A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

<v Speaker 1>Hello, and welcome to the All Eighties Movies podcast podcast,
<v Speaker 1>where we talked about the block listeners, love flocks, and
<v Speaker 1>everything in between from one of the freshest decades from
<v Speaker 1>movies for nineteen eighties. I'm host Bill Banton Long McBeal.
<v Speaker 1>This journey revisiting eighties movies is my co host Jason Massek. Hello, Jason, Bill.
<v Speaker 2>Don't ever, ever, ever call me stupid.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, listeners, we are discussing with spoilers of Plenty,
<v Speaker 1>the nineteen eighty eight comedy kper a fish called Wanda.
<v Speaker 1>It was produced and distributed by MGM. The movie stars
<v Speaker 1>John Cleasee, Jimmy Lee Curtis, Kevin Klein, and Michael Palin.
<v Speaker 1>Directed by Charles Crichton, this movie is rated R with
<v Speaker 1>the running time of one hour and forty eight minutes.
<v Speaker 1>The movie was nominated for three Oscars, for Best Writing,
<v Speaker 1>Screenplay Written directly for the screen, Best Director, and winning
<v Speaker 1>for Best Actor in the supporting role Kevin Klein. So
<v Speaker 1>what is this movie about? What's on the box? If
<v Speaker 1>you grew up in the nineteen eighties and went to
<v Speaker 1>your local video store to rent this movie, you would
<v Speaker 1>find this description on the back of the VHS box.
<v Speaker 1>It is What's on the box, Take it Away. Jason
<v Speaker 1>Jewel Thief. Wanda Gershwitz Jamie Lee Curtis is every Englishman's
<v Speaker 1>dream of the sexy American babe, brash, bright eyed and buxom.
<v Speaker 1>Barrister Archie Leech John Clees is the quintessential Englishman, polite,
<v Speaker 1>poised and nearly comatose. Under normal circumstances, they might never meet,
<v Speaker 1>but in a fish called Wanda, they're about to come
<v Speaker 1>crashing together in a hilarious clash of cultures. Kevin Klein
<v Speaker 1>and Michael palin Co star in this mad cap crime
<v Speaker 1>caper about a band of bumbling thieves who rip off
<v Speaker 1>a cash of diamonds from London's elegant jewelry district. The
<v Speaker 1>perfect heist soon turns into a perfect mess when the
<v Speaker 1>gang's double dealing ringleader, George, is arrested. What's more, he's
<v Speaker 1>hidden the diamonds and isn't telling where. That leaves Wanda
<v Speaker 1>with one option seduce George's lawyer. So she sets the
<v Speaker 1>bait and launches one of the wackiest deductions ever seen
<v Speaker 1>on the screen. Sink your hooks into this outrageous comedy
<v Speaker 1>written by Monty Python's John Plice and directed by Charles Crichton.
<v Speaker 1>A fish called Wanda, Fish called Wanda, So that was
<v Speaker 1>what's in the box? Jason? Do you remember when you
<v Speaker 1>first saw fish called Wanda? No, that's it, that's it.
<v Speaker 1>I don't.
<v Speaker 2>I just think I vaguely recall seeing it in the
<v Speaker 2>theater with the fam. I can't be totally sure. I
<v Speaker 2>only know I remember watching on a cable more than
<v Speaker 2>a few times as a kid, and I always thought
<v Speaker 2>it was funny, always looked forward to the parts with
<v Speaker 2>Kevin Klein. And although I always enjoyed the movie, I
<v Speaker 2>just I can't remember many specifics about it outside some
<v Speaker 2>of Klein's antics, including eating fish right out of the tank.
<v Speaker 2>So not a lot when it comes to the early
<v Speaker 2>memories for me. How about you, Bill Bant?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this was definitely a rental, and I remember my
<v Speaker 1>mom was rolling off the couch with Ken's attempts to
<v Speaker 1>kill the old lady expect the third one. She just
<v Speaker 1>lost it. Yeah, that always stands out to me. I
<v Speaker 1>don't remember hearing her laugh that hard, so that will
<v Speaker 1>always stick with me. That's memory I always have associated
<v Speaker 1>with this movie.
<v Speaker 2>That's fantastic because I also laughed out loud during those
<v Speaker 2>scenes during this revisit, so really looking forward to talking
<v Speaker 2>about it with you.
<v Speaker 1>Man. All right, let's talk about a fish called Wanda.
<v Speaker 1>So what are our impressions of this movie?
<v Speaker 2>Well, as I mentioned, you know, I was looking forward
<v Speaker 2>to seeing this again for you know, a lot of
<v Speaker 2>different reasons. It's been many, many years since I watched it.
<v Speaker 2>It's funny how it just kind of seemed to be
<v Speaker 2>under the radar. But my first impression is that I
<v Speaker 2>throw enjoy this movie, Bill, I just do. There is
<v Speaker 2>the nostalgic attachment of it, just the fact that I
<v Speaker 2>remember loving it so much as a kid that upon
<v Speaker 2>rewatching cable etc. On vhs, like you said you had
<v Speaker 2>rented it, no doubt I had rented it at some
<v Speaker 2>point as well. And I just laughed my butt off.
<v Speaker 2>That's all there is to it. So it was a
<v Speaker 2>little different watching this as an adult because my sensibilities
<v Speaker 2>have changed and my sense of humor is probably adjusted
<v Speaker 2>over time, there's no question. So some of the things
<v Speaker 2>I think I found funny as a kid during you know,
<v Speaker 2>whether it be like pratt Fall kind of comedy or
<v Speaker 2>physical comedy, versus the actual witty dialogue, et cetera. The
<v Speaker 2>kind of farcical nature of the film and things like that,
<v Speaker 2>all the hijinks. Some of it hit and some of
<v Speaker 2>it didn't for me. But overall, I don't want to
<v Speaker 2>come off overly nice about it or sound like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>it was just okay.
<v Speaker 1>It was really good.
<v Speaker 2>It's really well written and just a really easy watch,
<v Speaker 2>just a really fun watch.
<v Speaker 1>It's all say about that.
<v Speaker 2>What's your initial or first impression upon the revisit as
<v Speaker 2>an adult?
<v Speaker 1>So this is my big surprise watching this movie. So
<v Speaker 1>who to you was the standout character? And we have
<v Speaker 1>a lot of odd and bizarre characters in this movie.
<v Speaker 1>Who was the standout to you upon this rewatch? For me,
<v Speaker 1>the standout was Michael Palin. I think he's really really
<v Speaker 1>funny in this and now we can well, I have
<v Speaker 1>this written down. I wanted to discuss the stutter with
<v Speaker 1>you and how that hits you watching it today and
<v Speaker 1>maybe today's climate, et cetera. Sensitivity wise, I think you
<v Speaker 1>know what I'm talking about, but I appreciate what you know.
<v Speaker 2>What he was doing. He made me I couldn't keep
<v Speaker 2>my eyes off him every time he was on the
<v Speaker 2>screen because I think for me, Kevin Klein is a standout,
<v Speaker 2>no question, in the way of He's got a lot
<v Speaker 2>of the obvious funny parts. So I was already like
<v Speaker 2>predicting those and seeing those coming versus Michael Palin kind
<v Speaker 2>of surprised me a little more upon this watch.
<v Speaker 1>How about you, man, who was your standout? Jamie Lee Curtis.
<v Speaker 1>I love her. Yeah, I think this is my favorite
<v Speaker 1>movie with her in it because the premise of the movie,
<v Speaker 1>it's four people that are robbing diamonds and it's her
<v Speaker 1>and Auto, George and Ken. And then just the way
<v Speaker 1>she constantly manipulates everyone. Yep, I mean she has everyone
<v Speaker 1>eating out of the Palmer hand. And then John Clice's
<v Speaker 1>character Archie. Just the subtle things she would do in
<v Speaker 1>the movie when she goes to see Archie and she
<v Speaker 1>takes off her glasses and she blinks her eyes like
<v Speaker 1>she has a hard time seeing him, all those little
<v Speaker 1>nuanced things, or when Ken arrives at the flat and
<v Speaker 1>she pretends she's on the phone. She is just working
<v Speaker 1>these guys throughout the movie and none of them have
<v Speaker 1>any clue. I thought she was amazing. I couldn't believe
<v Speaker 1>how much I enjoyed her. I mean, Kevin Glyne won
<v Speaker 1>the Oscar for it, but I'm like, she almost should
<v Speaker 1>have gotten nominated, just how she manipulates everyone this movie.
<v Speaker 1>And she was just cracking me up anytime any of
<v Speaker 1>the characters are speaking foreign language, and she would just
<v Speaker 1>get all hot and bothered. That stuff was cracking me
<v Speaker 1>up too. I couldn't believe how much I liked her
<v Speaker 1>in this film.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I have to agree wholeheartedly. She is so
<v Speaker 2>good and so adorable. She plays the comedy very well,
<v Speaker 2>so there's a little bit of the overtop nature of it.
<v Speaker 2>But she's extremely seductive, man. I mean, she I got
<v Speaker 2>it hook line and sinker. And if she I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I would have been one of these poor SAPs that
<v Speaker 2>fell into her trap, you know, easily, easily, very sexy,
<v Speaker 2>and you would just fall prey completely. I mean, she's
<v Speaker 2>the femme fatale. And I was watching the end of
<v Speaker 2>this film just before we're recording here, and there's a
<v Speaker 2>moment where Archie played by John Cleese, has felt like
<v Speaker 2>he's been taken by her in a way. She's been duplicitous,
<v Speaker 2>of course, and she's playing games and being extremely manipulative,
<v Speaker 2>but he fell in love with her, and there's a
<v Speaker 2>moment where she says as much, and then she looks
<v Speaker 2>at him with these eyes where you can tell she's
<v Speaker 2>fallen in love with him too, despite all the fun
<v Speaker 2>back and forth and Hyjen since she's using everyone to
<v Speaker 2>her advantage and all these things throughout, at that end,
<v Speaker 2>she's extremely vulnerable and just so kind and warm, and
<v Speaker 2>you're just like, oh my god, I would melt in
<v Speaker 2>her arms. She's wonderful. The camera just loves her, so
<v Speaker 2>totally agree. I mean, you've almost switched me over to
<v Speaker 2>making her the standout for myself as well, because it's interesting.
<v Speaker 2>She is definitely the lead of the movie, but doesn't
<v Speaker 2>try as hard or too hard to overtake all the
<v Speaker 2>other male leads. She's not chewing the scenery as much.
<v Speaker 1>Right because I think watching this, because Hevin Klein got
<v Speaker 1>the oscar for it, my expectations are higher watching his
<v Speaker 1>character in this movie. The character is funny. I think
<v Speaker 1>for me, the most laugh out loud moments where him
<v Speaker 1>just kind of appearing out of nowhere every time Wanda
<v Speaker 1>and Archie were together or wanted Ken, like he just
<v Speaker 1>came out of nowhere. It wasn't so much the dialogue
<v Speaker 1>or his actions. It was more of just seeing the jealousy,
<v Speaker 1>always making sure Wanda wasn't doing something she wasn't supposed
<v Speaker 1>to be doing according to him. So I was kind
<v Speaker 1>of interested on like how did he win this award?
<v Speaker 1>Because I mean, he was really nominated for nothing else
<v Speaker 1>going into the Oscars, and I was trying to think, like,
<v Speaker 1>what did I see him in before? Like we discussed
<v Speaker 1>him in The Big Chill, But when you really look
<v Speaker 1>at his filmography up to that point, he really didn't
<v Speaker 1>do any comedy. I think was cry Freedom was the
<v Speaker 1>movie he did before this one came out. I think
<v Speaker 1>it was more of Surprise of the Switch. But when
<v Speaker 1>you think of Kevin Klein now all you think of
<v Speaker 1>is comedies. But he really started as a dramatic actor.
<v Speaker 1>It was given this opportunity, knocked it out of the
<v Speaker 1>park and got the oscar. Like I'm wondering if this,
<v Speaker 1>if this movie was made later in his career, if
<v Speaker 1>he would have won it, because he would have been
<v Speaker 1>known for doing comedy. So it's just like, oh, this
<v Speaker 1>is just another character.
<v Speaker 2>That's a great question. I could not answer that. I
<v Speaker 2>could tell you though that when I'm watching it now.
<v Speaker 2>He has a lot of the shtick, kind of physical comedy,
<v Speaker 2>and he has things that he comes back to. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I do love his vocal inflections at times. Some of
<v Speaker 2>my favorite lines are when he opens the safe initially
<v Speaker 2>and the jewels aren't inside, the diamonds aren't in there,
<v Speaker 2>and he's like, okay, okay, disappointed. Yes, I love that
<v Speaker 2>moment when he kind of hops up and then kicks
<v Speaker 2>the car in a jump. He's very nimble and he
<v Speaker 2>has a great physicality about him. He seems very athletic.
<v Speaker 2>He's in great shape, by the way, Yes, Or when
<v Speaker 2>he goes over to Archie's house to apologize to him
<v Speaker 2>because Wanda has insisted because otherwise the plan is going
<v Speaker 2>to fall apart and Otto pulls up in his car
<v Speaker 2>and he's like, oh, and he's practicing his apology and says, oh,
<v Speaker 2>I'm so very very very fuck youe I like. And
<v Speaker 2>of course when he returns the callback to don't call
<v Speaker 2>me stupid, don't call me stupid, and when he's smelling
<v Speaker 2>his armpit it's ridiculous. So those things are funny, but
<v Speaker 2>I also found like subtler moments different moments were funnier
<v Speaker 2>that like you did as well, when he would pop
<v Speaker 2>up at the most opportune moments, or just the faces
<v Speaker 2>he would make. One of my favorite moments is in
<v Speaker 2>the very beginning when George is laying out the plan
<v Speaker 2>for the heist and Otto, Kevin Klein is just staring
<v Speaker 2>right through him, and he's like, Otto, are you with us?
<v Speaker 2>And he's like, what, Yeah, it was the middle part.
<v Speaker 2>You know, that whole thing was the middle thing. Those
<v Speaker 2>dumb looks on his face are brilliant. So I was
<v Speaker 2>watching it and I found him extremely entertaining. However, I
<v Speaker 2>also was just going to ask you, DoD you think
<v Speaker 2>it was an Oscar worthy performance.
<v Speaker 1>I did look up who else was nominated, and of
<v Speaker 1>course now I can't remember who it was, and looking
<v Speaker 1>at the nominees there was no one. I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>you know what that person should have gotten. Instead, I
<v Speaker 1>didn't feel that way, and I apologize to the audience
<v Speaker 1>that I can't remember who the other nominees were. I really,
<v Speaker 1>do you think it was a surprise? It was just
<v Speaker 1>a surprise. To the academy is like, wait, Kevin Klein's
<v Speaker 1>doing great? What this is really funny? I like this,
<v Speaker 1>and it's good because comedic roles don't often get the accolades.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the recognition and the reward. Yeah, absolutely, No, it's
<v Speaker 2>a great point. And I wasn't asking the question as
<v Speaker 2>if I feel like he was unworthy. I just did
<v Speaker 2>find it a little surprising that he won, probably for
<v Speaker 2>the same reason because it is a comedic role. It's
<v Speaker 2>just something you wouldn't expect that it's as a surprise
<v Speaker 2>unto itself. And man, I am a fan of Kevin
<v Speaker 2>Klein for sure. I mean we covered the NHL on
<v Speaker 2>this pod. I'm a big fan of Silverado. That's one
<v Speaker 2>of my Western favorites. Dave.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I love you to death. Have you seen
<v Speaker 1>that with him? Yes, he's very busares that's a fun
<v Speaker 1>one too.
<v Speaker 2>That's a little that he's doing com Yeah yeah, but
<v Speaker 2>I mean he's been in some wonderful film, so he's
<v Speaker 2>a wonderful actor. Also, I just wanted to make another
<v Speaker 2>comment outside of like we're watching this movie and outside
<v Speaker 2>of committing the robbery alongside Ken and George, I was like,
<v Speaker 2>does I dono really serve any purpose in this movie whatsoever?
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he's assisting Wanda of course, in some ways,
<v Speaker 2>but he's really just a goof and a problem, and
<v Speaker 2>he's very discriminatory and violent.
<v Speaker 1>Throughout the whole thing, I was just question, yeah, he's
<v Speaker 1>a deterretor and how Yeah, And that was one of
<v Speaker 1>the questions, like how did Wanda and Auto get together?
<v Speaker 1>How did that happen? Why did Wanda thinks she needed
<v Speaker 1>to bring Auto in so she can end up with
<v Speaker 1>the diamonds for herself. That was a lingering question for
<v Speaker 1>me throughout, like how do we get to that point
<v Speaker 1>where the movie begins? How do Wanta be George? What's
<v Speaker 1>the living situation on the flat? Is it Ken, George,
<v Speaker 1>Rwanda all live there? I don't know. There was a
<v Speaker 1>lot of fun questions of how did we get to
<v Speaker 1>where the movie begins? That was definitely going through my
<v Speaker 1>mind throughout the movie. One thousand percent. I thought about that.
<v Speaker 2>I thought about writing down that as a note and
<v Speaker 2>I didn't, So I appreciate you bringing it up, because
<v Speaker 2>it just they throw you right into this scenario of
<v Speaker 2>this this heist team with Ken and George, who I
<v Speaker 2>don't know if they yet do they are they like
<v Speaker 2>flat mates? Are they living together? But obviously they're English?
<v Speaker 2>And then you bring in Wanda, who's very American, and
<v Speaker 2>the three of them have been planning this heist, and
<v Speaker 2>you get the sense or it's established that she has
<v Speaker 2>brought in her quote unquote brother Auto to help because
<v Speaker 2>they needed a quote unquote weapons man, a sharpshooter, and
<v Speaker 2>that's his ability, that's what he would bring to the team.
<v Speaker 2>But that's where literally starts. You're like, wait, how did
<v Speaker 2>this all come to be in the first place. You
<v Speaker 2>don't see the planning of the heist or anything like that.
<v Speaker 2>It's just like, it just is. You have to go
<v Speaker 2>with it, and this I wrote down as well as
<v Speaker 2>one of the ultimate just go with it movies, and
<v Speaker 2>to its credit, it worked for me. But as far
<v Speaker 2>as Auto's character goes, we do know that he's a
<v Speaker 2>talented like sharpshooter, but other than that, he's there to
<v Speaker 2>be this also intense and over the top like sexual
<v Speaker 2>partner for Wanda, which is part of the hilarity throughout
<v Speaker 2>because he's always spouting his Italian as you mentioned, whenever
<v Speaker 2>he does, that turns her on. So that was another
<v Speaker 2>thing I wanted to bring up with you, and it's
<v Speaker 2>just how did you feel about the overall tone of
<v Speaker 2>this film, because I think it's interesting watching this going
<v Speaker 2>not what is this movie?
<v Speaker 1>It's clearly a very.
<v Speaker 2>Much a comedy, but the tone can it gets very
<v Speaker 2>sexual at times. It's very over the top and farcical
<v Speaker 2>and high jinks and things like that, and the writing
<v Speaker 2>can get a little bit edgy at times. It can
<v Speaker 2>be very irreverent. So I didn't know how you felt
<v Speaker 2>about the tone.
<v Speaker 1>I think what I really liked about this movie is
<v Speaker 1>it is very character based. It's not a reference based comedy.
<v Speaker 1>I guess show this to my kids, and they're not
<v Speaker 1>going to be who what do they mean by that joke?
<v Speaker 1>Outside of they mentioned Margaret Thatcher once and that's it.
<v Speaker 1>You good, almost remake it today. We'll get into the
<v Speaker 1>Ken character, right, But there's a timelessness to this.
<v Speaker 2>That you're already answering another question.
<v Speaker 1>I think most of the comedy still works today. I
<v Speaker 1>think most of the story still works. You wouldn't have
<v Speaker 1>to change a lot if they had to remake it.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think. I think the big question would just
<v Speaker 1>be the Ken character, which I actually didn't have an
<v Speaker 1>issue with. I know we said we were going to
<v Speaker 1>get into it, might as well just get into it now. Absolutely,
<v Speaker 1>I don't feel like they were playing four laughs, even
<v Speaker 1>though there are funny moments. I always remember as a
<v Speaker 1>kid in grade school, I had a babysitter and she
<v Speaker 1>had a younger brother who had a really bad stuttering problem.
<v Speaker 1>And I remember him coming into our classroom one time
<v Speaker 1>to give a message to our teacher. He just couldn't
<v Speaker 1>get it out. He just started stuttering. Of course, the
<v Speaker 1>class started laughing. He walked out class was laughing again,
<v Speaker 1>and our teacher reamed us, we're not necessarily laughing at him.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's just the uncomfortableness of experience of that.
<v Speaker 1>It's like there's someone farts and you laugh, you know,
<v Speaker 1>It's just it's just it's just one of those things.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, Auto presses on him hard about the stuttering
<v Speaker 1>and kind of makes fun of it. Oh, he's awful
<v Speaker 1>about it.
<v Speaker 2>That's That's part of Auto's character as well. It's trying
<v Speaker 2>to but yeah, no, yeah, but he's a dick. Auto
<v Speaker 2>is a complete dick, and he's an asshole. So that's
<v Speaker 2>part of his character. And so you feel empathy for
<v Speaker 2>Ken obviously when you have this overbearing Auto that's just
<v Speaker 2>continually mocking his stutter. That's insensitive for sure, but it
<v Speaker 2>is also Auto's character.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but I like the way it was played where
<v Speaker 1>Ken Winn's stutter as much when he's around people he's
<v Speaker 1>comfortable with. Of course, when Auto it gets worse because
<v Speaker 1>he can't stand him, and then even with Archie because
<v Speaker 1>he's being pressured, it really comes out. I mean, I'll
<v Speaker 1>get into a little bit in the facts in trivia
<v Speaker 1>because supposedly Palin's father was a stutterer, So that's.
<v Speaker 2>I was just going, yeah, that's what I had written here,
<v Speaker 2>because Michael Palin is a sir. Apparently, Sir, Yes, Sir
<v Speaker 2>Michael Palin's father stuttered.
<v Speaker 1>So Palin used a lot of.
<v Speaker 2>His real life experience when playing Ken, including the fact
<v Speaker 2>that Ken's stutter is less pronounced around people he trusts
<v Speaker 2>like George and Wanda, and worse around people with whom
<v Speaker 2>he's uncomfortable, like Otto. So I thought that was interesting.
<v Speaker 1>And supposedly there was picketing outside the studio for it too,
<v Speaker 1>so people thought it was insensitive.
<v Speaker 2>And then afterward, I mean, Sir Michael Palin, he founded
<v Speaker 2>the London Center for Stammering Children after a group of
<v Speaker 2>stutterers confronted him regarding the sensitivity with which he dealt
<v Speaker 2>with Ken's handicap in this movie. So, yeah, there you go.
<v Speaker 2>So it was addressed at least, but I said that
<v Speaker 2>I felt Michael Palin's performance was the standout for me. Now,
<v Speaker 2>one little piece of inside was when I was acting
<v Speaker 2>class with Ken Lerner years ago, I performed a scene
<v Speaker 2>with a very talented actress named Sandy who was just wonderful.
<v Speaker 2>And it's a scene from a play called Three Days
<v Speaker 2>of Rain. And my character had a stutter. And it's
<v Speaker 2>not easy to play. You don't want to do it
<v Speaker 2>like a characterization of it. You don't want to knock
<v Speaker 2>it in any way. You want to make it as
<v Speaker 2>realistic as possible. But I had to get the memorize
<v Speaker 2>the lines and know where the stutters happened and things
<v Speaker 2>like that. And it was hard. It was hard, and
<v Speaker 2>it was emotional. It's a very emotional scenes of drama.
<v Speaker 2>It was not like a fish called Wanta at all
<v Speaker 2>in tone. But after having done that and gone through
<v Speaker 2>that performance, I just I'm watching Michael Palin and he's
<v Speaker 2>quite wonderful. His facial expressions and his comedic timing and
<v Speaker 2>the way he does. It's just funny and you can
<v Speaker 2>have fun with it. It doesn't have to be taken
<v Speaker 2>that seriously, don't ever. I didn't watch it thinking he
<v Speaker 2>was making fun of people that have a stutter. I
<v Speaker 2>just felt like his character has a severe stutter and
<v Speaker 2>it plays into the comedy of in the tone of
<v Speaker 2>the film and that scene at the end with Archie
<v Speaker 2>and Archie's trying to get the location of the diamonds
<v Speaker 2>out of him, and he's trying so hard. You feel
<v Speaker 2>terrible for him, but he's great. And speaking of I
<v Speaker 2>wanted to mention this too. I was watching It's just
<v Speaker 2>great the fact that John Cleese wrote this and that
<v Speaker 2>Michael Palin of course is in it, and we know
<v Speaker 2>both of them from Monty Python. And I grew up
<v Speaker 2>being a huge fan of Monty Python, especially the Holy
<v Speaker 2>Grail film, and I just wanted to mention this because
<v Speaker 2>they're great together Cleise and Michael Palin. And if you're
<v Speaker 2>a fan of Monty Python, you know this. But for
<v Speaker 2>those that haven't checked it out, go on YouTube and
<v Speaker 2>find look up Monty Python's Flying Circus and look up
<v Speaker 2>the episode Dead Parrot Classics. It is one of the
<v Speaker 2>all time classics, and you'll see it's quirky and it's weird,
<v Speaker 2>but it's funny.
<v Speaker 1>I just wanted to mention that I think you said
<v Speaker 1>it best with the Ken character. Palin does it mock stutters.
<v Speaker 1>That doesn't come across you empathize with Ken and his condition,
<v Speaker 1>especially during that scene when Archie's trying to get from him.
<v Speaker 1>Even I'm like, come on, you can say it. I'm
<v Speaker 1>rooting for him. Get the word out. I know you
<v Speaker 1>can do it. I never felt like I was laughing
<v Speaker 1>at him. I was laughing with him. Correct.
<v Speaker 2>This is why he was a standout for me, because
<v Speaker 2>on this one where he just to me, has some
<v Speaker 2>of the funniest moments, and some of them have nothing
<v Speaker 2>to do with his stutter. It's the way his character
<v Speaker 2>is written. He's a thief, but he's also an animal lover,
<v Speaker 2>and anytime bad things happen to animals, he's suffering. So
<v Speaker 2>then when he's not only as a thief and an
<v Speaker 2>animal lover, but he turns out to be a murderer
<v Speaker 2>as well, because George has him try to take out
<v Speaker 2>this old lady that was an eyewitness to seeing George
<v Speaker 2>in the escape vehicle. After the heist, and so now
<v Speaker 2>we have Ken Michael Palin trying to take out the
<v Speaker 2>old lady and instead of killing her, he ends up
<v Speaker 2>taking out her three adorable little Yorky dogs. And every
<v Speaker 2>time there was a cut to the funeral from one
<v Speaker 2>of the dogs, and you see Michael Paley in one
<v Speaker 2>of the trees because he's there like and so like
<v Speaker 2>depressed because he's a lover of all animals and by
<v Speaker 2>accident keeps killing animals. It's so ridiculous, and the look
<v Speaker 2>on his face, you just feel terrible for him. But
<v Speaker 2>the way he plays.
<v Speaker 1>It is funny and he's very talented, so that's why
<v Speaker 1>he was a standout for me. Yeah, and that was
<v Speaker 1>another thing I saw when I was looking at the
<v Speaker 1>kind of character that people with stutters. Animals are big help.
<v Speaker 1>They soothe, So that's why he's such an animal lover.
<v Speaker 1>And sure it's the fish. It helps him out. Yeah. Absolutely.
<v Speaker 2>I also wanted to mention one of my favorite comedians
<v Speaker 2>right now, happens to be a gentleman by the name
<v Speaker 2>of Drew Lynch. He is laugh out loud, he'll make
<v Speaker 2>you cry. I've seen him live at the ice House
<v Speaker 2>in Pasadena. He's amazing, and he got his start on
<v Speaker 2>America's Got Talent. So when he was very young. This
<v Speaker 2>is Drew Lynch I'm talking about. He went on the
<v Speaker 2>show and had the courage, and he had a very
<v Speaker 2>severe stutter and it was a result of an accident
<v Speaker 2>he had while playing softball, a brain injury, and he's
<v Speaker 2>overcome it. It's a wonderful story and he is dropped
<v Speaker 2>dead hilarious, absolutely hilarious, but he uses that as part
<v Speaker 2>of his comedy and you're empathetic and you're sympathetic, but
<v Speaker 2>he uses it to his advantage and it's wonderful and
<v Speaker 2>he's overcome it and it's a great story.
<v Speaker 1>So it just made me think of that.
<v Speaker 2>You don't have to look at it going, oh my god,
<v Speaker 2>he's making fun of people that have a stutter. It's
<v Speaker 2>a real thing, and you don't have to take it
<v Speaker 2>that seriously. If it's done in the correct way, you
<v Speaker 2>can find humor and everything. I think is my point,
<v Speaker 2>and that's what I get from Drew Lynch, and that's
<v Speaker 2>what I got from Michael Pellan's performance here.
<v Speaker 1>Another thing I really like about this movie being a comedy.
<v Speaker 1>One of the things we run into a lot with comedies,
<v Speaker 1>it's basically little skits that are just kind of put together,
<v Speaker 1>strung together. I mean, the big one for me I
<v Speaker 1>always think of first is National Landpin's Vacation. What I
<v Speaker 1>do like about this movie is every scene does set
<v Speaker 1>up the next scene, so that story really does move
<v Speaker 1>along throughout, like you can't take something out, whereas like
<v Speaker 1>you know, National Lampoons, you could take out a scene,
<v Speaker 1>it's not going to affect the overall movie, or is
<v Speaker 1>this one? I really like how something earlier on is
<v Speaker 1>going to set up something later on. That's pretty good
<v Speaker 1>writing for a comedy when you're really just trying to
<v Speaker 1>get as many jokes and setups as you can, but
<v Speaker 1>all this setups and jokes really are important to the
<v Speaker 1>plot itself. So I was really impressed with that solid script.
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't agree more. Just really solid script. Much much
<v Speaker 1>credit to both John CLEAs and Charles Crichton. And I
<v Speaker 1>wrote this whole thing here because it's interesting the way
<v Speaker 1>the film is structured, because it is a lot of
<v Speaker 1>the highjinks and you think, oh, this is going to
<v Speaker 1>be a heist film, but the entire second act, and
<v Speaker 1>this is what I wrote down, is that the middle
<v Speaker 1>half of the film, it's not a whole lot happening
<v Speaker 1>outside of the screen. Time is split between this one
<v Speaker 1>through line of Ken trying to take out the old
<v Speaker 1>lady with the dogs, and then the other half of
<v Speaker 1>it is Wanda trying to seduce Archie, and it becomes
<v Speaker 1>almost a relationship comedy. So the stars of the film
<v Speaker 1>become really become Wanda and Archie, and you're watching their
<v Speaker 1>relationship develop. And yes, obviously Otto is continuously forcing himself
<v Speaker 1>into the situation and interrupting.
<v Speaker 2>The whole middle half has not a whole lot to
<v Speaker 2>do with where's the location of the diamonds. It's a
<v Speaker 2>lot of trying to get the key back from in
<v Speaker 2>the locket, which is in the necklace and things necklace
<v Speaker 2>and things like that. But you're watching Archie fall in
<v Speaker 2>love with Wanda, and Wanda trying to manipulate these men
<v Speaker 2>to get what she wants, and they become the star.
<v Speaker 2>It's just it's great. Yeah, and then I'm like, oh, wow,
<v Speaker 2>there's forty minutes left in the movie. They still don't
<v Speaker 2>know where the loot is located, and you don't care.
<v Speaker 2>You're like, I'm just having fun watching these people interact
<v Speaker 2>and that's a lot of credit to the chemistry as well.
<v Speaker 2>Between Clice and Jamie Lee Curtis. I thought they were
<v Speaker 2>just great together. There's a lot of credit to Jamie
<v Speaker 2>Lee Curtis. Going back to what you were saying Bill initially,
<v Speaker 2>why she isn't standout as well is that she has
<v Speaker 2>literally has chemistry with everybody. I mean, and she literally
<v Speaker 2>makes out with everybody in the film. But she's great
<v Speaker 2>with Michael Palin, she's great with Clease, she's great with
<v Speaker 2>Kevin Klein, all of them.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I feel it's very character driven comedy, and there
<v Speaker 1>are many arcs for everyone. Here's Archie kind of a
<v Speaker 1>snotty bureaucrat, and now he finds a girl to fall
<v Speaker 1>in love with, and let's loose and enduring life now,
<v Speaker 1>and you had Jamie Lee Curtis's character as Wanda, who's
<v Speaker 1>just trying to use men to get to an end,
<v Speaker 1>and oh wait a second, she might actually be falling
<v Speaker 1>in love with one of these gentlemen.
<v Speaker 2>It's really smartly written. They find the funny in all
<v Speaker 2>these things, but it still stays light on its feet.
<v Speaker 2>It never gets too heavy. Going back to that whole
<v Speaker 2>thing with between Ken trying to take out the old
<v Speaker 2>lady and he kills the dogs instead. It's oh, hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>I just got the fact that he's so upset and depressed,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and mad at himself when he ends up
<v Speaker 2>killing the dogs because he loves animals. And then finally,
<v Speaker 2>when the old lady has a heart attack and dies,
<v Speaker 2>you don't feel too bad for the lady because they
<v Speaker 2>positioned her and this is smart writing is kind of
<v Speaker 2>an old bitch, so you're like, Okay, as an audience member,
<v Speaker 2>you're like, I'm not too upset that she died. And
<v Speaker 2>then second of all, then you have Ken coming to
<v Speaker 2>the scene of the crime, and yes, he's upset about
<v Speaker 2>the dead dog, but it just starts laughing out loud
<v Speaker 2>and is like thrilled that he accomplished this thing and
<v Speaker 2>that he killed the old lady, and everybody's looking at
<v Speaker 2>him like why are you laughing? Yeah, And it's brilliant.
<v Speaker 2>That's really I think that's very smart.
<v Speaker 1>Even the dog's dying, which you know, we're like, we
<v Speaker 1>don't like to see animal deaths, but it is funny.
<v Speaker 1>Like the Doberman. You obviously see the doberman has a
<v Speaker 1>fake dog in its mouth, it's stuffed animal in his mouth. Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 1>you know that's not really the dog, so I thought
<v Speaker 1>that was it.
<v Speaker 2>He runs over the second dog and you see the
<v Speaker 2>dog flattened on the st but there's no blood.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's just a stuffed animal that smushed. You know.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, yeah, it's like.
<v Speaker 2>The Wiley coyote with the tire marks on it exactly.
<v Speaker 2>I was going to ask you real quick the fact
<v Speaker 2>that this movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and
<v Speaker 2>I started the movie going, wait a minute, who directed this.
<v Speaker 2>I had no familiarity with Charles Crichton at all. I
<v Speaker 2>know he's known for films like from the fifties. He
<v Speaker 2>was already eighty something when they when he directed this,
<v Speaker 2>or was he in his late late seventies. But he
<v Speaker 2>was known for films back in the fifties like Dead
<v Speaker 2>of Night, The Stranger in Between, and The Lavender Hill Mob.
<v Speaker 2>And I know you're a fan of classic cinema, Bill,
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know if you were familiar with any of
<v Speaker 2>his work.
<v Speaker 1>And I had to go back and look at this filmography.
<v Speaker 1>I had not seen anything that he's done before. I
<v Speaker 1>thought maybe I saw one of them, but No, this
<v Speaker 1>is the only thing I've seen of his. Yeah, in
<v Speaker 1>the Lavender mom interested alec Ginness, So I was kind
<v Speaker 1>of surprised. I hadn't seen that one. Yeah, and they
<v Speaker 1>do reference that in this movie because in the plot
<v Speaker 1>of the Lavender Mob is they steal this gold, and
<v Speaker 1>what they do is they mold the gold into shapes
<v Speaker 1>of the Eiffel Tower. And if you look in George's
<v Speaker 1>flat or whoever owns that flat, there's an Eiffel tower,
<v Speaker 1>a little miniature Eiffel tower in the flat somewhere. Got it.
<v Speaker 1>That's great.
<v Speaker 2>Well, that's really all the commentary I have for now.
<v Speaker 2>I was just gonna do a little wrap up here
<v Speaker 2>with some just final thoughts about this revisit. I didn't
<v Speaker 2>know if you wanted to touch on any other particular point, now,
<v Speaker 2>go for it.
<v Speaker 1>We just touched on.
<v Speaker 2>All the performances, which are all great, the fact that
<v Speaker 2>this film is still it's under two hours, great running time,
<v Speaker 2>smartly crafted written.
<v Speaker 1>Is it as funny as I remember? Not quite, but
<v Speaker 1>it was just as enjoyable. I just found different things
<v Speaker 1>funny and I didn't have to laugh out loud. It
<v Speaker 1>was just I like this movie. I love movies.
<v Speaker 2>It makes me love comedies, and I missed these types
<v Speaker 2>of comedies. I was gonna even ask you if you
<v Speaker 2>think like these kind of quirky sexual romps, irreverent, farcical,
<v Speaker 2>hidick if these comedies are ever going to make a comeback.
<v Speaker 2>I really miss these smartly written, less than two hours
<v Speaker 2>long type of comedies. I found it very enjoyable. I'm
<v Speaker 2>glad we got to watch it again.
<v Speaker 1>You're right, we don't see this type of comedy anymore.
<v Speaker 1>Everything's got to be a parody, everything's got to be
<v Speaker 1>a reference to something else. Almost feels timeless. Yeah, it's
<v Speaker 1>a great point, and the themes still are irrelevant today.
<v Speaker 1>And you really wouldn't miss that much outside of how
<v Speaker 1>come none of them have cell phones? You're not missing much.
<v Speaker 1>I think it holds up really well. It's a great,
<v Speaker 1>just go with it type of movie. It's over the top, ridiculous, silly.
<v Speaker 1>It's very charming. And when I say over the top,
<v Speaker 1>by the way, I have to know, the whole ending
<v Speaker 1>is completely ridiculous, and it's a blast, and that's a
<v Speaker 1>testament to how it's done. It's like, I don't care.
<v Speaker 1>I had a great time watching this and I'm having fun. There.
<v Speaker 1>You go, trying to move on to favorite scenes or moments.
<v Speaker 1>What are some of the favorite scenes or moments from
<v Speaker 1>this movie? And I will start and this is definitely
<v Speaker 1>not a scene I would have picked when I first
<v Speaker 1>saw this movie oh so long ago, but I guess
<v Speaker 1>being an adult being married myself, watching this scene just
<v Speaker 1>made me laugh out loud. And that's the scene where
<v Speaker 1>we see Archie and his wife Wendy are going to bed,
<v Speaker 1>and it's intercut with Otto and Wanda getting it on.
<v Speaker 1>And this was just making me laugh because here you
<v Speaker 1>have Weddy and Archie. They're literally sleeping in separate beds,
<v Speaker 1>barely talking to each other, doing their thing. Archie's cutting
<v Speaker 1>his toenails, scratching his bald head while Wanda and Outo
<v Speaker 1>are going at it crazy. Just a great back and forth.
<v Speaker 1>I thought it was really funny.
<v Speaker 2>Again, really smart writing. As soon as they started doing
<v Speaker 2>that compare and contrast as to you know, this very
<v Speaker 2>proper English couple, and this is how they prepare for bed,
<v Speaker 2>and there is no real attraction between them or any like,
<v Speaker 2>there's no sexual occurring there versus this kind of hot
<v Speaker 2>romance that is happening between Otto and Wanda. It's really
<v Speaker 2>really funny and Kevin Klein and this part is really great,
<v Speaker 2>the spouting of the Italian throughout, and I think there's
<v Speaker 2>some things, well, I know there's some stuff in the
<v Speaker 2>behind the scenes and the trivia where initially Kevin Klein
<v Speaker 2>didn't want to be speaking Italian, but I think John
<v Speaker 2>Cleese or krit and they insisted that he do the Italian.
<v Speaker 2>I think he wanted to speak I don't know if
<v Speaker 2>it was Spanish or French.
<v Speaker 1>But French, because he's fluent in French. Oh that's it, sorry,
<v Speaker 1>thank you. Yeah, so it was French, but he's doing
<v Speaker 1>the Italian bit. So he's just spouting random Italian words
<v Speaker 1>and it makes Jamie the Curz hot and bothered. So
<v Speaker 1>during that sex scene, then when he's on top of
<v Speaker 1>her and they're going to town and he actually ran
<v Speaker 1>out of Italian words to say, then he just starts
<v Speaker 1>singing volare and it was just totally improvised because they
<v Speaker 1>just he was doing great and they didn't want to cut.
<v Speaker 1>And then that moment, of course when he looks up
<v Speaker 1>when he's coming to fruition as you would say, and
<v Speaker 1>you see his expression change, it is pretty damn funny.
<v Speaker 1>And in the behind the scenes of that as well
<v Speaker 1>as I guess Jamie Lee Curtis had to bury her
<v Speaker 1>face in the pillow because to stop from laughing every
<v Speaker 1>time he did that rooting takes So it's a nice
<v Speaker 1>period on the scene there.
<v Speaker 2>It's fun stuff. What do you got a little more
<v Speaker 2>of Auto and Kevin Klein. There's a part of the
<v Speaker 2>movie where George is, you know, going to be on
<v Speaker 2>trial here he got nabbed by the cops and gonna
<v Speaker 2>be on trial for this this heist, for stealing these diamonds.
<v Speaker 2>And during this corpse scene, he hands a piece of
<v Speaker 2>paper to Ken, partner in crime, that has the address
<v Speaker 2>of the old lady who is the eyewitness to seeing
<v Speaker 2>George in the escape car with the rest of them
<v Speaker 2>as they were getting away from the heist. So George
<v Speaker 2>wants Ken to take out the old lady, the eyewitness,
<v Speaker 2>and then the case will fall apart and George will
<v Speaker 2>be set free. So outo Witnes. And this is this exchange.
<v Speaker 2>There's a little piece of paper being given over to
<v Speaker 2>Ken and follows him outside the court and just gets
<v Speaker 2>into his face and is so loud, and there's all
<v Speaker 2>these people walking around, and I just think this is
<v Speaker 2>hilarious because already it's been established that he has come
<v Speaker 2>on to Ken and made a sexual advance and is
<v Speaker 2>pretending to be gay, and Ken is not really accepting
<v Speaker 2>his advances. So Otto just comes at him in a
<v Speaker 2>very intimidating nature and there's a little back and forth
<v Speaker 2>that's funny because he Goto's saying to Ken. He's like,
<v Speaker 2>I don't think you have the guts the balls to
<v Speaker 2>take out this old lady. I'll give you I'll make
<v Speaker 2>you a bet. I'll give you a pound if you
<v Speaker 2>kill her. And he's just saying this in the middle
<v Speaker 2>of public and right in front of the courthouse, and
<v Speaker 2>Ken says, what's so funny, and Otto says nothing is
<v Speaker 2>just that wasting old ladies isn't nice. And Ken's like, well,
<v Speaker 2>it's better than buggering people. And Otto says, I'll bet
<v Speaker 2>you a pound if you don't kill her, and kid
<v Speaker 2>says all right and walks off, and Auto's yelling after him, saying,
<v Speaker 2>all right, I I love watching your ass when you walk.
<v Speaker 1>Is that beautiful?
<v Speaker 3>Or what?
<v Speaker 2>Don't go near him? He's mine a pound, says you
<v Speaker 2>won't kill her and he's yelling at Adams. He's walking
<v Speaker 2>down the sidewalk, and I was wondering, because I'm watching
<v Speaker 2>all these extras, the people walking around the background, they
<v Speaker 2>were kind of were looking at Kevin Klein and Michael
<v Speaker 2>Palin as if they weren't really extras. They were actually
<v Speaker 2>just bystanders walking by, which made it feel very natural.
<v Speaker 2>That just tickled me. I was laughing out loud when
<v Speaker 2>Otto's just yelling at him, don't go near him, he's mine.
<v Speaker 1>Just how brazen auto is that? The fact they're having
<v Speaker 1>this conversation right outside the court room where anyone could hear. Wait,
<v Speaker 1>what it's going to kill someone? What? Yep, it is
<v Speaker 1>pretty funny where it's happening. I think the next favorite scene,
<v Speaker 1>I think we're both in agreement, and that's the first
<v Speaker 1>time that Wanda appears at Archie's house right uninvite it.
<v Speaker 1>And this is because Archie is George's lawyer or barrister
<v Speaker 1>what do they call it. And Wanda's plan is to
<v Speaker 1>try to get information out of Archie to find out
<v Speaker 1>where the diamonds have been hidden because when they initially
<v Speaker 1>did the robbery, they put him in a safe they
<v Speaker 1>got moved no one knows where they are except for
<v Speaker 1>George and possibly Ken, so she's trying to use Archie
<v Speaker 1>to get that information. There's just a lot of hijinks
<v Speaker 1>because here we have Auto. He's not happy about this
<v Speaker 1>plan because Wanda basically says, if I'd need to seduce them,
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to seduce them, and Auto's basically do touchy,
<v Speaker 1>no touchy. And then he's outside the house and he
<v Speaker 1>hears them getting flirty, and he comes in. And then
<v Speaker 1>Archie's wife is supposed to be out in an opera,
<v Speaker 1>but the car breaks down, so they come home early.
<v Speaker 1>And then if you're a fan of Faulty Towers, which
<v Speaker 1>John Cleese did twelve episodes, I used to watch them
<v Speaker 1>all the time on PBS. One of the funniest shows
<v Speaker 1>of all time. He almost reverts back to that Basil
<v Speaker 1>Faulty character where he goes to get champagne and comes
<v Speaker 1>back thinking he's bringing it to Wanda and his wife's
<v Speaker 1>sitting there, and he has that quick freak out, and
<v Speaker 1>of course he's trying to find out where Wanda is,
<v Speaker 1>and then Auto's in the house and Auto pops out
<v Speaker 1>out of nowhere. There's just so many things are happening
<v Speaker 1>at once, and it's all really funny. It's definitely one
<v Speaker 1>of the memorable and funniest scenes in the movie.
<v Speaker 2>This is really the farcical scene that is wonderful. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>there's a couple, but this is this one stands out
<v Speaker 2>for sure. I chose it as well. Hey man, Jamie
<v Speaker 2>the Curtis again, she comes in. I love the fact
<v Speaker 2>that they break in. Otto picks the lock and she
<v Speaker 2>breaks into the house. But she surprises Archie obviously, she
<v Speaker 2>just walks into the study or the living room wherever
<v Speaker 2>it is, and Archie is surprised to see her, but
<v Speaker 2>immediately all is forgiven, doesn't ask her, hey, you just
<v Speaker 2>broke into my home. It's like, she just looks amazing
<v Speaker 2>in that black dress, and she's very seductive, so she
<v Speaker 2>looks fantast but his I laughed as soon as Auto
<v Speaker 2>shows up and he's standing behind the door, and every
<v Speaker 2>time John Cleese screams out loud and somehow makes it work. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, that's always hilarious in comedies because obviously something's
<v Speaker 2>very wrong and you would think the other character would
<v Speaker 2>be like, why are you screaming? But it's really funny.
<v Speaker 2>John Clees when he's scrambling trying to come up with excuses,
<v Speaker 2>and it's like, yeah, no, no, let's we should celebrate.
<v Speaker 2>Let's have shimpei. You know what, we should go to
<v Speaker 2>the pub. Let's all go to the pub. It's just
<v Speaker 2>great stuff. And then the you know, the door swings
<v Speaker 2>open and he thinks Jamie the Curnis is behind it
<v Speaker 2>and he just yells aha, and she's not there. Of course,
<v Speaker 2>she's climing behind the couch. It's fantastic, the whole bit
<v Speaker 2>with Otto distracting Archie's wife Wendy saying that he's a
<v Speaker 2>CIA agent and that the a KGB defector in custody.
<v Speaker 2>That story is ridiculous and none of it makes sense,
<v Speaker 2>but you just go with it and somehow it all works.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. There's a moment between there exchange when Otto makes
<v Speaker 1>up a fake name. He's like, mister wandersin nny fletch Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and then Wendy addresses him and says the name like Boom,
<v Speaker 1>exactly as how he was supposed to be. Said. That
<v Speaker 1>made me chuckol. I'm like, oh, yes, all right, she's
<v Speaker 1>on points, she's really paying attention. I like that we
<v Speaker 1>should give her a quick shout out.
<v Speaker 2>Actually, that's a Maria Aitken, who played Wendy John Cleys's
<v Speaker 2>wife in the film.
<v Speaker 1>She's quite good.
<v Speaker 2>She's very unlikable, very British, very English, very proper and
<v Speaker 2>very rude, and very good at it.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I do enjoy her. Another favorite scene that I
<v Speaker 1>like is the apology. And this is the first apology.
<v Speaker 1>This is the apology coming from Archie's character. And it's
<v Speaker 1>a memorable scene where Otto is literally hanging Archie out
<v Speaker 1>the window of the flat that he's borrowing, and the
<v Speaker 1>apology itself just made me laugh. It's not so much
<v Speaker 1>he's hanging out the window, but just what he said,
<v Speaker 1>and I had to write it down. It's just so
<v Speaker 1>over the time because he has to make sure that
<v Speaker 1>Auto understands that he is sorry, and he says, I
<v Speaker 1>offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally
<v Speaker 1>without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment,
<v Speaker 1>and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret
<v Speaker 1>any distress that my comment may have caused. You are
<v Speaker 1>your family, and I hear my undertake not to repeat
<v Speaker 1>any such slander at any time in the future. And
<v Speaker 1>of course he is saying this upside down four stories
<v Speaker 1>high above I think the Thames River. That just made
<v Speaker 1>me laugh.
<v Speaker 2>It is awesome. He says it so well. I love
<v Speaker 2>the fact that he's hanging out the window and he
<v Speaker 2>has his arms straight by his side. They're not like
<v Speaker 2>falling down. That's just so English in that moment, even
<v Speaker 2>though he's hanging upside down outside a window and rattles
<v Speaker 2>off a whole paragraph of an apology with perfect diction,
<v Speaker 2>and then it just it kind of surprises Otto actually,
<v Speaker 2>he's like, oh, yeah, okay, pretty good. It's great. I
<v Speaker 2>love that you chose that. That's fantastic. Moving on to
<v Speaker 2>my last favorite scene is the final courtroom scene. So
<v Speaker 2>we know that, as Bill's mentioned here that Archie is
<v Speaker 2>the barrister for George. He is the defense lawyer for George,
<v Speaker 2>and there really isn't much case against George being the
<v Speaker 2>ring leader of this heist because all they have basically
<v Speaker 2>is the fact that there was an eye witness, this
<v Speaker 2>old lady that saw him in the getaway car. And
<v Speaker 2>then on top of that, what's going to help George
<v Speaker 2>is the fact that Wanda is his alibi, so she's
<v Speaker 2>going to testify it on George's behalf and say that
<v Speaker 2>she was with him. He was with her at his
<v Speaker 2>flat during the time of the heist. So cut to
<v Speaker 2>this final courtroom scene and you have Archie questioning Wanda,
<v Speaker 2>and Wanda ends up throwing Archie for a real curve
<v Speaker 2>because we think she's going to testify in George's behalf,
<v Speaker 2>but instead incriminates George by saying he left the flat
<v Speaker 2>with a sowd off shotgun with plenty of time to
<v Speaker 2>get to the heist, and this clearly throws Archie off
<v Speaker 2>his game. So when when Wanda says she was there
<v Speaker 2>with Ken, not George, immediately John Cleese is like Wanda,
<v Speaker 2>which is totally inappropriate and establishes the fact that he
<v Speaker 2>clearly knows Wanda socially and everybody knows it, and he
<v Speaker 2>tries to cover his tracks. So this is all about
<v Speaker 2>John Cleese in the scene when he says Wanda and
<v Speaker 2>then has to cover it by saying, Wanda, Wanda, I wonder,
<v Speaker 2>I wonder, Wanda, wender wonder, and he just keeps stuttering.
<v Speaker 2>And then when Wanda of course goes on to say, yes,
<v Speaker 2>George had a sawt off shotgun and he left the
<v Speaker 2>flat et cetera. Well, now he's really scrambling. He manages
<v Speaker 2>to look up to the upper level of the courtroom
<v Speaker 2>where he sees his wife, and he can see that
<v Speaker 2>his wife, Wendy, knows clearly that he's had this ongoing
<v Speaker 2>relationship with Wanda, so that's not good. And then he
<v Speaker 2>even continues to stutter by saying Wendy when Wendy, Wanda wonder,
<v Speaker 2>And it just keeps going and he keeps bearying himself.
<v Speaker 2>It's just really fun again to watch John Cleese do
<v Speaker 2>his thing, that's his stick when he has to scramble.
<v Speaker 2>It's really really fun to watch, and he's a real
<v Speaker 2>talent with that sort of thing. And of course, the
<v Speaker 2>whole courtroom scene then devolves and George ends up jumping
<v Speaker 2>over the railing and coming after both Wanda and Archie,
<v Speaker 2>and the whole courtroom just falls apart. Everybody starts fighting
<v Speaker 2>and then everybody runs out and it's just a big mess.
<v Speaker 2>But I just love that final scene for the Wanda
<v Speaker 2>Wendy Wendy Wanda Wonder, I wonder.
<v Speaker 1>That's all I love. That's the best John Cleese being
<v Speaker 1>John Cleese. Yep, that's it. Okay, let's move on. To
<v Speaker 1>Swiss Cheese and complaints apartment. And why do we call Swiss.
<v Speaker 2>Cheese because although this movie is delicious, it does have
<v Speaker 2>Auto's silence or holes.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, if it doesn't have Auto's silence or holes, we
<v Speaker 1>just file a complaint with the complaint department. So, Jason,
<v Speaker 1>have any Swiss Teezer complaints?
<v Speaker 2>So here I have a question, and it is, I
<v Speaker 2>mean a complaint question for you, Bill. Why did the
<v Speaker 2>cops bring in the old lady missus Cody is her name.
<v Speaker 2>I believe as an eyewitness to George fleeing the scene
<v Speaker 2>in the getaway car. It was jarring in the moment.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, wait, why did they bring her in?
<v Speaker 2>Because we know that the cops were obviously called to
<v Speaker 2>George's house right after the robbery, because Wanda and Otto
<v Speaker 2>called the cops on him because it's a double cross. Great,
<v Speaker 2>so they show up, they arrest him. But how would
<v Speaker 2>the cops know there was an eyewitness who saw George
<v Speaker 2>fleeing the scene because Wanda or Auto neither of them
<v Speaker 2>told the cops. Did they when they snitched on it?
<v Speaker 1>Now? I'm just assuming it was good police work and
<v Speaker 1>they were just questioning people in the area. And if
<v Speaker 1>they saw anything unusual, and the lady might have said, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>someone was hit me with a car. Right. It was
<v Speaker 1>just a good actual police work, all right, good.
<v Speaker 2>Enough, don't need over It was just as soon as
<v Speaker 2>she showed up and was looking at the lineup of
<v Speaker 2>all the guys and had to pick out George, I
<v Speaker 2>was like, wait, how did she get here? Why would
<v Speaker 2>they how did they find her? Overthinking what do you
<v Speaker 2>have for complaints?
<v Speaker 1>Question? This is a cheese moment. I think I think
<v Speaker 1>it might qualify as the cheese One of the favorite
<v Speaker 1>scenes we mentioned is when Wanda shows up at Archie's
<v Speaker 1>house for the first time and she loses her locket,
<v Speaker 1>and in her locket is actually a key to the
<v Speaker 1>safety's deposit box where the diamonds are now hidden. One
<v Speaker 1>has no idea where the diamonds are, but she at
<v Speaker 1>least has the key to get to them if she
<v Speaker 1>ever finds out. Right, well, she drops it. Archie's daughter
<v Speaker 1>picks it up and unfortunately has to give it to Wendy,
<v Speaker 1>who Wendy now thinks it's a gift. Right, So now
<v Speaker 1>she has this locket. She loves this locket. Archie never
<v Speaker 1>gives her anything this nice. Well, the key is still
<v Speaker 1>in the locket. It's a locket. How does Wendy never
<v Speaker 1>open the locket and accidentally find the key? Great question,
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't that be one of the first things you would do,
<v Speaker 1>because you would think like, oh, maybe there's a picture
<v Speaker 1>in here.
<v Speaker 2>One thousand percent, anytime I've ever held a locket in
<v Speaker 2>my hand, the first thing I do is open it.
<v Speaker 2>You want to see what's inside, yeah, or you want
<v Speaker 2>to put something inside it.
<v Speaker 1>So either way, so she's had it for at least
<v Speaker 1>two days and she never opened it. Yeah, key, And
<v Speaker 1>first I was like, well, maybe they would have trouble
<v Speaker 1>writing around that, but I think it could still have
<v Speaker 1>her open it and find it and it would still work.
<v Speaker 2>Well, funny enough, because I'm going to take it one further.
<v Speaker 2>I wrote a whole thing dealing with this very same subject.
<v Speaker 1>Build banks.
<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, absolutely, so yeah, I wrote, let's after Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the Hyjen said Archie's house. Wendy is in possession of
<v Speaker 2>the necklace. Right, So here's the thing that I was like,
<v Speaker 2>why doesn't either want to end or Archie make it
<v Speaker 2>simple on themselves and just tell her there's a key
<v Speaker 2>in it. That's how they could get it back. Because
<v Speaker 2>Archie comes up with a story to try to get
<v Speaker 2>the lockett slash necklace back from his wife Wendy. He says, right,
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't. An old woman had it engraved and it
<v Speaker 2>happened to be in the case at the store, and
<v Speaker 2>by accident they sold him that particular neck Now the
<v Speaker 2>lady wants it back, which is a good story. So
<v Speaker 2>why wouldn't he just go one step further and say
<v Speaker 2>there's a key in it that the old lady needs,
<v Speaker 2>it belongs to her, and then Wendy could keep the necklace.
<v Speaker 2>But at least Archie would get the key back to
<v Speaker 2>give to Wanda. Does that make sense? One hundred percent?
<v Speaker 2>Love it, like, use it as part of the story.
<v Speaker 2>Just go with it and be like, Okay, Wendy, my love,
<v Speaker 2>you can keep that. It's just that this old lady,
<v Speaker 2>she had the key in the is in the locket
<v Speaker 2>and I need she needs it for her own purposes,
<v Speaker 2>so I got to get it back. And Wendy would
<v Speaker 2>be like, yeah, what do I need the key for.
<v Speaker 2>Here's the key, and now Wanda's got the key back.
<v Speaker 1>Done.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So that was there was a little there's a
<v Speaker 2>little problem with it.
<v Speaker 1>There is another great moment though, with Jamie Lee Curtis,
<v Speaker 1>when Archie tries to present her another Lockett. It's like,
<v Speaker 1>why do you need that one? And she almost breaks
<v Speaker 1>my mother gave that to me. Her reaction, there you
<v Speaker 1>go on the spot, Yep, came up with a good story.
<v Speaker 1>That's gonna gill Archie to do what he can to
<v Speaker 1>get that lockette back there. Right.
<v Speaker 2>I just felt so bad for Archie because it seems
<v Speaker 2>like every time he was so close to having sex
<v Speaker 2>with Wanda, something always came up. Whether it was Otto,
<v Speaker 2>or it's the Lockett or something was there's always some
<v Speaker 2>sort of diversion. But that moment when he's dancing around
<v Speaker 2>naked in that freaking that loft or that his friend's
<v Speaker 2>place and then the family walks in is priceless. Easily
<v Speaker 2>could have put that in one of my favorite scenes.
<v Speaker 1>Actually, that was the scene they always showed even when
<v Speaker 1>we go to review as ciscol Indeaver, that was one
<v Speaker 1>of the scenes that they had showed him dancing around Nick,
<v Speaker 1>which I was kind of surprised. I was like, wow,
<v Speaker 1>they almost he gets very naked. Yeah, he gets very
<v Speaker 1>naked and he looks great, He's in great shape. I'm like, damn,
<v Speaker 1>John Cleese is looking good too. Everybody looks great in
<v Speaker 1>this movie. But the fact that then the whole family
<v Speaker 1>with the kids walks in and they're like, we leased
<v Speaker 1>this apartment from the guy. And he's like, oh, that's
<v Speaker 1>a good point. And he has the woman's picture in
<v Speaker 1>front of his crotch, and then they start having like
<v Speaker 1>an almost normal conversation Yep, while he's standing there buck naked.
<v Speaker 1>It's really funny. And that look on Cleese's face, Man,
<v Speaker 1>he's so good. So I think they missed an opportunity
<v Speaker 1>though with the picture. First I don't understand is like,
<v Speaker 1>why is it the picture of the wife? She doesn't
<v Speaker 1>live there. When you go on vacation, bring your pictures
<v Speaker 1>with you to put around the house that you're staying at.
<v Speaker 1>I was like, Oh, it'd have been funny if they
<v Speaker 1>had something, if you grab some sort of picture that
<v Speaker 1>represented what he was covering, that would have played it
<v Speaker 1>better off for laughs than having the wife instead.
<v Speaker 2>That was just myint thought. I also thought one thing
<v Speaker 2>that was interesting. What I was thinking about during that
<v Speaker 2>scene is that he is enduring this embarrassment standing their
<v Speaker 2>naked with the woman's photo in front of his crotch,
<v Speaker 2>and they're having this conversation and it never cuts to
<v Speaker 2>Wanda because Wanda's upstairs.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, what is she doing during that whole time? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>How does she get out? Exactly? That was my question?
<v Speaker 1>How then did she get out of there?
<v Speaker 2>Yeaph Anyway, I guess we just added another favorite scene,
<v Speaker 2>didn't we.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe, Yeah, here's a complain So Archie runs off with
<v Speaker 1>Wanda at the end, see you later. Porsche, don't care
<v Speaker 1>give crap about my daughter, who in actuality was his
<v Speaker 1>real life daughter. So that's maybe a double whammy right there.
<v Speaker 1>I could see why he left his wife, that's right,
<v Speaker 1>because he's in the middle of divorce. But your daughter goodbye.
<v Speaker 1>And I know they kind of try to play her
<v Speaker 1>off as a little bratty in this, but no, there's
<v Speaker 1>nothing right that bad about her because she's a typical teenager.
<v Speaker 1>You know what. That's wonderful, Bill.
<v Speaker 2>I'm glad you'd picked up on that because I totally
<v Speaker 2>forgot about it. Maybe that character wasn't that memorable. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know, but that's a great call. He's abandoning his daughter,
<v Speaker 2>and yes, his daughter, Porsche was played by his real
<v Speaker 2>life daughter Cynthia. Please that's a great one man, good call,
<v Speaker 2>Thank you.
<v Speaker 1>I just had.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, one of your favorite scenes was with hanging Archie
<v Speaker 2>out the window and he gives his long apology. I
<v Speaker 2>was watching it the second time. I was like, there's
<v Speaker 2>a whole group of onlookers while that's happening. They're watching
<v Speaker 2>Auto hang this somewhat famous or well known barrister outside
<v Speaker 2>the window, hanging him upside down out the window. And
<v Speaker 2>I was like, nobody calls the cops. No cell phones, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>nobody runs to a payphone. I guess that's all I got.
<v Speaker 1>Man. Oh, airport's security terrible. Oh yeah, well I was.
<v Speaker 2>I was saving something from my additional thought on that
<v Speaker 2>whole thing.
<v Speaker 1>Well, the gunflip is funny. I was like, Okay, that's
<v Speaker 1>kind of funny how he gets the gun by but
<v Speaker 1>he still had a silencer on him that should have
<v Speaker 1>set the alarm off. And then Wanda had the stick
<v Speaker 1>that's right, the little men or whatever, Yeah, that would
<v Speaker 1>have went off. Also, Oh I mentioned it my you know,
<v Speaker 1>just first impressions is that the whole ending is ridiculous.
<v Speaker 1>Is it fun? Hell? Yeah, it's fun.
<v Speaker 2>But I was just gonna make a very sarcastic comment
<v Speaker 2>because remember the day's bill when you could run through
<v Speaker 2>an airport and slip through security by flipping a gun
<v Speaker 2>out side the metal detector, and then shoot your way
<v Speaker 2>out of a supply closet and hang out on the
<v Speaker 2>tarmac and play in fresh cement and drive a cement
<v Speaker 2>road roller and climb on the wing of a plane.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, those were the days.
<v Speaker 1>Man.
<v Speaker 2>It's just not the same the whole airport experience anymore.
<v Speaker 2>But that's basically everything that happens in that whole sequence,
<v Speaker 2>and you're like, wow, how are they getting away with
<v Speaker 2>any of it? But it's it's still fun.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it is. By time to go on to Hey,
<v Speaker 1>it's that actor. Also in the segment, we spotlight a
<v Speaker 1>character actor you have seen in many other films, an
<v Speaker 1>actor making their big screen debut, or an actor it
<v Speaker 1>makes an uncredit cameo. Let's hey, it's that actor. Who
<v Speaker 1>do we choose this week?
<v Speaker 2>This week we've chosen for our hands that actor Stephen Fry.
<v Speaker 2>Stephen Fry, he makes a cameo in this film, and
<v Speaker 2>they actually gave his character a name, even though you
<v Speaker 2>don't hear his name.
<v Speaker 1>If you look.
<v Speaker 2>In the credits, he's known as Chinsen and Otto speaks
<v Speaker 2>to him ever so briefly during this ridiculous airports sequence.
<v Speaker 2>He runs up to him and says, in a fake
<v Speaker 2>British accent, Otto says, airport security, airport security may see
<v Speaker 2>a boarding pass please, of course, Stephen Fry. It's like, oh, yes,
<v Speaker 2>of course, and pulls out the boarding pass and gives
<v Speaker 2>it to Otto. So Otto now has a ticket. And
<v Speaker 2>then Otto proceeds to push him into the corner and
<v Speaker 2>knock him out. But he was the one who really
<v Speaker 2>stood out to me. He is a presence. This being
<v Speaker 2>Stephen Fry is like, I know that guy for sure,
<v Speaker 2>and he really was the only other face I recognized
<v Speaker 2>to be completely honest. Stephen Fry is an English actor
<v Speaker 2>and writer. His trademarks are being that he has a
<v Speaker 2>tall stature. I think he's six' four and three.
<v Speaker 1>QUARTERS i BELIEVE i Saw it's like super.
<v Speaker 2>Tall he's known for his crooked nose and his sonorous,
<v Speaker 2>voice and received Pronunciation Little. Trivia in nineteen eighty, Four
<v Speaker 2>STEPHEN i.
<v Speaker 1>Was engaged to do the rewrite of The noel gay
<v Speaker 1>Musical me And My, girl which made him a millionaire
<v Speaker 1>before the age of, thirty and it also earned him
<v Speaker 1>a nomination for A Tony award in nineteen eighty. Seven
<v Speaker 1>also way back in the nineteen, eighties he shared a
<v Speaker 1>house In london With Hugh.
<v Speaker 2>Laurie how about. That here's a bit of what he's
<v Speaker 2>done in the. Eighties this is FROM. IMDb he was
<v Speaker 2>uncredited In chariots Of fire in eighty. One he does
<v Speaker 2>SOME tv series. Work he's in The Good. Father in eighty,
<v Speaker 2>five he does six episodes of Black adder. Two That's blackadder.
<v Speaker 2>Two in nineteen eighty, six does some MORE TV tv,
<v Speaker 2>movies more Black adder. Appearances he does A tv series
<v Speaker 2>Called Saturday, live Not Saturday Night, live But Saturday. Live
<v Speaker 2>he did nineteen episodes of that from eighty six to eighty,
<v Speaker 2>seven and then of course this a fish called one
<v Speaker 2>in eighty. Eight he does go on to do a
<v Speaker 2>lot of voice work in, movies videos and video. Games
<v Speaker 2>he narrates a lot Of Harry potter movie Which i'm
<v Speaker 2>curious as to what those are. Exactly but he's known
<v Speaker 2>For Gosford, park v For. VENDETTA i remember seeing him
<v Speaker 2>in the sequel to the Initial Sherlock holmes film and
<v Speaker 2>the sequels ENTITLED A game Of. Shadows he Plays Microft
<v Speaker 2>holmes and THAT'S i think he's Playing sherlock's, brother If
<v Speaker 2>i'm not, Missing and that's in twenty. Eleven he was
<v Speaker 2>also in a couple of The hobbit, films and from
<v Speaker 2>twenty fifteen to twenty nineteen does eighty nine episodes Of
<v Speaker 2>Danger mouse As colonel. K, recently it was in six
<v Speaker 2>episodes of The netflix Series The sandman from twenty twenty
<v Speaker 2>two to twenty twenty. Five one quote From Stephen, frye
<v Speaker 2>the email of the species is more deadly than the.
<v Speaker 2>Male All, right that's our heyts that actor this, Week Stephen.
<v Speaker 1>Frye, YEAH i don't think you really could have chose anyone.
<v Speaker 1>ELSE i could.
<v Speaker 2>Have, yeah looked into the filmographies of some of the
<v Speaker 2>Other i'm sure they're. EXTENSIVE i did sort of wreck hold,
<v Speaker 2>on let's, see what's the old, woman Missus cody played
<v Speaker 2>By Patricia. Hayes she seemed familiar to, me BUT i
<v Speaker 2>didn't get a chance to look at her.
<v Speaker 1>Filmography, okay time to move on to facts and. Trivia
<v Speaker 1>what are some facts of? Trivia we have about a
<v Speaker 1>fist Called Wanda John cleese told an interviewer that he
<v Speaker 1>called his Character Archie leach because that was Actor Carrie
<v Speaker 1>grant's real, name And clease is quoted as, SAYING i
<v Speaker 1>feel this film is as near As i'll ever get
<v Speaker 1>to Being Cary. Grant there you. Go Although Charles crichton
<v Speaker 1>is the sole credited director OF A Fish Called, Wanda
<v Speaker 1>John clees was officially listed as co director during. Production that, credit,
<v Speaker 1>however was mostly for. Appearance clee has since explained that
<v Speaker 1>he did very little actual directing and only agreed to
<v Speaker 1>the title because the film's backers were nervous about letting
<v Speaker 1>the seventy eight year Old crichton direct entirely on his.
<v Speaker 1>Own in, Practice clees directed just a handful of, scenes
<v Speaker 1>Mainly Michael palin's solo moments As, ken including his increasingly
<v Speaker 1>frantic attempts to silence the. Witness this wasn't about creative,
<v Speaker 1>control but. Logistics it Allowed crichton to get a head
<v Speaker 1>start on editing the. Film on, Set creighton seemed amused
<v Speaker 1>rather than bothered about the. Situation he often wore A
<v Speaker 1>t shirt given to him By cleisett Red age And
<v Speaker 1>treachery Will Always Overcome youth and skill love it a
<v Speaker 1>couple quick.
<v Speaker 2>Ones according To Michael, palin the original title was a
<v Speaker 2>goldfish Called. Wanda, also this film was the number one
<v Speaker 2>rental video in THE us in nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 1>Nine see that all, right here's a fact that it'll
<v Speaker 1>be disappointing to our male. Audience So Jamie Lee curtis
<v Speaker 1>was originally going to have a nude scene until she
<v Speaker 1>pointed out that men being nude is much. Funnier So
<v Speaker 1>John cleese did it. Instead that's.
<v Speaker 2>Great during the initial run of the, film A danish
<v Speaker 2>audiologist named Ol benson died while laughing during a, screening
<v Speaker 2>which led newspapers to report that he had died from
<v Speaker 2>the official cause of death was heart, fibrillation which may
<v Speaker 2>have been caused by an increased heart rate due to extended.
<v Speaker 2>Laughter clee considered using the event for, publicity but ultimately
<v Speaker 2>decided that doing so would be in bad.
<v Speaker 1>Taste so The latin hymn sung by the choir boys
<v Speaker 1>at The dog's funeral translates to have Mercy, Lord have Mercy.
<v Speaker 1>Lord the dog is, dead, BRILLIANT i love.
<v Speaker 2>It In march nineteen eighty, nine a few months after
<v Speaker 2>the release of the, film The Orange county chapter of
<v Speaker 2>The National Stuttering, project the predecessor of The National Stuttering,
<v Speaker 2>association picketed OUTSIDE mgm offices In Culver city in protest.
<v Speaker 1>Of the Movie You Touched upon that earlier bill right
<v Speaker 1>down the street from. Me there you. Go, YEAH i
<v Speaker 1>was In Culver city at the. Time, okay let's move
<v Speaker 1>on to box. Office SO A Fish Called wanda was
<v Speaker 1>released On july fifteenth in a whopping three. Theaters despite
<v Speaker 1>a modest seven point five million, budget the film went
<v Speaker 1>on to earn an impressive sixty three point five million
<v Speaker 1>at the domestic box, office plus another one hundred and
<v Speaker 1>twenty six point one million. Internationally the movie took a
<v Speaker 1>little time to build, momentum AS A Fish Called wanda
<v Speaker 1>didn't crack the top ten until it's fourth, week after
<v Speaker 1>expanding to six hundred and sixteen, theaters where it debuted
<v Speaker 1>at number. Five by week, ten the movie had climbed
<v Speaker 1>all the way to number one and would hang around
<v Speaker 1>the top ten for another five. Weeks by the end
<v Speaker 1>of its, RUN A Fish Called wanda ranked as the
<v Speaker 1>thirteenth highest grossing movie in THE, us landing just Behind Working.
<v Speaker 1>Girl so the studio didn't have much confidence in the
<v Speaker 1>movie and they were. Wrong this is the definition of
<v Speaker 1>a sleeper. Hit there you. Go moving on to. Reviews
<v Speaker 1>from growing up in the, eighties we would watch at
<v Speaker 1>the movies With Geen cisco And Roger eber to hear
<v Speaker 1>the reviews and watch clips of upcoming. Movies their review
<v Speaker 1>OF A Fish Called wanda was unanimous two thumbs. Up
<v Speaker 1>gene called the movie a superb combination of good storytelling
<v Speaker 1>and a very very funny story being. Told roger strated
<v Speaker 1>that the movie is just funny from beginning to. End
<v Speaker 1>Rotten tomatoes gives it A tomatometer score of ninety six,
<v Speaker 1>percent with A Popcorn meter score of eighty four, percent
<v Speaker 1>and also has AN IMDb rating of seven point. Five all,
<v Speaker 1>right so this takes us to additional thoughts and. Questions
<v Speaker 1>do we have anything else that we need to cover
<v Speaker 1>ABOUT A Fish Called wanda that we? MISSED i don't
<v Speaker 1>Feel i've missed anything personally THAT i really wanted to
<v Speaker 1>get off my chest regarding this. Film how about You?
<v Speaker 1>Bill just one of my favorite quotes of the. Movie
<v Speaker 1>hopefully this wasn't going to be your final quote at
<v Speaker 1>the end here and it's the back and forth Between
<v Speaker 1>otto And. Wanda When otto again Interrupts wanda trying to
<v Speaker 1>get information out Of, archie she's just had it and
<v Speaker 1>she goes she calls them. Stupid at some point he's,
<v Speaker 1>like don't call me, stupid And wander's response, is, oh
<v Speaker 1>right to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid.
<v Speaker 1>People i've known cheap that could. Outweight you've dresses with higher.
<v Speaker 1>IQs but you think you're an, intellectual don't? You? Ape
<v Speaker 1>and then he follows up with, like, well apes don't read,
<v Speaker 1>philosophy and she, goes they, do they just don't understand.
<v Speaker 1>It and then she goes on with some other. Insults
<v Speaker 1>BUT i really do like that. Exchange there is some
<v Speaker 1>really good dialogue in that. Scene oh, yeah And i'm
<v Speaker 1>glad you called that one. OUT i noted it as.
<v Speaker 1>Well when it was, HAPPENING i was, like, oh this is.
<v Speaker 1>Great she's letting them have. It but it's very, witty
<v Speaker 1>it's very. Smart not. Stupid, no not. Stupid, Okay so
<v Speaker 1>let's move on to our. Rating so here we go
<v Speaker 1>on a scale of one to five, angelfish would you
<v Speaker 1>give a fish Called?
<v Speaker 2>Wanda i'm giving this four four angel. Fishes, fish just
<v Speaker 2>fish for, angelfish don't call me, Stupid bill For, angelfish
<v Speaker 2>Called wanda for. Sure really solid four because this is, entertainment.
<v Speaker 2>Folks at LEAST i felt like it was back in eighty.
<v Speaker 2>EIGHT i feel like it still is. Today and just
<v Speaker 2>to recap great performances By Klein, Clae Jamie Lee curtis
<v Speaker 2>is beautiful in, this and she's a wonderful actress in.
<v Speaker 2>This she's so, talented not in just manipulating the men
<v Speaker 2>but in stealing their. Hearts but she stole mine as,
<v Speaker 2>well and clearly she stole, bills so credit to her
<v Speaker 2>And Michael. Palin of, COURSE i felt handled the stutter quite,
<v Speaker 2>well SO i appreciate him and his acting ability is
<v Speaker 2>comedic acting and felt a lot of empathy for this
<v Speaker 2>character upon this. Rewatch, yeah just not many complaints from.
<v Speaker 2>Me it's a great just go with it movie Credit Charles.
<v Speaker 2>CRICHTON i thought the direction was well and the writing
<v Speaker 2>is really. Strong so just not a lot to be
<v Speaker 2>mad about. Here it's only to be happy, about And
<v Speaker 2>i'm GLAD i got to see it. Again and there
<v Speaker 2>are so many great, scenes a lot we may have not,
<v Speaker 2>covered so if you are out there and pulling out some, hairs,
<v Speaker 2>going how did you not talk about the scene where
<v Speaker 2>he eats the fish and puts the chips Up ken's. Nose,
<v Speaker 2>well it's. Fantastic, yeah that stuff's. Great or the final
<v Speaker 2>scene When ken gets his revenge For wanda and rolls
<v Speaker 2>Over otto in the.
<v Speaker 1>Cement it's all. Fun so what is an hour and
<v Speaker 1>forty seven? MINUTES i believe something along those, lines and
<v Speaker 1>it went by A New york minute it. Was it was.
<v Speaker 1>Great that's my. Rating, YEAH i am totally with. YOU
<v Speaker 1>i have a four also Four, angelfish and, YES i
<v Speaker 1>cannot meet someone with the Name. Ken and the first
<v Speaker 1>thing that goes to my head Is ken is coming
<v Speaker 1>to kill me but saying it the way that's that. Line,
<v Speaker 1>YEAH i can't not think of. That and this is
<v Speaker 1>one of those movies that even last, NIGHT i watched
<v Speaker 1>it twice AND i couldn't believe both. Times i'm, like,
<v Speaker 1>wait we're at the end. Already it. Flies it, flies
<v Speaker 1>and that's always a good compliment to the, film where
<v Speaker 1>it's over before you know it and you've been smiling
<v Speaker 1>or laughing or snickering. THROUGHOUT i cannot say enough About
<v Speaker 1>Jamie Lee curtis and. THIS i was so. SURPRISED i
<v Speaker 1>really THOUGHT i was really watching this For Kevin kline
<v Speaker 1>And Jamie. Lee curtis ended up being the. Standout that's
<v Speaker 1>definitely my favorite movie of. Hers very.
<v Speaker 3>Good all, Right so that about does it for this week's.
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