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The Super Inframan • Member Bonus · The Next Reel Film Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I'm Pete, right, and I'm Andy Nelson.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the next real. When the movie ends, our
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  Speaker 2: conversation begins. The super Inframan is over. As long as
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  Speaker 2: we have Super Inframan, we shall be safe. All right, Andy,
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  Speaker 2: How did we choose this cockamami movie?
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  Speaker 1: This is our member bonus episode where we're in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of our Golden Jubilee nineteen seventy five's pioneering Visions
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  Speaker 1: in Global Cinema series, and so we put a number
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  Speaker 1: of options out for our members to vote on. And
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  Speaker 1: last month we covered Night Moves, kind of a neo
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  Speaker 1: noir from nineteen seventy five, and here we ended up
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  Speaker 1: with a Hong Kong Kung Fu Tokusatsu inspired story about
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  Speaker 1: about Inframan and Raima's journey to become this character. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if i'd heard of this film, but I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you, Pete, if I had seen this when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, I would have been in love.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, like right?
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  Speaker 1: Not sure? No, are you doubting that for me? Or
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  Speaker 1: are you saying you're not sure for yourself?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm agreeing with you, just judging how much of
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  Speaker 2: that I want to be on the record, like in
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  Speaker 2: the same way that I've been at the at a
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  Speaker 2: certain age, like Power Rangers would have been amazing for me, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like I get I get it. This movie is like
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  Speaker 2: going to nineteen seventies pop culture museum in China. It's crazy,
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  Speaker 2: this movie and it feels I mean, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: my general vibe to indicate that I didn't care for
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  Speaker 2: it because I had a blast, Like I had a blast.
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  Speaker 2: It is a lot. This movie's a lot with not
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of nuance subtlety. This movie is blood forks,
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  Speaker 2: trauma and eighty eight minutes too. It is like from
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  Speaker 2: the jump, like this movie starts it's opening credit sequence.
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  Speaker 2: I was already writing notes like this is like seizure inducing,
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  Speaker 2: Like yes, flashing colors, watching Inframan flying through the air
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  Speaker 2: on that fantastically cheap design they have for the shot
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  Speaker 2: that one shot that's repeated of him flying it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was. It was a glorious opening, and then that
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  Speaker 2: went to a bus ride like a school bus yep
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  Speaker 2: that suddenly a dragon interrupted by a dragon glider, falls
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  Speaker 2: from the sky, crashes in front of them, disappears, and
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  Speaker 2: then like all of the everything kind of falls apart.
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  Speaker 1: The kids make it off the bus right there. Their
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  Speaker 1: host makes off the bus, but the driver does not.
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  Speaker 1: That's the start crazy. This is where I want to start.
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  Speaker 2: Like, so I know I'm the things I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 2: are gonna sound like things that Pete shouldn't ask I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: And this we have an hour to talk about this, Pete.
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling we're gonna be asking questions that
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  Speaker 1: it shouldn't be asked about this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so the monster. Let's start with the monster.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The first monster is the dragon glider that comes. It
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  Speaker 2: comes overhead and it just just falls inert from the sky.
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  Speaker 2: There's no movement to it at all. It just falls
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  Speaker 2: down right in front of the bus and it just
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  Speaker 2: sort of glides down and lands there and kind of
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  Speaker 2: wobbles a little bit, and then it just vanishes. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where. It just fades out of reality and
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  Speaker 2: the highway crumbles into the cliffs inside below. Where does
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  Speaker 2: the dragon go? Did it die? I?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we have to try to gauge, like what is
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  Speaker 1: this dragon represent? And in retrospect or thinking about it
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  Speaker 1: after I finished the movie, I think we are meant
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  Speaker 1: to assume that that was a demon. Princess El's above
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  Speaker 1: in her dragon form and she's I don't know out
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  Speaker 1: and about, but she's like she's at this point where
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  Speaker 1: she's awakened after ten million years and now she's going
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  Speaker 1: to conquer Earth. And so I'm assuming maybe this is
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  Speaker 1: her out and starting her conquering because she lands. My
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  Speaker 1: hunch is she absorbs herself into the ground, is what
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  Speaker 1: we're meant to kind of assume, like she goes back
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  Speaker 1: down to her underground layer. Okay, in the process, she's
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  Speaker 1: using that to destroy the city, because we go from
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  Speaker 1: that highway crumbling, the bus falling, and then we cut
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  Speaker 1: into the city and everything is on fire. Like it's
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  Speaker 1: just like okay, so like this is destruction. I guess
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  Speaker 1: we're just seeing what happens when it's like.
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  Speaker 2: Pre fire code city construction, right, because this thing was gone.
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  Speaker 1: I like that we see a person, like an actual
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  Speaker 1: person in an upstairs window at one point on fire
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  Speaker 1: just jump out. I was like, Wow, they are doing
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  Speaker 1: some fantastic firework here today.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, indeed, there's so much awesome firework. And I
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  Speaker 2: I mean, at this point in the movie, I am
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  Speaker 2: now aware this is a group of people who are
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  Speaker 2: just having fun. They're just having a good time and
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  Speaker 2: they see something in the world and they say, I'll
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  Speaker 2: bet that could be a prop and let's put it
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  Speaker 2: in our movie. So then we go from that to
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  Speaker 2: the Secret I don't know if it's secret. Is it
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  Speaker 2: a government lab and it's it's staffed by the doctor
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  Speaker 2: and all of the backup singers for the Begies.
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  Speaker 1: Professor liu Yingde who is I don't know. He apparently
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  Speaker 1: his base, which is supposed to be I guess at
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  Speaker 1: this big satellite dish that we've cut to a few
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  Speaker 1: times is like the pre eminent science headquarters for the world,
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  Speaker 1: is how it makes it seem, And they're working on something,
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  Speaker 1: but some things are broken. I was trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out does that tie into the story or is that
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  Speaker 1: just a day in the life before they realize, oh,
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  Speaker 1: now we have to deal with all these earthquakes and
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  Speaker 1: demon Princess else above showing up.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, now, I thought that the earthquakes were a result
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  Speaker 2: of the dragon Glider being absorbed into the earth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, because I think she went back down to
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  Speaker 3: her underground layer and she's causing seismic disruptions as a
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  Speaker 3: result of her growing her monsters and becoming having agency
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  Speaker 3: again to take over Earth. Yeah, she's awake and she's
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  Speaker 3: ready to destroy, ready to rumble. You might say, yeah.
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