Latest / Thirsty For More - Movie Review / EP155 - Pulp Fiction
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- 0:04Mother. I need the goal. I need the goal Planet Bruce. Hello
- 0:23everyone, and welcome to Planet Bruce. I of course you'm your host Malenko.
- 0:28Nice to media, and uh, today we have any of you fuckers
- 0:33move, any of your motherfuckers, any of you fucking friends, execute every
- 0:45mother fucking last one. Yeah, dude, holy shit. Um, like
- 0:51I've been kind of like nervously anticipating this one. Uh, nineteen four is
- 0:58pulp fiction, of course, of course. Yeah, do you want to
- 1:02tell me why I've nervously been anticipating this one. I'm assuming you've been nervously
- 1:06anticipating it because it has, like now just a bad reputation of No,
- 1:11not at all. I like this movie and nereously anticipating it because of just
- 1:18the reputation of the movie in general. Like it's it's such a huge movie.
- 1:22It feels like it's like it's been talked it's also like a talked about
- 1:25movie and it's been talked to death. Yeah, so I'm like, I
- 1:29don't know, what can you contribute? What can we contribute? What could
- 1:30we possibly contribute? Like it's a Bruce episode, Like we're talking about Bruce
- 1:34Willis in this movie. Who you want to just talk about his portion of
- 1:38it. No, No, Like, if we're gonna talk about the movie,
- 1:41do you do you want to talk about this movie? Yeah? I
- 1:45mean yeah, it's I mean, it's cute. Yeah. That's what's annoying
- 1:49about this movie is watching it. I don't see the movie anymore. I
- 1:55see like twenty to twenty five years ago, other people talking about this movie
- 2:00and quoting it, and like, I see all of the media that's been
- 2:06like and like, it's it's heart. It's sorry, it's easy to forget
- 2:12how well, like then, how influential it was because it was so influential,
- 2:19you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, I mean basically it
- 2:21started a whole It's you know, it's interesting about movies like this in general
- 2:27is that on the fucking Pricks, Eddie, if you fucking pricks, change
- 2:35the lens later in the movie. Uh sorry, any if you fucking pre
- 2:39excuse a different take. Um, clearly totally. But what I find interesting
- 2:46about movies like this and this movie in general is that movies like this and
- 2:53later on in general get canonized in a way where it's like, oh,
- 2:58this started this type of movie, and then you look back at those movies
- 3:02not having like them because you're like, oh, this is too Quinta.
- 3:07But a different generation of those people who've never seen pulp fiction will watch those
- 3:12movies and be like, oh, this is awesome. Why wasn't this a
- 3:15bigger movie? And it's like, oh, it was all because of Quentin's
- 3:19influence. Yeah, I mean yeah, dude. Yeah. Also, what
- 3:24I notice about every time going back to this movie and being in my thirties
- 3:30is very different than being in your twenties because you understand way more of everything
- 3:34than you do in your twenties or your teens when you see this movie,
- 3:37because when you're in your teens is kind of boring. When you're in your
- 3:39twenties, it's less boring, And when you're in your thirties, it's like,
- 3:44oh, I understand this whole movie. It's pretty good, you know.
- 3:47And also the level of detail to have people feel what I feel is
- 3:55the best part of any sort of genre films or people taking on genre films
- 4:01is making those like embarrassing moments happen, which happened less and less throughout Quentin
- 4:08Tarantino's movies. They all become stylized to a degree where the emotions they're presented
- 4:14by good actors like m Thurman or Canteen or someone Jackson or any of the
- 4:18people post Jackie Brown. Um, but at the same time you get these
- 4:24things where, um, you get these things where you're never gonna have these
- 4:31like genuine moments of not even necessarily improvised, but like things that are clearly
- 4:38written in to add vulnerability to characters Honey Bunny and and um, what's his
- 4:45name? Ring Yeah, and that's what, that's what, that's what.
- 4:49Oh, oh yeah it is Ringo. Then yeah, but it's honey Buddy.
- 4:54They're credited. Yeah, Pumpkin, I've crossed of Pumpkins that call back.
- 5:01But even even within the first scene where they're like discussing Honeybody and Pumpkin
- 5:09are discussing like kind of being in a rut, kind of not being where
- 5:14they want to be in life, kind of not wanting to do the thing
- 5:17that they've been doing for so long. Feels very real and it feels very
- 5:21real to an experience, to his experience. I mean, like, that's
- 5:26the thing is it's interesting everybody in this movie is kind of just the voice
- 5:31piece for Quentin Tarantino being in his thirties and trying to figure it out and
- 5:35being like I lived life. Yeah, Like it's interesting because even John Travolta
- 5:44takes on this like weird blaffect. It's what I'm calling black affect that that
- 5:50Quentin Tarantino seems to like do all the time. Yeah, that film has
- 5:57to be like one of the most quoted movies in Hollywood with just the lines
- 6:00and everything. So you gotta give us. This is one of my questions
- 6:02for you, cube, what is the most famous, Like you have your
- 6:05favorite line from pop fiction. I think probably the most famous line is I'm
- 6:12gonna get Rahm says it and like it's like he was like, no,
- 6:21John, you gotta say it like this. Really, I think they're all
- 6:26they're all pretty Like he's in in like a gangster mode, right, He's
- 6:30like a guy who's like in a world where it's like okay, like he's
- 6:34presented in a particular kind of way. But you get like, what's his
- 6:38name? Actor? Johnston is a bad actor? But here but hold on,
- 6:43hold on, We'll get to John trevolt is bad acting. Um,
- 6:46but what's his name? Uh Marty McFly tho oh, I mean the original,
- 6:53Um, he's just a guy. You know what I mean, Like,
- 6:57I mean, he's no, he's definitely just the guy. But it's
- 7:02not like you see him in Frighteners that you're like, hey, Morty like
- 7:06awakens deep feelings of like emotions and nostalgia and you yeah, for sure,
- 7:12but but you extols and you're like, oh, yeah, it wasn't need
- 7:15that dirty raddy guy. Yeah totally. But like all the characters outside of
- 7:19like the main core group of people that we follow in each story, like
- 7:23they are people who are are kind of like Philamark the best best members.
- 7:30But um, but yeah, like I mean, the he doesn't he does
- 7:35a really good job at making these people very real and very vulnerable, especially
- 7:40at the end when Yolande's like like shut up to like because she really is
- 7:46scared in the moment of of like trying to like save her husband, and
- 7:50like, you know, there's real moments of compassion rather than like building tension
- 7:58in movies where it's like I know there's tension here, and they've set up
- 8:03the tension, but I don't really feel like it's real tension because it's a
- 8:05Quin Tarantina movie. Whereas I still watch this movie and I'm like, oh
- 8:09my God, there's real stakes, it feels. It feels because they're all
- 8:13so normal people in the movie and various kinds of normal people that you would
- 8:18encounter in your life and going through normal things and talking about their like lives
- 8:22and being so that's what makes the movie have a lot of stakes. But
- 8:26like this movie has like it's more interesting because of how One of the things
- 8:33I was going to say, the really interesting thing about this movie when it
- 8:37came out was the structure, right that was like something that people had never
- 8:41seen before, like showing the middle in the beginning and like for the ending
- 8:46kind of like revealing things narratively in a way that like allows for like what
- 8:54more to unfold in the character respect. And something else that was really lauded
- 8:58when this movie came out was the dialogue. Is that everyone was like,
- 9:01Oh, it's such realistic dialogue, and like I'm like, I know what
- 9:07they mean, but I don't think realism is what they're talking about when they
- 9:11talk about Yeah, they're talking about like when they're talking abou Quentin Tarantino movies,
- 9:15they're talking about specificity, they're talking about like idiosyncrasy, Like like it's
- 9:22that's what's interesting it's not it's not that it's real or realistic. It's still
- 9:28very hyperstylized. Yeah, it is very hyperstylized. What I think they mean
- 9:33by realism is the idea that they're talking about things that are are much more
- 9:39down to earth than what criminals generally talk about in movies or what like,
- 9:48Like, because all of these people are kind of shit, just really shitty
- 9:50people, but like they're also um, you know, none of them are
- 9:56at a point, none of them seem like they're at a point where they're
- 9:58half be with their lives, and all of them seem to be seeking meaning
- 10:03in that way where it's like I want something better, I want to get
- 10:07out, I want to be in this mode of and we're all in that
- 10:09mode constantly, as like Norm's right, so we like we're in a stuck
- 10:15at a dead a job, or or we want more money, or we
- 10:18want more happiness or when more sex, or when more drugs, or we
- 10:22want more more things to fulfill us, right, um, and and like
- 10:28that's that's the interesting thing about the beginning part, where it's like they're they're
- 10:33just like the intro quote, yeah, oh well like pulp and I mean,
- 10:37yeah, do you want to go through it. I don't know,
- 10:39like, do you think it's useful for us to go through it? Because
- 10:43there's a lot of amazing moments that I want to talk about. And that's
- 10:46the thing. Like I was watching this movie with Anna and she was watching
- 10:50parts of it with me, and she she loves this movie. Obviously,
- 10:52of course she's classic cinephile, but like, you know, she's like,
- 10:56it's interesting because you get all the things that happen, and what you really
- 11:01remember about this movie is like the like, um, the shots and the
- 11:09parts, the like specific parts, the specific lines. It's all it's not
- 11:13supposed to be. You know, it is pulp. It isn't like that's
- 11:18what it is, right, Like it kind of like it's what you should
- 11:20do at that moment where you go, it's not supposed to be it should
- 11:24go no no no no no no no no. Oh man. Yeah,
- 11:30well, I mean it's it's the iconography is amazing. All of that stuff
- 11:35is cool. The colors are cool. Yeah. Part of it too is
- 11:39that like there seemed to get to a point where the locations. I don't
- 11:43think people talk about this at all, is that the locations are so important
- 11:48in this movie, and they're all very real as well. I was thinking
- 11:52the exact same thing watching this, like can you imagine that like fifties game
- 11:58diner bar? Like wow, how much of that was already there that they
- 12:05were using? Was like yeah, yeah, it was made me wonder because
- 12:09it's a very specific like it's supposed to create this like it's supposed to like
- 12:13hint at the pulpiness, right, Like it's like fifties or eras, you
- 12:18know, it's like this kind of like idea. It's almost can't I know
- 12:22that we have this like like conversation with Kay's but like this it's almost camp
- 12:26right because it's like using a hyper stylized way and pairing it in this interesting
- 12:31way, contrasting you know, the movies called pulp fiction. Yeah, it's
- 12:35supposed to be kind of pulpy, and it's got it's got a the nostalgia
- 12:41for the seventies. But the missing thing in Quentin Tarantino's movies now is this
- 12:48inability to make something contemporary while throwing back to something else. I don't think
- 12:52he really likes the era's post a certain era of filmmaking, which is why
- 12:56I think his type of filmmaking really functions in the nineties very well. And
- 13:01then when something like um kill Bill comes out after that, it's just like
- 13:07everything's set, everything's built, everything is like and everything, everything's a period
- 13:11piece exactly. Um. And then I think that Jackie Brown is the last
- 13:18contemporary movie that he made, right, No, No, It's The Grindhouse
- 13:24was last contemporary movie that he made. Does that count? I Like,
- 13:28I mean, it's got cell phones in it. That movie is cool.
- 13:31The movie is cool. Cool. People make fun of that movie, and
- 13:35like I feel like people make fun of this movie in a similar way,
- 13:37like they hate that movie, but this movie it's like film people, you
- 13:43know, and it's like, I know, I know, like the film
- 13:46People part of this movie is kind of What's like, I'm like rolling my
- 13:50eyes at myself talking about this movie because I'm like, okay, okay,
- 13:56all the things, Like it's just it's just been talking today, and like
- 14:01I've also had so many of these conversations, you know what I mean,
- 14:05I don't know or overheard them or seen snippets of like think pieces on them,
- 14:11and I'm just like, what else is there to say? What else?
- 14:16Frank? Whyey dude? The guy who was the guy who kidnapped Kevin
- 14:20Spacey and the movie Swimming with the Sharks and Beats the Ship. I mean,
- 14:22classic, dude. I don't think he's the guy who's like what that
- 14:28guy? Oh dude, he was. He was amazing. Say one again
- 14:35again? Say what day? And I care your motherfucker say what one more?
- 14:41Goddamn? I mean Samuel Jackson, like, I don't know, famous
- 14:46Oscar snub for this man, he's so bad. He did you know who
- 14:52won that year for Best Actor before? I don't know. Oh no,
- 14:56I don't know. I mean, and why was it? And Samuel Jackson
- 15:00did this role? Yeah? Yeah, maybe because this movie was pulp fiction
- 15:05and man. The thing I want to say about Quickti Taranty, though,
- 15:15is that he relishes being able to say the N words so much and he
- 15:18wanted to he says, dude this movie. I think probably the most famous
- 15:22line is I'm gonna get me says it. He says so much, so
- 15:31many like slurs, and it's like it's like he's writing in the racism as
- 15:37an everyman thing and he's like this how people talk, But it's revealing way
- 15:41more about what he thinks than how people talk no no, no, no,
- 15:46no no, you gotta listen. And the way people talk, you
- 15:52don't say affirmative or some shit like that, you say no problema. No.
- 15:58I like, I'll give him, give him some credit because that is
- 16:00the classic what's it called Spike Lee criticism, And and I think it's fair,
- 16:06Like I really do feel like, man, like this is a little
- 16:11bit obsessive, like it's in every movie, and it's in every movie in
- 16:15a way that it's like, oh, I want to make it, you
- 16:18know, like he's trying the tooth with racism a lot. It's weird because
- 16:23he's like he thinks it's like way more of a character device than it is.
- 16:29I think that's that's kind of the read I get. There seems to
- 16:33be an obsession almost You're right. I mean, I will say just because
- 16:37of the fact that we can watch it all of them in tenders. He's
- 16:40like, yeah he is some wide eyes smiles, Yeah, totally um like
- 16:45nineties troll um. But the thing is it definitely works for all of the
- 16:51movies. And also like, like dude, I don't know, like man,
- 16:55we both had bosses in separate ways. I know, people like yeah
- 17:02and they're not either, and ironically watch these movies and they're like they're like,
- 17:07yeah, that's how I talk, that's how people talk and the way
- 17:10people talk. I mean. The thing is, too, is that like
- 17:12you have to sort of that's the weird thing about art in general, is
- 17:17that you either have to give it to the world and be okay with that
- 17:19or be a person who's like, well, let's just cut all the shit
- 17:22out and hope for the best. That It's like no, I don't.
- 17:26Yeah, but I don't think that he's not aware of it. Maybe he
- 17:30is now, but he's not I think he was before. I mean,
- 17:34like I feel like I said, he's part of it. I mean he's
- 17:37as aware of how much feet he puts in the movie and how much bear
- 17:40feed and Uma Thurman's feed and feed in general being discussed and massaging feet you
- 17:45know. Yeah, actually speaking of that, that's an interesting uh he He
- 17:49pulls an interesting uh Socratic method on Jewels in that scene about the feet,
- 17:56which is like, yeah, dude, like he he kind of like is
- 18:00just asking questions, yeah, which but it's fair because he's like, did
- 18:04you ever massage a man's feet? Like you say, it's like, it's
- 18:07not the same, it's not sexual, but you wouldn't do it for a
- 18:10man. And then he's like kidding when he's like, my fee, I'm
- 18:12tired, you can massage my feet right now. Yeah, he's he's giving
- 18:18him the smile with the white eyes and the raised eye rows. But the
- 18:22relationship, it is so good because you can tell that doesn't start with Royale
- 18:29with cheese. Is that does start with cheese? Is which is first?
- 18:33And you have your fucking oh that's first? Yeah, that's first, and
- 18:37then it goes feel fucking fret mother. I mean, I want to function
- 18:48a little bit under the assumption that people have already seen fiction and maybe not
- 18:53retail scene by scene, but let's go what happens, let's go in order.
- 18:59Yeah, totally, We're They're in the car talking to each other about
- 19:03Royal with Cheese and the Big Mac and slopping mayonnaise on on tries just like
- 19:07mayonnaise on fresh fries is good. Like I don't think I don't know why
- 19:11they think it's that correct, But in the nineties I was gross step by
- 19:14it and I was like, oh, grow Slavannas slopped all over it,
- 19:18and he was right, dude. In the nineties, Brandon Dick Camillo was
- 19:22absolutely classic Quentin Tarantino shot in the trunk, which is cool. Um,
- 19:30I don't know, like the I man, he was so young, he
- 19:33was so yeah, all of them are so young, and and you know
- 19:37what people the nineties the nineties were like, man, joke, rold is
- 19:42fat, and it's like, I don't know, man, he just looks
- 19:45like a thirty year old guy. Well it's interesting. Yeah. Like also,
- 19:48like the discourse around like what bodies look good is like anyway, it's
- 19:53it's always up for I mean, gay dudes have always thought he looks good.
- 19:56Um, I mean as a gay dudes himself, I'm sure he was
- 20:00like that. But yeah, like I don't even know where I was going
- 20:07with this, Like I just feel like their relationship is so naturally formed throughout
- 20:11the movie because it's clear that they don't know each other, but they know
- 20:15of each other, and they yea to like be like oh yeah, Like
- 20:22I mean they do know each other, they've known each other, but it's
- 20:26like clearly he's been gone, is what I'm saying, like for a while,
- 20:30and this so sort of like playing ketchup. Um, ketchup happening.
- 20:36Ketchup jokes have happening twice in this movie. It's weird how they have to
- 20:41catch up to each other in a way that's like like hey, like how
- 20:45were you? Where were you? Those are the things that I think add
- 20:48to the quote unquote realism of the movie, which is like this person is
- 20:52a life before, he has a life after. I think that's what's interesting
- 20:56about the structure of the movie as well, is that the implication of the
- 21:02filmmaker understanding that the audience will have enough information time jumping throughout the movie to
- 21:08be to feel okay about time jumps and not feel weird about may be surprised
- 21:14by them, rather than being like, oh, off put by them.
- 21:17You know what's interesting though, Like it's crazy that like you kind of forget
- 21:22the chronology of Bruce a little bit um in terms of like when his movies
- 21:26came out, because I mean, okay, at this point, he's pretty
- 21:30pantheon because he's done. He is I love I love his square buzz.
- 21:37Yeah. Yeah, but you know, so much Pantheon Bruce came after this
- 21:44movie. Yeah, And it's weird to think that he's already so pantheon because
- 21:48like he's but he's only really done like Lok who's talking and like like to
- 21:53die hards right, Like yeah, it also interesting how much John travolt Johnny
- 21:59t work famous, Yeah, totally famous, serve but she almost some chiggle,
- 22:12some chiggle, some chiggle. And also he's also pulling a kind of
- 22:18Travolta is doing kind of a like a bruise, like a distant voice back
- 22:23of the throat. But yeah, but but but with more of a like
- 22:27he's kind of oh my god, cool, he's you know, he's Yeah,
- 22:32he's not a very good actor. He's not a very good actor.
- 22:34I disagree. I think that he actually pulls this character. He's good stuff.
- 22:40I think he's good in stuff, but I don't think he's a good
- 22:42actor. Let me let me please please you ask whole Let me, uh
- 22:48maybe guide you and the audience through what my thinking is in terms of how
- 22:52he acts with Vincent versus how he acts with me, because that's an interesting
- 22:57contrast. That's where I think the care chacter lies, because I think he's
- 23:00actually really trying to be cool in putting something on. Yes, I'm gonna
- 23:04get because throughout the like like if you notice in don't say that again again?
- 23:17Say what again? I dare you? Idare you? Motherfucker? Say
- 23:21what one more? Goddamn sorry? Um again say what again? Um?
- 23:27Yeah? Like what if you notice, if you notice in this part of
- 23:32the movie, he really is setting himself up to be like a cool guy
- 23:37in front of Vincent, He's talking about drugs. How like drugs can't be
- 23:41she's how how like police are are like goons in in in Amsterdam who can't
- 23:48like do anything to you if you have fucking heroin on you. Um,
- 23:51and like they were talking about hash they were talking about they were talking about
- 23:55weed. No weed too, but like even because he goes even if you
- 23:59have a hair roin on you, they can't do shit, which like Haroin
- 24:03was never like Haro was never cool like this, No dude, it was
- 24:10Heroin was cool, like I guess, so yeah, I guess grunge and
- 24:12like grunge, but also like if you think back to the Beatnicks and stuff
- 24:17like that, it was like right, and it's considered such a yeah,
- 24:21I don't know, like a lowly drug. Now now it's even more like
- 24:25in style because like people fucking do heroin because they're their oxy fucking addictions,
- 24:30right right, Um, which is weird because like it's weird that it's weird
- 24:34and sad that even drugs come back into fashion in like twenty year intervals.
- 24:40Um oh man, But like the lines of intimacy of like touching somebody's feet,
- 24:47but then also the implication of uh, you know, the whisper network
- 24:51of people spreading rumors about like how things go with the boss's girl of course,
- 24:56and of course there's these rumors about these evil and and what's this.
- 25:00But but even that is the realism that we put on ourselves in in in
- 25:07life, where it's like, oh yeah, like rumors I'm sick of rumors
- 25:11started I'm sick and followed, Um Antoine getting thrown out of a fucking four
- 25:22story building? Uh, which one was Antoine? Again, Antoine was the
- 25:26guy who got thrown out who massaged But who was he in the movie I
- 25:30don't show up? I think, yeah, But then then numbers um jewels
- 25:38being like look keep it paralyzed my ass because I'd kill him, motherfucker.
- 25:44It's funny, um, because in the movie, all of the like um,
- 25:48you know, usually it wasn't being said with a hard er on the
- 25:53end, and um the caption chose to just put a hearty on to do.
- 26:03But it's also interesting trying to big dog each other and who seems like
- 26:07a celebrity in this world when when Winston Wolf comes in and juels like,
- 26:14oh my god, you're a like the fixer, you know what I mean?
- 26:17Oh yeah, Like how they're all wearing these like fucking suses. It's
- 26:21yeah. And the interesting thing too is that even the iconography of the suit
- 26:25gets gets taken away by Tarantino in this movie. And the contrast between the
- 26:30the what I think both uh Thomas Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson and Tarantino Tarantino
- 26:40Tarantino used to and and also Um Scorsese used to do, which is clash
- 26:45the like big figures, the mythical figures in the film to regular people and
- 26:51see how they play together, because it's like, oh my god, like
- 26:55this shit is fucked. You have to help me. And it's like you're
- 26:57the professional dude, like you got a suit on. Yeah, yeah,
- 27:00yeah yeah, and like wanting them to act like professionals. Also like an
- 27:06older guy wanting the younger generation to get their shit together. It really is
- 27:10a movie about like being in your thirties and gen X and like figuring out
- 27:15your life. But I wanted to say, did you read that article that
- 27:18case and how Fiona Apple quit doing cocaine, because oh yeah, go with
- 27:23Quick Deterito and Paul Thomas Anderson. Yeah, that sounds like it would be
- 27:26all like two of those two egos jerking each other off awful on coke.
- 27:32Yeah, yeah, that sounds like I would quit cocaine too, which I
- 27:34don't like and I've never done and would not do because it's boring and gross
- 27:40and I didn't have any fun um. But also the amount of times they're
- 27:44like, all right, let me getting the character, you know, like
- 27:47people just acknowledging about it, and they're also acknowledging that there's a degree of
- 27:55performance you have to like take on if you're going to get through life right,
- 27:57Like you've got to, like I feel like an impostor you've got it,
- 28:00you know, like it's it's it's interesting. I like that line of
- 28:03thinking for this movie, Yeah, for sure. And also that's the big
- 28:07problem with his movies now is that there isn't a level of hiding the arts
- 28:14into real life characters it's all about the aesthetic. It's all about the art
- 28:18forms, the art, the iconography. And then it's like it's a little
- 28:22boy, it gets a little boring. Well, this is like like he's
- 28:26speaking for people in this movie, you know what I mean, Like he's
- 28:29speaking for a generation. Yeah, totally. And then like we get into
- 28:33where they're talking to Brett and he's like what he plays such a perfect what
- 28:38kind of guy? Dude? I love the flock of seagulls reference. Like
- 28:44it's also like this like sort of like sad, like all the people that
- 28:48were in their twenties in the eighties having a good time are now like,
- 28:52you know, you're getting older, and like the Yeah, it's interesting.
- 28:57It's interesting because also we'll get to it. So burgers for breakfast, I
- 29:06don't know. I don't know about that. That's kind of gross. I
- 29:08would never ever do that, but they've done it. But it implies.
- 29:11I think it implies that these guys were on the doing whatever heist they were
- 29:15doing the night before, went to this twenty four hour burger. You know,
- 29:18I grabbed a burger and are eating it now, as why haven't delivered
- 29:22the gold they were gonna I think they were just going to keep the diamonds,
- 29:25They're gonna keep the well they never say yeah, they never say it's
- 29:27Marcella's wallace a soul dude? Um? Is that internet theory? So why
- 29:34is the table but just a cover of scar? Or was it just a
- 29:40cover scar? Yeah? Because he's got a giant fucking scar on the which
- 29:42wouldn't just be cool? Why did they show that my cannon? Is that
- 29:47like he was shaving his head and like you see how sweaty and glistening his
- 29:52head is in the like one scene and I think you're shaving his heaving cut
- 29:56himself probably yeah, yeah, um, but yeah they get the mcguffin of
- 30:03the movie. Uh and the like briefcase. Yeah, the briefcase. Um,
- 30:11I mean do we talk about this same do we talk about the infamous
- 30:15I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing? Of course? What he's so
- 30:22good? Ain't a country? He's so good? So good English? Do
- 30:26they speak English? And what? Man? Yeah, he just manages to
- 30:32to uh not just like make this character so whole because he does know how
- 30:40to write Samuel al so well, Samuel knows how to take this type of
- 30:44role and fucking I think it's also a question of Samuel al Yeah, knowing
- 30:48how what what Quentin is going for more sometimes than he does. Yeah,
- 30:55totally, and compare like, doesn't know do you imagine? Yeah, totally
- 31:00speak jive at you, you're doing too much realed, But yeah. He
- 31:11he delivers the line in such a way where you would in real life be
- 31:18like, what are you talking about because this situation is so scary, but
- 31:22delivers it with such confidence and knows exactly what he wants to say to him
- 31:27and when you listen to him, he makes sense completely. He's like,
- 31:32tell me what you think? Who who you think Marcella s Wallace is,
- 31:36And then ask you does he look like a bitch um? He's like yeah
- 31:45yeah. And then that scene where like he obviously does his famous speech the
- 31:49strikes down upon me with furious anger and it's not actually in the Bible,
- 31:56is it not? No, it's made up. Yeah, you made it
- 32:00up, which is cool. It sounds like a verse. That's so funny.
- 32:06And then we get our first we get the first title card. Right
- 32:09after that, they shoot, no, that's the first, the first,
- 32:15that's the We get the first time card, which is Mia Wallace and the
- 32:20date that they're going on. Oh yeah, and we get the little flashes
- 32:24it says Vincent Vega and Marcella s Wallace's wife and then the I like the
- 32:30I like the um the like chapter headings. Yeah, dah me too.
- 32:35They were really cool. It's a cool it's a cool touch and something you
- 32:37forget about the well because it's like a novel, right, It's like a
- 32:40cheesy whole fiction right. Um, because like all of his movies are kind
- 32:45of like that, Like they're they're either like Jackie Brown is based on a
- 32:47novel which is also a pulp kind of like detective type put it in your
- 32:52back pocket thing, um, and the like weird flares that are when they're
- 32:58shooting at Frank Way uh and the it looks like the film is running out
- 33:02of the camp. Yeah. And his obsession with film is a little bit
- 33:07like annoying. But like with this kind of movie, it really does feel
- 33:12like you can't make this any retroactively annoying. It's because we know who he
- 33:17is and he's revealed his like it's like it would be better if he like,
- 33:21you know, died after he released three movies or something, you know,
- 33:23like you would be revered as a legend and people would wonder what kind
- 33:28of things he would make. Yeah, but not necessarily good. But now
- 33:30he's a podcaster and it's annoying. It's I mean, but we're at a
- 33:37different generation. We've got we've got enough art behind us to be like,
- 33:39oh yeah, like nobody gives a shit about our art, but like this
- 33:43is our art now, you know what I mean, Like we're doing this.
- 33:46He came to it like, oh yeah, I went on Joe Rogan,
- 33:50I can talk about movies. And it's like, dude, please,
- 33:52don't you're so annoying about movies. You know, write books, you know,
- 33:57be cool. We'll have someone edit you totally. I mean, that's
- 34:00the big thing too. But we get a first glimpse of in this beautiful
- 34:06like orange red with the blue in the background of Bruce Wallis's face talking to
- 34:13Marcellus's wall Marcellus's Wallace, Marcellus Wallace about throwing the fight. Right he gets
- 34:19he gets paid off to throw the fight. Um, he's got to drop
- 34:22in the fifth round. And he's like, don't have pride. Pride's not
- 34:25like pride. What does he say about pride? It's something very epic um
- 34:31man. What's annoying about Quentin Tarantino is he wants to hear black people say
- 34:37cool things. Yes, he wants to. I disagree with you. I
- 34:39think it's amazing. I want people to say cool things too. Because he's
- 34:45tokenizing black people by doing. No, he doesn't, dude, these are
- 34:49all real characters. No, they are. All of them are so three
- 34:52to you know, but he's tokenizing their blackness. Though your ass is gonna
- 34:58get to get really gonna he says, your ass is gonna have to get
- 35:01realistic about it to dude. No, dude, the like majesticness on black
- 35:12people, I don't know. Yeah, I mean like nothing all majestic,
- 35:15dude. They're all not not as much as Marcella as Wallace is and and
- 35:22but he's majestic to all of them. And Samuel, yeah, Samuel el
- 35:25so, Samuel el No, Samuel is way more humility in the manor.
- 35:30Yeah, he gets excited about shit. He's like he meets the wolf and
- 35:35he's like, you're fucking rock star, dude. He's like, dude,
- 35:38it's an honor to see market. It's like, yeah, that's and that's
- 35:43he's just saying that too Harvey could tell like which is which he's majestic in
- 35:49the movie too, You're right, You're right, that's true, oh man,
- 35:55And and like him trying to pacify Bruce being like hey, dude,
- 36:01like it's okay, You're not gonna get any better because your hold already.
- 36:07It's like it's like really trying to take him down a peg and I can.
- 36:10And Bruce Willis the stone face that he plays where he's like, I
- 36:15have to I have to hold back the kind of rage that I have for
- 36:19what he's asking me to do because I'm taking the money he's play. He's,
- 36:22yeah, do it through a character. He does it through a character.
- 36:28He's like he's accepting the money. And like he's so beautiful in this
- 36:34movie. He's such a good looking guy's so good and he's this is the
- 36:37most ripped Bruce we've seen. And like, man, like, Bruce Willis
- 36:42is so compelling in this and he does so much from a little with so
- 36:47little, yeah, so much, Like he's a really he's a really really
- 36:52good actor, dude. And not to be a Quentin Tarantino in the scene
- 36:55but when he goes when Marcellis goes, you my n word, and Bruce
- 37:01Willis is like, apparently that's apparently so no, He's like, are you
- 37:07yeah, and then he's like and he's like it would appear yeah, And
- 37:10it's like, yeah, Bruce being cool about which is which is yeah,
- 37:14cool with black people doesn't have to dry, Bruce. Fuck pride. Pride
- 37:19only hurts. It never helps you fight through that shit because a year from
- 37:25now, when you're kicking it in the Caribbean, you're gonna be You're gonna
- 37:30look at yourself and say Marcellus was right. And then he laughs, man
- 37:32ving Rings, Dude, Ving Rais is amazing, and it's just like unbelievablewhouse.
- 37:42Yeah, totally, even in this scene where you just see the back
- 37:44of his head and you're like, oh my god, that dude's so scary,
- 37:46but he's just like delivering it with such like calm, cool presence and
- 37:52and he's like, I got no problem with that, mister Wallace. Everybody's
- 37:57like playing the role. Respect Yeah, fifth yours goes down and Bruce Willists
- 38:05just like nodding, and then he goes say it and it's like, well,
- 38:10there's a lot of that in this movie, people saying things I made
- 38:14her say it. It's by the bed my dad's watch. Yeah, there's
- 38:17a lot of like staying true to your word, keeping your word. I
- 38:22do think I like you mentioning that it's like somebody like understanding this movie from
- 38:28the perspective of your thirties and kind of like approaching middle age or being in
- 38:32early middle age is like really interesting because it's like it does it does feel
- 38:40like that, and watching this movie from this like vantage point, it's a
- 38:45little like iyrolly at the kind of dog eyed um you know, sort of
- 38:51like I don't know, something feels so gen x about it. You know,
- 38:55that's a very gen X movie. Yeah, yeah, like where where
- 38:59it's like we don't we don't feel like this, you know, our generation
- 39:02like doesn't feel this way about this point in our lives. No, it
- 39:07feels different. It feels a different kind of uh disconnected sometimes of course,
- 39:13and it feels a different kind of like depressing or nihilistic. But that's a
- 39:16normal Like it's three generation is going to have their own version of that.
- 39:21I mean, like the boomers had alcohol, but the boomers hit their wives.
- 39:27Um man, this dude, who tell yeah, oh I respect you
- 39:35so much, sir, um the bartender who like brings jewels and and Vincent
- 39:45post having shot Marvin in the face and like laughing at their their get up.
- 39:52Um is amazing. He's like incredible. Danny Malroon, do you know
- 39:57talking about Yeah? Do you know who else gets to be a Danny well
- 40:00Rodd in this movie? Griffin? Yeah? And and Steve Bruschevy outrageous Yeah
- 40:08totally. I don't know what that means. Mulroon. I mean, I
- 40:12guess he was Buddy Holly, Yeah, he was Buddy Holly. Yeah.
- 40:17But but Kathy Griffin was definitely a Danny mull room. Yeah, totally.
- 40:21I'm pretty sure he just knew her though. I love her. She's so
- 40:27funny. Do you want her to do this? She stands out so knowing
- 40:30her and like her affect her like bubbly affect, like you're just like she's
- 40:36unmistakable. Yeah, totally, totally. And then we get the more of
- 40:38the sort of it's it's funny because we get Marvin getting shot in the face
- 40:45and we get the context of him being post that where he's like telling people
- 40:50he's taking Marcellus Wallace's wife out right. Oh, and then the rumor mill
- 40:53starts about that what are you gonna do? And people are kind of making
- 40:58fun of it lightly and like. But then Bruce comes up to John after
- 41:02and he sees him and he's like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna give
- 41:07it a peck cigarettes from one twenty five. But isn't he looking at something?
- 41:09Friend? Isn't there kind of like a little bit of a cock element
- 41:14to this? Like there hear me out so like Marcella s. Wallace seems
- 41:19to like there's always ruvers about someone fucking his wife. And then he pairs
- 41:23up I'm gonna marry some day, Lorraine, someday you'll pay my wife wife.
- 41:29It's very deliberate that he then pairs up one of those guys who's talking
- 41:34about this ruver in a position that he could fuck his wife. Marcella.
- 41:39He's Marcella s Wallas a cock. That's what I want to do. I
- 41:44mean give it. His reaction to the gimp and all that kind of thing,
- 41:49I don't know if he is dude, Like he just wasn't very Uh,
- 41:52he's about consent. Those people were most people clearly weren't doing weren't doing
- 41:58the king. They don't practice good, good kink play. They don't check
- 42:01it. There's no safe words or we'll get to that. But yeah,
- 42:06I mean they have like a clear relationship that's very different. Like they hug
- 42:09each other, like they greet each other in a normal way. Yeah.
- 42:15Whereas Bruce pays one dollar and forty cents for cigarettes, it'd be fifteen dollars
- 42:22now not in the States, dude, in California, it's probably like nine
- 42:25to fifty. Yeah right now. Yeah, she almost ten bucks a pack.
- 42:30Maybe it's more. I don't know, the maybe some of our frans.
- 42:34Frans can tell us the what's it called? The next scene is with
- 42:39um Patricia, not Patricia Arcatte, Rosanna Arquette, another Arquete that Quentin worked
- 42:46with post Patricia. So Patricia is the best arcat I mean, David is
- 42:53up there, but he's not in the same league as No cursed to.
- 43:00Yeah, and her new weird accent mock mack. This is like a weird
- 43:06squawk and Severance panicked a weird accent. She has a weird accent, mack
- 43:19mack. But she got old the best way better. She's getting even better.
- 43:27She's amazing, She's amazing. But yeah, same present. He goes
- 43:32to uh, talk to Rosanna Arquet and Eric Stolts. Of course, Marc
- 43:39um about getting drugs, getting heroin from Eric Stolts. Uh. And she's
- 43:46like telling this other chick that she wants to set up with Vincent who looks
- 43:52vaguely like, um, what's her name? Uh, the other one with
- 43:57the weird voice. She was bound, Oh, Jennifer Till, Jennifer Tilly.
- 44:01Yeah, Um, but isn't Jennifer Tilly if she looks like her?
- 44:06She does kind of look like Jennifer Tilly. Yeah. And also this movie
- 44:12started the wildly, wildly unfounded rumor that that, um, having your tongue
- 44:19pierced is good for oral sex. Never never, it's never beenfered. It's
- 44:23it's it's never been like anything but like maybe a mild annoyance. It's a
- 44:30mild annoyance. Both of us don't have to talk about the experience we've clearly
- 44:35both had. It's not it's not fun or good. It's dangerous around fenulums.
- 44:40Yeah, exactly, I've already had my freenulum cut off, so thirsty
- 44:49setting up the story, Yeah, do you want me to tell it?
- 44:52And I don't think you've told it? Where I had Uh, I don't
- 44:55think I could listen to a right Um, but yeah, Eric Stoltz playing
- 45:00the Brad Pitt character in this movie that Brad Pitt played in in Drew Romance,
- 45:06clearly playing the Marty Fly Marty Lyral in this that he couldn't get what
- 45:17you would just be a guy who was like I can't like he would that
- 45:22would be such a like trailblazing experience traumatic in his life. He would become
- 45:28a Heroin addict. I think he would become no a Heroin dealer. He
- 45:32would be like, it's time to cook Jesse, Jesse, It's time to
- 45:37cook Heroin because that's the chic thing in the nineties. Um. But I
- 45:44really enjoyed the introduction of the like uh rear projection aspect of this movie.
- 45:55Whow he's gotten high on Heroin, so he's got like a little package of
- 46:00like he does Heroin clearly a lot, and clearly it's been made worse by
- 46:05his trip to Amsterdam and it's so cash where he's just like can I shoot
- 46:09up here? And he's like, yeah, all right, And it's like
- 46:13it makes Heroin look the normal that it is in this type of way because
- 46:19it's not seed. No, it's it's like he's a drug he's like a
- 46:22weed guy and sells heroin. He might do something I don't know, but
- 46:27um like it's interesting the fact that like he's he's like, yeah, let
- 46:30me prep you here, let me like do it for you, and he
- 46:34like pulls out this giant fucking wad of cash. It's just like full service
- 46:39drug dealer. And it's post he's wearing the bolo tie to accentuate the fact
- 46:44that he's in a different suit now from the beginning of the movie, which
- 46:47is um and and the rear projection is used in a way that's like he's
- 46:53high. So it's like it introduces this genre element because everything is real quote
- 47:00quote realistic because they're all real locations. They're all real places in Hollywood.
- 47:05Man. The piercing the skin and the slight pull of the blood is always
- 47:13so like disturbing looking and like just like so beautiful too, like so wonderfully
- 47:19shot. It's kind of like dancing inside there, like I'll never forget that.
- 47:22It's also such a like a disturbing image. Yeah, but like real
- 47:29fucking keynoe shot. Like have we like discussed I mean we we don't really
- 47:37get much of a chance to discuss directors like Quentin Tarantino on this show.
- 47:43Yeah, like, and it's interesting that Bruce is going to bring a stere
- 47:49Gilliam. Bruce is gonna bring like Bruce is gonna bring us so many of
- 47:53these kinds of directors, right yeah, I mean it already has. I
- 47:59mean, like you gotta also like he brought us back to McTiernan Um,
- 48:06he has to work with the guys, and I can't wait for Tom Cruise
- 48:08because he can bring in Scorsese man Tom Cruise. But this also is interesting
- 48:16because the big showiness of either her place or Marcella Sallace and her place,
- 48:24um her like sort of it being like a swanky pad, but even a
- 48:31swanky pad here in the nineties was like it's like nothing in comparison to like
- 48:37what a swanky place is now. It's like so like people are so rich
- 48:42now, so few people are that they have the goddiest fucking places. But
- 48:45this lady is like a drug dealer's wife, right yeah, And like he
- 48:50comes in I think part of the reason the one with all the ship in
- 48:53her face, now that's Judy my wife. But he forgot um, but
- 49:05like, and you're right in terms of he does revel in the racism because
- 49:09he makes everybody racist, like her mia going by the two African gentlemen the
- 49:16statues, it's like, all right, dude, like okay, I know,
- 49:22I know, but you can again like there's a place for it because
- 49:24they're like, they're all kind of people that you want to dislike, and
- 49:30they force you like it. He forces you, like all of them because
- 49:34the stakes all right, of course, uh and and like her. But
- 49:37the way they make it so that it's very rich is that she's looking at
- 49:40him through a camera. There's three screens, she's talking to him through a
- 49:45microphone and intercom. It was very cool, weird hi techie, totally totally,
- 49:51but it was also very like, uh nineties genre, you know,
- 49:55it's like, oh yeah, this is like the Yeah, it's like Austin
- 49:59Powers. Yeah it's yeah, Russian intelligence. Are you mad? A lot's
- 50:04happened since you were frozen the Cold War was over? Well, finally those
- 50:08capitalist pigs will pay for the crimes. Hey, Hey, comrades, hey
- 50:13um. And and the fact that like she's like, oh, like let
- 50:16me, I'm putting on my makeup, let me come down, snort like,
- 50:29which is like nose powdering in this Yeah, which is great foreshadowing though,
- 50:32because it sets her up. She did do it twice in the movie,
- 50:37Yeah exactly. But what's amazing about it is that, like it's like
- 50:39it sets her up perfectly to get into the situation that he is he gets
- 50:45her into, which is getting heroine her thinking the heroine's coke, her doing
- 50:49coke, and then it's amazing, it's amazing, it's really it's all really
- 50:53well set up. And this is where I think is the really nice set
- 50:59up for what you said was bad acting at the beginning. But I think
- 51:04it is actually like him putting on a sort of front in front of jewels
- 51:07to be cool because he chills out so much around her, because he's like,
- 51:14Okay, I gotta be cool. I gotta be like the cool guy
- 51:17now. And then like when they're talking, it's like very flirtatious, it's
- 51:22very he's got games, he's got game. You're right, you know you're
- 51:25right. Well, but you're right, Yeah, I think, um,
- 51:30I think I see your point on that for sure. I really appreciate that
- 51:34you're you're right, And it does seem thought out. There's just something that's
- 51:37so kind of like cringey about his delivery. So maybe and then that's what
- 51:43that's supposed to be, Like I think a little bit, and even if
- 51:46it's post me thinking about it, because I've seen Tarantino talk to black people,
- 51:52um, and there's video I get it's just type in, and it's
- 51:59like it's like him reckoning with that in some way in in Juel what's his
- 52:06Vincent, I think he definitely does. He has it, yeah, because
- 52:08he's like there are moments where he is humbled, and this movie is a
- 52:13lot about like who gets humbled how and in one moment, yeah, totally
- 52:16um, And I'm I'm I'm gonna say I've had a five dollar milkshake.
- 52:22I've had an eight dollar milkhol I was gonna say, like five dollars isn't
- 52:25that much for a milkshake anymore at all. I was like, like,
- 52:30I was just thinking about like five dollars for him though she's a fucking steel
- 52:36Yeah, dude. But what's what's cool about this scene and my favorite point
- 52:39of openness from Vincent is him being like pushing footing around Antoine getting thrown at
- 52:47the fourth floor and then trying to ask her, ask her how like what
- 52:53her role in it was, and her being vague, pulling back and being
- 52:58like, do you think that sounds reasonable? And he's like, well,
- 53:01at the time I heard it, and the fact that it was like he
- 53:05was like, um, oh, who told you that? They? Oh
- 53:07they talk a lot, don't they. I love those lines, you know,
- 53:12um, And she her being such an interesting, cool cat, like
- 53:17in the way that like that kind of like that dialogue would be thrown around
- 53:23in that era and him bringing it back in the nineties, is she's so
- 53:28perfect, and then asking about the what's it called pilot that she was in
- 53:32because he just found out he Melin could pilot, and then repeated pilot to
- 53:37her. He split dioptera pilot her um, and then like, um,
- 53:47you know her her being like so excited about that life and not kind of
- 53:52not getting in being a little disappointed, kind of understanding her frustration with her
- 53:58current life because she is, but she's very dismissive. But then after that
- 54:01line, she gets very excited because he gets he's asking genuinely about her,
- 54:07what her interests are, what she likes, right, And she was an
- 54:10actor but she was like and that part where she's like, and the gimmick
- 54:14would be I would tell a joke at the end of every episode and it
- 54:17would be a new, corny old joke, right um. And it's like
- 54:22it's cool because it's like when she's like, oh, come on, tell
- 54:25her, he's like, tell me about it, and she's like, ah,
- 54:28it's kind of embarrassing, you know what I mean. Like there's this
- 54:30element of like, you see the relationship for build and like, you know,
- 54:35so that by the time they get home and he's really trying out to
- 54:38fuck her after they well we'll get to like how their relationship builds more well,
- 54:43like I mean there's that part where she's like he's like, oh,
- 54:45can I have some of that milkshake? And he tries to pull the straw
- 54:49and he cause he's like, you don't. You don't have to take the
- 54:50straw out. I don't have cooties, and it's like what if I have
- 54:52cooties and she's like, oh, cooties, I'm not afraid of um.
- 54:55And then he's like it's a really good milkshake, which she does look like
- 54:59it's I mean definitely my drink your yeah, and then she goes to the
- 55:10bathroom to powder her nose, and it's great because all of the girls are
- 55:14just like kind of combing their hairchy hear her on the tables, things goes
- 55:20on mushrooms. No, I think like what's cool is the like camp that's
- 55:24camp to me where it's like, oh, this is just like using a
- 55:29trope in some way and contrasting it with with snorting blow. Everyone's doing like
- 55:35their own sort of tableau in the improv scene, right and total being captured
- 55:39on camera at once. There's like so many people in one mirror. It's
- 55:43really cool. It looks really good. And the fact that he points out
- 55:46who Maymie van Doren is versus Marilyn Monroe and yeah, and it's like it
- 55:52used to be a little bit more pulled back how many people watched movies in
- 55:55his movies, because it's fun to have scenes like the US where it's like
- 56:00she's an actor and he's like a movie guy whatever. Right, he's like
- 56:02into movies from that era. But like also him setting it up, him
- 56:06setting up what he wants to tell him about tell her about Anton, but
- 56:08like in a way where he's like, nah, it's like I don't want
- 56:12to embarrass you. I don't want to like kind of nagging her a little
- 56:14bit. He was kind of nagging. Yeah, yeah, well he is.
- 56:16Yeah, of course this is probably what what well Quentin Tarantino thinks flirtation
- 56:21is, and what all women in the ninety stock flirtation was. Um.
- 56:28But yeah, and then and then we get you think so or were they
- 56:31or were they? Did they have to think it? I mean having to
- 56:35think something and and like understanding a world in a perspective. I mean,
- 56:39think about how many women came out to be like against the me too movement
- 56:44because they were like and and telling stories that were like, well this happened
- 56:47to me, and it wasn't a big deal. And it's like all right,
- 56:50dude, pump the brakes a little bit, you know what I mean?
- 56:52People like thinks get normalized for a reason. It's not just like one
- 56:55group like forcing normally data. It's like a good dynamic. Right. And
- 57:00then it evolves from that, right, Um, But then we get to
- 57:04the classic scene where they form the intimate relationship. Right, Well, she
- 57:09takes off her flat shoes to not tower over five eight. Yeah, but
- 57:16no, they're like the same height. I don't know. Yeah, they're
- 57:20like fucking dancing. Yeah, it is cool, cool, cool, And
- 57:23it's a cool shot too because it's like slowly dollies into their like fifties.
- 57:29Also, you didn't talk about Dan Yeah, Baddy cropdy Go Cross Holy.
- 57:39The soundtrack in this movie O man, oh man, the death grips um.
- 57:46Yeah, like it's cool because the soundtrack in this movie is pretty amazing.
- 57:52Wilhu didn't mentioned square, the fact that she doesn't sure that bears it's
- 57:58cool. Like. We also didn't mention Roger Avery, the quote unquote co
- 58:01writer of this Roger Avery is a writer and director who we've talked about him,
- 58:10haven't we We've met before, haven't we? Um? He directed a
- 58:15movie? What other movie did he direct? He directed the movie um Rules
- 58:21of Attraction with where uh what's his name? James Vanderbeek plays Patrick Bateman's brother
- 58:28Sean Bateman. Oh, won't you're lack um? And then they have another
- 58:37scene where me is now wearing his duster trench coat and they come back to
- 58:45her place and they're like dancing. Sorry, go ahead, like did you
- 58:49The dance scene between them is incredible. Oh yeah, And also we didn't
- 58:52talk about that scene that I've turned into a meme of of him turning around
- 58:57and iconically because he was looking at I love it. I'm doing it right
- 59:02now because he doesn't understand where the voice is going from when she talks to
- 59:07it's it's so good and it like worked on so many things. It was
- 59:09early memes. Dude, yeah, dude, but yeah, she puts some
- 59:13music on. They win the trophy. Um, she's got his jacket on.
- 59:16It's very intimate. It's very intimate, and there's like he's like they're
- 59:20kind of go piss and she's like more information than I need. But what
- 59:23I love about what I love about that is the fact that he kind of
- 59:29is having fun with her and then she like kind of like snaps a little
- 59:31bit at that part, and and he's like a little bit hurt by it,
- 59:37yeah, because he's like I thought we were doing that, yeah,
- 59:38exactly. And then he goes to the washroom to like chill out. Yeah
- 59:42it bruised, yeah for sure. And chill out he does in the washroom,
- 59:45convincing himself, Yeah, convincing himself not to fuck her. Yeah,
- 59:50And um, he want drink. You don't want to be rude? Just
- 59:54wanted to drink it fast and then go say good night, go home,
- 59:59and he does the motion, the little motion, and she puts on go
- 1:00:04you'll be man soon, which is also very like yeah, very suggestive.
- 1:00:10Yeah, totally. But then she takes a cigarette and she pulls out the
- 1:00:15hair on from from his jacket pocket, which is so good the and she
- 1:00:21cuts it up and you're like with the credit card, no don't. But
- 1:00:24then also what's cool is the like panic and nose the like syn can't do
- 1:00:31anything and just like touching your nose. Yeah, and then the what's it
- 1:00:38called pushing in while zooming out creating I forget what that effect is called?
- 1:00:45Um but then she oh man, uh me like the sort of that's what
- 1:00:51I mean and like, but that's what I mean by by the little choices
- 1:00:59that the actors make as well to like convince the audience. And that's where
- 1:01:04like truly I would say, like his performance is like the panic, the
- 1:01:08fear, the embarrassment of oh fuck, like this situation is fucked, this
- 1:01:15is not good. I have I can't do anything about this in this moment.
- 1:01:21I have to fuck you Lance, like, oh man, I phone
- 1:01:29Lance, like the fucking phone. Um, I can't find any rated X
- 1:01:39on phone. Pick up the fucking phone. Pick up the fucking phone.
- 1:01:49Will you you always say you will send as you right after the show.
- 1:01:52Okay, I'm in big fucking trouble, man, Like, uh, whoa,
- 1:01:57whoa hold your horses, man, you don't bring her here? I
- 1:02:00don't care. And that, Like I love the fact that he's like he
- 1:02:04like Lance hangs up the phone and it's just like, don't bring her here,
- 1:02:09man, Yeah, and he's like, she's fucking tying man to take
- 1:02:16her to the hospital called a lawyer. I love if you're brave enough like
- 1:02:22that. Definitely some Marty McFly. He could have done it, dude,
- 1:02:27within two hours. Within two hours. There's an alternate universe where Eric Stoltz
- 1:02:31is and we're talking and only one part got made and it wasn't that famous.
- 1:02:37Yeah, totally, I'm talking about there's an alternate reality where there's a
- 1:02:40whole movie with Eric Stoltz. No, no, I'm saying there's a whole
- 1:02:44part one with Eric stolts But in any universe, in any universe that Eric
- 1:02:49Stoltz was Marty McFly and there was no part two. Really, I don't
- 1:02:52I don't think so wow, okay cool. I don't think Marty McFly is
- 1:02:55Eric Stolts fair enough. The Nance wakes up and wait not Nance, um
- 1:03:04uh sorry. Rasenna Arquette wakes up out of that and she's like, um,
- 1:03:08She's like, damn, I feel fucker, but no, I'm kidding
- 1:03:12it. They just kind of vaguely look alike. They do look alike.
- 1:03:15Yeah, he loved a bob a. Yeah, he loves the kind of
- 1:03:19kind of haircut for sure. He was like, she's gotta have a bob.
- 1:03:23Yeah, I don't know. Um. I love when when Rosenna Arquette
- 1:03:30comes out and she's like like, he's like, go get the adrenaline.
- 1:03:34I'm gonna go get my little black book, and he's trying to look for
- 1:03:36the like little surgery nurse book. It's a it's a depressing it's a depressing
- 1:03:42scene, but it's really funny to sweat and all the like la night sweat
- 1:03:47yea of getting stabbed through the chest plate, breaking the chest plate with a
- 1:03:52giant needle, the needle sticking out still of the chest. All of it
- 1:03:55was really the marker magic marker of your magic. Give me a magic magic
- 1:04:00marker. Of what magic Mark felt pen give me a magic worker. I
- 1:04:06see. That's the kind of stuff that's like written in as your wife,
- 1:04:10your wife, to to make the movie more realistic. Yeah, I gave
- 1:04:14you, I know, I know. But then also to day I bring
- 1:04:16a picture of your house, I'll do it. And I love the fact
- 1:04:21that he's like, you plunge it in her heart. I stabbed three times,
- 1:04:27he's like doing the most stabbed once hard. It's like, oh man,
- 1:04:31dude, just bring them the lock zone. Dude. I mean they
- 1:04:34didn't have it at the time, dude. Yea um ah, dude.
- 1:04:38It's so depressive. It's really when there's that wide shot of all of them
- 1:04:43looking at her, they're just all looking at this one person. Uh and
- 1:04:47and she wakes up and like panic gets out. And when when it cuts
- 1:04:53to the close up of the needle zooming in the close of John Travolta and
- 1:04:58then the close of her, it's thaults the close up of her Sannarquists smiling.
- 1:05:03I was so down and she's such a like creep like where it's like,
- 1:05:10oh man, this is amazing. What's going to happen. Anything that
- 1:05:13happens right now is going to be amazing. I mean yeah, it's very
- 1:05:16gen yeah, dude. And then and then the like hard cut to her
- 1:05:20wearing a different shirt and then just like them driving quietly and it's like,
- 1:05:25oh no, this was such a like terrible idea the whole the whole time,
- 1:05:31like the drive home of shame. Yeah. And then it's like worse
- 1:05:34than than if they had like hooked up, yeah, because it's like at
- 1:05:38the levels of like intimacy, took her to take her to like some like
- 1:05:42drug den to get like pumped full of like it's like adrenaline. Yeah yeah.
- 1:05:45And then and then like so how do we handle this? You know,
- 1:05:49like and it's like, well, I keep my mouth shut, you
- 1:05:53give yours shut, like and then like the like you know, shaking hands,
- 1:05:59but nice idea of the joke, like her finally telling him the joke
- 1:06:03that was in the Fox Furs five, the ketchup j Yeah, um,
- 1:06:10which is stupid. I mean it's not even yeah, it's really bad.
- 1:06:15Yeah, it's really bad. That's that's all the way. She says,
- 1:06:18ketchup is so annoying to be for some reason, Yeah, ketchup. And
- 1:06:23I'm like, it's not funny. It doesn't make sense. Let's go why
- 1:06:27would he kill his son? And how does he him kill his son?
- 1:06:30Make him ketchup? Yeah, I mean it makes him ketchup, but does
- 1:06:34how does it make him catch up? Which is what he wants? And
- 1:06:38it's just the same way. It's not good. No, it's not funny.
- 1:06:42And then and then they he sends her he blows her a kiss.
- 1:06:45Uh, and then we cut to another universe that movie is the scene in
- 1:06:49the movie as they fuck, and then we get Young Butch in a dream
- 1:06:57fade out done, Vincent's done. For now we get Young Butch. Bruce
- 1:07:01will you do? Bruce willy Um talking to a former pow so so.
- 1:07:09Yeah, Christopher Watkin plays you know in this legendary scene where he has like
- 1:07:13one monologue in its very Terry Gilliam style like shot, Like he just delivers
- 1:07:19this monologue about um this like watch the significance in Bruce Willis's family of this
- 1:07:30watch it being a war watch that like men had to face set like a
- 1:07:39turning point in their lives, which is what this movie is about. It's
- 1:07:42being a man with a turning point in your life. And like it's very
- 1:07:47significant in all of those all of those moments, and it's like passed down
- 1:07:51from patriarch to patriarch. It's also interesting wartime situation, in wartime situations or
- 1:07:57just in general turning point situations because he's like because they used to carry pocket
- 1:08:02watches, so you know, like it's like the first company that started to
- 1:08:05make wristwatch. It makes it about like American exceptionalism too kind of Yeah,
- 1:08:11totally, um Knoxville, Tennessee. Yeah, I mean, like at the
- 1:08:15speech is like iconic and it's delivered really well, and it's funny, and
- 1:08:19it's also like very sad and weird and little man as a friend of your
- 1:08:27dad, yeah exactly his ass um. But yeah, it's just like and
- 1:08:33put it in an old coffee tin and when your your grandfather went to World
- 1:08:38War two. And then it's also like the direct metaphor of like sometimes life
- 1:08:43fucks you in the ass. He lool. That kind of seems like what
- 1:08:46really, Quinta Tarantino is like, hint to get in this a little bit
- 1:08:50is like sometimes you gotta put shit up your ass. Really, I don't
- 1:08:57think it's like that. I think that I think that I mean it's fun,
- 1:09:00Quentin fun, really Harris is the greatest. Well, like I mean,
- 1:09:03I think what's what's I think it's obviously funny, Like it was obviously
- 1:09:08funny in a homophobic way, but like I really do think that, like
- 1:09:13in the moment that he's telling it, like you get the sense that he
- 1:09:16needs to tell him the whole story because of the fact that it's like ants
- 1:09:21to the significant between two especially between two men who had to like go and
- 1:09:28fight some useless war that like was horrible. Yeah, and this is like
- 1:09:31the son of the guy. It's it's more for the pow, it's more
- 1:09:34for Christopher because but it's for the kid too, because he wants to pass
- 1:09:40on. He feels bad that like that lineage of of like dads has like
- 1:09:45stopped and yeah, totally and he and he says even like if it were
- 1:09:49me, I would be he would be doing it for my son, you
- 1:09:51know. And it's like, man, five years, dude, like that's
- 1:09:57scary and sad and sucks. Then two years, so seven years altogether.
- 1:10:01Yeah, that's that's that's the kind of guy. That's the kind of weirdo
- 1:10:09this guy would be, you know what I mean. Jean McKay and then
- 1:10:15Bruce wakes up in his like cool yellow robe and the boxing gloves so so
- 1:10:21much cool like iconography, and he's like, it's time butch and then he
- 1:10:27like the and all the like boxing movie nods because like how many boxing movies
- 1:10:30we've done talking on this show, and like all the boxing movie nods.
- 1:10:34That was cool. I like that didn't show any of the fights. The
- 1:10:36actual fight fades out, and then it just says comes up the goal to
- 1:10:41watch and then he come. He just runs out of the he jumps out
- 1:10:45of the building waiting for the where the taxicab is waiting for him. And
- 1:10:50this woman is outrageous, outrageous, just it's such a good Daniel round.
- 1:10:58I forgot about because I conflated her with the other women with accents in this
- 1:11:02movie, because it's almost as if every woman has an accent to this.
- 1:11:06Yeah, totally, um but she's like a Colombian woman or something, and
- 1:11:12she and she she's she's like telling she has like a mini flirtation with him
- 1:11:15to show us the audience. And and Bruce willis that he's still vital.
- 1:11:20Yes, forties of course. And then we see that shot of um Vincent
- 1:11:28coming down and seeing Mia and her being like, oh, I never thanked
- 1:11:30you for the other night, and it closes up on Marcellus Wallace's back of
- 1:11:36the head and their soul has been cut out. Yeah, exactly. And
- 1:11:41then it's like his his bouncer didn't know, his not bouncer, his uh
- 1:11:46trainer or whatever didn't know anything. Like they interrogated the trainer and he's like
- 1:11:53that fucking go torture him. Like he's like, go put him with the
- 1:11:57dogs, and then see what he says. It's that talks like whoa too,
- 1:12:02That's so scary. Um. And then Bruce is in the car like
- 1:12:06taking all off his clothes um, and the ladies like mister, you're the
- 1:12:12one who killed the man, didn't you, and him being like yeah,
- 1:12:16her being like like, oh, how does it feel to kill a man?
- 1:12:20You give me one of those cigarettes, I'll tell you, And then
- 1:12:24he like takes the cigarette. She's like and then she's like, how does
- 1:12:29it feel? Well? I don't know. I just found out, dude
- 1:12:36versus. So, Bruce is so good in this movie, and his part
- 1:12:43is interesting in this movie. It's an interesting addition. I see what it
- 1:12:47was there for. It's the worst part of the movie. I would say,
- 1:12:53what, really, I think it's the part of the movie that has
- 1:12:59the like sort of like least legs to stand on really interesting. Tell me
- 1:13:03well, because it's a little slap dash in comparison, it's a little sandwiched
- 1:13:10between these other things. And I don't think his need of bow is wrapped
- 1:13:15on it as like all of the other plot lines interesting. And there's also
- 1:13:18something that's left more hanging with it. Where it's thought it was the most
- 1:13:23complete story, I guess it is pretty complete. They do leave, he
- 1:13:30leaves, he gets what he wants from Marcellus. Marcellus is like, all
- 1:13:32right, we're cool. Well we got to talk about so he's going to
- 1:13:36meet This is the part that will make it interesting, I think. And
- 1:13:42it's apropos what we've been talking about the movie being a turning point in one's
- 1:13:45life. Right, he gets this whole legacy talk about his life and dad's
- 1:13:51and generations. Right, what's an exit? And then she starts talking his
- 1:13:57partner who's waiting for him in a motel room, starts talking about she has
- 1:14:00like this pot belly monologue where she wants to like have skinny everything else but
- 1:14:06just the big old pop belly, which is like pretty obviously like her saying
- 1:14:13that she's probably pregnant or wants to be pregnant, and it's talking about that
- 1:14:17generational move. But he doesn't. He can't move until he's got to watch
- 1:14:23the mcguffin. Yeah, so he's got to go do an arbitrary thing that
- 1:14:28puts his life at risk, go to war, his war, so to
- 1:14:30speak, totally to get this watch so that he can pass it on to
- 1:14:34his project and not just like go to war, but exactly get captured,
- 1:14:40get tortured and then escape, which his father never got. He's got to
- 1:14:44pay his dues in a way, right, totally, So I don't know,
- 1:14:48it's his part of it. Says a very interesting thing in the movie,
- 1:14:54and I got that courtesy of Case that that reading, um, but
- 1:14:59he definitely makes it's wrapping a nice bow up on our conversation. Yeah,
- 1:15:01I just don't feel like, I don't know, maybe like because it's so
- 1:15:06nominally tied to the other things watch. Sorry, I just had to do
- 1:15:11it. It's a little bit marty like that's where I'm getting these because no,
- 1:15:18no, it's I noticed it before, like anyway, go ahead,
- 1:15:24no, no, no, yeah, so yeah, like did you did
- 1:15:30you get that from the pop Ellie talk all the generational stuff and the and
- 1:15:33the birth and like, yeah, yeah, but I had assumed like she
- 1:15:38she either was pregnant or what. And then like it makes sense with the
- 1:15:43normalize the idea. It makes sense with the idea that like he figures out
- 1:15:47that he doesn't have to watch the next day, um, especially after they
- 1:15:51bang, don't. Yeah, exactly exactly, but his like cte anger in
- 1:16:00the part where he doesn't have the watch and it's just like this, this
- 1:16:02person's life is going to be like this, not just for this watch,
- 1:16:06dude, Like it's gonna be weird and scary like this, Um, would
- 1:16:11you give me oral please? That's a very sweet moment. Yeah, or
- 1:16:15her asking for oral sex, and then it really really seeming to enjoy Bruce
- 1:16:19Willis's oral sex skills. Yeah, and then again dick again. Bruce Willis
- 1:16:26hands down the sexiest guy of all of the guys we've talked about, and
- 1:16:30most sensual, more sensual than dam Van DEM's got this kind of like euro
- 1:16:34constant sensuality. Yeah, like Bruce Willis, it just like can turn it
- 1:16:40on. But here's the thing about Bruce Wills. Bruce Willis is the seems
- 1:16:45like the type of guy who would like be in the moment of asking and
- 1:16:50being asked what they want, whereas Van dem seems like he'd be a good
- 1:16:57lover. But he's not asking, you know what I mean. Never seen
- 1:17:00We've never seen as much dick from any of the other guys. No,
- 1:17:02we've only seen We've seen we've seen schwartzy Penisina and we've seen d when when
- 1:17:13uh he got when less they have built backs the ghost I start for a
- 1:17:16walk, Okay, he's taking it out for a log dad um yeah,
- 1:17:24so oh man, But dude, when he doesn't see the watch and he's
- 1:17:27frantically looking for it and it's slowly closing in on him, and she's like
- 1:17:31welling up where you just hissy fits Yeah, and over his legacy legacy Bruce
- 1:17:38oh Man. And but then when the apology comes, the abuse of apology
- 1:17:41comes, Well, his legacy has to come from he's not made it out
- 1:17:45of film school, and he hasn't made a good movie, and his career
- 1:17:47in film is over, his boxing career AKA And as a result, he
- 1:17:53all he has to hang on his legacy and that's why he has to get
- 1:17:56the dad's watch maybe Joe watch. Um, but he gets the film legacy
- 1:18:01by making pulp fiction. Well yeah, I mean he died, he has
- 1:18:05he has it just enough to go away and live in like bo Boga boga
- 1:18:11or whatever. Um yeah, totally um. But yeah, she her her
- 1:18:15also also her like you either didn't or you didn't and and her being like
- 1:18:23scary aggressive. He goes, he goes to mel Gibson tapes on him.
- 1:18:29Are you sure no? And then he throws the TV uh and then and
- 1:18:33then like the idea that that's how gen X experienced their violence. Yeah,
- 1:18:43totally and panicked giving yeah, and and then like I didn't explain the importance
- 1:18:49of this watch too, and then cutting to the car. But you could
- 1:18:53have watched, you know, like I told you I was right. But
- 1:18:56the pets our tail. Yeah, her father's watch to repeat it. Yeah,
- 1:19:00violent made her repeat it. So that's what a good man does.
- 1:19:03That's what a good gen X man does. He expresses his rage afterwards,
- 1:19:09after having been condescending and kind of controlling about it, frankly, kind of
- 1:19:15scary controlling mel Gibson type about it. And then yeah, he definitely went
- 1:19:20to Jacuzi after uh. And then he goes to his apartment, goes to
- 1:19:25kind of like a shady neighborhood. This is also something you don't really see
- 1:19:29in Quentin Tarantino movies anymore, which is like normal, well normal kinds of
- 1:19:31places. Um. Yeah, because it's all period pieces. Yeah, it's
- 1:19:35true. It's all it's all built or it's all like it's so it's all
- 1:19:41fucking Leo Dicabrio, Holy little Glass. That's true. Um. And he
- 1:19:46goes into his place. Uh, and he sees that a cool gun,
- 1:19:51that really cool gun that he shoots. He puts a pop tart in first,
- 1:19:56and he's like that like giant to silenced. Uh. And then with
- 1:20:01a third different tie and a different suit, reading the same book he was
- 1:20:06reading in the other place with jewels, but further along in the book.
- 1:20:12Yeah, well I don't know that for affect. And then the pop tarts
- 1:20:15pop out and he shoots him. Uh. And it's very sad death.
- 1:20:20It's a very sad It's like, yeah, it's like you really saw him
- 1:20:26go through something harrowing and like survive Heroin, you definitely saw him go through
- 1:20:30something Heroin. And and then you survive and he just gets shot like in
- 1:20:35this freak moment. It's like it's some shows you that sometimes you bite the
- 1:20:40bar and sometimes the bar bites here exactly. That's exactly what it is too.
- 1:20:44And and the contrast between these two characters in particular, who are like
- 1:20:48the white analog for Quentin Tarantino. I guess in this movie other than other
- 1:20:56than because it's quote unquote not intend because he's married and he's got all of
- 1:21:00his life in place. YEA, like thin, how do you think he
- 1:21:05feels? How do you think he feels? Do you think he feels embarrassment
- 1:21:10having written that dialogue and having black people read it and then know that like
- 1:21:15he wrote it and he's there saying it to their face. Um, I
- 1:21:19don't think so. He's like a really cocky guy. He knows how talented
- 1:21:23he is. It's just think how it earns him the privilege. I mean,
- 1:21:28it's like, I'm it earns him to Louis k. Rights. I'm
- 1:21:33sure he's not like out there saying in the N word to people, you
- 1:21:39know what I mean? Character? Yeah, I mean, like you know,
- 1:21:43he's I'm pretty sure he's like his like I think his mom remarried a
- 1:21:48black guy, and that guy took him to a bunch of movies and stuff
- 1:21:51and like took him to areas that were like, oh quote unquote cool,
- 1:21:56which were just like poor black neighborhoods probably, but like it's one of those
- 1:21:59things where I think that what he thinks is like an earned experience is like
- 1:22:04being friends with black people, are being cool with black or cool black people
- 1:22:08being cool with you, which you know what does some degree, yeah happens,
- 1:22:12right, yeah, yeah, yeah. And and definitely I think like
- 1:22:15Quentin Tarantino is one of those guys that, like I think gets a pass
- 1:22:19or whatever, Like I mean, I don't think so, but you know,
- 1:22:24like it's not also for me to say so, yeah exactly. But
- 1:22:28I love also that um man Bruce Willis is so happy that he got away.
- 1:22:35He's so happy, he's being relieved in such a real his eyes,
- 1:22:42the wacky eyes, the slight wacky eyes he does when he drives away,
- 1:22:45where he's like, yeah, I got away with it, dude. I
- 1:22:48like I noticed that moment. And I like anyone who says that Bruce Willis
- 1:22:53is like overlooked in this movie or not like an important part of this movie.
- 1:23:00Man, there's there's such a like relief that he has in this,
- 1:23:03in this moment that doesn't exist in the throughout the movie, even even at
- 1:23:09the point at where he's with his girlfriend. Yeah right, it's like okay,
- 1:23:14like like it's fun for him, but he's still a little bit like
- 1:23:17tired, a little bit like we're not out of this yet. Now he
- 1:23:21feels like he's out of it. He's just like totally, I'm going to
- 1:23:25get my gal and we're going to drive away. We're entering into the scene
- 1:23:29with that level of ease and then just much chest the street, like doughnuts
- 1:23:36and a coffee. It's so funny, dude, And like the way the
- 1:23:41weights was delivered, and like seeing that joy leave from Bruce Willis's face and
- 1:23:46the crazy the sad crazy eyes, the scary crazy eyes, and like him
- 1:23:50just hammering into being raves, him being like blow be damned, just pull
- 1:23:58the gunuts like yeah, I love it, I love it. And then
- 1:24:01what's her name? Gady Graffin would be like it was that guy over there,
- 1:24:08and then he like lumbers out of the car and I forgot I forgot
- 1:24:13that he shoots a woman. Yeah, he shot who's trying to love,
- 1:24:16who's trying to help Bruce Willis, and then he shoots this woman and their
- 1:24:20reactions are so genuinely terrified and confused. It's kind of amazing because like it
- 1:24:27seems like the movie is happening around them. Yeah, and they're got in
- 1:24:30the movie. That's just real people that that happened to ye. And then
- 1:24:34he follows him into this like music store. So he follows them into this
- 1:24:39like hick, um, it's not a music store. It's like one of
- 1:24:43those like shops. Yeah, totally, and like and with the Okay,
- 1:24:47this is the most gen x. This is racism that Quentin Tarantino has,
- 1:24:54which is like you have to have two hicks. They have to be weird,
- 1:24:57and the weirdness is fucking dudes, Well the weird them. The weirdness
- 1:25:01comes from kink again, which is weird because like in this other movie that
- 1:25:05we just talked about the Color of the Night, where like that movie also
- 1:25:12has like such like kink things in it, and so like to make these
- 1:25:16guys like both like Nazis, but like they're Nazis who are keeping like a
- 1:25:24gimp guy, like a guy in a gimp suit. So they have a
- 1:25:27Confederate flag. They have a Confederate flag, like they're keeping him like locked
- 1:25:30up like twenty four seven seemingly like no one that's entering into like a consensual
- 1:25:36like this guy seemed pretty consensual domination scene, Like okay, so maybe he's
- 1:25:43being dominated consensually, but there's no consent among what's going on. Like it's
- 1:25:46just like it's just it just kind of pathologizes homosexuality and kink in a way
- 1:25:53that like is weird, like it like makes it, it ties it with
- 1:25:58racism and like on not like violence, not consent. Well, the thing
- 1:26:03is which those things, like those things do happen quite a bit. It's
- 1:26:06like that guy who's like they definitely do. They definitely do. But those
- 1:26:11those communities are very much about talking about things and like knowing about a thing
- 1:26:16and not doing a thing, Like like there's a big conversation that happens in
- 1:26:24those circles and just like to see like this movie just kind of like completely
- 1:26:28disregard that and use it as just like a lazy sort of like I don't
- 1:26:32know, they're fucking free. I don't think so. I don't think it's
- 1:26:35late. What makes you say it's lazy. It's lazy because like it's just
- 1:26:40like they can be scary people and do scary, transgressive things without tying it
- 1:26:47to all of these other things that they don't clearly that whoever wrote about this
- 1:26:51doesn't know about you know what I mean, Like I mean PSM thing is
- 1:26:56like you have to like talk to like in order to like have like late
- 1:27:00text and leather and like shit that like, and like you need to know
- 1:27:03what's going to be happening, and you know, like it's like, of
- 1:27:05course there's like I don't know things like consensual non consent and things like that,
- 1:27:10but I'm just like, like the thing that I find interesting is is
- 1:27:15like the use of the word late, Like I would when people say,
- 1:27:18for example, like rape is a lazy thing in movies. I think that's
- 1:27:23like a pretty valid thing because it's like you know, you don't really you
- 1:27:27really see that quite a bit as like a a thing that's that's just kind
- 1:27:34of overused in a way that's just kind of like this doesn't number one,
- 1:27:40it's not really adding anything, and number two, like there are different ways
- 1:27:43to do this. I don't think this is lazy. I think it's like
- 1:27:45really interesting to to like clash what you assume is like kind of weird clear
- 1:27:54racism and a clear like right wing like motive and then using sex as domination
- 1:28:02in that way because they do, like right warriors do do that, and
- 1:28:05they do get exposed in weird ways where it's like, oh, this guy
- 1:28:10was hiring gay prostitutes and snorting meth with them. It's like you can do
- 1:28:15that consensually. You could hire a sex worker and be like, hey,
- 1:28:19do you want to do some meth with me? It's like that sounds like
- 1:28:21a good time for those people, you know what I mean. But in
- 1:28:24the in that context where it's like a person who's like using it as like
- 1:28:29a weird under the table for them thing, I think that's more what it
- 1:28:32was looking like to me. But maybe like I mean, hey, maybe
- 1:28:36you're right, yeah, interesting in a sort of in a sort of like
- 1:28:43like we watched The Deliverance. Yeah, that's like a squeal piggy thing,
- 1:28:47right, that's like, oh no, no, they're you know what I
- 1:28:49mean? Like to me, that's a pathologizing sociality for sure. There's a
- 1:28:55no, no, that's that. But that's what I'm saying. I'm like
- 1:28:57saying they're using specifically sort of like kink tropes in gear. Yeah. Yeah,
- 1:29:03but you can use kink gear badly. It's so weird that the guy
- 1:29:09who works with Z calls zed over so that he could be cocked. Yeah,
- 1:29:15like very weird. It's a very no. I think they're gonna fuck.
- 1:29:17They're both they're gonna take turns. Yeah, I think that was the
- 1:29:20whole point. I mean maybe he was okay, yeah, but then the
- 1:29:24guy the gimp was the guy who was I guess he's the he's the cock,
- 1:29:29but also like the tiered cucks, he's not even the same room.
- 1:29:33But like Bruce being like putting his foot on Marcella's well man, the whole
- 1:29:39scene is so scary, like when when he's like going to blow his head
- 1:29:42off and then and then he's like this, there's nothing to do with you,
- 1:29:45pal. Yeah. And it's interesting the power dynamics shift so suddenly in
- 1:29:50that scene as well, because you're also kind of pulling for Bruce and then
- 1:29:55suddenly like, oh, this is a completely different situation. It's it's weird.
- 1:30:00It's also it's interesting something this being like sometimes life bites, sometimes you
- 1:30:05bite the bar. Sometimes bites here, Yeah, totally. And then and
- 1:30:09then I will say it was like a very easy and convenient way to get
- 1:30:16past um certain kinds of problems. It does feel a little bit like,
- 1:30:21oh, PC's Marcellus randomly. Oh, they randomly get into this weird dungeon
- 1:30:28place, you know, which is also like an odd It's like too many
- 1:30:34coincidence. There's no big coincidences or small coincident, only coincidence, you know
- 1:30:39what I mean. So I do think that that aspect is lazy, But
- 1:30:42the individual scenes don't necessarily bother me in terms of, like they don't make
- 1:30:45me think of people that I know that I'm like, oh, yeah,
- 1:30:48these people are kinky, right, Like I would never think like I would
- 1:30:53never tell those things together. Maybe in the nineties people did, but people
- 1:30:56thought people like most people were free. People thought gay people were freaks in
- 1:31:00the nineties, you know what I mean. Um, and they were like
- 1:31:02we'd either weird sexless beings or they were like pediphied, like that was the
- 1:31:08thing. That's still yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's groomer conversation.
- 1:31:13Yeah of course. Um, but yeah, they wake them up and they're
- 1:31:15ball gagged. It's also I think a very like like iconography was the big
- 1:31:21thing for him in this for he wanted it. He wanted these like colors
- 1:31:26in particular black and red ball gag. Yeah yeah, and inadvertently creates some
- 1:31:31new kinks. Um, I mean, yeah, it's interesting. It's well,
- 1:31:36it's just also interesting that quinchin Tarantin, you know, being a kinky,
- 1:31:41fucking freak with feet. Well, we don't know, we don't know,
- 1:31:45we do know, are you kidding? I was like I was listening
- 1:31:48to a thing on on him. I think it was on Howard Really paris
- 1:31:53Um, and he was like, he was like, I mean they're just
- 1:31:56good shots. Like they're good shots, you know what I mean? And
- 1:31:59it's like fair, what's it like to go on a day with Paris really
- 1:32:03paris Um? Fun? But yeah, like I will say that, like
- 1:32:09there are a lot of people who do have fetishes, and the best directors
- 1:32:13just put their fetishes on on screen. So like maybe, but he was
- 1:32:16like, I don't know whatever. And it's like if somebody called, like
- 1:32:21he seems like a pretty open guy, he seems like he would admit to
- 1:32:25something like that, but maybe he didn't. Maybe he is does have that
- 1:32:28shame around it him. Um, like like like he king shames BDSM people.
- 1:32:34Yeah, you know a band Peter Green's performance talk about like Peter Green's
- 1:32:41the coz uh time you mean Dorian from The Mask. I love Dorian from
- 1:32:48the Mask. I'm gonna get him, dude, I'm gonna get him in
- 1:32:51a movie time to be played by a different actor. He's I love his
- 1:32:59kind of floaty balding that he has with his slicked backed hair. Oh yeah,
- 1:33:02totally dude, it's still floaty balding now, I love it. Um
- 1:33:06yeah. But then then it's it is a weird. It's a scary scene
- 1:33:11where they take Marcellus to the back and they lean the chair over and pull
- 1:33:15him back and Bruce Willis just looks behind him. Um, and man,
- 1:33:19Bruce Willis is letting that fucking go on for a really long time. Like
- 1:33:25Bruce Willis almost like wants ving Races to get fucked and like he's like does
- 1:33:30he does he get fucked like a bitch? He also that was like foreshadows,
- 1:33:34does he look like a bitch? Why are you trying fuck him like
- 1:33:36a bit? Well, he gets fucked and like man, like Bruce Willis
- 1:33:43like is going to look for his eventual katana, but like choosing a baseball
- 1:33:46bat and like other weapons, go for the gun. He's like torturing uh
- 1:33:53Dorian in a way. He's like, why'n't you go for the gun?
- 1:33:57Yeah, go for the can. Honestly, the like there is that torcharous
- 1:34:00Bruce there. There is that moment where he like closes the door and he's
- 1:34:05like, no, I gotta I gotta make this ride. I did fuck
- 1:34:10him over in a bad way. He did make He did take his took
- 1:34:15his money, and he took his word that he would do it. And
- 1:34:16yeah, I was quote unquote bad. But like this guy, this guy
- 1:34:21is gonna be have morals now, you know what I mean. That was
- 1:34:25the interesting thing. That's the dichotomy in this character who was like he wants
- 1:34:29to go to war. Yeah, he wants to go to war. He
- 1:34:31um, he needs to earn. He doesn't feel like he's earned what he
- 1:34:36has in his life. Yeah, And there's a lot it's like imposter syndrome.
- 1:34:41I think a lot of people have it. Um and and the iconic
- 1:34:45shirt covered in blood blue pants man dude. When Bruce Willis tucks the white
- 1:34:50shirt into the like size twenty eight jeans and like and like where's that like
- 1:34:57really cropped square brow jacket. It's such a good with the like crew cut
- 1:35:03balding. Crew cut in balding is kind of perfect. Maybe it's gonna be
- 1:35:08the next hair style. I dude, dude, O man, yeah,
- 1:35:11dude, you should. You absolutely should. A man and the guy the
- 1:35:13gross guy being like yeah, like sweaty being a cook to go into it,
- 1:35:18like yeah, yeah, he's just like Dorian is cucking him with someone
- 1:35:25who's not in a relationship with him, and Dorian is like pulls out and
- 1:35:29is like standing and he just when Doan pulls us, Dorian definitely does the
- 1:35:32motion of pulling out into Yeah. Man, it's a really it's a really
- 1:35:39disturbing scene, but it's so iconic. Yeah, everything about it is so
- 1:35:43iconic. The pick it up, I know, you want to pick up
- 1:35:46the gun, and I feel like the seediness of it is iconic. Like
- 1:35:50this was also the nineties and gen X loved CD. Of course, they
- 1:35:56loved they loved ceed and they also loved like kind of alishing and sensationalism and
- 1:36:00also relishing in their version, like everything's got to be so edgy yeah,
- 1:36:05it's so hype. Yeah yeah, and and step aside butch I love dude
- 1:36:12his voice, like stooming voice and like kind of really upset but like emboldened
- 1:36:19by the power switch in the situation. Yeah totally. And then getting shot
- 1:36:24in the dick Dorian shooting him if like shot gunning him in the dick.
- 1:36:29Oh man, dude, and he's like okay, nah, I'm not okay,
- 1:36:36oh man, dude. It's such a great line. And Bruce Willi
- 1:36:40is kind of like the slinky in the car trying to sprink himself in the
- 1:36:45corn. Yeah, and then the what now what now? Oh man,
- 1:36:50They're gonna keep give a talking to to hillbilly boy and get medieval on his
- 1:36:56ass, and he's like, I'm in with us. Yeah, I mean
- 1:37:00Bruce Willis wants to know if he's okay, and then like you know,
- 1:37:03sometimes what what what gen X? The lesson gen X learned was sometimes you
- 1:37:08got to move cities. But uh, ultimately he'll be okay, yeah totally
- 1:37:13yeah, and he's lost your la privileges. Yeah, he's lost his all
- 1:37:15privilege. I love though that he's like he tells him, he's like giving
- 1:37:18him the respect of like being like deal, like it's up to you.
- 1:37:24But if you come back here, this is what I'm gonna do, right,
- 1:37:27and and like but like so staying his ground and also like man,
- 1:37:32dude, it's and Zed's being like oh and then the wave, the not
- 1:37:41turning around and the wave to Bruce and it's like all right, cool uh
- 1:37:45and then he steals Zed's chopper. It's not a motorcycle, baby, it's
- 1:37:50a chopper. Um, it's dead baby, yeah yeah, and her crying
- 1:38:00too, her being like they didn't have the pancakes. I thought you were
- 1:38:04gone for so long. Yeah. Um yeah, trying the tooth with the
- 1:38:11pregnancy. Yeah, it's really you know, you can tell that Quentin Tarantino
- 1:38:15wants this to be his ending. Yeah, and it is his ending.
- 1:38:18He gets He's in a fucking mansion, he's got a pool. He works
- 1:38:21with Leo DiCaprio all the time, and and Jimmy Fox and pieces gets to
- 1:38:28make period pieces forever. One more dude, Um, he's got one more
- 1:38:31movie. Good for him. He did mostly get Communion. We could do
- 1:38:35a season. We could do we could do a season and it would be
- 1:38:38a mostly good season. But I just don't, you know, it's it's
- 1:38:43one of those guys that, like, it's what you said, It's like,
- 1:38:45when you transcend a certain level in cinema, you can no longer be
- 1:38:49someone's favorite guy because it's too basics top. Yeah, like what are you
- 1:38:54like, you know, like Lynch is your top guy? Like yeah,
- 1:38:57of course, okay, sure, yeah, And we've all had spices thrown
- 1:39:00in like that. But it's like, I just feel like when those guys
- 1:39:03reach that top shelf, it's just like their flavor, their seasonings. Let's
- 1:39:09go for other people, even even like for me, Like I got to
- 1:39:14a point where I watched um, the House of Jack Built again, and
- 1:39:19I was like, oh man, I can't I can't say Lars is my
- 1:39:23my favorite guy anymore. Like I still pull up He's he likes Hitler.
- 1:39:30He said he understood Hitler. That was the difference. He compared himself to
- 1:39:32Hitler, said, he's myself like Hitler. Ah yeah, but it was
- 1:39:36like like again it was cheeks like very euro raised eyebrows, smile, grinning,
- 1:39:45Yeah, jen X as opposed to as opposed to Yay, who's definitely
- 1:39:51having a breakdown of some kind. Um. But yeah, we get to
- 1:39:58the Bonnie situation. They drive off into the sunset, Bruce and Um,
- 1:40:03I forget her name. There's another Bonnie situation in this movie, dude,
- 1:40:06the Bonnie situation. There was a Bondy situation in the last movie too,
- 1:40:11that's true, Yeah, there was. Um and I like this scene where
- 1:40:16it's Jules story really because we've been introduced to him, we know who he
- 1:40:21is. And then he has his like revelation where he's like, I don't
- 1:40:25want to do this anymore, Like this is dumb and bad. I could
- 1:40:28have died. And then he realizes, like I could have died so many
- 1:40:31fucking times. So he's interpreting sort of like this like situation that happens where
- 1:40:36it's a freak accident that there was a guy in the bathroom when they were
- 1:40:42trying to get the package from Marcel, of course, and then the guy
- 1:40:49who's wearing a very Seinfeld outfit who was deep faked into Seinfeld um comes out
- 1:40:55and starts to shoot at them, misses them entirely and like from point blank
- 1:41:00range with like a magnum Yeah, and then they kill him and he's he
- 1:41:06Samuel L. Jackson takes this as a epiphany. Yeah, he needs to
- 1:41:13like like a sign from God, a miracle that he needs to go straight.
- 1:41:17Yeah, and Vincent doesn't believe this because Vincent is Yeah, he's an
- 1:41:24atheist. Yeah, God hates f words that whole thing. Um. Do
- 1:41:30you think Vincent might be closeted? Maybe he is, Maybe he is,
- 1:41:31dude, No, he really wanted to fuck um Marcella's Wallace's wife. Yeah,
- 1:41:35it's true Marvin who they take the best of. Did you say mtvm?
- 1:41:48Um? And they go to Jimmy's house, who's Quinn Tarantino? Uh?
- 1:41:53And and man like Jimmy's the poster boy for the generation. Yeah,
- 1:42:00totally totally uh and um, I love that Samuel kind of takes the reins
- 1:42:09in this this scene in the Big Rains, he takes the bing rams uh
- 1:42:15and is like, you know, like kind of it is like, man,
- 1:42:19this is my friend, Like you need to behave Like he's like,
- 1:42:25uh and he grabs the towel and he's like, when I've washed my hands
- 1:42:29and wiped them, that tells like goddamn maxipad Um. Yeah, he's like
- 1:42:34he's like, um, man, well did we we didn't mention that that
- 1:42:40As they're having the God talk Vincent turns around to Marvin and he's like,
- 1:42:43do you think that God came down? And then he shoots him in the
- 1:42:46face. He could they go over a bump. They do go over a
- 1:42:48bump and he shoots he shoots him, So it's both. It is both
- 1:42:53their fault in a way, but like definitely more Vincent's fault. Yeah,
- 1:42:58but yeah, he's like, oh, shot Marsh. But also the kind
- 1:43:02of callousness they treat the body and everybody who's like a man the wolf when
- 1:43:09he comes in, he's like, no one that'll be missed, you know,
- 1:43:13like that kind of like man, when a when a boomer like that
- 1:43:16says something so cutting where it's like the dismissal of life, like that says
- 1:43:26we're gonna be okay, what do you say what a boomer like that says
- 1:43:30something a cutting line like you are not serious people? Right? Yeah,
- 1:43:36totally. When's that from again? It's from Succession to oh yeah, yeah
- 1:43:42you are not serious. That's the last words he ever says to them,
- 1:43:45Yeah you are not serious people. It's one of the best lines I've ever
- 1:43:49seen delivered, so well, yeah, totally. The spoiler alert for Succession
- 1:43:55if you haven't seen it. I mean whatever, I haven't seen it.
- 1:43:58You saw that. I saw that. Not serious people, yeah, he
- 1:44:02dies, I mean cremoniously the perfect we are not serious people. Such a
- 1:44:10thing that Mamma thought to have and would say, would say, I'm gonna
- 1:44:15get fucking divorce. I love that line. I know that that. Obviously
- 1:44:18he's got the like you know, classic lines which I won't repeat, but
- 1:44:23my favorite lines that he Um does Quintarantino does is no trial separation. That
- 1:44:30shit, I'm gonna have fucking divorce. The like the like panic and fear
- 1:44:34that he has of his wife rather than this situation is so funny. As
- 1:44:40a guy who seems like he's u like the guy who seems he's very afraid
- 1:44:45of being middle aged. Well, I definitely afraid of being middle aged,
- 1:44:48Um, but also a guy who feels like he is like a slinky from
- 1:44:56from Benny Benny, Yeah, yeah, where he's just it's kind of like
- 1:45:00I've gotten out of the life. I don't need this, Like why is
- 1:45:02there a dead guy in my garage? Like you have to get rid of
- 1:45:04this, you know, Except he doesn't say dead guy. Yeah, he
- 1:45:10says, well, goodtitut duo always wants to say yeah, it's true and
- 1:45:14things that he can don't fucking jimmy me me man. He's such a like
- 1:45:20like he does he for for for all his n words, he does like
- 1:45:27a really good job. He's a really he's really good at showing up and
- 1:45:30he knows how to direct himself. Yeah, but he was not good in
- 1:45:34Django. He was not good as the Australian guy in Django. I don't
- 1:45:38even remember that. It's so bad Australian. Yeah. And I like how
- 1:45:45Jewels responds to calling Marcellus and and being like, no, you're gonna be
- 1:45:54like Jewels, I'm on this, and he's like, Jewels, I'm on
- 1:45:58the motherfucker. And then he calls the Wolf, who's at some sort of
- 1:46:01like party, which is amazing. It looks like so sort and it's so
- 1:46:06amazing because he's like, my nephew's baptism. Yeah, no, no,
- 1:46:12no, he's definitely Catholic. He's definitely like a baptism. Oh oh yeah,
- 1:46:18for I thought you said something else. Yeah yeah, well I said
- 1:46:23Christening, didn't I Yeah? Then you said baptism. Yeah, And he's
- 1:46:26like it's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten and then it says
- 1:46:29nine minutes and thirty seven seconds later, which I love, the very persisive,
- 1:46:33precise, like a professional. He's like a boomer, he's silent generation.
- 1:46:38Yeah he's got really he's got really good handwriting. Yeah he is,
- 1:46:42Yeah, he's His penmanship is remote fantastic. He's like a little I think,
- 1:46:46a little bit older than um. And like the nice the aggressive niceness
- 1:46:55that boomers often are when they're trying to like, listen something. I have
- 1:47:00to handle everything for your generation, so you better be good. Yeah,
- 1:47:02exactly, exactly. You like the handouts I give you? Yeah? Do
- 1:47:08you like the handouts? Like give? Then you'll be quiet and be good
- 1:47:11about it? Yeah, okay, pretty please with sugar on top. Exactly.
- 1:47:15This is the way we have to handle you with gloves your generation.
- 1:47:17I love also, So Jimmy, I smelled some coffee in there? Would
- 1:47:23you get me some? Oh? How do you take its? Lots of
- 1:47:27sugar? So good? Has all the comforts, Yeah for sure. And
- 1:47:34I love the like uh ping up like pieces of brain matter and whatever,
- 1:47:41just describing the situation to them in such blister um. And then the quilts
- 1:47:47telling him to give the quilts and then hinting at I love this because he
- 1:47:53Jimmy does such an impressively smart thing, which is hinting at, like,
- 1:48:00you know, these linens are my uncle Ginny and whatever, and he's like
- 1:48:04your uncle. Yeah, well, uh, you know, Marcellus is like
- 1:48:09an uncle too. He'll replace all this furniture with oak. You like oak?
- 1:48:14I like oak, you know, I like ok oh man. And
- 1:48:20then he just hands him giant wad of cash. And I love the fact
- 1:48:26that what's his name, Samuel Jackson is in the back while while Vincent is
- 1:48:30in the front, and he's like, why want in the back? Joe
- 1:48:33shot him you should be here cleaning up braids. Oh I love that.
- 1:48:38I love that part. And then the way it looks after looks so good.
- 1:48:42Yeah, it looks so neat, like how things are supposed to look
- 1:48:45when a boomer tells you to clean up your room. Yeah, exactly where
- 1:48:47where the it has to be military making the bed. There's can be novel
- 1:48:53like bumps or raises. The clothes have to be ironed when it was Have
- 1:49:00you ever ironed an item of clothing in your life for yourself? No?
- 1:49:08I don't think so. I think maybe once for like like a dance or
- 1:49:13something where I wanted to wear something dance. But yeah, and they spray
- 1:49:20them both down and to John Travolta puts his hand through that wig that he's
- 1:49:27wearing. Man, that like widow's peak, that sharp widow's peak wig he
- 1:49:30became known for. I mean it looked much more real in the nineties than
- 1:49:34it did ever and than it ever did. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 1:49:40absolutely, dude. And then they're wearing a goofy clothing that they're both laughing
- 1:49:44at. Georges looks like like vintage clothing for right now. Yeah, totally.
- 1:49:51And then we're introduced to one of the hottest women in the movie,
- 1:49:56Roquel, who clearly the wolf is fucking for some reason. You know,
- 1:50:02the lady that they take to the dump where they dump the body in the
- 1:50:06car. Oh dude, I loved that that he was a fucking here and
- 1:50:12yeah, and like he's just like, see respect your eldest, Like he's
- 1:50:15like tried it, Like I don't know, yeah he shaved because because both
- 1:50:19of them want to shake his hand for helping them, and also like it
- 1:50:24was a pleasure watching you work, and it's like there's like this passing of
- 1:50:28the buck and I love the uh call me Winston because they're respecting each other
- 1:50:33because he showed they showed him respect, and they, um, see,
- 1:50:39character, that's what you need. Just because you are a character. I
- 1:50:44have character. Just because you have a character. It doesn't mean you know,
- 1:50:46just because you are a character doesn't even have a character. And then
- 1:50:49they go to get food at the diner from the beginning of the movie and
- 1:50:53I have you fucking bricks. Oh yeah, yeah, I love this scene.
- 1:51:03Yeah. Like the idea of like feeling the touch of God is an
- 1:51:09interesting line delivered by Samuel l because it's like it's it's nice to have characters
- 1:51:19go through having like epiphonic moments and like really leaning into even like the religious
- 1:51:29aspect of it. I really like that as a tool in storytelling because it's
- 1:51:33like, yeah, he seems like a guy who was might have been once
- 1:51:38a religious person in his youth, and then as he grew into a criminal,
- 1:51:43became cynical. Yeah, it became cynical. He's probably seen a lot
- 1:51:45of people die needlessly, and then to have this moment of like being saved
- 1:51:53is like fascinating to me. Yeah, But what's cool is that he is
- 1:51:57saved in his own way, and he handled his ship in his own way
- 1:52:00the way he knows how right, And um, we get a reprise of
- 1:52:04the beginning scene where Honey, Bunny and and Pumpkin they're not going to cross
- 1:52:14over because they'll survive the situation. But um, yeah, it becomes a
- 1:52:19really tense situation. And this is like Jules is sort of like reckoning,
- 1:52:27right, yeah, even even him challenging Vincent in the moment where he's like,
- 1:52:31are my question scaring you? And he's like, I'm gonna go take
- 1:52:35a shit, And that was the same way he died. He died coming
- 1:52:39out of the bathroom. And it's interesting because of the fact that like Vincent
- 1:52:45as went through a change, but his change really didn't change his character.
- 1:52:49It just what was. Yeah, he was, Well, his status quo
- 1:52:55remained the same, right, he went through like a panic, he went
- 1:52:58through his Mickey moves, man, Yeah, exactly to excel in life.
- 1:53:01Yeah, you gotta make moves to excel in life. Well, yeah,
- 1:53:03he's and he wants to be like he's clearly right hand man to Marcellus,
- 1:53:08right, like if he's getting hugs from like the big boss, right,
- 1:53:12Um, And and like him being like Jewels being like I had what alcohol
- 1:53:18is called a moment of clarity is fascinating, um because that's when manny of
- 1:53:25you fucking bricks move um. And then we get their ending too, which
- 1:53:31is like also a like Jewels becoming a shepherd and offering a guiding path to
- 1:53:38people who are in trouble, immediately changing his life, trying to change it
- 1:53:42right away, and like understanding what these guys are going through in their life
- 1:53:47and understanding that he because he can change obviously these people. He says some
- 1:53:53line like you know, like there'll go do you give me a fucking problem?
- 1:53:57I love him being a British guy, and this is I mean,
- 1:54:00he had to be right. He's so bad at covering his eyes. But
- 1:54:03um, you know, even Vincent says to to um Jewels, like he's
- 1:54:11like you want to walk the earth? What do you want to be a
- 1:54:13bum? That's like a bum and like this whole idea of like being a
- 1:54:16loser not having anything. It's like maybe Vincent doesn't see the big picture,
- 1:54:20right, Yeah, totally you're a bum rock exactly. But yeah, they
- 1:54:28steal everybody's wallet. Um, It's it's kind of I understand the plan,
- 1:54:34you know what I mean, because it's like, oh, Okay, they
- 1:54:36don't want to do bank robberies. They don't want to get caught because it's
- 1:54:39like so high. But like this is like, oh, yeah, you
- 1:54:42steal a bunch of wallets, and you know the take from that is yeah.
- 1:54:45And what's what's cool is um when he, you know, Jewels,
- 1:54:49pulls out the gun because he knows they're gonna want the bag, the like
- 1:54:53thing with Marcellus Wallace's um soul in it. Uh and uh he pulls Tim
- 1:55:00Roth down and like has that conversation with him and is really empathetic. And
- 1:55:08that's that's a kind of kind of what's missing from the rest of Tarantino's movies.
- 1:55:12Post I would say Kill Bill even doesn't really function in this world anymore.
- 1:55:17It's all in Tarantino's world. We all get to play in his playground,
- 1:55:20and it's fun to go sometimes. But it just the first three or
- 1:55:26were the best because of the fact that they were all on this earth and
- 1:55:30we all get to experience it together, rather than Oh, I'm a rich
- 1:55:34guy who loved movies and I get to make whatever movie I want, you
- 1:55:39know, like the earlier movies of people always seem to be more down to
- 1:55:45earth because they have limitations and they have to work with what they have.
- 1:55:48And we know what we have and that's what's on screen. Right, There's
- 1:55:54only a few people who can like transport you to a magic place. I
- 1:55:58think Spielberg does it all. Tarantino, It's like he's inviting you to his
- 1:56:03playground rather than like you being whisked away into a different world. Yeah,
- 1:56:10you know, well, so is that that? That's is that the movie?
- 1:56:14That is the movie? Well, I mean we could talk about like
- 1:56:17be cool, be's be cool. That scene is really cool, and like
- 1:56:23the way the scene is sort of like the way Samuel l de escalates the
- 1:56:27situation is really um feels really realistic, like and like it seems kind of
- 1:56:32like he's got this commanding presence even in the he uses his commanding presence in
- 1:56:39a different way in this scene than he did in the scene where he's like
- 1:56:44giving the deliver first delivers the speech, right yeah, and then oh yeah,
- 1:56:47exactly, he'd redelivers the speech and and it means something different to him
- 1:56:51and the audience. And Yolanda is amazing because of the fact that like her
- 1:56:57fear is so noticed, well known in the scene in the movie, after
- 1:57:04being such a confident person, such a confident criminal, and then like having
- 1:57:09this moment of like, please don't kill the person that I care about most,
- 1:57:14because it doesn't the other stuff like doesn't matter. I know now that
- 1:57:17the other stuff doesn't matter. And it's like, that's what Jules is going
- 1:57:20through. That's why he knows not to do anything bad to him or to
- 1:57:27her, right, And I love the fact that he's like he wants to
- 1:57:30get his wallet back, the bad motherfucker wallet, but he gives him all
- 1:57:32the money, and it's like it's a pretty good take. That's a pretty
- 1:57:38nineties take. Um, that's a lot of money in the nineties. And
- 1:57:44then Vincent comes out and he's like Vincent be cool man. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:57:47yeah yeah, And Vincent, you know, like it's interesting because like
- 1:57:51Vincent, we know at this point that Vincent is dead in the future of
- 1:57:56the very near future of this, and his reality action in the situation sort
- 1:58:00of is like kind of comes from that sort of like intense hair trigger moment
- 1:58:05and not knowing how to conduct yourself and compose yourself when it really matters yeah,
- 1:58:11which is what it seems like the movie is trying to talk about,
- 1:58:14right, And like, do you do you ever hear any lines? I
- 1:58:17don't know if I can remember any lines where there's a few. I'm getting
- 1:58:21Tarantino post this movie, post Jackie Brown a lot of shit, because there
- 1:58:26is some good stuff in Tarantino movies. It just feels like when when Amanda
- 1:58:30Palmer goes um, he's like are we cool, Jlanda, and she's like,
- 1:58:36I have to pee and I want to go home. Like that's like
- 1:58:40a sad, vulnerable line to give somebody, you know what I mean.
- 1:58:45And it's and it's like we all have to pee, we all have to
- 1:58:47go shit, you know, yeah, exactly exactly. Um, And and
- 1:58:50like when he's like like I'm proud of her, come on, ring ringo,
- 1:58:56teller, you're proud of her, right, and she's like, I'm
- 1:58:58proud of you, honey, bunny, you know what I mean. Like
- 1:59:00it's like that kind of stuff where it's like power moves but it's like you
- 1:59:02have to but it feels real. He feels like, yeah, you're not
- 1:59:08telling this person what she needs to hear for this to be good, you
- 1:59:11know what I mean, um, and it's it's it's cool. It's a
- 1:59:15cool way of like tying everything up. Um. And he's gonna walk the
- 1:59:20earth like David Garrity, Yeah, it's true excited Harridan Garrety Yeah. Um.
- 1:59:27And and then they like walk off and Vincent and and Jules walk off
- 1:59:32as well, and that's like the end of the movie, which is crazy.
- 1:59:36Yeah. So like I don't know, you know, being that we
- 1:59:41said that, like there's some directors that defy sort of that, you know,
- 1:59:48I don't know, Like, how do you how do you how does
- 1:59:53one rate a movie like this? How do we rate this movie? True?
- 1:59:57True, We'll get to that. But did you know Kathy Riven is
- 2:00:00played by herself in this It's credited as hers, So Cathy agreement, He's
- 2:00:10in the movie. She's in the reality of which is amazing, amazing.
- 2:00:15So I love that. Okay, Okay, So let's do bruces first,
- 2:00:21because I would give I would give this movie an eight point five bruces.
- 2:00:26Yeah, I think I'm gonna give it. I think I'm gonna give it
- 2:00:28a nine. I'm gonna go for the nine. I maybe. I think
- 2:00:31I'm gonna give it a nine. Two. It's it's like everything that I
- 2:00:35really like said, there's a little bit more subdued, but like, man,
- 2:00:41he does so much with presence and face that is just like I'm deniable.
- 2:00:46Yeah, and you're like, this is this is such good acting,
- 2:00:53This is such good acting. Yeah, totally totally, like he makes the
- 2:00:57movie better. Yeah, I think he makes his own parts better. Yeah.
- 2:01:01Absolutely. Um, I'm gonna give it an eight point five thought of
- 2:01:05out of ten of the movie. Yeah, Now is that like like I
- 2:01:10think we should give it Tarantinos because like, would you give would you give
- 2:01:14it for ten Tarantinos? Would you give it a ten out of I'll probably
- 2:01:18give it a nine. I mean yeah, i'd probably give it a ten.
- 2:01:21Actually, yeah, I'd probably give a ten out of ten Tarantinos.
- 2:01:24Now, is there a point in your life when you would have given this
- 2:01:26movie a ten out of ten stars just as your enjoyment of it. No,
- 2:01:30there was never a time that I would give those ten stars. But
- 2:01:33this movie is Pantheon for you. Yeah it is too. Yeah, I
- 2:01:38like you know, like I have there are movies where like, oh yeah
- 2:01:44I would give it ten stars, but like this isn't one of them.
- 2:01:45This has always been sort of an eight point five because like, in different
- 2:01:48areas of my life, It's like, when I was young, it was
- 2:01:50a little boring what I said earlier in my twenties it made more sense,
- 2:01:55but it was like, oh my god, these references I get. But
- 2:01:58the feelings are like much more noticeable to me, how people are feeling,
- 2:02:03how people are interacting with their face. Well, what do you make of
- 2:02:08my my? You know thess that I took from you and rain with about
- 2:02:13it being like a kind of like middle aged exploration or an approaching Yeah,
- 2:02:17yeah, that generation's reckoning with their thirties, and yeah, I think so.
- 2:02:21I mean, like the reality is is that he was what thirty two
- 2:02:25when he made Reservoir Dogs. So, and that feels like a very I'm
- 2:02:29in my twenties kind of movie. And this does feel like I'm in my
- 2:02:31thirties kind of movie, where you have certain kinds of ways of describing the
- 2:02:42world that feel a little bit more like you have much more understanding about the
- 2:02:47world and you know a lot less than you do, or you have that
- 2:02:53understanding in you, and all these characters feel like that. All of these
- 2:02:56characters feel like they've been humbled in a way. Yeah, not and not
- 2:02:59aim this, but they feel like, oh I don't have all the answers,
- 2:03:02but I know what makes me feel good, you know what I mean?
- 2:03:05Yeah, and it's like a lot of what makes me feel good drugs,
- 2:03:09sex, yeah, violent, violent, Yeah exactly. So you know
- 2:03:12I feel like I feel like the did you give it a ten tarantinos?
- 2:03:18I gave it a ten tarantinos. Yeah, I would probably give this ten
- 2:03:23tarantinos. I'd give Jackie Brown ten tarantinos and I would give yeah probably Yeah.
- 2:03:30Would you give Kill Bill Part one ten tarantinos? I would give them.
- 2:03:35I would give them all eight or seven? Um, I would probably
- 2:03:41say, um. I actually watching this movie again, I was like,
- 2:03:46man, like I remember, um, Glorious Bastard's being my like top of
- 2:03:53his movies, but it kind of has to be this one. It has
- 2:04:00to be. That's a movie I'm going to watch and as impressed with the
- 2:04:03amount that this movie like bended cinema literally like literally like it's will yeah,
- 2:04:11like it's pretty, it's pretty impressive, like it's undeniable in a way that
- 2:04:14like you just like you know, like I mean, how can you how
- 2:04:18can you you know, talk about society and culture in the Western modern context
- 2:04:25without mentioning this movie. It like is part of the fabric of you know,
- 2:04:31um at least our generation, in our lives, in our upbringing and
- 2:04:36im parodied parodied times and times over. But you know, like as an
- 2:04:45experience, how does it hold up? Pretty good? Yeah? I think
- 2:04:51so pretty good. Like there's a lot of like things that don't hold up
- 2:04:56well. We didn't talk about Bruce like like mimicking like people with mental disabilities.
- 2:05:02We didn't like, you know, like that kind of ship where you're
- 2:05:05just like like again, Like for me, it's like, what do you
- 2:05:11mean by holding up? Like what does that mean? Holding up? Holding
- 2:05:15up? Yeah, I mean like in terms of like relevance and like,
- 2:05:20um wait what I don't know what you mean by relevance either, because it's
- 2:05:26like it's like it would be like like I remember when somebody was like said,
- 2:05:30oh, Taxi Driver, that movie is so dated, and it's like,
- 2:05:32but that movie is contemporary at the time, Like what do you mean
- 2:05:35by dated? Like yeah, I think I mean, like the things about
- 2:05:39it now feel like dated tropes, but yeah, you can, Like I
- 2:05:44mean, it's it's like it's a movie from that era. It's like like
- 2:05:46to me, it's like, yeah, sure he does that, but it's
- 2:05:48like that's not out of place for a boxer now let alone, let alone
- 2:05:53in the nineties, you know what I mean. Ye, Like I'm thinking
- 2:05:57like I don't know, like like I just do you want to I just
- 2:06:00in reference? No, No, I Like I'm not I'm not saying like
- 2:06:04I'm not saying like, oh it's bad that, like you know, it's
- 2:06:08just like it's things that I just like probably wouldn't be written in if it
- 2:06:14was like written now, it's interesting to notice, you know what I mean?
- 2:06:16But does that mean like it just doesn't add anything to like the character
- 2:06:20or like it's just like it seems like it's like yeah, just trying to
- 2:06:27use like it's kind of like nineties edgy. It's like trying to use like
- 2:06:32like I just like it's confusing to be because it's like, I don't know
- 2:06:35what do you want the movie to condemn it? Is that what's missing for
- 2:06:39you? Or is it like what like it's just confueled, Like what would
- 2:06:43the perfect movie for you look like? Because it seems like it would have
- 2:06:45all the edges stand it off completely. No. I yeah, like it's
- 2:06:53not that big a deal, like you know, like it's yeah, I
- 2:06:57don't know, Well that's what I'm saying. I'm saying it's not a big
- 2:07:00deal, but it is a big deal for you. I just want to
- 2:07:01know why. I'm just making the observation about it. I don't know.
- 2:07:08Like it's like I feel like when you say when you talk about how something
- 2:07:12like how something ages, like you know, you just like notice the things
- 2:07:16that it's a lot of what we do on the show. You just notice
- 2:07:18the things that like probably wouldn't come up now. And I'm not saying that
- 2:07:23like you know, like I think that movies need to be sanitized completely.
- 2:07:27I'm just saying that, like it's interesting how much it's it's interesting to be
- 2:07:30able to like observe how much culture has changed over thirty years. I don't
- 2:07:34see one of those years. Yeah, I mean, like I don't mean
- 2:07:38to like you're it seems like you're pulling back. I'm not. I'm not
- 2:07:41trying to like challenge you. I'm just trying to like understand what the like
- 2:07:44mentality is because like, like I don't know there are contemporary movies that do
- 2:07:48like way work like like drave to Gross Concrete was like a pretty like harsh,
- 2:07:53real like reality of the Yeah, like you're you're, you're sort of
- 2:07:56like seeing you know. I think that that movie uses that harsh reality and
- 2:08:01like talks about it. I think like it's like it's aware of itself.
- 2:08:05So that's what you want. You want it to be condemned whatever it is,
- 2:08:09not necessarily because yeah, sometimes things are just products of their time.
- 2:08:13That's what I'm saying. I'm trying to delineate between what's a product of its
- 2:08:18time and what's just like you know, like used as a device, right.
- 2:08:22I mean, but like I don't think especially like the terms that they
- 2:08:26use, like mongoloid, it like comes off as like the same kind of
- 2:08:31racism that they use throughout the movie, where it's all just kind of callous
- 2:08:35and casual, right, like these are bad people. Like I feel like
- 2:08:37the movie condemns everybody pretty equally in the movie, and like I mean it's
- 2:08:43like they're they or they change, they try, they're they're they're added characters
- 2:08:50because it's like, you know, those people are people, and that's the
- 2:08:52that's the it's like kind of reality that I like living in. Where it's
- 2:09:00like, oh, there's like a person, you know, I'm being I'm
- 2:09:03following a thing that's like, yeah, they might say stuff that I,
- 2:09:07like, I wouldn't agree with, but I guess I don't know. Yeah,
- 2:09:09I mean, I wasn't condemning them in a sense of like, you
- 2:09:13know, is that out of line with something someone might have said at the
- 2:09:16time. Absolutely not. Is it out of line with something that like we
- 2:09:20were like directly involved in growing up. Absolutely not. I'm just saying that
- 2:09:24people would say that now, Yeah, you know, like people would do
- 2:09:28that now, Like that's that's the thing, Like, I don't know,
- 2:09:33I don't know. I don't mean to like bring you down, dude,
- 2:09:35Like it's it's just it's a curiosity that I have where it's like when it's
- 2:09:43noticed, it's like it feels like a compulsion to have to talk about it.
- 2:09:48But at the same time, it's like I don't know, man,
- 2:09:50Like is it is it even worth mentioning? I mean, I mean I
- 2:09:52mentioned it as a toss away at the end. I wasn't. We didn't
- 2:09:56really talk about it. What I'm really excited about. I'm no, it's
- 2:10:00probably going to be such a long episode but um uh kay said he was
- 2:10:05like not down with this viewing of of watching it, and I really want
- 2:10:09to hear why, Well, i'd yeah, I'd really be interested in like
- 2:10:13getting his sort of like addendum, you know, or like getting his read
- 2:10:18on the movie at this point. Um, but yeah, we can.
- 2:10:24We can talk to him about it, right, Maybe we can get him
- 2:10:26to send in some some thoughts on the movie. Yeah, all right,
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