WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:03.279 Erica, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I know you're not online. You're 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:07.599 not You're less online than me. Something happened online yesterday that I'm ninety nine 3 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:10.039 point nine percent sure you're unaware of, and I want to let you know 4 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:13.439 about it. Okay, I can tell you I'm one hundred percent before I'm 5 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.519 unaware because I have no idea. You're talking perfect. Something went viral, 6 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:23.879 and the thing that went viral was from KVOA News for Tucson breaking news. 7 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:31.559 Tucson teacher loses job over OnlyFans account. Boom, right, we's sex positive 8 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.159 here, that's bullshit. Pay teachers more. Maybe they will need to set 9 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.280 up only fans account to pay their rent. And then you click on it 10 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:42.759 and you realize that the Tucson teacher that was fired for having an only fans 11 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:52.000 account is none other than get this, Rachel Dolazol, whoa who is now 12 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:59.359 going by the name I apologize for this pronunciation and catchy diallo, which means 13 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:03.880 she is still appropriating. She's still pretending to be black. Yeah, okay, 14 00:01:03.319 --> 00:01:07.400 okay, look, I don't blame OnlyFans. I don't blame Rachel Dole 15 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:14.599 even I blame I blame Tucson News for burying the fucking lame. Your headline 16 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:21.120 writer, I've never seen a headline so missed the fucking point of the story. 17 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.480 She read. She's back, Rachel Dolizala is back. She's back. 18 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:27.640 Still not black, but she's back. Yeah. I remember the last time 19 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:30.640 we all agreed on something, and it was that this woman was fucking weird. 20 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.640 Well, let's deconstruct this story for a second, A hot second. 21 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.040 A. She's still doing her weird fucking thing. There are better people than 22 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.439 me to discuss, absolutely right, But here's what I want to discuss. 23 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:47.239 Who hired her to teach? And what is she teaching? Because when you 24 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:52.560 said teacher gets fired, I was legitimately picturing like a second grade teacher. 25 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:56.120 Yeah, who has to do only fans on the side, or maybe wants 26 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:00.000 to do only fans on the side, I don't know, and like and 27 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:04.000 like they're like, but WoT someone think of the children? And now I'm 28 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.879 like, but what someone think of the children? For God's sakes? If 29 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:27.599 she is teaching African Americans? Holy shit, Hey, I'm Paul, and 30 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:35.560 this is that aged Well yesterday's pop culture. Today we are in murder mystery 31 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:40.400 March Erica. But I have a missive for you from so much alliteration. 32 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:46.120 I love tones. I have a missive for you from our listeners. If 33 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:50.199 you'll remember, we did Purple Rain. No, Paul, have no memory. 34 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:54.400 Its mystery to me. We were talking about how Purple Rain didn't when 35 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:59.319 the best song oscar and Against All Odds came up, and you said, 36 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:00.639 what was that from? And I said, I don't know. Oh, 37 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:05.159 I actually know now someone in my family told me, and I felt like 38 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:09.479 a schmuck for not realizing it. Yeah, somewhere between six and four thousand 39 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:16.439 people emailed us to tell us the song Against All Odds is from the movie 40 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:23.039 Against All Odds? Yeah, yeah, that actually that tracks what song was 41 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:28.000 Beauty and the Beast in? What song is that? That's a good movie? 42 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:31.319 Is that in? It's Okay, Paul, did you look up Against 43 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.479 All Odds? I did, and I want to read you and everyone the 44 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:39.400 synopsis and IMDb. Can I tell you I'm choosing not to look it up. 45 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:42.639 I was going to ask you, thinking that I was going to do 46 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:46.280 exactly what you're doing right now. Okay. A gangster hires an ex football 47 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:51.240 player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love 48 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:55.439 and the twists start to appear, all of it, all of it. 49 00:03:55.719 --> 00:03:58.599 Now, we have to do it, now, we have to do it 50 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:00.199 on the podcast. Oh god, Paul, have you seen this? The 51 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.919 cast? It's Jeff Bridges. I know that Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, 52 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:11.120 James Woods, boo. But Jane Greer and Richard Windmark we're in this movie. 53 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.639 Okay, So now we know what movie Against All Odds is from. 54 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:19.319 It is from Against As. We have Susie sighting, we have Swoozie sighting, 55 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:23.439 we have sabk All right, let's watch the shit out of this. 56 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:25.639 Let's do this. Let's do it. I'm in Let's do it, all 57 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:28.160 right, Erica. Before we get to our murder mystery for the day, 58 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.399 we do have a five star Apple podcast review? Shall I read to you? 59 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:35.000 Sure? This is from ains Lovey? And they write, where has 60 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.800 this pod been my whole life? Where have we been your whole life? 61 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.839 We've only been around since twenty nineteen. We're very young. Before that, 62 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:46.720 we were probably just I don't know, getting high and watching movies. Yeah, 63 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.519 sums it up, Uh, they write, I just discovered this pod 64 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.079 two days ago. I binged about seven episodes in two days. Wow, 65 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:58.959 good for you. Oh. I loved the Mermaid's episode as well as the 66 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:02.759 Goodfellas and far Scump episodes. Three excellent choices. I will say that also, 67 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:09.040 like there's no Venn diagram of those films that's correct, like except that 68 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:14.279 we covered them like there's nothing nothing in common. They're right. I am 69 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.240 hooked. I am so happy I found this pod. You two are absolutely 70 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.079 brilliant, and I love these reviews. All of my favorite movies heart emoji, 71 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:24.759 heart emoji, heart emoji, kissy winky face emoji. I love kissy 72 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:28.360 winky face. Kissy winky face is my favorite. It is a dangerous emoji, 73 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:30.199 though, because if you send it to the wrong person at the wrong 74 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:32.079 time, you're like, I didn't mean that to come off creepy, you 75 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.800 know. I meant that to be loving, not like I was. That 76 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:39.759 was more of an air kiss, not a kiss. Yeah, it wasn't 77 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:44.079 a tony figure out a way to show us air kiss in an emoji like 78 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:47.519 these like the mean girls love Yeah, what like that they do that? 79 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.439 But an emoji an emoji, I don't think there is one, and we 80 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:56.160 need one. Yeah, Tim Cook, I know you're listening. That should 81 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:59.480 be your top priority, some kind somehow make an air kiss emoji. Yes, 82 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.120 please cut you all the emails were about to receive explaining to us how 83 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:04.959 to do an arkis emoji. Oh my god, we get it. We're 84 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:11.800 middle aged, Ains Lovey. Thank you so much for this review. Thank 85 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:15.199 you for binging seven episodes in two days. I really am. I love 86 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.519 hearing that. I love that hearing that people enjoy us. Did you hear 87 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:21.439 the tension in the Mermaids episode? I remember us fighting over something there that 88 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:26.920 was that was That was a spicy one we did. We disagreed about how 89 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:29.800 the ending of Mermaids played, but we agreed about a lot of episodes which 90 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:32.160 we should be punished for having sex. That's what That's what I remember that. 91 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:39.079 Yeah, that's what you remember? Sure sure sure, sure, Ains 92 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.560 Lovey. If you would like ate that, h bel tope, eag please 93 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:44.879 reach out let us know this is you. We would so love to send 94 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:48.800 it to you. Erica. What is our murder mystery for today? Speaking 95 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:53.040 of spicy episodes, because I think we're going to disagree on this film. 96 00:06:53.160 --> 00:07:00.879 Yeah. Probably Today's film is the nineteen ninety seven neo noir crime thriller La 97 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:05.040 Yes. La Confidential was requested by Mary and by Brian. Brian has requested 98 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:10.560 before. I want to remind everyone he is at zoo draws underscore comic on 99 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:15.720 Instagram. And if you don't love cheeky comics featuring animals that are about conserving 100 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:17.560 the earth, what are you even doing here? Go follow Brian on Instagram. 101 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:23.360 All right, So, La Confidential was written by Brian Oh God, 102 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:28.879 hell Gland, that's close enough, Yeah, and Curtis Hansen, based on 103 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.040 the nineteen ninety novel of the same name by James Elroy. It was directed 104 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:36.399 by Hanson and stars Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, 105 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:41.959 David straight Aairn, James Cromwell, and Danny DeVito. Quite a cast. 106 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.959 I know I've forgotten David straight Aaron was in this and I like squealed 107 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.319 when I saw him, squealed it legitimately loved everything he did. Yeah. 108 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.879 Also, I'm going to put the cart far ahead of the horse here. 109 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:56.439 But in terms of men's fashion, he's the only one that skates away scott 110 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:59.480 free in this film, only one, I think, because to wear those 111 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:03.839 fifties you have to be tall and like things well. Also because his character 112 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:05.720 was sort of a dandy, so he didn't have to wear those dumb boxy 113 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:09.639 suits that everyone else wore. He got to wear a sweater so you couldn't 114 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.439 see that his pants were hitting above his belly button like that. Yeah, 115 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.279 he's wearing the nineteen fifties version of asked leisure, which is the only good 116 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:22.720 look for men in the fifties. La Confidential was nominated for nine to count 117 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:28.079 them, nine Academy Awards, winning for Best Supporting Actress Kim Basinger Basinger, 118 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:33.679 Bassinger Basinger. But I'm not honestly sure. I think it's basing Ger. 119 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.039 I think you're right. I think it's a hard girl. It's a girl, 120 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.840 it's a hard gut, it's a girl. And Best Adapted Screenplay. 121 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:46.159 It lost in every other category too. It's film doppelganger Titanic, basically the 122 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:50.200 same movie, pretty much one to one, one to one having watched this 123 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.879 movie, and I know this is kind of a not a controversial win. 124 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.600 I don't think anyone's angry about Kim Basinger having an oscar. But like I 125 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:01.720 remember the tell of people being surprised that it was more of like a oh 126 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.679 for this kind of feel. Yeah, and like, having watched the movie, 127 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.879 I she's good. I have no issue with Kim Basinger's performance, but 128 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.200 I do understand the question because I'm like this, this is Joan Cusack for 129 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:18.879 in an ounce here, and that's a towering comic performance. Yeah. So 130 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.320 I have a theory that she got the Oscar for being married to Alec Baldwin. 131 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:26.919 I think you know how Hollywood is like an inside baseball town. Yeah, 132 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:31.120 yeah, business, They're like, she's married to that fucking nightmare. 133 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:35.919 Let's give an Oscar. She deserves it, She's she has kept him contained 134 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:39.440 for a decade. Yeah. We all know now what happens when Alec Baldwin 135 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.960 is not married to Kim Basinger, and I think we all preferred it when 136 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:50.399 he was Oh god, people lose their lives. Oh, I wasn't even 137 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:52.200 afraid to. I was referrad to the fact that his thirty year old wife 138 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:56.960 keeps popping out kids like she's a log flume. Like just oh, I 139 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.279 s thinking about all the all the paparazzi for which you know, what if 140 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:07.039 you're going to beat someone up. I'm not mad at it, but I 141 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:11.159 think we can both agree he's probably a pretty lousy person to have to live 142 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.320 with. I've heard. I've heard a lot of stories about Alec Baldwin that 143 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:18.480 way, before the whole rust thing that implied that he was not pleasant. 144 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:20.559 Also, to be clear, I actually don't think he did anything. I 145 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:24.720 don't think he meant to hurt anyone. Of course not. I feel actually 146 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:30.720 bad for they feel genuinely horrible for him, because it must be I can't 147 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:33.240 even think about what that must be like. Agreed. However, also though, 148 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:37.679 also stop having kids, Stop having kids, and stop being a rage 149 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.080 monster. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna talk more about rage monsters in this 150 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:45.559 episode. Oh my god, we have the prototypic. Do you think that's 151 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:50.519 why she was so good this movie? She understood like can you can you 152 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.519 believably fall in love with a rage monster? She's like, bitch, watch 153 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.440 it all right. James L. Roy, the author of the novel upon 154 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:03.080 which this film was based, has expressed a wide range of opinions about it. 155 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.840 When it first premiered, he called it a work of art on its 156 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:09.039 own level. In twenty twenty three, he called it a turkey of the 157 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:16.360 highest form, about as deep as a tortilla. You know what what a 158 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.320 writer wants to be? Sassy? Yeah, they don't miss words are their 159 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:26.200 weapons. I put this in here because I am more of the twenty twenty 160 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:30.080 three James Elroy take on this movie, and I think Eric is a little 161 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.200 bit more of the earlier take on the movie. Is that correct? Think 162 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:37.600 we probably are going to come closer than we think in like terms of actual 163 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.320 opinion. I like the movie more than you do. I know I do. 164 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:46.480 I like the genre very much, and so I'm much more forgiving of 165 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:50.639 its, like piccadillos, like the way you love like you know, rom 166 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:52.639 coms have dumb premises, but you love them anyway. Right, Yeah, 167 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:58.679 totally. I am a crime thriller. There's gonna be holes in the plot. 168 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.480 I'm playing with it. I'm totally fine with it. That's totally fair, 169 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.960 totally fair. But yeah, so anyway, this is funny. La 170 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:11.519 Confidential has a ninety nine percent critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a ninety four 171 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:18.480 percent audience score. Shoppingly nothing for cherry Picks here. I looked on cherry 172 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:20.879 Picks. It does not feature. They didn't even touch it. They were 173 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.120 like, no, have we done a ninety nine percent critical rate they did 174 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:28.120 for his gunk get ninety nine. I don't even know. This is very 175 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:30.600 high, Like I don't know that we've ever done one this high. We've 176 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:33.399 gotten in the nineties before. Definitely. It also suffers a little bit from 177 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:37.960 like what I call like like twenty twenty syndrome, totally meaning like looking back 178 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.960 at something. Yeah. Yeah, it was nominated for an oscar it one 179 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:45.399 oscars. It was universally loved, and it's time and then you rewatch it 180 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:52.440 and you're like her, I guess, is she funny? Like great arrested 181 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:56.120 development, Paul perfect? Well done? Yeah her? Okay, yeah, 182 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.080 she must be. She has a sense of humor. She eats eggs all 183 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.399 in one in one in one bite, right, yeah, just like to 184 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.639 squeeze the mayonnaise packet into her mouth with the egg. Yeah that's kind Yeah. 185 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.840 Yeah, yeah. I don't think ninety nine percent is exactly deserved, 186 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:11.480 Okay, but I actually would go high. I'd give it like an eighty 187 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.919 five ninety Okay. I think i'd be about it, like I don't think 188 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.440 the movie's bad. I want to be I don't think it's like a terrible 189 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:22.639 movie. I would probably give it seventy seventy five. Yeah. I don't 190 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:28.000 think the movies as ambitious as as people think it is. I think it's 191 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:33.679 trying to be a really serviceable period piece slash crime thriller. In the vein 192 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.799 of a Postman always rings twice kind of thing, right. I would totally 193 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.159 agree with what you say about like that rings very true to me, and 194 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:45.919 so for that, it like fulfills the bill for me, like it like 195 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.759 it checks all the all the boxes. Well, there's there's two boxes. 196 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.919 I would like to them to go back and check again. But other than 197 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.559 that, I think, really that box is empty. There's two boxes that 198 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.080 are like is that a check mark? Did you actually? It's like that 199 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:03.320 that scene in Succession? Did he underline or cross out Kendall's name? Yeah? 200 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:05.639 Is that a hanging chad on that one? What's going on here? 201 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:07.639 What does this mean? Yeah? Yeah, we'll get to those, we 202 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.759 will, we will. Erica, when did you first see La Confidential? 203 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:13.879 I saw in the theater. Okay, I still do like it very much. 204 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.840 I don't love it the way I loved it the first time I saw 205 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:18.399 it. The first time I saw it, I really loved it. I 206 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:24.519 don't know how many of its predecessors I had seen it like at that point, 207 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:26.720 so I don't know if I was like watching it and I was like, 208 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.000 oh, this is like a color version of those like nineteen thirties film 209 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:35.000 noirs, like I'd probably seen Malty's Falcon at the time and like stuff like 210 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:41.200 that, but not too many. And maybe I've seen it once in the 211 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.279 intervening years. Maybe, but I'm actually not one hundred percent on that. 212 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.720 And then I saw it for the second and or third time yesterday. Okay, 213 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.559 how about you, Paul, So this is this is going to back 214 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.639 up entirely what you were just saying about about the movie's ambitions. I had 215 00:14:56.679 --> 00:15:01.919 never seen it, and I went into this one and I was expecting a 216 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:05.720 masterpiece on the level of like like a good Fella's That's what I was like 217 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:13.759 buckling myself down for and like like a really interesting, twisty mystery thriller. 218 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:16.279 Right. I am not exaggerating when I tell you that I knew who the 219 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:24.080 murderer in this murder mystery was before the murder occurred. There is literally no 220 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:26.559 doubt in my mind. There was more doubt in my mind during So I 221 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:30.679 married an axe murderer about who the killer was and if you remember the killer, 222 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:35.039 and that was Amanda Plumber. So they were really telling you. The 223 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.840 first time I watched it, I'll be honest, I really I really didn't 224 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:43.080 like it because I just went my expectations were so not met. Yeah, 225 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.320 which isn't fair. It's not fair to the movie. That's like, that's 226 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:46.919 not the movie's fault. Really. So we talked and I was talking to 227 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:48.840 you about it, and I think I said to you, I was like, 228 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.360 I think I'm actually gonna like it much more on the second time because 229 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.200 I'll just know what I'm getting. And I watched it again and I did 230 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.360 like it a lot more. There it still irritates me more than irritates you 231 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:03.120 for all of those unchecked boxes that we were talking about, But I generally 232 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.360 liked it all right, Erica. The tagline for La Confidential was everything is 233 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:12.039 suspect, everyone is for sale, and nothing is what it seems. That's 234 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.600 a lot. It's a lot. And again, I knew who the murderer 235 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.759 was before the murder was committed. It's like I have found the big bad 236 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:22.440 of the movie. But did you know they were like four big bads that 237 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:26.440 was the thing that shocked me when I saw it. I was like, 238 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.120 how many of these people are evil? Again, I think, what what 239 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:32.159 you're talking about with the twenty twenty thing where I was like, they're all 240 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:36.480 terrible? The movie is very much about like police corruption like that, That's 241 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:40.200 what the movie is about, and level at every level, right, And 242 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:45.120 I think viewing it through the modern lens, when obviously the police have come 243 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:49.919 under a lot more scrutiny generally in the public in recent years, it was 244 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:56.320 like Okay, yeah, they're all terrible. There was no yeah, yeah, 245 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:00.600 which, which again isn't the movie's fault. It's just oh, you 246 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.119 know. What's interesting is I remember being more surprised than this. But again, 247 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:08.279 I was a teenager, sure, and b Like, it was the 248 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.640 nineties, and so that really wasn't so. I mean, it should have 249 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.480 been. It should have been on my mind given Rodney King. But I 250 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.599 was a kid, and so I was just like, oh, wow, 251 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.079 like this is really like, gosh, things you just used to be a 252 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:26.400 whole lot worse, didn't they? Yeah? Yeah, Uh do you want 253 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:30.119 to read the iTunes synopsis? Sure, I'm gonna do it. Like Danny 254 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:36.680 DeVito's character, please do Los Angeles, nineteen fifty three, Just beneath a 255 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:42.000 glamorous venier of Hollywood gossip and movie stars Liza, crime ridden city corrupt to 256 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:48.680 its core. Now, while investigating a brutal murder, three very different police 257 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:56.039 detectives will rediscover a common bond of integrity in the blockbuster film noir Thrilla La 258 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:00.960 Confidential. Well done, Well done, my friend? Actual synopsis. Finally 259 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:07.640 cops that are good at being cops? Am I right? Actual synopsis? 260 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:14.200 What if Iron Man, The Hulk and Captain America pre super Soldier Serum were 261 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.920 detectives in nineteen fifties Los Angeles? See go but also terrible people, But 262 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:25.359 terrible people, awful awful people. All right, everyone stick around. We 263 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:27.759 will come right back after these messages. For all you non patrons out there, 264 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:30.920 patrons, you'll have to stick around for much less time. We will 265 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:45.119 be right back. We're going to take you through La Confidential, and we're 266 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:51.240 back. We open up in nineteen fifty three Los Angeles, as Sid Hudgens 267 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:56.920 played by Danny DeVito narrates, should I do this as Dany Vito? Should 268 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:00.799 we have Duelingdavito's dueling Devirido's yes, okay, so Danny Devido. Sid Hudgens 269 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:06.960 narrats in voiceover come to Los Angeles. The sun shines bright, the beaches 270 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.960 are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye 271 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:15.720 can see. Their jobs are plenty, and land is cheap. Every working 272 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.119 man can have his own house, and inside every house a happy, all 273 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:22.440 American family. You can have all this, and who knows, you could 274 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:26.720 even be discovered, become a movie star, or at least see one. 275 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:30.160 Life is good in Los Angeles. It's paradise on Earth. That's what they 276 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:34.240 tell you anyway, because they're selling an image. They're selling it through movies, 277 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:40.519 radio, and television. This is also all superimposed over like stock footage 278 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:45.319 of like average Angelina's but like glamorous in like nineteen fifties, looking like walking 279 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:47.920 down, walking through parks, and like look, how do you call it? 280 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:49.880 And beautiful the city is. Sid goes on to tell us that the 281 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:55.359 La crime kingpin Mickey Cohen, has recently been taken down for tax evasion, 282 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:59.680 leaving a power vacuum in the underworld, and assures us that it's only a 283 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.279 matter a time before someone with balls of brass tries to fill it. We 284 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:07.839 finally see him and realize that he's typing a column and he signs it with 285 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:14.359 off the record on the QT and very hush hush. We zoom out and 286 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.039 we see the cover of Sid's magazine, also called Hush Hush, with his 287 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:22.759 story about Mickey Cohen and also a story about forgive me for this word, 288 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.359 but it actually is spelled with an I in the headline ingre new dikes in 289 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:30.359 Hollywood, which had me thinking, what are the ingre new dams that we 290 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.480 have? I mean, it's really the famous one's just Hoover Dam, right, 291 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.640 the Aswan Dam, and then all I got is dental damns. Those 292 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:41.240 are the three I could come up with. Are any other famous dams? 293 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:48.799 Damn Yankees? But that's a famous big apple dyke, right, That's what 294 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:52.759 that was spelled d. I guess because back in the fifties he couldn't get 295 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:56.599 away with the other spelling, like it would have been yanked off the show. 296 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:59.960 Maybe that's why I am but holy holy, that's funny. I didn't 297 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:07.720 catch that. We cut directly to Officer Wendell Budd White played by Russell Crowe, 298 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:12.000 noted rage monster Russell Crowe. Yeah, is this is this roll of 299 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:15.119 reach for him? We'll find out. We'll find out. I think this 300 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:19.680 is my first time seeing him possibly and my first or second time seeing Guy 301 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:23.240 pierced. We discussed this in the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert episode where 302 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:26.039 I'm pretty sure I saw this movie first, and then when I saw him 303 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.559 in Priscilla, they literally blew my mind. I was like, A, 304 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:36.720 You're Australian and b what, Yeah, you're amazing? Well they and they 305 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:38.759 were. They were not names in the US for this movie. Kevin Spacey 306 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:42.960 was the name in this film. Yes, I remember the movie star Yeah, 307 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:48.519 yeah, because he had just won the Oscar for Usual Suspects. Usual 308 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:56.759 Suspects another great film, but like the most problematic and director like just awful. 309 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:00.160 And so my big takeaway I was for the first time I saw the 310 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:06.480 movie was these two guys are gonna be huge stars. And I was not 311 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:08.880 wrong. Okay, so I have some issues with Bud's character. We will 312 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:14.200 get into that later, but I have to say I think the performance is 313 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:18.359 fantastic. It's one of those like an actor taking the most underbaked role in 314 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:22.039 a movie and being like this and you're like, how'd you make a soufle 315 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:26.319 well done? That's fair. I have no disagree with that. He's a 316 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:30.880 blue eyed, stone faced cop staring into a house where he can see a 317 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:34.480 domestic violence incident through the window right in the backseat of his car since his 318 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:41.319 partner, Detective Sergeant Dick Stenzland played by Graham Beckel, he's swigging on a 319 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:45.920 flask and mocking Bud for his obsession with saving battered women when what they should 320 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:49.640 be doing instead is picking up the rest of the alcohol for the police officer's 321 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:56.039 precincts Christmas party. I mean, the movie does tell you immediately what it 322 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.799 is, Bud radios for a beat cop to come to the house to arrest 323 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:03.319 the husband for being a parole violator, because you're not you know, he 324 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:07.480 shouldn't be hitting his wife. It's against his parole, that's right. And 325 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:10.400 he's like, you'll see the guy, but we won't be here anymore, 326 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:12.759 and like and like, his partner lasts in the back seat because his partner 327 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:15.880 knows exactly what's coming. Yeah, well, the partner just sits in the 328 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:22.240 back seat and continues to get drunk. Bud yanks the Santa display off the 329 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:25.319 roof of the house to get the guy to come outside. He beats the 330 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:27.519 husband up and handcuffs him to the porch and tells him that if he ever 331 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:32.279 touches his wife again, he'll have him jailed for being a child rapist. 332 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:34.359 I don't know how, Yeah, I really don't, But okay, I 333 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:37.880 think the movie is telling us. Yeah, I think the movie is telling 334 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:40.680 us that cops were able to do this sort of thing. Yeah. We 335 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:45.160 cut to Detective Sergeant Jack Vincenn's played by Kevin Spacey. We've done a couple 336 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:51.759 Kevin Spacey movies on the podcast. Very problematic figure. We're not going to 337 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:55.720 unpack all of that here. We're going to discuss the performance, not the 338 00:23:55.839 --> 00:24:00.599 man, uh, the creep. You mean the absolute fucking creep, absolute 339 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:06.519 weirdo that this person is the super duper awful creep that is Kevin Spacey. 340 00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:10.200 But you know what good performance. In this movie. Jack is a sleazy 341 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:14.319 fame whore. He's enjoying himself at a party and he we learned that he's 342 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:18.000 the technical advisor for the TV series Badge of Honor, which is a job 343 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:21.920 he delights in. Sid enters at Standy DeVito sid comes in he reports to 344 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:26.359 Jack he has the scoop on a studio contract player named Matt Reynolds, who 345 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.279 picked up some marijuana and is enjoying himself with another starlet. He calls Pothead's 346 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:33.079 Grasshoppers here, which I'd never heard before and I thought was very funny. 347 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.039 Okay, there's so many slurs in this movie that I actually was like, 348 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:40.160 Okay, that's really funny. There's a I have a couple of weeks now 349 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:42.920 four gay people that I was like, I like them, both slits, 350 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:45.079 and I think we need to bring them back. Well, one of them 351 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.599 is brought back, but the other one really does need to come back. 352 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:52.519 Yeah, I think the other one is for bisexuals. Technically, Yeah, 353 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:56.359 I love it. I love it all right. So Jack and Sid negotiated 354 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.720 deal where Jack gets the arrest and like and Sid gets the scoop. So 355 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:03.799 Jack gets like held up as this great cop. He continues his job like 356 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:07.000 that's what he wants. Sid gets money for hush hush. Eventually, Jack 357 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:11.119 and Sid carry out their plan. They bust Matt Reynolds, played in his 358 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:15.160 film debut by Simon Baker, another Australian. Do they hijack a plane from 359 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.359 Australia to Los Angeles and force these men to be in the movie. Curtis 360 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:21.359 Hansen vacationed in Melbourne one summer, and suddenly all we have, all these 361 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:26.359 Australian movie stars. When going through Matt's possessions, Jack finds a business card 362 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:32.480 reading Fleur de Lye, whatever you desire all of Sid's like voice over here 363 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:37.640 when he arrests these two hopheads for smoking that refer it is right out of 364 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:41.680 refer Madness, which just made me want to rewatch Reefer Madness totally. Have 365 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.160 you ever seen refer Madness? I saw the musical they did of it in 366 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:49.079 like the two thousands. I own a DVD copy of the original. Like 367 00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:53.160 it is so funny and so good. I'm gonna bring it over one night. 368 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:56.359 We're gonna have We're gonna have some wine. We're gonna maybe do some 369 00:25:56.519 --> 00:25:59.599 edibles and watch some Reefer Madness. Okay, sounds good, I'm in. 370 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:06.759 We meet Sergeant Ed Exley, played by shocking Australian guy Pierce. His American 371 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:11.039 accent is perfect. So Ed is this straight laced young cup who's hoping to 372 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:15.519 follow in his father's footsteps. He's all suits and Harvard Law degrees and glasses. 373 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:19.839 Right, he's the boy genius of the of the LAPD. Everyone keeps 374 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:22.759 telling him to get rid of the glasses, and I'm like, what do 375 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:26.160 you expect him to They didn't have contacts in the fifties. There's a whole 376 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.759 there's there's like fifty minutes of this film. Yeah, this man does his 377 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:36.480 full ass job with no glasses on, and it is distracting one percent of 378 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.680 the time. I mean it's a little acknowledged, but like there's scenes where 379 00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:41.319 he's reading at his desk. I would have loved him to be like like 380 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:45.720 holding the paper right up to his eyes, to be like, wait, 381 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:48.599 I can't read this report. What does it say? Yeah, he murders 382 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:56.559 like three people whilst not wearing his glasses, which correct problematic. So his 383 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:00.599 boss, they're all of their boss is precinct Captain Dudley Smith, played by 384 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:06.160 James Cromwell with sometimes an Irish accent and sometimes not an Irish accent. Just 385 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:08.400 get over it, that's correct. Just deal. Huh. It's gonna happen 386 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:11.119 when it happens. It's gonna happen. It's gonna show up when it fucking 387 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:17.279 feels like it and then it's gonna go away like the groundhog. So shut 388 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:19.799 your faces. If the line has Boyo in it, he's Irish. If 389 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:23.200 it doesn't, he's more American. He's American. It comes in ghosts Ah. 390 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:27.240 He does the same thing on succession. Did you notice where he sometimes 391 00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:30.519 has an accent on succession? Totally and it's a scott It's like Scottish. 392 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:34.920 I think they're supposed to be Scottish succession, but they're never neither of them, 393 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:41.279 like, actually does a Scottish accent. Well. So Dudley is a 394 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.319 smooth operator. Yeah, never gets worried. He's always on top right. 395 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:48.599 Ed tells Smith that he wants to be a detective, and Smith is like, 396 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.559 ooh, okay, anything but that job, like you would be amazing 397 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:56.880 and internal affairs and Ed's like no, no, no, I want to 398 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.000 be a detective like my dad was. And then Dudley's like, okay, 399 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.400 but would you be willing to plant evidence or beat up a suspect or shoot 400 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:07.119 a criminal who might be found innocent in a court of law even though you 401 00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:10.680 know he's guilty right in the back, Yeah, to make sure he doesn't 402 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:14.240 get away. And Ed's like no, I want to be a detective, 403 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.839 not a criminal. I would like to not break the law in the pursuit 404 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.759 of justice. Is that cool with you? And Dudley's like, no, 405 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.440 actually, no, no, that's not how this works. So we cut 406 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:30.400 to Bud at the liquor store picking up the bottles and bottles of liquor for 407 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.559 the police precinct Christmas party. Honestly, for the nineteen fifties, it was 408 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:38.440 not as much booze as I expected. He's waiting for his order and the 409 00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:44.400 door opens and Lynn Bracken played by Kim Basinger enters. She's in a like 410 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:48.440 a black cloak with a white lining around the hood. The reddest lips you 411 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:52.680 ever did see an extremely famous shot this introduction of this character. Yeah, 412 00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:56.400 I think the movie wants to posit a little bit of love at first sight 413 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.039 here, which is I find a very silly thing to and a crime thriller, 414 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.559 but short whatever, just go okay, I'll just get into it now. 415 00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:07.720 She's supposed to be like unflappable and chilly to the point where like you 416 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:11.480 can't tell what she's thinking or whose side she's on, right, that's part 417 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:12.359 of it. Like, yeah, she supposed to be the them fatal, 418 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:15.240 right? Is she a villain? Is she not? Right? Is she 419 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:18.400 the theem fatal or is she the sacrificial angel? Right? She's a little 420 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:22.799 bit of both in this movie. That's the that's the innovation that they're going 421 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.599 for here. But the problem with that is she just seems so irritated by 422 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.680 him from the jump. He will just straight up start stalking her. That's 423 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:33.759 his like courtship of this lady. Is he just stalks her? And I'm 424 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:37.599 like, why is she okay with this? Like, yeah, it is 425 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:44.240 very poorly written, this romance, And I do end up sort of believing 426 00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:48.240 them because these are both really really good actors who made me believe it by 427 00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:52.240 the end. But the journey to get to their relationship, I was like, 428 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:55.799 I don't buy any of this. I think where we diverged it didn't 429 00:29:55.799 --> 00:29:59.440 get me at the end. At the end, it remained dumb to me. 430 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.240 Yeah, it's so pretty dumb the whole time. But they're both so 431 00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:07.519 good that I believe them by the ends. This is the part of the 432 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.200 field. These are the two boxes I would like checked. So Bud says 433 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:14.319 Merry Christmas, and Lynn immediately clocks him as a cop and he's like, 434 00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:15.519 oh my god, is it that obvious? And she's like, well, 435 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:19.599 you know, kind of. So he leaves and he notices a car parked 436 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:25.640 outside, and in the backseat of this car the debonair Pierce Moorhouse Patchet played 437 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:30.000 by David Straight There and the lovely Susan leffert So has a bandaged on her 438 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:36.240 nose, which to me immediately said rhinoplasty. But well, just remember Bud 439 00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:38.440 is obsessed with saving battered women, right, so he immediately walks up so 440 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:44.400 the driver will let her learn his name is Leland. Meeks interferes, Bud 441 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.920 tosses Leland on the back of the car, disarms him, and then forces 442 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:52.200 them to roll down the window. Pierce assures him the amber is fine. 443 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.480 Bud's not convinced, and then from behind him the angel appears. Lynn is 444 00:30:56.519 --> 00:30:57.680 there and she says he's telling the truth. It's not what you think. 445 00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:02.279 And Susan says, I'm fine, mister le me alone and that they just 446 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:04.599 drive off and Bud lets it go. He is so over the top. 447 00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:10.440 He is cartoonishly violent throughout the film, so like he is the Hulk in 448 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:14.519 my earlier metaphor. Leland comes out of the car and it's like, can 449 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:17.279 I help the office, And before you can even finish the word officer, 450 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:21.720 he is like being thrown on the hood of the car and like roughed up, 451 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:26.640 and I'm like, ask a question, any question. We do not 452 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.559 know what these people's relationships to each other are. I get it. You're 453 00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:34.480 concerned for her safety, just you know, it could be her father picking 454 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:38.000 her up from her husband who beat her. You don't know what's going on 455 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:41.559 here. You don't know what's going on. Maybe she plays softball and she 456 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.640 got hit in the face. Come on, like, I doubt it talking 457 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:49.720 about Andre new Diykes in Hollywood. So Bud backs off and he goes back 458 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:53.200 in stens Land. That's his drunken partner. He's kind of looking at the 459 00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:56.400 car and he comments that he knew Leland when he was in the force, 460 00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:59.839 but he doesn't know anyone else. He doesn't know what's going on over there. 461 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:04.240 Everyone converges in the police station. A group of cops arrived with six 462 00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:08.839 Mexican men under arrest, reportedly for brutally beating two LAPD officers. We find 463 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:13.640 out that like literally the guys are home with bruises that's it, like they 464 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:16.640 were fine. There is a slur against Mexicans in the scene that really that 465 00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:22.319 actually made me laugh. Someone calls them taco benders. Let's get those taco 466 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:27.200 benders, And I was like, is that the burn you think it is? 467 00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:31.000 Like, tacos are delicious, tacos are amazing. The idea that like 468 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:35.920 that's going to hurt someone's feelings. There are other slurs used in this which 469 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:40.160 I will not say, which are much harsher the taco bender ones. I 470 00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:43.960 like that in the fifties someone would have been like, ouch, that really 471 00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:51.359 hurts my feelings. So the six Mexican men are arrived at the police station. 472 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.839 They're getting booked. Soon it blows completely out of proportion, and these 473 00:32:55.079 --> 00:33:00.240 very drunk cops are like giving each other tall tales about how colleagues are basically 474 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.680 on their deathbeds and one of them lost an eye because these guys beat the 475 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.160 shit out of them and like attack them in the middle of the night. 476 00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:13.920 Stenzlynd, who is so drunk, leads an angry mob of drunken policemen into 477 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.680 the lock up under Ed's protests. He gets overruled. He gets thrown into 478 00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:22.119 like a prison cell, like a solitary confinement cell by the other cops, 479 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.519 and then the rest of the cops start just beating the shit out of these 480 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:30.960 six guys. One of the six guys stupidly says fuck your mother to but 481 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:37.200 Bud is actually trying to de escalate the situation. He runs in to like 482 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:39.880 get to his partner and he's like, hey, man, stop beating up 483 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:43.759 these guys. It's not good. It's not a good look for anyone. 484 00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:45.119 And then one of the guys is like, fuck your mother, and he's 485 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:52.319 like, all right, taco bender, let's go. Jack gets involved in 486 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.720 the brawl too, he ends up punching one of the guys out. Unfortunately, 487 00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:00.599 none of these idiots has noticed that there's still a reporter at the praisinct 488 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:05.279 who was doing a story was gonna do like this silly little puff piece, 489 00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:09.920 but instead catches this huge story about a bunch of cops beating up a bunch 490 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:14.880 of suspects. And then you see the headline the next morning and it's Christmas 491 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:19.320 massacre. So this is a fictionalization of the bloody Christmas scandal that actually happened 492 00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:22.719 in nineteen fifty one. So this is like a little bit of real world 493 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:28.639 stuff happening. I genuinely think the movie has the movie is on the correct 494 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:30.519 side of history. The movie makers, they do not think any of the 495 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.880 stuff is good. They do not think any of this stuff is like no, 496 00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:39.559 wait right, But because it was in nineteen ninety seven, still none 497 00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:45.760 of the victims of any of this get any characterization. There's no look at 498 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:50.559 anyone who isn't white other than just a victim of white people. And it 499 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.360 started to grate on me a lot. Like there's a group of black suspects 500 00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:59.559 later that get a little bit more characterization, but it's still it's just like, 501 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:04.880 this is a story about police brutality, and we're not going to humanize 502 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.519 anyone that the police are brutalizing. They're just there to be brutalized. I 503 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:09.800 mean, these guys in particular, we don't know anything about them. The 504 00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:15.000 guys later in the film are so horrible. They're so awful that like the 505 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:21.519 movie almost excuses the police brutalities exactly because they're they're they're monsters. Yes, 506 00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:23.119 it's a double edged sword. On one end, it's bad. It's a 507 00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:27.559 bad look for the movie because it doesn't particularly age well. Because it kind 508 00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:30.599 of lets the lapd off the hook a little bit. Yeah. I don't 509 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:31.719 think it fully lets them off the hook, but it lets them off the 510 00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:35.400 hook a little bit. I think it's not trying to let them off the 511 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:37.920 hook. I think they think they're doing the right thing by like, we're 512 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:42.519 gonna make these criminals awful. So when you are watching the movie, you 513 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:46.599 can still root for maybe yeah, maybe yeah, because I guess you're supposed 514 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:50.239 to root for them by the end, these three, these three guys, 515 00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:53.599 right, or at least you're you're hoping they actually beat the big bad. 516 00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:59.679 I think it's also a way of like not distracting the audience of not being 517 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.599 like, well, now all I can think about is police brutality. It's 518 00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:06.519 nineteen ninety seven. Remember what had just happened in Los Angeles, like with 519 00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:08.559 the LA riots, right, So that would have been on people's minds. 520 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:13.639 So if the characters didn't have it's like, these guys didn't have like, 521 00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:15.400 and I mean a real reason, not like, oh, they robbed a 522 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:17.360 store, so let's beat the shit out of them. No, they did 523 00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:22.679 something fucking horrible. It's the only way the audience can move past it. 524 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:24.760 I think to be like, okay, yeah, but those guys did kind 525 00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:30.119 of deserve to be punished for what they dido, even though they did in 526 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:35.679 the completely wrong way, you know, and for the wrong reasons, and 527 00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:38.360 they were being demeaned. Racial slurs were being used the whole time, and 528 00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:43.840 like it like it's not good, but it's I think it's slightly letting the 529 00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:49.440 audience off the hook. We cut to the aftermath of this of this police 530 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.519 brutality incident. We meet d A. Ellis Lowe played by the Great Ron 531 00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:58.440 Rifkin, the police chief, and Captain Smith that's James Cromwell. They're interviewing 532 00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:02.639 the officers implicated. Bud refuses to testify he loses his gun in badge. 533 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:06.559 Ed, on the other hand, is more than happy to testify against his 534 00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:09.679 colleagues and even offers some advice. He says, switch most of the blame 535 00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:14.880 to the officers whose pensions are secured, and then give jail time to Stensland 536 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:16.960 and Bud because they were the two biggest problems in it, right because at 537 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:22.199 first Stensen was beating everybody, Bud came in to stop it. Fuck your 538 00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:24.639 mother happened, and then everything really went to shit after that, and the 539 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:30.519 photograph that this press got was like Bud right in the middle of the brawl. 540 00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:35.000 Yeah. Right, So these are all the cops that are like physically 541 00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:37.960 in the photograph. There's absolutely no way they can deny. Yeah, something 542 00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:40.920 happened. Smith is fine with getting rid of Stensland. He said it's a 543 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:44.840 terrible cop. He fails all of his physicals, blah blah blah. But 544 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:46.519 he says, Bud, Bud's a good a good guy. We need Bud 545 00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:52.280 on the force. The chief likes Ed's moxie, promotes him to lieutenant. 546 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:54.840 On the spot, Ed bargains up to detective lieutenant, and then he gives 547 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:58.920 the panel the edge. They need to flip Jack as well. He says, 548 00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:02.280 threaten Jack place at badge of honor. That's what he actually cares about. 549 00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:06.760 Demoteum device, tell him until he gets a big hit, he can't 550 00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:08.199 go back up to narcotics. He can't go back to badge of honor. 551 00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:12.400 And if he doesn't testify, he gets nothing. He'll be off Badge of 552 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.719 honor forever. They do it. Jack flips and that's how we get our 553 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:20.360 testimonies against wouldn't you want to be on vice if you were Jack Vice is 554 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:22.800 sexy, right right, that's where all that that's where all the sexy crowd. 555 00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:27.719 That's a terrible thing to say. But like in terms of like Hush 556 00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.320 Hush magazine, I would you'd want to be on Vice. Maybe he had 557 00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:34.119 to be on I think the implication was he had to be on narcotics to 558 00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:37.599 be the technical advisor on Badge of Honor. I presume maybe Badge of Honor 559 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:39.800 the guy is a narcotics detective. That actually makes a lot of sense. 560 00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:44.159 Yeah, they never made it clear, but that's that's the implication. Gotcha. 561 00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:46.800 After the trial, Dudley meets with Bud and gives him back his gun 562 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:51.079 and badge like in a bar, which is exactly how those things should be 563 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:54.840 done. Yep. He informs him that STENSLNN is done, but I think 564 00:38:54.960 --> 00:39:00.960 you have something that the police force needs, emphasis on the word. He 565 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:07.800 reassigns Bud to homicide and says you won't be working cases. You don't have 566 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:10.000 the brains to be a detective. You have something else which is very useful 567 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:13.840 to us. You do what I say and when I say it, and 568 00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:17.880 you don't ask questions, and I love that about you. Yeah, so 569 00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:23.159 we get a little montage of Bud working for Dudley basically, and we hear 570 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:29.000 with Sid's voiceover, Sid, remember is Danny DeVito that anyone attempting to rise 571 00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:31.199 up in the ranks of the la underworld and take the place of Mickey Cohen. 572 00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:36.199 Remember Mickey Cohen has been arrested for tax eVision. At the very beginning 573 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:38.280 of the movie, right Mickey Cohen by the way real person, we see 574 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:45.719 two assassins like follow around Mickey Cohen's associates and shoot them right so like his 575 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:50.519 lieutenants are being shot. His head narcotics dealer is shot. Right at that 576 00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:54.679 particular shooting, we see someone in a suit take away the suitcase full of 577 00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:59.039 heroin. We don't see who it is. Meanwhile, Bud is acting as 578 00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:02.519 an enforcer dismis and he is basically anyone who's coming in from out of town 579 00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:08.039 to take Mickey's place is being immediately intercepted by the cops, like crime lords 580 00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:13.719 from like Cincinnati and from Chicago are being immediately intercepted by the cops, taken 581 00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:16.960 to some motel on the outskirts of town. I think it looks like Bakersfield, 582 00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:22.000 That's what I'm getting The impression of and like Bud is basically beating them 583 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:24.480 within an inch of their life. Well, Dudley's like, go back to 584 00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:28.000 where you came from. We don't want you here. So we cut to 585 00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:31.599 Ed. He's working late in the homicide department as a new detective lieutenant does, 586 00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:36.880 and he's the only person present to respond to a reported murder at the 587 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.639 night Owl coffee shop. He rushes over there. He's thrilled to have his 588 00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:44.719 first big assignment, and he finds the short order cook murdered behind the counter, 589 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:49.639 plus five bodies all in the bathroom. Dudley arrives. That's the captain 590 00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:52.760 and Ed is like, this is my case, and Dudley's like, I'm 591 00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:54.480 your boss, it's my case, but you can be my second in command. 592 00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:59.920 Fine, And we find out that one of the victims is Dick Stensland, 593 00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:02.679 Bud's old partner. We cut to the morgue. We have a whole 594 00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:06.920 scene of Russell Crowe rushing in and being overwhelmed by the fact that his ex 595 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:09.280 partner is dead and I'm like, I don't care. Shut up, this 596 00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:15.360 guy sucked. You suck. Stop trying to make me feel anything. Hey, 597 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.519 movies, stop trying to make Paul feel things. It's not welcome. 598 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:30.880 Oh God. Meanwhile, Bud overhears another body being identified as Susan Lefferts. 599 00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:34.199 That is the woman that was in the back seat with the rhinoplasty that he 600 00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:37.039 saw at the liquor store. Susan's mother is there. She's overcome. She's 601 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:40.239 saying that she fought with Susan the last time she saw her about her boyfriend, 602 00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:45.000 that her mother didn't like her boyfriend. And she even until she sees 603 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:47.280 a birthmark on the body's hips, she can't even be sure it's Susan because 604 00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:52.119 she looks so different, right, Susan went from a blonde to a redhead. 605 00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:55.159 She's obviously, as we now know, had that knows job that rhino 606 00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:59.400 PLASTI done recently, so her face is different. We overhear one of the 607 00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:02.280 cops like as or one of the morgantendees rather as they're wheeling her in. 608 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:05.920 Say, for a second, I thought it was Rita Hayworth. Yea, 609 00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:08.679 so she's supposed to look like Rita Hayworth. I'm gonna be a real bitch 610 00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:13.000 here. Shouldn't look at anything like Rita Hayworth. I was like, why 611 00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:15.519 did they cast this actress to play this role, she literally does not. 612 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:19.480 I mean, she's a redhead and so was Rita Hayworth, But that, 613 00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:22.920 like, are they hoping by nineteen ninety seven most people will have just forgotten 614 00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:25.880 what Rita Hayworth looks like. Maybe because I'll tell you Kim Besinger is a 615 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.079 pretty decent Veronica Lake that that isn't one to one I can see, but 616 00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:35.239 I don't see it with this girl. So we cut to a debriefing where 617 00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:37.840 Dudley is telling the department about the night Owl case. He goes through the 618 00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:43.239 fact that like a certain car was spotted outside the night Owl around the times 619 00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:46.119 of the killings. He points the finger at three young black men who were 620 00:42:46.159 --> 00:42:51.559 also like on a car of the same description and were seen discharging shotguns in 621 00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:54.079 Griffin Park. He basically puts the entire LAPD on the case. He's like, 622 00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:58.519 find these guys and the car. They all roll into action to find 623 00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:02.239 the suspects. But who heard Susan Leffert's idd at the Morgue heads to the 624 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:05.880 liquor store where he met Lynn. He fought. He thinks of a shortcut. 625 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:07.119 He's like, I know a connection to this case. I'm going to 626 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.400 follow that lead. I'm gonna follow my penis all the way to that lead. 627 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:16.199 He winds up at Pierce Patchett's estate and he wants to know why Susan 628 00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:20.679 had the bandage on her nose the night that he saw them Pierce Patchett David 629 00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:22.880 Strath. Aaron is like, okay, let me play ball with the cops 630 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:24.599 because I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want any 631 00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:29.719 heat from this murder charge because spoiler, he had almost nothing to do with 632 00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:37.000 it, almost nothing. Pierce tells him that Susan was undergoing plastic surgery to 633 00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:40.519 look like he like Rita Hayworth to fill out his quote unquote little studio well 634 00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:44.320 Erica, let me ask, is her nose similar to Rita Hayworth, because 635 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:45.800 maybe she had a lot more procedures that she had to get done. Maybe 636 00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:52.880 she don't fall a fucking overhaul to look like I've being so mean to that 637 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:59.960 poor actress. She's beautiful, but she's beautiful. Hareworth turns out he runs 638 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.360 a prostitution rang, a very very high class escorts that are made to look 639 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:07.679 like movie stars. So Lynn is his Veronica Lake, which is how I 640 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:09.360 learned who Veronica Lake was when I first saw this movie, because I hadn't 641 00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:12.880 me. That's how I knew who Veronica Lake was. Pierce tells Bud he'll 642 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.920 reward him if he finds Susan's killer, and he says, hey, I'll 643 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:20.079 give you whatever you desire, which is the tagline for flu Lee we will 644 00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:22.320 remember. Bud heads to Lynn's next. At one point, Pierce is like, 645 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:24.519 do you want Lynn's addressing? But It's like no, I got it, 646 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:27.400 And I'm like, I guess you could have just looked her up. 647 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:30.239 I mean, I guess he knows her name, so I guess he has 648 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:34.039 access to the police police database or whatever. We see that poor secretary a 649 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:36.679 lot in the film, the way they keep working out all over the place, 650 00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:39.760 Like all three of these cops run to like the secretaries at the police 651 00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:45.079 station and they're like, give us like forty years worth of police files and 652 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:50.800 they don't say please or thank you, and the lady's like fine. So 653 00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:54.280 he meets Lynn again. They start talking about the case. Lynn says that 654 00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:58.559 Pierce takes a cut of their earnings and invests it for them. He doesn't 655 00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:00.840 let them use drugs, and he doesn't abuse them, right, So she's 656 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:05.360 pretty okay with Pierce. It paints him as like a decent manager. A 657 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:07.239 decent manager. Yes, she's like, look, my job might be a 658 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:12.039 little unconventional, but I don't mind it and my boss treats me well. 659 00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:15.480 So what like, honestly, as far as sex work goes, this is 660 00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:17.760 seems like a good deal. This is a really fucking good deal. Yeah, 661 00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:22.800 yeah, agreed. The two spar and ultimately Bud says he'd like to 662 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:27.239 see Lin again, and when she challenges him if he's asking for an appointment 663 00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:29.880 or a date, he says it was a mistake and he just leaves. 664 00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:34.679 So like the scene, the scene has a really heavy lift, right, 665 00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:40.880 it's trying to it's breaking its back lift. Something a frissant happened between these 666 00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:44.960 two that the audience is going to have to run on fumes from for the 667 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.960 rest of the movie. Nineteen ninety seven. Will posit that it worked because 668 00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:52.920 Dave Kim masuger an Oscar for this and I'm and I am saying it does 669 00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:58.119 not. It doesn't. It is so weird that she's like hot for this 670 00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:01.800 guy. Yes, given performance that Russell Crowe is giving too. Because again, 671 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:06.639 if it was if it was the Guy Peers character who's slimy but at 672 00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:10.000 least like there's like a sexiness to him, right, or like even the 673 00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:15.400 Kevin Spacey character who's like knows how to sweet talk a lady. Perhaps totally, 674 00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:20.440 but Bud is such an OAF, such a huge oaf and like again 675 00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:24.119 Russell Crowe, very handsome man, nothing against totally, but like he's not 676 00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:30.679 given sex appeal at all. He's not giving like anything that like I can 677 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:32.480 hang my hat onto to be like, well, that's why she loves him. 678 00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:36.559 And I think you could have done it. I mean this, look, 679 00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:40.079 this would be a very like tropy stereotypical story, but you could do 680 00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:45.039 it where Lynn only knows bad man and he's a good man, which is 681 00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:47.039 a moving target in this movie. But let's go with me for a minute. 682 00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:51.519 Like he's like this like boy scout figure, you know, like he's 683 00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:53.000 he's the cop who wants to come rescue her. Like we don't love that 684 00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:58.000 her boss seems to be fine. It seems to be fine, right fine 685 00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:02.639 with him, and her clients seem to be delightfully adorable for sex for people 686 00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:07.280 who frequent SE's for hers, Like like this is the nicest clientele I've ever 687 00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:14.599 seen one of these, like nice in terms of like they're all very respectful 688 00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:16.480 to her. They all seem to like her, and she seems to like 689 00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:21.000 them, you know, as much as one can when you're in the service 690 00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:23.679 industry. She's not being saved, she doesn't need to be saved, and 691 00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:28.239 that's not actually what's happening. And to the movie's credit, I don't I 692 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:31.719 don't think that's where they're going on purpose, because that's agreed a little more 693 00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:36.159 progressive right to have this sort of fem fatale who doesn't need to be saved 694 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:40.159 in fact, is instead saving the cop, which is what I remembered from 695 00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:43.760 the nineteen Like when I saw it, I was like, Oh, if 696 00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:46.280 you'd ask me before yesterday like her arc in the movie, I'd be like, 697 00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:49.760 oh, well, she saves the cop at the end, like she 698 00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:52.679 that's not exactly what happens. That's sort of what happens, but it's not 699 00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:57.079 exactly what happens. But the problem is is that it doesn't. I don't. 700 00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:00.719 There's no like, there's nothing to hang on at the beginning of this 701 00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:04.599 relationship. There's a moment later in the movie when someone he asks her point 702 00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:06.639 blank, why do you like me? And she's like, I don't know 703 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:14.840 both. I hear you, girl, I hear you that note that that 704 00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:17.760 will come up in the recap that moment. I'm showed your whole ass on 705 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:23.880 that one, Curtis Hansen. So Jack and Ed managed to track down the 706 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:29.840 Night Owl suspects, Ray Lewis and Tye using Jack's contacts. They get to 707 00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:34.760 the address and they find another LAPD team there because they they broke from the 708 00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:38.199 direction of Captain Dudley Smith and they went behind his back to get to the 709 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:43.239 end result faster, essentially using Jack's contacts. By the way, real quick, 710 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.559 I just want to say the scene right before this, when they're shaking 711 00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:51.679 down Jack's like contact, he's a he's a boxer that lives in I'm not 712 00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:54.039 sure what neighborhood it would have been, but like a predominantly African American neighborhood, 713 00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:58.719 right. So he's a black man and like his brother is in prison. 714 00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:02.519 They're basically promising him that they will take ten years off of his brother's 715 00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:07.599 prison sentence if he helps them with this case. So he reluctantly agrees to 716 00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:12.679 help the cops and it's so clear that they're not gonna do shit to help 717 00:49:12.719 --> 00:49:15.800 the brother, and that's that to me, is almost the worst thing anyone 718 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:19.000 does in the movie, which in a movie where people do fucking terrible things, 719 00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:22.039 I'm like, Okay, that's fucking this guy's genuinely trying to help you. 720 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:24.559 This scene really is hard to watch, by the way. This is 721 00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:29.199 the scene where like they arrive at this house and Kevin Spacey is walking around 722 00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:35.400 with like a gun as if it's a cup of coffee. Like no one 723 00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:37.800 in the history of cinema has ever seemed less like a cop than Kevin Spacey 724 00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:43.159 in this movie. He just does not have the cop thing go. I 725 00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:45.360 mean he's not trying to again, very good actor, it's part of the 726 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.880 character. Yeah, he's like been out of it for so long. He's 727 00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.960 been Hollywood for so long that he forgot how to do that thing where you 728 00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:55.400 hold the gun under one hit. Even I know how to do that now. 729 00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.800 Yeah, But he's literally like walking around with like a pistol in his 730 00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:07.239 hand and like no bulletproof vest, waving it around the amount of time the 731 00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:12.760 people in this film go into a situation without backup astounding, Yeah, all 732 00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:15.599 right, So they meet this other team. The other team reports they found 733 00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:19.719 shotguns in the backseat of the car that matches the description of the car found 734 00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.920 at the scene. All seems to line up. These three men seem like 735 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:25.639 the killers. They make the arrests, and we cut to the police station 736 00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:30.079 with the three men isolated in separate cells, and Ed gets to take charge 737 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:34.559 of the interrogation. He quickly moves to turn the witnesses against each other by 738 00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.360 piping parts of these interviews over the intercom into the other cells. The whole 739 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:42.360 section about who's a sissy who takes it up the ass. There's actually a 740 00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:45.519 fair amount of gay stuff in this movie. None of it really offended me 741 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:50.800 because a there's actually no really horrible gay slurs used in the movie, like 742 00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:53.920 they I don't know if that's trying to be time accurate or if it's just 743 00:50:54.079 --> 00:51:00.039 simply them trying to not be offensive. That's a very good point. The 744 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.800 thing is, there's slurs across the entire spectrum of humans. Absolutely. Yeah, 745 00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:07.119 nobody gets away like it's a spray and pray situation. There's Italian, 746 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:12.519 there's Irish, there's Jewish, there's gay, there's women. Seem to do 747 00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:15.800 the best. Actually maybe yeah, it's because there aren't any in there ignored. 748 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:19.760 I guess they called whoes a lot, but to be fair, they 749 00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:23.360 are actually prostitutes, so you know, it's not the worst thing. I 750 00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:28.079 guess you could be called. I was waiting for like one group to get 751 00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:32.360 spared. No one, absolutely as no one. I think sissy probably was 752 00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:37.119 a really rough term back then, like really rough, like what the F 753 00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:40.239 word is now to us, but it's it just came off as like charming. 754 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.679 Every time Guy Pierce is like I hear you went sissy over it, 755 00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:51.360 juv, And I'm like, oh my god. Yeah, all right. 756 00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:54.199 So Ray, one of the guys, gives up the drug dealer of the 757 00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:59.920 other two and immediately heads to the other cell, where Lewis has wet himself. 758 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:04.639 He's crying hysterically. This kid, Lewis is completely broken. He stammers 759 00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:07.599 out he only wants to lose his cherry. Maybe she's still alive. Ed 760 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:12.840 heads into tie cell to keep up this line of interrogation, but he's moving 761 00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:16.360 too slow for Bud. So Hulk Smash, Hulk want questioning to go faster. 762 00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:21.400 Hulk, Well, no, Hulk heard girl in trouble that's what it 763 00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:24.159 is. Like he soon the second he's like, maybe she's still alive, 764 00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:29.360 but like his ears perked up and he was like, what, there's a 765 00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:32.480 woman in trouble somewhere in the city of Los Angeles. I have to save 766 00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:37.039 this woman, like cartoonishly over the top. And I do feel a little 767 00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:40.280 bad for Russell Crow because like, I don't know how you can make this 768 00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:44.880 not stupid. He's hanging on to like the back of a wooden chair, 769 00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:50.559 and he literally snaps the chair in half and tears it apart at the prospect 770 00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:57.360 of there being a woman in Los Angeles somewhere who's been brutalized and needs his 771 00:52:57.559 --> 00:53:01.000 help. And I'm like, okay, okay, down, buddy, Yeah, 772 00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:07.519 this is too You have over peppered the sauce. Yes, he rushes 773 00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:12.440 into the interrogation. He throws out aside. He jams his pistol into Ty's 774 00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:15.000 mouth, starts screaming one of six, one of six, and starts pulling 775 00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:20.559 the trigger playing Russian Roulette, screaming questions at Tye, who breaks down. 776 00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:23.079 He finally takes the pistol out of his mouth and ty tells them the location 777 00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:28.559 of quote unquote the girl I was really impressed with Ed in the scene. 778 00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:30.639 I think he's very good at this, Like this is supposed to be a 779 00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:35.840 little bit of like the machiavellian lizard brained yeah, part of him right, 780 00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.000 So and yeah, they demonstrated it well and and he didn't. I mean, 781 00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:42.280 he was lying to the suspects, but he wasn't. Like I just 782 00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:47.039 think that's illegal. Still illegal, yeah to this day, still legal to 783 00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:52.559 do. Yeah. PSA for this episode once again, if a police officer 784 00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:58.239 even asks you the time, scream lawyer in their face and don't say a 785 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:02.559 word until a fucking lawyer shows up. So the police head to the address 786 00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:06.679 given by Tie. Bud goes in first, because you know, you want 787 00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:08.639 a cool headed cop on the case. You want someone who's going to be 788 00:54:08.679 --> 00:54:13.880 able to read a situation de escalate as much. Absolutely well, yeah, 789 00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:17.239 you want to save the largest number of lives it's possible to save the situation. 790 00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:22.679 Bud goes in, he finds a woman tied to a bed, beaten, 791 00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:28.320 naked. There's a very very like I was impressed by the shot of 792 00:54:28.559 --> 00:54:31.559 Bud's arm just covers her crotch in the shot. Yes, I see a 793 00:54:31.639 --> 00:54:35.599 naked woman on the bed, but like Russell Crowe has to move his arm 794 00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:37.599 at just the right spot so that we don't see her crotch, which I 795 00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:42.239 was like, well done, cinematographer. Her name is I know is Soto. 796 00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:45.800 She was so basically the story is she was this girl who was kidnapped, 797 00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:50.880 raped, and beaten by the three suspects in the police station earlier. 798 00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:53.559 That's why, that's what I was talking about earlier, Like, yes, 799 00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:57.880 they are being falsely imprisoned. Yes, they were falsely accused of a crime 800 00:54:57.960 --> 00:55:00.760 they did not commit. But we did we find out in the interrogation that 801 00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:06.199 they'd actually did commit this heinous, heinous crime against this woman, which is 802 00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:07.880 the movie I think, letting the audience off the hook. And they also 803 00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:12.679 like mention the fact that one of them, I think Ray likes to kill 804 00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:15.119 dogs. Yeah, but like they're like, how many horrible things can we 805 00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:19.559 pile on these falsely accused people to make sure what happens to them is okay? 806 00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:22.440 So Bud sees the woman with her eyes. She gestures towards the living 807 00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:25.519 room. She tells him where to go. He goes into the living room. 808 00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:30.679 He finds a half naked man like sitting on a couch, eating like 809 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:35.559 cereal and watching cartoons. He just fucking shoots him and then puts a gun 810 00:55:35.639 --> 00:55:37.400 in his hand to make it look like they exchanged gunfire. Right, he 811 00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:42.559 sets up the crime scene. After all this, they're loading Inas into the 812 00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.440 back of an ambulance. She's been brutalized. This is I think where the 813 00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:50.920 movie is trying to make the audience like Bud. After killing that guy, 814 00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:53.400 he goes immediately to the bedroom. He uncuffs her, he like unties her. 815 00:55:53.480 --> 00:55:57.559 He covers her up with a blanket. He like kind of pats her 816 00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:00.679 head and is like everything's gonna be okay, and she she grabs his hand. 817 00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:04.960 Right, so, like he is a friend to female victims and everywhere. 818 00:56:05.559 --> 00:56:08.119 Basically it kind of works for me. I'm good enough on this. 819 00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:12.920 I don't still buy that like the kid Basinger love story with him, but 820 00:56:13.199 --> 00:56:17.719 I do buy the movie's assertion that he is, although like ludicrously violent and 821 00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:23.000 hilariously violent, like he's essentially a good person. Like that's there, that's 822 00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:27.800 their assertation, fair enough. So she's being loaded in the back of an 823 00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:31.599 ambulance and immediately like he's such a like lizard brain, he just goes right 824 00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:35.079 to her and he's excuse me, ma'am, what time do those boys leave 825 00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:37.880 last night? Bud shoves him away and he's like, hey, back the 826 00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:43.039 fuck up, leave her alone. It escalates until Ed said that Stensland, 827 00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:45.559 the dead cop, got what he deserved. He deserved to die, and 828 00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:52.360 I'm like, all right, that's a little harshedry. Obviously, it does 829 00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:55.559 not go over well when Bud Bud starts to like try to beat the shit 830 00:56:55.639 --> 00:57:01.039 out of Ed. The entire LAPD basically are called in to hold back Russell 831 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:05.480 Crowe from beating up Guy Pearce. Over the radio, we hear that ray 832 00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:12.599 Lewis and Tye have escaped police custody. What Yeah, whose job is it 833 00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:17.719 to watch the three murderers? So I have to believe that in the book 834 00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:22.599 this happened, and it was eventually made clear that they were they were allowed 835 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:25.599 to escape, so they could then just be murdered, just be murdered, 836 00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:30.159 right like it is made clear in the movie. I'm being funny. Do 837 00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:32.440 you think it's made clear? Yes, because we are going to find out 838 00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:37.840 at the end of the film that the two cops that got there before Ed 839 00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:42.400 and Jack right where there did not only plant evidence, but also murder these 840 00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:45.320 guys. But Ed and Jack got there first, and then they couldn't kill 841 00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:49.119 them in front of Ed. And well, I'm sure Jack would have been 842 00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:51.280 fine with it, but they couldn't kill them in front of Ed because Ed 843 00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:53.960 would have been like, you're not supposed to murder. Yeah. So back 844 00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:58.440 at the police station, we hear that Inez gave a statement that would allow 845 00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:00.280 for the three suspects to be at the night at the time of the murders. 846 00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:05.000 Everything is lining up. Ed remembers the interrogation that Ray had given a 847 00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:07.159 name of a drug dealer that they all went to. He's like, give 848 00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:09.480 me the address of that drug dealer. As he's headed out, he says, 849 00:58:09.519 --> 00:58:13.679 I need backup. He takes one cop with him, one cop one 850 00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:16.000 of the guys that helped them with the original arrest, to act these guys, 851 00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:22.199 three known a legend murderers at a drug dealer's apartment. Uh huh, 852 00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:25.320 you are at best outnumbered. You might be out numbered two to one. 853 00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:30.480 Yeah. They head to the address of the drug dealer. They bust in, 854 00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:35.159 blah blah blah. Everyone winds up dead except for Ed. This is 855 00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:39.639 one of those times where he's shooting people not wearing glasses, so crucially Ed 856 00:58:39.960 --> 00:58:44.360 notices he doesn't have his glasses on, right, and he's like, oh 857 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:45.159 my glasses, And he's like, fuck it, let's keep going. And 858 00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:50.119 he goes into the drug dealer's house, right the murders all ensue. He 859 00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:53.079 murders these guys all without his glasses, including the last guy who he doesn't 860 00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:58.119 even see. The last guy, Tie I think it is, is running 861 00:58:58.199 --> 00:59:02.320 to the elevator and he like basically jams the elevator up with his shotgun so 862 00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:07.039 it doesn't close and just discharges and murders him. He does not know there's 863 00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:10.440 no one else in that elevator, correct, He does not know that, 864 00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:15.559 like he is actually killing anyone, Like he like he's doing this all like 865 00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:19.599 on instinct, and it's all the wrong instincts. It is an interesting choice 866 00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:22.760 of the film to have this character not be a good guy. He has 867 00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:24.800 all the hallmarks of someone who should be a good guy. I have integrity, 868 00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:29.159 I like to I like to solve crimes the old fashioned way with you 869 00:59:29.199 --> 00:59:32.039 know, elbow grease and detective work. I don't I don't resort to violence. 870 00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:37.599 But then when push comes to shove. He's fucking awful at it. 871 00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:42.760 Like he he goes, he goes just as evil as Bud does. Yeah, 872 00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:45.719 just as violent as like any other any other shitty cop. And it's 873 00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:50.039 it's a really interesting take the movie has on it, like there are there 874 00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:53.800 are definitely no good guys. Well it's and it's also we're gonna see like 875 00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:58.320 Ad and Jack are kind of ships passing in the night as far as their 876 00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:01.239 moral arcs. Yes, right, like they kind of go in opposite directions. 877 01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:06.400 So Ed is welcomed back to the station and awarded a medal of Valor. 878 01:00:06.679 --> 01:00:09.719 Right, He's what a hero. Jack heads back to work on badge 879 01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:13.519 of honor. He gets his promotion back to narcotics. He's out of vice, 880 01:00:13.599 --> 01:00:17.920 that boring pornography beat. Bud sits in his car in a downpour, 881 01:00:19.079 --> 01:00:22.320 staring at Lynn's house as she welcomes a client in nothing upsetting to be found 882 01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:27.239 here. She sees him just staring at her from across the street, and 883 01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:30.760 she's like, that's kind of sweet. I'm into that. I'm into being 884 01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:37.440 stalked by a weird cup. Broke the cup, Oh god. Pierce blackmails 885 01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:42.039 a councilman with photos of him and Lynn and gets approval for the Santa Monica 886 01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:46.039 Freeway. I hear that's a big road out there. Another movie about nineteen 887 01:00:46.119 --> 01:00:52.519 fifties Los Angeles where the villain is a freeway magnet who framed Roger Rabbit. 888 01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:58.559 Uh, that was a whole lot of hoo, frame Roger Rabbit. Dudley 889 01:00:58.639 --> 01:01:01.639 continues to make certain that no one rises into Mickey Cohen's place, and then 890 01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:07.119 one night Bud finally heads to Lin's. She lets him into her house and 891 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:12.360 then into her actual bedroom rather than the Veronica Lake fantasy on the first floor. 892 01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:15.840 And this is when he says, why me, and she whispers, 893 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:19.719 I don't know. Now. Look, I have to have something to say. 894 01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:24.039 I believe that these outfits, these costumes are period accurate. I'm not 895 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:29.320 what you're to say. But does he look like a Mormon missionary? No, 896 01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:35.679 he looks like a baby who bigged himself and like ended up in a 897 01:01:35.800 --> 01:01:38.119 man's outfit and doesn't and doesn't know how to fit make it fit him, 898 01:01:38.360 --> 01:01:42.079 so he still looks like a bit. It's like a giant baby, a 899 01:01:42.159 --> 01:01:45.519 giant baby, a baby who found that machine from big and was like, 900 01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:50.559 I want to be a man and that's what happens. It is not good. 901 01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:54.320 It is not none of that is good. I mean maybe maybe if 902 01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:59.559 they had posited that at least one of her clients was just like so hilariously 903 01:01:59.679 --> 01:02:02.400 terrible, which I believe they all are. She was like, you know, 904 01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:06.800 I just really want to get fucked, just by a normal, like 905 01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:10.320 someone who probably knows how, and like, like I would buy that. 906 01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.599 That's not that the movie is selling me. And I'm like, just make 907 01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:20.079 me believe this story, please, because I don't understand why she's into him 908 01:02:20.199 --> 01:02:23.760 at all. Of the three cops, who's the best at fucking? Oh? 909 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:30.440 But Ed or Jack? Oh that's a rough one. You know what. 910 01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:36.519 I think Jack. I feel like Jack's going to be more interested in 911 01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:37.840 like looking at his phone, well you know what I mean, Like, 912 01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:40.599 I know they don't have cell phones then, but I feel like Jack is 913 01:02:40.719 --> 01:02:45.360 just not into it. It's definitely not Ed. See now I disagree. 914 01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:47.920 I think Ed put in the work. I think Ed's read books. I 915 01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:52.920 feel like Ed might be a virgin. Ed Ed understands technique. It might 916 01:02:52.000 --> 01:03:01.079 also be a virgin. I feel like it would matter to to to Jack's 917 01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:05.920 image enough that he'd be known to be able to get a woman off that 918 01:03:06.039 --> 01:03:07.800 he would figure it out. He figured it out. Yeah, Like he's 919 01:03:07.840 --> 01:03:10.679 had a few starlets, and he feels good about himself. So he's like, 920 01:03:10.760 --> 01:03:14.280 I'm gonna be really good. I'm gonna I'm gonna work this beat. 921 01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:17.800 I'm gonna be good at this. I feel like Bud like starts to weep 922 01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:28.159 the minute he comes exactly exactly all right. So Sid approaches Jack with another 923 01:03:28.239 --> 01:03:31.119 deal. He wants to get a story on Da Low. That's Ron Rifkin's 924 01:03:31.159 --> 01:03:36.599 character, who turns out is a Swish. I love it. I love 925 01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:38.800 it. I will be a Swish all day every day. Ah. I 926 01:03:38.920 --> 01:03:42.840 feel like I feel like with Sissy that walk, we have reclaimed the word 927 01:03:42.920 --> 01:03:45.800 sissy, but we need to reclaim the word swish. I think if people 928 01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:47.000 have forgotten it, so they don't. I don't think they know. They 929 01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:51.320 don't realize we have to. But top of top priority, top priority. 930 01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:54.599 Uh, gay's, lesbian, queers and everyone in between. Let's let's let's 931 01:03:54.599 --> 01:03:58.800 get swishback. We need it. Huh. So Jack is more than happy 932 01:03:58.840 --> 01:04:00.400 to go along with that, because Love was part of that panel that cost 933 01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:02.960 him his job at Badge of Honor, A few months ago, and he's 934 01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:06.519 like, fuck that guy. Yeah. Sid has employed Matt Reynolds, the 935 01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:11.199 Simon Baker guy, right, the one they busted for pot at the beginning 936 01:04:11.199 --> 01:04:15.280 of the movie, who is quote unquote Ac Deocy a C d C, 937 01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:18.880 which is apparently bisexual slang. I never heard that one before. Yeah, 938 01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:24.320 I love ac Eczy. I love it. I love it. We got 939 01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:28.440 to bring that one back to reclaim easy. So he's going to bang the 940 01:04:28.519 --> 01:04:30.719 da for one hundred bucks and I love that. Sid then points out to 941 01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:33.800 Jack that's that's twice the money I paid you to ruin his career in the 942 01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:39.559 first place. One hundred bucks, by the way, back in nineteen fifty 943 01:04:39.599 --> 01:04:43.679 three is about twelve hundred dollars, So you know, okay, not bad. 944 01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:45.760 Not bad, well, bad for what's about to happen to him, 945 01:04:45.760 --> 01:04:48.719 but otherwise, right, yeah, not bad for a blowjob. You know. 946 01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:53.480 Jack is now less excited about the whole plot because he's starting to feel 947 01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:58.239 guilty over the way he's fucking ruined this poor guy's life, Matt's life, 948 01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:01.159 because I go shit at Sid's like, hey, Matt, come over here 949 01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:04.119 meet my friend Jack, and Jack's like, please don't bring him over here. 950 01:05:04.320 --> 01:05:06.360 Please don't. Oh, hi, nice to meet you, Like he's 951 01:05:06.760 --> 01:05:12.239 of course, Sid is such an asshole. I do love Sid having fun. 952 01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:15.599 He's having a good time. He's forcing the two of them to chit 953 01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:18.440 chat, right, so Sid steps away. Matt's like, have we met 954 01:05:18.519 --> 01:05:21.960 before? And Jack's like, yeah, yeah, we've met before, you 955 01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:26.880 just don't remember. And Matt still can't place him as the cop who arrested 956 01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:29.159 him, so he's like, oh, is it a Flora de Lee party? 957 01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:33.239 This perks up Jack's ears and he's like, yeah, Flora de Lee, 958 01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:38.679 whatever you desire. Matt's really dumb, so he doesn't realize he's being 959 01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:43.079 pumped for information. He starts pumping him for information and he hears the name 960 01:05:43.159 --> 01:05:46.719 Pierce Patchett and he learns what goes on at his parties from Matt. Right, 961 01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:50.639 so we as an audience already know. But Matt is now telling Jack 962 01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:57.440 like, last prostitution ring women and men presumably who are meant to look like 963 01:05:57.559 --> 01:06:01.440 movie stars. It's kind of interesting they don't have any men available, Like 964 01:06:01.719 --> 01:06:03.920 I want, I wonder, I just wonder why. I'm not trying to 965 01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:06.599 make a thing about it, but but like it seems like why wouldn't he 966 01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:11.280 have male prostitutes also working for him that like there was an audience for it, 967 01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:14.360 I'm sure Hollywood. For goodness, I wonder if that would have been 968 01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:16.320 considered like scandalous in ninety seven, so they didn't go there. Maybe, 969 01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:20.159 But also I think the character of Pierce Patchett wouldn't have had both, Like 970 01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:24.880 the client tele that went to him would not have gone to him if he 971 01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:27.440 had, if he had done both, if he had swishes, if he 972 01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:30.360 had if he had ac douces and swishes, they didn't want a C doucis. 973 01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:33.519 That's my guess is that it would have been historically inaccurate, like like 974 01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:40.360 those were two separate rings, fair enough, Sid returns and Matt's like, 975 01:06:40.440 --> 01:06:42.039 I don't know if I should go through with this. I don't know. 976 01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:45.519 He's like looking at Ron Rifkin, Poor Ron Rifkin. He's like, I 977 01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:48.480 don't know about this. This seems like a bad This seems like it's gonna 978 01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:51.840 be bad for my career. What if it gets out blah blah blah. 979 01:06:53.239 --> 01:06:55.320 And Sid's like, no, no, don't worry about it, no one 980 01:06:55.360 --> 01:06:58.320 will ever know you're doing this. You're gonna help me out with the with 981 01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:01.280 the with the DA and also works on Badge of honor he can get you 982 01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:05.239 apart on the show, and Jack, like very reluctantly, is like, 983 01:07:05.360 --> 01:07:08.880 yeah, I can help you get a part on the show. And Thatt's 984 01:07:08.960 --> 01:07:11.559 like okay, and he heads off yeah, and Jack is like, I 985 01:07:11.639 --> 01:07:14.599 don't I don't like any of this. I hate everything that just happened. 986 01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:17.280 Yep. That night, Jack's conscience gets the better of him. His newly 987 01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:23.039 awakened conscience is saying, this is bad, this is bad. You were 988 01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:27.559 wrong to do that. So he heads to the motel early to warn Matt 989 01:07:27.840 --> 01:07:30.320 of the impending situation, like, you need to get out of here. 990 01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:32.760 He knocks on the door, there's no answer. He walks in, and 991 01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:36.599 he finds Matt dead on the floor with his throat slit. No sign of 992 01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:41.920 the DA right row. Meanwhile, we cut to Ed walking Inez out of 993 01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:45.039 the hospital. Ines is the woman who had been kidnapped and gang raped by 994 01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:50.639 the now dead night Owl suspects. She thanks him for killing the men who 995 01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:55.400 kidnapped and raped her, and she admits she actually doesn't remember the time that 996 01:07:55.519 --> 01:07:58.360 the three men left the night of the night Owl murders. She just knew 997 01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:00.199 that the only way for her to get any justice was to make sure that 998 01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:04.119 society thought they had killed white people and not just raped a Mexican woman. 999 01:08:04.400 --> 01:08:09.239 Apparently, in the book this story, like this character is a much bigger 1000 01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:14.159 role and the woman that ed and Bud compeedo is actually her, not Lynn 1001 01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:17.479 in the book, which is I don't know what that does. I don't 1002 01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:21.640 know that. I like that. Yeah, that the power dynamics seem even 1003 01:08:21.720 --> 01:08:27.359 more often they already are. Well, there's no power dynamic issue for me 1004 01:08:27.520 --> 01:08:30.359 with Lynn at all. It's not a power thing. Yeah, you're right. 1005 01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:32.359 Yeah, I think Lynn has almost the upper hand over you. I 1006 01:08:32.439 --> 01:08:35.000 know, Bud's a cop, and well she has a functioning brain cell, 1007 01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:39.279 so that's a bit. She's specically a criminal, so she does have that 1008 01:08:39.439 --> 01:08:43.560 on her. But like it's I never worry that Lynn is going to get 1009 01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:47.239 in trouble for being a sex worker. She has way too many friends in 1010 01:08:47.319 --> 01:08:50.399 high places for her to even be like thinking about that. Yeah, that's 1011 01:08:50.439 --> 01:08:54.600 fair, I would say. I think my concern with Lynn in the movies, 1012 01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:58.119 I think the character is so little to the character I kept expecting, 1013 01:08:58.399 --> 01:09:00.479 and I knew she had won a supporting actress Oscar. Even with the knowledge 1014 01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:04.760 of what the story behind it, I kept expecting the big scene I was 1015 01:09:04.840 --> 01:09:09.359 waiting for, like the big scene where something is revealed, where something happens 1016 01:09:09.479 --> 01:09:12.119 to her, and and I think in my head, like that could that 1017 01:09:12.199 --> 01:09:15.560 could have been a sexual assault scene like that, like in the nineties, 1018 01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:18.199 that could have been counted as an incredibly brave thing. I'm not saying it's 1019 01:09:18.239 --> 01:09:20.119 good. I'm not saying I wanted it. I'm just saying that, like 1020 01:09:20.840 --> 01:09:24.840 I think I was worried about Lynn in the way that you weren't, because 1021 01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:29.439 I was waiting for something to happen both to and with her. Yeah, 1022 01:09:29.520 --> 01:09:31.880 in the story where it doesn't really I think, yeah, she's set up 1023 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:35.439 to be like mysterious because we're not supposed to know whose side she's on. 1024 01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:39.880 I think, yeah, But then they drop that so fast they do, 1025 01:09:40.079 --> 01:09:43.560 Yeah, they don't, but they don't drop the mysterious part, like like 1026 01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:47.880 give her something to do her, have her gather information for the cops. 1027 01:09:48.720 --> 01:09:53.880 She does do something, but it's barely something, but she but it's dumb, 1028 01:09:54.079 --> 01:09:57.159 and she like she shouldn't have done it, Like she makes a big, 1029 01:09:57.359 --> 01:09:59.520 huge mistake at some point anyway, we'll get to that. We'll get 1030 01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:01.359 to that. Okay, speaking of which, at this point, we get 1031 01:10:01.479 --> 01:10:04.760 like a little bit of a bud In Linn moment in the movie. They 1032 01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:09.600 go on dates, they have sex. He's perfectly happy that all those other 1033 01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:13.680 guys just get Veronica Lake, he gets Lynn and Margaret Bracken. Very good 1034 01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:16.920 line, I'll admit that's a good line. That's very sweet. They're laying 1035 01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:24.520 in bed. They've probably been on like five dates. Maybe they've probably known 1036 01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:27.840 each other like two, like not even a week. Actually, if you 1037 01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:30.560 really think about the time, not entirely clear on the timeline, because time 1038 01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:34.319 definitely does pass. So I was actually thinking about that. It could be 1039 01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:38.039 a week. It could also be like two months. I don't know, 1040 01:10:38.439 --> 01:10:44.520 Like time passes between when they murder the night Owl suspects and then like the 1041 01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:48.079 Metal of Valor happens and Jack goes back on Badge of Honor and like things 1042 01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:50.840 do get along. You're right, things do get moving a little bit. 1043 01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:55.119 So let's say they've known each other a month. Then I think that's fair. 1044 01:10:55.239 --> 01:10:57.159 I think that's fair. Let's say they've known each other a month. 1045 01:10:57.279 --> 01:10:59.840 Okay, you know what in that case, I'm a little more okay, 1046 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:02.279 what's about to happen. But what's about to happen is so fucking weird. 1047 01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:06.359 Okay, they go in a couple of dates. He is so crapy. 1048 01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:10.359 He just stares at her while they're at the movies. She's like laughing at 1049 01:11:10.399 --> 01:11:14.000 the screen, and she like throws a little popcorn in his face, like 1050 01:11:14.239 --> 01:11:16.800 to be playful, but really to be like, stop staring at me, 1051 01:11:17.119 --> 01:11:21.239 fucking weirdo. The first time she has diarrhea, he is gonna completely fall 1052 01:11:21.279 --> 01:11:25.039 out of love with her. He has no idea that she's a real person. 1053 01:11:25.640 --> 01:11:29.159 Okay, so here's what happens. Now, they're gonna recut to them 1054 01:11:29.239 --> 01:11:33.239 laying in bed, postcoital afterglow love. It's in the air. She tells 1055 01:11:33.279 --> 01:11:36.800 him she's from a little small town in Arizona called Brisbee, and her dream 1056 01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:41.680 is to earn enough money while she's in Los Angeles to then go back home 1057 01:11:41.800 --> 01:11:45.159 and open a a dress shop for the girls at Brisbee. That's a little 1058 01:11:45.199 --> 01:11:49.319 bit about me, that's my backstory, So tell me a little bit about 1059 01:11:49.359 --> 01:11:56.399 you. And then he immediately launches into this story about watching his father beat 1060 01:11:56.479 --> 01:12:00.680 his mother to death with a tire iron after tying Bud to the radiator, 1061 01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:03.800 and how he was there alone with his dead body, with his mother's dead 1062 01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:14.680 body for days until a truant officer finally found them, and Lynn's like, 1063 01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:20.960 okay. She's like, I come from a small town. It's very cute 1064 01:12:21.039 --> 01:12:24.520 and quaint, and I hope to go back there one day. Hey, 1065 01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:28.239 that's an interesting scar on your shoulder. How did you get that my father 1066 01:12:28.399 --> 01:12:31.119 beat my mother to death In the time, I'm like, oh my god, 1067 01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:41.279 her vagina just shut down. Just no, no, we're not doing 1068 01:12:41.319 --> 01:12:45.079 this ever again. You are way too intense. Look, I get it. 1069 01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:46.720 That's horrible. That's a terrible traumatic thing that happened to you, and 1070 01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:54.079 I'm very very sorry, But pick your moment, dude. He goes on 1071 01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:58.199 to say he just wants to be detective and solve the night Night Owl murders. 1072 01:12:58.279 --> 01:13:00.159 He's He's like, I'm just not small enough, and I wish I 1073 01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:02.800 was smart enough to be a detective. And I wish I was smart enough 1074 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:05.880 to be like like ex Ley. And she's like, you are smart. 1075 01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:11.600 You found me, you found Patchet, you figured that out. You're very 1076 01:13:12.279 --> 01:13:15.560 very smart, Bud, I mean, standing ovation for remembering where you met 1077 01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:19.920 someone and going to a liquor store and demanding the address. Whoa I mean, 1078 01:13:20.119 --> 01:13:23.359 did you look her up? Look her up in the in the yellow 1079 01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:27.520 Pages? Like who she knows really smart people, I think, right, 1080 01:13:27.680 --> 01:13:31.680 Like she knows she's she's involved in, like the upper echelon of like Los 1081 01:13:31.680 --> 01:13:34.000 Angeles. Why she's an idiot too? What if she was, like, 1082 01:13:34.079 --> 01:13:38.039 Bud, have you gone to Nick at the liquor store and asked him, 1083 01:13:38.039 --> 01:13:41.600 Hey, do you have anyone whose name is hey? I murdered those six 1084 01:13:41.640 --> 01:13:47.680 people at the night Owl Halient? That would be amazing if she was also 1085 01:13:47.720 --> 01:13:54.000 a fucking idiot. And the movie made it very clear she's just like she 1086 01:13:54.119 --> 01:13:58.600 has no idea what she's doing. Like these two cannot procreate their their children 1087 01:13:58.600 --> 01:14:02.159 would be too stupid, all right? So Bud takes this pep talk and 1088 01:14:02.239 --> 01:14:05.199 he heads down to the evidence locker to go over the night Owl case again. 1089 01:14:05.279 --> 01:14:10.319 He looks at some photos and realizes that Stensland, his former partner, 1090 01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:15.439 was sitting with Susan Lefferts at the diner, but he remembers that Stensland specifically 1091 01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:18.159 said he didn't know her when they met at the liquor store in the beginning. 1092 01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:21.680 Interesting, dun, dun, dun, what was we made a clue 1093 01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:26.439 sound last week? But I can't remember. For Colombo something like that. 1094 01:14:27.199 --> 01:14:30.920 He heads to missus Leffert's house. I have to say the actress playing missus 1095 01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:34.920 Lefferts, I don't I don't know her name. A plus she is giving 1096 01:14:35.560 --> 01:14:41.119 fucking plus. She read the breakdown. It was like an anxiety written older 1097 01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:44.920 woman with a with it, with it, with a rapidly fraying grip on 1098 01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:49.000 reality, and she was like, got it, got it. Uh. 1099 01:14:49.159 --> 01:14:54.960 So while he's there, he manages to get missus Lefferts to id Stensland as 1100 01:14:55.039 --> 01:14:58.039 Susan's boyfriend, the one that she had said in the morgue that she didn't 1101 01:14:58.199 --> 01:15:00.319 like, And then missus Leffert's to talking about like, oh, the neighbor 1102 01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:03.560 told me about this thing that she saw with Susan and her boyfriend and another 1103 01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:06.520 man at the house. They got into a fight and they kept going under 1104 01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:10.600 the house, and Bud's like looking around and he sees, why is there 1105 01:15:10.640 --> 01:15:14.000 a why is there like a wet towel against that door, and he goes 1106 01:15:14.039 --> 01:15:15.840 to open it and she goes, oh, don't go in there. I 1107 01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:18.279 think a rat died in the wall. And he opens it and it stinks, 1108 01:15:18.439 --> 01:15:21.319 and he goes out, and he goes down into the basement under the 1109 01:15:21.399 --> 01:15:28.039 house, and he eventually discovers the the decaying corpse of Leland Meeks, which 1110 01:15:28.079 --> 01:15:31.720 he who identifies from the guy's wallet stashed in the basement. He leaves and 1111 01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:36.000 he takes the wallet with him. Why would Susan be dating Stensland? I 1112 01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:42.039 mean, maybe maybe she needed protection or something. I don't know, Like 1113 01:15:43.279 --> 01:15:48.039 Stensland, I can't tell you enough is a gross middle aged cop. Yeah, 1114 01:15:48.199 --> 01:15:56.600 and Susan was a young, beautiful sort of vaguely looks like Rita Hayworth 1115 01:15:56.680 --> 01:16:00.760 adjacent high class sex worker. Here's a little Rita Hayworth in there. What 1116 01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:03.960 if you have ed Exley's eyesight and you take off your glasses. She's a 1117 01:16:04.039 --> 01:16:10.359 dead ringer for Rita Hayworth. He's not like rich, like you know, 1118 01:16:10.560 --> 01:16:13.479 like it's that transactional in that way. So what the fuck? Why is 1119 01:16:13.560 --> 01:16:15.479 she with you? Yeah? I don't know because I didn't think about it, 1120 01:16:15.479 --> 01:16:17.319 because I think in my head, but you're right, like in my 1121 01:16:17.479 --> 01:16:21.079 head, it was some kind of business transactional thing like this, like she 1122 01:16:21.319 --> 01:16:26.279 was this is gross. She was his prize for some deed he did in 1123 01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:29.840 this in this crime ring or something. But but the movie doesn't actually say 1124 01:16:29.880 --> 01:16:31.399 that. I think in my head I was just thinking it. You're right. 1125 01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:34.920 They imply that, like she's his girlfriend or something. Yes, she 1126 01:16:35.119 --> 01:16:39.880 brought him to her mother's house at some point, like this was a real 1127 01:16:39.960 --> 01:16:44.680 relationship, and I'm like, but how fair? Question weird? That is 1128 01:16:44.760 --> 01:16:46.840 the true mystery of this film. I would love to see the meet cute 1129 01:16:47.359 --> 01:16:54.840 between gross like fifty five year old Distensland and twenty year old Susan Leppards, 1130 01:16:54.840 --> 01:16:58.800 where she's like, oh, hello, yeah, you look like you sweat 1131 01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:04.239 gin, that's my type. I'm turned on by a light aroma of tequila 1132 01:17:04.359 --> 01:17:09.079 leaking through your pores. Don't tell me you're poor. Ooh do you have 1133 01:17:09.159 --> 01:17:12.119 anger management issues? To stop it? I'm wet. Stop it. Oh 1134 01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:15.359 god, oh my god. Terrible relationship with my father? Why do you 1135 01:17:15.479 --> 01:17:21.000 ask Meanwhile, Ed starts to follow the same breadcrumbs as Bud, and he 1136 01:17:21.119 --> 01:17:27.399 discovers meets his corpse as well, which implies that Bud found the corpse and 1137 01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:31.000 fucking left it under this woman's house. He sure did and didn't fucking do 1138 01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:34.359 anything about it, didn't call it in. He then heads over to Jack, 1139 01:17:34.479 --> 01:17:38.199 the only other cop for some reason he feels he can sort of trust 1140 01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:42.439 and helps and asks for his help entailing Bud and getting to the bottom of 1141 01:17:42.520 --> 01:17:45.279 the night hour murders. Jack is skeptical, He's like, why would you 1142 01:17:45.319 --> 01:17:46.960 want to reopen this case? It made your whole career, it made you 1143 01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:50.680 a fucking lieutenant detective or whatever, like, just leave it alone. And 1144 01:17:50.960 --> 01:17:55.960 Ed tells him the story of the man who murdered his father and got away 1145 01:17:56.000 --> 01:18:00.720 with it, a man he has named Rollo Tomasi. Excellent name. Yeah, 1146 01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:05.079 solid sounds like a delicious Italian meal, doesn't it. Oh, I 1147 01:18:05.199 --> 01:18:09.880 had the Rolo Tomasi lit dusting a parmesan on top. I know, I 1148 01:18:09.960 --> 01:18:13.199 know veal is not is not is not good right now we're not eating veal, 1149 01:18:13.239 --> 01:18:16.760 But trust me, get the veal. It's fucking amazing. So turns 1150 01:18:16.800 --> 01:18:19.760 out his father, when he was a cop, just off duty, I 1151 01:18:19.800 --> 01:18:25.840 guess, pursued a purse snatcher who end up shooting him dead. Random thing. 1152 01:18:25.960 --> 01:18:28.039 The guy was never caught, No one even knows who he is, 1153 01:18:28.439 --> 01:18:31.079 So Ed made up the name Rolo TOMASI to give the guy some personality, 1154 01:18:31.479 --> 01:18:35.840 like a name to this faithless criminal. He's the reason ed wanted to become 1155 01:18:35.880 --> 01:18:40.000 a cop because he wanted to get justice and get the guy who thinks he 1156 01:18:40.039 --> 01:18:42.640 can get away with it. He feels like he's lost sight of that. 1157 01:18:42.760 --> 01:18:45.800 He's like, I'm like, y think you think you murdered a bunch of 1158 01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:49.640 people. You lost sight of that, and you also lost your sight because 1159 01:18:49.640 --> 01:18:54.279 you're not wearing your glasses and you're don't have good eyesight. Put him clear 1160 01:18:54.399 --> 01:18:58.880 glasses on ed. He asked Jack why he became a cop, and Jack 1161 01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:01.880 takes a minute and like admits, Jesus Christ, I don't remember. Like, 1162 01:19:02.119 --> 01:19:05.159 yeah, I have no idea why I became a cop. Jack says, 1163 01:19:05.199 --> 01:19:08.319 Okay, I tell you what. I'll help you with your case if 1164 01:19:08.359 --> 01:19:10.920 you help me with mine. I need to solve the murder of Matt Reynolds. 1165 01:19:11.279 --> 01:19:14.119 Quid pro quo, and he's like done deal. Did you notice what 1166 01:19:14.239 --> 01:19:16.600 he called it? No, I know everyone's gonna say it's another Hollywood homo 1167 01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:21.239 side. Oh I did hear that? I did hear that someone's been watching 1168 01:19:21.319 --> 01:19:26.600 Sunset Boulevard? Okay, all right, so Jack, at Ed's request, 1169 01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:31.039 tells Bud Bud heads to meet with Johnny Stompanado, the former bodyguard of Mickey 1170 01:19:31.119 --> 01:19:35.159 Cohen, who is a real person. Johnny initially refuses to talk, but 1171 01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:40.439 Bud gets him literally by the balls, and eventually Johnny coughs up that Meeks 1172 01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:45.279 allegedly had a line on a large supply of heroin, and Bud wonders how 1173 01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:48.520 a low player like Meeks could possibly have gotten such a supply, and then 1174 01:19:48.600 --> 01:19:53.600 he heads to Lynn's just to unwind, just to like bounce some ideas off 1175 01:19:53.640 --> 01:19:56.680 of her, see what she's thinking about the case, try to suss out 1176 01:19:56.760 --> 01:19:59.920 some more stuff. And Jack and Ed's spy on the two of them there, 1177 01:20:00.199 --> 01:20:02.119 right, So now Jack and at are fully spying on Bud. Yeah, 1178 01:20:02.279 --> 01:20:04.960 there's a there's a really funny moment here. Bud and Lynn start to 1179 01:20:05.039 --> 01:20:08.600 fuck on her couch. In fact, goes, well, maybe he's not 1180 01:20:08.640 --> 01:20:15.239 as stupid as we thought he was. So just to be clear, Meeks 1181 01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:18.039 is Leland, the cop, the ex cop who works for Patchett at the 1182 01:20:18.119 --> 01:20:21.279 from the very beginning of the movie. Yes, the driver was in was 1183 01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:25.520 the driver in the car with Susan Lefferts. So that's the guy that people 1184 01:20:25.560 --> 01:20:29.000 are saying had a big line of heroin that he was trying to offload. 1185 01:20:29.279 --> 01:20:31.199 And he's done. Now the corpse that's under missus Lefferd's house, right, 1186 01:20:31.239 --> 01:20:35.039 that that's the story of Leland Meeks. Yeah, well done, Leland served 1187 01:20:35.079 --> 01:20:39.800 your point. Nicely done. So Jack and Ed head to Pierce Patchett's which 1188 01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:43.039 always makes me happy. I'm like, yeah, more Pierce Patchett. Seriously, 1189 01:20:43.479 --> 01:20:45.880 I genuinely my favorite performance in the movie. I wanted more Pierce Patchett 1190 01:20:45.880 --> 01:20:50.640 all the time. Not my favorite performance, but but maybe my favorite character. 1191 01:20:53.399 --> 01:20:59.239 Yeah. With questions about floor de Lee, which is now connected to 1192 01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:01.960 both cases, to both the Linn case and the Matt case, right, 1193 01:21:02.199 --> 01:21:05.920 but he stonewalls then doesn't give up any information. They then split up the 1194 01:21:05.960 --> 01:21:10.840 two cops. Jack heads to the coroner who has the idea on Meeks his 1195 01:21:10.920 --> 01:21:15.159 body, and Ed heads to Linz in the hopes of getting her to confess 1196 01:21:15.359 --> 01:21:19.600 that Patchett is setting her up with Bud for some nefarious reason. They're like, 1197 01:21:19.720 --> 01:21:24.239 well, obviously, yeah, they're with us. They're like, but 1198 01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:27.640 but why is she with you? Why is she fucking him? Yeah? 1199 01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:30.720 This idiot definitely doesn't know this is a high class prostitute. He thinks he 1200 01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:34.840 just hit the gold mine. They're like, well, obviously this is a 1201 01:21:34.880 --> 01:21:39.039 setup, because there's no way a woman like that. Whatever, fuck Bud, 1202 01:21:39.239 --> 01:21:43.720 and I'm like, right, I hear you, girl. As they 1203 01:21:43.840 --> 01:21:46.560 leave, we see Patchett place a call to Sid to Danny DeVito at Hush 1204 01:21:46.640 --> 01:21:51.159 Hush. Ed arrives at Lin's. He's generally an arrogant preck, very big 1205 01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:55.600 for his breeches. He demands to know why she's banging Bud, and she 1206 01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:59.399 accuses Ed of being scared of Bud because he doesn't play by the same rules 1207 01:21:59.439 --> 01:22:01.439 of politics. Says, Ed does, look, I'm scared of Bud too, 1208 01:22:01.479 --> 01:22:03.880 but it's because he's a violent rage monster, not because I think he's 1209 01:22:03.880 --> 01:22:08.319 gonna outsmart me, not because he's so true to himself that like, he 1210 01:22:08.359 --> 01:22:12.920 doesn't play your dirty politics. Then she steps up really close to Ed and 1211 01:22:13.039 --> 01:22:15.000 she says, I see Bud because I want to, and he's a good 1212 01:22:15.119 --> 01:22:19.119 man. And they kiss and they head right to the bone zone and outside 1213 01:22:19.159 --> 01:22:24.520 we see Sid, Hudgens Standy DeVito snapping photos of them. Yeah. Meanwhile, 1214 01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:29.359 Jack gets the id he finds out that the corpse under the Leffart's house 1215 01:22:29.439 --> 01:22:32.039 was Leland Meeks. He asks to see Meek's arrest records from when he was 1216 01:22:32.079 --> 01:22:35.960 on the force, and then we see him arriving at Dudley's house. Dudley 1217 01:22:36.039 --> 01:22:41.079 is the captain, Captain Dudley Smith, who's definitely not behind all of this. 1218 01:22:41.880 --> 01:22:44.600 He's definitely not the big bat of the movie. He is a police 1219 01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:46.720 captain. We must trust that. If we can't trust Irish cops, who 1220 01:22:46.800 --> 01:22:50.880 can we trust? I ask you, where can we turn? So he 1221 01:22:51.119 --> 01:22:56.119 asks Dudley if he remembers anything from a case about a dozen years prior that 1222 01:22:56.199 --> 01:23:00.760 he just discovered when Meeks and Stensland we're trying to take patches down for blackmail. 1223 01:23:01.800 --> 01:23:03.840 Smith seems a little confused. He's like, oh, what are you 1224 01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:06.800 trying to be a knight in shining armor now? You don't have any practice 1225 01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:10.760 at that And Jack says, well, you know, I'm just I'm working 1226 01:23:10.840 --> 01:23:13.760 this case with Ed and blah blah blah. And Smith says, well, 1227 01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:16.159 what does Ed think about all of it? And Jack admits he hasn't told 1228 01:23:16.199 --> 01:23:23.159 him yet, and Smith turns around and he shoots him in the chest what 1229 01:23:24.079 --> 01:23:27.039 he was a big bad the whole time. Do you mean to tell me 1230 01:23:27.479 --> 01:23:31.239 that the grizzled old police veteran in this movie about police corruption who was introduced 1231 01:23:31.479 --> 01:23:35.720 asking a young cop who is willing to plant evidence and shoot a suspect is 1232 01:23:35.760 --> 01:23:42.920 the big bad of this movie. So Jack lies there dying, and Dudley 1233 01:23:43.039 --> 01:23:45.279 leans down and he asks Jack, do they have any valediction? Boyle? 1234 01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:49.399 He's Irish in this moment he gets so irish. This is the most Irish 1235 01:23:49.479 --> 01:23:54.119 he gets the whole movie. He basically answers the door, playing a liar 1236 01:23:54.560 --> 01:24:00.199 and being like, hey, come into my house, like my jama Eccon's 1237 01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:03.359 definitely Jamaican. He basically answers the door in a Leprechaun costume with a pot 1238 01:24:03.399 --> 01:24:10.279 of gold. He's reading James Joyce by the fire, drinking a guinness. 1239 01:24:10.760 --> 01:24:19.439 Yeah. He's like, no woman, no cry, hey play with my 1240 01:24:19.560 --> 01:24:24.640 steel drums. Eh Now, I don't even know what I'm doing? Would 1241 01:24:24.680 --> 01:24:30.000 I try to do? It? Was Italian, vaguely Italian. So if 1242 01:24:30.039 --> 01:24:32.079 you want me to do a Jamaican accent, ask me to do an Irish 1243 01:24:32.600 --> 01:24:34.840 got it? Got it? We're gonna have to draw a diagram. Of 1244 01:24:34.920 --> 01:24:47.640 this, eh, Boio, don't di steal my lucky charms. So Dudley 1245 01:24:47.760 --> 01:24:51.920 is like, do you have any valediction, boyo? And Jack just chokes 1246 01:24:51.960 --> 01:24:58.439 out Rollo Tamasi and dies. Right, So this was a big twist in 1247 01:24:58.520 --> 01:25:02.159 ninety seven that unfortunately does it anymore Because Russell Crowe is now the biggest name 1248 01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:06.279 in the cast. Guy Pierce is also a legitimate star. He's not as 1249 01:25:06.279 --> 01:25:10.640 big as Russell Crowe, but a legitimate movie star. And Kevin Spacey has 1250 01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:15.239 fallen out of favor, right, So in ninety seven he was the name 1251 01:25:15.560 --> 01:25:17.920 and he dies with like a half an hour left in the movie. Yeah, 1252 01:25:18.359 --> 01:25:21.479 a legitimate twist that no longer lands, I don't think so. Smith 1253 01:25:21.520 --> 01:25:26.039 addresses the precinct the next day. He reports that Jack's body was found in 1254 01:25:26.119 --> 01:25:30.039 Echo Park, but that it was probably killed somewhere else and then dragged to 1255 01:25:30.119 --> 01:25:33.560 the park. Don't squhere. He's like, we should have swift justice for 1256 01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:39.199 our comrade in arms, Jack, Poor poor Jack who died. He then 1257 01:25:39.279 --> 01:25:43.439 pulls ed aside and asks if he's ever heard Jack mention Rolo Tomasi. He's 1258 01:25:43.479 --> 01:25:46.119 following up on a lead from one of Jack's associates, I heard this Italian 1259 01:25:46.159 --> 01:25:51.520 place downtown does a great Rollo Tomasi your look. A lot of people will 1260 01:25:51.520 --> 01:25:56.119 tell you to do a shiatsu massage, but I prefer a Rolo Tomasi frankly, 1261 01:25:56.520 --> 01:26:00.520 totally. It's a combination of stretching and stepping on you and then they'll 1262 01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:04.960 cover you in Marinara sauce. It's it's so relaxing, and then then they 1263 01:26:05.039 --> 01:26:09.000 parm you, they par you. It is just the most relaxing massage of 1264 01:26:09.039 --> 01:26:15.199 your life. Kudo's enormous. Kudos to Guy Pierce in this moment, who 1265 01:26:15.319 --> 01:26:18.279 fucking nails the moment. I don't know how he does it. It's like 1266 01:26:18.439 --> 01:26:23.079 a magic trick of acting. James Cromwell goes, hey, have you heard 1267 01:26:23.119 --> 01:26:26.359 of Rolo Tomasi? And then the camera is just just like close up on 1268 01:26:26.439 --> 01:26:32.119 Guy Pierce's face and without alerting the other character that he knows everything, all 1269 01:26:32.199 --> 01:26:36.479 of a sudden, just because of that word, his eyes widen just like 1270 01:26:36.600 --> 01:26:41.279 ever so slightly, and then like he goes, no, one never heard 1271 01:26:41.279 --> 01:26:43.920 of Rolo Tomasi. It's yeah, and Dudley's like, well, if you 1272 01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:46.640 hear anything, let me know. But Guy Pierce plays the moment so well, 1273 01:26:48.079 --> 01:26:50.479 so now Ed is on the tail. He's like, Okay, so 1274 01:26:50.600 --> 01:26:55.880 obviously Dudley murdered Jack for some reason, and I have to figure that whole 1275 01:26:55.920 --> 01:26:59.760 shit out now. So he starts to retrace Jack's moves from the night before. 1276 01:27:00.319 --> 01:27:03.319 Meanwhile, Dudley tells Bud he needs him to interrogate someone who might know 1277 01:27:03.439 --> 01:27:06.840 who killed Jack, and they head to the Victory Motel, which is this 1278 01:27:08.079 --> 01:27:12.359 off site, abandoned building where they beat people up for information intimidation. That's 1279 01:27:12.359 --> 01:27:14.840 where we see them beating people up earlier in the movie, like the criminals 1280 01:27:14.880 --> 01:27:17.560 that are coming from out of town. There we find Sid, Sid Hudgens 1281 01:27:17.600 --> 01:27:21.439 our old friend Danny DeVito, handcuffed to a chair, and Dudley is questioning 1282 01:27:21.520 --> 01:27:27.279 him about Jack and Patchett. Sid eagerly tells them that Patchett is rumored to 1283 01:27:27.399 --> 01:27:30.600 enjoy heroin and blackmail clients of his call girls with photos of them. This 1284 01:27:30.760 --> 01:27:33.239 whole time, Bud is standing to the side, getting more and more and 1285 01:27:33.359 --> 01:27:36.520 more worked up, right like if he was Bruce Banner, he'd be getting 1286 01:27:36.520 --> 01:27:40.439 greener and greener and green. Hulk is rising. Hulk is rising, Hulk 1287 01:27:40.520 --> 01:27:44.840 is rising. There's one point where he walks over and he punches Danny DeVito 1288 01:27:44.920 --> 01:27:49.479 and I'm sorry the sfx on it, the sound effects is so objectively hilarious 1289 01:27:49.600 --> 01:27:55.720 because he punches down into like Danny DeVito's stomach, thigh, crotch area, 1290 01:27:55.920 --> 01:27:59.840 and it sounds like he hit him in the face with a mace like this, 1291 01:28:00.119 --> 01:28:02.720 the most over the top smacking. I'm like, that's not what that 1292 01:28:02.800 --> 01:28:06.520 would sound like, like you punched into a soft surface like this is like 1293 01:28:08.760 --> 01:28:12.920 what if he just broke Danny DeVito in half, came apart like a Russian 1294 01:28:13.039 --> 01:28:17.640 nesting doll, just tore him apart like a wishbone. So Sid goes on. 1295 01:28:17.760 --> 01:28:20.239 He says he's got a bunch of photos in his car of some cop 1296 01:28:20.359 --> 01:28:25.680 fucking a slut named Lynn, and that's all too much for bud Hulk smash. 1297 01:28:26.560 --> 01:28:29.760 He rips the chair out of the baseboards where it's been screwed in. 1298 01:28:30.319 --> 01:28:33.840 I can't, like, why is this movie making him a cartoon? I 1299 01:28:33.960 --> 01:28:39.680 know, it's like he's a bear in a man's costume, and like the 1300 01:28:39.800 --> 01:28:44.880 bear doesn't understand how to modulate his behavior to be a man, and so 1301 01:28:45.760 --> 01:28:51.159 strength it's so stupid it is he's about to curb stomp Sid, but Dudley 1302 01:28:51.199 --> 01:28:55.239 manages to stop him, and then he runs out to the car. He 1303 01:28:55.560 --> 01:28:59.039 being Bud, he thinks the photos are of himself with Lynn. He thinks, 1304 01:28:59.079 --> 01:29:01.439 correct, that's he's about to find and he rips open the back of 1305 01:29:01.479 --> 01:29:08.560 the car and he finds photos of Lynn banging ed r Row. He drives 1306 01:29:08.640 --> 01:29:13.720 away in Dudley calmly murdered Sid, as Sid protests they had a deal me 1307 01:29:14.000 --> 01:29:16.479 you and patch it. We had a deal and we cut away. So 1308 01:29:16.720 --> 01:29:20.880 Bud, instead of going to ex Ley, first goes to Lin's again. 1309 01:29:21.199 --> 01:29:25.520 I don't approve of any of what's happening in this scene, obviously, but 1310 01:29:25.640 --> 01:29:29.000 these two actors are fucking nailing it. I have to say. It's now 1311 01:29:29.159 --> 01:29:31.399 raining, it's now pouring down rain. He stands outside the house. He 1312 01:29:31.479 --> 01:29:34.720 has that wounded animal look of like you hurt me, you hurt me, 1313 01:29:35.159 --> 01:29:39.520 And she's doing her best to like, hey, why don't you come inside 1314 01:29:39.560 --> 01:29:42.359 the house and talk to me. She looks super guilty. She knows what 1315 01:29:42.479 --> 01:29:45.960 she fucked up big time. I know that she was. The movie's gonna 1316 01:29:45.960 --> 01:29:48.119 tell us later that she was forced to do this bypatch it in some way, 1317 01:29:48.359 --> 01:29:55.479 like she thought somehow she was helping Bud by bringing down Ed. Obviously, 1318 01:29:55.600 --> 01:29:59.319 it backfired spectacularly. She had no idea that Bud would ever find out 1319 01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:02.680 right. So, but but is like why and she goes, I thought 1320 01:30:02.720 --> 01:30:06.800 I was helping you, and he just backhandser like ye again, with his 1321 01:30:08.079 --> 01:30:14.239 brutal, superhuman bare strength. He's backhandser and she flies against the wall of 1322 01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:20.039 the porch like it's not funny, but it is. It's just stupid. 1323 01:30:20.079 --> 01:30:25.199 It's so stupid. Hulk's feelings hurt, Hulk angry. Yeah, no, 1324 01:30:25.399 --> 01:30:29.079 I have to say, these two actors are nailing the scene. You're not 1325 01:30:29.159 --> 01:30:31.800 wrong, it's it's good performances. For me. What happens to me in 1326 01:30:31.880 --> 01:30:35.359 this is I'm like, he is a violent rage monster who is going to 1327 01:30:35.439 --> 01:30:39.560 wind up beating her to death because she puts a foot wrong like that, 1328 01:30:39.920 --> 01:30:42.239 And I know, like the movie is like, no, he only defends 1329 01:30:42.279 --> 01:30:45.399 women. I'm like, until apparently they make him angry. I don't know 1330 01:30:45.520 --> 01:30:46.760 that's where I go. I mean, look, none of it's good. 1331 01:30:46.880 --> 01:30:51.239 I'm not like that man cares about you, Like, none of this is 1332 01:30:51.319 --> 01:30:57.760 good. I think the movie does do a decent job of like saying, 1333 01:30:57.840 --> 01:31:00.880 look this is these are extraordinary circumstances and he will sure probably not do this 1334 01:31:01.039 --> 01:31:05.640 again. But like, again, this fucking terrible messaging, Like that's really 1335 01:31:05.680 --> 01:31:09.600 shitty and terrible messaging. And why does she even like him to begin with? 1336 01:31:09.920 --> 01:31:11.920 Ye? So, like, why is she staying with him after he 1337 01:31:12.039 --> 01:31:15.279 hits her? None of that makes any sense. I will give the movie 1338 01:31:15.359 --> 01:31:18.800 the minuscule credit A. It's a period piece, right, it takes place 1339 01:31:18.840 --> 01:31:23.920 in the fifties. Everything was trash. Yeah, I believe. I believe 1340 01:31:23.920 --> 01:31:26.000 that the actual name. That's the name of the decade. It's the Trash 1341 01:31:26.039 --> 01:31:29.960 decade. It's it's the I liked. I like, everything is trash decade. 1342 01:31:30.640 --> 01:31:33.680 So, like, I understand why she stays with him, And the 1343 01:31:33.800 --> 01:31:39.840 movie does a decent enough job for me of like making me understand why he 1344 01:31:39.880 --> 01:31:43.600 would fly off the handle this badly. Oh sure, Yeah, So we 1345 01:31:43.760 --> 01:31:46.079 cut back to the station ed is looking for Meeks's arrest records. He is 1346 01:31:46.119 --> 01:31:49.760 interrupted by but arriving and he is in hulk smash mode. He's like, 1347 01:31:49.880 --> 01:31:53.640 good, but I'm glad you're here. I need to ask you, and 1348 01:31:53.720 --> 01:31:57.800 then before he can even finish, Bud just like knocks him down. He 1349 01:31:57.920 --> 01:32:00.720 barely has time to like fight back. He grabs bud gun and like pistol, 1350 01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:03.399 whips him with it to get Bud to get off of him. The 1351 01:32:03.520 --> 01:32:06.720 two of them get in a brawl around the record room. They basically destroy 1352 01:32:06.840 --> 01:32:13.079 the place, and Ed manages to convince Bud to stop hitting him for a 1353 01:32:13.159 --> 01:32:18.520 minute and think, who sent you after me? Who killed Jack? Who 1354 01:32:19.039 --> 01:32:23.560 orchestrated all of this? Who's trying to get you to kill me right now? 1355 01:32:23.640 --> 01:32:28.560 To shut us both up? It's Dudley, and Bud stops punching in 1356 01:32:28.680 --> 01:32:32.439 for a moment to be like Hulk calm now, and the two of them 1357 01:32:32.479 --> 01:32:36.359 start to compare notes and realize that stens Lynne killed Meeks for the heroine, 1358 01:32:36.479 --> 01:32:41.520 and that Dudley framed the three black men for the night Owl murders, and 1359 01:32:42.079 --> 01:32:45.600 this is all a giant conspiracy and they have to start working together to solve 1360 01:32:45.640 --> 01:32:47.920 this crime or will never get solved. They decide their first stop should be 1361 01:32:48.039 --> 01:32:51.520 d A. Ellis Lowe, which was Jack's angle on the case. That's 1362 01:32:51.600 --> 01:32:56.319 Ron Rifkin, the Swish, the Swish, the Swish with the ac DC. 1363 01:32:56.680 --> 01:33:00.479 Do you think that Basketball stole Swish from us? Nike? We need 1364 01:33:00.520 --> 01:33:04.800 to push back. Yeah. Yeah, Lowe is initially unimpressed with their request. 1365 01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:09.279 They walk in like two alpha dogs on the yard. They're like, 1366 01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:12.720 we eat a tail and bug Smith and Patchet blah blah blah Blah's like, 1367 01:33:12.760 --> 01:33:15.399 get the fuck out of my office. So you know what's gonna happen next, 1368 01:33:15.880 --> 01:33:18.840 Hulk smash, Hulk give little man swirly Hulk hang little man out of 1369 01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:24.199 window until little man give up the goods. This was a little funny actually, 1370 01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:29.680 because like the absolute certainty that Ron Rifkin has that he is untouchable in 1371 01:33:29.760 --> 01:33:34.840 this scene, I tell until these two fucking rogue cups go so rogue. 1372 01:33:35.439 --> 01:33:42.159 It's actually really funny that he runs Ron Rifkin's head. I'm sure it's a 1373 01:33:42.199 --> 01:33:45.920 stunt man, not Ron Rifkin into like a wooden balcony that like leaning out 1374 01:33:45.960 --> 01:33:50.000 of a three story window. Yeah, he rams that head into the balcony 1375 01:33:50.079 --> 01:33:53.880 so hard. I'm like, there's no way that didn't hurt. I don't 1376 01:33:53.880 --> 01:33:56.520 know how they did that with a stunt man. It looked like it really 1377 01:33:56.720 --> 01:33:59.920 hurt. It's made with like popsicle sticks, yeah, something like that. 1378 01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:03.319 Yeah, they're hanging him out the window for somehow low secretary doesn't hear him 1379 01:34:03.399 --> 01:34:06.600 screaming bloody murder inside of the office, But I guess we're not gonna worry 1380 01:34:06.640 --> 01:34:10.680 about that, weird right, or like they didn't lock the door, We 1381 01:34:10.760 --> 01:34:14.399 don't hear her banging on the door, like I'm calling the police. Yeah. 1382 01:34:15.039 --> 01:34:17.600 Low admits that Dudley and Patchett set him up because what they wanted to 1383 01:34:17.680 --> 01:34:20.960 do was make sure that when they took over as heads of the Criminal Underworld, 1384 01:34:21.359 --> 01:34:25.560 the DA would not prosecute them. That's why they wanted to blackmail him. 1385 01:34:26.199 --> 01:34:29.279 When they came in, Matt hurt everything and they slit his throat. 1386 01:34:29.640 --> 01:34:32.920 Okay, So the sequence of events in this movie is as follows. Mickey 1387 01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:38.039 Cohen goes down for tax evasion. Smith and Patchett decide between the two of 1388 01:34:38.119 --> 01:34:39.920 them they are going to take his place. They are going to be the 1389 01:34:40.000 --> 01:34:44.880 new kingpins of Los Angeles. Yeah, they go about murdering people. Leland 1390 01:34:44.960 --> 01:34:47.960 Meeks is on the team that murders Cohen's drugs are he takes the heroine. 1391 01:34:48.359 --> 01:34:53.640 Stensland, who's out of a job, decides he wants the heroine, murders 1392 01:34:53.720 --> 01:34:58.479 Meeks. He's got the heroin now. Somehow Smith gets winned that Stensland has 1393 01:34:58.520 --> 01:35:01.239 the heroin. He sends two cronies to murder him for some reason. They 1394 01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:05.039 decide to do it in a public place and they take five innocent bystanders with 1395 01:35:05.159 --> 01:35:09.880 him. Yep, right, did I miss anything? I think that's it. 1396 01:35:10.520 --> 01:35:12.640 Yeah, No, you're good. That's okay, that's all good. 1397 01:35:12.720 --> 01:35:15.319 That's it. And now it's just the rest of the movie is just Dudley 1398 01:35:15.640 --> 01:35:18.720 closing up loose ends, right, that's why he kills Sid. Sid knows 1399 01:35:18.800 --> 01:35:23.640 too much at this point. So Butt and Ed head to Patch. It's 1400 01:35:23.680 --> 01:35:26.159 because they're like, all right, we go to we have to figure out 1401 01:35:26.159 --> 01:35:29.600 how to take Dudley down. We're going to go through patch it. Unfortunately, 1402 01:35:29.720 --> 01:35:31.920 they find him sitting in his chair with his wrist slit and a fake 1403 01:35:32.000 --> 01:35:35.880 suicide note. Whoops, two of his fingers are broken. It's very clear 1404 01:35:36.000 --> 01:35:39.640 he's been has been held down. This is not a this is not an 1405 01:35:39.640 --> 01:35:44.039 actual suicide. Right. They now realize that Dudley is tying up loose ends 1406 01:35:44.159 --> 01:35:46.920 and that puts Lynn in the line of fire. So they call the sheriff 1407 01:35:47.439 --> 01:35:50.760 of West Hollywood, who's closer to her house, to like look after her, 1408 01:35:51.199 --> 01:35:54.680 and when they get there, they're informed that they've got Lynn at the 1409 01:35:54.680 --> 01:35:58.439 West Hollywood police station for her safety under an assumed name. At one point, 1410 01:35:58.520 --> 01:36:00.399 the sheriff says someone worked her over, though she looks like she's been 1411 01:36:00.439 --> 01:36:05.079 beaten up, and Ed looks to Bud, and Bud just has this guilty 1412 01:36:05.119 --> 01:36:09.560 look on his face, like hulk, like a bear who was caught with 1413 01:36:09.640 --> 01:36:15.720 his hand in the It's like, it's okay, who hasn't hit a woman 1414 01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:20.960 once in a while? Am I right? So they go to the police 1415 01:36:21.000 --> 01:36:24.960 station to talk to Lynn. Bud's like, you talk to her? Ed 1416 01:36:25.079 --> 01:36:27.760 goes in. There's a moment where the two of them see each other with 1417 01:36:27.840 --> 01:36:30.000 their faces all bruised and beat because, like Ed looks like hell because of 1418 01:36:30.039 --> 01:36:33.239 his fight with Bud. Right Yeah. They kind of smile at each other 1419 01:36:33.560 --> 01:36:38.680 like they're like, Bud, am I right? Rage monster? Don't want 1420 01:36:38.680 --> 01:36:42.079 to cross that one. Ed for some reason, feels the need to tell 1421 01:36:42.119 --> 01:36:49.319 Linda Bud hates himself for hitting her, to which Lynn is like I deserved 1422 01:36:49.399 --> 01:36:56.840 it and like what is happening? Give her some moxie for God's sake? 1423 01:36:57.319 --> 01:37:01.359 Yes. Meanwhile, Bud heads to sids Off and discovers that Sid's been killed, 1424 01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:04.640 so both Ed and Bud get messages from the other to meet at the 1425 01:37:04.800 --> 01:37:10.640 Victory Motel and this At this point, Erica screams at the screen, but 1426 01:37:10.920 --> 01:37:15.359 why would you go there? Yeah, if you know what it's used for, 1427 01:37:16.119 --> 01:37:19.279 what sink? Come on? Cellphones really would have helped these dudes out 1428 01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:21.800 if they could have texted each other and been like, did you just call 1429 01:37:21.880 --> 01:37:25.640 me to go to the Victory Hotel? No? Did you know? We're 1430 01:37:25.800 --> 01:37:30.399 definitely not doing that right? Cool? Yeah, in and out thumbs up. 1431 01:37:30.520 --> 01:37:34.039 Awesome animal style. Great hahha. The two arrived, they quickly realize 1432 01:37:34.039 --> 01:37:38.199 they've fallen for the most obvious trap in the book. There's twenty minutes left 1433 01:37:38.239 --> 01:37:42.079 in this movie and this recap is too long. So gunfire, two men 1434 01:37:42.119 --> 01:37:45.520 against an army, impossible odds, incredibly survive. Oh no, Dudley's here. 1435 01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:50.760 Bud is wounded. Ed realizes that Smith is the real life Rollo Tamasi 1436 01:37:50.920 --> 01:37:55.960 quote unquote the guy who gets away with it. Ed gets Dudley at gunpoint, 1437 01:37:56.199 --> 01:37:59.439 and the silver Tongue captain talks about everything you said earlier, like you 1438 01:37:59.479 --> 01:38:00.800 said you were do this, you did this, He promises, Look, 1439 01:38:01.039 --> 01:38:03.920 I'm gonna keep promoting you. This is your way up on the head. 1440 01:38:04.000 --> 01:38:06.960 You can be you can be my right hand man. And Ed kind of 1441 01:38:08.039 --> 01:38:11.640 hesitates, and Dudleys hears sirens coming in the distance. He's like yeah, 1442 01:38:12.000 --> 01:38:14.600 and he walks out, and he turns around and says, get your police 1443 01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:16.279 badge out so they know you're a policeman. And he turns around waiting for 1444 01:38:16.319 --> 01:38:19.680 the cops, and Ed shoots the guy he knows is the criminal in the 1445 01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:23.760 back because he thinks he might get off in a court of law. Right, 1446 01:38:24.039 --> 01:38:27.119 that's the big tie up of this, right, the very thing that 1447 01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:30.239 Dudley said you wouldn't do, he does at the end to bring about Dudley's 1448 01:38:30.279 --> 01:38:35.880 demise. Did I miss anything? I alighted a lot of gunfire. There's 1449 01:38:36.000 --> 01:38:40.000 so much gunfire. At one point. I really did think the first time 1450 01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:43.279 I saw this that Russell Crowe was dead, Like I was shocked. Yeah, 1451 01:38:43.640 --> 01:38:45.880 that he survives the movie, because they shoot him in the face at 1452 01:38:45.960 --> 01:38:48.279 that point, and I'm like, oh, well, he's obviously dead. 1453 01:38:48.760 --> 01:38:51.279 No, No, he's still alive. Hulk, fine, Hulk, heal 1454 01:38:51.359 --> 01:38:55.119 quickly. Maybe the reason they shot him in the face is because he hit 1455 01:38:55.239 --> 01:38:58.800 Linn in the face and that's like the movies, the movie being like, 1456 01:38:59.399 --> 01:39:00.800 well he is his come up ins in a way, I don't know, 1457 01:39:01.000 --> 01:39:03.640 I'm reaching. Maybe they shot him in the face because they're like, well, 1458 01:39:03.680 --> 01:39:05.920 doesn't have a brain, so he'll be fine, Like there's no other 1459 01:39:06.039 --> 01:39:13.319 vital organs around there. We cut to Ed's debriefing. He gives them the 1460 01:39:13.479 --> 01:39:16.800 whole unvarnished truth, with the exception of what he knows about Low the Da. 1461 01:39:17.039 --> 01:39:20.520 Because Low the Da is one of the people watching the interrogation, he 1462 01:39:20.640 --> 01:39:25.399 knows it right, so he glides over the fact that Low is part of 1463 01:39:25.479 --> 01:39:30.479 this in a way as well. Low and the police chief realize this is 1464 01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:35.439 going to cost the the LAPD trauma for years if this all gets out, 1465 01:39:35.520 --> 01:39:40.079 So we need to hatch a plan to avoid embarrassment. So we need to 1466 01:39:40.119 --> 01:39:44.439 paint Dudley as a hero who was killed while taking down Mickey Cohen's crime ring, 1467 01:39:44.960 --> 01:39:47.960 and Ed as like his second in command who helped him, Like that's 1468 01:39:48.000 --> 01:39:50.239 the only way we're going to get out of all of this. Ed, 1469 01:39:50.960 --> 01:39:54.880 even though he's in the interrogation room and can't hear them, he's a few 1470 01:39:54.920 --> 01:39:59.000 steps ahead of them, and he starts to smile because he realizes what's happening 1471 01:39:59.039 --> 01:40:00.239 in the other room. They turn on the mic and they're like, what 1472 01:40:00.319 --> 01:40:03.159 are you laughing at? And he's like, you need a hero, don't 1473 01:40:03.239 --> 01:40:09.359 you. Yeah. We cut to Ed receiving another medal of valor. He 1474 01:40:09.479 --> 01:40:12.640 is racking him up. He is like, thirty one years old, you've 1475 01:40:12.680 --> 01:40:15.359 been to have more medals than Simone Biles. By the end of this movie, 1476 01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:19.199 he spots Lynn in the back of the ceremony because everyone else is a 1477 01:40:19.239 --> 01:40:23.960 cop in gray and blue and she is a beautiful blonde woman in a bright 1478 01:40:24.119 --> 01:40:27.960 butter yellow dress in the back, pretty easy to spot. He goes over 1479 01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:30.560 to her says, Hi, They kiss on the cheek like they're old friends 1480 01:40:30.600 --> 01:40:35.359 and not someone who fucked someone for blackmail purposes. Their relationship is weird. 1481 01:40:35.560 --> 01:40:41.920 Should not be this close. I get that the movie pauses they have trauma 1482 01:40:42.000 --> 01:40:45.680 ponded, but I don't think that's what happened. Yeah. Fair, So 1483 01:40:45.840 --> 01:40:47.680 she like takes his arm and the two of them walk out of the police 1484 01:40:47.960 --> 01:40:55.520 headquarters like they're like dogether wherever we go, like old friends. This is 1485 01:40:55.560 --> 01:40:59.560 when the audience finds out that Bud survived the shootout. Because you are led 1486 01:40:59.600 --> 01:41:01.920 to believe he died there. But now she's like, Bud's okay, he's 1487 01:41:02.000 --> 01:41:05.439 in the back of the car. We're gonna head to Brisbee, Arizona, 1488 01:41:05.600 --> 01:41:10.960 my hometown, and start fresh. Ed leans into the car window. He 1489 01:41:11.000 --> 01:41:14.920 sees Bud, who's very banged up. They shake hands. Lynn tells Ed. 1490 01:41:15.680 --> 01:41:18.159 Some men get the world, some get X hookers in a trip to 1491 01:41:18.279 --> 01:41:25.960 Arizona. You know, I kind of like that line. I'm not gonna 1492 01:41:26.000 --> 01:41:30.720 lie. I uh, it's kind of stupid, but I I'm glad you 1493 01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:32.760 liked it. I don't. I'm gonna give it to you. You enjoy 1494 01:41:32.800 --> 01:41:36.600 it. It's silly, It's real silly. Yeah, they all laugh, 1495 01:41:40.199 --> 01:41:44.560 as though they weren't all just taken through hell. And she kisses Ed on 1496 01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:49.720 the cheek and she drives off with Bud. End of La Confidential. So 1497 01:41:50.000 --> 01:41:55.079 stick around. We'll be right back after these messages for you non patrons, 1498 01:41:55.279 --> 01:42:08.640 and we will take you through our random observations and final rankings, and we're 1499 01:42:08.720 --> 01:42:11.640 back Erica. Do you have any final clues that you that you want to 1500 01:42:11.720 --> 01:42:14.960 let everyone know about, any little tidbits left on the left on the field. 1501 01:42:15.199 --> 01:42:17.399 I have a gross one. There's a moment where we see like a 1502 01:42:17.520 --> 01:42:21.479 Pierce Patchett floor de Lee party, and we see all the like Marilyn Monroe 1503 01:42:21.560 --> 01:42:27.079 looking one and the the Greta Garbo looking like prostitute. There is a Shirley 1504 01:42:27.199 --> 01:42:31.000 Temple. Oh my god, I missed it. Now the actress's face is 1505 01:42:31.039 --> 01:42:34.279 turned away from us. She's like sitting on a man's lap as she's he 1506 01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:40.680 Oh, presumably it is an eighteen year old, right, right? But 1507 01:42:40.840 --> 01:42:44.680 I mean because I think the movie knows it can't get away with showing anything 1508 01:42:44.880 --> 01:42:47.239 worse. Sure, so presumably the but like, yeah, there's a Shirley 1509 01:42:47.279 --> 01:42:53.159 Temple in that prostitution ring. Oh I got Oh that gives me the heb 1510 01:42:53.279 --> 01:42:57.239 gbs even like hearing you say it, I missed it somehow. Oh my 1511 01:42:57.319 --> 01:43:00.520 god, what if they did win with like with like character actors. What 1512 01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:02.800 if there was like a prostitution ring where you could you could have sex with 1513 01:43:02.880 --> 01:43:09.840 someone who looks exactly like Parker Posey Apologiamatti with Beth Grant, that sex with 1514 01:43:09.960 --> 01:43:19.920 Beth Grant with with Steve Do you know what, I know a lot of 1515 01:43:19.960 --> 01:43:23.159 people who would take you up on that one. Oh yeah, they would 1516 01:43:23.319 --> 01:43:30.720 no blink with Christopher Lloyd but he's dressed as Doc Brown with with Marty McFly's 1517 01:43:30.880 --> 01:43:36.199 dad from the From the Back to the Glover, but he's dressed like George 1518 01:43:36.279 --> 01:43:43.119 McFly. Yeah, whatever what everyone wanted. You could take Margot Martindale to 1519 01:43:43.199 --> 01:43:48.479 the bone Zone. Do you think Margot Martindale and and Dowd is one woman 1520 01:43:48.520 --> 01:43:54.159 who dresses herself different. You have a Margot Martindale and an All I know 1521 01:43:54.319 --> 01:43:59.920 is I want to be in a threesome with Stephen Tobolowski and and that's all 1522 01:44:00.079 --> 01:44:01.039 I want right now. That's all you want, That's all you want? 1523 01:44:03.960 --> 01:44:09.199 Okay, this is a very random one. The woman who plays Inez Soto, 1524 01:44:09.439 --> 01:44:13.279 the rape victim, the Mexican rape victim in the movie. Her name 1525 01:44:13.359 --> 01:44:15.039 is Marie sol Padilla Sanchez. And when I saw her, I was like, 1526 01:44:15.119 --> 01:44:17.640 she seems familiar. Do I know her from somewhere? Turns out I 1527 01:44:17.720 --> 01:44:20.279 don't. She's you know, she's done a couple of things, but she's 1528 01:44:20.800 --> 01:44:27.000 nothing I've seen. However, that did lead me to her IMDb page. 1529 01:44:27.239 --> 01:44:30.039 And I want to tell you that the sentence I'm about to read to you 1530 01:44:30.199 --> 01:44:32.800 does not make sense, but it is copied and pasted from her IMDb bio. 1531 01:44:33.279 --> 01:44:39.800 Okay, okay, tell us more in is her mother, Daniella Vali, 1532 01:44:40.680 --> 01:44:45.159 a Mexican actress and trapeze artist, and is most likely a daughter to 1533 01:44:45.279 --> 01:44:50.560 David Cassidy. The mother is a daughter to David K. I don't know, 1534 01:44:51.239 --> 01:44:56.399 I don't know. It's got to be must be the daughter of David 1535 01:44:56.439 --> 01:45:00.520 Cassidy, possibly maybe with Daniella Vali. Yeah, the Mexican trapeze artist. 1536 01:45:00.640 --> 01:45:04.960 Yeah, that that part is undisputed. The father might be David Cassidy of 1537 01:45:05.079 --> 01:45:09.279 the Partridge family. You know what, let's just make it, Cannon, 1538 01:45:09.399 --> 01:45:12.279 Let's just make it. Let's just do it. Let's just do allegedly, 1539 01:45:12.439 --> 01:45:17.159 I guess legally have to say that legally. My favorite scene in the movie 1540 01:45:17.359 --> 01:45:21.439 is another real life thing that the movie sprinkles in a lot of, like 1541 01:45:21.720 --> 01:45:29.159 actual crimes, actual Hongsters, actual people. At one point, Exley goes 1542 01:45:29.239 --> 01:45:33.119 to shake down Joey Stomponado at some like nightclub and he's sitting there with a 1543 01:45:33.159 --> 01:45:36.199 woman who looks exactly like Lana Turner. And remember the plot of the film 1544 01:45:36.239 --> 01:45:39.880 we just talked about. He's like shut up to her, and she's like, 1545 01:45:39.920 --> 01:45:42.239 get away from our table. How dare you and he's like, hey, 1546 01:45:42.560 --> 01:45:45.039 a hooker who's been cut up to look like Lana Turner. Isn't Lana 1547 01:45:45.079 --> 01:45:48.680 Turner, She's just the hooker. And then Jack behind her goes, that 1548 01:45:48.800 --> 01:45:56.159 is Turner. Those are Martini in his space that if you do not know 1549 01:45:56.319 --> 01:46:01.199 that story, google it fascinating. That is ye. Lana Turner, famous 1550 01:46:01.279 --> 01:46:06.520 movie star, dated like gangster thug Joey Stomponado. They were together for a 1551 01:46:06.640 --> 01:46:11.960 long time and it did not end well, unfortunately for either of them, 1552 01:46:12.039 --> 01:46:15.720 because he apparently was violent with her one night and got stabbed in her house 1553 01:46:17.000 --> 01:46:21.079 and murdered in her house. The person who eventually was convicted of the crime 1554 01:46:21.279 --> 01:46:27.560 was her daughter and not Lana Turner, although it is widely speculated that it 1555 01:46:27.640 --> 01:46:30.680 was actually Lana Turner that stabbed him to death, and no one, no 1556 01:46:30.720 --> 01:46:34.039 one went to prison. Everyone was basically cool with hit this guy dying. 1557 01:46:34.159 --> 01:46:36.840 No one cared about him. No, everyone's like, what are you. 1558 01:46:38.279 --> 01:46:41.039 The legal system was like, look, we're not out to prosecute a fourteen 1559 01:46:41.119 --> 01:46:44.239 year old girl or a famous movie star. But apparently it would have been 1560 01:46:44.319 --> 01:46:47.039 bad for Lana Turner's image if she had been if she'd been the killer, 1561 01:46:47.520 --> 01:46:51.479 so they pinned it on the fourteen year old. That's all timey Hollywood for 1562 01:46:51.600 --> 01:46:56.640 you. Yeah, the kid'll be fine. Now see here, gum, 1563 01:46:57.479 --> 01:47:01.520 what's gonna do. We're gonna pinish online? Okay, truly incredible story. 1564 01:47:01.600 --> 01:47:05.199 Oh my god, a prostitution ring where you can have sex with current day 1565 01:47:05.279 --> 01:47:17.800 Liza Minelli. O Lord, did you notice in the very beginning it went 1566 01:47:18.039 --> 01:47:23.039 for the Christmas party when Bud goes and he breaks up that domestic violence incident, 1567 01:47:23.960 --> 01:47:26.880 that they have a Christmas tree and a manora in the window. I 1568 01:47:27.000 --> 01:47:30.560 spot wokeism. I didn't notice that. Well, there are there are Jewish 1569 01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:34.279 characters in the film. Sid Hutchins is Jewish. He uses a few, 1570 01:47:35.960 --> 01:47:40.960 and I believe the da is also like Ron Rifkin's character is supposed to also 1571 01:47:41.000 --> 01:47:44.000 be Jewish. Oh yeah, well his last name is low so yeah, 1572 01:47:44.119 --> 01:47:46.239 that makes sense right. Yeah. I just have one more, And that's 1573 01:47:46.279 --> 01:47:49.720 one of my favorite lines in the film is said by Sid Hutchins. All 1574 01:47:49.800 --> 01:47:54.520 of his lines are truly excellent. He calls what he does sinewendo. I 1575 01:47:54.640 --> 01:48:00.279 write excellent, that's excellent. My last one is actually a Sid Hudgens line 1576 01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:04.079 as well. It is when he's being tied up and questioned Dudley's like, 1577 01:48:04.239 --> 01:48:08.640 what can you tell me about Jack Vincenn's and Sid goes, I can tell 1578 01:48:08.680 --> 01:48:13.359 you he's on the night train to the Big Audios Excellent, excellent, excellent. 1579 01:48:13.720 --> 01:48:15.199 Really enjoyed it. We kind of ragged on the movie a lot, 1580 01:48:15.319 --> 01:48:18.800 but I really liked this movie, Like, I had a really good time 1581 01:48:18.880 --> 01:48:24.239 watching it. I like hard boiled detective stories. Yeah, Russell Crow and 1582 01:48:24.279 --> 01:48:28.279 Kimbasinger ofvit all really was like I was like, huh, but I was 1583 01:48:28.359 --> 01:48:30.800 less annoyed with it than you were, and I was just more like, 1584 01:48:30.039 --> 01:48:33.119 but why, like just cut these two out of the movie, almost like 1585 01:48:33.239 --> 01:48:36.479 fair enough? Or give her something to do for God's sake. I think 1586 01:48:36.560 --> 01:48:42.000 that was the big takeaway for like, on second watching, I really enjoyed 1587 01:48:42.079 --> 01:48:45.359 everything, except really that I had the world wrong going in the first time. 1588 01:48:45.439 --> 01:48:47.560 Now that I know the world, the only thing that sticks out really 1589 01:48:47.760 --> 01:48:53.600 is those two. Yeah all right, Erica, How how shall we rank 1590 01:48:54.119 --> 01:49:02.760 La Confidential? One to ten? Perfectly executed Irish accents. I'm into my 1591 01:49:02.880 --> 01:49:06.600 kitchen, mon, come on in my house, Come on in my house. 1592 01:49:11.560 --> 01:49:16.000 One to ten Hulk smash, Yeah, polk angry Hulk tear wooden chair 1593 01:49:16.039 --> 01:49:19.680 Apart with Hulk Bear, he murders more chairs than people in this movie, 1594 01:49:19.720 --> 01:49:23.079 and he murders a lot of people. To be fair, he murders a 1595 01:49:23.159 --> 01:49:26.159 lot of people. But we didn't even talk about the chair that gets thrown 1596 01:49:26.159 --> 01:49:29.439 out the window at one point. That's right, what I presume is a 1597 01:49:29.640 --> 01:49:33.960 multi level building, which means some pedestrian down there got got smashed with a 1598 01:49:34.000 --> 01:49:43.520 fucking chair. One to ten sinew windows. Mmm, it's a night trained 1599 01:49:43.560 --> 01:49:47.159 to the Bigadio. Sinuindo is fun. I'm actually surprised sinuendo isn't like I 1600 01:49:47.199 --> 01:49:50.319 don't know, like a like a like a super villain name and a comic 1601 01:49:51.199 --> 01:49:57.720 one to ten swishes and ac deuces and and sissies and grasshoppers and grasshoppers and 1602 01:49:57.800 --> 01:50:01.319 taco benders. Those are just as the slur as we can say. There 1603 01:50:01.359 --> 01:50:04.640 are worse ones. Yeah, I have to say though, and again it 1604 01:50:04.720 --> 01:50:10.279 might be period appropriateness, but like, they don't use any of the big 1605 01:50:10.399 --> 01:50:13.399 ones that we would flag today. They really don't. They don't use the 1606 01:50:13.560 --> 01:50:15.479 N word, they don't use the the F word that we don't say on 1607 01:50:15.560 --> 01:50:18.399 the show. They don't think that I think there's a there's one for hispan 1608 01:50:18.600 --> 01:50:21.680 X that pops up that I would say is the is the most current. 1609 01:50:23.079 --> 01:50:27.119 Yes, agreed, agreed. And even there's a moment where someone calls Linna 1610 01:50:27.159 --> 01:50:29.640 whore and Patch it's like, well, that's a little harsh, don't you 1611 01:50:29.720 --> 01:50:31.960 think, Like in the movie he's like, all right, calm down, 1612 01:50:32.239 --> 01:50:36.399 Like yeah, yeah, it's interesting, Like I don't know, maybe they 1613 01:50:36.439 --> 01:50:40.159 were just going for period accuracy, but it is interesting the way that it 1614 01:50:40.760 --> 01:50:44.119 it softens the movie. Like if they were calling, if there were N 1615 01:50:44.199 --> 01:50:47.359 bombs and F bombs and like just everywhere, I think these characters would just 1616 01:50:47.439 --> 01:50:50.920 be even more difficult to like than they already are. You would bring it 1617 01:50:50.960 --> 01:50:54.560 would bring too much real world into it. Yeah, I have to think 1618 01:50:54.600 --> 01:50:58.560 that was somewhat intentional. Yeah, maybe I'm over I'm overthinking it, but 1619 01:50:58.920 --> 01:51:00.920 to me that seems intentional. I agree. Do you want to go first 1620 01:51:00.960 --> 01:51:03.079 on this one? Or should I go first on this one? Why don't 1621 01:51:03.119 --> 01:51:05.800 you go first? Since I think I gonna be nicer to the movie than 1622 01:51:05.840 --> 01:51:10.279 you are. Okay, fair enough? The movie to me is fine, 1623 01:51:10.600 --> 01:51:14.520 It is fine. I don't think it's a particularly good mystery, and I 1624 01:51:14.720 --> 01:51:20.640 think the way it engages with its story of police corruption comes off today as 1625 01:51:20.840 --> 01:51:27.720 pretty surface and shallow, and I can't say how it came off in nineteen 1626 01:51:27.760 --> 01:51:29.840 ninety seven. I was there, but I don't really remember it. I've 1627 01:51:29.880 --> 01:51:31.439 drank a lot since then, so I don't really have a memory of that 1628 01:51:31.560 --> 01:51:35.479 time. You've been a grasshopper since then, Yeah, exactly, You've been 1629 01:51:35.520 --> 01:51:39.399 in the drunk tank. Every chance I get, I wind up in the 1630 01:51:39.439 --> 01:51:44.359 drunk tank. As far as its portrayal of gay people goes, I'm actually 1631 01:51:44.439 --> 01:51:46.279 fine with all the gay portrayals in the movie, Like the fact that they 1632 01:51:46.319 --> 01:51:53.399 actually have Jack who winds up being the person who goes from corrupt to more 1633 01:51:53.520 --> 01:51:58.079 moral in the movie and then gets killed for it, which is a pretty 1634 01:51:58.119 --> 01:52:00.920 dark story. But the fact they have him just simply feeling bad about like 1635 01:52:01.760 --> 01:52:05.439 screwing this actor in this way, Like it doesn't even seem like Jack and 1636 01:52:05.680 --> 01:52:11.199 Sid when they're talking about like this this gay hookup, they're not disgusted by 1637 01:52:11.239 --> 01:52:14.680 it being gay. Sid just wants like the better story. Yeah, they're 1638 01:52:14.720 --> 01:52:16.760 men of the world, they understand. Yeah, they're not like disgusted by 1639 01:52:16.760 --> 01:52:18.439 it at all. It's just like this is the way it is, you 1640 01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:21.840 know, so the gay star ends of the movie are kind of depressing if 1641 01:52:21.880 --> 01:52:25.920 you think about them in the real world, But the movie has enough of 1642 01:52:25.960 --> 01:52:28.840 a remove from the real world that that doesn't really echo too much to me. 1643 01:52:28.880 --> 01:52:30.520 When I watched it, I was like, whatever, this is low 1644 01:52:30.640 --> 01:52:34.399 level stuff compared to everything else that's going on. The stuff with the people 1645 01:52:34.479 --> 01:52:40.159 of color is more difficult. The only those that's true there is the boxer 1646 01:52:40.640 --> 01:52:44.119 who helps who's Jack's contact, Yeah, right, that, and he is 1647 01:52:44.199 --> 01:52:47.279 portrayed as like a person just in La trying to make his way in the 1648 01:52:47.319 --> 01:52:50.880 world. But the other three black people who are the victims of the cover 1649 01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:58.680 up are also portrayed as truly heinous human beings in their own right, and 1650 01:52:59.520 --> 01:53:01.760 that's very difficult. And then the Mexican men that are brought in the beginning 1651 01:53:01.840 --> 01:53:06.239 are not really given much character. They're they're they're props to for the police 1652 01:53:06.359 --> 01:53:11.119 to brutalize. Uh that that sticks in my craw a little bit. But 1653 01:53:11.199 --> 01:53:14.159 I do understand what your point when you say, like, they have to 1654 01:53:14.279 --> 01:53:18.840 make those those three black men horrible people to let the police off the hook 1655 01:53:18.920 --> 01:53:21.000 enough that you can wind up rooting for Ed and but at the end, 1656 01:53:21.079 --> 01:53:26.439 like there's this like math that you have to do and and those characters are 1657 01:53:26.439 --> 01:53:30.720 the victims of that. I think the biggest problem in the movie is it's 1658 01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:35.600 female characters, because there is only one. Lynn is the only female character 1659 01:53:35.680 --> 01:53:40.960 of any note. Maybe Missus Lefferts gets to have some fun and I Nez, 1660 01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:45.199 but but I Nez isn't really Andz has three lines and and and that's 1661 01:53:45.239 --> 01:53:47.479 it. And and the actress does a good job, but like she gets 1662 01:53:47.560 --> 01:53:51.000 to say, like the quiet part out loud, I guess of the movie. 1663 01:53:53.399 --> 01:53:57.079 But Lynn is the only one of real of any depth at all, 1664 01:53:57.399 --> 01:54:01.279 I would say. And I don't think that depth is super deep. I 1665 01:54:01.319 --> 01:54:03.800 think it's like a three foot part. It's the shallow end of the pool, 1666 01:54:03.840 --> 01:54:05.960 not the deep end of the pool. It's a coy pond. It's 1667 01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:09.640 a coy pond, if you will. We're dealing with a coy pond here. 1668 01:54:10.439 --> 01:54:13.800 Yeah. And I think part of my issue that I wasn't able to 1669 01:54:13.880 --> 01:54:15.279 kind of like let go of the butt and lind stuff as much as you 1670 01:54:15.359 --> 01:54:19.319 were, is that I kept expecting there to be more. And I think 1671 01:54:19.359 --> 01:54:24.920 there were opportunities for there to be more, and and I get you your 1672 01:54:25.159 --> 01:54:29.520 point that, like they're playing with the trope if you really understand that kind 1673 01:54:29.560 --> 01:54:30.600 of movie, which I really admit I don't like. I haven't watched a 1674 01:54:30.640 --> 01:54:33.680 lot of them, so I don't know all of those tropes Like that conversation 1675 01:54:34.239 --> 01:54:39.079 doesn't come through to me. So you just wind up with a really shallow 1676 01:54:39.199 --> 01:54:43.880 character who for some reason likes this idiot and that's all she wrote. Well, 1677 01:54:43.960 --> 01:54:45.920 the crazy thing is is they're playing with two tropes there. There's these 1678 01:54:46.000 --> 01:54:49.840 movies always have like a femme fatale and then the angel, and so what 1679 01:54:49.920 --> 01:54:54.960 they've done is they've combined both of those in Linn, and yet somehow made 1680 01:54:55.039 --> 01:54:59.239 her less interesting even though she is both. She should have been twice as 1681 01:54:59.279 --> 01:55:02.520 interesting he was in the film, as opposed to that should not have negated 1682 01:55:02.680 --> 01:55:08.039 anything about her. Yeah, yeah, so, uh, I don't know. 1683 01:55:08.159 --> 01:55:11.399 I didn't. I didn't hate the movie. I think think if you 1684 01:55:11.479 --> 01:55:13.720 take out the button Lind stuff, which I didn't like, I think I 1685 01:55:13.920 --> 01:55:17.159 would honestly give it like an eighty percent. It's a fun police thriller. 1686 01:55:17.600 --> 01:55:20.359 It's the button Lind stuff. Everything but the button Lint stuff. I really, 1687 01:55:20.600 --> 01:55:23.960 I really have no issue with you were right when you said that earlier, 1688 01:55:24.079 --> 01:55:27.279 Like, that's the that's the Achilles Heel of the movie for me. 1689 01:55:28.039 --> 01:55:30.479 And it's also a period piece, so it's set in the fifties, so 1690 01:55:30.560 --> 01:55:32.800 that takes a lot of like some of the stuff we would normally criticize, 1691 01:55:33.239 --> 01:55:36.119 it goes away because of the reality of the time period it set in. 1692 01:55:38.600 --> 01:55:42.520 I'll give it a six. I'll give it a six out of ten swishes 1693 01:55:42.520 --> 01:55:45.479 in acdc's I think if you want to watch it, don't go in thinking 1694 01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:50.800 it is a Oscar winning, stunning masterpiece like a Good Fellas. I think 1695 01:55:50.840 --> 01:55:56.960 it's a fun It's a collateral movie. It's a collateral. It's exactly it 1696 01:55:57.079 --> 01:55:59.720 is a collateral. What do you think. I liked it way more than 1697 01:55:59.720 --> 01:56:02.920 you did. I actually think it's way better than Collateral. Collateral was dumb 1698 01:56:03.079 --> 01:56:06.000 on many levels. This one is like it only dumb on one. It 1699 01:56:06.119 --> 01:56:10.680 really only falls down on one. I think that as a crime story, 1700 01:56:11.079 --> 01:56:13.680 as a murder mystery, I think you're right, there's really no mystery to 1701 01:56:13.800 --> 01:56:15.039 it. I'd forgotten that when we chose it, and I was like, 1702 01:56:15.119 --> 01:56:18.199 oh, yeah, there's no mystery in this movie. I wish we'd pick 1703 01:56:18.279 --> 01:56:21.960 something that was actually a mystery. Next week we have a real mystery, 1704 01:56:23.079 --> 01:56:27.000 actual murder mystery, because this is not a mystery, this is a crime 1705 01:56:27.119 --> 01:56:30.319 thriller. I don't remember if I was like even remotely surprised when we when 1706 01:56:30.399 --> 01:56:35.119 Dudley shoots Jack. I will say they did do that beat well, because 1707 01:56:35.279 --> 01:56:39.079 even though I knew the whole time, I was a little shocked when he 1708 01:56:39.079 --> 01:56:42.399 actually shot him. Yeah, so they built it well. It also happened 1709 01:56:42.479 --> 01:56:45.000 so fast. Yeah. I like it as a movie. I think the 1710 01:56:45.119 --> 01:56:48.560 dialogue is great. I think the actors are all uniformly wonderful, even Uni 1711 01:56:48.640 --> 01:56:53.199 King Basinger, who maybe did not deserve an Oscar for this, but is 1712 01:56:53.279 --> 01:56:57.880 doing her fucking level best to make this shit work. I don't think it's 1713 01:56:57.880 --> 01:57:00.079 skirts past the stuff that you think it's skirts by. I think it actually 1714 01:57:00.199 --> 01:57:04.239 confronts it pretty head on. The cops immediately. Always, and this is 1715 01:57:04.279 --> 01:57:11.640 a trope in absolutely every movie that minorities always get like blamed for every crime 1716 01:57:11.720 --> 01:57:15.279 that happens in these major cities, right in these in these cases. And 1717 01:57:15.439 --> 01:57:18.279 so I think the movie hits that, and really hits that in a way, 1718 01:57:18.359 --> 01:57:23.479 that way, way way more movies just blow past it, and then 1719 01:57:23.520 --> 01:57:25.800 the audience is left to be like, well, we know that's bad, 1720 01:57:26.439 --> 01:57:30.119 but they don't follow through. They don't show us like the murder of of 1721 01:57:30.600 --> 01:57:35.680 young men in service of like this, this grander police scheme. It does 1722 01:57:35.800 --> 01:57:40.720 let you slightly off the hook because these guys are fucking terrible too, But 1723 01:57:40.880 --> 01:57:44.560 I'm not sorry about that, frankly, because it would have it would have 1724 01:57:45.039 --> 01:57:46.520 it makes the movie. It would have made the movie so hard to watch 1725 01:57:47.479 --> 01:57:50.880 and so dark. I mean, it's already so dark and nihilistic, Like, 1726 01:57:50.960 --> 01:57:55.640 I don't know if it needs more nihilism on top of it all. 1727 01:57:55.880 --> 01:58:00.600 I think it treats gay characters remarkably well. Given for nineteen ninety seven, 1728 01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:06.439 it could have been really really bad, and Matt and even Low are given 1729 01:58:06.600 --> 01:58:11.319 like a tremendous amount of like empathy I think from the film. Yeah, 1730 01:58:11.479 --> 01:58:14.880 most movies, even in nineteen ninety seven, and something written in nineteen ninety 1731 01:58:14.920 --> 01:58:17.920 that takes place in nineteen fifty three would not have afforded them. That's fair. 1732 01:58:18.039 --> 01:58:23.800 I think there is more thoughtfulness behind the film than like your average crime 1733 01:58:23.880 --> 01:58:27.800 thriller. You're right, women, nobueno in this film, they're all victimous. 1734 01:58:28.960 --> 01:58:31.880 They are all survivors in some way of some kind of horrible violence done 1735 01:58:31.920 --> 01:58:35.000 to them by men. I would say, even even Susan Leffert's mother. 1736 01:58:36.800 --> 01:58:41.760 Yet, like it's it's all bad. It's not good. They're like the 1737 01:58:41.960 --> 01:58:46.399 they're the the damsels in distress in service of this very male dominated plot. 1738 01:58:46.520 --> 01:58:50.279 So that's not great. So I'm you. We gave it a six. 1739 01:58:50.920 --> 01:58:56.039 I gave it a six. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it 1740 01:58:56.079 --> 01:59:01.119 a seven. Okay, seven out of ten ACD season swishes. But I 1741 01:59:01.239 --> 01:59:04.119 do have a palate cleanser. I suspect it's the same one you have. 1742 01:59:04.640 --> 01:59:09.239 I know I have a very random one. Oh mine isn't random. Mine 1743 01:59:09.399 --> 01:59:14.119 is the new Perry Mason Show on HBO. They've only been two seasons. 1744 01:59:14.159 --> 01:59:16.680 I think I got canceled sadly. Yeah, but it takes place in the 1745 01:59:16.840 --> 01:59:21.359 exact same era, in the exact same milieu, like the exact same type 1746 01:59:21.399 --> 01:59:26.439 of genre. You got your you got your your ac Deucey's, you got 1747 01:59:26.479 --> 01:59:30.159 your swishes, you got your people of color. It's fantastic, and it's 1748 01:59:30.399 --> 01:59:33.880 it does so much course correcting for everything that came before it. It's really 1749 01:59:33.960 --> 01:59:38.159 good. Highly recommend if you haven't seen it. If you like something kind 1750 01:59:38.199 --> 01:59:42.520 of hard boiled and dark but stylish and sleek at the same time and with 1751 01:59:42.640 --> 01:59:45.600 a heart of gold in the middle, definitely watch the New Perry Mason on 1752 01:59:45.800 --> 01:59:48.800 HBO. I agree. I will say I would say I liked the second 1753 01:59:48.880 --> 01:59:51.720 season of that show way more than the first season. I thought it took 1754 01:59:51.720 --> 01:59:55.520 a big step up in the second I like the first season, but I 1755 01:59:55.680 --> 01:59:58.239 love the second season. Agreed, But you do have to watch the first 1756 01:59:58.239 --> 02:00:01.359 season understand what happens in the second season. And again, it's not bad. 1757 02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:03.159 It's just like, if you're like, this is a little slow, 1758 02:00:03.239 --> 02:00:05.399 I don't know about it. If you stick with it the second season to 1759 02:00:05.479 --> 02:00:10.800 really grip you yea. I have a really random one. I watched this 1760 02:00:10.960 --> 02:00:14.399 movie once in the early aughts, and I remember it being very good. 1761 02:00:14.520 --> 02:00:16.600 I've done some research on it. It seems like it's held up as a 1762 02:00:16.640 --> 02:00:19.880 good movie. There is a movie called The Some of Us. It is 1763 02:00:19.920 --> 02:00:24.920 a nineteen ninety four Australian movie in which Russell Crowe plays a gay guy who 1764 02:00:25.000 --> 02:00:28.520 lives with his widowed father. Oh yeah, it's a whole thing about like 1765 02:00:28.600 --> 02:00:30.800 how his father's like almost overly supportive of him being gay, and like they're 1766 02:00:30.840 --> 02:00:35.600 both dating, and it's this whole thing that all sounds delightful and very fun 1767 02:00:35.720 --> 02:00:40.039 to watch, which it is. But I'm just warning everyone there is a 1768 02:00:40.079 --> 02:00:44.359 twist in this movie where the father undergoes like a medical emergency and everything becomes 1769 02:00:44.479 --> 02:00:48.760 much darker. So I like the movie. It's very well. I remember 1770 02:00:48.800 --> 02:00:51.720 liking the movie. I haven't seen it in a long time, but I 1771 02:00:51.960 --> 02:00:55.760 think it ages pretty well. I'm guessing ages pretty well. Maybe we'll do 1772 02:00:55.840 --> 02:00:58.000 it someday. Who knows, Maybe we'll run out of enough movies that we 1773 02:00:58.039 --> 02:01:01.439 wind up on some little Australian Indie from nineteen ninety four, the Some of 1774 02:01:01.560 --> 02:01:04.760 Us with Russell Krowe, or the other Australian India that we've covered with Guy 1775 02:01:04.840 --> 02:01:08.680 Pearce, Priscilla Queen of the Desert. All right, So that is the 1776 02:01:08.840 --> 02:01:11.760 end of our show. You can follow us on Instagram, on Twitter, 1777 02:01:12.199 --> 02:01:15.199 on threads. We have a tea public shop where you can pick up podcast 1778 02:01:15.279 --> 02:01:18.199 swag. If you are a Spotify user, we'll ask some questions. We'll 1779 02:01:18.239 --> 02:01:21.119 do polls about episodes. You can answer those. We would love it if 1780 02:01:21.119 --> 02:01:25.680 you would leave a five star review on Apple Podcasts or any podcasting platform that 1781 02:01:25.840 --> 02:01:29.640 you prefer. 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Every patron gets to vote in an exclusive monthly 1791 02:02:02.760 --> 02:02:06.439 poll to determine one of our subjects. So head on over to patreon dot 1792 02:02:06.520 --> 02:02:11.800 com slash that age Well podcast to find out more. Speaking of which, 1793 02:02:12.279 --> 02:02:15.640 Erica some tears on our Patreon come with thanks for a podcast character. And 1794 02:02:15.720 --> 02:02:20.920 today we're hearing from a man I only wish could have lent his velvet tone 1795 02:02:21.199 --> 02:02:30.159 to La confidential. Mister Keanu Reeves, Hi, this is Keanu coming to 1796 02:02:30.319 --> 02:02:36.119 you from the City of Angels. That's right, Los Angeles, where good 1797 02:02:36.279 --> 02:02:43.159 is bad and bad is good and left is right and sometimes people win Academy 1798 02:02:43.239 --> 02:02:47.680 Awards for doing basically nothing in a movie. Is that the crime of the 1799 02:02:47.800 --> 02:02:54.760 century. Maybe? Actually, no, that would be Crash winning the Academy 1800 02:02:54.800 --> 02:03:00.359 Award for Best Picture. What a fucking turd. The other crime was being 1801 02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:06.880 overlooked my amazing performances as William Preston Esquire in The Bill and Ted Trilogie. 1802 02:03:08.359 --> 02:03:13.359 But I digress. I'm here to thank Doug for listening to that aged Well. 1803 02:03:13.880 --> 02:03:16.039 Thank you, Doug. You know what crime you have not committed, 1804 02:03:16.239 --> 02:03:20.920 The crime of omission, the crime of not listening to that aged well via 1805 02:03:21.079 --> 02:03:25.640 Condias Doug. Wow. When I think of Keanu Reeves Oscar winning roles, 1806 02:03:25.640 --> 02:03:29.239 I think his supporting turn in Dangerous Liaisons where he was really robbed but he 1807 02:03:29.279 --> 02:03:31.479 doesn't feel that way. I feel it's the John Wick franchise myself. Fair 1808 02:03:31.600 --> 02:03:35.560 enough, fair enough, all right, Erica? Any final thoughts on La 1809 02:03:35.680 --> 02:03:42.840 Confidential La confidential Paul In the City of Angels, no one is above the 1810 02:03:42.960 --> 02:03:46.720 law, and no one gets away without being called or racial or ethnic slur, 1811 02:03:47.319 --> 02:04:00.840 your big dumb Italian, your big swish buzz meets and Dick's Stensland are 1812 02:04:00.960 --> 02:04:05.000 the dark timelines Hitchcock and Scully from Brooklyn ninety nine. Oh that's canon, 1813 02:04:05.239 --> 02:04:09.479 I will hear. None of it feats for Brooklyn nine nine Hitchcock and Scully, 1814 02:04:09.560 --> 02:04:12.840 but they've broken bad. It is yea, it is Meeks and Stinsless. 1815 02:04:12.880 --> 02:04:16.119 That's chilling. Actually, I don't care for that. I don't care 1816 02:04:16.199 --> 02:04:16.720 for that at all.