1976 - Logan's Run

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No, I'm going there. You
don't have to die, you can live

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live. I'll last day Capricorn twenty
Nine's the Year of the City twenty two

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seventy four Carousel begins. Hello everybody, and welcome back to nineteen seventy six.

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It's a limited series from a film
by podcast. We're taking a look

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at some of the iconic films of
nineteen seventy six to share some history about

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the film's production, some underrated moments, and the words that matter. Today's

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episode will be our final entry in
the nineteen seventy six series, and I

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am happy to invite one of my
favorite guest hosts back to the show on

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loan from the show You Can't Be
Serious Podcast, Mister Jason Colvin. What's

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up, Jeff? How you doing
tonight? Man? Man, I am

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doing great. Speaking of great,
you indeed just released an incredible episode.

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Will you tell our listeners a little
bit about it? Due to our demand

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from Patreon members, we have this
Patreon group and we put out a poll

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and we said, hey, what
do you guys want to hear next?

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And basically it's a pick which one
and they overwhelmingly chose top five songs from

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nineteen seventy eight. And so we
did that and we went through and it's

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got you got rock, you got
some great you know, you got rock,

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you got pop, you've got disco, you've got you know, classic

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stuff, and so there's a lot
of music to go through right there.

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And we had just a great time
doing it. But I'm you made my

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day because you were like, man, you solved a twenty year old mystery.

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Yeah, listen. I first off, it's a fantastic episode. It's

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one of those where I was I
was jumping in and out to load my

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Spotify because as you guys are dropping
your your your choices, I'm adding them

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to like a Shirley Says playlist that
I'm creating. And I got so excited

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because there is a song I have
been trying to figure out who who it

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was for at least twenty years.
I heard it one time, I loved

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it, and then amazingly enough,
I never heard it again on the radio.

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And every time I would try to
to to inquire about it, I

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would try and you know, I
know, I knew it as the Saxophone

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song, right and everyone was like, I don't know what you're talking about.

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You're crazy, you know, Whisper, Yeah, exactly, and I'm

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like, no, it's not careless
Whisper. But lo and behold you and

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D both choose you're number one,
you happen to have the same number one

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song and find as soon as you
queued up that little saxophone, I about

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ran off the road because after twenty
something years, I finally knew I was

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about to hear who sings this song
and what the song is. And I

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was finally able to add the song
Baker Street to my playlist on Spotify.

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And I could not thank you and
D enough for solving the mystery. That

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makes me feel so good. I'm
so happy to hear that. So that

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was fun, and thank you for
that. Well. Listen, we've dropped

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back to nineteen seventy six only so
that we can blast forward to sometime in

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the twenty third century. Logan's Run
is up next. Imagine a world where

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you can have the fulfillment of every
fantasy, the absolute atteinement of every wish.

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MGM presents the first motion picture of
the twenty third century. Logan's Run,

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a journey through a fantastic world beyond
imagination. Imagine a world in which

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you need never be alone. You
touch a switch, turn a dial,

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and the perfect lover steps in your
arms. Welcome to the twenty third century,

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the perfect world of total pleasure.
There's just one catch. I'm a

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friend. I understand. We all
go crazy once in a while. She's

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a runner and it's over run.
Logan's Run created VG. It's based off

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the novel Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson right,

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directed by Michael Anderson, who's a
pretty good director. And let's talk about

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this. So we're in the twenty
third century, Jason, because right off

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the get go we get one of
these great title cards. Sometime in the

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twenty third century, the survivors of
war, overpopulation and pollution are living in

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a great domed city, sealed away
from the forgotten world outside. Here,

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in an ecologically balanced world, mankind
lives only for pleasure, freed by the

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servo mechanisms which provide everything. There's
just one catch. Life must end at

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thirty unless reborn. In the fiery
ritual of Carousel, Man, I don't

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know about you. That all sounds
fantastic until you get to that last tagline

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of there's just one catch. Right, and the novel was like twenty one

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right, yeah, a lot.
You didn't have a much time in the

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novel. And that's just one of
the things that really, you know,

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had this this film dragging its feet
for quite a while because in nineteen sixty

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nine, MGM had Robert Redford lined
up to play Logan. But they're struggling

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to get the script right, and
the real concern is that they'll miss out

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on the current popularity of sci fi
that was created by two thousand and one

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of Space Odyssey and Planet of the
Apes that came out the year before in

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nineteen sixty eight, right, right, But yeah, I don't know about

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you, man, but when I
was a kid watching this, my opinion

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was why you got to run?
You know, you had thirty years,

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you had a good life, because
old age except your old age, guys.

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No, I look back down.
I'm like, thirty, that's life

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hadn't even begun at thirty. Come
on, I know, I know,

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you know. I'm glad we got
to talk about this one because I had

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seen this, Like I honestly think
the last time I saw this was like

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a Friday night at eleven o'clock on
old public television like, you know,

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on a seventeen inch television with wow, a fuzzy signal, you know,

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that type of thing. It had
been since really early in the eighties since

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I had seen this one, So
to revisit was a lot of fun for

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me. Watching this. I'm startled
by how much difference between there is between

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this movie and Star Wars, which
comes out just just a year later,

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I mean less than a year even. It is amazing thing because let's I

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gotta be honest, I want to
give credit where credits to Logan's Run is

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just visually stunning. Yeah, okay, and this is a perfect time for

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me to, you know, let
me brag a little bit more. Let's

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let's let me get a little let
me get a little technical here for you.

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So, Logan's Run is the first
film to use Dolby stereo on seventy

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millimeter film. Wow, and the
subwoofers known as baby booms. They weren't

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included until the following year, when
they were used by Star Wars and Close

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Encounters of the Third kind. So
Wow, get in great sound, but

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that that earth shadowing boom that you
didn't get in Logan's Run. It's just

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one year later. With two of
the other greatest sci fi movies of all

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time, but I mean Logan's Run. It did get nominated for three Academy

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Awards Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, which it didn't win those two,

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but it does. I need your
help here, So it wins won Academy

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Award for Special Achievement. Yes,
what's going on there? Okay? So

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the Special Achievement Award is an Academy
award given for an achievement that makes an

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exceptional contribution to motion picture for which
it was created, but for which there

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is no annual award category. Okay, So, like the movie does something

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great, but there's no award for
it. So they just like the placeholder

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is special special achievement. Then that's
what it sounds like to me. So,

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like, this is really awesome.
You did a great job here.

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We don't really have a category for
it, but we want to recognize your

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achievement for what you gave. You
did great. We don't know what it

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is, but here's an award.
Okay. Yes. This was inaugurated in

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nineteen seventy two and has acted as
an award for categories that don't exist,

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like visual effects and animation. There
you go, oh, okay, okay.

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So because you know the Academy Awards, they change over the course of

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several decades. So basically this is
kind of like Visual Awards, Best Visual

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Awards before visual words exist in there. You go, yeah, okay,

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all right, that's awesome man.
Well, thank you, thank you for

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the education. This this moment brought
to you by the Shirley You Can't Be

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Serious podcast. Now, you know, all right, let's let's talk a

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little bit about this cast because it's
you know, there's not a whole lot

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of faces here, but definitely some
some famous ones. Michael York in the

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title role Logan know, he's Logan
five. You and I had just talked

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about the girl who plays Juliette in
Romeo and Juliet. We covered Black Christmas,

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Bob Clark's Black Christmas, and Amanda
Janek was a guest on the show

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right talking talking about Black Christmas starring
Olivia Hussey. Yeah, and you and

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I had talked about our experience of
watching that movie with our class in high

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school. Yes, you got the
uncensored version that was popular among all the

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ways. But Michael York played Tibalt
in that in Romeo and Juliet that version

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of Roman way he was in the
sixty eight version with the Hussy. Yes,

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holy cow, I had no idea
there. I mean, he's timbalt.

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I love when one episode kind of
kind of leads into the next episode

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unintentionally. That's that's fantastic. I
love that man, right. The role

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was always intended for John Voight,
And after he takes a look at the

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script, he goes, he passes. He says, this is too strange,

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this isn't for me. Uh huh. Could you imagine John Voight in

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nineteen seventy six running around you know
this is? Yes, yes, I

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think so. I like Michael Yorke. I think his acting ability is great.

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I wanted my logan to be a
bit more heroic, right, Okay,

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I want him to be a little
bit more taller, a little broader

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shoulder, a little tougher. So
John Voyd kind of feels that guy,

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especially in nineteen seventy six. Okay, different different uh, different movie with

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with uh With Voight, I would
think, yeah, a lot much more

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American. I think, you know, much more American. But maybe I

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don't know. I don't know if
it's as fantastical like it feels like it's

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a little more real, something like
John Voight. Interesting. So if you

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if you had your if you had
your pick, you're sitting in the studio

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and you got you got, you
got an eight x ten of York in

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front of you and a void.
Grab John Voyd. I'm grabbing John Voight.

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Yeah, okay, Well let's talk
about uh grabbing Jenny Agator as Jessica

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six. Let's talk about grabbing Jenny
a get her happy, happy belated birthday

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to uh miss Agator. She you
told me the other day she just turned

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seventy one. Yes, that can't
be right, man. She is gorgeous.

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She it's it's impossible to think,
like in my mind, she's always

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Nurse Price. She's thirty years old. That's it. Yep, she's forever

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Nurse Price in an American were from
London, Yes, yes, but I

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don't know what you know. When
you revisit Logan's run, Jessica six definitely

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gives her. He gives Nurse Price
a run for the money. In my

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book, you know, I well, I can't wait. I can't wait

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to talk about costumes because Jenny Agner's
costume is something to behold in this movie.

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I've got something on the costuming.
I do want to get to that

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here in a little bit. But
so here's one other thing I want to

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talk about, with the role of
Jessica six. Yes, Jenny Agater,

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the runner up. She was not
the first choice. She gets the role.

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She gets the role because she has
amazing chemistry with Michael Yorke. But

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studios, first and foremost, they're
looking at Lindsay Wagner, the Bionic Woman,

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the Bionic Woman. Yeah, and
obviously she goes, you know,

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she doesn't get this job. She
goes on to become the Bionic Woman the

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same year this movie is released,
in nineteen seventy six. You know,

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she had been on The six Million
Dollar Man in like a two part episode

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before this. Yeah, you know, yeah, she doesn't. She doesn't

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get Logan's run. She goes back
to television. They're like, hey,

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we got we got a TV series
for you, and what a TV series?

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Oh yeah, yeah, and that's
not that's not the first seventies TV

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star we're gonna be talking about here. Nope, I got I got.

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Let's let's let's move on to the
next one. Because Farah Fawcett in a

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very very limited role here as Holly
thirteen. Right, but what a stunner.

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Oh yeah, oh yeah, I
said your text the other day it

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was, I mean, Jenny Agator
greater than Farah Fawcet. And I did

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not standing alone on that one.
No, you are not. You are

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not alone on that. The tail
of the tape, I'm gonna, I'm

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna always back
Genny Agator over Farah Fawcet. I listen,

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that's just how it is. Uh. I'll tell you who disagrees with

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this though, is Michael Yorke.
So there is a fantastic audio commentary if

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you pick up the DVD or the
Blu Ray version of Logan Down. So

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on the commentary track, Michael Yorke
actually takes credit for discovering Farah Fawcett.

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Really yeah, now, and he's
playful. He's not. He's not,

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you know, he's not like stuck
up about it. He's just he's being

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playful on it. But he's he
basically he shares his story. He he

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claims he was playing tennis when he
saw quote a blonde vision of delight.

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So he goes over, he you
know, introduces himself. Then he goes

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back to the studio. He suggests
her to the casting director. Casting director

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takes one look at her, says, she's got it. She's got the

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role. So wow. And here's
what's here's what really gets weird. I

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mean, during production, she lands
another role that basically turns her into a

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superstar, television superstar. Right,
yep, she's this is when she gets

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Charlie's angels. Charlie's angels. Let's
think about this for a second. We've

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got a a sci fi film that's
in production. Lindsay Wagner's in the conversation,

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Farah Foster's in the conversation, and
both these women have breakout superstardom on

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television the same year this movie comes
out. That's that's incredible. I think

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I think they I think they got
a big push off of this movie.

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Now that right? Oh oh yeah, Well here's the question. Where's Linda

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Carter? Right? Oh wow?
Oh man? Wait? Who you okay?

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So who you? Who? You
talking Linda Carter? For which world?

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Holly thirteen or or or Jessica six. When it comes to Linda Carter,

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she can have whichever role she wants. She could be Logan, right,

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I don't care. But I think, I mean she could. She

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would have been amazing as Hollly thirteen, right, she would have been yeah,

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you know, and I love that
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that little moment with Farah where she
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You know, she's basically at this
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getting his face changed, and you
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whispers in his ear. She's like, I like dark hair. Time to

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give you dark hair? Like yeah, yeah, men with men with dark

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hair Rejoice Nation with Parafocet says I
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mean think about this. She was
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to Lee Majors. Yeah, so
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she does this. I think you
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She is credited as uh As Fawcett
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a little tidbit for you on parafacet
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we actually discovered this when we're doing
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Penny Marshall got her start in like
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like the the ugly roommate. Yeah, we talked. We talked about

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this. Uh, we actually talked
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for Awakenings. Yeah, okay,
there you go. Yeah, share the

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story though, share the st Well, So Penny Marshall's like the ugly kind

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of you know, I say ugly, she's the homelier roommate that Yeah,

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she had the chair had like it's
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I think it's only girl. That's
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just me and her her unfortunate pairing
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It's fair faucet. Yeah, how
about that. Yep, we have

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to talk about seventy superstardom as television
stars. You know, seventy super There's

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there's a lot of seventies superstardom in
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Yep, let's talk about a couple
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Okay, so we can't. We
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is the he's the villain of this
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the very talented Richard Jordan. I
got it. I got you know you

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you you said it a couple of
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and I crack up think it laughing
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but we only know him from one
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talking about. He's his uncle Howard. He's Brantley's uncle from Secret of My

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Success. This is the guy that's
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the Secret of My Success. And
when you go back and you see the

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young version of Uncle Howard, you
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shooting them or terminating their life forces
as it were. Right, Yeah,

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Richard Jordan, the great Richard Jordan. I know he's I mean,

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you know he was in Rooster Cogburn, Yes, and I think he was

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in like some some really popular TV
but I don't know. Yeah, I

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got something for you, Okay,
So he was. He was the first

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actor I believe to play Dirk Pitt. You're kidding me. No, he

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plays the Clyde Custler, the Clisler
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He goes to Aarah. Yeah.
Yeah, so he plays Dirk pit and

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raise the Titanic. I can't believe
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that McConaughey was the first guy to
go to the screen with that Richard Jordan.

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There you go. We have got
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that's that's got to be. I
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It's really cool. It's it's fun, man, and it hits all those

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sort of Indiana Jones ish adventure type
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one more thing. Have you ever
seen there's a movie from nineteen eighty

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five, I believe with Kurt Russell
called The Mean Season. I've heard of

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The Mean Season, but I've never
seen it. Man, I gotta tell

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you. It's just one of those
HBO movies that really fascinated me. Kurt

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Russell is playing a newspaper reporter and
he's got the serial killer, serial killer

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that's reaching out to him and telling
him all the details about his killings.

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It's gripping, man, and like
Kurt Russell's trying to help the cops find

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this guy. And the killer is
Richard Jordan. So uncle Howard the serial

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Killer, yeah means you. Okay, all right, So I've got two

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movies. I got two Richard Jordan
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you what. I gotta give you
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face that I every time I've watched
this movie, I've never even picked up

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on it, and it's probably because
of the makeup involved. But can you

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tell me who's playing the old Man? So? The Old Man is played

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by Peter Ustinoff. Yes, okay, Now, this guy's been an actor

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for a long time, but you
and I know him from some early eighties

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classics. Yes, and I can
tell by the way he talked. I'm

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like, that is the dude in
Great Muppet Caper who missus Piggy's trying to

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hitch a ride from uh so should
get to the Mallory Gallery in time?

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Right, my favorite Muppet movie?
Sent you said me that screenshot from from

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Them Up a Caper? I'm like, what am I looking at? And

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You're like, it's the old band
WHOA Yeah? Mind blow? Uh that

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was a that was a mind blower
when I saw that. Guys, for

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let's say about this for the brief
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know, and he's he's a little
you know, he's a little battye right,

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Yes, he's been a hermit for
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he hasn't seen anybody. Yes,
yeh, I got I got a credit.

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You know, he does he does
unhinged, but in a fun way.

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I think he does it really well. Okay, I've got I've got

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a couple of other nuggets for you. I just there. I'm dying to

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tell you these. Okay, yeah, roll them out. Okay. Remember

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you and I were talking about the
original robin Hood the other day on our

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Fraser podcast. We were Yeah,
because the guy who does the voice for

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robin Hood played Edward, the guy
who was hitting on Marty and Fraser.

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Anyway, it's just kind of a
story that we talked about there. Well.

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In robin Hood, the voice of
Prince John is provided by Peter Ustinoff,

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the guy who is the old man
from Logan's Run. Okay, so

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you've got to be kidding me,
the old classic Disney animated Peter uh robin

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Hood. Yeah. So that's that's
that's that's the second Disney's robin Hood connection

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you've created on a podcast, right, I can almost feel like there needs

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to be an episode. I don't
even know how we'd covered or what it

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is, but there almost needs to
be like a a Robin Hood. Uh

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you know Da Vinci Code episode we
need to crack. I've got one more

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thing for you. I got to
tell you. I'm Peter Stuff. I'm

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sorry, I'm taking up so much. You are the no you are the

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uston Off expert. What else you
got? Okay, so early HBO,

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there was a movie called Charlie Chan
The Curse of the Dragon Queen. Yes,

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and it had it was like Michelle
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Okay, Ronnie McDowell's in it.
It's this kind of zany adventure. But

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the guy who plays Charlie Chan is
Peter ustaof so you're telling me Usanov.

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Not only does he play Chan,
who is one of the famous uh you

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know, mystery novel character. Yes, I see. I also know he

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played uh Herkule Parrot in several movies. I think he's even the Death of

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the Nile he was Hercule Proro.
Yeah for sure. Man, How does

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somebody so white play somebody so Asian? I don't know that. Yeah,

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that's not happening today, I know. All right, Well, listen,

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we hope you're enjoying the the Peter
Ustanov podcast. But we gotta we gotta

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talk about one last one, last
amazing individual. This one blew my mind

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when I figured out who was behind, who was underneath the the armor,

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so to speak. But uh,
we get one of cinema's creepiest robots.

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I think, uh, yeah,
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But I don't know about you,
man, but he he When I

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was a kid, he creeped me
out even then, just the way he

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looked, the way he moved,
the way he sounded, the way his

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mouth moves. Yeah, oh yeah, Uh we're talking about uh Roscoe Lee

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Brown who played who played the role
of Box. And this kind of surprises

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me. This is a situation where
they put this man in that costume and

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it's it's top Yeah, it's top
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moves up, moves around the set, he could easily topple over.

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Yeah, like you tell me,
you can't get a stump man to move

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around. Just let let Roscoe Lee
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any sense, man, I don't
know. Amazing. I know this is

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not the first time we talked about
this guy. Think about this, Jason,

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the very first time you and I
were together on a podcast. You

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joined us for our limited series nineteen
eighty six and we were covering Legal Eagles,

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which, of course, yeah,
Rosco Brown. Yeah, he was

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the judge going up against Debwinger and
Robert Redford. That's great, great nugget

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right there. Man. Yeah,
he was busy, like yeah, we

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talked about Rosci Lee Brown twice at
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you, it was Jumping Jack Flash. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,

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he's in Jumping Yeah, he's busy
in eighty six, man, busy in

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seventy six, busy in eighty six. This guy was always working. I

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love this guy. That's cool.
I know we got to take a quick

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break. But I feel kind of
Jason, I kind of feel bad.

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We're talking about all this stuff.
We're talking about all these people. We

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really didn't talk about. Michael Anderson. I know, Michael Anderson, the

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director, right. Yeah, So
he does a what I think is a

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wonderful Jaws knockoff. The next year
it's Orca with Orca the Killer Whale.

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Yeah you remember that one with So
that's in nineteen seventy seven, but listen

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to this in nineteen sixty he does
a movie with Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood.

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Yeah, oh called All the Fine
Young Cannibals. Now, if you've

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ever heard the song she Drives Me
Crazy by the Fine Young Campbells, Yeah,

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that's where they got their name from
this movie. I absolutely dig the

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fact that you're bringing that Shirley the
Sureley. You can't be serious stylings to

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this show because it's giving us a
little bit of a street cred. It's

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giving us a little bit of it's
giving us a little bit of class.

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You're classing us up here. Man. I like it. Hey man,

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I'm just I'm just here to drop
nowt against where I can. So let's

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take a quick break and when we
get back, we'll be talking about we

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gotta talk about the costumes, and
we got to talk about some other behind

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the scenes stuff. Here, Mercy, your shampoo? What a roommate?

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Can't you ever buy your own stuff? Well, Lucy, I'm not exactly

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dressed to go to the store right
now. How convenient head and shoulders.

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I know it really works against your
dandra, but what about my gorgeous hair?

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Your gorgeous hair will love it.
You know. It is the best

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selling shampoo in America best selling Dandriff
shampoo. You mean best selling shampoo of

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any kind because it hates your Dandriff, but it also loves your hair.

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I use it regularly. Wells,
okay, some kind of ladder too.

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Know what I think? You think
you look adorable? Not just that time.

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I think your shampoo did a terrific
sexy number on my hair. I

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love it. I'm glad. Now
you could buy the Head and Shoulders.

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We're out, Okay, gonna borrow
some money. Head and Shoulders hate your

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Dandriff, loves your hair. We're
back talking with Jason Covin from the Shirley

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You Can't Be Serious podcast. Jason, you you made a brief mention about

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the costumes earlier. Yes, yes, So let's talk about Bill Thomas.

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He's the costume designer on Logan's Run. Practically everyone on set, everyone on

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screen that you see is in red
or green. If you look really close,

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you could see a little bit of
yellow peppered in there. Uh huh.

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Do you know? Do you know? What? Do you do?

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You know anything about the colors?
Do you know why we see those those

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specific colors? No? Tell me? So this is interesting and this is.

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This is from the book. They
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but basically the colors of the clothing
denote a person's age. So okay,

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So so at birth, you know, the beginning of it, we

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see we see Logan and Francis.
They're in the nursery seeing seeing the next

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Logan be born. At birth,
you got get the crystal in your palm,

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so you know, that's that's the
cool thing that you know, when

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we talk sci fi, everyone in
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crystal on the palm of their hand, and it's a certain color. So

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at birth, your crystal is kind
of clear and then turns yellow. So

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from birth to age twelve, you
wear yellow clothing. And if you go

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back and watch this movie, you'll
notice that everyone that's in yellow, they're

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kids basically. Okay, you don't
see a lot of them walking around,

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but you know, because you know
when they get a carousel. This isn't

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for children to watch, but yellow
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twelve, you turn twelve, and
then from twelve to age twenty four,

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you wear green. Okay, so
you know, like like Jessica six,

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you know, the lovely Genniagutor.
She's in green. She's about to face

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out of green, obviously, because
from twenty four to thirty that's when you

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wear red, and then when you
turn thirty, your crystal starts glowing because

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that means you're up for renewal,
your time's coming right right, And that's

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the whole that's the whole point of
these the clothing where you see everyone's in

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red or green. Mostly that didn't
it's their age, like, you know,

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here's the here's the the twelve to
twenty four's, here's the twenty fours,

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the thirties. I love, there's
there's there's a reason for the colors

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you got. You gotta say,
like, you know, obviously, she

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has mentioned several times she was not
a fan of her clothing. Who's that,

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Jenny agultor Jenny Jenny Agutter. Yeah, I mean, let's think about

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it, man. I mean,
first off, everyone is moving around.

403
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:34.799
I guess they don't wear underwear in
the future, nobody wears any under nobody.

404
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:37.920
Yeah, these are very revealing.
This is very revealing clothing. It's

405
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:42.480
almost it's almost like a futuristic like
it. It reminds me of kind of

406
00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:47.480
like the Roman era, like with
the togas, how like fabrics were just

407
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:52.799
kind of draped across people. This
is kind of like the life in the

408
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.400
twenty third century. Yeah, I
think that there. I think their costumes

409
00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.519
adds to the fact they're very youthful
and everybody's a track active and young and

410
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.759
vibrant, you know, and I
mean, heck, nobody's wearing any underwear,

411
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:10.519
and it's just it's a very youthful, party like feel to it.

412
00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:12.160
You know. Well, let's and
let's it all goes back. It all

413
00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:17.400
goes back to that that opening title
screen you see where at this point in

414
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:19.759
society, we are living for pleasure, right, you don't have to worry

415
00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:25.920
about anything, so just have a
good time. I love the fact.

416
00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:30.160
Let's talk about the circuit for a
quick second. Okay, this blows my

417
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:34.519
mind when you go back and watch
this now it's online dating and it was

418
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:38.640
created in nineteen seventy six. Yeah, that's you kind of right about that.

419
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.559
Yeah yeah, yeah, So Logan
he's a sandman, you know.

420
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:45.279
He right, they're basically they're like
the military, right, they're the police

421
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:49.599
force. You know. Well,
he goes home, he wants to relax,

422
00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:55.400
and he wants some companionship. Right. So he gets on the circuit,

423
00:31:55.519 --> 00:32:00.160
which basically it's almost like a teleportation
device, and he's you know,

424
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:04.480
he's just like skimming the channels,
right, And we gotta we gotta talk

425
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:08.039
about the fact that Logan's run kind
of acknowledges the sexual revolution of the sixties

426
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:13.799
and seventies with this scene, and
you know, and the casual acceptance of

427
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:19.200
homosexuality, because the first option he
gets is this really handsome guy. He

428
00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:23.000
smiles. Logan smiles back, but
shakes his head in disapproval, and the

429
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:25.039
guy's like, all right, I'll
you know, see you next time.

430
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:29.039
You know. He keeps surf he
keeps surfing the of the circuit and here

431
00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:32.200
comes Jessica and he's quick. They're
like, hey, let's let you know.

432
00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:36.440
The second that he realizes she doesn't
want to jump in bed, the

433
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:38.200
first thing he does is like,
oh, do you prefer women? You

434
00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:43.079
know, this is very progressive type
of scene. Yeah, very progressive.

435
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:47.000
This is nineteen seventy six and the
movie studios were not so free about,

436
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.599
uh, talking about this kind of
stuff. So I think that's one of

437
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:57.240
the things. Yeah, that's one
of the things I think when you go

438
00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.839
back in cinema and you kind of
see like where did where do our acceptance

439
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:06.400
for beliefs and things start to start
to take place. You got to give

440
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:09.920
Logan's Run credit for being open about
it and being accepting of it. I

441
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:15.920
think, Yeah, I think you're
right, and it does seem very modern,

442
00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:22.519
especially for a movie that's nearly fifty
years old. To online order an

443
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:28.920
escort of your choice, you know
exactly. I'll tell you what doesn't feel

444
00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:30.640
very modern when you watch this now. I mean, don't get me wrong,

445
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:35.119
it looks cool. Yeah, but
we got we got to talk about

446
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:37.559
the setting, right. I think
you told me, like, we're talking

447
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:40.440
about this a couple weeks ago,
and you're like, Okay, so we're

448
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:45.960
in a shopping mall, Jason,
what can you tell us about the locations

449
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:50.599
that they Yeah? So I text
you the other day. I'm like,

450
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:53.519
Okay, clearly we're in a mall, right, no doubt about it.

451
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:57.960
You can see the escalators, you
can see the storefronts. Well, come

452
00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:01.799
to find out that is all in
Dallas, Texas, right, And I'm

453
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:06.559
pretty relatively close to Dallas. Yeah, And I texted you, man,

454
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:07.719
I'm like, Mann, I gotta
get down to this place so I can

455
00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:14.199
check this out. It's actually called
the World Trade Center Mall, which is

456
00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:19.239
kind of a you know, strange
but strange name. Right. It's actually

457
00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:21.559
not open to the public anymore,
which is kind of a bummer. I

458
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:24.000
it's some sort of I don't know
what they use it for now, but

459
00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:30.119
it used to be just this giant
mall in Dallas. So that's that's that's

460
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:32.199
wild. Is this Is this the
only place in Dallas that they're filming.

461
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:35.960
No, so there's a couple of
other places. I think there's a place

462
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:40.280
called Dallas Dallas Market Center, which
serves as the outside of the Great Hall

463
00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:45.400
Building. Okay, you know where
they're coming out there. They're kind of

464
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:49.039
walking outside on the stairs and stuff, and they're talking, which actually their

465
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:51.679
hair is blowing, which is kind
of funny for a dome city. That's

466
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:53.400
a dome city. You know,
they must have good central air, I

467
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:58.559
guess right. And so that building
you can just right walk right up to

468
00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:00.199
it. So I'm like, I
need to get down there to check it

469
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:05.119
out. But the main place that
I want to go is do you remember

470
00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:09.400
at the end when they have to
when uh Jessica six and Logan five they

471
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:14.400
have to dive into that pool to
kind of re enter the city or the

472
00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:16.280
dome city. Yeah, you know
what we're talking about. Yeah, yeah,

473
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:19.960
he makes that that that really he
makes that Tom Cruise legend dive.

474
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.840
That's it. Yeah, Well that
is just a like this kind of cool

475
00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:30.000
fountain area in downtown Fort Worth.
You're and you're this closed to all these

476
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:35.639
locations. I am just a mere
three hours away from all these locations.

477
00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:39.079
So we need we need, we
need Jason covin on on a location scout.

478
00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:42.880
We need to we need to see
some of these like you know you

479
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.119
did it. You did that.
I know you've done that before with the

480
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:50.760
Outsiders and uh and Rubblefish. You
gotta you gotta give us some some information,

481
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:52.760
man, we gotta we gotta see
some like here's what it looks like

482
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:54.280
in the movie. And here's where
I'm at today. Dude, I'm gonna

483
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:57.960
I'm gonna go down. I'll give
you some Logan's Run stuff. I'll give

484
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:01.000
you some Row of Coops stuff.
It's be great looking forward to that.

485
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:07.760
I hate to do this because you
know, I never want to make you

486
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:12.559
unhappy, but I got I got
something about this movie that I think is

487
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:15.119
gonna make you unhappy. Okay,
tell me now, let's think about this.

488
00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:21.920
I think it's fair to say that
Ginny Agator is h We see a

489
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:28.599
lot of Geni Agator and most of
nearly everything. Yeah, but and this

490
00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:34.800
is a PG rated film that's shocked
now by the way, it's shocking.

491
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:39.280
But here's the thing. Several scenes
had to be cut to secure the PG

492
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:43.920
rating. U huh, so you
know, and you know this. I

493
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:45.760
think a lot of our listeners already
know this. But we wouldn't have the

494
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:52.119
PG thirteen rating until nineteen eighty four
when when Red Dawn gets it right.

495
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:54.360
So they had to make some cuts. Otherwise this would have been a rated

496
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:59.159
R film. So there's a scene
at the arcade that was cut because it

497
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:05.360
depicted uh, lucinatory drug use.
And sadly, a much longer scene in

498
00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:14.079
the ice cave was cut due to
the extensive nudity of Geniagutor. Uh remember

499
00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:16.760
that creepy you know, remember Box
the Android. He he has all those

500
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:22.039
all those people frozen, those runners
were frozen along the wall. Yes,

501
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:24.960
so you know, and this is
all lost. This film is gone,

502
00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:29.000
like we're never going to see it
now. It's it's it's lost time.

503
00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:32.039
It does not send anymore. Yeah. But uh, basically, Box,

504
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:37.559
the Box, the Android, the
the trick he has to get these people

505
00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:44.840
is he he wants to create ice
sculptures. So in the original cut,

506
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:51.480
when when Logan and and Jessica are
still kind of covering themselves with the the

507
00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:53.840
the furs, you know that the
bear skin, Yeah, they're they're you

508
00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:57.280
know, they're they're they were freezing. They were soaking wet, so they

509
00:37:57.320 --> 00:38:02.280
stripped off their clothing. They they're
trying to warm up. Box basically asks

510
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:07.679
them to pose like holding each other
so he can create a nice sculpture.

511
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.119
And that's when he's supposed to like
shoot that, you know. You know

512
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:13.519
he had that weird like mister freeze
gun that he was trying to shoot at

513
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:15.199
him. Yeah, yeah, that's
that's when he's supposed to shoot him,

514
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:21.440
you know. But they basically were
like, Hey, I don't think this

515
00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.840
is gonna work. You know,
we're seeing we're seeing way too much of

516
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:29.119
Ginny aigitor. So so I texted
you. I texted you the other day

517
00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:30.800
as I was watching this. Of
course I hadn't seen it, Like the

518
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.800
last time I had seen it was
on television. But I could not believe

519
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:38.079
how much nudity was in this movie. And not only just nudity, but

520
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:44.360
like when they're going through the love
shop. Yeah it oh who feels nearly

521
00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:50.039
pornographic even though you don't really see
a whole lot. They they did a

522
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:54.639
great job of blocking that scene to
where you know you're looking at something but

523
00:38:55.079 --> 00:39:01.519
because someone's shoulder is right there or
someone's you know, bag, yeah play

524
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:07.440
yeah, they it's you know we
we we mentioned uh York and Austin Powers

525
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:09.039
and like that. You know,
they that movie's famous for doing that.

526
00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:14.000
At the end, you know this
one, you're kind of like you slow

527
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:15.320
down and you go, WHOA what
am I seeing there in the background?

528
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:20.239
You know, but you know you
had they had to be careful, and

529
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.599
you know, between that scene the
love shop and and Jenny running around,

530
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:29.760
this is a pretty amazing not as
as close to an arc as you can

531
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:34.559
get and still say PG in nineteen
seventy six. So yeah, and with

532
00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:37.880
my parents as long as I said
PG that that was like a full green

533
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.800
light And this would be one of
those where I'd be like, well,

534
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:45.079
PG, can I go see it? Yeah? It's funny, like you

535
00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:51.199
know that that's a that's an era
in movies that will never happen again.

536
00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:52.440
I remember the first time I saw
Clash of the Titans. You know,

537
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:55.880
like two million of the movie.
There's there's persons in his bomb and she's

538
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:01.119
not wearing anything. Yeah, hey, this is PG. It's a bit

539
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:07.519
you know, that's right, it's
natural exactly, Jason. Let's take one

540
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:12.239
last break and when we get back, we got to talk underrated moments and

541
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:17.360
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546
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547
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:51.079
Jason. It's not your favorite scene. It's not the scene that was

548
00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:53.719
in the trailer, but without it, the film's just a little bit less.

549
00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:59.480
Anything come to mind for you in
Logan's run like an ununderrated moment,

550
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:01.440
underrated scene. I don't even know
if I can call it underrated because it's

551
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:06.480
so important to the movie. But
the scene when Logan goes to get a

552
00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:10.159
new face, okay, good and
so he you know it, it's so

553
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:15.280
tense, right, and you know
that this you know this this doctor is

554
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.760
you know, kind of working for
the other guys, and and he's getting

555
00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:22.760
ready to be lasered up and and
you don't really know what's going to happen.

556
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:25.880
It really is a tense scene.
I don't want to tell everybody what's

557
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:30.519
happening. And then of course you
end up with fair Face and Jenny Agutter

558
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:37.000
wrestling, you know, so you
got lasers going everywhere, and it's just

559
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:40.280
it's just a great scene. I
that's one I wanted to bring intention to.

560
00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:45.119
I love it. That is a
great moment. Uh yeah, I

561
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:49.480
drop two nuggets on you about that
scene. Yeah. Yeah. So first

562
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:53.679
off, guy plays a doctor,
that creepy doctor. Yes, that's the

563
00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:59.800
director's son. Really, yeah,
he's got hey yeah, don't don't bother

564
00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:05.320
look up as his filmography because it's
this interesting. Okay, that's a good

565
00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:08.199
night. Yeah yeah. And then
when you go when you went back and

566
00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:12.480
watched this, did this does this
feel familiar when you were watching this this

567
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:15.159
scene in question, did you were
you watching it? Going, Hey,

568
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:19.440
I kind of feel like I've seen
this before. I mean, yeah,

569
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:23.840
maybe a little more recently. Watch
this scene, because if you go back

570
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:31.000
to Pierce Brosnan's Die Another Day,
they took a lot of inspiration for that

571
00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:36.719
torture scene and Die Another Day where
he strapped down. Think about it,

572
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:42.760
think about those two moments. It's
wow, someone was someone popped in Logan's

573
00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:45.960
run to say, how we're gonna
block this scene with Bond. Hold on,

574
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:50.320
let's let's take a look at Logan's
run and another y that's great.

575
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:53.360
Yeah, very similar, Yes,
a very similar situation. I think when

576
00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:57.199
I when I think outerrated moments.
One, you know this movie, this

577
00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:01.159
is a sci fi action film,
so it's it's it's very tense. It's

578
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:07.400
you're always you are literally on the
run with these characters. One moment that

579
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:13.440
I really appreciate is the first instance
where they get outside the Dome city and

580
00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:21.000
they see the sun for the first
time. What is it? I don't

581
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:32.519
whatever it is, it's floor.
Yeah, I think that's such a beautiful

582
00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:38.000
moment. You know Jessica six,
she's like just awe struck and She's like,

583
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:44.599
what is that and and he says, I don't know, but it's

584
00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:47.679
warm. Yeah, And it's such
a beautiful moment because, like they think

585
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:52.159
about this, if you've lived your
entire life inside a dome city, you've

586
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.039
never you don't know what the sun
is, you don't know what the planets

587
00:43:54.039 --> 00:44:00.280
are. This is their first chance
to see the outside world. And that

588
00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:01.960
that first son that they see,
that first setting sun that they see,

589
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.079
I think, I think it's just
a beautiful moment. I love that moment.

590
00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:07.000
Yeah, I'm with you, I'm
with you. That was a great

591
00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:13.639
moment. Absolutely. How about words
that matter? So you know, on

592
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:16.519
nineteen seventy six we always talk about, you know, our favorite lines,

593
00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:21.559
memorable lines, you know, are
they still relevant today? You know?

594
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:27.199
In nineteen seventy six is littered with
some classic, some amazing quotes. You

595
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:30.159
know. We were just like the
last episode we were talking. I was

596
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:34.039
talking with Andy Tom. We're doing
Taxi Driver, and everyone knows, you

597
00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:37.239
know, even if you haven't seen
Taxi Driver, you know the line are

598
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:42.119
you talking to me? Right?
Right? Right? For everything that this

599
00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:45.280
movie gives us, I feel like
it doesn't give us great quotes. There's

600
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:50.639
no there's no catchphrase, well there
are. There are not a lot of

601
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:53.760
great lines in this movie. There's
nothing really that stands out. There's not

602
00:44:54.000 --> 00:45:00.079
a are you talking to me?
But the scene where where he's you know,

603
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:05.239
basically been given his mission by the
computer, like you are going to

604
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:10.920
go find sanctuary, okay, yeah, and she deducts years from his from

605
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:16.239
his crystal yes. Yeah, and
he's like, wait, I just lost

606
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:20.239
my four years. I'm getting my
four years back, right, Peter,

607
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:24.719
Silent. I'm getting my four years
back, Silent. And so to me,

608
00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:29.920
that was really really a tense scene
and impactful. That is such a

609
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.880
great moment. I didn't even think
about that one. I gotta I got

610
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:36.280
a tidbit about the computer though,
for you, now that we're talking about

611
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:37.920
it, Yeah, okay, talking
about you now that we're talking about your

612
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:46.880
scene. Initially, the computer's voice
was a very male, robotic voice,

613
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:52.280
okay. And they made a conscious
decision, like in production they're like this

614
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:58.159
doesn't feel right. You know,
Logan and Francis and all these all these

615
00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:02.480
sandmen who were respondsible for keeping order
in the city and you know taking you

616
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:07.000
know, if people try to run, they take them out right, right,

617
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:13.280
so the idea that they're going to
take direction from another male, they

618
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:16.599
didn't feel that that that really worked. And they thought these guys with with

619
00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:22.280
the the power that they have,
the only person that's gonna really get through

620
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:28.800
to them is a seductive female voice
that's more like a that's you know.

621
00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:32.679
The idea was like, it's there
are the computers offering suggestion, and then

622
00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:36.360
the samon like, yeah, absolutely, that's that's what I'm gonna do.

623
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:40.199
So there's actually one of the one
of the characters, one of the one

624
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:45.559
of the one of the actresses that's
in the movie. You see Francis actually

625
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:49.360
uh you know, Uncle Howard actually
kills her. Yeah, okay, and

626
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.400
they brought her back. I apologize
because I don't remember her name off the

627
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:54.320
top of my head. But she's
the voice of the computer. They said,

628
00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:58.920
hey, would you do the the
voice work for our computer. The

629
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:01.440
actress actually has two. It's in
the movie because she plays the runner and

630
00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:07.679
then she plays she plays the computer's
voice. That's good. That's really that's

631
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:10.480
a great nugget. I'm wondering if
it's that one who is wearing the red

632
00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:15.320
that logan kind of helps I think, so I think that's how the blows

633
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:17.559
her away, blows her out of
it. Yeah, I think that's her.

634
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:22.800
Okay. I feel like if I'm
taking orders from a superior and it

635
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:25.679
has to be a computer, h
give me, give me the give me

636
00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:29.840
the soothing female voice, I'll feel
better about doing my job. Right,

637
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:34.440
Yeah, totally. You know Carpenter
Mousta felt that way because he had was

638
00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:38.360
it Jimmie Lee Curtis doing the computer's
voice and Escape from New York so uh

639
00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:43.880
yeah, and he had Adrian Barbo
doing it and the thing there it is

640
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:47.199
the way of the future, soothing, seductive female voices telling us what to

641
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:52.639
do. That's right, Jason.
We got to talk prequel, sequel,

642
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:57.440
remake. Yes, let me lay
let me lay something out for you here.

643
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:00.480
Okay. So I don't know if
you know this. There was a

644
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:07.039
TV spin off that aired on CBS
from September nineteen seventy seven to February nineteen

645
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:13.199
seventy eight. And this is perfect
because we we just mentioned John Carpenter.

646
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:20.519
Donald Moffatt played an android on the
show who was like a guide for Logan

647
00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:25.519
and Jessica. Donald Moffatt office obviously
from the thing has great, that great

648
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:30.199
moment. You know, if you
guys don't mind, I don't want to

649
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:36.199
spend the rest of this. Yeah. Wow, sadly not know that,

650
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:43.440
Yeah, sadly. In nineteen seventy
seven, Android's on television, played by

651
00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:49.360
Donald boffittt looked exactly like Donald Boffett. He's just Donald Moffatt in like a

652
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:54.239
jumpsuit. So yeah, it was
canceled after fourteen episodes, with the reason

653
00:48:54.320 --> 00:49:00.400
for the cancelation being quote, hey, we didn't have Star Wars money,

654
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:06.239
eh, there you go. Yeah, I mean, you know, this

655
00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:09.239
comes out in seventy six. Star
Wars hits the screens on seventy seven and

656
00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:15.800
everyone, you know, industrial light
magic blow the doors off everyone's expectations.

657
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:20.400
So when you're watching Star Wars and
you see the laser guns kicked back,

658
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:23.679
you have the cool sound, and
you have the instant effect on the wall

659
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:28.880
or whatever. This it's like they're
like pop guns. You know, it's

660
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:32.880
like fizzle. Yeah, you know
your wire over there? You know slow

661
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:36.960
motion? Yeah, York was he
said that. York on the on the

662
00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:40.440
commentary track says he mentioned that they're
kind of gas powered, and he said

663
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:45.000
they would do the motion, they
would pull the trigger and aim, and

664
00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:46.800
then they'd be like a delayed reaction. And that's when you watch the movie.

665
00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:51.840
They're like they're very animated, like
shooting, and then like a like

666
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:55.559
a second later, it kind of
fizzles and pops out and just looks.

667
00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:00.320
It doesn't look it does not look
good. I'll tell you what would have

668
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:08.920
looked good. Joel Silver and Warner
Brothers attempted to remake Logan's Run in nineteen

669
00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:15.719
ninety seven with Leonardo DiCaprio. That
would have been that would be my money,

670
00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:20.719
Take my money, please, DiCaprio
in ninety seven, this is like

671
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:23.599
a this is like what a year
after he does Romeo and Juliet. I

672
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:29.559
mean he is age appropriate, he's
a superstar. I mean ninety seven,

673
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.519
that's Titanic Leo. You know that's
Titanic Leo. How I don't know.

674
00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:35.920
If you're Warner Brothers, you've got
to be kicking yourself, like, how

675
00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:40.079
did you miss that opportunity? You
know? Brian Singer went into development on

676
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:45.079
a remake in two thousand and four. It failed. A lot of people,

677
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:46.280
A lot of directors have been attached
saying, hey, I want to

678
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:52.840
remake Logan's Run in twenty fifteen,
Hollywood's bright idea was to make Logan a

679
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:57.159
female character, because you know that
we had the success, We had all

680
00:50:57.159 --> 00:51:00.159
those female driven movies like Hunger Games
and Divergent, Right, so they thought,

681
00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:04.800
well, hey, what if Logan's
a girl? Right? No one's

682
00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:07.199
got it right yet, So let
me ask you. Let me see if

683
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:09.920
Jason Colvin gets it right. Your
pitch to the studio. What are you

684
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:13.880
gonna do with Logan's Run? Are
you gonna do a prequel, a sequel,

685
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:17.159
or a remake? Okay, Jeff, I don't say this lightly,

686
00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:22.519
but this is a movie that is
right for remake. I'm not I disagree

687
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:27.320
with you. It's an excellent story. You need to update the effects,

688
00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:30.199
you need to update the actors.
All of this translates to today. This

689
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:35.039
would be a box office hit,
in my opinion, if they would hire

690
00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:37.440
the right people, do the right
you know, spend the money and make

691
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:43.760
it right. So here's what I've
got. Okay, When I did my

692
00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:49.559
Google search for actors under thirty,
okay, it's a bunch of pretty boys

693
00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:52.960
and I just couldn't really find So
I had to expand my search to actors

694
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.599
under forty, which is not that
big of a reach because Michael Yorke was

695
00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:59.800
over thirty when they cast him in
this movie. Yeah, and she was

696
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:02.920
thirty thirty two, thirty four,
right, thirty three or four? I

697
00:52:02.960 --> 00:52:08.199
think so. So I want Steven
Ammel, the guy who plays all of

698
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:13.760
her from Arrow. Yeah, as
logans, I want my guy a little

699
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:17.519
tougher. I want my Sandman to
be a little edgier. Okay, Okay,

700
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:24.480
Jessica's six, I'm going after Millie
Bobby Brown. That's perfect casting.

701
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:29.440
You like it. She's yeah,
she's I think I think right now she's

702
00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:34.320
like twenty two maybe, yeah,
twenty one, twenty two. That's that's

703
00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:37.679
fantastic, man. Okay. And
then for Francis, this is the one

704
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:42.280
I kind of took a chance on. Okay, Francis his best friend John

705
00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:47.320
Boyega. I really love that.
Yeah, yeah, those of you don't

706
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:52.719
know. That's Finn from the Force
Awakens. Man, I really like that.

707
00:52:53.079 --> 00:53:01.320
For Holly thirteen, I'm going after
Kate Upton. I'm brilliant. Oh

708
00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:07.079
wait, can I can I challenge? Yeah? We got Sidney Sweeney.

709
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:13.960
Yeah yeah, I mean that's there's
no wrong answer there. But I was

710
00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:16.159
just saying, I know, she's
I know she's coming out. I know

711
00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:20.440
she's got that new movie out right
now, that comedy, and then she's

712
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:24.519
got she's gonna be playing Jessica Andrews
and and Madam Webb and Sony's Spider Man

713
00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:30.800
Universe. Yeah, she's definitely a
hot ticket right now. I got one

714
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:32.840
more for you with the old man. I'm going with the old reliable.

715
00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:40.920
Give me Russell Crowe. I can
see Russell Crowe for sure being great at

716
00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:46.360
it. But you know, well, hold on, he's fantastic everything.

717
00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:52.039
But I don't know if I've ever
seen Russell Crowe play fun and joyous.

718
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:57.199
Okay, now if you know,
but hey, maybe your logan's run.

719
00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:01.599
He's he's more embittered and you know, tougher around the edges, kind of

720
00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:07.679
tougher around the edges. So you
know, I would I'm thinking someone like

721
00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:12.280
John c Riley. Oh really,
okay, just just let him have a

722
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:14.679
ball, Just let him get nuts, you know, Okay, think about

723
00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:20.920
think about his goofy character in in
everything he's ever done. Yeah, well

724
00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:24.280
wayeah, everything he's done, but
bait more to the point, Skull Island,

725
00:54:24.440 --> 00:54:29.199
calling Skull Island, you know,
the here's what I got for you.

726
00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:32.599
I think we're on the same page. So, after this movie was

727
00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:36.760
a box office hit. The one
of the co authors, William F.

728
00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:42.159
Nolan, who co authored the original
novel, Logan's Run, He actually wrote

729
00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:47.559
two more novels. He wrote Logan's
World in nineteen seventy seven and Logan's Search

730
00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:52.880
in nineteen eighty. So, Jason, I don't want a sequel. I

731
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:55.800
want two sequels. Oh right,
yeah, here we go. Let's let's

732
00:54:55.800 --> 00:55:00.239
make a trilogy happen. Well,
let's take your cast, let's remake Logan's

733
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:05.400
Run, and then let's immediately move
into let's get someone like Peter Jackson who

734
00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:07.599
can handle, you know, shooting
a trilogy back to back. Let's do

735
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:12.280
the Logan's Run trilogy. Make it
happen. I love it, man.

736
00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:16.360
So is Peter Jackson your pick for
director? Yeah, it's gotta be someone

737
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:20.960
like Jackson because I know we didn't
even talk about this. And apologies to

738
00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:25.079
a film buys Wayne whiteed because he
loves Jerry Goldsmith. But think about Jerry

739
00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:32.679
Goldsmith's score where every scene where we're
inside the Dome city his his his music's

740
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:37.320
very electronic. There's a lot of
keyboards, you know, it's very experimental,

741
00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:44.159
and then once we get outside to
the world outside, very sweeping,

742
00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:46.960
very powerful, very orchestral. I
don't know if you picked up on that,

743
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:50.639
but I didn't notice that, But
now that you mentioned that, I

744
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:52.559
can kind of feel that. Yeah. Yeah, So when you think of

745
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:57.599
Jerry Goldsmith's score for this, you
got to think, who's a director that

746
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:01.320
could handle a bad giving us the
entire world, you know, inside and

747
00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:06.519
out, And Peter Jackson would definitely
be my choice for this. I love

748
00:56:06.559 --> 00:56:08.800
it. I think you're right.
I mean, he has proven time and

749
00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:15.159
time again he can handle epic tales. So yeah, well, let me

750
00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:19.360
ask you this as we wrap it
up here, Jason, out of four

751
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:24.480
possible stars, what would you give
Logan's run Out of four possible stars,

752
00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:30.840
I'm gonna give this one three and
a quarter stars. Okay, I like

753
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:35.360
it. I really like the imaginative
thinking of this movie. I like the

754
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:40.400
the idea behind it. The whole
plot is captivating to me. The execution,

755
00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:44.519
even though it was in seventy six, is a little bit off.

756
00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:52.480
I think they the special effects are
noticeably poor in this movie, but I

757
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.199
in some instances, you know,
in some parts, they do really well.

758
00:56:55.239 --> 00:57:00.840
And the setting's great. I love
the actors. Of course, I'm

759
00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:05.679
in love with Jenny Agutor. I
mean, she's just amazing. So three

760
00:57:05.719 --> 00:57:07.920
point two to five I think it
could be done better. I think it

761
00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:13.480
with the right person, it would
be an amazing film that needs to be

762
00:57:13.519 --> 00:57:17.320
remade. I'm with you, man, three and a quarter stars that you

763
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:21.239
gotta get that extra quarter just for
Genny Agutter. The more we've talked about

764
00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:22.559
it more, I'm like, yeah, you know, we keep talking to

765
00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:27.199
it. It's like, yeah,
this is a four star movie. I'll

766
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:30.760
challenge a little bit, like I
feel like this is groundbreaking visuals for its

767
00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:36.159
era, and we got to remember
this. This got a Special Academy Award.

768
00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:40.599
I think we look back on it
now and we're we're kind of like

769
00:57:40.760 --> 00:57:45.800
the bar was just immediately lifted because
of Star Wars coming out just a few

770
00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:50.719
months after it. That's fair.
So, you know, in a world

771
00:57:50.719 --> 00:57:53.119
where Star Wars doesn't come out until
nineteen eighty, we would probably look at

772
00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:59.639
Logan's run as like the biggest spectacle, you know, when it comes to

773
00:57:59.639 --> 00:58:02.519
special I think I think that's fair. I will tell you this. I

774
00:58:02.559 --> 00:58:07.400
watched it on TB. Yeah,
and when they were all going, all

775
00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:13.760
the people were going to Carousel.
M you could see the wires. Well,

776
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:15.480
that's fair. You know when you
watch this on t B and I

777
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:17.639
know it's available right now, So
if you want to watch this, you

778
00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:21.639
know you don't want to buy a
copy of it. You should buy a

779
00:58:21.639 --> 00:58:23.679
copy of it because it looks great
the Blue Jason, the Blu ray looks

780
00:58:23.719 --> 00:58:27.800
great. And that sen you're talking
about Carousel with the you know where they

781
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:32.360
didn't really have the ability to hide
though some of the wires track then looks

782
00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:37.079
a little. It looks a lot
better on Blu ray. But you know,

783
00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:39.559
if you're watching a free copy on
two, you get what you get

784
00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:44.360
and you don't tell a fit,
right, That's right, that's right.

785
00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:46.599
Well listen, man, I know
what I know. I get what I

786
00:58:46.639 --> 00:58:51.880
get. Anytime you're over here with
us on a film buy Jason, it's

787
00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:54.440
always a pleasure. And with that, I got to ask you, what

788
00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:59.800
can we expect from the Shirley You
Can't Be Serious podcast in the new year?

789
00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:04.760
Well man, we are coming up
on the anniversary, the fortieth anniversary

790
00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:07.000
of nineteen eighty four, so we're
covering a lot of stuff from eighty four.

791
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:12.920
I know we're talking about Beverly Hills
Cop talking about you know, we're

792
00:59:12.920 --> 00:59:16.159
gonna compare that to Beverly Hills Cop
Part two because we know Beverly Hills Cop

793
00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:22.519
Part four is coming out this summer. We're doing the Car's Heartbeat City versus

794
00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:28.159
Brian Adams Reckless. We're doing songs
from the Big Chair versus Make It Big

795
00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:31.159
by Whim. So we're gonna spend
some time in nineteen eighty four and it's

796
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:34.639
just gonna be a lot of fun. We hope that you will join us

797
00:59:34.639 --> 00:59:38.599
over there at the shirlead Keeping Serious
podcast. Absolutely will let me be the

798
00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:44.440
annoying reporter just for a split second. Jason Colvin, any chance you'll go

799
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:47.039
ahead and give us your your final
judgment between Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills

800
00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:52.960
Cop two. What's your favorite?
Uh? No, no no, I

801
00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:58.199
followed from the Banana the tail Vibe. I can't wait to hear that,

802
00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:00.760
because there's no way you chuse between
those two movies. But I look forward

803
01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:04.599
to seeing how you're gonna pull that
one off. Man. You are a

804
01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:07.119
blast every time you're here. You
always bring it, man, So thank

805
01:00:07.159 --> 01:00:09.719
you well, thank you man.
I'm so glad that you invited me on

806
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for this one because I love diving
into these old movies that I haven't seen

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but I've got kind of an affinity
for. So this is one I really

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wanted to talk to you about,
and because you invited me, I was

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able to dive into it. So
thank you. Man. Well, all

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right, I do want to challenge
all of our listeners. So if you're

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a fan of Logan's Run, or
you're about to watch it on TB or

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you're about to watch it on Blu
Ray, in the film, there is

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an extra that can be seen holding
up the Vulcan hand salute such we all

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know the livelong and prosper you know
what I'm talking about. If you're a

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Ciela person, all you got to
do is let me know exactly where it

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01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:53.719
is in the film. Reach out
tell us and we will send you a

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box full of a film by Swag. Other than that, you can let

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us know what you think of Logan's
Run or our nineteen seventy six series.

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