Jan. 23, 2023 - I Don't Speak German
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| IDSG bonus episodes are a regular extra just for Patreon backers of myself or Daniel. | |
| Here's a preview of the new one. | |
| This is the writing debut of Shane Black, who had done some script work previously. | |
| He got paid $250,000 for this movie. | |
| He is among the highest paid screenwriters of all time. | |
| He got paid $4 million to write The Long Kiss Goodnight. | |
| And it was a A, these kind of like Shane Black isms. | |
| I don't know how much you've like studied the screenwriting of this era, but there's a line and it's actually the scene where Riggs and Murtaugh are kind of driving up to the home of the the pimp and drug dealer who they end up shooting and he falls in the pool. | |
| There's a line in the script which is it reads something like They drive up to a house that's like the house I'm going to buy when I sell this script, like sort of like those kind of like quips to the reader, you know? | |
| Yeah. | |
| And his scripts are kind of full of that kind of stuff because it's like, he wants to keep the reader of the, you know, like the production person who's actually reading the script, he wants to maintain their interest because they read And he ends up becoming a director in 2005. | |
| They are constantly, it's all just process, right? | |
| And so it's like one of those things. | |
| He got very well known for doing that sort of thing in his scripts. | |
| And he ends up becoming a director in 2005. | |
| I don't know if you looked into his history at all, but he wrote and directed a little movie called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which brought Robert Downey Jr., back from his heroine years. | |
| This was his big reintroduction to Hollywood, and it was on the strength of that that basically Robert Downey Jr. | |
| got cast as Iron Man and created the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Hollywood as we know it today. | |
| All of that can be taken back to the moment in which Shane Black got hired to write this, or wrote this script, and it got produced and became a big hit. | |
| This movie is responsible for the death of Hollywood, is what I'm telling you. | |
| Yeah, so clearly when we crack the time travel thing, his name needs to be on the list of people that we need to go back and kill in the crib. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Shane Black. | |
| I'm joking, of course. | |
| One of the worst people in history. | |
| I'm joking. | |
| Clearly, that's what we're saying. | |
| No, anyway. | |
| But no, I find that interesting because in re-watching it today, Yeah, you also get the like, this feels like a Marvel movie to me, you know, in terms of the amount in terms of like its structure in terms of the the kind of the scale of the destruction in terms of, you know, like Mel Gibson running down the street with like a machine gun and just managing like this. | |
| These are like Captain America stunts, right? | |
| Like this is kind of how it feels to me. | |
| In terms of its scope, and obviously it doesn't have the budget, doesn't have the technology to be Iron Man, but there are cars just kind of flying around, and people running around, and damage is being done by these police officers, these ostensible police officers. | |
| We'll get to that shortly, hopefully. | |
| And nothing matters, except you gotta get to the bad guy at the end. | |
| And that's the whole purpose of it. | |
| And it does feel like you could slot this in that Riggs was secretly some Marvel character in the 80s, and this would fit very comfortably into that kind of Marvel timeline, I think. | |
| And I think it's interesting to think of it that way. | |
| Well, I often feel like the whole Marvel movie thing, where you have Marvel kind of does that thing where they, it does something not unlike what Doctor Who used to do, which was that basically Doctor Who from week to week or month to month, when it was like a four part serial, you know, with four episodes over a month. | |
| Um, it goes from like genre to genre, you know, um, one week it'll be a Western one week. | |
| It'll be like, seriously, they did a Western in the sixties, you know, and then it'll be a science fiction thing and then it'll be set in ancient Rome and then it'll be set on a, on a spaceship, et cetera. | |
| Well, that's what Marvel is like. | |
| Cause you know, they kind of, I feel like they, they probably have these tone meetings where they say, right, okay, the next, uh, you know, Captain Marvel movie or whatever, that will be a political thriller. | |
| And then the next Thor movie, that will be a sex comedy, etc. | |
| And each one has its own distinctive kind of genre that it's dipping into. | |
| Although, obviously, with everything that might be spiky or gnarly or gritty or interesting about the genre, completely shaved away from it. | |
| One of the things Marvel has done is it's kind of taken the fact that all Hollywood heroes, or at least Hollywood heroes for a very long time, like Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon, have effectively been superheroes. | |
| He is effectively a superhero in this. | |
| He's invulnerable, and he's a supernaturally good shot, and he can run faster than speeding cars, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| Bruce Willis and Die Hard and all these sorts of characters, they are basically superheroes. | |
| They do things that are not actually possible for human beings in the real world to do. | |
| And the Marvel movies have kind of said, okay, so we'll just make the Hollywood hero literally a superhero. | |
| We'll just literally make them an alien god or whatever. | |
| No, absolutely. | |
| Yeah, no. | |
| And it is like one of those things. | |
| I mean, William Goldman in one of his books talked about, he asked a firefighter, you know, what's the bravest thing you ever saw? | |
| Something like this guy who had like 20 years of experience. | |
| What's the bravest thing you ever saw anybody do? | |
| And he says, one time there was a burning building and this guy just stops. | |
| He's just, we're about to leave. | |
| We thought we got everybody out and he just stops. | |
| And he runs to the back into these flames and discovers there's a baby back there that we all missed, and scoops him up and brings him out and saves the day. | |
| And that is the bravest thing I've ever seen anybody in my decades of experience really running into burning buildings do. | |
| And then Goldman extemperates. |
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