Grease, Dreams, and Racing: A Cinematic Start to 2024 | S03E01

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First on film and entertainment, and
the new year have started with a big

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splash, a huge musical one that
I suppose John Travolta, Olivia Newton John

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forever will be associated with and known
because we love them for it. We're

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talking about Greece the musical. Now, gentlemen, Gregory King, Peter Krause,

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you must have seen the movie if
you had not seen the stage prey,

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greg Yes, I've seen the movie, not the stage Prayer, and

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you too, Peter. That's cool. Now, okay, can you is

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there any more notable association with a
musical and with a with a film?

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Then you can put to those two
Olivia Newton, John and John Travolta.

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I mean, it's kind of like
one one isn't made without the other,

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and you can't imagine anybody else filling
those roles. That's how associated I put

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the two of them. And it's
sort of it's one of those things that

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was one of the big It's that
for both of them. And if you're

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like, in terms of the career
of John Travolta, it really catapulted it,

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didn't it better? Well? Yes, but what about the pairing of

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Nelson Eddie and Jeanette McDonald's. They
were a famous musical partnership in films in

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the thirties in particular. Yeah,
but most people who dare I say it,

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there'll be very few people who are
listening to this who would be aware

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of unless they're into film history.
They may not even have heard of them.

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That was Now, well, I
think that's true, Greg, What

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do you think about that? I
mean the problem is that if you if

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you tell somebody, well, do
you know Neil Diamond and it's jen z

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or whatever, they may never have
heard of Neil Diamond. That doesn't mean

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that Neil Diamond didn't exist or doesn't
exist. So I'm talking about within our

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rear shot. It's I mean,
I know you were born in about sixteen

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thirty three, Peter, and therefore
you know you can go way back.

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Were you born when Aristotle was first
on this planet or not? I have

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to ponder that hypothesis. Yes,
exactly, And actually you would go back

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to Pharaoh and the Egyptians, wouldn't
you, and be beyond before that?

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Were you there when when Adam and
he were eating the apple? I'm just

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they were rotten to the core.
But actually you were probably the the the

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little little gull that was sitting in
the tree watching what was going on,

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observing you were you were reporting on
it, observing? Were you? Were

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you giving us your opinion on whether
everything was kosher? Absolutely? I was

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texting at the time. Well,
yes, you were ahead of your time.

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So okay, so let's get back
to Greece the musical, and let's

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get back to Greece in terms of
modern times somewhere in the last three thousand

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years. Can you think of anybody
other than what you've just given us?

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Were you, Greg King? For
that matter? Who are appearing more associated

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with a movie musical? Hello?
No, I'm thinking I'm thinking, excuse

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me, this is radio Black's face
doesn't work on radio Greek. Sorry,

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yes, exactly, I'm just thinking
for the wow not necessary. Eight.

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When Greece the Music came out,
travol was also in Saturday Night Fever.

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Remember, great. But that's the
point that I'm making that that's exactly what

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I said those Grease because I think
were Saturday Night Fever out first. I

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think it was probably yes, seventy
seven, it was, yeah, exactly,

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So this is what I said to
you. This was the remark,

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Gregory, You're listening, I am
I said this cemented his staffers because he'd

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already done Saturday Night with Fever.
These two movies I associate very very closely

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with one another. And Live.
I mean, what an absolutely gorgeous Australian

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she She was such a contributed to
this country, loved this country so much,

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and the sweetest of singing voices,
and she was great in Greece.

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She was Did you like did you
both like the movie? Oh? Yes?

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Literally Stockhard Chaining in the bad girl
role, wasn't she really well?

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I mean, if you if you
want a role in a movie, I

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would have think I would have thought
that Rizzo is about as good as it

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gets, because you want to play
bad good and that's the well, don't

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you think It's? Yeah, it's
written beautifully and you can you can really

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milk a role like that. And
this is why some actors actually go for

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bad, bad boy roles right where
where you can really make a splash.

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Is it? As you think about
the James Bond villains that they're often in

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movies, they're often louded for their
they're evil, intense. You know,

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it's not a bad way to go, and you're getting well paid for being

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nasty. You know, it's an
interesting one. So okay, let me

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get onto Greece, the musical,
which is on at Her Majesty's Theater.

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Did you both know this is a
sort of a fact that it opened as

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a musical in on Broadway in only
three months before it opened in Melbourne,

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which is really unusual because when you
have musicals in this country today, you

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often have to wait many, many
years, if not a decade or more

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before somebody is willing to take a
risk. Well, Harry and Miller produced

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the first stage musical of Greece outside
America, and that was Melbourne in nineteen

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seventy two. But there you go, So here we go, if you

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think about it, nineteen seventy So
this is fifty fifty two years later,

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right that we've now got it back
at Her Majesty's Theater. So Senior High

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School in the United States late nineteen
fifties, In fact, nineteen fifty nine,

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it's re energized. It's a colorful
new production at her. Imagine it's

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set in the fictional Riddell High School. Okay, Greg, you're a champion

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of trivia. Do you know what
Riddell High was named? After or who

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what was named after? Well,
probably not Mark Riddell. No, think

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about pop singers. You'd know this
having been born in the seventeenth century,

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Peter, do you mean Bobby Rydell? Very good, Thank you very much.

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Yeah, take about you can take
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a result of all of this.
Yeah, so it's named after Bobby Rydell

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fictional Rydell High School. And I
think just trying to remember where do you

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remember which state of America Greece was
set? Was it Chicago? Good question?

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Yeah, maybe one of you can
google it while we're looking. Anyway,

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we're talking about Rydell High or Riddell
High. That's where the Australian blonde

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beauty Sandy Dombrowski unexpectedly bumps into her
summer love the too cool for school leather

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jacket of Daddy. Zuko actually said
he was destined to attend another institution,

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another school, but she switched,
not realizing Danny also attends Riddell High.

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His sweet nature when they were just
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before they met up again at school, gives way to arrogant bravado in front

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of his mates. Sandy is understandable. He put out trying to work out

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why Daddy's being so mean, and
in fact, several times he missteps,

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much to Sandy's chagrin. Well,
I can't quite figure this out. Despite

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her anngst, she's forgiving now in
this day and age, beet, you

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wouldn't be forgiving. You'd basically send
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Sure? No, I mean,
I genuinely that it's funny watching this

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as a musical today that my actual
thought, why would you give the bastard

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another go? Right? He's this
to you? Is this? You not

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more than? Not? Once?
Twice? Several times? And she keeps

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coming back for more? No,
no, no, no, that's not

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what we're taught today. Right.
If my daughter was treated that shamefully,

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I'd i'd tell the you know,
tell her to tell the bloke to take

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a long jump off a short pier, so then you wouldn't have the grease

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the musical. I mean, I'm
kind of it's a valid point in so

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far as certain things date. And
I'm wondering whether I know it's a life

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heart at something. Mind you.
Underneath that, there's some serious topics which

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I'll talk about in a few moments. But it sort of troubled me somewhat

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because it's no longer you know,
politic to do it this way. So

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that doesn't mean it can't be you
know, you can't have fun with it.

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But I think there are reservations or
I had those reservations. Greg,

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can you understand that thought of Yeah, and by the way, this is

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Chicago. It is Chicago. There
you see, I get a lollipop.

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Now that's very good, thank you. So okay, well, getting back

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to the missteps. At the same
time, Sandy's goodie two shoes persona rubs

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the cynical tough girl Rizzo up the
wrong way, and Rizzo heads up a

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click known as the Pink Ladies,
and she's got a love hate relationship with

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one of Daddy's boys. I think
they're known as the Tea Birds. Whose

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name is KANICKI k E n I
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Kaniki at any other stage in my
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a name? Not that I'm aware
of, right, So it's a made

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up name or could be these days
they think could be made up. Okay,

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So Greece follows ten American working class
teenagers. They navigate the complexities of

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relationships. And Okay, so I've
said it's light and fluffy, but it

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does touch on serious issues. You've
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you've got friendship, love, teen
pregnancy. I was thinking gang violence.

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I mean, one of the most
popular musicals of all time is West Side

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Story, which of course deals with
gang violence as well. But anyway,

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the book, the music, the
lyrics of Greece. The musical are by

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Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, and
there are additional songs by Barry Gibno Lesson,

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John Ferra, Louis and Louis and
Scott Simon. Look that the music's

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great. The toe tapping tunes continue
to resonate, and I really like the

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big chorus numbers. Greece is the
words summer Night's grease, lightning. Songs

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like that really go down a treat, and there are show stoppers in the

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finale, which it finishes on a
real high because you've got a series of

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vignettes if you like that are spiced
together and the crowd goes bonkers. It's

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wonderful. Annalise Hall, she plays
the sweet voice Sandy Joseph Spanty brings swagger

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to Danny and this is the sort
of new generation. Now. Look,

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they're good fun. But I'm afraid
I can't see I'm blinked here. I

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can't see past the two that I
mentioned at the outset, because you know,

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we love our live and John Travolta
is terrific. So having said that,

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Annalise and Joseph bring a new new
proclivity to Sandy and Danny. But

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Kenzie done, Wow, she's terrific
as Rizzo, she really is a scene

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stealer. She brings attitude, she
brings sas and Keanu Gonzalez is very slick

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as Kiniki and as good as all
of these people are. Now, I

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don't think that there is a and
I'm not sure how old she is,

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but she'd be seventy. She'd have
to be seventy. Marsha Heines is there,

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and okay, cally sexist. Is
there a better voice? Is there

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a better looking seventy year old than
Marsha Hines? She looks magnificent, She

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sings absolutely phenomenally. She just steals
everything as teen Angel. Now only two

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songs, but the best two songs, and they dress her in magnificent whites

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with she's got the angel wings and
there's a if you like, a sort

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of a plate around her midriff.
I think it's silver. She looks a

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Midian bucks in really really sensational,
flawless. She continues to excite and excel.

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And on top of that, you've
got the hless Patty Newton, and

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she really has fun. She's lively, she's really appealing as teacher Miss Lynch.

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So you've got two of the best
known performers in Greece. The musical

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really large set which rotates, and
it rotates too frequently. You can overdo

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something and I reckon. They kept
it kept on turning, right, and

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it's based around sports ground bleacher seating, you know what I'm talking about there.

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Yeah, And so that's fine,
but it doesn't have to keep turning.

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It can turn three or four times, not ten times. You know.

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It just bothered me after a while. But there's a to die for

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period red sports car which is used
as a prop with red and it's got

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black wheels, a bit of white. We'll we'll ignore that. I call

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it my Essendon car. Pieter,
Right, Gregory, you'd call it a's

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and kill the car, but it
is fantastic, looks brilliant. Okay.

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Costuming, the whigs, they take
us back to the ero. The set,

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the costuming and the weig designer by
James Brown with an E on the

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end of Brown. The rousing dance
through sines. They're the work of the

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choreographer whose name is Eric gian Coohla
and the resident choreographer Madeline Mackenzie. The

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lighting designed by Trudy deal ge Glease
is fabulous. It's vibrant, it's a

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dynamic good on you, Trudy dal
Gleish so too. The big sound sound

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designers by Michael Waters, which especially
suits the ensemble pieces. And Dave Skelton

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is the musical director with an eleven
piece band. So here we are fifty

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two years later, still smiling,
clapping, singing along, having great time,

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having fun. That's even though I
would have advised Andy to have given

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Danny DeVito as soon as he mistreated
her. Direction by Luke Joslyn, resident

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direction Frudy Dunn. It runs for
two hours, including a twenty minute interval.

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It's play at Her Majesty's Theater until
the tenth of March. It is

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Greece, so as far as I'm
concerned. Greece is still the word Gregory

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or do you do ad jokes?
Yeah, you're the one to know one,

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Alex Gregory. I've always known that
secret feelings. This is what you're

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expressing to the world, Is that
right, greg something like that? All

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right, So that's Greece the musical
let. We've got lots of movies that

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we can get to. All of
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music, but also hopefully intelligent programming. Now what I wanted to start with

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was I mean as an actor,
if you think about what he's done over

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a long period of time, you'd
have to say that he stood the test

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of time. Some people like him, other people don't. I'm talking about

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Nicholas Cage. Are you a fan
or not? Peter? As an actor?

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About the film. If he's not
bad, he can be over the

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top many times. What about you, Ray Oh, look, I like

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some of the films he's done.
He's had very many sort of career changes,

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you know, from the action here
of the nineties church you off beat

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Pomonies and all that kind of stuff. Some films are a bit off him

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and miss so I think sometimes with
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Scenario, which is the movie we're
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It's m rated in one hundred and
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I mean, he plays this nondescriptinged
professor who becomes an overnight viral sensation,

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as you would in this day and
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evolutionary biology lecturer by the name of
Paul Matthews, and he's passionate about his

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chosen area, Paul Matthews, but
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his students. He resents the fact
that a former classmate is muscled in on

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a theory he propagated, and now
she's about to be published in prestigious Nature

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magazine because Matthew's always thought he had
a book in him, but hasn't started

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writing it. He's married to Janet, played by Julianne Nicholson, and the

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pair has two school age daughters,
Hannah played by Jessic Clement or Clement and

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Greta star Slade. Suddenly, though
Matthews, this rather nondescript professor, starts

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appearing in regular dreams had by his
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a former girlfriend. And in these
dreams the dreamers are inevitably seen in rather

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in vidious circumstances. Matthews walks into
frame but fails to help them. You

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know they're in trouble, but he
does nothing. Word of this bizarre happening

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the dreams spreads rapidly, and even
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his classes a few with inquisitive students, and he finds global fame.

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Seemingly everyone wants to see him,
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wife's boss gives her a leg up, while her younger daughter wants him to

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drive at a school. All of
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least of all him, can explain
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in others' subconsciousness that that matters,
not though, because a new age marketing

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agency is looking to cash in and
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and Matthew's newly found picture perfect life
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what do I make of all of
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by the first half of Dream Scenario, I wish the loopy premis could somehow

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be true. I appreciated that an
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in the limelight. The writer and
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family and work day dynamic, and
Nick Cage and Julian Nicholson are credible and

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compelling. His husband and wife replete
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propels the narrative I found eye catching, So so far, so good.

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Then we moved to the dioxide.
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even applaud the twist, the filmmaker
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and does not quite land the entry
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that he pushed and pushed and pushed. It endeavored to school big, and

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as a result, the film compromised
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That's not to say the Run Home
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but in fact, there are still
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only that some of the traction was
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previously well measured time frame was hastened. Nevertheless, this darkly comedic, psychological

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horror film retains plenty of bite,
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What do you think, Greg Oh? There's an interesting take on our

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obsession with celebrity on social media and
the impact that has, and also what

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happened when now fifteen minutes of Fame
were up, and I thought Nicholas Cage

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gave one of his better performance this
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as a longer film goes on there, especially when he tries to capitalize on

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his new found fame and the dreams
turned Nastia there and he has more of

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a malevolent presence there, and the
way he sort of dressed here, you

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know, very adelaid Nicholas Cage,
yet the receding hairline, the slash posha,

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the shabby dress, that all that
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think it's fantastic that he's taken on
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but it's different from what we normally
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a dark comedy, I like you, Alice. I thought, look,

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they didn't land ending there. It
was an interesting premise. I had a

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lot of unexpensive turns, but we're
never sure where it's happening. But I

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don't think the director to sustained intensity
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thought it fell away in the third
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Well, okay, so I hesitate
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Do you think that the first half
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Yes, to some extent, that's
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film is an interesting one, especially
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of that. I mean, when
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which does that, I think really
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so good in his films like Signs
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dreams and manipulating and maneuvering dreams in
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starts off with a reasonable premise,
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role. But I just found it
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mundane and too predictable by the end. And yeah, I was a little

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disappointed by it. I thought it
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turned out to be. Yeah,
but when you say you thought it was

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going to be much better based on
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what it was about, but once
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our god, it's a good It
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it cannil the ending, but it
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Pretty much? So, yes,
see, exactly right. It started well

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and then sort of peed it out. Yees. So I mean basically all

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of us have got similar opinion it
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gets again again in my opinion,
he gets back to the writing. Okay,

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direction here you've got the same writer
and director. But if it was

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written better, it could have been
played better because Nicholas Cage showed us that

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he's quite capable of doing something out
of the ordinary and landing the role and

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nailing the role. So it Wasn't
Nicholas Cage's fault, was it, Peter?

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No, No, it's always about
the script, yes, exactly.

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All right, Well, I mean
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because I like the first you know, until he turned to the dark side.

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So I think, Peter, you'll
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what is it for dream Scenario rated
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Look, it's not bad. I'd
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Greg, same for me as well. Yeah, I'm much higher because

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I I thought this was going to
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giving it a seven and a half
because I'm still I'm excused. I'm not

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excusing it, but I'm saying I
was. It was heading towards the eight

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and a half to nine territory for
me until it fell away, and that's

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why I marked it down. Okay, Well, from Nicholas Cage to I

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mean, New Zealand does make decent
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time, and I reckon there've been
if you're like more consistent, this is

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a generalization, more consistent than Australians
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Now we make more movies here than
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what do you think about that?
As a gross generalization? Do you think

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over the I'm talking about over the
distance, do you think New Zealand has

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been more consistent in it's movie making
or is it just that we see the

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better ones here? Look, yes, you're right, they don't produce as

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many films, but the films that
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to them, so overall their strike
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Yeah, and would you agree with
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agree they see seeing a punch above
their weight with the films that they've reduced,

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although there's probably few that they'd reduced
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but on the whole apology of what
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Yeah, exactly. So let's talk
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rate in one hundred and four minutes. I'll start with a fact in the

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two thousand and one World Cup qualifiers, and you saw this film and this

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shows me, Peter, that deep
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love Or is that true? No, now let me try it again.

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You saw Next Goal Wins this is
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which the best of my knowledge is
a sport. Is that correct? Yes?

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But a film if so facto,
If they make a movie about Australian

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rules football and it's released in the
cinemas, you will go and see it,

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of course, because I see all
films correct, So I reckon that

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I need there needs to be a
survey. No, there needs to be

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a push to make more sporting movies
to get you more into sport. It'd

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work, wouldn't it. Now you've
got you'd gain great insight beta into what

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into what makes sport great? All
right? So now, in the two

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thousand and one World Cup qualifiers,
Australia handed out the worst drubbing in that

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history of international soccer? Did you
know that before entering the cinema? Veta,

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yes, because I've seen the documentary
that this film is based on.

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Fantastic Okay, who was it?
Two American Samoa and the result itself thirty

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one nil. You would call that
a route in anybody's language. So things

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for the island nation really didn't improve
thereafter either, and a decade later,

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American Samoa is still a laughing stock
of world football. So next go wins

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is the story of what happened thereafter, told as a comedy. The first

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up, the president of the American
Samoan Football Federation sacks the coach. Then

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he engages the services of a bad
tempered frontman who's been sacked from three similar

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roles, and among those that asked
him from his most recent position was his

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ex wife, who's now taken up
with another member of the selection committee that

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sacked him. What he is confronted
with, he being the sacked coach when

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he lands reluctantly on the island,
is a basket case of a football side

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now playing hardball, which is what
he's used to. Doesn't work? Did

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you like that Greg? As a
bad dad joke? It's not good work.

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Excuse me, I think we're playing
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then it veda o nixt goal loses. Thank you. Now, Among the

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team members that this new coach has
to deal with are a goalie who trips

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over his own feet and a forward
who doesn't seem to know where the goals

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are. And that's not to overlook
a sensitive player who is transitioning that all

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the president of the American Samoa Football
Federation is looking for is a single goal,

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which would be an international first for
American Samoa. Getting it. Though

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it will be anything but straightforward,
it'll certainly test the new coach's staying power

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more than once. Tiger Watiti has
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his heart felt. It's funny,
it's entertaining. He wrote Next Goal Wins

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with Ian Morris and he directs the
film, and it presents the American Samoa

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as his sol of the Earth,
happy people who don't take life too seriously.

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In fact, the picture particularly plays
up that trait, and as much

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as the President wants to break the
team's perennial Duck is more interested in the

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camaraderie that comes with being a member
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sight gags will laugh alout funny.
It's the characters that make the piece,

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and there are no shortage of those. Hard to go past Oscar Nightly as

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the is it Knightley or Kitly Kitly? Kit Yeah? Kiti rather Nightly as

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the good natured President ta Vita,
and he plays his character is intent on

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retaining the essence of what it is
to be an American Samoan. Nothing seems

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to phase him, and he likes
it that way. Michael Fassbender plays the

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important coach Thomas Rogan. He plays
it like a fish out of water that

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he is, and Rongan gets angry
and belligerent, but he comes to learn

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that there's more than one way to
skin a cat fuss. Spender really does

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have a lot of fun with a
role, and he leans into it.

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Kaimara brings sensitivity to her role as
transitioning footballer Jaya, and You've got a

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ridiculously over the top handlebar Mustachio Taika
Watiti Nara the maximum comic impact, and

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he plays the role of a priest
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joyful and buoyant, and it's truth
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as far as I'm concerned, Greg, it scores. I don't joke.

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You like that, okay? Yeah, got to keep it going. We

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can keep it going if you like, you can keep it going. I

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like this one. Did you like
Next Go Wins? I didn't mind it

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unlike you. I didn't like that
cheaper waky booking. The book ended the

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film like I thought that was when
you were sorry. But there's a nice

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underdold sporty story there. I like
some of the characters there, nice I

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thought genial Oscar Clietly had a genial, likable presence there as the head of

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the Samoa Football Federation, my old
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there. He's got much more of
an intense persona there, but he ranges

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it in a little bit here,
and I think he has a good good

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role here with his volatile temperament and
get issues. But we learned a little

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about the character and why he is
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him a bit and gives it make
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like the subplot of the transitioning athlete
there, Jaya Salula. She she was

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a really good character, I thought, and could have been developed even more

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preserved. Journey is important as well, and almost the serving him its own

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film there, and we know that
we see he injected an irreverent touch into

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the Marvel cinematic universe with Thor Raglurop
there, and he's got a light touch

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here which is perfect for this film. Take some liberties with the fact that

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dramatic effect there, and I like
the way it gently poked fun at this

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sleepy Samoan culture and the people there, you know that without being nasty about

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it. So I thought it was
quite good. And the fact that we're

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shot, you get shot on location
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Sisult of a Laughlin Milon did a
good job there, and there's plenty

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of training montages see building exercises or
building towards and uplifting conclusion here and I

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thought it worked for the most part. But as I said, as an

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enjoyable crowd pleaser, trying true formula, we're seeing it all before. But

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I didn't like that bit about what
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film that limit put it down.
When that came on, I just quinged,

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00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:35.680
Peter, do you reckon gets in
the back of the net? Not

404
00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:39.279
quite. I was actually quite disappointed
by this film. I remembered, don't

405
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:44.440
you have a funny bone? Yes, but I've buried it at the moment.

406
00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:50.440
Yes, you're already starting the year
being being a council trend. Yes,

407
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:54.880
go on, what didn't you like
about hl wins Peter? First minute,

408
00:32:54.960 --> 00:33:00.319
second minute, third minute, fourth
minute. Anyway, that's that minutes.

409
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:02.440
So we're going to go through the
time alphabet. Do you do you

410
00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:07.440
want me to test you on your
times table? Do you thank you very

411
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:12.240
much? Yes, you're multiplying my
comments all right now. I remember the

412
00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:17.240
vividally the original documentary, which was
so much more interesting, and the cultural

413
00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:22.519
story and the question people haven't seen
the documentary judge this as a film on

414
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:29.640
its own. Based on my view
that the documentary was fast superior, this

415
00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:36.559
one was disappointing. Tagawak Titty is
good at unusual and different and acerbic comedy

416
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.200
at times. I mean Jojo Rabbit, I thought was an excellent film and

417
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:45.599
that so well in a difficult sort
of situation. This one, I think

418
00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:53.160
tends to me to be somewhat patronizing. Didn't treat the American Samoan people particularly

419
00:33:53.240 --> 00:34:00.559
well, more as laughingstock. I
think the transitioning character who should have been

420
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:05.160
more prominent in the film. She
was so good, but yet was treated

421
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:10.440
more as an object of fun rather
than being an integrated part of the team.

422
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:15.800
There were just too many aspects.
I mean, even Michael Fassbender as

423
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:20.639
the coach didn't work for me at
all. Someone like Chrystal Waltz or someone

424
00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:25.440
else with a European background that would
have that sort of grit and perhaps would

425
00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:31.400
start to get more in tune with
the team as the story develops. Might

426
00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:36.000
have been a better choice. I
don't think fas Spender at all fitted in

427
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:40.960
well. And Elizabeth Moss as his
ex wife or his wife and someone was

428
00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:46.079
treated very badly in the film.
She's pretty much dismissed in a role where

429
00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:51.000
she's sort of there as a way
to make him look good. Look,

430
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:53.639
there's just too much I didn't like
at this film. You're taking it too

431
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:59.800
seriously. I think, in fact
it's funny because in a sense you've got

432
00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:02.719
to sense of humor and you appreciate
it from a sensitive point of view.

433
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:07.679
I think it paints the American Samoans
as being beautiful people. It's interesting.

434
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:12.840
I totally took it a different way. And again, if you hadn't seen

435
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:16.880
the docco, do you think it
would have been as harsh. Probably I

436
00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:21.800
would have, because I still think
that the treatment of the of the Simon

437
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:25.440
American Simon culture was very patronizing.
But it'd be very interesting to see what

438
00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:30.159
they actually think, you know,
to speak to a number of American Samoans

439
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:34.760
and think what they made a movie, Because I'd be surprised if they don't.

440
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:38.039
Don't see it the way you've just
described it anyway, I mean I

441
00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:45.360
understand what you've said. It's very
difficult because humor is in the eyes of

442
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:50.639
the boulder, isn't it, And
humor can be very offensive. Yes,

443
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:55.519
there's a much funnier, better cleverer
film on that has great humor, which

444
00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.960
is The Holdovers, Yes, which
we hopefully going to get to, if

445
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:05.559
not this week, the next week. So okay, you're going to lay

446
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:08.880
ball this as well, then Peter
next goal wins M one o four minutes

447
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:15.079
your school. I can barely give
it five out of ten. Wow,

448
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:20.719
Greg, I gave it SIPs the
SIPs and a half out of ten and

449
00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:22.960
I gave it seven and a half
again. See I'm a generous reviewer.

450
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:27.239
What can I say? Is that? Right? I thought it was a

451
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:31.519
lot of fun, and get over
yourselves, boys, this is fun anyway.

452
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:38.360
That let on eighty eight FM we're
talking racalcitr and to others and me.

453
00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:45.440
That's it. I want to move
into Greg, I talked to you

454
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:50.559
about my dream car in Greece,
right, the Essendon car, my real

455
00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:54.960
dream car, my real dream Essendon
car goes room room, and it's a

456
00:36:55.199 --> 00:37:02.880
red Ferrari with jet black wheels.
Mag magnificent. If ever, I got

457
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:08.960
to be a multi billionaire, which
won't happen. Ferrari a drop top,

458
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:13.039
Ferrari's top of the list, Greek. Is that all right? Well?

459
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:21.559
Everyone, boys and their toys and
crisis speaking here, alexdon me midlife crisis

460
00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:25.119
approach you. Well, yeah,
no, no, it's funny. Okay,

461
00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:29.920
I've got to tell you this tale. Gregory, sit back right back

462
00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:31.760
in your laps, is your head
is your head on the pillow? And

463
00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:37.679
you two, Pieter, mister Rackelson, Trent. When I this was I'm

464
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:42.920
just trying to remember how long ago
we're talking about, more than twenty years

465
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:47.199
ago now, I in fact,
it was the year two thousand. I

466
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:52.760
needed to buy a new car,
and I have no idea have you ever

467
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:58.840
done this? I basically, for
some reason, I'd never even contemplated this,

468
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:04.000
and I walk into a dealership and
I'm not sure what provoked me to

469
00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:10.360
walk into the dealership, and I
saw a red Alpha Romeo Spider with black

470
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:15.320
wheels, and I basically bought the
car on the spot. And I never

471
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:20.199
had any intentions of buying that car
at a all and I just happened to

472
00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:23.960
see it and walked in and bought
it. So yeah, those things happened.

473
00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:28.639
I can't do that with a Ferrari. It's a bit pricey, I'm

474
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:35.559
afraid, but yeah, it's interesting. So I've always appreciated red cars,

475
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:37.960
and I don't know whether it is
my Essendon sort of bent, but I

476
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:42.840
think it probably is. So you
know, a drop top Ferrari, Greg,

477
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:50.079
I think you'd be struggling to buy
one for under six or seven hundred

478
00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:53.599
thousand dollars, right, and you
can buy Ferrari's at more than a million

479
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.719
dollars. So do you want to
lend me the money? No, I

480
00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.679
was hoping you'd be a line made
money time you learned to you, thank

481
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:02.119
you very much. Indeed, well, look the power, the glory,

482
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:07.960
the horrors associated with one of the
world's most prestigious marks in Ferrari is on

483
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.760
show in this movie, which is
one hundred and forty six minutes in length

484
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:15.400
and is M rated, and the
primary focus is on its controlling founder,

485
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:21.400
whose name is Enzo Ferrari and he
was born in Maderna in Italy on the

486
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:25.320
twentieth of February eighteen ninety eight.
You were just a spring chicken then,

487
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.440
weren't you, Peter. No,
no, no, you're an old man

488
00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.519
because you were born in the seventeenth
century. So you'd remember Enzo. Was

489
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:35.920
he your personal friend? Was he? Oh? Look, I met him

490
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:38.719
in my corolla and we had a
great time. Yes, exactly, yes,

491
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:43.239
Well, he was having troubled with
his business at that time, so

492
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:46.480
maybe he would have sort of wanted
to thumb a lift with you. Anyway.

493
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:51.519
Enzo would go on to become a
racing car driver, and he retired

494
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:55.480
at the age of thirty three.
He and his wife Laura started the Ferrari

495
00:39:55.559 --> 00:40:01.239
motor racing team in nineteen forty seven, and the film picks up his story

496
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:07.400
ten years later. He was known
as a womanizer, and as a result,

497
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:12.639
Enzo and Laura, his wife,
have a volatile relationship. Now she

498
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:20.079
controls the books with an eagle eye, and unfortunately Ferrari the business is leaking

499
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:24.719
money. On the personal front,
the peir Enzo and Laura are barely on

500
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:30.679
speaking terms. They continue to grieve
the death of their son, Alfredo known

501
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:37.199
as Dino, who was born in
nineteen thirty two and died of muscular dystrophy

502
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:43.719
in nineteen fifty six, so is
but a young man. Unfortunately, Enzo

503
00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:49.559
has a long standing secret mistress whose
name is Lena Lardi, whom he met

504
00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:54.119
during the war and with whom he
had a son called Piero in nineteen forty

505
00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:59.800
five. Piero is a bright child
whom his mother would like to carry the

506
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:07.440
name, but the situation surrounding Enzo's
wife makes that far from a straightforward proposition.

507
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:12.440
On the racing front, Ferrari's only
way out of its financial quagmire is

508
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:17.679
to win races, among them the
nineteen fifty seven Mila Miglia, where the

509
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:22.199
real shread comes from Maserati. And
bear in mind this is an era in

510
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:29.480
which death among the motor racing fraternity
is not uncommon. Enzo, in self

511
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:35.639
sti still mourns the deaths of two
compatriots twenty five years earlier. Still,

512
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:44.400
Ferrari paints Enzo as a driven greg
dad Joe pragmatist, A driven pragmatist,

513
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:51.199
yes, yeah, of ignoria alex
are with a you're having revenue up enough

514
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.960
yet, thank you very much,
with a win at all costs mentality.

515
00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:58.920
Now his life is a constant juggle
to try to stay on top of the

516
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:05.079
unraveling thread. So Ferrari the movie
powerful, at times horrific portrait of the

517
00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:09.920
race to be the fastest and to
stay afloat. Adam Driver impresses with the

518
00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:16.480
lastly humorless predominant portrayal of Enzo man
on a perpetual tight rope, and he

519
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:22.159
continues to walk tools throughout. Does
Adam Driver Penelope Cruise well, she's a

520
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:24.239
force of nature. As his wife, a woman not to be taken lightly,

521
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:30.880
Cruise is well positively ferocious as Laura. Shaleen Woodleigh displays the patience of

522
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:36.039
job as his mistress, Lena,
intent on looking out for their son.

523
00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:39.679
The movie was written by Troy Kennedy
Martin, who was responsible for the Italian

524
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:44.119
Job. The film based on the
book Enzo Ferrari, The Man, The

525
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:49.000
Cars, The Races, the Machine
by brock Yates. Michael Mann, who

526
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:54.880
executive produced Ford Versus Ferrari in twenty
nineteen, steps behind the camera as the

527
00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:58.920
director on this one. And let's
face it, he's used to bringing heat.

528
00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:00.559
Thank you very much much, Greek. Another joke you like that,

529
00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:07.960
I'll ignore you again. Still,
what do I have to do? Anyway?

530
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.880
He's used to bringing here, and
there's an intensity about Ferrari as a

531
00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:17.440
movie too. He man adroitly balances
the Ferrari business with the complexities of Enzo's

532
00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:23.320
personal relationships. As a result,
Ferrari the movie leaves an indelible imprint.

533
00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:30.280
Did you and this is again a
movie about racing, Peter? I mean

534
00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:34.360
this is sporting. You clearly love
your sport, don't you, my friend?

535
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.440
Oh? NonStop? Yes, absolutely, yes, get to the ages

536
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:42.400
out of twenty right, I mean
there's a cricket movie coming up. Will

537
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.960
you be seeing it? Yes,
you'll say, Peter Uia Closet sports lover.

538
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:52.400
Did you like? I must admit
I was disappointed by Oh no,

539
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:59.679
of course you were. And let
me tell you the part of the film

540
00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:04.480
I liked were the rating sequences.
They were really well handled and well directed

541
00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:08.800
by Michael Mann. Where the film
loses it for me is the over the

542
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:16.239
top melodrama that goes on behind the
scenes between Adam Driver, whose accent is

543
00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:22.559
somewhat spurious, and Penelope Cruz,
who overacts to the extreme. No,

544
00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:30.519
she's a woman who's been scorned.
You can be scorned and not have to

545
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:36.199
eat the scenery at the same time, looks. It's one of those films

546
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:43.599
where I think it's a hybrid which
doesn't quite sorry about the kind of which

547
00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:51.280
I don't think particularly well serves the
storyline. It should have been a much

548
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:57.079
stronger film, a much more I
suppose, dramatic film in some respects.

549
00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:04.400
But also it sort of dismisses the
idea of how important this race was and

550
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:08.000
the outcomes of that race, et
cetera. It's I don't know. It

551
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:14.000
was a disappointment for me because it
just it just didn't quite hit the mark

552
00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:17.840
for me at all. I'm disappointed
to hear that, Greg, did you

553
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.639
think more of it? Did?
Did it revy your engines? I think

554
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:24.880
the car racing sequences, I'm like
Peter, they came alive for me.

555
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:30.599
I thought the rest was a bit
dreary and conventional, the ratio of the

556
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:35.480
relationship between Hinzo and the Penelope crew
character. And I thought Chileen Wood,

557
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:39.280
who was largely wasted with a thankless
role there. Yeah, Michael Man is

558
00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:44.639
much better as the director of action
and that kind of thing. So,

559
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:51.079
but although he was a reasonable fit
for the symbesterious relationship between the Enzo and

560
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:57.079
his wife there. But I thought
the muscular direction of the car racing sequences

561
00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:00.440
was where he came into his own
there. Thought the tone O raw was

562
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:06.440
a bit ponderous, a little bit
there when she's surprisingly given the energy which

563
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:10.719
which she stretched films like he there, I thought lack drama for mutually running

564
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:17.079
time. But those cha rasiterd sequences
had tensions, and I thought cinema to

565
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:23.360
olgrapher Eric missus Smith has done a
good job with on being named the life

566
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:32.920
as well is a pilot O right, it's a joke. Driver offered as

567
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:37.639
a strong physical presence on the screen, passed a little bit against type here,

568
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:40.639
I thought, as the sor in
Zo Ferrari there and through make up

569
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:46.880
his age to a bit jam player's
usual strong screen persona. I agreed that,

570
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.960
but on crews, actually I'd quite
like her performance here volatile, ferocious,

571
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:57.679
emostly raw and passionate. I thought
she was good there, and I

572
00:46:57.719 --> 00:47:00.800
thought the production design was really quite
good to the claps in the year,

573
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:05.960
and especially noticeable was the use of
those fifty fifty Ferrari rastcards, whis further

574
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:09.440
enhanced than the authentics in your cereal. So yeah, yeah, exactly,

575
00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:13.280
give me one of those, please, that'll be fine too. I'd handle

576
00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:16.760
that. Okay, that's that's a
good so greg score out of ten.

577
00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:22.119
No, actually, well I think
again, Peter will Localness says he's done.

578
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:25.719
He's been really consistently bad, So
go on, what is it?

579
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.760
Peter Ferrari m rated one hundred and
forty six minutes. I'm wondering with those

580
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:38.079
Ferrari cars, where do you put
the shopping anyway? So you tie it

581
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:43.519
to the back of the car and
you drag it along the ground. Just

582
00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:47.079
you're just egging me on. All
right. I think it's it's a fair

583
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:51.440
film. It should have been much
stronger. Six out of ten, all

584
00:47:51.559 --> 00:47:53.960
right, so Gregory, I'll go
with six out of ten as well.

585
00:47:54.119 --> 00:48:00.320
Oh no, I'm giving it an
eighth. I enjoy did I did?

586
00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:07.519
I thought it was fun. Okay, you mentioned that Michaelman executive produced Ford

587
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:10.440
and Ferrari. I thought there was
a much better film, so oh yeah,

588
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:15.159
no, I really like for versus
Ferrari. I agree. I thought

589
00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:19.760
that was it. But I know
I thought this was this. This intrigued

590
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.559
me. So yeah, anyway,
I was bored for some of it,

591
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:29.880
were you. Wow? Okay,
that's that's really saying something okay, The

592
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:37.599
Boys in the Boat George Clooney another
sporting movie. Exactly, Peter, I

593
00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:43.719
mean one and after another. Come
on, you've turned, haven't you.

594
00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:47.119
You're just getting into my skull I
am. I am very good, indeed,

595
00:48:47.239 --> 00:48:53.559
thank you. So okay, what
are we going to get? Ah?

596
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:59.760
It's a movie about sinking or swimming. So what do we think of

597
00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:05.199
your Clooney is a director overall?
Again? Yes, no, I'm competent

598
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:08.800
director. Yeah, you'd agree with
that. It depends on the script.

599
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:15.360
Well, yeah, but that it's
about also the choice of script. As

600
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:20.559
a director, I presume he'd be
approached quite frequently to do something. How

601
00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:25.920
many films has he actually directed?
I'd I don't think I'm looking it up.

602
00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:30.079
I'm looking out as we talk.
I don't think it's all that many

603
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:36.000
anyway, PG rated arted in twenty
three minutes, fourteenth of August nineteen thirty

604
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:43.719
six. You'd remember very well,
Peter, Oh I was there. Yeah.

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I would have been disappointed if you
weren't very good. Now, Actually

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we're limited in time, guys,
So I'll be some twelve films as a

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director. Wow, much more than
I would have thought. Okay, So

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on the fourteenth of August nineteen thirty
se and will move this along. The

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US eight's rowing crew did something very
special at the Berlin Olympics, and this

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is their story, led by one
of their number, Joe Rantz played by

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Callum Turner, a student of engineering
who lived in a dilapidated car and could

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barely make ends meet. The eight. The rowing eight, plus an alternati

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and a cox were drawn from working
class stock during the Depression era, and

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they were hand picked by well meaning
and decent University of Washington coach al Ulbrigson

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played by Joel Edgerson, who himself
was a more than handy rower back in

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the day. Rance's mother died when
he was young. His father left him

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to his own devices before he reached
the age of fourteen, and although it

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was enrolled in university, he struggled
to find the money to pay for his

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tuition, so he was at severe
risk of being kicked out when a classmate

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presented him with a possible solution,
join a rowing crew and receive a wag

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on board. So what Rants didn't
realize was how stiff the competition was to

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be selected. He was up for
the challenge. He became a member of

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the university's new junior crew, and
that's when the heat started intensifying even further.

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He forged to close bond with a
boat build called George Pocock played by

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Peter Peter Guinness rather but he wasn't
the only one under pressure. The University

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of Washington hadn't beaten their arch rivals
California State for a couple of decades,

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and so it was that the future
of the coaches, along with the crew,

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was on the line. And what
happened next was the stuff of dreams.

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And the boys in the boat is
this moving underdog story involving triumph against

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seemingly insurmountable odds. So even if
you're totally unaware of what happened to his

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rowing crew back in the day,
it doesn't take a genius to figure it

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out. But I did find myself
heavily invested in The Journey screenplays by Mark

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L. Smith, who did The
Revenant, from a book by Daniel James

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Brown, and as we've mentioned,
George Clary direct look he milks the emotion

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of the times to positive effect.
I thought it was a very good film,

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with one noteworthy exception, and I
was not in any way sold on

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the casting or the representation of Hitler
in Nazi Germany, which was really clunky

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and I thought was not well handled
at all. Overall, the visuals,

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other than that of the boys bending
their backs, is magnificently captured, often

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in close up by the cinematographer Martin
Rue who did the Midnight Sky. The

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production design as well, by Kalina
Ivanov, which transports us back to the

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period, is really meritorious. The
evocative score by Alexandra desk Platt. The

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performances of the leads were very good, so it's a good film with that

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one reservation, Peter, what about
you and keep it brief please. Okay,

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we know what the outcome of this
film is, and the rowing sequences

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are well staged, but they go
on far too long. The film becomes

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tone deaf when it reaches Berlin and
Nazi Germany. Dispisses Jesse Owens with one

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line. It a major disappointment for
me. This could have been a much

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stronger socially politically, in terms of
the time period that the film was set

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in and the German politics at the
time. Greg, again, keeping it

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very brief your thoughts, I thought
this was another crab Please underdog story there

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partrom three or four of the characters
are, you know, the sense of

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who the characters are though as centers
of that Joe Rad's character who is I

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thought it was quite strong there.
I like the Belle Giddis character as well

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as a vuncture boat builder, and
I thought joeliges and did a good job

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as well. I didn't particularly like
the romantic subplot there. I thought that

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slowed it there a little bit there, and they could pressed three years worth

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of training all that into one year, which doesn't give it a sense of

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urgency, but didn't work for me. And obviously maybees documentary on the story

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as well, which I thought was
much more interesting, all right, Peter

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score out of ten five out of
ten for the Boys in the Boat g

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are rated as a film and it
runs further than twenty three minutes. Greg,

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I'll do it six out of ten, and again I'll hi balling it.

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I'm still giving it a seven and
a half out of ten. Boys.

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We are done for another week.
We will do it all again in

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seven days time. Thank you very
much for your involvement, Peter. Sports

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loving Peter, Oh, may you
see many more sports movies and Greg May

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you lose your white and become red
and black. In twenty twenty four,

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you've been listening to First on film
and entertainment. Be good to one another,

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be kind to one another, and
we'll speak to you again in seven days