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Guardians of the Galaxy · The Art of Costume Podcast

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If you like Autumn de Wilde's, Emma, watch the movie and
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Centauri episode. It's a good one, it's one of my
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favorites. Okay, so I'm sorry.
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You don't need to hop on and agree or anything.
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Oh, smiling. And nodding.
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Yeah, this is an auditory right, right, right.
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Hello, knock on glass and I'm Star-Lord.
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Legendary Outlaw. Sure.
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Spencer. Uh-huh.
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Heard of that person before, Star-Lord.
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Legendary Outlaw never. Never heard of him.
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No, okay, nothing much. I see.
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You're drinking Lacroix again. Yeah, I'm really, really fallen
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off the rocker the past two weeks.
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Yeah. Haven't had water in a couple
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weeks. I think I need help.
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I'm back on the Lacroix bins. I can't help it.
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I just, it's been, it's been rough.
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You can also drink both of them. You know, you can have like
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water and I can oh look Roy. Oh, you can, it seems like it's
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on our father for you. So, see the thing is, I got that
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giant gallon water bottle, right?
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I was killing it. The first, you know, five six
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episodes of the season. I was Killing it.
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And I just have to keep filling it up every single day and it's
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just like, yeah, water bottle. I need help Elizabeth, maybe
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like maybe get two of them. I have like, I have two big
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water tumblers so like, I can swap them out.
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Oh, I see like a morning water bottle in the night.
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Water bottle. No, like I'll use one all day
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and then the next day, I'll use the other one.
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So I've like time to wash it. Oh, that's a good point.
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Yeah. I don't think Peter Quill drinks
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water. I don't think Peter Quill does
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drink water, but he's definitely on something because he's living
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in space everybody. This week.
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We watched Guardians of the Galaxy or are our space or space
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month. Our sci-fi month.
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Yes, I love Guardians of the Galaxy.
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It's one of my all-time favorite movies.
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I've seen the first one, the second one and Infamous an
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infinite amount of times I just, I've was Peter Quill AKA
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Star-Lord for Halloween. So I often over and then after
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feel, like I am Star-Lord, but I'm not, but I wish I was just
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like good Halloween costume for you.
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Oh my gosh. Thank you.
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I just, I love, I love everything about Guardians of
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the Galaxy. I love.
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I used to be obsessed with pirates growing up.
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Hmm, weren't we? All right.
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And then I discovered Guardians of the Galaxy and the comics.
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And now I'm like, I just want to be a space pirate who just
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parties and listens to 70s music and goes to clubs and has lots
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of girlfriends and hangs out with raccoon.
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Remember, their names? No, I love this movie,
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especially cuz, like, I don't know.
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It was like, the first Marvel movie where you were like, who
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are these people like What are it?
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Like I cuz cuz I don't read the comics.
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I was like. And then it was like so much fun
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and colorful unlike the rest of the Marvel movies, it was like,
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all right, at this point in the MCU, everyone knew every single,
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you know, character to come up, I mean Thor had, I think two
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movies at this point. Iron Man might have had two,
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maybe even three Captain America.
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Like, everyone knew the same characters and this is the first
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movie, because I remember when Came out and it was like,
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Guardians of the Galaxy like I didn't see it at first.
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I was like, okay. Like it's I wasn't so into the
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Marvel universe as I am now. Yeah.
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And now it's like the best I'm obsessed with them and I do have
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some of the comics now and they're just so fun.
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And there's anime TV shows and video games and it's just the
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funnest Universe out. There it is.
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It really is and I feel like we should just jump into this with
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a summary Spencer. How about we?
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Let's go. Go, let's do it.
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So in Guardians of the Galaxy Ronan, the Accuser is a little
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bit of. Shall we say knucklehead Maya,
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put it mildly. He currently has plans to purge
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the universe. When Peter Quill, AKA,
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Star-Lord, unknowingly steals, an orb wanted by Ronan Peters.
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Forced into an uneasy truce with, for criminal Misfits,
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gun-toting rocket Groot. Gamora, the most dangerous woman
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in the galaxy and Drax the Destroyer.
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And that is Guardians of the Galaxy wonderful summary.
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If you haven't seen this movie since its release in 2014, go
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watch, it's on Disney plus, I don't know what to tell ya.
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Yeah. They have a nice version on
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Disney plus now to, it's like you were upgraded.
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Yeah. They put out like, IMAX versions
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of everything. Yeah.
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And sweets on your TV right now. Look like, Okay, but let's go
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behind the Wardrobe brought To Us by The Genius director, James
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Gunn. I think he is a genius.
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That's just a personal opinion. I love, love.
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Love love, James Gunn. He's incredible incredible, but
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the equally incredible genius costume designer Alexandra burn.
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She's back. Yes.
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We had her for Emma. And now, we're looking at
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guardians of the Lexi. You will know her work from the
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1996 version of Hamlet for which she got an Oscar nomination,
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Elizabeth another Oscar nomination, Elizabeth the Golden
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Age and Oscar win, Finding Neverland, another Oscar
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nomination. You know, I've never seen that,
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but I'm starting to feel like I should watch it.
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Which one Finding Neverland with both, okay?
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Yes, to both. I was just really talking about
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Finding Neverland though, okay? Thor Avengers Age of Ultron.
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Doctor Strange murder on the Orient, Express Mary Queen of
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Scots, Oscar nomination, and Emma, another Oscar nomination,
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which we loved which we love. And if you like, Autumn de
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Wilde's, Emma watch, listen to her episode on it.
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Watch the movie and listen to her episode.
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It's a good one, it's one of my favorites.
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Okay, so I'm sorry you don't need to hop on and agree or
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anything. Oh, I'm smiling and nodding.
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Yeah, it's an auditory platform. Right, right?
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Right. Right.
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I love Elizabeth is over. I love our Emma episode.
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That was one of those episodes where I was not feeling like us
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to be. Trip because I've never even
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read Emma, but Elizabeth really brought me to the dark side.
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I love that movie so much and that episodes really fun.
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It is a fun episode but let's get it back into.
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Guardians Alexandra, did some great interviews in an interview
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with GQ Alexandra, talks about how like with all the comic
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book, movies, comic books are the starting place for her
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research. She said that, then she did, Big
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mood boards for each character and discuss them with our
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director James Gunn. We ended up with about 10
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different poster boards. They had everything on there
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from World War. One Pilot leather coats to
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pictures of David Bowie. It all becomes this big Melting
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Pot and then you distill it and being to hone your ideas shape
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proportion, and how the actor moves are very important because
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it dictates what clothes you're going to pick.
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They have to be Lows, not a costume or else you're dead in
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the water. I feel like that was, especially
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important for this because they go all over the Galaxy in this
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movie because I think this is the first movie to, like leave
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earth, right? And it's all well, except for
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Thor. But even that it's like mostly
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on Earth. There is very little, not on
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Earth, or they're in Asgard like two choices.
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Right? Which Asgard has like a very
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irate kind of Specific look. Yeah, Comics, it's Asgard.
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So you already know what that character looks like, but with
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Guardians of the Galaxy they really were starting with know
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like cinematic background to it already now and I love the idea
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like already talking about like the pilot leather coats and
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David Bowie. Like, that's clearly about
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Star-Lord, because he pulls a lot of references from Earth,
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which I think is super cool when it comes to time out costume
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designing. Definitely also another great
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aspect Of this movie is the color.
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She said in an interview with the credits.
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I use color as one of my main tools and I realized on
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Guardians that my use of color is very instinctive.
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It took me a while to find my sense of color because we were
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using such strong colors for different types of alien skin.
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Tone equally, I didn't want to shy away from using strong color
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in the clothes, which it's like, that's that makes so much sense
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because like it's kind of often, I like, oh, they have strong
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Jurors in the sets maybe go like you know a little less with the
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costumes because that would make them stand out but she's like no
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more color and it's like oh that is like what Guardians is more
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color on top of color. That's like such a challenge
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especially like Sonic characters are bright green or bright pink
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like hot pink. Yeah it's like but then they're
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in space of the like space backgrounds like very like, also
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bright colors even though it's space there's lots of color of
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what a Ins, I know she pulled it off, she also pulled off, this
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is a huge movie. Lots of like extras, lots of
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characters, lots of characters and in an interview with the
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credits, she was asked the question, you're not new new at
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films of this size. Does your process change at all
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when you're working on Marvel films compared to working on
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smaller films like Finding Neverland?
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And she said that whatever the size of the project we always
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work hard There is no end point. When designing, when designing
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ideas can keep evolving and Growing Experience means you get
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better at knowing when you need to stop the ideas and start
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making. So the so that the costumes are
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ready for filming. And it's like, oh that's such a
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good point. Like I can only imagine how many
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ideas she had four Guardians of the Galaxy like endless.
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I'm sure, but it's like, knowing which ones to like run with.
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That's where the skill comes in. Yeah, I mean, this film for I
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was like the ultimate Challenge back then, so I thought she just
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did a brilliant job this movie really set the tone for so many
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movies that come after it, in terms of the MCU.
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Yes. I mean, they created theme park
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rides. They created video games like so
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much came from the small movie that lot of people probably
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weren't in rooting for at the time.
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So I was so excited to get into it.
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I have my cassette tape player, ready and my alien blasters.
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Let's get this thing going. We'll be right back.
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support. Spencer, are you ready to dive
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in the Guardians of the Galaxy? The ready?
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Let's do it. Kind of accept the movie really
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starts. Really think.
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I'm okay. I'd forgotten how sad because
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it's been a hot second since I watched this.
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And I'd forgot how sad this one. I'm like, in my room, like,
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choking up, like, like feeling so sad, it's very sad.
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But first of all, if the character that plays young Peter
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Quill, is why Olaf, and I love him because he's from the it
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films. Yes, you really get to see his
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growth. Feel like he was such a young
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little boy and now, look at him. Now, he's such a cool guy.
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I know. He really is, like I wasn't even
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thinking to like look up. Up.
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It's like the actor's name because like most child actors
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like they, they might do like one big thing in the like
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nothing else. Like that's how it goes, a lot
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of the time, but then I saw, I saw his picture and I am DB, and
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I was like, I know that kid, but that very first costume, that
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young, Peter Quill is wearing, you might just think it's just
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like a kid, but, like his costume really says a lot about
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the person. He's going to be.
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He has the same like headphones that he's Taking these things
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with him when he gets kidnapped and taken to space.
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There's taking the headphones and his music and the shirt that
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he's wearing, like it really identifies him as a character.
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Yeah. It's really saying atone for his
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life, as an adult. Yeah.
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And it's so like Midwest 80s. The flannel the denim, the camp
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shirt, like, very 80s very versatile for going up into
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space as well, right? I mean, he can keep warm with
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this flannel. He was ready to go.
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It's like he almost knew this was gonna happen, so that's
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right. His little backpack ever.
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He had everything. But then it quickly jumps ahead.
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What 26 years later? And we have the brilliant Star.
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Lord, just dancing his way through his missions.
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I just had to put the cliff in here because this opening credit
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sequence of him dancing. Change my life.
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I think I don't know. I was like I didn't know credit
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sequences could be this interesting.
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Right. It was really fun.
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It's with this is kind of like the big beginning of like of
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Chris Pratt to like he was doing Parks and Rec and I believe this
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is when he got all built because he was going to this Marvel
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film. Yes is like his big Premiere
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like everyone was like oh my gosh is that is that Andy from
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Parks and Rec? Yeah Alexander is actually
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talking about it a little bit because he really did Did they
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did say they didn't tell him to like, get in shape.
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They were like, it's whatever you want to do, but he made the
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choice to like, really like get in shape.
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And she talked about a little bit.
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She said she was like, yeah we had to keep guessing like what
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his silhouette was going to because he kept working out
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working out working out. So it was really a kind of like
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a guessing game in terms of fit. But for look, they knew what
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they were going for 2gq Alexandra said, Peter's kind of
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a cowboy, or a rock star, or an outlaw.
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So we wanted scale and movement. We needed to believe he could
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fly in outer space, with that jacket and helmet on.
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I had to fulfill functions that aren't of this world.
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The danger of doing anything futuristic, is that it becomes
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wacky or pretend. So you need to be grounded in
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clothing. I love that.
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That's a great quote because it's so true.
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Like it is. Yeah, really futuristic.
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It's just like he's a space Outlaw.
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So he's wearing kind of like a space cowboy but he's also like
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very into music. So it has like a very metal feel
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to it like that is start Lord. It is Star-Lord.
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And I like what she's saying is, she's like yeah, it needs to
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like you to believe, he'll fly through outer space and it's
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like with the leather. I'd never thought of this.
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But it's like an outer space where nothing has.
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Wait. It does give some like wait to
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how he looks. It's so it doesn't seem crazy
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that he's like, flying through space.
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And I'm like, huh. Yeah, so while his amazing red
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leather, duster is great for the opening sequence.
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It's not really practical for the rest of the movie.
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And he has this great, like, motorcycle jacket.
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And Alexandra, said, 2gq about it for the second jacket, we try
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to find fabrics and textiles that worked with Peters
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extended. A thriving ders.
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Again, it's something that isn't known to us in this world.
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So it's quite difficult, the textile artist and I came up
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with the pattern and and scale and did lots of experiments with
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the printing and hombre. As for the zip on the front of
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the jacket, which looks like a double-edged dinosaur tooth.
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I found that at a textile there in Paris there was a lot of
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refining and different things. Coming together until we put the
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jacket on him and said, hmm. I think that works.
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Well, it certainly did. She was right?
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I mean, that's special kind of look on Peter Quill as
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Star-Lord, it is. And it looks so simple, just
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like when you see it from the front but then you see from the
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side and there's all these like different little like buttons
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and like tabs. I'm just, like little details to
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it that like you don't really get to notice, but it looks like
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it, makes it very easy. To move in.
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Yeah, a little buckles are worried because he's very
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durable, but also like easy to move around in.
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It's perfect for him. Hmm.
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Yeah, absolutely. I love it so much, and I'll just
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say that the music in this film is still incredible to stay.
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I listened to the playlist. I kid, you not multiple times a
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week, it's the only CD that's in my car.
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So when you get in my car it plays immediately.
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Not because I turn it on it. Just it's the preset like
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function to Mike. No, I believe it is.
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All your music like that is what?
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Oh, she's yelling at her cat. Why are you mad at me?
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There's this cat. I had to wake up at 4:00 this
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morning for work. So not happy.
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Not happy times. This one decides to wake me up
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at 1:30 in the morning. Nice, gets off my bed yowza.
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Me until I get off my bed. Pick her up and put her back on
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my bed. Sanity Insanity.
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Right guys, let's see. Susan's really excited to watch
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Guardians of the Galaxy. Hey one was OK.
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Anyways, carry on with the podcast.
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We're introduced to Korea wrath one of ronan's henchmen, and I
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always loved his luck, because it's like, you're like, oh, he's
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a human then you're like cyborgs?
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Yeah, he's kind of an evil guy, korath.
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I believe he might be crazy, maybe, but he does really have
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the skin tone of Cree. I'm not sure if they all do
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though. But yeah, so he's definitely he
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works for Own. And so he has a little bit of a
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darker look to him, he wears like a black kind of he has like
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a darker armor to him very scary but also like kind of humanistic
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at the same time, which is a lot different than his comic book
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character which is a very, very different similar to Ronan but
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yeah. Just so different.
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It's very built and bulky and red.
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Yeah, lots of red eye. What I like about his is because
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like Ronan is like Like a supposed to be like a religious
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fanatic and I like korath armor because it's almost like
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gladiatorial like, very Roman. Yeah.
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Ask and I'm like, it fits with Ronan so well yeah.
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And with their little soldier, guys love these guys, I'm like
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your evil but you look cool korres troops have like some
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cool armor on so I get it I would I want to be a park or a
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screw also If I had to, if I had to pick a evil crew to hang out
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with, yeah, but Peter Quill is not interested in hanging out
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with them and escapes. Back to his ship, where his lady
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from the other night is wearing his childhood t-shirt.
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Okay, I did not realize until ten minutes ago when we were
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recording the beginning of this podcast.
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I realize she's wearing his shirt from when he was a kid in
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the hospital. Yeah, like like I mean, I 90%,
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sure. It's the same, sure, but I'm not
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positive, but I'm like, it's definitely one of his shirts
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from when he was a kid. Thank he kept a shirt in mint
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condition, right? Oh, no.
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It's a kind of weird to have your lady friend, who spent the
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night on your spaceship to be wearing one of your childhood
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shirts. Well, yeah, but he forgot she
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was there and she probably just found it herself.
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Yeah, I guess that's true. I love burritos.
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She's a great character for every I'm just like what did you
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do after this? What, what, what happened to
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you? What if she's still living on
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that ship only? I just have to say that her the
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pink like skin color is beautiful.
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I love it. Yes, they did a great job with
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all the aliens especially our boy.
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Leave Pace. Playing Ronan.
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Oh my gosh, the pie makers back for a second row on the podcast
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pie makers back and he's Evil. Yeah.
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Lee Pace. Kills it in this role.
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Use a scary dude. He is and just like like the
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veil of armor hat. Just like, he's so decked out.
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I'm like, dude, what are you doing?
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Yeah, he's an evil guy. His armor is just pure evil and
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it's actually probably one of the closest costumes to the
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comic book reference like and if you At most, you know, comic
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book references and marveled at references, Ronan, the Accuser
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cuz he pops up quite a lot. He does kind of have the same
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silhouette so Alexandra definitely was like we didn't
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want to mess with the Ronin silhouette.
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It's very recognizable. Very scary wasn't much more that
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she had to do. I know and I like it because it
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fits in with that like religious fanatic, it almost looks like
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you know religious Garb especially with like the veil
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piece, I'm like Ooh, you're scary.
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And then, especially his little dressing seen.
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Yeah. Everything's getting put on him.
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I'm like, I'm assuming you just like can't remove this until
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your mission is over like, okay, right.
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It's he has quite the morning routine, puts on like a little
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moisturizer, a little glow, yellow powder, a little dusting,
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a little dusting, some black war paint.
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It's a lot. And I always, Loved his like
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handmaidens I guess like is what I guess that's what they are
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because they have like the coolest costumes and they look
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like like nuns and they're in it for like two seconds.
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I would honestly love. I was thinking about this today.
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I would love a director's cut of this but where you learn more
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about the Nova Corps, like their planet and like ronan's whole
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deal. Yeah.
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Yeah. Like because his planet seems to
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be like and that we're not associated with him, but we're
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also not going to do anything about him, why?
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Yeah, there's a lot of great detail in the Guardians of the
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Galaxy Universe. Specially de Nova Corps, I would
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definitely suggest on Disney plus, I know it's a cartoon but
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there was an animated series The Gardens of the Galaxy.
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It's like three seasons long. They're like short little, like
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20 minute episodes. It has a lot to do if like the
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According to learn some, like, great stuff that kind of like
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accurately displays what happens in a Comics to appoint, a
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believe Ronan. Yeah, Trona does have a role in
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it too, but yeah, I would love there's so many great costumes
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in this movie. That you don't even get this
26:18
week because they're there for like, a split second.
26:21
No. Yeah, no.
26:23
So, I'm just saying Disney plus a miniseries about everything
26:28
that happened around this movie, the politics, the Intrigue.
26:33
What exactly Ronan's deal is right, but we're very quickly on
26:39
Nova Corps because, Peter Quill, has something he should not
26:42
have, but we have the wonderful Stanley.
26:48
This is one of my favorite cameos actually, because it's
26:51
narrated by rocket who sees, Stanley talking to this woman.
26:56
I believe rocket calls him a pervert.
27:01
That's a good joke. That's like, S.
27:04
So I just love all these scenes that take place on Xander.
27:08
It's like a place that I feel like I would love to live at,
27:12
you know. I know mores and are, but we
27:17
have the broker played by Christopher Fairbank, which I
27:22
forgot how big a part of this movie.
27:24
He was, he's in a couple of scenes and he kills it.
27:28
He looks crazy, but he kills it and I love his soup because it's
27:33
like It looks like just a regular plain old soup, but
27:37
like, the little stand-up collar, someone like the smaller
27:40
details, the purple. Really like, gives it just that
27:44
little, like, flair for, like outer space.
27:46
But I'm like, ooh, I like it. Yeah, it's like a very, like
27:50
this character is very like, out of this world.
27:54
Something we've never seen before, but he's wearing like
27:57
very much like designer clothes that we would see on Earth.
28:01
The thing that makes it like more space.
28:04
Month as we would say, would be the caller for me like that
28:07
stand-up collar. Makes it more futuristic to me.
28:11
Yeah, he knows a little bit more than he's letting on.
28:14
He knows what's going on in this movie.
28:16
He just doesn't feel like telling anybody unless he gets
28:18
paid. He's just like, I don't want to
28:21
deal with it, man. I'm done.
28:23
No. Thank you.
28:25
But uh, who isn't done with it? Gamora, Zoe Saldana.
28:31
I love Gomorrah. Definitely top three Marvel
28:36
Cinematic Universe characters for me.
28:38
I love Gomorrah. She is the best and I'm so glad
28:42
that she is going to be in a third Guardians of the movie
28:45
Guardians movie, because I really thought that she died and
28:48
if any war and that was very traumatic for me for like that
28:52
whole year and a half where I thought she might be dead.
28:55
I know. I know that was like, shocking,
29:00
it was so shocking, especially when she's like.
29:02
Huh, you don't love anything and he's Like yeah, I do push, but
29:09
her costume. It's very cool.
29:12
It's actually kind of dressed down compared to her more comic
29:15
book appearances in the comics. She's usually always like
29:18
armored from neck down, but she's a little bit more
29:22
comfortable. I should say in the film and the
29:27
following film. But she's like also like super
29:30
dangerous though. She doesn't need heavy armor
29:33
because you're not going to to touch her.
29:34
Like you're not going to bring a sword or Blaster to her.
29:37
So she's just a little bit more comfortable able to move around
29:41
easier because she's not worried about you coming close to her,
29:44
no nor should she be? And because of that, she's got
29:48
these, this like great, like almost like overall situation
29:54
with this, like very sheer black top and I'm like, oh yes, get it
30:00
Gomorrah. I like it.
30:03
I Go more so much. She's my she's my movie Crash
30:07
that's Gomorrah. Yeah, I also love all of her
30:11
rings. She's just like I'm not worried
30:13
about them getting caught on anything.
30:15
They won't know if anything they're going to help her when
30:18
she beats you up, trying to take the orb away, getting punched
30:21
with all those Rings. Dang, good.
30:24
More is a big deal. Yeah.
30:25
Yes she is. Also, a big deal is the Nova
30:30
Corps with John. See I always forget John, see
30:34
Riley's in this and then he's in it and I'm like, look at you
30:38
man. It's so funny.
30:41
It's definitely like a comic relief because when I think of
30:43
the Nova Corps, they're very like very serious.
30:47
Very official. They don't joke at all and then
30:50
I cast a John C Reilly to like they're a little bit fun.
30:54
They definitely brought like a little bit more Humanity to the
30:56
Nova Corps which Usually, they're just very statuesque, I
31:01
love their uniforms. They're very badass.
31:05
They're, they're serious. They are serious.
31:08
They're so cool. And I kind of like it, because,
31:11
like, so far is and ours, been very, like Airy and like bright
31:14
and like modern, but then, there are soldiers, are like, serious
31:19
business, very like, bulky, dark colors.
31:23
The little like, the, on their chest, unlike ooh.
31:27
Yeah, I can see if it wasn't John C Reilly I'd be a little
31:30
scared. Yes.
31:31
The NOAA Corps doesn't mess around and the comics are
31:34
actually like super extra and I love how the costume designer.
31:39
She really kind of like, brought them down a little bit to make
31:41
them feel a little bit more realistic and recognizable.
31:45
Absolutely. And then we also get introduced
31:49
to Rocket and Groot, and I have to say rocket and his little
31:55
jumpsuits. So, Or of all they make me so
31:59
happy. I love Rocket and Groot so much.
32:03
They bring me so much. Joy.
32:06
I'm nervous because what doesn't third Guardians movie that's
32:10
gonna be coming out. Is gonna be the end of like this
32:12
team as we know it. But I think some of them will
32:14
stick around. I think that's Rocket and Groot.
32:18
So yeah, I love them. They're so great.
32:21
Rocket is hilarious and grew just like, makes you so happy.
32:25
It's just such a pure. Fun soul.
32:29
I know he is he is but um unfortunately all of them have
32:35
now been captured by the Nova Corps.
32:38
And we're going to take a little break before we look at their
32:42
Prison Break. We're going to prison yay-hey
33:02
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prison. Or is scary prison in outer
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space. I am Groot.
33:54
Wasn't ready for this but um, their prison uniforms pretty
34:00
great looking. Yeah, I love that.
34:04
They put them on yellow and I love that they even make rocket
34:07
have to wear the little little yellow prison outfit by just see
34:11
what I want to walk around naked either even though he's a
34:13
raccoon. Yeah, where's that line?
34:16
At what point do we start forcing animals to wear
34:18
clothing? I don't know when they become
34:21
sentence sentient and decide they want to.
34:23
You okay? Anyway, he's got that question.
34:34
Yes, anyway, the costumes are very specific to each character
34:40
Gomorrah. Showing off the arms, so she's
34:42
ready to crush. You and Peter's rolling his
34:45
sleeves up, which is very Peter. And in Drax isn't wearing a
34:49
shirt, because Drax does not wear shirts.
34:52
He doesn't, he just doesn't even in the comics tracks, doesn't
34:55
wear shirts. It's just, you do not push her
34:58
on this. Man.
34:59
And I love they each on the like, I guess left leg of each
35:04
prison uniform. There's like, what looks like
35:07
writing and I always like to think I'm like, I wonder if that
35:11
says, like who they are and what they're in prison for and it's
35:14
like you got good Maura all this black death like everything
35:19
rocket. A long list of probably like
35:21
white collar and like bra fights Drax similar like broth broth.
35:28
Ah, fights and like going crazy. And then you have Peter Quill,
35:33
it's probably like misdemeanors, and, right?
35:37
I'm like, petty theft. His track record isn't very big,
35:42
like, I don't know if that's what it is, but I like it makes
35:45
me laugh to think that's what it is.
35:47
I love that idea. That's actually a great concept.
35:50
I wouldn't be surprised if you're right.
35:53
Yeah. But I often that I often am not
35:56
surprised because you're often Thanks, thank you, I try but
36:02
they don't spend long in the prison and the best prison
36:06
escape ever. It's so fun so funny.
36:09
I love watching them Escape like that moment when rocket gets the
36:13
gun and he's like, oh yeah it's just so good.
36:17
Peter has to take that one guy's leg, which is hilarious.
36:22
It's just a really great scene. It's actually really fun and
36:25
beautiful to like the way it's shot.
36:27
And Effect like the visual effects, just grade a
36:31
extraordinary, it's fantastic. But they very quickly, go to see
36:36
The Collector and we have Karina one of his slaves.
36:43
Who I'm just like you are creepy and adorable, all the same time.
36:55
You feel bad for her. She's a slave, but Looks like
36:58
really cute. She's because she's like the
37:01
bright pink alien and then she's got this like, this like pastel
37:07
pink, like 1960s with the little Frills on the bottom and like
37:13
that, like, silver accents, and I'm like, oh yeah, like maybe
37:18
the collector, got this dress from like Earth or something,
37:21
and she's wearing it. It does look very cute on her,
37:25
but like, something about her to, like you said, like, It's
37:28
it, right? Like she's plotting something.
37:31
She's looking for her way out. Oh.
37:33
And she finds it. Yeah, cuz it turns out the
37:36
reason the collector wanted this or was because there's an
37:40
infinity stone in it and we get to see Benicio del Toro, I was
37:45
The Collector and he is fantastic.
37:48
He plays this role so well. Like he is the collector and
37:53
there's so many instances of the collector in the comics and the
37:58
Is like, almost a very accurate to the T also is this the sky of
38:03
crazy white hair Firs, a dramatic, Cape.
38:07
Like this guy thinks he's the shit and he knows it and his
38:11
costume says that it will. Absolutely.
38:14
I, I love it because he's got like this sheepskin Cape with
38:20
like a leopard print sleeve. And it's just like, all these
38:24
different like, textiles and patterns.
38:27
And his, I love his little No glasses.
38:28
When they first come in and he dramatically takes them.
38:31
All, I'd tell you something about these glasses like these
38:34
glasses, make people creepy. Sometimes we just talked about
38:37
this on the Gilded Age if with the van rijn son and like the
38:43
collectors, the same thing, he's wearing his glasses like, oh
38:46
this dude sucks and he takes them off and you're like,
38:48
there's no glasses those glasses to, right?
38:52
That's why I'm saying it's like under your side.
38:54
Spencer, it's something about these.
38:57
These like Make steampunk type glasses at just automatically
39:01
make you like kind of a creepy dude, I agree.
39:04
I agree. You know who's also very creepy
39:06
nebula played by Karen Gillan, What an interesting character.
39:12
So I love Karen Gillan but before this her big breakout
39:17
role was on Doctor Who where she played Amy Pond, my least
39:22
favorite of the companions. So I was kind of biased against
39:26
her. Nebula and I was like, you're
39:32
such a terrible character, but I kind of love, you don't mess
39:35
with Elizabeth and her doctor, who she will fight.
39:38
No, I love nebulas. She's great and I loved her
39:43
costume too. Because it's very like she has
39:46
lots of like, robotic, cyborg ish and the handsome ants and
39:50
her costume really shows that too because it's very like
39:53
humanoid but also like a love like a mechanical pieces to it
39:57
as well. Yeah, and it's, there's lots of,
40:00
like, access points for her to fix herself like, which he often
40:05
does. I'm just like, oh, like, what is
40:09
left of you? That is human.
40:11
Like, yeah. Not much not much.
40:15
She's not human. But she's not Crea.
40:17
There's another word for it, but I'm not trying to get in to that
40:20
nerdy of a world for you all today.
40:26
Yeah. That's definitely not.
40:28
Not go there right now. I don't think any of us are in a
40:30
mental space to do that since we can't even say people's names
40:35
apparently. But I do love her, just like her
40:39
purple jumpsuit because it's like it's that thing of like the
40:43
color on the color because she's blue and purple and silver
40:46
already and then like even though it's not a bright color,
40:50
it's a very strong purple that like really pops on top of the
40:55
rest of it. Yeah.
40:57
That's such a good. I am glad you brought that up.
40:59
I think it's just really has to do with the like, Lighting on
41:02
this film to, like the lighting really complemented the use of
41:05
color as well. Yeah, is that first, I bet you
41:08
in the makeup room, they were probably like, mmm.
41:10
I don't know how this is gonna work, but it really does and
41:14
it's beautiful. And it is, it is also beautiful,
41:19
the ravager beautiful. That's a bit of a stretch.
41:24
No, I love their costumes, but yeah.
41:28
They're so cool. Our space pirates, they look so
41:32
cool. And you can see where Peter
41:34
Quill definitely gets a style from absolutely because they're
41:38
all in the red maroon e leather. They're all like yeah we're
41:43
space pirates. What about it?
41:46
They don't care. Especially their Captain yondu
41:51
played by one of your favorites. Spencer I love Michael Rooker.
41:57
He is so Good. And I cannot think of anyone
42:00
else to play on. Do he is great.
42:04
At it. Yondu is a old character from
42:08
the comics, which is lots of fun.
42:10
But his character in the comics is so camping over the top of
42:14
his costume. Like he's doing kind of like a
42:17
crop top type via off-the-shoulder moment with
42:21
some spikes and leather and kind of a speedo situation and his
42:26
his fin on the top of his head. Head is like Mohawk style with
42:30
super tall. So when they created this
42:32
character for the film and guessing Alexandra was like,
42:37
yeah, we're gonna have to dial this down a little bit.
42:42
I think she was like hard pass. I think that was more like it
42:46
but I don't think Michael Rooker would wear this.
42:50
No, no, but it's the ravagers that give them their actual
42:57
hero. 64, the movie are Misfits Alexandra, said 2gq.
43:04
The hero looks were defined by the ravagers color was highly
43:08
important in the film. There was quite a lot of color
43:11
blocking. So I wanted the ravagers to have
43:14
a distinctive palette, which is a bluish burgundy that goes into
43:18
a hot sandy burgundy. I wanted to make them look
43:22
individual but still have a sense of uniform.
43:26
So there's five generations of Lavender uniforms all mixed up
43:31
there. The hero look had to be the
43:34
latest and the greatest Chris's outfit was determined by his
43:39
shape, the guns and Rockets so there's a lot of practicalities
43:44
to consider but practical is good because it cuts your
43:48
decision making process. You have to make those things
43:51
work. So she was like yes the
43:53
ravagers, the last I feel like the last, like third of this
43:57
movie is all about, Out there rap and your look, oh yeah, it's
44:01
so funny that they, they all have these great costumes.
44:05
You know. Drax once again not wearing a
44:06
shirt but he has ravaged your pants on.
44:09
Uh-huh. Well, I think it's funny though
44:10
is that they give one specifically for rocket and
44:13
like, did they have a raccoon sighs?
44:16
Ravaged, her uniform. I love that.
44:20
Unless the ravagers have like a seamstress on board their ship,
44:25
the ravagers probably is like the The ship Taylor and was
44:29
like, oh yes, we can get you something ready to feel fit?
44:34
I feel like that person is on yondu's crew.
44:37
Yeah, feel so good and Peter Quill's, look, you know, it's
44:40
very Star-Lord but still ravagers as well and Gomorrah.
44:44
I mean, she just she looks so fine, so good, so good.
44:51
But also in the second half of this, we get a lot more of the
44:55
Nova Corps, especially Nova I'm played by Glenn Close.
45:00
Yeah. Out this door.
45:02
Glenn Close on this. I know, I'm like, man, what are
45:07
you looking doing here? Looking so Dapper and beautiful.
45:10
Like I loved her costume, the tailoring and like the top part
45:15
of this suit, she's wearing is exquisite.
45:18
It's beautiful. The pleading, the little like
45:21
shoulder detail gorgeous. And then again, we have John C
45:26
Reilly and something very similar.
45:28
Allure and it's like ooh yes! Nova Corps.
45:30
Has it locked? Down in terms of matchy match?
45:33
Okay, we love of Matt's events above it, we do.
45:39
And then I also love how like, by the end of the movie, do you
45:43
know that Guardians of the Galaxy or being bankrolled by
45:46
the Nova Corps? I love rocket and Drax.
45:52
They're just like took whatever the Nova Corps gave them and
45:57
then clearly go. We're at went shopping for
45:59
herself with her cute little like leather skirt number and
46:03
Peter was like, what clothes do you Salvage from my ship?
46:09
Yeah, so once again, Nova Corps had like their little seamstress
46:13
and they were like we need to whip up a bunch of costumes.
46:16
One for a raccoon and one for a guy who doesn't wear a shirt.
46:19
Hmm. So they made rack some really
46:21
nice pants Gomorrah when she was on ronan's ship.
46:26
She must have ran to her bedroom real quick.
46:28
We can gather up some for clothing.
46:30
She pulled out this very nice, like a black number that just
46:33
like, so good on her. It's very like, it's a gives me
46:37
like very like military officer. Kind of like Star Wars Vibes.
46:41
Yeah. Very like Imperial officer very
46:44
sick. Very sick.
46:46
This is her like being dressed up for something.
46:49
You know what? You know what a gives me?
46:51
I just, I've been thinking about this all day, it gives me Fifth
46:55
Element Vibes, mmm. It always goes back to The Fifth
46:59
Element. Yeah.
47:03
And Peter Quill dresses up as much as he would for this sort
47:06
of thing. Yeah, yeah, that's cards of the
47:10
Galaxy know. There's lots of action,
47:11
sequences Ronan, the Accuser, eventually loses after a couple
47:18
dance battles, Groot is crushed and the explosion of the ship
47:24
which is really sad, but we're given Baby Groot.
47:27
Yeah. Yeah, we're get for a baby group
47:30
worth it for baby group. I kind of hoping this third film
47:33
since we saw like a teenage group and and game that we get
47:36
to see like that growing up. Grew again, that'd be cool.
47:39
I think we will. Yeah, that's a good movie.
47:43
So much fun. Just I wish we could play music
47:47
on this podcast. We need to like listen to some
47:50
some tracks. I know, I know I love like the
47:55
beginning and end of this movie are so sentimental.
47:58
Which I think is really what helps like it gets in your heart
48:01
man. When he reads the letter from
48:03
his mom gift of like was it the most awesome play mix part 2 or
48:09
something? Yeah, it's they were just go
48:12
straight to the heart. I think one of the reasons why I
48:14
love this film to is just it is so like high energy, upbeat,
48:19
positive great music. Like it's you know, what does
48:21
that leave? You really feeling too sad at
48:25
all you're just feel happy just like pure joy.
48:28
Which is why I love Guardians of the Galaxy.
48:30
It's not until Guardian, start messing with the other Avengers.
48:33
When things start getting sad. I know, I know they should have
48:37
they should have kept themselves to themselves, well, like I'm
48:40
sure he'd wanted to be fair. Chris Hemsworth did Splat on to
48:45
their windshield. That's true.
48:47
That's true. That was a little unavoidable
48:52
but Spencer. Are you ready for our favorite
48:54
game? Oh, you know, I am.
48:58
The one costume to rule them all.
49:06
One costume to rule them all. Spencer, what was yours?
49:10
My pic was actually really easy this week.
49:13
I'm in love with Peter Quill, Star-Lord.
49:15
Look, it's just to me, it's iconic.
49:18
It's very inspired by like the ravagers Pirates.
49:22
He's like a cowboy, there's lots of inspiration.
49:25
You could tell that he, you know, he really draws from his
49:28
childhood watching movies, he talks about in a second one, he
49:31
loves like David Hasselhoff and he talks about Kevin Bacon in
49:36
Footloose. If like, he draws a lot of his
49:38
inspiration from like the 80s, which you really see that in his
49:41
costume, I also love how heavily inspired his costume, is by like
49:45
music and like metal and rock and roll and David Bowie and all
49:49
these people. He listens to, you could like
49:51
see that in a costume. Absolutely it's just a great
49:56
costume. I just I love everything about
49:58
it and you know definitely one of my favorite Marvel costumes
50:02
of all time. I gotta say that's a good choice
50:05
but um I gotta go with Ronan. Oh, I should have saw this one
50:09
coming. Miss Pushing Daisies over here?
50:15
It's like I love how inspired it is by the comic, but it's also
50:20
like, it's such. It's own thing, it's so
50:23
upgraded, it's so scary and daunting, but it's like, you
50:27
know, there's meaning behind every piece for a him.
50:31
I love it. I think it's brilliant.
50:33
Yeah, it's so cool, it's scary. The armor is just so
50:38
interesting. You could tell it has like, lots
50:40
of like religious sentimental value to Ronan at the same time.
50:44
So it's very serious. Spencer, what are we in this in
50:50
this month of sci-fi this month of space?
50:53
What are we watching next? We're actually taking a little
50:56
bit of an interesting turn. I'm pleased to say that
51:01
Sigourney Weaver will be back next week along with Alan
51:06
Rickman Come in, yes and even better.
51:09
We'll be joined by a very, very special guest next week.
51:13
The man, the myth, the legend Lord, Dan a white, our audio
51:18
engineer will be making his hosting debut Lord.
51:22
Dan White is joining us finally I hope he remembers he's
51:27
probably listening to this episode like I am you are little
51:31
it was on your it was on Daniels list of choices of what he
51:35
thought we should. Could do absolute flops.
51:38
Daniel pick this episode. That's yeah.
51:41
Don't if you're not interested in Galaxy Quest, don't blame us.
51:44
No, I love this movie. I watched it so much growing up
51:49
and I was so excited to see, it's been years.
51:52
This is one of my mom's favorite movies so we watched it
51:55
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Everybody head out into the cosmos and have a wonderful
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week. See you all next week, see you
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Peter's forced into an uneasy truth with, for desperate
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Misfits. Desperate desperate, desperate,
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desperate desperate, right. I'm just gonna say with for
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Misfits. Let's try that again.
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Okay? For criminal Misfits.
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There you go. Yeah, Peter's forced into an
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uneasy truth. Damn it.
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You got me off Peter's for sent to an uneasy truce with for
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Miss? Damn it.
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Okay. Like I have to take that out
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though. No.
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Okay we got this. You got it.
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I believe in you. We're not gonna get through this
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episode at this rate. Yes, we are.