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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the All Eighties Movies podcast podcast,

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where we talked about the block listeners, love flocks, and

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everything in between from one of the freshest decades from

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movies for nineteen eighties. I'm host Bill Banton Long McBeal.

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This journey revisiting eighties movies is my co host Jason Massek. Hello, Jason, Bill.

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Speaker 2: Don't ever, ever, ever call me stupid.

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Speaker 1: That's right, listeners, we are discussing with spoilers of Plenty,

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the nineteen eighty eight comedy kper a fish called Wanda.

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It was produced and distributed by MGM. The movie stars

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John Cleasee, Jimmy Lee Curtis, Kevin Klein, and Michael Palin.

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Directed by Charles Crichton, this movie is rated R with

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the running time of one hour and forty eight minutes.

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The movie was nominated for three Oscars, for Best Writing,

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Screenplay Written directly for the screen, Best Director, and winning

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for Best Actor in the supporting role Kevin Klein. So

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what is this movie about? What's on the box? If

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you grew up in the nineteen eighties and went to

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your local video store to rent this movie, you would

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find this description on the back of the VHS box.

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It is What's on the box, Take it Away. Jason

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Jewel Thief. Wanda Gershwitz Jamie Lee Curtis is every Englishman's

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dream of the sexy American babe, brash, bright eyed and buxom.

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Barrister Archie Leech John Clees is the quintessential Englishman, polite,

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poised and nearly comatose. Under normal circumstances, they might never meet,

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but in a fish called Wanda, they're about to come

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crashing together in a hilarious clash of cultures. Kevin Klein

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and Michael palin Co star in this mad cap crime

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caper about a band of bumbling thieves who rip off

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a cash of diamonds from London's elegant jewelry district. The

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perfect heist soon turns into a perfect mess when the

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gang's double dealing ringleader, George, is arrested. What's more, he's

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hidden the diamonds and isn't telling where. That leaves Wanda

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with one option seduce George's lawyer. So she sets the

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bait and launches one of the wackiest deductions ever seen

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on the screen. Sink your hooks into this outrageous comedy

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written by Monty Python's John Plice and directed by Charles Crichton.

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A fish called Wanda, Fish called Wanda, So that was

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what's in the box? Jason? Do you remember when you

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first saw fish called Wanda? No, that's it, that's it.

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I don't.

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Speaker 2: I just think I vaguely recall seeing it in the

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theater with the fam. I can't be totally sure. I

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only know I remember watching on a cable more than

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a few times as a kid, and I always thought

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it was funny, always looked forward to the parts with

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Kevin Klein. And although I always enjoyed the movie, I

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just I can't remember many specifics about it outside some

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of Klein's antics, including eating fish right out of the tank.

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So not a lot when it comes to the early

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memories for me. How about you, Bill Bant?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this was definitely a rental, and I remember my

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mom was rolling off the couch with Ken's attempts to

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kill the old lady expect the third one. She just

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lost it. Yeah, that always stands out to me. I

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don't remember hearing her laugh that hard, so that will

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always stick with me. That's memory I always have associated

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with this movie.

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Speaker 2: That's fantastic because I also laughed out loud during those

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scenes during this revisit, so really looking forward to talking

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about it with you.

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Speaker 1: Man. All right, let's talk about a fish called Wanda.

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So what are our impressions of this movie?

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Speaker 2: Well, as I mentioned, you know, I was looking forward

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to seeing this again for you know, a lot of

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different reasons. It's been many, many years since I watched it.

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It's funny how it just kind of seemed to be

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under the radar. But my first impression is that I

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throw enjoy this movie, Bill, I just do. There is

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the nostalgic attachment of it, just the fact that I

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remember loving it so much as a kid that upon

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rewatching cable etc. On vhs, like you said you had

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rented it, no doubt I had rented it at some

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point as well. And I just laughed my butt off.

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That's all there is to it. So it was a

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little different watching this as an adult because my sensibilities

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have changed and my sense of humor is probably adjusted

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over time, there's no question. So some of the things

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whether it be like pratt Fall kind of comedy or

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physical comedy, versus the actual witty dialogue, et cetera. The

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kind of farcical nature of the film and things like that,

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all the hijinks. Some of it hit and some of

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it didn't for me. But overall, I don't want to

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come off overly nice about it or sound like, oh,

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it was just okay.

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Speaker 1: It was really good.

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Speaker 2: It's really well written and just a really easy watch,

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just a really fun watch.

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Speaker 1: It's all say about that.

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Speaker 2: What's your initial or first impression upon the revisit as

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Speaker 1: So this is my big surprise watching this movie. So

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who to you was the standout character? And we have

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a lot of odd and bizarre characters in this movie.

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the standout was Michael Palin. I think he's really really

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funny in this and now we can well, I have

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this written down. I wanted to discuss the stutter with

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you and how that hits you watching it today and

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maybe today's climate, et cetera. Sensitivity wise, I think you

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know what I'm talking about, but I appreciate what you know.

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Speaker 2: What he was doing. He made me I couldn't keep

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my eyes off him every time he was on the

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screen because I think for me, Kevin Klein is a standout,

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no question, in the way of He's got a lot

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of the obvious funny parts. So I was already like

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predicting those and seeing those coming versus Michael Palin kind

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of surprised me a little more upon this watch.

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Speaker 1: How about you, man, who was your standout? Jamie Lee Curtis.

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I love her. Yeah, I think this is my favorite

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movie with her in it because the premise of the movie,

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it's four people that are robbing diamonds and it's her

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and Auto, George and Ken. And then just the way

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she constantly manipulates everyone. Yep, I mean she has everyone

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eating out of the Palmer hand. And then John Clice's

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character Archie. Just the subtle things she would do in

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the movie when she goes to see Archie and she

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takes off her glasses and she blinks her eyes like

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she has a hard time seeing him, all those little

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nuanced things, or when Ken arrives at the flat and

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she pretends she's on the phone. She is just working

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these guys throughout the movie and none of them have

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any clue. I thought she was amazing. I couldn't believe

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how much I enjoyed her. I mean, Kevin Glyne won

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the Oscar for it, but I'm like, she almost should

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have gotten nominated, just how she manipulates everyone this movie.

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And she was just cracking me up anytime any of

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the characters are speaking foreign language, and she would just

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get all hot and bothered. That stuff was cracking me

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up too. I couldn't believe how much I liked her

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in this film.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I have to agree wholeheartedly. She is so

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good and so adorable. She plays the comedy very well,

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so there's a little bit of the overtop nature of it.

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But she's extremely seductive, man. I mean, she I got

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it hook line and sinker. And if she I mean,

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I would have been one of these poor SAPs that

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fell into her trap, you know, easily, easily, very sexy,

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and you would just fall prey completely. I mean, she's

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the femme fatale. And I was watching the end of

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this film just before we're recording here, and there's a

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moment where Archie played by John Cleese, has felt like

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he's been taken by her in a way. She's been duplicitous,

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of course, and she's playing games and being extremely manipulative,

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but he fell in love with her, and there's a

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moment where she says as much, and then she looks

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at him with these eyes where you can tell she's

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fallen in love with him too, despite all the fun

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back and forth and Hyjen since she's using everyone to

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her advantage and all these things throughout, at that end,

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she's extremely vulnerable and just so kind and warm, and

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you're just like, oh my god, I would melt in

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her arms. She's wonderful. The camera just loves her, so

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totally agree. I mean, you've almost switched me over to

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making her the standout for myself as well, because it's interesting.

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try as hard or too hard to overtake all the

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other male leads. She's not chewing the scenery as much.

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Speaker 1: Right because I think watching this, because Hevin Klein got

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the oscar for it, my expectations are higher watching his

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character in this movie. The character is funny. I think

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for me, the most laugh out loud moments where him

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just kind of appearing out of nowhere every time Wanda

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and Archie were together or wanted Ken, like he just

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came out of nowhere. It wasn't so much the dialogue

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or his actions. It was more of just seeing the jealousy,

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always making sure Wanda wasn't doing something she wasn't supposed

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to be doing according to him. So I was kind

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of interested on like how did he win this award?

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going into the Oscars, and I was trying to think, like,

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what did I see him in before? Like we discussed

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him in The Big Chill, But when you really look

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at his filmography up to that point, he really didn't

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do any comedy. I think was cry Freedom was the

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movie he did before this one came out. I think

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it was more of Surprise of the Switch. But when

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you think of Kevin Klein now all you think of

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is comedies. But he really started as a dramatic actor.

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It was given this opportunity, knocked it out of the

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park and got the oscar. Like I'm wondering if this,

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if this movie was made later in his career, if

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he would have won it, because he would have been

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known for doing comedy. So it's just like, oh, this

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is just another character.

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Speaker 2: That's a great question. I could not answer that. I

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could tell you though that when I'm watching it now.

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and he has things that he comes back to. I mean,

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I do love his vocal inflections at times. Some of

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my favorite lines are when he opens the safe initially

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and the jewels aren't inside, the diamonds aren't in there,

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and he's like, okay, okay, disappointed. Yes, I love that

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moment when he kind of hops up and then kicks

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the car in a jump. He's very nimble and he

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has a great physicality about him. He seems very athletic.

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he goes over to Archie's house to apologize to him

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because Wanda has insisted because otherwise the plan is going

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to fall apart and Otto pulls up in his car

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and he's like, oh, and he's practicing his apology and says, oh,

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I'm so very very very fuck youe I like. And

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of course when he returns the callback to don't call

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me stupid, don't call me stupid, and when he's smelling

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his armpit it's ridiculous. So those things are funny, but

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that like you did as well, when he would pop

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up at the most opportune moments, or just the faces

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he would make. One of my favorite moments is in

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the very beginning when George is laying out the plan

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for the heist and Otto, Kevin Klein is just staring

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right through him, and he's like, Otto, are you with us?

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And he's like, what, Yeah, it was the middle part.

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dumb looks on his face are brilliant. So I was

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watching it and I found him extremely entertaining. However, I

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also was just going to ask you, DoD you think

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it was an Oscar worthy performance.

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Speaker 1: I did look up who else was nominated, and of

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course now I can't remember who it was, and looking

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at the nominees there was no one. I was like, oh,

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you know what that person should have gotten. Instead, I

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didn't feel that way, and I apologize to the audience

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that I can't remember who the other nominees were. I really,

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do you think it was a surprise? It was just

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a surprise. To the academy is like, wait, Kevin Klein's

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doing great? What this is really funny? I like this,

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and it's good because comedic roles don't often get the accolades.

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a great point. And I wasn't asking the question as

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if I feel like he was unworthy. I just did

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find it a little surprising that he won, probably for

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this pod. I'm a big fan of Silverado. That's one

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of my Western favorites. Dave.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love you to death. Have you seen

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that with him? Yes, he's very busares that's a fun

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Speaker 2: That's a little that he's doing com Yeah yeah, but

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a wonderful actor. Also, I just wanted to make another

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comment outside of like we're watching this movie and outside

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of committing the robbery alongside Ken and George, I was like,

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does I dono really serve any purpose in this movie whatsoever?

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but he's really just a goof and a problem, and

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he's very discriminatory and violent.

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a deterretor and how Yeah, And that was one of

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the questions, like how did Wanda and Auto get together?

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to bring Auto in so she can end up with

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the diamonds for herself. That was a lingering question for

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me throughout, like how do we get to that point

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where the movie begins? How do Wanta be George? What's

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the living situation on the flat? Is it Ken, George,

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Rwanda all live there? I don't know. There was a

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lot of fun questions of how did we get to

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where the movie begins? That was definitely going through my

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mind throughout the movie. One thousand percent. I thought about that.

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Speaker 2: I thought about writing down that as a note and

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I didn't, So I appreciate you bringing it up, because

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it just they throw you right into this scenario of

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this this heist team with Ken and George, who I

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don't know if they yet do they are they like

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flat mates? Are they living together? But obviously they're English?

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the three of them have been planning this heist, and

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you get the sense or it's established that she has

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brought in her quote unquote brother Auto to help because

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they needed a quote unquote weapons man, a sharpshooter, and

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that's his ability, that's what he would bring to the team.

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this all come to be in the first place. You

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don't see the planning of the heist or anything like that.

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with it, and this I wrote down as well as

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one of the ultimate just go with it movies, and

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to its credit, it worked for me. But as far

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as Auto's character goes, we do know that he's a

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talented like sharpshooter, but other than that, he's there to

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be this also intense and over the top like sexual

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partner for Wanda, which is part of the hilarity throughout

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because he's always spouting his Italian as you mentioned, whenever

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he does, that turns her on. So that was another

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thing I wanted to bring up with you, and it's

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just how did you feel about the overall tone of

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this film, because I think it's interesting watching this going

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not what is this movie?

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Speaker 1: It's clearly a very.

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Speaker 2: Much a comedy, but the tone can it gets very

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sexual at times. It's very over the top and farcical

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and high jinks and things like that, and the writing

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can get a little bit edgy at times. It can

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be very irreverent. So I didn't know how you felt

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about the tone.

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Speaker 1: I think what I really liked about this movie is

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it is very character based. It's not a reference based comedy.

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I guess show this to my kids, and they're not

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going to be who what do they mean by that joke?

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Outside of they mentioned Margaret Thatcher once and that's it.

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You good, almost remake it today. We'll get into the

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Ken character, right, But there's a timelessness to this.

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Speaker 2: That you're already answering another question.

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Speaker 1: I think most of the comedy still works today. I

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think most of the story still works. You wouldn't have

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to change a lot if they had to remake it.

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I don't think. I think the big question would just

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be the Ken character, which I actually didn't have an

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issue with. I know we said we were going to

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get into it, might as well just get into it now. Absolutely,

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I don't feel like they were playing four laughs, even

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though there are funny moments. I always remember as a

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kid in grade school, I had a babysitter and she

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had a younger brother who had a really bad stuttering problem.

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to give a message to our teacher. He just couldn't

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get it out. He just started stuttering. Of course, the

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class started laughing. He walked out class was laughing again,

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and our teacher reamed us, we're not necessarily laughing at him.

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It's just it's just it's just one of those things.

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and kind of makes fun of it. Oh, he's awful

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about it.

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to but yeah, no, yeah, but he's a dick. Auto

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is a complete dick, and he's an asshole. So that's

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part of his character. And so you feel empathy for

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Ken obviously when you have this overbearing Auto that's just

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continually mocking his stutter. That's insensitive for sure, but it

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is also Auto's character.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I like the way it was played where

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Ken Winn's stutter as much when he's around people he's

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comfortable with. Of course, when Auto it gets worse because

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he can't stand him, and then even with Archie because

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he's being pressured, it really comes out. I mean, I'll

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get into a little bit in the facts in trivia

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because supposedly Palin's father was a stutterer, So that's.

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Speaker 2: I was just going, yeah, that's what I had written here,

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because Michael Palin is a sir. Apparently, Sir, Yes, Sir

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Michael Palin's father stuttered.

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Speaker 1: So Palin used a lot of.

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Speaker 2: His real life experience when playing Ken, including the fact

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that Ken's stutter is less pronounced around people he trusts

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like George and Wanda, and worse around people with whom

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he's uncomfortable, like Otto. So I thought that was interesting.

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Speaker 1: And supposedly there was picketing outside the studio for it too,

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so people thought it was insensitive.

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Speaker 2: And then afterward, I mean, Sir Michael Palin, he founded

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the London Center for Stammering Children after a group of

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stutterers confronted him regarding the sensitivity with which he dealt

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with Ken's handicap in this movie. So, yeah, there you go.

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So it was addressed at least, but I said that

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I felt Michael Palin's performance was the standout for me. Now,

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one little piece of inside was when I was acting

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class with Ken Lerner years ago, I performed a scene

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with a very talented actress named Sandy who was just wonderful.

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And it's a scene from a play called Three Days

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of Rain. And my character had a stutter. And it's

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not easy to play. You don't want to do it

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like a characterization of it. You don't want to knock

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it in any way. You want to make it as

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realistic as possible. But I had to get the memorize

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the lines and know where the stutters happened and things

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like that. And it was hard. It was hard, and

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it was emotional. It's a very emotional scenes of drama.

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It was not like a fish called Wanta at all

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in tone. But after having done that and gone through

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that performance, I just I'm watching Michael Palin and he's

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quite wonderful. His facial expressions and his comedic timing and

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the way he does. It's just funny and you can

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have fun with it. It doesn't have to be taken

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that seriously, don't ever. I didn't watch it thinking he

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was making fun of people that have a stutter. I

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just felt like his character has a severe stutter and

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it plays into the comedy of in the tone of

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the film and that scene at the end with Archie

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and Archie's trying to get the location of the diamonds

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out of him, and he's trying so hard. You feel

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terrible for him, but he's great. And speaking of I

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wanted to mention this too. I was watching It's just

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great the fact that John Cleese wrote this and that

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Michael Palin of course is in it, and we know

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both of them from Monty Python. And I grew up

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being a huge fan of Monty Python, especially the Holy

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Grail film, and I just wanted to mention this because

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they're great together Cleise and Michael Palin. And if you're

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a fan of Monty Python, you know this. But for

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those that haven't checked it out, go on YouTube and

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find look up Monty Python's Flying Circus and look up

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the episode Dead Parrot Classics. It is one of the

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all time classics, and you'll see it's quirky and it's weird,

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but it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention that I think you said

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it best with the Ken character. Palin does it mock stutters.

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That doesn't come across you empathize with Ken and his condition,

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especially during that scene when Archie's trying to get from him.

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Even I'm like, come on, you can say it. I'm

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rooting for him. Get the word out. I know you

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can do it. I never felt like I was laughing

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at him. I was laughing with him. Correct.

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Speaker 2: This is why he was a standout for me, because

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on this one where he just to me, has some

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of the funniest moments, and some of them have nothing

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to do with his stutter. It's the way his character

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is written. He's a thief, but he's also an animal lover,

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and anytime bad things happen to animals, he's suffering. So

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then when he's not only as a thief and an

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animal lover, but he turns out to be a murderer

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as well, because George has him try to take out

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this old lady that was an eyewitness to seeing George

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in the escape vehicle. After the heist, and so now

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we have Ken Michael Palin trying to take out the

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old lady and instead of killing her, he ends up

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taking out her three adorable little Yorky dogs. And every

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time there was a cut to the funeral from one

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of the dogs, and you see Michael Paley in one

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of the trees because he's there like and so like

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depressed because he's a lover of all animals and by

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accident keeps killing animals. It's so ridiculous, and the look

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on his face, you just feel terrible for him. But

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the way he plays.

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Speaker 1: It is funny and he's very talented, so that's why

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he was a standout for me. Yeah, and that was

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another thing I saw when I was looking at the

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kind of character that people with stutters. Animals are big help.

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They soothe, So that's why he's such an animal lover.

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And sure it's the fish. It helps him out. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I also wanted to mention one of my favorite comedians

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right now, happens to be a gentleman by the name

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of Drew Lynch. He is laugh out loud, he'll make

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you cry. I've seen him live at the ice House

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in Pasadena. He's amazing, and he got his start on

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America's Got Talent. So when he was very young. This

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is Drew Lynch I'm talking about. He went on the

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show and had the courage, and he had a very

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severe stutter and it was a result of an accident

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he had while playing softball, a brain injury, and he's

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overcome it. It's a wonderful story and he is dropped

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dead hilarious, absolutely hilarious, but he uses that as part

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of his comedy and you're empathetic and you're sympathetic, but

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he uses it to his advantage and it's wonderful and

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he's overcome it and it's a great story.

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Speaker 1: So it just made me think of that.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to look at it going, oh my god,

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he's making fun of people that have a stutter. It's

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a real thing, and you don't have to take it

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that seriously. If it's done in the correct way, you

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can find humor and everything. I think is my point,

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and that's what I get from Drew Lynch, and that's

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what I got from Michael Pellan's performance here.

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Speaker 1: Another thing I really like about this movie being a comedy.

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it's basically little skits that are just kind of put together,

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strung together. I mean, the big one for me I

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always think of first is National Landpin's Vacation. What I

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do like about this movie is every scene does set

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up the next scene, so that story really does move

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along throughout, like you can't take something out, whereas like

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you know, National Lampoons, you could take out a scene,

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it's not going to affect the overall movie, or is

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this one? I really like how something earlier on is

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going to set up something later on. That's pretty good

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writing for a comedy when you're really just trying to

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get as many jokes and setups as you can, but

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00:24:26,319 --> 00:24:30,799
all this setups and jokes really are important to the

472
00:24:30,839 --> 00:24:34,680
plot itself. So I was really impressed with that solid script.

473
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:39,279
I couldn't agree more. Just really solid script. Much much

474
00:24:39,319 --> 00:24:43,680
credit to both John CLEAs and Charles Crichton. And I

475
00:24:43,799 --> 00:24:46,319
wrote this whole thing here because it's interesting the way

476
00:24:46,319 --> 00:24:49,319
the film is structured, because it is a lot of

477
00:24:48,519 --> 00:24:51,319
the highjinks and you think, oh, this is going to

478
00:24:51,319 --> 00:24:53,359
be a heist film, but the entire second act, and

479
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,039
this is what I wrote down, is that the middle

480
00:24:55,079 --> 00:24:57,799
half of the film, it's not a whole lot happening

481
00:24:57,799 --> 00:25:01,960
outside of the screen. Time is split between this one

482
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,039
through line of Ken trying to take out the old

483
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,680
lady with the dogs, and then the other half of

484
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,759
it is Wanda trying to seduce Archie, and it becomes

485
00:25:09,799 --> 00:25:12,480
almost a relationship comedy. So the stars of the film

486
00:25:12,559 --> 00:25:15,200
become really become Wanda and Archie, and you're watching their

487
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:20,359
relationship develop. And yes, obviously Otto is continuously forcing himself

488
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,119
into the situation and interrupting.

489
00:25:22,559 --> 00:25:24,839
Speaker 2: The whole middle half has not a whole lot to

490
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,119
do with where's the location of the diamonds. It's a

491
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,240
lot of trying to get the key back from in

492
00:25:30,319 --> 00:25:32,960
the locket, which is in the necklace and things necklace

493
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,160
and things like that. But you're watching Archie fall in

494
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,279
love with Wanda, and Wanda trying to manipulate these men

495
00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:41,119
to get what she wants, and they become the star.

496
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,039
It's just it's great. Yeah, and then I'm like, oh, wow,

497
00:25:44,079 --> 00:25:46,839
there's forty minutes left in the movie. They still don't

498
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,759
know where the loot is located, and you don't care.

499
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,480
You're like, I'm just having fun watching these people interact

500
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,000
and that's a lot of credit to the chemistry as well.

501
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,119
Between Clice and Jamie Lee Curtis. I thought they were

502
00:25:59,559 --> 00:26:02,920
just great together. There's a lot of credit to Jamie

503
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,519
Lee Curtis. Going back to what you were saying Bill initially,

504
00:26:05,559 --> 00:26:08,279
why she isn't standout as well is that she has

505
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,240
literally has chemistry with everybody. I mean, and she literally

506
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,599
makes out with everybody in the film. But she's great

507
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,079
with Michael Palin, she's great with Clease, she's great with

508
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,559
Kevin Klein, all of them.

509
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel it's very character driven comedy, and there

510
00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:27,200
are many arcs for everyone. Here's Archie kind of a

511
00:26:27,279 --> 00:26:30,680
snotty bureaucrat, and now he finds a girl to fall

512
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,960
in love with, and let's loose and enduring life now,

513
00:26:34,279 --> 00:26:38,519
and you had Jamie Lee Curtis's character as Wanda, who's

514
00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:41,079
just trying to use men to get to an end,

515
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,400
and oh wait a second, she might actually be falling

516
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,160
in love with one of these gentlemen.

517
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 2: It's really smartly written. They find the funny in all

518
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,680
these things, but it still stays light on its feet.

519
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,160
It never gets too heavy. Going back to that whole

520
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,920
thing with between Ken trying to take out the old

521
00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,960
lady and he kills the dogs instead. It's oh, hilarious.

522
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,400
I just got the fact that he's so upset and depressed,

523
00:27:04,559 --> 00:27:06,039
you know, and mad at himself when he ends up

524
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,079
killing the dogs because he loves animals. And then finally,

525
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,920
when the old lady has a heart attack and dies,

526
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,039
you don't feel too bad for the lady because they

527
00:27:14,079 --> 00:27:16,160
positioned her and this is smart writing is kind of

528
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,160
an old bitch, so you're like, Okay, as an audience member,

529
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,960
you're like, I'm not too upset that she died. And

530
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,440
then second of all, then you have Ken coming to

531
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,039
the scene of the crime, and yes, he's upset about

532
00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:31,200
the dead dog, but it just starts laughing out loud

533
00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:34,400
and is like thrilled that he accomplished this thing and

534
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,920
that he killed the old lady, and everybody's looking at

535
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,000
him like why are you laughing? Yeah, And it's brilliant.

536
00:27:40,079 --> 00:27:42,039
That's really I think that's very smart.

537
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: Even the dog's dying, which you know, we're like, we

538
00:27:45,279 --> 00:27:48,680
don't like to see animal deaths, but it is funny.

539
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,319
Like the Doberman. You obviously see the doberman has a

540
00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:54,680
fake dog in its mouth, it's stuffed animal in his mouth. Yeah, okay,

541
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,440
you know that's not really the dog, so I thought

542
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:56,640
that was it.

543
00:27:56,799 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 2: He runs over the second dog and you see the

544
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,079
dog flattened on the st but there's no blood.

545
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a stuffed animal that smushed. You know.

546
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,480
It's like, yeah, it's like.

547
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 2: The Wiley coyote with the tire marks on it exactly.

548
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,000
I was going to ask you real quick the fact

549
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,319
that this movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and

550
00:28:14,519 --> 00:28:17,960
I started the movie going, wait a minute, who directed this.

551
00:28:18,559 --> 00:28:21,839
I had no familiarity with Charles Crichton at all. I

552
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,279
know he's known for films like from the fifties. He

553
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,039
was already eighty something when they when he directed this,

554
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,160
or was he in his late late seventies. But he

555
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,359
was known for films back in the fifties like Dead

556
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,880
of Night, The Stranger in Between, and The Lavender Hill Mob.

557
00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:40,440
And I know you're a fan of classic cinema, Bill,

558
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,000
I didn't know if you were familiar with any of

559
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:42,400
his work.

560
00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:44,599
Speaker 1: And I had to go back and look at this filmography.

561
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,839
I had not seen anything that he's done before. I

562
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,880
thought maybe I saw one of them, but No, this

563
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,079
is the only thing I've seen of his. Yeah, in

564
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,960
the Lavender mom interested alec Ginness, So I was kind

565
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,559
of surprised. I hadn't seen that one. Yeah, and they

566
00:28:58,559 --> 00:29:01,319
do reference that in this movie because in the plot

567
00:29:01,319 --> 00:29:05,200
of the Lavender Mob is they steal this gold, and

568
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,599
what they do is they mold the gold into shapes

569
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,799
of the Eiffel Tower. And if you look in George's

570
00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:14,759
flat or whoever owns that flat, there's an Eiffel tower,

571
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,319
a little miniature Eiffel tower in the flat somewhere. Got it.

572
00:29:18,799 --> 00:29:19,319
That's great.

573
00:29:20,119 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 2: Well, that's really all the commentary I have for now.

574
00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:24,400
I was just gonna do a little wrap up here

575
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,799
with some just final thoughts about this revisit. I didn't

576
00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:30,480
know if you wanted to touch on any other particular point, now,

577
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:31,000
go for it.

578
00:29:31,319 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: We just touched on.

579
00:29:32,559 --> 00:29:35,279
Speaker 2: All the performances, which are all great, the fact that

580
00:29:35,319 --> 00:29:38,720
this film is still it's under two hours, great running time,

581
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,640
smartly crafted written.

582
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: Is it as funny as I remember? Not quite, but

583
00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:49,759
it was just as enjoyable. I just found different things

584
00:29:50,039 --> 00:29:52,279
funny and I didn't have to laugh out loud. It

585
00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:54,640
was just I like this movie. I love movies.

586
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,359
Speaker 2: It makes me love comedies, and I missed these types

587
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,079
of comedies. I was gonna even ask you if you

588
00:29:59,119 --> 00:30:04,759
think like these kind of quirky sexual romps, irreverent, farcical,

589
00:30:04,839 --> 00:30:07,160
hidick if these comedies are ever going to make a comeback.

590
00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:10,680
I really miss these smartly written, less than two hours

591
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,480
long type of comedies. I found it very enjoyable. I'm

592
00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:15,759
glad we got to watch it again.

593
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: You're right, we don't see this type of comedy anymore.

594
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,720
Everything's got to be a parody, everything's got to be

595
00:30:20,759 --> 00:30:25,640
a reference to something else. Almost feels timeless. Yeah, it's

596
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,519
a great point, and the themes still are irrelevant today.

597
00:30:29,799 --> 00:30:33,799
And you really wouldn't miss that much outside of how

598
00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:36,279
come none of them have cell phones? You're not missing much.

599
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,079
I think it holds up really well. It's a great,

600
00:30:39,359 --> 00:30:42,480
just go with it type of movie. It's over the top, ridiculous, silly.

601
00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:44,799
It's very charming. And when I say over the top,

602
00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:46,680
by the way, I have to know, the whole ending

603
00:30:46,839 --> 00:30:50,039
is completely ridiculous, and it's a blast, and that's a

604
00:30:50,079 --> 00:30:52,680
testament to how it's done. It's like, I don't care.

605
00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:56,319
I had a great time watching this and I'm having fun. There.

606
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,960
You go, trying to move on to favorite scenes or moments.

607
00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:02,920
What are some of the favorite scenes or moments from

608
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,039
this movie? And I will start and this is definitely

609
00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:08,599
not a scene I would have picked when I first

610
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,160
saw this movie oh so long ago, but I guess

611
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,759
being an adult being married myself, watching this scene just

612
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,480
made me laugh out loud. And that's the scene where

613
00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:21,240
we see Archie and his wife Wendy are going to bed,

614
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:24,920
and it's intercut with Otto and Wanda getting it on.

615
00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:28,440
And this was just making me laugh because here you

616
00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:32,039
have Weddy and Archie. They're literally sleeping in separate beds,

617
00:31:32,079 --> 00:31:36,160
barely talking to each other, doing their thing. Archie's cutting

618
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:41,000
his toenails, scratching his bald head while Wanda and Outo

619
00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:45,480
are going at it crazy. Just a great back and forth.

620
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:46,400
I thought it was really funny.

621
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,079
Speaker 2: Again, really smart writing. As soon as they started doing

622
00:31:50,119 --> 00:31:52,920
that compare and contrast as to you know, this very

623
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,759
proper English couple, and this is how they prepare for bed,

624
00:31:55,799 --> 00:31:59,079
and there is no real attraction between them or any like,

625
00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:03,519
there's no sexual occurring there versus this kind of hot

626
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,880
romance that is happening between Otto and Wanda. It's really

627
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,880
really funny and Kevin Klein and this part is really great,

628
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,599
the spouting of the Italian throughout, and I think there's

629
00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:17,240
some things, well, I know there's some stuff in the

630
00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:20,119
behind the scenes and the trivia where initially Kevin Klein

631
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,920
didn't want to be speaking Italian, but I think John

632
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,640
Cleese or krit and they insisted that he do the Italian.

633
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,160
I think he wanted to speak I don't know if

634
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,519
it was Spanish or French.

635
00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:31,519
Speaker 1: But French, because he's fluent in French. Oh that's it, sorry,

636
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,000
thank you. Yeah, so it was French, but he's doing

637
00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:37,640
the Italian bit. So he's just spouting random Italian words

638
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,759
and it makes Jamie the Curz hot and bothered. So

639
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,079
during that sex scene, then when he's on top of

640
00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:46,599
her and they're going to town and he actually ran

641
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,559
out of Italian words to say, then he just starts

642
00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:53,240
singing volare and it was just totally improvised because they

643
00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:55,319
just he was doing great and they didn't want to cut.

644
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,119
And then that moment, of course when he looks up

645
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,400
when he's coming to fruition as you would say, and

646
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,359
you see his expression change, it is pretty damn funny.

647
00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:08,279
And in the behind the scenes of that as well

648
00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:10,559
as I guess Jamie Lee Curtis had to bury her

649
00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:13,240
face in the pillow because to stop from laughing every

650
00:33:13,279 --> 00:33:15,759
time he did that rooting takes So it's a nice

651
00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:16,920
period on the scene there.

652
00:33:17,119 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 2: It's fun stuff. What do you got a little more

653
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,119
of Auto and Kevin Klein. There's a part of the

654
00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:26,759
movie where George is, you know, going to be on

655
00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:30,759
trial here he got nabbed by the cops and gonna

656
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:34,279
be on trial for this this heist, for stealing these diamonds.

657
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,000
And during this corpse scene, he hands a piece of

658
00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:43,160
paper to Ken, partner in crime, that has the address

659
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:46,720
of the old lady who is the eyewitness to seeing

660
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,680
George in the escape car with the rest of them

661
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,400
as they were getting away from the heist. So George

662
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,160
wants Ken to take out the old lady, the eyewitness,

663
00:33:55,599 --> 00:33:57,880
and then the case will fall apart and George will

664
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,279
be set free. So outo Witnes. And this is this exchange.

665
00:34:01,319 --> 00:34:03,400
There's a little piece of paper being given over to

666
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,880
Ken and follows him outside the court and just gets

667
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,079
into his face and is so loud, and there's all

668
00:34:10,119 --> 00:34:12,320
these people walking around, and I just think this is

669
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,400
hilarious because already it's been established that he has come

670
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,800
on to Ken and made a sexual advance and is

671
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,360
pretending to be gay, and Ken is not really accepting

672
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,199
his advances. So Otto just comes at him in a

673
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,679
very intimidating nature and there's a little back and forth

674
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,280
that's funny because he Goto's saying to Ken. He's like,

675
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,039
I don't think you have the guts the balls to

676
00:34:33,119 --> 00:34:35,119
take out this old lady. I'll give you I'll make

677
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:36,639
you a bet. I'll give you a pound if you

678
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,800
kill her. And he's just saying this in the middle

679
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,079
of public and right in front of the courthouse, and

680
00:34:41,599 --> 00:34:44,840
Ken says, what's so funny, and Otto says nothing is

681
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,880
just that wasting old ladies isn't nice. And Ken's like, well,

682
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,679
it's better than buggering people. And Otto says, I'll bet

683
00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:53,760
you a pound if you don't kill her, and kid

684
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:58,639
says all right and walks off, and Auto's yelling after him, saying,

685
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,079
all right, I I love watching your ass when you walk.

686
00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: Is that beautiful?

687
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:03,599
Speaker 3: Or what?

688
00:35:04,119 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: Don't go near him? He's mine a pound, says you

689
00:35:07,079 --> 00:35:11,679
won't kill her and he's yelling at Adams. He's walking

690
00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:13,880
down the sidewalk, and I was wondering, because I'm watching

691
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,239
all these extras, the people walking around the background, they

692
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,920
were kind of were looking at Kevin Klein and Michael

693
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,679
Palin as if they weren't really extras. They were actually

694
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,599
just bystanders walking by, which made it feel very natural.

695
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,960
That just tickled me. I was laughing out loud when

696
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,360
Otto's just yelling at him, don't go near him, he's mine.

697
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 1: Just how brazen auto is that? The fact they're having

698
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,400
this conversation right outside the court room where anyone could hear. Wait,

699
00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:42,039
what it's going to kill someone? What? Yep, it is

700
00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:45,320
pretty funny where it's happening. I think the next favorite scene,

701
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,400
I think we're both in agreement, and that's the first

702
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,639
time that Wanda appears at Archie's house right uninvite it.

703
00:35:53,039 --> 00:35:58,199
And this is because Archie is George's lawyer or barrister

704
00:35:58,519 --> 00:36:01,360
what do they call it. And Wanda's plan is to

705
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,159
try to get information out of Archie to find out

706
00:36:04,199 --> 00:36:07,360
where the diamonds have been hidden because when they initially

707
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,599
did the robbery, they put him in a safe they

708
00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:13,119
got moved no one knows where they are except for

709
00:36:13,159 --> 00:36:17,119
George and possibly Ken, so she's trying to use Archie

710
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,559
to get that information. There's just a lot of hijinks

711
00:36:20,599 --> 00:36:24,199
because here we have Auto. He's not happy about this

712
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,239
plan because Wanda basically says, if I'd need to seduce them,

713
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,800
I'm going to seduce them, and Auto's basically do touchy,

714
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,320
no touchy. And then he's outside the house and he

715
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,280
hears them getting flirty, and he comes in. And then

716
00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:42,320
Archie's wife is supposed to be out in an opera,

717
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,800
but the car breaks down, so they come home early.

718
00:36:45,159 --> 00:36:48,480
And then if you're a fan of Faulty Towers, which

719
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,400
John Cleese did twelve episodes, I used to watch them

720
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,480
all the time on PBS. One of the funniest shows

721
00:36:53,559 --> 00:36:58,280
of all time. He almost reverts back to that Basil

722
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,320
Faulty character where he goes to get champagne and comes

723
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,519
back thinking he's bringing it to Wanda and his wife's

724
00:37:05,519 --> 00:37:08,199
sitting there, and he has that quick freak out, and

725
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,719
of course he's trying to find out where Wanda is,

726
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,440
and then Auto's in the house and Auto pops out

727
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,880
out of nowhere. There's just so many things are happening

728
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,599
at once, and it's all really funny. It's definitely one

729
00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:23,280
of the memorable and funniest scenes in the movie.

730
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,079
Speaker 2: This is really the farcical scene that is wonderful. I mean,

731
00:37:26,119 --> 00:37:28,000
there's a couple, but this is this one stands out

732
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,880
for sure. I chose it as well. Hey man, Jamie

733
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,719
the Curtis again, she comes in. I love the fact

734
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,920
that they break in. Otto picks the lock and she

735
00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:41,039
breaks into the house. But she surprises Archie obviously, she

736
00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:44,519
just walks into the study or the living room wherever

737
00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:47,360
it is, and Archie is surprised to see her, but

738
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,840
immediately all is forgiven, doesn't ask her, hey, you just

739
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:55,079
broke into my home. It's like, she just looks amazing

740
00:37:55,159 --> 00:37:59,239
in that black dress, and she's very seductive, so she

741
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,320
looks fantast but his I laughed as soon as Auto

742
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,360
shows up and he's standing behind the door, and every

743
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:09,760
time John Cleese screams out loud and somehow makes it work. Yes,

744
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,480
I mean, that's always hilarious in comedies because obviously something's

745
00:38:12,639 --> 00:38:14,559
very wrong and you would think the other character would

746
00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:17,519
be like, why are you screaming? But it's really funny.

747
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,920
John Clees when he's scrambling trying to come up with excuses,

748
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,920
and it's like, yeah, no, no, let's we should celebrate.

749
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,719
Let's have shimpei. You know what, we should go to

750
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,599
the pub. Let's all go to the pub. It's just

751
00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:29,679
great stuff. And then the you know, the door swings

752
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:31,599
open and he thinks Jamie the Curnis is behind it

753
00:38:31,639 --> 00:38:34,400
and he just yells aha, and she's not there. Of course,

754
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,320
she's climing behind the couch. It's fantastic, the whole bit

755
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,559
with Otto distracting Archie's wife Wendy saying that he's a

756
00:38:42,599 --> 00:38:47,679
CIA agent and that the a KGB defector in custody.

757
00:38:48,119 --> 00:38:50,960
That story is ridiculous and none of it makes sense,

758
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:55,239
but you just go with it and somehow it all works.

759
00:38:55,559 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's a moment between there exchange when Otto makes

760
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:06,320
up a fake name. He's like, mister wandersin nny fletch Yeah,

761
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,360
and then Wendy addresses him and says the name like Boom,

762
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,199
exactly as how he was supposed to be. Said. That

763
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,199
made me chuckol. I'm like, oh, yes, all right, she's

764
00:39:16,199 --> 00:39:18,320
on points, she's really paying attention. I like that we

765
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:19,760
should give her a quick shout out.

766
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 2: Actually, that's a Maria Aitken, who played Wendy John Cleys's

767
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,159
wife in the film.

768
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,039
Speaker 1: She's quite good.

769
00:39:26,199 --> 00:39:30,559
Speaker 2: She's very unlikable, very British, very English, very proper and

770
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,239
very rude, and very good at it.

771
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,599
Speaker 1: Yes, I do enjoy her. Another favorite scene that I

772
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,679
like is the apology. And this is the first apology.

773
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,199
This is the apology coming from Archie's character. And it's

774
00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:48,559
a memorable scene where Otto is literally hanging Archie out

775
00:39:48,679 --> 00:39:52,119
the window of the flat that he's borrowing, and the

776
00:39:52,159 --> 00:39:55,400
apology itself just made me laugh. It's not so much

777
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,639
he's hanging out the window, but just what he said,

778
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,400
and I had to write it down. It's just so

779
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,679
over the time because he has to make sure that

780
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,719
Auto understands that he is sorry, and he says, I

781
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:09,400
offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally

782
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:13,239
without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment,

783
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,760
and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret

784
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,719
any distress that my comment may have caused. You are

785
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,760
your family, and I hear my undertake not to repeat

786
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,960
any such slander at any time in the future. And

787
00:40:26,039 --> 00:40:28,880
of course he is saying this upside down four stories

788
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,360
high above I think the Thames River. That just made

789
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:32,800
me laugh.

790
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 2: It is awesome. He says it so well. I love

791
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,920
the fact that he's hanging out the window and he

792
00:40:39,079 --> 00:40:42,360
has his arms straight by his side. They're not like

793
00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:46,880
falling down. That's just so English in that moment, even

794
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:51,199
though he's hanging upside down outside a window and rattles

795
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:55,159
off a whole paragraph of an apology with perfect diction,

796
00:40:55,679 --> 00:40:58,519
and then it just it kind of surprises Otto actually,

797
00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:01,920
he's like, oh, yeah, okay, pretty good. It's great. I

798
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,280
love that you chose that. That's fantastic. Moving on to

799
00:41:05,519 --> 00:41:09,880
my last favorite scene is the final courtroom scene. So

800
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,159
we know that, as Bill's mentioned here that Archie is

801
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,880
the barrister for George. He is the defense lawyer for George,

802
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,679
and there really isn't much case against George being the

803
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,840
ring leader of this heist because all they have basically

804
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,719
is the fact that there was an eye witness, this

805
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,760
old lady that saw him in the getaway car. And

806
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,679
then on top of that, what's going to help George

807
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,920
is the fact that Wanda is his alibi, so she's

808
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,159
going to testify it on George's behalf and say that

809
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,320
she was with him. He was with her at his

810
00:41:41,519 --> 00:41:45,599
flat during the time of the heist. So cut to

811
00:41:45,639 --> 00:41:49,400
this final courtroom scene and you have Archie questioning Wanda,

812
00:41:49,679 --> 00:41:53,400
and Wanda ends up throwing Archie for a real curve

813
00:41:53,559 --> 00:41:55,800
because we think she's going to testify in George's behalf,

814
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,960
but instead incriminates George by saying he left the flat

815
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,480
with a sowd off shotgun with plenty of time to

816
00:42:03,519 --> 00:42:06,599
get to the heist, and this clearly throws Archie off

817
00:42:06,599 --> 00:42:09,320
his game. So when when Wanda says she was there

818
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:14,880
with Ken, not George, immediately John Cleese is like Wanda,

819
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,239
which is totally inappropriate and establishes the fact that he

820
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:23,800
clearly knows Wanda socially and everybody knows it, and he

821
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,920
tries to cover his tracks. So this is all about

822
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,559
John Cleese in the scene when he says Wanda and

823
00:42:28,599 --> 00:42:31,519
then has to cover it by saying, Wanda, Wanda, I wonder,

824
00:42:31,679 --> 00:42:35,679
I wonder, Wanda, wender wonder, and he just keeps stuttering.

825
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,679
And then when Wanda of course goes on to say, yes,

826
00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:41,960
George had a sawt off shotgun and he left the

827
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,320
flat et cetera. Well, now he's really scrambling. He manages

828
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,280
to look up to the upper level of the courtroom

829
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,239
where he sees his wife, and he can see that

830
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:53,239
his wife, Wendy, knows clearly that he's had this ongoing

831
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,239
relationship with Wanda, so that's not good. And then he

832
00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:00,639
even continues to stutter by saying Wendy when Wendy, Wanda wonder,

833
00:43:00,679 --> 00:43:03,880
And it just keeps going and he keeps bearying himself.

834
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,800
It's just really fun again to watch John Cleese do

835
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,000
his thing, that's his stick when he has to scramble.

836
00:43:11,519 --> 00:43:14,639
It's really really fun to watch, and he's a real

837
00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:17,480
talent with that sort of thing. And of course, the

838
00:43:17,559 --> 00:43:21,719
whole courtroom scene then devolves and George ends up jumping

839
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,679
over the railing and coming after both Wanda and Archie,

840
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,639
and the whole courtroom just falls apart. Everybody starts fighting

841
00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:31,199
and then everybody runs out and it's just a big mess.

842
00:43:31,199 --> 00:43:33,440
But I just love that final scene for the Wanda

843
00:43:33,519 --> 00:43:35,760
Wendy Wendy Wanda Wonder, I wonder.

844
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 1: That's all I love. That's the best John Cleese being

845
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:45,400
John Cleese. Yep, that's it. Okay, let's move on. To

846
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,039
Swiss Cheese and complaints apartment. And why do we call Swiss.

847
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 2: Cheese because although this movie is delicious, it does have

848
00:43:52,119 --> 00:43:53,880
Auto's silence or holes.

849
00:43:54,559 --> 00:43:57,159
Speaker 1: Yes, if it doesn't have Auto's silence or holes, we

850
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,920
just file a complaint with the complaint department. So, Jason,

851
00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:01,480
have any Swiss Teezer complaints?

852
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,039
Speaker 2: So here I have a question, and it is, I

853
00:44:04,039 --> 00:44:08,480
mean a complaint question for you, Bill. Why did the

854
00:44:08,519 --> 00:44:12,559
cops bring in the old lady missus Cody is her name.

855
00:44:12,599 --> 00:44:15,760
I believe as an eyewitness to George fleeing the scene

856
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,480
in the getaway car. It was jarring in the moment.

857
00:44:18,519 --> 00:44:20,159
I was like, wait, why did they bring her in?

858
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,840
Because we know that the cops were obviously called to

859
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,039
George's house right after the robbery, because Wanda and Otto

860
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,400
called the cops on him because it's a double cross. Great,

861
00:44:30,559 --> 00:44:33,280
so they show up, they arrest him. But how would

862
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,119
the cops know there was an eyewitness who saw George

863
00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:40,920
fleeing the scene because Wanda or Auto neither of them

864
00:44:41,039 --> 00:44:43,360
told the cops. Did they when they snitched on it?

865
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,119
Speaker 1: Now? I'm just assuming it was good police work and

866
00:44:47,159 --> 00:44:50,760
they were just questioning people in the area. And if

867
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,480
they saw anything unusual, and the lady might have said, oh, yeah,

868
00:44:53,519 --> 00:44:56,599
someone was hit me with a car. Right. It was

869
00:44:56,639 --> 00:44:59,159
just a good actual police work, all right, good.

870
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 2: Enough, don't need over It was just as soon as

871
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,599
she showed up and was looking at the lineup of

872
00:45:04,599 --> 00:45:07,000
all the guys and had to pick out George, I

873
00:45:07,039 --> 00:45:08,840
was like, wait, how did she get here? Why would

874
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,800
they how did they find her? Overthinking what do you

875
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:12,719
have for complaints?

876
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 1: Question? This is a cheese moment. I think I think

877
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,440
it might qualify as the cheese One of the favorite

878
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,199
scenes we mentioned is when Wanda shows up at Archie's

879
00:45:21,199 --> 00:45:24,039
house for the first time and she loses her locket,

880
00:45:24,199 --> 00:45:27,159
and in her locket is actually a key to the

881
00:45:27,159 --> 00:45:30,760
safety's deposit box where the diamonds are now hidden. One

882
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:34,360
has no idea where the diamonds are, but she at

883
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,239
least has the key to get to them if she

884
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,519
ever finds out. Right, well, she drops it. Archie's daughter

885
00:45:40,559 --> 00:45:43,960
picks it up and unfortunately has to give it to Wendy,

886
00:45:44,159 --> 00:45:47,000
who Wendy now thinks it's a gift. Right, So now

887
00:45:47,039 --> 00:45:49,280
she has this locket. She loves this locket. Archie never

888
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,840
gives her anything this nice. Well, the key is still

889
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,360
in the locket. It's a locket. How does Wendy never

890
00:45:55,599 --> 00:46:00,000
open the locket and accidentally find the key? Great question,

891
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,159
wouldn't that be one of the first things you would do,

892
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,239
because you would think like, oh, maybe there's a picture

893
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:04,559
in here.

894
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 2: One thousand percent, anytime I've ever held a locket in

895
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:09,760
my hand, the first thing I do is open it.

896
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,639
You want to see what's inside, yeah, or you want

897
00:46:12,639 --> 00:46:13,679
to put something inside it.

898
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 1: So either way, so she's had it for at least

899
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,840
two days and she never opened it. Yeah, key, And

900
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,960
first I was like, well, maybe they would have trouble

901
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,800
writing around that, but I think it could still have

902
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,840
her open it and find it and it would still work.

903
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 2: Well, funny enough, because I'm going to take it one further.

904
00:46:29,119 --> 00:46:32,199
I wrote a whole thing dealing with this very same subject.

905
00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:32,679
Speaker 1: Build banks.

906
00:46:32,679 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 2: Oh okay, absolutely, so yeah, I wrote, let's after Yeah,

907
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,000
the Hyjen said Archie's house. Wendy is in possession of

908
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,400
the necklace. Right, So here's the thing that I was like,

909
00:46:42,519 --> 00:46:45,800
why doesn't either want to end or Archie make it

910
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,840
simple on themselves and just tell her there's a key

911
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,239
in it. That's how they could get it back. Because

912
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,440
Archie comes up with a story to try to get

913
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,320
the lockett slash necklace back from his wife Wendy. He says, right,

914
00:46:58,639 --> 00:47:01,840
it wasn't. An old woman had it engraved and it

915
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,599
happened to be in the case at the store, and

916
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,199
by accident they sold him that particular neck Now the

917
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,079
lady wants it back, which is a good story. So

918
00:47:10,159 --> 00:47:13,119
why wouldn't he just go one step further and say

919
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,239
there's a key in it that the old lady needs,

920
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,719
it belongs to her, and then Wendy could keep the necklace.

921
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,519
But at least Archie would get the key back to

922
00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:25,639
give to Wanda. Does that make sense? One hundred percent?

923
00:47:26,039 --> 00:47:28,760
Love it, like, use it as part of the story.

924
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,079
Just go with it and be like, Okay, Wendy, my love,

925
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,159
you can keep that. It's just that this old lady,

926
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,159
she had the key in the is in the locket

927
00:47:37,199 --> 00:47:39,400
and I need she needs it for her own purposes,

928
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,280
so I got to get it back. And Wendy would

929
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:42,920
be like, yeah, what do I need the key for.

930
00:47:43,039 --> 00:47:45,679
Here's the key, and now Wanda's got the key back.

931
00:47:46,079 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 1: Done.

932
00:47:46,519 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was there was a little there's a

933
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:49,800
little problem with it.

934
00:47:50,119 --> 00:47:52,519
Speaker 1: There is another great moment though, with Jamie Lee Curtis,

935
00:47:52,559 --> 00:47:55,880
when Archie tries to present her another Lockett. It's like,

936
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,880
why do you need that one? And she almost breaks

937
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:02,079
my mother gave that to me. Her reaction, there you

938
00:48:02,119 --> 00:48:05,519
go on the spot, Yep, came up with a good story.

939
00:48:05,599 --> 00:48:08,360
That's gonna gill Archie to do what he can to

940
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,199
get that lockette back there. Right.

941
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 2: I just felt so bad for Archie because it seems

942
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,039
like every time he was so close to having sex

943
00:48:15,119 --> 00:48:18,440
with Wanda, something always came up. Whether it was Otto,

944
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,400
or it's the Lockett or something was there's always some

945
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,800
sort of diversion. But that moment when he's dancing around

946
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,039
naked in that freaking that loft or that his friend's

947
00:48:27,039 --> 00:48:30,400
place and then the family walks in is priceless. Easily

948
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,199
could have put that in one of my favorite scenes.

949
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 1: Actually, that was the scene they always showed even when

950
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:37,639
we go to review as ciscol Indeaver, that was one

951
00:48:37,639 --> 00:48:40,119
of the scenes that they had showed him dancing around Nick,

952
00:48:40,159 --> 00:48:41,679
which I was kind of surprised. I was like, wow,

953
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,679
they almost he gets very naked. Yeah, he gets very

954
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,199
naked and he looks great, He's in great shape. I'm like, damn,

955
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,599
John Cleese is looking good too. Everybody looks great in

956
00:48:50,639 --> 00:48:53,400
this movie. But the fact that then the whole family

957
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,159
with the kids walks in and they're like, we leased

958
00:48:55,159 --> 00:48:57,320
this apartment from the guy. And he's like, oh, that's

959
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,519
a good point. And he has the woman's picture in

960
00:48:59,559 --> 00:49:02,440
front of his crotch, and then they start having like

961
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:06,360
an almost normal conversation Yep, while he's standing there buck naked.

962
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,320
It's really funny. And that look on Cleese's face, Man,

963
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,440
he's so good. So I think they missed an opportunity

964
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,199
though with the picture. First I don't understand is like,

965
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,239
why is it the picture of the wife? She doesn't

966
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,000
live there. When you go on vacation, bring your pictures

967
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,719
with you to put around the house that you're staying at.

968
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:24,400
I was like, Oh, it'd have been funny if they

969
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,559
had something, if you grab some sort of picture that

970
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:30,039
represented what he was covering, that would have played it

971
00:49:30,119 --> 00:49:32,800
better off for laughs than having the wife instead.

972
00:49:33,039 --> 00:49:35,079
Speaker 2: That was just myint thought. I also thought one thing

973
00:49:35,119 --> 00:49:37,199
that was interesting. What I was thinking about during that

974
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,559
scene is that he is enduring this embarrassment standing their

975
00:49:40,639 --> 00:49:42,599
naked with the woman's photo in front of his crotch,

976
00:49:42,679 --> 00:49:45,320
and they're having this conversation and it never cuts to

977
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,199
Wanda because Wanda's upstairs.

978
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,039
Speaker 1: Yep, what is she doing during that whole time? Yeah?

979
00:49:50,039 --> 00:49:52,400
How does she get out? Exactly? That was my question?

980
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:53,719
How then did she get out of there?

981
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,639
Speaker 2: Yeaph Anyway, I guess we just added another favorite scene,

982
00:49:56,639 --> 00:49:57,079
didn't we.

983
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: Maybe, Yeah, here's a complain So Archie runs off with

984
00:50:02,079 --> 00:50:05,559
Wanda at the end, see you later. Porsche, don't care

985
00:50:05,639 --> 00:50:08,800
give crap about my daughter, who in actuality was his

986
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,800
real life daughter. So that's maybe a double whammy right there.

987
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,000
I could see why he left his wife, that's right,

988
00:50:14,039 --> 00:50:17,360
because he's in the middle of divorce. But your daughter goodbye.

989
00:50:17,679 --> 00:50:19,280
And I know they kind of try to play her

990
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,840
off as a little bratty in this, but no, there's

991
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:26,440
nothing right that bad about her because she's a typical teenager.

992
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,280
You know what. That's wonderful, Bill.

993
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 2: I'm glad you'd picked up on that because I totally

994
00:50:30,519 --> 00:50:33,360
forgot about it. Maybe that character wasn't that memorable. I

995
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,760
don't know, but that's a great call. He's abandoning his daughter,

996
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,039
and yes, his daughter, Porsche was played by his real

997
00:50:39,039 --> 00:50:42,440
life daughter Cynthia. Please that's a great one man, good call,

998
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:43,239
Thank you.

999
00:50:43,519 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 1: I just had.

1000
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of your favorite scenes was with hanging Archie

1001
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,559
out the window and he gives his long apology. I

1002
00:50:51,639 --> 00:50:53,920
was watching it the second time. I was like, there's

1003
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,760
a whole group of onlookers while that's happening. They're watching

1004
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:03,079
Auto hang this somewhat famous or well known barrister outside

1005
00:51:03,199 --> 00:51:05,800
the window, hanging him upside down out the window. And

1006
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,880
I was like, nobody calls the cops. No cell phones, Yeah,

1007
00:51:10,039 --> 00:51:15,639
nobody runs to a payphone. I guess that's all I got.

1008
00:51:15,639 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: Man. Oh, airport's security terrible. Oh yeah, well I was.

1009
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 2: I was saving something from my additional thought on that

1010
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:24,320
whole thing.

1011
00:51:24,559 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: Well, the gunflip is funny. I was like, Okay, that's

1012
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:28,159
kind of funny how he gets the gun by but

1013
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:30,800
he still had a silencer on him that should have

1014
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:35,679
set the alarm off. And then Wanda had the stick

1015
00:51:36,119 --> 00:51:40,480
that's right, the little men or whatever, Yeah, that would

1016
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,679
have went off. Also, Oh I mentioned it my you know,

1017
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:49,480
just first impressions is that the whole ending is ridiculous.

1018
00:51:49,599 --> 00:51:51,519
Is it fun? Hell? Yeah, it's fun.

1019
00:51:51,559 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 2: But I was just gonna make a very sarcastic comment

1020
00:51:54,599 --> 00:51:57,519
because remember the day's bill when you could run through

1021
00:51:57,559 --> 00:51:59,760
an airport and slip through security by flipping a gun

1022
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,320
out side the metal detector, and then shoot your way

1023
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,760
out of a supply closet and hang out on the

1024
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,840
tarmac and play in fresh cement and drive a cement

1025
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,639
road roller and climb on the wing of a plane.

1026
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:11,840
I mean, those were the days.

1027
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:12,079
Speaker 1: Man.

1028
00:52:12,119 --> 00:52:15,159
Speaker 2: It's just not the same the whole airport experience anymore.

1029
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,159
But that's basically everything that happens in that whole sequence,

1030
00:52:18,159 --> 00:52:22,239
and you're like, wow, how are they getting away with

1031
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,639
any of it? But it's it's still fun.

1032
00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:28,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. By time to go on to Hey,

1033
00:52:28,519 --> 00:52:32,440
it's that actor. Also in the segment, we spotlight a

1034
00:52:32,519 --> 00:52:35,159
character actor you have seen in many other films, an

1035
00:52:35,199 --> 00:52:37,920
actor making their big screen debut, or an actor it

1036
00:52:38,039 --> 00:52:41,480
makes an uncredit cameo. Let's hey, it's that actor. Who

1037
00:52:41,519 --> 00:52:42,519
do we choose this week?

1038
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 2: This week we've chosen for our hands that actor Stephen Fry.

1039
00:52:48,079 --> 00:52:52,480
Stephen Fry, he makes a cameo in this film, and

1040
00:52:52,519 --> 00:52:55,880
they actually gave his character a name, even though you

1041
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:56,719
don't hear his name.

1042
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: If you look.

1043
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:03,039
Speaker 2: In the credits, he's known as Chinsen and Otto speaks

1044
00:53:03,039 --> 00:53:07,280
to him ever so briefly during this ridiculous airports sequence.

1045
00:53:07,679 --> 00:53:11,159
He runs up to him and says, in a fake

1046
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:15,719
British accent, Otto says, airport security, airport security may see

1047
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,199
a boarding pass please, of course, Stephen Fry. It's like, oh, yes,

1048
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,920
of course, and pulls out the boarding pass and gives

1049
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,119
it to Otto. So Otto now has a ticket. And

1050
00:53:24,159 --> 00:53:26,280
then Otto proceeds to push him into the corner and

1051
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,320
knock him out. But he was the one who really

1052
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,639
stood out to me. He is a presence. This being

1053
00:53:31,679 --> 00:53:34,320
Stephen Fry is like, I know that guy for sure,

1054
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,679
and he really was the only other face I recognized

1055
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,880
to be completely honest. Stephen Fry is an English actor

1056
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:45,679
and writer. His trademarks are being that he has a

1057
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,960
tall stature. I think he's six' four and three.

1058
00:53:49,039 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: QUARTERS i BELIEVE i Saw it's like super.

1059
00:53:51,039 --> 00:53:54,760
Speaker 2: Tall he's known for his crooked nose and his sonorous,

1060
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:59,239
voice and received Pronunciation Little. Trivia in nineteen eighty, Four

1061
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:00,320
STEPHEN i.

1062
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: Was engaged to do the rewrite of The noel gay

1063
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,840
Musical me And My, girl which made him a millionaire

1064
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:11,639
before the age of, thirty and it also earned him

1065
00:54:11,679 --> 00:54:14,280
a nomination for A Tony award in nineteen eighty. Seven

1066
00:54:15,079 --> 00:54:17,639
also way back in the nineteen, eighties he shared a

1067
00:54:17,679 --> 00:54:19,320
house In london With Hugh.

1068
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 2: Laurie how about. That here's a bit of what he's

1069
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,719
done in the. Eighties this is FROM. IMDb he was

1070
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,760
uncredited In chariots Of fire in eighty. One he does

1071
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,119
SOME tv series. Work he's in The Good. Father in eighty,

1072
00:54:31,119 --> 00:54:35,280
five he does six episodes of Black adder. Two That's blackadder.

1073
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:38,679
Two in nineteen eighty, six does some MORE TV tv,

1074
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,679
movies more Black adder. Appearances he does A tv series

1075
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:47,519
Called Saturday, live Not Saturday Night, live But Saturday. Live

1076
00:54:47,559 --> 00:54:49,960
he did nineteen episodes of that from eighty six to eighty,

1077
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,639
seven and then of course this a fish called one

1078
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:53,719
in eighty. Eight he does go on to do a

1079
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:56,960
lot of voice work in, movies videos and video. Games

1080
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:01,400
he narrates a lot Of Harry potter movie Which i'm

1081
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,000
curious as to what those are. Exactly but he's known

1082
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,480
For Gosford, park v For. VENDETTA i remember seeing him

1083
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,840
in the sequel to the Initial Sherlock holmes film and

1084
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:13,840
the sequels ENTITLED A game Of. Shadows he Plays Microft

1085
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,800
holmes and THAT'S i think he's Playing sherlock's, brother If

1086
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,880
i'm not, Missing and that's in twenty. Eleven he was

1087
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:23,360
also in a couple of The hobbit, films and from

1088
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,960
twenty fifteen to twenty nineteen does eighty nine episodes Of

1089
00:55:26,079 --> 00:55:29,760
Danger mouse As colonel. K, recently it was in six

1090
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:33,079
episodes of The netflix Series The sandman from twenty twenty

1091
00:55:33,079 --> 00:55:36,280
two to twenty twenty. Five one quote From Stephen, frye

1092
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,840
the email of the species is more deadly than the.

1093
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:44,719
Male All, right that's our heyts that actor this, Week Stephen.

1094
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,639
Speaker 1: Frye, YEAH i don't think you really could have chose anyone.

1095
00:55:47,679 --> 00:55:48,519
ELSE i could.

1096
00:55:48,519 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 2: Have, yeah looked into the filmographies of some of the

1097
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:55,679
Other i'm sure they're. EXTENSIVE i did sort of wreck hold,

1098
00:55:55,719 --> 00:56:00,639
on let's, see what's the old, woman Missus cody played

1099
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,480
By Patricia. Hayes she seemed familiar to, me BUT i

1100
00:56:03,519 --> 00:56:04,639
didn't get a chance to look at her.

1101
00:56:04,639 --> 00:56:07,880
Speaker 1: Filmography, okay time to move on to facts and. Trivia

1102
00:56:08,039 --> 00:56:10,159
what are some facts of? Trivia we have about a

1103
00:56:10,159 --> 00:56:13,639
fist Called Wanda John cleese told an interviewer that he

1104
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:18,559
called his Character Archie leach because that was Actor Carrie

1105
00:56:18,639 --> 00:56:22,039
grant's real, name And clease is quoted as, SAYING i

1106
00:56:22,079 --> 00:56:24,480
feel this film is as near As i'll ever get

1107
00:56:24,519 --> 00:56:28,719
to Being Cary. Grant there you. Go Although Charles crichton

1108
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,719
is the sole credited director OF A Fish Called, Wanda

1109
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:36,480
John clees was officially listed as co director during. Production that, credit,

1110
00:56:36,519 --> 00:56:40,159
however was mostly for. Appearance clee has since explained that

1111
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,920
he did very little actual directing and only agreed to

1112
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,400
the title because the film's backers were nervous about letting

1113
00:56:47,599 --> 00:56:50,320
the seventy eight year Old crichton direct entirely on his.

1114
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:54,039
Own in, Practice clees directed just a handful of, scenes

1115
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:59,079
Mainly Michael palin's solo moments As, ken including his increasingly

1116
00:56:59,159 --> 00:57:02,800
frantic attempts to silence the. Witness this wasn't about creative,

1117
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,719
control but. Logistics it Allowed crichton to get a head

1118
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:09,800
start on editing the. Film on, Set creighton seemed amused

1119
00:57:10,199 --> 00:57:13,039
rather than bothered about the. Situation he often wore A

1120
00:57:13,039 --> 00:57:16,199
t shirt given to him By cleisett Red age And

1121
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:20,639
treachery Will Always Overcome youth and skill love it a

1122
00:57:20,719 --> 00:57:21,320
couple quick.

1123
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:25,039
Speaker 2: Ones according To Michael, palin the original title was a

1124
00:57:25,079 --> 00:57:29,000
goldfish Called. Wanda, also this film was the number one

1125
00:57:29,119 --> 00:57:31,920
rental video in THE us in nineteen eighty.

1126
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: Nine see that all, right here's a fact that it'll

1127
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,239
be disappointing to our male. Audience So Jamie Lee curtis

1128
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,000
was originally going to have a nude scene until she

1129
00:57:41,119 --> 00:57:44,679
pointed out that men being nude is much. Funnier So

1130
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,000
John cleese did it. Instead that's.

1131
00:57:47,119 --> 00:57:50,239
Speaker 2: Great during the initial run of the, film A danish

1132
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:56,760
audiologist named Ol benson died while laughing during a, screening

1133
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,840
which led newspapers to report that he had died from

1134
00:58:00,639 --> 00:58:04,440
the official cause of death was heart, fibrillation which may

1135
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,440
have been caused by an increased heart rate due to extended.

1136
00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:11,199
Laughter clee considered using the event for, publicity but ultimately

1137
00:58:11,239 --> 00:58:13,920
decided that doing so would be in bad.

1138
00:58:14,159 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: Taste so The latin hymn sung by the choir boys

1139
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:22,639
at The dog's funeral translates to have Mercy, Lord have Mercy.

1140
00:58:22,679 --> 00:58:27,320
Lord the dog is, dead, BRILLIANT i love.

1141
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,559
Speaker 2: It In march nineteen eighty, nine a few months after

1142
00:58:29,599 --> 00:58:31,920
the release of the, film The Orange county chapter of

1143
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,920
The National Stuttering, project the predecessor of The National Stuttering,

1144
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:41,119
association picketed OUTSIDE mgm offices In Culver city in protest.

1145
00:58:40,679 --> 00:58:43,559
Speaker 1: Of the Movie You Touched upon that earlier bill right

1146
00:58:43,559 --> 00:58:45,880
down the street from. Me there you. Go, YEAH i

1147
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,960
was In Culver city at the. Time, okay let's move

1148
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,480
on to box. Office SO A Fish Called wanda was

1149
00:58:50,559 --> 00:58:56,639
released On july fifteenth in a whopping three. Theaters despite

1150
00:58:56,679 --> 00:58:59,519
a modest seven point five million, budget the film went

1151
00:58:59,559 --> 00:59:02,960
on to earn an impressive sixty three point five million

1152
00:59:03,039 --> 00:59:05,719
at the domestic box, office plus another one hundred and

1153
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:09,599
twenty six point one million. Internationally the movie took a

1154
00:59:09,639 --> 00:59:12,599
little time to build, momentum AS A Fish Called wanda

1155
00:59:12,639 --> 00:59:15,320
didn't crack the top ten until it's fourth, week after

1156
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,599
expanding to six hundred and sixteen, theaters where it debuted

1157
00:59:18,639 --> 00:59:22,639
at number. Five by week, ten the movie had climbed

1158
00:59:22,719 --> 00:59:25,760
all the way to number one and would hang around

1159
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,880
the top ten for another five. Weeks by the end

1160
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,159
of its, RUN A Fish Called wanda ranked as the

1161
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:36,480
thirteenth highest grossing movie in THE, us landing just Behind Working.

1162
00:59:36,519 --> 00:59:39,599
Girl so the studio didn't have much confidence in the

1163
00:59:39,639 --> 00:59:43,199
movie and they were. Wrong this is the definition of

1164
00:59:43,239 --> 00:59:45,679
a sleeper. Hit there you. Go moving on to. Reviews

1165
00:59:45,679 --> 00:59:47,679
from growing up in the, eighties we would watch at

1166
00:59:47,679 --> 00:59:49,920
the movies With Geen cisco And Roger eber to hear

1167
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,280
the reviews and watch clips of upcoming. Movies their review

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00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,960
OF A Fish Called wanda was unanimous two thumbs. Up

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00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:01,320
gene called the movie a superb combination of good storytelling

1170
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:05,119
and a very very funny story being. Told roger strated

1171
01:00:05,199 --> 01:00:07,760
that the movie is just funny from beginning to. End

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01:00:08,079 --> 01:00:11,079
Rotten tomatoes gives it A tomatometer score of ninety six,

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01:00:11,119 --> 01:00:14,440
percent with A Popcorn meter score of eighty four, percent

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01:00:14,679 --> 01:00:19,400
and also has AN IMDb rating of seven point. Five all,

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01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,880
right so this takes us to additional thoughts and. Questions

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01:00:22,199 --> 01:00:24,320
do we have anything else that we need to cover

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01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:27,440
ABOUT A Fish Called wanda that we? MISSED i don't

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01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:31,239
Feel i've missed anything personally THAT i really wanted to

1179
01:00:31,239 --> 01:00:33,280
get off my chest regarding this. Film how about You?

1180
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,320
Bill just one of my favorite quotes of the. Movie

1181
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,440
hopefully this wasn't going to be your final quote at

1182
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:40,079
the end here and it's the back and forth Between

1183
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:46,360
otto And. Wanda When otto again Interrupts wanda trying to

1184
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,239
get information out Of, archie she's just had it and

1185
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:52,119
she goes she calls them. Stupid at some point he's,

1186
01:00:52,119 --> 01:00:54,760
like don't call me, stupid And wander's response, is, oh

1187
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:57,440
right to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid.

1188
01:00:57,519 --> 01:01:01,199
People i've known cheap that could. Outweight you've dresses with higher.

1189
01:01:01,239 --> 01:01:04,880
IQs but you think you're an, intellectual don't? You? Ape

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01:01:05,079 --> 01:01:07,239
and then he follows up with, like, well apes don't read,

1191
01:01:07,239 --> 01:01:10,679
philosophy and she, goes they, do they just don't understand.

1192
01:01:10,719 --> 01:01:13,840
It and then she goes on with some other. Insults

1193
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:16,480
BUT i really do like that. Exchange there is some

1194
01:01:16,559 --> 01:01:20,119
really good dialogue in that. Scene oh, yeah And i'm

1195
01:01:20,119 --> 01:01:22,679
glad you called that one. OUT i noted it as.

1196
01:01:22,719 --> 01:01:25,320
Well when it was, HAPPENING i was, like, oh this is.

1197
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,400
Great she's letting them have. It but it's very, witty

1198
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:32,159
it's very. Smart not. Stupid, no not. Stupid, Okay so

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01:01:32,199 --> 01:01:34,360
let's move on to our. Rating so here we go

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on a scale of one to five, angelfish would you

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01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:40,119
give a fish Called?

1202
01:01:40,159 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 2: Wanda i'm giving this four four angel. Fishes, fish just

1203
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:51,199
fish for, angelfish don't call me, Stupid bill For, angelfish

1204
01:01:51,199 --> 01:01:55,440
Called wanda for. Sure really solid four because this is, entertainment.

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01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:59,159
Folks at LEAST i felt like it was back in eighty.

1206
01:01:59,159 --> 01:02:02,440
EIGHT i feel like it still is. Today and just

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01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:07,960
to recap great performances By Klein, Clae Jamie Lee curtis

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01:02:08,039 --> 01:02:12,039
is beautiful in, this and she's a wonderful actress in.

1209
01:02:12,079 --> 01:02:16,280
This she's so, talented not in just manipulating the men

1210
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,000
but in stealing their. Hearts but she stole mine as,

1211
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,360
well and clearly she stole, bills so credit to her

1212
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:27,039
And Michael. Palin of, COURSE i felt handled the stutter quite,

1213
01:02:27,039 --> 01:02:30,880
well SO i appreciate him and his acting ability is

1214
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:34,559
comedic acting and felt a lot of empathy for this

1215
01:02:34,679 --> 01:02:38,960
character upon this. Rewatch, yeah just not many complaints from.

1216
01:02:39,039 --> 01:02:42,199
Me it's a great just go with it movie Credit Charles.

1217
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:44,960
CRICHTON i thought the direction was well and the writing

1218
01:02:45,039 --> 01:02:48,719
is really. Strong so just not a lot to be

1219
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,239
mad about. Here it's only to be happy, about And

1220
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:54,280
i'm GLAD i got to see it. Again and there

1221
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:57,360
are so many great, scenes a lot we may have not,

1222
01:02:57,559 --> 01:03:00,920
covered so if you are out there and pulling out some, hairs,

1223
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:02,719
going how did you not talk about the scene where

1224
01:03:02,719 --> 01:03:05,519
he eats the fish and puts the chips Up ken's. Nose,

1225
01:03:05,559 --> 01:03:08,639
well it's. Fantastic, yeah that stuff's. Great or the final

1226
01:03:08,679 --> 01:03:11,840
scene When ken gets his revenge For wanda and rolls

1227
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:13,519
Over otto in the.

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01:03:13,599 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 1: Cement it's all. Fun so what is an hour and

1229
01:03:18,119 --> 01:03:21,719
forty seven? MINUTES i believe something along those, lines and

1230
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:24,920
it went by A New york minute it. Was it was.

1231
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,960
Great that's my. Rating, YEAH i am totally with. YOU

1232
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:31,320
i have a four also Four, angelfish and, YES i

1233
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:35,239
cannot meet someone with the Name. Ken and the first

1234
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:37,280
thing that goes to my head Is ken is coming

1235
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:40,039
to kill me but saying it the way that's that. Line,

1236
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:45,760
YEAH i can't not think of. That and this is

1237
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,760
one of those movies that even last, NIGHT i watched

1238
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:50,960
it twice AND i couldn't believe both. Times i'm, like,

1239
01:03:51,079 --> 01:03:54,880
wait we're at the end. Already it. Flies it, flies

1240
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:58,280
and that's always a good compliment to the, film where

1241
01:03:58,519 --> 01:04:01,920
it's over before you know it and you've been smiling

1242
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,320
or laughing or snickering. THROUGHOUT i cannot say enough About

1243
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:08,280
Jamie Lee curtis and. THIS i was so. SURPRISED i

1244
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:10,840
really THOUGHT i was really watching this For Kevin kline

1245
01:04:11,119 --> 01:04:14,320
And Jamie. Lee curtis ended up being the. Standout that's

1246
01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:16,880
definitely my favorite movie of. Hers very.

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01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 3: Good all, Right so that about does it for this week's.

1248
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:23,079
Episode as, always we appreciate you tuneing. In don't forget

1249
01:04:23,079 --> 01:04:25,840
to follow us on your favorite streaming. Platform we've been

1250
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:27,800
rating and drop us review hopefully.

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01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:30,480
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01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:34,039
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1253
01:04:34,039 --> 01:04:36,679
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1254
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:39,239
us next time as we dive into another classic when

1255
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:43,639
the greatest movie decade ever the nineteen. Eighties until, then

1256
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,159
stay cool and have an excellent day. Everyone i'll avoid

1257
01:04:47,159 --> 01:04:52,639
the green. Ones they're not ripe. Yet thanks for staying

1258
01:04:52,719 --> 01:04:52,920
up with.

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01:04:53,000 --> 01:05:01,039
Speaker 2: Us Good night, world