Full Transcript for Movie Review: The Devil’s Advocate [TEASER]

WEBVTT 00:00.715 --> 00:02.277 [SPEAKER_02]: Not fucking guilty! 00:03.097 --> 00:04.979 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god! 00:05.140 --> 00:06.941 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh shit! 00:07.021 --> 00:07.622 [SPEAKER_02]: 30 minutes! 00:08.383 --> 00:10.185 [SPEAKER_04]: Module! 00:11.486 --> 00:11.846 [SPEAKER_02]: 30! 00:12.867 --> 00:13.668 [SPEAKER_02]: Man! 00:14.049 --> 00:14.769 [SPEAKER_02]: Module! 00:15.450 --> 00:23.618 [SPEAKER_03]: Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects. 00:24.600 --> 00:41.385 [SPEAKER_03]: On this week's subscriber only episode of 5-4, Peter, Reannon, and Michael are offering a sound for your election day anxiety, and taking this moment to discuss the Devil's Advocate, a film from 1997 that dares to ask the question, what if lawyers are literally evil? 00:42.045 --> 00:50.347 [SPEAKER_03]: The film stars Keanu Reeves is a hot-shot-floor to defense attorney who has recruited to work for a New York City law firm run by a sinister partner played by Al Pacino. 00:50.885 --> 00:54.368 [SPEAKER_03]: We hope this episode gives you a much-needed break from the news on mid-term's day. 00:54.588 --> 00:56.769 [SPEAKER_03]: But remember to go out and vote if you haven't already. 00:57.170 --> 00:59.992 [SPEAKER_03]: If you want to watch the election results roll in with the 5-4 crew. 01:00.532 --> 01:06.456 [SPEAKER_03]: Peter, Re and Michael are doing a live zoom tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern with our Arch Enemy Patreon on Subscribers. 01:06.797 --> 01:12.181 [SPEAKER_03]: This is 5-4, a podcast about how much this Supreme Court and lawyers in general have sung. 01:16.950 --> 01:24.997 [SPEAKER_04]: Welcome to Five to Four, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have kept our civil rights waiting like you, waiting in line to vote right now. 01:25.558 --> 01:26.979 [SPEAKER_04]: I'm Peter, I'm here with Michael. 01:26.999 --> 01:27.800 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey everybody. 01:28.105 --> 01:30.246 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, happy election day, everybody. 01:30.326 --> 01:31.726 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody else shooting their pants? 01:32.026 --> 01:33.047 [SPEAKER_04]: Midterm day, folks. 01:33.607 --> 01:33.867 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 01:33.887 --> 01:37.568 [SPEAKER_04]: And the matter what happens, we're all on this together. 01:37.908 --> 01:41.749 [SPEAKER_04]: You know, just beautiful experiment called America. 01:43.070 --> 01:44.090 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just kidding. 01:44.110 --> 01:45.471 [SPEAKER_04]: It just goes even a little bit wrong. 01:46.251 --> 01:47.391 [SPEAKER_04]: I'll be losing my fucking mind. 01:47.731 --> 01:48.031 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 01:50.172 --> 01:58.036 [SPEAKER_04]: It sucks that all the polls, as of now, as of the time of recording, are super valuable and it's like so we can only be disappointed, right? 01:58.096 --> 02:08.422 [SPEAKER_04]: This is like being the best team in the championship game, either what you expect to happen happens or horrible disappointment, right? 02:08.462 --> 02:08.822 [SPEAKER_04]: Right. 02:09.162 --> 02:09.402 [SPEAKER_04]: Right. 02:09.743 --> 02:13.685 [SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, we are at the end of the day, an electrolysis podcast, so we hope that you are in fact, 02:14.804 --> 02:16.004 [SPEAKER_04]: waiting in line to vote. 02:16.485 --> 02:21.546 [SPEAKER_00]: We're in exercise your right to vote or you don't deserve to call yourself American podcast. 02:22.106 --> 02:22.647 [SPEAKER_04]: That's right. 02:23.027 --> 02:28.628 [SPEAKER_04]: But at the end of the day, we did not want to add to your election day stress. 02:28.949 --> 02:30.529 [SPEAKER_04]: So we're doing a movie episode. 02:30.789 --> 02:39.252 [SPEAKER_01]: But before we start, I want to tell you to cold on air and recording about this new play, this new musical. 02:39.492 --> 02:44.153 [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so you've told us that you had a story and you've been keeping this in your pocket for a good 48 hours now. 02:44.493 --> 02:49.454 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Michael, I'm texting in the group chat that he wants to tell us about a musical. 02:50.254 --> 02:51.614 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's called midnight. 02:51.634 --> 02:52.234 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 02:52.554 --> 02:59.956 [SPEAKER_01]: It's set in this piece of a war South already get excited and there are 12 cast members, six black, six white. 03:00.776 --> 03:06.217 [SPEAKER_01]: The black people playing enslaved African Americans and the white people playing their owners people. 03:07.367 --> 03:14.570 [SPEAKER_01]: The main character is enslaved and working alongside his owner and building a house together. 03:14.910 --> 03:22.554 [SPEAKER_01]: They discover a bond of neutral admiration and friendship and ultimately gay loves. 03:23.114 --> 03:24.114 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god. 03:24.395 --> 03:25.715 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's just the first act. 03:25.995 --> 03:29.517 [SPEAKER_01]: And then at the end of the first act, the end of the first act. 03:31.782 --> 03:32.842 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm very excited about this. 03:33.342 --> 03:54.167 [SPEAKER_01]: The end of the first act are enslaved main characters as to his lover, slash owner, but you can't really understand me unless you like walk a mile in my shoes, and then they break the fourth wall and sing to the audience that it's time to suspend disbelief, because all the black characters are going to freaky-fry a body swap with all the white characters. 03:55.107 --> 04:04.913 [SPEAKER_01]: And then all the black actors and white actors disrobe on stage in swap costumes and then in the second act. 04:04.933 --> 04:06.494 [SPEAKER_01]: So all the black actors play white. 04:06.515 --> 04:10.777 [SPEAKER_04]: Hey folks, if you want to hear the rest of this episode, you're going to have to subscribe. 04:11.298 --> 04:14.079 [SPEAKER_04]: This episode is one of our premium Patreon only episodes. 04:14.580 --> 04:16.321 [SPEAKER_04]: Membership starts at just five bucks a month. 04:16.361 --> 04:20.123 [SPEAKER_04]: If you want to hear the rest join us at patreon.com slash five four pod. 04:20.504 --> 04:21.584 [SPEAKER_04]: That's five four pod. 04:21.644 --> 04:22.345 [SPEAKER_04]: All spelled out. 04:22.965 --> 04:30.018 [SPEAKER_04]: Members get a bunch of stuff, not only do you get access to the premium episodes, but access to subscriber-only events discounts on merch. 04:30.700 --> 04:37.712 [SPEAKER_04]: And at the $10 a month level, you get bigger discounts on merch and membership in the incredibly rowdy five to four slack. 04:38.334 --> 04:43.363 [SPEAKER_04]: So again, that's patreon.com slash five four pod, five four pod all spelled out. 04:44.164 --> 04:45.106 [SPEAKER_04]: Become a member today.