia about
this movie that this is Beverly Hills, California in this scene, even though
there's nothing all again, the three sentenced plot synopsis on there takes time to
mention that it's a girl from Beverly Hills, California. It's funny with romantic
comedy sto. I do feel like there's a trope of like the rich girl
and the poor boy, and I always wonder what it be like the other
way around, Like if it was a rich man, it's like, oh
great, now you have to do work on yourself. In this movie,
they just they never do that though, so forget I said it. Yeah,
So after that scene where her mother is like, yeah, you'll go
to the hotel and don't worry about it, we get a montage of her
flying or like a plane, so you know that there was flight that took
place. So she flies into Northwest Florida, Beach International air Port, the
Panama City Beach Airport, because everything in this movie is Panama City Beach specific.
She walks out and goes right to the first cars she sees, which
is a confusing thing for me, like that she would just go It's not
like there's a sign that's the rich girl the limo must be for me.
Yeah, but I guess it's an international airport. I bet there's a second,
Like I drove into Panama City, so I didn't use the airport there,
But I assume there's probably more than one car in the parking lot when
they get when you like go out there. Yeah, it's not even her
father picking her up. She doesn't know the person picking her up, she
says it. Yeah. Well, she also says that she hardly knows her
father, so like, would would she have recognized her dad if you'd been
there? Well, are you about to ask a question about this? Uh?
Sort of okay, okay, yeah, So but as we all establish,
this is actually not her car, does anybody remember what the first indication
that it's not her car is that, like something happened, she won't about
to walk into the car, and then something happens. Well, she's interrupted
by a mind. Yes, that's exactly. Yeah, a mine jumps into
frame and points at the hotel transportation and takes her suitcase and takes her suitcase.
Yeah, I'd be alarmed. Yeah. Yeah, So she's not getting
into a fancy limo. My next question, what does she get into instead?
Oh, a red golf cart? Yep, a red golf cart.
So some real beautiful maniacs have been adding all types of Panama City Beach specific
trivia to the IMDb page for this movie. I have sprinkled them throughout this
game. I will be reading the trivia, and afterwards I'll be asking you
all if you think, at time of recording if the ratio of people who
found that helpful verse not found that helpful is greater than fifty percent or not.
The first IMDb trivia we have is from the goofs section of this film.
Oh, the Panama City Beach airport is eighteen miles outside of town.
Golf carts cannot legally travel on state highways. I was wondering about that.
Jenny would not have been able to get from the airport to her father's hotel
and a golf cart under any circumstances. Much less in the space of a
song chorus. Yeah, so it was a song chorus, there was a
whole song. Yeah. So I am a IMDb Trivia purist. Okay,
so I read them as they are said, as they are spelled, and
I leave all of it intact. So I apologize people. So do you
think it's zero to fifty of people found that or fifty one or higher.
I'm going to say I thought that was helpful, And because everyone on IMB
seems to be from Panama City, I'm going to say over fifty over fifty
percent found the help I also think over okay, I'll take the other road
road, let's travel, all right. So at time of like recording,
two out of two people found the Yeah, so you guys both get points
for the okay. Yeah, and we have not seen the last of our
friends be triviuk, I have no doubt. Yeah, so now we have
some Panama City propaganda. I don't have any particular questions for this first montage
because but because we basically finished all visit all the damned this song to see
if it was a real song or if it was just for the movie,
and I kept getting error messages, so it was written for the movie.
Oh yeah, it was pretty catch Yet there's only I tried to get information
about any of the music on here, only one the song is available,
and the two artists that it's attributed to. Internet presence is not very helpful,
like they do. I can find both the artists, but their Internet
presence is kind of confusing and strange. I really I assumed in this montage
of Panama City, I was like, well, I assume there must be
like some sort of tax break that happened for this movie, or maybe like
a local you know, Bureau of the Business or something helped to sponsor it
or something. It just it definitely feels like this movie was sponsored by Panama
City in Florida. This montage also reminded me of like the opening credits to
the office that like John Krasinski famously filmed his first day going to Scranton,
or the opening credits to Always Stunding in Philadelphia orhere you see like all the
shots of Philly. So I'm like, this is just them going through Panama
City singing about Panama City. Yeah, and we're in Panama City, but
also now knowing that the airport is eighteen miles from the I guess the main
part of Panama City vacation needed. But we are okay, we're recording this
Philadelphia. We all live in Philadelphia. Yeah, that's the fact that we
have brought up every episode. I think that maybe the best comparison to that
would be Rocky. It's Rocky too, right where he does the run and
okay, so somebody had actually my a friend of mine, Dan McQuaid had
at one point like mapped out if Rocky ran the route that you see in
the movie, and it comes out to it's like an ultra marathon. And
then my my friend Rebecca Barbara actually does this like unofficial Rocky run every year
that I she got a she got a C and D from MGM for like
promoting it. She's like, I make no money, I make no money.
And then it was a hard run. Yeah, so because there is
mostly did it so I could just be on the top of the steps with
my metal, then that was the official Rocky run. If there was a
metal involved. This is like, this is a whole other thing. But
all of which is to say knowing that you know you couldn't you couldn't possibly
have done this eighteen mile trip and a golf cart, and it's probably like
showing you the best of Panama City. I feel like that's more like,
yes, we're getting we're getting the highlights of this. We're not actually getting
the full trip, and so it's not an accurate representation. But it's about
the spirit of the journey. Maybe. Yeah. Again, it was hard
for me to I tried to do a little bit of mapping out, but
again, hurricanes are scary, and a lot of these places don't exist anymore
in the way that they are, so it was hard for me to get
exact locations for all these After the Panama City montage, which, like I
said, we will be going over some of the stuff about it specifically,
Oh yeah, we make it to the hotel. For my next question,
what is the full name of the hotel? It didn't make a lot of
sense. I think it was the Hit Parade Hotel. Yep, the Hip
Parade Hotel. Yeah, we see it a few times, including the business
center. We get to go to the Hip Parade Business Center for a hot
second. Yeah, I don't think that's a real place. The Hip Parade
Hotel. What my dreams are shattered? I wanted to go there and see
the dancing and oh the Captain. From what I understand, almost every hotel
in Panama City has similar performers outside of it twenty four to seven. But
it's just that particular hotel doesn't exist. Like it's like a twenty four hour
improv show. There's twenty four hour dancing in a lobby at all times.
Yeah, people with stilts and stuff like that. As somebody with ADHD the
idea of just walking into the lobby and having seventeen different performances happening all at
once, I would just shut down. I would not know where to look,
and I would just shut down. I couldn't get to the reception desk.
That's a really good point. Yeah, No, and we're we're saying
things like performers. Not everybody is really performing. It's like if you consider
performance just wearing a costume and like standing in a lobby as a performance,
then quoting eighty year old movies. Yeah, yeah, I feel like it
was like a talent show sign up. Like people came by, They're like,
I can be in your movie. I can, won't Shakespeare. It's
like, well, is that a talent all right? I guess you can
go. It's like Okay, you're wearing a costume costume? Yeah, yeah,
I wouldn't be surprised if that hotel was not just a collective fever dream
of people who didn't make it and are like, well, I'm doing this
other job, but my passion is Shakespeare, like this is what they just
saw all the time and that they were doing. Yeah, weirdly, it's
I can think of like seven other musicals that will probably do on this podcast,
like The Apple or maybe like The Legend of the Stardust Brothers, or
a bunch of other musicals where a room full of dressed like people dressed up
like that would make perfect sense. And this is like the one movie that
I can think of where does it make sense to have a room full of
people liking costume or something like that. It was bizarre. Yeah, that's
the I think that's one of the pull quotes from the poster, right.
But my next question when she gets out of the golf cart, which we
all know is in street Legal, Okay, okay, she is greeted by
the captain. Does anybody remember what the captain calls her? And he calls
her at this time and then a few other times in the movie, so
I feel comfortable asking this. Doesn't he m lady her? Yep, the
that's basically the lady of the house. Oh right, Yeah, he calls
it the lady of the house, and he does it a few times.
She walks inside, and we've kind of already talked about a bunch of the
people the specific so I'm not going to like ask about that. But what
I will ask is what is the room number that we hear first from the
receptionist or the yeah, the I said receptionist, but like the conciers to
be or not to be. Yeah, that but yep, that is the
answer to the question I just said. It's also not what it's also not
her room number, No, it's just yeah, it's another guest. And
then he does the what's in a name? The rose for her? Yeah,
I thought it was so bizarre when you know, she goes up.
We might mentioned this earlier, like he uh goes there's a couple there and
they're dressed up and the guy says, you know, frankly, my dear,
I don't give a damn, And she's like, oh, gone with
the Wind my favorite movie. And I thought to myself, what are those
two people doing? The whole time, Like are they just reenacting? No
one, they're just doing that? Like what also just the okay, neither
of them they did not look like Red Butler and scarlett O the guy.
The guy looked like mel Brooks. Yeah, I like dressed like Paul Left
Tompkins dress. There was significant age, there was yeah, yeah, he's
definitely like thirty years older than her. And also, like, what seventeen
year old girl in twenty thirteen would ever say that Gone with the Wind was
her favorite movie? Like I love that movie a lot when I was a
kid because influences from my grandparents. But by the time I was a teenager,
I would never have said Gone with the Wind is my favorite movie.
Well, again, the this might be because of the quality of the acting
or the direction, but I didn't believe that that was her favorite movie.
From the line read oh that's my favorite the Wind, That's my favorite movie.
Like she she she lets them know first that she knows what they're doing,
She's picking up what they're putting down. It also felt like an afterthought,
mostly because it was voiced over, but it did feel like they kind
of went to put that in after the fact. This whole movie is acted
like the one scene from the room where he goes to get to the plant
store. Yeah, it's my favorite. Yeah, it's like it's like on
one point two five speed and everything. It's just it's very strange. It
just were me today, I would have thought that an Ai wrote the whole
script. Yeah, it really does feel like that. I was wondering definitely
the music. But that also kind of brings me to the Shakespeare guy,
who I kind of think could have done more. To be honest, I
have him in some sort of costume or like have him commit or just not
do it at all. He was just very like in between like to be
or not to be, to be, oh to be to be? I
just like there's so many crazy costumes. There's stilts, there's someone dressed from
Gone with the Wind. Give him a fancy hat. I don't know,
have him like project more, or like to use his hands and pretend he's
actually on stage doing Shakespeare. But he was just kind of half heard at
that. Well. And then there's this like Penn and Teller sort of relationship
with the other guy the front desk or the other guy doesn't say anything,
but he's the one who like magics, the rose from white to red when
Jen is checking into the hotel, like I did not. Bob and I
know each other because we've done Shakespeare together. We can probably quote a lot
of Shakespeare between us. I can't imagine just like spending my day quoting Shakespeare
to my customers and your co worker too. Yeah. Yeah, and you
would run out of relevant things eventually. Yeah. If if that guy wound
up like dead on the beach in Panama City, I feel like there would
be many suspects. It's the employees in the lobby at the hotel. Yeah.
The one thing, like, because you guys have kind of covered a
lot of stuff I had written down. But the one other thing I wanted
to mention about the lobby, especially in this scene, is did anybody notice
there seemed to be like twelve middle school girls and who aren't dressed up,
who seem to be just like watching the person on the stilts too, Like
it's it's like there's a field trip coming through here or something like that.
There were a bunch of like young kids who were not performing or anything.
So it's like imagine like you're a teenager, like a preteen, and you
like come to the lobby of the hotel to gawk at the weirdos and stand
there and well, yeah, I thought this too. I feel like a
lot of times during the movie there's random groups of young people who maybe are
either actually high school age or like playing younger. They're like maybe slightly older,
but like which doesn't make sense in terms of realism, but it does
make sense in terms of the movie because this is like your post high school
music. Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's like a high school musical
movie. Like it's like, you you want to imagine that you're in a
place where there are lots of people your age hanging out around and doing various
things like going to get ice cream and going to like different things. So
yeah, yeah, so we Jennifer finally gets up to the front desk.
Does anybody remember what the Shakespeare quote that the concierge recites to her here and
doesn't have to be exact, but just the just that's uh, that's that
line that I was talking about from Romeo and Juliet, that which we call
a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. Yeah. I
think he actually miss quotes the thing, but it's the I wrote down the
rose line from Romeo as definitely as the one the lesbian Yeah, I don't
think that it was correct either, but also like just that part of the
line is like it takes away from the context of the Yes, absolutely it
does. Yeah and yeah, I think I actually have a note about that
somewhere later or something like that, because I think some but he runs down
all the miss quotes that the guy says at IMDb, So yeah, I
mentioned the penn and thing about the one guy to sleight of hand magic and
doesn't say anything. She runs into Danny, the head bell boy. He
introduces himself as Danny, but then immediately says you can call me Dan,
which begs the question why he didn't just introduce himself by Dan. And then
no one but Jennifer isn't listening to him because in the other room there's jarringly
loud boombox music playing and Ken is dancing. I feel like this was supposed
to be their West Side Story moment, like seeing each other across the crowded
dance floor sort of situation, which makes sense because Ken Winters was in West
Side Story. But like also David Winters, David Winter, I got Ken
on the brain too, who doesn't have Ken. But yeah, it was
just it was so like it's in West Side Story. They see each other
across in like the crowd parts, and there's everything follows down and there's a
spotlight and everything. This is just like, no, I'm gonna stare at
this guy who is creepily also staring back at me while she's like leaning over
to see it. And there's so many spectators in this lobby it's like a
fire has like it's not zoned for this many people. It's the first of
like maybe two or three other times in this movie where Ken starts dancing and
a crowd forms around him, so like no one asks for it, but
they all just like, oh my god. I wasn't clear whether amongst Ken's
many responsibilities at the hotel, he was also a paid entertainer, or whether
Ken just like walked into the lobby and started dancing the spirit moved him.
Yeah. I also had to laugh out loud at this part and many other
parts, because there are a lot of moments where like the edit cuts are
so fast that it's silly where and this is one of those moments. Danny
comes up and is like, Hi, so we're about to cut to ken
dancing, you know, so she's looking over his shoulder, but the cut
is so fast that it's like, Hi, I'm Danny Howey. And the
sound design. I don't like Razzies necessarily, but I think the sound editing
deserves. When I started watching this, like my my surround sound was on
and I had to turn it off because I kept getting so distracted by things
like that, and like I really meant to just ask what everybody else's experience
was that, because sometimes you know, when you're watching on streaming, the
audio gets out of sync, but that I thought that was happening the entire
movie, because the voices are just so well and I like, when I
was looking at the Wikipedia page, apparently like one of the things that it
got consistently panned for was the dubbing. Oh yeah, but it's not just
that, like the quality of the picture, which you know, sometimes when
you put something on streaming, it takes a while and it's a little staticy
and it looks like it was recorded on a vc R at first, and
then it clears up. This whole thing looks like it was shot on an
iPhone four. Yea, yeah, it might probably it's probably just digital.
It probably isn't a film, or if it is, it's like a maybe
video quality film or something like that, and it's overexposed. And yeah,
they did not they did not have anybody go through and master it after it's
like a hotel, yeah, even outside. Yeah yeah, so yeah,
Danny takes her up to her father's room and then sort of seems to refuse
to leave again. A beautiful IMDb person has has some trivia for us here.
Though Jenny supposedly goes into her father's hotel room, it is a house
in the Fiendsdrine subdivision about ten minutes away, so I looked it up.
That's a housing subdivision of Panama City Beach. That's like a few, like
she said, about ten minute drive away from the main drag of Panama City.
So this person knows that, like which house the like hotel room is.
That's intessing. I figured it was like a penthouse because it was so
big, but there's also a staircase in it, so yeah, it's confused
by that. It's definitely supposed to be the penhouse at the top of the
hotel, but obviously there's no hotel, so there's there we see the lobby
of the hotel, and we see the penthouse, and then we see no
other hotel rooms except for Hal's hotel room for like five seconds when Danny goes
to change mysteriously goes to change the set. And even though it looked like
a motel more than anything else, like, it looked like a totally different
hotel. Before we get off of that, we got to go around and
you guys got to put your guesses in was it greater than fifty percent or
fifty percent? It was ten minutes away the ten Yeah, the IMDb trivia
fact. We got to give this person their due. They went on IMDb
and they typed up this weird fact that's specific to a housing development near where
the movie was filmed. So I don't like this one as much. So
I'm going to say under fifty, under fifty percent. I'm also going to
say under fifty doesn't really add to add to anything really in terms of the
storytelling. That's not that's sometimes a red herring. But you under fifty,
what about you over fifty? Over fifty? God be different. Yeah,
zero out of one people found this helpful, and it wasn't me. I
promise I know, I'm always just an observer on ICBL stats. Ahead of
my next question, jen and her father reunite. How long has it been
since Jennifer's father has seen her? And it doesn't have to be exact she
quotes an exact amount. But yes, so it's five years and he thinks
it's three years. Yeah, that's exactly right. He says it's been three
years. She says it's been five years, three months, and fourteen days,
which implies that she counts every day she doesn't see him, or she
just remembers the last time she saw him. Counter But also she wasn't she
wasn't that excited to see him, so like, why would she be keeping
track that closely? Well, in this scene she was excited to see him,
not in the previous scene she was so excited to go to see him
that she called him by the very affectionate name of father. Yeah, fathers
Hello father. He's like ahi jan and she's like father. Yeah. But
yeah, that maybe she did it as a guilt trip then, just to
be like, it's been this many days since you've reached out, and I
counted for this part, it's like the sign of wah wah it's been this
many days since we last had a safety incident. Yeah. Yeah. So
the next question I have is what excuse does he give as to why he
hasn't seen her. I love all the exposition in this scene. He was
so focused on his fighting. Yeah, he said he got so caught up
in the fight game, the fight game. Yeah. Literally, these sentences
are like, I think her thing, the thing that she said to prompt
that was like, well, you know, you really haven't been in my
life that much. And he's like, well, I've just been so hung
up with the fight game. I've just been fighting. It's on. Yeah,
that's it seems like he's still fighting. But also now he's gone into
this additional venture of hotel management they had in hand. Yes, I mean
I know that, I'm sure that there are fighters who also have a stake
in a hotel, but like he runs the hotel, presumably it would be
like it's not a it's not a boxing themed hotel. Yeah. I was
thinking that too. It's like, why is there so much a dance there
if that's like not something he introduced to the space, right, he doesn't
seem to be four or against it. He almost seems to not notice that
there's dancing on the only time he seems to like acknowledge the dancing is the
dancing his daughter does, right at the very end. Yeah, even though
his lobby is lousy with weirdos who are dancing or dancing adjacent things. Yes,
it also didn't make sense why he didn't If she's been dancing for five
years and he hasn't seen her in five years, why hasn't he invited her
down to his dance centric hotel sooner than now? She would have loved it.
He also talks later on about like what a good dancer she is,
that he knows what a good dancer she is, but it's like, if
you haven't seen her in five years and she's only been dancing for five years,
Yeah, how father's intuition? Oh god? So yeah, they make
small talk like two people who haven't seen each other in five years. He
asks how is your kiddy and how is your flight? And your mom says
you've been studying dance, which again clearly hasn't seen her dance. Hearing your
child is studying dance in a place like this is like hearing she's a pokemon
trainer. This is a place where everything revolves around dance people. As we
drove through Panama City, we didn't really talk about it, but they're dancing,
yeah, like next to all of the attractions. I was waiting if
that was gonna be a question. Then I forgot, but there was like
they would drove by a mini golf course and they use their mini golf clubs
to like dance. Everyone dance is here, Yeah, But their bonding is
cut short as her father is called away to work, which I believe is
how every scene that he is in ends left alone, she decides to take
in some PCB nightlife. She walks around I think only two carnival attractions and
then goes to Club Lovella. She walks around them. She doesn't necessarily no,
she doesn't interact with them or anything. Yeah, and she's wearing like
shoes that I don't know that I would want to do that much walking in
same as somebody who's walked around that part of It's it's like there's not a
ton of side walks, like the sidewalks coming go like it's a it's a
good place to get an uber like in that area of PCB. If I'm
if I'm getting that right, Yeah, she's not dressed to be wandering around
in the evening. It's Annama City. At least like three four inch wedges
she has. I would be so uncomfortable after like ten minutes, right,
Yeah, So the club Lovella is a real place, or I should say
was a real place. It was shut down in twenty eighteen after Hurricane Michael
caused major damage to the club. But yeah, it is the It was
at the time the largest all a club in the United States and has a
very long Wikipedia page, which I'm not going to go into because that would
be even more that would be even more egregious for the length of this podcast.
Our Internet is controlled by these Panama Citians, Like they really leave their
mark. Yeah. So she enters the club and she sees Ken dancing,
but not seemingly to the beat of the song. And I just assume that
every sentence where I say dancing ends with that too, like because the songs
are so aggressively added afterwards that it's like they're not even dancing to a click
track of the same film. It's not uncommon in like dancing movies for them
to have something different that you're dancing too. And like even in music videos.
Sometimes it's something different that you're dancing to, but they try to at
least get it so it's the same same beat beat, the same tempo something,
or they can slow or speed the film to work out with the music
that they're they're ultimately planning on doing. Because sometimes it's like we don't have
the rights to a song for this scene yet, so we're just going to
like or it hasn't been written, or it's like gonna be Yeah, it
all sounds like a good idea, So we're just gonna putiance on you dance
to Beyonce and we'll fix it in post. But you fix it in posts.
Yeah, that's the one of the another pull of quote from this movie
too, you fix it. So they introduce themselves for actors who are definitely
not teenagers. Ken and Jen Sure are awkward like around each other like teenagers
that they hit They like disappear into the roles when it's the two of them
talking to each other. It's you mean acting. Yeah. She asks how
long he has been dancing? Five years and he says five years. Yeah.
They start dancing. Danny looks on in an extremely menacing way. Oh
my god, I thought that he was gonna like actually do something about it,
but no, he's just gonna stare. Yeah, not creepy at all.
No. Yeah, people cut in randomly while they're dancing, and then
they stopped. They cut in, but then within five seconds they're like,
oh, we're back together. Yeah. That I thought that would have been
menacing too, Like everything's trying to keep them apart and they can't get back
to each other, but then they do. It happens that it's done with.
Yeah. So like if you go to a salsa club, it's not
unusual for there to be like a turn and you're temporarily with another partner,
and then you turn back and you're with the first partner. That's fine.
That part didn't throw me off that much. To do the dancing that they
did together, having never met with her ballet background and his I don't know
what kind of dancing we want to call it background. That that was what
was unrealistic for me, Not the partner swapping the actual dancing. What are
you talking about? This movie is just like save the Last dance. They
leave the club after they do their one or two songs inside, does anybody
remember where they go next? It's at that same night. Is this the
part when they go to like those little shops and they go to the giant
Shark's Mouth? No, later, yeah, it's later. Do they go
back to the hotel? Does he take her a ride on his scooter?
That is after this? But they do something in between? Okay? Yeah,
do you have a guess this isn't when they want to buy the necklace
either. I'm that's the same thing that she's Yeah. No, they go
to like a carnival, right, yeah, and then I think this is
the scene where she asks why he dances? Does anybody remember what he says
there? It's my life? Yeah, he says, it's my life.
Yeah, his only chance to be something. Again, he's an orphan,
so in this movie he's really like like he has a job and like,
but in order to rise above his rank of orphan, he needs to This
was the part when I was watching this movie alone in my house with no
one else there where, I just started singing I'm just kid anywhere. It
was just so angsty. I loved it so like teenagers who come from a
disadvantaged background and they're talking about like, my only chance to get out of
here. Usually they're talking about the military or they're talking about sports. I
can't think of anybody who's ever been like dancing, that's going to be my
ticket out of this ship hole. Statewide competition, that's going to do it.
Because it wasn't like you get a scholarship to the University of Florida.
It wasn't like you get any money. But no, you had on three
thousand dollars. Oh wow, I don't remember that. Yeah, it was
a huge price. It was on the poster. It was I'm surprised it
wasn't one of your questions. But I am toot was one hundred thousand dollars,
which is not insignificant. Presumably you need to split it with your partner.
So like when you're seventeen years old, half, like fifty thousand dollars
is a lot of money and you're thirty two fifty dollars money. But just
knowing that this was the like his ticket out of town was dancing, it
was like, Okay, you won a statewide competition, now what So I
wasn't sure if he was trying to get out of town though, like he
had no aspirations, he did nothing past being a dishwasher. It felt to
me more like I need to win this competition to prove to myself that I'm
worth something or that like my whole identity is danced. So if I don't
win this, then who am I? Right, He's just it wasn't even
like he needed to win the competition to prove something to her dad. Yeah,
well there is. We do get that later and then that's dropped.
But yes, well, I mean like we get we like, we get
her dad's disapproval later, and it's really not clear whether it's a class thing
or a race thing or feels like a class thing. Yeah, because he
didn't see him at all. He's like dish, but he knew who he
was. He was like, is that that dishwasher boy? Yeah, No,
it's it's much more complicated then all of the yes, I somehow you're
right, But it's even more so. This movie has a plot and a
backstory, the way that a porn in a backstory. It's like, you're
it's just there so that you can get to the exciting stuff, and it's
like this movie, it's just there so we can get to the dancing and
so we can get it's on, like because you know in yeah, really
realistically, I was thinking this, like he's clearly a dancer who knows forms,
so he's like like he's able to do the spins, he knows the
l a like I don't know anything about anything, but he seems like he
knows what he's doing. You can't. I wouldn't imagine that you could get
to that point without having taken a lot of lessons. And if you've taken
a lot of lessons, then you have a teacher, you have like some
probably some people who took lessons with you, like you've got some community around
there. He doesn't seem to have that, which is like very unrealistic.
And how could he afford those classes? Yeah? Yeah, but when he
took the classes, he also watched the studio when he was like ten years
old to afford to be there. This isn't you know, because it's not
like you mentioned save the last dance and save the last dance, like part
of that central conflict is like the ballet versus the street dance, like the
taut dance versus the like dance that you pick up that you learn the ungodly
marriage of them at the end, Well, yeah, yeah, nobody really
needed that. But you know here it's like the dance. It's not like
he's a break dancer and she's a ballerina. Like the dancing that they're doing
is generally pretty compatible. And where does that come from from either of their
backgrounds? Yeah, because we really don't see her do ballet besides that one
scene in the beginning, Like I never really thought of her as a ballerina
because she was only like she was also doing all those other modern I don't
know what to call it. It wasn't really dead. But then we see
him doing those Alisa Cone turns, which are the turns where you have it's
like it's a pure wetwark, but you have one leg extended out to the
side of the entire time, and those are really, really, really hard.
And that's the thing. It's not just a ballet thing, but generally
in order to do it, you've got at least some ballet training. So
she does like very basic ballet at the beginning. She's warm, she's doing
like moving in and out of different positions, and he is doing this like
extremely complex type of turn that you don't have to learn from a ballet class,
but you generally would learn from being in the ballet world. And the
choreography is really not bad. It is just that the choreography does not make
sense for the plot. Okay. I did like seeing him do those.
I thought they were pair aways when he was spinning at first, but I
like that because he was really good at that, and I just called them
his angry spins. Yeah. So, yeah, like an alsa con turn
is like a pirouett, but you keep the leg extended out to the side.
A pirouet you have your your knee bent and turned out to the side
with the foot kind of nestled into the other leg. Okay, and then
there's I think Flatti turns. I think are the other ones where you're alternating
between the two. You bring the leg out and bring in it, and
bring the leg out and bring it in. And normally you see female dancers
doing the Flatai turns and male dancers doing the Alsicon turns, but they can
anybody can do either of them as long as you've got the training. Well,
I guess I'll have to not ask those questions I was. I figured
I would be safe giving a little bit of vocabulary that it wasn't going to
screw up your plans. Yeah, I don't think I have any of those
words on this script. The words I do had are moped. He next
drives her back to the hotel on his moped. He seems to be pushing
her away at this point, but she will not take no for an answer.
She really wants him. And the Captain comes up to her and they
have a back and forth about chariots and pumpkins. I think, I think
I prefer the pumpkin wiser words were never spoken. He responds too many metaphors.
Everything that happens with the Captain is like the most important thing that he's
ever witnessed or the most like serious thing he's ever That's why I love him
like that character kind of bothered me because there's a trope in film and literature
of the magical nero. I thought that, and the Captain was so much
that that every time it was like, couldn't like why couldn't you make Ken
black and the like not have assigned these attributes to like the fairy Godmother,
like sees all omniscient, Like why why did it have to be the only
black performer in the show. Yeah, And it's not, but it's not
like they gave him a like famously African American style of dance for him to
do every time, like associated with this popping and locking originated in Russia in
the nineteen thirties. No, and you're absolutely right. I just I want
to call Hi an actor, but I know he's a dancer. He just
had such a great energy about him that I just maye be happy whenever he
was in a scene, I'm like, oh, the Captain's here. You're
absolutely right about the way he's written in, but you're also absolutely right that
he was a delight in the whole movie. I really enjoyed him. Yeah,
he has. I mean, with somebody like him who it's like the
whole time, you just have to be happy and you have to just write
he's the only one whose energy matches the weirdness of this thing. Yeah.
Well, and then then also apparently he's the he's a very talented and well
known to throw out all of Panama City for the dance performance and the statewide
competition. Yeah. No, I did wish that the other dancers brought that
energy he did, because most of the time they were kind of boring.
He he didn't. It didn't feel like he was reading his lines off of
a prompter every time he was on screen exactly. Yeah. So the next
day Ken returns to do the dishes and the captain gives him a warning.
Does anybody remember what the warning that he gives Ken? So the next day
he's driving back on his moped and he's walking into the It doesn't have anything
to do with anything else in the movie, but it's another metaphor that the
captain says, keep this place ship shape. That's more of an admiral thing,
Bob, not the captain. Don't fly too close to the sonnick ers.
That's like weirdly closer. Yeah, it was. It really was kind
of a like watch your back, know your place sort of thing, but
I don't remember the exact metaphor that. So he's not saying watch he's saying
watch your back, but not because he's saying no, you're right. He
says careful. The vultures are and there's one vulture in short shorts and like
like a button down shirt. They panned over to Danny and I laughed out
loud at his shorts, like and it's not unusual that you would be wearing
shorts and benzy, but for some reason, he just looks so silly.
Well, he's the tall I think he might be the tallest actor than the
Captain, who was dressed like well, like he's got like a it's the
short shorts and like really blousy shirt. Yes, and he's supposed to be
like like the head bellboy, and usually there's an uniform that bellboys wear,
but it's clearly not like did he also get to work late? Did he
get to work like one minute earlier than Ken's. So now he's gonna make
Ken feel shitty about being late. A someone who used to have a job
where I had to wear not flatter flattering, high waisted cat key shorts and
a polo shirt that blowed out. I felt for that because it doesn't look
good on anyone. Yeah, so Danny choose out Ken for being late.
I was having trouble with my scooter. I think you were having trouble with
your brain. I I kind of can you report him for the HR or
something? I kind of judged up that line. Imagine if it was more
atonal off somebody who talks pretty a tonally on this podcast, why don't you
dance yourself up to mister Sanders sweet and make his bed a not something that
like a dishwasher, traish he does. Yeah, I definitely at that moment
was like, wait, but he's a dish why why At that moment,
I'm like, wait, Bernie Sanders is staying at this hotel. The millionaires
and billionaires don't want you to dance. If he had been a gen zer,
he would have complained about that's not my job description. So I'm not
going to work outside those boundaries. Yeah. I want to support that too.
Yeah, I wrote here Danny is so angry that he's dancing with Jennifer
dancing, that Danny's jealous of Ken dancing. Oh, Danny is so jealous
that Ken is dancing with Jennifer. And I feel like we're missing the scene
where that establishes the distinction in our world where dancing is not life or death,
yes, and the world of Panama City Beach, where dancing is like
you eat and breathe dancing. Right, But it's never like expressed before this
that Danny is also a dancer and would also like to enter the competition and
is looking for a partner Like that could have been established so early on,
like oh, hey, let me take your back to your dad's room for
you. He said that you're a dancer. Did you know about this competition?
I happen to be looking for a partner. And if they had established
that first and then she sees Ken, and then it's like there's a reason
for there to be some tension with Like she already said she's going to dance
with me. It's like, yeah, but she really wants to dance with
me, then there would be some reason for that animosity. But instead they
just made Danny and Dick and kind of like in Selly. Yeah, and
at this point Ken doesn't seem to be interested in Jennifer. They obviously it's
like the sort of unsung chemistry between them, but Ken at this point is
like, I don't think we should continue to see each other. But even
if he had been interested in Jennifer, like Ken has a dance partner,
Yes, this competition is real soon, so we talk about it. Yeah,
And so it could be like, hey, you're a really good dancer.
I happen to be entering this dance competition. You should come meet my
partner sometime. Like there could have also been a way to alleviate that tension.
The steaks here are so abysmally low, but they don't make us feel
that way. Yeah, it's like obviously, like with dancing, you have
a partner and that's separate than your personal partner, right life, But like
they treat it like it is a high school crush. Well you're not dance,
you're dancing with her. Oh you must not really like me. It's
like, yeah, no, they've been practicing it like they've been established already.
But also the whole like, your dad's making you go out on a
date, so I'm going to be really shitty to you. Oh we'll get
to that. I have thoughts. Yeah, yeah, So we have to
cut to mister Sanders room first, right, and his bed's already been made,
so he makes Ken make it again. And so not only is he
a curmudgeon, he's also loud like me, he hadn't slept in his bed.
Not that like it was already made, just that it hadn't ever been
unmade. You are reading into this movie. There's so much depth that you
see this. This movie is like a reflecting pool to me, and you
are like diving into it. No, keep going, validating and this is
usually what I get made fun of for, so keep it up. Yeah,
this this is a movie you can read and get the gig stuff.
You don't even have to see anything. So Ken refers to Sanders by a
certain nickname that really sets him off. Does anybody remember what that was?
Pops? Yes, he calls him Pops. This will be important later when
we find out that Ken is an orphan, something that's really important in this
movie. But it's only said like one time ones and it's insulting. Yeah,
if this is an in joke that I think it's just between me and
Steve. But if anybody has seen the film Black Dynamite, which is like
a sort of ascend off and a spoof to black exploitation movies, they make
fun of Black Dynamite the character for not having any parents in a flashback scene,
and one of the characters says, you're an orphan. That means you
don't have any parents. And so every time there was like orphan related stuff,
I'm like, you don't have any parents, Ken, You're an orphan?
Like this is another one of those like archaic yeah things like David Winters
wrote this movie thinking that it was still the fifties, like gaming the character
Shotzi. But also then you know, like Pops, like yeah, the
fact that that he would be so upset because like that's what my son used
to call me. It's like, no, it wasn't, absolutely was not,
but like we were so close to using daddy O. Like it was
just so so much not of the time. When this is said, it's
crazy that no one is snapping in this movie, Like I mean he was
in West Side Story. Yeah, maybe he just have so much a West
Side Story he like broke his ability to snap. And I love that there
was a dance fight in this movie. Yeah, I thought I should have
been Danny and Ken. Maybe it was kind of dance off. Come on,
Yeah, every dance sequence in this movie was a dance fight between the
movie and me skipping, like that's part of the movie. The only part
that I wanted to see was the dancing. Well, that's why I'm the
one who wrote like fourteen pages. Jen meets Ken walking back with the linens
from mister Sanders room and convinces him to abandon his job where his direct supervisor
and apparently his like the supervisor supervisor already don't like him and show her around
the city. So I don't have a question about that exactly. But we
for the second week in a row. We have a romantic montage before montage,
so like this was absurd. She comes up to him and she's like
she's like, oh, yeah, no, you don't need to do this,
and throws the sheets on the ground and she's like it's okay, I'm
the boss's daughter, and it's like, oh yeah, I'm sure no one
will be upset that you circumvented the processes of this hotel. I hate that
you're throwing your weight around. He just showed up yesterday. Yeah, so
you'd think that you would then go to her father at some point and be
like, by the way, please still pay him. I made him stop
working. Also, like right when we when he first arrived, Danny's like,
we'll see if you still have a job at the end of your shift
sort of thing. So the fact that Ken is totally fine with just like
okay, yeah, you only have to ask me once. We'll just I'll
take you around the town. And then when they get back, there's never
any mention of it. There's there's never a moment of like where were you
today? Like if we're talking about places where we could have added some dramatic
tension, Danny could have fired Ken. Yeah, we were like we're not
doing this movie. This is a plotless movie. But I mean think about,
like in Dirty Dancing, we have like Patrick Swayzey's character is his job
is in peril at the camp and that is where part of the tension comes
from. And it would have been so easy to be like you have to
dance your way back into my good graces sort of situation, or like he's
now dancing on behalf of another hotel and the other dance Well that would have
made stakes for the father too, to be like, oh, I really
have to go to this board meeting because we're losing money to that other hotel.
And it's like, you know, at the end, it's like Ken,
please come back and dance for us, like if this had been the
hotel's dance team rather than just like yeah, anybody who wants to dance here
can. This is also the first scene to where like, up until this
point, like they told us Jen was rich, that she was well off,
but I never saw her like kind of axe boiled. And this was
the first scene where I'm like, oh, you're a princess, Like this
is really And they mentioned so many times like Welcome to your Palace. But
she never herself does anything to like, there's gonna be a second time this
movie where she does something and I will get to that because it's terrible,
but like, this is really the first time where it's like, oh,
you may not be a good person because will he get paid for this?
Will he get in trouble for this? Are you just making him like not
work because of what you want? And it felt very off pace. One
thing that is very believable about it is that she would get away with that
because her father is a bad father's white girl. Yeah, you know,
ethnically ambiguous, it's going to take the fall for it. Yeah. So
back to the movie, we Can and Jen spend their day not working going
on a romantic montage. So I'm going to go around the room and ask
you guys to name one of the set pieces that comes up during the romantic
montage. So and again it doesn't have to be in any order, just
kind of describe one of the things that they go to. And I'm it's
specifically to this montage during this because there are other montages. I want to
make that abondantly clear. Okay, So specifically the montage that they go to
this day. Let's go with they are roller skating, yep, roller skating
is one of them. Yeah, this is when they're at the Giant Shark
shop and he buys her the necklace. Yes, they do go. It's
Big Willy's Surf and Swim, a real tourist trap that you can go to
in Panama City Beach. And yeah, because like the table is set up
outside of the ship's mouth. Well, there are probably real customers in there
that they're like, you can shoot outside the thing. Yeah, and they
probably did the other scenes like at the same time where the people are dancing
with the golf clubs or whatever. So this is also this is it ends
in the ice cream shop. Yep. The food fight, yep, the
food fight. That's pink Pelican ice cream bar. I have. Getting into
a food fight and an ice cream bar is not cool. Someone has to
clean that up. Yes, But at first, also, like they you
know, they started, there's a little bit of like oh haha, cute,
and everybody around them is just gawking at them. You gotta have a
line producer there being like just look like the person ahead in front of you
or like look at it and react but it's it's like they're counting. They're
like, yeah, she's gonna throw, and then he's gonna throw, and
they're going to count to eight and then we're all gonna start through. Yeah,
I'm surprised we don't see one of the extras like mouthing. They're like,
yeah, well, it felt like a lot of these people were from
Panama City and just like they probably weren't just picked off the street. That
was a feeling out with a lot of these Yeah that's possible. Well,
hopefully some of our friends at Panama City will add that information in on the
IMVV page. So you're up. They lady in the tramp a milkshake.
They're like drinking like both sides of it. Yes, they share an ice
cream float is what I have, and then also ice cream. Yeah I
know, I put that on. I was put that on my notes.
I was like, oh, yeah, they went to ice cream twice.
Yeah, I mean, no problem with that. I guess nobody's got nobody
else worried about, Like, yeah, it's a fantasy world where nobody's like
us in tolerance. Okay, there is a scene where I think they either
saw like a post advertised advertising a fight maybe, and so they pretend to
fight each other and then she puts her arm. I'ms like, I'm the
champion yep, imitating martial artists because they see a poster on a wall.
I am the Champion of the world. Yeah, she's I'm the King of
the World. And I don't know the yeah, but she says, I
am the Champion of the world. Yeah, it's a shamelading give her a
second take. She's combining queen and yeah, or there's that role doll book
called Danny Champion of the World, but that feels like a very obscure reference
as a children's book. She did have that drawn on mustache when she had
that scene, and so yeah, there's there's some like sitting on a bench
that is distinctive looking enough that later on when she walks by that bench,
she's sad. Yeah, I think so, yeah, I think that's like
watching the sun set. Yeah, that's kind of like the same as the
previous one, but I even wrote like distinct enough that it's its own thing.
Yeah, because it's like right after they roller skate, okay, they
go on I don't know what they're called. They're like these little like sort
of ski things in the water where that shoots water. Yeah, I looked
it up. It's called jet boarding. Jet boarding, Okay, so yes,
they go jet boarding, which seems like one of those things where like
that probably is like a few hours or whatever. They take you out probably
on the thing like it's I'm curious about how long it would take to do
all of the things in Panama City that they do in the montage. They
just use their whole budget on that part two to rent that thing. Yeah,
so I've got three more here, so we'll see if you guys get
a taller. So I'm trying to remember because I really hope when we're done
with this part we talk about the song that was playing. Oh my god,
I really really want to talk about that song. But I'm trying to
see this song because the songs in this movie are like a Greek chorus.
They are walking us through and I almost wish there was a Greek chorus just
like in the background while these things are happening. But they walk us through
everything that's happening and everything the actors are feeling, because we can't tell by
their acting, but there were a few things that lined up with a song
but now I don't think I can think of anything else. Think about Okay,
you want to pass? Do you have a do you remember they stroll
along and a kind of jog along the beach? Yep, I have running
through seagulls on the beach like hand in hand. They like scare seagulls.
I think that's the first thing they did. Is that is the first thing
that they did? Yeah? Or what do you have my notes or something?
Do you have a guess? There's two more things I have written.
Oh goodness, I don't know. I was trying to think of like a
Florida political joke. I don't know anything. Yeah, no, I I
think I'm out. They ride on his moped. Oh no, they don't
write on do you have any more guests? Now? Okay, so the
other two things that I had written, they go go karting around the scene.
I couldn't I couldn't get a hold of our IMDb friend and know if
that's also the street legal carts on the stoe No, I couldn't find out.
And then after they do their ice cream float, they go outside the
diner where there's an Elvis and a Marilyn and they both imitate that. Yea,
So those are all the things I have written for the Romantic montage and
all of the things that are in Panama City, and all of the things
in this first round mode. You mind reading the scores for the first round.
Certainly in third place we have Bob with seven points, in second place
is myself with nine, and in first place is Jill with eleven. How
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