Full Transcript for Arlington Road

hey, that's what this episode is about. 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.480 Uh, if you come into the movie without knowing how it goes, it absolutely kind of delivers. 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.560 But the more you think about it, it's the strangest terror plot ever conceived. 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:11.520 The motives of the terrorists are not clear, and I can't go further without ruining the plot, which is uh what I'm about to go over. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:18.879 The difference this movie has from previously covered limbo is the movie was based on a current issue that 25 years later is still an issue. 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:22.080 Arlington Road is a terrorism movie that was made before 9-11. 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:26.080 It's coming out at a time when the largest threat currently was coming from inside the house. 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:28.719 So the Univarmor around now gets caught. 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:34.159 There's the Olympic Park uh bombing and Oklahoma City, which is this movie's made in parallel. 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:40.159 Um, so the story, homegrown terrorism in a suburban community near our nation's capital, it's a good pitch. 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:42.800 And at the at the time the topic was very irrelevant. 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:46.400 I guess in a parabolic arc, it's sort of relevant again. 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.400 Two things do not age well in this movie. 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:51.840 It's just a sign of the age the movie was made and what we consider progress. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:59.759 Tim Robbins is building a mall, which may have we've made we've made them obsolete with online shopping and the anti-socialization of the youths. 00:02:59.919 --> 00:03:06.159 Lastly, the reflecting pool in the Lincoln Memorial has water in it, which our current very competent administration can't seem to crack. 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:11.759 Hey, it's not the most original take, but Donald Trump has ruined so many staples of films depicting the United States of America. 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:19.439 Every helicopter, drone, or establishing shot of the White House is now evidence or like a sad symbol of an American institution being destroyed. 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:32.000 I know I mentioned 9-11 a lot, like a Harmontown audience, but in a way, it's that like only terrorists could forever change the New York City skyline, he has ruined the White House, which according to race must be his favorite house. 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:37.520 But also consider that every person from now on who has to play the president has an important question to ask themselves. 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:41.360 Do you play it like a stiff, respectable, honestly pretty boring commander-in-chief? 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:43.360 Or do you play the pussy grabber? 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:48.319 It's weird, but the stakes are sort of removed in an intense action thriller if the president's an idiot. 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:55.039 Spaceball is an idiocracy joke about this, but he's slowly ruining everything I enjoy or, I don't know, thought was traditional. 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:58.479 Mark Pellington is the second hot filmmaker that Screen Gems has landed. 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.680 His previous film, Going All the Way in 1998, blew up in Sundance. 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:06.319 The cast of that film either became stars, fizzled out, or were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein. 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:15.520 Pellington is an interesting guy, but it as with most independent filmmakers in the 90s, they're putting out comedies, dramas, and thrillers because CGI is still an expensive Hollywood delicacy. 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:17.600 This movie has a loaded cast. 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.800 With the exclusion of the opening scene, it's shot very clean. 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:28.959 Tim Robbins uh has all sorts of range, but it does seem like this flavor is a role that will start to like occur or reoccur. 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:36.160 When he gets creepy in a movie, it's in this movie, it's reminiscent of when he's creepy in Mystic River or uh Spielberg's War of the Worlds. 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:41.199 And I think this is a disservice because I find him very funny and uh believably sweet. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.879 Matt Damon does this too, where they're like, why would they do this cameo performance? 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.680 And I think the real thing is because he's a game, it's fun. 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.879 So um here's him uh in a small part in Anchorman. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:59.680 Not so fast, you ingre! Public news team is taking a break from its flex drive to kick some ass. 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:02.560 No commercials, no mercy! 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.240 And here's him in Tenacious D in the pick of destiny. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:09.920 Get the fuck out of here! 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:15.759 Nice to look forward now. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:23.279 Doctor picked over here, nice to over a whole. 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:26.319 Then you might as well kill us, man. 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.079 Because there is no way in hell we're giving you this fucking pick. 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:30.720 Okay. 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:33.279 So be it. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:35.120 Come over here. 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:38.160 I'm going to fucking stab you. 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:40.720 What? 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:42.720 No. 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:46.399 I mean, he's funny, he's got range. 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:53.839 I I really like that um uh he's paired with uh Joan Cusack because he's worked with John Cusack like twice, and then he high fidelity and tape heads. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.279 But um and I think it's sad because I like him, I like his causes. 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:03.279 I I think roles like like this really stopped him from being Shawshank or Hudsucker or Bull Durham again. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.800 And to me, he has too much range to be typecast as a creep, which he's still doing today.

00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:14.319 His creepiness has extended to Apple TV's silo, uh, where he's metastasized for three seasons. 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.160 Slight tangent about dystopian entertainment. 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:26.879 It was always a popular thing in science fiction literature, but the prevalence of people living in underground bunkers in pop culture is a sign of the optimism for the future. 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:36.800 Amazon has Fallout, Hulu has paradise, the possibility of a future ruined by meaningless conflict and unrestricted capitalism is more likely an outcome than a far-fetched reality. 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:42.879 Oh shit, Twisted Metal, another video game property, also exists in a totally real streaming service called Peacock. 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:48.160 It's almost like because we can't have a Mad Max show, we get these diet soda versions. 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:54.319 Um, the same way that I hate Tim Robbins being shorthand for creepy, sometimes he is just that. 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.800 Uh, I'm gonna play um uh a clip. 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:58.480 You tell me if it's from this movie or not. 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:04.800 Governments are no more than men and women trying to do what is right in situations where too often so much is wrong. 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:09.759 It is within this context that we often have to ask ourselves difficult questions. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.879 What would you do if someone wanted to destroy your country? 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.560 What lines would you cross to protect what is precious to you? 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:24.399 When the potential for violence surrounds you and the fear is everywhere, what actions might be considered justified that otherwise wouldn't be? 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:25.600 Actually, that's not. 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:33.439 That is uh Robbins using his own words, uh promoting a movie called Catch a Fire, working with Amnesty International. 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:38.720 Please visit Amnesty International's website to learn more and take action. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:40.639 Right, sometimes he's intense. 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:44.879 It's it's interesting because also uh um uh I love his advocacy. 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:52.959 So um uh while I was watching Enterprise on UPN, uh I uh he would come up uh advocating for local libraries. 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.279 So I uh I let's play that. 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:04.639 Can you name the one place where you have access to nearly everything on the web and imprint and even have personal assistance to help find what you're looking for? 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.279 It's right in your backyard, the library. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.040 Libraries have always been places for education and self-help. 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.480 Today, they're at the forefront of the information age. 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.279 Come see what's new at your library. 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:23.759 See, not so creepy. 00:08:23.839

--> 00:08:25.040 He's a good dude. 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:30.160 Jeff Bridges is so handsome, you forget Rooster Cogburn and him are the same dude. 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:31.759 And the dude's the same dude, whoa. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:32.320 Wait. 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:41.519 The year before Bridges does Lebowski, and uh, like it's it has a lackluster critical response, which shouldn't have been a concern because the Conn brothers rarely miss. 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:46.000 And being we're a podcast about distribution, that movie was practically mispackaged. 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:51.120 But to see the transformation of Bridges from the dude to Professor McTerrorism is pretty amazing. 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:56.240 And those characters unrecognizable, the parallels are pretty strong from the Lebowski to Arlington Road. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:02.320 So let's get up, bust out our Venn diagram, and I'm gonna only do the overlapping part, the compare, not the contrast. 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:04.240 So one, put it in the center. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:05.600 It's a kidnapping plot. 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.600 There's it's not even like it's not even a main thing, it's a subplot. 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.279 And then uh hit him two, um, phalange amputation? 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.480 I'm struggling because amputation suggests like a medical procedure. 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:21.039 In Lebowski it's toes, in Arlington Road, it's fingers, and three, bridges. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:26.639 Just like a good metaphor, he connects the gaps between these films, and at both he's like acting at a 10. 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:29.120 Just a wild performance. 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:34.799 And I have one really big question about the opening scene, but I cannot arrive at it until I ruin this movie's plot. 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:36.240 So I'm going to do that. 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.679 So I'm not the biggest um Blake Snyder fan. 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:54.320 Uh I think Save the Cat actually teaches the uh screenwriter some bad habits, but I think Pope in the Pool floats when it's cool, so um this movie has a great score, and I'm gonna play some uh some of the soundtrack over the synopsis, so hang on. 00:09:55.279 --> 00:10:02.240 So the film starts following a blonde child uh walking mid-street and the sound of children's voices in the background gently applying peer pressure. 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:08.399 Driving home, Jeff Bridges stops in his neighborhood to speak to the child, and it's revealed he has injured his hand and it's bleeding profusely. 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:14.799 You don't get to see the wound, and the editing style is really confusing, probably just because it's a traumatic situation. 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:19.120 Um, cut to Bridges, uh taking him to the emergency room where he meets the his parents. 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:24.879 Tim Robbins, who's a structural engineer, and Joan Cusack, who's a homemaker and she's an absolute fox in this movie. 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:27.039 Um apparently they live across from one another. 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:31.360 The children in the neighborhood pooled their fireworks, and their son was lighting the fuse when boom. 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:43.600 Something in Bridges' performance hits that the trauma of the injured child triggered something internal, and we learned him and his son, played by Spencer Clark, who you might remember from uh Gladiator, and he's the son in Unbreakable. 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:48.559 Um and his son are still mourning the loss of Bridges' wife, who was an FBI agent killed in the field. 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:57.759 Despite their children being a fingerless pyromaniac, Bridges allows his son to start a friendship with his neighbor's children and they begin a Boy Scouts-esque extracurricular activity. 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.000 The household is chaotic and friendly. 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:08.960 Bridges, his son, and his new girlfriend, paid by the gorgeous Hope Davis, find comfort in having like a close connection and actually having friends that they can walk to. 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:16.320 Bridges is described as a professor in conversation, but once you see a lecture he's giving, you realize studying extremism has fully unhinged him. 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:24.320 And it's the beginning of every time he expresses concern or asks for help, people are just like, maybe you should stop teaching that crazy class, Mr. 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:24.960 Crazy Man. 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:27.440 It's frustrating and it builds attention really well. 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:38.720 Um the paranoia is all seated at like a barbecue early in the relationship where Robbins gives Bridges his life story with a few specific bullet points, and everyone is dialed up to a nine in this movie. 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:43.200 So after a beer or two, Robbins is like, tell me about your dead cop wife. 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:47.279 And Fingerless is going full Nazi and like with a little pillow for it. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:12:00.960 Bridges uh becomes Benoit Blanc for uh like five minutes and starts using microfiche to find out how Robbins changed his name and tried to blow up a government building with a pipe bomb, but he's not a terrorist. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:06.960 If anything, Bridges is professor terrorism and he's a hammer, and everyone looks like a terrorist nail now. 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:12.240 So the scouts go camping, and here's where the story not to say it falls apart, it actually starts going somewhere. 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.120 Hope Davis sees Robbins changed vehicles at the mall. 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:16.320 Malls, man. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:26.320 I try to try to think like how would like a young Bridges, malls, man, and then an old Bridges, Malls, man! Tony Stark made this in a mall with scraps. 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:27.600 Okay, sorry. 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:35.279 Um she follows him, Robbins is uh up to some shady

business, he calls Bridges on a payphone and turns around, bam, Joan Cusack. 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.360 To talk about Cusack in this movie, it is a great role for her. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:45.519 She sort of loses her recognizable speech delivery, and you can turn on this Stepford wife performance. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:46.639 It's it's really good. 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:51.759 Um watching this makes me think that she'd be really good doing the Kathy Bates part in misery. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:55.200 There's something incredibly sinister about weaponizing how polite she is. 00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:01.279 And especially because she is so affiliated with beloved children's properties, it's amazing her being so off-menu. 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:08.720 Later that night, horrible uh local broadcast of a car accident on super small TV, and yes, kids, TVs were square in the 90s. 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:13.440 This movie is now hopeless, meaning they got Davis as soon as she started believing Bridges. 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:17.120 And so, Bridges is consoled by the people who obviously murdered her. 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:28.399 A convenient series of events has Bridges uh learning of a plot to blow up the FBI headquarters with explosive vans, which he must stop himself because to oh noes, they have the kid from Gladiator. 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:33.600 There's a well-shot and destructive chase scene, good driving sequences bookend this movie. 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:35.919 It starts with a bang and ends exciting as well. 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:41.039 And at the end of this chase, it seems Bridges lost the shell game because the van he's following to the J. 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:45.519 Erger Hoover building doesn't have his son or a bomb in it, but his car does. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.840 And the film ends with uh Bridges' son leaving a distant family new coverage. 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:59.679 Bridges is a lone terrorist upset with the wrongful death of his wife. 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:04.000 One of his students is clearly a part of Robinson's conspiracy, which is a great moment. 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:09.919 And then Robinson Cusack and Fingerless are uh selling their house, you know, to scout the next target. 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:14.879 My question is did Robinson Cusack blow off Fingerless's hand? 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.879 Like just to meet the neighbor? 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:19.600 That's not a good plan. 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:22.080 Make a casserole or go across the street. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:24.240 Our kids are the same age, they can play. 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:25.360 You don't have to do that. 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:33.840 Like it it's the strangest opening because it it it what it does is it does show you that um uh bridges will react before thinking. 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:38.879 And so during something traumatic, he just uh immediately activated himself and decided to act. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:45.360 And with that, you can see how it's like, oh, maybe we could trick him into delivering the explosive for us. 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:53.120 But my bigger question is it like, kid, hold on to the M80, close your hand, be a good boy, now light it. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.240 And it's just like rub some dirt on it, Brady. 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:58.960 Oh, yeah, fingerless's name is Brady, but I know you don't care. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:06.000 Um now, not to out myself as a monster, but I would do everything in my power to avoid a child in the street. 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.120 With a very high success rate, I avoid children. 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:16.480 It is uh insane to hinge the success of your terrorist plot on an excitable Jeff Bridges who doesn't think before he acts, as I said. 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:24.960 If we're to believe the story, this terrorist group is identifying people who have understandable grievances with the government and then pinning the attacks on them. 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:26.879 Shoot, let's just do this. 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:27.759 It's a quick history lesson. 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:34.720 Osama bin Laden had a goal for the 9-11 attacks to destroy a symbol of capitalism and to draw us in an unwinnable conflict. 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:46.000 The years following the attacks were breeding grounds for conspiracy theories, the most popular being the US government knew or were cooperating with the terrorists to slowly rob us of our freedoms and enable the government to set up a police state. 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.720 Score one for the people with aluminum hats. 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:51.039 Alright, like uh incredible prediction. 00:15:51.120 --> 00:16:00.080 I It doesn't matter if it's true or not, because standing at the finish line, we have a private police force, disappearing people, and surveillance in every streetlight. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:08.080 This movie is like a guy who teaches people to identify red flags, but it turns out he's actually colorblind and falls for like the stupidest trick. 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:12.879 It feels clever when the credits are rolling, but I should have not paid as much attention to this. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:15.679 It's it's just not coming together like the usual suspects. 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:21.039 Which is something to keep in mind, because the guy who wrote the script does eventually go on to work with Christopher Macquarie. 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:29.759 The guy's name is Aaron Kruger, it's not spelled the way you think it is, but um uh it's Ren E-H-R-E-N, not A-A-Ron. 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:36.879 And I have a pretty low opinion of him, which I don't want to be rude, but uh because his movies have functional scripts, but they are pretty charmless. 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:40.879 I also hope this doesn't hurt his feelings, but uh I don't think rich people care what I think. 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:42.639 Um here are some of his credits. 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.960 Example Aaron

Kruger is credited on Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen. 00:16:51.360 --> 00:17:00.960 You have fought for Optimus, our last descendant, with courage and with sacrifice, the virtues of a leader. 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:04.400 A leader worthy of our secret. 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:09.680 The matrix of leadership is not found, it is earned. 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:14.400 Aaron Kruger is credited on Transformers Dark of the Moon. 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:20.319 For today, in the name of freedom, we take the battle to them. 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:28.240 Aaron Kruger is credited on Transformers Age of Extinction. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.640 Come on, B, take him out. 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:42.559 I mean, I guess the point I'm trying to make is with that much sound design, how much of a a use do you have for a script? 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:43.839 Like how much do you need it? 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.480 Bam! Pew pew pew pew pew pew pew. 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.720 I love sound design too, but also I like a good script, and I don't think this guy can write one. 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:56.640 He also wrote the whitewashy Ghost in the Shell adaptation bomb, but the two most recent titles are egregious. 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:58.960 He's credited for Top Gun Maverick and F1. 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:03.599 Two movies that reverse engineer a plot around set pieces and have a room of dudes writing. 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.200 I understand I'm not showing a ton of respect, but he's doing fine in Hollywood. 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.440 He doesn't need this podcast kissing his ass. 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:13.039 And his movies are the strongest argument for AI to destroy this industry. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:15.200 I think Pellington does a very good job. 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:20.880 Mark Pellington does a very good job pacing this movie, and it's I I was gonna say it's kind of his flavor. 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:26.799 He's a prolific music video director, shot a ton of documentaries, which makes me think he just loves following bands around. 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:33.200 Some filmmakers are pretty honest that documentaries are often an excuse to get access and have a reason to hang around interesting people. 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:41.839 His film work is very serious, straightforward, and doesn't have the stylized editing and needle drops that Fincher or as we'll see in a few films, Guy Ritchie with Snatch. 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.559 That movie is dictated and paced by the music. 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.920 There is a a gloomy theme to Pellington's work. 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:55.200 He shot U2's one, Pearl Jams, Jeremy, and his movies are usually about characters experiencing loss. 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:59.599 Soon we'll cover the Mothman Prophecies, which is another one of his films with a grieving husband. 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:08.720 Henry Poole's here, it's like a sad guy, you know, terminal prognosis, Jesus in a wall, I melt with you, sad guys

doing drugs, maybe offing themselves. 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:15.440 But especially with the sophomore 2, there were distributed under screen gems, they made plenty of money, and they had a name for themselves. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:19.039 And the box office wasn't the only measurement of success at this time. 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:21.359 Especially for smaller budget movies like this. 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:28.480 At the time, it was a golden age of video rentals, and eventually cable channels needed something to play, so this became a staple on TV. 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:33.440 I watched this as God intended on Tubi with an advertisement every 15 minutes. 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:38.799 It was really jarring how a hymns ad would stop all momentum that this movie was building. 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:45.039 For that reason, I've ended up buying most of the gems on DVD, and secondhand market for these things is pretty laughable. 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:46.240 Most are very cheap. 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:48.160 Some of them are worth 50 cents. 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:50.880 Uh, an example, I got five Resident Evil movies for$4. 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:54.799 Now I gave last week, I gave Limbo a seven. 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:57.759 Uh, despite the bummer ending, this is a comfortable eight. 00:19:58.079 --> 00:19:58.880 This movie is good. 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:01.279 It's great if you don't think about it as much as I have. 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:05.839 And when I find it, it will be joining my collection, and I look forward to revisiting it. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.279 Maybe in, you know, sooner than 25 years. 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:12.400 Now, thank you for listening to Screen Generation. 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:13.839 I'm your host, Evan Hughes. 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.680 Join me next week for my first cursed film, Black and White, by James Tobak. 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:23.839 My name is Sam Doniger, and this is my husband, Terry Doniger, and I'm a freelance documentary filmmaker. 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:28.880 I'm doing a project on white high school kids who imitate black hip hop life. 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:32.079 Can you change who you are? 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:34.000 If you're black, can you bleach your life? 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:35.279 Just so young. 00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:37.039 If you're white, can you die? 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:38.400 That's where you've been, Troy. 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:39.039 Hi, Daddy. 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:40.240 I've been at the library. 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:41.839 Oh, I've told you. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:45.680 If you must wear that ridiculous go-to, do it not in my house. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:47.519 Life is just crazy, man. 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:50.000 Can you be ghetto without living in a ghetto? 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:52.079 What do you think these white people really want from us? 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:55.200 Trying to imitate us, trying to rap, trying to dress black? 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:56.319

Can it be? 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:57.279 All so simple. 00:20:57.440 --> 00:20:58.319 It ain't that simple. 00:20:58.400 --> 00:20:58.960 You know what I mean? 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:01.279 Can you look within and embrace your soul or not? 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:02.640 I'm here to sell records for you. 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:04.319 If I do the video, it's gonna cross over. 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.519 He's gonna make it look like it's Hollywood, even though it ain't Hollywood. 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:09.279 Dean, right? 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:09.680 Yeah. 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:11.119 Point guard on the writer team. 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:14.079 I just wondered if you wanted to make uh$50,000. 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.680 I think they think they're gonna get some kind of life force. 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:19.759 I wanna tell me what the crew can offer you. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:21.200 They offer us like safety. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.759 You offer me$50,000 to throw a game. 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:24.880 Should I do it or not? 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:26.799 Just be true to yourself. 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:29.839 Is that Mike Tyson? 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:34.079 I'm on parole, brother. 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:36.880 Only dream you reporting when that's happening. 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:40.400 You can look at me as long as you want. 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:43.119 Trust me, what did I do? 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:44.480 I didn't know that you knew these people. 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:45.839 Why don't you get back downtown? 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:46.400 Why don't you do it? 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:47.759 I don't want to pretend anymore. 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:49.039 Richard, I'm gay. 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:50.720 Okay, Richard does not care. 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:53.119 But I'll always be me and you always be you. 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:56.559 I'm just trying to give you a reality check on how you're living right now. 00:21:56.799 --> 00:21:58.960 White people are as different from each other as black people. 00:21:59.119 --> 00:21:59.759 What are you gonna do? 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:01.119 Kill a guy who's myself tonight. 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:02.079 Don't feel no problem. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:03.039 You gonna do it? 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:03.359 Yeah. 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:05.920 You can't send no child to do a man's job. 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:07.920 Yo, yo, relax. 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:18.480 I can do whatever I want. 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:19.920 I'm a kid in America. 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:21.359 Let me just introduce myself to you. 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:22.640 In all honesty, I'm a fan of the family. 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:24.000 This time I'm from a different culture. 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:24.960 Want me to turn it off? 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:26.559 This is not a study of animals. 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:27.279 It's off. 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:29.519 You've got beautiful eyes. 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:38.640 Yeah, I am not looking forward to that, but I think I found a perfect guest, uh, if there ever was one. 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:41.039 And uh as usual, thank you for listening. 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:45.039 Resist the administration, refuse AI, and I'll see you next week.