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Speaker 5: Welcome to the Projection Booth. I'm your host, Mike White,
Speaker 5: join me once again as mister Jenedi airs inform. Also
Speaker 5: back in the book this mister Ryan Luis Rodriguez, we
Speaker 5: continue a month of Patreon request with one from Pat Radkey.
Speaker 5: Blood and Diamonds written and directed by Fernando de Leo,
Speaker 5: the film stars Claudio Cassanielli as Guido Mari, who, after
Speaker 5: being arrested and sent to prison for five years, gets
Speaker 5: out and swears vengeance against those he thinks wronged him,
Speaker 5: carving a bloody path through those he once considered to
Speaker 5: be his friends and allies. We will be spoiling this
Speaker 5: film as we go along, so if you don't want
Speaker 5: anything ruined, please turn off the podcast and come back
Speaker 5: after you've seen that. We will still be here. So, Jenediah,
Speaker 5: when was the first time you saw Blood and Diamonds
Speaker 5: and what did you think?
Speaker 4: I saw it twenty eighteen. According to my Letterbucks at Cow.
Speaker 4: It was a couple of years after I first saw
Speaker 4: any Police Stachy movies, and specifically Fernando de Leo films,
Speaker 4: and I think it was the the great old streaming
Speaker 4: service film Struck had, I think a Fernando de Lio selection,
Speaker 4: and I really loved those, and this was not part
Speaker 4: of that collection, apparently because it wasn't until a couple
Speaker 4: of years later.
Speaker 6: I saw this.
Speaker 1: But by the time I saw it, it was not
Speaker 1: my favorite.
Speaker 6: De Leo.
Speaker 4: I think the impact of the first ones I saw,
Speaker 4: especially Milan Caliber nine, really really blew me away. And
Speaker 4: I liked Blood and Diamonds right away, but it wasn't
Speaker 4: particularly special to me. But I gotta say revisiting it
Speaker 4: for this podcast, it's become one of my favorites. I
Speaker 4: really enjoy it for probably a lot of the same
Speaker 4: reasons you guys do that I'll wait to get into.
Speaker 5: And Ryan, how about yourself.
Speaker 1: Similar to Jedediah, I've been aware of de Leo for years.
Speaker 1: A Criterion Channel in twenty twenty three had a big
Speaker 1: selection of his just like I mean, the former owners
Speaker 1: of Film Strung. They had Caliber nine, The Italian Connection,
Speaker 1: The Boss, and Shoot First, Die Later, and I had
Speaker 1: heard of Blood and Diamonds, but it was not part
Speaker 1: of that collection. So the first time I actually watched
Speaker 1: it was two days ago, and I only picked it
Speaker 1: because when you were soliciting guests for this season, it
Speaker 1: was one of the ones that had an empty box
Speaker 1: next to it, so I was like, oh, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: just put my money in there, and then I realized,
Speaker 1: after maybe an hour later, like, oh, that's a Delayo
Speaker 1: film that'll fill a hole in my knowledge, and now
Speaker 1: I have it, so thank you for doing that.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that you are willing to take a shot
Speaker 5: on a movie that you don't even know what it is,
Speaker 5: so not everybody's like that.
Speaker 1: It couldn't be worse than Red Lights.
Speaker 5: This was also a pretty new film for me. I
Speaker 5: have a massive blind spot when it comes to a
Speaker 5: lot of Italian films, especially these Pelicio Tetsi films. I
Speaker 5: remember speaking with Mike Molloy, euro crime documentary director Mike
Speaker 5: Malloy back long time ago. We talked about The Italian Connection,
Speaker 5: which I think is also a Delo film, And yeah,
Speaker 5: I just haven't seen that many of these movies. I
Speaker 5: have seen a lot more Spaghetti Westerns than I've seen
Speaker 5: these kinds of movies. And I think I've seen more
Speaker 5: French Policiers or French noirs than I have any of
Speaker 5: these things. So it's a very brave new world for me.
Speaker 5: And then when I was trying to listen to the commentary,
Speaker 5: and I think we'll talk about the commentary a little
Speaker 5: bit later, I mean, pretty much the whole commentary is
Speaker 5: just these two yahoos just dropping names of other films
Speaker 5: the entire time, so it's like, oh, and then this
Speaker 5: is like this, and this is like this, and this
Speaker 5: is like this. I'm like, could you maybe talk about
Speaker 5: the movie that you're actually supposed to be talking about.
Speaker 5: But anyway, made a big list of all these other
Speaker 5: movies and I tried watching some of those. I didn't
Speaker 5: have the most successful time. But it sounds like this
Speaker 5: movie is in conversation with earlier delio, which is Milan
Speaker 5: Caliber nine or Caliber nine. And they almost call this
Speaker 5: Rome caliber nine, so almost like a follow up movie.
Speaker 5: But it sounds like this movie starts almost the exact
Speaker 5: same way that the other one ends. So I did
Speaker 5: watch a little bit of Caliber nine, but I cannot say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: this is a natural bookend for the other film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't make that connection whatsoever. But I also
Speaker 1: want to add that Eurocrime is an outstanding documentary if
Speaker 1: you want to know more about this sub genre. It's
Speaker 1: always streaming somewhere. I don't know where it is at
Speaker 1: the moment, but I've seen it at least twice on
Speaker 1: completely different streaming services. So if you're listening to this
Speaker 1: and you're interested, first of all, go to two B
Speaker 1: and watch Blood and Diamonds, where it is streaming for free,
Speaker 1: then look up Eurocrime on Real Good and you will
Speaker 1: have a good double feature there.
Speaker 4: I'd like to echo that sentiment. I love that documentary.
Speaker 4: I've seen it a few times, and in fact, I
Speaker 4: just watched it yesterday or the day before, and I
Speaker 4: think it was on two B that it's streaming. I
Speaker 4: hadn't made the Milan Caliber nine connection until listening to
Speaker 4: the commentary track and they mentioned it, and then suddenly
Speaker 4: things really clicked for me, and I said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is really kind of the same situation. You know,
Speaker 4: a guy gets out of prison after and when he
Speaker 4: gets out of prison, everybody thinks he's got, you know,
Speaker 4: a score to settle with his former boss, and he's
Speaker 4: pressured by the gangsters who were his former friends and
Speaker 4: by the police to you know, come clean and get
Speaker 4: protection because he's vulnerable, because everybody's just waiting for this
Speaker 4: guy to get rubbed out. The difference, though, is that
Speaker 4: the situations end up being kind of like mirror opposites
Speaker 4: as far as what the truth of the situation is.
Speaker 4: And it is fun to have Barbara Bouchet in both
Speaker 4: movies playing pretty similar, ultimately pretty similar roles. I do
Speaker 4: think they make a nice a nice conversation. They start
Speaker 4: the same. It's not Caliber nine ends where Blood and
Speaker 4: Diamonds begins, But Blood and Diamonds just has the little precursor,
Speaker 4: the little setup of you see him before he goes
Speaker 4: to prison, and then the opening credits happen and he's
Speaker 4: getting out of prison, whereas Caliber nine just starts with
Speaker 4: him getting out of prison. So good double feature. Caliber
Speaker 4: nine is my favorite, both the Leo film and of
Speaker 4: the policiateeschies I've seen. I know a lot of folks
Speaker 4: like the Italian Connection more I do like the Italian Connection,
Speaker 4: and it's perhaps more in the spirit and.
Speaker 5: Of a lot of the the Police Attachi movies.
Speaker 4: It's it's bigger action and broader lead performances and things
Speaker 4: like that. But I really do like the kind of
Speaker 4: more somber noir ish overtones of Caliber nine and Blood
Speaker 4: and Diamonds.
Speaker 1: And when he gets out of prison, it's literally it's
Speaker 1: a five year time cut that happens over the course
Speaker 1: of like a minute. The narrative of this movie is
Speaker 1: not fucking around, like it immediately sets off and like
Speaker 1: he gets he gets nabbed. In the first two minutes.
Speaker 1: You see the prison, this gothic brutalist compound, you see
Speaker 1: him come out, and then immediately that's when the revenge starts.
Speaker 1: It's literally there's no wasted time getting to the plot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought maybe Caliber nine ended with that shot
Speaker 5: of the phone and the JNB, but it ends with
Speaker 5: that shot of the cigarette still burning instead. That's why
Speaker 5: I was kind of hoping like it was literally like
Speaker 5: the two shots matched up or something. But no, it's
Speaker 5: it's definitely not that case.
Speaker 4: I see, I am misunderstood.
Speaker 5: I see where you're coming from, and I see why
Speaker 5: my words would say that. But I was really hoping
Speaker 5: that there would be more of a connection there and
Speaker 5: it'd be like the same shot opening or something. But
Speaker 5: the main character, Guido, he thinks that he's been set up,
Speaker 5: and he was set up, but he thinks he was
Speaker 5: set up by basically his boss, by Rizzo, who's played
Speaker 5: by Martin Balsom, But he was not set up by Rizzo.
Speaker 5: So like, this whole movie is him trying to get
Speaker 5: revenge on Rizzo, and it's completely wrong headed. As soon
Speaker 5: as he gets out of prison, he takes a bus
Speaker 5: with his wife slash girlfriend. I can't I'm not sure
Speaker 5: what their relationship is. But Olga kar lotas playing Maria
Speaker 5: and gets out of prison and these two bandits show
Speaker 5: up and they try to rob the b that he
Speaker 5: and all these other people are on, and he says
Speaker 5: to himself out loud, Rizo must have sent these two
Speaker 5: goons to kill me, And that's his whole thing after
Speaker 5: he thinks that he has been set up to be
Speaker 5: killed coming out of prison. I don't know why they
Speaker 5: wouldn't have killed him in prison, but coming out of prison,
Speaker 5: that becomes his whole thing, and he's wrong. He's wrong
Speaker 5: through the whole movie, so you're just like, okay, But
Speaker 5: it's an interesting thing as far as when we find
Speaker 5: out that he's wrong versus when he finds out and
Speaker 5: then just how that changes everything when he finds out
Speaker 5: that he is wrong and who the actual person that
Speaker 5: set him up was. And I kept thinking the whole time,
Speaker 5: through so much of this that it was actually I
Speaker 5: think his friend's name is Marco. I kept thinking that
Speaker 5: it was Marco maybe that set him up, because Marco.
Speaker 5: It feels like Marco is kind of a It feels
Speaker 5: like that this movie really influenced A Better Tomorrow. This
Speaker 5: whole thing Marco who escaped from this stuff, but he
Speaker 5: was lame, so he's going around, you know, with a
Speaker 5: limp and everything, and he works at this autobody shop,
Speaker 5: and so I just kept thinking of like the t
Speaker 5: lung character who runs that taxi stand for ex criminals
Speaker 5: and then you know Mark who got the bullet and
Speaker 5: his knee, and that he's just kind of limping around afterwards.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I thought that maybe Wu had seen this
Speaker 5: and had picked up on some of those things for
Speaker 5: Better Tomorrow, because there are some elements of these gangster
Speaker 5: films that play really well with the Hong Kong films
Speaker 5: later on.
Speaker 1: And it's important to add that the guys who try
Speaker 1: to rob the bus kill his lady love, which I
Speaker 1: think only intensifies that desire for revenge. And Martin Balsom
Speaker 1: amazing to say, it's in really well with the rest
Speaker 1: of the Italian cast. A lot of times when they
Speaker 1: cast American actors in these roles, they look like Americans
Speaker 1: hanging out with Italian people, but this guy really blends in,
Speaker 1: and probably because Balstam was such a good actor, but
Speaker 1: even with the dubbed voice, he fits in perfectly, absolutely well.
Speaker 5: It's him dubbing himself though right it is, well, I
Speaker 5: didn't know. I think it is, at least in the
Speaker 5: version I saw, because.
Speaker 4: It sounds a little different watching these films that most
Speaker 4: of them, or at least several of them, and several
Speaker 4: of the first ones I saw, are available either dubbed
Speaker 4: in English or in Italian, and I do think it
Speaker 4: makes a difference how you first see them. I think
Speaker 4: the first time I saw Caliber nine it was in
Speaker 4: Italian with subtitles, and watching it later dubbed in English,
Speaker 4: it does give it a different a different feel. I
Speaker 4: love both versions, but yeah, the whole dubbing and versus
Speaker 4: subtitle I mean that would be dubbed two because it
Speaker 4: didn't shoot with live sound, but reading subtitles and and
Speaker 4: hearing a dubbed actor, it really does make for a
Speaker 4: different experience. I think with the films and Blood and
Speaker 4: Diamonds and Milan, Caliber nine, specifically with their sort of
Speaker 4: more sober tone than you know a lot of the
Speaker 4: really gonzo action ones in the genre. The gonzo action ones,
Speaker 4: I think that that dubbed quality kind of adds to
Speaker 4: the frenetic energy of the things. But these these more
Speaker 4: somber ones, I think if you watch them dubbed, I
Speaker 4: think you come away with a different feeling thing you
Speaker 4: do if if you watch them subtitled soap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one's definitely more contemplative than the rest of
Speaker 1: the of the bunch. I don't. I tried to clock
Speaker 1: if there was a if anything could count as a
Speaker 1: car chase, and I don't think there is one, which
Speaker 1: there is in all the other ones. Yet somber is
Speaker 1: the right word. I think it's It's definitely it's a
Speaker 1: more morose prime picture as opposed to the excess is
Speaker 1: the fun excesses of the other ones.
Speaker 5: I made the mistake of watching this English dubbed with
Speaker 5: English subtitles on it, So the English subtitles were for
Speaker 5: the Italian version, so it pointed out all of the
Speaker 5: times that the subtitler was deciding. And I'm taking it
Speaker 5: that the subtitler was only subtitling things that we hear
Speaker 5: on screen, So sometimes there are lines that were put
Speaker 5: in in the English version that we didn't hear in
Speaker 5: the Italian version. It was very strange, especially if there's
Speaker 5: somebody on screen and their mouth is hidden, the subtitles
Speaker 5: might have an extra line in there. As opposed to
Speaker 5: the English version, where you weren't hearing them say something,
Speaker 5: so like, you know, a phrase or something would pop
Speaker 5: up on screen. I'm like, nobody's talking right now, but
Speaker 5: apparently in the Italian version they were, so Yeah. It
Speaker 5: was a very strange experience for me trying to make
Speaker 5: my way through that. And like, I can't imagine watching
Speaker 5: Caliber nine without Lionel Stander's voice because that is such
Speaker 5: a part of him as a as a person and
Speaker 5: as an actor. That kind of like Martin Balsom, I
Speaker 5: was just like, yeah, I can't imagine watching this without
Speaker 5: his voice.
Speaker 1: Watching it dubbed and subtitled at the same time is
Speaker 1: like that episode of News Radio where Jimmy James had
Speaker 1: his autobiography translated into Japanese and then back into English.
Speaker 5: Soon No One, super Karate Monkey Death Car where.
Speaker 1: Park in MySpace and then you have super Monkey Death
Speaker 1: Car and just stuff that makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 5: Caliber nine was has a slight advantage too, because it's
Speaker 5: got Mario Ador there, who is fucking amazing. But this
Speaker 5: movie has Pierre Paolo Caponi. I believe it's how you
Speaker 5: pronounced the gentleman's name as Tony who basically is that
Speaker 5: same role from Caliber nine. But oh my god, and
Speaker 5: I wish people could see what you look like right now,
Speaker 5: Jedediah with the major fat tie that's tied around your
Speaker 5: neck and not around the collar, because.
Speaker 4: Not around the collar collars opened yet.
Speaker 5: Because Tony has this weird fashion sense where he's wearing
Speaker 5: it looks like multiple ties hanging around his neck or
Speaker 5: maybe an incredibly long cravat. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: It's so delightfully garish.
Speaker 5: He's great, he's great, and every time he shows up,
Speaker 5: he's just like a mad dog and he just keeps
Speaker 5: yelling conform, conform, And I'm like, okay, you gotta.
Speaker 4: Stop that moment when Tony's talking to you, go for
Speaker 4: mah conf Now, as I was saying that line is
Speaker 4: is great, And I wonder if it was the Italian
Speaker 4: you know what the Italian word was that they were,
Speaker 4: you know, because on that Eurocrime doc they spent some
Speaker 4: time talking with voice actors who did who did the
Speaker 4: the dubbing, and you know, they talked about how well
Speaker 4: first the actors talked about how there was a lot
Speaker 4: of improvising going on, you know, just like get the
Speaker 4: essence of that scene from Dirty Harry or you know,
Speaker 4: from Bullets say it kind of kind of the same,
Speaker 4: you know, make it your own. And then and then
Speaker 4: the dubbers are watching the lip movement and trying to
Speaker 4: find words that fit the lip.
Speaker 6: Movement, and so.
Speaker 4: That he's saying conform is is kind of funny and
Speaker 4: kind of you know, you think it means one thing.
Speaker 1: But then at the end, and you know.
Speaker 4: After he's killed Marco and he's confronting Guido about how,
Speaker 4: you know, he's widow's got all his friends killed basically,
Speaker 4: and but he's confessing that he didn't like killing Marco
Speaker 4: because Marco, you know, was a stand up guy and
Speaker 4: really went out like a man.
Speaker 6: He said he.
Speaker 4: Conformed, he could, you know, he conformed all the way.
Speaker 1: Just been quite.
Speaker 4: I thought that meant one thing, and you're saying, yeah,
Speaker 4: the the usage, I'm not really sure what the intent
Speaker 4: was and what the actual word they're transcribing is, but
Speaker 4: it's it's a it's a hell of a hell of
Speaker 4: a character catchphrase.
Speaker 6: Come firm.
Speaker 4: Aha.
Speaker 1: And to piggyback on the euro crime thing, the one
Speaker 1: thing missing in all Delayo movies is pissed torture.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen all the Delayo movies, but i've seen
Speaker 4: all the all the policiatteschi ones and and adjacent you know,
Speaker 4: crime and action ones. There's a few of the erotic,
Speaker 4: dry and sex comedies I don't think I've been able
Speaker 4: to find. But I will say he's my favorite of
Speaker 4: the Bletiatshi directors that that I'm aware of. I've probably
Speaker 4: seen twenty or thirty Gleitziatshi films total, you know, out
Speaker 4: of hundreds and hundreds, so not a great sampling, but
Speaker 4: I think it's I think he's considered one of the
Speaker 4: more important contributors. And even with him, there's a fairly
Speaker 4: whyde gap between his best examples in the genre and
Speaker 4: his lesser examples. So you know, i'd say there's four
Speaker 4: or five of his that I like quite a bit,
Speaker 4: and I've seen a few that I really don't care for.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like I know him as a person
Speaker 4: having watched what I've watched, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 4: there's some directors that I feel I understand something about
Speaker 4: their personality, and I don't know that I've got that connection.
Speaker 4: I wish I knew more about him I've read just
Speaker 4: a couple of fairly brief things, biographical things, and Mike,
Speaker 4: you sent that documentary about him that seemed to be
Speaker 4: people reading his poetry for.
Speaker 5: Wherever eventually it changes. That opening was brutal, though, especially
Speaker 5: because they make you read it on screen, and then
Speaker 5: they go to the guy and then he reads it again.
Speaker 5: You're just like, oh my god. So about five minutes
Speaker 5: in it actually becomes like a real documentary.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean I watched the whole thing, but
Speaker 4: I maybe I was a little lulled by all the poetry.
Speaker 4: If you guys know about him, I would love to
Speaker 4: hear your thoughts on who he was and what does
Speaker 4: film say about him, but of the policiatashi stuff specifically,
Speaker 4: Even in that small number of films he made, there's
Speaker 4: a pretty wide app between his best and his lesser efforts.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't seem to get a real beat on
Speaker 5: him through his films, at least the ones that I've seen.
Speaker 5: I know that he was supposed to be very leftist,
Speaker 5: you know, one of those wokesters I think is So
Speaker 5: that's probably why we don't know that much, because you know,
Speaker 5: you go woke, you go broke and That's why probably
Speaker 5: even shouldn't even be talking about this movie.
Speaker 1: He went out of style when woke was not cool yet,
Speaker 1: So you know, he was ahead of everybody dying in
Speaker 1: two thousand and three. He was whoa he knew woke
Speaker 1: before we ever had a definition.
Speaker 4: If that's true his You know, I know that there
Speaker 4: are some leftist ideas debated, you know, especially in Caliber
Speaker 4: nine The Police Chiefs. You know, there's one leftist and
Speaker 4: one fascist, and they spend a fair amount of the
Speaker 4: film debating policing philosophies and things like that. But you know,
Speaker 4: the genre itself is you know, often fairly really fascist. Frankly,
Speaker 4: you know, it was a lot of really over the
Speaker 4: top police heroes and vigilati heroes who just you know,
Speaker 4: slaughter their way and torture their way through through suspects
Speaker 4: and underworlds, and that we're rooting for them most of
Speaker 4: the time too. You know, I make no bones about
Speaker 4: really enjoying those films, But it's funny that a subgenre
Speaker 4: with so many pretty fascist examples would have leftist crews
Speaker 4: and directors behind them.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, I mean it was Italy. It didn't all
Speaker 5: change after Mussolini was hung upside down. There were still
Speaker 5: a lot of fascist sympathizers and a ton of communist
Speaker 5: sympathizers at the same time. This was like the prime
Speaker 5: time of the Red Brigade, the Brigado Russo. And then
Speaker 5: to find out that this movie came out what was
Speaker 5: at the day after the Prime Minister was kidnapped by
Speaker 5: the Red Brigade and killed box office because nobody was
Speaker 5: in the mood to have fun go see a movie.
Speaker 1: It's like when Hardball came out in the wake of
Speaker 1: nine to eleven and people were like, I can't watch
Speaker 1: a movie about Keanu Reeves teaching a bunch of kids
Speaker 1: how to play baseball. It's not what I'm feeling right now.
Speaker 1: I'd rather go see Jay and Silent Bob strike Back
Speaker 1: for the third time, which is actually an autobiographical moment
Speaker 1: that I've just illustrated.
Speaker 5: Didn't Poody Tang come out right around that time as well,
Speaker 5: and I think that ruined.
Speaker 1: Earlier that summer, But yeah, that's yeah, that definitely happened.
Speaker 5: Nobody wanted to see Poody Tang.
Speaker 1: For the five people who are aware of Poody Tang.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the police Inspector is fantastic I really like this
Speaker 5: guy and again feels very woo to me as far
Speaker 5: as and also very Jean Pierre Melville as far as
Speaker 5: the police inspector who actually cares for the criminal and
Speaker 5: wants the criminal to go straight, kind of really empathizes
Speaker 5: with this guy. It really feels like the police inspector
Speaker 5: is more of a father figure too Guido than anybody
Speaker 5: else and really wants him to look at what's going
Speaker 5: on and really defends him quite a bit throughout this
Speaker 5: entire thing. And it's good that he's there because Guido
Speaker 5: as a character, he's just kind of a cipher. And
Speaker 5: I hear that DeLeo liked working with this guy because
Speaker 5: he didn't give a lot of emotion, and I can
Speaker 5: really see that he's kind of an automaton through this
Speaker 5: whole movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have in my notes here protagonist of inaction.
Speaker 1: He doesn't really do much. He kind of stands there
Speaker 1: kind of observing everything that goes on. And I noticed
Speaker 1: that he looks like if you had an article on
Speaker 1: a newspaper with Christopher Lambert and Jason Clark in the
Speaker 1: same frame, and he took silly putty and you put
Speaker 1: it on it, and then you pull it off and
Speaker 1: whatever mangled face you would have that resembles both men,
Speaker 1: like some kind of transporter accident in the fly, that's
Speaker 1: what you would have. You would have this guy's face.
Speaker 4: That's pretty accurate. That's that's pretty good.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 4: I was thinking this last time watching it, how he
Speaker 4: was physically the opposite of a guest On Moshen, who
Speaker 4: played Ugo Piazza, the protagonist of a Caliber nine. And
Speaker 4: gust On is is kind of a he looks like
Speaker 4: a motherfucker, looks like to think. You know, he's he's
Speaker 4: kept the fireplum head, bald head, and you know, he's
Speaker 4: he's just kind of yeah, he's not heavy, but he's
Speaker 4: he's he's really thick and a slab of stone, you know.
Speaker 2: And and he acts that way too.
Speaker 4: He's completely blank and expressionless through you know, the first
Speaker 4: ninety of the film, and then at the very end
Speaker 4: there's a big change, whereas Casanelli is you know, kind
Speaker 4: of more. He's not I wouldn't say gaunt, but he's
Speaker 4: you know, he's got that narrow face and that that
Speaker 4: kind of floppy hair and and but he's he also
Speaker 4: is is just totally blank and just I mean, he's
Speaker 4: there's just rage boiling underneath him for for the whole movie,
Speaker 4: but he's not you know, it's only in his eyes,
Speaker 4: and he's not never is yelling, he's never showing emotion
Speaker 4: except through his eyes until the end of the film too.
Speaker 1: It's either rage or gas.
Speaker 4: Of course, at the end of the film that turns
Speaker 4: into two deep sadness. And you know, as he realizes
Speaker 4: he's you know, his own mistakes have have you know,
Speaker 4: cost the lives of everyone he loved and he was
Speaker 4: a fool. And I find that final scene between Martin
Speaker 4: Balsom and him.
Speaker 6: To be very moving.
Speaker 4: Frankly, I like it a lot. I think every time
Speaker 4: I watch it it gets more powerful. And yeah, Martin
Speaker 4: balsam Is is terrific through the whole picture, especially when
Speaker 4: you know the truth about his character.
Speaker 1: Really good shit.
Speaker 4: And I like that speech he gives at the end,
Speaker 4: you know that you know, I've got to do this
Speaker 4: to make an example of you, not because I can't
Speaker 4: get over what you did to me or you know whatever,
Speaker 4: but you know, for them, and he's pointing out he's
Speaker 4: called an audience of all is underworld contacts and you know,
Speaker 4: henchmen and things like that, like they have to learn
Speaker 4: what it means to be in this life. And yeah,
Speaker 4: and of course I don't. I guess we're spoiling everything else,
Speaker 4: but I don't want to spoil the decision. He makes
Speaker 4: it at the very end there, so I know you
Speaker 4: guys can if you want, but I won't leave that
Speaker 4: on my comments here. It's it's just a it's a
Speaker 4: it's a great, great scene.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: I love all those guys in that scene, all standing
Speaker 5: by their white cars, and the way that the white
Speaker 5: cars are all lined up. It's kind of like the
Speaker 5: opposite of a funeral, but yet they're meaning in this
Speaker 5: kind of dingy it looks like a parking garage or something.
Speaker 5: Am I Oh, okay, this works, And I think he
Speaker 5: calls it a funeral, but it looks like the opposite
Speaker 5: of a funeral with the what those no hearse or anything.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad you brought up Melville because that that's
Speaker 1: definitely a key point in a lot of these polite
Speaker 1: is it polye shtty? I don't want to mispronounce it.
Speaker 4: I think everybody who says it mispronounces it.
Speaker 1: So okay, well then polly shatty whatever these poll see movies.
Speaker 1: There's definitely the code of conduct that is very much
Speaker 1: a Mailville construct, and the kind of idea of the
Speaker 1: process of criminality and what it takes to kind of
Speaker 1: live that life is very much a Melville thing. Like
Speaker 1: you won't confuse it with Leicircle Rouge anytime soon, but
Speaker 1: it's definitely like the feet on the ground level of Melville.
Speaker 5: Definitely they all have that code and the whole thing
Speaker 5: it's like, who violated the code? Who's the one that
Speaker 5: tipped off the cops that I was going to be
Speaker 5: doing this thing and set me up the river and
Speaker 5: trying to figure that out? And you know, he's got
Speaker 5: so many different people that he can basically choose from.
Speaker 5: He goes right for the boss obviously, but this whole
Speaker 5: thing of like it was, isn't it Maria's s Is
Speaker 5: that how that works? And so yeah, who is kind
Speaker 5: of like the younger thief that Bob La Flambert takes
Speaker 5: under his wings And luckily I don't I know, he
Speaker 5: kind of screws up here and there, but he doesn't
Speaker 5: actually betray Bob like knowingly, whereas this guy is just like,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, And it's funny because you see, like you
Speaker 5: were talking about, the second time you watch it, you
Speaker 5: get more, and especially you get more of the Balsome character.
Speaker 5: And it's like, well, the second time I watched it,
Speaker 5: I saw Enzo, you know, opening up the door and
Speaker 5: looking at Guido before he goes on that job, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, okay, things just kind of really started
Speaker 5: to click more for me. And then yeah, when you
Speaker 5: see Balsam knowing that he didn't call for this and
Speaker 5: just is kind of confused, like why is Guido doing
Speaker 5: this stuff? Why does he think I'm the one that
Speaker 5: set him up? I really appreciate this even more, and
Speaker 5: I can see liking this movie a second, third, fourth
Speaker 5: time more than I did even the first time.
Speaker 1: And Enzo has the saddest eyes just of any so expressive,
Speaker 1: so very mournful, and very like it's clear that something,
Speaker 1: some part of his life has been taken away without
Speaker 1: his consent, and he's just kind of he's getting through
Speaker 1: the motions basically.
Speaker 5: The sadist size and the hottest girl friend me. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: Barbara Bouschette with her dance numberless she's doing to that
Speaker 5: amazing song what shocked me? And I could think of
Speaker 5: Ace freely.
Speaker 1: In a nightclub where they have the name of the
Speaker 1: nightclub indoors on the wall, just in case you came
Speaker 1: in and forgot where you were, or unless I've never
Speaker 1: been to a nightclub, so maybe that's what it's like
Speaker 1: in it. Maybe Studio fifty four. Every single wall said
Speaker 1: fifty four on it. I don't know. I can't say,
Speaker 1: but usually if you walk into a nightclub, you're pretty
Speaker 1: sure where you are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, techdir and the terminator did that.
Speaker 5: Too, Yes, in case you're on your cell phone here,
Speaker 5: just like I'm at the tech Noir.
Speaker 11: I'n't just play.
Speaker 2: I pick up a bar called techt Noir.
Speaker 11: I'm really scared, you know.
Speaker 4: Another connection, of course, between Bun Diamonds and Calber nine
Speaker 4: is Barbara Bouchet as a go go dancer doing There's
Speaker 4: a great sequence in Calber nine where it's you know,
Speaker 4: shot at the low angles of her bikini go go dancing.
Speaker 4: And I will never complain about those scenes being as
Speaker 4: long as they are, but they are long scenes.
Speaker 1: She must have had a non nudity clause because there
Speaker 1: are topless dancers right behind her.
Speaker 4: Well, she does get nude a couple of times in
Speaker 4: the film, but you're right in that number she doesn't
Speaker 4: and the ladies behind her scene to be having a
Speaker 4: very good time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, I was thinking of We recently watched
Speaker 5: a Just Franco movie and there was a whole thing
Speaker 5: at a nightclub, and I was like, oh boy, I
Speaker 5: hope this doesn't go that way, because it was basically
Speaker 5: simulated sex in the nightclub, and so of like, no, no,
Speaker 5: I don't really need to see that again. But luckily
Speaker 5: they avoided that. And yeah, and I think there's a
Speaker 5: there's a couple of sex scenes, or at least one
Speaker 5: I remember from Caliber nine where, but it's more nudity
Speaker 5: from the back of memory serves. I'm not sure. It's
Speaker 5: amazing that as you get older, you don't watch movies
Speaker 5: just for the nudity anymore.
Speaker 4: It's funny when I grew up very sheltered, without cable
Speaker 4: and without being allowed to watch much.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: I started when I was able to rent movies. I
Speaker 4: was still living at my parents' house. It was still
Speaker 4: I couldn't, you know, go see R rated films, but
Speaker 4: I could. I could rent them, you know, unless that
Speaker 4: one lady at the grocery store was working. She wouldn't
Speaker 4: rent me. She wouldn't rend me blood Sport or Point
Speaker 4: Break or any of those. But well, I found, Yes,
Speaker 4: I was absolutely you remember those books, the a Precursor,
Speaker 4: the Mister Skin was the Bearer, the Bearess Bears video Guide,
Speaker 4: and you know, I would I would find a lot
Speaker 4: of interesting things to watch that way.
Speaker 1: And it was it was funny.
Speaker 4: I was renting a lot of like kind of highbrow
Speaker 4: art films, European and Asian stuff and and you know
Speaker 4: a lot of really trashy exploitation and you know, straight
Speaker 4: to video action movies. So I grew up with you know,
Speaker 4: I didn't have anybody who was a movie watcher telling me.
Speaker 2: What I should watch.
Speaker 4: I was pretty much looking for nudity all the time.
Speaker 4: And and that led me into you know, simultaneous, very
Speaker 4: different paths, the art film and the exploitation cheap old
Speaker 4: schlocky stuff, as they both tracked in nudity that you
Speaker 4: didn't get in those you know, cobious amounts in a
Speaker 4: lot of a lot of the fair that I was
Speaker 4: at the movie theaters.
Speaker 1: When I was growing up and actually cared about nudity
Speaker 1: and movies. There was an issue Maxim magazine with Tara
Speaker 1: Reid on the cover, because I will never forget it.
Speaker 1: It's the only time I bought a Maxim magazine at
Speaker 1: a supermarket and nobody looked at me and said, aren't
Speaker 1: you a little young to be purchasing this. They're like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: FU could take it. And it had inside the fifty
Speaker 1: best sex scenes in all of movies, and I managed
Speaker 1: to track down I think maybe forty seven of them,
Speaker 1: and I felt so accomplished. And then I grew another
Speaker 1: two years, and then ultimately didn't care anymore, and then
Speaker 1: I actually started watching movies for the plot, for the esthetics,
Speaker 1: for all the stuff that doesn't involve boobies.
Speaker 4: I'll get there someday.
Speaker 5: There's not a lot to talk about when it comes
Speaker 5: to this movie, because it just seems to follow pretty
Speaker 5: well worn paths. I wasn't surprised by much. There wasn't
Speaker 5: in a really tense robbery scene. There wasn't There weren't
Speaker 5: like a lot of showcase scenes, you know, it's not
Speaker 5: like the robbery is just a thing. And even when
Speaker 5: it comes to they've got all these uncut diamonds, and
Speaker 5: eventually Guido and Marco go and decide to rip them
Speaker 5: off because you know how dear Wittso set me up
Speaker 5: all this kind of stuff. It's an okay scene, you know,
Speaker 5: but it's not like some sort of like balls to
Speaker 5: the wall action type of thing like you were talking
Speaker 5: about before.
Speaker 6: Ryan.
Speaker 5: There's not a lot of chasing in here. There's a
Speaker 5: chase through a junk yard at one point, but it's
Speaker 5: all on foot. It's not a motorcycle race. I mean,
Speaker 5: as part of my research for this, I watched a
Speaker 5: little bit of what was it Lived Like a Cop
Speaker 5: Died Like a Man, which de Leo jered deared Addo.
Speaker 5: DeLeo had written that one, so I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: let me check that out. And I mean that motorcycle
Speaker 5: chase or dirt bike right up front, that right up front,
Speaker 5: and it is amazing. Oh it's so well done. And yeah,
Speaker 5: just really kicks things in the high gear.
Speaker 1: The thing that really surprised me watching this is that
Speaker 1: one of the bad guys drops a reference to Diabolic.
Speaker 5: Yes, I thought that was great.
Speaker 1: I was struck by it because I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: every country has its own self referential pop culture. Quentin
Speaker 1: Tarantino didn't invent that. It's not an inherently American thing.
Speaker 1: Everybody has their culture, and you know, like stuff might
Speaker 1: cross over to America, like Godzilla is now the suffix
Speaker 1: Zilla can now be applied to anything. But really it's
Speaker 1: a Japanese pop culture artifact.
Speaker 5: And I want to say that it's Diabolic in the
Speaker 5: captions and the subtitles, but it's Superman in the dub.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because when he's beating up Guido, he calls
Speaker 1: him the steel Man, but never calls him the man
Speaker 1: of steel, which is very very interesting.
Speaker 2: You ain't good iron inside? Yeah, he's just like all thems.
Speaker 1: No iron Man, no way.
Speaker 2: Henriets is always saying that you're a man.
Speaker 1: E Nah, he's right, you're made of iron, all right.
Speaker 4: Only a man of mine could have did what you done. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's touching Guido earlier in the film, after the robbery
Speaker 4: where he kills he gets his girlfriend killed and then
Speaker 4: he kills the two robbers and the you know, he's
Speaker 4: all over the news and Tony comes in. He's touching
Speaker 4: him like his abs and things like that, saying is
Speaker 4: there iron in?
Speaker 1: There? Is there steel?
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think that you know, when he comes
Speaker 4: back and tells him that he's killed Marco. At the end,
Speaker 4: He's like, well, he was full of steel. He was
Speaker 4: the iron man. You're soft, but he was iron.
Speaker 5: And really it's Guido's freaking fault that Marco got killed.
Speaker 5: It's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 7: It is?
Speaker 4: You know, I thought the first time I saw this,
Speaker 4: and probably the second time I saw it too, I
Speaker 4: Guido goes to Marco's body shop after he's out of prison.
Speaker 4: You know, we get Marco at the beginning of the
Speaker 4: film when he's doing the heist, but then five years
Speaker 4: later he's a mechanic and he's got a limp and
Speaker 4: you know that he got during the robbery. But when
Speaker 4: they see each other for the first time after Guido's
Speaker 4: getting out of prison, Marco is wearing this like really
Speaker 4: inch shirt and he's got this feathery hairdoo that that
Speaker 4: looks kind of partially combed over. It may even be
Speaker 4: a hair piece, I don't know. It looked it's very
Speaker 4: feathery and and and he looks like he's wearing makeup,
Speaker 4: like he looks very lamb Rock frankly, and I thought
Speaker 4: perhaps there was a gay subtext to their relationship, that
Speaker 4: you know, Marco was really in love with him because
Speaker 4: of how soft and effeminate he looked in that Cem's
Speaker 4: He's got the muscles and you know, he's he's a
Speaker 4: tough guy to the end there. But but I I
Speaker 4: was struck the first few times I watched it at
Speaker 4: that shot of him and the pink shirt and the
Speaker 4: you know, looking very made up, and is is you know,
Speaker 4: we talked about Enzo's soulful eyes, but Marco's eyes were
Speaker 4: pretty soulful there too, And I don't think that that
Speaker 4: is actually plays out. I don't think that that was
Speaker 4: the intent, but that Marco is an interesting character, like
Speaker 4: and we're supposed to like him, and we're supposed to
Speaker 4: feel terrible that he gets killed, and we're supposed to
Speaker 4: feel as bad as Weirdo does at the end when
Speaker 4: you realize, you know, all these people that he loved
Speaker 4: died for nothing because.
Speaker 1: He you know, made a mistake.
Speaker 5: Maria would have gotten killed anyway, but everybody.
Speaker 4: Else I don't think so, no, because she only gets
Speaker 4: killed because he assumes the robbers are there for him,
Speaker 4: and he runs into it, and it's when she starts
Speaker 4: running because he's running that the you know, she gets
Speaker 4: shot in the back. I think those. I believe Martin
Speaker 4: Balsamley says he has no idea who those you know
Speaker 4: guys were, and they didn't have anything to do with it,
Speaker 4: and so I think the robbery probably would have gone
Speaker 4: off without a hitch if Guido hadn't leapt into action
Speaker 4: assuming that they were there to kill him. So it's
Speaker 4: not unreasonable for Guido to have that kind of instinct,
Speaker 4: but it is a wrong instinct, and it does it
Speaker 4: causes his attitude to calcify, because once Maria is dead,
Speaker 4: he's never going to listen to reason, you know, talking
Speaker 4: to him. Martin Balsom, He's never gonna He's too wounded
Speaker 4: already to ever think he was wrong.
Speaker 5: And I do have to agree with you, Ryan, I
Speaker 5: think that Balsam does fit in very well with these
Speaker 5: Italian actors and these gangsters that he's hanging around with.
Speaker 5: I think the big side burns help quite a bit.
Speaker 5: But I mean, he's just so good and it's just
Speaker 5: always so nice to see Balsam show up in anything,
Speaker 5: and yeah, I really enjoyed his character, and yeah, especially
Speaker 5: that speeches at the end that he gives I thought
Speaker 5: was just really really well done.
Speaker 1: The only cast member missing was Henry Silva. That's how
Speaker 1: you know you're watching an Italian exploitation film is when
Speaker 1: Henry Silva pops up. He goes, of course, now I
Speaker 1: know exactly what kind of movie I'm watching, and he's
Speaker 1: actually in. I believe The Italian Connection and The Box.
Speaker 4: Those are two of the best of I think the
Speaker 4: whole genre, but definitely of the Leo's films.
Speaker 5: It was I was nice to see those American actors
Speaker 5: show up in these things, and I know that was
Speaker 5: always like the box office draw, which is just so
Speaker 5: weird to me, because like, who's going to see a
Speaker 5: movie because of Martin Balsom being in it other than
Speaker 5: a weirdo like me? The box office peel of Ernest
Speaker 5: borgnine in nineteen seventy eight or something. It's like, okay,
Speaker 5: I mean, he was a fantastic part of that super
Speaker 5: Cop movie with Hill and superfull.
Speaker 4: Going back to the Eurocrime documentary, Christopher Mitchum is being
Speaker 4: interviewed at one point. I have no reason to think
Speaker 4: he's mistaken, but you know, I did not do my
Speaker 4: own research on this, but he says, you know that
Speaker 4: in like Asia, it was like between him and Clint
Speaker 4: Eastwood and I forget who the other actor is, maybe
Speaker 4: if Steve McQueen or something like that. It was like,
Speaker 4: depending on which one of us had the most recent
Speaker 4: movie out, we were the three biggest movie stars in Asia.
Speaker 4: He was saying, who we think is a big movie
Speaker 4: star here, you know, is not the same thing as
Speaker 4: it doesn't translate the same way around the world. And
Speaker 4: no one would ever put Chris Mitchum and Clint Eastwood
Speaker 4: the same ranking, you know, categories here, but apparently in
Speaker 4: Asia that was the case, and so you know, who knows.
Speaker 4: Maybe Martin Balsoman had an appeal. I mean, he certainly
Speaker 4: brings value to everything, and he's great in Confessions of
Speaker 4: a Police Captain, which I think was his first Italian
Speaker 4: crime movie that he made in like seventy one. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it makes sense that he keeps coming back back to
Speaker 4: the East because I think that was an important, important
Speaker 4: film for the genre, and you know, he was right
Speaker 4: out front leading that one with the Franco Nero.
Speaker 1: In Italy, the big draw was Charlie Bronson. He was
Speaker 1: kind of relegated to just like the revenge seeker roles
Speaker 1: in America, but over in Italy he was he would
Speaker 1: be top building like The Great Escape.
Speaker 5: You know what, I would probably top Billum in The
Speaker 5: Great Escape as well.
Speaker 4: He's digging tunnels like that in House of Wax like that.
Speaker 1: We're going to sell. We're going to sell this on
Speaker 1: a mute performance. It's like, okay, well it worked.
Speaker 5: I have to check something because I was watching that
Speaker 5: Delayo documentary and there's a shot and they say, oh,
Speaker 5: this is from Las Duxione from nineteen seventy three, and
Speaker 5: it's a shot of this guy wearing a very loud
Speaker 5: jacket with this blonde of brunette following him down these stairs.
Speaker 5: And I was like, no, that's not from l Seduxione
Speaker 5: unless they reused that shot and blood and Diamonds because
Speaker 5: that's the guy who's supposed to be cutting or grinding
Speaker 5: the diamonds. So I'm like, no, that's that's from that.
Speaker 5: So I don't know unless if Delayo was because it's
Speaker 5: the same actor, the same guy with the big glasses.
Speaker 5: I'm like, why would you cheat a shot like that?
Speaker 5: Why would you just steal a shot from your own movies?
Speaker 5: That doesn't make any sense. So now I have a
Speaker 5: thing because I know that part of this soundtrack was
Speaker 5: used for another movie as well, but I have to
Speaker 5: say I really like the score for this. I thought
Speaker 5: there's a couple of really groovy musical cues, not including
Speaker 5: Shack Me, of course, which is just the best.
Speaker 1: It's a Louis Bakolov. And I only recognize that name
Speaker 1: because earlier that same day that I watched Blood and Diamonds,
Speaker 1: I watched the first Kill Bill and there's at least
Speaker 1: two Louis Bakolov tracks on that soundtrack, and I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure Tarantino I had to pull it from one of
Speaker 1: these Delayo movies because he's a huge Delaya fan.
Speaker 5: I remember getting to a verbal argument with some film
Speaker 5: nerd who is insisting that all of the music was
Speaker 5: written for Kill Bill.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, like, no, like three tracks out of
Speaker 1: forty five.
Speaker 5: Are you fucking insane? Like most of these composers are
Speaker 5: already dead, Like Marcone was still alive, but most of
Speaker 5: them had passed on well before. Like, you're fucking crazy, man,
Speaker 5: do your research.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody knows that Quentin Tarantino created The Green Hornet.
Speaker 5: And Ironsides too.
Speaker 1: That's right. He also wrote and directed Twisted Nerve, all
Speaker 1: these great films. They're all part of the Tarantino legacy.
Speaker 5: Out of curiosity, Jedda Daia, how many movies did you
Speaker 5: watch for this episode?
Speaker 4: Like about seventy Jesus Christ, Martin Balsam movies. And I
Speaker 4: tried to watch some more Castanelli films, And yeah, I
Speaker 4: watched as many Fernando de Laos as.
Speaker 1: I could get.
Speaker 4: Man, I watched several of the movies he wrote and
Speaker 4: didn't direct. Yeah, there's a lot of just kind of
Speaker 4: not a lot of distinction to my memory here, that's dedication.
Speaker 5: I mentioned that commentary earlier. Did you listen to that one?
Speaker 6: Ryan?
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to, but since if it's
Speaker 1: still up on the drive, I'm definitely definitely taking a
Speaker 1: look because it sounds like the speaking of Tarantino, the
Speaker 1: Edgar Wright and Tarantino commentary for Hot Fuzz, where all
Speaker 1: they do is just back and forth recommend movies to
Speaker 1: each other and don't even talk about the movie. I'm
Speaker 1: actually doing an episode on that tomorrow, and I just
Speaker 1: rewatched it today and it's like it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where it's like, oh my god, they talk about
Speaker 1: the movie for maybe forty five seconds, and it's terrific.
Speaker 5: That's pretty much. Yet they just go back and forth
Speaker 5: and basically are banding about titles. It almost feels like
Speaker 5: a dick measuring contest as far as who knows the
Speaker 5: more obscure Italian film and then sometimes not even Italian films,
Speaker 5: but just going back and forth, back and forth, and
Speaker 5: then yeah, and then it's that typical IMDb like, oh,
Speaker 5: and this is Martin Balsom, who the year before was
Speaker 5: in this one. I'm like, you're just looking at the IMDb.
Speaker 5: You know, why are you doing this? I could go
Speaker 5: to the IMDb just as easily as you can. You
Speaker 5: don't have to tell me their entire filmography when they died,
Speaker 5: how they died. And then that the whole thing that
Speaker 5: I was talking about with the kidnapping of the Prime Minister.
Speaker 5: I was like, they make a little mention of that,
Speaker 5: like oh yeah, some bad stuff happened when this movie
Speaker 5: came out, and they barely talk about it. I'm like,
Speaker 5: come on, this is a major crime that happens and
Speaker 5: overshadows the film, like I would like to know more
Speaker 5: about that, But thank goodness for Wikipedia.
Speaker 4: I guess I thought the commentary was okay. I mean,
Speaker 4: I definitely, you know, I didn't know all these actors.
Speaker 4: There's all the names, you know, terribly racist of me,
Speaker 4: but they all send the same to me. I'm having
Speaker 4: a hard time keeping track of But you know, they
Speaker 4: knew everybody who was in you know, thirty of these
Speaker 4: movies in ten years. And wow, no, I wouldn't have
Speaker 4: known that, wouldn't have known that.
Speaker 1: It's been fun having.
Speaker 4: The stats feature on letterbox now because I can see, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I have no idea who this person is, but apparently
Speaker 4: I've watched you know, seven of their movies.
Speaker 5: Well, I didn't realize that I had seen a lot
Speaker 5: of Victorio Capriole Caprioi films, that he's the guy that
Speaker 5: played the inspector, and when I pull up his his IMDb,
Speaker 5: there's a picture of him and another dude. And then
Speaker 5: Pierre Richard, who was in a ton of Francis Ferber films,
Speaker 5: and I actually watched one of those called La Magnafique,
Speaker 5: which is Verber. I think had a very little part
Speaker 5: in the writing of that, but that was the one
Speaker 5: with Jean Paul Belmondo where he's writing a book and
Speaker 5: then also fantasizing about being in the book, and in
Speaker 5: the book everything is wonderful and everything, and girlfriend Jacqueline
Speaker 5: Bessad is all about like giving him all this sex.
Speaker 5: But then when he's actually in real life and trying
Speaker 5: to write it, it's like everything's distracting him. And it
Speaker 5: was a It was cute. I mean, we've seen that
Speaker 5: that play out, that whole book versus reality thing so
Speaker 5: many times, but I thought they handled it very well
Speaker 5: in that film, so I recommend Le Magnafique.
Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately they never made a Blood and Diamonds animated
Speaker 1: series with a purple beaver.
Speaker 5: All right, we're going to take a break and play
Speaker 5: a preview for next week's show right after these brief messages.
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Speaker 5: host Ryan and Jedediah. So, Ryan, what is the latest
Speaker 5: with you, sir?
Speaker 1: I am still working on a one Track Mind, which
Speaker 1: is an audio commentary's focused podcast, very much into physical
Speaker 1: media and trying to keep it alive, where every other
Speaker 1: week myself and a guest will review a movie based
Speaker 1: on its audio commentary and you can find that on
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Speaker 1: differently with a the number one instead of spelled out
Speaker 1: o any track Mind podcast, and i also do Reels
Speaker 1: of Justice, a fake movie court where we have a prosecutor, defender, judge,
Speaker 1: and jury try to conclude whether or not a movie
Speaker 1: is guilty of being a bad movie. That's every week
Speaker 1: instead of every other week, and you can find that
Speaker 1: on all the social media's except for Blue Sky. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: they're still on the dreaded Bird app and it's at
Speaker 1: Reels of Justice.
Speaker 5: And jet dyah anything to share deleted all my social
Speaker 5: Oh nice social media.
Speaker 4: So I'm on a letterbox if you want to keep
Speaker 4: track of, you know, the hundreds of movie I'm watching
Speaker 4: this year, but yeah, dabbling and a little fiction writing, but.
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Speaker 4: Shut shut.
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Speaker 2: On, come on shut.
Speaker 11: If you want to shun?
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Speaker 3: shut shun.
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