Pulp Fiction / Weller Antique

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In 1994 director, Quentin,
Tarantino and star Samuel L

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Jackson gave the world an
explosive film that shines and

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it's introspective moments in
2019, Buffalo Trace gives us a

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whiskey that refuses to stay on
store shelves.

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The film is Pulp Fiction, the
whiskey is Weller antique and

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we'll review them both.
This is the film and whiskey

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podcast.
Welcome to the film and whiskey

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podcast, where each week, we
review a classic movie and a

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glass of whiskey.
I'm Bob book, I'm Reggie and

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this week, we are looking at the
1994 Classic Bob.

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Do you know what year it is?
Right now.

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It's 2019.
Your the means we're celebrating

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the 25th anniversary of bull
fiction.

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Last week, we looked at The Lion
King and this week, we are

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making a hard left turn and to
Tarantino, they'll but children,

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you can leave this episode.
Yeah, right now.

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Well, first of all children
while you're listening to an

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episode about whiskey, but both
of these movies are celebrating

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their 25th anniversary.
And both of these movies, have a

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tie to the current box office,
right?

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So last thing we talked about
The Lion King, there's a new

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Lion King coming out this week.
Quentin Tarantino is premiering

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his new movie Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood.

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So we figured what better time
to get in.

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The Wayback machine.
Yeah.

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And look at Pulp Fiction, you
know, this reminds me of what's

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that?
When we watch that terrible

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movie, what was it called?
Oh, yeah.

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Goodfellas.
Oh, that one.

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And it kind of how Joe Pesci was
in, Goodfellas in 1990 and also

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in Home Alone in 1990.
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And I'm kind of like we went
from Lion King in 1994, Temple

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fiction, in 1990, feel like Pulp
Fiction is just if scar.

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Could have really been himself,
he would have been in Pulp

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Fiction, who would have been all
of them every character in Pulp

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Fiction.
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All right, before we get into
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Alright, let's get into talking

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about this movie.
We already gone off away.

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Is so I kind of Pulp Fiction,
Pulp Fiction 1994 directed by

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Quentin Tarantino.
This was his second feature

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length movie that he directed.
If you've, this is gonna be a

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fun exercise.
Yeah, you've never heard of

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Quentin Tarantino.
If somebody came to you and said

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Robert, I've never heard of
Quentin, Tarantino describe him

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to me in three words, describe,
his movies to me?

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What three words would you
choose can be consecutive into a

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statement?
Or, you know, just three random

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words, he nerdy.
Immature genius.

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I think I think with Tarantino
it's like I've seen Tarantino

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type movies done badly and I
know that one that's really

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popular would be Boondock.
Saints.the Boondock Saints to

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me, feels like a Tarantino type.
Rip off where the the

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screenwriter and director didn't
understand how to actually make

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a good movie.
Tarantino, he does dumb stuff he

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does, he is immature ridiculous,
ridiculous stuff, but he also

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knows how to craft a fantastic
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And I think that's what we have
here with politics and not just

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not just a fantastic movie.
But a fantastic story.

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Absolutely, which really drives
you through the movie and we've

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done a Tarantino film before.
Yeah, we've done Inglourious

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Basterds.
I was one of our first films

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that we granted and now we're
coming to what many would say.

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At the very least it's quite
interesting is most well-known

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absolutely if not his best film.
Yeah, for sure.

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I mean, this is the one that is
on the American Film.

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Institute's, top 100 movies of
all time.

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This is Tarantino's Master made
it to the top.

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Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I don't think, you know, Brad

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and I grew up in the Dies.
But this movie, obviously came

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out at a time.
Where we could not see it,

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right?
We were born in 1990 on the dot.

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It is impossible to overstate
how much of an impact this movie

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had on Cinema in the 1990s.
This movie came out.

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It was an independent movie,
Tarantino burst on the scene

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after Reservoir Dogs.
And this was his follow-up and

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it changed everything about how
movies were made.

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How movies were viewed?
How people wrote In the 1990s

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and Cinema ever since?
And my boys, Samuel Jackson was

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in it.
What?

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Get to talking about Samuel L
Jackson.

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But Brad, I've got some
important questions for you.

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Have you ever seen the movie
Pulp Fiction prior to this

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watch?
I feel like I remember at one

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point I had seen part of it, but
I hadn't seen all of it before.

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Okay.
So this was your first time that

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you remember, sitting down and
watching the whole thing.

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We three in one sitting.
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And even any even beyond that,
this is one of those movies we

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talked about this was singing in
the rain.

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Yeah, there's like YouTube
clips.

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Yeah, you movie.
You've seen bits and pieces for

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certain pieces of it but I'd
only seen like maybe the first

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half of the movie.
So, yeah, I get that.

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So this movie, it came out, 94,
John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson,

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Uma Thurman, and Bruce Willis
are the stars of this movie, it

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11, Oscar for original
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It was nominated for six, others
Define the category, original

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screenplay.
So original screenplay means a

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screenplay, that's not based on
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So I put it in a daze, he
Shakespeare, right?

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Exactly.
And adaptation of a book and

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adaptation of a play, those
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screenplay.
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author came up with on on his or
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non-existent before.
It was written.

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This is a completely random
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What would you do with a remake
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Like, The Lion King, it would
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screenplay.
The line doesn't, would be even

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if they're writing a whole new
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off of something pre-existing.
Okay, yeah, so it won the Oscar

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for best original screenplay.
It was nominated for six more

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John Travolta for best actor.
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Uma Thurman is supporting
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It was also nominated for best
editing best director and best

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picture.
Lost out on all of those.

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I think editing.
I don't know what one editing

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that year, but the editing on
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sharp and just smooth.
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So I thought yeah so I think
it's time that we get into our

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favorite segments around here.
Brad explains.

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Can we rename the segment like
Brad clumsily explains?

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Yeah, I think our listeners
already know that you're going

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to clumsily.
Explain it Brad but thanks Bobby

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so Perfection, so, Pulp Fiction,
if you haven't seen it, Before,

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and I'm just gonna blanket
statement right now.

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This is another one of those
movies that is, to use the only

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word to describe as gratuitous.
Hmm, it's a gratuitous movie.

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It indulges itself, if you're
going to watch it, know that

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lots of bad things happen,
honestly, I think one of my

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favorite Parts about the movie
is the opening scene when you

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know, it's black and then the
definition of the word pulp

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comes onto the screen.
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And it starts with like
basically a mushy smushy

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substance is the first
definition.

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And the second definition is a
novel or literature that is

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written on crappy material about
crappy subjects.

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Right.
Right.

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That's pretty much what it's
about like CD type character.

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Yeah.
So, the essence was that Pulp

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Fiction was, would you say in
the 50s?

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60s 70s.
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And before that too, and even
sure that they would be these

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little, like, paperback, novels,
like thing about the Beatles,

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you know, paperback Rider.
Yeah, that they would write

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these little like, crappy
paperback novels that were

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printed on crappy material.
And they're just kind of seedy

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stories about crappy people.
And if I had to wrap up my

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summary, that would be it.
Yeah, but more fully there is a

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Crime Boss named Marsellus
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And he has to kind of goons that
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Who rough people up.
They take care of the things

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that you would imagine.
Mobsters have to take care of

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and the film is separated into
three different stories story.

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Yes.
Yeah.

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And I think that's the thing
about Pope stories is that you

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would buy one book of Pope
stories, Pulp Fiction, and it

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would usually have three or
four, completely different

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stories that had possibly
nothing to do with each other or

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maybe one character that would
go from the one of the next kind

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of an anthology.
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Yeah.
And that's what the movie is.

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An anthology of three stories.
It's about these two hit men who

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work for their boss.
Marsellus Wallace.

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It's hard to sum up this movie
has a lot going on.

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Yeah, Vincent Vega played By
John Travolta.

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He does a hit in the first part,
he takes marcellus's wife out on

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a date, that's not a date.
He's just shown her a good time

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in the second half and then the
third half, he's nothing and

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Samuel Jackson quotes, the Bible
and kills people.

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So I'm gonna jump into Brad
explains here because I think

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you're right.
Like, there are three distinct

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Stories being told and sometimes
characters from one story what

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kind of filter in and out of
another story.

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And one thing that Tarantino did
is he told All stories out of

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chronological order for the
most, the biggest impact.

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So, the last story in the movie,
actually, probably happens close

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to the beginning of the
chronological story, right?

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But I think it might be more
helpful to talk about the fact

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that all of the stories in this
movie, I think come down to what

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the characters are offered at
the end of the story.

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And I think that all three of
these stories are about

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characters who do really seedy
stuff, finding a Saving Grace.

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And if you look at each Each one
of these three stories, that's

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kind of where the narrative
goes.

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You have a setup, that's
familiar to you.

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So like the The Hitman taking
out his boss's wife for dinner,

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then you have that super
familiar, super familiar.

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Yeah, then you have something
that comes in complicates it

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that Tarantino throws in that
you would never expect and what

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Tarantino's doing is, he is
trying to get you off balance,

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like he's trying to throw a
curveball at you that you've

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never seen before.
And so in that first story where

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John Travolta takes Uma Thurman
out for dinner, it's she

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accidentally overdoses.
Heroin while in his company and

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he has to rescue.
This guy's wife or face certain

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death, right?
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with the boss Marcellus and they
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where John Travolta kind of
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night and that's the end of it
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big conflict is is John Travolta
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bosses.
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redemption for both characters.
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forever to get there.
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this and then glorious bastards
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wants to to stretch that rubber
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to the point where you think it
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further, right?
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this movie and each, you know,
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you're just always on the edge
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Absolutely funny thing by Europe
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I mean, they got the same shit
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They got.
Here was just just there's a

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little different example.
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Well you can walk into a movie
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beer and I don't mean just like
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I'm talking about a glass of
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McDonald's.
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quarter pounder with cheese?
A little color quarter pounder

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with cheese?
Get the metric system, what are

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they called?
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The Big Mac Big Mac Big Mac, but
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the time, telling a movie out of
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movie kind of gets held up a lot
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because of the fact that it just
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It doesn't care about any of
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came out and said, listen, part
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understand movies, you're
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is about Bruce Willis as a boxer
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the boxing, He body and soul,
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in that story, turn a corner and
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Deliverance.
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Deliverance, it's a movie where
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by, you know, people that live
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second movie.
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sitting, there is no viewer.
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Deliverance, I was in a boxing
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Like I said, is to keep you off
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that you've never seen too
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but I think that every single
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movie, it works 100%.
I would like for you to take an

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Instagram pole.
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heard of body and soul or
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It was, it's a really famous
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He didn't go to film school.
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He's a nerd like he Watched
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hundred times.
And that's how he got his whole

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knowledge of how to make a
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I was watching movies called
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And deliverance and thinking I

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should match these up and go
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films, he has such a unique
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just so unique in the way that
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I never thought of it before
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interestingly that he can pull

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it off.
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they can't either.
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this movie, is, looking at how
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Tarantino kind of has a prologue
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Like, I think about the second
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Willis, there's this random
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And I want to get to that later
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scenes in the whole movie.
But the first story has a

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prologue with them killing the
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has a prologue with Christopher
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The third story has a prologue,
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whole movie at the beginning.
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ours and we, and we thought that
Inception Was A New Concept,

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right?
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brilliant and it's set up that
each of these stories are put in

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their place to have the maximum
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One of the most interesting
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Act of the movie was that you
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dead.
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So, that's like, so interesting.
It's been 25 years.

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We can spoil everything about
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character Vincent.
He gets killed by Bruce Willis

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in the second story.
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basically a jump back in time to
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about how this movie was made,
and it's really unpopular to

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talk about this human being now,
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Harvey Weinstein at Miramax
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When Harvey Weinstein, was given
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movie.
He took it on the airplane with

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him and Aren T know being
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This script was like 150 pages
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or whatever.
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reading the script and he calls
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the movie or his lawyer, whoever
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And he goes, what is this movie?
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character halfway through and
the guy just said, just keep

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reading.
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to the end of the movie, he
called from the airplane and

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said, we have to make this movie
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you're exactly right.
I mean, they kill the main

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character.
Halfway through the movie.

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So, the thing is, there's a lot
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movie, but I would like, would
it be okay to say Samuel Jackson

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and John Travolta, are the main
character, probably call them,

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the leads of the movie for,
like, Bruce Willis is almost

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there because he's the main in
the Second Story, right?

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But when you look at the book
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it's Samuel and John Travolta.
Yeah, I would say, John

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Travolta.
Probably is the main character.

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If y'all main, if you were gonna
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Oscars, they put John Travolta
up as best actor, and they put

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Samuel.
Loud as best supporting actor,

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but you told me that that's
because they don't want them

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competing for the same thing,
but sometimes they do.

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I mean, so it's really depends
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main character.
I would say the fact that the

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movie finishes with Samuel L
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I would say he's the main 100%
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important character for sure.
Okay, so but I do want to say

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this, like the Second Story, the
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Yeah.
It's all about this gold watch

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that would result in what.
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It's called the gold watch and
for Whole life.

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Bruce Willis has had this prized
possession of a gold watch that

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his dad war in Vietnam and we'll
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yeah.
He wore in a certain place and

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it's been passed down for
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Willis is this fighter who was
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doesn't, and before he can leave
town, he finds out that his

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girlfriend forgot to grab his
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Watch off the Batman Fabian.
Come on, Fabian.

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So he has to go back and get his
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ensue.
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Madison and against bad things
in Sioux really bad things, bad

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things they could just send the
top caganer bad things.

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Insist second, Quentin,
Tarantino directs a movie called

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battling bad things and 6.
So this second story is always

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kind of held up as the part
where the movie sags, and I

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think it's because it's
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This is the middle of the movie,
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I have to say, I think the
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people give it credit for.
When you said, the words sags I

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was Yeah, I think that it's
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It's like a slow burn because
there's more action, people get

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shot and stuff in the other
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Samuel Jackson is quoting the
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But when you really take a step
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anthology, I think each one of
these chapters, if you want to

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call them that work perfectly on
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What do I favorite camera shots
from the movie was in the second

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chapter when Bruce Willis gets
out of the car he's going back

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to his apartment to get.
Yeah the gold watch and the

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camera follows him through.
Ooh a set of apartment buildings

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through.
Yeah, you killed in he's kind of

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check it out his own apartment
buildings at first you think

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like man he just parked in front
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He's an idiot, right?
But that single following camera

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shot as he goes through the
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It's beautiful, it's so good.
Great shot.

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Yeah, maybe this is a good time
to talk about this because I

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feel like our podcast today is
just all over the place but

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that's because this movie has
this weird sort of episodic feel

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to it.
So maybe we should just jump

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into talking about our favorite
scenes in the movie.

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Yeah.
And the funny thing is I wrote

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down like seven or eight Scenes
and they just basically span the

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whole movie because the whole
movie is just a great scene.

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Yeah, you got the prologue with
Jackson and Travolta where

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Samuel Jackson eats a
cheeseburger and shoots a guy

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and quotes the Bible.
You read the Bible.

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Well, there's this passage.
I got memorized Ezekiel 25:17.

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The path of the righteous man is
beset on all sides by the

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inequities of the selfish and
the tyranny of evil.

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Men blessed, is he who in the
name of Charity, and Good Will

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Shepherds the weak through the
valley of darkness for he is

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truly his brother's keeper and
the finder of lost children and

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I will strike down upon thee
with great Vengeance and Furious

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anger.
Are those who attempt to poison

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and destroy my brothers and you
will know my name is the Lord

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when I lay my vengeance upon
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It's fantastic.
That's probably the most

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well-known scene of the movie.
I would think so.

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Well that there might be one
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that.
And that would be the second one

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I wrote down, which is the dance
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And Uma Thurman has become an
iconic moment.

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Yeah, you're probably, you got
you basically got fat, John

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Travolta, you know, who was in a
total career slump at this

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point?
I mean they did not want to hire

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him and Tarantino was like this
movie doesn't get made of I

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can't hire John Travolta, really
this movie complete career

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turnaround, for John Travolta.
That's really it.

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You've got this iconic character
of the 70s from Saturday Night

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Fever and grease getting on the
screen and dancing again.

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Yeah, it doesn't get better than
that.

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But one of the key scenes in
this movie, it's in the first

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story, where Mia Wallace played
by Uma Thurman has overdosed,

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and John Travolta has to plunge
a needle through her breastplate

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and into her heart to restart
her heart.

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Yeah, it was at the New York
Film Festival, and they started

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screaming this movie and it got
to the scene with the needle and

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someone fainted in the audience.
And they had to Down the aisles

450
00:22:11,100 --> 00:22:14,100
and find a doctor to revive this
person because the scene was so

451
00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:17,300
intense that someone passed out.
Hey, and Weinstein actually came

452
00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:19,700
out afterwards and said, I was
afraid people thought that that

453
00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:22,200
would have been one of my
publicity stunts but it really

454
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,800
happened because it was so
intense for.

455
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,100
So I'm not going to lie for me
that scene.

456
00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:30,500
Almost felt like it was a little
bit forced.

457
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,700
Interesting, how so like, for me
that seen the rest of the movie

458
00:22:34,700 --> 00:22:37,500
really felt smooth and it felt
like that scene.

459
00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:40,200
They were trying to force, not
not a laugh.

460
00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:41,800
Laughs.
That wasn't my favorite scene in

461
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,100
the movie.
One of the things I love about

462
00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:45,700
that scene is that they can find
ways to get humor into it.

463
00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:48,100
Even as you are on the edge of
your seat, John Travolta's,

464
00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:51,300
arguing with his drug dealer, he
takes Puma Thurman to the house

465
00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:53,500
of his drug dealer to try to
revive her because he knows, he

466
00:22:53,508 --> 00:22:55,900
can't take her to a hospital and
they're bickering back and

467
00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:57,400
forth.
While Uma Thurman is just like

468
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,200
laying there on her front lawn,
you know, I think it is.

469
00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:02,100
I didn't like the performance of
the drug dealer.

470
00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:04,300
Interesting.
He just kind of struck me as

471
00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:06,000
this.
Oh man.

472
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,400
I don't know.
There's something about the drug

473
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,000
dealers just kind of like fake
to me, huh?

474
00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:12,900
Does Feel sincere.
So that actor is Eric Stoltz, he

475
00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:15,700
was pretty famous actor in the
80s and Tarantino kind of gave

476
00:23:15,700 --> 00:23:18,000
him a couple parts that he could
pick from.

477
00:23:18,100 --> 00:23:21,500
In this movement he picked that
part was one of the other parts.

478
00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:24,300
The part Jimmy actually played
by Tarantino.

479
00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:25,800
Yes.
That was the other part that he

480
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,500
gave him an option to take.
I could see Eric Stoltz playing

481
00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:32,000
that role as well playing
Tarantino's part in the third

482
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:32,700
story.
Yes.

483
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,100
Interesting.
I'm glad you picked that up

484
00:23:34,108 --> 00:23:35,800
because that was the other
option that he gave him.

485
00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:38,900
Yeah, I could totally see him
doing that role as well, and I

486
00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:40,200
think he would have been better
in that.

487
00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:41,700
A troll.
Okay, I don't know.

488
00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:45,200
There's something about this
role that just felt fake and

489
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,700
forced to me and granted.
It's a minor role in the movie.

490
00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:49,500
That's all you ruined.
The movie, or anything.

491
00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:51,800
Yeah.
And he did fine in the role.

492
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,000
I just didn't care for it.
And so, maybe that's the reason

493
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000
why I didn't care for that seem
quite as me.

494
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,600
Yeah.
One of the things that you don't

495
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,600
really notice as you watch this
movie is how big and expansive,

496
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,600
it really is.
And I realized it when I was

497
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,500
watching that scene, with Bruce
Willis, that you were referring

498
00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:08,500
to a minute ago, as he was
walking through rows of

499
00:24:08,508 --> 00:24:11,500
apartment buildings that You
watch each story.

500
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,300
It's so immersive that you kind
of forget about the other

501
00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:17,400
characters in The Other Stories,
which I love I love that too.

502
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,700
And you don't realize Tarantino
movie made this movie on.

503
00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:23,300
I think like an eight million
dollar budget, and it has so

504
00:24:23,300 --> 00:24:26,900
many characters, So many actors,
so many extras, it's essentially

505
00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:30,600
like an Epic film being told on
this really small independent

506
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,000
movie, budget and scale that you
don't quite realize how big it

507
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,100
is at times.
That's eight million dollars.

508
00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:40,100
Yeah.
Includes paying Samuel Jackson.

509
00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:41,800
Everyone took a pay cut for this
movie.

510
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,100
Yeah.
And some of the bigger actors

511
00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:46,000
took a percentage of the profits
but no one knew was going to be

512
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,000
as huge of a cultural phenomenon
as it was, they just wanted to

513
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,900
really work with this new
up-and-coming director.

514
00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:54,400
So was this a cult hit or did it
truly make millions of the box,

515
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,200
so it made a ton of money at the
box office.

516
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,900
So Tarantino made this movie,
Reservoir Dogs in 1992.

517
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,400
It went to the con film festival
and he was in demand from that

518
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,800
point on and he'd already been
developing Pulp Fiction.

519
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,800
So they gave him a way, bigger
budget for Pulp Fiction even

520
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,200
though it seems paltry, right,
right.

521
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:11,800
He went off and made Pulp
Fiction.

522
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,400
I don't know, man.
Eight million dollars does not

523
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,400
seem poultry to me.
Well, that's me.

524
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,200
I wish I didn't know.
Yeah, Zach now, he makes Pulp

525
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,100
Fiction.
They sell it on the power of

526
00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:22,200
people like, Bruce Willis, who
is one of the biggest movie

527
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,000
stars in the world.
At that point, it goes to the

528
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,900
con film festival and it wins
the big prize which is called

529
00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:28,900
the Palm D'Or.
The Golden Palm explain

530
00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:30,600
confident just in a few words.
Yeah.

531
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,100
So it's this Film Festival is
held held in France.

532
00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:35,200
It's considered like the most
prestigious Film Festival.

533
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,700
It's also the one where the most
critics go and in France like at

534
00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:41,800
the con Film Festival.
People will like, Boo your movie

535
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,600
during the movie if they don't
like it.

536
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,200
It's just this crazy atmosphere,
huh?

537
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,000
So this movie wins essentially
best picture the Golden Palm and

538
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,400
from there it takes off.
Weinstein, does his thing he

539
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,300
pressures Academy voters?
He does everything supposed to

540
00:25:56,300 --> 00:25:57,500
do.
This movie gets nominated for

541
00:25:57,500 --> 00:25:59,300
best picture.
So wine, seems good at

542
00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:00,500
pressuring people.
Yeah.

543
00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:01,700
Right.
Who would have thunk?

544
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,700
But it blows up at the box
office, I think it makes like,

545
00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,000
cumulatively like 200 something
million dollars.

546
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,900
Yeah, so like I said, Brad, this
movie is a cultural.

547
00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:13,400
None man.
I just looking at 90s culture

548
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,000
that's amazing to me that just
recognize culture hadn't fully

549
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,100
let go of its 50 like we want to
be like the 50's and wholesome.

550
00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:23,300
Well this movie shook that out
of the 90, that's what I'm

551
00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:24,400
saying.
That's the thing is we talk

552
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,000
about 90s culture and in a way
Pulp Fiction is 90s culture,

553
00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:31,100
like we're still in the earlier
part of the 90s, we're getting

554
00:26:31,100 --> 00:26:33,800
into the mid-90s now, but I feel
like the the decade hadn't,

555
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,400
really defined itself and then
Pulp Fiction comes out and from

556
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,300
this point on everything we look
back on culturally in in As

557
00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:43,700
media and TV in movies, it is
because of Pulp Fiction.

558
00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:46,700
And I don't necessarily want to
use the word raunchy.

559
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,900
Well, what you had was you came
out off of the 1980s and if you

560
00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:52,400
remember like action movies of
the 80s, they were like

561
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,700
larger-than-life.
It was Terminator it.

562
00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:55,100
Well.
Yeah.

563
00:26:55,100 --> 00:26:57,500
And and all the other ones that
Schwarzenegger made after that

564
00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:02,200
Commando and Predator you had
Sylvester Stallone, making tons

565
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,200
and tons of gratuitously violent
movies.

566
00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:07,900
And here you have this guy
Tarantino who he has a

567
00:27:07,908 --> 00:27:10,100
gratuitous violence but then he
also has two characters.

568
00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:13,100
In a car talking about what they
call a quarter pounder with

569
00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:16,400
cheese in Paris.
And he really shifts the

570
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,100
Paradigm of what it means to
make an R-rated movie and it's

571
00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:22,400
all about dialogue.
I never thought about that

572
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,200
before.
But when you compare it to the

573
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:29,600
gratuitous films of the 80s,
Tarantino is light years ahead

574
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,600
of what they were doing.
I mean, he takes film to a whole

575
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,200
new level of and that's, that's
the problem.

576
00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:41,300
And the genius of of Tarantino
is, is Is he just an idiot?

577
00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:43,700
That makes gratuitously gross
movies.

578
00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:45,400
Or is he a genius?
Yeah.

579
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,100
That understands the human
psyche and the human soul in

580
00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:51,200
ways that most people don't ya.
Here's the crazy thing about

581
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,800
this movie.
I've probably seen it.

582
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,400
I do 15 times.
I love this movie, Brad.

583
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,700
You really like this movie, too,
and we're like a half hour into

584
00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:01,000
this podcast now, and I feel
like we haven't even really

585
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,300
gotten our minds around how to
talk about it.

586
00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:05,400
How to start talking about?
We haven't talked about any of

587
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,300
the performances.
Yeah, we haven't talked to any

588
00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:09,500
analysis of this movie.
We're just getting our initial

589
00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:11,600
thoughts out there.
Are and we're already at the

590
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,900
time where we need to take a
break.

591
00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:14,500
It's time for us to try some
with.

592
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:18,100
I need some whiskey right now.
So Brad.

593
00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:20,700
What do you say that?
We try Weller antique, let's do

594
00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:28,400
it, man.
Alright, so today we're talking

595
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,400
about Weller antique now, we
have tried Weller Special

596
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,200
Reserve, which was Weller's,
green label, a couple weeks ago

597
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,700
and we're continuing our summer
of bourbon.

598
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,800
We're in week summer of bourbon,
we're in week 5 of The Summer of

599
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,100
bourbon.
So there's one more to follow

600
00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:44,800
this.
Bob I'm sad.

601
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,100
I know right?
I love, but I promised when we

602
00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:49,400
tried Weller Special Reserve
that I would bring well or

603
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,600
antique Weller.
Antique full disclosure.

604
00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:54,800
This might be my favorite
bourbon really?

605
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,000
It's a thirty dollar bourbon.
Well I think it smells like

606
00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:59,700
Crap.
Bob if you can find it at retail

607
00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:04,100
it is a steal, it's $30 in the
state of Ohio and I got it for

608
00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:06,800
$30, good job.
But this is one of the two

609
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,200
Weller's that you mix to make
what they call Poor Man's Pappy.

610
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,200
You know what?
Dude, the more we've done this

611
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,300
podcast and warm like, what's so
stinkin special about pain.

612
00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:19,700
That's the thing is that people
who have had Pappy and who know,

613
00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:25,400
Pappy, pre the bourbon boom say,
well, our antique might be

614
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,000
better than Pappy and If you can
get it for $30, please do.

615
00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:31,200
But if you go, you know, in
other states people are marking

616
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,600
this up till like 2:00 bottle.
It's insane.

617
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,200
But this this what we're
drinking today 200 $200.

618
00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:41,100
So while our antique comes from
Buffalo Trace Distillery, it is

619
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,300
violet 107 proof so it's a
little bit higher proof.

620
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,100
That's one of the highest proofs
we've drank.

621
00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:49,100
Yeah, so there's no age
statement on it.

622
00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:51,300
We know that that means it has
to be at least 4 years old.

623
00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:53,300
The youngest in the blend has to
be for.

624
00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:54,800
Right.
Most people guess that this is

625
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,700
closer to, like, a six-year-old
blend.

626
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,000
Brad, what are you picking up on
the nose of this one?

627
00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:05,000
You know, this is given me very
fresh notes and I don't want to

628
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,600
say bright bright side,
different word.

629
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,200
It's it feels very refreshing to
me.

630
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,000
Yeah.
Like like a glass of cold water

631
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,400
on a hot day.
I don't know.

632
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,000
Yeah, it definitely is a little
bit brighter, a little bit more

633
00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:21,500
fruity smelling than the Special
Reserve that we had.

634
00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:23,800
And now we have been letting
this mellow in our glasses for a

635
00:30:23,808 --> 00:30:25,700
couple of minutes.
So we might, we may have missed

636
00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:28,100
some of those initial smells
That you get with the bourbon of

637
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:32,400
a vanilla, you know, the oak,
the brown sugar, the maple Death

638
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,300
and All for sure.
But we go ahead and score this

639
00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:36,600
out though.
Before we give it a sip.

640
00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:37,900
What would you get on the nose?
Brad?

641
00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:41,600
This is one of the most Pleasant
Bourbons, I've smelled.

642
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,500
I'm gonna give it an eight, an
eight on the nose.

643
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:45,000
Like that's pretty high, but I
like it.

644
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000
Absolutely, I'm going to go
ahead and give it a seven on the

645
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,200
nose.
It's not unpleasant, as Brad

646
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:50,900
said, but it's also not doing a
ton for me.

647
00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:52,500
And I think part of that is
because we've been letting it

648
00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:55,500
sit for a couple minutes.
I'm super excited to taste it.

649
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:56,900
Why don't we give it a taste
Brad?

650
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,300
Yeah.
I think that there's certain

651
00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:07,700
notes of vanilla that that hit
through in ways that I haven't

652
00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:09,000
seen with other Bourbons.
Yeah.

653
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,900
What I love about this bourbon
is that it is a perfect

654
00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:17,100
encapsulation for me of
everything I want people to

655
00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:19,200
understand about bourbon.
There's a little bit of smoke,

656
00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:22,700
but for me, I've said this
before, I love sweet bourbons.

657
00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:24,700
And this is a sweet, sweet
bourbon.

658
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,700
So Plato, the philosopher had
these ideas of the ideal, the

659
00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:36,600
ideal Yeah, which essentially an
ideal was the perfect version of

660
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,300
what you would find on Earth.
Yeah so this would be your

661
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:43,300
platonic ideal look I'm not
saying this is a perfect

662
00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:44,900
bourbon.
What I'll say is this but is it

663
00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:46,800
close as it could come to on
Earth?

664
00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:51,200
No, no, no, here's what I'll say
about it, it just, it has

665
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,600
everything.
It checks all the boxes that you

666
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,400
want to introduce someone to
whiskey or to Bourbon with,

667
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,000
that's got a little bit of a
like, an interesting like Briny

668
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,400
flavor to me.
There's a little bit of that,

669
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,300
like, so, All teenis but
overwhelmingly sweet.

670
00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:05,800
It's 107 proof.
So you get an alcohol burn.

671
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,700
It's got some spice to it.
The Finish is Pleasant, it's not

672
00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:10,600
bitter.
It goes down, smooth.

673
00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,800
It gives you that Kentucky hug.
It literally, for me, it checks

674
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,300
every box.
If you were going to come to my

675
00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:17,800
house and say what Suburban, I
would say.

676
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,700
Here's some Weller antique, huh?
I would agree with you on

677
00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:22,800
everything.
You just said it has nice

678
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,600
qualities in all of it.
Yeah.

679
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,800
But in a sense and don't crucify
me for this is a jack of all

680
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:30,800
trades.
Master of none.

681
00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:33,500
Yeah, I get that.
There is a sense of this, as an

682
00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:34,900
every man's bourbon.
Yep.

683
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,800
And I guess, honestly, like you
said, it's a thirty dollar

684
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,300
bourbon, right?
So, it's not trying to be

685
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,900
over-the-top at anything, but
it's good at all of it.

686
00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:43,900
Yeah.
All right.

687
00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:47,300
So Brad, what would you score
this on the taste on The Taste?

688
00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:50,700
I'm gonna give it a seven.
It doesn't quite live up to the

689
00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:54,500
hype of the nose for me, okay?
But it's still, it's still in a

690
00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:56,900
above.
Average isn't quite good enough

691
00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:00,300
of a statement.
Yeah, above above average.

692
00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,400
It's Good.
Kind of like it's good ancient

693
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,400
age.
I had another adjective.

694
00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,100
I'm chipping my hand here.
I'm giving this a nine and a

695
00:33:06,108 --> 00:33:09,100
half on taste.
Wow, I love this bourbon.

696
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,200
This is everything I want in a
bourbon that's really high.

697
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,000
Five told you man.
I love sweet.

698
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,600
Bourbons, this is a sweet High
proof bourbon.

699
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,400
That isn't aggressive?
Yes, not harsh.

700
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,000
Yeah.
It doesn't punch in the face.

701
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,200
Like a lot of the ride.
Yeah, I mean if I asked you to

702
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,400
guess if this was what the proof
was on this would you have

703
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,500
guessed this 107 roof above
night?

704
00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:30,700
Like a 94?
Yeah nine.

705
00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:32,100
Six.
Yeah, something like that.

706
00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:34,300
And it's rare to get something
that's over. 100 proof.

707
00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:37,500
That doesn't give you that sort
of like tongue punching

708
00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:40,300
aggressiveness.
All right.

709
00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:43,100
So, Brad gave it a 7.
I gave it a 9 and a half finish.

710
00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:47,400
What do you think?
The Finish is smooth that and I

711
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,200
say that in a good way and a bad
way.

712
00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:53,600
Like, there's not a, there's not
a ton going on on the Finish but

713
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,800
that's a good thing.
It moves from The Taste down the

714
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,800
palate.
Yeah, down the throat and it

715
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,400
doesn't punch you in any way.
Bueno.

716
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,100
Hit you hard.
Little bit of smoke.

717
00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:05,300
Yeah, I would probably give it a
seven and a half on the finish.

718
00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:09,500
I'm over here, like kissing the
bottle as Brad says, I love Bob

719
00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:11,199
attorney was real Italian.
I am.

720
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,300
I'm like blowing kisses and wow,
I'm gonna get an eight and a

721
00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:15,900
half, it doesn't have a perfect
finish.

722
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,699
But for what it is, I mean, it's
just great.

723
00:34:18,699 --> 00:34:20,000
Brad.
What would you score it at

724
00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:23,400
Finish wise, I would probably
say about an eight at eight.

725
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,199
It's a nice smooth finish.
You would expect from a bourbon.

726
00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:30,300
Yep.
Overall balance I'm gonna give

727
00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:34,199
it an 8 as well and eight.
Yeah, it moves from nose to

728
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,800
taste to the Finish really
smoothly.

729
00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:39,500
If I had to use one word to
describe this, it's smooth.

730
00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:41,800
Yeah, smooth.
The only thing that I'm going to

731
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,500
knock it for on the balance is
that I didn't find the nose to

732
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:48,300
be really compelling and it may
have just been the glass.

733
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:50,600
I was using and Brad and I are
actually using different glasses

734
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,000
for this tasting and we swapped
glasses halfway through.

735
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,699
It changes things Brad.
Your glass has a little bit more

736
00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:59,300
like a fluted thing going on and
and the nose was fantastic on

737
00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:01,000
yours.
But the place was completely

738
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:01,700
different.
Yeah.

739
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,300
So I'm going to go ahead and say
on overall balance, I'm going to

740
00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:08,300
give it an eight and a half,
it's still incredibly

741
00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:09,600
well-balanced.
I would have liked a little bit

742
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:13,500
more out of that nose.
And so that brings us to our

743
00:35:13,508 --> 00:35:16,900
final category which is value.
Now, we've already said it's a

744
00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:19,700
thirty dollar bourbon, you might
be paying 200 for it, if you're

745
00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:21,900
in a different state which is
insane absent.

746
00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:24,200
You shouldn't pay 200 for any
Bourbon ever.

747
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,600
I'm serious.
Like I would probably agree with

748
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,300
that statement and and five
years ago.

749
00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:29,900
Ten years ago, you wouldn't be
Right.

750
00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:32,500
But the way that this bubble has
been building, you're paying

751
00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:34,600
thousands of dollars for certain
Bourbons now and it's just

752
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,900
astronomically, it's ridiculous.
So if you can get it at Cost

753
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,700
even at $40 less, okay?
Let's say $40 in Ohio, its 2999

754
00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:46,600
right.
But let's just say at $40,

755
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:51,600
what's your value score bread?
Add a 40 dollar price point.

756
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,300
I would probably give it a 7.
Yeah, at a thirty dollar this

757
00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:57,200
and that's what it is.
I paid twenty nine ninety nine

758
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,500
for this at.
Let's just go with what we paid.

759
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,500
Twenty nine, ninety, nine, eight
and a half.

760
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:06,500
All right, I'll give it a 10/10.
Not a 10 name, me a 30-dollar

761
00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:07,400
bourbon.
That's better than this.

762
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,000
I like that Jamesy.
Pepper 17-7.

763
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:11,500
Okay.
Lat.

764
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:13,300
All right.
I would put that in a similar

765
00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:15,500
category of this and that was
Thirty One dollars.

766
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,400
But again I mean if those are
the only two.

767
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,300
Yeah I can't think of many then
that would be a 10 for me.

768
00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:23,800
I can't find a 30-dollar burden
better than this myself to a

769
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:24,500
nine.
Alright?

770
00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:27,300
Brad's give it a 9.
I'm giving it a 10 that puts

771
00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:33,100
Brad out to a 40 out of Of 50
and that puts your boy Bob up to

772
00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:38,500
a 43 and a half, which puts us
at an average of 40 1.75.

773
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,600
We did it.
This is our top and look, I knew

774
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,400
I was going to ask you the score
a little bit but I'm so happy to

775
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,500
see the Brad gave this a 40 out
of 50.

776
00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:51,900
Is a good / but this is just
darn good man.

777
00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:54,500
Yeah yeah.
I mean our last one that we had

778
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:56,300
this high was a Glenmore Angeles
Santa.

779
00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:57,100
Yeah.
Right.

780
00:36:57,100 --> 00:36:58,900
Which is great.
I think we averaged out like a

781
00:36:58,908 --> 00:37:00,000
39.
Yeah.

782
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,900
Something close to it we may
have come to a 40.

783
00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:04,400
Yeah.
And and that's a scotch and it's

784
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,700
completely different whiskey and
you might as well have calmly

785
00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:09,500
different categories for them
but this is a really great

786
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:11,700
bourbon.
Yeah, the I think your

787
00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:14,100
description is the best.
If you want somebody to

788
00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:18,000
understand the highs that
bourbon has to offer you toss

789
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,400
them.
Some of this water antique.

790
00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,300
If you had to pay $200 a bottle
of it don't actually I don't do

791
00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:23,900
that.
I haven't held green label

792
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:25,800
right.
Show them that I will say this.

793
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,000
I think at the time I tried it,
the best whiskey I had ever had

794
00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:32,800
was old Forrester prohibition.
Okay, the 1920 that's sixty

795
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,300
dollars a bottle.
I can buy two bottles of this

796
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,600
for the price of one old
Forester prohibition.

797
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,800
Now, that is like a completely
different Beast, its 119 proof

798
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,400
or something way thicker.
It's a completely different

799
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,100
bourbon.
Very good bourbon, it's very

800
00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:50,600
good for $30.
You cannot buy a better bourbon

801
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,400
than Weller antique go buy it
now right now.

802
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,300
So topless and Brad, would you
recommend?

803
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,500
It's a redundant question.
Oh great, terrible whiskey.

804
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,100
Key.
Yeah, this might be my favorite

805
00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:02,700
whiskey.
It's, yeah, goodbye.

806
00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:04,300
Just it's so good.
Go by it, go.

807
00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:05,400
Buy it.
Go buy it.

808
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,000
I'm so happy.
We're talking about it with Pulp

809
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,300
Fiction because it's something I
can recommend alongside a movie.

810
00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:11,100
I'd recommend.
Let's talk about it.

811
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:18,900
So that was well, they're
antique, what do you say?

812
00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:21,500
We get back into talking about
Pulp Fiction, Quentin

813
00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:25,600
Tarantino's 1994, Masterpiece
Brad, true master.

814
00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:28,600
I mean, seriously it is, it's
the work of a master and there

815
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,700
are so many directions that we
can go with this.

816
00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:33,500
Yeah, we haven't talked about
the acting at all the

817
00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:34,300
performance.
Yes.

818
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,200
So why don't we just run down
the list?

819
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,300
Here, we'll start with.
Do you want to start with the,

820
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,700
the Lesser actors?
How do you want to go?

821
00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:43,700
Let's, let's start with a lesser
actors and move towards the

822
00:38:43,900 --> 00:38:46,800
Samuel and John.
All right, well, why don't you

823
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,800
leave the Way here.
What lesser actor, do you want

824
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,100
to talk about here?
Thing reims.

825
00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:51,300
Ving.
Rhames is fantastic.

826
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:53,600
Yeah, honestly, one of my
favorite scenes from the movie

827
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,500
and not because it's
technically, brilliant or

828
00:38:55,508 --> 00:38:56,600
anything.
And it's well done.

829
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,900
When Bruce Willis is driving,
and he's singing the song, The

830
00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:02,700
jamming he pulls up to the stop
light and the little lady's

831
00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:04,900
walking by may, I don't know
somebody walks by.

832
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:09,200
But then Marsellus Wallace Ving
Rhames walks in front and he

833
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,700
kind of stops.
And literally, he like takes

834
00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:15,300
like half a step backwards and
looks at the car and he sees

835
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:17,100
that it's Bruce Willis.
A season is real.

836
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,300
Yeah, I love it that so funny,
it's so funny.

837
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,000
Quentin Tarantino said that he
respected Ving Rhames so much

838
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,300
because the the, you know, the
key scene in the second story is

839
00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:31,500
that Bruce Willis sees Ving
Rhames who is the guy that's

840
00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:34,400
going to try to kill him when he
goes back to get his gold watch

841
00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,100
he steps on the gas.
He runs Ving Rhames over.

842
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,200
They end up chasing each other.
Through the streets.

843
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,400
They end up in this pawn shop
where they're knocked

844
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,600
unconscious by what can only be
described as a hillbilly and

845
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,500
they wake up in the basement of
this pawn shop.

846
00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:50,400
And they I doubt that they are
in the middle of some weird sex

847
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,000
kinky stuff and that these guys
are going to keep them and rape

848
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,000
them, and Tarantino said that he
respected Ving Rhames so much

849
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,500
because he was the only actor
that he tested, that did not

850
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:04,800
mind the rape scene.
And he said, Ving Rhames was so

851
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,300
confident in his masculinity
that.

852
00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:09,300
He's the only one that didn't
ask Tarantino.

853
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:12,000
What's this going to do for my
see, my screen image and my

854
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,300
Persona and he was completely
committed to doing the scene and

855
00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:17,100
since then he's just been Ving
Rhames.

856
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,700
In Mission Impossible.
Yeah, I mean I didn't hurt his

857
00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:22,200
career at all and I think I
think that kind of teaches us a

858
00:40:22,207 --> 00:40:25,600
little bit of a lesson in that
Ving Rhames didn't care what was

859
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,800
going on in that scene.
So, you know, why should we in

860
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,300
some way?
But this was something that was

861
00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:34,100
like we should care about it
because that was a, that's a

862
00:40:34,100 --> 00:40:36,100
hard thing to get through, for
sure, super difficult.

863
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,300
What I'm saying is all the
actors that auditioned for that

864
00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:39,900
scene that was there.
Hang up.

865
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,900
They were saying like you got to
cut away or I won't do it Ving.

866
00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:45,800
Rhames said, I understand the
weight that this has for the

867
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,100
story and I'm completely lately
all in committed to doing it.

868
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:50,600
Yeah.
If we can just address for a

869
00:40:50,607 --> 00:40:53,900
second that scene because I
think that scene is the reason

870
00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:57,100
why Pulp Fiction is such a hard
movie to ever recommend.

871
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,600
Yeah, and I know we're getting
the very end of the sure, sure,

872
00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:01,800
the episode where we normally
would you recommend?

873
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,900
It's hard for me to recommend
any movie, that would include

874
00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:08,600
that type of material.
Yeah, I completely understand.

875
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,000
And and we talked about
Inglourious Basterds when we

876
00:41:11,008 --> 00:41:15,200
reviewed that one and that movie
has some over-the-top comically

877
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:18,400
exaggerated violence, right?
I hated watching the guys get

878
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,800
scalped in that movie, right?
This is a different Beast.

879
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,800
I think that it's themes.
Go way deeper and way darker.

880
00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:25,600
Yes.
When we see John Travolta,

881
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,900
injecting heroin into his veins
in, what is only presented as

882
00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:29,800
what the way.
It's filmed.

883
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,000
It's glamorized almost right?
When you see the brutality of

884
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,900
Ving Rhames getting raped.
I mean, you can't recommend this

885
00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:41,000
movie because people's tolerance
to these things are going to be

886
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,400
all over the place, right?
It's not just that, it's the

887
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,900
violence of the movie.
It's the way that every action

888
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:48,900
taken taken in the movie is
violent.

889
00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:52,500
Yes, there's something about
this movie.

890
00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:56,000
That is so otherworldly.
Yeah.

891
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,700
Almost like holy of like this
movie.

892
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:03,000
Just evokes these sense of like
like Samuel Jackson especially

893
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,700
when he gives his Biblical quote
from Ezekiel.

894
00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:08,800
Yeah, you just get this sense of
other worldliness that this

895
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:13,400
movie isn't normal.
It's Way Beyond the plain of

896
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,800
normal movies and it makes me
go.

897
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,000
I don't know what to do with
this.

898
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,000
Movie and it's all encapsulated
in the second act, when Bruce

899
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,200
Willis and Ving Rhames are
dealing with Hillbillies who

900
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,700
want to sodomize them.
I don't know what to do with

901
00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:29,200
that.
I don't know if I could ever

902
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,300
recommend this movie, but I
don't know if I could ever not

903
00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:32,900
recommend it.
So, the first thing I would say

904
00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:37,100
to that Brad is, I think I used
a word earlier to describe a

905
00:42:37,107 --> 00:42:39,800
smoothie, and it was epic, and I
think, in some ways we have to

906
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,000
look at Tarantino the way we
look at like a Tolkien or a c.s.

907
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Lewis are any of these people
who craft these worlds?

908
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,000
Because Tarantino does, Is an
amazing job of world-building.

909
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,600
Yeah.
In this movie, and part of the

910
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,800
reason this movie affects us,
the way it does, is that.

911
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,600
It's so immersive.
We get into the world of this

912
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,600
movie and it's so unique and
it's like nothing we've ever

913
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,900
seen.
And we buy what Tarantino is

914
00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:02,700
selling.
Yeah.

915
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,900
I mean, it comes across as
authentic and it comes across as

916
00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:07,700
unique because we don't see it
anywhere else.

917
00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:11,400
But the reason this movie hits
us at the level that it does is

918
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,200
because Tarantino is so good at
world-building, right?

919
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,200
Yeah, let's delve back into Yeah
yeah so I want to get back into

920
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,000
talking about performances and
one of the ones you to lighten

921
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,800
the mood a little bit here that
I loved so much was Christopher

922
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:30,300
Walken because I think his seen
his 15-minute scene or whatever

923
00:43:30,300 --> 00:43:33,200
it is is fantastic.
And what I love about what

924
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:37,000
Tarantino does is he's
underrated as a director because

925
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,600
when you look at the list of
people in this movie, he has a

926
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,900
bunch of actors that are not
known for their subtlety and he

927
00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:47,000
makes them play really subtle
like Christopher Walken.

928
00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:50,300
Ian in this scene where he's
talking to this young boy Butch

929
00:43:50,700 --> 00:43:53,400
for most of the scene he's
talking in, like, a really quiet

930
00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:57,100
reverent tone and you don't see
Christopher Walken, do that very

931
00:43:57,100 --> 00:43:59,200
often.
I mean, you've got walk in,

932
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,200
you've got John Travolta, you've
got Harvey Keitel and Samuel L

933
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,600
Jackson, none of whom are known
for being like quiet

934
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,600
introspective people and he puts
him in these situations where

935
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,400
you absolutely by Samuel L
Jackson.

936
00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:15,700
You know in a face-to-face with
Tim Roth talking about the Bible

937
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,700
in a really hushed.
Way.

938
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:19,900
And he brings that out of his
actors.

939
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,000
I'm super impressed by what he
does as a director.

940
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,700
I would be really interested to
see like behind the scenes

941
00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:29,600
footage of Tarantino coaching
his actors over sure.

942
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:34,100
You know, me on how to evoke the
emotions that they show and to

943
00:44:34,100 --> 00:44:36,300
give them their motivation and
why they're doing the things

944
00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:37,000
they do.
Yep.

945
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,900
I just feel like Tarantino would
be fascinating to listen to

946
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:41,700
absolutely.
Any thoughts on Christopher

947
00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:45,000
Walken?
Christopher Walken is such an

948
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,000
interesting character because
cuz of the Cadence of his voice.

949
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,500
Yeah.
That like any role he does your

950
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:53,000
kind of like oh that's
Christopher Walken.

951
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,400
Just mean Christopher Walken,
right?

952
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:59,300
This rule felt different it did
because he wasn't just relying

953
00:44:59,300 --> 00:45:02,200
on the Cadence of his voice to
kind of create Intrigue and

954
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,300
interest.
Yeah, his storytelling ability

955
00:45:05,300 --> 00:45:08,900
in this scene was one of the
things I notice in this movie

956
00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:11,500
and that you don't get in later
Tarantino is that he'll just

957
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:15,100
kind of sit the camera like, in
the corner of a room and let

958
00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:17,700
characters go in and out of
frame and that Shot will last

959
00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:19,800
for like a minute and a half.
And what they do with

960
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,400
Christopher Walken is they just
put the camera on his face and

961
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,800
it's like an extreme close up.
It's from eyebrows to chin and

962
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,400
that's it.
And walking holds the camera

963
00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:31,300
for, I don't know, probably a
minute at a time and it's really

964
00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:36,700
compelling to watch.
Let's watch Sonia, Daddy's,

965
00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:39,500
rest.
When I was shot down over, Hanoi

966
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,600
has captured putting a
Vietnamese prison camp.

967
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:50,500
He knew that if I was on the
watch be confiscated taken away.

968
00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:55,000
Well, your dad looked at it,
this watch was your Birthright.

969
00:45:55,300 --> 00:45:58,000
He'd be damned if any it's going
to put the grease Ela hands on

970
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,800
his boys birth.
Right, so he hid it in one

971
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,200
place.
He knew he could hide something

972
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:07,300
his ass five, long years, he
wore this watch up his ass, then

973
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,800
he died of dysentery, give me
the watch, I hit this

974
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,600
uncomfortable.
Hunk of metal at my ass two

975
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:18,700
years then That's seven years,
almost son.

976
00:46:18,700 --> 00:46:25,400
Hold my family.
Now Oh man, I give the watch

977
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:34,000
teal and then when he finally
gets to the point of his story

978
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:38,800
where he says, I put this watch
in my but like, yeah, yeah,

979
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,200
yeah.
It becomes so funny because it's

980
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,200
so unexpected.
And again, we talked about

981
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,800
Tarantino kind of subverting
expectations but you're with

982
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,500
Christopher Walken because he's
crafting, this really serious

983
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:51,800
drama about this walked that's
been passed down for

984
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,700
generations.
And then all of a sudden He

985
00:46:53,700 --> 00:46:56,100
introduces?
Yeah, I wore this inside my butt

986
00:46:56,100 --> 00:46:59,000
for five years and here you go.
Now, it's yeah.

987
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,800
All right, so let's let's Zoom
back a little bit from that and

988
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,300
I want to talk about the leads
but very briefly.

989
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:06,600
I mean what are we going to say
that hasn't been said before

990
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,100
like Samuel L Jackson is good.
Like we all know this we know

991
00:47:10,100 --> 00:47:13,900
Travolta was not wanted by the
studio and Tarantino dug his

992
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:15,800
heels and then he got Travolta I
think Travolta's.

993
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,700
Fantastic.
I think more about that story at

994
00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:19,600
all.
Yeah so throughout the 1980s

995
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,000
Travolta had become basically
bike box office poison you know

996
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,200
he made It a sequel to Saturday
Night Fever that was a bomb.

997
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,500
He was in a few bombs in the
80s.

998
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,000
And by the time you get to the
early 90s, he's making these

999
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,400
movies called Look Who's
Talking, which about talking

1000
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,100
babies and he's like the
voiceover of the talking baby,

1001
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:37,200
really?
Yeah.

1002
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,100
Did he was here.
He had kind of Hit the skids a

1003
00:47:39,107 --> 00:47:42,700
little bit and so Tarantino
really, really wanted him and

1004
00:47:42,700 --> 00:47:44,800
Harvey.
Weinstein had said listen, I can

1005
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,800
get you Daniel Day-Lewis right
now for this role, Daniel

1006
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,700
Day-Lewis wants to play.
Vincent Vega, really Tarantino

1007
00:47:50,700 --> 00:47:53,700
said no and part of me really
wants to see what Daniel

1008
00:47:53,700 --> 00:47:56,300
Day-Lewis Vincent Vega looks
like, but we didn't get Daniel

1009
00:47:56,300 --> 00:47:58,200
Day-Lewis.
We got John Travolta and I think

1010
00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:59,500
they made the right call.
Yeah.

1011
00:48:00,300 --> 00:48:01,800
What did you think of Bruce
Willis in this movie?

1012
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,800
I would say one of his best
performances because he Bruce

1013
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:10,800
Willis shines, when he moves
from one extreme to the other.

1014
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,900
Mmm, you know what I mean?
Like, when I think about him in

1015
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:16,400
the Sixth Sense, Hailey Joe
Osmond is the star of that

1016
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:19,200
movie, right?
The like honestly bruseles kind

1017
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:23,200
of / turns in a blase
performance in that.

1018
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,000
Movie where he just kind of
mopes through the movie.

1019
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:30,400
Yeah, which works for his role.
But like in this movie, you get

1020
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:35,200
Bruce Willis at his best, where
he plays that cool calm boxer,

1021
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,600
who's fully in control of
everything up to the

1022
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,300
psychotically angry.
That his girlfriend.

1023
00:48:42,300 --> 00:48:44,800
Forgot the most important thing
to him in the world.

1024
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,900
Yeah, there's something about
him that Bruce Willis makes that

1025
00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:52,800
transition from calm to
psychotic so well, that you get

1026
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,700
the best of And this movie.
Absolutely.

1027
00:48:55,300 --> 00:48:57,800
And I don't know that I would
call his performance like in the

1028
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,600
sixth sense for instance blase
but I think it gets that what

1029
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:02,500
you're saying?
I think Bruce Willis does the

1030
00:49:02,500 --> 00:49:05,500
best when he's given material
where he's allowed to have Quiet

1031
00:49:05,500 --> 00:49:07,300
Moments.
Yes, because so many of his

1032
00:49:07,300 --> 00:49:09,800
movies, especially now that he's
getting into, you know, older

1033
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:13,600
adulthood where he's, he's just
making these direct-to-dvd

1034
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,200
action.
Movies are all about covering up

1035
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,600
those moments where he's not
vulnerable, where he is just

1036
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,200
blowing stuff up all the time.
But the reason we loved him in

1037
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,200
the sixth sense and the reason
we love him in this movie is

1038
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,100
because there's so many
stretches where he has to carry

1039
00:49:26,100 --> 00:49:29,300
the scene as an actor, in a
quiet moment and I think he

1040
00:49:29,300 --> 00:49:32,800
Nails it here.
Yeah, his scenes with Fabian and

1041
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,800
the hotel room he does.
He hits every note that you need

1042
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,300
him to hit right?
Whether it's the low notes of

1043
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:45,100
the chill notes, the quiet notes
or the angry, the Furious, he he

1044
00:49:45,100 --> 00:49:49,600
moves between those two extremes
so well yeah, it's funny.

1045
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,300
As I'm saying this I'm realizing
one of the other actors in the

1046
00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:56,000
The entire Pantheon of actors
that does it so well.

1047
00:49:56,300 --> 00:49:57,600
Samuel Jackson.
Yeah.

1048
00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,500
And I think it's time we talk
about Samuel Jackson.

1049
00:49:59,500 --> 00:50:02,900
Because, in my opinion, not only
does he steal the movie, but

1050
00:50:02,900 --> 00:50:07,300
he's the key to the whole movie.
He, it's interesting because if

1051
00:50:07,300 --> 00:50:10,800
you just watch the YouTube clips
of this movie and you only see

1052
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,200
him quoting Ezekiel and you
know, gunning down a guy, you

1053
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:19,800
don't get the full breadth of
what Samuel L Jackson does in

1054
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,600
this movie.
And it makes me kind of sad for

1055
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,600
we're not not for where his
career went because obviously

1056
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,800
he's had a great career for
sure, but it's very rare that we

1057
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,800
see him operate on this level of
subtlety that final scene in the

1058
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:36,100
diner where he's talking in a
very quiet tone to the guy that

1059
00:50:36,100 --> 00:50:38,700
he has at gunpoint.
And he said, telling him all

1060
00:50:38,700 --> 00:50:41,200
about that Bible verse and what
it means to him.

1061
00:50:42,500 --> 00:50:46,000
And you will know, I am the Lord
when I lay my vengeance.

1062
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:50,900
Upon you.
I've been saying it for years,

1063
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:56,500
and if you heard it, that meant
your ass, I never gave much

1064
00:50:56,500 --> 00:50:58,400
thought to what it meant.
I just thought it was some

1065
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,800
cold-blooded you to say to him
before I popped a cap in his ass

1066
00:51:02,700 --> 00:51:05,000
and something this morning made
me think twice.

1067
00:51:06,300 --> 00:51:12,000
See now I'm thinking maybe it
means you're the evil man and

1068
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,100
I'm the righteous man and mr. 9
millimeter here, he's the

1069
00:51:16,100 --> 00:51:17,900
shepherd.
Protecting my righteous ass in

1070
00:51:17,908 --> 00:51:22,600
the valley of darkness.
Or it could mean you're the

1071
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,400
righteous man and I'm the
shepherd and it's the world

1072
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,400
that's evil and selfish.
Now I'd like that.

1073
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:35,700
But that ain't the truth.
The truth is.

1074
00:51:37,700 --> 00:51:42,600
You're the weak.
And I am the tyranny of evil

1075
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:46,400
men.
But I'm trying Ringo.

1076
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:52,200
I'm trying real hard to be the
shepherd.

1077
00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:59,200
You see something in Samuel
Jackson's eyes in his tone of

1078
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,900
voice that he covers up so often
by yelling things and I just

1079
00:52:02,900 --> 00:52:06,000
feel like maybe he's worked with
lesser directors or something.

1080
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:09,200
But I want that Samuel L Jackson
all the time because he knocks

1081
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,300
it out of the freaking Park.
I was going to say I feel like

1082
00:52:12,500 --> 00:52:15,800
Tarantino, lets him go there.
Yeah.

1083
00:52:15,900 --> 00:52:18,900
You know, to me he gives him the
freedom to do with that part

1084
00:52:18,900 --> 00:52:22,200
what he will.
And he Nails it, he why?

1085
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:23,400
You said he knocks it out of the
park.

1086
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,600
Absolutely.
And I want to focus Sit on that

1087
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,300
last scene because I think it's
time we get into our analysis

1088
00:52:28,300 --> 00:52:29,700
and our final scores, a little
bit.

1089
00:52:30,300 --> 00:52:33,800
The whole key to this movie is
Samuel Jackson's character of

1090
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,000
Jules Winnfield and it's really
a story about Jules is

1091
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:38,900
redemption, right?
It really is.

1092
00:52:39,100 --> 00:52:41,000
And I think, like I said
earlier, it's a on a smaller

1093
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,200
scale as a story about a lot of
these characters, kind of

1094
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,100
finding their Saving Grace.
You know, at the end of Bruce

1095
00:52:46,100 --> 00:52:49,800
Willis is story, he rides out on
a motorcycle and the name of the

1096
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,400
motorcycle is Grace, right?
You know what I mean?

1097
00:52:52,500 --> 00:52:55,000
For sure, but in Samuel Jackson
story, you see it.

1098
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,600
Happen in the most explicit way.
And he starts talking about how

1099
00:52:58,900 --> 00:53:03,700
God intervened in his life and
that he doesn't understand why

1100
00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:06,900
he doesn't understand what it
is, but he understands that he

1101
00:53:06,900 --> 00:53:09,500
felt he says I felt the touch of
God.

1102
00:53:09,700 --> 00:53:13,300
And John Travolta says why he
says, I don't know why but he

1103
00:53:13,300 --> 00:53:15,800
knows that he says I can't go
back to sleep.

1104
00:53:16,100 --> 00:53:19,300
And what this movie is really
about is these two paths that

1105
00:53:19,300 --> 00:53:23,000
these two characters take
because Jules Samuel Jackson

1106
00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:26,400
leaves the life of crime.
We Him in the third area in the

1107
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:30,800
in the story, with Bruce Willis
and we know that John Travolta

1108
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,000
does.
I think that this is a miracle

1109
00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:36,700
decides to continue on in this
life of crime and he dies

1110
00:53:36,700 --> 00:53:39,200
because of it, right?
And so it really is a story

1111
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:43,400
about Redemption and Samuel.
L Jackson even said the people

1112
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,700
in this movie in Pulp Fiction.
The people who are worth saving

1113
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,400
get saved the two robbers
pumpkin and honey.

1114
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,700
Bunny get saved, they get each
shut they get another chance.

1115
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,000
That's their Redemption, Uma
Thurman's.

1116
00:53:55,100 --> 00:53:56,600
Sir.
He said has the chance to die

1117
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,400
but she didn't die.
Butch Bruce Willis's character

1118
00:53:59,500 --> 00:54:02,100
gets another chance.
Marcellus Wallace even gets

1119
00:54:02,100 --> 00:54:05,500
another chance and I think he's
getting at something here and

1120
00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:07,700
Brad, I want to know what your
take is on.

1121
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,500
What you think, kind of the
moral of the story is here and

1122
00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:15,100
whether Tarantino kind of nails
it with the way the he wrote it.

1123
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,200
That's so hard.
Is there a moral to this story?

1124
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,800
Yeah, because I look at this
movie and I just think to myself

1125
00:54:20,900 --> 00:54:26,000
man, when you see all the horror
that that In this movie.

1126
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:30,000
I yeah, the crazy thing that go
on like, can there be something

1127
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,600
redeeming to it?
And I think that there is

1128
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,400
there's something about this
movie that Taps into the depth

1129
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,000
of Humanity's depravity.
Yep.

1130
00:54:38,100 --> 00:54:39,600
And Brokenness.
Yep.

1131
00:54:39,700 --> 00:54:43,500
That when you, you look at the
end and you look at where Jules

1132
00:54:43,500 --> 00:54:47,100
comes to, you see that there's a
point where he has a certain

1133
00:54:47,100 --> 00:54:51,400
faith in a better world or a
better place or a better plan

1134
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:54,300
that God has for him.
Yeah, that Vincent never comes

1135
00:54:54,300 --> 00:54:57,200
to, right?
The Vincent has this doubt about

1136
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,100
and you see how it turns out.
And I think that's one of the

1137
00:54:59,100 --> 00:55:01,900
most beautiful things about the
third scene of the movie is that

1138
00:55:01,900 --> 00:55:04,800
you know that Vincent Vega is
dead.

1139
00:55:04,900 --> 00:55:07,400
Yeah, I don't know why, but as
we've been talking about this

1140
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:12,500
movie, that fact has grown on me
to consume to be the whole point

1141
00:55:12,500 --> 00:55:18,000
of this movie, is the third, the
third act, knowing what happens.

1142
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:19,400
Yeah.
In the second half, which is

1143
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,900
chronologically the final part
of the movie, but the fact that

1144
00:55:21,900 --> 00:55:24,200
they have that conversation in
the diner, at the end of the

1145
00:55:24,207 --> 00:55:30,400
movie, Even they John and Samuel
they you know Samuel Jackson and

1146
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,000
the robber have this
conversation about Grace and

1147
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,800
Redemption.
Yeah and he realizes that these

1148
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:37,800
people are the sheep that need
to be protected.

1149
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,900
Yeah.
And that God has called him

1150
00:55:39,900 --> 00:55:43,000
protect these people.
And then you realize the fact

1151
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,700
that Vincent doesn't understand
that lesson and he's actually

1152
00:55:45,700 --> 00:55:48,100
dead.
Yeah, there's so many things

1153
00:55:48,100 --> 00:55:49,100
going on.
Oh yeah.

1154
00:55:49,300 --> 00:55:52,100
That I go Tarantino's Beyond any
of us.

1155
00:55:52,100 --> 00:55:54,900
What I love about and I said
this in our Inglourious

1156
00:55:54,900 --> 00:55:56,900
Basterds, Bastards episode.
And I'm glad that I can say it

1157
00:55:56,900 --> 00:55:59,700
again.
Now, I feel like Tarantino makes

1158
00:55:59,700 --> 00:56:03,800
a movie that super nihilistic
and dark and has no point and

1159
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,000
then he makes a movie about
Redemption, and it seems like he

1160
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,400
goes in this cycle.
So, like, Reservoir Dogs.

1161
00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:10,300
I know you haven't seen it.
I'd love to watch it with you

1162
00:56:10,300 --> 00:56:12,900
soon.
It has this very nihilistic tone

1163
00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:14,600
to it.
Pulp Fiction has a Redemptive

1164
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:15,900
tone.
You know, we talked about

1165
00:56:15,900 --> 00:56:18,600
Inglourious Basterds.
It seems like it's super

1166
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:19,700
nihilistic.
Yes.

1167
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,300
And and cynical Django.
Unchained is hopefully it's

1168
00:56:23,300 --> 00:56:25,000
Redemptive and I think
territory.

1169
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,600
Was at his best when he's
writing towards Redemption, for

1170
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:30,900
sure.
So Brad, if you had to give this

1171
00:56:30,900 --> 00:56:35,200
movie A score out of 10 with the
challenges that it presents but

1172
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,800
also knowing what a landmark of
cinema this is and still 25

1173
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,900
years later, what a unique
Vision.

1174
00:56:40,900 --> 00:56:43,600
This is.
What would you give it 9.5?

1175
00:56:43,900 --> 00:56:45,100
I think I'm right there with
you.

1176
00:56:45,500 --> 00:56:48,500
I want to give it a 10.
See that I wanted to give it a

1177
00:56:48,500 --> 00:56:50,600
9?
Yeah, but I think we have to

1178
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:51,800
meet in the middle here, a
little bit there.

1179
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,500
A couple things in this movie
that I don't think of edge super

1180
00:56:54,500 --> 00:56:56,100
well.
I think there's a couple little

1181
00:56:56,100 --> 00:56:59,100
pacing issues but overall, you
know, I forget.

1182
00:56:59,100 --> 00:57:01,500
Now I'm giving it a 10.
I have to give it a 10, it's

1183
00:57:01,500 --> 00:57:05,200
just I started it and about 15
minutes and I was like, oh maybe

1184
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,000
I won't like this as much
because I'm watching what the

1185
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,800
more critical eye and by the end
of it, I was like nope it still

1186
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,500
takes me there every single
time, it takes you on a journey

1187
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:16,300
that no other movie can I'm
giving it a 10 out of 10, I'm

1188
00:57:16,300 --> 00:57:17,900
sticking at a nine and a half
out of ten.

1189
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,900
All right?
For me, the true struggle that I

1190
00:57:21,900 --> 00:57:25,000
have.
Do you need to delve?

1191
00:57:25,100 --> 00:57:27,500
To the true depravity of
humanity.

1192
00:57:27,500 --> 00:57:29,300
Yeah.
To get to the lessons that he

1193
00:57:29,300 --> 00:57:30,900
does.
Yeah, I don't know if you do

1194
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,200
well and I think that that just
comes with the territory with

1195
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,600
Tarantino it does.
You never not going to take us

1196
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,400
there 100%?
Yeah Tarantino.

1197
00:57:39,100 --> 00:57:41,400
I don't know how to describe it.
He's ridiculous.

1198
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:45,800
Oh yeah, the way that he takes
you to places is observed and

1199
00:57:46,500 --> 00:57:50,100
over-the-topness even begin to
describe what he's doing.

1200
00:57:50,100 --> 00:57:52,100
Yeah.
And that's why I can't give it a

1201
00:57:52,107 --> 00:57:56,000
10 out of 10 because I just I
don't know if we have to go as

1202
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,600
deep as he takes.
Yes, I get that.

1203
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:00,800
This is not a movie that's going
to be for everybody.

1204
00:58:00,900 --> 00:58:02,000
Yeah.
And I don't know that I would

1205
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,400
tell like my mom to watch this
movie.

1206
00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:07,500
I hope you know that you
wouldn't tell.

1207
00:58:07,500 --> 00:58:11,200
Yeah, absolutely.
That doesn't mean that it's not

1208
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,300
a singularly Unique Piece of
movie making, right?

1209
00:58:14,300 --> 00:58:17,200
And that's what this is.
So Brad gave it a 9.5.

1210
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,600
I gave it a 10 but we want to
know what you think.

1211
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,400
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1212
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,600
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1213
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,300
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1214
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:34,300
Next week, we will be back
talking about the 2009, hit 500

1215
00:58:34,300 --> 00:58:37,000
Days of Summer.
I feel like we've gone from Lion

1216
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:40,400
King.
We're all over the map and in to

1217
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,700
500 AC.
Reduce a little bit of levity

1218
00:58:42,700 --> 00:58:44,300
next week.
We'll talk about 500 Days of

1219
00:58:44,300 --> 00:58:46,200
Summer for the film and whiskey
podcast.

1220
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,400
I'm Bob book on Brad.
She will see you next time.