S03E03: The Rise and Fall of a Film Icon: Priscilla's Side of the Story

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First on Film and Entertainment. Yes, indeed, the Cavalcade of Stars is

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back. Jackie Hamilton. I think
she's with us on the odd occasion when

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she deems it appropriate. Jackie,
you've seen all these movies. What have

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you been doing? You've been in
darkened places all of a sudden again it's

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great, Yes, loving it,
Alex. Good movies out at the moment

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too. Well, it's the time
of the year. Well, let's be

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honest, from late November till around
about now, when we get to see

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ninety nine percent of all the Oscar
nominations, which of course came out this

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week, and the movie that I've
picked at the time, I'm going to

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applaud myself and everybody else who thought
that Oppenheimer was the best film of the

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year. It is going to win
Best Film, and it'll also win Best

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Director, will it not? Jacqueline? Quite possibly, And I wouldn't have

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a problem with that at all.
Yeah, Peter Crause, you agree.

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I'm hesitant because I think the Academy
might produce surprises. We're are we talking

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about those two top categories. You
think they're going to be surprised. They

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will surprise us, will I Yeah? Look, Oppenheimer's a front runner.

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I agree, but there are some
very strong films and directors nominated. But

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it's interesting. The moment I saw
that film, I said, no other

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film will top it, and it's
proven to be the case as far as

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I'm concerned, Greek King, do
you believe or not that they will that

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film will win the top two?
At the moment, it seems a bit

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of front runner, So possibly we'll
probably I don't expect any upsets in that

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category this year. Well, we're
going to be talking about at least one

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film which is very much a contender
today, and the star of it is

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somebody who's starring in two of the
best films of the last twelve months.

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So you know, you can go
through that. I'm still going through my

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angst, though, Peter Krause,
you know why? Why Because the delightful

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Margo Robbie, if this is true, he is going to spend more time

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producing and directing than she is acting
in the foreseeable future, and she's at

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the peak of a power. Why
would that happen? Let her decide her

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career path as she sees fits.
We love her dearly. It's like seeing

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the fall of Novak Djokovic, right, is it the fall? Is it

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the beginning of the end? Hopefully
not? No, it's not like that

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at all, But I thought I
haven't worked destinately into the conversation yet,

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but by the end of the show
rest assured. I will. I also

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want to book today on First On
Film and Entertainment about one of the best

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plays I have ever seen. In
the thousands of plays I've seen, this

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is in the top twenty of all
time. So I will talk about that

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as well today. But let's kick
things off with I'd like to start where

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I referenced this film without a name
in the last few minutes, Anatomy of

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a Fall. It's this stunning m
rated two hours thirty two minute film,

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really naturalistic crime drama, unquestionably one
of the films of the year, concerning

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the trial of a German born writer
by the name of Sandra Vouter played by

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Sandra Huller. And it's convenient,
isn't it that the first name is the

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same. But there you go,
not only her first name, and we'll

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get to that in a moment.
Having said that, this is about her

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trial and the events leading up to
it with her husband, Samuel Les he

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again played it by another Samuel sees
and their son Daniel Milo Berchado grainer.

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This woman, Sandra Voiter, moved
to a remote mountain chalet in the French

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Alps. Very nice. But they're
now eleven year old son who is visually

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impaired. That's the result of an
accident that he had when he was four.

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So basically, wife, husband and
son are in this remote mountain chalet

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and the boy goes for a walk
in the snow with their snoop. He

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returns home and discovers his father's bloodied
body lying at the foot of the chalet.

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So the question is did he commit
suicide or was he murdered. Moleski

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was a teacher, he was a
wanna be author, and he had a

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conflicted relationship with his wife. Much
of that dated back to the circumstances surrounding

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the boy Daniel's accident, and this
film, Anatomy of Afore, peals back

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the layers of the family dynamic.
It reveals the characteristics of each of the

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central players. So Sandra is driven, Samuel is hamstrung, Daniel is sensitive.

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Also in play are the lawyers and
the witnesses in the trial. So

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it turns into this tightly wound thriller
in which the truth proves elusive, really

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brilliantly written and executed. We talk
about this all the time on this program,

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how important the writing is, the
revelations, the tension at every turn

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parent and it's the work of the
director, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari,

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who have an excellent handle on the
material. Nor could I have any been

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sort of any more praiseworthy of the
performances led superbly by Sandra Huller in one

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of the performances of her life.
She's a great actor, and I totally

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believed she was the intelligent, self
absorbed character that she was playing. I

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can say the same about Milo and
Machado Grain as the piano playing youngster in

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a rather in videous situation that he's
trying to understand and make sense of most

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in videos, I should say,
and Samuel Tech, the father, although

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is frequently referenced, he only comes
into his own late in the piece.

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There's one stunning scene in which he
argues with his wife, so choice words

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are exchanged in that and it's one
of many highlights of this film. Playing

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a pivotal role in proceedings is the
legal counsel for Sandra, an old friend

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called mattra Vincent Renzi played by Swan
our Lord, and he's really impressive in

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his characterization. Rensi the council.
The legal council comes across as warm and

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responsible, but also thorough and inquisitive. And then you've got the prosecutor in

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the form of this devious, flamboyant
advocate general as played with a lot of

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flare by Antoine Reynarts. And you
might not like his character, but you

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can't but help admire his tactics.
And I suppose my plaud it's on Anatomy

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of a Fall. Don't stop there. The secondary players also ensure everything about

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this film feels real, using that
word authentic again. There's so much to

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unpack, appreciate, and savor in
what turns out to be really unsettling psychological

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journey. You've got to go and
see this film, folks. It's a

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ripper of the movie. It runs
for two hours thirty two minutes. It's

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called Anatomy of its rated. Jackie, you only saw it last night?

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What did you? I did?
I didn't know. There's nothing I disagree

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with you about that. Alex and
in fact, it's so real that it's

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almost almost embarrassing to watch it because
I felt like an intruder into the personal

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lives. And that comes from both
the dialogue and the performances, which,

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as you said, every one of
them is spot on, right down to

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the smallest roles. And some of
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when you're seeing the faces as the
camera pans through the people who have come

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to watch. We don't get to
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way the faces are expressing reaction to
what's going on during the courtroom scenes,

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you know, that adds to the
drama. Now's a couple of sorry,

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let me just stop you there.
I found it really interesting because we used

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to if you're like our way of
the court room, it's a totally different

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dynamic in the the court case here
the European what i'd call it a unique

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European style of proceedings, and I
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does happen. So people were interrupting
and all that sort of stuff that we're

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not used to in the Australian court
setting. Did you find that strange?

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I adapted or understood it quite quickly. It didn't trouble me at all.

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The perhaps the only thing that did
trouble me, and this is not a

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spoiler at all, is that the
young boy Daniel is allowed to be watching

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proceedings. He's a major witness and
is called upon to be to speaker's witness

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during the trial, but he's also
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that went between his parents, including
recordings that were made before obviously before the

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father, his father passed away.
So I found that extremely unsettling. If

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you're talking about the way that the
court process was going on, I don't

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know if we would have that here, would we do? I don't believe

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we would, but I mean that, but I mean, I'm presuming I

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can only presume it's real. There. There's quite a bit of distressing content

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here as well. And I'm not
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elements and that's what also makes it
so real. But yeah, it's a

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pretty extraordinary film, Jackie. I
mean, would you agree it's certainly it's

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certainly my top ten film. I
mean, I know we're extending this beyond

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the real top ten of twenty twenty
three, but I can't this this is

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going to be in my top films
of twenty twenty four, no question a

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moment, well probably, but it's
only January. The one thing that I'd

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like to mention that I found really
interesting about it was it's like the mental

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stimulation while you're watching this film,
seeing the layers of how it's gone on,

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of the wife writing as a novelist, writing books based on the means

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that snippets or incidents or people that
are in her real life or that she

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knows of, and then that comes
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the bum when she's up there,
you know, giving evidence about how this

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whole incident has come about. I
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that really really fascinating. I think
it must be really the context of the

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mother being with the son but being
limited in terms of interaction that is really

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fascinating in terms of talking about towards
the end of the film, and I

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think that although it's a very strong
drama throughout, those couple of twists towards

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the end really ramp up attention,
really pull it all in and as I

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say, I was at times it's
almost quite excruciating, but fascinating. You

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like watching a crash in a way, but really fascinating. The claustrophobic nature

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of it. Peter really struck me
while I was watching it, and I'm

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thinking, good goalie, not only
how do you write something like this,

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but how do you act it?
And the pure way that it was acted.

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Absolutely, it's a superb film.
Just In Trier, who directed this

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film and co wrote it with Arthur
Harari, has made five films previously,

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but this one is her major breakthrough
film and receiving five Oscar nominations. And

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what is so interesting is how writing
screenplay is so fundamental to a really good

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film. And just like The Holdovers, I think Anatomy of Afour has an

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exemplary screenplay, beautifully written, carefully
observed. It has echoes of films like

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Marriage Story in terms of the dissecting
of a marriage, and also of Saint

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Omer in terms of the court room, the French system of trials, etc.

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So there are sort of references that
other films have made beautifully acted.

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Sandra Huller, whose German actress has
been around for a while, was in

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Tony Aldermann Cecy and I I'm Your
Man, et cetera. A really accomplished

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actress and also coming up in zone
of interest, and she has really been

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given a role that is so superb
and so beautifully nuanced in terms of her

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character. Absolutely brilliant. Film had
me riveted from go to woe and I

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also highly recommend people go and see
it. Yeah, folks, don't miss

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it. Greg, You're the missing
piece of the puzzle. What did you

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think? Oh nice to be missing
something anyway. You also remind me of

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the film We have a murder which
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well. Now, Peter mentioned Saint
Amir, which was in cinemas last year,

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which I didn't basically appeal like,
but this one really grabbed me.

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The courtroom scenes had a lot more
tension the way they have played out.

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You mentioned the bostrophobic field which comes
from the close ups there as well.

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Also, I like the fact the
ambiguity of what actually happened. We don't

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know even why they didend of film, whether it's accident, suicide or a

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murder. There's one scene in the
in the court room trial where they have

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a flashback to discussion between Sandra and
her husband and then it break erupts into

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an argument. But we don't know
what happened in that argument because all you

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then is going to replay of a
recording of that argument there, So it's

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still ambiguous what happened, who did
what there? So I like the ambiguity

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of it all as well as you
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well directed and staged and ribbon from
s to finish. No, it's good.

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We So, okay, we're all
going to be high bars. I.

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Yeah, I'm thinking that Peter will
be the highest. But let's let's

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see. We'll start with you Jackie. Yeah, I'll go for a nine

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on this. Yes. And also
I'm glad that Peter mentioned marriage story because

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Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver or was
it? Yeah, because that was flashing

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through my mind the whole way,
and that again was like total excellent film,

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so it was nice to be reminded
of that. Yeah. So it's

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anatomy of afore m A rate it
one hundred and fifty two minutes. I

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was going to say, you'll give
it a nine, So I wish I'd

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set it ahead of you saying it. There we go, Greg, I

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reckon, you'll also give it an
eight and a half to a nine.

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Go for it. What is it? Yeah? Eight and a half year.

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Yeah, there you go. Okay, I'm going to go give it

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a nine out of ten without any
question. And Peter, where's your highmark?

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Go on? Give me a ten. Definitely, a ten out of

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it's a brilliant film. You're a
two weeks in a row, Peter.

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You go to ten, ten out
of ten? What was the other one

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last week? The whole thover is
you gave you ten two as well?

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Correct? You're so predictable, Peter? What can I sound? Who are

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you're going to say? He's been
very generous. He's been very h right,

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I get this is controversial. So
you're giving it a nine, he's

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giving it a ten? And yes, okay, now I'm talking about the

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holdovers being generous. Excuse me?
When are you going to admit that you

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got it wrong for the holdovers?
Jackie? When are you I've dangled that

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carrot in front of your nose personally? Ever since you said I did you

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walk out of it? May be
not sure? Maybe? Yes? Yes?

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Hang on, where's the penance,
Jacqueline? Are we I wasn't in

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the mood for a comedy? Okay, moving on, moving on? Okay,

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would you see the film again or
not? Oh, when you keep

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I'm almost thinking I have to,
but I really don't want to waste another

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two hours of my life. Wastes
a bit, Sorry, Peter, Sorry,

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Peter. Yeah, an idea.
Yeah, I couldn't have put it

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better myself, Peter. Yes,
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well. Okay, Now, The

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Color Purple. Now I have real
problems with this film. I like the

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film if it was a drama.
I would like the film if it was

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an accurate musical. Combining the two
I have major problems with. And you

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know, I came out of this
thinking, look, there there is a

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lot to like about it. There's
a lot to dislike about it. And

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while I understand and respect the fact
this is not Steven Smilberg's The Color Purple,

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I still have much greater fondness for
the nineteen eighty five version, which

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I thought was excellent. Okay,
so where are we We're in Georgia nineteen

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oh nine, and this film spans
thirty eight years, based around the struggles

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of African American Sealy Harris we but
assister Netting. Sealy's brought up by their

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abusive father, Alfonso, because their
mother died some years ago. Alfonso marries

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off Sealy to an equally obnoxious local
farmer who happens to be a father of

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three. His name is Albert Mister
Johnson, known as Mister and Mister had

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designs on the prettier of the sisters, even though it was Seally that he

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ended up marrying Cely, who Alfonso
beats. Alfonso, being their father,

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simply takes her punishment while Nettie plees
to parts unknown. Nettie promises to write

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to Celi every week, and I
actually said, I think, I said

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Celi who Alfonso beats? I think
it's Celi who is beaten by? Was

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he beaten by? She beaten by
both the father and the husband. Can't

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remember guys, so yes, yeah, yeah, Anyway, Nettie promises to

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write to Cili every week, so
one sister to the other, which he

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does, but Alfonso hides those letters
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really impressed by the defiance. And
spunk shown by a character called Sophia,

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and she's the lady who marries Mister's
son Harpod. Mister has long shown more

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than a passing interest in the daughter
of the local preacher, a jazz singer

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by the name of Sugavery, who
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I mean, ideally, mister would
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but that never happened. So anyway, when she's back in town,

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sheug vis it's mister. I could
never quite understand that, Jackie, you

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might feel that bit in doo.
What what's the relationship between mister and sure?

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Why? Why? Why are they
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of context? Unless I missed that? Well, Peter or Greek, can

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you help out? No, I
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found that there was a part time
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okay, so maybe they did get
together. Okay, Peter, do you

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remember that? I don't. Yeah, I think yeah, I think you're

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right, Greek? Yeah, okay, all right. Anyway, so when

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Sheug visits mister, she'll becomes aware
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tries to empower Seely. Still,
given Seeley's in eight Good Nature,

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she finds that really difficult and difficult
to stand up for herself in the wake

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of seemingly overwhelming odds. So this
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news drama directed by Blitz Bizarre Wheeli, Bazar Wooli. I don't know.

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I don't know Blitz Baserwooli, but
there you go. The screenplays by Marcus

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Gardley, who cut his teeth writing
for television. It's based on the stage

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musical of the same name, which
I haven't seen. Okay, So,

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and as somebody who generally loves stage
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I struggled with the color Purple as
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because despite appreciating the music and the
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I felt both a really strong and
dynamic music and the dance. The

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singing was rousing, it was impressive, but I just thought that the score

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and the choreography choreograph. I'll try
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dancing frequently interrupted the narrative and it
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the film, the events showing a
deeply distressing and yet the music is fundamentally

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up tempo and they're dancing in the
streets and god knows what else, why

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are we doing that in this You
know, it's hard to comprehend just how

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subjugated Seally is. And both Felicia
Pearl Maparsi in the younger role and Fantasia

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Burrino play down trodden with a plumb
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And then you've got Hallie Bailey injecting
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would like to actually see more of
her storyline unfold. Danielle Brooks is this

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dominant figure as the no nonsense Sofia
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to her portrailer sug Avery and Coleman
Domingo and Jon Cole are positively ferocious as

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mister and Old Fonso, respectively.
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very powerful and evocative. So look, it's deeply moving. That color purple,

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there's no questioning that, But I
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its essence without breaking it a song
and dance. That's my view of the

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color purple. What about yours,
Peter, look tend to agree with you.

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I think there are some dramatic problems
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have liked to have seen the stage
musical, perhaps just to see the way

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the musical has been adapted into a
cinematic film. When it was the last

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time you actually saw a stage musical
when Methusela was a kid. Absolutely,

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yes, yes, I don't buy
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fork by there words quote unquote.
I would have liked to have seen the

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musical, yes, yes, please
keep going in so far as the adaptation

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seems to be an issue, And
yes, I have seen stage musical,

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thank you very much, and especially
filmed stage musical when when this is great?

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But Peter, you can go to
a football match with me, and

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you can go to musical with me. Terrific. When was the last time

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you saw musical? Jesus Christ Superstar? I was there at the Lord.

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I think that it's I think that's
fake volumes, Brenda, it's lovely,

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keep going, my friend. Yeah, well, I said to Jesus,

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please can you sing up a bit? Now anyway, so you've now offended

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three quarters of our seriously good golly
oh they all right now moving on color

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purple. Production design is excellent.
The writing is a part of the problem.

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And the director, whose previous film
was a musical film with Beyonce Blitzer

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Baza Wauler, just doesn't cut it. He just doesn't understand the sort of

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integration of dramatic scenes with musical sequences. They just don't tell. The performances

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are very good. It was nice
to see will Be Goldberg in a cameo

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and veteran at Louis Gossip Junior,
as well as John Batiste, who of

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course is in the documentary American Symphony, which you can see on Netflix,

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and Colma Domingos in Ruston, which
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is worth seeing. So there's lots
to admire about the film, but the

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ingredients dowed add up, and I
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sort of dilutes the whole racial male
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each other as well as of women. It just dilutes the whole storyline,

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and that's what disappointed me greatly about
the film. It's so distressing. I

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remember this from the original, the
distress that you feel by watching these women

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being subjugated the way they are.
It's deeply, deeply distressing. Greg your

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take on the color purple. Yeah, look, I still remember the seven

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Spielbert adaptation of nineteen eighty five.
There and Now is a fairly grim week

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film, probably Spielberg's first for Rain. The serious music quotation marks there film

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making, and it was nominated for
ten Oscars, but it was a fairly

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brutal film. The site through there
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that's incests, mental cruelty, poverty, all that kind of stuff,

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and the thought of it turning into
a musical seen somehow seen in can Brewers.

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know the vibrant, well staged up
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scenes of rape and violence, and
it's just sort of yes, greats a

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little bit there. I mean,
the play the play is coming one eleven

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Tony Nominations or something like that,
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it doesn't quite translate to the screen
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I dropped from the Broadway musical,
so this film, even though it's

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a musical, there's a long gaps
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but the drama out it's pretty close
to the original film and what I

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remember there, But I made the
music anike some recent musicals like Walda and

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Mean Girl, where the songs are
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are actually full of bazazz and vibrant
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hell No is obviously exp stand out. I thought for me but for a

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miserable that there's a long patches of
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with. Thanktase Burino was fantastic.
I think as Celia here, and she

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has an emotionally draining performance here.
She goes through an of a lot there.

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Daddy Old Brooks is also really good
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this role, and it's easy to
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this film are pretty nasty and unsympathetic, especially Dean Kyle as their father of

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the Fonzo and Tomin Demingdo as Missta
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add to that the grandfather as well, Yeah it, yep, he's a

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pretty nasty piece of work as well. The unly livable man is probably Harpo

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played by what's his name some Hawk
and coy Hawk and yet and yet Harpo

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is seen as weak. Yeah,
pretty doesn't stand up to his father and

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that. Yeah, but the production
values I think are really good as well,

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shot by Dan Lawnson. There a
breeze life injured story. Maybe if

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the way that the numbers musical numbers
are working into this grim storyline do not

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always worked. But half of me
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celebration of black women refusing to be
beaten down by their situation, their bleak

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situation. Jackie, I can only
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really affected you. Oh well,
it is a terribly green story, but

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on the and scenario, the whole
scenario, and you know, being real

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life. But I mean there's been
musicals before that are based on well,

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probably most musicals are based on a
tragedy of some sort, and you can

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look back to Miss Saigon and things
like that which are heartbreaking, and the

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way that the songs and the cho
choreography are drawn into that was done well,

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where this isn't that the mood is
all wrong, the songs don't drive

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the narrative, which they always should
in a musical, and it made the

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film in the end just far too
long. I think you could that perhaps

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there was a a they could justify
the happy nature and the colorful and the

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beautiful voices and singing performances, justify
doing those songs in such a such an

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awful situation, as showing that the
women faced, as you said, terrible

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things, but they were able to
rise above that keep themselves living in optimism

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inside. I don't eventually, of
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at the end. So perhaps that's
what the song and dance routines were trying

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to show that inside the women they
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a strength in a strength. Perhaps
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But like you, there was a
lot of story to tell, and the

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musicals didn't work for me and even
to me. You know, you said,

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to all good production values, but
I thought that the sets looked like

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sets so much that I thought it
was trying to look like a stage musical.

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I mean, did you agree with
that, or did you think that

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they were trying to be authentic outdoor
scenarios. I thought there was a difference,

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a distinct difference between the drama and
the way it was shot as a

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drama to work as a musical,
And I yes, I thought that was

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a deliberate Obviously, well, I
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the behalf of the director, but
all the more reason that it was jarring.

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agree, But yeah again, I
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of the director and I think a
misstep. I think. I don't think

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it's a terrible You know that the
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drama and the musical are fine in
and of themselves. But I agree

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with Greg that, having not seen
it as a musical, it's difficult for

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me to judge it as a stage
production. But it does not work on

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film. It does not It works
against itself. Having said that, I'm

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still going to give it a reasonable
mark because the individual elements is strong.

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I think I'll be more generous than
the rest of you on this. Let's

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start with you, Peter out of
Team. The Color Purple, Okay,

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Yeah, there are some good ingredients
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give it six out of ten.
Greg, I'm going to give it six

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as well. As I said,
the inclusion of the musical numbers jarred against

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some unrelentingly bleak nature of the film. You go from the bleak moment of

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domestic violence through it up but song
number Sorry, I just didn't quite click

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for me. But it was little
being made. Emirated one hundred and forty

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one minutes Jackie. Yeah, we're
on a roll. I'm going six out

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of ten for The Color Purple.
Yeah, and I'm going six and a

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half to seven simply for the reasons
that I've mentioned. But yeah, it

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could have been a much stronger film
than it turned out to be. Now,

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I want to put pause on Jair
talking about movies to talk about this

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show that I mentioned at the outset, The Inheritance, and it's at forty

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five Downstairs, which is forty five
Flinders Lane, wonderful space, and it's

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set a generation after the height of
the Age Crisis, and it looks at

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what it's like to be young and
gay in New So it explores love and

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legacy and what we owe to those
that came before us. And at the

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heart of the work is this decent
and caring character called Eric Glass played by

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Charles Purcell. It's about to turn
thirty three when the play starts in twenty

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fifteen. He's an activist. He's
been in a relationship with self centered writer

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Toby Darling played by Thomas Cantor for
seven years. Darling is flighty, He's

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had a troubled upbringing. He's about
to get his first rather flimsy play produced,

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which is said to be autobiographical,
but is in fact a created truth

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00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:43.039
so made up. We're introduced to
Glass and darling circumstances and to their colorful

403
00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:46.880
homosexual friends. Into the phrase steps
a young, intelligent, affluent wanta be

404
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:53.200
actor called Adam McDowell played by Carl
Richmond, whose surprises Darling with his gifted

405
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:59.319
stagecraft and he wants to fill the
lead role in Darling's play. As Darling

406
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:04.640
spends increasing time away from home and
with McDowell, his feelings for McDowell develop.

407
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:10.119
Same time. Glass of friends an
older gay neighbor called Walter Pool played

408
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:15.640
by Dion Mills, who owns an
historic country estate. Three hours from New

409
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:21.759
York. He's socially responsible Walter Pool, and he feels compelled or felt compelled

410
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:27.119
to help HIV AIDS sufferers in their
dying days in that safe space that is

411
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the country house. Paul's been with
his partner, a bidding air property developer

412
00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:37.839
Henry Wilcox played by Hunter Persky,
for thirty six years, and in time

413
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:43.200
Glass gets closer to Wilcox as well. Willcox has got a couple of kids.

414
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:47.279
They're Pratts from a previous marriage,
was married to a woman, and

415
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:52.319
both these kids work in his real
estate business. As Darling's fortune's wayanes,

416
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:58.799
he finds himself attracted to a youngster
by the name of Leo, also played

417
00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:05.000
by Carl Richmond, who's a destitute
teen who bears a striking similarity to Adam

418
00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:08.719
McDowell. And before this is over
all, roads lead back to where Walter

419
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:15.199
Poole helped dying AIDS patients at the
peak of the pandemic. This was inspired.

420
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:19.119
I don't know whether have any of
you read Howard's End. You've seen

421
00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.400
the film, but if any of
you read the story, no, no,

422
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:25.400
Greg I thought you might have.
No. No, have you read

423
00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:30.840
any of Ian Forster's works or not. No, okay, I was taking

424
00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:32.360
to the tree this series in the
movies. That's about it. That's about

425
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:37.800
it. Okay. Well. This
was inspired by Forster's novel Howard's End,

426
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:42.000
which was published back in nineteen ten. Indeed, that book and other Forster

427
00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:45.800
works, such as Maurice that was
published after the author died, they helped

428
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:51.599
drive the narrative. It's Forster,
known here by his middle name Morgan,

429
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:54.800
played again by Dion Mills, who
acts as a narrator in part one of

430
00:34:54.840 --> 00:35:00.320
the Inheritance and reappears briefly in part
two. This is an adept storyteller.

431
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:07.119
He's prevailed upon by young gay boys
who have writer's block to tell their tale,

432
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:09.599
and in so doing, on more
than the odd occasion, forced to

433
00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:15.960
adds creative tension. This is sensitive, it's complex. It's a heartfelt work.

434
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.920
A great deal happens, and while
the focus is on the characters' lives

435
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.079
and loves, it's also about the
social, political, and economic conditions prevalent

436
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:30.000
at the time. Was first produced
in London in twenty eighteen theatrical Excellence as

437
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:35.079
Ats Hallmark won the Olivia Award for
Best New Play. It won the Tony

438
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:38.679
Award on Broadway for Best Play.
It's one of the most insightful works I've

439
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:43.840
had the good fortune to see.
The writing, the performances, the direction

440
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:49.400
are exemplary. Starts with the authenticity
that the writer, Matthew Lopez brings to

441
00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:53.360
the foe. He is really masterful. His understanding of our best to introduce

442
00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:59.760
raw emotion into his prose is second
and one. Humor, pathos and a

443
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:05.440
few sexual drive are the works hallmarks. Thursteen. Actors twelve miles one female

444
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:10.480
bring the story to life. The
director Kittan pet Kalbski is adept at extracting

445
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:15.000
the full impact of Inheritance, and
what struck me immediately was the passion and

446
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:20.440
conviction of the entire cast. They
give their all. Now wait for this,

447
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:24.800
folks. The Inheritance parts one and
two, which you need to see

448
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:31.239
in one hit or over two nights
or over consecutive weeks, lasts for about

449
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:37.119
six hours and twenty minutes. Right, So think Harry Potter, Right,

450
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:42.280
what about Andrews in America, which
is also working in Quo pats exactly that

451
00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:49.199
it's exactly Angels in America. That's
probably a much better sort of play to

452
00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:52.400
concern ourselves with and deals with some
of the same subject matter as well,

453
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:58.360
of course, So look, it's
owing the actors a bowld. They're brilliant,

454
00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:00.800
led so adroitly by Milk, Richmond, per Cell and Cantor, but

455
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:07.920
really all of them shine and look
forty five downstairs. I've got to commend

456
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:12.159
them so highly. This is the
Australian premiere. It's such a powerful and

457
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:16.400
poignant work. It's playing until the
eleventh of February. It's almost sold out.

458
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:22.599
It's playing as part of Midsummer but
also in its own and I just

459
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:29.400
I just think it's brilliant, absolutely
brilliant. It's interesting because the person I

460
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:34.079
took said, thank goodness you asked
me to this. And you know,

461
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.920
the one thing I would say is
that there are people who may be listening

462
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:43.440
now and others who wouldn't be listening, who say, I'm not going to

463
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:45.400
go I'm not going to go along
and I'm heterosexual. I'm not going to

464
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.880
go along and see a gay play. I'm not going to go on and

465
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:51.519
see a gay film. I'm not
going to go and see a film because

466
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:52.599
it's in black and white. I'm
not going to go and see a film

467
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:57.400
that I have to read now.
Of course it's their right to say that,

468
00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:02.159
but boy are they missing out because
this is a good example of just

469
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:10.840
brilliant human making of something. It's
created from scratch and has such huge impetus

470
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:19.519
the inheritance at forty five downstairs.
Having said that, I want to I

471
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:22.159
also want to mention one other show. And if we don't get through all

472
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:28.000
the movies today, I accept it. But I don't think I spoke about

473
00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:30.880
Malevo last week because I hadn't seen
it. But it's on at the State

474
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:37.360
Theater at Art Center, Melbourne,
and tonight is your last opportunity to see

475
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:42.079
it, and I would rush out
to see it. Nothing like this that

476
00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.199
I've seen before. The only thing
I can draw an analogy with to an

477
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:51.039
extent, and it's not total,
is remember the Irish dance sensation river Dance.

478
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:53.079
Did any of you see that when
it first came out, Jackie,

479
00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:58.199
No, No, I didn't.
Okay, well, okay, but I

480
00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:01.440
know it's talking about you're you know
and Greg, you'd know when they're all

481
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:06.639
standing in the front of the stage
and you know they're you know that that

482
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:12.239
line and they're they're tapping and it's
fantastic. Well, you've got a similar

483
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:17.480
thing at one point in this show, where you've got thirteen artists, all

484
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:23.239
of them holding bass drums, drumming
in uniform, uniful, unison and uniform.

485
00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:27.119
I might say at the front of
the stage. It was fantastic.

486
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:32.199
It's a malevol e v o.
It's all about electrifying rhythm. It's about

487
00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:38.199
dance, drums and more than that. And it's it's they're Argentinians and it's

488
00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:44.159
they're mesmerizing it. It's mesmerizing machismo, is what I'd say. They've got

489
00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:46.639
a four piece band. They hold
the audience in the palms of their hands,

490
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:52.119
these thirteen artists in the band eighty
minutes without a break. Created by

491
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:55.519
the director of the choreographer and the
dancer, Matthias Jamie in twenty fifteen.

492
00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:01.360
It's an all male group specializing in
what's known as milambo, which I knew

493
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:07.679
nothing about. That's traditional Argentinian folk
dance which has got a great deal of

494
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:12.920
virility and dexterity to it, performed
by gauchos. That was what they were,

495
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:15.800
the ones who originally performed malambo,
and the gauchos flourished from the mid

496
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:22.039
eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries,
and they were nomadic, colorful horsemen who

497
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:28.119
occupied the vast grasslands of South America, and they attained folk hero status.

498
00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:32.280
So Jamie and the Company of reconceived
milambo and fused it with other dance styles,

499
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:37.519
including flamenco, and it's toured the
world Malevo and just minutes in you

500
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:45.159
can understand why this group was named
an official cultural ambassador to the national identity

501
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:51.360
of Argentina. Talk about good and
the workout, Jackie. I'll tell you

502
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:54.960
something. These guys glistened. By
the end, the performers and the audience

503
00:40:55.000 --> 00:41:00.760
as well are left breathless. It's
about NonStop thrills, quite in intoxicating.

504
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:04.880
We're introduced to the thirteen as they
take to the stage, topless, wearing

505
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.320
tight black pants and black boots.
And as I say, they carry with

506
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:14.400
them these bass drums and drumsticks and
information including four five four and in total

507
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:17.000
control. They beat the drums and
they click the sticks at a frenetic pace,

508
00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:22.039
all ways in sync. And then
I mean the applause is like off

509
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:27.639
the scale. And then they ditch
the drums and these sort of artisans of

510
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:32.679
tempo introduce stomping, whip crapping,
cracking, and notably, and I'll probably

511
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:39.039
mispronounce this, the bolyodorus. Now, the bolyodorus was a hunting tool used

512
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:45.880
by the Gout shows to bring down
animals. So on stage it consists of

513
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:51.079
a short cord with a weighted ball
on the end. Sometimes the ball deliberately

514
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:57.800
hits the ground and makes a strong
sound. But the exponents of these bolyard

515
00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:01.519
adurus hold two of them at a
time, which they rotate at lightning speed,

516
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:06.960
creating whirring sounds. Just magnificent to
watch. And that's a real highlight.

517
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:12.519
And the band electric violinist, drama
guitarist and squeeze box and ficionado,

518
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:16.079
they've got their time to shine as
well. All Malevo is jaw dropping and

519
00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:21.079
my hands became sore from clapping.
The outpouring of love in the room is

520
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:25.199
palpable. It's exuberance personified it.
This is sexy. It's seductive. Playing

521
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:30.119
at State Theater Art Center, Melbourne, tonights last opportunity to see Malevo.

522
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:36.880
So some pretty good shows doing the
rounds as we speak. Now I've gone

523
00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:38.960
blank. What took me through?
What we're next going to talk about?

524
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:44.000
Beta what have we not talked about
review wise, all of us strangers and

525
00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:47.880
Priscilla. Okay, so I'm just
going to quickly look at whether we've got

526
00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:52.639
an adequate timeframe. We have to
at least we'll go through one and if

527
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:58.320
we've got time for both, we
will do that. Okay. Elvis came

528
00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:02.840
out and it's it's been applauded as
a movie, and this is almost like

529
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.320
the other side of the equation,
isn't it? Because this is told from

530
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:13.599
the perspective of Priscilla Presley and she
was Originally I didn't know this. I

531
00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:16.800
didn't study at enough. Did you
know her maiden name before seeing Priscilla Peter

532
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:22.119
No? No, dude, by
you you did? You did? Nod?

533
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.920
And Jackie No, no, I
didn't, he didn't. Okay,

534
00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:29.599
So yeah, Priscilla Badie was only
fourteen when she met twenty four year old

535
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:34.039
Elvis at a party held in his
rent at home in Germany because it was

536
00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:37.719
there undertaking military service, and that
was where their mutual infatuation started. It's

537
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:42.320
also the starting point for this movie, which is written and directed by Sophia

538
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:45.880
Coppola based on the book Elvis and
Me by Priscilla Presley with Sandra Harmon,

539
00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:50.480
so you think about it. Elvis, at twenty four, was already at

540
00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:54.239
Bona Fide Star when he met Priscilla, whose father, who was a captain,

541
00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:59.559
had been deployed to the same base
where Elvis was stationed, and the

542
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:02.280
captain with him his wife and daughter. Now it was the man who booked

543
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:07.880
the music for Elvis that first approached
Priscilla Bayu to come to Elvis's house,

544
00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:14.719
because Elvis was keen to see hometown
girls because he was in Germany and being

545
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:19.400
in only the ninth grade. Baydu, while she was flattered, rightly said

546
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:22.400
that her parents wouldn't let her and
it took some convincing, but Elvis was

547
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:27.559
onto it, and yet more overtures
to Badio's father, who had to be

548
00:44:27.639 --> 00:44:31.880
convinced, and after more of those, Bayu started hanging out with Elvis regular

549
00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:37.320
and then Elvis's term of national service
finished, he was back into the music

550
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:42.679
scene, leaving Germany behind. Also
left in his wake was Baydiu, who

551
00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:45.760
he had promised to keep in touch
with, but that never happened. She'd

552
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:47.920
always given up on him. When
the phone rang, and it was Elvis

553
00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:52.119
who flew her back to the United
States for a visit, and it was

554
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.079
there that she was swept off her
feet at Graceland, his palatial home,

555
00:44:55.559 --> 00:45:00.760
and eventually Badi was allowed to finish
her high school in the United State while

556
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:06.599
her parents remained in Germany, on
the condition that she graduated. So Priscilla,

557
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:14.079
the movie presents the titular character as
besotted initially still she was also frequently

558
00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:19.840
abandoned by Elvis while he pursued his
singing career and also film appearances, and

559
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:24.360
he's shown as self consumed, domineering, dictatorial times, verbally abusive and angry,

560
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:30.159
and emotionally fragile. He's painted as
a pill popper and a womanizer who

561
00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:34.000
tells Priscilla what to wear, how
to look, while more often than not

562
00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:37.639
surrounded by his mates and staff.
So she puts up with a lot a

563
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:44.320
great deal waiting around being available,
is becon called not to overlook his flings.

564
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:49.039
Kaylie Spainey, I thought she did
a great job inhabiting the lead role

565
00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:53.679
dominant portrayal. She transitions Priscilla from
naive and vulnerable to having her eyes open,

566
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:59.400
becoming sad and disillusioned, and I
could really feel her pain. Jacob

567
00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:04.679
Alordie is the next big thing,
imbues Elvis with childlike qualities as well as

568
00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:08.800
a much harder edge. And as
Elvis's father, Vernon tim Post is largely

569
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:15.360
unsympathetic, Hary Cohan fares better as
Priscilla's well meaning father, Captain Baydu.

570
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:19.119
I thought it was only fitting to
get a perspective on the king from the

571
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:22.760
person who arguably was the closest to
him, namely Priscilla. And I did

572
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:25.880
like the warts and aw poorl Trayal
showing it was hardly a bit of roses

573
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:30.519
for her. And I mean,
Priscilla Presley, you know it's her take

574
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:35.119
cooleo softy. But I was really
still invested in the first half of Priscilla,

575
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:38.280
especially the love story ahead of the
inevitable downfall. And look, there's

576
00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:45.039
been suggestions of IZI a pedophile all
of that stuff, but I mean I

577
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.800
took it at face. Fadu I've
seen I think it was on sixty Minutes

578
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:57.599
where a number of people who he
basically dated said nothing untoward happened. It's

579
00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:00.519
just that I think most of us
would find it odd that it four year

580
00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:04.079
old chose so much interest in a
fourteen old. And look as the news

581
00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:07.519
Titans. Priscilla's shown living her life
in a gilded cage, while Elvis reinforces

582
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:14.920
the adage that all that glitters is
not gold. So Greek King Priscilla.

583
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:20.440
Yes, this has troubled me a
little bit. I remember Elvis the Baz

584
00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:22.960
Luhrman film, which is so much
more dynamic, gave us a bit more

585
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:29.280
insight into Elvis itself. This film, unfortunately, is not a very flashing

586
00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:37.400
portrait of Elvis, and you don't
get any sense of him as and entertainer

587
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:43.000
either because you don't see him seeing
or humor's share, so you really don't

588
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:46.559
get musure for a portrait of him. And apparently before she died, Lisa

589
00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:52.760
Maurii Presley spoke out about the film
and said it was unnecessary vindictiva Nazis,

590
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:55.280
so she wasn't a fan of what
they plan to do. But like most

591
00:47:55.280 --> 00:48:00.960
of Sophia Coppola's films, As George
is on the surface is what great cinematography,

592
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:07.280
costumes make up, all that set
design, production design are all fantastic,

593
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:10.760
but I found the film dramatically inert. There didn't do much for me

594
00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:16.320
there. I agree. Kayley Spainy
was good as Priscilla, there and Jacob

595
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:21.159
jacobell Orders, who was in Saltburn
and Golden Nat is also good here as

596
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:24.119
Elvis. There's no Elvis songs here
on the soundtrack. We never get the

597
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:30.480
scene before live. We're not getting
the since performer. Apparently the Presley Essay

598
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:32.800
refuse to let them have any access
to his music, which is a bit

599
00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:38.920
of a troubling starting point in your
making a film about an entertainer. But

600
00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:44.559
the suer lead performances were really good. But yeah, I just found it

601
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:49.760
an impression. Is the tape on
the material and the languor is pacing kept

602
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:53.000
me at an emotional distance. Yeah, I look, did you? Did

603
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:57.440
you not? I mean I like
the first half better than the second?

604
00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:00.199
Did you not at all? Greg? I mean, if you had to

605
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:02.400
divide it up a bit, probably
the first half a little bit better.

606
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:07.559
Yet the second half is just a
bit unrelinkingly bleak for me. Yeah,

607
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:10.760
Jackie, what about you? Yeah, not only bleak, but kind of

608
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:19.239
bland. I mean sure, Elvis
himself, we didn't see him in concert

609
00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.480
like we did in bas Luhman,
which was the real you know, power

610
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:29.440
show that was just so enjoyable and
but so but that's fine. Because this

611
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:32.079
was based on a different kind of
story, in fact, her story rather

612
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:37.639
than his story. She just wasn't
a really interesting person. She started off

613
00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:45.360
as a rather mousey, ordinary school
girl, and then you know, she

614
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:52.840
was like Elvis's pet, and I
just didn't find her very interesting with a

615
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:58.079
and I have trouble knowing where we
don't know if she was actually like that

616
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:01.639
or whether this is just a film
that's representing something that we weren't there.

617
00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:06.239
We weren't in the room, so
Pa Copola wasn't in the room. So

618
00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:12.000
it's just all really, you know, one person's story, and you know,

619
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.159
from one point of view, No, I didn't find it particularly interesting.

620
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:19.599
He's a bit of a It did
come across very strongly what an enigma

621
00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:22.599
he was, you know, this
deeply religious, you know, with this

622
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:28.559
platonic relationship and yet you know,
kind of passionate and saucy at the same

623
00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:32.000
time. And that was all kind
of a bit weird too. So and

624
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:37.239
as I thought the concerts that were
done in Las Vegas, showing that he

625
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:42.280
was on stage and you know,
sweeping the world, I agree, they

626
00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:45.880
just weren't very well done. Possibly
the best thing I liked were a few

627
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:50.400
of the little vignettes we saw along
the way that showed his character day how

628
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:53.320
he won over the nuns. And
you know, I was posing for photos

629
00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:57.920
with them and the nuns are all
giggling behind their hands. Little things like

630
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:00.880
that were kind of sweet, but
they don't make a film. Yeah,

631
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:06.440
Peter, I I okay, I'm
going to be quite different to everyone else

632
00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:09.639
because I quite liked the film Priscilla, and I need to make the point

633
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:14.719
very clear. This is not a
film about Elvis. It's a film about

634
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:21.440
Priscilla Presley, who executive produced the
film and gave advice to Sophia Coppola about

635
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:27.519
her own life story to put into
the film. So what Sophia has done,

636
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.239
and she's done this in her other
films like Somewhere, Version of Suicides,

637
00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:35.639
Lost in Translation, Blingering, and
The Underrated Beguiled, is to look

638
00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:42.519
at the loneliness and the treatment of
women in particular and of people who are

639
00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:47.639
thrown into situations and have to try
and cope. And what this film portrays

640
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:54.960
is how this teenage girl was forced
to grow up and to understand and to

641
00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:02.079
be part of this relationship but also
part of a family and part of an

642
00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:08.760
entertainer who was so controlling and wanted
her to behave in particular ways or be

643
00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:15.280
particular things. I think Katie Spanney
does a good job. I think maybe

644
00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:19.440
another actress could have done even better. I was thinking of Terry Mulligan actually

645
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:23.760
as I watching this film, and
Kaylie was in on the basis of sex,

646
00:52:23.800 --> 00:52:30.159
so she hasn't had too many major
roles. And Jacob Alordi as Presley

647
00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:37.480
is presented in a somewhat sketchy way, as should be the case because his

648
00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:43.480
domination and drugs and everything that's in
the film. It's really about her reaction

649
00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:46.679
and treatment by Elvis and the family. And yes, Greg, you're quite

650
00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:52.599
right. The estate refused to allow
Elvis Presley's songs to be used. But

651
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:55.559
what they've done is is to use
songs of the period, and I think

652
00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:05.159
they've used those quite effectively to illustrate
Priscilla's situation and her life story. Look,

653
00:53:05.199 --> 00:53:07.880
I really liked the film. I
think there's a lot to admire.

654
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:12.199
Yes, it's not overly melodramatic,
but I don't think it has to be.

655
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:16.079
I think it tells its story in
a quiet and effective way. And

656
00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:21.199
so what about you in terms of
first half versus and second half. Did

657
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:24.760
you think it was consistently appealing or
did you think the first half was more

658
00:53:24.760 --> 00:53:29.599
appealing than the second. Well,
first half was more about her innocence and

659
00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.079
getting to know the family and all
that. In the second half was the

660
00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:36.840
reality setting in, and so did
you cope with that? But did you

661
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:40.599
did you think there was more to
enjoy or what? I'm just curious as

662
00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:45.679
to whether you, like me,
divided the film somewhat in your mind while

663
00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:47.320
you were watching it. No,
I didn't divide it at all. I

664
00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:52.840
saw it as a journey which gradually
became more problematic, and so I didn't

665
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:57.000
see it as a first half second
half film. Okay, Well, I

666
00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:00.800
didn't think it was a bad film, So I think you and I will

667
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:04.519
probably give it much higher marks than
the other two. So let's start with

668
00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:08.400
Greek for Priscilla rateed M one hundred
and thirteen minutes five out of ten.

669
00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:13.679
Wow, okay, Jackie, Now
I was a six out of ten for

670
00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:16.960
me. Okay, Well, Peter, I think you and I I'm not

671
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:20.840
sure which one of us is going
to be high. I think I'm giving

672
00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:23.480
it a seven and a half.
I actually thought quite a lot of it,

673
00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:28.639
even though it wasn't as taken by
the second half. What about you.

674
00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:30.559
Yeah, I like the film too, and I gave it seven out

675
00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:32.960
of ten. There we go,
so I've given it the high mark.

676
00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:38.960
All right now, so we've gone
Priscilla, and we've got to now go

677
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:44.679
overall because our time is up.
So we are going to hold well,

678
00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:50.000
what's it called all a Lot of
the Strangers for next week. We'll talk

679
00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:52.320
about it then, Thank you very
much. I suggest that people go and

680
00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:57.000
see all of us strangers in the
meantime. Ah yeah, so I agree.

681
00:54:57.159 --> 00:55:00.840
So good, Yes, absolutely so
terrific. Thank you very much.

682
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:02.599
Folks. Be good to one another, be kind to one another. We'll

683
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