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Creating the Golem · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: What's up and welcome to Movie Meltdown. And this week
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  Speaker 1: And you can listen to us every special horror episode
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  Speaker 1: when we say ridiculous things like this. I was trying
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  Speaker 1: to think of stuff I'd seen somewhat recently.
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  Speaker 2: Horror related.
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  Speaker 1: This one, heavy related. Not so much horror. Did anyone,
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  Speaker 1: because this is going back a ways, because I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, I saw this when it opened that weekend.
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  Speaker 1: The Dead Don't Die?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, but I wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's most of the people who were
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  Speaker 1: just like, oh yeah, that came and went, didn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Here was my response.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, I don't. Because I saw it that weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and then I saw someone I know who is a
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  Speaker 1: big horror fan the next, like, Monday, and they were like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: is that any good? And I'm like, well... During an
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  Speaker 1: outbreak of a deadly plague, a mystical woman must save
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  Speaker 1: her tight-knit Jewish community from foreign invaders, but the entity
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  Speaker 1: she conjures to protect them is a far greater evil.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is almost that exact thing. supposedly creating
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  Speaker 1: her for a greater purpose, but in the end, really,
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  Speaker 1: what does it come down to? Because we're humans.
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  Speaker 3: This is what we do. No matter what technology or
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  Speaker 3: materials you have, someone is going to build something to
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  Speaker 3: have sex with.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's really the reason.
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  Speaker 2: Tale as old as time.
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  Speaker 1: Damn straight. But really, I mean, the reason the internet
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  Speaker 1: is so sophisticated as it is now in this short
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  Speaker 1: span of time, it's because the forefront of it is
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  Speaker 1: constantly making money to find new ways to use sex
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  Speaker 1: as a way to sell it and to capitalize on
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  Speaker 1: it and to spread into a new version and like
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  Speaker 1: so that's the reason again ex machina makes perfect sense
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  Speaker 1: because it's the next level of like okay we found
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  Speaker 1: a way to bastardize the internet the most we can
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  Speaker 1: how do we take it into the real world which
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  Speaker 1: is why i put in my order for that fancy
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  Speaker 1: japanese robot that i'm gonna get but those are expensive
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  Speaker 1: by the way but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How much research have you done in it's more than
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  Speaker 2: i can afford let's put it that.
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  Speaker 3: Way feel like the main character hannah and her husband
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  Speaker 3: whose name i.
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  Speaker 2: Don't benjamin benjamin thank you i.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like they were incredibly complex characters but again in
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  Speaker 3: a very natural very organic way because as it goes
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  Speaker 3: on you find out.
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  Speaker 2: And that like relationship between them i thought like i
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  Speaker 2: got real emotional yeah it was deeper than i thought
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  Speaker 2: this kind of thing would be with like the heads
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  Speaker 2: exploding at the beginning and everything.
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that we don't, I mean, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of opening shot, we get a version of that.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like that was vaguely modeled after the movies.
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  Speaker 1: The old school version. But yeah, I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: expecting it to be more of that sort of a
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  Speaker 1: hulking beast. What do you think about the....
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  Speaker 2: And just like these huge themes and like dichotomies that
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  Speaker 2: you kind of like, Because, I don't know, I felt
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  Speaker 2: like I was reading a really good short story, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you circle something and take notes, and you're like, oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There were a lot of huge concepts that it kind
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  Speaker 2: of delved into that was really interesting that I was
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  Speaker 2: not expecting at all.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I'm like, I don't know that that's in the
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  Speaker 1: folklore or something they just totally came up with, but
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive when it goes to that point.
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  Speaker 2: Also, when they had that sex scene later, I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: I really hope the kid can't feel that.
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  Speaker 1: What's the kid doing in the barn right now?
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  Speaker 2: This just made it weird. Okay. But otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's really my only complaint about this movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like this is just a really well-made, entertaining, thoughtful,
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  Speaker 3: scary movie.
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  Speaker 1: So, I think this is just dumb enough we could
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  Speaker 1: get it greenlit. Let's start writing this right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to pinpoint that moment where a great idea
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  Speaker 3: becomes a fantastic idea. But I think puppets in this
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  Speaker 3: is where we.
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  Speaker 1: Alright. So, again, this is the level of stuff we're
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  Speaker 1: pulling in on the Horror Club episodes. Coming up with
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  Speaker 1: our own movies, which we actually seem to do semi-regularly now, so...
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  Speaker 1: If we need to put that together as a separate feature,
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  Speaker 1: just like a pitch meeting every couple of months, we
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  Speaker 1: can put that together. Anything else to pass along to
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  Speaker 1: these people? Get it together.
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  Speaker 2: Give us your money.
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  Speaker 1: And again, not much money. I'm not asking for lots
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