Nov. 4, 2024

Danny DeVito - Throw Mama From the Train

Danny DeVito - Throw Mama From the Train

The night was... Jeff and David discuss Danny DeVito's directorial feature film debut from 1987 that incorporates an Alfred Hitchcock classic, the comedic genius of Billy Crystal, and a career-best performance from Anne Ramsey in Throw Mama From the...

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Season 5
The night was...

Jeff and David discuss Danny DeVito's directorial feature film debut from 1987 that incorporates an Alfred Hitchcock classic, the comedic genius of Billy Crystal, and a career-best performance from Anne Ramsey in Throw Mama From the Train!

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I gotta ask you, do you have a favorite murder mystery?

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A favorite murder mystery? I would probably say knives Out.

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I see, I'm thinking knives Out too.

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I love a good murder mystery, and I want to

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talk about one, uh specifically, I want to talk about

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a film by Danny DeVito, of all people, his uh,

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his nineteen eighty seven murder mystery, if you can call

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it that, Throw Mama from the Train.

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Yes, hello, everybody.

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I'm Jeff Johnson, David Burns, and this is a film

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by podcast Danny DeVito.

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Why not?

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So why not?

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Why not? Why not?

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And why not throw Mama from the train? So, h, Dave,

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you've seen You've seen this plenty of times?

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Right, Actually, I've seen it a couple of times. I

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saw it a long, long time ago, and then I

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just saw it recently as of this morning, because I

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wanted to get it fresh in my mind. So yeah,

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I have stampque a few times.

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So right right off the get go, you like it,

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you don't like it? What do you think about this movie?

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I do like it. It gives me. I mean, obviously,

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I grew up in the eighties, so it's got those

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eighty vibes obviously, but it's the humor that I like

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from Tom Hanks movies too, like The Money Pit and

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those kind of things. It has that same kind of humor,

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same kind of vibe in my opinion.

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I'll tell you one thing I like about the comedy

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you mentioned. It's got that eighties vibe to it. And

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I think it's interesting that you said Tom Hanks because

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this is written by Stu Silver, who, aside from writing

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this movie, I know he helped write Good Morning Vietnam,

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but he's mainly known for his writing on the Tom

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Hanks sitcom was Some Buddies with People. I loved that

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see a lot of people. It makes me sad because

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a lot of people don't remember that show or they

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don't know that show, and that's classic Tom Hanks as Yeah, and.

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Then this guy.

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He also did a lot of writing on Soap, which

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was a Billy Crystal Billy Crystal sitcom. So I guess

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that's maybe why you get Billy Crystal, or maybe maybe

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Billy Crystal brought him in.

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I don't know. I didn't I don't know that. I

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don't know who brought who, but good combination either way.

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It is absolutely Yeah, So this movie, so Throw Mama

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from the Train.

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For those that have not seen it, it's it's a

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dark comedy and loosely inspired by nineteen fifty one's Strangers

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on a Train, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Yep.

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And I say loosely because they even they reference the movie.

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Obviously it's you know, you don't have Throw Mama from

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the Train without Strangers on a Train. Like it's it

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definitely informs the movie.

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That's where that's where Owen gets his idea too.

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Absolutely. Yeah.

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So you know, for those that haven't seen it, basically

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you're dealing with Billy Crystal playing Larry Donner is amazing writer,

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wrote the Great American novel. His ex wife steals it

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and it's a blockbuster, and since then he's got writer's block.

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He can't he just can't perform, you know, he can't,

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he can't write. He's so wrapped up on you know,

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his hatred for her.

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But he was, yeah, the night, the night was the

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night was I love, such a great scene was. But

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he's wrapped up and he's got to make ends meet.

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So he's teaching writing classes at a community college where

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he meets uh Owen Lift played by Danny DeVito, and

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Owen is this middle aged.

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Man, very meek, very kind of a victim.

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I would say, I would even say childlike to be.

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Honest, definitely childlike.

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Uh lives with his mother, who is played by the

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amazing Anne Ramsey, and you know, I would say he's

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it's it's an abusive relationship for sure. Uh, most to

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the point that that that Owen daydreams. He he fantasizes

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about killing his mother. He hates her that much that

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he just wants her to die. And that's where this

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whole thing happens. Like you know, you you kill you know,

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it's the it's.

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The swap, It's the crisscross strangers. Yeah, strangers are on

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a train. You know.

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You you you murder someone for me, and I'll murder

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someone for you. And that, you know, it's all it's

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it's motive and and alibi. You gotta have a lot

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of one and none of the other. That's where this'

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that's where this movie comes together. Interestingly enough, though, the

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movie doesn't happen without a little bit of swapping between studios.

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Did you hear about did you read about this? Or

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did you know about this?

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Yeah? I did between Warner Brothers and Orion I believe,

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isn't it.

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Yeah, So.

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You know, Orion says, hey, we we need strangers on

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a train. Warner Brothers is like, nah, I don't think so.

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But then they're trying to make a sequel to Arthur

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with Dudley Moore, and they find out that Orion has

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the rights to that, so they're like, oh, well, we'll

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give them this Alfred Hitchcot movie and we'll take Arthur.

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They made Arthur two on the Rocks, which Bob Yeah,

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just a critical disaster, and then meanwhile, Throw Mama from

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the Train. You know, it did pretty good for eighty seven.

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You know, I think fourteen million dollar budget does half

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that its opening weekend, and ended up goes on to

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like do like fifty eight million, which back then, you know,

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in eighty seven, that's that's that's decent.

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It's a lot of money.

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There's a lot of money.

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I like the idea though, of studios kind of working together,

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you know, and it really goes with the theme of

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this movie, you know, the criss cross. You know, you

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give me your your property and I'll give you mine,

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you know.

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So I really appreciate that about this let's talk about

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Ann Ramsey for a second, please do.

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Okay, So, yeah, this is this is definitely for me.

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You've got some great supporting actors in this movie. You've

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got some good cameos, Rob Reiner for example, playing Billy

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Crystal's agent Joel who fires him. But really this comes

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down to three people, you know, even even Kim Grease,

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who you know, I know Brad and Dayton talked about

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on the Manhunter episode on ninety six. She's awesome in this,

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but yep, I mean, it really comes down to Billy Crystal,

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Danny DeVito, and Anne Ramsey. So Ann Ramsey playing Missus Lyft,

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obviously you got to say, like her most famous role, right,

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is gonna be gotta be Mama for Telly the Goodies?

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Absolutely right? Yep, Now I did.

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I did a little bit of a deep dive on

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Anne Ramsey's career and through the sixties seventies.

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She is she was like on every every TV show

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you could think of.

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She did a lot of stuff.

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I mean, from Wonder Woman to.

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Matt she was everywhere. It kinda I find it. I

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find it crazy that she's mostly famous for just playing

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bad mothers in only two movies.

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You know, yeah, because it's yeah, so memorable.

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Yeah, her screen time though in this ten minutes ten minutes.

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She's in this movie for ten minutes, and that is enough.

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Based on her performance, she's nominated for a Golden Globe. Yep,

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She's nominated for a Best Supporting Actress at the eighty

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eight Oscars and she wins a Saturn Award. That's pretty impressive.

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It is very impressive. And I'll tell you every even

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though she was in that only ten minutes, I'm telling

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you every second that she was on screen was gold

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And I can see why she was nominated for the

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Oscar for Best Supporting Actress because without her, without her performance,

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that movie would not have been nearly as good as

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it turned out to be.

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Could anybody else have played the role of Mama?

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No not in my opinion.

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I mean I always thinking about this. I can't think

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of one actress even close, right, And.

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I'm telling you the main driving force behind this for

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me to see this was her, because if she was

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so memorable from Gooni's that I wanted to see throwing

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Mama from the train because of her, not Billy Crystal

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and Danny DeVito, which don't get me wrong. Those two

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are iconic and very good actors. I wanted to see

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it because of her.

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Yeah, well, I mean yeah, what we were like what

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eleven when this came out? So and this is this

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is this is postgunies, right, Yes, yeah, I remember wanting

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to see it just based off of her in the

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in the previews, you know, smacking Danny de Video around

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and you know, you know she like kicks Billy Crystal

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on the groin and she's you know, screaming Owen.

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You know this is that Oh my god, Mama for

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Delly's back. You know, you're right, I can't. I think

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she's the draw for this movie. When you when you

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want to see it.

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And I'm telling you, anybody who knows this movie and

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as soon as you mention it, the first thing they're

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going to think of is Anne Ramsey. They may not

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know her by name like we do because we're film buffs,

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but I'm telling you that's the first thing they're going

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to think about.

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I I absolutely agree. Yeah, no one could play this

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role other than her. But uh, let's talk a little

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bit about the roles of Larry and Owen. There's interesting names.

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Here's some interesting pairings as this movie is. You know,

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Danny de Vito plans to direct it, right, Originally he

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wanted to play Larry and then decided, now I'm not

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I'm not I'm not Larry, and then he starts going out.

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Let me ask you what you think about some of

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these pairings. Initially Bill Murray playing Larry and Robin Williams

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playing Owen.

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It's tough to say yes to that. They're both fantastic actors,

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and it just after after seeing Danny DeVito and the

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Billy Crystal and the Roles, it's tough to see anybody else.

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But maybe maybe, I.

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Mean, that's two comedic geniuses right there. They are with

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Murray and Williams. CO mean, could you imagine an Ramsey

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slapping Robin Williams around?

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I could probably see that.

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Yeah, I could see I could see it. I don't know.

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I don't know that that's the better choice, but let

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me let me let me try this one on for you. You

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mentioned Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks was up for the role

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of Larry, and this is eighty seven, so you know

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this is the money pit Tom Hanks, You know, I

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think he would have been fantastic as as.

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Larry Donner he would have been fantastic in that role.

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And here's who they're looking at to play opposite him

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for Owen lift Joe PESHI considered, I could see that.

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Yeah, Dudley Moore.

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No, No, I mean I get I get that he

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was famous, he had Arthur happening, but I think at

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this point he's kind of he's kind of slipping as

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far as the popularity goes.

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Yep.

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And then this one, this one could have been a

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big one. John Candy, that.

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Would have been huge. I really could have seen him

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in that as Owen.

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Yeah, as Owen.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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So so you got Tom Hanks playing opposite John Candy,

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you got Bill Murray playing opposite Robin Williams, and we

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ended up with Billy Crystal versus or opposite Danny DeVito. Really,

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I could have seen neither one of these movies, So

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what you would have it would.

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Have best pairing. I'm gonna probably go with Tom Hanks

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and John Candy.

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Do you think Candy up against the Ann Ramsey, Yeah?

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Absolutely.

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I I don't know.

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I think you don't think he could pull off the

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childlike that Danny DaVita was able to pull off.

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I think I think he can all right, I think

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he could have done it, But there's something about de

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Vito in this movie that is is a little sad, yeah,

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and a little a little tragic. And I think with Candy,

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I think Candy would have knocked it out of the park,

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but it also would have been a little more slapsticky

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and comedic, more Three Stooges.

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Like I could. I could see that, yeah, because there's

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one part in the film that just actually broke my

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heart is the scene when Danny the coins.

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Yes, I want to talk I do want to talk

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about the coin scene.

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Okay, we'll get to that, then we'll talk about that.

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But yeah, I see what you're saying, John, Canny would

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be a little bit more flapstick You're right, Three Stooges. Yeah,

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so yeah, I can see that.

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Bill Murray, I think is having too much fun playing

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like the like like they they think. Bill Murray and

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this the closest thing I've seen him do to the

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Larry Donner character, probably like Frank Cross and Scrooged, or

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maybe even Phil Connors in groundholl Day where he's he

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you know, because Billy Crystal has to lose his temper

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several times in this movie. He has to get a

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little angry, he has to get upset. But I believe

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Billy Crystal more. I think it's fun to watch him

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lose it. But at the same time, I believe that

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he's Larry Donner, you know, his hatred for his ex

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wife and his frustration over with the writer's block.

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The role was perfect for Billy Crystal because it is,

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let's be honest, Billy Crystal plays Billy Crystal in just

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about everything he does, and I think that role was

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really I mean, there's some other some films out there.

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He does a pretty good job. Everything. He does a

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good job, man, But this was written for him. It

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seems like to me in my.

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I think we got the good I think we got

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the right pair because Tom Hanks would have been amazing

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as well.

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But I think he's too likable, you know.

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And I want to see Anne Ramsey kick Billy Crystal

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in the in the in the groin. It's funny, but

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I don't want to see him. I don't want to

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see her do that to Tom Hanks. You know, he's

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the nicest guy in America. Like, you can't do that

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to Tom Hanks.

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Tom Hank was in his prime at this time with

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all that movie, which is why he didn't get it,

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because because he was so busy. But I couldn't see

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him pulling off that he wants to murder somebody, even

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though I know Billy Crystal struggled with that. Yeah, I

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don't think Tom Hank could pull that off. Billy Crystal, Yes,

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you could. You believed him in it.

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Well, I mean, let's let's face it, Tom Hanks, I

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think the only time he's he's been even remotely a

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bad guy. Mm hmmm.

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Uh probably once wrote to Predition, rote to Predition, And

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even then, I mean, he's a he's a hit man

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for what, the mob or whatever. But you still you'll

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like him, You still.

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Like him, Yeah, you can't.

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You can't not like Tom oh Man.

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So anything you anything bolised you about the movie, anything

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that didn't work for you.

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So, after watching it again with it being fresh in

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my mind, the opening sequence, which I do find funny,

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just felt a little slow in my opinions, with with

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him you know, a night with him trying to strut

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with the first line of his new novel. I felt

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that was a little drawn out, too much, kind of

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a slow opening for a film. But once you get

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to a certain point and you look back at it,

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then you're like, Okay, so that did work. I understand

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where they're going with it, and you know, now I'm

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involved into the story, and I find it more humorous

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after that build up in the very beginning. I just

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that's the only thing that I didn't like. I felt

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was just the slow opening.

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I agree with you.

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It's a little slow, and you're like, wait, man, we're

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really harping on this whole thing. Yeah, exactly, But for

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the end, I mean you, I feel like, yeah, it's slow,

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but you almost need it, because all right, I agree

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with you that you do need it, even though you

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don't want to at first, because you know, when we

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get into this whole thing and Owen, you know, for

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you know, we assume that he's killed Billy Crystal's ex wife,

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it's like, hey, you need to.

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Kill my mom.

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Billy Crystal wants nothing to do with this insane plot,

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and he's slowly, you know, she starts to be abusive

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with him, you know, when he's the lift house, he

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starts to slowly think maybe I could do this. But

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it's it's that very end when they're on the train,

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when he's on the lamb and they're talking about good

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writing and good plot and he mentions like the best

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of I think he mentions a Telortoo cities, and all

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of a sudden she and Anne Ramsay has that moment

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where she corrects him, and you know, she's like, the

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night was sultry and that look Billy Crystal's look in

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his eyes is nothing but murder.

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And then you believe it.

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Yeah, He's like, that's it. I'm gonna kill her, you know.

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And it has nothing to do with anything, but he

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just didn't. He's been searching for the perfect line this

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whole time, and Mama gives it to him, and yeah,

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he snaps, So, uh the whole train thing? Did you

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pick up on this?

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Like the how it? How?

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It?

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Kind of there's a lot of foreshadowing, you know.

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I mean, I'm not talking just about him seeing the

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movie Strangers on a train, but uh, you know, because like,

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what are we talking about? Because Owens in his in

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his writing class, Owens a terrible writer, right, but the

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guy in the hat killed the other guy in the hat.

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You know, he is a terrible writer. And Billy Crystal

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just says, hey, you know you need to understand how

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plot works. You need to understand motive and Alibi go

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go see Go see Hitchcock, you know, and he goes

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and sees strangers on the train, and that's and he

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thinks Danny de Video's characters like I did it criss cross,

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I'll kill his wife and he'll kill my mom, you know,

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because he's that delusional, he's that sad.

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I loved it though, Yeah, this is this is just

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a fun movie.

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It really is.

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So do you want you want to talk a little

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bit about uh the Vito his his filmography.

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We we can. I want to go back and talk

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about anth for just a minute before, but let's leave

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her because let's go back so much to talk about

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what do you go So if when you watch the film,

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you realize Anne has really has a speech impediment during

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this film, and we to when you find out that

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she had been battling throat cancer before this film and

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she was actually in the middle of some more surgery

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to help fix the throat cancer, which is why her

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voice is really really off in this film. But she

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did not stop to perform. I know Danny de Vito

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like praised her in regards that, like, you know, she

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was in a lot of pain, but she never ever

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stopped performing in the role of Mama. And you know

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that in itself should have got her an Oscar, But

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you know that's besides the point le she was nominated

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for it. But just to show that, you know, how

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Anne was dedicated to being Mama in this with the

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pain she was struggling with, just just adds so much

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more dimension to this film.

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Oh well, I had no idea, so I you know,

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because I was introduced to her as Mama for Telly,

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and you know, she's just she's just brash and you know,

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very very heavy voice.

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Right right.

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And yeah, now that I think about it, there is

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her speech is just a little a little strained in.

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This it's slurred. You can really tell slurred.

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Yeah, I hadn't. I didn't even think about that. So wow,

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she's filming this during surgery with throat cancer.

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Wow.

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Yeah, and parent them within a lot of pain and

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doing a lot of her performances. And she even did

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the stunts at the end of the film on the train.

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Did you know that, I did it?

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Come on, she did she did this the train stuff.

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Yeah, she did her own stunts. That's how fantastic.

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She was, man, wow, that's amazing.

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But you know, and it's sad, like when we talk

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about Anne Ramsey because this movie comes out in nineteen

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eighty seven, and if you if you follow it, you

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know when when the whole thing's over, they do one.

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Of those one year later situations.

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So technically in the film, it's nineteen eighty eight, one

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year late here, and you know, Billy.

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Crist was like, hey, how's mama, and Billy.

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And Danny Vitos' is us She's she's she's dead, you know,

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she she passed away, and what Yeah, natural causes it.

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But what's sad is that we lost Ann Ramsey in

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nineteen eighty eight.

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So it almost it like, you know, it queued up

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almost almost perfect with the movie, which you know, definitely sad,

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you know, because I think, I think this woman, Yeah,

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she has a long, storied career in television, but she

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was really just hitting her stride in the eighties because

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if she wouldn't have been sick, Like, imagine what other

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crazy stuff she could have done, or what other movies

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she could have been a part of, right, because she

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had that specific look, she had that specific sound, it

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would have been fun to see her and more stuff.

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Definitely, yep, definitely the Veto.

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So you know, tons of acting credits, the guys still

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the guy's still acting.

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You know.

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I love him on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia playing

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Frank Reynold's perfect.

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Oh yeah.

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I mean, the guy's been doing it fifteen years and

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he just continues to his character continues to evolve into

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I'm telling you, if that show runs like another three

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or four years, he will be the Penguin character from

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from Batman Returns.

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He's getting close and I love it. I know, I know, I'm.

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Thinking speaking of penguin, isn't he writing a comic book

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in regards to his character as the Penguin?

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Yeah, so he's doing a graphic novel. Yes, And I

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know this is all with the whole Batman Returns thing

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that's going on or not the Batman Returns thing, But

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you know, Keaton's coming back to play Batman in the

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Flash movie and this has launched this whole thing. Where

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are the rest of them? The Vito's doing a comic,

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a graphic novel on his Penguin character. That's awesome, man,

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I want to I mean, you know, so like I'm

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assuming he writes it. I wonder I want to see

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who DC's going to get to illustrate it, because that

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that would be pretty cool to see, Like what is

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the story? You know, does it place after Batman returns?

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Is it before?

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What is he doing? That just shows you his body

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of work. I mean, he just he doesn't want to stop.

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He just keeps going more with more and more, and

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I love that. I mean, has he directed any episodes

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of of the of his recent.

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Series of Sonny You know, I don't know that he has.

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He might have.

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I know he before his uh, his feature film debut,

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directorial debut, which was which is this movie Throw Mama

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from the Train? I know he had done uh some

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taxi because you know he was he played people's on

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that show. I think he did amazing stories or did

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did one of the did an episode of that maybe?

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But he had done some TV he done, he done

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a little bit of TV work. Eighty seven, he does

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Throw Mama from the Train, and I feel quite successful

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right out the get go. Uh. Two years later, one

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of my favorites, he does The War of the Roses

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with Kathleen Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. That that's one

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of those verts. It's a lot of people don't think

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about it, but I always look at that as one

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of those fun Christmas movies that's not technically a Christmas.

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Movie because the whole movie takes place during Christmas time

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or off and on. So I love that one.

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He switches gears though, because I don't think anyone does.

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I mean, he does dark comedy really good, which is

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what these two movies are.

475
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But then you know, what is it?

476
00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:33.640
Three years later he switches up, goes the dramatic route

477
00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:36.799
with Haffa and him and Nicholson getting together.

478
00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:38.680
Did what did did you see? Halfa?

479
00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:41.799
I have not to be honest with you, I've never

480
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:42.440
seen Haffa.

481
00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:49.119
I'm telling you right now. It's fantastic mm hmm. Critically underrated.

482
00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:55.359
I don't know why it didn't get more more attention.

483
00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:58.000
And you know, he does one of those he has

484
00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:00.200
a small role in it, but again he's like he's

485
00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:01.839
one of those tough guys that you believe, like like

486
00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:05.839
a like a Joe Pesci, right, And it's one of

487
00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:08.160
those things like I didn't know you always hear like

488
00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:10.359
growing up, like especially for people our age, like you

489
00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:11.599
always hear these these.

490
00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:13.640
Uh you know, the whole Jimmy Haffa thing. You know,

491
00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:16.839
who who where's Jimmy Hoffer, you know where's he buried?

492
00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:19.400
Who killed him? All this stuff. I never knew. I

493
00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:20.960
never understood who Jimmy haff was.

494
00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:23.920
But and I'm not saying that this movie is, you know,

495
00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:27.839
historically accurate, but you know, when you you kind of

496
00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:30.279
watch it, it's it's it's a it's informative.

497
00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:30.799
I'll say that.

498
00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:32.960
You know, if you if you don't understand like who

499
00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:36.319
the teamsters were and and what Jimmy Haffer did and

500
00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:40.400
all that all that stuff, it's definitely I put it

501
00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:40.880
on your list.

502
00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:42.480
I will, I'll definitely give it a shot.

503
00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:45.359
Then how about Matilda?

504
00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:48.880
Hey, classic, that's a classic. What's what was her name,

505
00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:51.480
the actress who played his daughter, the.

506
00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:52.839
One that played Robin Williams's daughter.

507
00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:57.480
Yes, and I don't know was it missed out? Fire?

508
00:25:57.759 --> 00:25:58.680
Yeah, missus doubt fire.

509
00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:01.240
Yeah, I don't rememberho her name was. She was a

510
00:26:01.319 --> 00:26:05.960
very talented young actress. She helped make that movie. Yes, Yes,

511
00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:08.839
even though you know Danny DeVito directed that, did he

512
00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:10.880
write that? Because I know he played like one of

513
00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:12.359
the evil parents. If I remember correctly.

514
00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:16.640
Well, yeah, well so I'm I'm gonna get to I'll

515
00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:17.559
be shamed for the saying this.

516
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:18.640
But I never seen Matilda.

517
00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:21.799
Oh wow, Really, I know it's one of yeah.

518
00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:26.079
Yeah, but well, I mean, I want to be even,

519
00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:29.200
but I know Matilda has a very big phone. You know,

520
00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:33.680
it's got its cult status. I I know stuff about

521
00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:36.319
Matilda just from I've never seen the movie, but I

522
00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:39.319
know that, you know, like the whole chocolate cake thing,

523
00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:41.079
I know it comes from Matilda.

524
00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:43.680
But he, you know, like that's what I love about

525
00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:45.440
DeVito here, he just goes.

526
00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:47.519
He kind of flips back and forth like he he

527
00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:50.039
does a couple of dark comedies. Let's try something historically,

528
00:26:50.279 --> 00:26:53.759
you know, uh, impactful like Hafa.

529
00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:55.400
Let's do it. Let's do a kid's movie.

530
00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.599
And then years later he's right back to the dark

531
00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:01.680
comedy stuff because he's doing and Death of Smoochie and Duplex.

532
00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:05.880
I never saw Death of Smoochie. I don't know a

533
00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:06.880
whole lot about that one.

534
00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:09.799
Yeah, I didn't see that. In order Duplex, to be

535
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:10.440
honest with you.

536
00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:15.160
Duplex, I did see. I don't want to say, don't

537
00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:17.799
want to I don't want to say it's forgettable. It's fun.

538
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.480
You know, if you've seen it, you know you'll you'll

539
00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:20.440
watch it, you'll enjoy it.

540
00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:23.480
But again, back to that that dark comedy where I

541
00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:27.720
think it's Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore get like this

542
00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:32.799
amazing place and it comes with this tenant who you know,

543
00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:34.200
old woman who she's like the.

544
00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:35.880
Old woman from Hell. You can't get rid of her,

545
00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:38.839
and so it has its merit. It's it's fun.

546
00:27:38.839 --> 00:27:44.799
It's still fun. Okay, yeah, absolutely, But I kind of

547
00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:48.359
that's two thousand and three. I kind of wonder where,

548
00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:49.960
did you know, how come we do get more Davido

549
00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:52.839
because it's it's two thousand and six. When I think

550
00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:56.920
he starts filming, Uh, it's always something in Philadelphia. I

551
00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:58.599
think that's when the Frank Grenals character shows up.

552
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:03.079
Yeah, so I believe it's been on that long. My goodness,

553
00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:03.759
it's out there.

554
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.480
But like I said, I love that show. They could

555
00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:10.079
go another ten years and I'd be happy. Yeah.

556
00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:16.039
I think Danny DeVito has done a bunch of short films.

557
00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:19.559
I think he's directed over maybe the last ten to

558
00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:23.400
fifteen years. Nothing that comes to mind, but if I

559
00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:25.000
remember correctly, he did some shorts.

560
00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:28.279
If you're Okay, so let me ask you this because

561
00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:32.319
you're you're a documentary filmmaker and you've done some shorts.

562
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:36.759
Now when you're at Danny DeVito's level, are you doing

563
00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:38.359
that kind of Are you doing that stuff just as

564
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:43.079
passion projects just for fun or or what's the motive

565
00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:46.319
behind that? Because is he going to film festivals with it?

566
00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:49.920
Or what's I think for for de Vito? Because as

567
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.920
you know, when you get these big budget films with studios,

568
00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:55.640
you know how demanding they are, you know how they

569
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:58.119
want to take control of projects and stuff like that

570
00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:01.319
and take a vision away from the direct So I

571
00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:03.400
think that's what Danny DeVito does with a lot of

572
00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:05.880
these shorts because he has complete control on him and

573
00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:08.480
it's a passion that That's what I feel. I know

574
00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:11.640
that's what happened to Joe Dante. He got tired of

575
00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.079
the studios, so he left and started doing like independent stuff.

576
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:17.319
So I think that's where Danny DeVito went. You know,

577
00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:20.200
he has a passion for making films directing them, so

578
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:22.599
he just started doing short films, even though he does

579
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.200
his television series which keeps him occupied doing that for forever.

580
00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:28.680
Now it seems like but yeah, I think that's what

581
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:29.599
it is. It's all passion.

582
00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:32.200
Well, I want to talk about what's next for him,

583
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:34.599
but that's this is a you know, we're talking about

584
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:38.319
a mystery, murder mystery. This is a bit of a

585
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:40.240
mystery because I you know, I don't know if you

586
00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:43.200
saw this. I'm looking up, like, what's what's he got

587
00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:47.039
coming out? And you know, apparently he has a completed

588
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:49.160
film called Saint Sebastian.

589
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:51.200
Do you know about this one? I do not.

590
00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:57.279
This is weird, Okay, Saint Sabat And we talked about

591
00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:00.880
him kind of going you know, he he kind of

592
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.400
goes all over the map, right, So listen to this.

593
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:11.079
Saint Sebastian is a thriller about survivors in post apocalyptic

594
00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:13.720
Russia after a nuclear war.

595
00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.920
What does that? I mean? That does not sound with

596
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:19.319
Danny de Vito at all.

597
00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:19.799
Not even close.

598
00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:23.000
And here's where him well yeah, but here's where the

599
00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:26.839
mystery comes into play. They finished shooting it in twenty twelve.

600
00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:30.880
Wait what two twenty twelve?

601
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.000
This is what I'm this is what I'm reading on IMDb.

602
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:37.880
They finish it in twenty twelve, and it's still not yet.

603
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.319
It's it's yet to be released.

604
00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:43.519
Now, what is going on with that? Because I could

605
00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:49.119
not find anything about who has it or why the

606
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:53.720
hold up? Mystery?

607
00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:57.119
There's the mystery, what's taking so long?

608
00:30:57.319 --> 00:30:59.400
This might be a movie. Usually when a movie takes

609
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:01.480
it that long, it's a bad sign for it. But

610
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:04.039
what what is going on with this film?

611
00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:04.559
Yeah?

612
00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:06.279
And the only other thing I could I could find,

613
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:09.640
you know, because Devido typically will play a small role

614
00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:13.359
in the movies he directs, right, you know, aside from

615
00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:14.920
Domma for the Train where he's a coat. You know,

616
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:17.799
he's he's the co star, right, he still at least

617
00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:21.079
does a cameo. He wasn't listed in the in the

618
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:26.440
you know, the credits with anybody. It's like William Fickner.

619
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:29.839
I don't know if I'm saying that, right, I think?

620
00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:32.599
And Lance Lance Reddick.

621
00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:34.759
Reddit Ridtick. Yes, yeah, he's a fantastic actor.

622
00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:36.039
Oh I love that guy.

623
00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:40.799
But it's it's those two guys they're listed in the credits.

624
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:44.119
And the only other thing I could find is that

625
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:46.880
it's the first movie for di Vido.

626
00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:48.279
Where he doesn't use a film score.

627
00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:50.759
There's no film score.

628
00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:53.160
No film score. Apparently there's no release, so.

629
00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:55.519
I guess you don't need music if you don't have

630
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:55.880
a release.

631
00:31:56.039 --> 00:31:58.400
But you gotta wonder, like what what's the cause for that?

632
00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:00.000
Like what what's holding this movie up?

633
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:03.640
You know, because when it's been this long and there's

634
00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:06.759
nothing to talk about, there's no there's no information. That's

635
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:10.359
a situation where someone has rights to something and not

636
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:13.759
giving it up and there or someone's holding out and

637
00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.200
you know they can they just can't agree.

638
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:19.039
That's exactly what it sounds like. But I'm very interested

639
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:19.599
to see it.

640
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.480
Well let's uh, you know, whether or not we do

641
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:27.480
get to see Saint Sebastian. M h. What would you

642
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.039
want to see Davito do, like if you if.

643
00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:32.559
He's if he was goeting to get you know, get

644
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:36.319
behind getting the director's share again, any thoughts on what

645
00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:37.000
you'd like to see.

646
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.240
I'd like to see him and Tom Hanks pair up

647
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:44.880
something new today with Tom Hanks. And yes, let's bring

648
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:48.319
Tom Hanks back to some kind of comedy that the

649
00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:51.240
dude has like proven himself over and over that he

650
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:53.599
can do drama and it's been a while since he's

651
00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:56.720
given us something good comedic wise. And I could see

652
00:32:56.799 --> 00:33:00.200
Danny DeVito directing Tom Hanks in a new film. That's

653
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:02.200
what I want to see anyway. What it's about, I

654
00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:04.480
don't know, but I would like to see a you know,

655
00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.519
a dark comedy like he's Danny Davito is really good

656
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:09.319
for bringing to it.

657
00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:11.440
Come on, what was that?

658
00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:13.599
What was that dark comedy that Hanks did? Like the

659
00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:15.359
last time we saw him do comedy? Do you remember

660
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:20.759
what that was? It was like the heist movie with JK.

661
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:24.480
Simmons. He played like the southern genteel guy.

662
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:29.640
Oh yeah, what was that? I don't remember.

663
00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:32.519
The movie is escaping my mind right now, the title

664
00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:34.480
of it. I think that's the last time I saw

665
00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:36.559
him do a comedy though, right.

666
00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:39.319
Yeah, when was that thing you do? Because that was

667
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:40.559
kind of a comedy.

668
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:42.799
I guess that thing you do I would say was

669
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:44.240
probably ninety six.

670
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:45.400
Oh is that long ago?

671
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:48.119
Oh yeah, that's been a while. I would say that's

672
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:50.319
a I'd call that. I'd do comedy with.

673
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:53.880
That, Yeah, maybe, but it's been a while. Come on,

674
00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:56.400
that's what Danny Divito would be perfect to bring Tom

675
00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:57.960
Hanks back into his comedic roles.

676
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.039
Now you're putting him on the screen with Hanks is

677
00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:01.519
the question?

678
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:04.200
Mm, why not?

679
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:06.599
I don't see any reason not too.

680
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:09.079
Yeah, even if it's a small role for Danny DeVito,

681
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:11.960
I would like to see him on screen with Tom Hanks,

682
00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:16.360
because have they done anything together, you know, in a film.

683
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:20.719
It's weird because suspiciously, Tom Hanks has popped up in

684
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:23.519
our conversation a lot in this one. Yeah, but I

685
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:25.159
can't think of a movie where the two of them

686
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:25.679
were together.

687
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:28.480
And this is Billy and Crystal, Dandy Vito is their

688
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:29.639
only time they're on screen together.

689
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:30.599
This is their only time.

690
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:34.440
Yeah, absolutely, so, Yeah, I think you're right. I think,

691
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:37.639
you know, divida one thing that I'm now that I

692
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:41.239
think about. The thing that he excels at is playing

693
00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:45.840
opposite someone in a fun, comedic setting. You know, he's

694
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:49.960
got this with Billy Crystal. You got to talk about

695
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:55.480
twins with Arnold. Yep, Yeah, you're right, I could totally.

696
00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:58.000
I would definitely want to see him pair up with Hanks.

697
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.760
I don't know what the movie is, but yeah, no idea.

698
00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:03.119
I would. Uh, I'd be up for it. Absolute, let's

699
00:35:03.119 --> 00:35:03.280
do it.

700
00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:06.199
Let's get it together, all right, call the agents, make

701
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:06.679
it happen.

702
00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:10.559
Oh man, So I'll tell you if you're if you're

703
00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:14.199
looking for this film, it's actually free on the Pluto

704
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:17.519
app if you if you have that, uh, I know,

705
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:21.639
you can get it on Amazon, Apple, Voodoo, all those

706
00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:23.159
you're gonna pay a couple of bucks for it. I've

707
00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:25.559
got I've got the DVD that I bought like probably

708
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:30.000
twenty years ago, still still plays just fine. But for

709
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:32.280
those of you out there that that maybe haven't seen

710
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:37.559
this are intrigued by the Strangers on a Train situation, yeah,

711
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:38.519
check it out on Pluto.

712
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:41.320
It's totally worth a watch for sure. If you've never seen.

713
00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:42.440
It, absolutely it is.

714
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:46.360
I'll tell you what else is worth a worth a

715
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:50.400
listen or a watch or checking out the film by podcast.

716
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:54.800
Dave we are, we're streaming. We got all of our

717
00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.280
episodes available. You can go to www dot a.

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Film by podcast dot com to get all the episodes.

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If you want to reach out to us, that would

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be a Film by Podcast at gmail dot com. And

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for all of you on social media, you can reach

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out to us on Facebook and Twitter at a film Buy.

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We're always putting out information on the upcoming episodes.

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Well, thank you again, Dave, and to all of you listening,

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thank you. We'll see you next time.