Moulin Rouge! - Depression Beards, Parisian Geography & a Huge Talent

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I've noticed lately the podcast I've listened
to often we'll start with a trigger warning,
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feel like, you know, there's
something upsetting that we're gonna discuss in
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this episode, just a trigger warning. And I realized two things. One,
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we can't do that, because that's
the that's the show. If we're
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like trigger warning and we just start
talking and never stop. Trigger Yeah,
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Goldo's weird sex, every kind of
weird sex. We can think of,
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jokes about death, everything, it's
all gonna be in here. But then
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I was like, and usually those
trigger warnings are about very reasonable things,
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but I was like, where are
my trigger warnings? Like I want a
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piece of art that I'm consuming to
open with trigger warning. A woman gives
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birth during this sure and you're gonna
want to die in there is a dare
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I say it again? Wet sneeze? There is a wet sneeze moment in
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this trigger warning. A man will
discuss jazz in this trigger warning. Juaquin
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Phoenix is in this. That's that's
for me, a great actor, but
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something about his face I just can't. I can't. Trigger warning. Mark
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Wahlberg is in this for me?
Yeah, trigger warning, Yeah, trigger
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warning. They're gonna We're gonna show
you a rodent. Okay. I was
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watching a movie based in Venice the
other day and I was having the best
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fucking time watching that movie, and
then at one point, a rat runs
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across a woman's foot and I was
like, well, this is ruined.
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I am not going to tell you
anything other than this. I listened to
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a podcast the other day that a
rodent came up, and my my literal
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first thought was, I know Erica
does not listen to this podcast, but
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if she did, if there was
even the slightest chance, I would have
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texted you immediately be like, you
cannot listen to this episode. Absolutely not.
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Your trigger has been warned. Yes, I'm telling you delete it from
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your fucking feed immediately. Hey in
America, and this is that aged well,
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yesterday's pop culture today and it's it's
a grand final of June, Erica.
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We are out of Gemini season.
We're closing THEA a month, We're
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closing THEATA month with a with a
classic. I think with this is a
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modern classic. This is by far, in my opinion, the movie is
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better than the show. But we're
going to talk about We're going to talk
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about that. Yep, we're going
to get into it. We're as we
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are going to get into it.
We do have a five star Apple podcast
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review. Would you like me to
read? Sure thing? Okay, So
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this is from Islain three Icelean Islan, Eileen is Lean is Lean three three.
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They write addicting. Accidentally found the
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Magnolia's and instead of IMD being it, I typed it into my search bar
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on Spotify. Oh my god,
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That's like when your mom texts you, but if she accidentally does it on
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Twitter, or when they text you
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Yeah, it all comes to your
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on here? This is very so
ii Leen three he goes on, decided
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to give it a try, and
it was love at first Listen. I
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love movies, but never have time
to see them. However, I do
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have a long commute to work.
We are perfect for that. That is
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our niche Yeah, it has become
my new favorite podcast to listen to while
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I drive anywhere or get ready.
Well that's delightful. I am curious.
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It sounds like ii Leen three had
never heard of Steel Magnolias. Oh is
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that possible? Because they write instead
of imd being it, they were just
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like, you know, looking for
it. Yeah, like someone tell me
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about this. Oh, I Lean
three, I really hope you got you
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got a chance to watch Steel Magnolia's. I know you're very very busy,
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very busy, but that is a
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that's one to put on the top
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Yeah, and you can also yet
tell Annell to drink bleach. Drink
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bleach. Annell, you whore.
I hate you. She's not a whore.
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That's the actual opposite. That's true. Who would be the horror in
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Steel Magnolia's there's a good there's an
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Yes, that's a correct answer.
I was gonna say weeza, but you're
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right. It's still all right,
Eileen three things. Oh I didn't,
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Erica, I didn't finish reading the
review. I keep interrupting. I'm sorry,
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I interrupted myself. Okay, all
right, sorry Aileen Three's review finishes.
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I know it's a quote unquote newer
movie, but I would love to
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hear your commentary. On any of
the Twilight films, Can I tell you
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I've only seen one and I loved
it. It's the last one, the
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very very last one that has the
ridiculously violent twenty minute battle scene. And
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I don't remember a single thing about
the rest of the movie. All I
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remember is that ridiculously long, twenty
minute battle scene that is so good.
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I feel like that, like this
is the kind of thing like, hey,
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we'll probably do Twilight. We'll just
break the rules at some point and
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do Twilight. But like that would
be something really good for the Patreon too,
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to be like we're gonna talk about
Twilight in two weeks, like when
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we get to two hundred and fifty
subscribers. Sure, yeah, we'll do
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that to Twilight. But also if
you have twenty minutes of time, the
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fourth or fifth or I don't know
how many of those movies that came out.
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So the only one I saw it's
the last one. It's because someone
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knew I would love this scene.
There's a twenty minute, super violent scene
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with a bunch of vampires killing each
other, and it's really excellent. So,
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Eileen three, if you would like
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go ahead email us let us know
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are and I will send it off
for you. Erica, what is the
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film that we are finishing theater month
with? Today's film is the two thousand
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and one Paul writes here, jukebox
musical romance. I vehemently disagree with that
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assessment, really I do. We'll
get into it, but today's film is
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the motherfucking masterpiece Moulan Rouge exclamation point. That's right. Mulan Rouge was requested
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by Stewart, by Ka, by
Austin and our patriot ends. We decided
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this month that we were gonna go
to Paris. We're either gonna go with
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mulin Rouge, Nicole Kinman, or
we're gonna go with Victor Victoria and Julie
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Andrews. And it turns out that
our patrons prefer Nicole Kimono Julian Andrews sixty
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percent to thirty nine percent. Do
you know why, Paul, Why?
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Because in here even heartbreak feels good. Heart break feels good in a place
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like this. Every time I go
to the movies now and that people applaud.
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It become a midget every fucking time, and it makes me so happy
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to be in at a theaterful of
people who are like what, I literally
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never go to amc Oh, there's
a bunch of AMC's by me. That's
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all I go to. Gotchah.
So yeah, I will admit I like
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this movie, like I've always liked
this movie, but I secretly was pulling
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for Victor Victoria. I was,
Oh, that's fair, some other time
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we will because I've actually never seen
it. And I was like, what
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a perfect excuse for me to watch
Victor Victoria, which is a movie I
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really want to watch, Alas this
is what we're doing instead, and I'm
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perfectly happy about it, perfectly happy. Yeah, no regrets, all right.
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So Moulin Rouge was written by Boz
Lherman and Craig Pierce. It was
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directed by Lerman and stars Nicole Kidman, You McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim
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Broadbent, and Richard I'm gonna go
with Roxborough, but maybe it's Roxburgh.
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Not sure what Roxborough? Roxboro?
Okay, mulon luge exclamation points, exclamation
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don't forget the They put it in
there for a reason. They're put in
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there for a goddamn reason. Was
nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best
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Picture, Best Actress, and winning
for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design,
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both won by Catherine Martin, the
Great Katherine Martin boz Lhman's wife and
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collaborator. Yes, she has like
twelve oscars for his movies and he has,
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I believe still zero he's got.
He's clocking it at zero. Look
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if he's gonna take swings in his
movies and like they're not all gonna hit,
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they're not. So I get why
he's not winning awards because he's He
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doesn't make perfect films, he barely
makes good film. But what he makes
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is magic, My pure fucking magic. We come here fan Midgic Moulin Rouge
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arrived on Broadway in twenty nineteen with
a book by John Logan and directed by
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Alex Timbers. It starred Aaron t
Fwight, Karen Olivo, and Danny Burstein.
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It was nominated for fourteen Tony Awards
and won ten, including Best Musical,
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Best Actor, and Best Featured Actor
in I would like to just put
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this caveat in the COVID shortened twenty
twenty season. Okay, this is where
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I tell this story. So,
look, jukebox musicals are just not my
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thing. They aren't. They're absolutely
not. They're not my thing either,
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but they're even less. You're like, I barely like musicals and will I
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will not tolerate a jukebox musical.
But on my birthday that year, we
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went on my birthday, we decided, you know what, I love this
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movie. The New York Times gave
this a like orgiastic review of like,
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this is one of the greatest things
you'll ever see. I blame you,
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Ben Brantley. I want my money
back, Ben Brantley. I remember that
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because we were kind of iffy on
it, and then it got like these
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incredible reviews. Yes, And so
we watched the first half and the audience,
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by the way around us loved it, ecstatic, singing along, clapping
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along, cheering at everything everyone does. So like I'm in the minority here,
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and I turned to pondering in immersion, and I go, is it
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just me? Or is this fucking
terrible? And like you all were enjoying
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it more than I was. Yeah, yeah, but even you were like,
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it's not great. Great, it's
not great. It is one of
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the rare occasions I think where like
a movie so so supersedes like a piece
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of theater. I'm trying to figure
out why the movie is so magical and
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wonderful and why the theater piece did
not work. I think I think the
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reason is two words Nicole Kidman,
oh throwing you and McGregor, yeah,
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like a this is this is actually
genuinely not a cut on the stage actors
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who Karen leave It was great.
We've we've discussed our feelings on Aaron Dwight's
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general acting abilities, and Danny Bernstein
was fucking amazing. I think I think
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Nicole Kidmit I think literally the the
the medium of film allows her and Annul
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McGregor to get us to believe this
love because it because it's they're being helped
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by all of these costumes and the
close ups and the fireworks and the like.
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It's all of this stuff. Visual
poetry is such a part of it.
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And they they make a couple of
crucial changes in the plot and the
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musical that change Setine's arc because in
the musical, and if you remember this,
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so if anyone hasn't seen Ulan Rouge, we're gonna spoil a little bit.
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Setine has consumption. It's rent ye. Trust. In the movie she
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doesn't know until the end, and
in the musical she knows the whole time,
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right, And that so I why
they did it, because you're like,
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we want to we want her to
be making choices, right, She's
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she's working with a full deck,
right, So I get why, Like
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that makes sense kind of dramaturgically,
but it it doesn't give the actress the
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moment of finding out that she's dying. Yeah, it doesn't give the actress
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that like operatic moment of like,
oh shit, I have to like,
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like I have at that point,
literally hours left on this earth. God,
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if I ever die of consumption,
may I look like Nicole Kiman does
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in the final moment? May I
have just the lightest bit of mist on
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my forehead? And as that is
the only way you know she's sick?
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Yeah, I did. I like
the musical more than you. Overall,
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it is it's so much. If
you think this movie is too much,
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they took this movie and they turned
the volume up on this movie, and
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it's it's something you're gonna have to
like let go and just go with.
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Yeah, just enjoy the music.
And the dance more. Just save just
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save yourself one hundred dollars, Turn
on the radio and listen to four seconds
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of eight hundred songs because that's what
it feels like to watch the musical.
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Yeah, it does. Yeah,
you're not wrong. Mulan Rouge has a
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seventy four percent critical rating on Rotten
Tomatoes and an eighty nine percent audience score.
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It has a seventy seven percent on
Cherry Picks. I actually think that's
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about right. Yeah, I think
that's right. I mean the movie's insane.
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The first twenty minutes of the movie. I actually I've seen it before
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spoilers, but like I was like, am I not gonna like this this
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time? Am I too old to
enjoy the funny duddy? Yeah? Like
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then it just like slows down a
little bit after like the first twenty minutes,
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But like the first minutes is like
did am I on speed? Did
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I did I snort coke? Like? What is happening? It helps to
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know, like Boz Luhrmann's whole thing. Yeah, when you're like, remember
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when we were discussing Romeo and Juliet, is the same thing of like the
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first ten minutes, you're gonna feel
insane. Yeah, you're gonna be wildly
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disoriented. You're not gonna what the
funk is happening? Yeah, and then
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it'll calm down, yeah, and
like moving and it'll settle. And that's
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every single I haven't seen Elvis yet, don't I hear. Yeah, I've
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seen parts of it, but not
the whole thing. But I remember,
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like, same thing with the Great
gas Feet. You just gotta settle in.
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Relax, you just got it.
Buckle up for the first twenty minutes.
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Just breathe through it. But I
think like seventy four seventy five critical,
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but then like ninety percent audience that
makes it. That makes a lot
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of audience. I would say could
even be higher, but like ninety percent
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is pretty high. There are going
to be people that do not like this
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movie. That's fair, Which is
fair. Look, I love this movie,
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but I am also here for people
who are like nosolutely because I felt
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that way about the musical, I
was like, no, yeah, yeah,
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you really just liked the musical a
lot more than me. I was
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like, this is a this is
just not as I was let down,
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I think because I went in with
super high expectations. Yeah, or Erica
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when did you first see Mola Roche
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for this. Actually I saw this
opening weekend. I think I saw a
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midnight showing, like Thursday night at
midnight at the zig Field, which,
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for those of you who don't live
in New York or who recently moved to
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New York, the zig Field was
this like old, opulent, like red
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velvet was a house movie house.
Yeah, it used to be an old
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Zigfield Follies theater. So there was
all this like ephemera in the place.
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You could see like old costumes and
playbuilds, and it was like an elegant,
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cool, fun night at the theater. It probably also sat like fifteen
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hundred people. I think they were
playing. They played the score of Follies
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constantly in the lobby there. Yeah, that's not a score poll. Those
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are the ghosts of the old deadvillions, actual ghosts. And I saw it
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with a full house with like fifteen
hundred oh wow, and the audience was
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all in like it was the kind
of thing where it's not just going to
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the movies, it's a whole experience
around it. And so I was already
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predisposed to loving this Stivie, but
I love this stupid movie, and I've
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seen it twenty times. Maybe.
Okay, how about you, Paul,
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when did you first see Mula Rouge? I first saw Mulan Rouge when it
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was in theaters. I don't have
that cool of an experience to recount.
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I think I probably saw at Union
Square or something like with some friends and
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stuff. But I liked it.
I mean, look, we were both
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in theater school in two thousand and
one, like this was for us.
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I had an interesting kind of journey
with it, though, because I saw
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it, like I would say,
like four or five times, like kind
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of around that time, and then
I haven't seen it in years. Yeah.
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My prevailing like hot take on the
movie has always been I think Nicole
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Kimman's kind of miscasting it. We've
argued about this, yes again. I
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was prepared to argue more about this
today, but and I watched it this
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time, and I maintain, I
look love Nicole Kidman. We come to
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her from magic. She cannot dance, and she a fine singer. She's
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fine. Her acting is so good
in this movie. She she horks that
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thing up the hill on her back, and she has the more difficult role
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a whoo I kind of disagree with
you on that. I think she's magic.
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I think she's magic in this film
is magic. She's magic. But
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I also you got it like this
does not work without Ewan McGregor. Oh,
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really, like the earnestness that he
brings to it, that is like
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completely unironic. The first half of
the movie, the hard part of the
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movie, the part that you really
have to buy into early. It's all
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on his back, that's true,
And if it didn't, if it was
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not him. I think I read
on IMDb or on Wikipedia that they had
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offered it to a bunch of other
guys, including and I love him,
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but including Ethan Hawk, And I
was like, I don't I love Ethan
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Hawk, but I don't see even
Ethan Hawk pulling this through. Well yeah,
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Like there's something extraterrestrially like magical about
Ewan McGregor specifically that makes this shit
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work. It's his boyish trip.
It's the face and the boyish charm you
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and never believe this is a guy
that loves nothing more than pulling his dick
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out in movies like he will show
will show, will flash hole on screen
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at a moment's notice. But because
he looked like he's what he's probably like
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thirty when they did this or something. He's thirty and she's thirty three.
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And you could have told me the
kid was sixteen, and you're like,
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well, the actor's not sixteen,
but he has that level of like boyish
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wonder coming off him in Rolls.
I I agree, I shouldn't say that
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Nicole kimen Hork's up. He's there
too, and he is a crucial part
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of it. I wholeheartedly agree with
you that Nicole Kidman is excellent in this
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film. And we should also mention
it is not just them, it is
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everyone. It is the man I
can't remember his name, I'm sorry,
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but the man who plays the Argentinian. Oh, the Polish man who's playing
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the Argentinian Polish playing the Argentinian.
It is the woman who plays like the
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mean girl in the film. The
Princess of Musical Theater of Australia is in
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this movie. It's ever it's John
like Guizamo who It's a swing and a
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miss for me, but I don't
care. It is the whole thing.
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It's like he magically got all these
people to invest in this idea and like
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live in the same world at the
same time. I think that's why I
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like the movie so much. Okay, fair enough, fair enough, All
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right, Erica, you ready for
this tagline? You're like this fair warning.
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You are gonna hate this, Okay. The tagline from Mulan Rouge is
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no laws, no limits, one
rule, never fall in love. That's
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so stupid. No law, no
limits, one rule. That's it.
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You have. You have used six
words, and you have you have contradicted
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yourself. Also, this person didn't
see the movie. They literally didn't see
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Freedom, Truth, beauty and love. Yeah, right there, right there,
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right there. Yeah, that's bunkers. The tagline for this should have
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been may warning may affect photo sensitive
viewers. May have just been like a
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dollar sign next to nat King Cole's
name. If you have ever had a
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seizure, Not for you. I
do you want to read the Iteen synopsis?
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Sure. When an idealistic poet played
by Ewan McGregor is drawn into the
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dark, fantastical underworld of the Parisian
nightclub the Laouge, he finds a CD
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glamorous haven of sex, drugs,
and electricity. Electricity. That's interesting,
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that's something that's not wrong. There's
electricity there so much electricity this movie.
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It's not commented on, but it's
there. I feel like if there had
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been that much electricity in the Mulan
Rouge in eighteen ninety nine, we would
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have had a famous conflagration. I
feel like the rest of France had no
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electricity because it all went to this
one fucking place. All the wires in
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France were in the Mulan. It's
like, okay, we're gonna have another
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revolution, now get out the guillotines. Christian also finds himself plunged into a
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passionate love affair with the club star
who was also the city's most famous courtisan,
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Nicole Kidman, in this tragic love
story from filmmaker boz Lerman. Yeah
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perfect, that's perfect, fucking perfect, the opposite of the tagline actual synopsis
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for this movie. Have you ever
dropped acid and gone to the opera?
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these messages and we will take you through
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Mola Rouge and we're back. We
open on a tiny orchestra conductor meant to
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look as though we are in an
actual live theater. Do we think this
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is Bradley Cooper's big break? This
was his moment, This was him conducting
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for the first time ever. Yeah, it's like the bottom of the screen,
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right there's a little man conducting an
orchestra. We can't see. He
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waves open the lush red curtain,
and we hear the prelude of the music
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that we're gonna hear throughout the movie. And if you've never seen the movie,
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you're like, did I just hear
the sound of music? Huh?
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That's a o car or carr.
Maybe it's like a history of musical theater
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here, though I don't know what's
happening. It's already a little disorienting.
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We see the opening credits and then
a title card that says Paris nineteen hundred.
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Then in CPA tones we see Henri
to lose Lutrek played by Jean Leguizamo
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there's a lot there. I don't
have time to go into all of them.
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Look, there's nary a French person
in this film. Just deal with
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it. A Columbian man is playing
this real life French person. Moving on.
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He is dressed as a sad clown
right sitting on a rooftop in Paris,
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singing the opening lines of nature Boy
by Nat King Cole. Little like
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tiny thing for this, because I
know it's gona annoy some people. I
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did the recap for this one.
Whenever I name a real song, I
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name the artist who sings it,
not the writer. So like I know,
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someone out there is screaming into their
phone the actual writer of Nature Boy.
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I don't know who that is,
Okay, frankly fair enough to me,
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it's a Nat King Cole song.
Deal with it. So the camera
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zooms in a very luminesque way through
the decadent and impoverished village of Montmartre until
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it finally zooms in through a window
into Christian's apartment. Christian is played by
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Ewan McGregor. He's crying, he's
drinking his sorrows away. The cipia tone
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fades into normal color as Christian goes
to his typewriter and writes quote, the
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greatest thing you'll ever learn is just
to love and be loved in return.
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Do we think that's going to be
important important theme in the movie. Do
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we think we're gonna hear this line
so many times that Nat King calls great
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great great great grandchildren? Are gonna
be able to eat off of this?
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Yes? Yes, yeah, I
think so. I think that's right.
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You know what I love about the
scene. So obviously Christian's in his depression
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era, right. He has an
overgrown depression beard, and it is groomed.
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I have had a depression whatever passes
for a beard on my face,
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let me tell you it was many
things. Groomed was not one of them.
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Attractive was also not one of them, to be fair, But I
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was like, so he's growing the
beard, but he's also making those sharp
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lines to make sure it looks good. That's what Catherine Martin thinks. Depression
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looks like She's never had a sad
day in her life. The camera pans
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over the Moulin Rouge and we see
slow motion images of the wildly decadent party
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inside. As Christian says in voiceover
in a British accent to be clear,
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very a French person in this film. Everyone else is supposed to be French.
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Christian's the only one who's supposed to
yees, he's actually he's canonically British.
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The Moulin Rouge a nightclub, a
dance hall, and a bordello,
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a kingdom of nighttime pleasures where the
rich and powerful came to play with the
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young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of all these was
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the Woman I Loved Setine, a
courtesan. She sold her love to men,
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and she was the star of the
Moulin Rouge. The Woman I Loved
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is dead. Excellent performance. Thank
you, thank you. I give myself
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Goosebine. I thought you were.
Gregor was in the room with me right
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now, he stops typing. By
the way, we are we go into
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the Mulan Ruge. It's like it's
it's slow motion, it's sped up images.
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It is it is an orgy of
like just stimulation. I mean luerrman
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esque is the only way I can
describe it. If you don't know what
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that means. It's like, I
literally is like taking acid and speed and
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then hitting your head against the wall
all at the same time, it's like
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Buzzby Berkeley got like some a little
fire under Buzby Berkeley. Say So,
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Christian stops typing long enough to look
out the window towards the mulan Ruge.
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Tears are streaming down his face,
and then Christian begins typing again, and
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he launches into his origin story of
how he came to Paris. So we
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find out he came to Paris one
year ago from London against his father's stern
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objections, to live a penniless existence
as a writer among the children of the
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revolution. And we hear an eighteen
ninety nine version of the t Rex song.
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Right, Yeah, so that's what
the that's what these young bohemians and
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mar people who studied French history must
hate this movie so much. But yeah,
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they're calling themselves the children of the
Revolution. Yep, he came to
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write about truth, beauty, freedom, and most important of all, love
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again. You and McGregor. I
don't know how he makes this work because
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there is not an iota of irony
or cynicism. You and McGregor in the
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nineties and early two thousands fucking owned
cinema. Yeah, he was genius in
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everything. He owned the loins of
every single woman I knew, oh for
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sure. Yeah, like every there
was the girl who was frustrated. He
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was it. Yeah, he was
it. I can attest to that.
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Okay. So the only problem with
Christian's plan is that he's never been in
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love and had no idea how to
write about it. Luckily, right at
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that moment he's sitting in his apartment, an unconscious Argentinian man falls through the
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ceiling and into the apartment and is
quickly joined by This is the movie's terminology.
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A dwarf dressed as a nun.
That's exactly what the movie says.
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But because to loose the track,
actually he did not have dwarfism, but
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he had like yet, he had
some genetic disorder because he was he's aristocracy,
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and he's front aristocracy. He's deeply
inbred, which is not funny.
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I don't know why I laugh because
it's uncomfortable. It's a little funny.
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Yeah, so he's got a lot
going on. They don't. I'm not
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sure he had Dwarfism. I think
he had just his legs never formed.
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Yeah, yeah, I think so. Okay, So this is of course
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to loose the track. Who is
dressed in costume for a play they were
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rehearsing upstairs called Spectacular Spectacular. Before
Christian even knows what's happening, he is
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whisked upstairs to step in for the
narcoleptic Argentinian. That performance. That man
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is so he's very funny, he's
so good. So he said, he's
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stepping in so the rest of the
cast can continue to rehearse and also crucially
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right the show as they're rehearsing it, which is exactly how theatre were.
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That is what you should do.
That is exactly how every That's the perfect
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process. You just you just show
up in the room, you start taking
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notes, you start making things up, you start talking, and then whatever
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anyone says, you just write it
down. Every single thing that happens in
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this movie is how theater works.
I want to stress that point. This
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movie is a documentary on how to
launch a show. This is how pitch
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meetings work. This is how rehearsals
work. This is how pit orchestras work,
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artisans work, this is how sex
workers work. This is how the
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Mulon rouge worked. I think so
yeah. My favorite thing I ever heard
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about this movie was someone bitching,
like really bitching about it, and because
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he hated it, and he was
like, I went to see a movie
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called The Mulon Rouge and I got
four seconds of can Can and that was
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his whole thing. He was so
pissed that he only got four seconds of
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can Can. And what an angry, bitchy little queen you're listening too?
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Was it? Me? Okay,
bro, calm down. I think there's
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00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:57.480
other shit you can watch can Can
in a shopwrite commercial for instance. So
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00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:03.799
right away, Christian notices tension between
the temperamental playwright Audrey played by I can't
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remember, write and write his name
down. I think it's David Wenham is
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his name? This actor who is
in three hundred and he's so hot and
408
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:17.240
this he's playing like like a gender
bendy playwright, like it's so fantastic.
409
00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:22.880
So Audrey is the sensitive playwright.
And Audrey's lyrics are terrible. There's one
410
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I have to just say that.
He starts off like how do we get
411
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:32.160
this song going? And the line
is the hills animate with the euphonious symphonies
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of desk cant That's how Audrey writes. So Christian, seeing a chance to
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help, just chimes in with how
about the hills are alive with the sound
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of music, and everyone goes,
you're a genius. They're thrilled by his
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natural talent. He continues to sing
the sound of music. I will not
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put the audience through that. Audrey, who was already feeling threatened, becomes
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furious at the suggestion that Christian writes
the show with him, and he's like,
418
00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:07.839
absolutely not. He quits on the
spot. Suddenly to lose is like,
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congratulations Christian on your first job in
Paris, and he's toasting him with
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a giant glass of absence. So
this all escalated very very been here for
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twenty minutes. So I think now
that we're talking through it, I think
422
00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:23.920
I know what your objection to the
describing as a jukebox musical romance is.
423
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:27.119
And is it because it's actually a
farce for like the first half of it,
424
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like a full comic bedroom farce.
Yeah. Well, because what it
425
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:36.400
is is it's more than a musical. I think of it as a film
426
00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:41.960
pastiche rather than a musical, a
jukebox musical, because I think a juke
427
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box musical takes like one work of
art, or like a few works of
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art, and kind of create like
hangs a story on it. This was
429
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clearly written. This is Labom first
of all, so they already have the
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story. They don't need to worry
about that. But then they just infuse
431
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it with modern like music from the
last hundred years. But they also have
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old op music. And they also
like fucking Placido Domingo sings in this at
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00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:06.039
some point. Yeah, like that's
like crazy. I don't think it's a
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jukebox musical, Okay, I just
don't think it. I think it's bigger
435
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:11.200
than that. It's more interesting than
that. Okay, fair enough. The
436
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.920
group patches a plan. They'll introduce
Christian to Setine, the star of Spectacular
437
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:21.599
Spectacular and once Setne hears his poetry
is on board with Christian writing the show,
438
00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:25.960
Shiel convinced the confestors to put their
faith in Christian too. The way
439
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:29.200
like the movie like delivers all this
stuff. It's so like when people move
440
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:33.599
their hands their sound effects like it
it is a cartoon. Yeah. At
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00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.440
this point, Christian panics that he's
not ready to write a truly Bohemian musical,
442
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:40.839
but the group convinces him to spread
his message of truth, beauty,
443
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:45.440
freedom and love to the world.
And they give him his first taste of
444
00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:49.039
absinthe, which causes him to hallucinate
the Green Fairy played by Kylie Minogue and
445
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:52.240
voiced by I believe Ozzy Osborne.
I read that on Wikipedia too, although
446
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:55.920
I can't hear Ozzy Osbourne's voice in
there at all, so I'm not sure
447
00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:59.000
what that person was talking about.
Yeah, I believe them, but I'm
448
00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:02.160
like, are we sure that's Ozzy
Osbourne? Well, I think because her
449
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:06.200
voice gets distorted, and I'm like, are they mixing? I don't understand,
450
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:08.519
but sure, but sure, Yeah, they're dancing and singing all around
451
00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:11.799
him. They go to the Mulin
Rouge. It's more like more orgy for
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00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.599
the senses. Just just go with
it. This scene is the full bas
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00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:19.680
Lerman effect of like there's a million
shots cut together really fast. Everything's in
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your face. It's huge. It's
it's a visual orgy of like fast camera
455
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:30.039
cuts and saturated color. Yeah.
So this is where we meet impresario Harold
456
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.680
Zidler played by Jim Broadbent. So
good in this movie, so good in
457
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:40.079
this movie actually manages to create like
because Nicole Kidman and Ew McGregor have to
458
00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:41.079
be so I don't mean this a
bad way, but like simple, like
459
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.799
you. McGregor is just like the
innocent young lover. He actually has shades
460
00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:48.160
of gray in this movie. He's
like almost a real person. Yes,
461
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:52.279
Harold Ziddler like he he does some
good things, he does some bad things,
462
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:53.559
does some bad things for good reasons. He does good things for bad
463
00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:59.000
reasons. Like he's actually morally gray
and he cares about people. He cares
464
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:01.160
about them too. It's not a
full villain either. Yeah, it's really
465
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:05.680
good, by the way, small
thing, but Harold's The actual man who
466
00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:09.680
co owned the Mulon Rouge was Charles
Zidler. So okay, then the last
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00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:13.480
name is correct, the first name
is. I'm assuming they had to do
468
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:15.599
that to be like, that's not
who we're yet, this is not You're
469
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:19.960
not doing a real dude here.
For some reason that was not a problem
470
00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:22.160
with to Loosla Trek. But yeah, we wanted to cover our ass on
471
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:29.720
Zidler. So he introduces his sexy
skirt twirling dancers known as the Diamond Dogs.
472
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.920
We get a mashup of Lady Marmalade
because we can can can then smells
473
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:36.920
like teen Spirit and I think Diamond
Dogs here too. I don't think I
474
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:39.119
wrote that in but yeah, we
also get dimes in casey who were wondering
475
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:44.920
if why there's that too. The
audience, which consists mostly of like well
476
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:47.680
dressed upperclass men, rushes the stage. They try to pawt the dancers.
477
00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:52.240
They mingle with the crowds, and
Zidler addresses the camera directly as we see
478
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:57.640
him flying down from a neighboring rooftop
and swooping into the Mulan rouge. We
479
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.720
see acrobats, snake handlers, tack
two men waltzing together, circus performers,
480
00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:07.160
nobleman in Tutu's it is. It
is just like everything they could possibly throw
481
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:12.440
at the screen. It's amazing,
Yeah, it's absolutely amazing. Everything crescendos
482
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.559
right and then the lights go dim
and it gets a little quiet. Glitter
483
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:21.400
falls from the ceiling and everyone looks
up to see the Great Sateine played by
484
00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:25.119
the Great Nicole Kidman. Yep,
she's on a swing, gliding over the
485
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:30.440
crowd. She launches into her solo
number, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend,
486
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.559
with a soussl of material girl thrown
in as well. The audience is
487
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:38.400
enraptured, none more than Christian who's
dazzled by Setne's beauty. Fucking Nicole Kidmen
488
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:42.839
is a ten. There's just no
there's no way around it. I understand
489
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:46.200
why they cast her because she is
such an unapproachable Yeah, she's like an
490
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:50.799
ethereal otherworldly kind of like goddess kind
of looking. Yeah, she does not
491
00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:57.160
look like a French prostitute from eighteen
ninety nine. Speak for yourself. It's
492
00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:00.319
exactly how I presure the ladies of
the evening. My great great grandmother was
493
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:05.480
a French prostitute in eighteen ninety nine, and she looked exactly like Nicochie.
494
00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:12.239
She was also six feet tall and
forty pounds and Australian. Unfortunately, he's
495
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:15.639
not the only one there with an
appointment to meet Setine that night, because
496
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:20.960
Zidler and Satene have conspired for her
to meet and seduce the Duke. We
497
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:23.960
will never learn this person's actual name. He's just referred to as the Duke
498
00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:29.599
the entire film. This is another
performance that like you can't sleep on because
499
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:35.159
it is incredible, so fucking good. This is Richard Roxborough as the mustache
500
00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:39.519
twirling like villain of the film,
and he is doing everything everything. He
501
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:44.599
is bringing the comedy heat like no
one else is in thee, like he
502
00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:47.400
saw what the the Polish man playing
the Argentinian is doing, and he goes,
503
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:51.960
hold my fucking beer. Yeah,
hold my beer. Yeah, that's
504
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:57.079
my that's my Australian accents. Perfect, it's perfect, hold my fostas.
505
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:02.039
So Zidler and Sateene want to do
to invest in spectacular, spectacular and also
506
00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:07.920
to become Setne's patron so that she
can go on to greater, bigger and
507
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.000
better things. Right, her dream
is to become like Sarah Bernhardt. Satine
508
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:14.760
asks Zidler to point the Duke out
while they're like on stage dancing. There's
509
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:19.840
a series of miscommunications and problems here, but she mistakes Christian for the Duke
510
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:22.599
since the two men are ultimately sitting
next to each other. Ye, so
511
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:24.760
she's like, got it, I
found him. While Zidler is changing his
512
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:28.880
costume backstage because he's also part of
the show so he's not watching her,
513
00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:34.360
Setine approaches Christian and asks him to
dance, and she flirts outrageously with him,
514
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:37.360
and he is stumbling over his words. He can barely say anything,
515
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:40.039
and she is just like, oh
boy, this is all right. Kids,
516
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:46.039
come on opening her vagina and come
on. He shyly asks her to
517
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:51.000
attend a private poetry reading with him
so he can show her his stuff,
518
00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:55.480
and she completely misconstrues his meaning and
suggestively agrees to I'll read poetry with you
519
00:35:55.519 --> 00:36:00.840
all night. Setine gets back on
the swing to sing the last line of
520
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:15.199
Diamonds are a girls best. I
I hate sudden onset consumption. That's how
521
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:19.360
it works, right, It just
comes upon you like like like a fart.
522
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.559
I have so much to talk about
consumption later. We're gonna get to
523
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:28.599
it. We're gonna get to it. She falls from the swing and into
524
00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:32.159
the crowd. Luckily, one of
the male dancers, the only black person
525
00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:37.159
in the movie with lines, who's
one line, one line, whose character
526
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.480
name is At first I thought it
was shock a Lot, but it's not.
527
00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:44.039
It's let's shock a Lot, which
I think is worse. Do you
528
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.239
know that's a real person that actually
makes it so okay? I have so
529
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:51.079
much to say about this character.
I think the movie's wonderful. It falls
530
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:52.840
down on a couple of things,
and in terms of not aging, well,
531
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:57.119
this is where I think it really
falls down. Let's Chock a Lot
532
00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:00.599
is a real person, real performer
in Paris at the time would have been
533
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.000
at the Mulin Rouge, was a
circus performer. They decided to put him
534
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:07.039
in the film. Cool, right, Like interesting that, Like I can
535
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.480
totally see the meeting where they're like, let's put some people of color in
536
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:13.719
this, let's diversify who would have
been around Paris at that time. Cool,
537
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:15.159
let's let's put him in the film. You know what we should do?
538
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:21.519
Make him a magical negro. And
I'm just like, no, you
539
00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:24.639
were so close, you were so
close to making it good. And like
540
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:29.599
he barely speaks in the film,
and he only shows up to save Setine
541
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:34.039
over and over and over again.
It is. It sucks, it sucks.
542
00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:37.119
It's not good. It's not good. So she is taken backstage for
543
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:43.440
medical treatment and Zidler pretends it's all
part of Satin's act. Meanwhile, backstage,
544
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:46.440
Schetine performs the universal movie language for
it a Bitch, Go and dive.
545
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:51.440
At the end of this movie,
she coughs blood into a handkerchief that's
546
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:55.400
Chekhov's bloody Hanks check offs bloody hanky? Is is this? I know is
547
00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:58.920
obviously not the first movie to do
it, but I feel like this was
548
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:02.639
like the turning point in the culture
where everyone was like no more. But
549
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:07.840
it continues to happen. I see
it all the time. Oh no,
550
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:12.119
no, there's blood in my hanky. I can't believe that Snel doesn't have
551
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:14.800
one where like a cough and they
like, oh god, there's a dog
552
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:21.239
in my handkerchie random ship. Still
that doesn't stop her from rallying. She
553
00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:23.840
puts on a sexy red gown.
Okay, I have to point out that
554
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:30.920
she puts on this red gown.
She looks incredible. Va. I mean,
555
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:32.239
it's it's the poster for the movie. It's that it's that gown.
556
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:35.960
Yeah, she's putting this on to
go seduce the duke. When we next
557
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.760
see here, she will be in
lingerie. Takes off like, I don't
558
00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:43.440
think anyone, no one even saw
you in that except Zidler. What was
559
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:45.679
the point you had? You had, Marie, You're like, you're handmaid
560
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:51.639
like coarsening the fuck out of you. No one saw it. Did she
561
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:53.480
have to poop? Do you think
that's what happens? Happened? She shipped
562
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:58.519
herself walking from her from there to
her apartment. Marie, clean this and
563
00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:02.679
get me some lingerie guys. The
saying good. That's why I had to
564
00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:06.440
put that big bustle on it to
hide the stains. We kept ripping one
565
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:13.079
every time every time she like tightened
the strings. I don't imagine I have
566
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:15.559
worn like pants that are too tight, like you know, like and then
567
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:21.800
you sit down and is so uncomfortable
and like like almost nausea inducing. And
568
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:25.719
then then you remember these women are
just like literally can't breathe date just for
569
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:29.239
the whole day. Yeah, and
then at the end of the night they
570
00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.880
must like get out of these things
and be like I'm free. I mean
571
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.199
I can attest even now, and
I wear the most comfortable bra I could
572
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:39.000
possibly find it. Yeah, barely
a bra, it's a T shirt.
573
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:42.920
And even then when I get home, I'm like, oh, thank god,
574
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.800
I hit your bras just someone you
pay to walk around holding your breasts
575
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:52.440
up very soft gloves. I walk
into my apartment, I just slap the
576
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:55.760
hands away, get out, get
away a pray. So Seteen goes to
577
00:39:55.800 --> 00:40:00.039
meet the duke, but really it's
Christian. We know that in her I
578
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:05.039
have an apartment, and she's playing
a very easy to get She's not even
579
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:07.880
trying to like, oh, no, I'm a lady. Right, we're
580
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:12.400
back in the sticket portion of the
evening stick it in. She lays across
581
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:15.679
the bed in this seductive pose,
and Christian, who still thinks he's there
582
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:17.559
for an audition, is like,
what the fuck am I supposed to do?
583
00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:22.639
He's like, okay, well,
why don't you get comfortable because what
584
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:25.800
you know, it's a bit long, uh huh, and I'm gonna be
585
00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:29.920
using some modern techniques, so it
may feel a little funny at first.
586
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:32.719
And obviously we as the audience know
he's talking about his poetry uh huh.
587
00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:37.000
And she's like, the fuck is
about that happen in this room? What
588
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.119
does your penis look like? Because
I can't tell you enough. She's laying
589
00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:44.079
on the bed and he is fifteen
feet away from her, across the room,
590
00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:45.000
and he's like, no, no, stay on the bed because you're
591
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.480
want to get comfortable because it's very
long and very modern, and it might
592
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.920
feel uncomfortable at first, but I
think eventually, if you just breathe into
593
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:54.679
it, you're gonna like it.
You just give me a minute. If
594
00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:58.519
you're open, If you're open,
that's he actually says it. If you're
595
00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:00.639
open to it, I think you'll
enjoy it. She suppresses this laugh and
596
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:05.920
she's like, Okay, go on, and he gets nervous, and so
597
00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:08.559
he starts to fumble. He's tried
to He's he didn't come there with a
598
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:12.800
written poem. He just came there
to, like, to be fair,
599
00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:16.199
he is currently hallucinating and on absent, so you're right, I forgot that
600
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:21.400
part. And he was not like
he didn't know this was happening. This
601
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:24.440
has been a real whirlwind. What
if he goes straight into nineteen nineties deaf
602
00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:30.000
poetry and he just starts to use
the N word way too much. He's
603
00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:37.119
like four score and seven years ago. So he starts to fumble. He's
604
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:39.119
like, he's like, oh my
god, oh my god. He's nervous.
605
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:42.760
He's blowing it. He says,
I'm so sorry. It's just sometimes
606
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:45.880
inspiration doesn't come to me right away. And she's like, oh, let
607
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:51.280
me inspire you. So she throws
him on the bed, She jumps on
608
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:53.039
top of him. She starts to
like paw at his pants, and she
609
00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:58.920
goes, let's release the tiger.
She just goes all in on this insane
610
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:01.880
premise, and so it's like tiger
on top of him, and he's like,
611
00:42:02.039 --> 00:42:06.440
what is happening? What is happening? And she like takes his penis
612
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:07.519
out of his pants. We don't
see anything because the movie is PG.
613
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:12.199
Thirteen much the disappointment of you and
McGregor, and she goes, oh,
614
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.400
big boy. Then we see that
the rest of it, like to lose
615
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:19.679
La Trek and all the other Argentinian
and all the other cast members of the
616
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:23.880
show are watching this from a rooftop
across the way, and to Lose La
617
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:29.880
Trek goes, he has a huge
talent, so okay. Christian pushes her
618
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:36.000
off, gets up, buckles back
up, hauls his fire hose, coils
619
00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:39.320
it up back into his pants.
It takes the elephant trunk, wraps it
620
00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:46.440
around his waist like a flesh belt, and he starts to like, like
621
00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:51.840
recite the lyrics to your song by
Elton John. It's a little bit funny,
622
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:57.360
this feeling inside. Yeah, I'm
not one who who can easily hide.
623
00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:00.320
He's saying the words, he's not
singing it yet, right, And
624
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:02.840
she, of course misconstrues his intentions
once again, and she thinks this is
625
00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:07.320
all some for some form of weird
fucking four places for some reason, the
626
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:12.239
court is On seems to think men
have a one track mind. She's she
627
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:15.079
doesn't know what he's doing, but
she is positive and it's about sex well,
628
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:17.360
because she knows that's like the whole
thing. She's not wrong. Yeah,
629
00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:20.840
She's like, hey, how about
I fuck you? You give me
630
00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:24.800
so much money that I become a
star, right, I am very willing
631
00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:29.199
to funk my way to the top. Yeah, I do not have any
632
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:34.719
moral quandary here. So she's like, oh, I see naughty poetry.
633
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.800
Yes, give me her naughty words, and she starts writing. He was
634
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:46.760
like, there once was a man
from Nantucket. Dick was so long he
635
00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:50.719
had suck it, he said with
the grin, And she's like, yes,
636
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:57.000
he wiped off his chin. Yes, So she starts writhing on the
637
00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:00.199
floor. She's like, oh,
yes, yes, yes, yes,
638
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:04.639
And I'm telling you people, Nicole
Kidman has earned every single Oscar nomination she
639
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:08.320
has ever fucking received just for this
scene alone. Finally, Christian is so
640
00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:13.760
uncomfortable he breaks out into song and
he goes, my gift is my song,
641
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:19.280
and this one's for you. She
stops this whole seduction act and she
642
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:23.199
actually starts listening to him as he
serenades her. Now it's her turn to
643
00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:27.960
be completely enchanted. Right. He's
so sweet, He's singing to her so
644
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.679
earnestly. We talked a little bit
about Nicole Kidman's voice. You McGregor also
645
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:36.639
not the greatest voice. Charming though
sweet, lovely to listen to, but
646
00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:38.480
not He's not gonna be like a
musical theater star. This is not Hugh
647
00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:44.079
Jackman. Yeah. She fantasizes as
he's singing to her about the two of
648
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:47.199
them, like on the foggy rooftops
of Paris. Like suddenly she's she's in
649
00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:52.559
her head and they're dancing along the
rooftops. By the time he finishes the
650
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:54.360
song, she's completely in love with
him. She's like, I cannot believe
651
00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:58.880
my luck. I'm in love.
I'm actually in love for the first time
652
00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:02.159
ever. And it's with a hints
some talented duke, and Christian smiles at
653
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:06.880
her and goes, I'm not a
duke, I'm a writer. Wait,
654
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:12.800
like, throw some cold water up
and Setine soils her second set of panties
655
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:16.440
for that to night. Setine barely
has time to absorb this turn of events.
656
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:19.199
She's like, you need to get
the fuck out. Why are you
657
00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:22.239
here now, who I thought I
was meeting Zidler and the Duke burst in
658
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.679
on her and she has to hide
Christian behind her legs. This is very
659
00:45:25.719 --> 00:45:30.400
theatrical, it's very stagy, it's
very like, there's literally no way these
660
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.159
two would not see Yeah, like, you know, I want to say,
661
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.559
Christian bale you and McGregor in this
room. But you know, she's
662
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:39.760
like hiding him behind like a flimsy
neglige and they can't see him. Suddenly
663
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:44.519
it's fine, all works, fine, it's a cartoon anyway. Yeah,
664
00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:47.559
it's the first tragic farce I think, right, Oh, yeah, that's
665
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:52.360
what it is. It's a tragic
musical farcee. He invented a new a
666
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.599
new genre. Well done, Buzzler
me here you go. So she's trying
667
00:45:55.639 --> 00:45:59.960
to direct the Duke's attention away from
the door so Christian can make a clean
668
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:01.880
get away. Now she's kind of
doing the same thing that she was doing
669
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:05.360
with Christian with the duke, only
now the Duke's the one is confused,
670
00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:07.119
and she's like, oh, look
at me, look at me, look
671
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:10.360
at me. She is now Nathan
Lane in the bird case. Yes,
672
00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:15.639
Madonna, Madonna, Martha Graham Arthur
Graham. Arthur Graham, I meant Nathan
673
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:19.320
Lane, but now that I think
about it, she's actually Robin Williams in
674
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.599
the bird Age. Yeah. She
starts singing your Song to the Duke,
675
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:25.480
which really works on him, and
now he's enchanted by Setne. There's a
676
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:30.920
sweet moment where there's actually like sparkles
in his eyes, like the movie Magic,
677
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:32.960
where he's like, holy shit,
now I'm in love. I remember
678
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:36.119
the first time I watched this,
I was like, oh, they are
679
00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:38.760
they not going to have a villain? They do, I mean they do,
680
00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:45.079
but he's also like such a silly
character that it's it really really work
681
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:46.800
because the movie almost doesn't need a
villain because you know, the villain of
682
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:53.679
the film is Consultation. But the
the they do push him pretty Farah,
683
00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:58.760
there are a couple moments in the
movie where they do give him a little
684
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:01.880
bit of humanity. Oh honestly,
like it, had Christian not walked in
685
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:05.480
there, this would have worked.
Oh yeah, like he would have been
686
00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:07.280
super into her. She would have
been perfectly happy with this guy. He's
687
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:10.880
kind of an idiot, but whatever. He's he's not ugly, he's weird
688
00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:15.400
looking and weird in general, but
he's not ugly, like he's rich.
689
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:19.519
He's super into her, Like I
could see another path this movie takes where
690
00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.159
it's just like and We're gonna ride
this until I'm the most famb for another
691
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:27.639
two months and I'm gonna die to
berculosis. That is faded at this point
692
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.000
if you think about it. He
really dodges a bullet. He dodges a
693
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.360
TV bullet, like at some point
Diddler should pull him aside and be like,
694
00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:37.039
listen, I don't like you're dodging
a major fucking bullet here. Be
695
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:46.280
thankful because she is spreading to perculosis
to everyone. So Christian's trying to get
696
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:50.159
out of the room, but the
Duke's manservant, Warner is guarding the door,
697
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.719
so he's stuck watching Setine make out
with the Duke as a teen.
698
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:55.440
Can't fuck the Duke with Christian in
the room, so she tells the Duke
699
00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:59.480
they should wait until opening night to
consummate their love, and she shoves him
700
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:04.039
out the door. She turns on
Christian and she starts berating him for complicating
701
00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:07.960
her plans, but she loses her
breath and oh, she faints again.
702
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:13.440
Another bout of sudden onset tuberculosis.
Christian's very concerned. He puts her to
703
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:15.679
bed, and the Duke walks back
in just in time to see Christian on
704
00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:21.440
top of Setine and he's very upset. And I mean, Richard Roxborough is
705
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:25.800
doing the Satine kind of voice,
like super weird accent. He also literally
706
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:30.519
says, I've never seen anyone do
this in real life. He actually or
707
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:35.119
even on film. He goes foul
play like I've never heard anyone actually say
708
00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:39.400
foul play before, and it's so
good foul play. Yeah. So Setin
709
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:44.400
manages to come back to herself,
realizes what the situation is, and she
710
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:47.199
tells the Duke that she was so
inspired by their flirtation that she called an
711
00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:51.679
emergency rehearsal and to loosen the rest
of the cast, who have been watching
712
00:48:51.719 --> 00:48:54.960
the entire scene from the balcony remember
Russian side, to validate Setine's story,
713
00:48:55.119 --> 00:49:00.440
and they all pretend this is a
planned rehearsal. Meanwhile, Zid, who's
714
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.400
been watching everything from his office,
I mean, draw a fucking curtain,
715
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:09.480
bitch. How many how many views
in are this elephant? Is there like
716
00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:13.920
a pay per view situation happening in
Paris at this time, where people like
717
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.599
anyone who lives on the top floor
of the buildings in the neighborhood have to
718
00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:22.679
give Zidler, like I don't know, ten cents ten francs. Yeah,
719
00:49:22.679 --> 00:49:25.119
and watched the teen Fuck what's her
cut? Because she's apparently very good at
720
00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:29.239
it, and again she looks like
Nicole Kidman. So there's gonna be interest.
721
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:31.760
By the way, I've never been
to Paris. Is the elephant still
722
00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:35.039
there? The elephant is there?
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay,
723
00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:37.719
So I'm so glad you asked.
This is exactly what Paris looks like.
724
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:42.000
I just want you to know,
like they got it so so right.
725
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:44.920
You don't even have to go there
anymore. Just watch this movie, Okay,
726
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:49.199
you'll know exactly what Paris by the
numbers. By the numbers, like
727
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:53.800
it's scarily accurate. Frankly, in
case anyone doesn't know what we're talking about,
728
00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:58.039
Like outside of the Moulin Rouge,
like kind of just in the middle
729
00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:04.280
of the street yard, there's an
enormous elephant that's the size of like like
730
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:07.159
a building. Yeah, it's like
three stories high. Yeah, and it's
731
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:10.159
also se teen's apartment and it's a
teen's apartment and all of this, this
732
00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:13.960
scene takes place in like the hollowed
head of it. It's not it's it's
733
00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:15.639
a building, to be clear,
It's not like any any kind of real
734
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:20.760
elephant. It's entirely a construction.
Yeah. And it takes place in the
735
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:24.400
head of the elephant. Yeah.
And again in the full view of God
736
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:29.159
and and all of his all of
his earthly all of his creatures, all
737
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:31.159
his creatures. Yeah, that's exactly
what Paris looks like. Every other building
738
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:34.719
is shaped like an animal. Okay, that's surprise. You haven't seen it
739
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:37.480
in pictures. Zebra. No,
no, there is a famous zebra building.
740
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:44.280
Okay. The Eiffel Tower is actually
a monkey's penis. It's the Eiffel
741
00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:50.920
Tower, I believe, is exactly
how long Christian's peace. He calls it
742
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:53.440
his little Eiffel Tower. But when
he says that he's referring to the Eiffel
743
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:59.000
Tower, Eiffel Tower, his Eiffel
Tower is the is the actual most majestic
744
00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:05.119
Eiffel Tower being brought around Paris in
those times. Okay, So Ziddler,
745
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:08.760
who again has been spying on this
this sexcapade. He's using a telescope.
746
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:12.480
He rushes over to explain to the
Duke that this is all just a terrible
747
00:51:12.519 --> 00:51:15.519
misunderstanding, right. He did not
see the first part with Setne and Christian.
748
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:17.920
He was just checking in to make
sure that, like the Duke was
749
00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:22.320
balls deep as planned and found him
not, you know, like every father
750
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:24.840
figure does. Yeah, this is
not at all a weird relationship that she
751
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:30.440
has at all. He calls her
his little cherub, his little strawberry,
752
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:34.480
like there's a real father daughter sweetness
to their relationship. Then like, yeah,
753
00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:37.840
if you really dig even a centimeter
deep, you're like, yes,
754
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:39.519
if you take out an espresso spoon
and just pick up one bit of dirt,
755
00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:44.280
you're like, ooh, I like
that kind of like that. Setine
756
00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:46.599
quickly catches Ziddler up on the emergency
rehearsal story. She just that thing like,
757
00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:49.840
oh, Harold, we're still glad
you're here for the emergency rehearsal that
758
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:52.159
I just called because the Duke came
in and he inspired me so much,
759
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:54.679
like that kind of thing, and
he jumps right on board their lie.
760
00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:58.719
These people are yes, ending their
way out of a very sticky situation.
761
00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:02.880
This is the greatest improv troop of
all times, of all time. Step
762
00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:07.639
aside groundlings, the Duke asks to
see a sample of the show. Since
763
00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:13.159
he's being asked to invest, Christian
and Zigler quickly improvised the plot, location,
764
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:16.159
and theme. Basically, it's exactly
this story that we are already watching,
765
00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:21.800
but it is set in India because
they did not know about cultural appropriation
766
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:24.400
back in eighteen ninety nine. I
genuinely forgot they said it in India,
767
00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:28.719
and like, ultimately I think it's
okay. Oh, I think so too.
768
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:32.440
It's also because the Elephant Apartment,
that's the theme of the apartment is
769
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:37.840
like it's not India per se,
but it's like like Asian Asian Eroonica.
770
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:42.159
Essentially, it's like the Kamasutra.
Yeah, and so you know, Catherine
771
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.360
Martin had extremely explicit statues that they
had to take out. Oh my god,
772
00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:52.199
there was the sex life of Catherine
Martin and Bozzerman must be extraordinary.
773
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:54.480
I think some of the beads hanging
from the wall are actually anal beads.
774
00:52:55.119 --> 00:53:00.639
It cannot be proven. It came
right out of Baslherman and onto that one.
775
00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:05.199
Yeah, I think so too.
The movie does a lot of that
776
00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:07.960
later in the film. The whole
show is Yeah, it's Indian, It's
777
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:12.599
Indian. It's Indian inspired, but
like, I think it's fine because A
778
00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:15.320
it's a forest. B it's eighteen
ninety nine. Like, no one's gonna
779
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:19.119
take anything seriously here. This is
not. No one's like, wait a
780
00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:22.400
minute, I came to this film
to learn about Indian rutter. I just
781
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:25.039
I just literally genuinely forgot they did
it, and I like grip for a
782
00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:27.880
second. They're like, no,
we're good, We're okay, And I
783
00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:30.400
should mention the only Indian song I
think they use in the movie. There
784
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.719
might be more than one, but
I think it's just the one is an
785
00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:37.840
actual Indian song. I'm a famous
Bollywood filmmachama, right, So like,
786
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:40.599
it's not like they're because I could
see other movies doing this, like inventing
787
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:45.119
an Indian song like Wolf don't do
that. Like they're actually using some Indian
788
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:49.559
music in the film. So the
story goes like this, it said in
789
00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:54.320
India. The Argentinian, obviously,
will play a penniless tango dancing guitar player
790
00:53:54.639 --> 00:54:00.159
no questions, you cannot stop here. Ziddler will play an evil maharaj,
791
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:04.440
and Setene will play a Cortison caught
between saving her home and her one too
792
00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:08.480
true love the penniless guitar player,
right, Zidler promises, and I'm quoting
793
00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:14.119
this directly because Jim Broadban fucking gives
the scene. He goes, this show
794
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:21.679
will be quote a magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargenhuan bedazzlement,
795
00:54:22.039 --> 00:54:28.239
a sensual ravishment. Central ravishment is
the other name for the Eiffel Tower penis
796
00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:32.079
that Christian has. Yeah. Yeah, central ravishment is what I call just
797
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:35.159
my left boob, not the right
one. The right one knows what it
798
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:38.119
did. The right one is uptight. Let's say it. She is on
799
00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:44.519
blast. Frankly, I wrote that
down too, because you're right. He
800
00:54:44.599 --> 00:54:49.960
just gives the way these actors are
trusting Baz Lherman to not make them look
801
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:52.599
stupid, to not let them look
obviously Nicole Kiman looks silly, but like
802
00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:55.360
for this to not go off the
rails. Yeah, because it could go
803
00:54:55.400 --> 00:55:00.719
off the rails in two seconds.
Yeah. So Zidler's start to sing the
804
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:04.599
pitch for the show. It is
set to the music that we associate with
805
00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:13.400
the can Can Ye Dun. Yeah, so we know the song, right,
806
00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:15.719
So he is starting to sing the
pitch for the show, right,
807
00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:17.480
The rest of the cast and crew
join in. By the end, the
808
00:55:17.559 --> 00:55:22.639
Duke is all in on Spectacular Spectacular. He agrees to invest. They all
809
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:28.519
cheer Rah. The rest of the
performers go and have a rager Intulus's apartment.
810
00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:31.039
Christian tries to write the show,
and Setine goes to the roof of
811
00:55:31.079 --> 00:55:37.440
her elephant and she sings, one
day I'll fly away, leave all this
812
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:42.840
too. Yesterday by Randy Crawford.
I literally until yesterday when I was writing
813
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:45.840
this recap, did not know but
that's a real song. Yeah, I
814
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:46.840
thought it was written for this movie. I only knew that it was a
815
00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:50.400
real song because I know the only
song written for the movie was come what
816
00:55:50.519 --> 00:55:54.000
May? I just remember that bit
of trivia from the early two thousands.
817
00:55:54.519 --> 00:55:58.000
So Christian's in his apartment, he
can see her on the roof of her
818
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:00.440
elephants. They're all in the same
courtyard, basically. Yeah, he goes
819
00:56:00.519 --> 00:56:04.320
and he gets to the roof and
he said, and he startles her for
820
00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:06.199
a second, says, I just
want to thank you for getting me a
821
00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:08.840
job. And he asks sweetly if
she meant it when she said she loved
822
00:56:08.920 --> 00:56:13.280
him, and she says, no, I am a courtesan. I am
823
00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:15.719
paid to make men believe what they
want to believe. I can't fall in
824
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:20.440
love with anyone, and Christian says, well, that would be terrible.
825
00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:22.159
You can't resolve yourself to a life
without love, and she goes, no,
826
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:29.159
living on the streets is terrible.
Point Setene, You're right, this
827
00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:34.119
is better. And then we get
the very famous Elephant Love Medley, which
828
00:56:34.159 --> 00:56:37.320
which the musical kind of took and
metastasized into a three hour like it like
829
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:44.000
literally added forty fucking songs to an
already like twelve song mel liked medley.
830
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:46.679
Uugh. Yeah. The ask of
having these two singers, these two actors
831
00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:51.400
who are not singers. They're fine
singers, but they're not singers, like
832
00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:53.280
do I Will Always love you?
Yeah? Is mean that's a lot,
833
00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:57.519
that's a that's a huge fucking ass. Yeah. I will say though,
834
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:01.280
man, that just because it hits
every time, Because at this point there's
835
00:57:01.519 --> 00:57:07.400
again fireworks going like boz Lehman is
throwing every trick at it, and it
836
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:09.679
gives you like Goose, I loved
it. You're like, oh, I'm
837
00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:14.280
being swept away. I'm in love
with them both. I can't remember how
838
00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:16.119
I felt watching this movie the first
time, because I've seen it so many
839
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:20.039
times, I'm sure I was.
I had that same sense of like,
840
00:57:20.079 --> 00:57:22.800
oh no, disorientation. Yeah the
first time I saw it, and I
841
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:25.840
I hope I liked this as much
as I like it now. But I
842
00:57:27.239 --> 00:57:30.119
wonder if twenty years ago, when
I first watched this movie, I was
843
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:34.159
like, oh no, what is
happening? Oh there's too many songs here?
844
00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:37.800
And I will always love you.
No, I know, I loved
845
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:40.280
it. I've always loved it rewatching
it like millions of times, and then
846
00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:45.239
again yesterday. It is so magical
and like, up where We Belong is
847
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:47.760
my favorite moment they start to sing
up where We Were? I get so
848
00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:55.679
happy. Setene obviously doesn't stand a
chance against his full frontal charisma assault that
849
00:57:55.800 --> 00:58:00.239
Christian is doing, and she ends
up in his arms. Yes, she
850
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:04.039
says, You're gonna be bad for
business, I can tell. We cut
851
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.760
to Zidler and the Duke and they're
ironing out the details for the conversion of
852
00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:13.599
the Mulan Rouge into a legitimate theater
for Spectacular Spectacular. The Duke is proving
853
00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:17.559
to be more savvy than Ziddler perhaps
anticipated m h and he has a ironclad
854
00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:22.599
contract that stipulates that he will require
Steam to be exclusive to him, like,
855
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:27.400
because it is transactional, to be
fair, like, I think a
856
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:30.480
modern audience would be like, whoa, that's awful, but like it is.
857
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:36.559
It was always supposed to be a
transactional relationship, right, And remember,
858
00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:40.480
sexually transmitted diseases are very real and
very untreatable at this point, So
859
00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:44.719
I could see a man being like
exclusive to me and that's it. It's
860
00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:51.280
also too late for that because she
has a fatal disease that is extremely coitious,
861
00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:55.480
coughing all over every dancer, so
long to lose lutrek. It was
862
00:58:55.559 --> 00:59:00.760
nice knowing you. Yes, can
I say this is a slight bummer,
863
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:02.480
but I'm gonna say it anyway.
I actually know someone who passed away from
864
00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:07.440
tuberculosis this year, like it is
still it is still. They were older,
865
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:10.159
they had a host of other medical
issues. So yeah, it was
866
00:59:10.199 --> 00:59:14.800
sad obviously, but it like,
yeah, it's so weird that tuberculosis is
867
00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:16.760
still a thick Yeah. I thought
it was one of those that went the
868
00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:19.639
way of like polio. Yeah,
yeah, I thought, oh, we
869
00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:22.320
don't have that anyway, you know, polio's coming back, well, I
870
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:27.800
know, making a comeback. Yeah, it's coming back. We stand a
871
00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:30.079
comeback, queen. You know what
I'm saying. You go polio girl.
872
00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:35.760
Why aren't they all more freaked out
by her? They should know about quarantining
873
00:59:35.800 --> 00:59:38.840
by now. You would think consumption
has been around for a while. How
874
00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:42.920
does she not know she has it? What does she think is happening?
875
00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:46.199
You cough blood into a handkerchief.
She just like, she thinks they're tightening
876
00:59:46.199 --> 00:59:50.760
her courses too much. She's just
internally bleeding. She thinks that's her period.
877
00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:52.480
She's like, wait, that's that's
supposed to happen. They're like,
878
00:59:52.559 --> 00:59:59.480
yeah, every month, right,
So okay, So the ironclad contract requires
879
00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:02.840
se Tina be exclusive to him,
and also very importantly, he will take
880
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:07.639
over the deed to the Mulan Rouge
until his investment is paid back. He
881
01:00:07.719 --> 01:00:13.599
also sort of threatens Zidler with violence
and also anyone else with violence who dares
882
01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:17.000
to come between him and this plan. He says, it's not that I'm
883
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:22.079
a jealous man. I just don't
like on that paper touching my things.
884
01:00:23.760 --> 01:00:27.360
Oh wow, there's another line reading
in the scene that I love and he
885
01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:32.280
goes, if there are any shenanigans. The Duke invites Stine over for dinner
886
01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:37.280
that night and every other night that
week, but guess what, she keeps
887
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:39.639
putting him off. She's like,
no, busy, sorry, she claims
888
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:45.119
she's rehearsing. Right, Obviously,
she and Christian are doing lots of quote
889
01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:47.719
unquote rehearsing. It's not entirely a
lie, though, because they are writing
890
01:00:47.800 --> 01:00:51.800
scenes in between love making. There's
a non sex scene here. It's like
891
01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:54.840
a dinner scene between her Christian and
to Lose. Christian is delighting Satine and
892
01:00:54.840 --> 01:00:59.599
to Lose with a breakdown of the
final act right, in which the courtisan
893
01:00:59.719 --> 01:01:02.880
con is the penniless guitar player that
she doesn't love him, and then he
894
01:01:02.920 --> 01:01:07.159
throws money at her feet and says, thank you for curing me of my
895
01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:09.639
ridiculous obsession with love. Do you
think that's gonna come back? No?
896
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:12.880
No, no, no no no, you can set it and forget.
897
01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:15.000
It's done. It's done, don't
worry about it. They're all delighted.
898
01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:19.199
Oh what a brilliant love, Like
like twist in the plot, you love
899
01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:22.800
it. Finally, the Duke is
fed up by Setne putting him off and
900
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:27.159
complains to Zidler that Setina is spending
all of her time rehearsing with Christian.
901
01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:29.800
He is kind of a room.
He doesn't get it. He does not
902
01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:32.199
get it, get it. The
Duke threatens to pull out of the entire
903
01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:37.800
scheme, and Zidler promises him that
Setine will meet him that night at the
904
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:43.320
Gothic Tower for dinner. Zidler confronts
Setine and tells her she has to break
905
01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:45.960
it off with Christian and keep her
date with the Duke that night. He
906
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:49.159
has the deed to the Mulan rouge. Go fuck the Duke, Fuck the
907
01:01:49.239 --> 01:01:53.079
Duke. This for everyone. You
consumptive horror. I mean, a whore
908
01:01:53.159 --> 01:01:55.440
is one thing, but a consumptive
horror. How dare you? What a
909
01:01:55.519 --> 01:02:00.039
terrible investment? Hah. Satine is
so upset at the aspect of losing Christian
910
01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:08.320
that she she fades again. This
time, She's so sick that she's bedridden
911
01:02:08.360 --> 01:02:12.639
all night, and she misses both
her date with Christian and her date with
912
01:02:12.679 --> 01:02:15.039
the Duke. The Duke is truly
fed up. He's like, she's she
913
01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:21.599
ghosted me again. Zidler shows up
to the tower and his only excuse that
914
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:25.639
he could think of is she's confessing, she's with her confessor, and the
915
01:02:25.719 --> 01:02:30.639
Duke is like, how stupid do
you think? I am very, very
916
01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:37.039
stupid? And then Zidler says very
because Zidler says, she wants to confess
917
01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:40.639
and be like a virgin for you, because you make her feel like she's
918
01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:46.599
been touched for the very first time. And then Jim Broadman and Richard Roxborough
919
01:02:46.639 --> 01:02:54.840
perform an unhinged version of Like a
Virgin by Madonna that is so fucking delightful.
920
01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:59.360
It is my second favorite scene in
the film. We haven't gotten my
921
01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:01.320
favorite one yet, but it's coming. Yeah, this is number two.
922
01:03:01.480 --> 01:03:06.800
This I can't even see. It's
perfect. It's for my Kingdom. For
923
01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:09.280
the outtakes, because what happens is, oh my god, yes, Grim
924
01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:14.800
Broadbent throws like a tablecloth over him, tends to be the titular he's the
925
01:03:14.840 --> 01:03:17.800
titular virgin, and Richard Roxborough like
chases after him, and he has like
926
01:03:17.880 --> 01:03:21.360
on those long waistcoats and he's holding
it out so it almost looks like a
927
01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:24.119
vampire or a bat chasing after him. It's also a little bit like Mattador
928
01:03:24.239 --> 01:03:30.920
Matador and like and it's it's unhinged
and like they must have cracked up laughing
929
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:36.559
eighteen times. There's also a dozen
male dancers stress as waiters because because it's
930
01:03:36.599 --> 01:03:39.119
supposed to be this romantic dinner for
the two of them, right for Setina
931
01:03:39.159 --> 01:03:43.920
and the duke, and so like
all the waiters are obviously dancers. It's
932
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:46.320
so good. Yeah, if you
have never seen this film, just google
933
01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:51.440
this scene. This scene is I
must watch. It is so stupid and
934
01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:55.519
the best way. The next morning, the doctor tells Ziddler and Setine's made
935
01:03:55.559 --> 01:04:00.440
Marie, this is important that Setin
has consumption and is dying. We are
936
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:03.519
an hour and ten minutes into the
movie at this point, and finally,
937
01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:08.039
and we all know we're watching La
boim, Let's get fucking real here,
938
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:13.760
and finally, finally they're like,
she's dying of consumption. I would have
939
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:16.559
loved to have been in an audience
where someone's like, ooh, surprise.
940
01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:19.880
My favorite one of those moments,
can I tell you all I stap here
941
01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:26.280
was when I went to see the
film Lincoln. Yeah, about Abraham Lincoln.
942
01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:30.079
I don't know, have you've seen
the film Lincoln. I have Abraham
943
01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:34.119
Lincoln, very famous person, and
they're having a scene at the end of
944
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:40.320
the film, a long, stupid
scene where they're counting the votes about emancipation
945
01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:45.119
and whether or not they should really
should, like actually pass the emancipation into
946
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:49.039
law, and the two women sit
with my brother, and the two women
947
01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:53.760
sitting in front of us were like, oh no, And every time someone
948
01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:58.360
voted against emancipation in the film,
and I wanted to be like, what
949
01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:01.280
do you think is about to happened? I thought you were gonna say they
950
01:05:01.280 --> 01:05:04.840
were shocked when he gets shot.
No, it's a dumber than that.
951
01:05:05.400 --> 01:05:09.440
It's actually dumber than that. It's
like they're like, oh no, what
952
01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:15.000
if they don't pass emancipation. I'm
like, do you own somebody? Because
953
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:18.360
if you own somebody, that's illegal. We're not allowed to do that anymore.
954
01:05:19.639 --> 01:05:25.800
This movie should not be how you
learned that? Anyway? Back to
955
01:05:25.840 --> 01:05:29.480
the show anyway, any crap.
By the way, PSA for this episode
956
01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:31.760
if you're listening to this, Emancipation
pass. Yeah, oh yes, sorry,
957
01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:36.519
spoiler for the film Lincoln and Lincoln
gets shot in the theater. Paul,
958
01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:41.480
Come on, man, you didn't
have to tell us that part.
959
01:05:41.840 --> 01:05:45.360
That's a bummer. Way to bring
everyone down. Fall by way back to
960
01:05:45.400 --> 01:05:49.000
the scene. Back to the scene
about consumption. So okay, so the
961
01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:53.599
doctor tells Zidler. Ziller decides to
hide the news from Satin so she'll keep
962
01:05:53.639 --> 01:05:56.199
working on the show. That sounds
bad, but he also, I think
963
01:05:56.239 --> 01:05:58.880
is doing it as an act of
love. Yeah, he I think Ziller
964
01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:01.400
genuinely loves Satina and feels fatherly towards
her, and he's like, look,
965
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:04.559
let's not tell her she's dying.
She doesn't need to know. There's literally
966
01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:08.239
nothing she can do anyway, so
she may as well live her like the
967
01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:11.920
rest of her life out. Christian
watches Setine as she rests in bed and
968
01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:14.840
asks her where she was the night
before, right so that she's like,
969
01:06:14.960 --> 01:06:17.599
bitch, I am physically ill.
Do you not see that? Right now?
970
01:06:18.119 --> 01:06:21.719
This scene drives me insane, well
because it's him starting to do like
971
01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:26.360
because before he knew she was a
courtisan when he started this, this is
972
01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:29.960
not news that she does this,
and he's starting to do that like annoying
973
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:30.880
thing of like I don't want you
to sleep with other men. She's like,
974
01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:34.320
but that's my fucking job. That's
how I roll. And also I
975
01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:39.599
didn't but also like I'm you can
see how sick I am, right,
976
01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:43.280
like I'm sweating. She tells him
she was sick, and he doesn't fully
977
01:06:43.280 --> 01:06:45.960
believe her, and for the first
time, he's feeling jealous and he's feeling
978
01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:48.840
possessive, and Stine breaks the news
to him that they have to end their
979
01:06:48.880 --> 01:06:53.320
affair. She says, look,
everyone already knows about us, sooner or
980
01:06:53.400 --> 01:06:57.079
later, the Duke is going to
find out, like he's only so stupid,
981
01:06:57.079 --> 01:06:59.639
event he does have a functioning brain
on some level, like we have
982
01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:02.159
to stop. She tells Christian that
she promised to sleep with the Duke on
983
01:07:02.199 --> 01:07:04.679
Opening Night and she has to go
through with it. I cannot get out
984
01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:09.719
of it, and she's worried that
his jealousy will kill Christian, but Christian
985
01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:13.519
promises that he won't get jealous,
and he offers to write a special secret
986
01:07:13.559 --> 01:07:16.760
song just for her so she'll always
know how much he loves her. It's
987
01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:19.679
sweet, It's sweet. He somehow
pulls it off. He pulls it off
988
01:07:19.719 --> 01:07:21.800
with me, even saying that I
wanted to roll my eyes, but I
989
01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:25.119
was like no, But in the
movie, I was like, that's beautiful,
990
01:07:25.199 --> 01:07:30.079
Christian. We cut to a rehearsal
of the two of them dueting this
991
01:07:30.199 --> 01:07:33.840
secret love song. It's called Come
What May. I am learning now for
992
01:07:33.880 --> 01:07:36.920
the first time. It is the
only original song in the film. It's
993
01:07:36.960 --> 01:07:43.719
also the song that they kept for
the musical. And as I said,
994
01:07:43.760 --> 01:07:45.639
I like the musical more than you
did. What they did to this song
995
01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:49.719
in the musical is unforgivable to me. I don't even remember. I was
996
01:07:49.800 --> 01:07:53.000
rolling my eyes too hard. Well, you know, the end of the
997
01:07:53.000 --> 01:08:00.079
song is the line, uh you
until oh my god she dies singing it.
998
01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:02.840
No, no, they just don't
sing that part. They just end
999
01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:09.159
on come what May, and that's
it. They leave I will love you
1000
01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:12.000
until my dying day out. Yeah, they say it like earlier, but
1001
01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:15.000
they don't like they don't end the
song on it. It's so irritated.
1002
01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:17.119
That is musical blue Balls, and
I don't care for that. It's terrible.
1003
01:08:17.359 --> 01:08:21.439
I honestly I blacked out most of
that musical. I was so annoyed
1004
01:08:21.479 --> 01:08:25.920
when we were watching it, like, this is my birthday. You are
1005
01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:31.680
ruining my birthday. So they're singing
come what May. They are so obviously
1006
01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:34.159
in love with each other, they're
not even trying to hide it anymore.
1007
01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:38.880
One of the other dancers points out
to the duke hang on one of the
1008
01:08:38.920 --> 01:08:41.239
other days. I know I'm going
to talk about her later. I was
1009
01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:43.720
going to talk about her. Her
name. Should we stop and talk about
1010
01:08:43.720 --> 01:08:45.119
her now? I just want to
say her name, CAROLINEA. O'Connor,
1011
01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:49.600
But her character name oh Nini Legs
in the Air, Ninny Legs in the
1012
01:08:49.640 --> 01:08:54.720
Air. I like a descriptor.
I like to know what I'm getting.
1013
01:08:55.039 --> 01:08:57.840
Yeah, it's a Cancan dancer,
Paul Legs in the Air, Legs in
1014
01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:00.720
the air. That's how she does
Ninny Legs in the air, played by
1015
01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:03.720
the great Caroline O'Connor, which I
have to say, I don't think I've
1016
01:09:03.760 --> 01:09:08.920
ever seen in anything else because she's
very Australian and she only does Australian TV
1017
01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:13.000
movies and film, and she's not
had like a huge breakout here in the
1018
01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:15.800
States yet, but like, if
you do even the slightest deep dive on
1019
01:09:15.840 --> 01:09:21.279
her online, she's basically like the
Cheeta Rivera of the Gwen Verdon of Australian
1020
01:09:21.319 --> 01:09:26.359
theater. She is like an Australian
theater like icon. And when you see
1021
01:09:26.359 --> 01:09:29.920
the movie, she has a few
lines. She has a very strong character.
1022
01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:31.960
She makes a very strong character choice
of like I am the bitch,
1023
01:09:32.079 --> 01:09:36.680
I'm the messy bitch. You loves
drama and the mula rouge. And she's
1024
01:09:36.760 --> 01:09:40.600
so good. She's captivating. Every
time she's in a scene, you your
1025
01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:42.960
eye goes right the right to her
because he's got a set of eyes on
1026
01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:45.640
her too. She's got a set
of peepers, she's got a striking face,
1027
01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:48.000
and she's obviously the dance captain for
the movie. Like she's she's front
1028
01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:49.920
and center. Every time, there's
like a big grin. And then she
1029
01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:54.600
finally gets the dance solo, like
the squeal I let out of me,
1030
01:09:54.720 --> 01:09:57.880
Like, thank god, someone who
can dance is dancing in this fucking movie.
1031
01:09:57.920 --> 01:10:00.359
Fine, yeah, yeah, that's
when I was. Yeah, so
1032
01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:03.439
we'll come back to her. But
she's wonderful. She shows up in this
1033
01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:08.880
scene and she's like, I don't
understand this ending. Why because she's talking
1034
01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:14.720
the most cogniaco ever. Why would
the quota zant fall for the penniless writer.
1035
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:19.000
I mean, oops, sitar player
just just being a bitch for no
1036
01:10:19.039 --> 01:10:25.720
good reason, blowing up spots,
just giving cut left and right. The
1037
01:10:25.840 --> 01:10:30.920
Duke finally starts to see it.
He looks at Christian insanteen singing moonily at
1038
01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:34.000
each other while they stare into each
other's eyes, and he's like, wait
1039
01:10:34.079 --> 01:10:39.760
a minute. He petulantly stands up
and he's like, hey, hey,
1040
01:10:40.079 --> 01:10:43.279
I don't like this song. This
song's no good. We're cutting it from
1041
01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:45.399
my show. Everyone gets real quiet. They're like, I'm sorry, what's
1042
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:49.800
going on? And he's like,
and this ending is stupid. The courtisan
1043
01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:55.920
should choose the maharaja over the gitar
player because why wouldn't she choose security over
1044
01:10:56.359 --> 01:11:00.800
fleeting infatuation, And Christian freaks out
and scre because she doesn't love you,
1045
01:11:02.039 --> 01:11:08.760
and everyone goes, oh shoe shit, he goes, I mean him,
1046
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:12.359
she doesn't love him him in the
show, Yeah, because we're talking about
1047
01:11:12.359 --> 01:11:14.920
the play and not real life here. That's right. This is one of
1048
01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:17.359
the dangers of like just putting everything
from your real life directly into the theater
1049
01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:20.840
piece that you're making. You get
real pissed and someone's like, lines can
1050
01:11:20.880 --> 01:11:24.039
get blurred. I don't like this
choice, and you're like, well,
1051
01:11:24.079 --> 01:11:30.880
I don't like your face. That's
my mom So okay. So Teen's like,
1052
01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:33.600
okay, I gotta fix this whole
thing. Everyone's fucking up left and
1053
01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:39.000
right. Gotta I gotta be the
hero here. She coolly approaches the duke.
1054
01:11:39.039 --> 01:11:42.960
She goes, she goes, Harold, the duke is being treated appallingly.
1055
01:11:43.159 --> 01:11:47.640
She's also wearing like this gold head
dress and this gorgeous like maroon brocaded.
1056
01:11:47.880 --> 01:11:50.720
Yeah, down, it looks so
good, and like again she's coursed.
1057
01:11:50.760 --> 01:11:54.159
Don't know how this woman breathed.
Maybe that's why she's sang like that,
1058
01:11:54.199 --> 01:11:58.039
I don't know, like that in
the recording booth. But yeah,
1059
01:11:58.079 --> 01:12:00.880
she goes, she goes. The
duke is being treated appallingly. And she
1060
01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:02.680
goes up to the duke and she's
like, how about this, You and
1061
01:12:02.720 --> 01:12:06.880
I will have a little dinner tonight
alone, wink wink, and we'll discuss
1062
01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:10.840
the ending of the show and see
if we can't come to a compromise.
1063
01:12:11.079 --> 01:12:13.439
Yep, the Duke is all in
on this plan. He's like, okay,
1064
01:12:13.680 --> 01:12:15.760
great, let's have dinner together.
As Satine is leaving the theater,
1065
01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:19.159
Christian asks her again not to sleep
with the duke, and she tells him
1066
01:12:19.159 --> 01:12:21.680
that she's going to do what she
has to do to save the show,
1067
01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:26.399
and she reminds him that he promised
you want to get jealous, She whispers
1068
01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:30.479
sings, come what May into his
ear, and he nods, and he
1069
01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:32.720
lets her go. He waits in
the theater with everyone else to find out
1070
01:12:32.760 --> 01:12:36.720
the fate of their show as Setne
heads to the Gothic Tower for her assignation
1071
01:12:38.079 --> 01:12:42.119
with the Duke. I love this
movie so much. It's so it's like
1072
01:12:42.239 --> 01:12:45.239
hat on a hat on a hat
and hat on a fucking sombrara. The
1073
01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:47.239
person originally wearing the hat has been
crushed under the weights of all the hats
1074
01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:51.640
on a top, hat on a
chapeau on a fucking It's so good.
1075
01:12:51.800 --> 01:12:56.920
Yep. Niny legs in the air
taunts Christian about Setne being a whore,
1076
01:12:58.039 --> 01:13:02.119
does not care. She's mad.
Yeah, I think she wanted the lead.
1077
01:13:02.239 --> 01:13:04.319
Yeah. I think she's a little
pissed. Frankly, it's very all
1078
01:13:04.359 --> 01:13:09.760
about Eve. Yeah. This prompts
the Argentinian to teach them all a dance
1079
01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:14.479
of lust, passion, obsession,
born after the brothels of Buenos Aires,
1080
01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:18.439
the tango. I fucking love this
scene. This is my favorite scene.
1081
01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:25.640
Fucking rocks. It's so so fucking
good. Everything about it, this song,
1082
01:13:26.119 --> 01:13:32.359
the choreography, the cinematography, the
performances. No notes, so the
1083
01:13:32.479 --> 01:13:38.520
cast performs a tango set to Rocks
and you don't have to put on the
1084
01:13:38.600 --> 01:13:43.720
red light by the police. The
Argentinian warns Christian not to fall in love
1085
01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:46.600
with a woman who must sell her
body to survive. The jealousy will drive
1086
01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:54.000
him mad. Christian can't take it, and he leaves the theater. Meanwhile,
1087
01:13:54.199 --> 01:13:59.439
intercut with this right at the Gothic
Tower, setine wearing an unmade sorry
1088
01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:02.960
the sentence. Meanwhile at the Gothic
Tower, what Paul, What? I
1089
01:14:02.960 --> 01:14:09.119
don't see what? Meanwhile in the
elephant's head, it's a teen wearing an
1090
01:14:09.239 --> 01:14:14.520
unbelievable gown, convinces the Duke that
Christian has an obsession with her, and
1091
01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:17.680
that she only indulges his little fantasy, his little crush, because he's very
1092
01:14:17.720 --> 01:14:20.520
talented and she's She's not stupid.
She's like, Hey, I'm the lead
1093
01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:23.600
in his show, and the more
he's in love with me, the better
1094
01:14:23.640 --> 01:14:26.560
songs will write for me. That's
what Angel Lansbury did to Stephen Sondheim.
1095
01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:32.800
For first, he todd he was
obsessed with her. The Duke is pacified.
1096
01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:36.279
He offers to use his money and
influence to make her a world famous,
1097
01:14:36.399 --> 01:14:40.640
legitimate actress. Once the show opens, that's the other thing too,
1098
01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:44.720
is like, while he's a villain, he does like it's exactly what she
1099
01:14:44.840 --> 01:14:47.279
wanted five minutes ago before she met
Christian, Like, boy, did Christian
1100
01:14:47.359 --> 01:14:55.479
derail this woman's life? Yeah?
Well and left? He made her last
1101
01:14:55.479 --> 01:14:58.720
two weeks interesting. We can only
hope for so much. That's that's like
1102
01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:00.560
a prayer I wanted, Like,
may you may the last two weeks of
1103
01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:05.640
your life be filled with hot sex? Yeah? Absolutely hot monkey lovin Yeah.
1104
01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:09.800
The Duke also gives her again hat
on a hat on a hat,
1105
01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:14.199
a giant diamond necklace. She asks
him about the show's ending. She's not
1106
01:15:14.279 --> 01:15:17.880
happy with just literally everything she's ever
asked for, plus a priceless diamond necklace.
1107
01:15:17.920 --> 01:15:20.479
She's like, and the show.
Yeah, And he's like, let
1108
01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:25.600
Ziddler have his happy ending, right, Like, fine, all is forgiven,
1109
01:15:25.760 --> 01:15:28.520
Let's keep going. You've convinced me, Like that's what she said earlier,
1110
01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:30.159
right, Like I am paid to
make men believe what I want them
1111
01:15:30.199 --> 01:15:33.840
to believe exactly. Just as the
Duke starts to kiss her neck, Setine
1112
01:15:33.840 --> 01:15:36.760
looks out the window and she sees
Christian looking up at the tower like a
1113
01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:43.319
creeper. This this one moment's not
It's not anyone's fault. I get I
1114
01:15:43.359 --> 01:15:45.119
get it, like I do.
But it's like I can't imagine like looking
1115
01:15:45.159 --> 01:15:49.520
out of a window and seeing some
up there staring at me. Excuse me,
1116
01:15:49.600 --> 01:15:51.920
sir, I'm trying to fuck up
here. Yeah, could you not?
1117
01:15:53.119 --> 01:15:55.439
Could you go up to the third
floor in that building over there and
1118
01:15:55.479 --> 01:16:00.439
watch to a telescope like everybody else
in this neighborhood. She realizes he can't
1119
01:16:00.439 --> 01:16:03.520
go through with it, and she
says no to the Duke. The Duke
1120
01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:09.119
does he take rejection well, you
know, like a lot of aristocracy,
1121
01:16:09.479 --> 01:16:12.399
not used to hearing the word no. Uh huh, doesn't care for it,
1122
01:16:12.399 --> 01:16:16.039
does not Yeah, not a fan
processed it. It was like absolutely
1123
01:16:16.520 --> 01:16:21.039
no, I signed a contract and
I actually own you. Yeah. Yeah,
1124
01:16:21.439 --> 01:16:26.760
just to let me carry the yes. He pushes her to the ground.
1125
01:16:26.840 --> 01:16:30.119
He spits out you made me believe
you loved me, and he rips
1126
01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:33.359
the necklace off of her neck.
She tries to run away, but he
1127
01:16:33.439 --> 01:16:36.880
chases her down by the way.
The music for Roxanne is still going.
1128
01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:41.159
This is all still intercutting. This
is intercut with not only the music for
1129
01:16:41.279 --> 01:16:45.640
Roxanne, but they're performing the scene
with the tango. So it's a bunch
1130
01:16:45.640 --> 01:16:48.199
of men dancing around Nini legs in
the air. Well, she's well,
1131
01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:53.840
she's doing this like sexy erotic tango
and then they start to tear her apart
1132
01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:58.319
basically through choreography. Not actually,
I cannot tell you again how good this
1133
01:16:58.720 --> 01:17:01.760
part is. This is my favorite
scene in the movie as well. It's
1134
01:17:01.800 --> 01:17:05.920
where the movie, like all of
the movies excess, all of the movies,
1135
01:17:06.680 --> 01:17:11.560
different genres, it all comes together
perfectly. Like the song is perfect,
1136
01:17:11.600 --> 01:17:14.640
the performance of the song is perfect, the dancing, the actual like
1137
01:17:14.800 --> 01:17:18.279
the book scene that's happening. Yeah, it all fits together perfectly, and
1138
01:17:18.319 --> 01:17:25.279
it's like exciting to watch. Yeah. So the duke rips off Setne's dress,
1139
01:17:25.279 --> 01:17:28.039
he throws her onto the bed and
just he's about to assault her.
1140
01:17:28.239 --> 01:17:31.920
Les Chock a Lot we spoke about
earlier just appears. We don't know why.
1141
01:17:32.199 --> 01:17:36.239
We don't know if he was was
he stationed outside of her door for
1142
01:17:36.239 --> 01:17:39.960
some reason. It's a rock Sands
scene at the beginning, and he kind
1143
01:17:39.960 --> 01:17:42.640
of gets like a feeling the something's
up, I don't know, because he's
1144
01:17:42.640 --> 01:17:47.720
magical, right, almost as though
he's magical. Paula a Lot is played
1145
01:17:47.760 --> 01:17:51.840
by the way, my apologies if
I slaughter this name, but the performer's
1146
01:17:51.880 --> 01:17:58.199
name is Dibia Opare. Yeah.
A British like very well known actor playwright.
1147
01:17:58.319 --> 01:18:00.479
Yeah, so he's learned his dues
playing this bullshit part. Yeah.
1148
01:18:01.479 --> 01:18:05.039
He knocks the duke out and he
saves se Tine. He gathers her into
1149
01:18:05.119 --> 01:18:09.680
his arms and he gets her out
of there. Tatine runs to Christian's apartment.
1150
01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:13.319
She's a mess. She's crying.
She confesses that she loves him and
1151
01:18:13.319 --> 01:18:15.560
she just couldn't go through with her
promise to bed the duke. She is
1152
01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:18.239
so good in the scene, like
this is what I'm like, what we
1153
01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:21.920
were talking about earlier, where it
started out so silly and Nicole Kidman is
1154
01:18:23.319 --> 01:18:27.039
has to now play high melodrama like
all of this is real. Yeah,
1155
01:18:27.039 --> 01:18:30.840
and she does it. She makes
you believe it, like it is impressive.
1156
01:18:30.199 --> 01:18:31.800
I think that's what I meant when
I was like, I think her
1157
01:18:31.800 --> 01:18:35.840
part is harder because the range of
things that she has to play is like
1158
01:18:36.159 --> 01:18:40.760
feels like two ends of a wild
spectrum. Yeah yeah, yeah, Although
1159
01:18:40.760 --> 01:18:44.760
when he starts to just break down
and cry at the end of the movie,
1160
01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:47.520
it's it's so heartbreaking, Like,
I don't know how he pulls that
1161
01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:50.880
out. Frankly, it's very hard. He has to uncoil it first.
1162
01:18:53.239 --> 01:18:56.039
He has to make sure the pants
are fully unzipped and all the way down
1163
01:18:56.079 --> 01:18:58.479
to his knees. If they're only
halfway to mid thigh, it's gonna get
1164
01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:02.279
caught. It's gonna get caught.
It enough. I don't know how he
1165
01:19:02.279 --> 01:19:06.319
pulls that out. Title of you
McGregor's sex tape A haha. I wish
1166
01:19:06.399 --> 01:19:10.640
he'd had a sex tape. He
really, you know, he absolutely does.
1167
01:19:10.680 --> 01:19:13.760
It just hasn't been released. It
just has just never found its way
1168
01:19:13.800 --> 01:19:15.720
to the public. Shit. If
you if you have a U and regrego
1169
01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:18.640
sex you're sitting on look, don't
put it on the internet. That's a
1170
01:19:18.760 --> 01:19:21.960
violation. But send it to me. Somehow, that's not a violation.
1171
01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:27.239
Somehow, that's fine. Moral gray
area. The two of them decide to
1172
01:19:27.319 --> 01:19:30.520
run away together. They're gonna leave
everything behind and start a new life somewhere
1173
01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:33.680
else. Meanwhile, the Duke is
telling Zidler that the show will have the
1174
01:19:33.760 --> 01:19:38.520
ending he wants, with the courtisan
choosing the Maharaja. I don't know why
1175
01:19:38.520 --> 01:19:41.399
he cares so much about this why
why He's not just like, guess what,
1176
01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:45.479
I'm closing your theater. Yeah bye, And he warns them that if
1177
01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:47.960
Setin does not go through with the
show and with fucking him on opening night,
1178
01:19:48.359 --> 01:19:53.680
he will have Christian murdered. Oh
that's an escalation. This just got
1179
01:19:53.920 --> 01:19:57.880
yeah, this just this got real
serious, real quick. Zidler confronts the
1180
01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:00.680
Tin as she's packing her belongings.
She's freaked out, but she's resolute.
1181
01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:03.159
She's like, no, we're leaving. We're gonna go somewherehere the Duke can
1182
01:20:03.159 --> 01:20:08.600
never find us. Zidler finally tells
her the truth. Listen, bitch,
1183
01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:12.880
you got you got the consumption,
you got the tb bitch. He tells
1184
01:20:12.920 --> 01:20:15.399
her that she's gonna die soon,
and she looks to Marie and Marie confirms
1185
01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:17.840
it. So he says, look, either way, you're gonna end up
1186
01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:23.760
breaking Christian's heart right like, you're
gonna die imminently. What if she had
1187
01:20:23.760 --> 01:20:31.520
got to Marie where he was just
wearing a mask has mess? What if
1188
01:20:31.520 --> 01:20:34.800
like earlier, she was with the
Duke in the Gothic tower and he kisses
1189
01:20:34.800 --> 01:20:36.920
her neck. She goes no,
and he's like, what do you mean?
1190
01:20:36.920 --> 01:20:42.880
And she just goes and coffee blood
all over his face. What if
1191
01:20:42.920 --> 01:20:46.279
she's in the middle of giving him
a blowjob and she just like starts bleeding
1192
01:20:46.399 --> 01:20:54.520
all over his dick, And He's
like, I don't care for this anymore.
1193
01:20:56.640 --> 01:21:05.079
I'm still picturing Marie in the Hamas. So he convinced. Zidler convinces
1194
01:21:05.079 --> 01:21:09.800
Setene to break it off with Christian
by hurting him so badly that he'll leave
1195
01:21:09.800 --> 01:21:12.119
on his own accord, saving his
life, right, Like, look,
1196
01:21:12.399 --> 01:21:15.079
you're dying soon anyway. Don't make
christians life harder than it needs to be,
1197
01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:19.119
right, he reminds her. He
says to Setine, we're creatures of
1198
01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:24.800
the underworld. We can't afford to
love. That's really heartbreaking. Yeah,
1199
01:21:24.840 --> 01:21:28.800
he mournfully sings, the show must
go on, by queen, it's so
1200
01:21:29.079 --> 01:21:31.279
fucking good. Uh huh, as
he walks through the theater. So he
1201
01:21:31.359 --> 01:21:34.159
leaves Setine, and you see all
the people working hard on the show.
1202
01:21:34.359 --> 01:21:38.359
Yeah, to make it happen.
Setin gets dressed in a gray suit with
1203
01:21:38.399 --> 01:21:42.439
a black veil, and she goes
to Christian's apartment and she coldly tells him
1204
01:21:42.479 --> 01:21:45.520
that the Duke made her another offer, an even better one, and she's
1205
01:21:45.520 --> 01:21:48.800
decided she's going to choose security over
love. Look, I get this is
1206
01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:51.840
a romance, and I get that
it's you McGregor at his gargantuan penis.
1207
01:21:53.520 --> 01:21:56.560
Girl, you are eighteen ninety nine
Paris, even if you didn't have TB.
1208
01:21:57.319 --> 01:22:02.000
Maybe go with the security A hundred. So she walks out before Christian
1209
01:22:02.039 --> 01:22:05.199
can stop her, and he runs
the steps of the theater and he screams
1210
01:22:05.239 --> 01:22:10.760
out her name, Stella, I
mean such eh, and she doesn't come
1211
01:22:10.800 --> 01:22:13.880
to him, and he's apprehended and
he's beaten by the Duke's man. Christian
1212
01:22:14.039 --> 01:22:17.039
sells his typewriter, but he can't
stay away from the Mulan rouge. She
1213
01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:20.920
has to go back one more time. So he goes to the opening night
1214
01:22:20.960 --> 01:22:26.319
of Spectacular Spectacular. Because there's nothing
a drama queen loves more than Rubin salt
1215
01:22:26.319 --> 01:22:30.319
in his own wound, like why
would you do this? Setin has a
1216
01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:32.279
few stumbles during the show as her
illness is getting the better of her,
1217
01:22:32.359 --> 01:22:36.199
but she's performing the hell out of
it. She is a triumph. I
1218
01:22:36.279 --> 01:22:41.560
look Erica wrote this, and look, look she's fucking great. I would
1219
01:22:41.640 --> 01:22:45.479
pay so much money to watch Spectacular
Spectacular. I would pay double what I
1220
01:22:45.520 --> 01:22:49.880
paid to watch fucking Mulan Rugs with
Sutton Foster in the lead. So okay,
1221
01:22:50.239 --> 01:22:54.439
it just drives me nuts. It
is a trope when you have it
1222
01:22:54.560 --> 01:22:57.640
a performer and they're in a musical
and they can't dance, the answer is
1223
01:22:57.680 --> 01:23:01.560
always make the chorus carry them around. They fall backward and they If Catherine
1224
01:23:01.600 --> 01:23:04.760
Zada Jones could a hork to Renee
Zellwegger up onto her back and done the
1225
01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:08.399
hot Honey rag at the end of
Chicago, maybe it would have been a
1226
01:23:08.399 --> 01:23:12.600
good dance. But it's not.
I claim. She doesn't even have to
1227
01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:15.640
do. She's wearing like fifty corsets
in a one hundred pound dress. Just
1228
01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:18.560
let her stand in the middle stage. Thing, well, then hire someone
1229
01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:23.880
thing like that. That is That's
what I think. When I was younger,
1230
01:23:24.279 --> 01:23:26.760
like irritated me a little bit.
Oh and now you're fine, now
1231
01:23:26.800 --> 01:23:30.199
you're cool. Well, now,
hand he stated that I'm cool with this,
1232
01:23:30.279 --> 01:23:34.319
and I buy it, obviously,
But obviously the bitch can't dance and
1233
01:23:34.359 --> 01:23:39.800
she can barely sing. Let's call
the truth. I think she's a pretty
1234
01:23:39.880 --> 01:23:42.279
voice. I think it's not it's
a pretty voice. It is pretty.
1235
01:23:42.319 --> 01:23:45.119
It's pretty and I'll give you that
Annie crap. The Argentinian has another bout
1236
01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:48.000
of narcolepsy backstage and passes out,
and that, you know what, we
1237
01:23:48.039 --> 01:23:51.079
should recast him earlier. This is
this is on us. This is why
1238
01:23:51.119 --> 01:23:56.199
you don't cast a failing consumptive and
active narcoleptic as the two leads new musical.
1239
01:23:56.319 --> 01:23:59.159
That's a problem. That's the problem. I see it now. You
1240
01:23:59.159 --> 01:24:01.319
know what, you know what that's
on me, that's on me. Difficulty,
1241
01:24:01.760 --> 01:24:04.760
you know, ensuring that. Would
you imagine if they actually if they
1242
01:24:04.840 --> 01:24:09.359
put a show on together and it's
just the two of them. She keeps
1243
01:24:09.359 --> 01:24:12.680
coughing blood in his face and then
he just falls over every single time,
1244
01:24:14.239 --> 01:24:16.039
and he's dead for like, he's
asleep for like ten minutes. You have
1245
01:24:16.079 --> 01:24:20.239
to just wait it out. It's
very postmodernate. We should have gotten an
1246
01:24:20.279 --> 01:24:27.039
understudy. We're so sorry. Very
Brechtian, all right. So Christian,
1247
01:24:27.079 --> 01:24:32.279
who's wandering around the backstage, takes
the Argentinian sitar player costume to the coat
1248
01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:38.000
and puts it over his clothes,
and he sneaks into Setine's dressing room and
1249
01:24:38.039 --> 01:24:40.840
he yells at her that he's come
to pay his bill for her services.
1250
01:24:40.880 --> 01:24:43.239
He's like, taking all the money
out of the bank. She's like,
1251
01:24:43.399 --> 01:24:48.680
not now, your queen, right
now, I am I am literally dying.
1252
01:24:49.359 --> 01:24:54.199
I have another act and a half
of a show that we wrote yesterday.
1253
01:24:54.560 --> 01:24:59.039
I am actively expiring as we speak. I need to put on all
1254
01:24:59.079 --> 01:25:02.119
of this weird a fake Indian makeup
right now. The only thing that's keep
1255
01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:06.119
me from projectile vomiting blood onto your
face is this corset that's broken three of
1256
01:25:06.119 --> 01:25:11.600
my ribs. Okay, not fucking
now, Christiane, we played this little
1257
01:25:11.680 --> 01:25:17.960
fucking tantrum scene you're having later.
Uh. She tries to get away from
1258
01:25:18.000 --> 01:25:21.239
him, and the two of them
have a confrontation. Backstage, she sees
1259
01:25:21.279 --> 01:25:27.159
the Duke's man servant pointing a gun
at Christian and oh my god, and
1260
01:25:27.159 --> 01:25:30.399
she's about to scream when suddenly the
doors of the set open and she and
1261
01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:33.960
Christian are thrust onto the stage,
which stops the man servant from killing Christian,
1262
01:25:33.960 --> 01:25:36.760
from shooting and killing Christian. Yeah, and now he's on stage,
1263
01:25:36.760 --> 01:25:40.920
Remember in the guitar player's coat,
so he looks like a guitar player.
1264
01:25:41.079 --> 01:25:44.159
And Steen is back on stage.
There's a great moment here. Ziller fucking
1265
01:25:44.560 --> 01:25:46.800
yes, ends everything in life,
and he's like, aha, you have
1266
01:25:46.880 --> 01:25:50.359
put on a disguise, but I
still know it is you, the penniless
1267
01:25:50.399 --> 01:25:57.000
guitar player. And the audience goes, oh, I love how dumb audiences
1268
01:25:57.039 --> 01:26:00.199
were one hundred years ago. You
can really get away with anything. Yeah.
1269
01:26:00.399 --> 01:26:02.880
Christian plays out basically the same scene
he came therefore in the first place,
1270
01:26:02.960 --> 01:26:05.880
only now he does it on stage. He's like, I've I've paid
1271
01:26:05.960 --> 01:26:11.479
my whore and he throws money at
her and he tearily says, thank you
1272
01:26:11.560 --> 01:26:15.840
for curing me of my ridiculous obsession
with love. But he does it.
1273
01:26:15.880 --> 01:26:18.479
He's like crying and he can't get
the words out. It's you. And
1274
01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:24.760
McGregor sells this moment so fucking well. This should drive me insane. This
1275
01:26:24.760 --> 01:26:28.600
should be my least favorite movie.
Honestly, Like, on paper, this
1276
01:26:28.640 --> 01:26:30.960
should be we should be tearing this
movie eighteen assholes right now, we all
1277
01:26:30.960 --> 01:26:33.000
though, I should be loving it, and you should be like, grow
1278
01:26:33.079 --> 01:26:38.920
up, grow the fuck up,
cough into a hanky and die because this
1279
01:26:39.039 --> 01:26:44.319
is bullshit. And yet and yet
cut to me on my couch watching it
1280
01:26:44.359 --> 01:26:48.680
with like a pillow in my mouth, going no, I cried, Oh
1281
01:26:48.760 --> 01:26:51.920
do you think like when he starts
to weep at the end, and like
1282
01:26:53.039 --> 01:26:58.359
you and McGregor fucking goes for it. He does an ugly, giant like
1283
01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:01.279
screaming cry at the end, and
I don't know what he's imagining from his
1284
01:27:01.319 --> 01:27:04.880
own life to get himself there,
but it is working, and I am
1285
01:27:05.199 --> 01:27:10.840
fucking weeping. And again, we
are watching La bo M. We know
1286
01:27:11.159 --> 01:27:15.039
the plot. We actively know the
plot of this as we're watching. I
1287
01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:17.600
can sing you the entire score of
Rent right now. Yes, do you
1288
01:27:17.640 --> 01:27:23.239
know I have actually seen the boss
Lermann La Boem that was on Broadway like
1289
01:27:23.279 --> 01:27:27.439
fifteen years ago, which was fucking
excellent, by the way, And like,
1290
01:27:27.640 --> 01:27:31.079
yeah, I've seen labo I again
though, you and McGregor selling the
1291
01:27:31.119 --> 01:27:34.960
fucking shit out of this, both
of them. So he throws his money
1292
01:27:35.000 --> 01:27:39.640
at her feet. He walks down
the aisle of the theater to leave Forever
1293
01:27:39.840 --> 01:27:45.159
yep Seteene weeps on the stage,
unable to go on. She's prostrate to
1294
01:27:45.239 --> 01:27:48.079
Lose who's been watching everything from from
the rafters. He's up in the rafters.
1295
01:27:48.199 --> 01:27:50.600
He's like, oh shit, I
gotta stop them before they they all
1296
01:27:50.760 --> 01:27:54.319
make this terrible mistake and break up. I don't know why he is so
1297
01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:58.680
invested. Yeah, so, he
screams from the rafters, the greatest thing
1298
01:27:59.319 --> 01:28:08.000
you'll ever learn is just to love
and be loved in red and you can't
1299
01:28:08.000 --> 01:28:13.479
see him like so the audience just
hears this disembodied voice shrieking yes, fines
1300
01:28:14.119 --> 01:28:19.479
and man Jelly was almost going for
it. Yep. Setne hears what Touluse
1301
01:28:19.880 --> 01:28:25.359
says, and she starts to sing
come what may to Christian, changing some
1302
01:28:25.439 --> 01:28:31.319
of the lyrics to come back to
me and forgive everything. Yes. Yes,
1303
01:28:31.880 --> 01:28:35.880
Christian turns around and sings with her. The two of them reunite on
1304
01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:42.000
stage. The Duke, driven mad
with jealousy, signals Warner to shoot Christian.
1305
01:28:42.159 --> 01:28:45.319
This this goes on so long with
the gun, This farce with the
1306
01:28:45.319 --> 01:28:53.199
gun, I know is minutes to
Louise sees the Duke's signal. Warner.
1307
01:28:53.479 --> 01:28:57.560
He swings from the rafters, He
knocks into warners, the gun gets dropped
1308
01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:00.439
onto the floor to Louse gets on
the stage and screams, they're trying to
1309
01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:04.399
kill you. But of course the
audience thinks it's a comedic bit. They
1310
01:29:04.439 --> 01:29:09.119
start laughing. We forget to mention
he is dressed like a sitar. He's
1311
01:29:09.239 --> 01:29:15.279
literally playing the character he is playing
in Spectacular. Spectacular is a talking citar
1312
01:29:17.039 --> 01:29:25.319
that I can't believe. I neglected
to tell the audience that before now pandemonium
1313
01:29:25.439 --> 01:29:29.960
ensues. His actors and dancers flee
the stage or shout freedom to the audience,
1314
01:29:30.399 --> 01:29:32.239
and Warner keeps scrambling for the gun, but he keeps getting knocked out
1315
01:29:32.279 --> 01:29:36.239
of his hands in the melee to
loose starts the cast into a medley of
1316
01:29:36.279 --> 01:29:40.800
songs that some up the ideals of
beauty, truth, freedom, and love,
1317
01:29:41.119 --> 01:29:43.880
and Warner eventually gets his gun back, but one of the cast members
1318
01:29:43.920 --> 01:29:46.680
drops a sandbag on his head and
he ends up shooting the lights, causing
1319
01:29:46.720 --> 01:29:50.720
sparks to fly all over the stage. As the medley crescendos to an end,
1320
01:29:51.399 --> 01:29:56.359
the gun drops at the Duke's feet
and he grabs it and he points
1321
01:29:56.399 --> 01:29:59.079
it at Christian and Seten, and
he starts to run up the aisle and
1322
01:29:59.119 --> 01:30:04.640
he's shouting, ending my way,
and Zidler punches the Duke and the gun
1323
01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:10.520
flies out of his hand out the
window all the way across Paris and clinks
1324
01:30:10.560 --> 01:30:14.720
against the Eiffel Tower, by which
I mean you and McGregor's dick, Yeah,
1325
01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:16.920
yeah, yeah, which is canonically
now made of iron. That's right,
1326
01:30:17.159 --> 01:30:20.159
it's an iron dick, It's an
iron claws, an iron claus.
1327
01:30:20.199 --> 01:30:24.399
What he's working with? Paul once
again, I just want everyone to know,
1328
01:30:24.399 --> 01:30:27.840
if you've never been to Paris,
this is all entirely geographically accurate.
1329
01:30:27.880 --> 01:30:30.720
Ok. This is exactly what would
happen if you threw a gun out of
1330
01:30:30.720 --> 01:30:34.960
a window in the Mulambrouge. It
would fly over to the Eiffel Tower,
1331
01:30:35.079 --> 01:30:39.319
by which we mean you and McGregor's
iron claw, clink on the side and
1332
01:30:39.359 --> 01:30:42.560
fall down to the ground. Just
want everyone to know that that's correct.
1333
01:30:42.720 --> 01:30:46.680
The audience roars, What a fucking
show we just watched. I wonder how
1334
01:30:46.760 --> 01:30:49.039
much of it they thought was real? Did they think the Duke was part
1335
01:30:49.039 --> 01:30:51.439
of it the whole time? By
the way, they cut to the duke
1336
01:30:51.439 --> 01:30:55.279
at one point during the show,
the seat next to him is empty.
1337
01:30:55.319 --> 01:30:59.840
He has purchased it, and it's
just filled with flowers for Setine. Yeah,
1338
01:31:00.399 --> 01:31:02.640
I mean it's a small thing that's
not even like dwelled on, and
1339
01:31:02.680 --> 01:31:06.000
I'm like, that is the most
perfect rich guy thing to do. He's
1340
01:31:06.000 --> 01:31:09.359
like, I'm gonna buy my seat
and I'm gonna buy the seat next to
1341
01:31:09.399 --> 01:31:13.239
me for my stuff, And by
stuff I mean the flowers I'm gonna shower
1342
01:31:13.279 --> 01:31:16.239
this woman with. Oh no,
she's choosing someone else, live on stage,
1343
01:31:16.319 --> 01:31:19.199
live on stage. My favorite part
about it is that, like obviously,
1344
01:31:19.199 --> 01:31:21.960
they start to improvise at the end, and the pit just plays along
1345
01:31:23.000 --> 01:31:27.039
with them. Oh yeah, it's
just like, okay, let's segue into
1346
01:31:27.119 --> 01:31:30.000
a different song and just goes together. At one point, Warner decides to
1347
01:31:30.079 --> 01:31:34.920
join the cast. He picks up
a tambourine and just starts playing it because
1348
01:31:34.920 --> 01:31:39.199
he doesn't know what else to do. The movie is so messy, there's
1349
01:31:39.199 --> 01:31:42.760
so much happening at all times.
Yeah, it's so fucking good. So
1350
01:31:42.800 --> 01:31:45.680
the audience is roaring. The curtain
comes down, Christian is a teene embrace,
1351
01:31:46.159 --> 01:31:50.439
and of course then she falls down
to the ground, coughing and bleeding
1352
01:31:50.439 --> 01:31:57.680
from her mouth. So he definitely
has TV now a hun she's given him
1353
01:31:57.720 --> 01:32:00.039
TV of the penis. Yeah,
penis. This is coughing of blood into
1354
01:32:00.079 --> 01:32:04.520
a hanky right now. This isn't
this moment. She's like, guess what
1355
01:32:04.680 --> 01:32:11.039
I'm dying. Good news, bad
news, Christian. The good news is
1356
01:32:11.079 --> 01:32:13.880
your show is a hit. Yeah, and I choose you. Bad news
1357
01:32:13.880 --> 01:32:15.880
though, however, is I'm going
to be dying in about four seconds.
1358
01:32:15.920 --> 01:32:18.319
Remember when I said I would love
you till my dying day. This is
1359
01:32:18.359 --> 01:32:21.760
it, This is it, this
is it. We're at zero zero hour.
1360
01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:25.000
I don't know, I don't know
if you took me literally on that,
1361
01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:28.680
but I meant it literally. So
she's like, I'm dying, you
1362
01:32:28.760 --> 01:32:31.880
must go on and tell our story. He starts to cry. He goes,
1363
01:32:31.920 --> 01:32:34.199
I can't, I can't. I
won't go on without you. He
1364
01:32:34.239 --> 01:32:38.880
fucking sells the shit out of the
scene. Eventually he promises he will,
1365
01:32:39.399 --> 01:32:42.000
and she says she'll always be with
him. I'll always be with you,
1366
01:32:43.279 --> 01:32:46.720
and then she dies in his arms. Huh. Christian weeps over her body.
1367
01:32:46.880 --> 01:32:51.399
Yeah, and the camera kind of
zooms up and over the cast.
1368
01:32:51.560 --> 01:32:56.479
You see the audience behind the curtain
still applauding, but it's all kind of
1369
01:32:56.560 --> 01:33:00.159
quiet and hushed. The camera keeps
zooming out of the theater and we are
1370
01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:03.800
now in the courtyard outside of the
Mulin Rouge. We see it changing of
1371
01:33:03.840 --> 01:33:09.039
the seasons. Outside, Christian is
spending day and night writing his and setines
1372
01:33:09.079 --> 01:33:12.279
love story. We know it's current
day Christian because he's got that perfect,
1373
01:33:12.680 --> 01:33:16.680
perfect depression beard, depression beard.
And finally, on a sunny spring morning,
1374
01:33:16.920 --> 01:33:21.720
we see him finish the story.
The curtains close on the screen that
1375
01:33:21.760 --> 01:33:26.159
we're watching on, right, and
we see the little conductor from the beginning
1376
01:33:26.159 --> 01:33:29.520
come back, Little Minnie Bradley Cooper
Mini, Little Minnie Bradley Cooper, Little
1377
01:33:29.520 --> 01:33:35.439
Minnie Lydia Tar Yeah, and he
finishes the show right if he plays out
1378
01:33:35.520 --> 01:33:40.359
the orchestra. The last song we
hear is nature Boy once Again. And
1379
01:33:40.399 --> 01:33:44.840
the last line of the film is
the greatest thing you'll ever learn is just
1380
01:33:44.920 --> 01:33:48.880
to love and be loved in return. End of film of film. All
1381
01:33:49.000 --> 01:33:55.039
right, So that's so subtle.
It's if there's one thing that bos Lehrman
1382
01:33:55.159 --> 01:33:59.720
likes, it's subtext, subtle te
Yeah, yeah, all right, is
1383
01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:02.720
the end of Mulin Rouge. Stick
around. We'll be right back after a
1384
01:34:02.760 --> 01:34:08.600
couple of commercials, and we will
give you our random observations and final ratings
1385
01:34:17.399 --> 01:34:21.439
and de retur. Oh no,
oh no, I don't know what that
1386
01:34:21.520 --> 01:34:27.760
means. It must mean we're back, according to Google. Okay, that's
1387
01:34:27.760 --> 01:34:30.880
what Google said, so it must
be true this movie, Erica, I
1388
01:34:30.920 --> 01:34:34.279
don't know if you realize this passes
the Bechdel test. It does. It
1389
01:34:34.279 --> 01:34:40.359
does because Marie and Setne talk about
Setne's career and Nini as well. Someone
1390
01:34:40.520 --> 01:34:45.760
someone says Someone's uh, Marie says, be kind Ninny. Ninny's like,
1391
01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:49.399
funk off, I'm the lead.
Now I'm glad the bitch died. NINNI
1392
01:34:49.560 --> 01:34:55.199
is actually I'm now realizing, uh, not exactly Elizabeth Berkley, but the
1393
01:34:55.239 --> 01:34:59.000
other lady in Showgirls who like throws
the marbles on the stone. Yeah,
1394
01:34:59.119 --> 01:35:02.680
yeah, that's our the famous Lemore
sign. I feel like Adlerman fans would
1395
01:35:02.680 --> 01:35:05.439
not let would not forgive us if
we let that one go. It's in
1396
01:35:05.760 --> 01:35:09.640
every one of his movies. I've
not seen Elvis, so I don't know
1397
01:35:09.680 --> 01:35:12.079
if it's in there. It really
wouldn't fit in with all. I honestly
1398
01:35:12.079 --> 01:35:15.079
fell asleep during Elvis, so I
can't see for sure, but I'm I'm
1399
01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:16.800
I'm guessing. My guess is it
is in Elvis, and it's like on
1400
01:35:16.840 --> 01:35:21.119
the television while someone is watching footage
or something in Paris, and or like
1401
01:35:21.199 --> 01:35:25.359
it's in a it's like an advertisement
in that film that has to be in
1402
01:35:25.399 --> 01:35:28.880
there, but it's in It's in
uh, you know, it was in
1403
01:35:28.920 --> 01:35:31.119
the labo I'm on Broadway that I
saw. It's in this film. It
1404
01:35:31.239 --> 01:35:34.239
was in uh Romeo and Juliet,
like it's in all of his films.
1405
01:35:34.239 --> 01:35:38.439
It's kind of his calling card.
Yeah, it's iconic. Okay, So
1406
01:35:38.520 --> 01:35:41.359
I have a weird I had a
weird read, one weird read on the
1407
01:35:41.359 --> 01:35:44.479
movie, and I'm just wondering if
you caught it at all. At the
1408
01:35:44.520 --> 01:35:47.039
after the Elephant Loved Medley, Christian
and Setina and just said that, like
1409
01:35:47.079 --> 01:35:51.319
it's a thing. That's what it's
called. After the Elephant Loves Medley.
1410
01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:55.560
The elephant love Medley is what is
when they when elephants have an orgy.
1411
01:35:55.600 --> 01:35:58.560
They try to tastefully say, the
elephants are having a love Medley. We're
1412
01:35:58.560 --> 01:36:02.119
having a love Medley over here.
You McGregor is invited because he's the only
1413
01:36:02.159 --> 01:36:08.880
one who has an elephant cock.
There is a polyamorous group out there that
1414
01:36:08.960 --> 01:36:15.119
absolutely calls their relationship belove Medley.
That is one hundred percent true. And
1415
01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:19.600
guess what they are gross. I
don't care that they're polyamorous. I care
1416
01:36:19.640 --> 01:36:25.199
that they call it and love Medley. No, no, no, you
1417
01:36:25.239 --> 01:36:29.760
know what you don't deserve to be
polyamorous, you should have weird, sad
1418
01:36:29.840 --> 01:36:34.520
vanilla sex with one person forever.
So she it's the end. Satin says,
1419
01:36:34.680 --> 01:36:36.560
you're gonna be bad for business.
I can tell, right, and
1420
01:36:36.560 --> 01:36:41.680
Satina Christien are in love and we
kind of swoop away from them and we
1421
01:36:41.720 --> 01:36:45.640
see John Leguizamo in his sad clown
makeup again. Oh, I know exactly
1422
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:49.720
what you're talking about, and he
sings, how wonderful life is now you're
1423
01:36:50.000 --> 01:36:57.079
in the world. There's this moment
and like he is so singularly obsessed with
1424
01:36:57.199 --> 01:37:00.319
Christian the whole movie that I was
like, there's like a your subtext going
1425
01:37:00.359 --> 01:37:03.960
on or something. And to be
clear, I don't think that's what boz
1426
01:37:04.039 --> 01:37:09.720
Lherman meant. And to loose the
Trek was famously fucked a lot of French
1427
01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:14.319
prostitutes, so like female prostitutes,
to be doubly clear. So I don't
1428
01:37:14.319 --> 01:37:17.000
think there's any I just the way
it played to me. And then at
1429
01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:20.880
the end where he's like chasing after
Christian and like and trying to make sure
1430
01:37:20.920 --> 01:37:25.880
the Christian's happy, there's this very
like he's in love with Christian and maybe
1431
01:37:25.880 --> 01:37:27.920
it's supposed to be like he's in
love with his talent or something. But
1432
01:37:27.960 --> 01:37:30.319
this and I don't remember thinking this
when I was younger, but this time
1433
01:37:30.359 --> 01:37:32.960
watching it, I was like,
there's there's something queer going on here.
1434
01:37:33.159 --> 01:37:35.880
Do you want to hear my less
generous take on this, It's not,
1435
01:37:36.159 --> 01:37:41.800
you're being very generous. I think
it's a similar issue where we've taken a
1436
01:37:41.840 --> 01:37:45.479
real person who is a marginalized person
and made them a magical figure in the
1437
01:37:45.479 --> 01:37:51.439
film and made them the sidekick essentially
to the to the hero film. Because
1438
01:37:51.439 --> 01:37:58.039
I know nothing that makes it not
queer, but it does make it less
1439
01:37:58.079 --> 01:38:01.119
generous you being kind. I think
I think it's a it's a small like
1440
01:38:01.199 --> 01:38:05.079
blind spot in the movie. Yeah, Like, look, I'm gonna be
1441
01:38:05.079 --> 01:38:09.439
real clear. I love this movie. I think it has its heart deeply
1442
01:38:09.479 --> 01:38:12.319
in the right place, but it
has these blind spots when it comes to
1443
01:38:13.079 --> 01:38:16.079
and it's weird that it happens to
also be two famous like actual people,
1444
01:38:16.560 --> 01:38:21.199
like not like characters they invented.
But they've taken someone with a disability who's
1445
01:38:21.199 --> 01:38:26.000
a real painter and a black man
who was like a real artist in like
1446
01:38:26.039 --> 01:38:29.960
this era in Paris, and has
marginalized them to the point where they are
1447
01:38:30.279 --> 01:38:35.119
like accessories, not even like guardian
angels to the two main characters. I
1448
01:38:35.159 --> 01:38:39.239
know exactly the scene you're talking about. He is nailing that scene, John
1449
01:38:39.279 --> 01:38:44.960
Leguizamo. He is. It's a
mixture of like melancholy and ecstasy. And
1450
01:38:45.000 --> 01:38:47.359
I also see why you think it's
queer because he's wearing women's clothes. To
1451
01:38:47.359 --> 01:38:50.800
be clear, he's not cross dressed. He's I think the implication is he's
1452
01:38:50.880 --> 01:38:55.039
just had sex with someone. Yeah, and he's wearing her robe and her
1453
01:38:55.199 --> 01:38:59.119
like feather boa around it. But
he's also wearing the clown makeup. Still,
1454
01:38:59.239 --> 01:39:01.760
he's got makeup on. It's Piero, I believe. So he's got
1455
01:39:01.800 --> 01:39:05.279
like tears streaming down his face,
and he's obviously very drunk on absence because
1456
01:39:05.279 --> 01:39:10.319
he's holding like a bottle of absence. So there's there's so much visual stuff
1457
01:39:10.359 --> 01:39:13.920
going on there. There's a gay
panic moment in the film that I did
1458
01:39:13.920 --> 01:39:15.720
not care for, and I'm bummed
it's in this movie, this well otherwise
1459
01:39:16.079 --> 01:39:20.000
super queer movie. Yeah. I
know it's about heterosexual love, but it's
1460
01:39:20.319 --> 01:39:26.880
it is the gayest movie. And
it's a moment when the narca left of
1461
01:39:27.000 --> 01:39:30.840
Argentinian wakes up during the first rehearsal
after Christian says something brilliant and he's like,
1462
01:39:30.840 --> 01:39:33.600
oh, I love it, and
then he goes, the boy has
1463
01:39:33.680 --> 01:39:36.720
talent, and then he kind of
puts his hands out and accidentally grabs you
1464
01:39:36.840 --> 01:39:40.520
McGregor's crotch, and which would have
been fine if they had left it,
1465
01:39:40.439 --> 01:39:44.239
it would have actually been funny,
but he like pulls away and then the
1466
01:39:44.279 --> 01:39:46.720
actor like looks really deeply embarrassed and
goes, nothing funny, It just like
1467
01:39:46.840 --> 01:39:51.319
talent. And I'm like, oh
man, it's so two thousand. It's
1468
01:39:51.319 --> 01:39:54.960
like the nineties are rearing its ugly
head where they're like, all right,
1469
01:39:55.000 --> 01:39:58.640
we'll put this gay panic joke in
this movie because that's like what's in right
1470
01:39:58.680 --> 01:40:00.560
now. And it's so funny too, because hey, there's the like right
1471
01:40:00.560 --> 01:40:03.239
after that, there's the shot of
the two men dancing like waltzing together,
1472
01:40:03.239 --> 01:40:08.399
the two catching men waltzing together,
so like it is really truly just like
1473
01:40:09.039 --> 01:40:13.000
it's a product of the time,
Like the movie is queer, right,
1474
01:40:13.039 --> 01:40:15.960
and I mean the character of Audrey, Yeah, we really, I mean
1475
01:40:15.039 --> 01:40:19.520
that, like absolutely, come on. It's it's like they're writing a musical
1476
01:40:20.119 --> 01:40:26.840
they're writing a musical. They're artists
and like and like sex workers in Paris,
1477
01:40:26.880 --> 01:40:29.199
like in the yeah yeah, yeah, it's so. It's it's just
1478
01:40:29.239 --> 01:40:31.319
funny that they like because you could
even have him do that and then pull
1479
01:40:31.600 --> 01:40:33.920
like, look, if you accidentally
grab someone's crotch, it's okay to be
1480
01:40:33.920 --> 01:40:39.880
embarrassed, that is it. Though
Oops, I'm so embarrassed. I don't
1481
01:40:39.880 --> 01:40:43.319
want anyone who accidentally grabs my crotch
to be embarrassed. I hate when I
1482
01:40:43.439 --> 01:40:47.239
accidentally grab people's crotches. But I
had the same thing. I was like,
1483
01:40:47.279 --> 01:40:50.239
why is this here? This is
like, it's it's so two thousand
1484
01:40:50.279 --> 01:40:54.319
and one, one hundred percent.
It feels like it doesn't make sense in
1485
01:40:54.359 --> 01:41:01.439
this movie. Absolutely just another Richard
Roxborough line. Reading that I absolutely tickled
1486
01:41:01.479 --> 01:41:08.159
me. When when Setne is hiding
Christian and somehow Christian's penis and that tiny
1487
01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:14.560
little elephant head up there and he
comes in and he's there obviously they both
1488
01:41:14.560 --> 01:41:15.680
think they're gonna have sex, like
the plan is for them to have sex,
1489
01:41:15.920 --> 01:41:18.119
and she goes, oh, it's
a pleasure, and he goes the
1490
01:41:18.159 --> 01:41:26.439
pleasure I fear will be entirely mine, self owned, self owned, duke.
1491
01:41:26.640 --> 01:41:30.119
Oh, I love him so much. There's two Zidler lines that I
1492
01:41:30.119 --> 01:41:34.399
want to point out, Okay.
One is well, when they're like selling
1493
01:41:34.439 --> 01:41:38.560
the show to the Duke and he's
pretending to play the Maharaja. He's like,
1494
01:41:38.560 --> 01:41:42.640
bye, I'm the evil Maharaja and
Setin goes, oh, Harold,
1495
01:41:42.720 --> 01:41:45.119
no one could play it like you
could, and he just goes, no
1496
01:41:45.119 --> 01:41:50.199
one's going to Diva. Yeah,
fuck yes, Diva, take it,
1497
01:41:50.279 --> 01:41:53.600
take your part, take it the
other one. And this is just a
1498
01:41:53.640 --> 01:41:57.960
creepy moment between him and Setne when
like the he first like is backstage with
1499
01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:00.640
Setine and she goes, is the
Duke here? And he goes, Leipshin,
1500
01:42:00.800 --> 01:42:05.439
would Daddy let you down? And
I'm like, what is their whole
1501
01:42:05.479 --> 01:42:09.399
thing? Well, like he said, he says he found her on the
1502
01:42:09.439 --> 01:42:14.800
street, like like he picked her
out, like he saw a street sex
1503
01:42:14.840 --> 01:42:17.680
worker, a stunning who looked like
Nicole Kidman and was like, I think
1504
01:42:17.720 --> 01:42:20.960
I can do something with you.
Yeah, come on, inas Like basically,
1505
01:42:21.359 --> 01:42:25.199
look, that's probably a pretty common
tale back then. I'm sure.
1506
01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:28.479
Yeah. Leipshin like, I'm like, why are we speaking in German?
1507
01:42:28.479 --> 01:42:32.680
All of a sudden, would Daddy
let you down. I only have one
1508
01:42:32.720 --> 01:42:35.439
more. It's two words. I
think these are the only two words I'm
1509
01:42:35.439 --> 01:42:40.000
gonna need to get the point across
to you and to anyone who's seen this
1510
01:42:40.039 --> 01:42:44.880
movie. Aspic tits. Oh my
god, yes I have that note too.
1511
01:42:45.880 --> 01:42:47.520
It's during like a virgin. It's
the like a virgin. They're they're
1512
01:42:47.600 --> 01:42:51.319
rushing and they they run up to
this this The waiters are holding a tray
1513
01:42:51.359 --> 01:42:56.039
of these jiggling jello molds that just
looked like tits. It's a set of
1514
01:42:56.119 --> 01:43:00.760
tits for no real reason, because
it's visually hilario and that's what this scene
1515
01:43:00.800 --> 01:43:05.439
is for. Yeah, yeah,
Paul. How shall we rank Moulage one
1516
01:43:05.479 --> 01:43:13.800
to ten? Sensual ravishments? Sens
youman, I still can't roll like to
1517
01:43:13.840 --> 01:43:18.720
lord it over you? One to
ten French people with English accents played by
1518
01:43:18.760 --> 01:43:23.720
Australians. Is at least three of
them in this movie. I want to
1519
01:43:23.760 --> 01:43:27.439
be clear. There is not a
single person in this film with a French
1520
01:43:27.479 --> 01:43:31.760
accent. The default accent for everyone
is English, which is a bold choice
1521
01:43:31.760 --> 01:43:39.079
considering the main character is someone who
came from England to France and should speak
1522
01:43:39.119 --> 01:43:43.199
differently from everyone else. What have
they given you and McGregor a French accent.
1523
01:43:43.399 --> 01:43:45.960
Now we're getting into some good stuff. He should have had the French
1524
01:43:45.000 --> 01:43:49.119
accent and the rest of them because
they are one hundred percent English, Cockney
1525
01:43:49.159 --> 01:43:53.479
English, except for the Argentinian,
which, again, as you pointed out,
1526
01:43:53.600 --> 01:43:58.800
is a Polish actor who's honestly doing
a pretty respectable or just Argentinian accent.
1527
01:43:58.800 --> 01:44:00.640
It's not I mean, it's not
great, but it's pretty. It's
1528
01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:02.079
not bad. Yeah, if you
didn't know that actor was Polish, you
1529
01:44:02.079 --> 01:44:05.520
would actually be like, it's probably
yeah, maybe you might be Argentinian.
1530
01:44:05.560 --> 01:44:10.239
I don't know. Yeah, why
not. One to ten animal buildings in
1531
01:44:10.319 --> 01:44:14.720
Paris, famous famal buildings. I
love the Flamingo. I want to visit
1532
01:44:14.760 --> 01:44:17.399
the Flamingo absolutely. I cannot wait
for the Olympics to happen this year and
1533
01:44:17.560 --> 01:44:24.159
we get a full skating rink inside
of the Ladybug building. Yeah. The
1534
01:44:24.199 --> 01:44:27.560
aquatic center I think is going to
be in the Dolphin Yep, the famous
1535
01:44:27.600 --> 01:44:32.079
Dolphin building. Yeah, it's a
dolphins building in Paris. One to ten
1536
01:44:32.279 --> 01:44:39.800
luremanesque visual orgies. I'm surprised there
wasn't a more traditional orgy at some point
1537
01:44:39.840 --> 01:44:42.279
in the actual one they wanted to
get a PG thirteen. I think they
1538
01:44:42.279 --> 01:44:45.680
want they wanted the PG thirteen.
But also it is so deeply implied.
1539
01:44:45.880 --> 01:44:49.560
Yeah that it's like, but we
did everyone's fucking We maybe didn't see it,
1540
01:44:49.600 --> 01:44:51.800
but we saw it, you know
what I mean. I was when
1541
01:44:51.800 --> 01:44:54.560
I was doing researched for it.
You know, in the beginning, there
1542
01:44:54.600 --> 01:44:58.239
can can so you see all the
bloomers, right, And like I was
1543
01:44:58.279 --> 01:45:00.119
reading reading about the movie, and
they were like, the actual Mulan ruge
1544
01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:02.920
the dancers dance was split knickers,
but they didn't do that for the movie
1545
01:45:02.920 --> 01:45:05.720
because they wanted to get a PG
thirteen rating. And I'm like, also,
1546
01:45:05.760 --> 01:45:08.920
you don't want to hire a bunch
of dancers and be like, we're
1547
01:45:08.920 --> 01:45:15.119
gonna show off your badge every time
you kick up your dun badge badge,
1548
01:45:15.560 --> 01:45:19.039
judge, badge, badge. But
you're barely gonna see those badges because we're
1549
01:45:19.039 --> 01:45:24.119
talking eighteen ninety nine badge. It
is bush. You're not seeing badge.
1550
01:45:24.119 --> 01:45:30.279
You're trusty. It's just hair token
through the pantaloons trying to fight its way
1551
01:45:30.319 --> 01:45:34.840
out, just a full shrub.
They did not know about grooming back then.
1552
01:45:35.119 --> 01:45:44.039
They didn't know what we know now
there's a huge lady bush poking out
1553
01:45:44.079 --> 01:45:46.000
through those pantaloons. You let it
grown up, You're don't have to wear
1554
01:45:46.079 --> 01:45:50.840
nickers. Then everything gets aired out
more. Ah ha. Have you ever
1555
01:45:50.960 --> 01:45:56.359
tried to like can can? I
thought you were gonna say you ever tried
1556
01:45:56.359 --> 01:46:00.600
to grow your bush? I mean
we've all grown up? Yeah, right,
1557
01:46:00.760 --> 01:46:06.000
Well, the pandemic hit everyone hard, right I can't. I can't
1558
01:46:06.039 --> 01:46:10.800
say I haven't gone back to the
way things used to be. I'm pretty
1559
01:46:10.840 --> 01:46:14.039
much still there. From being honest, I've progressed a little bit. I've
1560
01:46:14.039 --> 01:46:15.760
progressed the touch. I'm sorry.
Have I ever tried to can care?
1561
01:46:15.920 --> 01:46:19.479
Like the actual dance? It is
so so hard. Yeah, it's really
1562
01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:24.279
hard, Like I like people like
I think it's like silly sexy dance that
1563
01:46:24.319 --> 01:46:27.600
women used to do to like entice
men, And yes, but it is
1564
01:46:27.640 --> 01:46:30.159
one of the most athletic things I've
ever seen. You want to who I've
1565
01:46:30.159 --> 01:46:35.319
seen do it? The entirely male
chorus of Lakasha fall. Oh yeah cool.
1566
01:46:36.399 --> 01:46:41.680
Yeah, that's fucking hard. Yeah
yeah. How about one to ten
1567
01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:47.960
euphemisms for Ean McGregor's giant hog enormous
Ewan McGregor dicks, enormous, enormous,
1568
01:46:47.960 --> 01:46:53.520
you McGregor, Eiffel towers, Yeah, Tour de frances. His penis was
1569
01:46:53.560 --> 01:46:56.279
the one that gave them the idea
for the bridge across the Seine in the
1570
01:46:56.319 --> 01:47:00.279
middle of Paris. Yeah, his
penis is actually this the chanzes arc.
1571
01:47:00.600 --> 01:47:02.680
Yeah, it's the size of you
McGregor's penis. If you doubled it in
1572
01:47:02.720 --> 01:47:09.399
half, you can walk under it. People have gotten married under can jump
1573
01:47:09.479 --> 01:47:14.439
rope with you and McGregor's. You
could try, You could try, but
1574
01:47:14.479 --> 01:47:18.520
I don't think I can jump that
high. Frankly, he'll never do this
1575
01:47:18.560 --> 01:47:23.000
pod now, damn it, we've
ruined it. You are wrong. I'm
1576
01:47:23.039 --> 01:47:26.319
telling you. The man he has
given quotes. I'm not making this up.
1577
01:47:26.800 --> 01:47:30.000
When he did Star Wars like too
bad we couldn't get my lightsaber out.
1578
01:47:30.039 --> 01:47:33.720
Like he loves being naked. I
have seen him naked in a couple
1579
01:47:33.760 --> 01:47:36.039
of things, and you know what, there's a reason. There's a reason
1580
01:47:36.079 --> 01:47:43.359
he doesn't mind it. How about
one to ten bloody hankys. One to
1581
01:47:43.399 --> 01:47:48.119
ten Chekhov's Hanky's covered in blood,
TV blood one to ten Harbingers of Death
1582
01:47:48.199 --> 01:47:53.000
to come. Let's do this one, Okay, it's fun. Do you
1583
01:47:53.000 --> 01:47:55.000
want to go first or striker first? You know what, I need a
1584
01:47:55.039 --> 01:47:57.199
minute, you go first? Because
I'm not sure how to rate this thing.
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01:47:57.600 --> 01:48:01.199
So I think overall the movie ages
pretty well. It falls down in
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01:48:01.239 --> 01:48:05.000
some expected places. There's the gay
panic moment that we talked about that it's
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01:48:05.000 --> 01:48:08.439
not it's not offensive, it's just
like, oh, that's just weird,
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01:48:08.640 --> 01:48:12.319
weird, just so two thousand and
one, it's like in again the geest
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01:48:12.399 --> 01:48:18.119
movie. This movie is so gay, it's gee, it's gee. There's
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01:48:18.279 --> 01:48:24.159
a decent amount of diversity in the
movie, Like there's diversity in the in
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01:48:24.600 --> 01:48:28.840
the in the dance core, you'll
see people of different ethnicities. It could
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01:48:28.880 --> 01:48:31.039
be better. I'm not gonna pretend
that it couldn't be better. And then
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01:48:31.039 --> 01:48:36.399
we have like the main like the
Hispanic cast member who is playing a little
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01:48:36.399 --> 01:48:40.520
person you know I have. I
went back and forth on this a little
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01:48:40.560 --> 01:48:44.560
bit, and like, because to
lose the trek was such a specific Yeah,
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01:48:44.880 --> 01:48:47.079
it's a person with like a genetic
disorder. Yeah, this is this
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01:48:47.159 --> 01:48:51.760
is a maybe ignorant thing to say. Can you even cast someone right that
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01:48:51.840 --> 01:48:56.640
has this exact same genetic disorder?
Yeah? And also I think part of
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01:48:56.680 --> 01:48:59.159
the thing with him was that he
got his legs broken, right, So
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01:48:59.199 --> 01:49:01.600
like it's it's like this whole like, yes, famously like to lose Lutrek's
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01:49:01.640 --> 01:49:04.319
legs were broken when he was young
and they never grew. He does not,
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01:49:04.600 --> 01:49:09.359
he does not suffer from the genetic
issue that comes with a little person
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01:49:09.560 --> 01:49:12.640
that is not the person that he
is. Yeah, and there is a
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01:49:12.640 --> 01:49:15.079
little person in the movie. I
was actually gonna say, she's, yeah,
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01:49:15.119 --> 01:49:16.199
one of the one of the dancers
at the Mulan Rouge. And they
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01:49:16.399 --> 01:49:20.479
the movie never ever even comments on
it. No one a dancer, No
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01:49:20.520 --> 01:49:24.279
one talks about it. No one's
like like, no one makes fun of
1608
01:49:24.279 --> 01:49:27.439
her, No one even she's a
featured dancer and she's a Rhinds but she's
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01:49:27.479 --> 01:49:30.039
around all the time. She's the
person who drops the sandbag on Werner and
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01:49:30.079 --> 01:49:31.680
saves the day at the end.
Actually, and the other thing too,
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01:49:31.720 --> 01:49:35.880
she's not overly sexualized in a way, which that could be part of it
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01:49:35.960 --> 01:49:41.239
for them, because she's like the
little person in the Mulin Rouge and maybe
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01:49:41.239 --> 01:49:44.399
that's someone's thing. That's not where
the movie is going with her at all.
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01:49:44.680 --> 01:49:46.760
It's I thought, really cool.
Yeah, it's it's for the fact
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01:49:46.760 --> 01:49:50.600
that the Mulan Rouge is called a
brothel, it is a fairly uh upstanding
1616
01:49:50.640 --> 01:49:56.439
brothel. There's not a lot of
not a lot of sexualization. There's not
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01:49:57.079 --> 01:50:00.920
a lot of great female roles.
But we have Nicole kN I think Nini
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01:50:00.119 --> 01:50:03.640
is kind of being made something by
Caroline O'Connor. She's just kind of filling
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01:50:03.680 --> 01:50:08.840
every moment that she's on screen with
just like personality, personality, personality.
1620
01:50:09.199 --> 01:50:13.279
Yeah, but there's really like four
roles in the five roles in the movie,
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01:50:13.319 --> 01:50:15.720
really, and so it's it's not
like there's a sweeping ensemble cast.
1622
01:50:15.760 --> 01:50:19.880
And you'll see a lot of women
in the movie. So it's really fun.
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01:50:20.039 --> 01:50:24.680
It's going to be for you or
not for you. I think I
1624
01:50:24.760 --> 01:50:29.439
don't think anyone's gonna leave this movie
with a oh okay kind of reaction to
1625
01:50:29.520 --> 01:50:31.479
it. You're either going to be
like, I have a massive headache or
1626
01:50:32.079 --> 01:50:35.479
I want to go out dancing in
the East Village. Like those are gonna
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01:50:35.479 --> 01:50:40.399
be your two reactions. Yeah,
I'm gonna give it a seven. Okay,
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01:50:40.439 --> 01:50:44.720
I'm gonna give it a seven out
of ten. Of blood spray hankies
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01:50:44.920 --> 01:50:48.119
that are definitely giving tuberculosis to fourteen
other people at any given time. What
1630
01:50:48.199 --> 01:50:51.760
if she just coughed all over the
audience, was just coughed in a hanky
1631
01:50:51.800 --> 01:50:55.680
and then threw it to the audience, coughing another one through out into the
1632
01:50:55.720 --> 01:50:59.079
audience. The front row is like
a splash, something like at a Gallagher
1633
01:50:59.159 --> 01:51:02.039
show. They have to have a
tarp. There's just one person there with
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01:51:02.079 --> 01:51:08.399
Ppe on the plastic mask. How
about you. I love this movie,
1635
01:51:08.399 --> 01:51:12.920
Paul boy do. I love this
movie. And so it's it pains me
1636
01:51:12.960 --> 01:51:15.960
to even look at it critically because
I'm like, oh, yeah, damn
1637
01:51:15.960 --> 01:51:18.520
it. I never really thought about
that before, Like the Magical Black Man
1638
01:51:18.520 --> 01:51:23.439
that they turned Le'shakala into a real
person, like a real person that they
1639
01:51:23.479 --> 01:51:28.239
turned him into, and the the
you know, magical little person that they
1640
01:51:28.279 --> 01:51:31.600
turned to Lose lu Trek into.
They almost they don't even mention that he's
1641
01:51:31.600 --> 01:51:35.560
a painter. No, I you
know, I was gonna ding the movie
1642
01:51:35.560 --> 01:51:41.840
on like John Leguizamo playing him.
Yeah, And I talked to myself and
1643
01:51:41.920 --> 01:51:44.760
you both of us out of it, I think, because as I'm saying
1644
01:51:44.760 --> 01:51:46.399
it in real time, it's You're
right, It's not that like the to
1645
01:51:46.479 --> 01:51:50.479
louse lu Trek had dwarf ism,
it was a whole host of other things.
1646
01:51:50.520 --> 01:51:55.239
And like, I don't think there's
there's much you can do to like
1647
01:51:55.720 --> 01:52:00.840
cast someone with the exact same genetic
predisposition that he had. Yeah, And
1648
01:52:00.840 --> 01:52:02.600
and you could also you could cast
a little person to play the role,
1649
01:52:02.640 --> 01:52:05.840
and that would be fine too.
It be cool if they did or they
1650
01:52:05.880 --> 01:52:10.600
had, but they didn't. And
and I you know, for some reason,
1651
01:52:10.600 --> 01:52:13.600
bos Lhrman has decided to go all
in on John Leguizomo, and I'm
1652
01:52:13.640 --> 01:52:15.920
here for it. Frankly, I
am here for it. John Leguizamo is
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01:52:15.960 --> 01:52:19.640
to bos Lhurman what John Goodman is
to the Cohen Brothers. Yeah, yeah,
1654
01:52:19.680 --> 01:52:23.600
Canon. You know, my big
problem with the movie is what I'm
1655
01:52:23.640 --> 01:52:29.079
what I said before about like the
two kind of the smaller characters being kind
1656
01:52:29.119 --> 01:52:38.560
of in service of the love story
between between like very attractive white people like
1657
01:52:38.720 --> 01:52:43.439
oof. I'm gonna give it a
six, okay, a little lower than
1658
01:52:43.479 --> 01:52:45.000
you. I'm gonna give a six. I'm gonna give it a million for
1659
01:52:45.039 --> 01:52:48.720
watchability, Yeah, like a million
and a half for watchability. This is
1660
01:52:48.760 --> 01:52:51.680
my favorite boz Lhrman. I like
Romeo and Juliette as well, but I
1661
01:52:51.680 --> 01:52:55.479
would be more inclined to watch this
again. I agree. I agree even
1662
01:52:55.520 --> 01:52:59.920
strictly Ballroom, which is the most
like quote unquote normal boz Lherman movie is.
1663
01:53:00.239 --> 01:53:02.359
I liked it very very much and
it's very cute and adorable. But
1664
01:53:02.399 --> 01:53:06.600
this is like, this is bos
Lerman being exactly who bos Lerman is meant
1665
01:53:06.680 --> 01:53:12.960
to be. So yeah, six
out of ten blood stained death hankies.
1666
01:53:14.439 --> 01:53:16.840
Nothing like a death hanky from here. Yeah. I do not have a
1667
01:53:16.840 --> 01:53:20.000
palate cleanser, but I do want
to give a small shout out. There's
1668
01:53:20.359 --> 01:53:25.159
a there's a couple of films about
the Mulon Rouge. One is French can
1669
01:53:25.239 --> 01:53:30.800
Can. It's nineteen fifty four film
by gen Jean Renoir that if you can't
1670
01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:33.119
find it, like just google it. I think these scenes must exist on
1671
01:53:33.159 --> 01:53:40.079
YouTube. There is like this dance
sequence that is unbelievable and it's kind of
1672
01:53:40.119 --> 01:53:43.279
like cool and it's very like,
I don't know, maybe gives you an
1673
01:53:43.319 --> 01:53:45.760
idea of what it would be like
to actually see a can can show.
1674
01:53:45.840 --> 01:53:47.920
Now, it's a nineteen fifty four
film, so it's not the sexiest can
1675
01:53:48.000 --> 01:53:53.119
can show, but it's fucking cool. There there's no bush there's no full
1676
01:53:53.159 --> 01:53:57.199
fucking bush. The other one is
Mulon Rouge from nineteen fifty two by John
1677
01:53:57.239 --> 01:54:00.800
Houston. Okay, it takes place
from the perspective of Lutrek and he is
1678
01:54:00.840 --> 01:54:05.119
played by Jose Ferrara, and it
is a fantastic performance another Hispanic person.
1679
01:54:05.279 --> 01:54:10.319
Yeah, playing to lose lu Trek
interesting. Realize that's interesting. You get
1680
01:54:10.319 --> 01:54:14.279
an idea of what not a baz
Lerman like cartoon version of the Mulan Rouge
1681
01:54:14.279 --> 01:54:15.840
would have been like, but like
the actual Mulon Rouge. Yeah, So
1682
01:54:16.239 --> 01:54:19.039
if you're interested in that topic at
all, there are other films that have
1683
01:54:19.159 --> 01:54:24.119
like a more naturalistic visual style that
would give you an idea of what that
1684
01:54:24.279 --> 01:54:28.039
was like. Okay, all right, so everyone listening can follow us on
1685
01:54:28.079 --> 01:54:30.760
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Well tote bag. That aged Well
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01:54:56.520 --> 01:55:00.399
That's this dancing queen over here.
We would like to think hip. There
1694
01:55:00.439 --> 01:55:02.239
was no Abba in this movie.
I can't believe I had to watch a
1695
01:55:02.319 --> 01:55:09.720
ten minute tango sequence and two seconds
of can can? How dare they?
1696
01:55:10.640 --> 01:55:13.960
That delights me to this day.
I heard that person bitching about it twenty
1697
01:55:14.039 --> 01:55:18.159
years ago and I'm still living off
that moment. But you're right, it
1698
01:55:18.239 --> 01:55:23.760
is weird. They didn't have any
Abba in this Yeah. I think Muriel's
1699
01:55:23.760 --> 01:55:27.439
wedding ruined ABBA for all Australian filmmakers. You know what? That's right after
1700
01:55:27.479 --> 01:55:30.079
that, no one in Australia could
even touch Abba. We're done. Yeah.
1701
01:55:30.119 --> 01:55:35.159
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1702
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and our Patreon come with thanks from
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1709
01:56:01.720 --> 01:56:08.640
from oh Iago from Aladdin. A
new a new guest has arrived. Hello
1710
01:56:08.720 --> 01:56:13.239
Iago, Hey, Yeah, it's
me Iago from Aladdin, and not the
1711
01:56:13.279 --> 01:56:17.640
one from that awful live action turd
voice by Alan Tudik. Disney's feathered scarlet
1712
01:56:17.680 --> 01:56:21.439
Prince has one voice, and it's
this one, the shrill squawk of a
1713
01:56:21.520 --> 01:56:26.880
guy that once got blacklisted from the
Yemmys for telling jokes about Paul Rubin shaking
1714
01:56:26.920 --> 01:56:30.239
up his bottle of squirt at a
porno theater. If Iago can't make cracks
1715
01:56:30.239 --> 01:56:35.560
about Peewee Herman summoning the genie who
can to quote my Shakespearean namesake, and
1716
01:56:35.640 --> 01:56:40.960
what's he then that says, I
play the villain, So you two Cubic
1717
01:56:41.039 --> 01:56:45.960
Zirconia is in the rough on me
to thank Emma. Thanks Emma, Apparently
1718
01:56:45.000 --> 01:56:48.520
I brought you joy. Probably not
as much joy as pee Wee got churning
1719
01:56:48.600 --> 01:56:53.079
his own butter to a remastered version
of Boys in the Sand, But hey,
1720
01:56:53.079 --> 01:56:58.359
a macawkn dream. Everyone remember to
polish the parrot every chance you get.
1721
01:56:58.479 --> 01:57:10.600
It's healthy. Wow, that was
loud. That was the loudest PSA
1722
01:57:11.039 --> 01:57:16.800
about the healthyness and masturbation from an
animated parrot that we've ever had on this
1723
01:57:16.880 --> 01:57:19.159
show. I'm willing to say that, right, I want you put that
1724
01:57:19.199 --> 01:57:23.479
gauntlet down. Well, the thing
about PSAs is you're not If you're not
1725
01:57:23.560 --> 01:57:26.920
loud, people don't hear them.
You don't hear the loudest room. The
1726
01:57:27.000 --> 01:57:29.800
loudest voice in the room is the
one that gets heard. That's right.
1727
01:57:30.000 --> 01:57:31.640
Yeah, and good for Yago.
Disney pushes down a lot of that good
1728
01:57:31.640 --> 01:57:34.920
messaging, healthy messaging. Yeah,
yeah, young people, there's really not
1729
01:57:35.079 --> 01:57:39.920
enough masturbation talk in any of the
Disney That's true, except for Cinderella,
1730
01:57:39.960 --> 01:57:44.079
where it is all over too much
Cinderella. It's frankly, it's it made
1731
01:57:44.119 --> 01:57:47.279
me deeply uncomfortable, Bobby Boo,
once you learn what that actually means.
1732
01:57:47.359 --> 01:57:50.960
Yeah, that scene with the three
fairies just going to town on each other.
1733
01:57:51.079 --> 01:57:54.720
I love a scene usually with three
fairies going to town on each other,
1734
01:57:54.880 --> 01:57:57.640
but that one felt weird. It
was weird. Yeah, it was
1735
01:57:57.720 --> 01:58:03.159
the wings. I think Erica any
final thoughts on Mulin Rouge. All you
1736
01:58:03.319 --> 01:58:08.479
need is love. A girl's got
to eat. All you need is love,
1737
01:58:08.600 --> 01:58:13.159
show wind up on the streets.
All you need is love. Love
1738
01:58:13.239 --> 01:58:33.520
is just a game. Everything.
Seasons may change, winter spring, but
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01:58:33.640 --> 01:58:49.399
I love you until my m HM
day. Come on, come one now, exc