Speaker 1: Weird.
Speaker 2: We welcome back midnight viewers to follow Malones weekly round up.
Speaker 2: I'm following Malone and with me as always is the
Speaker 2: rage filled former slave Ripley Gene. I know you're not
Speaker 2: rage filled, although every time someone comes to the door,
Speaker 2: you're not exactly calm. All right, let's get to it.
Speaker 2: Everyone loves Gladiator, everyone but me. Look, I took Latin.
Speaker 2: I studied the Classics with a lean towards the Roman authors.
Speaker 2: For me, the Greeks were always a bit too lofty.
Speaker 2: So my problems with the original Gladiator are two. One
Speaker 2: is a quibble and stems from my teenage obsession with
Speaker 2: historical and historically accurate events in ancient room, and we'll
Speaker 2: get back to that because it comes up again in
Speaker 2: the sequel. But the other is one that I can't
Speaker 2: get past anymore. It's a problem I have with most
Speaker 2: gritty action films. They're all predicated on the crusading widower.
Speaker 2: They killed his wife, that was their first mistake. Good lord,
Speaker 2: this is the only thing that can drive you. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be a quest based on love, but
Speaker 2: really it's just a convenient excuse for slaking bloodlust. Let
Speaker 2: me ask you a question, what in the Gladiator plot
Speaker 2: would change if Maximus's family just didn't exist, as if
Speaker 2: they hadn't written them at all. Maximus is a bachelor,
Speaker 2: what would change in that plot? Nothing? He'd still be
Speaker 2: wronged by the nation he defended. Is that not worthy
Speaker 2: of vengeance? Is it not good enough? Because it's a
Speaker 2: personal a vendetta. They got to kill the wife as well.
Speaker 2: Two weeks ago we had Road to Perdition. There's another
Speaker 2: crusading widower death wish the Punisher, Mad Max Brave Heart,
Speaker 2: The Patriot Jesus Christ mil Gibson has a whole cottage
Speaker 2: industry of crusading widowers. And you know what hit that
Speaker 2: last film, The Patriot. I found that one to be
Speaker 2: particularly distasteful, boiling down the American Revolution as a tale
Speaker 2: of revenge against the English. Good God, kill Bill crusading
Speaker 2: widow John Wick. I know it's a dog, but the
Speaker 2: wife gave him the dog and she's dead, so that
Speaker 2: dog was the wife crusading widower. Besides, he got another dog,
Speaker 2: the crow. We did a whole round up about all
Speaker 2: of its various crusading iterations. I know it's in no
Speaker 2: way a new genre. In fact, revenge films are their
Speaker 2: own subset, and they can be great. It's just that
Speaker 2: it's the twenty first century now, and maybe we can
Speaker 2: realize it's a disservice to the character that that's their
Speaker 2: only motivation, or really it's a disservice to the spouse,
Speaker 2: reducing them to nothing but a goal. But that is
Speaker 2: not the overriding problem with Gladiator too.
Speaker 3: I remember that day.
Speaker 4: I never forgot it, but a slave could take revenge
Speaker 4: against an emperor.
Speaker 1: Where were you born?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I never knew a mother, now a father.
Speaker 1: You will be my instrument? Who are you?
Speaker 2: Did you hear that crowd?
Speaker 3: The greatest temple room ever built, the Colisseum, Because this
Speaker 3: is what they believe in power.
Speaker 5: General the cases, there are victories yet still to come.
Speaker 6: JOm has so many subjects she must feed them.
Speaker 5: They can eat wool. The arena turned slaves into gladiators,
Speaker 5: and the gladiators into free men.
Speaker 3: You have something. I knew it from the start, didn't you.
Speaker 1: Low rage.
Speaker 3: And rages?
Speaker 5: Okay, it's about the com on hold together and when
Speaker 5: it charges, break for the wall.
Speaker 1: Whose head could I give you that would satisfy this fury?
Speaker 5: The entire Roman armies too much. The General will do amazing.
Speaker 1: I need only give it a push.
Speaker 6: We'll make it out of.
Speaker 5: Chance. On the mausoleum floor, bloodstains the stream belonged to Maximus.
Speaker 5: Now I give it to you.
Speaker 4: There from people are not free.
Speaker 1: I was only now.
Speaker 3: I will control and impotul.
Speaker 5: Waste a generation of young men for their vanity, Break
Speaker 5: them up. There is a mausoleum clung the god fuck.
Speaker 2: You know how some sequels take such a left turn
Speaker 2: from the original that they stand alone as their own piece,
Speaker 2: like Aliens or Gremlins two. Just a total unwillingness on
Speaker 2: the part of the filmmakers to repeat themselves. Well that
Speaker 2: ain't Gladiator too. Oh no, this is Escape from La
Speaker 2: to Gladiators Escape from New York. Not that I'm comparing
Speaker 2: Escape from New York to Gladiator. There is no comparison there.
Speaker 2: Whatever misgivings I have about Gladiator, it is great spectacle,
Speaker 2: particularly seeing the Colosseum so well realized. It's breathtaking, and
Speaker 2: there are some great performances. RUSSELLA. Rock at his most fierce,
Speaker 2: you know, Russell Crow's movie star alter ego. Russ LaRock,
Speaker 2: Pop sensation don't you here he is.
Speaker 5: People sound crazy, but I just want to be more.
Speaker 2: Well, he's fucking great as Maximus, and it had Oliver
Speaker 2: red in his final performance. I'm a sucker for Oliver Reed.
Speaker 2: I now know that all of those great old, hard
Speaker 2: drinking English Thespians were probably more insufferable alcoholics and less
Speaker 2: the bad boys breaking all the rules. But Oliver Reid
Speaker 2: seemed the only one fully committed to it, and his
Speaker 2: performances are just heart stopping. I love you, Oliver Reid.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be in a room with you.
Speaker 2: I certainly don't want to see the Eagles talons.
Speaker 1: You're too young.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you this is a family show. Fuck,
Speaker 2: yeah it is. There are some differences between Gladiator and Gladiator, too,
Speaker 2: like Maximus never had to fight a bunch of cartoon primates.
Speaker 2: I don't want to give a blanket statement like the
Speaker 2: CGI is shit, because there are individual shots that are
Speaker 2: just gorgeous, photorealistic even, but the rest of them are infuriating.
Speaker 2: This movie cost two hundred and fifty million dollars. In
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, when all the giants the major studios
Speaker 2: are foundering, they're going all in with this. I'm not
Speaker 2: rooting against the movie, Don't get me wrong. Hollywood needs
Speaker 2: every helping hand, but this two hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2: Can we all admit that Ridley Scott made about five
Speaker 2: good movies. They're all visual works of art, no doubt.
Speaker 2: But we've got Alien Blade Runner. I'd go to the
Speaker 2: mat for Legend, Thelma and Luise. Maybe Blackhawk down. That's it,
Speaker 2: and he continues the trend here. Gladiator started off with
Speaker 2: a battle in the forest. Well this one starts with
Speaker 2: a naval battle, and instead of a Roman general as
Speaker 2: our hero, he's the villain. Our hero is one of
Speaker 2: the defenders of Numidia on the African coast, So we're
Speaker 2: going to have an African hero this time. Nope, White
Speaker 2: Savior trope is in effect. God, the tropes are piling
Speaker 2: up here, just like Dances with Wolves and Avatar and
Speaker 2: hell Billy Jack. When the big bad Empire comes calling,
Speaker 2: they have to find one of their own defiant. Also,
Speaker 2: they killed his wife, this time with arrows. Watch out Rome,
Speaker 2: watch out Reed. Richard's that's right, Mando man Pedro Pascal
Speaker 2: is the evil general.
Speaker 3: But wait a.
Speaker 2: Minute, he's actually a pretty good guy. He's only following orders.
Speaker 2: That excuse lets him off the hook for decimating sovereign nations.
Speaker 2: Plus we love Pedro Pascal, he can't be bad. Once again,
Speaker 2: the villain is the Emperor or emperors. Oh, spend too
Speaker 2: much time in the Senate here, So big battle, dead
Speaker 2: wife slavery, forced to fight in an exhibition bought by
Speaker 2: a gladiator trader and political wheeler dealer fights his way
Speaker 2: to fame revenge. Sound fucking familiar. A quarter century later
Speaker 2: and a quarter of a billion dollars and this is
Speaker 2: what we're given. This is what we've been waiting for.
Speaker 2: But it has naval battles in the coliseum. Yes, I know,
Speaker 2: they actually happened, and it was cool to see them
Speaker 2: re enacted here for a few minutes. Then the sharks
Speaker 2: showed up. The sharks someho now caught in the wild
Speaker 2: and held in captivity and transported and kept in an
Speaker 2: enclosure that allowed them a free range of motion, so
Speaker 2: they wouldn't just drown the sharks. The main problem here
Speaker 2: is the main problem with both films. We gotta bring
Speaker 2: down the Emperor. None of these fictional characters ever brought
Speaker 2: down the emperor over Rome. Why does it have to
Speaker 2: be that again. It can't be the hero just fighting
Speaker 2: for himself or some potential positive goal for others. Gotta
Speaker 2: be revenge and then coincidentally his actions destroy a corrupt empire,
Speaker 2: freeing all. That's how the first film ended. And now
Speaker 2: it's twenty five years later and Rome is worse than before,
Speaker 2: which is a problem for all legacy sequels. They obliterate
Speaker 2: the accomplishments of the first film. They could address that
Speaker 2: here in gladiat or two, but instead they ignore it
Speaker 2: so they can have the same goddamn plot contrivances. And
Speaker 2: here's the thing that taking down the whole system trope
Speaker 2: is the equivalent of the big blue light in the
Speaker 2: sky of all superhero movies. Yes, we have a tangible villain,
Speaker 2: but we gotta close that portal. We're gonna shut down
Speaker 2: that machine or we'll all be killed. This film does
Speaker 2: have one advantage over the first. Denzel He's fucking great here.
Speaker 2: Anytime you put him in a period piece or historical drama, comedy, whatever,
Speaker 2: he's gonna elevate it. He is so fucking charming here
Speaker 2: and just locked into what the movie wanted to be
Speaker 2: a political pot boiler. He's way more fearsome than any
Speaker 2: dude riding a cartoon rhinoceros. That happens in this movie.
Speaker 2: A man rides a rhinoceros and it's a cartoon anyway.
Speaker 2: This was shot digitally, so could somebody lift Denzel out
Speaker 2: of gladiat Or two and insert him into the original.
Speaker 2: I think it can be done, and I think it
Speaker 2: will solve my problems with that movie, because you're not
Speaker 2: bringing down a roam with a sword. You're doing it
Speaker 2: through manipulating corruption, and Denzel's character could have facilitated that there,
Speaker 2: and I totally would have bought it. Nothing's gonna snaff
Speaker 2: anyone from seeing this movie, and I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: stop you either. I'm saying, go see all the movies,
Speaker 2: all the poly Shore putting out a new movie, go
Speaker 2: see it. We gotta save cinema. Zaslab killed its wife
Speaker 2: and now nothing will stop it from getting revenge. As
Speaker 2: an aside, if you're of Italian descent and you have
Speaker 2: tattoos and one of them is an SPQR, what's wrong
Speaker 2: with you? If Ireland had been the center of civilization
Speaker 2: at some point, or had a marker or a slogan
Speaker 2: declaring everything theirs. Do you not think that symbol or
Speaker 2: phrase would be on my body right now?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 2: If you've got a jones for Rome, a need for
Speaker 2: ancient Italian drama, you can see some pretty fucking historically
Speaker 2: accurate ancient Rome in the series Rome that was back
Speaker 2: on HBO and ran for two seasons, and it was
Speaker 2: co created by John fucking' milius, the writer of Apocalypse
Speaker 2: Now and director of Conan the Barbarian, and it is
Speaker 2: peopled with an amazing cast of mostly British actors. If
Speaker 2: I Claudius taught us anything, Rome makes more sense as
Speaker 2: an empire with Shakespearean trained actors. That's a scientific fact. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're moving on. But what if you love sort swinging
Speaker 2: actioners but don't love columns. Maybe you're sick of tunics
Speaker 2: and you don't have time for the dead wife trope?
Speaker 1: Hit at HP, you a doll?
Speaker 4: That ship k be go?
Speaker 2: It's thank you HP, David Letterman phrase here, Oh my goodness, ripley,
Speaker 2: this O what a hell of a pick. Maybe you
Speaker 2: saw this mac in the day and forgot about it.
Speaker 2: More likely you've never seen it at all. I have
Speaker 2: a soft spot in my heart for this film from
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine. This is the thirteenth Warrior.
Speaker 3: I am Ala.
Speaker 6: I met a beautiful woman who belonged to another man.
Speaker 6: I was banished from my home and from all that
Speaker 6: I knew a country far to the north.
Speaker 3: No moment he comes to ask bull far for helping.
Speaker 6: I'm leaking at all, but his father's kingdom is under attack.
Speaker 1: She says, thirteen men, yeah, yeah, had the first time.
Speaker 4: He says the thirteenth man's been known the third man's
Speaker 4: boy issue.
Speaker 6: I am not a warrior, you will be.
Speaker 2: They are demons, deep like a life head, like God.
Speaker 3: There it is said they keep the dead.
Speaker 1: I saw the global.
Speaker 5: My other's father always warned of it, said it.
Speaker 1: Was a eight of all times.
Speaker 3: Prepare yourselves.
Speaker 1: Low. God was my father?
Speaker 3: O where who was to my mother, my sisters and
Speaker 3: my brothers.
Speaker 1: You're not also bhalla.
Speaker 3: When the rain they lived?
Speaker 2: Remember my pretentious classical education, Well that included a heaping
Speaker 2: helping of Beowulf, the epic poem. I believe that it
Speaker 2: was Francis Baron Gumer's edition that I read. That was
Speaker 2: his translation. It wouldn't get a proper lyrical translation until
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine. That's when Seamus Hainey did a more
Speaker 2: poetical version of it. There was a modern day sequel
Speaker 2: written called Grendel. From the monster's perspective, there was that
Speaker 2: god awful Robert Semchis Uncanny Valley fest Beowulf, which actually
Speaker 2: had a really good script by Roger Avery and Neil Gaiman.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately the film was a waxwork nightmare. So anyway, I
Speaker 2: was devouring all the Beowolf I could find when I
Speaker 2: happened upon a novel called Eaters of the Dead by
Speaker 2: Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park Westworld er Michael Crichton. The book
Speaker 2: was from nineteen seventy six and was inspired, if that's
Speaker 2: the right word, by a fellow professor who had lumped
Speaker 2: Beowulf into what he called the bores of literature. Determined
Speaker 2: to prove that guy wrong, Crichton decided to show that
Speaker 2: Beowulf was indeed exciting. So, then, being Michael Crichton, he
Speaker 2: conceived of a theme park with Nordic warriors. Now I'm kidding,
Speaker 2: but it would track. Actually, he took the story of
Speaker 2: Ahmad Ebin Fadlan, a real person who was an ambassador
Speaker 2: for the Khaliph of Baghdad and was sent north to
Speaker 2: live with Vikings in like ninety seventy five AD. He
Speaker 2: then combined that with the Beowulf legend and it's a
Speaker 2: weird mashup that works at least for me. Like Gangbusters.
Speaker 2: Twenty years later, we got a name change in John
Speaker 2: McTiernan behind the camera and it's the Thirteenth Warrior. Spanish
Speaker 2: actor Antonio Banderis plays Ahmad Ebin Fadlan, with some backup
Speaker 2: coming from Omar fucking Sharif in the book and the film.
Speaker 2: Fudlan is taken in by a band of Vikings as
Speaker 2: they are called to help King Rothgard defend his hall
Speaker 2: against supernatural creatures known as the Vendol. It ends up
Speaker 2: being a bit Scooby doo. Now let's see who the
Speaker 2: real Vendol is. And there are some laughable moments from
Speaker 2: the screenplay, but overall, this is how you do a
Speaker 2: gritty action sword and blood and hacking and slashing. Man.
Speaker 2: It's on die hard predator McTiernan orchestrating muddy chaos amongst
Speaker 2: the Vikings with gorgeous Antonio Benderis fighting beside them. Everyone's
Speaker 2: loving the Vikings these days, right, Well, you can Binge,
Speaker 2: hours and hours and hours of them. We'll give this
Speaker 2: film ninety minutes. It's one hundred and two minutes, but
Speaker 2: if you haven't dug the first ninety you can tap out.
Speaker 2: Then I won't tap out. I love this film. Oh,
Speaker 2: come on, it's worth ribbing. When Antonio and Benderis announces
Speaker 2: how he learned their language, where did you.
Speaker 5: Learn how a language?
Speaker 2: I listen, all right, thirteenth Warrior. I'm not gonna say
Speaker 2: anything else about it. I want you to see it.
Speaker 2: If you haven't seen it, we are moving on and
Speaker 2: it's going to be a bit of a downer, but
Speaker 2: it's gonna end kind of joyously, so fair a warning.
Speaker 2: My late wife Jessica was a fucking marvel in everything
Speaker 2: she did, just a whirlwind of creativity and productivity. For
Speaker 2: her fiftieth birthday, we planned a huge surprise event for her,
Speaker 2: and by we, I mean Jessica. She planned and organized
Speaker 2: and executed the whole thing. I helped, but it was
Speaker 2: all her, which is exactly how she wanted it. Prior
Speaker 2: to the festivity, she sent up questionnaires asking all of
Speaker 2: the guests their likes and dislikes so she could personalize
Speaker 2: it to their taste. If your favorite dessert was peacan pie,
Speaker 2: you were getting peacan pie at the end of the evening.
Speaker 2: She also had questions about songs that might sum you up,
Speaker 2: songs that might make appropriate entrance music. I didn't think
Speaker 2: much of it. I don't think anyone else did. But
Speaker 2: when everyone arrived that night, there was a step in
Speaker 2: repeat that they had to walk with a photographer snapping photos,
Speaker 2: and every single person had their own personal anthem playing.
Speaker 2: Here was mine, that's give me the prize, the Kurgan's theme,
Speaker 2: and it's Queen, and the movie is Highlander.
Speaker 3: And from another time comes a man of great power.
Speaker 4: Talk funny Nash where you're from, lots of different places,
Speaker 4: A warrior of incredible strength.
Speaker 3: You have the devil in you. We've been kinsman twenty years.
Speaker 3: Connor MacLeod was my kinsman. I don't know who you are.
Speaker 1: Because you were born different. Man will feel you try
Speaker 1: to drive your way.
Speaker 3: A man uncertain of his future. What you got?
Speaker 4: Hear, Brenda, because a guy who's been creeping around since
Speaker 4: only seventeen hundred and haunted by his past. I want
Speaker 4: some answers.
Speaker 1: You cannot die McLeod.
Speaker 3: I am Connor McLeod of the Clan McLeod. I was
Speaker 3: born in fifteen eighteen in the village of Glen Finnan
Speaker 3: on the shores of flock Shield.
Speaker 1: And I am.
Speaker 6: Immort, a hero who is about to face his greatest challenge.
Speaker 3: You will always be weaker than I.
Speaker 1: What can you tell me about a seven but lunatic
Speaker 1: hacking away with a broadsword at one o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: New York City in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 6: Not much, for he is not alone.
Speaker 1: In the end, it can be only one.
Speaker 3: Highlander. There can be only one.
Speaker 5: We are where the princess are? You never survival to
Speaker 5: be the rule.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk a lot about the Kuragan here, but
Speaker 2: first we gotta talk about Connor McLoud of Clan macloud
Speaker 2: from the fifteen hundreds in the Highlands of Scotland. Highlands
Speaker 2: of Scotland. Thus he's a Highlander. It's funny because the
Speaker 2: word just kind of means immortal now, like they're all Highlanders.
Speaker 2: I guess the every vampire can be called a Dracula.
Speaker 2: Rule is in effect here. Before we go further, this
Speaker 2: is time sensitive. Stop what you're doing and go to
Speaker 2: the Wikipedia page for Highlander and read the synopsis. Someone
Speaker 2: has a vivid and hilarious imagination and the gatekeepers haven't
Speaker 2: caught it yet. But that's not gonna last, so get
Speaker 2: over there and read it immediately. And no, it wasn't me,
Speaker 2: or was it? Anyway you know the story. Connor is
Speaker 2: an immortal, one of many that dot the globe. They
Speaker 2: all feel a pull toward one another, and the more
Speaker 2: ruthless among them are lopping off their heads and absorbing
Speaker 2: their life forces, growing stronger. Connor, the Scottish Highlander, is
Speaker 2: played by Christoph Lambert, a French actor who was born
Speaker 2: in New York and raised in Switzerland. His character is
Speaker 2: aided by Juan Sanchez via Lobos Ramirez, who is actually
Speaker 2: Egyptian and played by Scottish actor Sean Connery. We just
Speaker 2: had Antonio banderis playing Iranian, so we're going to give
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty six casting people a pass here. Plus
Speaker 2: it's Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery. They're both great. Lambert's
Speaker 2: weirdo amalgamation of accents somehow actually works for an immortal
Speaker 2: who's lived dozens of lives and dozens of locales around
Speaker 2: the globe. It's kind of like that language, Edward James
Speaker 2: almost comes up with for Gaff and Blade Runner one
Speaker 2: of only five good Ridley Scott movies. So they have
Speaker 2: to stop the Kurgan. He's the villain, and what a
Speaker 2: fucking villain. You heard the song and you know the actor,
Speaker 2: the fucking amazing Clancy Brown. Has he ever been bad?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Has any film he's been in become instantly elevated?
Speaker 1: Fuck?
Speaker 2: Yes, you loved him in Starship Troopers, you love him
Speaker 2: in Shawshank and he's a dick in that. He's the
Speaker 2: best Lex luthor ever. Sorry, Michael Rosenbaum. He was Surder,
Speaker 2: the god who destroyed Asgard and Thor Ragnarok. The man
Speaker 2: is mister Crabs on SpongeBob SquarePants. He was a major
Speaker 2: member of the Hong Kong Cavaliers, that's Buckeru Banzai's group
Speaker 2: of crusading rock and rollers. He was Lyndon Johnson on
Speaker 2: The Crown, and most recently and fucking amazingly, he was
Speaker 2: Salvator Falcone on that Penguin television series. Here as the Kurgan,
Speaker 2: he absolutely terrifies while simultaneously giving us one of the
Speaker 2: most delicious villains ever. Speaking of Rome, if you ever
Speaker 2: read the novelization, you'll know that the Kurgan was a
Speaker 2: happy participant of the sacking of Rome while he was
Speaker 2: running around with the Visigoths and the Vandals. I won't
Speaker 2: to be a cowboy, different vandals, but in the same ballpark,
Speaker 2: because the modern Kurgh, the nineteen eighty six version chooses
Speaker 2: a total punk rock persona complete with safety pins through
Speaker 2: the scar in his neck, and it is amazing, though
Speaker 2: not the original intention of the character. As originally written,
Speaker 2: the Kurgan would be a total dandy bowler hat bespoke suit.
Speaker 2: That would have been interesting, particularly on Clancy Brown. Not
Speaker 2: that I don't fucking love what we got. Quick side note.
Speaker 2: Back in nineteen ninety four, I was at a convention
Speaker 2: at the Shrine in Los Angeles and I actually bumped
Speaker 2: into Clancy Brown. It took me a second to recognize it.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was very polite because he was actually
Speaker 2: the one that bumped into me. But I was honestly crestfawn,
Speaker 2: not because it wasn't a thrill to meet him.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: I actually cherished the memory. But it turns out he
Speaker 2: and I are the exact same height, and he was
Speaker 2: a giant in my mind. Further, I actually think I
Speaker 2: had a weight advantage at that time in my life,
Speaker 2: so I came away thinking I could take the Kurgan.
Speaker 2: The prize is rightfully mine. Gregory Whyden, former Firefighter, writes
Speaker 2: Highlander as his thesis screenplay in film. The original is
Speaker 2: way more arranging and got way more mythology, and it
Speaker 2: connor fathers many children over the years, and there's a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of unneeded detours. But it's a thesis script.
Speaker 2: It gets snapped up and handed over to Larry Ferguson
Speaker 2: and Peter Bellwood, who pare it down and admittedly give
Speaker 2: us the masterpiece we have now, although there are only
Speaker 2: one small part of it. Having read both drafts, let's
Speaker 2: say Billwood and Ferguson had a hell of a blueprint
Speaker 2: to work from, because left to their own devices, they
Speaker 2: made Highlander two, although Larry Ferguson, his credit, would pen
Speaker 2: the fucking horrible remake of Rollerball and Alien three and
Speaker 2: Beyond the Law. That's that biker movie with Michael Madson
Speaker 2: and Charlie Sheen, which is one of the few films
Speaker 2: I feel totally comfortable watching. Ironically, by comparison, Gregory Wyden
Speaker 2: wrote Backdraft and the Prophecy Russell. Okay, he's behind the
Speaker 2: camera here. He was a video music maker extraordinaire, and
Speaker 2: it's fully on display. Critics at the time complained that
Speaker 2: it was style over substance. Fuck you, it's style and substance.
Speaker 2: You're gonna tell the tale of sword fighting immortals in
Speaker 2: modern day New York. I want a crazy crane shot
Speaker 2: across Madison Square Garden as the fabulous Freebirds battle the
Speaker 2: High Flyers and the Tonga Kid while Queen soundtrack blairs.
Speaker 2: That's right, the Queen soundtrack. It is fucking killer. There
Speaker 2: are some band composed soundtracks out there that are just perfect.
Speaker 2: Harold and Maud the Graduate Queen again for Flash. How
Speaker 2: about that Toto score for Dune. Anyway, this is all
Speaker 2: original stuff from Queen, each member of the band contributing
Speaker 2: a tune set against a moment of the film that
Speaker 2: resonated with them. So not only do we get Princes
Speaker 2: of the Universe to open the flick and give me
Speaker 2: the prize, but the amazing who Wants to Live Forever
Speaker 2: by Brian May that was featured pretty prominently in that
Speaker 2: fucking awful Freddy Mercury biopic, but best of all, in
Speaker 2: a song I come to over and over and over
Speaker 2: again because if you've never known, because if you've ever
Speaker 2: known true love like I did, particularly the night of
Speaker 2: the party that I mentioned. One Year of Love by
Speaker 2: bassist John Deacon is lovely and lush and oh so true,
Speaker 2: just like.
Speaker 5: Jess Yeas battle Time one sentiment is like the shootings
Speaker 5: time not.
Speaker 1: Brue on.
Speaker 2: What I know. I said we'd end happily, but here
Speaker 2: we are. It is happy. These are great movies. Well,
Speaker 2: it's a great movie and a pretty good movie and
Speaker 2: a terrible movie. That's what we've covered this week, and
Speaker 2: that is gonna wrap us up for the week. Folks.
Speaker 2: I want to thank you for joining us. Make sure
Speaker 2: you tune in this Thursday. Maybe it'll be Friday. It's
Speaker 2: my show. I'll release them whenever I God damn one.
Speaker 2: That'll be the next Anthologies attack. Antonio Lapour is back
Speaker 2: and we're gonna be talking the Allison, Alexander Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez,
Speaker 2: Quentin Tarantino comedy. Is it a comedy? Is it funny?
Speaker 2: Tune in to find out we're talking four rooms. It's
Speaker 2: actually going to be a pretty stupendous occasion that will
Speaker 2: be midnight viewings one hundredth episode. HP, composer of our
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Speaker 2: And speaking of HP, he and I are starting up
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Speaker 2: later episode. For the lovely Miss Ripley Gene. I'm Father Malone,
Speaker 2: and we'll leave you with a little bit from Highlander. Well,
Speaker 2: by the way, Connor McLeod does not count as a
Speaker 2: crusading widower his wife dies of old age. It's way
Speaker 2: more tragic.
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