WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.399 I'm gonna show you a picture, but before I show 2 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:03.640 it to you, I want to paint a picture. 3 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:07.120 Okay, it better not be some part of your body 4 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:07.879 that's falling off. 5 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:08.839 I promise. 6 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:11.160 Better not be like a like a like a toenail. 7 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:13.439 This is this is not a picture of any part 8 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:14.599 of my body in any. 9 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:16.199 State, a gangrenous toenail. 10 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.719 I'm in California. Stop into a CVS, have to pick 11 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.800 up I don't know, face wash or something. Go to 12 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:26.640 the checkout line. And in California they can sell wine. 13 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:30.000 And this is the wine that is on display at 14 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:30.719 the CVS. 15 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:38.119 Okay, it's called Nashatwal and it's like the The image 16 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.600 is very evocative of like a Matisse painting, like two 17 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:46.439 women buzzomy ladies, missay, buzzom me ladies dancing, which is 18 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:49.359 weird because it's a manaja toa There should be a 19 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:50.079 third person. 20 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:51.600 Are a third person? 21 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:55.719 Oh that's the implication. Yeah, that's the implication. And they're 22 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:59.560 like sales pitches. Join us in helping women thrive in 23 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:02.960 work and in life because they are sponsored by Dress 24 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:06.719 for Success. So much is happening, so much is happening? 25 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:07.359 So much? 26 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.040 A screw top bottle of wine called Mona and it's. 27 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:13.959 A red blend. Just want everyone like, I don't know 28 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:14.799 much about wine. 29 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.000 I don't know if you go to CVS for your wine, y'all, but. 30 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:18.879 I don't know if a red blend is going to 31 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:34.840 be your top shelf. Hey in America? 32 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.079 And this is that aged well. 33 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.799 Yesterday's pop culture. 34 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:41.439 Today dance movie August. 35 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:44.000 I want everyone to know Paul's doing like a windmill 36 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.040 like it's I think it's vogue, but it's that windmill 37 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:54.400 motion expressing myself through movement. Yes, last Dance for Roman, 38 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:56.760 Last Chance. I actually don't know the lyrics that one. 39 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:58.840 You can dance if you want to. You can leave 40 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:01.719 your friends behind because your friends don't dance, and if 41 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:03.799 they don't dance, and no friends of mine. 42 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:08.879 Dance month, Yes, one of the best months of the year, truly, truly. 43 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:11.080 But before we get to dance movies Erica, we do 44 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:13.520 have a couple of five star Apple podcast reviews to read. 45 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:14.199 Shall I get to it? 46 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:14.599 Sure? 47 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.919 All right? This first one is from Moms to sm 48 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:22.960 R eight A masterclass in yes ending and a meandering 49 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:23.639 great time. 50 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:25.560 See how that sounds like a compliment? 51 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:26.039 It does? 52 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:28.039 It sure did? Sound like a compliment. 53 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:31.199 You're focusing on meandering and I'm focusing it on great. 54 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:32.680 I'm focusing on meandering. 55 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.800 Yeah, yeah, they write, thank you Paul for the instructions 56 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.000 on how to leave a review, because this gen exer 57 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:41.520 never would have figured it out. Well, you're welcome, and 58 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.840 thank you for following the instructions on the show notes 59 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:47.319 of this year podcast. Right now, If anyone's wondering, just 60 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.240 click on the link. Rate this podcast slash that age. Well, 61 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.680 all right, Moms to SMR O eight goes on. This 62 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:56.400 is one of my top three go to podcasts because 63 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.240 it's just so much fun. For those reviewers who mentioned 64 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:02.319 the tangents and the off topic convo, I suggest you, says, 65 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:05.520 sit back, relax, buckle up, and enjoy the ride. 66 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.120 The title of your sex tape, Moms to SMR. 67 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.800 This podcast is a masterclass in the game of yes 68 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.400 and enjoy the true chemistry and brilliance of Paul and 69 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.520 Erica's banter. And don't worry they eventually make it back 70 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:19.479 from their side trips. 71 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:21.639 What if we didn't, What if we didn't dropped a 72 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:22.319 movie forever? 73 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:24.599 Just if we didn't do it with the fifth element, 74 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:26.680 we will never do it and the audience is like, wait, 75 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:29.280 how does clue listen? Never have we wanted to drop 76 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:31.319 a movie as hard as we wanted to drop the 77 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.439 fifth element. Uh. They include fun info about all the 78 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.240 movies they discuss, along with their thoughts on each movie's 79 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:40.960 viability in today's culture, hence the title It's fair and 80 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:42.919 balanced reporting, No notes. 81 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:45.479 Ah, thanks mom, Thank you Moms. 82 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:48.639 To SMR eight, this is a lovely review. It's complete 83 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:51.520 because you know what it says. It says even the 84 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.879 parts that you think are meandering are actually a feature, 85 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:55.319 not a bug. 86 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:57.919 Yeah, it's part of the ride, man exact joy. You 87 00:03:57.960 --> 00:03:59.800 know that on roller coasters you have to do that 88 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.280 slow bumping part up before you get to the crest 89 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.960 and then the fall. This podcast I like to think 90 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:12.280 of as all meandering bumping up. It's just that part 91 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.960 of the roller coaster. Our next review comes from Samantha 92 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:18.399 exclamation points. Do you think do you think they met 93 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:23.480 Samantha Samantha? Or what if it's sex in the City 94 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:28.560 Samantha Samantha. They write, I found this podcast in August 95 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.399 of twenty twenty four and have started at the beginning. 96 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:39.160 I notoriously do not like movies, the notorious not like 97 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.800 movies are Yeah, the notorious anti film Samantha. But I 98 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:49.079 love listening to these two dissect and discuss. It's well researched, funny, thoughtful, 99 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:53.199 and relatable. I truly enjoy the rapport between Erica and Paul. 100 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.839 They are funny and banter with each other without being mean. 101 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:01.480 Well we are to each other, but not so. Just 102 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:04.439 a really great podcast that I walk away from feeling 103 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:07.399 better about the world, not worse. Jesus, this is nice. 104 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:10.000 Thank you so much. It's very nicely nice. 105 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.000 Making listeners feel better about the world is why we're here. 106 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.360 Ultimately, Jenny, I got a little choked up reading that 107 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:15.920 last line. 108 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.560 Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Samantha and moms to 109 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:23.279 SMR eight, thank you for these reviews. If you would 110 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:25.040 like a that edgeball tope ick, just let us know. 111 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:26.800 This is you. Let us know and we will send 112 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.519 it off for you. Erica, all right, where are we 113 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:31.879 headed this week? 114 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.199 Tonight? On that age Dwell, We are headed to the 115 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.279 White Knights of Russia. 116 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:41.920 The Soviet white Knights. All Right, White Knights was requested 117 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:47.040 by Alicia and Josephine, Janette Valo, Sarah Parker, Karen Amy 118 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.279 and Liz. And while I love all of our listeners equally, 119 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.079 I just want to do a special shout out to Liz, 120 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.759 who has been requesting this film for I am not 121 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:58.199 exaggerating years. Wow years. 122 00:05:58.560 --> 00:05:59.800 Finally Liz has been heard. 123 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.480 Liz has finally had her voice heard this. This shows 124 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.600 the power perseverance. It shows when I say I hear you, 125 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:07.279 I really do hear you. Even if I don't hear 126 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:08.000 you for a while. 127 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:11.720 Yeah, even if we can't shoehorn it in like to another, 128 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:14.120 we will get to it. We could have shoehorned this 129 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.399 in into Spy month Away, but that would have been 130 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:18.519 rough though, But it would have been a weird left turn. 131 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:19.879 It would have been a weird turn. 132 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:23.519 Yeah, all right. So White Knights is a nineteen eighty 133 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:28.839 five political dance melodrama written by James Goldman, Eric Hughes 134 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:32.480 and Nancy Dowd. It was directed by Taylor Hackford and 135 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:38.639 stars Mikhail Barishnikov, Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jersey Skolamowski, and 136 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:42.000 Isabella Rossellini in her film debut. 137 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:44.279 Isn't that that blew my mind? When I saw and 138 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.639 introducing Isabella ROSSLYNI I was like holy shit she had. 139 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:49.560 I did look her up. She had like a couple 140 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:52.000 of very small like like nothing. 141 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:52.399 Yeah. 142 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:55.160 So this was her first like featured role in a film. 143 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.879 White Knights was nominated for two Academy Awards, both in 144 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:04.360 the Best Song category. I have thoughts, well, first of all, 145 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:06.040 there should be a dance like. I know there aren't 146 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:07.759 that many dance movies in a year, but there should 147 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:08.959 be a choreography category. 148 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.720 They should have gotten a special, a special Oscar special 149 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:13.120 recognition for like. 150 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:16.759 The amazing dance sequences in this movie. Yeah, okay. The 151 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:20.079 two nominated songs were Separate Lives, sung by Phil Collins 152 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:22.360 and Marilyn Martin. You know that song, that song you 153 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:26.360 absolutely remember, Yeah, and then say You Say Me by 154 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.480 Lionel Ritchie, which is, honestly, if you'd given me five 155 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:34.000 hundred chances, ye guess what popular eighty song was the 156 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:36.720 soundtrack to this movie that I don't think it would 157 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:38.959 have made five hundred I would not have done it. 158 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:40.560 I can think of two songs at the top of 159 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:42.240 my head. There's a Shaka Khan song and a lou 160 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:44.399 Reed song in this movie that are that are better 161 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.360 than both of those other songs. Now, granted, I'm sure 162 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:48.399 they were not recorded for the film, so they were 163 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:52.160 not they were not eligible eligible, But I mean, but 164 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:53.079 I mean, and. 165 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:55.839 What's crazy is this One of them won, and it's 166 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.480 Say You Say Me by Lionel Ritchie won the Academy 167 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:02.480 Award for Best Original Song for a Movie that it 168 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:03.720 has zero to do with. 169 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:04.240 Correct. 170 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:06.279 It's it's played over the credit to the end of 171 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:09.079 the movie. Yep, and it just doesn't make any goddamn sense. 172 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:11.560 Yeah, Separate Lives doesn't really make any sense in the 173 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:13.800 in the movie either, because it's played over like a 174 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:18.000 very romantic moment between Gregory Hines and Isabella Rossellini, and 175 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.360 it's it's about a break up, like the song's about 176 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:21.759 a break up, and they don't break up. 177 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.920 Spoiler, they do not break up. This also, by the way, 178 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.680 beat Say You Say Me beat Power of Love from 179 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:30.959 Back to the Future, which feels wrong. 180 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:32.919 Huey Lewis, check your purse. 181 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:37.639 You've been robbed, Huey Lewis, check your news, Yeah, you've rob. 182 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.559 Get the news together, it's time to storm the Academy. 183 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:44.320 Because seriously, that like, fuck off, fuck off? How dare 184 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:45.240 you not give it to power? 185 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.679 The movie was criticized for its use of Finland as 186 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.720 a substitute for Siberia and the Lenin Grave, to which 187 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:54.399 I say. 188 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:58.840 Are they supposed to fucking go to? Are they forgetting 189 00:08:58.840 --> 00:08:59.960 what was happening in names? 190 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:03.320 But it was criticized in nineteen eighty five, so they 191 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:04.039 have no excuse. 192 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.519 That made no sense to me, no sense. That's like 193 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:09.879 criticizing a movie now for not filming in current day Russia. 194 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:14.919 It's like, well, yeah, In actuality, Taylor Hackford used exterior 195 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:17.600 shots of the actual cure of theater and other Leningrad 196 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.919 locations that he commissioned from a finished travel company, but 197 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:23.039 he did not reveal this for years in order to 198 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:24.399 protect the team he worked with. 199 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.480 Brilliant and you can tell when you're watching the movie, 200 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:29.480 you can tell, like there's some shots that are like 201 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:33.600 legitimately like what we would now call Saint Petersburg, right, 202 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:36.600 But like again that that drives me and said, why 203 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:38.679 would why on earth would you? Why would you criticize 204 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.759 it a film for this? Again, you didn't film in 205 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:46.000 an actual war zone. Ew, there's other reasons to criticize 206 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.840 this movie. That's the thing too. This movie is not perfect. 207 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.120 I think I like this movie. 208 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:54.799 You really like this movie, but it's not per it's messy. 209 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:55.360 It is real. 210 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:56.919 It is messy. Yes, I can admit that. 211 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:58.600 Yeah, it makes no sense. 212 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:01.559 I'm I'm willing to go with it with it not 213 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.279 making sense on this one more than you or I think. 214 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:03.840 But we'll see. 215 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.200 Maybe convince me, maybe we'll meet each other halfway. Yeah, 216 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:12.399 like like Borishnikoff and high Hinds in the film, exactly, Yes, 217 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:21.240 I'm Borishnikoff, I Callikov. White Nights has a very low 218 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:25.480 forty six percent critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a perfectly 219 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:31.039 adequate seventy four percent audience score no Cherry picks five. Yeah, 220 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:32.960 forty six that's insanely low. 221 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.639 That's insanely low. I think this deserves a seventy five 222 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.240 to eighty percent critical rating, and it should have an 223 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:39.360 audience score of one hundred. 224 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:41.840 Audience scores should be. The only thing is it's a 225 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:44.279 little long. It's a little It is two hours and 226 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:46.960 fifteen minutes. Look, I don't know why you're watching this movie. 227 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.039 If you're not ready to watch dance scenes, yeah, if that's. 228 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:51.759 That's on you. If you're complaining about the dance scenes, 229 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:52.480 that is on you. 230 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:54.639 If you're like, why is there twenty minutes of dancing 231 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:57.200 in this movie? It's like, bitch, it's a movie starting 232 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:00.320 two dancers. But also like maybe and this is maybe 233 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.080 a little bit where I land. It doesn't have enough 234 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:05.759 dance for me. A forty six is criminally low because again, 235 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.519 you're casting these people for their ability to dance. So, like, 236 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:12.519 if you're complaining that Gregory Heines and Mikhail Parishnikov are 237 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.600 not the greatest dancers of the greatest actors of their generation, 238 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:19.559 fuck off. No actor can do what either of these 239 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:20.360 two dudes can do. 240 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.799 Yeah, Like, and they also are both good actors, and. 241 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:27.080 They're both very good. Actually was a little surprised by like, 242 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:31.360 Gregory Heines got me. Oh there's a monologue Gregory Heines 243 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.559 has in this movie. I was like, damn, you're really 244 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:34.240 fucking good. 245 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:37.559 Yeah, all right, Erica, when did you first see White Nights? 246 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:40.360 I saw this movie when I was younger. I have 247 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:42.840 no memory of where I was. I must have been 248 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.039 at home, might have been on TV. Maybe my parents 249 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:46.679 were watching it. We didn't see this in the theater, 250 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:48.879 I'm sure of that. But like, so I remember, because 251 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:49.559 there's certain just. 252 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:52.000 Picturing little five year Old Erica in the theater watching this. 253 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.080 And my parents are like, this is about ballet, and 254 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:58.759 I'm like, shit, I'm listening. No, there's moments in this movie. 255 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:02.080 I remember. One in particular is a climactic scene where 256 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:04.799 Mikhail Berrishnikoff has to do like a jump across an 257 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:08.720 alleyway that's like a stunt, and that really stayed in 258 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:09.039 my head. 259 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:09.879 I remembered that. 260 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.919 But ninety eight percent of this movie I'd forgotten completely about. 261 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:15.679 So it feels like I watched it for the first 262 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:16.360 time yesterday. 263 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.799 Okay, how about you. I had never seen this movie. 264 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:20.440 I had never heard of this movie until a few 265 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.080 years ago when Liz was like, do white Nights and 266 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:26.240 other voices joined in the chorus for this month, so 267 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:30.919 we are doing it. I went in pretty cold on this. 268 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:34.519 I knew Mikhail Brishnikov and Gregory Heins were in it. 269 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:36.720 I knew there was a lot of dancing. That's pretty 270 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:40.519 much all I knew about it. Yeah, I really loved it, 271 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.360 Like I really loved it. I know what you're saying. 272 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.399 You're saying it's messy. It is messy. You are not wrong. 273 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:49.159 It's it's shaggy because it's a movie about like real 274 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.279 world implications to what's happening to these people in the movie. 275 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.759 But the movie doesn't like treat it very It just 276 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:58.039 doesn't make any sense. I'll get into it. This is 277 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.600 not how the world. What is how spies work, This 278 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.879 is not how Russia works, is not how anything works. 279 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:06.399 Which I have no argument for it. I just don't care. 280 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:08.440 I think I think I'm gonna don't care, and. 281 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:12.039 You're absolutely right. Why am I complaining why? That's like 282 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.440 the idiots were complaining that they didn't actually film. 283 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:20.320 In Russia, So uh, Erica the tagline for White Nights. 284 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:21.519 I can already tell you I hate it. 285 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:23.879 I knew you would hate it as I typed it. 286 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:25.919 As the length of it, I can tell you I 287 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:26.639 fucking hate it. 288 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:32.240 Two men, not soldiers, not heroes, just dancers willing to 289 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:35.960 risk their lives for freedom and each other. No, that 290 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:37.039 is a gay romance. 291 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:41.679 The amount of times I was like kiss, kiss, which 292 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:44.440 is unfair to poor Isabella Russelling, who's also in this too, 293 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:46.679 but like the amount of time I want it. I 294 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:48.039 wanted those two men to kiss. 295 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.440 It is the end of the movie is a freeze 296 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:52.159 frame and me going kiss. 297 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.200 Kiss, because it is a. It is a non romantic 298 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:57.759 love story, but it really is a love story between 299 00:13:57.799 --> 00:13:58.279 these two. 300 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:02.360 Men and then understanding each other's perspective and like actually 301 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.240 coming together and like meeting the middle and not really 302 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:11.320 coming together. But you know, yes, I agree, it's not 303 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:14.159 a good tagline. The tagline just be borishnakov heinz. Do 304 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:15.360 you like watching dancers? 305 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:17.480 Want to see them tap their way out of this one? 306 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:19.600 I don't know. There's got to be a better, like 307 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:20.759 Russian themed one. 308 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:22.799 But they're red mccormicking in Russia. 309 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:24.720 Yeah, done? 310 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:27.480 Erica. Do you want to read the iTunes synopsis? 311 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:32.759 Sure? This story of Nikolai Rodchenko, a Russian defector, and 312 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:37.559 Raymond Greenwood, an American tap dancer who defected behind the 313 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:42.039 Iron Curtain during the Vietnam War. Twist, twist. You don't 314 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:44.159 expect that. You don't expect to see an American being like, 315 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:45.120 I'm moving to Russia. 316 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:45.559 That's right. 317 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:47.840 That's one tiny thing I have against this movie is 318 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:52.919 I'm like, there are many easier countries to be like, 319 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.600 you know what, America sucks, They're racist as fuck. I'm 320 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:59.080 going somewhere else. Yeah, I just like, maybe think this 321 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:01.200 through a little bit more buddy, Yeah, look at a 322 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:05.480 map before you're like Russia. I'm going to Russia. Artistic 323 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:10.120 vision and political idealism collide as two great dancers make 324 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:13.759 a decision that will change their lives forever. Yeap Paul 325 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:14.919 Actual synopsis. 326 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.399 Okay, Erica, I'm just gonna say I've had enough. I've 327 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:19.240 had enough of the debates. I've had enough of the 328 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:22.240 of the of the questions. This is just my final 329 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.600 word on the matter. Mikail Barishnikov and Gregory Hines can dance. 330 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:29.759 What that's it out. I'm done. I will not be 331 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:31.159 taking questions. I was. 332 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:34.200 I was of the camp that they're terrible, They're terrible dancers. 333 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:36.720 This is this is the movie that will actually make 334 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.840 you believe a man can fly, because when Mikhail Barishnikov leaps, 335 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:42.399 it actually looks like he's defying gravity for like a 336 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:43.240 second every time. 337 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:45.919 And both these men are in their late thirties. The 338 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.519 performances Gregory Heights like was born with old man face. Yeah, 339 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:51.960 You're like, what is he fifty? You're like, oh no, 340 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:54.600 he's thirty eight. He made this movie. But the moves, 341 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:56.960 the dance moves, You're like, how can a fucking thirty 342 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:59.120 eight year old be doing this? Yeah crazy and I 343 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.399 think I I'm not sure, might even be a little older. 344 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.960 And I'm like, damn, he hasn't lost a step No, no, 345 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:08.600 all right, everyone. So that is your lead up to 346 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.639 White Knights. Stick around. We have some commercials to play here. 347 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:13.120 If you don't want to listen to commercials, you can 348 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:15.360 go to our Patreon. That is patreon dot com slash 349 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.320 that Age Weel podcast. You can join any paid level. 350 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:19.720 You will get a free episodes delivered to your feet 351 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:22.320 every Monday. If you don't want to do that, stick around, 352 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:23.600 we will be right back and we are going to 353 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:37.399 take you through White Nights and we're back. How do 354 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:38.320 you say that in Russian? 355 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:41.279 I have no idea. 356 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:45.639 An Budka Borsh. 357 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:49.240 We open on a close up of Nikolai ko Kolia 358 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:54.679 is the nickname Radchenko played by Mikhail Barishnikoff, an up 359 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:55.080 and comer. 360 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:56.279 Yeah, you may have heard of him. 361 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:58.759 May have heard of him, Misha. He's in bed. 362 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:02.200 Open all movies on a shirtless Mikhail Barishnakov in bed 363 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:04.880 for some reason, when he smokes a cigarette, I love it. 364 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:06.279 I don't like it in real life, but when he's 365 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:07.119 I'm in the. 366 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.200 Amount This person smokes for being a professional dancer. And 367 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.119 I know professional dancers do smoke, like like that's been 368 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:16.119 a thing the whole the whole existence of professional dancers. 369 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:19.759 But he's just crazy, Like, there's my lungs hurt watching I. 370 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:21.799 Was like smoking and the fact the man is still 371 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:23.599 alive and kicking and in good shape, And I'm like, 372 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:25.160 did he not was this just for the movie? 373 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:28.039 But was he smoking because everyone smoked back then? 374 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:29.279 Yeah? Or is he just one of those people that 375 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:30.839 just like smoked his whole life and lived to one 376 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:34.000 hundred and six and like, yeah, it just doesn't doesn't take. 377 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:36.839 My great grandfather lived to be over a hundred. He 378 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:39.720 smoked cigars every day of his life. That's that's a 379 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.400 real thing. That's a very human thing. It's a real 380 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:46.519 fucking thing. So Nick is in bed, staring at the ceiling, 381 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:50.599 blue eyes, a blazon, cigarette, a blazon. He's just smoking 382 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.799 a cigarette, looking pensive, looking off into the distance, and 383 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:57.319 then we hear music begin and the camera pulls back 384 00:17:57.680 --> 00:17:59.799 and we see that he is not actually in bed, well, 385 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:02.519 he in bed, but he's on a set because he 386 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:06.559 is on stage performing a ballet. He is performing a 387 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:11.240 ballet sequence called in apologies my French is frankly non 388 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:17.880 existent Le junoumes de la et la morte, which I 389 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:20.160 know that was bad. I could tell like as I 390 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.039 was saying, and I'm like, oh, if anyone who speaks 391 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:24.079 French is like, girl, you are hurt in my ears. 392 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:25.880 The young Man in Death. 393 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.039 The young Man in Death, Yes, originally choreographed by Roland 394 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:32.920 Petit in nineteen forty six. This is a very famous 395 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:37.960 ballet performed by Borishnikoff. I think in the sixties or 396 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.960 seventies he revived it and now they're putting in in 397 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:43.680 this movie. And it was filmed actually in the Bristol Hypodrome, 398 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:47.079 like because the movie starts in England. So it's all 399 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:50.279 very I mean for the inside baseball nerds in ballet, 400 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.559 this is all very very cool. The rest of this 401 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:55.799 film has unbelievable dance numbers, and this is still the 402 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:58.960 best one, like they say, is this is my I mean, 403 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.599 it's so good and it's Polish, And all the other 404 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:05.279 dance scenes in the film are generally except for like 405 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:09.319 a couple like with Gregory Hines are rehearsals or like 406 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:13.440 him like Borushnikoff, just like the character like riffing while 407 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:16.799 on stage, so they're not as like tightly choreographed as this. Yeah, 408 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:20.200 fair enough, because it would make sense story wise. This 409 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:24.480 it is just so good. Also bleak. It is the 410 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:26.559 most bleak dance sequence. 411 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.599 I took this way too much to heart, and I 412 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:32.559 didn't I realized he was doing a performance immediately, but 413 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:35.480 I didn't know what its place was in the movie, 414 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:40.440 and I thought it was like an artistic telling of 415 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:43.319 the movie that I'm about to see like a prologue 416 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:43.680 or something. 417 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:45.079 Oh no, he's going to kill himself. 418 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:46.880 I was literally like this, this is going to end 419 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.200 in a suicide and like and then and the woman 420 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:51.359 betrays him. Like I had this whole I was like, oh, 421 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:53.000 this is so interesting, and I was like at the 422 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:56.759 end of we were like, oh, that wasn't it. I've 423 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:57.640 thought too much. 424 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:00.640 As is your wants, Yes, but the the movie gives 425 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:02.400 you it tes tip of tand a little bit because 426 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.000 this is opening and then there's opening credits either I 427 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:07.279 can't remember if it's during this or just after this 428 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:10.240 that calls out that all the other choreography in the 429 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:13.359 movie is swila sarp yep. And this was particular to 430 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:17.240 this scene. The general plot is the man is smoking 431 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:19.799 a cigarette. He's joined by a woman. They dance a 432 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:23.279 potter Do you find out she's a faithless lover? She 433 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:27.000 leaves him. He decides to end his life. The walls 434 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.960 of his Garrett apartment start to rise into the rafters, 435 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:33.319 revealing a Paris skyline in the background, and the dance 436 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:35.599 partner re emerges in a white gown with a red 437 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:38.839 cape and a skull mask. I in my brain she 438 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:40.599 has a sickle too, but she doesn't actually have a 439 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:44.440 sickless icycle because it is death. It's the same dancer 440 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:48.039 from before, only now she is portraying death itself. She 441 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:50.759 takes off the mask and places it on him. As 442 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:56.160 the curtain descends, it's so dark. The dancers take their bows, 443 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:59.279 The audience and Erica go fucking wild. 444 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:02.240 She stands up from recouched. It is incredible to be 445 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:05.759 reminded what an actually like perfect male body looks like sons, 446 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:09.960 like steroids, and like the mar marvelification of like of 447 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:12.839 what of what a man could possibly look like with 448 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:13.799 these systems of drugs. 449 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:17.119 I feel like ballet dancers generally are more live than 450 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:18.000 they are muscular. 451 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:21.079 Oh yeah, yeah, for obvious reasons, but like, that's what 452 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:24.680 a body can look like through exercise and eating well, 453 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:25.839 and probably a lot of cigarettes for. 454 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:28.400 A lot of cigarettes. Well, and don't forget the twenty 455 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:29.680 hours a day of dance. 456 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:32.519 Right right, speaking of by the way, male bodies and 457 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:34.759 twenty hours a day of dancing, I would just it's 458 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:37.680 just a PSA. I don't know how the Instagram algorithm 459 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:42.599 has decided that what I want to see is short 460 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:48.240 videos of Italian ballerinos in skin tight dance skin skin 461 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:51.720 tone boy shorts, like stretching their legs so their taint 462 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:54.000 moves towards the camera. Uh huh, don't. I don't know 463 00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:54.559 how it happens. 464 00:21:54.599 --> 00:21:55.799 Instagram's got you girls. 465 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:58.559 Someone is sneaking into my room at night and playing 466 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:02.880 these videos and teaching this Instagram algorithm something like it's short, 467 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:05.160 so tight you can see the individual hairs around their 468 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:10.000 asshole as they stretch towards you. So we cut to 469 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:12.720 Nick on a plane with its agent and Wyatt played 470 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:14.680 by Geraldine Page. Geraldine Page is in. 471 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:15.920 This movie, that's right, she is. 472 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:18.240 They're en route to Tokyo, and the pilot announces that 473 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:20.599 if they look out the window, they'll see the famous 474 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:23.640 Soviet white nights, which is a time of year when 475 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:25.839 the sun never sets. Right because of the way that 476 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:26.839 Earth spins. 477 00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:28.640 Blah blah blah, Arctic circle. 478 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:32.240 Arctic circle, angle of the Earth spinning. You know what, 479 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:33.200 you know what we're talking about? 480 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:34.920 And also, Paul, I don't know if you know this. 481 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:38.160 Uh uh, it's also the title of the movie. Oh yeah, 482 00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:41.319 I know. Does that blow your mind? Also, the movie 483 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:43.680 we're watching is called what I Know? 484 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:46.559 I know they should have called it. Mikhail Berishtakov holds 485 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:47.480 his legs above his head. 486 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:49.720 Let that sinking. 487 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:53.160 Let that's sinking, all right. So they're over Siberia when 488 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:55.240 the plane suffers an electrical malfunction. 489 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:57.200 It's a bad place to have an electrical. 490 00:22:56.759 --> 00:22:59.720 Truly, of all the places to have an electrical malfunction, 491 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:02.880 this is one of the worst. Nick leaps up. He 492 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:05.480 sprints to the bathroom against the olders of the flight crew. 493 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:06.759 They're like, what are you doing? What are you doing? 494 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:09.839 And he frantically starts tearing up his identification, his passport, 495 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:12.480 anything on him that has his name on it, putting 496 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:14.079 it in the toilet and trying to flush it down 497 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:18.400 the toilet. The plane barely manages to get clearance to 498 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:20.799 isn't it isn't a better idea to be like, Ann, 499 00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:23.000 I need you to shove my passport like in your 500 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:24.480 unmentionables and pretend you don't know me. 501 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:27.880 I mean he was panicking, but you're right, that is 502 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:30.200 the move that or give it to, Like, well, no, 503 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:33.119 because they probably do search the flight attendance. Yeah, like, yeah, 504 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:35.960 Anne would be the person to because Geraldine Paige, although 505 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:37.240 I don't know, he's famous. 506 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:38.200 Yeah, Like I don't know. 507 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:39.559 I don't know how he thought he was going to 508 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:41.759 get away with this, because it's not like he's nobody. 509 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:44.240 He's like a random Russian defector. Like yeah, he's a 510 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:46.839 very very famous Russian defector. 511 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:47.160 Yeah. 512 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:50.440 That's like if Martina Navratulova was like it was like, 513 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:55.000 sh don't tell anyone who I am. 514 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:58.400 All right. So the plane barely madges to get clearance 515 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:01.680 to land at a Russian military base, but the runway 516 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:04.880 is too short for a truly safe landing. They have 517 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:06.880 no choice. They have to go. I really want to 518 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:09.799 just take a moment to appreciate the man playing the 519 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:13.200 pilot in this in this scenario, because he remains very 520 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:15.279 calm the entire time, and I was like, that is 521 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:17.319 exactly what I want my pilot to be doing. 522 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:18.240 That's a Sully. 523 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:18.920 That's a Sully. 524 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:21.000 That's good, that's a Sully pilot. 525 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:24.920 Excellent, well done, sir. The plane hits the ground. Nick 526 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:27.319 is trying to scramble back to his seat and buckle in. 527 00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:31.359 There's too much turbulence. He's thrown backwards and then the 528 00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:34.200 beverage cart is knocked loose and it it rolls towards 529 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:35.119 him and it hits him in the head and it 530 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:38.039 knocks him unconscious. The plane comes to a stop after 531 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:40.640 it crashes through like a couple of like small buildings. 532 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:43.720 It appears that no one on the ground is hurt. Yeah, 533 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:46.759 and Ann rushes to Nick, who's bleeding extensively from a 534 00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:47.279 head wound. 535 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:51.960 We cut to mustache twirling villain of the film, Colonel 536 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:57.599 Chaiko of the Russian Army. He's playing with a plump. 537 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:00.480 This guy excellent. Like, I love a villain who leans 538 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:02.799 in and after who leans into, playing like a fun villain. 539 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:08.160 Jersey Skolimowski Skolamowski, I apologize. That's a rough name for 540 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:08.559 me to say. 541 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:11.200 We apologize to the entire Skolamowski clan. For what just 542 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:12.279 happened on this podcast. 543 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:14.920 Yeah, we apologize to anyone who speaks French, anyone who 544 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:18.759 speaks Russian. I'm just gonna cover my tracks English. Yeah, yeah, 545 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:20.359 anyone who speaks any of those languages. 546 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:21.240 We're so sorry. 547 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:22.680 We're so sorry. It's not gonna be good. 548 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:25.839 I apologize those ballet dancers for objectifying them, But you 549 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:27.640 are the ones putting the videos online. You know what 550 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:27.960 you're doing. 551 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:31.880 Colonel Chico arrives at the base and is debriefed on 552 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:36.279 the situation. Captain Kerrigan, another Soviet official, reports that there 553 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:40.359 was one passenger on the plane with no passport. Huh, 554 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:44.519 one guy who just had zero identification on him, and 555 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:47.400 they did find something. We don't know quite what yet, 556 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:51.960 and Carrigan gives Chiko the something. Still the audience does 557 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:53.960 not see what it is, and he tells his superior 558 00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:57.359 I have him isolated. Chiko walks into a hospital room 559 00:25:57.359 --> 00:26:00.440 where Nick is in bed, bandage around his head, kind 560 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:04.720 of woozy still from his massive head wound. Nick is like, 561 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:07.279 I am a French to descend, I do not speak 562 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:09.680 your Russian. I do not understand what you are saying. 563 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:12.039 Oh, he doesn't say that in French, not in French 564 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:12.960 with an English accent to. 565 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:15.319 No, no, no, that's how that's how I heard it. 566 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:17.880 I don't know how you all heard it, you know. 567 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:20.119 He says that in French in the movie. Chico's like, 568 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:22.319 it's crazy how you didn't have any identification on you, 569 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:25.200 and He's like, I don't understand. My name is Pierre. 570 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:30.400 It should have been in my wallet. Perhaps I haven't 571 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:35.799 been a baguette go. 572 00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:38.319 Hard for because you refuse to break. 573 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:41.400 Just like it was in my copy of Being and Nothingness? 574 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:42.160 Did you not see it? 575 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:47.759 Lavine Rosecombs? 576 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:53.799 And Nick is like, perhaps the French ambassador could help, 577 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.440 could you get me to the French embassy? And Chico's like, 578 00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:59.559 nice tried, dick wad and he tosses the findings from 579 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:02.640 the crash onto the bed and it's Nick's torn up identification, 580 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:05.240 which I you know it would be. I imagine a 581 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:07.000 passport would be very difficult to get down. 582 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:08.799 It is way. Those are tough. You want what the 583 00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:10.720 real move is to eat it, but you're never gonna 584 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:13.039 get You're never gonna choke that down during a plane crash. 585 00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:16.839 Yeah, those leather bound is not why they make passports 586 00:27:16.839 --> 00:27:19.559 so thick actually, so no onah can't eat it. You 587 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:23.640 never thought about that before. Those are indestructible. Chiko's like, 588 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:26.039 you can drop the act. I know you're not French. 589 00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:28.400 I know that your real name is Nikolai because of 590 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:31.680 your and also, I don't know if you know this, sir, 591 00:27:31.799 --> 00:27:36.240 but you're fucking famous. We all clocked you the minute 592 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:39.680 you came in here because you're famous. Nick does finally 593 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.039 drop the act and he tells Chico, listen, I'm an 594 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:45.920 American citizen now, and Chico's like, oh cool, fun for 595 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:49.599 you being an American citizen here in the Soviet fucking Union. 596 00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:53.759 You know you are a criminal, a defector. Nick says 597 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:56.759 the world will demand that he be returned to the 598 00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:59.839 United States, and Chico scoffs. He's like, no one cares, 599 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:05.799 to which, I say, Britney Griner, this just happened. Like 600 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:09.119 a ballet dancer and a basketball player. I think I'm 601 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:11.559 only saying this because the world sucks and is misogynistic, 602 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:13.839 but it was a woman basketball player. I feel like 603 00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:16.200 they're on equal footing. Yeah, this does make a level 604 00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:18.319 of sense. He does have an argument, like, if enough 605 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:20.480 people in the United States start to give a shit 606 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:22.759 about this. They will figure out a way to get 607 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:26.680 him back. Yeah, And Chiko continues the the Soviet Union 608 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:29.920 is having a wonderful moment of excellent pr because we 609 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.759 just saved hundreds of lives by allowing a foreign plane 610 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.319 to land where it wasn't supposed to. So shut it. 611 00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:39.400 And he leaves Nick in the bed underguard. 612 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:42.359 Yep. He goes out there. He addresses the other plane 613 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:45.000 crash victims. He tells them that they'll all be flown 614 00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:49.319 to Moscow, and Ann asks after Nick, and Chico says, look, 615 00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:52.440 he was gravely injured in the crash. He cannot risk 616 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:55.480 being moved. He could die. Yep, and Anne kind of 617 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:58.119 feels like this is bullshit, but she has a no power. 618 00:28:58.200 --> 00:29:01.200 Yeah, no recourse here, yeap to only. 619 00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:04.960 Island in Siberia. That's only, not only, There may be 620 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:06.039 more islands. I don't know. 621 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:07.279 Is it the Lonely Island? 622 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:09.920 Is it the Lonely Island? Can you imagine the Lonely 623 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:11.039 Island in this movie? 624 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:14.240 Genuinely, that would be an amazing comedy. If the Lonely 625 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:16.079 Island did a movie where they had they were. 626 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.880 Stuck in Russia, it was if it was the sequel 627 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:20.480 to Pop Star, Never Stopped, Never Stopped. 628 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:23.000 Yeah, Yeah, that guy gets it, ends up in Russia 629 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:25.000 and we have to trade him for someone. 630 00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:29.480 We meet Raymond Greenwood played by Gregory Hines, and he 631 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:32.400 is performing there's a boat that's leaving soon for New 632 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:35.680 York from Porgy and Bess. Now with a tap break 633 00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:36.640 added into it. 634 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:39.680 I am very surprised there is a Russian audience that 635 00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:42.839 like wants to see Porgy and Bess. That just seems 636 00:29:43.359 --> 00:29:44.200 so American. 637 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:47.119 It does well, it is very America now, it's certainly true. 638 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:50.000 I was caught up in this because he's singing and 639 00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:52.799 dancing or like greedy with enthusiastic applause, and then and 640 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:54.720 then they bow, and I'm like, that's not the end 641 00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:57.720 of Porgy and Bess. There's like one more scene after that, 642 00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:00.200 because this is when when Bess goes to New Or 643 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:02.519 with I can't remember this character's name, after he gets 644 00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:05.759 her addicted to drugs, and then Porgy gets released from jail, 645 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:07.640 I think if I remember correctly, and then he's like 646 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:09.319 he has to go to New York to look for Best, 647 00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:11.200 and that's that's the end of Porky and Best. It's 648 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:13.000 a whole other scene that's supposed to happen. 649 00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:16.079 I really get the impression from this film that he 650 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:18.519 is a the only American and be the only person 651 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:23.119 of color for like like black Americans, for many miles around. 652 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:25.319 Oh I think that, yes, I think that is certainly clear. 653 00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:30.799 His co star snarls that he's a show off as 654 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.599 she exits after the bows, and backstage his wife Daria 655 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.079 played by Isabella Rossellini, looking so young and beautiful and 656 00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:41.480 yet somehow exactly the same as she does now she's 657 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:43.960 waiting for him. They kiss and they laugh and they 658 00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:47.400 clearly have this loving relationship. And then who should enter 659 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:54.240 Erica dun dug Colonel Chico? What Colonel Chico definitely sounds 660 00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:56.559 like a Sonic the Hedgehog villain, right A thousand percent? 661 00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:59.799 Yeah, Colonel Chico sounds like like a villain in like 662 00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:02.400 a the back of a Cereal box. So that's like 663 00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:03.039 like a G I. 664 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:06.319 Joe Greatest Greatest animation. 665 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:08.720 Yeah, Like like when they were trying to indoctrinate children 666 00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:11.240 to hate the Soviet Union when we were little, which 667 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:16.799 fully happened, by the way, and they were like watches 668 00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:21.640 Captain Crunch beats the Evil Colonel Chico. Raymond and Daria 669 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:24.799 clearly know Chico and they're like, oh, this guy. They're 670 00:31:24.839 --> 00:31:28.359 apprehensive about his sudden appearance in his life. Nothing good 671 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:31.200 ever happens when this fuckers around. He tells them, hey, 672 00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:34.680 you should both come back to Moscow, like we have 673 00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:36.440 some stuff for you to do in Moscow, and they 674 00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:40.240 both are like, okay, that seems like good news. And 675 00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:42.839 then Chico says he remembers that when Raymond first came 676 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:46.000 to Russia, he seems so nervous and Daria was just 677 00:31:46.039 --> 00:31:48.799 his interpreter, and He's like, in a in a way, 678 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:51.440 I made you two fall in love. I brought you 679 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:55.240 two together. You owe me, and and Daria's like suddenly like, okay, 680 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:57.319 this trip to Moscow doesn't seem so great anymore. 681 00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:57.680 Yeah. 682 00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:01.200 Daria leaves, and Raymond is like, hey, I've been trying 683 00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:03.319 to get in touch with you, Tchiko. Remember about my 684 00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:06.559 situation and how I shouldn't be fucking stuck here in Siberia. Yeah, 685 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:11.200 and Chiko's like, girl, sorry, I have been swamped. Girl 686 00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:13.079 has been crazy. 687 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.599 Girl. You would not believe the number of emails I 688 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:18.559 am getting a day, I am under seas. 689 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:19.240 I am underwater. 690 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:21.240 I'm under what I am in the weeds? 691 00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:24.400 Girl, girl? It is so let's circle back on this later. 692 00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:26.319 Girl, girl, can we just put a pin in this? Girl? 693 00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:29.319 I just I have so much do my inbox. My 694 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:31.440 inbox is an in tower, you know what I mean. 695 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:35.599 He's going, sorry, my phone is ringing. I'm so sorry, 696 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:37.480 and Raymond's like, there's literally not a phone in the 697 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.039 room where. It's nineteen eighty five. 698 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.200 In Siberia, In Siberia, there are no phones here. 699 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:47.720 We are in the place that the entire world uses 700 00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:50.200 as shorthand for the middle of fucking nowhere. 701 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.200 Chiko's like, but you know what, I'm so glad I 702 00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:59.720 finally came out to Siberia, beautiful Siberia, to drop by 703 00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:03.319 and see you. After all, there is actually think this 704 00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:05.319 is crazy, there's actually something you can do for me. 705 00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:08.000 And he's like, why don't you go wait outside, Raymond, 706 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.359 and I'll tell you what it is. And now you 707 00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:11.799 see the look of panic on Raymond's face. What the 708 00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:12.799 fuck do they want from me? 709 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:16.119 Yep? Raymond heads in to find Daria. She does not 710 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:18.119 want anything to do with Chico. She's like, we can 711 00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:19.799 just stay here. We don't have to do this, and 712 00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:22.640 he's like, well, I don't know if you've you've been 713 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:24.640 rushing your whole life, so I thought you would know this, 714 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:27.759 But we don't so much have a choice with what 715 00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:28.880 this guy tells us to do. 716 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:30.680 And I think on some level too, he's like, I'm 717 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:33.279 so sick of Siberia. I can't live in Siberia anymore. 718 00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:35.480 If it, whatever it is, if it gets me to Moscow. 719 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:36.000 Yeah. 720 00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:36.319 Fine. 721 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:40.680 The movie doesn't like ever really enumerate exactly what happened 722 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:45.559 to Raymond, but essentially he winds up in Siberia because 723 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:49.119 once they're done with his pr blitz for having defected 724 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:52.079 to Russia, they basically, you can fuck off to Siberia. 725 00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:52.960 We don't care anymore. 726 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:55.680 And like I should mention the performance he was just 727 00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:58.039 doing was in like a theater smaller than my high 728 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.720 school auditorium. Oh yes, thy people in the audience who looks, 729 00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:03.880 who were looking kind of dead eyed at like what 730 00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:06.519 the because the whole show is an English porkain Bess, 731 00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:07.960 So this most of this audience, there. 732 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:10.440 Is no Russian translation of porkin Bess yet. 733 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:15.280 Yet guess what I'm learning Russian. Give me a minute, 734 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:18.719 I got this I got it. But yeah, like, so 735 00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:21.360 this this existence, even though he gets to quote unquote 736 00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:23.679 be the star of the show here, the show is 737 00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:27.320 the most ragtag, fucking little little dumpy theater in the 738 00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:29.679 middle of Siberia, He's like, I gotta get the fuck 739 00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:30.079 out of here. 740 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:33.119 Uh So he assures Daria, Look, it's gonna be all right. 741 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:36.760 We're not gonna be in fucking Siberia anymore. So they embrace, 742 00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.960 but Daria still looks very unconvinced of the intelligence of 743 00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:41.480 this plan. 744 00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:44.559 Yeah, she remember she has been Russian her whole life. Yes, 745 00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:48.159 she gets how shifty they are. I say, I said it, y'all. 746 00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:50.480 Shifty shifty, yeah, shifty Russians. 747 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:52.400 She knows when she looks at Colonel Chico that he 748 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:55.079 looks like like the second to last guy that. 749 00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:57.039 James Bond kills in the movie one hundred. 750 00:34:57.400 --> 00:34:58.679 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 751 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:02.039 We cut to the American embassy in Moscow and is 752 00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:05.840 there with the ambassador Larry Smith. Perfect yeah, like what 753 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:09.920 a name, the first not name. They're like done, Larry Smith, 754 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:13.199 we don't care, played by Shane Rimmer and god bless 755 00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:16.760 this movie. Agent. When Scott played by the great and 756 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:20.000 Good John Glover. Okay, I love John Glow. He pops 757 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.760 up a lot. Now. Yeah, we're covering more eighties movies 758 00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:24.199 and I'm so here for it. 759 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:27.360 He was just in Batman and Robin playing a mad scientist, 760 00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:31.079 and his hair in Batman and Robin was four times 761 00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:33.159 less thansane than it is in this movie. This is 762 00:35:33.239 --> 00:35:37.800 the flattest flat top. Yeah, I have ever seen it. 763 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:39.880 The plane could have landed on John Glover's hair. 764 00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:42.760 Tell me you're a spy without telling me you're a spy. 765 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.960 Tell me you're a military man working as a quote 766 00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:51.079 unquote bureaucrat. It's genius, because he could not look more 767 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:51.639 like a spy. 768 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:52.239 Correct. 769 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.400 So they they're examining the X rays that the Russians 770 00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:58.639 have sent over, claiming they are nicks. Right, nikolais and 771 00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:00.719 the X rays are telling the story of a massive 772 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:04.480 brain injury, and Anne points out correctly, but of course 773 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:06.440 she can't back this up that we don't even know 774 00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:08.480 that these are nex She is insistent that they have 775 00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:11.159 to appeal to the UN and schedule a press conference. 776 00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:13.360 We have to let the world know what's happening here. 777 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:16.079 The men advise caution, They're like, look, this is a 778 00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:19.199 tenuous situation. Why don't you go back to New York. 779 00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:21.119 Let us figure this out, let us work on it. 780 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.320 And she's like, fuck you, I'm not going. This is 781 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:24.400 the best agent. 782 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:26.280 Yeah, she really is. 783 00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:31.400 Like I am staying in enemy territory in Siberia waiting 784 00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:36.920 for my dancer, and I will not leave without my dancer. Bitch, 785 00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:39.480 get yourself a friend as good as Anna. 786 00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:42.440 It's true, but it also also does give the give 787 00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:44.159 this sense like is he your only client? 788 00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:47.639 He only client. She's definitely in love with him. Oh yeah, 789 00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:49.679 she's one hundred percent. She was like kind of flirting 790 00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:50.800 with him earlier, and I'm like. 791 00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:53.599 Girl, girl, I mean, look, shoot your shot. 792 00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:55.159 You gotta shoot your shot. 793 00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:59.480 You're gonna sleep with zero of the Russian world famous 794 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:01.119 Russian batle dancers. 795 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:02.280 That you don't try to fuck. 796 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:05.239 Thank you. I got mixed up in the middle, and 797 00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:07.960 you're right there for me like a great dance partner. 798 00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:10.679 I'm your Anne, You're my Ann. If you get stuck 799 00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:14.639 in Siberia, I will stay there. I will stay there 800 00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:15.840 till you get out, my friends. 801 00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:18.320 And if you get stuck in Siberia, I will campaign 802 00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:20.800 for your release from the comfort of my home. Absolutely, 803 00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:24.599 because you know what I will say, all of a sudden, 804 00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:26.800 I told that bitch not to go to fucking Russia. 805 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.719 I was going to Tokyo. I tried to eat my passport. 806 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:31.760 They didn't sit well. 807 00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:35.000 With my tom tone too much ruffige. 808 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:38.880 I'm onto zempic. You guys, it's really hard to eat 809 00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:40.840 a passport when you're autosimpic. 810 00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:43.000 Fucking drown that shit, and Caesar Dressing couldn't choke it down, 811 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.519 all right. So we cut to Neck. He's waking up 812 00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:49.760 in a new room. He stands up, he kind of 813 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:52.599 he walks out from behind this kind of drawn curtain 814 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:55.199 that they have, and we realize he is in Raymond 815 00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:58.119 and Daria's apartment. And Raymond's like, hi, am Raymond, and 816 00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:01.239 he here's the American accent, and he is like, holy shit, 817 00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:03.639 did that actually work? Did they actually give me to 818 00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:04.719 an American? Yeah? 819 00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:06.280 He's like, oh my god, am I in the embassy? 820 00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:06.440 Are you? 821 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:07.519 Are you the ambassador? 822 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:15.840 And Raymond's like, na, where no? Nick asks if he's 823 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:19.119 under arrest. Raymond's like, no, You're as free as a bird. 824 00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:21.920 Nick asks, are you my guard? Raymond's like I'm a 825 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:25.159 tap dancer. Okay. So can I take a walk? Go ahead? 826 00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:29.960 So Nick leaves and Raymond's like fuck and and he 827 00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:34.679 gets his jacket. Nick rushes through this sparse island settlement. 828 00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.679 It's it is. He sees no people. He runs all 829 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:39.760 the way through this. It just looks almost looks like 830 00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:40.840 a series of bars, like. 831 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:42.199 An abandoned neighborhood. 832 00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.960 Yeah, Raymond follows him from a distance. Nick eventually finds 833 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:49.079 the theater where Raymond was performing Poor Game Bess, and 834 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.440 he finds a telephone. He tries to make a phone call. 835 00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:55.239 Raymond appears, he disconnects the phone and Nick laughs. He's like, 836 00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:58.119 I know what's going on. You are here to inform 837 00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:01.199 on me. The Russians want me back. Can you imagine 838 00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:03.039 being so good at an art. 839 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:06.559 Form literally anything, literally an art form, literally anything, because 840 00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:08.719 I'm like ballet is till like there's very few people 841 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:11.519 who are very good at it. So that's but genuinely, 842 00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:15.000 what would you be good enough that that a foreign country, 843 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.239 a foreign enemy would be like, you can't leave. We 844 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:19.960 don't have anyone who does this as well as you. 845 00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:23.159 We refuse to allow you to leave because we want 846 00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:28.920 the international prestige that you being from our country lends us. 847 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:31.679 Yeah, in my case, it would be binge watching television. 848 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:34.599 It's the only thing I'm genuinely good at. 849 00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:39.719 I'm gonna go with making bitchy side remarks under my breath. 850 00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:43.679 Falling asleep in a crowd full of people. No one 851 00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:45.519 else can do it as well as you, ma'am. You 852 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:47.840 have to say, it's a skill we need. 853 00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:50.039 How you got your genius immigration grant? 854 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:54.119 My MacArthur grant came from back. 855 00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:55.199 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 856 00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:58.000 They go back to Raymond's apartment and they have dinner 857 00:39:58.119 --> 00:39:59.920 with Raymond and with Daria. 858 00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:03.079 Barishnikov is going after this herring and onions like it 859 00:40:03.159 --> 00:40:03.920 is made out of ham. 860 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.280 Yeah, honestly, I like this this bit because it made 861 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:09.840 a little like a He probably hasn't had this type 862 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:11.880 of meal since it defected, so it's and it's a 863 00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:16.519 home cooked Russian meal. And he's like, this is really good. Yeah, 864 00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:20.159 So yeah, he's going after his herring. Not a euphemism. 865 00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:21.880 Raymond's so sadly. 866 00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:27.000 Sadly, Raymond is just drinking vodka, just slowly staring at 867 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:31.159 this man and drinking vodka, and he gets angrier and drunker, 868 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:35.159 and he starts to mock Nick for being americanized. Yeah, 869 00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:38.800 Nick says, it's a wonderful country, America he means, and 870 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:43.639 Raymond's like, psh, wonderful to you maybe, And then they 871 00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:45.880 really like give Gregory Hines a lot to work with 872 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:48.639 in this movie, and he I think he's really good, right, 873 00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:51.840 Like he has this monologue about like, man, you don't 874 00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.519 know shit about America and how fucked up and terrible 875 00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:56.639 and racist it is. And Nick is like, why did 876 00:40:56.639 --> 00:41:01.079 you defect to Russia of all places? Of all places? 877 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:04.920 All again? I like that is so important? Why why 878 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:08.679 like famously like Josephine Baker was like Paris, And I'm like, yes, 879 00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:13.719 that makes fucking sense to me, Like why would you 880 00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:14.599 pick Russia? 881 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:16.679 I guess you. And look, the movie does not make 882 00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:18.440 this argument at all, so I'm not trying to say 883 00:41:18.440 --> 00:41:21.039 it does, but like you could think that that would 884 00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:22.800 be the if you want to stick it to the 885 00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:23.599 US government. 886 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:24.719 I think that's what it is. 887 00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:27.159 That's the that's the one that hurts. 888 00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:29.960 Yeah, he wanted to be splashy about it. Yeah, exactly. 889 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.920 Anyone can move to fucking England, Yeah, I mean that 890 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:36.199 is what Edward's Noden did, right, Yeah, Like potentially had 891 00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:38.119 other countries he could have gone to, but he's like, 892 00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:40.719 this is gonna hurt. Yeah, so he went to Russia. 893 00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:43.840 But he's not a black man. So Raymond continues the monologue, 894 00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:46.800 and the movie blessedly has him tap dance while he's 895 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:47.159 doing it. 896 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:48.840 Did you notice the credit at the end of the movie, 897 00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:53.199 No tap improvography by Gregory Hines. 898 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:55.000 Im proography? 899 00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:56.239 Improvography? 900 00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:57.039 Is that a word? 901 00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.800 I think it's choreography that's been improvd pvography. 902 00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:04.679 Cool, Yeah, can't you just say choreography whatever? Moving on, I. 903 00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:06.159 Didn't want to make the point that he did. He 904 00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:08.039 didn't work it out in advance. He was just doing it. 905 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:12.440 He's just Riffin. So Raymond tells Nick the story of 906 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.400 his disillusionment with America. First of all, starting when he 907 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:17.559 was a child, he got work as a tap dancer, 908 00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:20.239 and then you know, aged out of it because no 909 00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:22.239 one wants to see an adult tap dancer, is what 910 00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:24.679 he actually says in the movie. And I'm like, counterpoint, 911 00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:27.840 I'd pay a lot of money to watch you tap dance, buddy. 912 00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:30.079 He then he grew up and he wound up in 913 00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:32.400 the army, and he was excited. He believed in America. 914 00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:35.000 He was a patriot. He wanted to fight for his country. 915 00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:39.000 Then they sent him to war and perhaps not our 916 00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:43.039 finest hour, the Vietnam War, and they made him a murderer, 917 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:45.119 and they made him a rapist, he says, And they 918 00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:46.920 made him, they made him, they made him someone who 919 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:50.719 burns villages. And he and you can see like the 920 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.239 light go out of Gregory Hines's eyes as he's talking 921 00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.760 about it. And he realized that the government was using him. 922 00:42:56.119 --> 00:42:58.039 And he says, they didn't even see me as a 923 00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:01.239 human being. They saw me as is like a killing machine, 924 00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:03.800 and they wanted him to die so that they could 925 00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:06.239 get more money and more power, and he starts to 926 00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:09.559 break down and cry and Daria comforts him. This is beautiful. 927 00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:12.400 This scene is incredible, yep. Nick says that he actually 928 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:15.480 does remember Raymond's defection in the news, and Raymond says 929 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:18.440 bitterly that he was big news while the Russians needed him, 930 00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:22.079 but now not so much. And Nick repeats himself that 931 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:25.840 America is still better than the Soviet Union, still a 932 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:28.519 better place to live, and Raymond says that Nick wasn't 933 00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:30.280 a hero. He just wanted to be where the pay 934 00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.199 is better. He's like stop trying to paint yourself as 935 00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:37.760 like an idealist, Like you have no ideology, as neither 936 00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:40.760 do I. Neither of these men are like I'm a 937 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:43.639 you know, I'm a capitalist, I'm a communist. No, they 938 00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:45.880 don't give a shit about that. They just wanted to 939 00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:48.679 go where they could, like one where he could succeed 940 00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:51.599 and the other where he could like hide it in 941 00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:54.960 a way and like become become a part of something 942 00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:56.599 that was anything but the United States. 943 00:43:56.719 --> 00:44:00.079 Yep. We cut to the next day. Raymond is in 944 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:03.079 a car with Colonel Chaiko, who looks like he's about 945 00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:07.599 to go give a report to m Bison. Chiko asks 946 00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:10.519 if Raymond has pitched Nick on the idea that he 947 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:13.000 could live the life that he used to live, right, 948 00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:14.760 So this is this is what we're hearing for the 949 00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:18.039 first time, Chiko. The job that Chiko gave to Raymond 950 00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:20.840 was you were going to convince Nick to come back 951 00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:23.400 to Russia and dance for us. That's what he wants. 952 00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:25.840 Raymond's like, I haven't even brought it up yet. It's 953 00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:28.559 the first day. Like, if if I go too hard, 954 00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:31.480 if I John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons, this he's just 955 00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:34.199 going to tell me to fuck off. It's not gonna work. 956 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.760 Chiko tells the car to stop, and he asks Raymond 957 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:39.840 to get out, and that the edge of this enormous 958 00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:44.280 like stone quarry slash labor camp slash mine something whatever. 959 00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:45.400 Yeah. 960 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:48.400 Chiko asks him, what do you mean last night when 961 00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:51.360 you said you were big news while we needed you, 962 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:54.320 which means that he's listening to all these conversations, and 963 00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:56.760 Raymond says, oh, I was drunk. Nick's a pain in 964 00:44:56.800 --> 00:44:59.159 the ass. I can't just come out and tell him 965 00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:01.079 he has to dance in in Russia. He's a diva. 966 00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:03.360 He's like, it won't work. I have to convince him, 967 00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:05.800 and Chiko looks out at the quarry and notes, you know, 968 00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:08.519 a man gets old before his time in a place 969 00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:11.440 like this. It's better to work in a theater than 970 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:14.599 at a mine. So basically, being like, step on it, 971 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:16.679 get him to agree to dance, or you're winding up 972 00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:20.000 in a labor camp. Cool, cool, love this country. 973 00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:21.440 You know what? Us is starting to look a little 974 00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:25.000 bit better now, isn't it. Buddy. Back at the apartment, 975 00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:29.679 Daria is anxiety cleaning house. She's terrified. She's deeply relieved 976 00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:32.840 when Raymond walks back in. Raymond apologizes to Nick for 977 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:36.000 his behavior of the night before. Raymond tells Nick, look, 978 00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:39.199 everyone's really glad you're here. We're glad you're back. We're 979 00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:42.639 all very excited for you this, for this reunion of 980 00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:43.559 you and your homeland. 981 00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:44.280 Uh huh. 982 00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:46.800 And I think people, many. 983 00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:48.679 Many people, so many people. 984 00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:52.360 Would absolutely love it if you danced again, if you 985 00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:55.400 danced here for a minute. I mean, think about the 986 00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:59.719 comfort you would bring to your former and fellow countrymen, yes, 987 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.119 and women like, wouldn't that be something that would warm 988 00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:02.480 your heart? 989 00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:10.599 And Nick's like, it's a very roxy heart response. 990 00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:13.360 I feel like Maria Kallis would have given the same response. 991 00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:20.079 Don't try to fuck with me. Raymond keeps pressing. It's like, 992 00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:22.800 I think your situation, and by your situation, I mean 993 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:26.079 my situation would greatly improve if you played a little 994 00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:29.440 fucking ball, ye, Nick, I think from the jump, Nick 995 00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:31.960 is very smart. He kind of cottons to what's going on, 996 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.880 and he's like, okay, sure, but you know what, Ugh, 997 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.360 I can't really play ball here. This is not the 998 00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:38.920 place to play ball. And why don't we go to 999 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:41.000 Leningrad to see what my status is? 1000 00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:44.800 So we cut to the trio arriving in Leningrad in 1001 00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:47.199 a car with Chico. Chico is up front. They're being 1002 00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:51.719 driven by Kerrigan, and Chico gives Kolia his luggage, all 1003 00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:54.320 the luggage they recovered from the plane. And he's still 1004 00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:57.400 playing very nice but like this with a crocodile grin 1005 00:46:57.440 --> 00:46:58.159 on the whole time. 1006 00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:01.320 Remember this is Colonel chaik Go. He is the villain 1007 00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:05.440 in a very very very janky offshoot of the X Men. 1008 00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:09.079 That's right. So they drive past the Kirev Ballet where 1009 00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:13.280 Nick was trained, where all of these famous ballet dancers danced, 1010 00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:16.960 gorgeous theater. It's a gorgeous, beautiful building. He tells Nick 1011 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.840 that the season opens in ten days. Nick's appearance there 1012 00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:24.039 will be a great moment. No one's gonna hold your 1013 00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:27.199 past mistakes against you. Look, you're not even in jail, 1014 00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:28.880 and you're a convicted criminal. 1015 00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:30.039 How cool is that? 1016 00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:33.639 Aren't we just the cat's pajamas? 1017 00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:36.280 Honestly, like Russia, I see your point. Yeah, get you 1018 00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:39.280 let a convicted criminal just roam the streets and dance 1019 00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:41.519 the ballet. But here in America we make them president. 1020 00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:42.599 That's right, that's what we do. 1021 00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:43.239 That's what we do. 1022 00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:45.599 That's how we honor our convicted criminals. 1023 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:47.639 Come on, now, come on, now, one off that. 1024 00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:50.440 Are many many times convicted criminals. 1025 00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:53.239 They arrive at an apartment building and we find out 1026 00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:55.679 it's the same one where Nick used to live. Even 1027 00:47:55.719 --> 00:47:58.079 the landlady Pasha is the same land lady. 1028 00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:00.519 Boy, that old lady she's just she could not be 1029 00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:03.519 less impressed. She's like, well she genuinely she's like, oh, 1030 00:48:03.559 --> 00:48:04.719 you're back. That's nice. 1031 00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:09.239 Anyway, moving on, moving on, They bring him to his 1032 00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:12.800 old apartment, which has been kept, he says, just as 1033 00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:13.519 he left it. 1034 00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:16.679 Creepy, creepy as fun. What do you think did they 1035 00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:18.800 really actually keep it the way he's like, like in 1036 00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:21.519 case he came back, or did they just quickly like 1037 00:48:21.639 --> 00:48:24.199 read they kicked the family out that's living there now. 1038 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:27.719 No, they kept it because the way he walks around, 1039 00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:29.480 like his pictures are in the same spot. 1040 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.280 Yeah, like the archivist would have had to be so 1041 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:34.719 they would have had to take photos of it just 1042 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:37.159 in case, and like Mark like, okay, this is a 1043 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:38.480 blue post. 1044 00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:40.800 It just goes over here where the blue post it goes. 1045 00:48:41.199 --> 00:48:43.039 They just kept it. Wow, they didn't give it to 1046 00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:44.440 any of the fucking proletariat. 1047 00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:46.480 Yeah, there's some vintage porn in that. 1048 00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:51.960 Excellent, just just bush and tan lines in that porn. 1049 00:48:51.880 --> 00:48:54.519 Ladies with pick and potatoes. I don't know what Russian 1050 00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:56.480 porn looks like. Jet skiing. 1051 00:48:56.599 --> 00:49:01.119 I'm guessing absolutely old Russian lady naked on a jet skate. 1052 00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:02.000 What a picture? 1053 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:05.639 What if that's their port old like like like just 1054 00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:10.159 granny an old babushka got on and that's it, and 1055 00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:12.280 that just wearing a babushka and a and a at 1056 00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:14.800 a bottle of vodka. 1057 00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:19.960 Chiko reiterates that the Soviet offer is sincere. Nick will 1058 00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:23.039 have his old life back. Everything will be at his disposal. 1059 00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:25.400 He will have a car, food will be cooked for him. 1060 00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:28.039 He will have to worry about nothing. All he has 1061 00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:30.960 to do is dance. So Nick kind of like wanders 1062 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:33.880 through the apartment. He finds a framed photograph of him 1063 00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:38.760 with a ballerina with a with a photoshopped version of 1064 00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:43.679 Elimeirn's face on upper body. It definitely looks one real 1065 00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:44.280 you guys. 1066 00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:48.719 Yeah, this is not weird, bad photoshop, don't worry about it. 1067 00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:51.519 Chico goes over to Raymond and he says, you need 1068 00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:54.400 to get Nick into shape starting tomorrow in the studio, 1069 00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:57.360 and Raymond's like, I'm a tap dancer, and Chiko's like, 1070 00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.880 that's your fucking problem. My fucking problem is getting this 1071 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:03.440 damsel tied to the train tracks in the next fifteen minutes. 1072 00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:05.719 Yeah, my fucking problem is trying to steal the uranium. 1073 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:08.840 Excuse me, excuse me, you do this, I'm gonna go 1074 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:12.039 bond villain. Okay, this is This is the point of 1075 00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:13.400 the movie where Eric is like, I'm. 1076 00:50:13.239 --> 00:50:14.800 Sorry, what okay, yeah, this. 1077 00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:17.320 I'm sorry, excuse me, excueeze me. 1078 00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:21.079 I can't I can't defend it because I don't. I 1079 00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:25.679 can't tell if Chico is just fucking like trolling Raymond, 1080 00:50:26.320 --> 00:50:27.960 Like why is this his job? 1081 00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:30.679 This should not be his job. No, you know who's 1082 00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:33.239 gonna convince Raymond to go back to the United States, 1083 00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:35.880 This other guy who loves the United States and is 1084 00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:38.519 also a dancer that he looks up to, Like, this 1085 00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:40.239 is all a very big mistake. 1086 00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:42.880 The only thing that makes any sense about it is 1087 00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:46.639 that he he doesn't actually care about Nick getting back 1088 00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:48.880 into shape or whatever. Nick is in shape, Like, yes, 1089 00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:49.760 he had. 1090 00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:51.199 This dancing two days ago. 1091 00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:54.480 He was dancing. Yeah, exactly, so like he's just literally 1092 00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:58.679 trolling Raymond, Like he's just psychologically torturing Raymond for funzies. 1093 00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:02.199 Which does like the performance, yes, yeah, does support that. 1094 00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:05.119 But it's just like the Russian government can't be this 1095 00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:08.039 bad things, right, Like they would give him a handler 1096 00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:12.599 who's an actual, like like Soviet military handler to watch 1097 00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:13.000 this guy. 1098 00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:14.599 This is the one part of the movie where I 1099 00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:17.280 really can't defend anything, Like, you are one hundred percent right. 1100 00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:20.400 The only thing that makes any sense because we will 1101 00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:24.039 find out in a reveal later spoiler alert, you guys, 1102 00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:26.360 Chiko is a big old racist. I bet you didn't 1103 00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:30.079 know that. But and like the only thing that makes 1104 00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:33.280 sense is he's fucking with him. He's fucking with him, 1105 00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:35.119 but but like just fuck with him a different way. 1106 00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:37.599 Nick, it's too important of an asset him to be 1107 00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:41.000 like this random amateur can totally handle it. I'm sure, yeah, 1108 00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:44.719 it just is like and and like there's just no 1109 00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:47.480 like I know that things can get a lot worse 1110 00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:51.039 for Raymond, and they do spoiler they fucking do. But 1111 00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:53.880 like there's just not enough the stakes are not high 1112 00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:55.280 enough at this point in the movie for me to 1113 00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:57.760 believe Raymond isn't like, come on, man, just let me 1114 00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:00.920 go back to Siberia if anything else. Yeah, So Chico 1115 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:03.400 leaves and Nick immediately checks all the windows to see 1116 00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:05.960 where the guards are, Like he finds them all stationed, 1117 00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:08.840 Like where they're all stationed And to the Russian government's 1118 00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:10.679 credit is a sentence, I. 1119 00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:12.840 Say so much, I know. Yeah, if I had a nickel, 1120 00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:14.519 if I had a nickel, if I had a shekel 1121 00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:17.000 for every time I heard that, like the. 1122 00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:19.880 They did put a lot of guards on them, at least, 1123 00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:22.440 like they put these fucking people together in an apartment 1124 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:25.039 together just to like let them simmer, and then they 1125 00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:27.679 put like ten guards on the outside. I would pose 1126 00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:29.519 it you should put one guard on the inside. 1127 00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:32.159 Yeah, just saying, what if there was a lot more 1128 00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:35.840 Challengers infused into this movie? What if what if Daria 1129 00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:37.440 was like playing the two of them against each other 1130 00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:38.199 and they would well like. 1131 00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:41.360 The movie Challengers to the Tennis movie. Yeah, what if 1132 00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:43.440 there was like a real psychological like what if this 1133 00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:45.800 was the Dreamers? Yeah, and they all decide to form 1134 00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:47.679 a thrupple together and then two of them find out 1135 00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:50.639 their siblings. Yeah, what a fun movie, What a fun 1136 00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:53.880 with the Dreamers is a crazy movie, you guys. Meanwhile, 1137 00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:56.920 while like Nick is actually being smart and like figuring 1138 00:52:56.960 --> 00:52:58.559 out where all the bugs are and where all the 1139 00:52:58.559 --> 00:53:01.880 microphones are and shit around the apartment, Raymond and Daria 1140 00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:04.360 geeze out the window, and Daria's like, I wish we 1141 00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:07.760 could lose ourselves somewhere and not be under like the 1142 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:10.159 watchful eye of Chaiko. I want to go to a 1143 00:53:10.199 --> 00:53:12.960 place where no one is watching us ever again, like 1144 00:53:13.199 --> 00:53:15.840 she's really seeding some shit that's gonna come to Ruth later. 1145 00:53:16.280 --> 00:53:18.639 She wishes they could just disappear, and Raymond says, don't worry. 1146 00:53:18.719 --> 00:53:20.679 Things will be much better now that we're in Leningrad, 1147 00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:23.199 like far better than they were in Siberia, which is 1148 00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:24.239 such a low bar to clear. 1149 00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.000 Yeah, we cut to the next day, Raymond and Nick 1150 00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:29.719 go to the dance studio. Raymond is like, come on, 1151 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:31.760 work out, you have to get in shape for opening night. 1152 00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:34.480 He's really not putting a lot of effort into this 1153 00:53:34.519 --> 00:53:37.719 whole thing, and Nick says, I only dance when I 1154 00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:41.480 feel like it. You only dance when you're drunk, and 1155 00:53:41.519 --> 00:53:43.840 he takes out his boombox that he got back from 1156 00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:46.360 his luggage. I guess it's boombox and his luggage. 1157 00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:49.480 This is the most insane. This boombox must have seemed 1158 00:53:49.559 --> 00:53:52.960 so fucking high tech, uh huh cool in nineteen eighty five. 1159 00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:57.519 Can we describe it real quick release? So it's obviously enormous. 1160 00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:00.679 Is a fucking boombox, right, But it's not just boombox. 1161 00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:03.800 The case that it comes in like opens up like 1162 00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:06.119 like from the from the bottom up, like a like 1163 00:54:06.199 --> 00:54:10.039 the door of a Dolorean, And there's like a case 1164 00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:13.159 for all of his tapes. So it's got like dozens 1165 00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:16.039 and dozens of tapes in there from the United States 1166 00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:18.719 of music that you can't get in Russia. Yeah, So 1167 00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:21.079 it's like that will come back over and over again 1168 00:54:21.079 --> 00:54:23.199 because it makes it also makes a lot of sense 1169 00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:24.920 why the movie and how the movie has all this 1170 00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:27.519 music that's American, Like how are they dancing to a 1171 00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:30.599 song that doesn't exist in Russia? That's how it's brought in. 1172 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:32.800 It's crazy to me that the Russians let him keep 1173 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:35.519 it because the amount he could have recorded of like 1174 00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:41.400 private conversations, yes with high Russian officials and hidden behind 1175 00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:44.440 a Linel Ritchie record collection is shocking. 1176 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:47.559 I also think that I think he has it because 1177 00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:50.039 they are trying to they're trying to sweet talk him, 1178 00:54:50.239 --> 00:54:53.079 They're trying to lull him into a false sense of security. Yeah, 1179 00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:56.800 and he is so rightfully paranoid, as we will find 1180 00:54:56.800 --> 00:54:59.599 out that he's not buying anything that Chiko is selling. 1181 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:03.239 He's just he's trying to string Chiko along. He's trying 1182 00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:06.679 to buy enough that Chico does not bite. Basically, Yeah, 1183 00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:09.880 Nick puts on My Love is Chemical by Lou Reed, 1184 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:12.440 which this song is queer as hell because there's no 1185 00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:15.800 there is no pronouns in it. Yeah, and it's just 1186 00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:18.039 talking like and lou Read also did Walk on the wild. 1187 00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:22.119 Side, Got a little Yeah, I love that this song. 1188 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:24.719 Is sexy and queer and I really like it. Yeah. 1189 00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:26.320 And he's like, oh, you want me to dance ballet? 1190 00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:28.760 I'm not gonna attempt to do Michail Gooberchov's accent, you guys, 1191 00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:31.719 because I'm not even gonna try. He's like, you want 1192 00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:34.960 me to dance ballet? He starts to jokingly dance fake ballet, 1193 00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:38.159 and Raymond is like, Wow, I like this song, and 1194 00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:40.679 it's like whoa, whoa, whoa plug your ears? This this 1195 00:55:40.800 --> 00:55:43.079 music is dangerous. People might be watching if they see 1196 00:55:43.079 --> 00:55:45.679 you enjoying this, that's going to be a problem. And 1197 00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:48.360 he gestures above the mirror and we see we see 1198 00:55:48.360 --> 00:55:51.840 a camera filming the two of them, but it's so prominent. 1199 00:55:51.599 --> 00:55:55.480 It's like they move. 1200 00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:57.880 It moves so like you can you can almost see 1201 00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.559 like the intern behind it trying to like smoothly move 1202 00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:02.760 it with like just by pulling on a fishing line. 1203 00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:08.119 Nick offers to get serious and do some real ballet, 1204 00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:10.960 and he tells Raymond, I'll bet you seven rubles that 1205 00:56:11.079 --> 00:56:13.639 I can do seven pirouettes in a row. And of course, 1206 00:56:13.639 --> 00:56:16.639 the movie's like, we know he can do it. He's Barishnikoff, 1207 00:56:17.360 --> 00:56:20.519 and if he fails, Raymond can have his boombox and 1208 00:56:20.599 --> 00:56:21.239 all the tapes. 1209 00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:21.639 Yep. 1210 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:26.079 That is even though Raymond is dirt fucking broke. He's like, okay, 1211 00:56:26.199 --> 00:56:27.519 that's a really good price. 1212 00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:27.920 Yeah. 1213 00:56:28.159 --> 00:56:29.880 He starts to take money out and he's like, I'll 1214 00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:33.239 tell you what. I have eleven rubles in my pocket. 1215 00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:36.960 I want you to do eleven pirouettes. Nick's like, okay, 1216 00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.400 don't get fucking serious. This is not an ice skating arena. 1217 00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:44.199 I cannot do eleven piroetes on this floor. And raymond'sh, 1218 00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:48.519 you're the great Nikolai like Rube ta Chenko, I think 1219 00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:51.559 you can do eleven pirouettes. But Nick's like fine, and 1220 00:56:51.639 --> 00:56:54.840 he agrees to the bet he sells. He sets himself up, 1221 00:56:54.880 --> 00:56:59.119 and Erica fucking counts eleven piroettes easy as pied with 1222 00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:01.639 you counting along with absolutely everyone was. 1223 00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:04.679 And it's incredible because that the tenth pirouet he starts 1224 00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:07.400 to slow down, and I mean talk about giving someone 1225 00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:09.760 a middle finger through dance. He slows down, and the 1226 00:57:09.960 --> 00:57:12.000 eleventh pirouet is slow, and then he just puts his 1227 00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:15.039 foot down. Easiest pie. He does this easier than I 1228 00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:16.239 get out of bed in the morning. 1229 00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:18.239 He does this easier than I get out of this 1230 00:57:18.360 --> 00:57:20.400 chair I'm sitting in right now. Every time I get 1231 00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:22.480 out of this chair at my knees buckle. 1232 00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:27.119 And like, oh, I'm trying to think of the thing 1233 00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:30.239 I do as easily as he does these eleven piroetes. 1234 00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:31.079 Mine is belching. 1235 00:57:35.159 --> 00:57:36.880 Should I put a little super cut at the end 1236 00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:40.159 of this episode, because I usually cut them out, But 1237 00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:43.000 in case anyone's wondering, we had Shawarma and I for 1238 00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:44.079 dinner before recording. 1239 00:57:44.199 --> 00:57:47.239 Here's Sharman and I'm still drinking my soda. So there's 1240 00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:54.079 been some purping this evening in the studio. Raymond's jaw drops. Yes, 1241 00:57:54.199 --> 00:57:57.159 as says most people watching the movie, because like this 1242 00:57:57.239 --> 00:57:59.000 is really well written, because they must have gone to 1243 00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:01.840 like bers Off and be like, what's the like high number, 1244 00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:04.000 like top level here what you can do? And he 1245 00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:06.280 probably has like a number like thirteen or fourteen, but 1246 00:58:06.320 --> 00:58:08.840 he's like, let's try eleven, just to make it easy. Yeah, 1247 00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:10.199 And so we're gonna start at seven. 1248 00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:10.840 Yeah. 1249 00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:16.400 Nick gloatingly collects his winnings. He's like, mm, eleven, hole ruples, 1250 00:58:16.480 --> 00:58:18.960 I gonna buye so many things with my new money. 1251 00:58:19.639 --> 00:58:23.239 I finally have money here, and he dances mockingly at him. 1252 00:58:23.320 --> 00:58:25.559 If you don't know how to dance mockingly, allow Mikail 1253 00:58:25.599 --> 00:58:28.119 Barishnikov to show you. The man truly can dance anything. 1254 00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:28.840 He really can. 1255 00:58:29.039 --> 00:58:29.239 Yeah. 1256 00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:31.199 Yeah, he's such a dick in the scene is really good. 1257 00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:32.079 I love it. 1258 00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:32.559 It's so good. 1259 00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:37.159 It's so good. The door opens and Galina Ivanova played 1260 00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:40.239 by Helen Mirren, the ballerina from the photo and Nick's apartment, 1261 00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:42.239 or at least the face of the ballerina in the 1262 00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:46.199 photo from Nick's apartment enters, She claps her hands at 1263 00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:48.400 the mocking dancing and says, very impressive. 1264 00:58:48.519 --> 00:58:51.360 Nick is embarrassed. That's excellent, excellent to have this moment 1265 00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:52.920 happened right before she walks in. 1266 00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:56.800 Absolutely. Nick is shocked. He's embarrassed. He's like, stop the music. 1267 00:58:57.280 --> 00:58:59.719 He even says please to Raymond, please stop the music. 1268 00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:02.960 Galina asks Raymond to please wait outside, and he does. 1269 00:59:03.000 --> 00:59:04.960 He just gets up and leaves. He's not not super 1270 00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:08.639 interested the two of them. Okay, So Helen Mirren is 1271 00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:12.159 the sully that lands the plane of this movie. I think, 1272 00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:18.159 like like she is able to bring the Russian tragedy 1273 00:59:18.320 --> 00:59:23.440 mellow drama and like ground it very shockingly easily. She 1274 00:59:23.519 --> 00:59:24.519 makes it effortless, aren't you. 1275 00:59:24.559 --> 00:59:25.079 Yeah? 1276 00:59:25.159 --> 00:59:27.559 There are two scenes been her and Mikhail Brushnikov that 1277 00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:31.239 are heartbreaking. Yeah, And I truly do not mean to 1278 00:59:31.239 --> 00:59:33.079 take anything away from him when I say this. It's 1279 00:59:33.119 --> 00:59:34.519 just she's so good. 1280 00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:37.559 Yeah, No, no, I'm taking things away. You can't be 1281 00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:39.679 that good of a dancer and a good actor. 1282 00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:41.480 It's not fair and that hot. 1283 00:59:41.880 --> 00:59:46.480 No, unfair. No, you get one, you get one, Misha. 1284 00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:52.599 So Nick approaches Galina, he embraces her. They break apart 1285 00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:55.639 and they make small talk for a moment in Russian, 1286 00:59:55.840 --> 00:59:57.920 and then Galina says, well, why are we speaking in Russian? 1287 00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:00.880 You're American now, aren't you. Nick says, I thought I 1288 01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:04.079 would never see you again, and she calls him a bastard, 1289 01:00:04.119 --> 01:00:05.840 and she explains what she had to go through in 1290 01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:09.239 Russia when he defected to the West. So essentially they 1291 01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:12.239 went on a trip to dance together and he did 1292 01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:15.639 not go back yep. So when she got back to Russia, 1293 01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:19.320 the KGB was extremely interested in what she knew and 1294 01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:22.480 what she knew about him leaving. She was interrogated by 1295 01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:25.079 them every week for three years and had no passport 1296 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:28.679 for four so she underwent a lot of shit because 1297 01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:31.320 of Nick's defection. And he points out, well, you must 1298 01:00:31.360 --> 01:00:33.760 have answered the questions well, because now you run the 1299 01:00:33.840 --> 01:00:36.559 Kire of Ballet. That's the beautiful ballet theater that we 1300 01:00:36.599 --> 01:00:39.920 saw before she takes a deep breath, she calms herself. 1301 01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:42.800 She offers him a place at the care of She says, 1302 01:00:43.079 --> 01:00:45.840 it's a generous offer and you would be intelligent to 1303 01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.320 take it, And at this point she believes it's an 1304 01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:51.079 actual offer. 1305 01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:54.679 She's done. Well there, yeah, just do I mean my 1306 01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:57.199 life is not bad. Yeah, like just do what you're 1307 01:00:57.199 --> 01:00:59.920 told and it's fine. And it's the doing what you're 1308 01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:03.079 told part that's the that's actually the sticking point. He's 1309 01:01:03.079 --> 01:01:05.480 not concerned that he's gonna live better in Russia, then 1310 01:01:05.480 --> 01:01:07.440 he'll live anywhere else. It's just like I want to 1311 01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:08.840 be able to do what I fucking want to do 1312 01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:09.360 with my life. 1313 01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:11.679 Yep. He says he can't take it, and he goes 1314 01:01:11.719 --> 01:01:13.440 over to her because remember there's still a camera in 1315 01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:15.119 the room and they're kind of standing at the bar 1316 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:17.039 in front of the mirror and they're kind of facing 1317 01:01:17.079 --> 01:01:19.280 away from the camera, and he whispers to her, get 1318 01:01:19.320 --> 01:01:21.519 word to someone in the west, tell them that I 1319 01:01:21.559 --> 01:01:23.800 am well and I am being held captive. Please, and 1320 01:01:24.280 --> 01:01:26.599 she scoffs that she would do anything to help him, 1321 01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:29.079 and he promises that he didn't want to leave or 1322 01:01:29.159 --> 01:01:31.280 he says, I was in love with you, and she 1323 01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:34.199 just oh, she walks out. 1324 01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:37.840 Yeah, well she seems really hurt. Yeah, like, the first 1325 01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:40.679 chance you get to talk to me after breaking up 1326 01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:42.599 with me and breaking my heart eight years ago, and 1327 01:01:42.639 --> 01:01:45.119 you're asking for something, you're asking for a favor, like 1328 01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:49.559 like you're not even trying to apologize, like sincerely for 1329 01:01:49.639 --> 01:01:52.000 what he did to my life, Like this is a lot. 1330 01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:54.199 I actually feel really bad for this woman, Like I 1331 01:01:54.480 --> 01:01:58.000 get it. This sucks. I mean, who hasn't been left 1332 01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:00.599 by their lover after they defect a country and then 1333 01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:04.199 your country, Yeah, interrogates you relentlessly and hounds you and 1334 01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:06.599 makes you feel like a like a second class citizen 1335 01:02:06.639 --> 01:02:09.159 in your own Like, girl, if I had a nickel, if. 1336 01:02:08.960 --> 01:02:10.360 I had a ruble for everyone. 1337 01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:15.039 Yeah. Galina gets into a car with Chiko and he's like, well, 1338 01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:17.239 did Nick agree to dance at the care off? And 1339 01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:20.119 she's like, what position would he be given at the 1340 01:02:20.119 --> 01:02:22.840 ballet if he danced at the opening? I'm curious, like 1341 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:24.800 how much am I gonna actually have to keep working 1342 01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:27.679 with this guy who continues to break my heart over 1343 01:02:27.719 --> 01:02:28.320 and over again? 1344 01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:29.679 Oh? Do you think that's why she's asking? 1345 01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:31.920 I think she's asking two reasons. I think part of 1346 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:33.559 it is, Yeah, part of it is like she's like 1347 01:02:33.599 --> 01:02:37.199 this guy, imagine this is still her ex, so there 1348 01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:39.719 is like a deeply personal thing here, and she's like 1349 01:02:39.719 --> 01:02:41.320 how closely am I gonna have to keep working with 1350 01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:44.280 this person? And also I think she is now curious 1351 01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:45.800 as to like what the plot is. 1352 01:02:46.360 --> 01:02:48.960 Yeah, I think she's asking because she wants to be 1353 01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:50.639 sure that he's not going to be hurt. 1354 01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:53.719 Yeah, yeah, a little bit. I think it's this performance 1355 01:02:53.719 --> 01:02:56.039 to me leads me to think it's both things happening at. 1356 01:02:55.920 --> 01:02:56.760 The same Absolutely. 1357 01:02:56.840 --> 01:02:59.800 Yeah, Chiko says, well, I don't think Nick would be 1358 01:02:59.800 --> 01:03:03.159 a available after opening night. He's gonna have to take 1359 01:03:03.199 --> 01:03:07.719 some time off after opening night for a very long debriefing. 1360 01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:10.519 I know this is meant to sound threatening, but Misha 1361 01:03:10.519 --> 01:03:12.360 Barishnikov getting a long debriefing. 1362 01:03:13.480 --> 01:03:15.840 I I'm sorry, I don't see the problem start. 1363 01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:18.880 And while we're on the topic, these Instagram videos that 1364 01:03:18.920 --> 01:03:21.880 are being served to me of these men pulling off 1365 01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:25.519 their underwear to have another pair of underwear underneath. Who 1366 01:03:26.360 --> 01:03:27.960 thinks that that's what I want to see? 1367 01:03:28.039 --> 01:03:36.360 That's tachi, it's gross, it's ghosts. What a counter these? Okay, 1368 01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:38.239 thank you, I'm just getting cat videos. I'm getting the 1369 01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:38.840 internet wrong. 1370 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:41.719 I'm literally they figured it out. It's it is just 1371 01:03:41.880 --> 01:03:45.280 men like in spandex stretching their legs over their heads 1372 01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:47.960 and then looking at the camera and everything short of 1373 01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:53.039 full genital So Nick tells Raymond that he's going to 1374 01:03:53.039 --> 01:03:56.480 take a shower. They're still in the studio. Raymond heads 1375 01:03:56.519 --> 01:03:59.519 back into the studio while Nick climbs out of a 1376 01:03:59.559 --> 01:04:02.760 window in the shower. In the shower room, Raymond puts 1377 01:04:02.800 --> 01:04:05.480 on music on the jukebox and he starts to tap dance. 1378 01:04:05.480 --> 01:04:09.760 He starts more tap improvography. He starts dancing harder and harder, 1379 01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:12.679 and harder and harder. He is Wren mccormicking to the 1380 01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:13.400 end degree. 1381 01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:15.559 He's letting all his feelings out. 1382 01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:20.239 Dancing out his feelings. Meanwhile, Nick sneaks through the kira 1383 01:04:20.280 --> 01:04:23.039 of ballet. He gets up out onto the roof. He's 1384 01:04:23.079 --> 01:04:24.320 trying to find. 1385 01:04:24.199 --> 01:04:27.199 Some contact that he can he knows. 1386 01:04:27.039 --> 01:04:29.960 Someone he knows. Yeah. So while Raymond is finally dancing 1387 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:32.639 because he feels like it, Nick winds up in a 1388 01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:38.239 ballet class with all girls and one little comrade Helen. 1389 01:04:38.599 --> 01:04:41.800 Fucking mean little bitch. That is my hero. 1390 01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:46.880 Because we know, we know that Nick is not a pervert. 1391 01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:49.800 However, that girl is like, get out of here. You 1392 01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:50.840 discussed because. 1393 01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:53.440 He comes in through the fucking wind the windows, like, oh, 1394 01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:56.079 who's your ballet teacher? And some one of the girls 1395 01:04:56.079 --> 01:04:58.119 says that Semyonov or something like that, and he's like, oh, 1396 01:04:58.159 --> 01:05:00.639 I know him, I know him, and he keeps towards them, 1397 01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:01.719 and this girl is like. 1398 01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:08.480 Fuck off, brilliant little Regina George head, bitch in charge. Yeah, 1399 01:05:08.519 --> 01:05:10.760 this kid is my favorite person in a whole movie. 1400 01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:12.440 She's great, she's she's. 1401 01:05:12.360 --> 01:05:16.239 Such a ballbuster. She's like, get out. She's nine, you guys, 1402 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:18.599 this is not a fifteen or eighteen year old. She 1403 01:05:18.719 --> 01:05:21.199 is nine. And she's wearing a le a dancing guitar 1404 01:05:21.320 --> 01:05:25.639 and she's like, get out, you pervert, so we will 1405 01:05:25.679 --> 01:05:26.239 report you. 1406 01:05:26.599 --> 01:05:30.440 He says, I'm Nikolai Radchenko. I danced here and they 1407 01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:33.920 have never heard of him. Yeah, crucially, and that that 1408 01:05:33.960 --> 01:05:36.199 pulls him up short, right, that is like, what do 1409 01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:38.320 you what do you mean? I'm I was one of 1410 01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:40.199 the greatest dancers in Russia? What do you mean You've 1411 01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:43.840 never heard of me? And she's like excuse me, and 1412 01:05:43.880 --> 01:05:45.920 she goes and she grabs a curtain rod and she's 1413 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:50.559 like get out, and he's like, I'm going. At that point, 1414 01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:52.360 he really is already walking back to the window, and 1415 01:05:52.400 --> 01:05:56.840 she's like, keep going, bitch, and he's like, Jesus an asshole, this. 1416 01:05:56.679 --> 01:06:00.320 Is my hero. I aspire to live every day like 1417 01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:06.039 this bitchy Russian girl. Be this girl. Be the bitchy 1418 01:06:06.159 --> 01:06:09.960 Russian ballerina in your life, Like, be that person for yourself, 1419 01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:13.039 advocate for yourself and your friends. None of the other 1420 01:06:13.079 --> 01:06:16.280 ballerina's just saying shit. No, they don't have to. No, 1421 01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:19.280 they have a fucking hell cat at the helm who's 1422 01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:20.360 gonna take charge. 1423 01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:23.039 They know Olga's gonna take care of shit. Olga's the 1424 01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:23.639 Queen Bee. 1425 01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:24.599 I love this kiss. 1426 01:06:24.679 --> 01:06:26.960 If you just do what Olga tells you to do, 1427 01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:28.079 everything is fine. 1428 01:06:28.159 --> 01:06:31.480 Everything's fine. I wish Olga was in the United States 1429 01:06:31.519 --> 01:06:33.280 just so she could be on our side. Yeah, because 1430 01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:35.800 we need more. We need more Olga than the world. 1431 01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:38.440 Be the Olga you want to see. 1432 01:06:38.559 --> 01:06:38.920 Haha. 1433 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:43.320 All right, Erica, it's halfway through the movie Raymond. Raymond 1434 01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:47.239 is coming alive. Nick is is that loose ends? Oh 1435 01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:49.440 my god, he's been stunned by this revelation. Has been 1436 01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:52.000 a race from history. Is it time for commercials? 1437 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:52.440 Sure? 1438 01:06:52.719 --> 01:06:54.719 All right, stick around, We'll be right back to take 1439 01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:56.519 you through the end of White Knights. 1440 01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:01.639 Enjoy these commercials for Russian vodka that was just like 1441 01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:04.000 the count from Sesame Street. That was bad. 1442 01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:19.320 And we're back white liness connected to Mama. Do you 1443 01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:21.880 think they approached Grandmaster Flash to ask him to do 1444 01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:23.320 like a remake of White Lines. 1445 01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:27.239 It's called white knights, called white knights, white nights. 1446 01:07:28.079 --> 01:07:36.119 Not so what they end at nine pm a night, 1447 01:07:36.199 --> 01:07:37.840 so white they don't season their potato salad. 1448 01:07:38.039 --> 01:07:42.159 Yeah, now are you thinking k I N I T HG. 1449 01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:42.840 I misspelled that. 1450 01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:43.360 It doesn't matter. 1451 01:07:43.360 --> 01:07:45.400 You get what I'm saying. Like a man in a 1452 01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:48.400 in a full suit of armor making potato salad. Absolutely, 1453 01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:51.800 but he's bad at it. He season it correctly. That's 1454 01:07:51.840 --> 01:07:53.719 a white knight making some potato. 1455 01:07:53.360 --> 01:08:00.639 Salad, all right, Erica. When when we last left Raymond, 1456 01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:03.159 he was dancing his heart out in the studio. When 1457 01:08:03.159 --> 01:08:05.320 we last left Nick, he was being chased out of 1458 01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:07.639 the ballet dance room by comrade Helean. 1459 01:08:07.800 --> 01:08:11.159 Bye, Olga, the Great, Olga the Great. Oh God, that kid, 1460 01:08:11.519 --> 01:08:15.400 that's the best kid Nomina. I know she's a small 1461 01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:17.199 part in a movie, and she's technically one of the 1462 01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:19.000 bad guys, but I don't care. I fucking love this. 1463 01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:22.279 She's great. She's a little too dictatorial. I love where 1464 01:08:22.279 --> 01:08:24.720 she's going. I need some of the edges shaved off hah. 1465 01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:28.560 All right, So Nick returns to the studio. Raymond is 1466 01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:31.920 none the wiser about his little adventure with Comrade Olga. 1467 01:08:32.039 --> 01:08:34.479 Raymond is listening to his music. He's like, don't you 1468 01:08:34.520 --> 01:08:37.039 miss this music? Come on, and Raymond admits that he does. 1469 01:08:37.159 --> 01:08:40.119 He says there's nothing left in America for me, and 1470 01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:43.640 Nick is like, that's bullshit, and Raymond says no, actually, 1471 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:46.039 like I'd be arrested if I went back. And also, 1472 01:08:46.119 --> 01:08:48.159 my father won't speak to me, and my brother is 1473 01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:50.279 ashamed of me. And my mother got sick a few 1474 01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:52.159 years ago and I tried to call to speak to 1475 01:08:52.159 --> 01:08:53.920 her and no one would even take the call. They 1476 01:08:53.960 --> 01:08:56.239 all blame me for her dying. They think meat affecting 1477 01:08:56.279 --> 01:08:57.800 to Russia killed my mother. 1478 01:08:58.079 --> 01:09:01.600 And then Nick's like, oh, really, hard to think of 1479 01:09:01.640 --> 01:09:02.800 a counterpoint, buddy. 1480 01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:03.760 Well, I guess you do have a point. 1481 01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:09.640 However, Big Max, how about that? How about Big Max? Buddy? 1482 01:09:09.680 --> 01:09:12.399 We got Big Max the pop music of nineteen eighty five. 1483 01:09:13.399 --> 01:09:17.720 Genuinely almost, yeah, almost. I feel like England would give 1484 01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:18.640 you just as much of a. 1485 01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:20.840 Yeah, you get to England like you go to England. 1486 01:09:20.560 --> 01:09:22.960 It's just as good. Yeah, but yeah, no, that's the 1487 01:09:23.039 --> 01:09:26.239 scenes where Gregory Hines gets to drop in and like 1488 01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:28.159 he's so good and so effective. 1489 01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:28.600 Yeah. 1490 01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:30.880 The next day at the apartment, a large feast is 1491 01:09:30.880 --> 01:09:33.039 brought in for Nick, Raymond and Daria. Do they know 1492 01:09:33.079 --> 01:09:35.359 where it comes from? Like, I don't really recall it 1493 01:09:35.960 --> 01:09:36.359 brought in? 1494 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:40.119 Yeah, I think Nick seems to think that he's being 1495 01:09:40.560 --> 01:09:41.800 awarded for something. 1496 01:09:41.880 --> 01:09:45.159 So they're trying to like seduce exactly. They're like, how 1497 01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:48.119 about instead of Big Max? Yeah, how about Borsch? 1498 01:09:48.479 --> 01:09:49.800 Have you considered aspect? 1499 01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:54.000 And Nick suggests to them that they all enjoy it 1500 01:09:54.239 --> 01:09:56.760 because that's what life for the elite is like in 1501 01:09:56.800 --> 01:09:59.760 the Soviet Union, because they are just as decadent as 1502 01:09:59.800 --> 01:10:02.800 every everywhere else in the world. And Daria says, well, 1503 01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:05.479 just for tonight, I just really want to be decadent, guys. 1504 01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:08.000 This is caviar. Like the food they brought it is beautiful. 1505 01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:10.000 And she's like, I just really want to try this 1506 01:10:10.039 --> 01:10:11.000 caviar because it looks like. 1507 01:10:11.079 --> 01:10:12.880 I've been in Siberia for five years. 1508 01:10:13.039 --> 01:10:17.520 Yeah, I've eaten so much herring. So her excitement is infectious. 1509 01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:20.119 She's adorable, right, And Nick's like, you know what, You're right, 1510 01:10:20.159 --> 01:10:22.600 Let's enjoy it. So he toasts them with a welcome 1511 01:10:22.720 --> 01:10:27.039 to my house, to my apartment, and just then, fucking hell, 1512 01:10:27.159 --> 01:10:31.000 the door slams open and Chico appears, fresh from killing 1513 01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:34.239 the rainforest. Colonel Chico's here and he. 1514 01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:37.399 Is determined to catch Carmen san Diego. This time. She 1515 01:10:37.560 --> 01:10:39.960 is not going to slip through his fingers one more time. 1516 01:10:40.520 --> 01:10:43.840 Chico is furious at Raymond and for Nick's little detour 1517 01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:45.800 in the ballet studio the day before, and of course 1518 01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:47.720 Raymond still doesn't know what happened. He's like, well, I 1519 01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:49.319 don't literally don't know what you're talking about. 1520 01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:49.920 Yeah. 1521 01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:52.239 This is when he finds out that while he's supposed 1522 01:10:52.239 --> 01:10:54.359 to be was supposedly taking a shower, Nick went on 1523 01:10:54.439 --> 01:10:56.119 a little a little escapade. 1524 01:10:55.800 --> 01:10:57.359 A little side quest, if you will. 1525 01:10:57.680 --> 01:11:00.960 Chico is pissed, and he tells Raymond, well, you'll see 1526 01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:03.399 now what happens when you cross me and the men 1527 01:11:03.520 --> 01:11:07.399 take Daria away, as she's like pleading with Raymond, don't 1528 01:11:07.479 --> 01:11:09.479 argue with them, don't fight, like I'll be okay, I'll 1529 01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:12.880 be okay, I'll be okay. And Raymond is genuinely terrified 1530 01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:15.079 and furious, so like, what are you doing with my wife? 1531 01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:17.199 Where are you taking her. Oh my god, Oh my god. 1532 01:11:17.520 --> 01:11:21.600 So Daria is gone now, and Nick admits to Raymond 1533 01:11:21.600 --> 01:11:23.560 what he did. Raymond kicks him in the gut and 1534 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:25.920 he I mean go. He slams him up against the 1535 01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:28.000 bureau and he's screaming at him, I will kill you 1536 01:11:28.159 --> 01:11:30.720 if they hurt if they hurt Daria, I will kill you. 1537 01:11:31.479 --> 01:11:34.439 I'm just now remembering realizing that Daria because it's spelled 1538 01:11:34.479 --> 01:11:37.000 d a r y a. But it also just sounds 1539 01:11:37.039 --> 01:11:41.079 like Daria, like our Daria. 1540 01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:44.239 The cartoon character. Yeah, the laconic teenage girl. 1541 01:11:44.079 --> 01:11:47.079 And and picturing like that Daria in this situation is 1542 01:11:47.079 --> 01:11:47.680 pretty funny. 1543 01:11:47.720 --> 01:11:49.319 I don't think she would have eaten the caviar. 1544 01:11:49.439 --> 01:11:49.880 I don't think so. 1545 01:11:49.960 --> 01:11:50.479 I don't think so. 1546 01:11:50.479 --> 01:11:52.079 I think she would have been deeply unimpressed. 1547 01:11:52.199 --> 01:11:54.159 Yeah, she would have been like, it's just fish. Yeah, 1548 01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:56.319 it's not even that impressive. 1549 01:11:56.640 --> 01:12:00.159 So Nick spits back that this is life in Russia. 1550 01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:02.840 The implication here they didn't quite say, is that Daria 1551 01:12:03.000 --> 01:12:05.039 is in this situation because she's married to Nick. She 1552 01:12:05.079 --> 01:12:09.479 could have married someone on a better upward trajectory and also. 1553 01:12:09.319 --> 01:12:12.279 Under the radar, like Nick's on the Ray is on 1554 01:12:12.319 --> 01:12:13.079 the radar, whether he. 1555 01:12:13.119 --> 01:12:16.520 Likes it or not exactly, And so Raymond starts to 1556 01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:18.600 break down. Nick sits him down. He's like, look, it's 1557 01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:20.680 gonna be all right. He goes over to the boom box. 1558 01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:23.119 He turns on some loud music and he's like, okay, 1559 01:12:23.800 --> 01:12:26.279 now I will trust you. Yeah, And then we cut 1560 01:12:26.279 --> 01:12:28.159 away and we don't know what. We don't know what. 1561 01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:29.760 Transpires next, what they're cooking up. 1562 01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:30.880 Do you think they make out? 1563 01:12:31.720 --> 01:12:34.079 God, I wish. I feel like that's a bad time. 1564 01:12:34.119 --> 01:12:35.960 That's a bad time for Nick to approach that subject. 1565 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:36.199 It is. 1566 01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:41.000 It's like, I look like, look, this might be too soon. However, 1567 01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:44.079 do you want that we've got rid of doi? 1568 01:12:45.920 --> 01:12:47.479 Just we're just two men alone. 1569 01:12:47.680 --> 01:12:50.960 We're just two men alone in this giant apartment, all 1570 01:12:51.000 --> 01:12:54.239 this eighties music, syncopated eighties music. 1571 01:12:54.720 --> 01:12:56.600 And I basically don't have hamstrings. 1572 01:12:56.680 --> 01:13:01.720 So this my favorite trope, by the way, in any 1573 01:13:01.720 --> 01:13:04.479 of these movies where someone just plays music really loudly 1574 01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:07.640 and like the bugs in the room can't hear them anymore. 1575 01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:11.079 It happens so much of this movie where they get 1576 01:13:11.119 --> 01:13:13.399 away with so much, just like turning the volume up 1577 01:13:13.439 --> 01:13:15.279 to seven on the boom. 1578 01:13:14.920 --> 01:13:18.159 Box, it's like universal movie language for all surveillance has 1579 01:13:18.199 --> 01:13:18.880 been canceled. 1580 01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:21.520 Like if I were surveilling them, and they're like, the 1581 01:13:21.520 --> 01:13:23.319 thing is, it's not like the guys like, it's not 1582 01:13:23.359 --> 01:13:25.720 like they're not supposed to know they're under surveillance. They 1583 01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:27.840 know they're under surveillance. So if I was the guy 1584 01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:30.199 surveiling them, I'd just walk in the room and be like, guys, 1585 01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:33.319 turn it down. Turn down, guys, no higher than a three. 1586 01:13:33.359 --> 01:13:34.880 We have to be able to hear what you're saying 1587 01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:38.239 at all times. Remember, we're surveilling you. Yeah, come on now, hey, everyone, 1588 01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:41.720 just keep me cool, otherwise we're taking the boom box away. Yeah, yeah, 1589 01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:45.640 come on next time. My neighbors have like the music 1590 01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:49.079 playing at top volume, and the apartment above me is 1591 01:13:49.119 --> 01:13:52.840 literally thumping the amount of people dancing and moving up there. 1592 01:13:53.239 --> 01:13:54.880 I'm not going to be mad at them for having 1593 01:13:54.920 --> 01:13:56.680 a party late at night and keeping me up. I'm 1594 01:13:56.680 --> 01:13:58.520 going to be mad at them for being Russian spies, 1595 01:13:58.920 --> 01:14:02.159 because they are obviously Russian spies. Clearly, the only reason 1596 01:14:02.199 --> 01:14:05.000 to have your music on that high you're you're evading 1597 01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:06.760 the US government, sir, and. 1598 01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:09.119 I can't hear you through the bug anymore that I 1599 01:14:09.119 --> 01:14:09.920 placed in your apartment. 1600 01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:12.000 Yes, how dare you? How dare you? 1601 01:14:12.079 --> 01:14:12.920 How dare you? 1602 01:14:13.000 --> 01:14:13.119 Am? 1603 01:14:13.159 --> 01:14:18.840 I unofficially an American agent? Maybe Aberative? Perhaps is my 1604 01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:22.880 code name spinster Lady? Yeah, yeah it is. I'm on 1605 01:14:22.920 --> 01:14:25.600 the knock list. We cut to Nick as he visits 1606 01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:26.800 Galina at the ballet. 1607 01:14:26.840 --> 01:14:29.640 Can I interrupt you for one moment here? Sure? May? Okay, 1608 01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:32.239 So we're at wet We cut to the care of Ballet. 1609 01:14:32.960 --> 01:14:36.560 Galina is there. She's on the stage like like most 1610 01:14:36.600 --> 01:14:39.600 executives are when they do their work. She's looking at drawings. 1611 01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:42.720 She is in It's not a pencil skirt, but it's 1612 01:14:42.720 --> 01:14:44.560 like a Maxie skirt of it and like. 1613 01:14:44.560 --> 01:14:46.560 A blouse, not a Maxi skirt. It's more of a 1614 01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:47.840 pencil skirt because it's fitted. 1615 01:14:47.960 --> 01:14:48.439 It's fitted. 1616 01:14:48.439 --> 01:14:50.680 It like tapers down to her knees. 1617 01:14:50.840 --> 01:14:54.079 Yes, and a pair pumps. But she's sitting on the 1618 01:14:54.119 --> 01:14:59.880 floor of the stage, just posed in the most seductive way. 1619 01:15:00.199 --> 01:15:03.079 She goes over drawings. This is a this is a 1620 01:15:03.159 --> 01:15:07.039 romance novel. No, yeah, people did my back. Hurt's even 1621 01:15:07.079 --> 01:15:09.680 looking at Helen Mirren sitting in that she was a ballerina. 1622 01:15:09.760 --> 01:15:10.479 She could do anything. 1623 01:15:10.600 --> 01:15:12.840 Sure. She also like she doesn't feel pain. 1624 01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:14.239 I don't know if we mentioned this, but her she 1625 01:15:14.359 --> 01:15:16.359 married the director of this movie. This is how they are, 1626 01:15:16.600 --> 01:15:19.359 Tylor Hackford. Yeah, and so I feel like Taylor Hackford 1627 01:15:19.359 --> 01:15:21.800 maybe was falling in love with Helen Maren during this 1628 01:15:21.840 --> 01:15:24.640 project and kept putting her in like poses he wanted 1629 01:15:24.680 --> 01:15:27.840 to see her. He's like, for this scene where you're 1630 01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:30.920 having a conference call with fifteen executives, yeah, I need 1631 01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:32.319 you to unbutton a few more buttons. 1632 01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:37.319 No reason, I need some decoltage. 1633 01:15:39.520 --> 01:15:41.840 Nick points out that the music she's listening to, which 1634 01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:45.319 is a Russian artist, is forbidden music because I guess 1635 01:15:45.319 --> 01:15:49.319 it's abversive Russian artists like another defector, and she's like, listen, 1636 01:15:49.399 --> 01:15:51.600 we've made progress. I know what you think, I know 1637 01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:54.000 how you think, how backwards this all is, but I've 1638 01:15:54.039 --> 01:15:55.319 managed to push the needle forward. 1639 01:15:55.399 --> 01:15:55.520 Here. 1640 01:15:55.560 --> 01:15:59.199 Look at these drawings. Therefore, an evening of work of Balanchine. 1641 01:15:59.199 --> 01:16:00.680 That's what I've been trying to get them to do 1642 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:05.119 for years. For anyone who does know the backstory, George Balanchine, 1643 01:16:05.680 --> 01:16:11.479 famous Russian choreographer who defected very loudly and famously and 1644 01:16:11.560 --> 01:16:13.199 moved to the United States, and then became head of 1645 01:16:13.199 --> 01:16:17.199 the New York City Ballet, so like they're gonna finally 1646 01:16:17.279 --> 01:16:22.039 let me do his work and like here and Nick's like, girl, girl, 1647 01:16:22.279 --> 01:16:25.560 that's never going to happen. It's just it's a dream 1648 01:16:25.640 --> 01:16:27.960 you have. And they keep hold hey, dangling this carrot 1649 01:16:27.960 --> 01:16:30.960 in front of your nose basically, and she's like, well, 1650 01:16:31.399 --> 01:16:34.680 when it happens, because it's definitely gonna happen, I hope 1651 01:16:34.720 --> 01:16:37.000 you'll dance in it. And Nick asks her have you 1652 01:16:37.079 --> 01:16:39.560 ever danced balancine in your career? And she goes, no, 1653 01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:41.079 of course not, and he goes, well I have. 1654 01:16:41.720 --> 01:16:44.720 Galina asks him if any other theater or audience in 1655 01:16:44.760 --> 01:16:48.000 the world has compared to the care of He says, 1656 01:16:48.039 --> 01:16:49.600 of course. It will always be a part of me. 1657 01:16:49.720 --> 01:16:54.159 But I have been free for eight years, really free. 1658 01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:56.720 And he says, I won't go back to these restrictions 1659 01:16:56.720 --> 01:16:59.079 that they're here in the Soviet Union, and Galina starts 1660 01:16:59.119 --> 01:17:02.640 to cry, and he turns on the forbidden music and 1661 01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:06.960 he says, God, I'm a dancer. There a dancer dances 1662 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:12.600 and he starts to dance around the stage defiantly. 1663 01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:16.560 Yeah, he's read mccormicking, he's read mccormicking again, dancing it out. 1664 01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:18.439 He's getting all those emotions out through dance. 1665 01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:21.159 The music ends and he asks her, he doesn't really 1666 01:17:21.199 --> 01:17:26.600 ask her. He says, you're working for Chico and he 1667 01:17:26.720 --> 01:17:29.439 thinks that Judge Doom and Roger Rabbit had a point. 1668 01:17:33.640 --> 01:17:37.000 And she's weeping. She admits that she is. She says 1669 01:17:37.039 --> 01:17:40.119 that look he forced me. I had no choice. She says, 1670 01:17:40.319 --> 01:17:42.560 you ran away. I had to face the government. I 1671 01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:45.800 had to live here. And Nick says he's just a dancer, 1672 01:17:46.079 --> 01:17:48.600 and he knows the government won't let him dance for himself, 1673 01:17:48.680 --> 01:17:52.039 no matter what they promise. Galina says she can't risk 1674 01:17:52.079 --> 01:17:54.680 helping him, and he says, I understand, and he sits 1675 01:17:54.680 --> 01:17:57.039 down on the stage and she crawls to him and 1676 01:17:57.079 --> 01:18:00.600 she's sobbing. It's Helen Mirren, just sobbing. He says she's 1677 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:02.920 too frightened, and he says it's all right, and she 1678 01:18:03.119 --> 01:18:06.000 lays her head on his shoulder and she says, I 1679 01:18:06.039 --> 01:18:09.000 won't let them destroy you. How can I? And he 1680 01:18:09.079 --> 01:18:10.239 kisses her hand. 1681 01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:15.239 The scene works so well, I yeah, I buy them instantly. 1682 01:18:15.319 --> 01:18:18.840 Instantly we cut to a gala, some event for the 1683 01:18:19.279 --> 01:18:22.520 theater Chico enters with Galina on his arm, and he 1684 01:18:22.560 --> 01:18:26.359 introduces her to Win Scott, the flat topped John Glover, 1685 01:18:26.399 --> 01:18:30.720 who's super definitely not an ex military spy. The funny thing, too, 1686 01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:32.600 is like his whole cover is that he's this like 1687 01:18:32.640 --> 01:18:35.960 golly g gosh darted an American. So he's playing it 1688 01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:38.279 up so high. It's like, well, hi, so nice to 1689 01:18:38.319 --> 01:18:41.159 meet you. Is Clark Kent ing so hard? 1690 01:18:41.399 --> 01:18:43.560 I think the flat Earth movement started when they saw 1691 01:18:43.600 --> 01:18:44.840 John Glover's haircut. 1692 01:18:44.520 --> 01:18:45.840 In this movie and they were like, you know what, 1693 01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:47.800 this feels right? This feels right, This feels like the 1694 01:18:47.800 --> 01:18:51.439 planet I'm living on. Absolutely, Yeah, it's just so funny. 1695 01:18:51.319 --> 01:18:53.960 The performance is so Clark Kent it's over the top. 1696 01:18:54.600 --> 01:18:58.439 Chico steps away for two seconds, big mistake. Why would 1697 01:18:58.439 --> 01:18:59.880 you leave Galina with a fucking spy? 1698 01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:00.840 I don't know. 1699 01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:03.319 I don't like. He must really trust her, like she's 1700 01:19:03.359 --> 01:19:07.479 doing a really good job to like hide her allegiances 1701 01:19:07.560 --> 01:19:09.439 enough that he like will leave her alone with this dude, 1702 01:19:09.479 --> 01:19:11.800 even for seconds. And guess what, it bites him in the. 1703 01:19:11.800 --> 01:19:15.159 Asshole, because it's hard to get bit in the asshole. 1704 01:19:15.199 --> 01:19:19.119 No, right right up the asshole. Spread the cheeks I'm 1705 01:19:19.119 --> 01:19:20.039 biting your asshole. 1706 01:19:22.880 --> 01:19:26.239 I'm picturing a snout to. 1707 01:19:24.439 --> 01:19:27.920 Get It's one of those dogs with a really long snout. 1708 01:19:28.039 --> 01:19:32.359 It's like pincher. Yeah, that can also spread cheeks gnawing 1709 01:19:32.399 --> 01:19:37.399 on his assholes. Chiico walks away for two seconds. Galina 1710 01:19:37.479 --> 01:19:40.279 gets really close to win, big fake smile on her face, 1711 01:19:40.319 --> 01:19:42.439 and she's like, Nick is healthy and he's in Leningrad. 1712 01:19:43.319 --> 01:19:45.439 Wynn absorbs us quickly. He has a moment of shock 1713 01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:47.680 on his face, which immediately goes away because he's a spy. 1714 01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:49.800 He's very good at his job. And he's like, well, 1715 01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:52.880 you know, I have friends at the Minneapolis Opera House. 1716 01:19:52.960 --> 01:19:56.800 They would love to have some Russian ballet maybe there 1717 01:19:56.840 --> 01:19:58.680 at some point, Like maybe we can we can offer 1718 01:19:58.760 --> 01:20:00.880 some kind of exchange program. How can I get in 1719 01:20:00.920 --> 01:20:03.359 contact with you? Should? I just call your office to 1720 01:20:03.439 --> 01:20:06.039 set that up? And she gives him a meeting time. 1721 01:20:06.119 --> 01:20:09.560 She whispers, Friday at this bizarre, this open air like 1722 01:20:09.880 --> 01:20:12.840 flea market. And then Chico returns just as the man 1723 01:20:12.920 --> 01:20:16.800 is still blathering on about the Minneapolis ballet and she's like, 1724 01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:18.560 God that I can't believe that Hick wants me to 1725 01:20:18.560 --> 01:20:19.880 go all the way to Minneapolis. 1726 01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:24.279 Win brings the information directly to the embassy and is there. 1727 01:20:24.439 --> 01:20:27.079 The ambassador is there, and it's like, fantastic, we have 1728 01:20:27.119 --> 01:20:29.760 to go public, and the men are still skeptical. They say, look, 1729 01:20:29.800 --> 01:20:32.640 all we have are the words of Nick's jilted ex 1730 01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:35.800 girlfriend that he's even still alive. Win points out, look, 1731 01:20:35.840 --> 01:20:38.119 if we push too hard, the Russians could just if 1732 01:20:38.159 --> 01:20:40.840 he's alive, the Russians could just assassinate him and tell 1733 01:20:40.880 --> 01:20:42.880 the world he died of his injuries from the plane crash. 1734 01:20:42.920 --> 01:20:45.279 So we have to play this carefully. 1735 01:20:45.640 --> 01:20:48.279 We cut back to the Leningrad dance studio for the 1736 01:20:48.359 --> 01:20:52.119 whole reason to watch this film. Nick puts on some 1737 01:20:52.279 --> 01:20:55.119 Cheka Khan and he tells Raymond come downce with me. 1738 01:20:55.520 --> 01:20:59.279 Raymond's like, I'm freaked out about my wife who's been kidnapped. 1739 01:20:59.279 --> 01:21:02.880 I'm really not in mood right now, and Nick is this. 1740 01:21:03.079 --> 01:21:07.079 Is this the point where Nick is stretching the stretching 1741 01:21:07.119 --> 01:21:10.000 seductively and you know, while we're on this topic, Erica, 1742 01:21:10.119 --> 01:21:13.000 uh huh, I know I've already brought this up, but Instagram, how. 1743 01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:13.560 Dare you how? 1744 01:21:13.800 --> 01:21:16.640 I don't know why you think you should be serving 1745 01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:20.840 me videos of men in jockstraps and mess shorts, pointing 1746 01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:24.159 their grundles at the camera and stretching for you think 1747 01:21:24.199 --> 01:21:25.800 I'm not gonna grumble at a grundle, I. 1748 01:21:25.720 --> 01:21:26.640 Will grundle grumble. 1749 01:21:26.880 --> 01:21:29.560 I will. That is obscene. I don't want I'm not 1750 01:21:29.600 --> 01:21:30.800 going to be peering at the peranaeum. 1751 01:21:30.920 --> 01:21:31.640 It's perverse. 1752 01:21:31.800 --> 01:21:32.560 It's perverse. 1753 01:21:32.680 --> 01:21:34.119 It's stop it, perverse. 1754 01:21:34.359 --> 01:21:34.840 Stop it. 1755 01:21:34.920 --> 01:21:37.319 Paul sent me three of those videos this morning to 1756 01:21:37.319 --> 01:21:42.359 look at, and I co sign thank you. I also 1757 01:21:42.479 --> 01:21:46.920 would not like that on my algorithm. So even though 1758 01:21:46.960 --> 01:21:50.119 I liked all those videos, yes, do you not start 1759 01:21:50.159 --> 01:21:56.600 sending me seductive videos of foreign dancers pointing their dicks 1760 01:21:56.640 --> 01:21:59.199 at the camera and stretching on a bar. I don't 1761 01:21:59.199 --> 01:22:00.000 want it. I don't want to. 1762 01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:00.680 I don't want it. 1763 01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:04.039 I don't want those apple bottoms in my face. Stop it, Internet, 1764 01:22:05.560 --> 01:22:09.119 I just want more tradwife content. Yeah, this is the 1765 01:22:09.119 --> 01:22:11.520 scene where Nick is like stretching on the bar, and like, 1766 01:22:12.079 --> 01:22:15.560 I personally have never really been into borish. I think 1767 01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:18.199 he's an attractive man, but I don't get it. Yeah, 1768 01:22:18.359 --> 01:22:20.319 now I get it. Yeah, I get from watching that 1769 01:22:20.439 --> 01:22:22.880 just him like stretching on the bar, Like, oh my god, 1770 01:22:22.920 --> 01:22:24.079 I actually really get it. 1771 01:22:24.279 --> 01:22:27.960 Yeah, I've always gotten it, and I got it, dare 1772 01:22:27.960 --> 01:22:29.159 I say real hard? 1773 01:22:29.560 --> 01:22:30.520 And you know who can get it? 1774 01:22:30.760 --> 01:22:33.960 Misha, Misha, Misha can get it. Yeah, anything you say, Misha. 1775 01:22:34.199 --> 01:22:35.800 So he's trying to get Raymond to dance with him. 1776 01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:38.600 Raymond's like, look, man, not now, I'm too I'm pissed 1777 01:22:38.640 --> 01:22:40.760 at you for putting me in this situation. And I'm 1778 01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:43.760 pissed at the world right now. And Nick points out 1779 01:22:43.760 --> 01:22:46.000 all the cameras that are watching them. Of course, every 1780 01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:47.960 time they cut to the camera, it's like zooms in on. 1781 01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:53.439 Them, so it's like, yeah, yeesh, it's like the robot 1782 01:22:53.479 --> 01:22:56.960 from Short Circuit, it's so clunky. 1783 01:22:57.039 --> 01:23:00.319 Johnny five, Yes, Johnny five is in the room with them, 1784 01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:03.119 along with a girl from Small Wonder, and she's like, 1785 01:23:03.199 --> 01:23:07.039 I'm not watching you, don't worry. So he's like, look, 1786 01:23:07.119 --> 01:23:09.479 you you have to at least pretend to be teaching 1787 01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:12.319 me tap dance or something so that we can like 1788 01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:15.199 get out of this and stay together, right, So keep moving, 1789 01:23:15.279 --> 01:23:17.640 keep moving. So the two of them start to dance 1790 01:23:17.680 --> 01:23:22.439 this routine together and it is probably five minutes long. Yeah, 1791 01:23:22.479 --> 01:23:26.479 it's riveting, it's so good. It's a mix of ballet moves. 1792 01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:29.000 It's a mix of and tap moves and jazz moves 1793 01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:31.079 and like a little bit of everything. Everything these two 1794 01:23:31.119 --> 01:23:35.119 men can do. There's flips, there's jumps. It's so good 1795 01:23:35.239 --> 01:23:35.680 and it's. 1796 01:23:35.520 --> 01:23:38.039 So wonderful to see the two different styles as they 1797 01:23:38.039 --> 01:23:40.560 do the same steps next to each other, but they 1798 01:23:40.600 --> 01:23:43.520 look so different doing them. They both look fantastic. 1799 01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:46.439 Athletic in very different ways. Well, because like tap is 1800 01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:48.600 like a very like like the. 1801 01:23:48.640 --> 01:23:49.920 Energy goes down. Yeah. 1802 01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:52.119 Gregory Hines is so tall. I wonder if this is 1803 01:23:52.119 --> 01:23:53.880 part of it too, But he has it's like naturally 1804 01:23:53.880 --> 01:23:57.640 like hunched over, like shoulders hunched like yeah, Like he's 1805 01:23:57.680 --> 01:24:00.239 like like, yeah, the movements are going into the round 1806 01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:02.000 as supposed to out into the sky the way with 1807 01:24:02.079 --> 01:24:05.800 ballet is and but also like it's like internalized and 1808 01:24:05.920 --> 01:24:08.039 it's it's like it's like it's so good. It's just 1809 01:24:08.159 --> 01:24:10.439 genius watching them, the two of them dance together. 1810 01:24:10.560 --> 01:24:13.479 Yeah, okay, so we cut from that from that incredible 1811 01:24:13.560 --> 01:24:16.760 high every dance. Earlier you had said that first dance 1812 01:24:16.840 --> 01:24:18.039 was your favorite. This dance is my. 1813 01:24:18.239 --> 01:24:20.239 Yeah, this is my second favorite because it has the 1814 01:24:20.239 --> 01:24:22.359 two of them. Yeah too, and it's but it's so 1815 01:24:22.520 --> 01:24:23.119 fucking good. 1816 01:24:23.680 --> 01:24:27.119 We cut to Galina at the bazaar. She's contacted by 1817 01:24:27.119 --> 01:24:30.359 a spy disguised as an Estonian potato farmer who. 1818 01:24:30.199 --> 01:24:33.640 Excellent fucking grags. I genuinely was surprised this man is 1819 01:24:33.680 --> 01:24:35.720 trying to sell her potatoes, and she's like, leave me alone, 1820 01:24:35.720 --> 01:24:38.600 and he's like, I'm an American. He cuts her, speaking 1821 01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:42.359 Russian to me and speaking at a clearly well enough 1822 01:24:42.560 --> 01:24:46.399 with an Estonian Ish accent that she was convinced she 1823 01:24:46.479 --> 01:24:48.399 did not know she was talking to an American. And 1824 01:24:48.399 --> 01:24:50.000 then he drops out and he's like, I'm with the 1825 01:24:50.039 --> 01:24:52.199 American embassy, blah blah blah, and he gives her like 1826 01:24:52.239 --> 01:24:55.279 information about like help us find. 1827 01:24:55.119 --> 01:24:57.720 Nick, tell us where he is. Right then we cut 1828 01:24:57.760 --> 01:25:00.640 back to the studio. Raymond and Nick are with the dance, 1829 01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:03.520 and now they start to argue over what happened with Daria. 1830 01:25:03.760 --> 01:25:07.640 Raymond accuses Nick of being romantically interested in her. Nick's like, 1831 01:25:07.680 --> 01:25:11.279 you're fucking crazy, You're a loser. They can't stand each other. 1832 01:25:11.359 --> 01:25:13.920 All they feel for each other is disdain. In this moment, 1833 01:25:14.840 --> 01:25:20.119 door opens, Chiko, fresh from fresh from giving giving Boris 1834 01:25:20.119 --> 01:25:22.800 and Natasha a new assignment to try to take down 1835 01:25:22.800 --> 01:25:27.560 that goddamn scirrel. And Moose comes in and he hears 1836 01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:30.119 the talent of the argument, and he sends Raymond to 1837 01:25:30.159 --> 01:25:30.760 the showers. 1838 01:25:31.119 --> 01:25:34.439 Chiko just coming back from the Jolly Roger where he's 1839 01:25:34.479 --> 01:25:39.520 finally gonna get that. Peter Pan asks Nick, Hey, what's 1840 01:25:39.560 --> 01:25:42.840 happening here? I thought you two would be bessies. What's happening? 1841 01:25:42.840 --> 01:25:46.359 And Nick, in my opinion, lays it on a little 1842 01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:48.680 too thick. I think they do it on purpose so 1843 01:25:48.760 --> 01:25:50.720 that the audience knows it's fake. 1844 01:25:50.960 --> 01:25:51.319 Yeah. 1845 01:25:51.399 --> 01:25:55.039 Basically, Nick pretends I can't take this guy anymore. I 1846 01:25:55.119 --> 01:25:58.239 find it repulsive that that beautiful white woman would be 1847 01:25:58.279 --> 01:26:01.199 married to that guy. M Chiico's like, well, you know, 1848 01:26:01.319 --> 01:26:04.239 some women like shock value. They want to shock their families. 1849 01:26:04.479 --> 01:26:08.000 And then Chiko says, and I shit you not. He goes, 1850 01:26:08.119 --> 01:26:11.880 you know what they say about black studs. 1851 01:26:11.840 --> 01:26:14.520 A black man have huge Dick's joke. 1852 01:26:14.600 --> 01:26:18.920 In this economy in Russian, I guess that. I guess 1853 01:26:18.920 --> 01:26:20.640 that stereotype is worldwide. 1854 01:26:22.600 --> 01:26:25.439 Chiko tried, like keeps trying to explain it in the 1855 01:26:25.520 --> 01:26:29.239 Russian accent. He's like, you know, they have the the pendulous, 1856 01:26:29.520 --> 01:26:32.560 the giant dog is a black. You know what they say, 1857 01:26:32.640 --> 01:26:35.159 Once you go black, you never go back. You know 1858 01:26:35.359 --> 01:26:38.960 you'll get it. You'll get it, Nick, you get it. 1859 01:26:38.960 --> 01:26:40.960 It's as big as a bottle of Smirnoff. 1860 01:26:41.079 --> 01:26:42.800 I'm telling you, you got to see this guy in 1861 01:26:42.840 --> 01:26:44.960 a pair of gray sweatpants. Nick. I don't know what 1862 01:26:45.039 --> 01:26:46.119 accent I'm doing anymore. 1863 01:26:46.159 --> 01:26:49.439 It looks it looks like moose an ble. You know 1864 01:26:49.479 --> 01:26:50.039 what I'm saying. 1865 01:26:50.119 --> 01:26:51.640 You know what I'm saying that You're gonna look at 1866 01:26:51.680 --> 01:26:53.439 it and your jaw is going to drop. Nick. 1867 01:26:53.560 --> 01:26:55.920 It's as large as a blugo whale. 1868 01:26:56.119 --> 01:26:58.560 Have you seen one of those really big pepper grinders 1869 01:26:58.560 --> 01:27:01.560 that they had take you to the table. It's like that, Nick, 1870 01:27:02.840 --> 01:27:06.199 a pepper grinder, Nick, or one of that swinging pendulum 1871 01:27:06.199 --> 01:27:08.359 things on a grandfather clock. Nick. You wouldn't believe it. 1872 01:27:08.439 --> 01:27:12.079 I think I'm trying to think of Russia things. It's 1873 01:27:12.760 --> 01:27:15.319 so big. Even Catherine the Great would have been. 1874 01:27:15.239 --> 01:27:19.840 Like, no, thank you, it's so big. Catherine the Great said, 1875 01:27:19.840 --> 01:27:22.000 one horse cocket is enough for me in my life. 1876 01:27:22.039 --> 01:27:23.079 Thank you know what I mean? 1877 01:27:23.199 --> 01:27:23.880 You know what I mean? 1878 01:27:23.960 --> 01:27:26.199 Because she was a slut who fucked the horse, Nick. 1879 01:27:28.000 --> 01:27:31.520 And Nick plays right into Chaco's racism, and he's like, 1880 01:27:31.960 --> 01:27:36.359 I'm sure Daria regrets marrying that loser. That man, he's 1881 01:27:36.359 --> 01:27:38.479 so over the top that I, as a viewer of 1882 01:27:38.520 --> 01:27:42.079 the movie, am worried that he's giving himself away. But 1883 01:27:42.199 --> 01:27:45.199 thank god it works. Chicho buys it, hook line and sinker, 1884 01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:48.680 so much so that the scene ends with Chicho dropping 1885 01:27:48.680 --> 01:27:51.520 an end bomb well you know, and bombs and then 1886 01:27:51.560 --> 01:27:56.520 walks away. To his credit, Nick is like, Jesus, that 1887 01:27:56.600 --> 01:27:57.039 was a lot. 1888 01:27:57.359 --> 01:27:59.960 It's funny. I had a different reaction because he is overplaying, 1889 01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:03.600 I agree, but overlaying. But to me, it's it's nineteen 1890 01:28:03.600 --> 01:28:07.600 eighty five, like it's it's forty years ago, Like was 1891 01:28:07.640 --> 01:28:10.479 this really overplaying? At forty like this was? It was 1892 01:28:10.520 --> 01:28:14.399 more acceptable. And and he knows, like he knows Chiico's 1893 01:28:14.399 --> 01:28:17.760 a racist, Yeah, And Raymond is trying to act as 1894 01:28:17.800 --> 01:28:21.960 if Russia isn't racist. Yes, he knows that if Chiko's 1895 01:28:21.960 --> 01:28:24.439 being friendly to Raymond, or friendly enough that Raymond believes 1896 01:28:24.479 --> 01:28:26.640 that he knows he can get them. And he knows 1897 01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:29.520 that Chico believes that he's that Nick's a racist too, 1898 01:28:29.600 --> 01:28:32.880 because they all everyone is, because who wouldn't be who 1899 01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:33.520 wouldn't be right. 1900 01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:35.920 Yes, the world, Yeah, I get no, No, I fully 1901 01:28:35.960 --> 01:28:38.800 get it. But genuinely it was like the scene is 1902 01:28:38.840 --> 01:28:42.159 so over the top from Nick's perspective that I was like, 1903 01:28:42.680 --> 01:28:45.760 I was like, oh my god, don't if you overplay 1904 01:28:45.800 --> 01:28:48.760 this hand, they're gonna know. They're like, well, he thinks 1905 01:28:48.840 --> 01:28:50.880 I'm he thinks he can get me with this racist 1906 01:28:51.239 --> 01:28:54.680 this fake racism that he clearly doesn't actually feel. 1907 01:28:54.800 --> 01:28:57.279 We cut back to the apartment in Leningrad as Nick 1908 01:28:57.319 --> 01:29:00.439 and Raymond arrive home and Daria is all ready there. 1909 01:29:00.760 --> 01:29:03.119 She and Raymond fall into each other's arms they head 1910 01:29:03.119 --> 01:29:04.880 into their room. I really wasn't sure if we were 1911 01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:06.319 going to see her again in this movie, so I'm 1912 01:29:06.319 --> 01:29:09.319 glad we did. Yeah, this is where Separate Lives starts 1913 01:29:09.319 --> 01:29:12.079 to play. It could not make less sense as a 1914 01:29:12.119 --> 01:29:15.319 song in this movie. This is about the couple like 1915 01:29:15.439 --> 01:29:19.199 returning to each other after a scare, and the song 1916 01:29:19.319 --> 01:29:23.079 is about a couple splitting up. Doesn't make any say 1917 01:29:23.159 --> 01:29:23.640 because from. 1918 01:29:23.520 --> 01:29:26.159 The Russian perspective, she's splitting up with Raymond to get 1919 01:29:26.159 --> 01:29:28.520 with Nick. That's the reason she's back. To be clear, 1920 01:29:28.560 --> 01:29:30.840 is Chico's like, ooh, I'm a messy bitch that lives 1921 01:29:30.880 --> 01:29:33.600 for drama under I am dropping the lady back in 1922 01:29:33.640 --> 01:29:35.439 the apartment with the two men to see them fight 1923 01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:36.119 it out over her. 1924 01:29:36.239 --> 01:29:38.680 He is the original reality TV show producer who's like, 1925 01:29:38.840 --> 01:29:41.239 let's bring in a bombshell on Love Island. That's an 1926 01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:43.399 ex of someone who's already on it's already coupled up. 1927 01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:46.720 Yeah, exactly, Let's put more vodka and more caviar and 1928 01:29:46.760 --> 01:29:48.479 more oysters in that apartment for them. 1929 01:29:48.680 --> 01:29:49.159 Exactly. 1930 01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:50.159 Let them fight it out. 1931 01:29:50.359 --> 01:29:53.840 So Raymond laments to Daria that they're living like rats 1932 01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:56.199 in a cage, and he blames himself for her living 1933 01:29:56.239 --> 01:29:58.600 under scrutiny like this, and she says, look, if it 1934 01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:00.239 wasn't you would be someone else. I could not be 1935 01:30:00.279 --> 01:30:03.159 happier with someone else. And I am with you. And 1936 01:30:03.159 --> 01:30:05.800 then she says I'm pregnant and they embrace again. They're 1937 01:30:05.880 --> 01:30:08.960 they're both thrilled at this, at this forthcoming blessing. 1938 01:30:09.119 --> 01:30:11.560 Yes, So the two of them were banging went out 1939 01:30:11.680 --> 01:30:14.439 in the Raymond and Daria our bangan went out in 1940 01:30:14.479 --> 01:30:15.079 the bedroom. 1941 01:30:15.239 --> 01:30:15.560 Yeah. 1942 01:30:15.600 --> 01:30:18.079 Meanwhile, Nick is like in the living room with loud 1943 01:30:18.159 --> 01:30:21.560 music playing, probably because his roommates are banging, went out 1944 01:30:21.600 --> 01:30:24.439 next to him. He is fashioning a rope from an 1945 01:30:24.439 --> 01:30:26.760 area rug. He's taken an area rug apart, and it's 1946 01:30:26.800 --> 01:30:31.239 like creating a Rapunzel situation out of it. Raymond emerges 1947 01:30:31.279 --> 01:30:33.720 from the bedroom and he quietly thanks Nick for helping 1948 01:30:33.760 --> 01:30:37.119 him get Daria back. So there's definitely a truce now 1949 01:30:37.119 --> 01:30:39.880 between these two. These two are in it together. Nick 1950 01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:42.960 is like, look, I'm leaving, whether you two help me 1951 01:30:43.079 --> 01:30:45.159 or not, just so you know. And then Raymond's like, 1952 01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:47.239 can you trust Galina? Like I know, she's like the 1953 01:30:47.319 --> 01:30:49.359 lynchpin of this plan, and I'm not sure she can 1954 01:30:49.399 --> 01:30:51.560 be trusted. And Nick is like, yes, I can. I 1955 01:30:51.600 --> 01:30:54.239 can trust her. I loved her once, I still love her. 1956 01:30:54.520 --> 01:30:56.079 I believe her. She can be trusted. 1957 01:30:56.279 --> 01:30:56.520 Yep. 1958 01:30:57.239 --> 01:30:59.359 And then Raymond makes a decision because he sees how 1959 01:30:59.399 --> 01:31:01.760 like confident Nick is in his ability to escape, and 1960 01:31:01.760 --> 01:31:03.199 he's like, you know what, Daria and I are going 1961 01:31:03.239 --> 01:31:05.640 to come with you, And Nick's like no, no, no, no, 1962 01:31:05.640 --> 01:31:07.560 no no. I'm willing to risk my own life, but 1963 01:31:07.560 --> 01:31:09.439 I'm not willing to risk your and your wife's lives. 1964 01:31:09.479 --> 01:31:12.439 Like I don't have that much of confidence in this plan, buddy. Yeah. 1965 01:31:12.479 --> 01:31:16.520 And then Raymond's like, listen, Darya is pregnant, and for 1966 01:31:16.560 --> 01:31:18.680 the first time in my life, and for the first 1967 01:31:18.680 --> 01:31:21.079 time in a long time, I feel hope. Yeah, and 1968 01:31:21.199 --> 01:31:24.079 Nick is like Okay. He realizes how important it would 1969 01:31:24.119 --> 01:31:25.279 be for these two to get away. 1970 01:31:25.359 --> 01:31:27.600 We cut back to the dance studio. The two men 1971 01:31:27.640 --> 01:31:30.600 continue to stage more arguments for the camera, but even 1972 01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:34.119 though they're arguing they're dancing together in Unison. Oh, we 1973 01:31:34.119 --> 01:31:36.720 we were wrong before that first dance, they're not in Unison. 1974 01:31:36.760 --> 01:31:37.720 This is the Unison dance. 1975 01:31:37.840 --> 01:31:39.600 Oh, is this the really riveting dance? 1976 01:31:39.800 --> 01:31:41.560 Yes, this is the really Sorry. That other dance is 1977 01:31:41.600 --> 01:31:44.279 also good, but they're like they're dancing around each other 1978 01:31:44.319 --> 01:31:46.239 and not dancing with each other. This is the dance 1979 01:31:46.239 --> 01:31:48.119 that they dance with each other. This is the great dance. 1980 01:31:48.399 --> 01:31:51.119 Our apologies. We can't be right one hundred percent of 1981 01:31:51.119 --> 01:31:51.439 the time. 1982 01:31:51.560 --> 01:31:54.039 We can only be right thirty five percent of the time. 1983 01:31:54.479 --> 01:31:57.159 We aim for thirty six, but we guarantee thirty five. 1984 01:31:58.439 --> 01:32:01.079 At the end of the dance, Nick just walks past 1985 01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:03.079 Raymond and says, tonight. 1986 01:32:03.760 --> 01:32:08.359 We cut back to the apartment and Raymond finally tells Daria, 1987 01:32:08.880 --> 01:32:11.840 girl who has not been read into the plan because 1988 01:32:12.319 --> 01:32:15.680 he rightfully assumed that she would have resistance to it, 1989 01:32:15.720 --> 01:32:18.960 and like, and he's like, listen, Nick is escaping tonight. 1990 01:32:18.960 --> 01:32:20.640 We're gonna go with him. And she's like, uh, the 1991 01:32:20.680 --> 01:32:23.479 fuck we are. I'm Russian, I'm from here as only 1992 01:32:24.119 --> 01:32:26.680 place I've ever known. I'm not gonna risk my life 1993 01:32:26.680 --> 01:32:29.640 and my baby's life to go into another unknown I 1994 01:32:29.680 --> 01:32:31.239 don't know. I don't even know what the rest of 1995 01:32:31.239 --> 01:32:33.640 the world is like. And he snaps that he's not 1996 01:32:33.680 --> 01:32:35.399 gonna be able to do any good to his kid 1997 01:32:35.439 --> 01:32:38.239 while he's working in a labor camp, and she smacks 1998 01:32:38.279 --> 01:32:38.880 him in the face. 1999 01:32:39.159 --> 01:32:39.680 Yeah. 2000 01:32:39.800 --> 01:32:41.039 She immediately apologizes. 2001 01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:41.439 She shocked. 2002 01:32:41.439 --> 01:32:43.119 She's like, I can't believe I just did that. He 2003 01:32:43.159 --> 01:32:45.800 embraces her. He's like, listen, we just have to get 2004 01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:49.000 to the American Embassy tonight. Once we're in the American Embassy, 2005 01:32:49.000 --> 01:32:52.479 we're home free. Nick is very famous, and once he 2006 01:32:52.560 --> 01:32:54.640 is like on his way out, we can like hitch 2007 01:32:54.680 --> 01:32:57.840 our coattails to his hitch our stars, hitch our wagons 2008 01:32:57.960 --> 01:33:00.800 his coatails. Yeah, the thirty five percent really kicking. 2009 01:33:00.600 --> 01:33:04.479 It right now. We're gonna get there. We're gonna get here. 2010 01:33:04.720 --> 01:33:08.119 Hitch my coattail to his wagon. Start that's it, that's it, 2011 01:33:08.239 --> 01:33:12.800 got it? Yeah, He's like, if I'm finally going to 2012 01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:15.560 do something right, and then Daria kisses him and tells 2013 01:33:15.600 --> 01:33:17.800 him that she loves him. She's like, Okay. In the 2014 01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:21.079 course of two minutes, this woman has just gone from 2015 01:33:21.119 --> 01:33:23.319 absolutely I will not leave my home country to. 2016 01:33:23.319 --> 01:33:26.800 Okay, okay, sure, it's the power of Gregory Hines. Nick 2017 01:33:26.840 --> 01:33:30.319 goes to see Galina at her office and they immediately 2018 01:33:30.359 --> 01:33:32.560 start to stage an argument the same way he's been 2019 01:33:32.600 --> 01:33:35.039 doing with Raymond this whole time, where he says, I, 2020 01:33:35.239 --> 01:33:37.000 if I am going to dance, I will be in 2021 01:33:37.119 --> 01:33:38.960 charge of what I dance. I will dance when and 2022 01:33:39.000 --> 01:33:41.960 where and what I choose, and she tells him, your 2023 01:33:42.000 --> 01:33:44.399 ego is out of control. You're gonna dance whether you 2024 01:33:44.640 --> 01:33:46.880 like it or not, and if you're smart, you're gonna 2025 01:33:46.880 --> 01:33:49.119 alienate me because I'm in charge, bitch. 2026 01:33:49.359 --> 01:33:52.000 Yeah, I'm olga. Well one day take my place, but 2027 01:33:52.119 --> 01:33:55.359 until that, until that happens, I'm the head, bitch in charge. 2028 01:33:55.560 --> 01:33:57.319 She puts on a tape of him dancing as a 2029 01:33:57.359 --> 01:33:59.920 young man and says, now your backer, you belong And 2030 01:34:00.039 --> 01:34:03.279 this is an actual tape of Mikhail Brishnikov dancing as 2031 01:34:03.279 --> 01:34:05.720 a young man, probably at the Girl of Ballet. Right. Yeah, 2032 01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:08.479 she turns up the volume universal movie language. From now 2033 01:34:08.520 --> 01:34:10.399 no one can hear anything else that's going on. 2034 01:34:10.680 --> 01:34:13.239 Again, these her valance guys have to be able to 2035 01:34:13.279 --> 01:34:16.800 just be like, excuse me, knock knock, knock. Hi everyone, Hi, Hi, 2036 01:34:17.159 --> 01:34:18.960 We're gonna need you to turn it down. We're trying 2037 01:34:18.960 --> 01:34:19.279 to listen. 2038 01:34:19.399 --> 01:34:21.079 We're we're trying to hear what you're saying. 2039 01:34:21.319 --> 01:34:23.920 Or here's a counter offer. Understand, if you need the 2040 01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:26.479 music for choreography purposes, why don't we just put a 2041 01:34:26.479 --> 01:34:28.800 stenographer in the corner of the room. Yeah, so that 2042 01:34:28.920 --> 01:34:31.199 they can just write down everything you're saying for us, 2043 01:34:31.199 --> 01:34:33.319 and then you can listen to your music or whatever 2044 01:34:33.399 --> 01:34:34.039 volume you like. 2045 01:34:34.159 --> 01:34:36.479 It's up to you. Well, it's airba. We are indifferent. 2046 01:34:36.560 --> 01:34:39.359 The amount of times this happens in movies is like 2047 01:34:39.520 --> 01:34:42.720 any time volume is played above of five in any 2048 01:34:43.000 --> 01:34:46.760 of the Russian territory, the Communist Tarra Block territories. I 2049 01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:49.239 am shocked. There isn't immediately a knock on the door. 2050 01:34:49.119 --> 01:34:51.600 Knock, knock, knock, So the volume is up. They sit 2051 01:34:51.680 --> 01:34:54.600 together on the couch and she whispers instructions of where 2052 01:34:54.640 --> 01:34:56.920 he should meet her American contact. You're gonna meet him 2053 01:34:56.920 --> 01:34:59.279 at the Lion Bridge. His name is Scott. You have 2054 01:34:59.319 --> 01:35:02.520 to be here at this time. Blah blah blah. Nick says, 2055 01:35:02.560 --> 01:35:05.119 thank you. He calls her my love, and he asks 2056 01:35:05.319 --> 01:35:06.960 if I had asked you to come with me eight 2057 01:35:07.039 --> 01:35:10.640 years ago, would you have come And she says probably not. 2058 01:35:11.520 --> 01:35:14.439 And I can't come now my place is here, and 2059 01:35:14.479 --> 01:35:16.800 he says, I'm never going to see you again, and 2060 01:35:16.840 --> 01:35:20.039 she says, don't forget me, and they kiss and he 2061 01:35:20.079 --> 01:35:22.159 says that he'll always love her, and she tells him 2062 01:35:22.159 --> 01:35:24.600 go go now, go, and he leaves. 2063 01:35:24.920 --> 01:35:27.600 I mean, we know now that like seven years later, 2064 01:35:27.640 --> 01:35:29.039 I'm going to be able to teach other. 2065 01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:35.000 Don't ruin the moment. 2066 01:35:34.880 --> 01:35:39.439 Erica Toiler for history. It's nineteen eighty five. Currently around 2067 01:35:39.520 --> 01:35:41.640 nineteen ninety three, you'll be able to see each other again, 2068 01:35:41.800 --> 01:35:44.840 just saying. Nick goes to the stage at the Kire 2069 01:35:44.840 --> 01:35:47.600 of Ballet one last time to you know, get say 2070 01:35:47.600 --> 01:35:50.159 goodbye to his beloved theater. It must be kind of 2071 01:35:50.159 --> 01:35:52.520 incredible too. They do have moments in the movie where 2072 01:35:52.560 --> 01:35:54.840 like he takes in the fact that he's home and 2073 01:35:54.880 --> 01:35:57.840 he's he has missed it. It was his home. It 2074 01:35:57.880 --> 01:36:00.359 was the food is what he loves. Yeah, like this 2075 01:36:00.760 --> 01:36:02.720 is his theater where he became a star, and like 2076 01:36:02.760 --> 01:36:03.920 it's it means. 2077 01:36:03.640 --> 01:36:05.239 Something to him, right where he trained. 2078 01:36:05.399 --> 01:36:08.840 There's one ghost light on the stage. It's very cool effect. 2079 01:36:09.119 --> 01:36:12.359 It's stark. There's like a white backdrop with a stark 2080 01:36:12.399 --> 01:36:15.760 spotlight in the middle. He gazes out at the empty audience. 2081 01:36:15.800 --> 01:36:18.920 He does a leap, he does some spins, He stops 2082 01:36:18.960 --> 01:36:21.239 and leans on the side of the stage, tears rolling 2083 01:36:21.279 --> 01:36:23.600 down his face. Yeah, it's very sweet. 2084 01:36:23.439 --> 01:36:26.880 Very dramatic, Yeah, dramatique. He returns home to the apartment 2085 01:36:26.920 --> 01:36:28.680 and there's this moment where he walks in and one 2086 01:36:28.720 --> 01:36:30.880 of the guards whispers to him in Russian, we're getting 2087 01:36:30.960 --> 01:36:35.640 rid of your friends tomorrow. Like what this goes nowhere? 2088 01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:37.239 It doesn't. It's just funny like. 2089 01:36:37.479 --> 01:36:41.760 Oh, I heard friend uh I I both of them. 2090 01:36:42.520 --> 01:36:44.479 It was a it was a subtitle, I think, and 2091 01:36:44.520 --> 01:36:46.039 subtitle said friends bank. 2092 01:36:47.479 --> 01:36:49.479 I heard it wrong because in my I thought this 2093 01:36:49.600 --> 01:36:51.520 meant we're getting rid of Raymond so you can be 2094 01:36:51.600 --> 01:36:52.079 with Daria. 2095 01:36:53.239 --> 01:36:54.319 Don't worry. 2096 01:36:54.319 --> 01:36:56.239 We're taking We're taking the obstacle out of your way. 2097 01:36:56.359 --> 01:36:59.840 Yeah. Uh. Nick walks in and Raymond in a very 2098 01:37:00.000 --> 01:37:03.000 anxious Daria already. They put on music and they start 2099 01:37:03.000 --> 01:37:05.279 doing another one of their fake arguments while putting their 2100 01:37:05.279 --> 01:37:07.880 plan into action, the argument, really, they should be better 2101 01:37:07.920 --> 01:37:09.560 at this, They should have written down some lines. 2102 01:37:10.399 --> 01:37:12.439 Oh, this is actually very funny because the two men 2103 01:37:12.479 --> 01:37:14.800 are better at it because they've been doing it. And 2104 01:37:15.039 --> 01:37:17.800 also there was like some natural antagonism to begin with. 2105 01:37:18.159 --> 01:37:22.439 Daria's trying and she's the sweetest, kindest person, so she 2106 01:37:22.479 --> 01:37:24.960 doesn't It's like they she doesn't know how to yell 2107 01:37:25.000 --> 01:37:28.680 at someone, right, and so she like I found this 2108 01:37:28.840 --> 01:37:31.560 really amusing, Like when she like tries to fight back 2109 01:37:31.600 --> 01:37:33.720 and then she looks immediately at them like was that good? 2110 01:37:33.920 --> 01:37:36.640 I have had enough of your vulgarity? Is that good? 2111 01:37:36.680 --> 01:37:37.199 Did I do it? 2112 01:37:39.119 --> 01:37:41.159 She puts on her loudest red sweater. 2113 01:37:41.279 --> 01:37:42.800 Okay, this sweater is not fair. 2114 01:37:43.039 --> 01:37:46.159 She puts on her loudest red sweater to go undercover 2115 01:37:46.359 --> 01:37:48.479 in Like, now, I know it's after midnight, but you 2116 01:37:48.520 --> 01:37:52.479 remember it's the white Nights. White n It's a night 2117 01:37:52.880 --> 01:37:54.600 so white it drives the Volkswagon. 2118 01:37:54.800 --> 01:37:58.279 Exactly. It's a night so white that all all a 2119 01:37:58.319 --> 01:38:00.600 dog wants to do is piss into the into it 2120 01:38:00.640 --> 01:38:01.319 and make it yellow. 2121 01:38:03.079 --> 01:38:05.720 You're going with snow, with snow, what you did? 2122 01:38:05.840 --> 01:38:07.920 You're like, look, sometimes the brain just goes where it goes, 2123 01:38:07.960 --> 01:38:10.640 and the words start parting out of your mouth and 2124 01:38:10.720 --> 01:38:11.840 it makes sense in your head. 2125 01:38:12.119 --> 01:38:14.960 It's a night so white. It pronounces it chopotle. 2126 01:38:18.159 --> 01:38:23.560 It's a night so white. It only wants lobster rolls. 2127 01:38:23.880 --> 01:38:26.640 It's a night so white. It's listening to Crosby Stills 2128 01:38:26.640 --> 01:38:28.840 a Nash. 2129 01:38:28.960 --> 01:38:30.720 It's a night so white. It's listening to the Anne 2130 01:38:30.760 --> 01:38:35.000 Murray Christmas album. 2131 01:38:35.319 --> 01:38:38.880 So as I said, it's daylight. It's full fucking daylight still, 2132 01:38:38.920 --> 01:38:40.760 even though it's one am. When they're trying to escape, 2133 01:38:40.760 --> 01:38:44.720 and this bitch puts on her loudest red sweater, I'm like, girl, 2134 01:38:44.800 --> 01:38:46.159 you're gonna get caught. 2135 01:38:46.119 --> 01:38:48.800 All right. So they they gather the woven rope while 2136 01:38:48.880 --> 01:38:51.560 Nick fashions a hook from I think a fireplace poker. 2137 01:38:51.600 --> 01:38:56.039 I think it's how he makes this. I'm not entirely sure. Yeah. Unfortunately, 2138 01:38:56.359 --> 01:39:00.439 despite their preparations, Chiko is listening. He has he has 2139 01:39:00.479 --> 01:39:03.720 fulfilled the latest ACME order that's been sent off to 2140 01:39:03.760 --> 01:39:07.880 Wiley coyote and now he's just killing time listening to 2141 01:39:07.960 --> 01:39:10.640 them in the car, and his Spidey sense starts tingling 2142 01:39:11.159 --> 01:39:14.079 and he tells the car to turn around. K again. 2143 01:39:14.079 --> 01:39:16.079 Remember Kirigan, he's the aide we met in the beginning 2144 01:39:16.079 --> 01:39:17.600 of the movie. He's the one who gave him the 2145 01:39:17.600 --> 01:39:20.479 stuff from the plane crash. Kiragan is like why, he says, 2146 01:39:20.560 --> 01:39:21.319 just do what you're told. 2147 01:39:21.560 --> 01:39:23.359 This will bite him back in the ass. 2148 01:39:23.359 --> 01:39:25.439 And this is the ass the asshole this time. 2149 01:39:25.520 --> 01:39:27.640 This no, I take it back. I'm sorry. I realized 2150 01:39:27.680 --> 01:39:30.600 my mistake. This will actually take a giant chunk out 2151 01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:34.840 of his asshole, out of his perfectly round asshole, out 2152 01:39:34.880 --> 01:39:36.880 of his red puckered asshole. 2153 01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:38.560 Dog nod on, asshole. 2154 01:39:40.920 --> 01:39:44.960 Be kind to your underlings. Yeah, will risk going to 2155 01:39:45.000 --> 01:39:46.680 the gulag just to get back at you. 2156 01:39:46.720 --> 01:39:47.560 Later agreed. 2157 01:39:48.000 --> 01:39:50.159 This is the scene I remember vividly from watching this 2158 01:39:50.159 --> 01:39:52.039 movie when I was a kid with my parents. Like 2159 01:39:52.479 --> 01:39:54.680 they're on like the fifth floor of an apartment building, 2160 01:39:54.760 --> 01:39:58.079 sixth floor maybe high high up. They secure the woven 2161 01:39:58.159 --> 01:40:01.279 rope around Nick's waist and he does this like daredevil 2162 01:40:01.279 --> 01:40:04.399 thing where like he goes out the window onto some 2163 01:40:04.520 --> 01:40:08.760 like exposed beams on the side of the building, like 2164 01:40:08.800 --> 01:40:11.399 the building was in mid construction when they just stopped. 2165 01:40:11.840 --> 01:40:14.640 He leaps to the fire escape ladder using that beam. 2166 01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:17.239 So he uses that beam to like propel himself onto 2167 01:40:17.279 --> 01:40:20.000 like a fire escape ladder. He climbs down a bit. 2168 01:40:20.119 --> 01:40:23.680 He secures the rope to the ladder, and then Daria 2169 01:40:24.560 --> 01:40:26.920 uses that makeshift hook because I was, I was, I was, like, 2170 01:40:26.920 --> 01:40:30.439 what's that hook for? As a like zipline, and they 2171 01:40:30.600 --> 01:40:35.479 zipline her from the like apartment above to Nick down 2172 01:40:35.560 --> 01:40:37.239 slightly down below on the ladder. 2173 01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:40.039 Before they do that, she does change the tape in 2174 01:40:40.119 --> 01:40:44.279 the tape recorder to a pre recorded argument. Crucially, yes, yeah, 2175 01:40:44.319 --> 01:40:46.359 she almost gets stuck in the mill. There ever been ziplining? 2176 01:40:47.199 --> 01:40:53.079 Paul, have you met me? You're but not that kind 2177 01:40:53.119 --> 01:40:54.119 of adventures. 2178 01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:55.600 Because I've been ziplining and I'm not adventures. 2179 01:40:55.640 --> 01:40:57.520 Oh really, I don't like to I don't like my 2180 01:40:57.560 --> 01:40:58.640 feet dangling in the air. 2181 01:40:58.760 --> 01:41:01.000 I usually assume anything I've done you've already gotten. 2182 01:41:01.239 --> 01:41:04.119 No, that's you're good. That's the one thing I have 2183 01:41:04.159 --> 01:41:05.880 not done that. I will not be drungee jumping. I 2184 01:41:05.920 --> 01:41:06.920 will not be ziplining. 2185 01:41:07.079 --> 01:41:10.279 Ziplining bungee jumping. Absolutely not. But I went ziplining and 2186 01:41:10.279 --> 01:41:12.359 it didn't didn't. I was not afraid at all, but 2187 01:41:12.399 --> 01:41:14.640 they do tell you like you have to kind of go, 2188 01:41:14.760 --> 01:41:17.520 and like because she gets stuck in the middle, they 2189 01:41:17.560 --> 01:41:18.840 have to kind of like scoocherr them. 2190 01:41:19.600 --> 01:41:22.159 Yeah, Gregory Hinds at one point like grabs the top 2191 01:41:22.199 --> 01:41:24.800 of the rope and it's like changing. I'm like, oh my. 2192 01:41:24.680 --> 01:41:28.199 God, it looks like she did this stunt, doesn't it. 2193 01:41:28.560 --> 01:41:31.520 It looks like all of them, like, well, Gregory Heines 2194 01:41:31.520 --> 01:41:33.960 will not have to work, see, but like it looks 2195 01:41:34.119 --> 01:41:38.119 genuinely like Borishnakoff did that stunt. Yeah, Like it couldn't 2196 01:41:38.159 --> 01:41:40.640 have been right because it's so dangerous, but like it's 2197 01:41:40.720 --> 01:41:41.600 so realistic. 2198 01:41:41.760 --> 01:41:42.000 Yeah. 2199 01:41:42.039 --> 01:41:45.840 Yeah. So eventually she does make it down to Nick. Meanwhile, 2200 01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:48.680 the clock is racing because we as the audience, know 2201 01:41:48.840 --> 01:41:52.600 that Chico, fresh from menacing the teenage mutant Ninja Turtles, 2202 01:41:54.039 --> 01:41:57.119 is now on his way and will it will catch them, right, 2203 01:41:57.840 --> 01:42:01.319 So she makes it to Nick, Raymond starts to crawl 2204 01:42:01.319 --> 01:42:04.079 his way down the rope, and just as that's happening 2205 01:42:04.439 --> 01:42:07.319 right below them, Chico and his men pull up and 2206 01:42:07.399 --> 01:42:09.800 get out of the car. Luckily none of them look 2207 01:42:09.880 --> 01:42:12.800 up to see this weird fucking tablow ahead of them, 2208 01:42:13.279 --> 01:42:16.920 and they go into the building. Raymond, realizing that they're 2209 01:42:16.920 --> 01:42:19.159 gonna have he's gonna have to distract Chico in order 2210 01:42:19.239 --> 01:42:21.279 for the other two to get away, gestures at them 2211 01:42:21.319 --> 01:42:23.880 to go without him. He says I love you to Daria, 2212 01:42:24.279 --> 01:42:26.119 and he gets back in the apartment by himself, and 2213 01:42:26.199 --> 01:42:27.920 Daria is like, no, no, no no. She tries to 2214 01:42:27.960 --> 01:42:29.439 get back on the rope. She's like, I can't leave 2215 01:42:29.439 --> 01:42:31.880 without him. I can't leave without him, and Nick convinces her, 2216 01:42:31.920 --> 01:42:32.520 you have to go. 2217 01:42:32.720 --> 01:42:35.359 Yep, he says, Raymond's only hope is for us to 2218 01:42:35.359 --> 01:42:37.960 get to the American Embassy. So he gets her down 2219 01:42:38.000 --> 01:42:40.279 onto the ground. They can't sneak out the back as 2220 01:42:40.319 --> 01:42:42.279 they as they had planned, because now there are guards there, 2221 01:42:42.279 --> 01:42:45.720 because now Chico has returned, right he has He has 2222 01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:51.159 successfully a given skeletor the power of Gray Skull, and 2223 01:42:51.159 --> 01:42:53.399 he is back. They have to go through the lobby. 2224 01:42:53.399 --> 01:42:56.680 But meanwhile Raymond goes back into the apartment and he 2225 01:42:56.800 --> 01:42:59.600 turns the tape with the recorded argument onto side B 2226 01:43:00.359 --> 01:43:03.000 and then he starts playing that. So it's just music again, 2227 01:43:03.319 --> 01:43:05.840 and then he bursts out into the hall before Chiko 2228 01:43:05.920 --> 01:43:09.000 can actually come into the apartment. He starts yelling that 2229 01:43:09.039 --> 01:43:11.560 he can't take it anymore, and the guard tries to 2230 01:43:11.560 --> 01:43:13.359 stop him, but he starts to push through the guard 2231 01:43:13.399 --> 01:43:16.359 and make his way downstairs. Chiko buys it. He's like, 2232 01:43:16.359 --> 01:43:18.399 all right, come on, come on, let him go, let 2233 01:43:18.439 --> 01:43:19.680 him go, let him come downstairs. 2234 01:43:20.079 --> 01:43:23.640 So out in the hallway, Raymond loudly complains to Chicho, Look, 2235 01:43:23.880 --> 01:43:26.560 you have got to get that man away from my 2236 01:43:26.760 --> 01:43:29.359 wife and out of my life. I do not want 2237 01:43:29.439 --> 01:43:31.199 him here. He is trying to steal. He's trying to 2238 01:43:31.279 --> 01:43:35.479 ruin my marriage. Now, fuck this guy forever. Chiko buys it, 2239 01:43:35.640 --> 01:43:38.399 hook line and sinker. Raymond is very convincing. He brings 2240 01:43:38.439 --> 01:43:40.479 him into the office for a drink. Babe. I think 2241 01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:43.159 he is hoping that the two of them shag upstairs, 2242 01:43:43.239 --> 01:43:45.479 because otherwise it doesn't make any sense. So I'm trying 2243 01:43:45.479 --> 01:43:47.000 to like in my head, I'm like, why would he 2244 01:43:47.079 --> 01:43:48.960 do that? And that's the only thing I could think 2245 01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:51.000 of is he is like such a messy bitch. 2246 01:43:51.159 --> 01:43:54.399 They've also like established earlier that in Raushaw wants you 2247 01:43:54.399 --> 01:43:56.720 to open bottle of vodka. You must finish bottle of vodka, 2248 01:43:56.760 --> 01:43:59.479 which just PSA for this episode. Kids, you don't have 2249 01:43:59.560 --> 01:44:00.880 to do that. That does agree. 2250 01:44:01.479 --> 01:44:04.680 Hey, when in Russia do as Russians do. Kids, don't 2251 01:44:04.680 --> 01:44:06.720 go to their country and tell them how to drink. 2252 01:44:07.720 --> 01:44:11.159 Chiko brings Raymond into like an office in the surveillance 2253 01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:14.359 room they have set up in this apartment building specifically 2254 01:44:14.399 --> 01:44:17.239 for their So he's basically showing him behind the scenes 2255 01:44:17.239 --> 01:44:19.439 and the death Star. He's like, so, that's the guy 2256 01:44:19.439 --> 01:44:21.640 that's been listening to you from eleven to twelve. Yep, 2257 01:44:21.720 --> 01:44:23.479 that's the guy that's been listening to you from twelve 2258 01:44:23.520 --> 01:44:27.239 to one. Yep, like they like in shifts. Unfortunately, while 2259 01:44:27.279 --> 01:44:30.439 this is happening, we cut to upstairs and the boom 2260 01:44:30.479 --> 01:44:34.880 box like stops. The tape ends and it's set to 2261 01:44:34.920 --> 01:44:38.199 continue his play and it has auto reverse capabilities. 2262 01:44:38.279 --> 01:44:39.520 Goddamn it. Goddamn it. 2263 01:44:39.560 --> 01:44:43.039 Technology goes from side A to side B, and what's 2264 01:44:43.079 --> 01:44:46.119 on side B the music with that fake argument that 2265 01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:47.640 they've already been listening to. 2266 01:44:47.840 --> 01:44:48.039 Yep. 2267 01:44:48.439 --> 01:44:50.920 So the men downstairs like start to hear the same 2268 01:44:51.000 --> 01:44:54.720 exact words over and over again. Meanwhile, Nick and Daria 2269 01:44:54.800 --> 01:44:56.520 take a chance to sneak out the front door. They're 2270 01:44:56.560 --> 01:45:00.439 spotted by the landlady. Remember that old grizzled landlady who's like, yep, 2271 01:45:00.640 --> 01:45:03.600 still here, Yep. She does nothing, She doesn't raise the alarm, 2272 01:45:03.920 --> 01:45:05.960 and she she kind of looks at the men like 2273 01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:07.960 in the surveillance room, and then she looks back at 2274 01:45:07.960 --> 01:45:09.279 them and says, go now. 2275 01:45:09.239 --> 01:45:12.880 Kerragin that underling, that that that Chico decided to be 2276 01:45:12.960 --> 01:45:16.199 a dick to. Here's the conversation with Raymond's voice. He 2277 01:45:16.239 --> 01:45:19.279 realizes it must be a recording. He goes right in 2278 01:45:19.319 --> 01:45:23.079 to tell Chico. Chiko dismisses him. He says, I'm busy. 2279 01:45:23.119 --> 01:45:26.199 I'm drinking a bottle of vodka with Raymond h Kerrigan's 2280 01:45:26.199 --> 01:45:28.840 hatred for his boss and ambition for his own advancement 2281 01:45:28.880 --> 01:45:32.600 overrides his Communist ideals, and he just says, as you wish. 2282 01:45:32.920 --> 01:45:36.720 Truly, like this man hates his boss so much he's 2283 01:45:36.760 --> 01:45:38.960 willing to risk going to like a work camp. Yep, 2284 01:45:39.000 --> 01:45:41.199 because this is some deep shit he's about to pull. 2285 01:45:41.600 --> 01:45:45.039 Nick and Daria sneak out the front door. They meet 2286 01:45:45.119 --> 01:45:47.000 up at the spot on Lion's Bridge. At first, they 2287 01:45:47.000 --> 01:45:49.319 don't see anyone, but as soon as and and Daria 2288 01:45:49.359 --> 01:45:50.600 starts to go we have to go back. We have 2289 01:45:50.640 --> 01:45:52.359 to go back. No one's here. This is a trap 2290 01:45:52.680 --> 01:45:54.359 and Nick is like, no, wait, give it a moment. 2291 01:45:54.439 --> 01:45:57.720 They start to cross, and when Scott appears, he's like, 2292 01:45:57.760 --> 01:45:59.880 come on, come on, I'm Scott, I'm your contact. They 2293 01:46:00.079 --> 01:46:01.880 run across to him and he's like, whoa. This was 2294 01:46:01.920 --> 01:46:03.640 for Nick only. I don't know who this lady is. 2295 01:46:04.199 --> 01:46:06.239 And Nick is like, I'm not coming if she doesn't come, 2296 01:46:06.319 --> 01:46:08.279 and like they've like fine, fine, fine, and they get 2297 01:46:08.359 --> 01:46:10.439 Daria in the car, so they start to head for 2298 01:46:10.479 --> 01:46:10.960 the consulate. 2299 01:46:11.439 --> 01:46:16.279 Meanwhile, Raymond and Chico finish the vodka bottle. Chiko is 2300 01:46:16.600 --> 01:46:18.399 he's very busy. He has to get out. He has 2301 01:46:18.960 --> 01:46:21.119 to he has to foil those damn ThunderCats once and 2302 01:46:21.159 --> 01:46:24.399 for all. Raymond's like, let's open another bottle. Chiico's like, no, 2303 01:46:24.479 --> 01:46:27.119 the ThunderCats. I gotta go. He tells kerragin he can 2304 01:46:27.159 --> 01:46:30.359 deal with whatever Kerrigan was talking about now, so Kerrigan's like, okay, 2305 01:46:30.600 --> 01:46:32.960 come on, come on this way goes to the command center. 2306 01:46:33.920 --> 01:46:36.119 Chiko listens to the recording for about four seconds. He 2307 01:46:36.159 --> 01:46:38.920 obviously hears Raymond's voice on it when Raymond is standing 2308 01:46:38.960 --> 01:46:41.800 right in front of him. Raymond tries to tackle Chiko. 2309 01:46:42.880 --> 01:46:45.039 This is you know, all systems go Now he knows 2310 01:46:45.079 --> 01:46:47.720 he's caught. Just delay for as long as you possibly can. 2311 01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:51.479 He gets tackled by agents as Chiko shouts commands to 2312 01:46:51.520 --> 01:46:55.800 cover all Western consulates, and Kerrigan takes a moment to say, I. 2313 01:46:55.960 --> 01:46:59.520 Tried to tell you, but you were being a cunt. 2314 01:46:59.680 --> 01:47:02.119 Yeah, so yeah. 2315 01:47:01.840 --> 01:47:05.359 Super on you. We followed Nick and Daria in the 2316 01:47:05.399 --> 01:47:08.880 lime green sedan. As they drive towards the consulate, Wind 2317 01:47:08.920 --> 01:47:11.279 tells them there's a lot of Third World diplomats at 2318 01:47:11.279 --> 01:47:13.479 the consulate. They did that on purpose. They like, look, 2319 01:47:13.520 --> 01:47:16.880 we invited everyone from other countries to over for dinner, 2320 01:47:17.199 --> 01:47:20.960 so that when you arrive there's so many non aligned, 2321 01:47:21.119 --> 01:47:25.119 unbiased witnesses from many countries that you have arrived. They're 2322 01:47:25.159 --> 01:47:28.640 within eyesight of the embassy. They can see it. Two 2323 01:47:28.680 --> 01:47:31.479 police cars who I don't think this has anything to 2324 01:47:31.520 --> 01:47:33.319 do with the drama. There just happened to be two 2325 01:47:33.319 --> 01:47:35.520 police cars. They pull out in front of them, drivers 2326 01:47:35.520 --> 01:47:38.640 not paying attention because there's some tension in the car, 2327 01:47:38.760 --> 01:47:40.600 and he accidentally crashes into one of them. 2328 01:47:40.880 --> 01:47:44.439 I thought the police were arriving on the with the 2329 01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:48.239 orders to cover the Western consulates. Oh thought, I. 2330 01:47:48.239 --> 01:47:50.840 Thought this was actually like two policemen that they get 2331 01:47:50.840 --> 01:47:52.920 into their speeding and they get in the way and 2332 01:47:53.000 --> 01:47:55.359 like it could be either way, and the guy's not. 2333 01:47:55.479 --> 01:47:57.279 The guy fucks up and he accidentally hits a cop car. 2334 01:47:57.439 --> 01:48:00.439 Yeah, but both work. Wind tells Nick and Arya get 2335 01:48:00.439 --> 01:48:02.520 out of the car, try to be seen. Your best 2336 01:48:02.560 --> 01:48:05.319 hope is that all of those non aligned diplomats that 2337 01:48:05.359 --> 01:48:07.520 have started pouring out of the American consulate because for 2338 01:48:07.560 --> 01:48:09.119 some reason they know now is the time we have 2339 01:48:09.199 --> 01:48:12.279 to pour out of the American consulate. Chico arrives and 2340 01:48:12.319 --> 01:48:16.760 their driver tells Nick and Daria start walking towards the crowd. 2341 01:48:16.800 --> 01:48:18.960 Don't worry about like me and when we're fine, we 2342 01:48:19.000 --> 01:48:20.960 have like diplomatic they're not going to hurt us. Yeah, 2343 01:48:21.000 --> 01:48:23.760 so they grasp pants and they start walking towards the consulate. 2344 01:48:24.039 --> 01:48:26.880 Wind shouts at Chico. There are dozens of witnesses. Should 2345 01:48:26.880 --> 01:48:28.840 anything happened to Nick and Daria, like this is now 2346 01:48:28.920 --> 01:48:31.199 in that we can just hear him telling Chico. Chico 2347 01:48:31.479 --> 01:48:33.760 leaves Wyn and he loops his other arm through Nicks 2348 01:48:33.800 --> 01:48:36.399 and he hisses, I will have you shot, and Nick 2349 01:48:36.439 --> 01:48:39.199 tells Daria keep walking, and Win shouts that Moscow will 2350 01:48:39.239 --> 01:48:42.279 hold Chico responsible should an international incident be set off. 2351 01:48:42.479 --> 01:48:44.840 He tells the police to arrest Daria and she is 2352 01:48:44.920 --> 01:48:47.079 tackled to the ground as she tries to flee. There's 2353 01:48:47.119 --> 01:48:50.319 like four men tackling this. One Isabella Rossalini. And normally 2354 01:48:50.359 --> 01:48:52.399 I would put my money in Isabella in that case, but. 2355 01:48:52.399 --> 01:48:55.199 She's playing Daria here. Yes, Zaria is a meek and 2356 01:48:55.279 --> 01:48:59.039 gentle woman exactly, and shouts, there he is. 2357 01:48:59.079 --> 01:49:01.800 From the gates. We're moving. He's close enough now there 2358 01:49:01.840 --> 01:49:05.439 can be a positive identification that is Nikolai Rodchenko. 2359 01:49:05.800 --> 01:49:09.359 There's cameras, there's like there's strong lenses that can capture 2360 01:49:09.600 --> 01:49:11.720 a positive idea of Nick. So he had to walk 2361 01:49:11.760 --> 01:49:13.800 close enough to get within the camera range. 2362 01:49:13.880 --> 01:49:17.319 Yeah, Nick tells Chiko, look, if you let Daria go, 2363 01:49:17.399 --> 01:49:19.279 I'll keep my mouth shut about what happened that you 2364 01:49:19.359 --> 01:49:21.359 kept me, that I was being held here against my will. 2365 01:49:21.359 --> 01:49:23.079 I won't tell anyone. I won't talk about it. Yeah. 2366 01:49:23.239 --> 01:49:25.680 Chaiko pauses for a moment, and then he tells them. 2367 01:49:25.720 --> 01:49:27.640 He starts yelling at police release, sir, really sir, what 2368 01:49:27.640 --> 01:49:29.800 are you doing? What are you doing? And he walks 2369 01:49:30.039 --> 01:49:32.520 them both the American Embassy. He puts his arms around them. 2370 01:49:32.640 --> 01:49:35.840 Daria looks like she's about to burst into flames. She's like, 2371 01:49:35.880 --> 01:49:36.600 what is happening? 2372 01:49:36.720 --> 01:49:37.640 She's so afraid. 2373 01:49:37.880 --> 01:49:40.000 He hisses to them under his breath, don't forget we 2374 01:49:40.039 --> 01:49:42.279 still have Raymond, and then he announces that he's sure 2375 01:49:42.319 --> 01:49:45.760 the return of a convicted Soviet criminal to America would 2376 01:49:45.800 --> 01:49:49.159 count as proof of the Soviet Union's commitment towards peace, 2377 01:49:49.760 --> 01:49:53.079 and the two of them shuffle inside the embassy. 2378 01:49:53.119 --> 01:49:55.319 We cut to the end of the White Nights. 2379 01:49:55.600 --> 01:49:56.520 They found the salt. 2380 01:50:00.840 --> 01:50:04.720 They've had their camamil tea, their sleepy time tea. They've 2381 01:50:04.760 --> 01:50:06.600 watched the Daily Show. They're ready for bed. 2382 01:50:06.760 --> 01:50:11.880 They've listened to NPR. They've they've they've they've taken their 2383 01:50:11.880 --> 01:50:13.760 pajamas out of their PBS tote. 2384 01:50:13.800 --> 01:50:16.560 There. Yeah, they're they're having their melatonin. They're ready to 2385 01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:17.119 take a nap. 2386 01:50:17.359 --> 01:50:20.159 They've ordered the lands End sheets that they need. 2387 01:50:22.439 --> 01:50:25.960 The sun goes down as Chico drives through the dark 2388 01:50:26.039 --> 01:50:28.119 with a terrified Raymond in the back of the car. 2389 01:50:28.479 --> 01:50:30.960 So at this point I would I would say it's 2390 01:50:31.000 --> 01:50:32.920 been about a few months, if not a year, like 2391 01:50:32.960 --> 01:50:38.319 six months. Raymond looks bad. He looks thin, he looks pale. Ye, 2392 01:50:38.600 --> 01:50:39.800 he's not he's not well. 2393 01:50:39.960 --> 01:50:40.680 He looks twitchy. 2394 01:50:40.760 --> 01:50:43.920 He looks twitchy. Yeah, so he it's clear that he's 2395 01:50:43.960 --> 01:50:46.359 been in like some kind of either work camp or 2396 01:50:46.359 --> 01:50:48.840 prison this whole time. He's freaked out. He thinks he's 2397 01:50:48.840 --> 01:50:51.439 about to get assassinated. I actually was worried that that's 2398 01:50:51.479 --> 01:50:53.880 where this movie was going. He was gonna get a 2399 01:50:54.199 --> 01:50:56.199 I didn't think so, because honestly, I was like, there's 2400 01:50:56.199 --> 01:50:58.199 no way this has a bad ending. This movie is 2401 01:50:58.239 --> 01:51:02.960 American propaganda. There's just no way, Like I get it 2402 01:51:03.039 --> 01:51:06.039 like that, Like that would be very strong propaganda. Like look, 2403 01:51:06.079 --> 01:51:09.000 they assassinated him anyway. But I'm like, that's just such 2404 01:51:09.039 --> 01:51:11.279 a goddamn bummer, Like it can't be. It must be. 2405 01:51:11.760 --> 01:51:13.920 American propaganda always has a happy ending. 2406 01:51:14.079 --> 01:51:17.159 Yeah, that's just our way, that's how we roll. 2407 01:51:18.640 --> 01:51:20.880 So Raymond, who's been kept in the dark about all 2408 01:51:20.880 --> 01:51:22.840 of this, doesn't know what happened to Nick, doesn't know 2409 01:51:22.840 --> 01:51:25.199 what happened Daria. He starts to ask questions did they 2410 01:51:25.239 --> 01:51:28.560 get out? Is she safe? And Chico just cryptically says, 2411 01:51:28.840 --> 01:51:31.720 we'll send your things to your wife. The car stops 2412 01:51:31.760 --> 01:51:35.199 and Chico tells Raymond to get out. Raymond's terrified. He's 2413 01:51:35.399 --> 01:51:38.560 positive he's about to get assassinated. In the woods, a 2414 01:51:38.600 --> 01:51:41.199 group of soldiers appear. There's a spotlight. Lights go up 2415 01:51:41.239 --> 01:51:43.600 in the middle of the night. This this screams firing 2416 01:51:43.640 --> 01:51:47.239 squad about to happen. He's terrified, he's shaking. He refuses. 2417 01:51:47.239 --> 01:51:48.920 He's like, no, I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm 2418 01:51:48.920 --> 01:51:51.119 not going. And they push him. They're like, go walk 2419 01:51:51.119 --> 01:51:53.119 into the woods. He's like, don't shoot me in the back. 2420 01:51:53.159 --> 01:51:56.039 Don't shoot me in the back, please, And Chico goes 2421 01:51:56.359 --> 01:51:57.039 just walk. 2422 01:51:57.279 --> 01:52:00.600 Another spotlight turns on from a distance and Gear walks 2423 01:52:00.600 --> 01:52:04.439 forward right to Chico, who welcomes him as a comrade. 2424 01:52:04.840 --> 01:52:08.319 And Raymond walks forward and four silhouettes appear and we 2425 01:52:08.399 --> 01:52:13.439 hear Daria call his name, Raymond, Raymond, Raymond. Raymond runs 2426 01:52:13.479 --> 01:52:16.880 to her. She tells him he's across the border. He's free, 2427 01:52:16.920 --> 01:52:19.600 and Nick is also there, and Nick says, you've been traded. 2428 01:52:19.960 --> 01:52:21.960 Yes, so this is a prisoner exchange. 2429 01:52:22.039 --> 01:52:22.279 Yeah. 2430 01:52:22.319 --> 01:52:25.159 The guy who goes up to Chico is speaking in Spanish, 2431 01:52:25.159 --> 01:52:26.840 and I think he's supposed to be a Cuban, so 2432 01:52:27.079 --> 01:52:31.000 they've traded him for a Cuban communist dissident. And again, 2433 01:52:31.039 --> 01:52:32.520 I hate to bring it into the real world, but 2434 01:52:32.520 --> 01:52:35.239 it does remind me of the Britney Griner exchange. We 2435 01:52:35.399 --> 01:52:40.079 exchanged a harmless WNBA player with a fucking arms dealer. 2436 01:52:42.920 --> 01:52:45.600 So this shit does happen. In case anyone's watching this 2437 01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:48.399 movie and they're like, that's so unrealistic. They wouldn't they 2438 01:52:48.439 --> 01:52:51.239 wouldn't bother to give Raymond back. Yeah, they would, because 2439 01:52:51.279 --> 01:52:54.399 I guarantee you they got someone way worse in return. 2440 01:52:54.560 --> 01:52:57.119 In fact, Chico, who would have gotten away with it 2441 01:52:57.159 --> 01:53:01.239 was one for those damn kids sneer that they exchanged 2442 01:53:01.399 --> 01:53:04.399 scum for a hero of the people. And Nick is like, look, 2443 01:53:04.479 --> 01:53:07.600 pretend anything you want you lost, and you know it. 2444 01:53:08.359 --> 01:53:11.520 Raymond and Daria embrace and he says, I'm going home. 2445 01:53:11.680 --> 01:53:14.920 For better or for worse. I'm going home. He is 2446 01:53:15.600 --> 01:53:17.600 absolutely frank and furder at the end. 2447 01:53:18.479 --> 01:53:22.760 Hah. He takes off his overcoat and you see him 2448 01:53:22.800 --> 01:53:24.239 just wearing black panties. 2449 01:53:25.520 --> 01:53:30.199 He's about to ascend. He goes to Nick, he hugs him, 2450 01:53:30.199 --> 01:53:33.199 and he says thank you, and the movie freeze frames 2451 01:53:33.239 --> 01:53:35.039 and that is the end of the movie. 2452 01:53:35.119 --> 01:53:37.319 If movie freeze frames not with him and Daria and 2453 01:53:37.399 --> 01:53:40.279 Nick together, just him and Nick facing each other. It 2454 01:53:40.399 --> 01:53:43.600 is so the ending of Casablanca. They've sole in the 2455 01:53:43.640 --> 01:53:46.560 ending of Casablanca. It's these two men and like there's 2456 01:53:46.640 --> 01:53:49.800 there's smoke around them. Nick's wearing like a trench coat, 2457 01:53:50.079 --> 01:53:52.439 just like ye, just like Bogee in that movie. Like 2458 01:53:52.479 --> 01:53:54.279 it could not look more like that. And I'm like, 2459 01:53:54.520 --> 01:53:57.039 this is a love story between these two men. I mean, 2460 01:53:57.079 --> 01:53:59.840 I get it. There Daria's there, and she's there, she 2461 01:54:00.079 --> 01:54:04.119 and Peggy, but like, this is these two men story. 2462 01:54:04.359 --> 01:54:07.039 All right, everyone stick around. We will be right back 2463 01:54:07.119 --> 01:54:11.359 with our random observations and final rankings for White Nights. 2464 01:54:20.039 --> 01:54:24.000 And we're back alright, Erica, any last fates, any less 2465 01:54:24.000 --> 01:54:26.960 pirouettes to to sprinkle upon us about white Knights. 2466 01:54:27.039 --> 01:54:29.840 Well, we open this bottle of capol. We gotta finish it. 2467 01:54:29.960 --> 01:54:32.880 Yeah, we do them rules. Those are the rules. I 2468 01:54:32.880 --> 01:54:33.479 didn't make them. 2469 01:54:33.880 --> 01:54:36.000 I have a couple of fun like dance ones. So 2470 01:54:36.239 --> 01:54:38.760 in the middle of the scene when the two men 2471 01:54:38.840 --> 01:54:40.520 are in the in the workroom and they're kind of 2472 01:54:40.560 --> 01:54:43.439 dancing around each other while they're arguing. There's a lot 2473 01:54:43.479 --> 01:54:45.720 of karate Kid reminiscent moves. 2474 01:54:45.840 --> 01:54:46.920 There is a lot of kicking. 2475 01:54:47.039 --> 01:54:50.119 There's a lot, Yeah, there's a lot of It feels 2476 01:54:50.119 --> 01:54:52.439 like Karate Kid came out right before this movie and 2477 01:54:52.479 --> 01:54:54.159 they're like, you know what's hot right now? 2478 01:54:54.880 --> 01:54:57.680 Karate karate is so hot right now. 2479 01:54:57.880 --> 01:55:00.520 Genuinely, And I think Borshnakov's like, yeah, I do that. 2480 01:55:00.880 --> 01:55:02.920 There's one point where like one of them they actually 2481 01:55:02.960 --> 01:55:05.279 do like a little choreographed almost fight choreography, or one 2482 01:55:05.319 --> 01:55:07.880 of them like ducks under a punch, the other one kicks. 2483 01:55:07.880 --> 01:55:08.880 And that's what I'm. 2484 01:55:08.720 --> 01:55:11.560 Talking about, is that it is straight out of Karate Kid. 2485 01:55:11.840 --> 01:55:14.680 It's very funny because they're like clearly like karate is 2486 01:55:14.720 --> 01:55:17.680 in the zeitgeist and they were in Twila Tharp's like, 2487 01:55:18.079 --> 01:55:21.279 Karate Karate. I'm seeing karate. 2488 01:55:23.239 --> 01:55:26.399 I already I already sang the praises of the pilot. 2489 01:55:27.079 --> 01:55:29.560 The pilot of the plane in this episode, he remained 2490 01:55:29.640 --> 01:55:32.039 very calm during the plane crash. I appreciated that. I 2491 01:55:32.079 --> 01:55:34.520 just want to call out one really excellent line that 2492 01:55:34.560 --> 01:55:37.279 he has during it. Because they're they're getting closer to 2493 01:55:37.319 --> 01:55:39.359 the ground, it's it's clear there's not enough space in 2494 01:55:39.399 --> 01:55:41.880 the runway. His co pilot's like, we're gonna hit them, 2495 01:55:42.000 --> 01:55:44.520 We're gonna hit them, and the pilot just goes, you're 2496 01:55:44.520 --> 01:55:45.239 not wrong. 2497 01:55:47.079 --> 01:55:50.199 Genuinely, like the best pilot I've ever seen on film. 2498 01:55:50.199 --> 01:55:52.920 You're right. He crashed that plane and is like, we 2499 01:55:53.039 --> 01:55:53.680 are going. 2500 01:55:53.479 --> 01:55:54.680 To We're gonna be fine. 2501 01:55:54.960 --> 01:56:00.239 Another bit of excellent Barishnikoff dance moves. This truly is incredible. Well, 2502 01:56:00.319 --> 01:56:02.640 they do a close up in the scene when he's 2503 01:56:02.640 --> 01:56:04.800 in the theater and Galina's on the floor looking at 2504 01:56:05.039 --> 01:56:08.119 the drawings and he's kind of dancing around her. They 2505 01:56:08.239 --> 01:56:10.560 do a close up of his feet and he goes 2506 01:56:10.600 --> 01:56:13.840 on point. He's in like he's either I can't remember 2507 01:56:13.880 --> 01:56:17.920 barefoot in the scene, or he's wearing like like dance shoes. 2508 01:56:17.960 --> 01:56:19.399 He's wearing like white sneakers, like. 2509 01:56:19.399 --> 01:56:22.199 Or white sneakers something like that. Yeah, he's not wearing 2510 01:56:22.199 --> 01:56:24.760 point shoes, is my point. He goes on point. He 2511 01:56:24.840 --> 01:56:28.479 managed to do that, and then he bends his toes 2512 01:56:28.600 --> 01:56:31.680 forward like back and he's on the front of his 2513 01:56:31.800 --> 01:56:35.159 toes and he's dancing on the front of his toes. 2514 01:56:35.279 --> 01:56:35.960 Yeah. 2515 01:56:36.000 --> 01:56:38.880 Ouch, And like the camera does a close up of it, 2516 01:56:38.920 --> 01:56:43.039 so it's clearly like a Misha Barishnikov special. Yeah, I 2517 01:56:43.079 --> 01:56:46.079 can do this, and it's really it looks really impressive 2518 01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:48.159 when you when you see it, and it does because 2519 01:56:48.199 --> 01:56:51.880 it's like, God, that looks so painful. But he's bouncing 2520 01:56:52.079 --> 01:56:56.279 around on the fronts of his toes. Yeah, agreed, incredible, incredible. 2521 01:56:56.840 --> 01:56:59.600 I just have one more and it's a line I 2522 01:56:59.640 --> 01:57:01.840 really like in the movie. And I look, I hate 2523 01:57:01.880 --> 01:57:03.840 to bring this into real world and everything, but I 2524 01:57:03.840 --> 01:57:06.039 think it's important to like point this stuff out. Okay, 2525 01:57:06.119 --> 01:57:08.520 So at the very beginning of the movie, when Raymond 2526 01:57:08.600 --> 01:57:11.359 is arguing that the Soviet Union is better than the 2527 01:57:11.439 --> 01:57:15.640 United States, and He's arguing back and he's like, well, 2528 01:57:16.359 --> 01:57:19.199 you're a Soviet, Like, what are you talking about. He goes, no, no, no, 2529 01:57:20.079 --> 01:57:23.199 Nick says, I am a Russian. I am not a Soviet. Yeah, 2530 01:57:23.439 --> 01:57:25.800 there's a difference. I'm proud of the culture I come from. 2531 01:57:25.840 --> 01:57:27.920 I am not proud of what it has become. And 2532 01:57:28.000 --> 01:57:30.760 I think just keeping that in the back of our 2533 01:57:30.800 --> 01:57:34.479 heads currently no reason, no reason. But I am an 2534 01:57:34.520 --> 01:57:39.279 American and I'm proud of the ideals that we purport. 2535 01:57:39.439 --> 01:57:41.479 At the very least, I have to say, and so 2536 01:57:41.680 --> 01:57:44.399 like the moments like that are like kind of beautiful 2537 01:57:44.399 --> 01:57:45.000 and important to me. 2538 01:57:45.039 --> 01:57:48.199 I agree, yeahah, very well said, I have a very 2539 01:57:48.199 --> 01:57:49.760 stupid one to bring us back down. 2540 01:57:49.880 --> 01:57:51.600 Love that love after everyone. 2541 01:57:51.960 --> 01:57:54.880 So in the Last Big Dance, when they're dancing in 2542 01:57:54.960 --> 01:57:57.640 Unison in the studio, we watch and it cuts away 2543 01:57:57.640 --> 01:58:00.319 from the dance briefly and it cuts to Chiko watching them, 2544 01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:05.039 but he is like kind of dancing along with them 2545 01:58:05.079 --> 01:58:06.279 as he watches them on TV. 2546 01:58:06.399 --> 01:58:09.520 And he's wearing his exercise outfits. 2547 01:58:09.159 --> 01:58:11.720 An exercise outfit that makes him look like a Miami 2548 01:58:11.800 --> 01:58:14.520 area senior citizen going on a run walk like it 2549 01:58:14.640 --> 01:58:16.880 is so funny and weird. 2550 01:58:17.279 --> 01:58:19.399 Yeah, it's like a running suit that you would wear 2551 01:58:19.439 --> 01:58:21.239 in the eighties that in the eighties would not have 2552 01:58:21.239 --> 01:58:24.960 seemed dumb and all. It just seems it seems so dumb. 2553 01:58:25.039 --> 01:58:26.039 It's a windbreaker. 2554 01:58:26.600 --> 01:58:27.680 It's so much windbreaker. 2555 01:58:27.800 --> 01:58:31.680 It's a wind breakers as he walks like plastic pants, 2556 01:58:31.800 --> 01:58:36.560 tearaway pants, but they're all like neon yellow. Oh man, 2557 01:58:36.680 --> 01:58:37.720 the eighties. 2558 01:58:37.640 --> 01:58:40.319 So so delicious, and the fact that they bothered to 2559 01:58:40.319 --> 01:58:44.039 put that, like we know he's watching, so why why 2560 01:58:44.119 --> 01:58:44.720 is this here? 2561 01:58:44.960 --> 01:58:48.920 What is this accomplishing show that they are his entertainment like, 2562 01:58:49.079 --> 01:58:50.560 oh yeah, favorite. 2563 01:58:50.159 --> 01:58:53.000 This is like workout video, they are his Richard Simmons. 2564 01:58:53.680 --> 01:58:57.479 Yeah, okay, Paul, how shall we rank white nights? 2565 01:58:58.079 --> 01:59:02.119 How about one to ten? Instagram that I absolutely do 2566 01:59:02.319 --> 01:59:03.880 not want on my feed. 2567 01:59:04.199 --> 01:59:08.800 Listen algorithm, don't send me any more videos of tanned, 2568 01:59:09.039 --> 01:59:13.800 shirtless men baking vanilla cupcakes and then eating them slowly 2569 01:59:13.880 --> 01:59:16.039 into the camera. I don't want it. I don't have 2570 01:59:16.159 --> 01:59:18.439 to be fair. I haven't gotten any of those yet. Yeah, 2571 01:59:18.439 --> 01:59:20.560 but I don't want them. I'm putting that out there 2572 01:59:20.640 --> 01:59:22.119 right now. I don't want it. 2573 01:59:22.279 --> 01:59:26.439 I don't want to see a thick, hot ass man 2574 01:59:25.760 --> 01:59:28.359 making a thong and then modeling it. 2575 01:59:28.439 --> 01:59:33.039 Disgusting, gross, gross, indecent. Yes, do not send me hot 2576 01:59:33.079 --> 01:59:35.840 women in their forties wearing nothing but underwear in a 2577 01:59:35.920 --> 01:59:37.399 trench coat. I don't want it. 2578 01:59:37.560 --> 01:59:40.920 Don't send me naked yogis whose bits and bobs are 2579 01:59:40.920 --> 01:59:43.800 only covered by their thighs being extended in a certain way. 2580 01:59:44.039 --> 01:59:48.760 Gross and absolutely no more videos of Pedro Pascal destroying 2581 01:59:48.800 --> 01:59:49.520 my ovaries. 2582 01:59:49.720 --> 01:59:50.039 Done. 2583 01:59:50.159 --> 01:59:52.680 I don't want it. No more, no more, no more 2584 01:59:52.720 --> 01:59:54.800 with that man. I've had it. I've hit my I've 2585 01:59:54.840 --> 02:00:01.119 hit pak Pascal. How about one to ten Colonel Chico's resume. 2586 02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:03.920 Oh items on Colonel Chico's resume, like. 2587 02:00:03.880 --> 02:00:05.640 He was Megatron's aide de camp. 2588 02:00:08.239 --> 02:00:10.319 How one of his hobbies is getting foiled by. 2589 02:00:10.199 --> 02:00:12.720 The A team, Oh yes? Or how how he he 2590 02:00:12.800 --> 02:00:15.319 once studied magic at the feet of Magic at the spel. 2591 02:00:16.000 --> 02:00:20.079 Wow, good, deep good. How he's too busy staging a 2592 02:00:20.159 --> 02:00:22.560 coup at the Rhythm Nation to be doing anything else. 2593 02:00:22.720 --> 02:00:28.279 He is actually Gargamel's cousin. How about one to ten 2594 02:00:28.399 --> 02:00:30.039 Knights that are so white. 2595 02:00:30.239 --> 02:00:33.520 So white that they have a closet full of patagony. 2596 02:00:33.079 --> 02:00:36.079 Vests, so so white that they give interviews after Shen 2597 02:00:36.159 --> 02:00:37.880 Yung shows about how magical it is. 2598 02:00:38.359 --> 02:00:41.760 So white that they need to speak to the manager. 2599 02:00:41.960 --> 02:00:43.520 So white that they will sue at the drop of 2600 02:00:43.520 --> 02:00:44.880 the hat. They will just suit. 2601 02:00:45.000 --> 02:00:48.279 They will sue you right away, right away, blanket suing everyone. 2602 02:00:48.479 --> 02:00:50.359 So white, Paul, they don't see. 2603 02:00:50.199 --> 02:00:53.119 Colors, so white, they brag about having a black friend. 2604 02:00:56.039 --> 02:00:56.840 Should you do this one? 2605 02:00:56.920 --> 02:00:57.159 Okay? 2606 02:00:57.239 --> 02:00:57.439 Yeah? 2607 02:00:58.000 --> 02:00:58.399 So white? 2608 02:00:58.399 --> 02:00:59.640 All right? Do you want to go first or should 2609 02:00:59.680 --> 02:01:03.680 I go first in this one? All right? Spoiler alert? 2610 02:01:03.680 --> 02:01:06.199 I think this age does really well. It doesn't have 2611 02:01:06.239 --> 02:01:10.039 everything that we talk about. It spectacularly fails the Bechdel test. 2612 02:01:10.159 --> 02:01:11.880 I think the only time two women talk to each 2613 02:01:11.880 --> 02:01:14.039 other are when the actress from Porgy and Bess comes 2614 02:01:14.079 --> 02:01:17.119 off stage and like grumbles to someone about Raymond being 2615 02:01:17.119 --> 02:01:19.840 a show off. Yeah, and the other someone is a woman. 2616 02:01:19.880 --> 02:01:21.560 But neither of those two are named. 2617 02:01:21.640 --> 02:01:24.439 Correct, that's very possible. Pasha is named, but Pasha does 2618 02:01:24.439 --> 02:01:27.600 not speak to anyone except Nick. So yeah, AND's obviously 2619 02:01:27.640 --> 02:01:29.840 a much more supporting character. But the two main female 2620 02:01:29.880 --> 02:01:33.199 roles in this are excellently drawn characters, I think, even 2621 02:01:33.199 --> 02:01:35.319 though they don't interact with each other, played by two 2622 02:01:35.359 --> 02:01:38.760 Oscar winners and an Oscar nominee. So like the juice 2623 02:01:38.800 --> 02:01:41.520 is there. Yeah, there's no gay content. That is fine. 2624 02:01:41.640 --> 02:01:44.079 This movie has enough on its mind. We're good. 2625 02:01:44.399 --> 02:01:46.560 I mean, there's no gay context of what's happening in 2626 02:01:46.560 --> 02:01:48.560 my brain. Yeah, when I'm watching the movie, except I'm 2627 02:01:48.560 --> 02:01:49.279 watching those two. 2628 02:01:49.239 --> 02:01:52.760 Dance, Except that mikaal Barishnikov dancing is fundamentally gay content. 2629 02:01:53.039 --> 02:01:54.479 I know he's straight as an arrow. 2630 02:01:54.520 --> 02:01:56.840 I don't care, except for the end of the movie 2631 02:01:56.880 --> 02:01:58.039 when I'm like, kiss. 2632 02:01:57.880 --> 02:02:01.199 Kiss, Kiss. But the movie it has like race with 2633 02:02:01.319 --> 02:02:04.119 a capital R on its mind, I would say, and 2634 02:02:05.159 --> 02:02:09.000 the sins of America and the sins of governments at large, 2635 02:02:09.000 --> 02:02:10.600 and the sins of Russia. And it has a lot 2636 02:02:10.600 --> 02:02:12.760 of big ideas that it's packaging in this kind of 2637 02:02:13.239 --> 02:02:15.800 little bit of a silly way, right with these two dancers, 2638 02:02:15.840 --> 02:02:18.920 and like, you know, but I appreciate that. I like 2639 02:02:19.039 --> 02:02:21.640 that about it because it makes it makes the very 2640 02:02:21.680 --> 02:02:23.800 serious stuff go down a little bit easier and you 2641 02:02:23.840 --> 02:02:26.960 can be entertained by it as opposed to simply horrified 2642 02:02:26.960 --> 02:02:29.439 by it. And it's still horrifying, to be clear, It 2643 02:02:29.560 --> 02:02:32.319 just it. It's spoonful of sugar with the medicine. I 2644 02:02:32.439 --> 02:02:34.560 liked that they talked a little bit when I was 2645 02:02:34.600 --> 02:02:36.760 doing research on this. They talked a little bit about 2646 02:02:36.760 --> 02:02:39.199 how they wanted to make a movie where like Russia 2647 02:02:39.359 --> 02:02:42.039 was not portrayed as like just full of horrible people, 2648 02:02:42.319 --> 02:02:44.720 and try to be like fair minded about the Russian 2649 02:02:44.720 --> 02:02:47.720 and American governments. Look in nineteen eighty five, maybe that's 2650 02:02:47.720 --> 02:02:50.399 what they did, because very clearly Raymond calls out the 2651 02:02:50.439 --> 02:02:54.079 American government for the Shenanigans in Vietnam and the racism 2652 02:02:54.199 --> 02:02:57.800 inherent in the American society. It is still absolutely the 2653 02:02:57.880 --> 02:03:00.960 utopia that we are driving charts. In the movie, they 2654 02:03:01.039 --> 02:03:04.600 make it very clear that the citizens of Russia are 2655 02:03:04.640 --> 02:03:07.439 not the Soviets, to use the movie's parlance. 2656 02:03:07.600 --> 02:03:10.199 Yeah, right, that there are good people working within this 2657 02:03:10.319 --> 02:03:12.079 extremely bad system. 2658 02:03:12.319 --> 02:03:15.119 Yes, And I do think they accomplish that. They don't 2659 02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:17.479 make any apologies for the Russian government, but they don't 2660 02:03:17.479 --> 02:03:20.800 implicate all of the citizens in it, which is pretty good. 2661 02:03:21.319 --> 02:03:24.000 So yeah. Like I for the fact that it actually 2662 02:03:24.039 --> 02:03:25.920 is a kind of complex movie, I don't think there's 2663 02:03:25.960 --> 02:03:28.000 much to say about it because I think it I 2664 02:03:28.039 --> 02:03:30.640 think it accomplishes what it sets out to accomplish fairly well. 2665 02:03:31.359 --> 02:03:33.520 Like Gregory Hines is the only person of color in 2666 02:03:33.560 --> 02:03:35.479 the movie, but he is the lead of the movie, 2667 02:03:35.520 --> 02:03:37.119 and the fact that he is the only person of 2668 02:03:37.119 --> 02:03:40.000 color in the movie is part of it. Yes, so 2669 02:03:40.199 --> 02:03:43.119 it's not just we have our token black person here. 2670 02:03:43.119 --> 02:03:45.800 It's like, no, there would only be one black person 2671 02:03:45.800 --> 02:03:47.880 in Siberia. 2672 02:03:48.239 --> 02:03:50.119 I'm curious now what the numbers are. 2673 02:03:51.960 --> 02:03:55.640 So I loved this movie. I loved watching them dance. 2674 02:03:55.800 --> 02:03:57.560 I loved watching them dance even more than I love 2675 02:03:57.600 --> 02:03:59.439 the movie. Like the movie by itself is an eight. 2676 02:04:00.119 --> 02:04:03.119 Them dancing is at seventeen, Like you were saying, it 2677 02:04:03.199 --> 02:04:05.560 kind of resonates today and it maybe it kind of 2678 02:04:05.640 --> 02:04:08.560 aged into something that we would have thought was very retrograde. 2679 02:04:09.439 --> 02:04:11.760 I don't know, let's pull a number out of thin 2680 02:04:11.800 --> 02:04:15.640 air eight years ago and now it feels much more 2681 02:04:15.800 --> 02:04:18.039 of the moment. I'm gonna give it a nine out 2682 02:04:18.079 --> 02:04:21.760 of ten nights that are that are so so white 2683 02:04:22.319 --> 02:04:24.840 that they clap on the one in the three these 2684 02:04:24.920 --> 02:04:27.239 nights they're so white. 2685 02:04:27.079 --> 02:04:27.560 So white? 2686 02:04:27.720 --> 02:04:29.279 Yeah, how about you it? 2687 02:04:29.399 --> 02:04:31.560 So it does not pass the Bechdel test. As you said, 2688 02:04:31.720 --> 02:04:35.039 there's like there's a damsel in distressedness to Daria's character 2689 02:04:35.600 --> 02:04:38.479 that I don't love. Thank god that Galina is in 2690 02:04:38.520 --> 02:04:41.880 the movie. Yeah, and Anne is in the movie, and 2691 02:04:42.119 --> 02:04:44.800 Anne really does get relegated to like the background, but 2692 02:04:44.920 --> 02:04:47.680 like at least they're there, because if the movie only 2693 02:04:47.680 --> 02:04:50.760 had Daria is your female representation would have been real 2694 02:04:50.840 --> 02:04:54.399 fucking annoyed, because it's wonderful as Isabella Rousselini is, like, 2695 02:04:54.520 --> 02:04:57.640 there's just a there's a doe eyed innocence to that 2696 02:04:57.720 --> 02:05:00.319 character that would drive me insane if that's the only woman. 2697 02:05:01.039 --> 02:05:03.880 You're right, like, they do a good enough job of 2698 02:05:03.960 --> 02:05:08.520 not being like yay America, boo Russia. But it is 2699 02:05:08.560 --> 02:05:12.680 so American propaganda in this movie, and there is you 2700 02:05:12.680 --> 02:05:14.359 know what I also I thought was interesting is that 2701 02:05:14.399 --> 02:05:16.760 there is also a conversation in the movie, although it's 2702 02:05:16.760 --> 02:05:20.840 not explicit about elitism across the political spectrum, of like 2703 02:05:21.359 --> 02:05:24.880 ballet is an elite form of dance and tap is not. 2704 02:05:25.079 --> 02:05:28.560 Because there's a line when Gregory Hines is first talking 2705 02:05:28.600 --> 02:05:31.520 about like his life is a tap dancer, He's like, 2706 02:05:31.880 --> 02:05:34.520 white people don't want to pay for tap. They don't 2707 02:05:34.600 --> 02:05:38.079 pay one hundred dollars ticket prices to go see tap dancers, 2708 02:05:38.159 --> 02:05:41.840 Like it's not an art form that makes money, which 2709 02:05:41.880 --> 02:05:44.399 is why he had to get a second job, which 2710 02:05:44.399 --> 02:05:46.159 is why he had to go into the military, because 2711 02:05:46.159 --> 02:05:48.119 he didn't have the He couldn't make it as a 2712 02:05:48.119 --> 02:05:54.119 tap dancer, whereas ballet is rarefied and ballet dancers tend 2713 02:05:54.199 --> 02:05:56.880 to be white and tap dancers tend to be black. 2714 02:05:56.880 --> 02:05:59.600 And I thought that was really interesting. It doesn't seem correct. 2715 02:05:59.600 --> 02:06:01.399 But then I think about it, I'm like, yeah, I 2716 02:06:01.399 --> 02:06:04.039 guess I don't really ever go see just tap dance 2717 02:06:04.520 --> 02:06:05.840 much ever, Right. 2718 02:06:05.760 --> 02:06:07.840 Like that's when bringing the noise, bringing to funk was 2719 02:06:07.880 --> 02:06:09.159 such a thing, right. 2720 02:06:09.079 --> 02:06:12.520 Yeah, Like there are tap numbers in Broadway shows. Obviously 2721 02:06:12.520 --> 02:06:15.000 there's you know, anything goes and uh, you know you 2722 02:06:15.039 --> 02:06:16.760 were saying earlier, I haven't seen it yet. The Boop 2723 02:06:16.840 --> 02:06:19.720 musical is all it's like a big tap showy tap 2724 02:06:19.840 --> 02:06:23.039 dance thing they integrate it into. But I never I 2725 02:06:23.039 --> 02:06:25.079 would go see a ballet. But I don't think i'd 2726 02:06:25.119 --> 02:06:28.119 ever I've ever gone seat to see a tap show. Like, 2727 02:06:28.239 --> 02:06:30.720 I'm not sure that's even an option. I don't think 2728 02:06:30.840 --> 02:06:33.520 so yeah much very often. But I think there is 2729 02:06:33.520 --> 02:06:37.560 something inherently racist and the elitist about that. Like they're like, 2730 02:06:37.680 --> 02:06:42.640 why is a tap not commonly shown to white, wealthy 2731 02:06:42.680 --> 02:06:46.199 audiences ever? So they're like, the movie is smart, like 2732 02:06:46.239 --> 02:06:48.880 it really like it even uses the language of dance 2733 02:06:48.960 --> 02:06:52.800 to explain what's happening in the like in larger context. 2734 02:06:53.319 --> 02:06:56.039 So I actually I do. I do think it ages 2735 02:06:56.079 --> 02:07:00.319 pretty well. I don't know if it's at nine for me, Okay, 2736 02:07:00.920 --> 02:07:04.279 Also because like in order to get these like really 2737 02:07:04.319 --> 02:07:09.199 beautiful salient points across the movie, so Rinky Dinky in 2738 02:07:09.279 --> 02:07:12.079 terms of its plot, and it's Chiko is the only 2739 02:07:12.159 --> 02:07:16.359 person we meet of the like Russian like government in 2740 02:07:16.439 --> 02:07:19.119 the film really real, like we like he has his underlings, 2741 02:07:19.119 --> 02:07:20.840 he has like that guy who like turns on him 2742 02:07:20.840 --> 02:07:22.960 at the end a little bit. But like there's no 2743 02:07:23.199 --> 02:07:26.159 like they don't talk about the Russian president at the time, 2744 02:07:27.079 --> 02:07:29.920 you know, there's no like, Yeah, it's just this like 2745 02:07:30.039 --> 02:07:33.439 one guy's vendetta against this one ballet dancer. It feels 2746 02:07:33.479 --> 02:07:36.159 like and it just is so rinky dink. And in 2747 02:07:36.239 --> 02:07:39.199 terms of it being like American propaganda, sure it every 2748 02:07:39.199 --> 02:07:42.239 Hollywood movie is. In a way, I'm almost fine with 2749 02:07:42.279 --> 02:07:44.920 it because I'm like, yeah, what did I expect? But also, 2750 02:07:46.000 --> 02:07:47.960 you know, the movie gets some shit right about the 2751 02:07:48.039 --> 02:07:50.159 Soviet Union, and it gets some shit right about even 2752 02:07:50.199 --> 02:07:53.479 current day Russia, and and. 2753 02:07:53.079 --> 02:07:54.800 And it does get some shit right about America, and 2754 02:07:54.800 --> 02:07:57.000 it gets some shit right about America. And I think 2755 02:07:57.279 --> 02:07:59.880 when I'm watching it, I'm taking a lot of what 2756 02:08:00.119 --> 02:08:03.640 saying about the Soviet government and seeing it reflected in 2757 02:08:04.319 --> 02:08:09.159 certain policies of our current government, and like it's echoing 2758 02:08:09.279 --> 02:08:09.960 in that way. 2759 02:08:10.119 --> 02:08:13.399 In that way, yeah, it's not fair and balanced, but again, 2760 02:08:13.479 --> 02:08:15.720 it is an American movie, so like you have to 2761 02:08:15.880 --> 02:08:17.479 sort of go into it with your eyes open a 2762 02:08:17.520 --> 02:08:19.840 little bit. Yeah, that's a tough one. You gave it 2763 02:08:19.840 --> 02:08:24.119 a nine. Huh, I'm gonna give it. Yeah. I mean 2764 02:08:24.239 --> 02:08:27.960 like pretty diverse, not pretty diverse, not diverse, but like 2765 02:08:28.039 --> 02:08:30.960 a main character is a person of color. I do 2766 02:08:31.079 --> 02:08:33.359 love movies about dance, so I'm just naturally gonna like 2767 02:08:33.760 --> 02:08:35.920 inclined to give it more. The dancing is so good, 2768 02:08:35.920 --> 02:08:37.800 by the way, Yeah, we really didn't talk about it. 2769 02:08:37.800 --> 02:08:42.119 The dancing is so good. Like if this movie gave 2770 02:08:42.199 --> 02:08:45.279 me fifteen more minutes of dance, I'd be thrilled, or 2771 02:08:45.399 --> 02:08:48.000 an hour more of dance, I would still I would 2772 02:08:48.000 --> 02:08:49.800 watch it happily, watch a three hour cut. 2773 02:08:49.880 --> 02:08:52.880 If this movie was just a dance piece of ballet 2774 02:08:53.000 --> 02:08:55.800 being men being melded with tap and they told the 2775 02:08:55.920 --> 02:08:57.960 entire story through that, yes, with. 2776 02:08:57.920 --> 02:09:00.399 No words, I would say, be a way better movie. Yeah, 2777 02:09:00.560 --> 02:09:01.840 like way better movies. 2778 02:09:02.560 --> 02:09:05.079 They should, they should. They should do that at at 2779 02:09:05.199 --> 02:09:07.520 at the at the met next year or something like that. 2780 02:09:07.600 --> 02:09:08.399 Yeah that would work. 2781 02:09:08.439 --> 02:09:10.119 New York Theater Workshop, get on it. 2782 02:09:10.239 --> 02:09:11.800 Yeah, are you listening. 2783 02:09:11.840 --> 02:09:13.560 We have an idea and it's gold. 2784 02:09:13.760 --> 02:09:14.000 Yep. 2785 02:09:14.279 --> 02:09:16.920 So yeah, I'm going to give it an eight. Okay, 2786 02:09:17.279 --> 02:09:19.520 eight out of ten. Knights that are so White. All 2787 02:09:19.520 --> 02:09:22.920 his furniture comes from West elm Okay, I'm struggling with 2788 02:09:23.000 --> 02:09:25.840 my like conflicted feelings about the propaganda of it all. 2789 02:09:25.880 --> 02:09:28.560 But honestly, I think the movie is pretty fair and 2790 02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:32.560 it's wonderful. Yeah, it's stupid, don't get me wrong. It's 2791 02:09:32.600 --> 02:09:34.439 well a stupid, but it's wonderful. 2792 02:09:34.880 --> 02:09:37.520 I feel like dance movies, the stupid is built in. 2793 02:09:38.079 --> 02:09:40.279 You almost have to have us at least a sousson 2794 02:09:40.600 --> 02:09:43.119 more than a sous a ladle of stupid. Yeah, on 2795 02:09:43.199 --> 02:09:46.680 top of it, right, because I love dance. I love dance, 2796 02:09:46.720 --> 02:09:47.720 but it's not serious. 2797 02:09:47.960 --> 02:09:50.000 That's the thing that this movie actually succeeds in is 2798 02:09:50.000 --> 02:09:52.760 that it doesn't treat dance that seriously. There's no sense 2799 02:09:52.800 --> 02:09:55.000 that like he's going to dance his way into teaching 2800 02:09:55.039 --> 02:09:56.159 these people about love. 2801 02:09:56.359 --> 02:09:58.159 Right, you know what I mean? It doesn't go that far. 2802 02:09:59.359 --> 02:10:02.399 Most dance we do or like we're gonna work out 2803 02:10:02.399 --> 02:10:04.880 this beef on the dance floor, We're. 2804 02:10:04.720 --> 02:10:08.560 Gonna stomp the yard. Do you want to offer a 2805 02:10:08.640 --> 02:10:12.640 palate cleanser? No, me neither. Watch it. Watch this movie, heye. 2806 02:10:12.640 --> 02:10:14.600 If you don't have the time to kill maybe there's 2807 02:10:14.600 --> 02:10:16.680 a super cut on YouTube. Of all the dance movies. 2808 02:10:16.720 --> 02:10:18.960 Oh yeah, scenes, I would watch that. I would watch 2809 02:10:19.000 --> 02:10:19.680 this out. 2810 02:10:19.520 --> 02:10:22.560 Of that absolutely. I'll probably watch it tonight. Yeah yeah, 2811 02:10:22.880 --> 02:10:25.399 all right, Erica. That is the end of this year show. 2812 02:10:25.920 --> 02:10:28.079 Everyone listening can follow us on social media. We're on 2813 02:10:28.119 --> 02:10:30.279 Blue Sky, We're on Threads, We're on Instagram if you'd 2814 02:10:30.319 --> 02:10:32.159 like to send in your requests and want to know 2815 02:10:32.239 --> 02:10:34.680 our monthly themes in advanced Instagram, it's the one and 2816 02:10:34.800 --> 02:10:38.359 only social media platform where we manage that. 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