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Trick or Treat: Wake In Fright (1971) · Fumbling Through Film

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  Gathered together from the cosmic reaches of the universe, here in this great screening room with comfortable recliners, are the most powerful forces of good ever assembled. Keith.
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  Stuff happens, and at the same time, nothing actually happens.
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  Terry.
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  I look over to my side. Some of the other guys already eaten his full blooming onion. I've barely even scratched the surface.
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  Derek.
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  Alright, you primitive fucks, here's a DVD I'm going to show you.
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  And the Power Twins, Zap and Jordan, with their magical lemur snort, dedicated Welcome back to Fumbling Their Way Through Movies, one forgotten gem at a time.
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  This week we watch the 1971 outback thriller, Wake in Fright.
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  This is Fumbling Through Film.
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  I'm a doctor of medicine and a tramp by temperament. I'm also an alcoholic. My disease prevented me from practicing in Sydney, but out here it's scarcely noticeable. Certainly doesn't stop people from coming to see me. I charge no fees because I'm not interested in money. Anyway, I'm unreliable. But I'm accepted socially because I'm an educated man and I've got character. I get my food from my friends, my requirements in beer, which with some measure of self-control is the only alcohol I allow myself.
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  And you get along without money altogether?
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  It's possible to live forever in the Java without money. As you probably noticed, some of the natives are very, uh, hospitable.
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  Hello and welcome to another one-of-a-kind, genre-defining, brand new episode of Fumbling Through Film, the only show that I guarantee dares to bring together 3 dudes to talk about movies. These aren't just any movies. These are the ones we've either missed, overlooked, or feel are simply worth revisiting.
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  Sounds like any
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  AKA N hyphen E movie.
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  If only there were some sort of you know
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  if there were some rules parameters, but there aren't right as far as I know there aren't.
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  Oh, but at least at this point in the show there's not.
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  But what I do know is my name is Derek and I'm a fumbler. Those other people you're hearing, one is joining us in the Fumbledome. He's a prime minister of fumbling in film. He's Keith.
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  Hey, hey, what's up, KG? Fumbler extraordinaire. Uh, damn happy to be here.
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  Damn happy to be here. The other one is also in the Fumbledome. I know I kind of set that up like Keith was here and Terry was somewhere else, but he's not. He's here. He's the Dr. Dre of Kansas. He's Terry.
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  I was a little worried. I was like, I'm here too. It's kind of weird. Can people see me? This is not good.
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  He's an apparition.
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  I said, I said it was a ghost costume. It was a ghost costume, not a real ghost.
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  I thought I'd really become the Invisible Man. My formula had finally paid off.
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  Oh man, the megalomaniac is going to attack now.
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  That's right. Yeah, finally I can do what I was born to do as an invisible person— podcast.
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  Podcast from different rooms in the house. No one will ever know I'm there.
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  So spooky. This voice is coming from a disembodied Head. Oh,
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  oh, you just— your head's floating around. Well, I guess if you wrap your head.
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  I forgot to put the formula on my head, so it's just my body.
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  Damn it. Oh, it's like a topical formula. You
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  don't drink it, you just rub it in on your skin.
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  Yeah. Oh,
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  you know, I just missed some spots on my face.
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  So that's like, you know, you ever see those people where they're like, oh, could you put sunscreen on my back? And people like write dirty words on their back and stuff like that.
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  Yeah, the ultimate betrayal.
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  You, you would be— it'd be so easy to miss a spot with— it was a topical invisible formula.
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  Yeah. And if you're really relying on being invisible, you just put like, you leave some word space out.
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  So like almost like a, like a sandwich board is what it kind of looks like just walking around with. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Oh, it's like an advertisement. There's an invisible— yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah, that's actually— I can make some money doing that probably.
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  You know what you can't make money at?
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  Podcasting.
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  This podcast. So let's tell people what it is that we're doing here.
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  Just in case they want to.
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  Yeah. No, every month, one of us, we, we don't watch just any movie because one of us will pick a theme, a genre, some sort of guiding light, uh, like the, the light on the porch at Halloween to let you know the candy's here. This is the direction you go in. And we each choose a movie within that genre or theme or guiding light or out of that candy bowl. And then on the 4th week, we spin a wheel and we watch something tangentially related. That Keith chooses. This month was a Terry month. So that means he chose the theme. Now, Terry, you're going to have to tell us how this theme works because it's involved. It's intricate. It really narrows any movie down into just a few.
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  That's true. Yeah.
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  But remember, folks, Terry, Terry's the big swinger of the group.
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  He— this, this is a big swing. It is.
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  That's true. I'm starting to, you know, every time I have to explain this, I'm like, oh God, why did I pick this? So much explaining.
• 5:27
  Imagine you're wearing the Film Fumblers Month 11 t-shirt out and somebody's like, what does that mean? You're like, okay, let me explain.
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  Hold on, hold on.
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  The month, the month 11 t-shirt?
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  Yes.
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  We have a t-shirt for every month. Yeah. Every, every theme.
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  Oh, one for each theme that we've done.
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  Which isn't a bad idea.
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  That is a great idea. We need to start doing that now. I want to—
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  I don't know if you guys, uh, you guys probably don't watch too much wrestling, but, uh, John Cena's doing like this farewell tour. And so like every city he goes to, there's a different shirt.
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  Oh yeah.
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  And it's like, it's like color-coded, like based on wherever he's at. Like, uh, he had like San Antonio Spurs colors for a show there. He was just in, uh, Boston, so they had Red Sox colors, stuff like that. That'd be kind of cool if like every single like week we had a different— or every single month.
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  Every week.
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  Slow down there.
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  Not every week, but every month we had
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  like a
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  different
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  one. Yeah, 100 t-shirts.
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  I think it's a really cool idea.
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  And the back of the shirt continues to just add up like, like what each week was. And so if you get all of them, you go from just having one that said like—
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  Oh, so it's like a concert shirt where it's got like the tour stops on it.
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  And it just keeps adding as you go. So it goes all the way from January to Terry's PowerPoint at this point.
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  Bumbling Through Film 2025 Tour.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh
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  yeah, I like that. I like 2026, here we come.
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  That's right.
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  Slow down. Let's get through 2025 first.
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  Nah, why bother?
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  Yeah,
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  you're right.
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  Let's just skip. Let's just skip ahead to 2029 if we can.
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  I'd like that.
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  I think I would love that, to be honest.
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  Let's just get it over. Yeah, let's just get there. 2029 is gonna be a great year. Just take it from the Fumble folks.
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  God, I hope so.
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  All right, Terry, let's just hit a new decade. All right, let's fast forward.
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  Explain month 11.
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  Okay. Month 11. Uh, so we're doing, I never heard us like phrase it this way before as numbering our months. It's throwing me off. So month 11 is basically, uh, it's Halloween time, right? We're doing, it's a spooky season. So I wanted to do something spooky, but I didn't want to just pick, you know, just any genre. I was like, you know what? Let's give us the option to pick. Each of us will pick a genre and then. Mm-hmm. I will self-curate, uh, 3 movies from each genre and we'll use our wild wheel of doom to pick randomly one of the 3 movies. So it's kind of a surprise. Could be a good movie, could be a questionable movie, could be a movie none of us have ever heard of. You never know. Well, I know because I picked all 3. Yeah. But I thought it would be fair since I picked all these movies that for my category that I had a friend fill it in anonymously. So I had no idea. Well, I knew who, uh, I don't know if that's the right term, but he secretly filled out all the things. I didn't know what the movies were, so on air, but it was revealed what they were.
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  All right. So you had the first week and your subgenre of horror films was—
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  Slasher movies.
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  And the wheel gave us—
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  Alice, Sweet Alice.
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  Nice. And then I chose J-horror and the wheel gave us Audition. Excellent. And then Keith chose for his subgenre—
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  Aussie horror.
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  Australia, mate.
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  And
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  the wheel gave us...
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  Wake in Fright.
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  Wake in Fright from 1971.
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  Which is a movie that we have actually talked about once before.
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  It came up. It came up from Crocodile Dundee conversation.
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  Yeah,
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  you can believe it.
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  Before we talk about Wake in Fright and our viewing of it, before we even get closer than we could imagine to Wake in Fright with a deep dive, did any of us have any previous Experience of Wake and Fright. No,
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  I think it was mentioned during Crocodile in the episode.
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  It was mentioned in the film. Yep.
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  I even forgot about that. Yeah, there's nothing. There's nothing.
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  Yeah, blank slate for me too. It's like, okay, give me what you got, Wake and Fright.
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  I saw on a bunch of Australian horror lists, so that's why— that's the only way I heard of it.
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  It's interesting that was on horror lists.
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  That's what I thought too. That's what I thought too.
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  But maybe to an Australian, this is very scary stuff, which it could be.
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  Or an Englishman.
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  Well, imagine if, if us civilized blokes were watching something from like deep, deep backwoods South America. Not South America, South, comma, America.
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  South United States.
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  Southern United States, yes.
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  Or like up in like the hills.
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  Like a Deliverance sort of thing.
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  Yes. That would be—
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  that's Terrifying to people.
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  I kind of got a Deliverance vibe out of this a little bit.
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  Yes, and we'll get to that. But before we get to that, Keith is going to take us closer to waking fright than we could ever dare to imagine with another pending Bubbler's Deep Dive.
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  Have a drink, mate. Have a fight, mate. Have a taste of dust and sweat, mate. There's nothing else out here.
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  Mate.
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  That's a— that's it. That's off the poster. Yeah, they didn't put the mate at the end, I don't think, at that last part.
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  No, they didn't.
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  Anyway, that is, uh, the tagline for Wake in Fright. Rated R, uh, 100 and some odd minutes depending on what you're— which version you get to watch.
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  Now you want to hear something crazy?
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  Yeah.
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  So if I open IMDb in Chrome I get American ratings like RPG, whatever. When I open up in Firefox, I get like global ratings. I don't know what it is. It's rated X.
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  X?
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  X.
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  Interesting.
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  Okay.
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  Usually I get like 18, 13. This one's rated X.
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  Wow. Okay.
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  Interesting. So
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  this is extreme.
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  It is to the extreme. It rocks the mic like a vandal.
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  Oh, good one.
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  Thanks,
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  Keith. This movie—
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  that was good too, I guess.
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  Don't pander, Terry.
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  Yeah, I'm sorry. All right,
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  this movie came out on October 9th, 1971.
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  Oh, just in time for Halloween.
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  Oh, it is 54 years.
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  Christmas in it.
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  54 years, 7 days since its release,
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  and it's old. Older than me.
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  Yeah, that makes it a Gen X Libra in the year of a pig.
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  Oh wow! It's a Gen Xer, huh?
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  Yes. This had an estimated budget of $800,000 Australian, which is about $519 US.
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  Okay.
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  Worldwide, it made $269K.
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  Uh huh.
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  About fifty some thousand of it was. like in the US. $65 was in New Zealand.
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  $65?
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  Yep.
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  Only like, like 10 tickets were— well, this is '71, probably like 50 tickets were sold in New Zealand.
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  Depends if they went to a matinee or not. Yeah,
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  like one screening probably.
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  Yes. Well, speaking of one screens, United Artists had so little faith in the film that when it opened in America, it opened in a single theater on the east side of New York on a Sunday night. On top of that, a blizzard had just started. And because of these factors, not a single person—
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  200,000?
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  Uh, only like 50,000 in America though. Oh, because of those factors, not a single person saw the film on its opening day here in America.
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  I believe that.
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  Yeah. All the odds were against it.
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  All the odds. This is like pre-internet. Like, how would you even know this movie was coming out?
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  Yeah, there's no trailers. Probably the blizzard is stopping any sort of, yeah, foot traversal. So
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  yeah, there'd be no, uh, trailers telling you that it was a 1971 Cannes Film Fest, uh, Palme d'Or nominee.
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  Oh, see, see,
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  which I, I do believe that's given to the best movie of the—
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  Yeah, nominee.
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  Yeah, exactly. Festival. Uh, also in 2017, there's a 2-episode miniseries, uh, done on the entire thing.
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  Oh wow, okay, that's kind of cool. I could see this being a miniseries.
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  All right, so this movie was directed by William Ted Kotcheff. I think I'm pronouncing that right. He's born in Canada to Bulgarian parents and got himself a degree in English literature, and then began his professional, uh, career directing at age 24 in the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. And at that time, he was the youngest director ever in the CBC.
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  Wow, good for him.
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  Now Uh, again, because the internet didn't exist when we were younger, I, uh, never heard of this guy before. However, I've seen several of his movies. Oh yeah, Kotcheff also directed, uh, North Dallas Forty, um, which I've actually never seen that, but I do know what it is. It's a football movie. It's usually listed as one of the better football movies out there.
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  Never even heard of it.
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  Uh, he did a little movie called First Blood.
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  Oh, Rambo.
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  Yeah, yeah, the, uh, the original one. Um, he did this other Army movie called Uncommon Valor.
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  Uh-huh.
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  That I've seen a number of times. It's got Gene Hackman as the lead, but it's 10 years after his son went MIA in Vietnam. A retired colonel assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in POW camps in Laos.
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  I
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  remember seeing it as a kid and like probably not having any idea really, like all the other background, like, like Vietnam stuff, and just thought it was like a cool, like War rescue movie. Mm-hmm. I've watched it again as I got older. It's a pretty good movie.
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  I know of it. I've never seen it.
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  Yeah. Yeah. However, this guy's opus,
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  oh,
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  his grand movie that he did was a slow movie in 1989 about two idiots who try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive.
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  Oh, Weekend at Bernie's.
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  Yes.
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  Oh, he directed that.
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  Wow, amazing. That's
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  scary. That's crazy. I just watched these semi-recently.
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  Uh-huh.
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  Yeah, because I believe— didn't we talk about like there's something in Weekend at Bernie's 2 that you thought was really good? Like a dance scene or something?
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  Yeah, Weekend at Bernie's— or well, Bernie, yeah, he gets reanimated anytime music starts playing. He starts dancing. I was like, that was the best part of Weekend at Bernie's 2. If that just— they just thrown that into the first one, it would be a perfect movie.
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  Now, uh, Kocheff, he also, uh, well, it says uncredited, but I guess he wrote the screenplay for this as well.
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  Okay.
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  Um, it's based off a novel by Kenneth Cook.
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  Okay.
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  He wrote The Wake and Fright in 1961. Some of his other books include Chain of Darkness, uh, Blood House.
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  Oh,
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  uh, Pig.
• 16:10
  Yeah, not, not, not the Nicolas Cage one, but, uh This Pig is an adventure thriller about a conservationist who sets out to track a monstrous black pig whose lethal tusks have already massacred several dogs and almost ripped a man to pieces.
• 16:23
  Wow, that sounds kind of cool.
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  I was looking at books by this guy and the, the COVID of Pig is amazing.
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  It is amazing. You're right. Yeah, it's kind of metal there. I like that.
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  Oh, I like this Pig. Can I get a t-shirt of this?
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  I was just saying, that'd be a cool tattoo.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  Like, that's all your chest.
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  Red X Zarda's one.
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  That's all good tattoos.
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  A pig tattoo?
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  Yep.
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  Let's do it. Like the whole cover, it's gotta say the word pig and Kenneth Cook on it.
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  It has to have Kenneth Cook's name on it. Yeah. I mean, it's only right to repay.
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  So that way people know what the pig is.
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  Yeah. They're gonna think his name is—
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  oh, the novel. I gotcha. Yeah.
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  You're like, is the pig's name Kenneth Cook? Why is it?
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  Oh, if we do it like Charlotte's Web where Pig and Kenneth Cook are like in web above it.
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  Oh, oh, that's—
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  can you imagine that?
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  Kenneth Cook.
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  So this pig is like mauling a man and, um, Pig,
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  those tusks are amazing.
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  Try to get it— oh, but also maybe get it a little more of the, uh, like the Charlotte's Web animation but with the giant tusks and everything.
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  I love it.
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  Mr. Cook also had a couple of short story collections that I guess were pretty popular. One is called, uh, The Killer Koala.
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  Okay.
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  Wombat Revenge and The Frill-Necked Frenzy. And I guess those are just stories from, uh, stuff in the Outback, I guess. Random.
• 17:48
  Those are, those are just short stories or novels?
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  Yeah. Yeah. A bunch of short story collections. Now, uh, I was looking at all the people in this little movie here and obviously we know, uh, John Mayon, Milan, I guess. I don't know. He's from Crocodile Dundee.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Oh, of course.
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  Yeah. Mm-hmm. He was also in this movie.
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  Who is he in this movie?
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  He's the bartender at the beginning and at the end who like sees him like when he's back by the schoolhouse.
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  Oh, that guy?
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  Or he's renting the house or a room from him or something maybe, I guess. Gotcha. Interesting. And we'll talk about this a little bit more, but there's another movie in 1971 called Walkabout that he is also in.
• 18:31
  Okay.
• 18:31
  Sounds like there was a little bit of the Armageddon, deeper impact, or deep impact thing going on here in 1971.
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  Walkabout in this.
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  Yeah, because this is one of two Australian shot films, both participating in the competition of the '71 Cannes Film Festival. This and Walkabout. Both films feature lead characters who are trying to return to Sydney, and they share John Mayon, Robert McDarra, and Carlo. Mancini, uh, from both casts. So Walkabout is 2 city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian outback where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his walkabout.
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  That's a little bit different.
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  That is pretty different, I guess.
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  This movie is considered, uh, an Ozploitation, an Australian exploitation film.
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  Why?
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  Um, I have no idea. That's all. That's all the little bit said for it.
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  I think it's just because it's like Australian, and that was like just a thing. You know, people like oh.
• 19:30
  But it's made by Australian people though, right?
• 19:33
  The director's not Australian.
• 19:35
  Oh, that's true. You're right.
• 19:36
  Yeah, he's Canadian.
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  Oh, so they're
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  like
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  appropriating Australian culture.
• 19:42
  Mm-hmm. I mean, I'm sure they there's a bunch of Australian actors, but lots
• 19:46
  of beer drinking in this
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  movie.
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  Ah, yes, there's a lot. Uh, beer drinking effect. I thought I had a little fact
• 19:56
  about 70,000 gallons of beer were drank in this movie.
• 19:59
  Yeah, there was, there was some sort of a note about how, about how much beer was drank.
• 20:03
  You see that guy chug the beers down, so you know he actually had to do that like physically every time. Imagine, hopefully not very many takes had to be done.
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  It's like Kubrick, take 75. I'm gonna die.
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  So
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  Can't
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  believe it. Uh, Kochef recalled that Chips Rafferty— that's like the cop guy that he runs into at the bar at the beginning.
• 20:28
  Yep.
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  This was his last, uh, film appearance.
• 20:31
  Oh,
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  yep. He insisted on drinking real pints of beer during the bar sequences. When Kochef scheduled non-alcoholic beers for the real stuff, uh, Rafferty could tell immediately there's no alcoholic content, demanded proper pints be served. He told Coach Jeff, "You concentrate on directing. I'll concentrate on the drinking." Director calculated that due to this, Rafferty was drinking up to thirty pints per day.
• 20:55
  Yowza! That's a lot of beer.
• 20:57
  Yeah, he makes it look easy in this movie.
• 21:03
  He also makes it not only easy but a little creepy because every time he's like, "You know, I'll go grab another one," the guy hasn't like finished drinking, so he starts to chug it down. The guy just like. Really staring at him in like a way of like, uh-huh, that seems very, uh, wrong somehow. Yeah, he seemed like really getting into, uh, watching the guy drink. So I, I really didn't recognize— I looked at all the rest of the people in this movie and like nothing really stood out as far as like other movies and stuff like that they were in, which is, you know, we do kind of run into that every now and then. There's not a ton that we can fall back on, but there is one guy Well, yeah, I— yeah, don't jump ahead.
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  Okay.
• 21:42
  Uh, there's one guy, uh, Donald Pleasence.
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  Yes,
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  who's in here.
• 21:46
  Thank you.
• 21:47
  Uh, he is known for things such as The Great Escape.
• 21:49
  What was— who was he in this movie?
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  He's the doctor, the guy.
• 21:53
  Oh, okay, the bald guy. Yep.
• 21:54
  Yeah. Uh, it's The Great Escape. He was, uh, Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. Um, he's George Lucas's TX-1138. Uh, he escaped from Witch Mountain. He also escaped from New York. But in 1978 Yes, he is in probably what is considered his version of Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown. He's Dr. Loomis in Halloween.
• 22:17
  I don't know about that.
• 22:19
  Well, he's he's in he's in a bunch of like he's in what part two? He's in part four, part five.
• 22:25
  Oh, as in like his legacy. I thought you were comparing the two characters like Doc Brown.
• 22:30
  No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no. That this is. This is, uh, Donald Pleasence's version of—
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  okay,
• 22:37
  yeah, career-wise. Yes, it's probably the thing he's known the best for. Great Scott, Michael Myers has killed another teenager! Yeah. Marty, we gotta get out of here! And, and it's only because the longevity of Halloween that I think makes it— because if not, I would think that, um, in 1989, a Miami manual rickshaw driver finds himself entangled in the murder of a man he just met, he becomes part of a good versus evil battle between an ancient Chinese witch and an even— even jealous— even— I can't pronounce that— even jealous, who's actually the devil incarnate in American Rickshaw.
• 23:14
  American Rickshaw?
• 23:16
  Rickshaw.
• 23:17
  Yeah, yeah, it's another Donald Pleasence movie.
• 23:20
  You think if it wasn't for Halloween, he'd be known for American Rickshaw?
• 23:24
  Yep, I think that's what it is. Halloween wasn't so good.
• 23:28
  Yep.
• 23:28
  He'd be known for American Rickshaw.
• 23:30
  I think he wow. He must be. I bet he's really good in that movie. Is he like the rickshaw driver?
• 23:36
  I assume he's the devil incarnate. Rickshaw. Yeah, yeah, that's what he's yeah.
• 23:39
  Oh yeah, yeah. He plays the the physical part.
• 23:42
  He plays the name. He plays a guy named Rickshaw. That's what it
• 23:45
  is. Hey, yep.
• 23:46
  I assume he's the the evangelist who is the devil incarnate. That's gonna be my assumption.
• 23:52
  Oh, now that's that's that'd be a good role for him.
• 23:54
  Mm hmm.
• 23:55
  Yeah. I like the idea of like Lieutenant Rickshaw.
• 23:59
  And all he does is ride rickshaws everywhere. He doesn't have a police car.
• 24:02
  Yep.
• 24:03
  You know, we watched this on YouTube. That's where it was available. And, uh, uh-huh. Sure. There's a couple different options to watch on there. And one is a really weird bootleg version that I watched half of.
• 24:15
  Some man filming his TV screen.
• 24:17
  Before, and before switching over to the other one to where I saw that I was only seeing like 50% of the screen.
• 24:23
  Um, It took me a little bit to realize that it was at an angle and also zoomed in by like—
• 24:30
  yeah, yeah.
• 24:31
  But when the credits come up and the credits aren't even on the screen, you're just like, well, okay.
• 24:36
  I thought I was just looking at scenery. I was like, this is nice, I guess.
• 24:38
  Yeah, also it was a slightly slowed down version that made it more like 2 hours and 14 minutes instead of the hour and 48 it was supposed to be. Part of the reason I think that we end up seeing these different versions, because this film went out of circulation for many years. Uh, its 2 production companies fell apart. NLT Productions was liquidated, uh, soon after this failed release, and then Group W, uh, was absorbed by CBS in 1999. The original film, sound elements all went missing. They eventually found it in 2002. Um, they tracked the film down to CBS's Iron Mountain archive in Pittsburgh, uh, where there was 60 cans of film that were found in a shipping container marked for destruction. Oh, wow.
• 25:23
  Wow.
• 25:23
  This just saved it. Yeah, it's almost completely disappeared.
• 25:26
  That's wild.
• 25:27
  The, uh, hunting— well, I'm sorry, the international version of this is, uh, roughly 8 minutes shorter than the, uh, full Australian version.
• 25:36
  Did they cut out the kangaroo stuff?
• 25:38
  They cut out a lot of stuff. So, um, when John wakes up after, uh, after the two-up game, uh, instead of being naked, he's wearing underpants.
• 25:49
  Weird. They, they put digital underwear on him?
• 25:51
  I don't know if they filmed 2 versions of it or what. I got the— it was in the first half of the movie, so I saw the, the booty cheek scene.
• 25:59
  Yeah.
• 26:00
  Uh, when, when Jeanette is seducing John.
• 26:04
  Yeah.
• 26:04
  Um, I guess it fades to black before she nuzzles up against him. Um, and then—
• 26:09
  Why?
• 26:10
  And then just cuts to— and it cuts to Doc doing his handstand.
• 26:15
  It's too provocative.
• 26:16
  Uh-huh. Uh, the— there's an entire conversation between John and Doc that's completely missing.
• 26:23
  Huh.
• 26:23
  And I do believe I saw the whole thing.
• 26:25
  Uh-huh. I saw the whole thing too.
• 26:27
  Yep. The daytime kangaroo hunt lacks most of the brief scene, uh, in which Doc cuts off the kangaroo's testicles.
• 26:33
  Oh,
• 26:34
  okay. Probably fine. That's fine.
• 26:37
  No, it's the story.
• 26:39
  And the nighttime kangaroo hunt is severely, uh, cut back with only the first 2 kills are shown.
• 26:44
  I'd almost be thankful for that. Yeah.
• 26:46
  Yeah. Oh yeah, because I watched— not only was it the longer version but also slow version, and I was just like—
• 26:52
  He didn't like turn up the speed at all? So you watch these kangaroos die in slow motion
• 26:57
  as they're boxing them and everything? It's crazy.
• 26:59
  Wow.
• 26:59
  Yeah, I know, I saw it.
• 27:00
  Yeah. Um, I watched the last like 30 minutes of this on the normal version, or the, the nicer looking version, so I don't know how much of the other stuff I No, it was all—
• 27:11
  I think they're the same version. One version's a man filming it on his TV at an angle, and then there's like an actual like digital upload of the movie.
• 27:18
  Because I thought it was funny, uh, he— we're gonna get there— where he loses all this money betting and then they cut, hard cut to him being literally ass out.
• 27:29
  Yes. I was like, wow, he had a rough night. It's like, wow,
• 27:32
  all right,
• 27:34
  that's how you gotta sleep. Go ahead. Let it all hang out.
• 27:37
  Apparently the artificial banknotes printed for the, uh, shooting of the 2-up gambling sequence look so realistic that 2 of the extras were later arrested for trying to pass them off as genuine currency.
• 27:46
  I believe that. Yep.
• 27:48
  Yep. And then, uh, the last thing that I'll bring up here is this movie is part of the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
• 27:57
  Okay.
• 27:57
  By Steven Schneider.
• 27:58
  Man, I'm 2 for 2. 2 weeks in, we like collectively, we have seen 2 of the 1001 What is the percentage of that? That's,
• 28:07
  well,
• 28:07
  2 out of 1,001.
• 28:09
  I'm gonna do the math right now.
• 28:10
  So I went and, uh, I Googled up the 1,001 movies to see before you die,
• 28:18
  and we're gonna list them all here right now.
• 28:20
  Uh, Wikipedia has a list, it's over on Fandom. I don't— the order of the list is based on the 2015 edition, so that was 10 years ago, so we'd have to even look a little bit further in here. They put them in order from, uh, so A Trip to the Moon is in 1902,
• 28:40
  uh-huh,
• 28:40
  The Great Train Robbery in 1903. I'm not gonna go through all of them, um,
• 28:44
  thank you.
• 28:45
  But they keep, they, they keep rolling through. They go in, uh, they go in chronological order. And so I rolled all the way here to 1971. That it's not on here.
• 28:55
  Interesting. Maybe got the boot at some point.
• 28:58
  So at some point in time, yes, it seems
• 29:00
  like it came out in 2015 that pushed Wake and Fright out. Well, this was—
• 29:07
  well, this was— I— and this was in 2015, so who knows when. Uh, now say, okay, this said the list is based on 2015, but they got stuff in up to 2020 in here. I also went over to, um, listchallenges.com.
• 29:19
  Okay.
• 29:20
  Okay, the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die list.
• 29:23
  Is it their own separate list?
• 29:24
  No, no. So basically what— so basically what I was looking for was, is there one that shows you like
• 29:30
  who got kicked out?
• 29:32
  Yeah. So like, okay, so on this
• 29:33
  list here, you want to like see revision history on it?
• 29:36
  No, what I wanted to know was like, so like, yeah, so something— so something came out already, like where are we at? And so there's a total of 1,187 movies listed. through 2015 that would have, that would have made up this list. So yes, obviously some things drop off.
• 29:55
  So 1,187 movies make up the list of 1,001 movies you have to see?
• 30:00
  Well, I think every time he puts out a new edition, it's because he's, you know, he has to chop some stuff off. This is a complete list of everything that's ever been
• 30:08
  on there.
• 30:08
  Oh, adds and adds instead of takes away.
• 30:10
  Yeah. Um, and so that's where I think like
• 30:14
  it was on there for that.
• 30:15
  Well, yes. Yeah, that so then that would be on here because it's got to be still included. Yeah, it's right on here. Wake and Fright. What you call is actually also on here. Walkabout is.
• 30:24
  Oh, I thought you say what you call like the candy bar. All I know is the last two weeks we've watched 0.199 percent of the 1,001 movies,
• 30:33
  and I aim to keep it that way.
• 30:36
  Yeah, we're gonna watch no more that end on that list.
• 30:39
  Yeah. Yep. There's no way we'll ever watch another movie on that list.
• 30:42
  Yeah. So I, I, and again, I, I would like to know more about how this full list gets, gets put together and like how often do they update it? Like, is it annually? Is it, 'cause there's only 12 editions of it, I guess it says. So I don't know when they started and when they finished. You know,
• 30:59
  like, you think they like, they started after 1,001 movies were out, so they're like, all right, we can make our list now. And they like, so just every movie in existence,
• 31:07
  like the first 1,001 movies that were ever released.
• 31:09
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 31:10
  Oh yeah. He, he had to wait until 1001.
• 31:12
  Yeah. He was just waiting. He's like, oh, I've, I've got—
• 31:15
  there's a full list. And then the following, the following week, 3 more movies came out. He's like, goddammit.
• 31:19
  He's just writing 'em down as they come out. Yeah. They all think it's my time. I have the greatest idea. And then, yeah, it gets totally ruined.
• 31:27
  Then he puts a bunch of 'em onto a wheel of death, lets it spin. Oh God. Next thing you know. Yep.
• 31:33
  Could you imagine putting all 1001 movies on our wheel of death?
• 31:36
  Oh my gosh.
• 31:38
  One at a time, manually entering each time.
• 31:40
  I actually, I actually meant he was just putting like whatever, like the last, like the last 5 in, last 5 out type movies.
• 31:47
  Terry, that's a challenge.
• 31:48
  That would be a fun wheel of death, but I think the time it takes to put— I think we could find some sort of program.
• 31:54
  Copy paste a list. That's not a problem.
• 31:57
  You know what? That would, you know what? That would, that would make it even better though. Because if I just picked one movie off there, I didn't get it. That's fine. There's 1,000 other movies I could have picked. I wouldn't feel as bad.
• 32:07
  My— our luck, we get the 1,001 list, the first spin Adaptation or Audition, the second spin Wake and Fright.
• 32:16
  It's all movies we've seen already.
• 32:18
  There's 1,001 movies, we get the 2 we watched back to back.
• 32:21
  Yeah, Back to the Future 2, we get that next. You know that's on there. That's probably on there.
• 32:27
  It is.
• 32:28
  I'm sure it is. For a thousand and one movies, at some point he's just throwing stuff on there. So like yeah, you know that thing's on there.
• 32:38
  Lone Wolf McQuaid is on there. What?
• 32:40
  If that's on there, I'm gonna have to be.
• 32:44
  It invalidates the list immediately.
• 32:47
  If I see any sign of that
• 32:48
  movie, the other thousand movies are rendered moot. Oh goddamn! That was close, Keith.
• 32:58
  That was close.
• 32:59
  It was, it was.
• 33:00
  It's getting really hot out there.
• 33:01
  It was so close, I could smell the beer breath of Wake and Fright.
• 33:04
  I can smell it too. And the rotting kangaroo corpses.
• 33:08
  Oh God.
• 33:09
  The, the smell of, uh, kangaroo
• 33:11
  blood.
• 33:12
  What? Tom Pleasence looked like he smelled very bad during that movie.
• 33:16
  I bet he did. He lived in a hut that was just garbage.
• 33:19
  Everybody in that movie smells bad, including the girl. I can't think of what her name was.
• 33:24
  Yeah, they didn't, they didn't have
• 33:26
  Jeanette, they all smelled
• 33:27
  terrible. Seemed like none of them had showers, or they just refused to partake in them. That might also be—
• 33:31
  didn't seem like there's a lot of water out there.
• 33:33
  Water is only for bathing, not for drinking.
• 33:35
  Yeah, they probably bathed in beer half the time.
• 33:37
  Yeah, why not? I mean, they bathed in beer at least once in this movie.
• 33:42
  That's true. There's a lot of beer in this.
• 33:45
  A lot of beer. All right, so we need to talk about Wake and Fright. Waken Fright, the name is misleading.
• 33:54
  It is.
• 33:56
  Yeah, it's not that— I mean, it's frightful in some ways, but,
• 33:59
  but
• 33:59
  yeah.
• 33:59
  So this, this is, this is of the, of the Halloween trick-or-treat variety. You go to the house.
• 34:08
  Yes.
• 34:08
  And you get something you enjoy, like money, but you're like, that's not what I wanted.
• 34:14
  I wanted candy.
• 34:15
  I didn't want 3 nickels. Right? Yeah, whatever Keith said to nickels wrapped in foil. Like, I like— I want money, but I didn't want money,
• 34:24
  right? Oh, you gave me—
• 34:25
  I wanted the Twix.
• 34:27
  You gave me a coupon to Subway, so I can't actually— yeah, exactly.
• 34:30
  Give me Twizzlers. Give me what I'm here for, right?
• 34:33
  Yeah,
• 34:34
  yeah.
• 34:34
  Now this is good. It's very good, as a matter of fact.
• 34:37
  Um,
• 34:39
  oh, you didn't like it, Keith?
• 34:40
  This
• 34:41
  doesn't seem like a Keith movie to me.
• 34:43
  It's very slow.
• 34:44
  Yes, it's very slow-paced. And I get it because part— it's, it's a— there's a buildup. There's— it's a slow burn. It's working its way up to this.
• 34:54
  Unlike Audition, it doesn't— there's no payoff.
• 34:58
  That— and that might be the problem is like,
• 34:59
  that's
• 35:00
  true.
• 35:01
  There's a whole lot of stuff that— so like, I kept getting a bit of like a, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre type vibe.
• 35:10
  Oh yes.
• 35:11
  With it and like felt that it was going to keep building up to something more and more. And yeah, it does. It's just it builds up to more and more drinking and people doing crazy stuff while they're completely wasted.
• 35:25
  I think it, it does build to like a psychological breaking point. But yes, it, um, I was expecting— this is our— I think just because I'm predetermined to expect this from a Halloween month that we're doing I was expecting like murdering of human beings.
• 35:40
  I'm like, boy, this would be the best 20 minutes of film ever.
• 35:43
  Yeah, the Australians are all gonna try and kill this poor teacher. That's
• 35:48
  why I thought so too,
• 35:49
  but they don't. If
• 35:51
  anything, kangaroos come back for revenge. Oh,
• 35:54
  that'd be nice. Have an army of them come swarming the town. Oh man, that would be awesome. And then there's that one guy who's dressed— just a man dressed in a kangaroo skin running around like in Crocodile Dundee.
• 36:05
  Oh,
• 36:06
  by
• 36:06
  the way,
• 36:08
  uh, the hunter scenes depicted in the film, uh, were taken during an actual kangaroo hunt.
• 36:13
  Yeah, they put that up at the end of our viewing.
• 36:16
  Yeah, I saw that. I was a little concerned because I don't really like animal violence in movies because I'm like, there's really not a need for it, you know? Usually, I would say almost 100% of the time. Um, and I was seeing this like, oh my God, like, did they just murder a bunch of kangaroos?
• 36:31
  This is authentic animal violence.
• 36:33
  But it was like an actual, like, I guess
• 36:36
  kangaroo hunt.
• 36:37
  Yeah, which is still disturbing, but like, yes, I guess at least they didn't— like, the filmmakers didn't go out and just murder a bunch themselves.
• 36:44
  Yeah,
• 36:45
  they kind of did.
• 36:46
  But I, but I guess I was— I, I guess I was kind of expecting like somewhere along the way of the kangaroo hunt they decided they were gonna hunt him.
• 36:53
  Yes, yes. No,
• 36:55
  that didn't happen either.
• 36:57
  Especially like there's that long stretch where like he rides along with that guy for 50 miles and the guy's like, come have a drink with me. He's like, no, I quit drinking beer. Anything else crazy can happen. You guys get really pissed if somebody doesn't come have a drink with you. They find somebody driving, and that person takes him right back to the 50 miles where he just left from. Yep. And so it's like, and you're like, okay, it gonna be maybe like this kind of like nonstop loop of stuff.
• 37:22
  There's four times he woke up in this movie.
• 37:25
  Yeah. And
• 37:26
  he's because every time he woke up, I was like, is this the moment it's in fright?
• 37:29
  This time, this time he's gonna be scared. Nope. He seems just disgruntled.
• 37:33
  But the first time he woke up. was he woke up after being pissed drunk. He woke up in dude's shack. I'm like, oh, this, this is where it's gonna get really gross now.
• 37:45
  Or was that the second time? Because first time he was like naked in his hotel room. Oh,
• 37:49
  okay. He woke up 5 times in this movie then, because he woke up after ass out. I'm like, okay, well, he's broke. He's dead broke. Even the hotel only cost $4. I agree.
• 38:02
  I was very amazed at how much everything cost.
• 38:05
  It's 1971. But still, $4, that's it?
• 38:08
  And, and, and that included the deposit you had to put down for the key.
• 38:12
  The dollar deposit for the key. So he woke up then, ass out. Okay. In fright, I guess.
• 38:18
  And then, and then some guy just offers to buy him some drinks and play pool. Everyone wants him and invites him in.
• 38:24
  Everyone's very friendly in Yapa.
• 38:26
  Yeah, they're too friendly, it seems like.
• 38:29
  Yeah, it's like one of us.
• 38:30
  Aggressively friendly.
• 38:32
  Yeah.
• 38:33
  Aggressively friendly.
• 38:34
  They're playing a weird—
• 38:35
  they're playing a beer.
• 38:37
  Yes, I was— so that was the other thing. I was like, that cop guy was like really trying to get him to drink a lot, and I was like, okay, this is an outsider, clearly they're gonna get him drunk and then they're gonna like hunt him down or something.
• 38:49
  Nope.
• 38:49
  And instead we just— the ramblings of the evening continue to go on longer and longer.
• 38:54
  Yeah, it's just like this guy living in a few days in the life of people who live in this town. Like, he's not really like It's just not mentally— like, this is a cyclical thing, you know? I guess, like, I think it's just this movie's showing you how easy it is to get trapped in something like this. This is just what you do now, is you just get drunk all the time and you go out into the outback and shoot kangaroos and fight each other, and then just move on to the next day and do the same thing all over again.
• 39:19
  Yep, pretty much. I'm— so of the times they woke up, the first time he woke up, passed out, he woke up in the dude's shack. And then he woke up again in the shack. And I'm almost positive that what we didn't see in between the cuts was a, a, uh, Brokeback Mountain scenario.
• 39:43
  Yep.
• 39:44
  Oh yeah,
• 39:45
  definitely.
• 39:45
  So that happened there, and he woke up that, and that's when he was like, I'm getting the fuck out of here, I can't do this, blah blah. And then he woke up again in the hospital After trying to kill himself.
• 39:57
  Mm-hmm.
• 39:59
  And then he woke up again in the back of the truck, coming back to—
• 40:03
  Uh, no, waking up in the truck and then waking up in the hospital.
• 40:07
  No, he— what? No,
• 40:09
  no, he wakes up in the truck and he has a mental breakdown. He runs out there and then—
• 40:12
  Yep, you're right.
• 40:12
  For a guy who, who got gold medals in shooting, you couldn't shoot yourself from 3 inches away. Kind of questionable.
• 40:19
  You're right. That's the order. He woke up in the truck, he's back in Yapa or Japa or whatever it's called, and then he woke up after trying to kill himself.
• 40:27
  And like, you know, for all like the craziness that happens, all like, you know, Donald Pleasence's character is there. It's like, come on, I'll get your bag for you. Let's go. Yeah. Let's get you to the train station.
• 40:38
  He's an enabler.
• 40:39
  Yep. Thanks for, you know, coming out. Let, let me get you on back to where you need to be.
• 40:44
  That's how all these people are. They're all enablers. Like they're all friendly. Like, yeah, here you can just stay at my house. You know, like, ah, we don't care. We'll buy your beers and stuff. But then it's just like this toxic environment. You don't want to stay there,
• 40:55
  but you're trying to pay the guy a dollar and the guy's like, no, I'm not taking anything from you.
• 40:59
  I'm gonna tell you what though, when he's, when he's talking about how you can live there with no money, it's like, God, that's the dream.
• 41:07
  Mm-hmm.
• 41:08
  It's not so bad. People pay part of the community, gotta contribute a little bit, and you live, just like live a life.
• 41:14
  You'd be an alcoholic doctor.
• 41:16
  I don't want to be an alcoholic doctor.
• 41:18
  No, but I'm like, he's, he's, he's an, he's an alcoholic doctor, and but because he's a doctor, he's a man of, uh, higher intelligence, so they treat him with respect regardless of his, his issues with alcohol. And they bring him beer and they bring him food.
• 41:31
  Well, you can't, you can't look down your nose at anybody in that town for being an alcoholic because they're all, they're all
• 41:36
  alcoholics. Yeah, that's true.
• 41:38
  Yeah, yeah, you know, he's even like, all— he's like, I only drink beer now. Because that's—
• 41:44
  oh yeah, and they try to give him whiskey and he's like, get the fuck out of my face with that whiskey.
• 41:49
  Yeah,
• 41:49
  4 whiskeys, 3 whiskeys, you better not give me a whiskey.
• 41:52
  But I do believe, I do believe he ends up drinking some because then he really kind of goes off the rails.
• 41:56
  Oh yeah, they, they went— they were out of control. Like, if you're the, if you're the, uh, the purveyor of that establishment where they went and fucked everything up in Wouldn't you just shoot him?
• 42:10
  Seems like something that could easily happen out there. Like, no big deal.
• 42:15
  Like, if you just shot him, he'd be like, yeah, they were fucking up my shit.
• 42:18
  This guy was smacking my building with a chair and destroying the wall.
• 42:22
  Yeah. It's instead he's like accommodating. He's like, I'll bring you more beers. What?
• 42:26
  They're too friendly.
• 42:27
  The moment they broke down the door to announce that they were there is the moment they get a, like a buckshot in the face. I'm telling you what.
• 42:35
  That's the difference between Australia and the United States.
• 42:37
  And me.
• 42:38
  Well, and it's also, and also there's like the whole thing. Those 2 guys are like, you know, fucking with each other the whole day. Yeah. Like laughing it up, doing stupid stuff, all the stuff the whole day. And then one guy pushes the other one a little too hard and continues to laugh at it after it happens. And then that sets the other dude off and he decides now instead of messing around all day, now I'm gonna kill you.
• 43:02
  Yep. I mean, that's a very drunk thing, I feel like.
• 43:04
  Yeah. And yeah, they found, they just hit, they hit a certain wall.
• 43:07
  It's a very drunk thing. They were classic drunk thing.
• 43:09
  Yeah, yeah, that's what I like this movie. It's like, uh, it reminded me, you know, of like the kind of like social horror, like the Ari Aster Hereditary, Midsommar kind of thing, where a lot of it's like there's just like the awkward social interactions and situations you get in. It makes it uncomfortable. And I think that's what like this whole movie is basically. It's just like this guy like doesn't want to do it, but then he gets sucked into it. He starts having fun, but there's always that tension of like he doesn't really like Belong with these people, and there's like just a sinister like undertone of them always just like enabling him. Like you were saying, and just keeps pushing.
• 43:45
  He's so worried that they're laughing at him too, and they never are.
• 43:50
  No,
• 43:50
  but like from his perspective, like they're laughing at him for making the bet or whatever, laughing at him for doing it wrong, or laughing at him for being drunk, and they're not. They're laughing with them. They're all drunk as hell.
• 44:00
  They're all having fun.
• 44:01
  Yeah.
• 44:02
  By the way, what a mo what an incredibly relaxed. um, betting gambling game. Like, if it comes up where— so you have to flip 2 coins. If they both come up heads or they both come up tails, depending on who— what you've called, then somebody wins.
• 44:19
  Yeah.
• 44:20
  And it's, and it's kind of self-regulated who's winning, who's losing. But if it comes up 1 and 1, all right, we'll just do it over again.
• 44:25
  Yeah.
• 44:26
  Or if you, or if you're new to it and you don't flip the coins properly, we're like, ah, don't worry about We'll do it again.
• 44:32
  Yeah. With no problems.
• 44:35
  Yeah.
• 44:35
  But they weren't like harassing him. And even before he decided to get into the gambling, he's— when he was talking to the doctor, it like after he's eaten his dollar steak, like dollar steaks, $4 rooms, man, you could live here.
• 44:49
  By the way, not just a dollar steak. He had a steak with a potato, fried eggs.
• 44:53
  Yeah.
• 44:53
  Yeah.
• 44:53
  That's a lot of food. Just a couple slices of bread. But he's like, what did he say? Something like, um, the uneducated celebrate you because, because you act like one of them, or something like something along those lines. He's like, I— because he was above the betting, but then he ended up blowing all of his money because they thought it was gonna get him free from his indentured servitude to the Australian education system.
• 45:18
  Well, yeah, because he did, he did, he did 2 flips of the, of the coin.
• 45:21
  He just needed $1,000. That's all he wanted. And he left there. He left there up money. He left.
• 45:26
  He had like eight hundred bucks.
• 45:28
  Yeah, it's like oh one more and I'm done. I can be out of this.
• 45:32
  Yeah, but that's a mistake. And he just kept it.
• 45:35
  Bet it all on heads because he was flipping.
• 45:38
  He would have lived like a king like you're saying. Everything's so cheap there. You
• 45:42
  know? Yeah.
• 45:43
  That was the other bad thing was that was the other bad thing was he wanted to call tails. They said no. If you're the one flipping, you have to call heads.
• 45:50
  Yeah, it's
• 45:51
  otherwise he would have been fine.
• 45:53
  Oh, that's a really good point, Keith.
• 45:55
  Yeah, yes, it is.
• 45:56
  No, because we all agree,
• 46:00
  yeah,
• 46:01
  this town forced him once again to go against his better judgment and who he— who—
• 46:08
  yes, you're right.
• 46:09
  Well, and because of that, it's
• 46:11
  just
• 46:12
  their tradition sucks them down even further into this.
• 46:16
  It's not even out of benevolent or malevolence or Malevolence.
• 46:19
  Malevolence.
• 46:20
  Yeah, it's out of just them being friendly in their traditions and like, oh no, you can't
• 46:24
  call tails, you got to
• 46:25
  call heads,
• 46:25
  you're, you're
• 46:26
  the tosser. And that's about it.
• 46:28
  He flips it, he gets heads, and they're like, no, no, no, you have to throw it up above your head. And so he has to do it all over again. It's like calling— it's like when coaches call a timeout right when the kicker's like—
• 46:38
  Yep. Well, he didn't know.
• 46:39
  He's like, he didn't know.
• 46:41
  He's all excited, he's all pissed up on some beer and wanting to be part of the, the whatever.
• 46:47
  Couldn't call what he wanted to and then didn't know the proper procedure for flipping it anyway. And so it kind of cost him twice.
• 46:56
  Yeah.
• 46:56
  Before it eventually, uh, hit the tails and he lost the, the money off of it, the $500 and some. Oh no. Well, that was after he went back and cashed in the other check that he had.
• 47:05
  Yeah.
• 47:05
  Yeah. Uh, not a traditional, I think what you would think of as a horror film.
• 47:11
  No,
• 47:11
  I think it's more thriller, I guess.
• 47:13
  I don't know, thriller, psychological thriller. It, it's closer to like— I don't even know if it's a thriller because it's more, it's more of like a depressing drama.
• 47:22
  It's kind of tense though. I thought it was tense.
• 47:25
  There were some tense moments. Yeah, because you don't— because they were tense for me because I thought it was a horror movie.
• 47:32
  Yeah, true.
• 47:33
  And I'm waiting for the horror movie aspects to kick in.
• 47:36
  Yeah,
• 47:36
  and they never did.
• 47:37
  I guess the horror like aspects are just the real life of Getting drunk every day.
• 47:42
  You know what it reminds me of? Five Easy Pieces.
• 47:45
  Yes, it's a lot like that movie. It's a lot like—
• 47:48
  Because stuff happens and, and at the same time nothing actually happens because there's no, like, there's no payoff at the end of the book.
• 47:57
  It's all, it's all character development and character arc.
• 48:00
  Yeah.
• 48:01
  There's no action scenes.
• 48:02
  Which apparently I'm not a big fan of, apparently.
• 48:04
  Yeah. At the beginning of the movie he refuses the beer and at the end of the movie he accepts the beer.
• 48:08
  Yeah, it's nothing but beer.
• 48:09
  Well, that's right. He also gets mad at the guy. He's like, you know, you guys can, you know, kill people, whatever, but you don't say no to a beer. People get pissed off. He's like, I'm done drinking beer. And then after he gets outta the hospital, yeah, yeah. So he gets on, he gets on the train and immediately someone goes, you want a beer? He goes, yeah, sure, why not?
• 48:25
  Because at the beginning on the train he says, no, I don't want a beer. And then now he's all for it. He's all for it.
• 48:29
  Yeah, he's all for it.
• 48:30
  Oh, I would've hated being on that train at the beginning.
• 48:32
  Those guys were annoying singing that whole time. Oh, I would've gone crazy.
• 48:35
  As we're saying this stuff, this is like straight out of textbook scriptwriting. Like start in one place, return to that place, but change. Like there's bookending it where you're starting and ending in the same sort of shot. Yeah, there's lots of, there's lots of interesting things. I enjoyed this movie. Was it, was it what I was expecting? No.
• 48:56
  Yeah.
• 48:56
  But it, once, once I got into the groove of this movie, I was like, oh, it is. It's a lot like Five Easy Pieces, Keith. You're right. Where it is just depressing character development, watching people fail. I like that.
• 49:11
  Me too.
• 49:12
  As a movie, I think it's a good storytelling thing.
• 49:14
  As a movie, nothing— I don't want it in real life.
• 49:17
  I hate watching people fail, but in a movie it's like, ah, damn it, dude, you knew better than that, but you still did it.
• 49:23
  Part of me wonders if I would have, you know, if I would have watched the whole thing on the better version,
• 49:29
  would
• 49:30
  I have— would I have a little bit of a—
• 49:32
  For sure.
• 49:33
  Yeah. I mean, well, it still would've left me going like, oh, hey. Yeah. So the other thing is when, um, when he walks out and, uh, Donald Pleasence walks up and says something to him again and then takes his bag for him and they start to walk away, I thought maybe he was going back again. Like he was like, I thought so too. The change was, the change was he was just gonna go ahead and, and go there and stay there.
• 49:59
  Yeah, I thought that too.
• 50:00
  Live the outback life from now on.
• 50:02
  Oh, the outback life. Blooming onions.
• 50:05
  It's an outback.
• 50:06
  Oh man. Oh man. Blooming onions every day.
• 50:09
  Did you know? So blooming a blooming onion every day would be just as bad as drinking that many beers every day.
• 50:16
  I'd probably act exactly the same too.
• 50:18
  Yeah, you're all. I'm all fucked up on blooming onions.
• 50:21
  I eat about half of that. I'm like, I can't do this anymore. I can't. And then all the Australians like, come on, eat the blooming onion. No, I really, I shouldn't. Can't. Can't. I look. Look over to my side, some of the other guys already eaten his full blooming onion. I've barely even scratched the surface and he's just staring at me expectantly. He's like, oh God, I have to slurp it down in one big gulp.
• 50:40
  You're like, I need to go on a walkabout. And they're like, sir, this is just Kansas, the Outback Steakhouse here. You can— you need to go walk around, that's fine, but please pay your bill first.
• 50:51
  Mhm. You, sir, you ordered 12 blooming onions.
• 50:58
  Could you imagine seeing somebody with 12 blooming onions at the table by themselves?
• 51:03
  If they all come out at once, it's not even just like one at a time.
• 51:06
  See, now, okay, now see, that would be— now that would be the— that's what I would think was really crazy, because after a while they're not gonna taste good when they cool off. But if you were sitting there watching, and let's say it was like a— let's say it was like a Sunday during like football season, and so there's— and maybe it's here, like it's like this time of year, so you get some baseball going, there's some basketball, and you're at a sports bar or Something. We're like an Outback where if you sit at the bar, you can watch the games and stuff. And you just like, you saw a guy get one brought out to him, and then when he's about 2/3 done, they drop off the second one, and he finishes one and starts it, and they just keep coming out. Like, he's got, he's got them set up. So like, every time I get to about 3/4 done, guys, just bring the next one out.
• 51:46
  They would know that person when he comes in. He's like, okay, he's gonna want 12 blooming onions. He wants them every 26 minutes.
• 51:53
  Yeah, oh yeah, he's only gonna be here for 3 hours.
• 51:56
  Um, yep, he's, he's watching, he's watching the Falcons game. He's gonna be here for about 3 and a half hours.
• 52:01
  Falcons, I guess he would want to bury that sorrow with a blooming onion.
• 52:07
  Oh, I mean, it's the only way to cope. It's the only way to cope. I would, you know, this is the— I'm gonna throw this out to all listeners. This is the blooming onion challenge. Can you eat 12 blooming onions in 3 and a half hours?
• 52:17
  The Fumbler's blooming onion challenge.
• 52:20
  Oh, okay. Yeah, how many, how many would you think What does that translate to? How many can you eat during, while listening to one of our episodes?
• 52:27
  So much fried onion.
• 52:29
  Yeah. So if it's 12 over 3 hours, are we talking like, can you eat 4 of them while you listen to this episode?
• 52:35
  Oh yeah. That's the Bubblers challenge. Yeah. During an episode, how many Blue Moons can you finish? So you gotta go to Outback, you gotta pull out your headphones, throw 'em on, start down.
• 52:48
  And then not only do you get our monthly monthly t-shirts every
• 52:52
  month.
• 52:53
  But you also get the I did the fumblers.
• 52:56
  I ate the fumblers.
• 52:58
  Yeah, I did the fumblers. I ate the fumblers' ass. That's the real challenge.
• 53:08
  I, I did the fumblers blooming onion challenge and all I got was a stupid t-shirt.
• 53:13
  Yep.
• 53:14
  If any listeners out there can prove that they did the fumblers blooming onion challenge,
• 53:18
  yeah,
• 53:19
  I will, I will buy a t-shirt and send it to you.
• 53:21
  And if you're like really into the show, you gotta do it like with the pop star episode that's really short. Yeah,
• 53:26
  yeah.
• 53:27
  But you only got like 56 minutes to eat four or three blooming onions or whatever it is.
• 53:34
  Yeah, I just want to know how many you can do.
• 53:35
  Yeah, make sure you videotape it. Otherwise, it didn't happen.
• 53:38
  Get to film the whole thing. Yeah,
• 53:39
  of course, of course.
• 53:41
  I'm gonna and I'm gonna sit there and watch the whole like hour and a half or however long it takes. You know,
• 53:46
  I'll just fast forward to the end.
• 53:47
  Oh God, that's so much fried onion.
• 53:50
  I mean, I can eat maybe like half of a blooming onion before I'm tired of onions.
• 53:55
  Oh, I, I could, I could eat a whole blooming onion.
• 53:59
  But maybe, you know, maybe next, maybe on a free weekend, I'll go down to Outback and just— I'm doing the, the Fumblers blooming onion challenge. They're like, what? 2 years from now, they're gonna be like, the Fumblers were arrested for inciting violence at Outback Steakhouse.
• 54:16
  No, no, no. 2 years from now, it's Uh, this is Fumbling Through Films sponsored by Outback Steakhouse.
• 54:23
  Of
• 54:23
  course,
• 54:24
  we're gonna make Outback rich and we're gonna go to jail for people dying or eating blooming onions.
• 54:28
  Yeah. All right, we did it. We got through Wake in Fright from 1971. What'd you guys think?
• 54:35
  Not my cup of tea.
• 54:37
  Not your— I knew you were gonna say that, or something to that extent. I liked it. I Was— it wasn't a horror movie, which is what I was looking forward to, but it was good. I like— I liked it in the way that we were talking about earlier, the 5 easy pieces.
• 54:55
  You know what my— you know what my favorite part of it is?
• 54:57
  The end?
• 54:58
  No, my favorite part overall is the fact that, um, I'm picking Weekend at Bernie's for our, uh, the Wheel of Death.
• 55:06
  Oh God,
• 55:08
  you
• 55:08
  can't stream that anywhere. Like he
• 55:10
  literally like wasn't
• 55:11
  gonna pick anyway.
• 55:15
  Terry, what did you think of that? We could split between Derek loved it. I didn't like it. What did you think?
• 55:20
  I didn't love it. I thought it was good.
• 55:23
  I enjoyed it as well. It was not what I expected. No, it popped when I was doing my research for Australian horror movies. This always popped up on the list, and I'm like kind of questioning that. I get it's kind of a thriller psychological drama kind of thing. And it does have that kind of like, I feel like the Ari Aster vibe of like this social awkwardness, the social—
• 55:44
  A sense of despair.
• 55:44
  Yeah, like that, like sense of like, I don't belong here and I just want to fit in and I don't want anything to go wrong, but things are going wrong. Like that kind of like that, just that like, I feel like the anxiety, it's like it captures that feeling pretty well. But like, yep. Is it horror? Uh, I don't know. Um, but I did like it and I did think it was creepy. I didn't like the kangaroos getting shot.
• 56:05
  No, I had a real problem with the kangaroos getting murdered on screen.
• 56:08
  Yeah, I wish that hadn't happened.
• 56:10
  Because you know it's real, and that's the part that bothered— if I knew it was CGI, then it's like, okay.
• 56:15
  Yeah, I don't— it's fine. Yeah, I'll see a kangaroo get murdered any day on CGI. But
• 56:20
  yeah, yeah, I have several video games where I murder kangaroos constantly.
• 56:24
  You do?
• 56:27
  Kangaroo Hunter 1 through 6.
• 56:29
  Oh,
• 56:30
  all right.
• 56:32
  No, that sounds right. We should make that.
• 56:34
  Big game kangaroo hunter.
• 56:37
  Yeah, our first Fumbler's, uh, video game.
• 56:40
  When you get— when you get to parts— when you get to part 6, it's like a kaiju-sized kangaroo.
• 56:45
  Well, that would be part 1. Like, that— that's the only reason you would want to play the game is to fight the kaiju-sized kangaroo.
• 56:52
  Each game, the kangaroo—
• 56:53
  What's in its pouch if it's that big?
• 56:55
  Slightly smaller kangaroo?
• 56:58
  No, I think it would have to— well,
• 57:00
  Oh, you get— you fall in there and it's a whole nother world.
• 57:03
  Whole nother world. Like an underworld of the kangaroo
• 57:06
  world. Or it's like, um, Australia. You fall in there because of course it like put Australia in its pouch after it escaped.
• 57:16
  Yeah.
• 57:17
  So yeah, I thought it was good. I liked it. Just not a horror movie, I'd say. So it was kind of a shame. Not necessarily a shame because I'm glad I watched it, but it's like, didn't really fit with—
• 57:25
  it just didn't fit the trick-or-treat. Right? We got something that is good money, but not what we wanted. Not enough money to buy a candy.
• 57:35
  Yeah, they gave me a blooming onion.
• 57:37
  God damn it! Well, could you imagine if you got a blue?
• 57:40
  They just dropped it in my bag. Like that's the thing. I'd been happy to get a blooming onion, but if they just like dropped it in my bag and it just was loose, then that's in that
• 57:47
  clear clamshell
• 57:48
  that you get from carryout. It pops open immediately. Just starts spilling all over.
• 57:54
  It just makes me make sauce is spilling all over the place. You're like ah.
• 57:57
  Yeah, but I'm still like picking at it as I walk home in my bag.
• 58:00
  How could you not? Well, we know what we thought. Well, on December 30th, 2011, just ended the year on the high note, Animax-3 had this to say. Brilliant. I only saw this film recently, but it brought back all kinds of memories of my year in Australia. Parentheses 1970 to 1971, when I worked in Darwin as a storeman and Cobram, a small town in Victoria where I picked fruit.
• 58:38
  Okay.
• 58:39
  I both enjoyed and hated these experiences. The alcohol culture was dominant, as in the film, and in Darwin I was invited to a pig shoot. Unlike the film's hero in the kangaroo hunt, I declined. I returned to Australia permanently in 1977 and worked professionally till my retirement in capital cities and in one large provincial center. The contrast to my earlier experiences, which were similar to those faced by John Grant, could not be greater. I think this could be the best Australian film I have ever seen.
• 59:18
  Wow.
• 59:20
  6 found it helpful, 3 not so much. 10 out of 10.
• 59:25
  It might be the best Australian film. I don't really know that many.
• 59:28
  I don't know, we've watched 2 now and one's not really an Australian movie, it's more of like an American-Australian movie.
• 59:34
  Yep, true.
• 59:37
  And, and that was, um, Wake and Fright.
• 59:40
  There's nothing American about this movie. But not to be outdone, on May 19th, 2013 Ironman817 had this to say.
• 59:50
  Oh, okay.
• 59:51
  Ugly behavior with no point or story.
• 59:55
  Oh.
• 59:56
  I cannot believe people see any value at all in this film. Men behaving badly is the formula for a lot of films, especially comedies, and here it is a drama. I found myself watching a collection of lazy good-for-nothings drink, gamble, fight, and murder animals. By the end, I was hoping that all the characters would not produce progeny.
• 1:00:20
  They probably won't.
• 1:00:23
  No, there's only one woman in the town, I think. I felt like I needed a shower to wash off their stench. Where is the story? What is it about? Is there a moment I will cherish? A great idea? A great line of dialogue? Give me something, but it does not. People may think it has something to do with the corruption of intellectuals by their exposure to primitive men, but the lead character, for all his learning, is a bit of a drunk and a failure, and he only needs a shove to fall in the pit. Most people just need a shove to fall into the pit.
• 1:01:02
  That's all it takes. That's the scary part about the pits.
• 1:01:05
  That's the point of the movie.
• 1:01:06
  There's a pit and I'm standing next to it and someone just walks over and shoves me. Odds are I'm falling in the pit. Yeah, that's the thing.
• 1:01:11
  I might have a good low center of gravity, but a good shove's gonna send me flying.
• 1:01:16
  If I, if I even brace myself, you're right. Like, I'm not— I'm— there's like a good chance I'm going in there.
• 1:01:21
  Yeah. Somehow I suspect he will return to this group of frat boys. His willingness to slaughter defenseless animals for the joy of killing is proof that he harbors inner demons and is as disturbed as his vile comrades. That's the point of the movie, isn't it?
• 1:01:40
  He's describing the theme.
• 1:01:42
  That's the movie.
• 1:01:43
  The thing that he was like, there's no point to, and he just described it.
• 1:01:47
  Yeah. Men like this eventually murder.
• 1:01:51
  Okay.
• 1:01:52
  That's a— that's
• 1:01:54
  a—
• 1:01:55
  the gang in Reservoir Dogs was more appealing than this bunch.
• 1:01:59
  Sure. Okay.
• 1:02:01
  Okay.
• 1:02:02
  39 found—
• 1:02:04
  That's the last sentence.
• 1:02:06
  33, not so much. 1 out of 10.
• 1:02:09
  It's ending on that note. All right, sure.
• 1:02:11
  I like how your critique is a complete understanding of what you just watched after saying, I don't get it.
• 1:02:18
  Yeah, you didn't get it, and then you'd proceed to explain the deep philosophical meanings of the film.
• 1:02:23
  Oh well, Iron Man.
• 1:02:26
  Maybe this person just has a higher, like, um, you know, like, uh, hopefulness of mankind. Like, there's no way anybody should— would do this, or, you know. Shoot. All right, so hire more.
• 1:02:38
  One Seven's got a lot to learn about mankind.
• 1:02:41
  Yeah, hire, hire more moral fiber, this Iron Man guy.
• 1:02:44
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:02:45
  That's why they call him Iron Man. It's iron resolve.
• 1:02:49
  Iron resolve.
• 1:02:51
  Um, let's see, top, uh, according to AI overview, top-ranked Australian films.
• 1:02:57
  Okay.
• 1:02:57
  Um, based on box office success or critical acclaim, so
• 1:03:01
  It could be either. All
• 1:03:02
  right, either one. Yes.
• 1:03:03
  Um, highest grossing movies are Crocodile Dundee from 1986 and Australia from 2008.
• 1:03:09
  I knew that was gonna be on there.
• 1:03:10
  Uh, critical favorites are often cited as Walkabout from 1971,
• 1:03:15
  uh-huh,
• 1:03:16
  uh, Picnic at Hanging Rock, uh, Goliath, and Mad Max: Fury Road.
• 1:03:23
  Oh, Mad Max, of course.
• 1:03:25
  Yeah, those The Mad Max movies are my favorite Australian movies.
• 1:03:29
  Uh, and then, uh, these are our top grossing Australian films at the Australian box office. Crocodile Dundee in Australia 1 and 2. Uh, and what is definitely gonna be my favorite Australian movie, uh, Babe.
• 1:03:44
  Oh, it's Pig in the City.
• 1:03:46
  Yeah, no, just the first one, not Pig in the City.
• 1:03:48
  Pig in the City is good too.
• 1:03:50
  Wait, Pig in the City is the Australian one though.
• 1:03:53
  Well, they're both Australian.
• 1:03:54
  Yeah,
• 1:03:55
  they are.
• 1:03:55
  Yeah,
• 1:03:56
  apparently so.
• 1:03:57
  Oh, really?
• 1:03:58
  They're both directed by George Miller.
• 1:03:59
  I thought only the second one was. I could be wrong.
• 1:04:01
  Um,
• 1:04:03
  at least the second one is for sure.
• 1:04:04
  Happy Feet's number 4.
• 1:04:06
  Oh, I don't like that movie.
• 1:04:08
  Wow, sad feet.
• 1:04:11
  Yeah.
• 1:04:14
  What's number 5?
• 1:04:16
  Oh, uh, Lion.
• 1:04:19
  Oh, never heard of it.
• 1:04:21
  You know what my recent favorite Australian movies are? Hmm. One was on the list, Talk to Me.
• 1:04:28
  Okay.
• 1:04:29
  A great Australian horror film. And then the other one is also by the same director as another Australian horror film, Bring Her Back.
• 1:04:39
  I haven't watched that yet. It's on Max, I think.
• 1:04:42
  Both are amazing. Both of them.
• 1:04:44
  I think they're both on Max. Terry, you sold me. I'm gonna watch them.
• 1:04:47
  You should watch that. Those 2 would be great Halloween picks. Great Halloween picks. Maybe they'll be making the wheel now that I mentioned them.
• 1:04:54
  Well, now I put them in the list here.
• 1:04:56
  I think there's a cutoff for things.
• 1:04:59
  I really, you know, I wonder. It's kind of an international film, but like Triple X is kind of—
• 1:05:05
  Okay. Yeah. So we've done everything we could do here.
• 1:05:11
  Yes. We have a few things left to do. This is the 3rd week.
• 1:05:15
  Oh yes, yes.
• 1:05:17
  We gotta pick the wheel, and we did. We care— we cult— we cultivated our list. We grew it. We grew a seed. We coalesced. We collated as well. We did all sorts of things for this list. We came up with all the movies that were mentioned this last month. We put— we each chose one. We put it on the wheel. Keith, you chose
• 1:05:39
  Weekend at Bernie's.
• 1:05:40
  Terry, you chose—
• 1:05:42
  Talk to Me.
• 1:05:43
  Was just mentioned like minutes ago. So yeah, maybe I feel like, did I hear that right? Just hit back 30 like twice and you'll hear it.
• 1:05:51
  That's right.
• 1:05:52
  And I'm choosing Sky High, which not the one with the superhero high school with Tim Allen or whatever.
• 1:06:01
  No, he's not in that. He's at the last—
• 1:06:04
  Kurt Russell, that's what it is.
• 1:06:06
  Tim Allen.
• 1:06:08
  Whatever. I'm choosing the Japanese one with murders and the heart stealing and a ghost helping solve the crime. It
• 1:06:16
  sounds Japanese remake. Japanese remake of Sky High. They added some things,
• 1:06:21
  added something. There's some liberties.
• 1:06:24
  And they added Tim Allen.
• 1:06:25
  They added Tim Allen.
• 1:06:26
  That would be awesome. A Japanese horror movie with Tim Allen.
• 1:06:29
  And it's Tim Allen. He'd be like, I, I'm not going to learn anything about your culture. So
• 1:06:35
  no.
• 1:06:36
  You're all weird to me.
• 1:06:38
  Uh-huh. Yeah, I would, I would kind of watch that though. I think that would be interesting.
• 1:06:42
  The classic fish out of water, uh, horror.
• 1:06:45
  Yeah, fish out of water, but he's like, yeah, in a horror movie. That would be awesome.
• 1:06:49
  That would be awesome. All right, so I put those things on the wheel and I spin again and I doubled them up a couple times. And so we got a 1 in 3 chance of getting our movie selected. You guys ready for this?
• 1:07:01
  I'm so ready. And time to get my streak back.
• 1:07:03
  Well, time to keep my streak going. Here we go.
• 1:07:17
  No,
• 1:07:18
  it is Weekend at Bernie's. Heath is back in the win column.
• 1:07:25
  Wow, it's been a long time coming.
• 1:07:29
  And of all
• 1:07:29
  the movies, like one month. He had it one month, lost it.
• 1:07:36
  Now he's back.
• 1:07:36
  Nice back. Got that groove. Weekend at Bernie's.
• 1:07:40
  I mean, you know, it technically still, uh, it sticks with, uh, a bit of like the spooky time. Yeah, yeah, it's got a corpse.
• 1:07:50
  I guess that's true.
• 1:07:52
  Corpses are spooky.
• 1:07:54
  Inherently, I would agree. Corpses are just kind of scary.
• 1:07:56
  Well, we did it. We got through our 3 weeks of trick-or-treat. And now the ultimate treat is Weekend at Bernie's for the wheel.
• 1:08:05
  That's true. And you know what's great news? My local library has 4 copies.
• 1:08:09
  What? Your local library is just the video rental store?
• 1:08:14
  4 copies is 3, if not 4, more than expected.
• 1:08:19
  And guess how many are available for checking out?
• 1:08:22
  All 4.
• 1:08:24
  All four. It's all four.
• 1:08:28
  They're just sitting on Weekend at Bernie's.
• 1:08:30
  Why do they have so many? Why?
• 1:08:33
  They can clearly trim that down a little bit, but no.
• 1:08:37
  Send them an email after that.
• 1:08:38
  There's full generations of this planet that they have no idea what Weekend at Bernie's is.
• 1:08:44
  Full generations. Several. At least three.
• 1:08:46
  Several of them. Yeah.
• 1:08:48
  Yeah. And then there's many. past generations who will never know.
• 1:08:51
  Oh, can you imagine people in like the 1500s? They'll never know what Weekend at Bernie's is. Yeah.
• 1:08:58
  Can you imagine showing them that? The first film they ever seen, that's the first film you show them is Weekend at Bernie's.
• 1:09:06
  You go back in time to the Dark Ages, literal Dark Ages, and you're like, all right, you primitive fucks, here's a DVD I'm gonna show
• 1:09:17
  Arthur and his court are sitting there, Merlin's watching, stroking
• 1:09:20
  his beard. Weekend at Bernie's, and you're blowing their mind. Moving Pictures and Dead Man Dancing.
• 1:09:26
  And there's a, there's a lot of, like, so many things they would not understand. Office work, you know, like doing business, polishing shirts.
• 1:09:37
  I mean, it really would, I mean, it would just ruin society forever. I mean,
• 1:09:40
  a vehicle. There's lots of things that would they wouldn't get, let alone the moving pictures.
• 1:09:45
  Why is the guy wearing sunglasses all the time?
• 1:09:48
  What are sunglasses?
• 1:09:49
  Oh yeah.
• 1:09:50
  Why is this man's hair curly, right? They just
• 1:09:54
  wouldn't understand these things.
• 1:09:57
  It was the '80s. You wouldn't get it, primitive people.
• 1:09:59
  You wouldn't understand. It's a— it's an '80s thing, guys. Yeah.
• 1:10:02
  Well, I guess that leaves us with nothing to do other than end this the way we end Everything.
• 1:10:09
  Yes, indeed.
• 1:10:34
  Words in this trailer?
• 1:10:35
  No, this is all music and vivid imagery. That was pleasant.
• 1:10:41
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