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Ben O'Shea - Dead Man's Wire · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Great per flick with Ben Aisha.
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  Speaker 2: Never had a bad experience with the bank. Well, this
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  Speaker 2: guy took his complaint just a little too far. Starring
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  Speaker 2: Al Pacina, dead Man's Wise, based on an unbelievable true story, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: what's the first thing people should know about this movie?
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  Speaker 1: The first thing they should know is it's the opening
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  Speaker 1: film of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, which kicks
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  Speaker 1: off next week. And it's pretty renowned for having a
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  Speaker 1: selection of films that are a little bit left of center,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit unusual, and this one is the absolute
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  Speaker 1: perfect film to kick off the festival. And as you
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  Speaker 1: point out, it's based on this amazing true story. Back
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy seven, there was this bloke, Tony Kurtzis,
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  Speaker 1: who was a businessman in Indianapolis, and he took a
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  Speaker 1: loan out from a mortgage broke up for a plot
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  Speaker 1: of land that he had a deal in place to
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  Speaker 1: put a shopping center on this land. This was going
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  Speaker 1: to be his big break as far as business was concerned,
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  Speaker 1: but then he fell behind in his payments, he defaulted,
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  Speaker 1: and the mortgage company ended up taking possession of the land.
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  Speaker 1: And he believed that this mortgage company had predatory lending
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  Speaker 1: tactics that deliberately set him up to fail so they
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  Speaker 1: could get this land. And so what he did in
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  Speaker 1: real life was he went to the office of this
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  Speaker 1: mortgage company and so he ended up holding this guy
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  Speaker 1: hostage for sixty three hours while he came up with
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  Speaker 1: this list of demands, which included a formal apology from
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  Speaker 1: the mortgage company, and he wanted the money that he'd
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  Speaker 1: lost paid. And this made national news in America at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and he became a bit of a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a folk hero to the you know, everyday people,
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  Speaker 1: or sort of like almost like a Robin Hood sort
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  Speaker 1: of character. He was, you know, sort of taking from
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  Speaker 1: the rich and giving to the poor. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: he was the poor. So it's a stunning true story
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  Speaker 1: that they've turned into this movie.
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  Speaker 2: What's Alpacina?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Does he steal the shop?
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  Speaker 1: Look? Look Alpacine? Know is he's getting on a bit
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  Speaker 1: And in this film he plays he plays the guy
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  Speaker 1: who owns the mortgage company. He's okay, he's pretty hammy
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  Speaker 1: in this film, I have to say. And there's also
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  Speaker 1: a radio DJ in there. Smiley Say cameo film played
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  Speaker 1: by played by Coleman Domingo. Yes, and in real and
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  Speaker 1: in real life this is a fascinating thing. In real life,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't really want to communicate with the police because
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  Speaker 1: he didn't think they were on his side. So instead
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  Speaker 1: he called into the local radio station and and did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the negotiating through the DJ who put
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  Speaker 1: the who put the phone calls through to air and so,
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  Speaker 1: which is which is part of the reason why he
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  Speaker 1: became a bit of a hero to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you're going to have to watch the
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  Speaker 1: film to find out how it ends.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, out of five chop Tops seventy are you
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  Speaker 2: giving dead Man's Wire?
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  Speaker 1: Ben, I'm going to give this a very solid three three.
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  Speaker 2: Out of five chop Tops.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: A strong recommendation from Ben Benoho always great to catch up.
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  Speaker 1: Join the Smiley.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it again next week.