S02E19: Football Frenzy & Film Violence: AFLW's Rise and Cinema's Impact

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First on Film and Entertainment, and
hey listen, Gregory King and Peter Krauss,

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I'm not very entertained this week.
You're gonna ask me why why?

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Hey on, there was this dead
silence? Well what's this dead silence?

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When I give you prompts? You
know, like your actors, you've got

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to sort of fulfill your roles.
Thank you Gregory for asking me. Very

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kind of you gee, unprovoked and
so forth. Because there's no football,

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Greek, I'm so sad. I
mean what well, yep, yes there

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is. Sorry I should be because
people are going to ring in and abuse

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me. There's AFLW. I'm extremely
say, Alice, there's no football,

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don't oh gee, that's controversial.
No, I mean I'd like AFLW to

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be played as curtain raisers so that
basically those people who enjoy football can see

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both sides of the coet. I
mean, why not? Why don't we

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have AFLW matches before afl matches?
Can you explain that for me? Duh?

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Thank you? No. Well,
maybe that we've now got a new

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person, a thirty three year old
who's highly regarded whose surname is Kean,

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in charge of all these football operations. Maybe she can make this happen because

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I'm I'm a bit concerned that there
was some conversation the other day that the

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AFL W would be as popular as
the Matilda's. I think there's a long

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way to go, Greg, do
you not, given what was just seen,

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I think there's a long way to
go. I think Gazel is russ

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into putting eighteen teams up. They
slowly build it up, build up the

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few chiefs they had first getting through
a standard where it excites the crowds and

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people will turn up and be happy
to pay to turn up rather than what

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they have at the moment, which
she's short quarters load scores in some cases

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and mainly early family and friends turn
up. Although although on Friday night the

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reigning premiers did a good job ten
goals against Collingwood who kicked four, So

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you know, I mean, okay, it's not the scores that you get

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in AFL. The other thing is
that I'm not I mean, they did

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build it up because it took a
while for teams like Essendon to be in

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the competition. You're saying it could
have taken longer. The only issue for

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me, Yeah, the only issue
for me quite frankly, is the standard

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that is slowly increasing, but it's
going to take a long time to get

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to the level. I mean,
I really enjoy watching women's cricket. I

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also really enjoy watched I love watching
the Matilda's so they're and tennis as well.

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Women's tennis is fantastic. And female
swimmers, I mean, boy,

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our swimming team, the girls just
dominate. It's fantastic. And the girls

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dominate through the Barbie movie one of
the top twenty movies of all time.

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So you know, there's every reason
to believe that it can be built up.

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I just want the standards to continue
to increase, and the sooner that

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happens, the better. And I
think that's going to draw crowds, do

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you know, I think, Alex, I think that the success in Machilda

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would draw women girls towards playing Sultan. It will AFL. Yeah, I

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agree, and I mean there's a
threat there, quite frankly to AFL.

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Well if now, so, yeah, pull your fingers out, and it's

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great. The competition between sports is
healthy in my opinion. So that's one

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thing. The second thing is that
your team, in spite of the odds

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against it, sin Kilda has made
the finals. Now that is very exciting.

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Great, are you know how optimistic
are because nobody really expect you to

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go more than let's say, perhaps
one win in the finals. Well that's

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the life whally happened. Now we've
got our home final, but a stop

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played in our home ground. So
boos afl oh? Well, okay on,

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hang on, wait a second.
When I say nobody, of course

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and killed a supporters and there may
be a few few others. You're saying

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to me that everything's fair about the
draw and where games are played. I

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mean, come on, this is
just another example of the lack of incheduty

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in the competition. Say, hang
on, hang on. If you were

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the one who was seduling not just
the finals but throughout the year, clearly

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there are some blockbuster games. Unless
you play each team just once, that

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would be the early thing the COVID
years. Yes, yeah, yeah,

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But unless you did that and every
second year you'd play at the home ground

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of one of the two teams.
Unless you did that and you shorten the

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season or double the season, you're
not going to get the integrity through the

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year anyway, are you. And
well over three years and everyone plays each

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other three times over a course or
three years it season you do, you

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have your seven end games and you
start all over again in the other ground,

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right, just to roll, you're
on, how can that work out?

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Seventeen and then seven, it's twenty
four. Then you started gain the

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last the next ten and you'd go
again. Oh okay, somebody somebody on

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the line. Now hang on,
Peter Crouse, are you totally bamboozled?

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Are your mathematician? Are you following
what Gregory Ging is telling us? Not

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at all? And doing a crossword
puzzle while we're talking. No, Well,

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Greg, I wish you well anyway
next weekend. I hope it goes

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swimmingly for you and you've exceeded expectations. You've got to acknowledge that you're we

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played finals only two years you do
remember, I know, but your new

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old coach has done a really good
job, and not only business. Pardon

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me, he calls it unfinished business. Unfinished business, but but hang on,

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erwod grand finals when he was last
coaching, but we never won one,

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so we called your unfinished business.
Fair enough, But I mean he's

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not the only one. Bear in
mind, the GWS coach has done a

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marvelous job as well. So you
know, I suppose my question, without

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notice to you, is given the
standing of Alistair Clarkson and also Damian Hardwick.

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Where just this is really really early. Where do you think North Melbourne

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and the Gold Coast will finish next
year? And this is going to go

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to the memory day, So just
give me a prediction. Let's go with

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the North Melbourne what position after the
final next year and a half? No,

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no, give me it. Actually
I'll give you a prognostication. You

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give me one. I'm going to
say that they will finish thirteenth. What

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do you think North Melbourne? Okay? Right, Gold Coast pretty much the

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same? I think. So what
we're talking twelve thirteen? Yeah, really

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love the ladder again, Look game
in hard work, can't get can't get

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him up to a Grand Final within
five years? Gold coach make will fold.

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I'm going to say eights next year, I'll say eight. I think

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they've gotten the seam suddenly very optimistic. Yeah, I just I think they've

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got the I know that he said
eighty percent of the teams there, whether

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it's sixty percent or seventy or whatever
it might be. I think they've got

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the kernel of a really good side, and it's a question. I feel

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sorry for Stewart Duw, I really
do, because he's a good coach.

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But yeah, there's been a number
of good coaches that haven't been able to

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get the most out of them that
I'd like to think that they're on their

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way, hopefully not at Essendon's expense, because we finished the season as the

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worst performing side of any of the
eighteen, including West Coast and North Melbourne.

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To lose by how did ninety six
points of the US two games was

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appalling, Gregory, appalling. So
now I can only hope that Carlton gets

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knocked out, as you know my
love of Carlton. Carlton gets knocked out

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first round. That'd be nice,
wouldn't it. Hey, all much of

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Hugo Ellens, I just sorry.
I don't hate Carlton as much of you

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do. All this is about there
you go, Red a snack talking films.

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We can do that, Gregory,
we can we can do that for

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all it's worth. I want to
start with a general question. By the

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way, you are on Jare eighty
eight f M and you're listening to us

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talking about football. Now you're also
going to be listening to us talking about

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movies and some shows. I wanted
to ask both of you to start with

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you, Peter, in terms of
violence in society, translating to violence on

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screen, translating to violent video games, to bad behavior in the retail environment,

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in schools, at home. It's
been a discussion over many years.

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You then get movies like The Equalizer
three, which we're about to discuss,

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and many others Liam Neeson, revenge
thrillers and movies like that where we've got

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really fine actors Equalizer three, denz
Old Washington, Liam Neeson obviously we've just

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mentioned, and Bruce Willis in the
past, and many many other action heroes

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who are kicking, but they're stabbing, they're shooting, they're pulverizing, they're

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doing all of these things, and
it's being marketed as entertainment. And I

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enjoy the good guys getting their own
back, et cetera, et cetera.

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But I seriously wonder whether it translates
in the brain if you constantly see this

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sort of stuff, and the level
of violence, especially in The Equalizer three,

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is immense. Your thoughts well,
for me, I don't think there's

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a causable relationship there's no definitive study
that shows a relationship between viewing violence and

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committing violence. The questions of it
better, there's certainly suggestions now a minute,

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though, Look think all the way
back to Clockwork Orange, which which

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for example, was supposedly created all
of this mayhem and violence amongst young people,

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which was not the case. And
I mean violence has been in movies

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since the turn of the century,
with the Westerns and shootings and so on.

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So no, I don't think there
is any cause or relationship at all.

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So you don't want any sanitization like
we've got. We've obviously got equalization

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or trying to be equal with regards
to various races, various sexes, et

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cetera. So is this not just
one step further down that road kicking the

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can? No, I don't think
so. I think filmmakers are entitled to

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do what they think is best for
their film, And if there is violence

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in some members of the audience,
etc. It's because it's already been there

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in the first place, and the
film has not triggered it. What's illegitimate?

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And I asked that question, and
I'm deliberately being provid could be here,

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of course, But I asked that
question because is there anything for boating?

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So I'm thinking about Silo, for
example, which had graphic violence and

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also pedophilia, and that was banned
for many, many years in Australia.

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Is anything banable for what of a
better word? Is there anything that's off

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limits? Well, I would say
no, apart from maybe those snuff movies

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that were popular in the seventies amongst
some people and depicted actual violence on people.

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But I think most people know that
film is a creation. M that's

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interesting. But I can also act
as a trigger greet king and I just

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worry. I do worry. If
you're already unstable, you go in your

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mates at cajoling you to have a
bit of fun with something and it sets

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you off. Are you not concerned? I'm I agree with you sing that

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there's violence in the movies for long
dog. I now know nowadays it's a

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lot more he picked with, you
know, blind guts and body parts and

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everything. But violence has always been
the cinema. I don't think it actually

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treaders people. Peter said, you
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there in the back of mind sometimes, but I don't think there's any reason

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to band violence from the cinemas,
in the cinemas or anything like that.

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Only a couple other films I've been
banned in Australia, Kin Park, I

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know, yeah, and bas Moore, I remember that allocation about that one

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when the Loomier is showing and the
Fiddle police confiscated, and that well been

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making it piss Christ was as an
artwork that was very controversial as well.

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So look at the controversy and I
suppose art forms do go together. I

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wonder. Unfortunately Jackie Hamilton couldn't be
with us today, but maybe it's a

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conversation we'll have with her next time
that she's on, because I know that

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she's not somebody who likes unbridled violence, and yet she's got some thoughts that

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she's given us, which I'll share
later on The Equalizer three, so let's

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talk a little bit about it.
The Camorra is in the sights of this

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mysterious form of government operative called Robert
mccaull, and he's the character played by

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Denzel Washington. And the Equalizer three, by the ways, one hundred and

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nine minutes and it's rated m A. It's violent, and it's action field

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and it's the third and final film, obviously in a trilogy. When I

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say that good thing, you can
watch this one in isolation makes sense of

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it even if you haven't seen the
others, which is great. Antoine Fatwa

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is the one who's directing it.
He's worked on five Denzel Washington movies.

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I think there's another director who's worked
in with Denzel five times as well.

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I can't recall his name, does
any of you do? The two directors

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who worked with Denzel five times?
Anyway? The Antoine thank you very good?

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Indeed, first two Equalizer movies came
out in twenty fourteen eighteen, and

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writing all of them Richard wink Right. So you've got Richard Weaken Antoine Fuqua

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who have come together again. Now
let's go to the plot. You've got

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Robert McCall, a man whose life
has really been defined by violence, but

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he wants to put all of that
behind him. After finishing one really nasty

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job in Sicily, he leaves behind
quite a mess. There's bodies lying everywhere

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inside this great mansion, and yet
there's not a mark on his body.

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But upon exiting, he's badly wounded
from an unexpected source. Despite that,

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he drives away and he then collapses
while driving, and he's effectively saved by

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the quick actions of a police chief
called Georgio Georgio Bernucci, and Bernucci immediately

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transports him to well regarded and diplomatic
doctor Enzo Arissio, who knows not to

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ask too many questions recovery because this
is where he's heading to. Is this

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small picturesque seaside town on the Amalfi
Coast, which mccaull quickly takes a shine

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too, only it turns out to
be anything but peaceful. There's a Marfia

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shootout and a mafia offshoot is strong
arming the locals, including a fishmonger and

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the chief of police, who I've
already referenced, and as this violence escalates,

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tries he does, mccaull can't help
himself and therefore becomes this one man

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vigilante force. Same time, he
puts in an anonymous call to a young

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CIA analyst called Emma Collins played by
Dakota Fanny, and he tells her of

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this major drug importation ry, and
it isn't long before the CIA is in

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full operational mode and Emma is receiving
further guidance from mccaull, so that's the

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equalizer three. And Denzil Washington is
a very very fine actor in these sorts

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of movies. No question is his
usual polished, poised professional self, and

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he oozes menace, but he also
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frequently underestimated, somebody not to be
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demeanor, his can do attitude,
so he's confident, absolutely cocky. No

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most noteworthy is his piercing glare.
That single signals that he's watching and waiting

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to strike. So who were the
others? Well, Remo Corone, he

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presents as a decent and trustworthy medic. Eugdeo mass Strandrea is stoic but understandably

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shaken as the policeman in the firing
line with his horrified family watching Dakota Fanning

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will. She plays determined but wet
behind the ears as the quick on.

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She's quick on the uptake. She's
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from McCall. And then there's a
glint in the eyes of a cafe barista

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called Amina by Gaya Scardalao, who
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And there's brothers Marco and Vincent Kuranta. They're played by Andrea Didero and

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Andrea Scardoozio, and they run the
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mafia hit men. Their casts pure
evil. They relish, inflicting pain and

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anguish, and they are out to
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over this beautiful part of the Italian
coastline. So warning, warning, warning,

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A number of scenes in The Equalizer
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You may well want to look away
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landscape cinematography thereof Robert Richardson is the
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picture postcard Madurel. I was salivating
looking at this place, thinking I've got

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to see it. I've got to
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It was shot in a different place
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to see it. I really don't. I actually found the Equalizer three brutal

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but strangely compelling, to be honest, and I mean, just to give

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you some idea. And it's kind
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prompted you to talk about violence in
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as I say, Jackie normally doesn't
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the conversations I've had with her.
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But this is what she says about
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one of the most beautiful places in
the world, my guilty pleasure. I

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could watch Denzel just try tying shoelaces
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to gaze at. There you go. So she obviously found this to be

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quite compelling and doesn't even mention the
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Gregg? Your thoughts about the equal
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enjoyed he's up to a point there. I agree he's fairly violent there,

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and it's a different take on the
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the eighties CV series There here is
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is a fifth collaboration between the director
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Antoin Fookwa now she had have been
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him he often he often plays a
good guy, but this stretches seems to

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bring out the nasty in him as
well. There, but Kenjer Washington brings

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a sort of formidable combination of Mennace
world. We'reiness and even charmed for his

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role here, and I liked a
Jacagial Taxes of OCD, which adequirity touched

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in character as well. I agree
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but this story of someone standing up
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he goes back to the fifties and
all that with films like Bad Day at

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Black Rock and even Billy Jack in
the seventies, I think. But the

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script is quite good. Bye Robert
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Equalizer series as well, and agg
On Fooka is good at staging lean,

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mean and very violent action pieces.
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I thought her was quite well done
and any kind of Fanny. I'd always

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didn't recognize her here she's grubbed up
or what I agree with your Greg.

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I looked at her and I recognized
her generally, and I'm thinking, who

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is she? And it was only
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oh, yes, she's the one. There we go. So she's

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growing up with now very odd.
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Man on Fire as well. She
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I did note that, but she
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Peter? Look, I can't mind
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Gregor has already mentioned, part of
these revenge vigilante type films which go back

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films, etc. And of course
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the John Wick series of films,
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and mayhem approach is so important as
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to note how you have this beautiful
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of the film, which is staged
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of way. I thought, my
goodness, they are really looking at violence

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in an incredible way. Look.
The whole Mafia story, though, I

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found, was a bit tired and
a bit obvious, But nevertheless, it's

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a film of interest because it wraps
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especially in the way it concludes,
because if if people remember the first

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Equalizer film, the way this one
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going into any more detail than that. Look, but you can see it

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in isolation, and you're not gonna
You're not gonna lose a great deal.

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You can make sense of it.
Yes you can. You can, except

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maybe for the final scene with some
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may scratch their heads saying, now, how does that fit into this Mafia

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story? But nevertheless, it's it's
it's not a bad film. It's well

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shot, it's Denzel Washington is very
good as the slow Burn vigilante, and

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look, it works reasonably well as
a revenge film. But I just became

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a little tired of it by the
end because we've seen this sort of plot

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structure before. Yeah, but I
mean it could be you could argue it's

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for people who are storewarts, or
you could say it's a new generation,

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couldn't you. I mean, you
go back in terms of violent movies,

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as we've said generations. So Denzel
Washington is better than most in this sort

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of role, is he not?
Oh? Look he's very good. He

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does it very well, very controlled, very carefully acted sort of performance.

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I just get a little bit tired
of it, fair enough to all.

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Look, let's get some some sentiments. I'll start with a score out of

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ten for the equalizer. Three from
Jackie Hamilton in absentia, whether it absentia,

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no, absentia with a tea.
There we go, seven and a

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half out of ten from her.
I'm giving it a seven out of ten.

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Greg having out of I'd put your
two, So you'll be the low

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ball here, Peter, there you
go. I'm telling you there's an advance.

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What are you gonna give it?
Look, I gave it five out

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of til Please are hey? You've
just proceeded to say you didn't mind it,

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and you're giving it a beer pass. That's right. It's like getting

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it over there with a letter s. Leave what you're doing. No,

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folks, just you know, if
you're into this sort of thing, it's

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it's definitely you're saying it's a decidedly
average revenge plot. Is that what you're

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telling me is that? Is that
what you're trying to tell all of us

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decidedly average, That's what I'm saying
with the mafia plot and the tiredness of

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the of the story structure made me
give it to five, which is still

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a pass for me. That's pretty
good. Before you go on, Alex,

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do you know how I said this
is a different take on the character

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to Edward Woodward tie. Yeah,
remind me more of a series of books

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I'll be reading by a guy called
greed Hurwitz, called orphan ex or nowhere

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man about it, retired assassin who
does the same sort of thing, helping

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people out in trouble, and you
get into all these sort of violent situations

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in one stage changing on a Mexican
drum cart shell. It's lovely. So

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I would like to say that to
any interest us. Your moves as well,

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the same kind of thing. Yeah, And it will contin these things,

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whether it's this book was something else. This will continue until somebody basically

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pulls down the shutters and says you
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So I just yeah, anyway,
You're it's spring is sprung, Peter,

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right, it's beautiful days outside,
So you're saying people should be going outside

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and not going to the cinema too. That's basically what a five out of

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ten is, isn't it. They
should not have along and seeing Equalizer three

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because spring has sprung and you're better
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hundred and nine minutes. Correct.
No, I still say people go to

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the cinema, But we're going to
be talking about a film, which is

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quite a contrast. We are,
and we're not talking Haunted Mansion. But

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that's that's up next. So you
are on JF eighty eight FM listening to

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Peter fastigating film Thank You You're a
Castigator very night. Yeah, don't sue

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me. So Haunted Mansion. Feed
it out than twenty three minutes. Now,

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if you think about Disney, they've
got a pretty good track record of

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turning theme park attractions into cinematic success. I mean, Pirates of the Caribbean

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would be foremost amongst them, wouldn't
they better? You're into that thrill ride,

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are you? Oh? Absolutely,
especially when I'm playing my cleaver chord

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exactly right. But I don't know
how much that's taken, but it's biggeons

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at the box office. So you'd
be hard pressed to find a theme park

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attraction as popular as that in terms
of movie making. And now they're making

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another one of course, with that
with a man who you know, the

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Sparrow Jack Sparrow. So anyway,
you've got that Pirates of the Caribbean.

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Yeah, yeah, and then Jungle
Cruise as well as the other. The

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other one that comes to mind in
terms of a theme park attraction anything else

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from Morrowland was Tomorrowland, a movie
I can't remember it, yeah, with

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George Clooney. Yeah, ah,
yes, it was very good, very

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good, indeed. Okay, And
now comes Warted Mansion. So you've got

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Paris, the Caranbian, Jungle Cruise, Tomorrowland, Warnted Mansion, any others

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before we move on? No,
nothing you can think of. All right,

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here we have a widowed doctor from
New York his name, whose name

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is Gabby, Yeah, and Rosario
Dawson plays her and her nine year old

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son Travis, right, so,
who has trouble making friends. And basically

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they moved to New York, No
to New Orleans. No, New York.

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The word new got me. So
okay, they moved to New Orleans.

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And it's where Gabby's mother once actually
had a home, and they choose

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an unusually affordable, large historic place
just outside the city, and it's known

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as Gracie Manner grac E Why Within
moments, it's clear that the home is

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haunted, beset by a mix of
wild spirits, and some of them are

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playful and others are much more menacing, So Gabby decides to get out quick

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smart, but she and her son
soon realized that because they've actually set foot

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in the home, the apparations just
won't The apparitions rather just won't let them

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go, So they have to find
a way to exercise the demons, exorcize

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them, or at the very least
learned to deliver with them. Enter an

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unpriestly priest called Father Kent played by
Owen Wilson, who enlists the help of

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various so called experts to try to
rid Gracie Manner of unwanted guests. So

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Ben lakeif Stanfield is a former astrophysicist
grieving the death of his wife, who

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that Ben now leads ghost tours of
the city right of New Orleans. Bruce

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Davis played by Danny DeVito is a
university professor with a rather unfortunately bad ticker

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who's proficient in the haunted history of
the city. Harriet Tiffany Haddish is an

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opportunistic French Quarter medium. Great part
of the world. Have you been to

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the French Quarter, greg are YEA
great part of the world, very lively

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area, great for jazz, wonderful. The whole of New Orleans is great

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for jazz. Anyway, they have
got their work cut out for them.

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I'm talking about all of these people
that have introduced the father, the astrophysicist,

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the university professor, and the medium. It's been written by Katie Dippold

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with direction from Justin Simeon, and
Haunted Mansion is quite the wild ride that

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combines humor with horror and heart.
So all the atures there's a look.

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It's a pretty cheesy rong. If
we all go to be honest about it,

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it certainly isn't very scary. Although
some of the ghosts do leave their

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mark. Lakeithe Stanfield doesn't find job
as leading figure in the piece. Ben's

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life has well and truly deriiled since
his beloved wife passed away, and this

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call for help gives him a chance
to reconnect with the world which is really

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disconnected from and he basically is living
a hobo existence. Owen Wilson well as

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a hoot as the questionable spiritual advisor, bringing a real playful quality to his

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role. Danny de Vito and seen
him for a while brings frenzied glee to

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his representation of the academic, and
Tiffany adds while she introduces a level of

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indignance to her characterization of a psychic
trying to be taken seriously, there's a

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bit of warmth about Rosario Dawson as
a mother trying to protect her son,

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and also appreciate the facial expressions that
Chase W. Dylan imbues into the primary

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school teacher as student the son of
Rosario Dawson's character. There's also Jamie Lee

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Curtis. She plays an ancient psychic
trapped in a crystal ball. So,

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I mean she does this well,
you know, pops up in movies here

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or there. And I've got to
say that we've got a soft spot for

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Jamie Lee because we named our daughter
after her. There you go, all

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these years later, we can dips
our lid to Jamie Lee Curtis. So,

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Jamie, I've never Jamie Lee.
I've never actually said thank you.

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Now I can look. I can't
say that the film really sets the world

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on fire. It's it's seed,
it's fun. A tad over two hours

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is definitely stretched. It did not
need to be that long. But look

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for it, it's worth considering for
a younger audience that it's it's clearly aimed

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at a younger audience, and a
few laughs here and there even for the

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oldie more older audience. But yeah, I thought it was in Peter's terms

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average, But my average is a
bit better than your average, Peter.

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So what about your thoughts about Haunted
me? Look, I didn't mind Haunted

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five? Is it a five?
Peter? Do we go the other way

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around? Here? You? I
didn't mind it. Here we go the

401
00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:03.680
letters leep is out again, we're
harving the letters leaps right, Yes,

402
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.079
I didn't mind it? Well,
isn't? Can you put it in alternate

403
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.720
terms? Is there any other sort
of negativity that you can throw on this

404
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.000
mooking that you can pour cold water
on before you're even day anything? Further?

405
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:19.279
We should call today's show the salad
show. I think we just let

406
00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:26.559
us leave everywhere. But anyway,
look, considering that the film is based

407
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.519
on a ride, which in itself
is not necessarily the best instigator of a

408
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:36.119
storyline for a film. I didn't
we everywhere. Well, did you like

409
00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:40.920
the original Pirates of the Caribbean.
It was okay to a point. I

410
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:47.119
didn't mind it. Oh golly,
okay, So sorry Disney, they're on.

411
00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:52.440
They're on voice style straight away for
me. Sorry, mister mus or

412
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:59.759
they Disney, A notable critic in
Australia doesn't want you to ever make a

413
00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:04.200
move of you again which starts with
a theme park attraction. Please, and

414
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:10.359
he will be forever grateful, Yours, sincerely, Ellie. A remake of

415
00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:15.599
a film based on a theme park
rod, pardon regreg this is even worse.

416
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:19.799
It's a remake of a film,
so hang on, is it barely

417
00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:23.759
possible please to then, given what
Greek's just told us, Well, it

418
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:30.160
is possible because there is a fair
bit of humor injected into the film,

419
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:35.960
which I did appreciate. I thought
Owen Wilson's character and some of the lines

420
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:42.000
in the film were quite amusing.
I also like the nod to Ghostbusters with

421
00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:46.079
the all of those ghosts haunting this
house. I thought enough already, but

422
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:52.920
actually they were quite amusing. At
times, and look, I thought the

423
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:55.640
film was okay to a point because
it is meant to appeal to a younger

424
00:32:55.680 --> 00:33:00.839
audience. It does have that sort
of heartwarming aspect to it by the time

425
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:05.599
we get to the resolution, and
the actors are very good. I thought

426
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:09.359
it was a really good collection of
actors. And Jamie Leo, I agree

427
00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:15.880
with you, was excellent in her
role in this film, and the other

428
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:22.039
actors as well. So look,
it's not a bad time passer for a

429
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:28.880
reasonable family audience, younger audience.
I just wish Disney would start to make

430
00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:34.359
films that are a bit more provocative
and a bit more original. But overall

431
00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:42.079
I just didn't mind Haunted Mansion.
Oh sorry, speed Dial Disney, our

432
00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:46.839
prominent Australian reviewer doesn't think you're pushing
the envelope enough if you're playing it safe,

433
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:52.720
and wants you to be far more
creative. That's that's it, Yours,

434
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:59.960
sincerely again, Alex correct Peter absolutely
I unsigned that that petition very goods.

435
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:05.000
We'll build up thousands of names and
no chime. Fabulous. Greg,

436
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:07.239
did you think anything more of Haunted
Mansion? I thought, let's of it

437
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:10.840
and pretty one. I think,
okay, we've got failed coming up?

438
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:16.320
Then you're you're both teachers? Are
you in particular? Greg? I think,

439
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:20.119
Peter? What do you do in
schools? Again? What's your role?

440
00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:24.440
And a career's counselor? Right?
So don't work moving out of control?

441
00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:28.719
So don't work for Disney because they're
too conservative? Is this what you

442
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:35.039
tell your kids? I first have
to try and get an interview, are

443
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:38.199
well, I've got speed dials,
so you can use me for that if

444
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:43.239
you like. There you go,
Joe Fred Gregg, tell me what you

445
00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:45.559
didn't like about it? Will you
keep Disney on speech? Old? There?

446
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:49.119
This is how I happened my review
of it, Disney seemed to be

447
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:52.800
lacking in creativity at the moment.
They're all they seem to produce a live

448
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:57.280
actual remakes of their animated classics,
endless sequels and spinoffs are some of their

449
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:01.159
successful franchises and films based on their
scene in park Ride, there a rather

450
00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:06.360
cynical remakes of a film based on
a squickly seeing park ride with this socio

451
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:10.519
remake of said the old boarded Mansion. Don't read the whole review, talkanic,

452
00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:14.679
let's me I started my review.
Thanks, It's all down hill from

453
00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:17.920
New year, that's very good.
It is there anything positive you could say

454
00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:22.119
about it? Look, I thought, I will water and body usual boofy

455
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:28.559
style to the performance there. I
thought some of the special effects are a

456
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:34.119
little bit sulky and under par I
thought the Tiffany Haddish characters should have been

457
00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:37.119
more like will Be Goldberg's character in
Ghosts. I thought that would have bought

458
00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:40.880
a bit more energy to it.
I thought the subplot in which the piece

459
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:46.719
Stanfield's characters tries to form a connection
with Gabby's young son miss Board a bit

460
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:51.559
of emotional heft and material. But
I thought this film was a bit of

461
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:55.119
a misfight, but wasn't sure what
audience aimed for because it's not horror enough

462
00:35:55.159 --> 00:36:00.079
for horror fans, and because it's
a family I entered they've toned down a

463
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:05.880
lot of it there, but some
of the stuff might be a bit too

464
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:08.360
darker over thehead for younger kids there. And as I said, it's a

465
00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:12.719
bit too long Killer. I thought
it ran too long and ran out of

466
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.719
puff roll before the climax, and
the special effects I thought were a little

467
00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:21.679
bit underwhelming. And Peter referenced Ghostbusters. You even see why that sort of

468
00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:24.400
references. Yeah, because Katie Jippole
wrote the female centered version of Ghostbusters.

469
00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:28.880
Yeah, which was not the movie
that Ghostbusters was, was it? No?

470
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:34.000
No, I didn't like it much. Yeah, no, clear clearly

471
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.760
not unfortunately, So okay, So
well, I suppose we'll start with you

472
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:42.440
then for a score for Ordered Mansion
PG raided one hundred and twenty three minutes.

473
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:45.440
Are you passing it or failing it? Me? I'm gonna do it

474
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:50.679
four in June file f Red red
marks everywhere. There's going to be lots

475
00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:54.280
of people crying into their bickies,
right, pardon me? Take that?

476
00:36:54.519 --> 00:37:00.840
Usually shoo wow, kapel and only
we're going back to Batman days on the

477
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:05.599
screen. What what other invective do
we put on the screen? Greek?

478
00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:10.760
Apart from Kapal, wham? Are
you bam? Socket? Very good?

479
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:16.840
Okay? So Mail Batman? Nice? Nice, Peter, what would you

480
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:20.440
like to are you're going to give
it at least to five, aren't you?

481
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:24.239
Well? A bit of a surprise
for me is that I, although

482
00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:29.960
I acknowledge a lot of what Greek
said, I thought this was an okay

483
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:32.159
sort of film, and I gave
it six out of ten. It's not

484
00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:37.920
Will wonders never cease. So are
you swing? Are you gradually sort of

485
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:40.360
get the fact that it's three in
the morning? Now? It's very good,

486
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.519
very good into it, So I'm
giving it a six as well.

487
00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:46.840
There we go, and Jackie didn't
see this one or I haven't got a

488
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.280
comment from her, so we're gonna
have to leave it at that point.

489
00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:52.079
Now we are going to go to
a movie that I'm sure all of us

490
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:58.840
will have liked a lot more.
And you are on JF eighty eight FM

491
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.719
intelligent programming apart from this show no
for twenty four hours a day. Is

492
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:06.039
that right, Petter, Yes,
that's good. It's very good. Yet,

493
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:07.199
So look, folks, if you
want to support us, I mean,

494
00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:12.199
you know, basically, you can
become a subscriber. That's nice.

495
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:15.920
I think it's fifty four bucks a
year. That's fifty four I haven't checked

496
00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.320
lately. I believe it's fifty four
bucks a year. And you support community

497
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:24.239
radio and all of the good staff
and the music that the station programs.

498
00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:30.159
It relies upon communal support. So
please, if you are able to keep

499
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:34.159
us going, that would be very
very nice, and we can keep talking

500
00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:38.039
the nonsense that we do. Let's
talk about past lives. Now, what

501
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:44.599
were you in a formal life?
You are obviously football coach, Peter absolutely,

502
00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:46.320
or maybe I was just a wet
salad. Yeah, maybe you were

503
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:51.360
a wet salad. You could have
been you could have been Caesar, or

504
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:55.519
you could have been bone Aparte,
any of those historic characters. Do you

505
00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:59.960
think you know maybe somewhere, well
mind, you could have been you could

506
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:06.400
You're You're influenced heavily by German cinema. So who in Germany could you have

507
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:09.920
been? What? What? What
sort of hero in Germany? Who would

508
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:14.960
you have liked to have been a
past live? Girt Girta are very good

509
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:19.159
because of the institute. Okay,
now, Greg, I'll ask you the

510
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:24.440
question. You've got various interests like
you're you're you're a very prolific reader.

511
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:30.480
So would you have liked to have
been an author of some renown in a

512
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:35.760
past life? Could have been?
Yes, you're writing adventure stories like fal

513
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:39.559
Dickens or if you Wells or someone
like that. Would George barn What what

514
00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:45.599
about the evocation that you get in
Joseph Conrad, who who writes stories about

515
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:47.360
the ocean, which makes up two
thirds of the planet. I mean it

516
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.639
was a it was a fiery writer
as well. So yeah, I'm sushi

517
00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:58.400
he a schwelleted Yeah, so okay, I'm not trying to delve too deeply

518
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:01.039
into it your personal life. Do
you believe in reincarnation? Do you believe

519
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:06.760
that we have had past lives?
Greet Possibly? No, No, Peter

520
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:14.320
not not sure that the jury is
out. I mean, the Buddhist philosophy

521
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:16.280
is not a bad one. Right, there we go, there we go,

522
00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:20.760
all right. Past Lives is m
rate. It runs for hunder than

523
00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:23.760
six minutes. And they were high
achieving twelve year old friends in their native

524
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:29.039
South Korea, and then one left
with her family for a new life in

525
00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:32.920
North America. Past Lives is the
story of the ties between this pair,

526
00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.559
the two twelve year olds who are
growing up in different parts of the world

527
00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:44.599
now Norah played by Moons Young are
as a child and Grettily as an adult,

528
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:51.960
which is the English name that this
young lady took. Norah and hay

529
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:58.920
Song Sun g hay Song lem Sung
Min as a child and t O U

530
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:05.239
as an ad. They're the two
characters, Norah and hay Song, and

531
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:08.159
they forged a strong bond in South
Korea, and who knows what could have

532
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:13.199
been if they had remained there,
But as it was, she did not.

533
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:17.519
She aspired to achieve world acclaim.
She became a playwright e an engineer.

534
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:22.039
Neither forgot about each other, but
they moved on with their lives.

535
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:25.920
He Sung tried to find her,
So the male tried to find the female,

536
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.199
but that wasn't easy because she had
anglicized her name. As I mentioned,

537
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:36.639
then after twelve years had come and
gone, reached out to her through

538
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:43.679
her father's Facebook page. And the
father of Norah is or was and was

539
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:45.840
still a filmmaker. Now I've got
to ask at this point, why did

540
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:50.000
he wait for twelve years but there
you go to go onto the Facebook page?

541
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:52.199
Or was there in a eureka moment? Maybe one of you can answer

542
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.679
that. Can you any interview as
to why twelve years gone by? Was

543
00:41:55.679 --> 00:42:01.199
that just a filming plot? I
think it all was a plot, but

544
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:07.360
it was also about the two of
them wanting to leave separate lives as understand,

545
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.000
so it was a device anyway.
Once they reconnected, they disconnected again

546
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:16.760
for another twelve years before meeting face
to face another device. Peter indeed,

547
00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:22.119
possibly possibly all right, also in
the picture is another person of significance in

548
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:24.280
Nora's life. And I'm very very
careful about not saying too much here,

549
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:28.519
so Greg and Peter beat cognizant of
that. I'm sure you aren't. That

550
00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:32.039
other person's Arthur, played by John
Magara. So it Past Lives. Is

551
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:37.199
this really sensitive and moving story of
possibility, the essence of which is choosing

552
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:43.960
one life means leaving behind another.
Although honestly, as a twelve year old,

553
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:45.960
if your parents are deciding to move, you're hardly like to stay behind.

554
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:49.880
So I'm not sure how much of
a choice it was. But Selene's

555
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:54.320
songs cinematic deboo makes a really strong
statement. It's reflective of her own life.

556
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:58.119
I mean, one night a few
years ago, she found herself sitting

557
00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:00.039
at a bar. This is not
just a war story. She was sitting

558
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:04.000
at a bar, sandwiched between a
couple of men from different parts of a

559
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:08.559
life, and playing both translator and
middleman. She felt she was piercing through

560
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:15.559
alternate dimensions. Both men loved her
in different languages and cultures. So let's

561
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:19.000
talk a little bit about her,
because, as I say, this is

562
00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:22.920
her first movie, she's a mainstay
as a playwright in New York theater.

563
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:27.039
So look at the creation of the
character that she's created here in Nora,

564
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:31.840
who happens to be somebody who's a
playwright right close to real life. Yeah,

565
00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:36.960
so why wouldn't you write about what
you know about, especially if it's

566
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:40.920
such a remarkable story. And so
there you have it, the inspiration for

567
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.719
her first screenplay, which I daresay
won't be her last, because this is

568
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:51.400
already getting early. Oscar Bus Pasties
is really well realized. It's a slow

569
00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:55.639
moving drama romance, and it asks
questions, it really does, about happenstance

570
00:43:55.719 --> 00:44:00.760
and what was meant to be?
It queries whether the person you know as

571
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:06.039
a child is still the same person
as an adult. And the undoubted star

572
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:09.679
of the piece is Grette Lee.
She's so natural in her realization of Norah,

573
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:15.119
no airs, no graces, no
pretense, authenticity. That's what makes

574
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:22.519
her so compelling. Tu more reserved
in his characterization of Hey Sung. John

575
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:29.679
Magaro also walks in Noura's shadow as
a fellow writer. Song is really careful

576
00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:32.039
to take her time in revealing the
full picture. At times, I would

577
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:37.000
have liked the pace to have been
slightly quickened, but I also appreciated the

578
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:42.400
originality that she brought to bear in
making this movie. It looked and felt

579
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.559
real, it never deviated from this
ideal. I give it great credit,

580
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:52.920
and I'm really looking forward to Selene's
Song's next movie already, because this is

581
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:59.159
a very fine piece of movie making, is it not, Peter Absolutely,

582
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:05.280
In fact, I've on this film
absolutely mesmerizing throughout. Such a beautifully controlled

583
00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:15.960
story which is partly autobiographical, but
the characters involved and their origin story so

584
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:21.920
to speak, when they with their
childhood friends, and how that evolves over

585
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:29.000
time in terms of their own career
trajectories, their own other relationships, or

586
00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:34.559
other aspects of their lives as they
grow up in sort of twelve year intervals.

587
00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:40.880
I thought this was such a beautifully
written and directed film, beautifully paced.

588
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:45.679
I thought the pacing was absolutely superb. It was just right for the

589
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:53.360
characters, for the emotional development of
these people without being melodramatic. It was

590
00:45:53.440 --> 00:46:00.119
just such a fascinating story, and
the way it sort of concludes was just

591
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:06.360
again absolutely spot on for me.
Absolutely loved this film. It's already gone

592
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.360
on my list as one of the
best films of the year. Delightful.

593
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:15.239
So we've turned tails from oh I
didn't mind it too, ecstatic fabulous.

594
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:19.880
We would like to end the right
frame of mind, Greg, are you

595
00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:22.679
going to be extolling the virtues of
this movie as much as Peter? Not

596
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:25.840
yet? People haven't seen it yet. Well, then then you can just

597
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:29.960
imagine, right, Yeah, you
know Last Life. You can imagine again,

598
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.840
you're not. I'm then going to
rely upon Jackie Hamilton, who has

599
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:39.000
seen this one, and she says
it was utterly engaging, exquisitely crafted,

600
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:45.400
emotionally intelligent, finally tuned and acted
so finally to interacted. So she and

601
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:49.880
she she drew me a heart.
I don't think she drew me your heart,

602
00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:52.280
but she drew the film heart and
colored it in. So there we

603
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:58.519
go. I look, I'm going
to go it's I'm not going to be

604
00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:01.559
as high in my prey is as
you are. I really liked it,

605
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:05.320
but I'm going to give it a
seven and a half to an eight out

606
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.480
of ten. This has past lives
and both Jackie and you Peter will be

607
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:12.679
giving it much higher marks. So
this is rated M one hundred and six

608
00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:15.880
minutes. Now. Jackie's giving it
a nine out of ten. And I

609
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:20.000
suspect you will be giving it a
similar mark at least, will you not

610
00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:22.679
pet This, as I said,
is one of the best films of the

611
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:27.639
year, and it's one of my
ten out of ten films. Wow,

612
00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:30.400
one of your ten. I've had
one ten out of ten film and I

613
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:34.760
think about twenty years you've had how
many? It's like hot dinners for you?

614
00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:38.320
Is it Peter and salad on top
and selling it? Well? Well,

615
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:40.960
of course he would salad. That's
what today has been all about.

616
00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:45.960
It is. No, I probably
have about three or four ten out of

617
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.880
ten films each year. Have we
had any of them this year? I

618
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.679
don't have we had any? Did
you open him? I can't remember.

619
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:57.159
No, you didn't give ten to
I think I gave it at nine.

620
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:00.679
Yeah, exactly. So you haven't
had any ten films this year yet.

621
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:05.079
I have to go few to my
list, and I don't you have to

622
00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:07.039
review your reviews? Do you?
Very nice? Do? And I have

623
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:09.960
to look at my list, and
I know that there's a few films coming

624
00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:15.400
up which may well be at the
top of the list as well. Well.

625
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:17.159
Teasers. Go on, give us
one that you might think we'll get

626
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:22.159
get there for you? But from
Matt. Mattin Scorsese's new film looks absolutely

627
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:28.599
fascinating in terms of the trailer killers
of the Autumn Moon or whatever it's called.

628
00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:30.400
Oh yes, yes, yes,
it does excellent. All right,

629
00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:36.760
Well that is it for film.
I'm going to talk about Mullane the music

630
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:39.719
car quite the spectacle, Peter,
have you no? Not? But you

631
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:43.400
you don't see anything like this,
do you? What about you? Greeg

632
00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:46.320
Have you seen it in its previous
iteration at the region theater? I haven't

633
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:49.800
seen it at the Regions? He
didn't know. And what are you talking

634
00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:52.840
about that? I want an email
this week saying that Tina that when who's

635
00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:55.960
coming your mobile? Mist your health? Yeah? I got that. Well,

636
00:48:57.079 --> 00:48:59.039
but it's late. It's much later
in the year. We're going to

637
00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:01.320
wait about a year, don't we
before we see it. But it's great,

638
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:05.960
still a big and one way you
enjoyed it, so I'm pleased you

639
00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:08.559
mentioned it. Look Out the Tina
Turn Up is a musical? Is it

640
00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:14.960
called Tina? I think without the
turn Up? I think anyway we can

641
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:20.360
we can. I can verify that
it's called Tina the Tina Turn Up Musical.

642
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:24.320
Now this one, well, where's
the musical. It is a liquefying.

643
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:29.639
It's energy on steroids, and it
really triumphs in you because it was

644
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:32.519
here just over a year about a
year ago, isn't it? I think

645
00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:36.519
we when I last saw it.
I can't remember the exact time frame.

646
00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:39.559
But it's a rolled gold winner.
It keeps on delivering. The staging,

647
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:45.880
the costuming and the lighting, the
music, the sound, the choreography are

648
00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:52.519
magnificent, fight or inspiring, and
the performed metaphorically lift the roof off.

649
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:54.480
One of the world's great theaters,
the Region. Now you've been at the

650
00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:58.440
Region, haven't you Greek in the
past? Yeah? I have? It

651
00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:01.960
is isn't it fabulous that I can't
think of a theater I enjoy going to

652
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:07.000
more? And the space between seats
is brilliant, isn't it? M M,

653
00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:12.519
No, you don't remember? Yeah? Okay? Are you? Are?

654
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:15.840
You? Have you borrowed Peters?
Let us leave you? Yeah?

655
00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:21.719
I'm recycling. Yeah, very good. Okay. The chorus numbers in mul

656
00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:23.800
rous. The music will just build. They build, and they build and

657
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:28.280
time and again. The audience is
whipped into this frenzy. Right. The

658
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:31.719
acclamation is instant, it's heartfelt,
it's enduring as song after so. I

659
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:37.800
mean, you've got more than seventy
songs from one hundred and sixty songwriters representing

660
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:40.639
over one hundred and sixty years of
music. The word wow comes to mind.

661
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:45.559
They're mashed together in two hours and
fifteen minutes of prolific entertainment, and

662
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:52.440
look, the impact of this is
just extraordinary. The excitement is palpable.

663
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.920
A showcase of hit after Gloria's hit, so you often get one line and

664
00:50:55.960 --> 00:51:00.000
then a line of a different song. It's amazing. Mularu the musical ten

665
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:07.440
time Tony Award winning jukebox musical based
on the two thousand one Basloman movie with

666
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:13.159
added songs. Anyway. It concerns
the problematic, tumultuous love affair between a

667
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:16.639
young, penniless singer songwriter and a
show girl, and it's set at the

668
00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:21.519
turn of the twentieth century. There's
an American called Christian played by Dez Flannigan,

669
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:27.199
just arrived in Parilli and head straight
for montmart and he chances upon a

670
00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:31.639
couple of artists to loose the treat
played by Bert Labond and Santiago Ryan Gonzalez.

671
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:37.320
They are part of the Boemian movement. And they're looking to compose a

672
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:42.800
new play with songs, but they're
having litle troubled with the lyrics. And

673
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:45.239
that's where Christian helps them out and
in return, they encourage him to visit

674
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:51.800
the mulal Rouge Cabaret, birthplace of
the modern can Can. They would like

675
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:58.280
the impresario Harold Zeigler Zeidler with a
d played by Simon Burke, to stage

676
00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:04.400
their show at the venue they're employers
for Christian to sweet talk leading ladies Setine

677
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:08.920
are Lint to Chidsey, who is
a former quarter zan into convincing Zidlert to

678
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:13.960
do just that, to play their
show. Only what they don't realize is

679
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:17.039
that Zidler is in serious debt and
the club is on the cusp of closing.

680
00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:22.800
So to that end, Zidler hopes
to call upon wealthy but arrogant the

681
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:28.719
Duke James Bryars to bail them out. To bail the club out so that

682
00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:34.519
they continue to thrive or survive and
then thrive. Zidler, who is using

683
00:52:34.599 --> 00:52:37.239
Settin as bait. He's the moment
they see for both Christian and the Duke

684
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:43.239
are smitten. Only the Duke wants
Setine all to himself and he's used to

685
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:49.239
get in his way or else.
Dad. There you go. That is

686
00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:53.480
the Mulla Mula rue the musical.
Having said all of that, a lint

687
00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:59.039
to Chidsey dazzles in the league,
a torn at times forlorn figure who shines

688
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:02.159
like a arkling diamond, which is
a line in the film The Moment and

689
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:07.000
the movie and also in the show
The Moment. She's lowered onto the stage

690
00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:12.360
because she comes she comes from a
bar. Dad's Flannagan wears his heart on

691
00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:15.280
his sleeve. That's the only way
to do it. Very very good as

692
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:21.199
the I mean, it's really a
bold, persistent and love struck pursuer.

693
00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:27.559
James Bryce is imposing and menacing.
Simon Burke all about affectations, brings swagger

694
00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:30.719
to the wool Roo's mover and shaker, and I was really taken by the

695
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:35.159
nuances in character the Bert Labonte brought
to to loose the Trek. He was

696
00:53:35.199 --> 00:53:39.559
a standout for me Ryan Gonzale as
a show stopper alongside no nonsense performer Ninny

697
00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:44.239
Samantha donomide As. The pair hit
it out of the park at the start

698
00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:47.480
of Act two, and the staging
set changes are prolific, they're seamless,

699
00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:52.400
Red and black predominate, goes,
I've idy downs, but really it's a

700
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:57.880
cavalcade at color and movement. Costume
me to die for, choreography, hypnotizing

701
00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:00.840
as good as you can get,
Irick, just urge you to see what

702
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:06.519
is a really dynamic production, leaves
everything on the stage, masterful, playing

703
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:09.760
at the Regent Theater until the end
of this year, end of twenty twenty

704
00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:15.320
three. That is Molan Rouge the
Musical at a Regent Theater. And that's

705
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:20.000
it for the day. Thank you
Peter, thank you Gregory, and for

706
00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:23.800
your sake, Greg Gardner Saints.
Is that right? Mm hmmm, See

707
00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:27.320
you next week, folks, be
well catch a later