March 2, 2026

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 comedy that blends humor with character-driven storytelling, featuring standout performances from Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and John Cleese. The film explores themes of manipulation, love, and the complexities of relationships, all while maintaining a timeless comedic appeal. The characters are well-developed, and the writing is precise, contributing to the film's success as a sleeper hit. Despite some cultural sensitivities, the film remains a beloved classic that resonates with audiences today.

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Season 61988 MoviesComedy

"A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood." In this episode. we discuss the sleeper hit comedy 'A Fish Called Wanda.' The movie stars John Clesse, Jaime Lee Curtis and Oscar Winner Kevin Kline. Directed by Charles Crichton

A Fish Called Wanda - IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095159/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_a%20fish%20calle
A Fish Called Wanda - Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_fish_called_wanda

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Hello, and welcome to the All Eighties Movies podcast podcast,

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where we talked about the block listeners, love flocks, and

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everything in between from one of the freshest decades from

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movies for nineteen eighties. I'm host Bill Banton Long McBeal.

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This journey revisiting eighties movies is my co host Jason Massek. Hello, Jason, Bill.

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Don't ever, ever, ever call me stupid.

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That's right, listeners, we are discussing with spoilers of Plenty,

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the nineteen eighty eight comedy kper a fish called Wanda.

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It was produced and distributed by MGM. The movie stars

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John Cleasee, Jimmy Lee Curtis, Kevin Klein, and Michael Palin.

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Directed by Charles Crichton, this movie is rated R with

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the running time of one hour and forty eight minutes.

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The movie was nominated for three Oscars, for Best Writing,

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Screenplay Written directly for the screen, Best Director, and winning

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for Best Actor in the supporting role Kevin Klein. So

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what is this movie about? What's on the box? If

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you grew up in the nineteen eighties and went to

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your local video store to rent this movie, you would

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find this description on the back of the VHS box.

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It is What's on the box, Take it Away. Jason

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Jewel Thief. Wanda Gershwitz Jamie Lee Curtis is every Englishman's

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dream of the sexy American babe, brash, bright eyed and buxom.

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Barrister Archie Leech John Clees is the quintessential Englishman, polite,

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poised and nearly comatose. Under normal circumstances, they might never meet,

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but in a fish called Wanda, they're about to come

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crashing together in a hilarious clash of cultures. Kevin Klein

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and Michael palin Co star in this mad cap crime

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caper about a band of bumbling thieves who rip off

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a cash of diamonds from London's elegant jewelry district. The

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perfect heist soon turns into a perfect mess when the

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gang's double dealing ringleader, George, is arrested. What's more, he's

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hidden the diamonds and isn't telling where. That leaves Wanda

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with one option seduce George's lawyer. So she sets the

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bait and launches one of the wackiest deductions ever seen

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on the screen. Sink your hooks into this outrageous comedy

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written by Monty Python's John Plice and directed by Charles Crichton.

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A fish called Wanda, Fish called Wanda, So that was

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what's in the box? Jason? Do you remember when you

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first saw fish called Wanda? No, that's it, that's it.

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I don't.

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I just think I vaguely recall seeing it in the

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theater with the fam. I can't be totally sure. I

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only know I remember watching on a cable more than

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a few times as a kid, and I always thought

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it was funny, always looked forward to the parts with

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Kevin Klein. And although I always enjoyed the movie, I

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just I can't remember many specifics about it outside some

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of Klein's antics, including eating fish right out of the tank.

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So not a lot when it comes to the early

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memories for me. How about you, Bill Bant?

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Yeah, this was definitely a rental, and I remember my

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mom was rolling off the couch with Ken's attempts to

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kill the old lady expect the third one. She just

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lost it. Yeah, that always stands out to me. I

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don't remember hearing her laugh that hard, so that will

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always stick with me. That's memory I always have associated

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with this movie.

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That's fantastic because I also laughed out loud during those

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scenes during this revisit, so really looking forward to talking

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about it with you.

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Man. All right, let's talk about a fish called Wanda.

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So what are our impressions of this movie?

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Well, as I mentioned, you know, I was looking forward

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to seeing this again for you know, a lot of

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different reasons. It's been many, many years since I watched it.

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It's funny how it just kind of seemed to be

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under the radar. But my first impression is that I

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throw enjoy this movie, Bill, I just do. There is

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the nostalgic attachment of it, just the fact that I

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remember loving it so much as a kid that upon

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rewatching cable etc. On vhs, like you said you had

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rented it, no doubt I had rented it at some

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point as well. And I just laughed my butt off.

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That's all there is to it. So it was a

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little different watching this as an adult because my sensibilities

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have changed and my sense of humor is probably adjusted

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over time, there's no question. So some of the things

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I think I found funny as a kid during you know,

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whether it be like pratt Fall kind of comedy or

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physical comedy, versus the actual witty dialogue, et cetera. The

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kind of farcical nature of the film and things like that,

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all the hijinks. Some of it hit and some of

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it didn't for me. But overall, I don't want to

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come off overly nice about it or sound like, oh,

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it was just okay.

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It was really good.

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It's really well written and just a really easy watch,

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just a really fun watch.

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It's all say about that.

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What's your initial or first impression upon the revisit as

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an adult?

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So this is my big surprise watching this movie. So

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who to you was the standout character? And we have

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a lot of odd and bizarre characters in this movie.

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Who was the standout to you upon this rewatch? For me,

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the standout was Michael Palin. I think he's really really

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funny in this and now we can well, I have

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this written down. I wanted to discuss the stutter with

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you and how that hits you watching it today and

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maybe today's climate, et cetera. Sensitivity wise, I think you

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know what I'm talking about, but I appreciate what you know.

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What he was doing. He made me I couldn't keep

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my eyes off him every time he was on the

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screen because I think for me, Kevin Klein is a standout,

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no question, in the way of He's got a lot

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of the obvious funny parts. So I was already like

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predicting those and seeing those coming versus Michael Palin kind

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of surprised me a little more upon this watch.

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How about you, man, who was your standout? Jamie Lee Curtis.

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I love her. Yeah, I think this is my favorite

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movie with her in it because the premise of the movie,

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it's four people that are robbing diamonds and it's her

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and Auto, George and Ken. And then just the way

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she constantly manipulates everyone. Yep, I mean she has everyone

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eating out of the Palmer hand. And then John Clice's

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character Archie. Just the subtle things she would do in

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the movie when she goes to see Archie and she

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takes off her glasses and she blinks her eyes like

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she has a hard time seeing him, all those little

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nuanced things, or when Ken arrives at the flat and

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she pretends she's on the phone. She is just working

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these guys throughout the movie and none of them have

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any clue. I thought she was amazing. I couldn't believe

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how much I enjoyed her. I mean, Kevin Glyne won

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the Oscar for it, but I'm like, she almost should

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have gotten nominated, just how she manipulates everyone this movie.

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And she was just cracking me up anytime any of

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the characters are speaking foreign language, and she would just

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get all hot and bothered. That stuff was cracking me

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up too. I couldn't believe how much I liked her

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in this film.

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I mean, I have to agree wholeheartedly. She is so

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good and so adorable. She plays the comedy very well,

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so there's a little bit of the overtop nature of it.

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But she's extremely seductive, man. I mean, she I got

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it hook line and sinker. And if she I mean,

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I would have been one of these poor SAPs that

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fell into her trap, you know, easily, easily, very sexy,

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and you would just fall prey completely. I mean, she's

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the femme fatale. And I was watching the end of

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this film just before we're recording here, and there's a

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moment where Archie played by John Cleese, has felt like

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he's been taken by her in a way. She's been duplicitous,

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of course, and she's playing games and being extremely manipulative,

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but he fell in love with her, and there's a

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moment where she says as much, and then she looks

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at him with these eyes where you can tell she's

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fallen in love with him too, despite all the fun

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back and forth and Hyjen since she's using everyone to

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her advantage and all these things throughout, at that end,

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she's extremely vulnerable and just so kind and warm, and

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you're just like, oh my god, I would melt in

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her arms. She's wonderful. The camera just loves her, so

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totally agree. I mean, you've almost switched me over to

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making her the standout for myself as well, because it's interesting.

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She is definitely the lead of the movie, but doesn't

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try as hard or too hard to overtake all the

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other male leads. She's not chewing the scenery as much.

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Right because I think watching this, because Hevin Klein got

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the oscar for it, my expectations are higher watching his

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character in this movie. The character is funny. I think

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for me, the most laugh out loud moments where him

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just kind of appearing out of nowhere every time Wanda

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and Archie were together or wanted Ken, like he just

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came out of nowhere. It wasn't so much the dialogue

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or his actions. It was more of just seeing the jealousy,

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always making sure Wanda wasn't doing something she wasn't supposed

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to be doing according to him. So I was kind

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of interested on like how did he win this award?

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Because I mean, he was really nominated for nothing else

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going into the Oscars, and I was trying to think, like,

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what did I see him in before? Like we discussed

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him in The Big Chill, But when you really look

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at his filmography up to that point, he really didn't

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do any comedy. I think was cry Freedom was the

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movie he did before this one came out. I think

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it was more of Surprise of the Switch. But when

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you think of Kevin Klein now all you think of

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is comedies. But he really started as a dramatic actor.

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It was given this opportunity, knocked it out of the

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park and got the oscar. Like I'm wondering if this,

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if this movie was made later in his career, if

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he would have won it, because he would have been

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known for doing comedy. So it's just like, oh, this

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is just another character.

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That's a great question. I could not answer that. I

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could tell you though that when I'm watching it now.

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He has a lot of the shtick, kind of physical comedy,

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and he has things that he comes back to. I mean,

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I do love his vocal inflections at times. Some of

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my favorite lines are when he opens the safe initially

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and the jewels aren't inside, the diamonds aren't in there,

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and he's like, okay, okay, disappointed. Yes, I love that

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moment when he kind of hops up and then kicks

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the car in a jump. He's very nimble and he

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has a great physicality about him. He seems very athletic.

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He's in great shape, by the way, Yes, Or when

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he goes over to Archie's house to apologize to him

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because Wanda has insisted because otherwise the plan is going

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to fall apart and Otto pulls up in his car

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and he's like, oh, and he's practicing his apology and says, oh,

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I'm so very very very fuck youe I like. And

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of course when he returns the callback to don't call

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me stupid, don't call me stupid, and when he's smelling

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his armpit it's ridiculous. So those things are funny, but

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I also found like subtler moments different moments were funnier

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that like you did as well, when he would pop

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up at the most opportune moments, or just the faces

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he would make. One of my favorite moments is in

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the very beginning when George is laying out the plan

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for the heist and Otto, Kevin Klein is just staring

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right through him, and he's like, Otto, are you with us?

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And he's like, what, Yeah, it was the middle part.

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You know, that whole thing was the middle thing. Those

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dumb looks on his face are brilliant. So I was

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watching it and I found him extremely entertaining. However, I

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also was just going to ask you, DoD you think

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it was an Oscar worthy performance.

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I did look up who else was nominated, and of

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course now I can't remember who it was, and looking

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at the nominees there was no one. I was like, oh,

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you know what that person should have gotten. Instead, I

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didn't feel that way, and I apologize to the audience

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that I can't remember who the other nominees were. I really,

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do you think it was a surprise? It was just

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a surprise. To the academy is like, wait, Kevin Klein's

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doing great? What this is really funny? I like this,

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and it's good because comedic roles don't often get the accolades.

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a great point. And I wasn't asking the question as

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if I feel like he was unworthy. I just did

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find it a little surprising that he won, probably for

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the same reason because it is a comedic role. It's

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just something you wouldn't expect that it's as a surprise

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unto itself. And man, I am a fan of Kevin

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Klein for sure. I mean we covered the NHL on

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this pod. I'm a big fan of Silverado. That's one

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of my Western favorites. Dave.

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I mean, I love you to death. Have you seen

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that with him? Yes, he's very busares that's a fun

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one too.

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That's a little that he's doing com Yeah yeah, but

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I mean he's been in some wonderful film, so he's

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a wonderful actor. Also, I just wanted to make another

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comment outside of like we're watching this movie and outside

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of committing the robbery alongside Ken and George, I was like,

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does I dono really serve any purpose in this movie whatsoever?

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I mean, he's assisting Wanda of course, in some ways,

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but he's really just a goof and a problem, and

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he's very discriminatory and violent.

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a deterretor and how Yeah, And that was one of

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the questions, like how did Wanda and Auto get together?

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How did that happen? Why did Wanda thinks she needed

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to bring Auto in so she can end up with

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the diamonds for herself. That was a lingering question for

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me throughout, like how do we get to that point

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where the movie begins? How do Wanta be George? What's

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the living situation on the flat? Is it Ken, George,

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Rwanda all live there? I don't know. There was a

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lot of fun questions of how did we get to

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where the movie begins? That was definitely going through my

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mind throughout the movie. One thousand percent. I thought about that.

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I thought about writing down that as a note and

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I didn't, So I appreciate you bringing it up, because

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it just they throw you right into this scenario of

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this this heist team with Ken and George, who I

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don't know if they yet do they are they like

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flat mates? Are they living together? But obviously they're English?

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the three of them have been planning this heist, and

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you get the sense or it's established that she has

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brought in her quote unquote brother Auto to help because

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they needed a quote unquote weapons man, a sharpshooter, and

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that's his ability, that's what he would bring to the team.

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this all come to be in the first place. You

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don't see the planning of the heist or anything like that.

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with it, and this I wrote down as well as

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one of the ultimate just go with it movies, and

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to its credit, it worked for me. But as far

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as Auto's character goes, we do know that he's a

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talented like sharpshooter, but other than that, he's there to

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be this also intense and over the top like sexual

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partner for Wanda, which is part of the hilarity throughout

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because he's always spouting his Italian as you mentioned, whenever

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he does, that turns her on. So that was another

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thing I wanted to bring up with you, and it's

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just how did you feel about the overall tone of

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this film, because I think it's interesting watching this going

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not what is this movie?

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It's clearly a very.

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Much a comedy, but the tone can it gets very

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sexual at times. It's very over the top and farcical

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and high jinks and things like that, and the writing

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can get a little bit edgy at times. It can

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be very irreverent. So I didn't know how you felt

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about the tone.

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I think what I really liked about this movie is

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it is very character based. It's not a reference based comedy.

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I guess show this to my kids, and they're not

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going to be who what do they mean by that joke?

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Outside of they mentioned Margaret Thatcher once and that's it.

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You good, almost remake it today. We'll get into the

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Ken character, right, But there's a timelessness to this.

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That you're already answering another question.

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I think most of the comedy still works today. I

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think most of the story still works. You wouldn't have

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to change a lot if they had to remake it.

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I don't think. I think the big question would just

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be the Ken character, which I actually didn't have an

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issue with. I know we said we were going to

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get into it, might as well just get into it now. Absolutely,

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I don't feel like they were playing four laughs, even

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though there are funny moments. I always remember as a

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kid in grade school, I had a babysitter and she

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had a younger brother who had a really bad stuttering problem.

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to give a message to our teacher. He just couldn't

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get it out. He just started stuttering. Of course, the

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class started laughing. He walked out class was laughing again,

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and our teacher reamed us, we're not necessarily laughing at him.

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I think it's just the uncomfortableness of experience of that.

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It's like there's someone farts and you laugh, you know,

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It's just it's just it's just one of those things.

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and kind of makes fun of it. Oh, he's awful

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about it.

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to but yeah, no, yeah, but he's a dick. Auto

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is a complete dick, and he's an asshole. So that's

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part of his character. And so you feel empathy for

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Ken obviously when you have this overbearing Auto that's just

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continually mocking his stutter. That's insensitive for sure, but it

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is also Auto's character.

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Yeah, but I like the way it was played where

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Ken Winn's stutter as much when he's around people he's

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comfortable with. Of course, when Auto it gets worse because

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he can't stand him, and then even with Archie because

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he's being pressured, it really comes out. I mean, I'll

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get into a little bit in the facts in trivia

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because supposedly Palin's father was a stutterer, So that's.

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I was just going, yeah, that's what I had written here,

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because Michael Palin is a sir. Apparently, Sir, Yes, Sir

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Michael Palin's father stuttered.

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So Palin used a lot of.

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His real life experience when playing Ken, including the fact

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that Ken's stutter is less pronounced around people he trusts

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like George and Wanda, and worse around people with whom

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he's uncomfortable, like Otto. So I thought that was interesting.

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And supposedly there was picketing outside the studio for it too,

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so people thought it was insensitive.

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And then afterward, I mean, Sir Michael Palin, he founded

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the London Center for Stammering Children after a group of

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stutterers confronted him regarding the sensitivity with which he dealt

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with Ken's handicap in this movie. So, yeah, there you go.

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So it was addressed at least, but I said that

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I felt Michael Palin's performance was the standout for me. Now,

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one little piece of inside was when I was acting

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class with Ken Lerner years ago, I performed a scene

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with a very talented actress named Sandy who was just wonderful.

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And it's a scene from a play called Three Days

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of Rain. And my character had a stutter. And it's

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not easy to play. You don't want to do it

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like a characterization of it. You don't want to knock

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it in any way. You want to make it as

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realistic as possible. But I had to get the memorize

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the lines and know where the stutters happened and things

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like that. And it was hard. It was hard, and

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it was emotional. It's a very emotional scenes of drama.

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It was not like a fish called Wanta at all

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in tone. But after having done that and gone through

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that performance, I just I'm watching Michael Palin and he's

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quite wonderful. His facial expressions and his comedic timing and

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the way he does. It's just funny and you can

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have fun with it. It doesn't have to be taken

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that seriously, don't ever. I didn't watch it thinking he

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was making fun of people that have a stutter. I

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just felt like his character has a severe stutter and

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it plays into the comedy of in the tone of

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the film and that scene at the end with Archie

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and Archie's trying to get the location of the diamonds

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out of him, and he's trying so hard. You feel

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terrible for him, but he's great. And speaking of I

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wanted to mention this too. I was watching It's just

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great the fact that John Cleese wrote this and that

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Michael Palin of course is in it, and we know

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both of them from Monty Python. And I grew up

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being a huge fan of Monty Python, especially the Holy

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Grail film, and I just wanted to mention this because

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they're great together Cleise and Michael Palin. And if you're

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a fan of Monty Python, you know this. But for

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those that haven't checked it out, go on YouTube and

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find look up Monty Python's Flying Circus and look up

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the episode Dead Parrot Classics. It is one of the

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all time classics, and you'll see it's quirky and it's weird,

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but it's funny.

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I just wanted to mention that I think you said

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it best with the Ken character. Palin does it mock stutters.

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That doesn't come across you empathize with Ken and his condition,

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especially during that scene when Archie's trying to get from him.

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Even I'm like, come on, you can say it. I'm

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rooting for him. Get the word out. I know you

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can do it. I never felt like I was laughing

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at him. I was laughing with him. Correct.

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This is why he was a standout for me, because

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on this one where he just to me, has some

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of the funniest moments, and some of them have nothing

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to do with his stutter. It's the way his character

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is written. He's a thief, but he's also an animal lover,

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and anytime bad things happen to animals, he's suffering. So

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then when he's not only as a thief and an

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animal lover, but he turns out to be a murderer

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as well, because George has him try to take out

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this old lady that was an eyewitness to seeing George

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in the escape vehicle. After the heist, and so now

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we have Ken Michael Palin trying to take out the

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old lady and instead of killing her, he ends up

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taking out her three adorable little Yorky dogs. And every

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time there was a cut to the funeral from one

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of the dogs, and you see Michael Paley in one

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of the trees because he's there like and so like

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depressed because he's a lover of all animals and by

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accident keeps killing animals. It's so ridiculous, and the look

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on his face, you just feel terrible for him. But

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the way he plays.

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It is funny and he's very talented, so that's why

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he was a standout for me. Yeah, and that was

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another thing I saw when I was looking at the

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kind of character that people with stutters. Animals are big help.

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They soothe, So that's why he's such an animal lover.

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And sure it's the fish. It helps him out. Yeah. Absolutely.

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I also wanted to mention one of my favorite comedians

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right now, happens to be a gentleman by the name

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of Drew Lynch. He is laugh out loud, he'll make

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you cry. I've seen him live at the ice House

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in Pasadena. He's amazing, and he got his start on

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America's Got Talent. So when he was very young. This

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is Drew Lynch I'm talking about. He went on the

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show and had the courage, and he had a very

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severe stutter and it was a result of an accident

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he had while playing softball, a brain injury, and he's

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overcome it. It's a wonderful story and he is dropped

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dead hilarious, absolutely hilarious, but he uses that as part

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of his comedy and you're empathetic and you're sympathetic, but

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he uses it to his advantage and it's wonderful and

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he's overcome it and it's a great story.

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So it just made me think of that.

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You don't have to look at it going, oh my god,

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he's making fun of people that have a stutter. It's

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00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:32.680
a real thing, and you don't have to take it

453
00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:37.240
that seriously. If it's done in the correct way, you

454
00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:39.640
can find humor and everything. I think is my point,

455
00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:41.240
and that's what I get from Drew Lynch, and that's

456
00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:43.440
what I got from Michael Pellan's performance here.

457
00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:47.720
Another thing I really like about this movie being a comedy.

458
00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:50.920
One of the things we run into a lot with comedies,

459
00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:54.559
it's basically little skits that are just kind of put together,

460
00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:57.319
strung together. I mean, the big one for me I

461
00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:00.799
always think of first is National Landpin's Vacation. What I

462
00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:04.359
do like about this movie is every scene does set

463
00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:07.240
up the next scene, so that story really does move

464
00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:10.920
along throughout, like you can't take something out, whereas like

465
00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:13.079
you know, National Lampoons, you could take out a scene,

466
00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:15.279
it's not going to affect the overall movie, or is

467
00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.119
this one? I really like how something earlier on is

468
00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:20.519
going to set up something later on. That's pretty good

469
00:24:20.599 --> 00:24:23.519
writing for a comedy when you're really just trying to

470
00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:26.039
get as many jokes and setups as you can, but

471
00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:30.799
all this setups and jokes really are important to the

472
00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:34.680
plot itself. So I was really impressed with that solid script.

473
00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:39.279
I couldn't agree more. Just really solid script. Much much

474
00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:43.680
credit to both John CLEAs and Charles Crichton. And I

475
00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:46.319
wrote this whole thing here because it's interesting the way

476
00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:49.319
the film is structured, because it is a lot of

477
00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:51.319
the highjinks and you think, oh, this is going to

478
00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:53.359
be a heist film, but the entire second act, and

479
00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:55.039
this is what I wrote down, is that the middle

480
00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:57.799
half of the film, it's not a whole lot happening

481
00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:01.960
outside of the screen. Time is split between this one

482
00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:04.039
through line of Ken trying to take out the old

483
00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:06.680
lady with the dogs, and then the other half of

484
00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:09.759
it is Wanda trying to seduce Archie, and it becomes

485
00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:12.480
almost a relationship comedy. So the stars of the film

486
00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:15.200
become really become Wanda and Archie, and you're watching their

487
00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:20.359
relationship develop. And yes, obviously Otto is continuously forcing himself

488
00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:22.119
into the situation and interrupting.

489
00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:24.839
The whole middle half has not a whole lot to

490
00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:28.119
do with where's the location of the diamonds. It's a

491
00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:30.240
lot of trying to get the key back from in

492
00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:32.960
the locket, which is in the necklace and things necklace

493
00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:35.160
and things like that. But you're watching Archie fall in

494
00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:38.279
love with Wanda, and Wanda trying to manipulate these men

495
00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:41.119
to get what she wants, and they become the star.

496
00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:44.039
It's just it's great. Yeah, and then I'm like, oh, wow,

497
00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:46.839
there's forty minutes left in the movie. They still don't

498
00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:49.759
know where the loot is located, and you don't care.

499
00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:53.480
You're like, I'm just having fun watching these people interact

500
00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:56.000
and that's a lot of credit to the chemistry as well.

501
00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.119
Between Clice and Jamie Lee Curtis. I thought they were

502
00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:02.920
just great together. There's a lot of credit to Jamie

503
00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:05.519
Lee Curtis. Going back to what you were saying Bill initially,

504
00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:08.279
why she isn't standout as well is that she has

505
00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:12.240
literally has chemistry with everybody. I mean, and she literally

506
00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:14.599
makes out with everybody in the film. But she's great

507
00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.079
with Michael Palin, she's great with Clease, she's great with

508
00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:18.559
Kevin Klein, all of them.

509
00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:23.599
Yeah, I feel it's very character driven comedy, and there

510
00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:27.200
are many arcs for everyone. Here's Archie kind of a

511
00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:30.680
snotty bureaucrat, and now he finds a girl to fall

512
00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:33.960
in love with, and let's loose and enduring life now,

513
00:26:34.279 --> 00:26:38.519
and you had Jamie Lee Curtis's character as Wanda, who's

514
00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:41.079
just trying to use men to get to an end,

515
00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.400
and oh wait a second, she might actually be falling

516
00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:46.160
in love with one of these gentlemen.

517
00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:49.200
It's really smartly written. They find the funny in all

518
00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:51.680
these things, but it still stays light on its feet.

519
00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:54.160
It never gets too heavy. Going back to that whole

520
00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:56.920
thing with between Ken trying to take out the old

521
00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.960
lady and he kills the dogs instead. It's oh, hilarious.

522
00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:04.400
I just got the fact that he's so upset and depressed,

523
00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:06.039
you know, and mad at himself when he ends up

524
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:09.079
killing the dogs because he loves animals. And then finally,

525
00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:11.920
when the old lady has a heart attack and dies,

526
00:27:12.359 --> 00:27:14.039
you don't feel too bad for the lady because they

527
00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:16.160
positioned her and this is smart writing is kind of

528
00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:20.160
an old bitch, so you're like, Okay, as an audience member,

529
00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:22.960
you're like, I'm not too upset that she died. And

530
00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:25.440
then second of all, then you have Ken coming to

531
00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:28.039
the scene of the crime, and yes, he's upset about

532
00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:31.200
the dead dog, but it just starts laughing out loud

533
00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:34.400
and is like thrilled that he accomplished this thing and

534
00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:36.920
that he killed the old lady, and everybody's looking at

535
00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:40.000
him like why are you laughing? Yeah, And it's brilliant.

536
00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:42.039
That's really I think that's very smart.

537
00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:45.240
Even the dog's dying, which you know, we're like, we

538
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:48.680
don't like to see animal deaths, but it is funny.

539
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:51.319
Like the Doberman. You obviously see the doberman has a

540
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:54.680
fake dog in its mouth, it's stuffed animal in his mouth. Yeah, okay,

541
00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:56.440
you know that's not really the dog, so I thought

542
00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:56.640
that was it.

543
00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:58.880
He runs over the second dog and you see the

544
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:01.079
dog flattened on the st but there's no blood.

545
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:03.799
Yeah, it's just a stuffed animal that smushed. You know.

546
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:05.480
It's like, yeah, it's like.

547
00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:08.400
The Wiley coyote with the tire marks on it exactly.

548
00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:11.000
I was going to ask you real quick the fact

549
00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:14.319
that this movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and

550
00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:17.960
I started the movie going, wait a minute, who directed this.

551
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.839
I had no familiarity with Charles Crichton at all. I

552
00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:25.279
know he's known for films like from the fifties. He

553
00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:29.039
was already eighty something when they when he directed this,

554
00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:32.160
or was he in his late late seventies. But he

555
00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:34.359
was known for films back in the fifties like Dead

556
00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.880
of Night, The Stranger in Between, and The Lavender Hill Mob.

557
00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:40.440
And I know you're a fan of classic cinema, Bill,

558
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.000
I didn't know if you were familiar with any of

559
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:42.400
his work.

560
00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:44.599
And I had to go back and look at this filmography.

561
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:47.839
I had not seen anything that he's done before. I

562
00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:50.880
thought maybe I saw one of them, but No, this

563
00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:53.079
is the only thing I've seen of his. Yeah, in

564
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:55.960
the Lavender mom interested alec Ginness, So I was kind

565
00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:58.559
of surprised. I hadn't seen that one. Yeah, and they

566
00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:01.319
do reference that in this movie because in the plot

567
00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:05.200
of the Lavender Mob is they steal this gold, and

568
00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:08.599
what they do is they mold the gold into shapes

569
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.799
of the Eiffel Tower. And if you look in George's

570
00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:14.759
flat or whoever owns that flat, there's an Eiffel tower,

571
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.319
a little miniature Eiffel tower in the flat somewhere. Got it.

572
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:19.319
That's great.

573
00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:22.480
Well, that's really all the commentary I have for now.

574
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:24.400
I was just gonna do a little wrap up here

575
00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.799
with some just final thoughts about this revisit. I didn't

576
00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:30.480
know if you wanted to touch on any other particular point, now,

577
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:31.000
go for it.

578
00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:32.480
We just touched on.

579
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:35.279
All the performances, which are all great, the fact that

580
00:29:35.319 --> 00:29:38.720
this film is still it's under two hours, great running time,

581
00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:40.640
smartly crafted written.

582
00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:44.880
Is it as funny as I remember? Not quite, but

583
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:49.759
it was just as enjoyable. I just found different things

584
00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:52.279
funny and I didn't have to laugh out loud. It

585
00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:54.640
was just I like this movie. I love movies.

586
00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:57.359
It makes me love comedies, and I missed these types

587
00:29:57.400 --> 00:29:59.079
of comedies. I was gonna even ask you if you

588
00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:04.759
think like these kind of quirky sexual romps, irreverent, farcical,

589
00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:07.160
hidick if these comedies are ever going to make a comeback.

590
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:10.680
I really miss these smartly written, less than two hours

591
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.480
long type of comedies. I found it very enjoyable. I'm

592
00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:15.759
glad we got to watch it again.

593
00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:18.640
You're right, we don't see this type of comedy anymore.

594
00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:20.720
Everything's got to be a parody, everything's got to be

595
00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:25.640
a reference to something else. Almost feels timeless. Yeah, it's

596
00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:29.519
a great point, and the themes still are irrelevant today.

597
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:33.799
And you really wouldn't miss that much outside of how

598
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:36.279
come none of them have cell phones? You're not missing much.

599
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:39.079
I think it holds up really well. It's a great,

600
00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:42.480
just go with it type of movie. It's over the top, ridiculous, silly.

601
00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:44.799
It's very charming. And when I say over the top,

602
00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:46.680
by the way, I have to know, the whole ending

603
00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:50.039
is completely ridiculous, and it's a blast, and that's a

604
00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:52.680
testament to how it's done. It's like, I don't care.

605
00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:56.319
I had a great time watching this and I'm having fun. There.

606
00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:59.960
You go, trying to move on to favorite scenes or moments.

607
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:02.920
What are some of the favorite scenes or moments from

608
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:06.039
this movie? And I will start and this is definitely

609
00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:08.599
not a scene I would have picked when I first

610
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:11.160
saw this movie oh so long ago, but I guess

611
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.759
being an adult being married myself, watching this scene just

612
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:17.480
made me laugh out loud. And that's the scene where

613
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:21.240
we see Archie and his wife Wendy are going to bed,

614
00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:24.920
and it's intercut with Otto and Wanda getting it on.

615
00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:28.440
And this was just making me laugh because here you

616
00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:32.039
have Weddy and Archie. They're literally sleeping in separate beds,

617
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:36.160
barely talking to each other, doing their thing. Archie's cutting

618
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:41.000
his toenails, scratching his bald head while Wanda and Outo

619
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:45.480
are going at it crazy. Just a great back and forth.

620
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:46.400
I thought it was really funny.

621
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:50.079
Again, really smart writing. As soon as they started doing

622
00:31:50.119 --> 00:31:52.920
that compare and contrast as to you know, this very

623
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:55.759
proper English couple, and this is how they prepare for bed,

624
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.079
and there is no real attraction between them or any like,

625
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:03.519
there's no sexual occurring there versus this kind of hot

626
00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:08.880
romance that is happening between Otto and Wanda. It's really

627
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:12.880
really funny and Kevin Klein and this part is really great,

628
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.599
the spouting of the Italian throughout, and I think there's

629
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:17.240
some things, well, I know there's some stuff in the

630
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:20.119
behind the scenes and the trivia where initially Kevin Klein

631
00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.920
didn't want to be speaking Italian, but I think John

632
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:25.640
Cleese or krit and they insisted that he do the Italian.

633
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:27.160
I think he wanted to speak I don't know if

634
00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:28.519
it was Spanish or French.

635
00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:31.519
But French, because he's fluent in French. Oh that's it, sorry,

636
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:34.000
thank you. Yeah, so it was French, but he's doing

637
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:37.640
the Italian bit. So he's just spouting random Italian words

638
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.759
and it makes Jamie the Curz hot and bothered. So

639
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:43.079
during that sex scene, then when he's on top of

640
00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:46.599
her and they're going to town and he actually ran

641
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:49.559
out of Italian words to say, then he just starts

642
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:53.240
singing volare and it was just totally improvised because they

643
00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:55.319
just he was doing great and they didn't want to cut.

644
00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.119
And then that moment, of course when he looks up

645
00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:01.400
when he's coming to fruition as you would say, and

646
00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:06.359
you see his expression change, it is pretty damn funny.

647
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:08.279
And in the behind the scenes of that as well

648
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:10.559
as I guess Jamie Lee Curtis had to bury her

649
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:13.240
face in the pillow because to stop from laughing every

650
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:15.759
time he did that rooting takes So it's a nice

651
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:16.920
period on the scene there.

652
00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:20.400
It's fun stuff. What do you got a little more

653
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:23.119
of Auto and Kevin Klein. There's a part of the

654
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:26.759
movie where George is, you know, going to be on

655
00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:30.759
trial here he got nabbed by the cops and gonna

656
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:34.279
be on trial for this this heist, for stealing these diamonds.

657
00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:38.000
And during this corpse scene, he hands a piece of

658
00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:43.160
paper to Ken, partner in crime, that has the address

659
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:46.720
of the old lady who is the eyewitness to seeing

660
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:49.680
George in the escape car with the rest of them

661
00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:52.400
as they were getting away from the heist. So George

662
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.160
wants Ken to take out the old lady, the eyewitness,

663
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:57.880
and then the case will fall apart and George will

664
00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:01.279
be set free. So outo Witnes. And this is this exchange.

665
00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:03.400
There's a little piece of paper being given over to

666
00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:06.880
Ken and follows him outside the court and just gets

667
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:10.079
into his face and is so loud, and there's all

668
00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:12.320
these people walking around, and I just think this is

669
00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:16.400
hilarious because already it's been established that he has come

670
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:19.800
on to Ken and made a sexual advance and is

671
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:23.360
pretending to be gay, and Ken is not really accepting

672
00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:26.199
his advances. So Otto just comes at him in a

673
00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:28.679
very intimidating nature and there's a little back and forth

674
00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:31.280
that's funny because he Goto's saying to Ken. He's like,

675
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:33.039
I don't think you have the guts the balls to

676
00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:35.119
take out this old lady. I'll give you I'll make

677
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:36.639
you a bet. I'll give you a pound if you

678
00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:38.800
kill her. And he's just saying this in the middle

679
00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:41.079
of public and right in front of the courthouse, and

680
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:44.840
Ken says, what's so funny, and Otto says nothing is

681
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:48.880
just that wasting old ladies isn't nice. And Ken's like, well,

682
00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:51.679
it's better than buggering people. And Otto says, I'll bet

683
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:53.760
you a pound if you don't kill her, and kid

684
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:58.639
says all right and walks off, and Auto's yelling after him, saying,

685
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:02.079
all right, I I love watching your ass when you walk.

686
00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:03.360
Is that beautiful?

687
00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:03.599
Or what?

688
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.000
Don't go near him? He's mine a pound, says you

689
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:11.679
won't kill her and he's yelling at Adams. He's walking

690
00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:13.880
down the sidewalk, and I was wondering, because I'm watching

691
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:16.239
all these extras, the people walking around the background, they

692
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:18.920
were kind of were looking at Kevin Klein and Michael

693
00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:21.679
Palin as if they weren't really extras. They were actually

694
00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.599
just bystanders walking by, which made it feel very natural.

695
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:27.960
That just tickled me. I was laughing out loud when

696
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.360
Otto's just yelling at him, don't go near him, he's mine.

697
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:35.280
Just how brazen auto is that? The fact they're having

698
00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:39.400
this conversation right outside the court room where anyone could hear. Wait,

699
00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:42.039
what it's going to kill someone? What? Yep, it is

700
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.320
pretty funny where it's happening. I think the next favorite scene,

701
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:48.400
I think we're both in agreement, and that's the first

702
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:52.639
time that Wanda appears at Archie's house right uninvite it.

703
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:58.199
And this is because Archie is George's lawyer or barrister

704
00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:01.360
what do they call it. And Wanda's plan is to

705
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:04.159
try to get information out of Archie to find out

706
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.360
where the diamonds have been hidden because when they initially

707
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.599
did the robbery, they put him in a safe they

708
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:13.119
got moved no one knows where they are except for

709
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:17.119
George and possibly Ken, so she's trying to use Archie

710
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:20.559
to get that information. There's just a lot of hijinks

711
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:24.199
because here we have Auto. He's not happy about this

712
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:28.239
plan because Wanda basically says, if I'd need to seduce them,

713
00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:31.800
I'm going to seduce them, and Auto's basically do touchy,

714
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.320
no touchy. And then he's outside the house and he

715
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:39.280
hears them getting flirty, and he comes in. And then

716
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:42.320
Archie's wife is supposed to be out in an opera,

717
00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:44.800
but the car breaks down, so they come home early.

718
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:48.480
And then if you're a fan of Faulty Towers, which

719
00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:51.400
John Cleese did twelve episodes, I used to watch them

720
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:53.480
all the time on PBS. One of the funniest shows

721
00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:58.280
of all time. He almost reverts back to that Basil

722
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:02.320
Faulty character where he goes to get champagne and comes

723
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:05.519
back thinking he's bringing it to Wanda and his wife's

724
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.199
sitting there, and he has that quick freak out, and

725
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:11.719
of course he's trying to find out where Wanda is,

726
00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:14.440
and then Auto's in the house and Auto pops out

727
00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:16.880
out of nowhere. There's just so many things are happening

728
00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:20.599
at once, and it's all really funny. It's definitely one

729
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:23.280
of the memorable and funniest scenes in the movie.

730
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:26.079
This is really the farcical scene that is wonderful. I mean,

731
00:37:26.119 --> 00:37:28.000
there's a couple, but this is this one stands out

732
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.880
for sure. I chose it as well. Hey man, Jamie

733
00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:33.719
the Curtis again, she comes in. I love the fact

734
00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:36.920
that they break in. Otto picks the lock and she

735
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:41.039
breaks into the house. But she surprises Archie obviously, she

736
00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:44.519
just walks into the study or the living room wherever

737
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:47.360
it is, and Archie is surprised to see her, but

738
00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:50.840
immediately all is forgiven, doesn't ask her, hey, you just

739
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:55.079
broke into my home. It's like, she just looks amazing

740
00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:59.239
in that black dress, and she's very seductive, so she

741
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:02.320
looks fantast but his I laughed as soon as Auto

742
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:05.360
shows up and he's standing behind the door, and every

743
00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:09.760
time John Cleese screams out loud and somehow makes it work. Yes,

744
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.480
I mean, that's always hilarious in comedies because obviously something's

745
00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:14.559
very wrong and you would think the other character would

746
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:17.519
be like, why are you screaming? But it's really funny.

747
00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:21.920
John Clees when he's scrambling trying to come up with excuses,

748
00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:23.920
and it's like, yeah, no, no, let's we should celebrate.

749
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:25.719
Let's have shimpei. You know what, we should go to

750
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:27.599
the pub. Let's all go to the pub. It's just

751
00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:29.679
great stuff. And then the you know, the door swings

752
00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:31.599
open and he thinks Jamie the Curnis is behind it

753
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:34.400
and he just yells aha, and she's not there. Of course,

754
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:38.320
she's climing behind the couch. It's fantastic, the whole bit

755
00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:42.559
with Otto distracting Archie's wife Wendy saying that he's a

756
00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:47.679
CIA agent and that the a KGB defector in custody.

757
00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:50.960
That story is ridiculous and none of it makes sense,

758
00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:55.239
but you just go with it and somehow it all works.

759
00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:59.719
Yeah. There's a moment between there exchange when Otto makes

760
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:06.320
up a fake name. He's like, mister wandersin nny fletch Yeah,

761
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:10.360
and then Wendy addresses him and says the name like Boom,

762
00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:14.199
exactly as how he was supposed to be. Said. That

763
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:16.199
made me chuckol. I'm like, oh, yes, all right, she's

764
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:18.320
on points, she's really paying attention. I like that we

765
00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:19.760
should give her a quick shout out.

766
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:24.239
Actually, that's a Maria Aitken, who played Wendy John Cleys's

767
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:25.159
wife in the film.

768
00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:26.039
She's quite good.

769
00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:30.559
She's very unlikable, very British, very English, very proper and

770
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:33.239
very rude, and very good at it.

771
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.599
Yes, I do enjoy her. Another favorite scene that I

772
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:40.679
like is the apology. And this is the first apology.

773
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:44.199
This is the apology coming from Archie's character. And it's

774
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:48.559
a memorable scene where Otto is literally hanging Archie out

775
00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:52.119
the window of the flat that he's borrowing, and the

776
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:55.400
apology itself just made me laugh. It's not so much

777
00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:57.639
he's hanging out the window, but just what he said,

778
00:39:57.719 --> 00:39:59.400
and I had to write it down. It's just so

779
00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:01.679
over the time because he has to make sure that

780
00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:04.719
Auto understands that he is sorry, and he says, I

781
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:09.400
offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally

782
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:13.239
without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment,

783
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:16.760
and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret

784
00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:19.719
any distress that my comment may have caused. You are

785
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:22.760
your family, and I hear my undertake not to repeat

786
00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:25.960
any such slander at any time in the future. And

787
00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:28.880
of course he is saying this upside down four stories

788
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.360
high above I think the Thames River. That just made

789
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:32.800
me laugh.

790
00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:36.320
It is awesome. He says it so well. I love

791
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.920
the fact that he's hanging out the window and he

792
00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:42.360
has his arms straight by his side. They're not like

793
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:46.880
falling down. That's just so English in that moment, even

794
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:51.199
though he's hanging upside down outside a window and rattles

795
00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:55.159
off a whole paragraph of an apology with perfect diction,

796
00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:58.519
and then it just it kind of surprises Otto actually,

797
00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:01.920
he's like, oh, yeah, okay, pretty good. It's great. I

798
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:05.280
love that you chose that. That's fantastic. Moving on to

799
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:09.880
my last favorite scene is the final courtroom scene. So

800
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.159
we know that, as Bill's mentioned here that Archie is

801
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:17.880
the barrister for George. He is the defense lawyer for George,

802
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:21.679
and there really isn't much case against George being the

803
00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:24.840
ring leader of this heist because all they have basically

804
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:27.719
is the fact that there was an eye witness, this

805
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:29.760
old lady that saw him in the getaway car. And

806
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:32.679
then on top of that, what's going to help George

807
00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:35.920
is the fact that Wanda is his alibi, so she's

808
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:39.159
going to testify it on George's behalf and say that

809
00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:41.320
she was with him. He was with her at his

810
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:45.599
flat during the time of the heist. So cut to

811
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:49.400
this final courtroom scene and you have Archie questioning Wanda,

812
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:53.400
and Wanda ends up throwing Archie for a real curve

813
00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:55.800
because we think she's going to testify in George's behalf,

814
00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:59.960
but instead incriminates George by saying he left the flat

815
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:03.480
with a sowd off shotgun with plenty of time to

816
00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:06.599
get to the heist, and this clearly throws Archie off

817
00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:09.320
his game. So when when Wanda says she was there

818
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:14.880
with Ken, not George, immediately John Cleese is like Wanda,

819
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:19.239
which is totally inappropriate and establishes the fact that he

820
00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:23.800
clearly knows Wanda socially and everybody knows it, and he

821
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.920
tries to cover his tracks. So this is all about

822
00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:28.559
John Cleese in the scene when he says Wanda and

823
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.519
then has to cover it by saying, Wanda, Wanda, I wonder,

824
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:35.679
I wonder, Wanda, wender wonder, and he just keeps stuttering.

825
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:39.679
And then when Wanda of course goes on to say, yes,

826
00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:41.960
George had a sawt off shotgun and he left the

827
00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:45.320
flat et cetera. Well, now he's really scrambling. He manages

828
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:47.280
to look up to the upper level of the courtroom

829
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:49.239
where he sees his wife, and he can see that

830
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:53.239
his wife, Wendy, knows clearly that he's had this ongoing

831
00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:56.239
relationship with Wanda, so that's not good. And then he

832
00:42:56.280 --> 00:43:00.639
even continues to stutter by saying Wendy when Wendy, Wanda wonder,

833
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:03.880
And it just keeps going and he keeps bearying himself.

834
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.800
It's just really fun again to watch John Cleese do

835
00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:11.000
his thing, that's his stick when he has to scramble.

836
00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:14.639
It's really really fun to watch, and he's a real

837
00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:17.480
talent with that sort of thing. And of course, the

838
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:21.719
whole courtroom scene then devolves and George ends up jumping

839
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:25.679
over the railing and coming after both Wanda and Archie,

840
00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:28.639
and the whole courtroom just falls apart. Everybody starts fighting

841
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:31.199
and then everybody runs out and it's just a big mess.

842
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:33.440
But I just love that final scene for the Wanda

843
00:43:33.519 --> 00:43:35.760
Wendy Wendy Wanda Wonder, I wonder.

844
00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:39.280
That's all I love. That's the best John Cleese being

845
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:45.400
John Cleese. Yep, that's it. Okay, let's move on. To

846
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.039
Swiss Cheese and complaints apartment. And why do we call Swiss.

847
00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:52.000
Cheese because although this movie is delicious, it does have

848
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:53.880
Auto's silence or holes.

849
00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:57.159
Yes, if it doesn't have Auto's silence or holes, we

850
00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:59.920
just file a complaint with the complaint department. So, Jason,

851
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:01.480
have any Swiss Teezer complaints?

852
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:04.039
So here I have a question, and it is, I

853
00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:08.480
mean a complaint question for you, Bill. Why did the

854
00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:12.559
cops bring in the old lady missus Cody is her name.

855
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.760
I believe as an eyewitness to George fleeing the scene

856
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:18.480
in the getaway car. It was jarring in the moment.

857
00:44:18.519 --> 00:44:20.159
I was like, wait, why did they bring her in?

858
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:22.840
Because we know that the cops were obviously called to

859
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:27.039
George's house right after the robbery, because Wanda and Otto

860
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:30.400
called the cops on him because it's a double cross. Great,

861
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:33.280
so they show up, they arrest him. But how would

862
00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:37.119
the cops know there was an eyewitness who saw George

863
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:40.920
fleeing the scene because Wanda or Auto neither of them

864
00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:43.360
told the cops. Did they when they snitched on it?

865
00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:47.119
Now? I'm just assuming it was good police work and

866
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:50.760
they were just questioning people in the area. And if

867
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:53.480
they saw anything unusual, and the lady might have said, oh, yeah,

868
00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:56.599
someone was hit me with a car. Right. It was

869
00:44:56.639 --> 00:44:59.159
just a good actual police work, all right, good.

870
00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:01.239
Enough, don't need over It was just as soon as

871
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:04.599
she showed up and was looking at the lineup of

872
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:07.000
all the guys and had to pick out George, I

873
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:08.840
was like, wait, how did she get here? Why would

874
00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:11.800
they how did they find her? Overthinking what do you

875
00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:12.719
have for complaints?

876
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:15.239
Question? This is a cheese moment. I think I think

877
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:17.440
it might qualify as the cheese One of the favorite

878
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:21.199
scenes we mentioned is when Wanda shows up at Archie's

879
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:24.039
house for the first time and she loses her locket,

880
00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:27.159
and in her locket is actually a key to the

881
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:30.760
safety's deposit box where the diamonds are now hidden. One

882
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:34.360
has no idea where the diamonds are, but she at

883
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:37.239
least has the key to get to them if she

884
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:40.519
ever finds out. Right, well, she drops it. Archie's daughter

885
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:43.960
picks it up and unfortunately has to give it to Wendy,

886
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:47.000
who Wendy now thinks it's a gift. Right, So now

887
00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:49.280
she has this locket. She loves this locket. Archie never

888
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.840
gives her anything this nice. Well, the key is still

889
00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:55.360
in the locket. It's a locket. How does Wendy never

890
00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:00.000
open the locket and accidentally find the key? Great question,

891
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:02.159
wouldn't that be one of the first things you would do,

892
00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:04.239
because you would think like, oh, maybe there's a picture

893
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:04.559
in here.

894
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.840
One thousand percent, anytime I've ever held a locket in

895
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:09.760
my hand, the first thing I do is open it.

896
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:12.639
You want to see what's inside, yeah, or you want

897
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:13.679
to put something inside it.

898
00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:15.840
So either way, so she's had it for at least

899
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:18.840
two days and she never opened it. Yeah, key, And

900
00:46:18.920 --> 00:46:20.960
first I was like, well, maybe they would have trouble

901
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:23.800
writing around that, but I think it could still have

902
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:25.840
her open it and find it and it would still work.

903
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:28.960
Well, funny enough, because I'm going to take it one further.

904
00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:32.199
I wrote a whole thing dealing with this very same subject.

905
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:32.679
Build banks.

906
00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:36.280
Oh okay, absolutely, so yeah, I wrote, let's after Yeah,

907
00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:40.000
the Hyjen said Archie's house. Wendy is in possession of

908
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:42.400
the necklace. Right, So here's the thing that I was like,

909
00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:45.800
why doesn't either want to end or Archie make it

910
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:48.840
simple on themselves and just tell her there's a key

911
00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:51.239
in it. That's how they could get it back. Because

912
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:54.440
Archie comes up with a story to try to get

913
00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.320
the lockett slash necklace back from his wife Wendy. He says, right,

914
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:01.840
it wasn't. An old woman had it engraved and it

915
00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:04.599
happened to be in the case at the store, and

916
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:07.199
by accident they sold him that particular neck Now the

917
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:10.079
lady wants it back, which is a good story. So

918
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:13.119
why wouldn't he just go one step further and say

919
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:16.239
there's a key in it that the old lady needs,

920
00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:19.719
it belongs to her, and then Wendy could keep the necklace.

921
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.519
But at least Archie would get the key back to

922
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:25.639
give to Wanda. Does that make sense? One hundred percent?

923
00:47:26.039 --> 00:47:28.760
Love it, like, use it as part of the story.

924
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:32.079
Just go with it and be like, Okay, Wendy, my love,

925
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:34.159
you can keep that. It's just that this old lady,

926
00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:37.159
she had the key in the is in the locket

927
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:39.400
and I need she needs it for her own purposes,

928
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:41.280
so I got to get it back. And Wendy would

929
00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:42.920
be like, yeah, what do I need the key for.

930
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:45.679
Here's the key, and now Wanda's got the key back.

931
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:46.320
Done.

932
00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:48.840
Yeah, So that was there was a little there's a

933
00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:49.800
little problem with it.

934
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.519
There is another great moment though, with Jamie Lee Curtis,

935
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.880
when Archie tries to present her another Lockett. It's like,

936
00:47:55.880 --> 00:47:57.880
why do you need that one? And she almost breaks

937
00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:02.079
my mother gave that to me. Her reaction, there you

938
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:05.519
go on the spot, Yep, came up with a good story.

939
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:08.360
That's gonna gill Archie to do what he can to

940
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:10.199
get that lockette back there. Right.

941
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:12.960
I just felt so bad for Archie because it seems

942
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:15.039
like every time he was so close to having sex

943
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:18.440
with Wanda, something always came up. Whether it was Otto,

944
00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:21.400
or it's the Lockett or something was there's always some

945
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:23.800
sort of diversion. But that moment when he's dancing around

946
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:27.039
naked in that freaking that loft or that his friend's

947
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.400
place and then the family walks in is priceless. Easily

948
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:32.199
could have put that in one of my favorite scenes.

949
00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:35.800
Actually, that was the scene they always showed even when

950
00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:37.639
we go to review as ciscol Indeaver, that was one

951
00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:40.119
of the scenes that they had showed him dancing around Nick,

952
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:41.679
which I was kind of surprised. I was like, wow,

953
00:48:41.719 --> 00:48:45.679
they almost he gets very naked. Yeah, he gets very

954
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:48.199
naked and he looks great, He's in great shape. I'm like, damn,

955
00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:50.599
John Cleese is looking good too. Everybody looks great in

956
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:53.400
this movie. But the fact that then the whole family

957
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:55.159
with the kids walks in and they're like, we leased

958
00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:57.320
this apartment from the guy. And he's like, oh, that's

959
00:48:57.320 --> 00:48:59.519
a good point. And he has the woman's picture in

960
00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:02.440
front of his crotch, and then they start having like

961
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:06.360
an almost normal conversation Yep, while he's standing there buck naked.

962
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:09.320
It's really funny. And that look on Cleese's face, Man,

963
00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:12.440
he's so good. So I think they missed an opportunity

964
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:15.199
though with the picture. First I don't understand is like,

965
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:17.239
why is it the picture of the wife? She doesn't

966
00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:20.000
live there. When you go on vacation, bring your pictures

967
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:22.719
with you to put around the house that you're staying at.

968
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:24.400
I was like, Oh, it'd have been funny if they

969
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:26.559
had something, if you grab some sort of picture that

970
00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:30.039
represented what he was covering, that would have played it

971
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:32.800
better off for laughs than having the wife instead.

972
00:49:33.039 --> 00:49:35.079
That was just myint thought. I also thought one thing

973
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:37.199
that was interesting. What I was thinking about during that

974
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:40.559
scene is that he is enduring this embarrassment standing their

975
00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:42.599
naked with the woman's photo in front of his crotch,

976
00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:45.320
and they're having this conversation and it never cuts to

977
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:47.199
Wanda because Wanda's upstairs.

978
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:50.039
Yep, what is she doing during that whole time? Yeah?

979
00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.400
How does she get out? Exactly? That was my question?

980
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:53.719
How then did she get out of there?

981
00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:56.639
Yeaph Anyway, I guess we just added another favorite scene,

982
00:49:56.639 --> 00:49:57.079
didn't we.

983
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:01.960
Maybe, Yeah, here's a complain So Archie runs off with

984
00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:05.559
Wanda at the end, see you later. Porsche, don't care

985
00:50:05.639 --> 00:50:08.800
give crap about my daughter, who in actuality was his

986
00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:11.800
real life daughter. So that's maybe a double whammy right there.

987
00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:14.000
I could see why he left his wife, that's right,

988
00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:17.360
because he's in the middle of divorce. But your daughter goodbye.

989
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:19.280
And I know they kind of try to play her

990
00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:22.840
off as a little bratty in this, but no, there's

991
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:26.440
nothing right that bad about her because she's a typical teenager.

992
00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:28.280
You know what. That's wonderful, Bill.

993
00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:30.440
I'm glad you'd picked up on that because I totally

994
00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:33.360
forgot about it. Maybe that character wasn't that memorable. I

995
00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:35.760
don't know, but that's a great call. He's abandoning his daughter,

996
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:39.039
and yes, his daughter, Porsche was played by his real

997
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:42.440
life daughter Cynthia. Please that's a great one man, good call,

998
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:43.239
Thank you.

999
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:44.280
I just had.

1000
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:48.480
Yeah, one of your favorite scenes was with hanging Archie

1001
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:51.559
out the window and he gives his long apology. I

1002
00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:53.920
was watching it the second time. I was like, there's

1003
00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:57.760
a whole group of onlookers while that's happening. They're watching

1004
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:03.079
Auto hang this somewhat famous or well known barrister outside

1005
00:51:03.199 --> 00:51:05.800
the window, hanging him upside down out the window. And

1006
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:09.880
I was like, nobody calls the cops. No cell phones, Yeah,

1007
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:15.639
nobody runs to a payphone. I guess that's all I got.

1008
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:20.400
Man. Oh, airport's security terrible. Oh yeah, well I was.

1009
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:23.800
I was saving something from my additional thought on that

1010
00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:24.320
whole thing.

1011
00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:26.400
Well, the gunflip is funny. I was like, Okay, that's

1012
00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:28.159
kind of funny how he gets the gun by but

1013
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:30.800
he still had a silencer on him that should have

1014
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:35.679
set the alarm off. And then Wanda had the stick

1015
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:40.480
that's right, the little men or whatever, Yeah, that would

1016
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:43.679
have went off. Also, Oh I mentioned it my you know,

1017
00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:49.480
just first impressions is that the whole ending is ridiculous.

1018
00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:51.519
Is it fun? Hell? Yeah, it's fun.

1019
00:51:51.559 --> 00:51:54.320
But I was just gonna make a very sarcastic comment

1020
00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:57.519
because remember the day's bill when you could run through

1021
00:51:57.559 --> 00:51:59.760
an airport and slip through security by flipping a gun

1022
00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:02.320
out side the metal detector, and then shoot your way

1023
00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:04.760
out of a supply closet and hang out on the

1024
00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:07.840
tarmac and play in fresh cement and drive a cement

1025
00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:10.639
road roller and climb on the wing of a plane.

1026
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:11.840
I mean, those were the days.

1027
00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:12.079
Man.

1028
00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:15.159
It's just not the same the whole airport experience anymore.

1029
00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:18.159
But that's basically everything that happens in that whole sequence,

1030
00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:22.239
and you're like, wow, how are they getting away with

1031
00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:24.639
any of it? But it's it's still fun.

1032
00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:28.280
Yeah, it is. By time to go on to Hey,

1033
00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:32.440
it's that actor. Also in the segment, we spotlight a

1034
00:52:32.519 --> 00:52:35.159
character actor you have seen in many other films, an

1035
00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:37.920
actor making their big screen debut, or an actor it

1036
00:52:38.039 --> 00:52:41.480
makes an uncredit cameo. Let's hey, it's that actor. Who

1037
00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:42.519
do we choose this week?

1038
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:47.360
This week we've chosen for our hands that actor Stephen Fry.

1039
00:52:48.079 --> 00:52:52.480
Stephen Fry, he makes a cameo in this film, and

1040
00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:55.880
they actually gave his character a name, even though you

1041
00:52:55.880 --> 00:52:56.719
don't hear his name.

1042
00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:57.360
If you look.

1043
00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:03.039
In the credits, he's known as Chinsen and Otto speaks

1044
00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:07.280
to him ever so briefly during this ridiculous airports sequence.

1045
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:11.159
He runs up to him and says, in a fake

1046
00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:15.719
British accent, Otto says, airport security, airport security may see

1047
00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:18.199
a boarding pass please, of course, Stephen Fry. It's like, oh, yes,

1048
00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:20.920
of course, and pulls out the boarding pass and gives

1049
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:24.119
it to Otto. So Otto now has a ticket. And

1050
00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:26.280
then Otto proceeds to push him into the corner and

1051
00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:29.320
knock him out. But he was the one who really

1052
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:31.639
stood out to me. He is a presence. This being

1053
00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:34.320
Stephen Fry is like, I know that guy for sure,

1054
00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:37.679
and he really was the only other face I recognized

1055
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.880
to be completely honest. Stephen Fry is an English actor

1056
00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:45.679
and writer. His trademarks are being that he has a

1057
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:48.960
tall stature. I think he's six' four and three.

1058
00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:51.000
QUARTERS i BELIEVE i Saw it's like super.

1059
00:53:51.039 --> 00:53:54.760
Tall he's known for his crooked nose and his sonorous,

1060
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:59.239
voice and received Pronunciation Little. Trivia in nineteen eighty, Four

1061
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:00.320
STEPHEN i.

1062
00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:03.440
Was engaged to do the rewrite of The noel gay

1063
00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:07.840
Musical me And My, girl which made him a millionaire

1064
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:11.639
before the age of, thirty and it also earned him

1065
00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:14.280
a nomination for A Tony award in nineteen eighty. Seven

1066
00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:17.639
also way back in the nineteen, eighties he shared a

1067
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:19.320
house In london With Hugh.

1068
00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:21.880
Laurie how about. That here's a bit of what he's

1069
00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:24.719
done in the. Eighties this is FROM. IMDb he was

1070
00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:27.760
uncredited In chariots Of fire in eighty. One he does

1071
00:54:27.800 --> 00:54:31.119
SOME tv series. Work he's in The Good. Father in eighty,

1072
00:54:31.119 --> 00:54:35.280
five he does six episodes of Black adder. Two That's blackadder.

1073
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.679
Two in nineteen eighty, six does some MORE TV tv,

1074
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:42.679
movies more Black adder. Appearances he does A tv series

1075
00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:47.519
Called Saturday, live Not Saturday Night, live But Saturday. Live

1076
00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:49.960
he did nineteen episodes of that from eighty six to eighty,

1077
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:51.639
seven and then of course this a fish called one

1078
00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:53.719
in eighty. Eight he does go on to do a

1079
00:54:53.719 --> 00:54:56.960
lot of voice work in, movies videos and video. Games

1080
00:54:57.320 --> 00:55:01.400
he narrates a lot Of Harry potter movie Which i'm

1081
00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:04.000
curious as to what those are. Exactly but he's known

1082
00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:07.480
For Gosford, park v For. VENDETTA i remember seeing him

1083
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:10.840
in the sequel to the Initial Sherlock holmes film and

1084
00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:13.840
the sequels ENTITLED A game Of. Shadows he Plays Microft

1085
00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:17.800
holmes and THAT'S i think he's Playing sherlock's, brother If

1086
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:19.880
i'm not, Missing and that's in twenty. Eleven he was

1087
00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:23.360
also in a couple of The hobbit, films and from

1088
00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:25.960
twenty fifteen to twenty nineteen does eighty nine episodes Of

1089
00:55:26.079 --> 00:55:29.760
Danger mouse As colonel. K, recently it was in six

1090
00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:33.079
episodes of The netflix Series The sandman from twenty twenty

1091
00:55:33.079 --> 00:55:36.280
two to twenty twenty. Five one quote From Stephen, frye

1092
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.840
the email of the species is more deadly than the.

1093
00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:44.719
Male All, right that's our heyts that actor this, Week Stephen.

1094
00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:47.639
Frye, YEAH i don't think you really could have chose anyone.

1095
00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:48.519
ELSE i could.

1096
00:55:48.519 --> 00:55:50.920
Have, yeah looked into the filmographies of some of the

1097
00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:55.679
Other i'm sure they're. EXTENSIVE i did sort of wreck hold,

1098
00:55:55.719 --> 00:56:00.639
on let's, see what's the old, woman Missus cody played

1099
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:03.480
By Patricia. Hayes she seemed familiar to, me BUT i

1100
00:56:03.519 --> 00:56:04.639
didn't get a chance to look at her.

1101
00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:07.880
Filmography, okay time to move on to facts and. Trivia

1102
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:10.159
what are some facts of? Trivia we have about a

1103
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:13.639
fist Called Wanda John cleese told an interviewer that he

1104
00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:18.559
called his Character Archie leach because that was Actor Carrie

1105
00:56:18.639 --> 00:56:22.039
grant's real, name And clease is quoted as, SAYING i

1106
00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:24.480
feel this film is as near As i'll ever get

1107
00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:28.719
to Being Cary. Grant there you. Go Although Charles crichton

1108
00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:31.719
is the sole credited director OF A Fish Called, Wanda

1109
00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:36.480
John clees was officially listed as co director during. Production that, credit,

1110
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:40.159
however was mostly for. Appearance clee has since explained that

1111
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:43.920
he did very little actual directing and only agreed to

1112
00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:47.400
the title because the film's backers were nervous about letting

1113
00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:50.320
the seventy eight year Old crichton direct entirely on his.

1114
00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:54.039
Own in, Practice clees directed just a handful of, scenes

1115
00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:59.079
Mainly Michael palin's solo moments As, ken including his increasingly

1116
00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:02.800
frantic attempts to silence the. Witness this wasn't about creative,

1117
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:05.719
control but. Logistics it Allowed crichton to get a head

1118
00:57:05.800 --> 00:57:09.800
start on editing the. Film on, Set creighton seemed amused

1119
00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:13.039
rather than bothered about the. Situation he often wore A

1120
00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:16.199
t shirt given to him By cleisett Red age And

1121
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:20.639
treachery Will Always Overcome youth and skill love it a

1122
00:57:20.719 --> 00:57:21.320
couple quick.

1123
00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:25.039
Ones according To Michael, palin the original title was a

1124
00:57:25.079 --> 00:57:29.000
goldfish Called. Wanda, also this film was the number one

1125
00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:31.920
rental video in THE us in nineteen eighty.

1126
00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:34.320
Nine see that all, right here's a fact that it'll

1127
00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:38.239
be disappointing to our male. Audience So Jamie Lee curtis

1128
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:41.000
was originally going to have a nude scene until she

1129
00:57:41.119 --> 00:57:44.679
pointed out that men being nude is much. Funnier So

1130
00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:47.000
John cleese did it. Instead that's.

1131
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:50.239
Great during the initial run of the, film A danish

1132
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:56.760
audiologist named Ol benson died while laughing during a, screening

1133
00:57:56.920 --> 00:57:59.840
which led newspapers to report that he had died from

1134
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:04.440
the official cause of death was heart, fibrillation which may

1135
00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.440
have been caused by an increased heart rate due to extended.

1136
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:11.199
Laughter clee considered using the event for, publicity but ultimately

1137
00:58:11.239 --> 00:58:13.920
decided that doing so would be in bad.

1138
00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:17.880
Taste so The latin hymn sung by the choir boys

1139
00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:22.639
at The dog's funeral translates to have Mercy, Lord have Mercy.

1140
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:27.320
Lord the dog is, dead, BRILLIANT i love.

1141
00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:29.559
It In march nineteen eighty, nine a few months after

1142
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:31.920
the release of the, film The Orange county chapter of

1143
00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:35.920
The National Stuttering, project the predecessor of The National Stuttering,

1144
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:41.119
association picketed OUTSIDE mgm offices In Culver city in protest.

1145
00:58:40.679 --> 00:58:43.559
Of the Movie You Touched upon that earlier bill right

1146
00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:45.880
down the street from. Me there you. Go, YEAH i

1147
00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:47.960
was In Culver city at the. Time, okay let's move

1148
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.480
on to box. Office SO A Fish Called wanda was

1149
00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:56.639
released On july fifteenth in a whopping three. Theaters despite

1150
00:58:56.679 --> 00:58:59.519
a modest seven point five million, budget the film went

1151
00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:02.960
on to earn an impressive sixty three point five million

1152
00:59:03.039 --> 00:59:05.719
at the domestic box, office plus another one hundred and

1153
00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:09.599
twenty six point one million. Internationally the movie took a

1154
00:59:09.639 --> 00:59:12.599
little time to build, momentum AS A Fish Called wanda

1155
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:15.320
didn't crack the top ten until it's fourth, week after

1156
00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:18.599
expanding to six hundred and sixteen, theaters where it debuted

1157
00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:22.639
at number. Five by week, ten the movie had climbed

1158
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:25.760
all the way to number one and would hang around

1159
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:28.880
the top ten for another five. Weeks by the end

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00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:31.159
of its, RUN A Fish Called wanda ranked as the

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00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:36.480
thirteenth highest grossing movie in THE, us landing just Behind Working.

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00:59:36.519 --> 00:59:39.599
Girl so the studio didn't have much confidence in the

1163
00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:43.199
movie and they were. Wrong this is the definition of

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00:59:43.239 --> 00:59:45.679
a sleeper. Hit there you. Go moving on to. Reviews

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00:59:45.679 --> 00:59:47.679
from growing up in the, eighties we would watch at

1166
00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:49.920
the movies With Geen cisco And Roger eber to hear

1167
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:53.280
the reviews and watch clips of upcoming. Movies their review

1168
00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:56.960
OF A Fish Called wanda was unanimous two thumbs. Up

1169
00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:01.320
gene called the movie a superb combination of good storytelling

1170
01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:05.119
and a very very funny story being. Told roger strated

1171
01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:07.760
that the movie is just funny from beginning to. End

1172
01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:11.079
Rotten tomatoes gives it A tomatometer score of ninety six,

1173
01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:14.440
percent with A Popcorn meter score of eighty four, percent

1174
01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:19.400
and also has AN IMDb rating of seven point. Five all,

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01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:21.880
right so this takes us to additional thoughts and. Questions

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01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:24.320
do we have anything else that we need to cover

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01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:27.440
ABOUT A Fish Called wanda that we? MISSED i don't

1178
01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:31.239
Feel i've missed anything personally THAT i really wanted to

1179
01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:33.280
get off my chest regarding this. Film how about You?

1180
01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:35.320
Bill just one of my favorite quotes of the. Movie

1181
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:37.440
hopefully this wasn't going to be your final quote at

1182
01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:40.079
the end here and it's the back and forth Between

1183
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:46.360
otto And. Wanda When otto again Interrupts wanda trying to

1184
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:49.239
get information out Of, archie she's just had it and

1185
01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:52.119
she goes she calls them. Stupid at some point he's,

1186
01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:54.760
like don't call me, stupid And wander's response, is, oh

1187
01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:57.440
right to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid.

1188
01:00:57.519 --> 01:01:01.199
People i've known cheap that could. Outweight you've dresses with higher.

1189
01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:04.880
IQs but you think you're an, intellectual don't? You? Ape

1190
01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:07.239
and then he follows up with, like, well apes don't read,

1191
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:10.679
philosophy and she, goes they, do they just don't understand.

1192
01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:13.840
It and then she goes on with some other. Insults

1193
01:01:13.880 --> 01:01:16.480
BUT i really do like that. Exchange there is some

1194
01:01:16.559 --> 01:01:20.119
really good dialogue in that. Scene oh, yeah And i'm

1195
01:01:20.119 --> 01:01:22.679
glad you called that one. OUT i noted it as.

1196
01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:25.320
Well when it was, HAPPENING i was, like, oh this is.

1197
01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:27.400
Great she's letting them have. It but it's very, witty

1198
01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:32.159
it's very. Smart not. Stupid, no not. Stupid, Okay so

1199
01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:34.360
let's move on to our. Rating so here we go

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01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:38.800
on a scale of one to five, angelfish would you

1201
01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:40.119
give a fish Called?

1202
01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:46.760
Wanda i'm giving this four four angel. Fishes, fish just

1203
01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:51.199
fish for, angelfish don't call me, Stupid bill For, angelfish

1204
01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:55.440
Called wanda for. Sure really solid four because this is, entertainment.

1205
01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:59.159
Folks at LEAST i felt like it was back in eighty.

1206
01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:02.440
EIGHT i feel like it still is. Today and just

1207
01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:07.960
to recap great performances By Klein, Clae Jamie Lee curtis

1208
01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:12.039
is beautiful in, this and she's a wonderful actress in.

1209
01:02:12.079 --> 01:02:16.280
This she's so, talented not in just manipulating the men

1210
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:19.000
but in stealing their. Hearts but she stole mine as,

1211
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:22.360
well and clearly she stole, bills so credit to her

1212
01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:27.039
And Michael. Palin of, COURSE i felt handled the stutter quite,

1213
01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:30.880
well SO i appreciate him and his acting ability is

1214
01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:34.559
comedic acting and felt a lot of empathy for this

1215
01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:38.960
character upon this. Rewatch, yeah just not many complaints from.

1216
01:02:39.039 --> 01:02:42.199
Me it's a great just go with it movie Credit Charles.

1217
01:02:42.280 --> 01:02:44.960
CRICHTON i thought the direction was well and the writing

1218
01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:48.719
is really. Strong so just not a lot to be

1219
01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:51.239
mad about. Here it's only to be happy, about And

1220
01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:54.280
i'm GLAD i got to see it. Again and there

1221
01:02:54.280 --> 01:02:57.360
are so many great, scenes a lot we may have not,

1222
01:02:57.559 --> 01:03:00.920
covered so if you are out there and pulling out some, hairs,

1223
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:02.719
going how did you not talk about the scene where

1224
01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:05.519
he eats the fish and puts the chips Up ken's. Nose,

1225
01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:08.639
well it's. Fantastic, yeah that stuff's. Great or the final

1226
01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:11.840
scene When ken gets his revenge For wanda and rolls

1227
01:03:11.840 --> 01:03:13.519
Over otto in the.

1228
01:03:13.599 --> 01:03:17.960
Cement it's all. Fun so what is an hour and

1229
01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:21.719
forty seven? MINUTES i believe something along those, lines and

1230
01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:24.920
it went by A New york minute it. Was it was.

1231
01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:27.960
Great that's my. Rating, YEAH i am totally with. YOU

1232
01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:31.320
i have a four also Four, angelfish and, YES i

1233
01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:35.239
cannot meet someone with the Name. Ken and the first

1234
01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:37.280
thing that goes to my head Is ken is coming

1235
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:40.039
to kill me but saying it the way that's that. Line,

1236
01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:45.760
YEAH i can't not think of. That and this is

1237
01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:48.760
one of those movies that even last, NIGHT i watched

1238
01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:50.960
it twice AND i couldn't believe both. Times i'm, like,

1239
01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:54.880
wait we're at the end. Already it. Flies it, flies

1240
01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:58.280
and that's always a good compliment to the, film where

1241
01:03:58.519 --> 01:04:01.920
it's over before you know it and you've been smiling

1242
01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:05.320
or laughing or snickering. THROUGHOUT i cannot say enough About

1243
01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:08.280
Jamie Lee curtis and. THIS i was so. SURPRISED i

1244
01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:10.840
really THOUGHT i was really watching this For Kevin kline

1245
01:04:11.119 --> 01:04:14.320
And Jamie. Lee curtis ended up being the. Standout that's

1246
01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:16.880
definitely my favorite movie of. Hers very.

1247
01:04:16.920 --> 01:04:19.480
Good all, Right so that about does it for this week's.

1248
01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:23.079
Episode as, always we appreciate you tuneing. In don't forget

1249
01:04:23.079 --> 01:04:25.840
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1250
01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:27.800
rating and drop us review hopefully.

1251
01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:30.480
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1252
01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:34.039
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1253
01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:36.679
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1254
01:04:36.760 --> 01:04:39.239
us next time as we dive into another classic when

1255
01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:43.639
the greatest movie decade ever the nineteen. Eighties until, then

1256
01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:47.159
stay cool and have an excellent day. Everyone i'll avoid

1257
01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:52.639
the green. Ones they're not ripe. Yet thanks for staying

1258
01:04:52.719 --> 01:04:52.920
up with.

1259
01:04:53.000 --> 01:05:01.039
Us Good night, world