The Long Good Friday (1980): Bob Hoskins’ British Crime Classic

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For more than ten years, there's
been peace. Everyone who is own passed.

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I'm saying I'm the biggest deal in
Europe, Ladies and gentlemen, the

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new London. This is personal.
Who's got to end for me? I

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want the man who knows is in
a decency in this disgusting world. He's

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carcass dripping blood by midnights. Nobody
goes on until I find out who's done

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it. I told him everything home
scared. It's me. It's gonna take

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revenge. We warnersh light which one
mana landa not now Rold. They're taking

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Movie? Hosted by filmmaker Enrique Kuto and

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movie officionado David Denyer. Spoiler alert. All right, hello everybody, and

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welcome back to Do You Even?
Movie? I'm your host, Enrique Kuto

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here with my good buddy and co
host double D David Denier. Greetings,

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and who likes British movies? Apparently
I've never hid that fact. I can't

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think of a British movie you've spoken
of. Good tidings, the one we

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had to endure together you didn't like
that movie. No, I didn't.

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But again, I also don't show
you a lot of British movies because I

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know you're not a big fan of
them. I have no problem with British

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movies. It's just when they're as
dry as their states, it can be

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a little challenging. Yeah, you're
just being rude. I mean, I'm

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just saying that was the probably the
number one takeaway I got from this film

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was it was a lot of dry
steak into last twenty minutes. I mean,

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there's it starts like the middle has
a little bit of an issue,

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but overall, I think this is
But the problem is the middle is seventy

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minutes. We'll get into it,
but today we're going to be talking about

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the long Good Friday, which is
actually a weekend that weekend. Indeed.

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Yes, yeah, and I was
actually kind of bummed. I was hoping

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they would do more with the Catholic
stuff. Yeah. They did for a

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little bit, for a little and
then they just like forgot about that.

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Yeah, I mean it's more so, it's more so about the Vengeance nineteen

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eighty is is this movie? It
is I would say underrated movie because it

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has been unavailable for some time.
It wasn't really until I saw it became

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available I think on I want to
say Criterions Channel, and then that was

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when I first watched it. But
then for like availability of it, you

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can get like other region releases,
but for the US not so much.

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It wasn't available at all, not
for a while. Arrow put it out

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recently in like the last like five
or six years, and that was when

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I kind of took notice of it
because I believe it was Anchor Bay originally

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put out the DVD and then Criterion
did one, and it was basically just

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those two companies. Like the copy
I have is a region O UK era

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Anchor Bay release. Oh so it
was a region It's no, there's just

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no regional. It's it's UK.
It's a UK Anchor Bay release. I

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didn't know Anchor Bay did UK a
lot of UK well back when they when

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they existed, but they existed.
Yeah, yeah, so I had never

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heard of this film, yeah at
all. I obviously I knew Bob Hoskins

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from who framed Roger rabbit Y,
yeah, of course. And Helen Mirren

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I knew for being Helen Mirren.
Yeah, but but other than that,

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I had not heard of this film
at all. What I mean, what

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was your experience with gangster? I
mean Goodfellas of course, you know,

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and Godfather, But I mean,
like, what are your like favorite gangster

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movies? Just off the top of
your head. I mean, I mean,

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basically, you know a plethora of
Scorsese movies. Yeah, I've never

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been a big gangster movie person.
Necessarily. I feel like they're all they're

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all the same story. I mean, whether whether fictional or true. Yeah,

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which is just a guy becomes powerful
and rich and then he makes a

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series of stupid decisions again and again
and again, and every single time he

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makes a dumb decision, somebody goes, You're gonna get killed for this,

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yeah, and he goes, eh, and then he gets killed, and

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then it's Pikachu Face buy At the
same time, though, I think,

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honestly it goes back to a lot
of the early film noir movies, because

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a lot of those had to do
with gangster elements. There was one I

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watched recently from I want to say
forty three called The Setup, uh hour

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and seventeen minutes long, and the
whole movie is this boxer is going to

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his what is gonna be his final
fight, but he doesn't realize there's a

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fix in on it. Nobody told
him because everybody thought that he was gonna

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lose it. And then he's like, well, I'm gonna go win this

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fight, and then screws up everything
for these for these gangsters and these guys

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that bet on it. So there's
a lot of play I think with the

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story and plotline of a lot of
gangster films, with going back to the

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noir days. But what I like
about the UK gangster movies especially is the

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fact that they are slow burn.
The violence, while infrequent, is usually

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really brutal and really bloody. But
also they kind of follow that same formula.

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Like you said, it's basically a
rise to power and then a fall.

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And I just I enjoyed those those
those titles for the most part,

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I think, I mean, I
came up when gangster movies were being reinvented.

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Yeah, mostly by like Tarantino and
people inspired by Tarantino. Yeah,

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and uh it's it's you know,
it's popular to hate on Tarantino now.

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But like when you watch pulp fiction, pulp fiction is literally a movie about

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what gangsters are doing when they're not
doing the stuff that's not doing oster movies.

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Yeah, that's what it's like.
It's like, what is it like

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when two guys who uh rough people
up for a living go to lunch?

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Yeah, And I find that stuff
to be invigorating to the genre. It

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was about I think about two years
ago, actually maybe about a year and

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a half ago. I had gotten
I'd gotten a gift card for Amazon,

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and I'd gone through my wish list, and Warner Brothers about probably ten years

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ago put out a blue ray set
that was the Golden Age gangster movies.

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So you had Little Caesar White Heat
that's a pizza movie, which you stopped

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Little Caesar White Heat, the Petrified
Forest, and what the hell is the

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other one? Oh Public Enemy with
Cagney. So I've been watching a lot

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of these and kind of going back
and going back through a lot of them

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from the thirties, forties and fifties, and for the most part, the

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formula they do follow, like I
said, is that rise to crime and

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then the fall. But at the
same time, with UK titles especially,

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they have this element of introduce of
introducing the idea of a Robin Hood character

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to most these things, because like
Al Capone was thought to be like a

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neighborhood a neighborhood robin hood guy that
you know, even though they did all

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these things, they did take care
of their cities and whatnot. So I

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also the people who paid them that
I know. But at the same time,

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but I like that aspect of things
too, of just seeing even though

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these people are fucking monsters, there
is some human sides to them in regards

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of taking care of the grounds that
they come to. Yeah, they're like,

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don't worry, Korean grocer, if
you pay us, we won't hurt

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you. And we're gonna I gotta
skin this guy alive. I enjoy I

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enjoy the inner workings of organized crime. I remember the first time I saw

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goodfell As, I was just so
mesmerized by just all the the unspoken rules

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that Henry Hill goes through in that
movie. Well, that was based on

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a true story, absolutely, so
it's gonna be a lot more detailed in

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that way. Well. See,
there's there's a big difference between crime movies

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and gangsters. Yeah, absolutely,
the very big difference. And that's something

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that is worth pointing out. So
when you have a crime, I mean

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crime is in right now, Yeah, and has been for a long time.

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On television, crime is kind of
everything, whether you have a procedural

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or In the last twenty years,
so many examples of major film or major

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series that are about the criminal.
You've got Sons of Anarchy, You've got

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the spin off, the Mayance,
you go a little further back, the

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Shieldield, You've got Breaking Bad,
one of the biggest shows of all time,

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and then better all saw the follow
up to Breaking Bad. They're all

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about criminals, just throwing out their
Sneaky Pete. Sneaky Pete's a good example

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as well. Yeah, they're they're
about the bad guys and they just kind

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of, you know, because they're
cool. They're cool. Yeah, I

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mean you you have to remember when
Scarface became huge, like in the early

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two thousands, because like everybody had
posters of it and there were going with

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every every edge lord, every edge
lore, I mean, Boondock Saints,

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Scarface, even though Boondock Saints are
technically good guys, but Scarface, Like

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I remember that boom of where I
got tired of hearing about Scarface and the

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Godfather because everybody was talking about it. Well, everybody was talking about about

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Scarface because you could get the T
shirt at the mall. Yeah, and

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you would watch like MTV crips and
everybody would have and like but every rapper

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it particularly, would have like a
big scarface mural or or what have you.

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And I honestly, I think that
movie's fine if I prefer Carlita's way.

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I actually just watched a movie on
DiPalma called The Palma, which is

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that like our forty nine minute movie
where I think it's Noah Bomback is sitting

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with him and just interviewing him about
all his movies his life. Watched it

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last night, really really good movie. It's just really cool to see the

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Palma just chew the fat of his
own movies. I don't think I've ever

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heard Di Palma speak. It's crazy. It's kind of crazy, to be

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honest. Yeah. Yeah, well
the Palma was never like very like public

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facing. I mean, he goes, he goes into his earliest stuff all

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the way up to I think Passion
was the last one he talked about from

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twenty thirteen. So like he goes
into the casualties of war mission to Mars,

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which is what made him leave the
US because that was where he was,

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Like I can go make my movies
in other regions, and so he

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did. And with sex offenders,
what yeah, I mean that's a benefit,

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right, But no, I just
with gangster movies. I have nothing

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against them, I think. I
mean, I think Goodfellas is one of

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the greatest films ever made. I
think Casino is one of the greatest films

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ever made. But they do kind
of hit the same note, not always

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Like what was that did we watch
a while back? Was that the same

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Valentine's Day massacre movie? Yeah?
Yeah, the Corman one. Yeah that

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was pretty good. George Sagall and
Bruce Dern, I mean that was that

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was a solid movie. Yeah,
that was pretty good. So, I

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mean, I don't know, I've
just I've never been obsessed with kind of

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the the tough guy movie in that
way, but I really do. My

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biggest complaint with a lot of them
is even Goodfellas, yea, even Casino,

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is that most of the movie is
just people telling somebody again and again

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like you're gonna get killed if you
do this. Yeah, and then they're

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going eh. And then when they
get killed, they're like, well,

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hell, what happened? Oh shuck
adues and and that's that's the part that

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kind of like I'm like, I'm
used to that. I mean, it's

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a basic formula that if you get
in it, it's that whole joke of

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like, you know, like the
first half of good Fellas is really fun,

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not so much the second half just
like Boogie Knights there, yeah,

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or full metal Jacket, full middle
jacket. Yeah, that's kind of any

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epic story, Yeah, to an
extent. Usually, especially when as highdrama,

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they want you to buy into the
life, yeah, and the excitement

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of it so that you can see
how they'd end up in the darkness of

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it later. I mean, it's
very common that crime does not pay.

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It's very uncommon for you to have
you just make that up? How crazy?

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Right? You just made that up. That's a good one. Crime.

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What was it? Crime? Crime
doesn't pay? Wow? I like

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it, but it's it's not It's
more uncommon to have these movies with the

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the guy getting getting away with it. I mean usually that is the end

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of the movie. Is the demise
of your character for the most well kind

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of expected the big changes. It
used to be that they didn't get away

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with it because they got busted.
Yeah, but now and by now,

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I mean in the last like thirty
forty years, it's become more common that

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it's just that they get stopped by
their own So it's like it's either a

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bigger, badder gangster or the gangster
they were going up against takes them out.

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And the authorities are kind of a
total afterthought. One thing in this

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movie there are just no cops.
No, I mean there's one copy talks

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to two copies, yes, two
cups total on his payroll, and they

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but they accomplish story beats at best. It's just like, tell me where

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your informant is and he's like,
I can't do that. He's like,

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eh, He's like all right,
well, like you know, uh,

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do you know about the ending that
I think it's I can't remember if it's

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AIP or whoever put out the original
Scarface. There are two endings to the

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original Scarface in nineteen thirty four.
One is that he dies in a halo

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bullets with the cops, which is
what they expect. And then there I

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can't remember what was the reasoning,
but they couldn't have that ending in one

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certain place, so they have this
ending where he gets arrested and goes to

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trial and then is hung and like, there's this whole saying at the end

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about how you know, basically crime
doesn't pay. Wait, so they arrest

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him, yeah, they try him, yeah, and then they're just like,

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your dick's big. Yes, they
hang him. So oh oh you

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said he was hung, Yeah he's
hung. Yeah. So they're like,

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oh, your dick's big. That's
a really weird. That's a very that

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motion, that's the scarface of you
did scarface? I feel like, damn

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right, so now talk about scarface. Would you like to get into the

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perda deeds of The Long Good Friday? Sure? All right? So The

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Long Good Friday nineteen eighty one hour
and fifty four minutes, rated R.

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This film is directed by John McKenzie. He starts his career as a director

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in nineteen sixty five with The Newcomers. Then he does Thirty Minute Theater in

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nineteen sixty five. Now thirty Minute
Theater and a couple other theater shows are

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gonna come up, which is where
a lot of these people were well known

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for each other and acted a lot
in the UK early on in TV and

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whatnot. They became kind of known
for those theater programs. Okay, do

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you even movie will be right Back, Welcome Back to Do You Even Movie?

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So The Jazz Age in nineteen sixty
eight, ITV Saturday Night Theater sixty

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nine, The Wednesday Play nineteen sixty
nine, One Brief Summer seventy one Made

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nineteen seventy two, Country Matters nineteen
seventy three, The Wild West Show nineteen

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seventy five, Center Play nineteen seventy
seven. Then in nineteen eighty he does

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The Long Good Friday. After that
A Sense of Freedom in eighty one.

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Then he does the Paul McCartney Taken
Away music video in eighty two, Beyond

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the Limit nineteen eighty three, The
Innocent nineteen eighty five, Active Vengeance nineteen

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eighty six, The Fourth protoc Called
nineteen eighty seven, and then Enrique.

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In nineteen ninety he does a little
film called Last of the Finest. Never

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heard of it? We watched it? No we didn't, Yes, we

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did. What's it about? That's
the one. That's the one with Jeff

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Fayhey, Joe Pataliano, Brian Dennyhe
all the brothers are cops going against the

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organized crime. Oh okay, yeah, it's a very American movie. Bill

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Paxton, Bill Paxton, I think
Jeff Faye get knocked off in the first

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boilers. That's up a movie.
I do remember a ensemble cast movie like

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that. It's been a while since
we watched it. Ruby in nineteen ninety

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two, Voyage in nineteen ninety three, The Infiltrator nineteen ninety five, Looking

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After Jojo ninety eight, and then
When the Sky Falls in two thousand and

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Quick Sand in two thousand yere you
from there with quicksand by chance only the

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concept of Quick Sam. It was
a movie that stars Michael Kine and Michael

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Keaton, and it is it stars
them in regards of like they're involved in

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the plot a little bit here and
there, but it's mostly, if I

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remember correctly, like a Saudi Arabian
film that like they just used those two

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guys as the leads and then they're
not really even in most of the movie.

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and then I watched it and I
was just like, this isn't what I

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expected at all. Okay. So
our writer is Barry Keith. He did

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Adam Smith. He wrote on Adam
Smith in nineteen seventy three. It Playhouse

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sixty seven Premiere nineteen seventy eight,
Long Good Friday nineteen eighty, No Excuses

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nineteen eighty three, Play for Today
in nineteen eighty four, and Sun in

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twenty ten. The Long Good Friday
is what is noted as is only a

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theatrical screenplay that he's ever penned.
Okay, and then wrapping us up is

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our cinematographer Phil Mayhew. He did
Trauma, Shot Trauma in nineteen seventy six,

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Play for Today nineteen seventy seven,
Black Joy in nineteen seventy seven,

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Let's Get Laid in nineteen seventy eight. I've not seen that. No.

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I love that title. That's a
solid title. The Professionals nineteen seventy eight,

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The Muse Machine nineteen seventy nine,
Scum in nineteen seventy nine. Then

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he does The Long Good Friday in
nineteen eighty, then OMEN three, The

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Final Conflict nineteen eighty one, The
Final Option nineteen eighty two, Beyond the

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Limit nineteen eighty three, Those Glory
Days nineteen eighty three, Morons from Outer

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Space in nineteen eighty five. He
shoots episodes of Max Headroom in nineteen eighty

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five, Active Vengeance in nineteen eighty
six, The Fourth Protocol nineteen eighty seven,

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Criminal Law in nineteen eighty eight.
Renegade Is the Lou Diamond, Phillips

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and Keeper Sutherland film in nineteen eighty
nine. Well that escalated quickly. Highlander

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two, The Quickening in nineteen ninety
one, Defenseless nineteen ninety one, The

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Trial nineteen eighty two, Ghost in
the Machine nineteen ninety three. What was

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that I'm saying? Ghost in the
Machine? Yes, he shoots Ghost in

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the Machine nineteenninety three, The Crazy
Computers, Killer Movie. You've ever seen

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that? Oh? Man, I
got shit it? Ghost the Machine No

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Escape nineteen ninety four, Ray Liota, Oh okay yea. Then he does

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Goldennine nineteen ninety five, The Saint
nineteen ninety seven, Mask Zorro ninety eight

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and At ninety nine, Bi Centennial
Man ninety nine, Beyond Borders two thousand

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and three, Around the World in
Eighty Days Remake two thousand and four,

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The Legend of Zoro two thousand and
five, Casino Royale two thousand and six,

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Beverly Hills Chiuahwa two thousand and eight, A Real Film, Edge of

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Darkness twenty ten. I do like
Edge of Darkness, The Smurfs twenty eleven,

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Here Comes the Boom twenty twelve,
The Smurfs two, twenty thirteen,

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SpongeBob movie Sponge Out of Water in
twenty fifteen. Okay, he has quite

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a resume. It is quite a
resume. So getting into the synopsis of

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A Long, Good Friday, the
IMDb synopsis says, in the late nineteen

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seventies, cocky crime boss Harold Shane
is a gangster trying to become a legitimate

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property mogul. Has plans, has
big plans, A legitimate property mogul There

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we Go, has big plans to
get American mafia to bankroll his transformation of

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a derelict area of London into the
possible venue for a future Olympic Games.

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However, a series of bombings target
his empire on the very weekend the Americans

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are in town. Shand is convinced
there is a trader in his organization and

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sets out to eliminate the rat in
typically ruthless fashion. I mean, that's

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pretty close. That may the movie
make more sense reading that. I wish

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i'd read that first. My synopsis
Harold and a middle aged man makes a

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bunch of mistakes, doesn't know if
he has enemies. Harold, an upcoming

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gangster, returns to London, ready
to start a new life in real estate.

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When a series of bombings and violent
attacks threatened his new life, Harold

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must turn back to his violent ways
to keep his plans on track. All

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right, I thought his name was
Errol. No Harold, then, who

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is Errol? Errol is the guy
that that they're interrogating that they cut with

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the machete. Okay, I thought
he was named Harold No, because then

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when they were tormenting him, he
kept saying Harold, and I was like,

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what, Yeah, Harold is Harold
is Bob Hoskin's character. Errol is

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the guy that they interrogate in that
scene, which they but they sound like

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the exact same when they have that
at Cockney Accent. There are multiple times

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that they said stuff to each other
and I was just like, what,

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pivity Bobby Boo. So The Long
Good Friday is currently available to stream.

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You can find it on a couple
of services in regards of actually seeing it

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in the new transfer that is going
to be available when you watch it now

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on those services as well. So
it does look really that's good. Yeah,

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going into our cast. Our cast
is Bob Hoskins. He plays Harold

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shand one hundred and twenty two credits
for him. I believe that he starts

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with the Main Chance in nineteen seventy
two, Up the Front seventy two Villains

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in nineteen seventy two, Crown Court, New Scotland Yard Play for Today Thickest

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Thieves inserts Royal Flash So seventy five. He's doing a lot of TV work

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Rock Fall, He's a seventy seven. Then he does Zulu Dawn in nineteen

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seventy nine. Then in nineteen eighty
he does The Long Good Friday eighty one,

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he does Othello in nineteen eighty two. He appears in Pink Floyd's The

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Wall does Beyond the Limit, Lassiter
The Cotton Club, one of my favorite

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gangster movies, in nineteen eighty four. Then he appears in Brazil in nineteen

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eighty five, Mussolini and I in
nineteen eighty five, Wonderful Romance, Sweet

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Liberty in nineteen eighty six, Mona
Lisa nineteen eighty six, A Prayer for

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the Dying in nineteen eighty seventy.
You remember that movie, I don't.

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That was the one we watched with
Hoskins and Mickey Rourke, where Rourke was

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the assassin hiding out in the church
and Hoskins as the priest. Oh,

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I totally remember that one. That's
actually a really good one, Solid for

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Solid Neo noir, who Fraim Roger
Rabbit nineteen eighty eight, Heart Conditioned nineteen

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ninety, Mermaid in nineteen ninety,
Shattered ninety one, Hook in ninety three.

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Oh yeah he was like the other
but yeah he was the pirate underling.

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Yes, see to Captain Hook that
he does Balto in nineteen ninety five,

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Tails in the Crypt in nineteen ninety
six, which he also directed that

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episode as well. Oh okay,
Nice Michael in nineteen ninety six, Felicia's

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Journey in nineteen ninety nine, American
Vergon ninety nine, White River Kid,

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Don Hiote, Enemy at the Gates, made in Manhattan, Fraser Vanity Fair,

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Beyond the Sea, Unleashed in two
thousand and five, Son of Son

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of the Mask in two thousand and
five. Finally a real feature film,

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Missus Anderson Presentso five Paris, Paris, I Love You in two thousand and

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six, Hollywood Land, Ruby Blue
Doomsday a Christmas, Carol, never Land,

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and most recently Snow White and The
Huntsman in twenty twelve. He shortly

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passed after that, I want to
say, in twenty seventeen. So what

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you're saying is the current director of
the new Crow movie killed Bob Hoskins.

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That is not what I'm saying.
But okay, I think that's an extreme

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place to land at free but I
respect your opinion. David. Would you

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stop moving down our list? We
have Helen Mirren who plays Victoria one hundred

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and forty nine credits on her resume. By the way, again, that

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does not surprise me at all.
Helen Mirren's a goat hero Stratus in sixty

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seven, A Midsommer's Night Dream in
sixty eight, ITV Saturday Night Feeder in

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seventy one, cousin Betty in nineteen
seventy one, Oh Lucky Man nineteen seventy

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three, thriller The Philanthropist Hamlet,
Caligula in nineteen seventy nine. She was

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in Caliguila. Oh yeah, she's
the love interest of McDowell. Oh have

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you seen Caliguilia? Not since I
was in high school? Wow? Yeah,

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that new That new version's coming out
soon that apparently has been recut and

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is not straight up PORNA movie I'll
just watched by Bruno Mattai Caligula. We

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haven't watched that much. I have
them. I know we need to SOS

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Titanic in nineteen seventy nine, Hussey
in nineteen eighty, Long Good Friday in

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nineteen eighty. Then she goes on
to Excalibur in nineteen eighty one, twenty

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ten, the year we Make Contact
in eighty four, White Nights, the

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Twilight Zone, the Mosquito Coast,
when Wales came, the Cook, the

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Thief, his wife for lover in
nineteen eighty nine. One of my favorite

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movies, of course, it is
Dude. I love that movie. So

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good Comfort A Strangers, Prime Suspect, The Maddness of King George in nineteen

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ninety four, Critical Care nineteen seven
and nineteen ninety seven, The Prince of

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Egypt ninety eight, Teaching Miss Tingle
in nineteenninety nine. I forgot she was

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in that. Oh yeah, that
she is Miss Tingle. Damn right.

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She is the Pledge two thousand and
one, Gosford Park two thousand and one,

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Calendar Girls two thousand and three,
The Clearing Raising, Helen Frasier,

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
Queen two thousand and six, National Treasure

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Book of Secrets two thousand and seven, Inkhart, State of Play, The

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Debt, Brighton Rock, Red,
Arthur Gleechhock Hitchcock, phil Spector, Monsters,

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University Read two, The Woman in
Gold, Trumbo, Collateral, Beauty,

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The Fate and the Furious in twenty
seventeen. Damn right, Winchester In

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twenty eighteen. Yep, nothing,
all right, fair enough, it had

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it had some fun moments. It
had its fun moments. I really wanted

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to like that movie more. I
I mean, it's tough. You know,

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when we're all clamoring for a Winchester
House movie, we're all like,

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when's it gonna happen, When's it
gonna happen? And then we get it,

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but it's not exactly what we wanted
it to be. No, No,

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it's not. Hobs and Shaw twenty
nineteen. The Good Liar Fast nine

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in Fast Saga, Gold Fast X
and Barbie, most recently in twenty twenty

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three and then Wrapping us Up.
Is Paul Freeman, who plays Colin in

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the film one hundred and thirty five
credits on This Gentleman. He starts in

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Champion House in sixty seven, Jason
King, The Protector's Saturday Night Theater,

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Who's Child Am I? The Sweeney
Death of a Princess Long Good Friday in

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nineteen eighty. Then he goes on
to do The Dogs of War rd is

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The Lost Dark in nineteen eighty one, where he plays Belloch. Then he

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was in Unsuitable Job, Suitable Job
for a Woman in nineteen eighty two,

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Crown Court in eighty two, Final
Option eighty two, The Sender Cagney and

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Lacy, Falcon Crest in nineteen eighty
four, Pall Roads Lead Back to the

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Falcon Crest, Shanghai Surprise nineteen eighty
six, Prisoner of Rio Without a Clue,

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May Wine, The Last Island,
Aces, Iron Eagle three in nineteen

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ninety two, Double Edge in ninety
two, Just Like a Woman ninety two,

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The Young Idiana Jones Chronicles in ninety
two, The Viper Mighty morphin Power,

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Rangers of the Movie in nineteen ninety
five, where he played Ivenues.

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Wow, Yeah, that's him,
That is him. Tales of the Crypt

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nineteen eighty six, Samson and Delilah
ninety six, Double Team, Inspector morse

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Er, George and the Dragon,
Midsommer Murders, Hot Fuzz, Hotel,

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Babylon, Centurion, Hard Boiled Sweets, Strike Back, Get Away, The

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First Line, Viking, Destiny Man
from Rome in twenty twenty two, and

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most recently did Paris Christmas Waltz in
twenty twenty three. Wow. Okay,

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so this was your first time watching
it, so I don't have we don't

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have to go into your first time
because we'll get to that. I mean,

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it feels like it was years ago. I could get that. Yeah,

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I mean well, I mean when
it started. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, my first time watching this. I became aware of this film looking

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at Bob Hoskins's filmography, and it
wasn't until about twenty twenty one that it

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became available for me to see,
Like I could go and buy a pretty

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pricey Criterion DVD or Anchor Bay DVD, but then a Criterion channel I lucked

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out, so I watched it.
I was really blown away with how good

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it was, how Hoskin was.
I think the story was intense, and

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I thought overall, it keeps you
guessing what's going on in the very end,

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as well, and I think the
performances in general, along with the

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score. I love this movie for
the record. It keeps you guessing,

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but it's not actually a twist when
you find out what's going on twist at

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all. I mean, once you
starting those pieces together, it's like having

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the killer turn out to be a
character that wasn't in the movie until the

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moment they revealed who the killer was. I just I think the selling point

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of the of the movie is that
final like ten minutes, especially because yeah,

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because it's like exciting and interesting.
I'm not trying to be a jerk.

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00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:30.119
I mean it though, like it's
actually like very strong, yeah,

401
00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:33.599
in that time period, but by
then I've already kind of been like,

402
00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:37.759
while this guy is dumb and self
destructing himself. So unfortunately that's been established.

403
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:41.240
Fully. I was waiting for Helen
Mirran to be the twist that she

404
00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.839
was like like she was the inside
person. Yeah, and when that didn't

405
00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:47.480
happen, I was like, well, damn, all right, Well let's

406
00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:48.559
get into the movie then. So
we opened with a shot of a nice

407
00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.000
cottage and we see Colin. Okay, cottage, Okay, college cottage,

408
00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:56.640
my apologies. Colin gets off a
ship and we see him going into a

409
00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:00.440
car. He's removing money from a
suitcase and putting it into his jacket,

410
00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.839
and then he passes the suitcase off
to another We go back to the cottage

411
00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:06.680
as the man returns with the suitcase, which they find money stashed under,

412
00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:10.240
and we're seeing this all through a
window. So we're seeing into the cottage

413
00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:12.160
of somebody like looking in through a
window. Yeah. Correct. So that

414
00:27:12.359 --> 00:27:15.519
is when we go back to the
club and we see Colin is flirting with

415
00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:18.559
the young man and his crew suddenly
get ambushed. They're taken away in cars

416
00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:22.480
and the cars pull up later and
they're dead. Meanwhile, the cottage is

417
00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.119
also ambush and everybody is shot inside
of it. Yeah, there's a lot

418
00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:30.000
of gay stuff. I'm not being
funny. There's a lot of gay stuff

419
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:33.799
in the opening. Yeah, where
they're basically trapping some of the people that

420
00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.920
this Hoskins character relies on. Yeah, because they hang out at places where

421
00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:40.680
they could pick up other guys.
Absolutely. So then we cut to Harold,

422
00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:42.319
who is Hoskins character, and he's
coming back into town. We see

423
00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:45.920
his plane land and we see him
walking through the airport, and that's when

424
00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.839
we see his assistant Razor as well
and his other right hand man, Jeff.

425
00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:52.759
And we also see that a coffin
is being unloaded off a train.

426
00:27:53.359 --> 00:28:03.640
These are my two henchmen, Jeff
Razor and Jeff. You're not wrong,

427
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.440
yeah, And it's like it's like, uh, who would you like to

428
00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:08.880
protect you? I'm gonna go with
Razor, not Jeff? Why not?

429
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:15.519
Jeff? Jeff is quite lethal.
It's short for Jeffrey Dahmer. Wasn't a

430
00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.440
thing yet, so that wouldn't even
be a threat. I would, no,

431
00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:21.559
no, So, but we also
see a coffin being unloaded off a

432
00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:23.680
train, and we see a widow
and we meet Jeff and Razors. Razors

433
00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:26.720
has has the car parked out a
bit, and Jeff's at a cafe and

434
00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:30.680
we see this widow that was with
this coffin walk up and spit in Jeff's

435
00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.759
face, no context whatsoever. She
gets back in her car and drives off

436
00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:40.920
in the has more of an intimidation
fact, could be. So Jeff and

437
00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:45.480
Razors meet or excuse me, Razors
meets Harold at the airport and that's when

438
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.279
they're back in the car. Jeff
shows him then plans for the new hotel

439
00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.400
that he plans to build on the
city as they're going to be working on

440
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:55.279
the London docks to get everything leveled
out for the way of this real estate

441
00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:57.319
plan. At the docks, we
meet Victoria as she sits with Harold and

442
00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:00.880
they're both on this houseboat as they
discussed the arrival of Charlie and Tony,

443
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:04.640
who are the two American mafiosos that
Harold is hoping to land to help them

444
00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:11.160
fund the project. And mafioso's mean
like a kind of minestrone, right is

445
00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:17.200
that it? I don't know,
just trying to make a joke. Do

446
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:29.680
you Even movie will be right back, welcome back to do you Even movie?

447
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:36.119
Harry is hoping to bring them into
the business if he can redevelop the

448
00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:38.079
London dock lands. And that's when
we see Colin is enjoying a swim at

449
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:41.880
one of the local clubs and he
sees a young man catch his eye and

450
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:42.759
the young man looks back at him. The young man, of course,

451
00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:48.039
played by film debut of Pierce Brosnan, Yes, good Old Pierce Brosnan of

452
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:53.240
Missus, Doubtfires, Doubtfire and James
Bond and Redmilton Steele. No, No,

453
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:56.599
you're thinking of the November Man.
He was the November Man. I

454
00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:59.559
like the November Man. It was
actually pretty close solid. I saw The

455
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:04.119
November Man at the King of Prussia
Cinema in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

456
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:07.119
Oh my god, because I had
nothing to do that whole day. Yeah,

457
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.440
so I just went to the theater
and that was the movie showing I

458
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:14.640
hadn't seen. Have you heard about
The Mattador with Greg Kinnear and Pierce Brosnan.

459
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:17.960
No, so I guess I haven't
seen yet. It's in my watch

460
00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:19.720
list. But from what I understand, like Kinnear is like a guy that's

461
00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:22.680
down on his luck and like has
just lost his job and at this hotel

462
00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:26.160
where he's like basically drinking himself,
he meets Pierce Brosnen, who's an assassin.

463
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.960
He's drinking himself like hiss, pissed, drinking himself to death. Oh

464
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:34.319
oh yeah, I mean contact matter, My apologies, but yeah, no,

465
00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:37.720
he meets he meets Broston's character,
who's this assassin who like they start

466
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:41.599
having an unlikely friendship. It's supposed
to be a really good movie. I

467
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:44.440
haven't watched it yet, but I'm
excited to huh, well, I'll always

468
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:47.720
remember Pierce Brosnan for my favorite role
he's ever done, which is in No

469
00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:51.920
Escape. Oh god, his character
in No Escape is awesome. Us getting

470
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:53.759
those free tickets to see No Escape
was a plus for that, but then

471
00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:57.359
that movie just kicked ass. Yeah
yeah, nobody remembers Owen Wilson and No

472
00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:02.599
Escape No one seems to really,
although that movie also could have been named

473
00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:06.319
anything else. Well, he also
could have just been named like guy doesn't

474
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:08.240
google where he moves his family to. My god, because it's all about

475
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:15.200
this guy takes his family to a
fictional Asian country and then they get there

476
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:22.400
and then immediately civil unrest takes over
there the entire country and their their apartment

477
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:25.960
complex which is like a high rise, fancy place, and now they have

478
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:29.759
to escape to Vietnam or Laos,
one of I think it's one or the

479
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:33.359
other. They have to escape to
one of them to save their lives.

480
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:36.640
In your stomach the entire time,
Oh no, it is. It is

481
00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:40.160
fever pitch. But my favorite thing
about it is that, like, as

482
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:44.279
it's all going down, it's just
Owen Wilson's Wow, as like the whole

483
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:48.359
country's fall aparts, Like could you
have read one paragraph of the Wikipedia page

484
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:53.400
of the country you moved your family
to, like one paragraph. It was

485
00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:56.759
like he had no idea there was
any civil unrest. That was the only

486
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.960
part that I found kind of stupid
about the movie. But the action is

487
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:06.839
flawless, and Pierce Broston's character is
highly memorable. Yeah. And and he

488
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:12.319
like he basically is a spot.
Yeah. And he helps them out simply

489
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.079
because they were nice to him on
the plane. Yep. So when he

490
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:16.400
finds him, he's like, all
right, I'm gonna find a way to

491
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:20.880
get you guys in Vietnam. I
loved I love the scene where he's feeding

492
00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:22.160
the kids and then and like he's
he's like I had some left over me

493
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:25.079
And then it's him and Wilson talking
and then they just pan over that dead

494
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:29.759
rat that's off to the side,
but he clearly could and his buddy who's

495
00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:31.680
local to the area helping him out, who goes by the name Kenny Rogerny

496
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:36.319
Rodgers, Yes, because he because
he has like a car he drives around

497
00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:38.920
that is like the Kenny Rogers mobile. Yeah. No. Escape highly recommended

498
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:45.160
and one of three or four movies
with that title. Yeah, So we

499
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:47.680
see con back at the club,
and that's when we see Charlie is welcomed

500
00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:52.240
in by Harold and Victoria and they're
shaking hands and they're small talking and he

501
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:54.720
even Harold also comes across two of
the local police at or Ken in his

502
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:58.200
pocket, one of which is Parky, who will get to a little later

503
00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:00.000
on. He takes Jeff aside and
tells him to watch the boys, make

504
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.799
sure they're on their best behavior,
and then also they're going to run down

505
00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:07.160
the plan and they don't want to
be interrupted by Victoria with the arrival of

506
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:10.359
Charlie. So Charlie and Harold share
a greeting as he introduces him to his

507
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:14.319
lawyer Tony. Back at the pool, Colin enjoys a swim, but the

508
00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:16.079
young man persuades him to follo him
in the showers. The two kind of

509
00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:20.319
start caressing each other, but then
the man stabs Colin and then has another

510
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:22.720
guy come from the back and stabs
him as well, and Colin is stabbed,

511
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:28.279
murders him, stabs him. Context
oh my god, stop it.

512
00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:30.720
So that is when le I said
he is ambush stabbed to death, and

513
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:35.640
that's when we see another Harold associates
that took Harold's mother to church. Harold's

514
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:37.240
mother church and the church blows up
as he goes back to his car and

515
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:40.480
a car bomb goes off. So
right outside this church as they're finishing up

516
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:44.799
the service, this car bomb just
goes up and kills Eric said, the

517
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:49.799
church exploded. I wish the church
exploded, wow. I mean it would

518
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.319
have added to the element wow or
caught fire. Well, when we find

519
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:55.559
out who the culprit is, it
really wouldn't have made sense for the church

520
00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:59.400
explod You're right about that. You're
right about that. It wouldn't have so.

521
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:01.960
Back on the Harold addresses the party
with his plan that he states that

522
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:06.680
London is going to become Europe's capital, using all the available land for future

523
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:10.360
prosperity and the right people to mastermind
the new London. Charlie takes Harold to

524
00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:14.360
the side, telling him that he's
not on Harold's time because Harold is like,

525
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:15.320
you know, you rest up,
we got a big plan for tomorrow,

526
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:19.119
and Charlie's like naw man, Like
I go at my own pace,

527
00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:22.480
like we'll get all this taken care
of. But when I say so yeah,

528
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.159
So that is when Victoria tells him
that the boat is docking, and

529
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:29.719
she also reminds Harold's to relax that
everything will work out. And right at

530
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:32.519
this point, Harold receives the news
via phone about Eric's carbomb and that Eric

531
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:36.760
is dead and that his mother is
in the hospital. Harold's mom is in

532
00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:38.639
the hospital. Now, Eric's carbomb
sounds like a drink they serve at a

533
00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:43.920
shitty bar. It does so here
in the news, Harold is drinking and

534
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:45.840
he shatters the glass in his hand, and he starts to question who could

535
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:50.679
do this outside of a church,
especially near Easter weekend? You know,

536
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:58.039
when you go back, the car
bomb should have given away exactly who was

537
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:00.320
behind Who was behind it? Yeah, because I mean it's one of three

538
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:01.719
bombs that we're gonna get to now
as well. Yeah, but the car

539
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:07.159
bomb is like a signature move yeh
of the villain. Yeah, spoiler villain.

540
00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:13.920
There's no good guys in this week. There are no good Right before

541
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:16.039
the end of the movie happened as
I was watching Bob Hoskins do his stuff.

542
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:20.119
There was literally a moment where I
went, I literally not kidding,

543
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:22.320
like maybe ten minutes before the movie's
over, I was, Yeah, am

544
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:24.960
I supposed to root? For Hoskins
because he sucks. I mean, the

545
00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:30.119
character's bad. Yeah, Hoskins is
phenomenal as the portrayal. But yeah,

546
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:35.480
so Harold questions why as no one
knew about what was going on about Charlie's

547
00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:38.119
visit, and he orders everyone to
go back out to work and someone has

548
00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:40.800
to find Colin because Colin's mia and
they're like, well, he's out the

549
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:44.239
club swimming, and he's like,
we'll bring him back here. So they

550
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:45.760
go all go out to the cars, and that's when another car pulls up,

551
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:50.039
and it's Jeff that goes to intercept
him, and he tells and that's

552
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.519
when they find out that Colin has
been stabbed to death at the pool.

553
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.320
And they also have no idea,
no witnesses or anything, and they try

554
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:59.280
they cover it up. They say
that he's missing, yeah, and they

555
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.679
hide his box at the Avatoire,
which a slaughterhouse. Yeah. And that's

556
00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:05.920
when they also said that they were
gonna meet at the Mayfair Casino, but

557
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:08.400
they were stopped before that. And
Hoskins also swears that he's gonna have whoever's

558
00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:12.920
responsible bleeding by midnight. So they
all go to leave and that's when the

559
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:15.880
car pulls up with the news of
Colin, and that is when we go

560
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:19.679
to the club and Hoskins looks over
at Colin's body and he's he's distraught.

561
00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:21.920
This was his buddy, man,
this was his war buddy. This was

562
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:24.440
his friend, and even tells a
story about how Colin saved his life because

563
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:28.880
at one point they were out in
an area that was super cold, and

564
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.119
Hoskins had either gotten strayed from their
pack, and that's when Colin actually went

565
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:35.480
out to find him, and Hoskins
at this point really delivers a great performance

566
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:37.719
of emotion. Yeah. No,
it's a good scene. He's clearly distraught

567
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.280
by the loss of his friend.
And again there are no witnesses of the

568
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:44.800
murder. So we cut to the
Wayfair casino where one of the assistants of

569
00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:46.679
the casino comes out and tells him
that a bomb has been discovered inside the

570
00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:50.880
casino. But of course it didn't
go off because when they opened the suitcase,

571
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:53.519
it disconnected the wire for it.
Man, that is some high tech

572
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:57.960
engineering. High tech engineering. Indeed, Harold questions who has been if anything

573
00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:00.119
unusual had occurred at the club or
at the casinae before while he or even

574
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:02.440
while he was in New York,
and they all confirm nothing has happened.

575
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:06.880
So Harold questions Razor if he can
think of anyone with an old score settle,

576
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:08.880
but Razor questions who'd be big enough
to take you on, and Hoskins,

577
00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:12.880
in a great line, says there
were a few, but they're all

578
00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:16.719
dead now. So Harold states that
there were a few, they're all dead

579
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:20.519
now, and that's when he confirms
with Parky, the cop from before who

580
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:22.880
intervened, like Enrique said, and
he got the car out before anybody can

581
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:27.039
investigate it forensics and also kept it
out of the press that it was a

582
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:29.719
car bomb, and they said that
it was a gas leak instead, which

583
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:34.280
is one of two we'll get to, yeah, ghas leak. So Parky

584
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:37.440
intervened and he tells Harold that he
wants to know if there's anyone with a

585
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:39.000
motive that could find it. Parky
tells him he'll get the situation. To

586
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:44.559
get the situation under control, and
hands over is handed over to the casino.

587
00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:46.039
Bomb is handed over to him,
and Harold and his men go on

588
00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:51.079
their way to find whoever they can
interrogate to find out what's going on,

589
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:53.239
and that's when Parky confesses that there
is one guy who may know when that's

590
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:58.559
when we go to Errol's house,
not Harold, Errol's house, which sounds

591
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:01.280
just like Harold when British people they
want to cough me. Accident says it.

592
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.159
Yes, so he knows all the
going on. So that's when they

593
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.599
go to his house and they interrupt
him with the chick. They pull him

594
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:12.079
off and take him downstairs, and
that's when Harold introduces Errold to Razor by

595
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:15.880
basically demonstrating what Razor's specialty is by
showing his scars with the barbed wire.

596
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:17.400
He's got a slash across his face, and that he loves to torture.

597
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:21.119
Yeah, but to me, that
doesn't really sell what he was trying to

598
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:22.800
get across. He's like, look
out, cut up he is. That

599
00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:27.039
doesn't tell me he's good at cutting
people up. It doesn't at the pay,

600
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:31.119
I guess he enjoys it. It's
just's intimidation. And Razor definitely intimidates

601
00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:35.320
him because they run a machete across
his ass, across his side, and

602
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:37.760
Errold knows nothing, he has no
information to give. So back on the

603
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:42.000
boat, Victoria is entertaining Tony and
Charlie, keeping them in the dark on

604
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:44.679
the day's events. And that's when
Harold once again convers with his men,

605
00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:46.360
who have no information to bring to
him, and he tells them to go

606
00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:50.800
back out in the streets until they
find something. Jeff then reminds Harold that

607
00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:52.639
they have to take Charlie and Tony
to dinner. So Harold, Victoria,

608
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:57.000
Charlie, and Tony all go to
dinner one of Harold's pubs, but as

609
00:38:57.079 --> 00:39:00.599
they arrive, the pub just blows
the fuck up. Yes it does,

610
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:06.239
and they seriously tell their American friends, oh well natural gas or And all

611
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:13.119
I could think was like, how
stupid do you like? If they were

612
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.599
that dumb, would you want them
to partner with you on your crime empire?

613
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:21.599
Probably not? Or I guess your
transition. Well that's the other funny

614
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:25.079
thing though, is He's like,
we're transitioning to legitimate, legitimate, but

615
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:29.840
yet the people there that he's bringing
in to talk about it are all crime.

616
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.320
They're all mobbed up. I will
say one thing that you did not

617
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:37.880
mention that was, look, I'm
not gonna I did not love this movie.

618
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:42.079
I thought it was not a terrible
film by any stretch, but There

619
00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:45.880
is one moment in the movie that
I thought was phenomenal, and I'm pretty

620
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.480
sure you didn't even mention it,
which is okay because it's a long movie,

621
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.599
and frankly, it's a long movie
where not a lot happens for a

622
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:57.320
lot of it. When he gives
the speech on the boat, have we

623
00:39:57.320 --> 00:40:00.199
gotten We haven't gotten there yet.
He gave the speech on the boat.

624
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:07.719
Did you notice anything wonderfully brilliant about
his speech? Tell me as so.

625
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:10.960
The way the scene's done is Hoskins
is standing at the tail of his boat.

626
00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:15.320
Yeah, and he's given this speech
about I'm a Londoner and we're gonna

627
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:16.679
make this the best place. We're
gonna make this the leader of Europe.

628
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:20.719
We're gonna make all this stuff.
The entire time he's doing it, whether

629
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:23.360
it's in a medium shot or a
close up, he's framed by the London

630
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:30.199
Bridge. Ah Man, I did
miss that. That moment really made me

631
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:34.039
love that scene because it was telling
a double story. But literally, the

632
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:37.719
entire time he's talking, the boat's
moving, but no matter whether it's a

633
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.679
tight shot or a medium shot,
the London Bridge is the center of the

634
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:44.599
frame. And then he's in front
of it. Yeah, So when he's

635
00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:46.679
talking and talking, it's all London
Bridge, and I thought that that was

636
00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:52.119
a really inspired moment. Absolutely,
I really loved that. That is probably

637
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:55.800
the only time you're gonna hear me
like gush yeah over this film. But

638
00:40:55.880 --> 00:41:00.159
that London Bridge shot where he is
just going off off about how England is

639
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:04.719
going to see it's time, where
it's going to lead Europe and how important

640
00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:07.800
it is to be from London and
take care of London and build London.

641
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:12.039
Yeah, and the whole freaking time
blurry London Bridge right behind him. I

642
00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:14.920
loved it. That's genius. So
that's when, like I said, they

643
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:16.719
tell him that there's a gas leak, and he tells Victoria to take them

644
00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:20.960
to another restaurant, and Harold confers
with his men that they're gonna go back

645
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:22.920
out fan all the regions, and
he's also getting guns to all his men

646
00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:28.000
to go gather all the suspects that
they have and bring them in because somebody

647
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:30.000
has to know something, and they're
all gonna meet at the Abatuar at midnight.

648
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:34.920
Jokes on them, it's totally possible
for everyone to know nothing. This

649
00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:38.880
is true. On Twitter, he
assigns Jeff to go meet up with Victoria

650
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:44.039
and entertain Charlie and Tony because at
this point it's just Victoria and counselor or

651
00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:46.159
Chancellor Harris, and we'll get to
that in a second, because that's not

652
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:49.880
gonna go well. So they're all
gonna meet at the Avatar at midnight.

653
00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:52.159
At the restaurant, Charlie and Tony
are asking Victoria at a level with them,

654
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:54.920
because they're not stupid, they're not
freshman. They're like, no,

655
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:59.599
that was a bomb. That was
a bomb. Two bombs, yeah yeah,

656
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:04.079
oh oh no, you know gas
accidents to crime family, Yeah yeah,

657
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:07.199
yeah. Two bombs in one day
is serious business. So Victoria questions

658
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:07.960
how they know, and that's when
they say it's their job to know,

659
00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:12.440
and Charlie threatens Victoria to tell them
what is going on or they're going to

660
00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:15.280
leave town and fly back to the
US. So Victoria tells them about the

661
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:20.000
car bomb, the casino bomb,
colin stabbing, and even the pub imploating

662
00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:23.440
are exploding, and Victoria assures them
that tomorrow the problem will be settled,

663
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:27.960
and that's when Tony tells her,
you know what we are, we're agreeable

664
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.320
men. You have twenty four hours
to fix this or we're going to fuck

665
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:32.039
right off. Yeah, I don't
blame them. Yeah, So they have

666
00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:36.000
twenty four hours to solve their problems, but one more foul up and they

667
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:38.480
will leave. Later on, when
they're talking to the he literally says like,

668
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:43.239
this is Vietnam. Yeah, Like
that's the way they describe doing business

669
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:46.039
in England with him, is this
is Vietnam. So at a local bar,

670
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:49.119
we see Harold round up one of
the gangsters. He takes them to

671
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.039
the car with Brazers help, and
back at dinner and inebriated Chancellor Harris is

672
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:55.360
making things worse. He's angering Charlie
and Tony, telling them that he knows

673
00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:00.119
everything and that he's got all these
business plans. But Jeff arrives just in

674
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:02.199
time to smooth things over. Before
Charlie and Tony returned to their hotel,

675
00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:07.119
Jeff takes Victoria home and tells council
Chist that they call him a cab.

676
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.800
And that's when Harris makes the comment
to Victoria knows nothing and that Jeff is

677
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:15.239
the real bastard. Yeah, which
we'll get to. So in the car,

678
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.679
Victoria drives expressing how tough the day
has been and Jeff offers to see

679
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.960
Victoria to redore when they arrive to
the apartment, and they have an awkward

680
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.840
exchange in the elevator as Jeff tells
her that he wants to lick every inch

681
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:29.320
of her body. Yeah, yeah, and uh, and it's done by

682
00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:31.000
him looking her up and down and
her looking him up and down with no

683
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:35.280
music, no music, and then
he just says that, Yeah. Then

684
00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:43.400
the the e This is weird.
Yeah, notice it is weird. So

685
00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:45.800
we cut back to the avatarre it's
midnight now when Harold and raise Her arrive

686
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:49.400
and Harold goes to see Collin's body, but right as he does, the

687
00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:52.760
rest of his men shortly arrive with
their catches, and they're all strung up

688
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:55.480
like cattle because they are taking them
down the slaughter chain. They literally have

689
00:43:55.599 --> 00:44:00.119
them hung upside down and they're all
forming them into the freezer. Yeah on

690
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.519
a frames, Yeah, and they're
being scooted along humping upside down, and

691
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:06.400
it's really cool because the one POV
shot you actually go along. Yeah,

692
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:09.039
they do have the camera being upside
down and following them, which I thought

693
00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:12.639
was cool. So the rest of
the men shortly arrive with their catches and

694
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.679
that's when he tells them all that
no one goes home until they find out

695
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:17.760
who's guilty. Jeff arrives shortly after
this time, and one of the gangsters

696
00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:21.760
is trying to tell him that they
know nothing and that Harry should probably or

697
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:23.320
Harold should look into his own men, and that pisses Jeff off. He

698
00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:27.039
loses his temper. He's about to
assault a local crime boss, which this

699
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:30.280
would create a war, which,
by the way, I love though that

700
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:34.119
when somebody says like, maybe it's
your own men, Yeah, he's like

701
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.440
what an all thing is like fucking
duh, Yeah, fucking duh. Yeah.

702
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:42.199
How do you think they always know
where you're gonna be? Yeah,

703
00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:46.000
So Parky shortly arrives and he tells
him that the bomb is an Irish Special

704
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:50.559
Branch style and that he is getting
out of this because now this is something

705
00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:52.840
hot that he wants nothing to be
a part of. And Harold, of

706
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:54.159
course, being bullheaded that he is, is like, no, no,

707
00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:59.079
no, We're gonna finish this yeah
now. And for context, this is

708
00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:04.480
an era of very long era yeah, where the Irish Republican Army was one

709
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:09.079
of the largest terrorist organizations in the
entire planet. Not just in Europe but

710
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:14.639
in the entire planet. So it
would be kind of like when you watch

711
00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:16.639
Sons of Anarchy and they'd be like, all right, we found somebody to

712
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:20.760
buy our guns. It's the it's
the Taliban. Yeah, they were like

713
00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:28.000
what not that far off? So
that's why people are like, do you

714
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:39.199
even? Movie will be right back, welcome back to do you even movie?

715
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:47.320
This looks like the IRA? I
only think so. Parky gets slapped

716
00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:50.880
around by Hoskins character and he's like, you know, no, you're in

717
00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:52.320
this. You finish this. I
pay you, You do what I tell

718
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:55.559
you to do. And Parky is
trying to reason him, like you cannot

719
00:45:55.639 --> 00:46:00.199
take on the IRA, like these
people will fucking eat you up, And

720
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:01.360
of course Hoskins is like, no, no, no, we are going

721
00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:05.159
to finish this. Well, he
even mentions later on he's like, he's

722
00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:07.320
like these people don't care about money. Yeah, they're political, they're what

723
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:10.360
was he he calls them something else, like they're uh uh, I mean

724
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:15.280
he says, like they're crazy,
they're they're ideologues, they're they're political.

725
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:17.519
Yeah, it's not about the commandos
at one point, well, I mean

726
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:22.639
a lot of them are. But
the Irish Republican army fought against the United

727
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:29.800
Kingdom, like the idea that Hoskins
Crime Syndicate could even stand up to them

728
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:36.320
at all when they're an organized terrorist
army. And and look, no matter

729
00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:39.840
what you think about the IRA,
there they were acknowledged as terrorists. They

730
00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:45.159
committed acts of terrorism because it was
the only way they could compete with one

731
00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:47.039
of the largest armies in the world. The previous title we talked about the

732
00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:51.320
Prayer for Dying, that Mickey Rourke
and Bob Hoskins movie. Remember that opening

733
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:54.599
with Rourke's character is Liam Neeson of
the IRA doing that bombing with that tunnel

734
00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:58.440
and that fucks that school bus up
of those kids. There were a lot

735
00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:00.639
of especially in the nineties, a
lot of great IRA thrillers. Yeah,

736
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:07.400
Devil's Own What was the one with
Brad Pitt where Okay, one of my

737
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:09.760
favorite Errison Ford and Brad Pitt.
Yeah, that's one of my personal favorites.

738
00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:15.119
A great one. And like every
Jack Ryan, every Jack Harold was

739
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:16.960
basically about the IRA. Yeah.
And one thing I do want to add

740
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:22.280
in regards to Harold's interrogation of the
men is he's he's trying to be civil

741
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:23.840
with these local crime bosses, because
he talks about, how you know,

742
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:28.079
I've I've helped you when you were
down, I've put money in your pockets,

743
00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:30.079
You've done things for me, I've
done things for you. Just tell

744
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:34.400
me what's going on. Somebody admit
to this so we can all figure this

745
00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:36.639
out. Yeah, And they're all
like, we have no idea what you're

746
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:37.880
talking about. Yeah. So it
turns out they're telling the truth. They're

747
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.320
telling the absolute truth. So that's
when he tells Jeff to let them in,

748
00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:43.400
go give them a grand each,
and send them home. And that's

749
00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:45.559
when Harold says he's gonna go home
and do some thinking. So Harold goes

750
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:49.039
home to find a nervous Victoria.
She's having a drink and a smoke,

751
00:47:49.079 --> 00:47:51.480
and he joins her in the living
room, asking how it went with Charlie.

752
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:53.079
She informs him that they know about
the bomb, they know about the

753
00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:55.719
rest of the events, and that
she had to tell them that to stop

754
00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:59.320
them from leaving. And this piss
is Harold off. He actually briefly like

755
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:00.760
goes to her and throws her down
and he's like, no, no,

756
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:04.599
what am I doing? Like I'm
losing it, like I'm sorry, and

757
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:07.760
that's what he tries to comfort her, and she tells him not to treat

758
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:09.519
her like one of her thugs,
and Harold apologizes, and we cut to

759
00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:14.840
a warehouse the next day where we
see a bunch of explosive containers that all

760
00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:16.280
say what is it, like danger
explosives on it? I think yeah.

761
00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:20.320
They all say like basically explosive.
Yeah, and they're yellow. Yeah,

762
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.719
and they're yellow. And we see
a lot of these containers just sitting around

763
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:24.480
a warehouse. A woman pulls up
and we see that it says Harris is

764
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:29.000
demolition, So this is kind of
Chancellor Harris's place. So after releasing a

765
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:30.840
dog that's in a security off is
locked up, she follows the dog through

766
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:34.679
the building and inside the building.
At the top of it, we find

767
00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:38.599
Harris has been beaten and crucified to
the floor. Well he wasn't crucified because

768
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:43.559
there's no cross, no cross,
but I mean he hands nailed to the

769
00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:46.119
floor. Yeah, very very brutal. So Harold and Victoria are delivered the

770
00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:51.119
news of Victoria questions who got to
him before before they could, and Victoria

771
00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:53.760
even says that she thinks someone inside
the group could be responsible. And Harold's

772
00:48:53.760 --> 00:49:00.440
like, you think so q pikachuh. Yeah, So Harold about Harris's comment

773
00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:02.880
the night before of her being wrong
and Jeff being the real bastard. And

774
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:07.039
that's when Harold phones Razor, asking
him to find out who the woman was

775
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:09.079
that was recently speaking to Jeff,
which was the widow that spin on him

776
00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:14.159
because Razor we glossed over that.
Razor at one point told Harold about Jeff

777
00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:15.559
getting spin on by the woman because
he was out in the car waiting for

778
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.800
him. So that's when Harold tells
him to phone him, phones him,

779
00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:22.239
asked him to find out who Jeff's
speaking to at the funeral, and once

780
00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:24.440
he finds out to pick Harold up
and they're going to go find her.

781
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:29.480
So we cut to a cemetery where
we see a woman on the ground visiting

782
00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:32.480
a stone and Harold calls to her, missus Benson. She calls Harold a

783
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:36.639
bastard, and she tells him that
Colin had been sent for her husband to

784
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.079
go to Belfast as a show for
Harold has no idea what she's talking about.

785
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:40.840
He's like, what do you mean
Belfast? I don't do business in

786
00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:45.400
Belfast. What are you talking about
and that's when she finds out that Jeff

787
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:47.559
was involved in this business. And
Harold tells the widow that he's going to

788
00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:50.719
make this right. She'll have one
hundred quid a week and that he's going

789
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:53.960
to get her husband a decent gravestone. And he goes off after he slaps

790
00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:57.239
her in front of her children.
Yeah, I mean he does do that.

791
00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:00.559
Yes, there is that here here. I didn't say he harrow.

792
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:05.800
I never said a hero, So
Haroldvid's personal hero. Harold returns to the

793
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:07.400
boat and he's angry. He goes
to poor a drink, and that's when

794
00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:10.239
we see Jeff roll up in his
car and Harold watches him walk onto the

795
00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:14.400
boat and he asked him about the
incident in Belfast, and this catches Jeff

796
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:15.039
off gord because he's like, well, how do you know about that?

797
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:20.320
And he asked who's phil Benson?
And Jeff reveals that Colin had to make

798
00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:24.440
a delivery to Belfast that was money
on Chancellor Harris's behalf to the IRA that

799
00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:29.960
he then took for himself, and
then that night three of their main men

800
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:35.800
were murdered. Awkward, So this
is all for five thousand dollars and the

801
00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:37.760
night that Colin delivered that three of
the top mem were murdered. Harold puts

802
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:40.960
it together that this is now a
revenge plot. The IRA thinks that he

803
00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:44.800
is in charge of the robbery and
was in charge of the hit, and

804
00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:46.480
they're taking it out on him by
taking out his businesses and his men.

805
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:50.800
Yeah, so it's eye for an
eye kind of thing. So Harold confronts

806
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:52.400
Jeff and ask him why he didn't
tell him this. Jeff states that he

807
00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:55.119
was scared they were going to kill
him. Harold states that he's going to

808
00:50:55.199 --> 00:50:58.719
kill them all, and Jeff tries
to reason with him to work with them,

809
00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:00.880
telling him that they have more power
than he could ever have and that

810
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:04.719
they do not in this for the
money. They will make it sure that

811
00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:09.199
he understands to them he is nothing, and this, of course pisses Harold

812
00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:13.239
off, so he in a rage, breaks the linquor bottle, attacks Jeff,

813
00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:15.800
stabbing him in the neck, and
kills him. Then comes to the

814
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:17.760
realization that he's also just killed another
one of his men, and then he

815
00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:21.920
holds him like a sweet little bleeding
baby, holds him like a sweet little

816
00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:23.880
bleeding baby, gets blood all over
his clothes, and that's when Victoria arrives

817
00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:28.000
at the dock and she hears Harold
scream out, and he emerges from the

818
00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:30.480
boat just covered in blood and he
is frantic. He goes up to Razor

819
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.079
trying to get his gun off him, and it's Victoria, one of his

820
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:36.400
other men, and Razor trying to
hold Harold back, and that's when she

821
00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:39.599
tells him to use Harris to stop
this bloody havoc. So they get a

822
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:43.039
hold of him, they calm him
down, and that's when they take Harold

823
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.440
back to the house and we have
this really cool scene that Harold's in the

824
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:49.519
shower and he's just glossing over at
the events, basically in his head.

825
00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:52.840
He's letting the water run down him. They're burning his bloody clothes out back,

826
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:54.320
and he's kind of just trying to
figure out what he's gonna do,

827
00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:59.960
which I really like that scene.
It's a good scene. So they gatherers

828
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:01.480
and burn them in the backyard,
and we next see Harold go to Harris's

829
00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:05.599
office. Harris and Harold then are
next scene at a stock car race and

830
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:09.480
Harold shows him the box with the
IRA guys are basically operating out of and

831
00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:13.639
we next see them go up the
steps into the box. That's when one

832
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:15.159
of the guys in the office says
that he's gonna have to talk to the

833
00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:20.760
boss because Harold is now offering sixty
thousand dollars for the ceasefire and everything to

834
00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:23.000
be done with. This is basically
payback. Here you go, we're done.

835
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:25.000
And that's when he tells him,
you know, you'll have to talk

836
00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:28.119
to my boss. He just won
the race. He's coming back up to

837
00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:30.880
the office. So the guy comes
into the office, and this is shortly

838
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:34.880
after Harold is by the front window
and he notices that the IRA also have

839
00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:38.480
a gunman oul sniper that watches the
office. So by this point Harold just

840
00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:40.880
takes a step back and the guy
comes in and he's like, you know,

841
00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:45.760
here's sixty thousand, here's the ceasefire, and you know, the gentleman's

842
00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:46.199
like, okay, well, I'm
gonna have to count it. He's like,

843
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:49.679
be my guest. So as they're
counting it, they're all in the

844
00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:52.280
front window, and that's when three
of Harold's men burst in with shotguns,

845
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:55.800
blowing these guys away, including Harris. One of them goes through the window

846
00:52:57.000 --> 00:53:00.920
out out out onto the track,
hits us stock car. The stock car

847
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.599
crash into another stock car. There's
a huge crash and a huge explosion,

848
00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:08.440
and that is the end of those
guys. Yeah, the end, serious

849
00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:13.199
end. And so that's when Harold
decides that, you know, everything's good

850
00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:15.519
on them. So they they are
going to go back to the hotel and

851
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:20.239
talk to Charlie and Tony. So
Harold Victoria arrive at the Savoy Hotel as

852
00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:22.639
Harold goes in to speak to them, and he finds out that Charlie and

853
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.840
Tony are busy packing because they are
out of here. They're done. Yeah,

854
00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:29.559
that's where they mentioned the line about
like this is like being in Vietnam.

855
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:31.159
Vietnam. Yeah, we we can't
do business with you. Charlie thanks

856
00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:35.239
him for stopping by to say goodbye, and Harold calls them cowardly for not

857
00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:37.119
being able to handle the violence,
and Tony tells him the country is worse

858
00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:43.679
than Cuba was that we were in
Cuba. Yeah, so Harold can't get

859
00:53:43.679 --> 00:53:45.559
through to them. He goes to
lead, but he turns back to call

860
00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:49.039
them wankers and states he's looking for
someone to conttribute to the common market and

861
00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:52.599
that he's already got his eye on
a partnership with the German organization, so

862
00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:54.400
he leaves Charlie and Tony. Charlie
and TONI are splitting back to the US.

863
00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:58.159
The deal is off, so Harold
thinks that he's on top still,

864
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:00.119
so he goes outside, calling his
car back over. But as he gets

865
00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:02.880
into it, it is sped off
and he realizes there's no Victoria in it.

866
00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:07.440
He passes another car and sees the
Victoria is being held by IRA men,

867
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:09.639
and that's when in the front seat
turns around Pierce Brosnan with a silence

868
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:13.880
pistol on him, revealing that he
is not gonna get away this time.

869
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:20.440
And they show this long, long, intentionally drawn out moment where they're driving

870
00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:23.800
him along. Yeah, at gunpoint, and I have to hand it to

871
00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:28.239
him. His facial expressions. They
stay on him for like forty five to

872
00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:32.400
fifty seconds, and you see him
go through like every stage possible. He's

873
00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:38.320
like angry, disappointed, afraid,
and then accepting it. Yeah, and

874
00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:42.079
that is a powerful moment. Yeah, have to say, I love that

875
00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:44.840
ending. So Harold grows to accept
his fate. There's no getting away from

876
00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:47.360
the situation. They cut to black
and that is the end of nineteen eighties,

877
00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:52.119
The Long Good Friday, and emphasis
on long. It's only an hour

878
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:57.679
and fifty four minutes. But here's
my thing. Okay, we've done a

879
00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:01.400
few episodes. Yeah, and that
is the first time we've had a movie

880
00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:07.239
that was over an hour twenty that
we were done with the breakdown this fast.

881
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:09.920
Yeah, that's fair, like there
isn't a lot that happened. Well,

882
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:15.159
no, I mean it's it is
a dialogue driven film because even though

883
00:55:15.199 --> 00:55:17.000
the violence is there, it's very
infrequent, and even if it is brutal,

884
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:21.880
again, it's still in frequent.
It's a lot of building up to

885
00:55:21.960 --> 00:55:23.719
this plot in regards to him working
out with his men what's going on,

886
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:28.559
and then them trying to persuade Charlie
and Tony to stay and all this stuff.

887
00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:31.559
It's it's a lot of character development
with these guys in regards to finding

888
00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:35.679
out what is going on, who
was all involved, and then of course

889
00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:38.960
the finale with the showdown. Basically, I think it was the problem for

890
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:43.039
me is there was a lot of
build up for there to not be a

891
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:46.320
twist. I get that because having
the IRA turn out to be who are

892
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:52.000
behind it? Yeah, the the
IRA wasn't a regular part of the movie.

893
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:54.280
No, they were like just a
concept. Yeah, so I mean

894
00:55:54.360 --> 00:55:58.800
it may as well have been the
Mongolian Army. It'll be the same,

895
00:55:58.920 --> 00:56:00.960
like, oh, but at the
same time, you're kept in the dark,

896
00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:04.840
just like Hoskins character is, so
you're solving this along with him.

897
00:56:04.920 --> 00:56:07.079
And and I enjoy his performance in
this very much. Oh he's excellent.

898
00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:13.159
He's absolutely excellent. But it's just
I wish there had been a stronger payoff.

899
00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:16.440
Yeah, that's my biggest that's my
biggest complaint is like we spent a

900
00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:21.320
long time to get there, and
we didn't even get like even though I

901
00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:23.400
said, like I predicted it would
happen, like if Helen Mirren had sold

902
00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:27.719
him out or something, we could
have at least gotten like a ah shit,

903
00:56:28.360 --> 00:56:30.920
But not saying that that would have
made the movie perfect right now,

904
00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:35.000
But I just wish that I could
have gotten something like that, yeah,

905
00:56:35.719 --> 00:56:37.559
instead of it just being well,
it's the Ira, can't beat the Ira.

906
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:40.760
It's like, okay, but the
Ira are not even established in the

907
00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:44.679
movie, Like in order for you
to know how dangerous the Ira are,

908
00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:47.000
you have to know outside of the
movie who they are. I mean,

909
00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:51.840
but we get a hint to the
IRA literally with the first bomb, because

910
00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:55.280
that's when that's when I can't remember
who it is that mentions no, no,

911
00:56:55.360 --> 00:57:00.440
it's the pub bomb. Yeah,
because they talk about a couple wanting

912
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:01.840
protection, we shoot them off,
and that's when Parky is like, wait,

913
00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:04.719
wait, two Irish people came in, and that's what he was like,

914
00:57:05.199 --> 00:57:07.119
Harold, come talk to me for
a second. And he's like,

915
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:08.519
if this is what I think it
is. So, I mean, that's

916
00:57:08.559 --> 00:57:12.719
about like twenty thirty minutes in,
so we do get a hint at it.

917
00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:15.960
Yeah, it's just that the IRA
is not is not represented in the

918
00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:20.960
film until they are already the villain
that that was coming after him. Yeah,

919
00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:22.679
I mean I get that. That's
totally fun. So you want to

920
00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:23.960
hear some notes on this film,
let's do it, all right. So

921
00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:28.360
the budget was about one million,
one hundred and eighty two thousand dollars.

922
00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:31.800
The box office brought in five hundred
forty one thousand. Huge Hit. Huge

923
00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:36.679
Hit opened on March twenty ninth,
nineteen eighty one. In nineteen eighty three,

924
00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:39.599
it won Best Most Picture Screenplay for
Barry Keith with Thela Poe Award.

925
00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:45.639
Long after I don't know Egar Allan
Poe Award. Oh yeah. In nineteen

926
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:50.199
eighty two, Hoskins won Best Actor
for the Evening Standard British Film Award.

927
00:57:51.239 --> 00:57:52.679
Wow, I mean that's a thing. I'm giving a note, right,

928
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:55.920
that's the thing. Yeah. There
was an unproduced sequel plan that was going

929
00:57:57.000 --> 00:57:59.880
to be Black Easter Monday, twenty
years after the events of the first film.

930
00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:00.880
No, listen to this, I'm
listening. I was just laughing.

931
00:58:00.920 --> 00:58:05.280
No, I know, it's a
bad title, opening with hoskins character escaping

932
00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:07.400
the IRA after the car is pulled
over by the police. Shan would then

933
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:12.519
retire to Jamaica, returns to stop
East End being taken over by Yardies.

934
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:17.480
The film was unfortunately never made.
Unfortunately, Hoskins's voice was originally going to

935
00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:22.920
be dubbed over by a Wolverhampton actor
due to fear of Americans not understanding the

936
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:27.199
London accent. Oh that couldn't possibly
happen. Hoskins threatened to sue Jack Gill,

937
00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:30.119
so the dubbing was removed. And
that's why I couldn't follow. About

938
00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:34.840
a fifth of the film. Pierce
Broston's feature film debut, but his part

939
00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:37.760
was supposed to be completely silent,
but he improvised one word of dialogue,

940
00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:42.000
which was high I like that.
Yeah, I mean I thought Brosden.

941
00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:44.920
I could see why people would see
him in that and go like, let's

942
00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:47.320
try this guy out. Yeah.
Hoskins celebrated the line of there's a lot

943
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:51.480
of dignity in that. Going out
like a raspberry ripple was improvised. Or

944
00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:54.239
excuse me. Hoskins celebrated line of
there's a lot of dignity in that.

945
00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:59.920
Going out like a raspberry ripple was
improvised by Hoskins. Hoskins received a family

946
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:02.000
here. One they mentioned that they
were putting his buddy's body in an ice

947
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:06.320
cream truck to get it to the
abatoire without people knowing the guy was dead.

948
00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:09.920
Hoskins received a fan letter from notorious
gangster Ronald Gray, who loved the

949
00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:15.719
film. Did he he did?
Francis Monkman's score is so loud in the

950
00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:20.840
final scene it drowns out any noise
because director John McKenzie was giving constant direction

951
00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:23.639
to Hoskins the entire time. Because
the sound levels on both sides needed to

952
00:59:23.679 --> 00:59:27.840
sync, producers decided to mute the
whole thing and put the score over it,

953
00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:31.280
actors being held upside down had to
be supported between takes to prevent them

954
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:35.400
from passing out. That makes sense, a lot of sense to prepare for

955
00:59:35.480 --> 00:59:37.960
his role. Hoskins then held court
with real London gangsters, so he had

956
00:59:38.079 --> 00:59:40.320
a he had I think it was
like I think they had five or six

957
00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:44.400
of them that he met with,
and they like and he asked them questions

958
00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:49.480
about the character and motivational That seems
completely reasonable and responsible. I mean,

959
00:59:49.559 --> 00:59:52.559
that's that's that's what the Hoskins does. Okay, fair enough. I know

960
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:54.519
he hung out with a bunch of
cartoon characters to be in frame. Right

961
00:59:54.639 --> 00:59:58.599
that he did, Yes, that
he did. Smart ass. So what

962
00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:02.760
are your final thoughts on it?
Uh, it's a product of its time.

963
01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:07.360
It's very very slow paced. Yeah, I think that that. Story

964
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:12.039
wise, it's sparse. I think
that the greatest thing it has going for

965
01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:16.320
it is extremely strong performances, absolutely
without a doubt, But that doesn't really

966
01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:20.480
carry the movie for me very much. I did find it to be kind

967
01:00:20.519 --> 01:00:23.320
of a bore. I thought that
when it was good, it was great,

968
01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:27.280
and when it wasn't good, it
just wasn't anything. I was just

969
01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:30.960
kind of like watching them like drive
around London. Yeah, and go to

970
01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:34.239
the next thing, and go to
the next thing. Like I said,

971
01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:37.679
the fact that we could sum up
the whole film so fast, yeah,

972
01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:40.599
says a lot about how many scenes
really mattered and how long it took to

973
01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:45.039
get to them. You know,
I would have to give this at best

974
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:47.360
a stream it. Honestly, I
think you could. I feel so bad

975
01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:50.800
saying it, but you could miss
this movie and be fine. You should

976
01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:52.880
just never see it and you be
hones ouch Okay. I mean if you

977
01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:58.280
love British cinema, or if you're
fascinated by like Bob Hoskins or I guess

978
01:00:58.360 --> 01:01:00.400
Helen Mirren. I mean that it's
the selling point on this for me is

979
01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:04.800
Hoskins. I love Hoskins as an
actor. I mean, even just going

980
01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:07.400
through his resume, there's a lot
of movies on there I like, and

981
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:09.440
I think this is, like I
said, one of his underrated because this

982
01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:15.360
performance. I mean, this movie
hinges on his performance. And sure,

983
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:19.719
because of that you get to see
a really underrated Early's UK gangster picture.

984
01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:22.239
It builds up like a counterpeg to
its bleak and appropriate conclusion. I think

985
01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:25.599
the performances in the chemistry of Hoskins
and Miron is strong throughout, with Hoskins

986
01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:29.440
really showing his craft the whole way
through, and the action, like I

987
01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:32.000
said, Wallin Frequent is brutal and
memorable, especially that final scene with the

988
01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:35.400
stock car race. So I think
it has a lot of good things.

989
01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:37.639
But yeah, I would give this
a stream it too. It's not one

990
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:40.639
that's an absolute necessity unless you're into
gangster pictures or Hoskins, or even just

991
01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:45.440
want to see a movie that really
hasn't gotten to do in the last ten

992
01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:49.760
years until this new transfer came out. I think that the level of dryness

993
01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:52.559
is what kind of holds it back. Is it like it's extremely dry?

994
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:55.239
Yeah? So wold you like to
end the show with a couple of recommendations.

995
01:01:55.320 --> 01:02:00.360
I have two for this one,
both Hoskins vehicles. Mona Lisa nineteen

996
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:02.599
eighty six. This is one I
just saw recently. A man recently released

997
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:06.800
from prison manages to get a driving
job for a call girl from customer to

998
01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:09.079
customer. It's another great performance by
Hoskins, one that a lot of people

999
01:02:09.159 --> 01:02:12.960
haven't seen, and Michael Kine plays
a heavy in it and does really well

1000
01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:15.320
in it. The other one is
another personal favorite, The Cotton Club from

1001
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:19.840
nineteen eighty four, directed by Francis
Ford Coppola. Meet the jazz musicians,

1002
01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:22.400
dancers, owner and guests like gangster
Dutch Schultz of the Cotton Club in nineteen

1003
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twenty eight to the nineteen thirties,
Harlem, It's got music into it,

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01:02:28.119 --> 01:02:30.519
It's got a lot of action.
I mean, you've got a cast that's

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01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:36.320
Richard Gear, Diane Lane, James
Ramar, Tom Waits, Bob Hoskins,

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01:02:36.400 --> 01:02:38.000
Fred Gwynn, Gregory Hines. I
mean, the list goes on and on

1007
01:02:38.119 --> 01:02:42.679
for this movie. And it just
recently, in like the last six or

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01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:46.800
seven years, got a re release
of Francis Ford Copla's complete cut, which

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01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:50.599
is has a lot more music in
it and a lot more character development.

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So Cotton Club and Mona Lisa great
great movies. I cannot recommend enough.

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01:02:53.400 --> 01:02:59.440
Okay, if I had to suggested
a movie that is not very good but

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01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:02.480
has a great British actor and uh
huh, but is more entertaining than this

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01:03:02.599 --> 01:03:06.519
one, it would be Jaws The
Revenge. I mean Michael Cae like,

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01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:10.599
okay, Michael Kainstone, shit,
oh shit, Gods of great moment.

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01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:14.559
So that would be my I was
being silly. I don't know, I

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01:03:14.599 --> 01:03:19.079
don't have a recommendation. Yeah,
but for the record, Jaws four definitely

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01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:22.880
deserves another reappraisal because when we watched
it in your backyard a couple of years

1018
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:24.840
ago, I was just like,
there's a lot more shark action in this

1019
01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:29.719
movie. I than I remembered.
Well, it's just it's not a good

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01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:32.960
film, but it's a highly entertaining
film. Yeah. But but see that's

1021
01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:37.800
that is not a a that doesn't
vote will for the long Good Friday that

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01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:40.239
we're talking about Jaws the Revenge now
instead. But there you have it,

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01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:43.880
the long good, long good Friday
of the nineteen eighties. So that is

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01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:45.840
what we talked about this week.
You want to know what we're talking about

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01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:49.800
next weekendriqun sure? So this was
our Easter show because long good Friday,

1026
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.119
right, and uh, you know
we're gonna be getting out of March with

1027
01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:55.400
this episode and going into April.
So April second, we are going to

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01:03:55.480 --> 01:04:00.000
be dropping our episode on April Fool's
Day, the eighties slash film I do

1029
01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:04.599
like a not slaughter High unfortunately,
thank goodness, because that was the original

1030
01:04:04.679 --> 01:04:10.000
title. Nice try, I tried, man, But yeah, April Fool's

1031
01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:12.480
Day will be our next episode.
I'm really excited to talk about that because

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01:04:12.519 --> 01:04:15.079
I get to borrow your Blu ray
and go through the bonus features. I

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01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:18.119
don't really know a lot about that
movie. I wish the original ending would

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01:04:18.119 --> 01:04:20.239
get released, but we'll talk about
that next week. Yeah, we'll get

1035
01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:26.559
We'll dive into those details. So
uh uh, what else I mean?

1036
01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:30.199
We should probably address if you're wondering
where our TikTok channel went as we get

1037
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:34.239
to the wrap up of our social
media is. Unfortunately, this past week

1038
01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:39.880
I got an unpleasant message that for
some reason of violating community guidelines, our

1039
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:45.320
TikTok has been permanently banned. I'm
working on hopefully getting that fixed, but

1040
01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:47.760
I cannot guarantee anything because this is
a common issue that I found on a

1041
01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:50.960
lot of Reddit boards recently. It's
a common issue on social media, but

1042
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:55.639
TikTok has not made it any easier. They have not well. We have

1043
01:04:55.840 --> 01:05:01.199
a message that came through at dooevenmovie
dot com from Cole Okay. She asked,

1044
01:05:01.639 --> 01:05:09.760
can you please please please do Hook
nineteen ninety one or Urban Legend nineteen

1045
01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:14.039
ninety eight for my birthday? I
love both those movies for my birthday on

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01:05:14.239 --> 01:05:16.760
May eighteenth. Maybe I will love
that. Okay, we will. We

1047
01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:20.000
will absolutely pick one of those,
I think, because I think we're getting

1048
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:23.719
ready to do our main lineup,
so we could we could absolutely fit one

1049
01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:26.880
of those in. I think so
absolutely, because I mean Hoskins is in

1050
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:30.039
Hook for one. But I'm a
huge, huge, huge fan of Urban

1051
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:32.880
Legend. I love that movie You
Would Be You. You hadn't even seen

1052
01:05:32.920 --> 01:05:38.440
two until I showed it to you
final cut in the college. I mean

1053
01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:42.599
they're both in college in their mind
because I had seen the Bloody Mary one,

1054
01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:45.519
Bloody Mary's three. Yeah, and
I think Bloody Mary is actually pretty

1055
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:47.719
decent. But uh, we'll try
to make that happen for you. And

1056
01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:50.800
if you want to email us,
you can email us at do you even

1057
01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:55.679
movie pod at gmail dot com or
go to dooevenmovie dot com and send an

1058
01:05:55.679 --> 01:06:00.320
email directly on the website. Yes, sir, we are still on YouTube.

1059
01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:03.199
We are still on YouTube. Yes, yes, And if you're watching

1060
01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:06.440
this on YouTube, please leave a
comment about what you think of the film

1061
01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:12.840
we've talked about or anything, because
it helps increase engagement and bring more people.

1062
01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:15.159
And hey, why not tell a
buddy, tell a friend, and

1063
01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:17.920
if you're listening to us on your
favorite podcasting app like Apple Podcasts or Spotify,

1064
01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:21.039
leave us a star rating. It
really does help a ton, Yeah,

1065
01:06:21.039 --> 01:06:24.199
it does, and we have I
think we have four on there right

1066
01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:27.679
now, so we can always use
some more reviews, ratings please just we

1067
01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:30.559
have seven on Apple Podcasts. Ratings, reviews, ratings. Oh okay,

1068
01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:34.320
I've talked about reviews. I think
we have four written reviews on I was

1069
01:06:34.320 --> 01:06:39.599
talking about rating. Well, my
apologies with this guy, So anything else,

1070
01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:41.639
Dave. I think that is it
for this week. I do actually

1071
01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:44.400
want to say one more thing.
Several people have reached out to me in

1072
01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:46.639
regards to the last episode where I
did talk about some unfortunates that happened my

1073
01:06:46.679 --> 01:06:50.119
life with my breakup and the loss
of my great grandmother. I appreciate the

1074
01:06:50.159 --> 01:06:55.639
support I've received, and just I
cannot thank y'all enough. That was It's

1075
01:06:55.679 --> 01:06:58.480
been a rough time and it's still
a little rough right now. But I'm

1076
01:06:58.599 --> 01:07:00.840
each one day at a time right
now, is all I can say.

1077
01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:04.639
That's how I know that life is
truly cruel is because we we cut we

1078
01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:10.199
make short clips of the show,
and we made one of that. Yeah,

1079
01:07:10.280 --> 01:07:13.679
well we use we use an AI
tool to help us find the clips,

1080
01:07:13.840 --> 01:07:15.639
and it picked that one and I
was like, fuck it, I'll

1081
01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:18.320
put it up. And it's the
most viewed shorts ever. Is you suffering?

1082
01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:21.800
Yeah? So, uh, but
can't get it on TikTok because TikTok

1083
01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:26.639
sucks right now, right now,
right now. I mean maybe they'll be

1084
01:07:26.719 --> 01:07:29.519
bad. Yeah, who knows,
we'll see. Now. We'll see you

1085
01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:32.320
guys next week right here on the
movie. So take care and uh,

1086
01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:38.519
I hope your evening is better paced
than the long good Friday. We'll see

1087
01:07:38.559 --> 01:07:39.320
you next Tuesday.