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Only Lovers Left Alive · The Art of Costume Podcast

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Hello and welcome to the Art of Costume.
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I'm Elizabeth Julie Glass. And I'm a depressed artist from
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the 1600s. Spencer Williams.
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I think he was older than that, yeah.
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They were old as hell. I everybody This week we watched
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Only Lovers Left Alive. Wow.
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Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Whoa, like I'm not even going to ask you how you are, Spencer,
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because I'm like, I just need to get into this.
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Well, it's funny, like every First of all, Vampire month has
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been absolutely wild and every vampire has been incredibly hot.
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And this film lived up. To.
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Yeah, no exception. It's funny, though.
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It's like every episode. Not every episode, but most of
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our episodes. You know, one of us.
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There's no scientific method to when we pick certain films, you
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know, like we like to get into our themes.
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Yeah, but we're never like, oh, like this one got really good
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ratings or this one like we're just like we kind of pick
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whatever. And sometimes we're.
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Living off fives at this point. We're living off fives that are
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the costume podcasts. And sometimes I'll pitch
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something to Elizabeth and she'll be like, and sometimes
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she'll pitch something to me and I'll like, this is a film where
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we both were like, I don't know. Like I know nothing about this
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movie. I don't remember it coming out.
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I knew nothing about it when Elizabeth told it to me.
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I had no idea it existed. This.
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Even going into the research, this movie's way older than I
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thought it was originally. This movie is 12 years old.
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It's older than Crimson Peak. I thought this I didn't realize
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it predated Crimson Peak. Which is wild.
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It's 2013, yeah, but boy was it fun.
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Oh man, it, it was fun. I, I texted Spencer.
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I was like, I just watched Only Lawyers left alive.
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I was like, it was wild, but I kind of liked it and.
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I think my response was like, yeah, me too.
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And so I was at work today. And then they were like, oh,
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like, how was your night? And I was like, oh, like I
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watched this movie. And they were like, oh, like,
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what's that? And I was like, I was like, do
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you know, have you seen like what we do in the shadows?
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And unfortunately, this person had not.
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But I'm like what we do Only lovers Left alive I feel like is
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like a hidden camera version of what we do in the shadows.
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Yeah, but not a comedy. It's.
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Just not a comedy. It had like some dramedy vibes
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to it. Yeah.
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Just cause like, it's kind of a little bit ridiculous,
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especially with all of their sunglasses.
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Their sunglasses, which I'm very excited to wear these sunglasses
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for the rest of the episode. Me too.
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I was even more excited once I saw a picture of Jim Jarmusch.
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I have not seen many of his films.
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I do think only Lovers Left alive though.
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Might be his like spirit animal. His biopic, Yeah.
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Director Jim Jarmusch is such an interesting, cool guy.
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I mean, he's an American filmmaker and has just always
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been a major proponent of independent cinema since dating
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back to the 1980s, Potentially a vampire himself and is of course
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a musician. He also, for those of you that
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maybe don't know who he is, he does have a cameo on What We Do
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in the Shadows as well with Sofia Coppola, if you watch that
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episode at the at Club Najas. So.
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Yeah, wait, really? Yeah, it's a it's a good
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episode. You won't know him.
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Go back and watch it. Yeah, you'll know him for his
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work on Stranger Than Paradise, Broken Flowers, Patterson and
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The Dead Don't Die, which is a more recent film.
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So how about give a summary of Only Lovers Left to Life?
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Go for it, Spencer. Artistic, sophisticated and
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centuries old, 2 vampire lovers pondered their ultimate place in
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modern society. However, the romance and the
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pressive episode is disrupted by the rival of an uncontrollable
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younger sister and that is Only Lovers Left Alive.
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But honestly, I feel like that summary is a bit generous
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because to me, if I were to summarize this plot, I would say
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it's just two people being vampires, being depressed and
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just hang out on the couch and listen to records for two hours.
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Literally. Honestly, yeah, like the this
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was almost like the Stardew Valley concert of movies, 'cause
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there were some points where I was just like zoned out
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listening to the music. It plays like a YouTube ambiance
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video where it's just too hot. People just in their druggy
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looking apartment in their robes, drinking blood and just
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being like, I don't remember William Shakespeare.
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Yeah, I was like, I'm I'm obsessed with this movie and.
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Like the aesthetic is so perfect.
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Let's meet our costume designer Bina Daggler.
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You will know her work from Narco Season 1, The Limits of
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Control, which she also did with Jim Jarmusch.
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Dumplin misses America, Euphoria and Tar, for which you
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interviewed her Spencer. Yes, I love the movie Tar with
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Cate Blanchett, that is one of my favourites.
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Honestly, I loved it. And we do have a older podcast
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episode with Bina Dagler who I absolutely adore.
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And I did not realize that Bina had did this film until we
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started putting a research together.
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So I feel kind of dumb because, Bina, I definitely would have
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reached out to you if I knew. Yeah, but still, we get to talk
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about it, and I'm very happy for that.
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So let's take a little break. Have a little tiny, very, very
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tiny vampire glass of blood, and we're going to get into these
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very fun depressive vampire costumes.
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Yes, this is a lot different than The Lost Boys.
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Now back to the show all. Right, Elizabeth I ready to put
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on a record and talk about some costumes and talk about life and
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our cool guitars. Oh, you know it.
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You know it. And unfortunately, this this was
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like a little bit more of an indie film, despite the fact
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that, like, every single character is played by someone
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very famous. Yeah.
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I mean, actually, I think every character is by a pretty
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phenomenal actor. Yeah, the only, honestly, the
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only actor I didn't recognize right away was the guy who's
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like his guitar dealer. But so this was like a smaller
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independent film. I I think this like came up in
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my like Pinterest feed a couple years ago when I was doing all
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the all the Crimson Peak research.
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Yeah, that's fair. Because we've got Tom
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Hiddleston. I was shocked.
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I did not know about this sooner, but I was so thankful to
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find that The Cut did an interview with Bina when the
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film was released. So everything we're talking
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about today comes from The Cut. Go look it up if you if you're
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interested in this movie. It's a really good read when it
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came to the look of this film, which was very specific, Fina
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said. I think he, Jim, was looking for
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something without a specific period with very simple and
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clean lines. At this moment, the vampires
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don't really care about clothes, you know, They lived through
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that and all the other periods. So they wear something very
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simple but protective. On the other side, of course,
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they are like animals. They have their second skin with
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their clothes. And that was a little bit my
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idea, that it's like the second skin they got during so many
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years of living. They'd already lived all the
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fantasies, they could live, so it could be something very, very
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simple. Which is wild, So wild.
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And I feel like kind of what makes Only Lovers Left Alive
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unique among vampire films is that in their wardrobe, they're
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not really carrying around pieces of their past.
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It's very much who they are in this moment in their lives.
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I think that really that quote Venus summarized really the
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essence of this film. I mean, it is two people that
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have literally, I mean, every film that we talk about in the
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vampire month has been people at the beginning of their vampiric,
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vampiric existence. You know, what are we going to
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do the many years interview with the vampire?
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It's like it starts and you know at this point and it goes all
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the way up to like modern society and Dubai.
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These are two people that have done it.
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They've done it all. They know all the cool people,
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they've worn all the cool costumes.
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They're over there. I mean their.
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Names are literally Adam and Eve.
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I'm like were you the first vampires?
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Like what? Yeah, they're, they're wearing
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their robes, their fabrics, and they're just like, they don't
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care. It's like they've lived it all.
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They've had the cool costumes and they're just so uninspired
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by the society that's around them at this moment.
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So there is no desire within them to try to meet the moment
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because they already they, they've, they look at where
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they've come from and they see where they are now.
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There's nothing inspiring about the world around them to make
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them want to dress up. And I think that's essentially
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the crux of the entire film. And it's so dark, but just so
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relatable to in so many ways. Adam, played by Tom Hiddleston,
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living out in the middle of nowhere, just like just outside
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Detroit. Like, come on.
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Like, it's incredible. And to achieve this look, all of
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Adam and Eve's costumes were custom made of natural fibers
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because Bina wanted to show that they're not modern, but also not
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ancient, she said. It's just something I had to
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make because I wanted to have this simple, very specific look
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of the leather jackets and pants, which I didn't realize.
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I think it's Tom Hiddleston's pants are leather, but it's just
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it's such a like whoever made these like I would love to know
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cuz the pants look so worn in. I thought they were jeans at 1st
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and then like you look a little more closely and it's like no,
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that's leather. She also, when you look at like
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Adam and Eve, they're clearly, you know, Eve very much is still
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happy with being alive. Adam, not so much.
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Not at all. Not at all, and Fina wanted to
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create a feeling of yin and Yang between the two of them.
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Which I love too, that really you're talking about how, you
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know, Adam kind of has like that weathered down look in his
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pants. I just think he looks weathered
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down in general. I mean, this is a person who's
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gone through it literally for centuries and centuries compared
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to Eve, who while, you know, she does feel feel a little beating
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down at times, she definitely still knows how to put herself
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together when she goes out and, you know, get her little tiny
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cups of vampire blood. I also love what you said about
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how they custom made a lot of their stuff too, because, yeah,
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they could not have been, you know, they weren't going to be
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walking around in large vampiric ruffs either, but they weren't
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going to be wearing like, you know, Levi's and a shirt from
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Abercrombie. You know, like, it had to be
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very, very specific where it's just, it's not pinpointed to any
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period. But it's also like, you can't
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get this anywhere either, though.
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They're just like right in between these two fields of
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existence. One thing I love about Eve is
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she knows how to be comfy. She knows how to be comfy,
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especially when I forget where she's living abroad.
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Oh yeah, abroad, it's somewhere, somewhere incredible.
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Yeah, she is like living her best life.
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I don't like, honestly, this looks like a great life, just
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listening to music and reading your books, like, OK.
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And Bina said of working with Tilda, It is a pleasure.
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It really is a pleasure because she is so, so inspiring and her
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nature is already so glamorous in a good way.
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She is like a fantasy bird already, naturally.
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And I'm like, I don't know if anybody has ever described Tilda
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Swinton so perfectly. Yeah, and also there I say my
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letterbox review. I was like, this is essentially
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to me the Tilda Swinton biopic and I'm not going to hear
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anything else on the matter because Tilda Swinton is not
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beating the vampire rumours and this film didn't do anything to
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help. No, I was one of the reasons why
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I was so excited to see this film too was because till the
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Swinton has that cameo and what we do in the shadows also in
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that first season as like the leader of the vampire council.
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And I feel like Eve would do that, honestly, because she's
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just totally up for it. Yeah, she'd be like, Adam was
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having one of his depressive episodes.
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I need to go do something. Yeah, I'm going to go to the
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vampiric PTA. Yeah, yeah.
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Oh my gosh, isn't she the one who asked for Rob is too?
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Yeah, yeah, she's the one that runs the whole thing.
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It's so good. I remember watching that and
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thinking like why is like Tilda Swinton's great but like she
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never played a vampire. I always thought Tilda Swinton
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was playing herself honestly, because I think Tilda Swinton's
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a vampire. But anyway.
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But it was a reference to this. Yes, but like you said,
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glamorous leisure. Like she just knows how to lay
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in bed like a beautiful portrait.
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Absolutely. However, at the beginning there
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was a little bit of contention about where they should go with
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Eve's character, Bina said. Jim wanted to have something
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very, very simple, and Tilda was looking for something perhaps a
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little bit more playful. They eventually settled on
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simple because of that timeless feeling they wanted to have that
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we talked about earlier. But I do feel like Tilda what a
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little bit in the beginning with those just beautiful like
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Chinese and like East Asian inspired robes like Oh my gosh.
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Oh yeah. Gorgeous.
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I get it if I'm till this went in your book.
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You mean to play a vampire? My first vampire film, of
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course, like the film you want to put me and you want me to
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wear pajamas. I would have thrilled.
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A bit of fit, too. Like, no, we're not doing.
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You could put me at PJS, but they're going to be nice PJS.
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They're going to be fancy. They're going to be so fancy.
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But then even because she's clearly living like this, very
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like luxurious, kind of like bohemian lifestyle abroad.
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But when she comes back to the States to be with, Adam actually
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moves into these, like, very comfy, like European robes,
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which I love, especially like that very, like, heavy, like
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brownish Gray one with, like, the velvet lapel and cuffs.
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Yeah, like with her hair up like that.
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Incredible. Yeah, I mean, she just really
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kind of like rains it in a little.
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She does. It's almost like she wants to
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blend in a little bit. She knows that.
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She first of all, she doesn't seem to pack a lot every time.
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She's just like, you know, whatever.
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I'll get new belongings. Yeah, and she's like, OK, I'm
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going to America where things are even more tasteless, you
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know, so I could just wear this, like, robe that's grey.
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Whatever and she's just like shaking up with her hubby just
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like hanging out like she doesn't need to impress him
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they're. Obsessed with each other, which
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I love too. I know I love that that line
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never changes. So like all the centuries later,
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I'm with my man, I'm with my wife, and that's not changing.
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I love when she picks up the picture of their 3rd wedding.
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I'm like these two just I like even when she comes and Tom
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Hilson's like OK I can't. I guess I can't be as depressed
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as I was. Yeah, he he gets it together and
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honestly, new couple goals is Only lovers Left alive.
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Yeah, One thing, I don't know if you caught this, because they
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really do not care about their appearances anymore.
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No, this is like really reflected in their hair.
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Yeah, I don't think any of them brush their hair except.
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Except right before she sees Adam again, she clearly brushes
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her hair. It's like it looks very nice and
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it's straight and it's like it throughout the rest of the film.
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They all have this very like clearly have not washed it in
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days like frizzy look to their hair.
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Oh, very shaggy, the wigs in this film.
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Oh yeah, but right as she's seeing Adam for the first time
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and who knows how long, she brushes her hair 'cause she's
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like, I'm going to look just a little bit better.
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Right for. My man, she's.
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Like that's the least I could do.
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I haven't seen him in 50 years. I'm going to put a comb through
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my hair, which is not something. Never be bothered though.
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Adam would never comb his hair. I got to say I loved Tom
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Hiddleston in this film. I I've never seen what I want to
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be as a vampire so much so than watching Adam in this film.
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Honestly, I was like, this is Spencer to a tee.
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After like a couple Millennium as a vampire, this would be you
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and I'd be coming over like, hey, bestie, what's up?
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Like what are what are you depressed about?
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Yeah, you'd be like, you haven't answered your phone in 300
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years. And I'd be like, yeah, I've been
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watching TV. Yeah, and like building some
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extraordinary power source. We never came back to that or
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the mushrooms. Yeah, literally.
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Adam is just All he lives for is just collecting guitars and
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listening to music and. Making music that no one can
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know is his. Also he has like his weird plug
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friend that loves to bring him guitars, which not OK when the
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sister kills him because he's like that was that was my one
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guy, you know? Yeah, he's a human, but like
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everything else bores me. He calls humans zombies in this,
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which I just think is fantastic. It's amazing and I love when
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he's like, couldn't she at least have brought him over like.
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Yeah, make him a vampire at least.
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Like. Just she just straight up kills
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him. But let's talk about Adam's
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costumes 'cause they they're my favorite, honestly.
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And the director, Jim himself was very much the inspiration
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behind Adam. And Venus has this whole film is
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just very him, which I don't really know much about him but I
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believe it. I also believe Adam stopped
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buying clothes in the 70s. Oh yeah, I think so too.
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Which to him feels like a couple weeks ago.
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Yeah, yeah. And I love like, because for
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him, you know, with with Eve, it's a lot of yellows and
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whites. And then when and when she comes
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to America, she adds red to that white, very bright, very light
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Adam, lots of black and lots of like burgundy, that deep, deep
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red. Like they're both like paying
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homage to blood in their clothing because they almost
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like Revere blood in this film. I thought it was very
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interesting. When they're drinking it, it's
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almost like they're taking communion or like doing like
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something they consider holy when drinking the blood.
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It's sacred and they clearly need it like a drug almost in
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this in this film compared to all the ones.
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It's like the blood is like the drug and they need it.
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And it seems like they need it pretty often.
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And if not, they start looking pretty rough, which is like the
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time last act of this film. Yeah, it was great.
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I love Adam and his just Moody, depressive looks.
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I love his robe that he wears like a majority of this film.
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It's just it's it is kind of 70s in my opinion.
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And it's also just very kind of. Yeah, there's like a burgundy,
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maroon to it, the stripes. It's very, I don't know, it's
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just Adam. Yeah, it's just Adam, man.
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He's just bummed out. And I get it.
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He's just just every costume we see is like, oh, it's just kind
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of drapey and loose. So he's comfortable, but he's
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also just, I don't know, you could feel smell like the sweat
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stains on it almost. So.
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You could feel like the pizza boxes next to him if he still
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ate pizza, you know, like, he's just like, I get it.
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This is how I feel a couple times a year.
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I just need to sit in my room in the dark and listen to some, you
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know, Depeche Mode or whatever and just chill in my black PJS.
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Absolutely. You know who's not chilling in
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black PJS? No, not this girl.
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Ava. Ava, I love her costumes because
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being a degler did not have to. Like, we didn't have to say a
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lot to tell you who Ava is in terms of like, because her
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costumes did a lot of the work. Yeah, she has the sunglasses,
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but they're so colorful and jarring compared to everything
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else that, like, when Adam sees her, you feel the same reaction.
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When she walks up in those colorful outfits, you're like,
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oh, like, it's like looking at the sun.
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Who is this? Why are you?
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You're doing too much. Why are you so bright and
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talkative and cheerful? Why are you cheerful about?
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We've been alive for too damn long to be this cheerful.
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Also, unlike Adam and Eve, Bina put her in synthetic fibers
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because she feels like Ava is lost.
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She she's always trying to get the blood.
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She always, she drinks straight from Adam's poor friend and and
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kills him. Yeah.
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Which was fucked up, yeah. She clearly doesn't like Revere
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the blood like the rest of them do, which is I think part of
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their problem with. Her and the.
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Fact that she's just annoying. I feel like she bought a bunch
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of clothes in the 60s and then stopped buying clothes.
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Yeah, I when I saw her, I thought the film almost famous,
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a little bit like that kind of rock'n'roll girl that's going on
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tour wearing like, you know, her coats and colorful colors, the
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sunglasses. Just she does feel lost.
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She doesn't feel like she has a home and she has to go and crash
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and ruin other people's sacred spaces.
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That's what Ava was to me. Yeah, absolutely.
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And she really just does it in style though.
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Yeah, I mean, she looks great. Her costumes aren't good, but
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just when she's standing next to Adam, you're like, oof.
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Like, who is that? Get her away from me.
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When they're at the club with all their glasses, I love that
26:17
she has like the cat eye ones with just like a little bit of
26:19
sparkle in the corners. Because it's not.
26:22
That's not what we talked about in the group chat.
26:25
We said no sparkles specifically and she didn't listen.
26:29
No, no, she didn't. You know who is listening
26:32
though, Spencer? Christopher Marlowe, played by
26:37
one of my favorites, John Hurt. Oh, man, what a great actor.
26:41
I love this man. I also love this character
26:45
because I just, I thought it was so clever the way I just, I had
26:49
to look it up. Of course, Christopher Marlowe,
26:52
you probably know who this is. I didn't know.
26:55
I was, I was watching this and I was like, I wonder if Spencer
26:59
knows. And then I opened up the slides
27:02
that today and I was like, Spencer didn't know.
27:05
I had to look it up, but is that quip that they made about how he
27:08
said he wrote Hamlet? And then that put me in a deep
27:12
dive which I'll get into. But Christopher Marlow was a
27:15
English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan
27:19
era. Marlow is among the most famous
27:21
of the Elizabethan playwrights. Modern scholars consider him to
27:24
have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just
27:28
before his mysterious early death.
27:31
Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William
27:35
Shakespeare, who then later succeeded him as a preeminent
27:38
Elizabethan playwright. And this is the part that, you
27:42
know, put me in the deep dive, is that there's an argument that
27:45
has arisen about the notion that Marlo faked his death and then
27:49
continued to write under the assumed name of William
27:51
Shakespeare and went on the rate all these plays.
27:54
You know, academic consensus rejects his theory.
27:58
But I still thought, you know, if I was Jim Jarmusch and I saw
28:01
that, I'd be like, no, he, he's still alive.
28:04
Like, that's just the great plot detail to put in there.
28:08
This is good fun. I could.
28:09
Send you some documents. Please do I need a good
28:15
controversy? Could I send you the other
28:17
documentaries? I said I would, I don't think.
28:19
So talking about Elizabeth, we have a bunch of documentaries.
28:22
This has been the season of documentaries, starting with
28:25
Cleopatra. I made a list of documentaries
28:27
because I said, oh, I'll send you documentaries for something.
28:31
Oh yes, from Elizabeth, because the guys had a wife who
28:36
mysteriously died. Yeah, and then the the queen,
28:39
that was crazy. And, you know, we've been on the
28:42
Cleopatra deep dive. We we should publish like a list
28:46
of Elizabeth's supporting documents on our Instagram for
28:50
all the podcast listeners. Should we?
28:52
Should but I I love Christopher Marlow in this and just like
28:59
it's so John Hurt. Like he's such a cool old man.
29:03
And he does kind of give like a scholarly author type look to
29:09
him too, though, like that he still kind of kept that through
29:13
all of these centuries. And I love that his glasses had
29:16
more of a round shape compared to everyone else's because
29:19
again, it's still giving like, you know, professor, curator,
29:23
author, playwright, right vibes about it.
29:25
It's very subtle, but it's very subtle.
29:28
The round shape does a lot. He had lots of like, very rich,
29:32
like tans in his wardrobe. It's kind of like, oh, he's a
29:36
writer. Like he wear he wears his
29:39
writing in those colors. And I was so sad when he died.
29:45
I know that was uncalled for. I know.
29:48
I was like, this is already depressing, now they need
29:50
something else to be depressed about.
29:52
Adam and Eve take it hard and I get.
29:54
It they do well because who like who knows how long?
29:58
Oh, they've known him like 400 years.
30:00
Yeah. Like, you know somebody that
30:03
long? Dude, they knew Galileo.
30:05
I don't know where if Galileo is before or after, but I know it's
30:08
a long time away. Before.
30:11
Before. Like I didn't say I'm a, I'm an
30:16
academic. I I think Adam and Eve are
30:21
minimum 2000 years old. Yeah, they're they're.
30:24
Minimum, yeah. Pretty old.
30:28
Pretty, pretty old, but that brings us to the end of Only
30:34
Lovers Left Alive and that poor couple being mauled by Adam and
30:40
Eve. Yeah, but you know, they
30:42
probably, they were both looking haggard though.
30:44
At that moment, though, I was like, I think it's time to break
30:47
your guys's little rule and drink up a human.
30:50
Well, so, because I think what I understood is part of the
30:54
problem with drinking from people is you don't know what
30:57
drugs they've taken. Yeah, that's kind of what I got.
31:01
And like, clearly that's what happened to Marlo.
31:03
He drank someone who had too many or the wrong drug in him,
31:07
and he died. Yeah, that's kind of what I got
31:10
to. Very depressing.
31:12
But you know, that's what happens.
31:14
That's a risky run when you're alive for that long.
31:17
That's true. Like they would make Lestat look
31:19
like a baby in this. Like that's what's so.
31:21
Crazy to me, which I love. So let's give this thing a
31:28
stitch rating. OK.
31:30
What, what are you thinking? I I'll I you went first last
31:33
time so I can say I I felt good about giving us a 3.5.
31:39
You know, I felt good about giving this a solid 3.
31:44
That's I'm a little bit higher than you.
31:46
Yeah, this is flip flop from Lost Boys.
31:50
This movie was just a little bit too long.
31:54
I don't know, I think that's why I liked it because this film was
31:58
a long film about like just the longevity of life and how, I
32:04
don't know, like I kind of appreciate that just leaned into
32:08
everything. So I.
32:11
I just felt unlike a lot of the other things we've watched this
32:19
month, I do feel like they kind of took a minute to get into it.
32:23
It's like it's right off the bat, Like, OK, Adam's depressed.
32:27
Adam is looking for a wooden bullet like.
32:31
He's he's. Over it and Eve is like OK, I
32:35
have to go cheer up my man, remind him why we continue to
32:40
live while you understand what's going on.
32:42
Pretty quickly they get it. The in between bits I was like
32:48
Adam, did you really have to look at like 5 guitars?
32:53
That's, I love that. I just think like after coming
32:57
off of Interview of the Vampire, where every minute of that show,
33:02
it's something it's horrible and horrific.
33:04
Yeah, it's moving at lightspeed, and then we slowed it so way
33:09
down for this film. That felt jarring a little bit,
33:13
and I kind of loved it for that. So I'm going to stick with 3.5.
33:17
You know? What I love more than anything
33:19
is a fully realized aesthetic, and Only Lovers Left Alive knew
33:23
exactly what it was from the moment it was written down to
33:27
its release in theaters, you know?
33:28
Absolutely. Absolutely.
33:30
If this film only has one fan, it's me.
33:33
Oh, I'm a fan. I'm a fan.
33:36
I, I if, if we can get Tina Daigler on here to actually talk
33:41
about it, I'd do a whole other episode for this.
33:43
Yeah, Lookout Bina. She's probably got shit.
33:46
Not these guys. Again.
33:48
Are you ready to play our favorite game?
33:51
Yes, the one costume to rule them all.
34:00
Spencer, what was your one costume to rule them all?
34:03
I have to go with Adam's robe. I love that strong.
34:07
Choice. I love that maroon like shawl
34:10
collar and the, you know, the sleeves.
34:14
It's just the stripes. It's very, I just love that he
34:17
lived in it. And you could just tell that
34:19
like this was almost like his way of kind of shielding himself
34:23
from the world and he just wants to be cuddled up in that sleeve.
34:26
I mean, we all know this like you know what it's like to be
34:29
out on like a Thursday night at you're at some event and you're
34:32
like, God, what I would do to get in my bed with some in and
34:36
out in my robe and with the lights off.
34:39
Like he's like he's lived so long where he's like his those
34:44
moments for him are like years long and he's in that moment
34:47
right now. He's at home and he does not
34:49
want any visitors unless you're his smoking hot wife, which
34:53
always allowed. Always allowed my one costume to
34:57
rule them all is a bit of A2 Fer.
35:00
It is Adam and Eve's club look. The yin and the Yang, the
35:05
glasses. The way he is holding on to her.
35:12
Where can I find a man to hold on to me the way Adam holds on
35:16
to Eve in this film? You know what, what they remind
35:19
me of, they remind me of that couple.
35:21
You know, you go to IHOP after being at the club all night.
35:25
It's now 3:00 AM and there's that one couple in the corner
35:28
that are drunk, but they just, like, can't get off of each
35:32
other. And you're like, I'm like, Sir,
35:34
this is a IHOP, you guys could not be hooking up right now
35:38
with. 24 hour IHOP. Downtown.
35:40
This is not the place to be doing this.
35:42
With the fluorescent lighting, that's this couple, they're
35:45
obsessed with each other and they don't give a shit.
35:48
And they look good with those sunglasses.
35:50
It's, it's such a vibe. It's like a part, they look
35:54
incredible, but together it's like, oh, they're, they're a
35:58
set. Like they're a perfectly
36:00
matching pair and it's so cute. I feel like Eve would like give
36:07
him a piggyback ride to the car. Like they're so attached he he
36:11
would clutch onto her like a koala because.
36:14
Because he would be like, I can't do it Eve, I can't go on.
36:16
And she just like put him on on her back.
36:19
Come on darling, let's go. The sun's about to rise.
36:23
We can't stay out here. I love that she's so patient
36:28
with them too. Like.
36:30
After all these years, wow, they they really are the best.
36:33
Yeah. Who would have thought we would
36:34
find relationship goals and only lovers left alive?
36:39
Who would have thought we'd find relationship goals in our sexy
36:43
vampire month in general? Because we have a lot of bad
36:47
examples in this month and I think our next episode is the
36:52
prime example of what not to do in life whatsoever.
36:56
Elizabeth, please tell everyone what you've been making me watch
37:00
every night for the 8 hours a day for the past week.
37:05
Next week we'll be we will be watching the thing I have spent
37:09
forced Spencer to watch this past month.
37:12
The sexiest of all vampire shows.
37:15
True. Grand finale, Yes.
37:19
Oh my gosh, this This is probably the craziest show that
37:23
we have covered on. This these are the most your
37:27
comments on this show have probably been the most insane
37:31
text messages you have ever sent me.
37:34
And I'm only one season in, I'm on season 2 now.
37:38
But oh wow, this show is a lot. It's a lot.
37:44
It's wild. But I'm loving it though and I'm
37:46
excited to talk about it. I don't know where to even start
37:50
with it honestly so. We'll get into it next week,
37:52
yeah. In the meantime, send us an
37:56
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37:59
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38:04
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38:09
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38:12
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38:17
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38:36
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38:39
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38:43
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38:45
Subscribe already, Elizabeth, I guess we're going to meet next
38:49
week in Louisiana again and things are not looking good out
38:53
there. These are not looking.
38:55
Good, they could be better. We have shape shifters.
38:59
I hear that werewolves are going to be involved.
39:01
Oh yeah. We have Alexander Skarsgard's
39:04
here. It's just a whole, it's a whole
39:07
hot mess out in down these streets.
39:10
So I'm excited to talk about it. We'll see you all next week.
39:13
See you next week.