Scoring William Wyler / Barrel Private Release Rye
In this episode, dive into the world of William Wyler, one of the iconic figures of classic Hollywood. Bob and Brad take a unique approach, evaluating this master director using a special 5-point metric: performances, cinematography, editing, cohesion, and uniqueness. And what's a Film & Whiskey episode without some tasting? Join as they sample a private release rye from Barrell Craft Spirits, savoring each note and pairing it with insights from Wyler's filmography.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Introduction - Introduction to the episode and the 5-point metric
(6:55) - William Wyler's Directorial Techniques - An in-depth discussion on Wyler's impact on cinema, his directorial techniques, and his top-ranked films
(18:55) - Barrell Craft Spirits Rye Tasting - Dive into the flavors, tasting notes, and the unique experience of this private release rye.
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Today on the Film and Whiskey
Podcast, we will be scoring out
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director William Wyler.
Then we'll be trying a private
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release rye from our favorite
producer.
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This is the.
Film and Whiskey Podcast.
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Hey everybody, Welcome into the
Film and Whiskey Podcast.
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I'm Bob Book.
I'm Brad Gee.
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And we are coming at you with
another special bonus episode.
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Bonus episode.
Brad, we're starting to wind
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down on season seven.
We sure are, man.
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I look back through the list of
directors that we've tackled
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already and there are only a
couple standing in our way at
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this point.
Literally to, Yeah.
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To a couple, and we're going to
knock out one of them today
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because we are looking at
William Wyler who we just
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wrapped up this past week with
our friend Patrick H Willems.
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We watched 3 movies by William
Wyler, probably his most famous
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one being Ben Hur, followed by
The Best Years of Our Lives,
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followed by Roman Holiday.
And you know, I was just
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listening back to the episode
where we scored Kubrick and I
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said.
I don't think that we've ever
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done a director where we have
such varied thematic material
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across 3 movies.
And I already think Wyler is
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giving him a run for his money
in that regard.
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Yeah, 100%.
I mean we're we're talking time
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of Jesus, Roman World, we're
talking post World War 2 and I
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mean, I guess Roman Holiday
could also fall in the post
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World War 2 world, but but not
in the sense that it refers to
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World War 2 at all, yeah.
You know, Brad, I know that
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every week or every time we do
one of these director scoring
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mini episodes, we have to
explain the whole process.
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But I I got to be honest with
you, man, I have to find a
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better way of describing them.
When I title the episodes, I
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just call them, like scoring
Stanley Kubrick and it makes it
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sound like a 1980s sex comedy.
Like like.
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We're scoring Kubrick, baby.
We're going on a road trip to
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sleep with Stanley.
Yeah, Kubrick.
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Which honestly, I'll green light
that movie anytime someone wants
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to make it.
Like that sounds weird and I'm
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all here for it.
The Book Production studio.
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But anyway, we are here to run
the three films by Wyler through
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a metric we developed last
season where we tried to
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numerically determine how you
can figure out if someone is a
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good director or not, and
greatness of art.
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Yes, which is always measured
numerically through a metric.
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And we tried to figure out what
are the five categories that we
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would need to evaluate to
determine if somebody is good at
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directing.
And Brad, what were those
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categories and what do they
mean?
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Performances.
How good of acting performances
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does our director draw from his
actors cinematography?
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Do you like what you see on
screen editing?
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Do you like how what you see on
screen moves and sounds
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cohesion?
Does the world of the movie
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stand like, stick together well,
and work and uniqueness?
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How does this director's body of
work stand out among their peers
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as well?
As, you know, cinematic history.
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And important to note, we are
scoring them based on not their
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entire body of work, rather our
selected three or four movies
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that we watch.
Yes, and that comes into play
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when we score directors like
Scorsese or Spielberg or even
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Kubrick.
We can't.
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We can't factor in movies we may
have watched in other seasons.
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If this was the director's
entire catalog, how would he or
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she fare?
So we're going to talk about
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Wyler here for a minute, A
director that you know across
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his three movies.
Brad, we didn't really talk much
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about him, and I don't know what
that says about the movies he
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makes, but especially when we
dive into directors like A
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Kubrick who is so formally
respected.
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Or a director like Spielberg,
who infuses so much of his own
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personality and psychology into
his movies.
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When you have a director like
Wyler, like it's all up there on
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the screen in terms of his
abilities.
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But there seemed to be like a
level of, I don't know,
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detachment.
Like, I didn't learn much about
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William Wyler, the guy watching
these movies.
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Yeah, that's interesting.
I think that Wyler definitely is
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a more critical eye on the
subjects, and it seems like he's
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more curious about the stories
being told than how he interacts
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with those stories.
And I I think that's probably
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one of the reasons why he's
chosen to direct a picture like
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Ben Hur.
You know, in the in the 50s
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there's this massive outpouring
of respect and desire for like
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biblically accurate media.
And if you look at like America
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as a whole, statistically, the
50s were actually the highest
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level of religiosity that
America has ever experienced,
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even considering like Puritan
times and all that, like highest
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amount of church attendance was
in the 1950s.
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And so with this wave of
prochristian prochristianity in
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our culture, somebody like
William Wyler makes sense to
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direct a massive biblical
bioepic.
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And I I think it's because he
doesn't put his personal spin on
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things.
It seems like he tries to just
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tell the stories as they are.
And I and I honestly, I kind of
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appreciate that.
There's a really good article on
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the Criterion Collections
website and it's all about, I
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think it's called The Grounded
Cinema of William Wyler.
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And it goes through his whole
career, and this author is
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trying to kind of make sense of,
you know, what's his style,
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what's his formal bent.
And he talks a lot about how
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Wyler doesn't use a lot of,
like, really fancy camera moves.
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Like it's pretty functional and
it's pretty utilitarian.
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But he also has a really
sensitive touch when it comes to
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telling human dramas, and I
think it's a it's a good way to
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think about him.
He's not like a melodrama guy,
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even though he directed a couple
melodramas.
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But it doesn't really seem
overwrought, except for in like
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a few scenes in Ben Hur where
it's meant to be overwrought.
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I think about a movie like The
Best Years of Our Lives and it's
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just a very, I guess Frank would
be the right word for me to use.
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Like it's just like these are
the problems these people are
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dealing with.
I'm not going to put any frills
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on it and I want to address it
frankly and I really appreciate
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that about him.
There's there's not a lot of
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extra stuff around or in his
movies.
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So Brad, with that said, I think
we should dive in here and we'll
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start with the performances, the
the cornerstone of these human
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dramas.
What kind of a score would you
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give him when it comes to the
performances in these three
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films?
I think this is one of the
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categories he really succeeds
in.
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I think that in Roman Holiday he
gets an incredible, as Patrick
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put it, like an introduction
performance to Audrey Hepburn.
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Even though I kept wanting it to
be Cary Grant, I think he did a
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great job of getting a unique
performance out of Gregory Peck.
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I think when you look at Ben
Hur, there's definitely a
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melodrama about Ben Hur that
reminds me of something like
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Gone With the Wind.
I think that Charlton Heston is
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a fascinating actor.
I think that the female
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performances in there are really
great and then you get to Best
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Years of Our Lives, which was
incredible.
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You know the the way he brought
about.
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I can't remember his name right
now, but the gentleman with the
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hooks for hands.
Oh yeah, Homer.
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Yes, Homer.
The way he brings him about who
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is not an actor and to give such
an emotionally moving
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performance was incredible.
So I I think I'm going to give
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him a 9 1/2 out of 10 here.
I think I'm going to give him a
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nine.
And part of it is because like,
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he gets really good performances
out of his actors.
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But a lot of times the actors
that he chooses are not always
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the most.
I don't know.
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At the top of their game, actor.
Sorry, maybe they're at the top
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of their game.
They're just not, like always,
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upper tier actors.
Frederick March.
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Myrna Loy.
Absolutely.
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Charlton Heston.
Like, he does pretty good and he
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wins an Oscar for that movie.
But like, Meh, Audrey Hepburn.
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Gregory Peck.
Absolutely.
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But then you get into like the
best years of our lives.
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And Homer's girlfriend, I think
her name is like she has a very
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Irish last name because she's
also in Ben Hur and we were
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joking about how.
He got the most Irish person to
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be playing Middle Eastern
O'Connell or something.
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Yeah, O'Connell, yeah, yeah.
She's not a good actress, man.
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And you know, he seemed pretty
loyal to including her thirteen
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years later in that movie.
So the performances are good,
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but he also kind of limits
himself sometimes with the
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actors that he chooses.
So I'm going to give him a nine
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here, yeah.
And as we move into
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cinematography, I think here's a
question I have for you.
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Is it better to be simple or
complex when it comes to the use
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of the camera?
Because if we're being frank, he
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is on the simpler side of camera
movement. 100%, yeah.
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And I think I mentioned this in
the Roman Holiday episode.
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That's the one with the most
kind of inventive camera work
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and the way they they film the
architecture and the scene on
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the little scooter.
Like there's a lot of movement
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in the camera there.
I think when I judge this
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category, I'm always thinking of
like did the camera.
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Do what needed to be done to
tell the story the best way
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possible.
And I think he succeeds really
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well here.
Honestly, I think the one that I
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liked the least was Ben Hur and
that had like the big
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widescreen.
And you know, we talked about
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how Wyler hated using
widescreen.
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And I think it kind of shows
like they're not always framed
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the best.
But even then that movie wins
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the Oscar for cinematography.
So it's like I'm over here
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nitpicking and the guy is
racking up awards for the way
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his movies look.
So once again.
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I want to give him a nine.
I think I'll come down just a
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little bit.
I'll give him an 8 1/2 on
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cinematography.
Yeah.
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For me, I think that overall
he's like a 7 1/2 to an 8 out of
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10 cinematographer with a few
scenes that just skyrocket him
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up to the top.
I think that the the chariot
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race is one of the most famous
Hollywood sequences for very
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good reasons.
I think even the the scene when
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they are on the ship and I I
don't know the way he films the
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slaves and the the guy beating
the drum and the cutbacks to the
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the man who kind of becomes Ben
Hur's father figure.
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Like there's just a lot going on
there and even in the battle
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scene when he he has the camera
shot of through the porthole
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that Charleston Heston is at and
the ship is coming towards him,
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like I think he does a lot of
great stuff with the camera,
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even if the cameras not always
moving right.
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So I think I'll give him a nine
out of 10 here, a little down
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from the performances, but man,
he has some epic moments with
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the camera throughout these
three films.
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And listen, we know.
You know, sometimes we slip up
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and say something like.
Wyler is a good cinematographer
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or Wyler is a bad.
It's like we understand that
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there is a cinematographer on
these movies.
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But with a lot of these
directors, they have such a
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signature visual style that you
can almost call them a
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cinematographer.
And even the ones that don't, at
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the end of the day, what's on
the screen, the buck stops with
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them.
Like they have to know what
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they're putting on the screen
and are their visuals up to
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snuff or not.
So I don't know.
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I was going to say if if you
jump into the sports world,
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something that I have found
fascinating is that when
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football players go into the
Hall of Fame, an offensive
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lineman or a wide receiver or a
cornerback does not have a win
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total attached to their name.
But do you know who does?
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Quarterbacks and head coaches,
right?
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Like they are defined by how
many wins they get.
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And I kind of view directors in
the same way.
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Like, yes, they have an
offensive line that's called the
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cinematographer.
Yes, they have a wide receiver
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that that runs, you know,
different aspects of the things.
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But at the end of the day, they
are the one who is said that
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movie sucked and it's the
director's fault or that movie
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was incredible and it was the
director's, you know, because of
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the director.
All right, let's breeze through
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these man.
Editing is I think 1 where I'm
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going to Ding him a bit.
And when we talk about editing,
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we're talking about the rhythm
and the flow of the movie, as
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well as things like how are the
cuts made, How does the sound
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affect the movie?
These movies are pretty much all
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too long.
Even Roman Holiday I I had some
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issues with the 1st 25 minutes
being just a little bit too
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long.
They all hold together well and
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I think that's why I'll give him
a good cohesion score.
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But on editing, I'm just going
to give him a 7 1/2 Brad.
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Yeah, this is funny.
I keep being 1/2 point higher
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than you.
I'm at an 8 out of 10 for him.
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I think that he does a really
solid job in this category, but
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like B minus is the right grade
to give him.
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All right, so cohesion is what I
just said.
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Does the director build a
believable world?
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And do the movies hold together?
And I think for the most part,
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yes, they do.
Especially the best years of our
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lives.
Like, that's not 100% what
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America looked like post war,
but for the world that they're
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trying to build.
In that movie, you know, we we
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were talking about how he made
the sets smaller than normal
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than the normal Hollywood set so
that it would look more
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claustrophobic and intimate and
like a real apt.
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I think that movie is just
brilliant.
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Same thing with Roman Holiday.
Like, you believe this dream
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world that these people are
living in.
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I'm going to give him a nine on
cohesion.
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I'm at a nine and a half Bob,
genuinely.
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I think that he just has a
stellar vision for the, like I
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said earlier, the stories that
he is trying to tell within
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these movies and from Ben Hur
all the way through Roman
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Holiday, I I think he does a
spectacular job at accomplishing
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that vision in a way that's
compelling to start to from
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start to finish.
Now uniqueness is 1 where I
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think I really.
Struggle because he doesn't have
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the sort of like masculine,
muscular filmmaking of someone
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like John Ford, even though he's
making movies in that vein with
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like Ben Hur.
He also, even though he tells
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these very humanistic stories,
he doesn't have the sort of like
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really delicate touch of a movie
maker like George Cucor who did
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a lot of movies focused on
women.
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Or like Frank Capra, who tips a
lot more into like the
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sentimental.
And so it's really hard because
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he he does a good job of kind of
playing the middle ground with
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both of those extremes.
But that also means that there's
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not as much in his movies that
you can easily put your finger
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on and say like this is a
William Wyler trait.
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And because of that, I think I'm
only going to give him a 7 1/2
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here.
No, wait, are you?
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I scored all of this out before
we even got on and I I met an 8.
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Wow, dude, that's crazy.
Yeah, I I think I am 100% in
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agreement with you.
If like, honestly, we talked a
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ton about how there's a lot in
common between Kubrick and Rob
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Reiner.
I I think that in the uniqueness
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category, I kind of feel
similarly about Wyler and Reiner
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where he makes unique movies.
He none of them are a ton like
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the other, but none of them like
stand out necessarily as best in
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class or have certain you know
certain cinematography that like
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stands out in The Shining that
you know takes Kubrick to the
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next level.
I think that he's a solid B to A
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in almost all the categories.
But here in Uniqueness, I'm kind
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of like, yeah, he he doesn't
necessarily stand out from
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everybody else in the 40s,
fifties and 60s, you know, at
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least with these three films,
Yeah, But there's still a a
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really great example of solid
filmmaking from that era.
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So I think he's an 8 out of 10
in uniqueness.
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Well, that's bringing me to a 41
1/2 out of 50 on him.
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Brad, what are you at?
I at 2 1/2 points higher than
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you Bob.
Half point higher every time.
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Should be at a 44 out of 50.
You sure are.
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So that's bringing our average
on Weiler to a 42.75.
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And I will say, Brad, that's
what makes this exercise really
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cool.
Not that I always agree with
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doing it.
It's fun, you know.
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But like, we're never going to
say that our score on a director
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is how we should think about
that director.
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But it also does kind of.
Offer surprises sometimes, like
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he scored higher than Clint
Eastwood and I would say that I
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think Clint Eastwood is probably
a better director than him.
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He scored, he scored right in
line with Billy Wilder, like
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he's a 1/4 point lower than
Billy Wilder.
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And I would say that Billy
Wilder is a way better director
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than him.
So it's interesting when you
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take everything else out of it
and just evaluate each of these
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categories in a vacuum.
Sometimes you, you end up
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respecting a guy a little bit
more.
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Yeah.
And and I think another part is
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that you know you and I have
talked about this off air.
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It also really depends on the
categories you choose.
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Like you know there are probably
other categories we could choose
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to score these guys on that
would maybe drastically change
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the outcome of the of of where
we're at.
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I think another piece is like
we're not, we're not choosing a
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bunch of schlub, you know, C
level directors.
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Like, like we're We're talking
about going from Spielberg at
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the start of last season to
Hitchcock at the end of this
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season.
Like in in two seasons we've
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moved through a vast swath of
directors that all probably fall
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at the very lowest at like an 85
out of a.
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Yeah, exactly.
You know what I mean?
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Like.
All right, man.
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I think that we're in a good
spot on William Wyler.
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We want to say thank you and
adieu to him as we move into
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Hitchcock starting next week.
But Brad, before we get there,
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we've got a really special
whiskey to try.
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What do you say we get to it?
Let's get to it, Bob.
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All right.
Today, folks, we are drinking
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something that we don't
typically drink on the film and
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Whiskey podcast, and that is a
single barrel from a private
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release label.
So that means y'all can't get it
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unless you were lucky enough to
be at the Kentucky Bourbon
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Festival.
Yeah.
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And if anything, the reason
we're drinking.
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This is not to say you need to
chase this specific whiskey,
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although if you want to, I'm
saying a dag on it's a it's a
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dag on good whiskey.
But what we really want to
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highlight is the fact that the
the distillery, well, I
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shouldn't say distillery.
The company that we are
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highlighting here is one of our
absolute favorites.
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If you've been around the
podcast long enough, you know
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that we are talking about
Barrel.
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I love me some barrel products
dude.
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Like you know we're we're
tactful.
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We we like lots of different
companies and and always try to
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promote people where we can
because the world of whiskey is
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great and there's a lot of great
stuff out there.
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But in my private life, when I
when I talk to friends and they
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asked me for recommendations on
whiskey.
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Barrels pretty much always at
the top of the list of things
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that I recommend.
I have never had a barrel
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product that I did not like like
legitimately, and I think the
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worst, like quote, UN quote, the
worst one I ever tried was the
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first time we got sent like
their regular barrel bourbon and
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barrel rye.
I liked the barrel bourbon
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better than the rye.
You liked the rye better than
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the bourbon.
I think I'd probably put that
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barrel rye as my least favorite
thing and we still scored it at
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like a 40 out of 50.
Like everything they release is
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incredible.
And so today, 100%.
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We're drinking from a bottle
that we picked up at the
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Kentucky Bourbon Festival.
Now if you go to KB F, as it's
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called every year, they've got a
tent full of bottles that were
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hand selected to be sold on site
at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival
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and nowhere else.
They call it the Distillers Row
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Series.
The cool thing they did this
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year was like every tent.
That was set up by a company.
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The company could also sell
those bottles at their tent.
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This year it did a great job of
cutting down on the length of
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lines and stuff.
And so we walked up to the
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barrel tents where they were
pouring everything they sell,
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including the the Gray label
seagrass, the gold label
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seagrass.
It was like they were pouring
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everything and we said let's try
your barrel pick and it's a
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barrel rye, so it's under the
label Barrel Rye private
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release.
This is a rye whiskey finished
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in Pedro Jimenez Sherry barrels.
It clocks in at 116.38 proof.
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Brad, we've tried barrel rye
just a few times on the show,
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including things like seagrass.
How does this?
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I don't want to say how does
this compare to seagrass because
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that's your favorite whiskey.
But like, just in general, we're
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not finishing in a ton of
different barrels here, we're
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just finishing in one kind of
barrel.
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What are you picking up on the
nose?
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And like how would you situate
it among all the barrel ryes
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that you've tried.
I think that this one has more
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simplicity to it, you know and
and that would be expected it's
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11 barrel finish.
I think that this is a caramel
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bomb with a a smattering of like
deep dark rye spice and it is
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rich and it is spicy and you
know to to jump into the pallet
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as well.
This thing is, it's not quite as
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decadent as the Seagrass, It has
a much more straightforward
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palette, but it what it offers
is A you can tell that this is a
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really high quality rye whiskey,
and B, you can tell that they
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put it in the Pedro Jimenez
butts for like the perfect
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amount of time because you just
get a little bit of that grapey,
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a little bit of that, the
richness from that.
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But man oh man, the rye spice
really shines through here.
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So I'm on the barrel website and
they just started doing these
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private releases with rye a
couple months ago.
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The cool thing is when you do
the private release, it's
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actually a single barrel.
So they take one barrel's worth
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of whiskey that they have
blended, I assume, and then
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finish it in a barrel of your
choosing.
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And so the cool thing is like,
there's ten different kinds of
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casks you can get your private
release barrel finished in.
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So Kentucky Bourbon Festival
chose the PX barrels.
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Like Brad said, it is like you
don't get a ton of Sherry on the
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nose here, but what it does is
it brings out those like really
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well-rounded caramel and a
little bit of floral notes.
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The rye is just kind of like
underneath all that.
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It's not a super minty rye.
I would call it closer to like a
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dill, but it's still covered in
those caramel notes, which
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appeals to me as a bourbon fan
more than a rye fan.
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Brad, as you get into the flavor
here.
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What?
What are you picking up?
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Like I said, there is a nice
foundation of caramel here, but
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overall this is one of the
spicier rise that I've ever had,
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and it gets into that dill.
It turns minty at the back end
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for me, and I think that there's
a little bit of nuttiness that
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kind of rounds out the spiciness
in a really beautiful way.
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There's like a little bit of
almost simple syrup at the very
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back, like it just turns into
sugar for me at the very back or
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or even like a like a watered
down Cocacola kind of a thing.
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It's really pleasant.
And I think, Brad, I'm going to
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ask you real quick to do this.
When you say it's a spicy rye, I
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don't think that you mean that
this is like a really ethanol
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forward product because it's 116
proof, It doesn't drink like 116
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proof.
So for our listeners like what
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do you mean?
What's the difference between
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spicy?
And like alcohol.
438
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Aggressive.
Yeah, and hot.
439
00:24:47,170 --> 00:24:51,730
Yeah, I would say hot is your
palate can't place what's
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happening.
Like I I think that's the best
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00:24:54,770 --> 00:24:59,250
way I can describe ethanol
forward is that your nose, your
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00:24:59,250 --> 00:25:05,290
palate gets hit with this wave
of experience and it doesn't
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have a reference point.
Whereas like spicy and like a
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00:25:08,930 --> 00:25:15,860
spice bomb, it's almost like you
took every single like, savory
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spice out of your spice rack,
opened them all up, and just
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like took a whiff a run at all
of them.
447
00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:27,020
Like for me, there's some clove
here.
448
00:25:27,020 --> 00:25:32,060
There's some black pepper. the
IT tastes like fresh rye bread.
449
00:25:33,310 --> 00:25:36,230
There's just all sorts of things
going on here.
450
00:25:36,230 --> 00:25:38,950
But my my palate knows what to
do with them.
451
00:25:38,950 --> 00:25:40,310
It knows where to categorize
them.
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And I I think, I don't know it.
Would you say that's fair?
453
00:25:42,510 --> 00:25:44,550
I think that's.
A good I think that's a great
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description.
And again, especially since
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you're the rye drinker of us,
like, I can try to explain what
456
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it does on my palate.
But at the end of the day, I
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want to know what you think is a
good spicy rye versus something
458
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that's just like hot.
And I think you know not to put
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00:25:59,150 --> 00:26:00,990
too neat of a bow on this Brad,
but like.
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Barrel does it really well.
Like I said, it's 116 proof.
461
00:26:05,130 --> 00:26:07,490
It drinks like a 95 proof
whiskey.
462
00:26:07,530 --> 00:26:11,210
It doesn't feel thin, but it
also doesn't have like a super
463
00:26:11,210 --> 00:26:14,370
aggressive burn on the palate.
More in your chest after you
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00:26:14,370 --> 00:26:17,490
swallow, yeah.
And I I think to to
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differentiate between a good rye
and a bad rye.
466
00:26:21,730 --> 00:26:28,040
I think the bad rise I've had
you only get the rye flavor and
467
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,880
I think that's like the key
thing is that rye is not a great
468
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:37,360
flavor by itself in my opinion.
I think that the the best rye
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00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:44,960
use the rye as like a cherry on
top of a really solid sweet
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00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,960
foundation.
And when you when you're able to
471
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:52,240
marry that combination of
decadence and spice, I I think
472
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:57,220
that brings a complexity that
can often be missing on bourbons
473
00:26:57,220 --> 00:27:01,380
where it's more leans way more
heavily into the sweet factor.
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00:27:01,820 --> 00:27:05,540
And so I I I think genuinely on
the other swing side of things
475
00:27:05,540 --> 00:27:10,500
if all you have going on is rye
in a rye whiskey, I I still
476
00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:13,300
think it's good, but it it
definitely misses for me.
477
00:27:13,620 --> 00:27:14,980
Well, that's not the case here
man.
478
00:27:15,020 --> 00:27:18,180
And if we were scoring this with
our, you know, usual metric, I
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00:27:18,180 --> 00:27:20,820
think this is going over a 40
out of 50 for me for sure.
480
00:27:21,410 --> 00:27:23,130
Yeah, I I think I'm in the 45
range.
481
00:27:23,210 --> 00:27:28,770
I think this is like a 88 to 92
out of 100 top tier whiskey.
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00:27:29,050 --> 00:27:31,010
Now else, OK, let's put it like
this.
483
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We can't recommend this bottle
for people to go buy barrel
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00:27:34,890 --> 00:27:38,850
private release Rye in general.
We've tried one of the 10
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00:27:38,850 --> 00:27:41,570
finishes.
I think I feel comfortable
486
00:27:41,570 --> 00:27:44,970
enough saying that if all of the
finishes have this level of
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00:27:44,970 --> 00:27:47,610
attention to detail and care put
into them.
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00:27:48,340 --> 00:27:51,860
It's kind of a nobrainer pickup,
especially the PX casks, but I
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00:27:51,860 --> 00:27:54,220
would trust pretty much anything
they're putting out of barrel
490
00:27:54,220 --> 00:27:56,420
right now.
This bottle I believe was like,
491
00:27:56,740 --> 00:28:00,420
was it $90.90 or $100?
90 you know, their normal stuff
492
00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:03,900
is like $80.00.
So to to spend the extra 10
493
00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:08,060
bucks and get something that is
handpicked like this, I I don't
494
00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:10,260
really see any downside to this
bottle bread.
495
00:28:10,780 --> 00:28:13,140
No, not at all.
And and if you're not able to
496
00:28:13,140 --> 00:28:16,020
get your hands on this, you
know, limited distribution and
497
00:28:16,020 --> 00:28:20,990
all that, their barrel seagrass
is more widely distributed and
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00:28:20,990 --> 00:28:22,950
frankly, the best whisk I've
ever had.
499
00:28:22,990 --> 00:28:28,470
So if you're looking to get your
hands on some barrel, please,
500
00:28:28,470 --> 00:28:30,190
please grab some barrel
seagrass.
501
00:28:30,230 --> 00:28:34,430
And if if rye isn't quite your
jam, a, it needs to be your jam.
502
00:28:34,710 --> 00:28:37,670
And B, their dovetail is
incredible.
503
00:28:37,710 --> 00:28:40,910
Their vantage is incredible like
they had like they have so many
504
00:28:40,910 --> 00:28:43,910
other options that fit different
pallets.
505
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,640
As I said at the very start of
this segment, we're just here to
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00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,320
promote barrel.
They're incredible.
507
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,360
Go by.
There, and we say promote, we're
508
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,480
not accepting.
I mean, we would accept.
509
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,360
We're not getting any money from
them right now.
510
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,200
Like now.
Not at all.
511
00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,520
Genuinely love this brand.
We we paid $180 between the two
512
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:01,840
of us for these two bottles.
Yep.
513
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,320
So with and it was money.
We've put our money where our
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00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,160
mouth is.
We buy their products.
515
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,840
It's incredible.
All right, Brad, that does it
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for us today.
We'll be back on Tuesday to kick
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off Alfred Hitchcock.
With his 1946 film Notorious.
518
00:29:17,020 --> 00:29:20,060
A movie that fun fact I have
never seen.
519
00:29:20,420 --> 00:29:22,820
Oh, Robert.
I know.
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00:29:22,820 --> 00:29:25,340
Look at us.
So we will see you on Tuesday
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for that movie.
But until then, I'm Bob Book.
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I'm Brad G.
And we'll see you next time.