Chapo Trap House - Movie Mindset 10 Teaser - The Red Circle

Episode Date: June 28, 2023

Will & Hesse describe the meeting of Corey and Vogel in Le cercle rouge. Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse

So Corey kills a thug and then buys a used car and begins, you know, begins to cross the river sticks. You begin to begin to set it towards a little place called the red circle. So got Corey and vocal coming together in this movie is the, but my favorite meat cute in movie history. There is so in love with each other. It's crazy. I don't see your mind. We have like an amendment. It was like. I don't see your reminds me of like, an amendment.

It reminds me of like two characters in like an anime team up. It's like Zoro and Luffy from one piece literally. It's just circumstances can tell them. So basically, Vogel, okay, criminal tip number three. Everyone knows if you're being chased by dogs,

you'd like to go across a stream or river. But what do you do? It's cold this shit out and you're gonna wear in clothes Vogo like strips down Basically bundles all of his clothes up into a tight little package and then just tosses it across the river After that goes through and then gets dressed and dry clothes on the other side Yeah, I was really really sick little awesome touch Those are the other side. I was really sick, little awesome touch. Well, tips and tricks, life hacks.

And not only Melville's movies are very cold in their color palette, but they are also just cold in that they all take place. You see characters breath. It's always raining or snowing. It's always very damp and gray out. And I, yeah, this is probably one of the colder scenes that, you know, he Vogel is at this diner like trying the trunks of all these cars so he can escape this dragnet that's closing it on him in the trunk of a stranger's car.

So he's trying all the trunks to see if there's one that's unlocked and lo and behold, a lane deluxe trunk. And it's very subtle, but like you see him eating lunch and you see the trunk. It was car open and those and you're like, wait, does he know he's in there? Yeah. And then earlier, he stopped at a police checkpoint because obviously there's this huge dragnet for the escaped convict, he'll go. Yeah.

And you know, he's like, can you please open the trunk and he does? Sure. He's got a gun in there. He's got two guns in there. He's got two guns in there. Two guns in there. But you know, this is Corey. He plays it off. He plays it so.

Cool as they can go. They're just in a doctor's bag in there. So this time, like, you're not really sure whether he knows he hasn't escaped convict. Who's also armed now with the guns that he has in his trunk. Yeah. When he gets stopped at another checkpoint. Once again, we like, we don't know like you could just be like, yeah, sure, open your trunk. And there's a escape convict there.

But he plays it off so cool and pretends that like, he doesn't have the key or the trunk is stuck or something like that. It's like a new car and he's like, they must have forgotten to give me the key to the trunk. And you're like, that's not true. What's he talking about? So he just plays it cool and he goes to the checkpoint

and just the most beautiful criminal mindset, he pretends he doesn't have the key and then drives into a field to convince what I regard is maybe my, what am I fair seeing in any movie ever? Yeah, it's so good. He opens the trunk and he goes, or he's just like, he walks away,

parks the car in the field in a in this like you know beautiful Grimbleek Bleek-ass Fringe country field mud farm Just stands if you away from the cars and just goes okay, you can come out now Yeah, because he knew the guy he knew he was in there the whole time and vocal just the period's got a gun He's like what the fuck's he going on? But gentlemen you weren't now in the red circle.

I just like the way the way this scene cuts back and forth between the two of them. And it goes from like, like sort of shot reverse shot of them looking at each other to this kind of like why, why the screen panoramic view of their car in them in the middle of this field. And it's just like they, they, they, they sort of recognize what's going on. And then of course, the most important thing to do, got to smoke a shirt. They share a sig. They share a sig. And it's like my, my favorite detail is that like, um, Vogel is pointing the gun at Dolan and is at Corey. And it's just like, um, Ed Cory is like cool as I sliding a sig.

And he's like, I mean, it's kind of rude. I pulled over as he could get some air and then like lights the sig and throws Cory, or throws Vogel the pack of cigarettes and he catches it and then throws him the lighter, but he can't hold the lighter the cigarettes and the gun at the same time. So he's like holding all three

and then just like puts the gun away and lights the cigarette up. But this is one of the few scenes where you do get a little bit of music. Yeah. It's so effect. I like, has it when I first saw this movie and then again, when I watched it for today.

This is truly one of those scenes and movies where I can't explain it, but I'm levitating off my couch or out of my seat when I'm watching this scene. It's just like, you are now standing in the red circle. The cool guys club, gentlemen, you may start your cigarette smoking. Yes, my favorite part is that like the end of the scene, vocal as like halfway done with this cigarette

and he's like, all right, let's go to Paris. And then with his lit cigarette still dangling from his mouth, gets back in the trunk of the car. And I'm like, what the fuck are you, is psych? Just lock me, he's still on the lamp. Smoking out the trunk though, so funny. I said, okay, so that scene puts me through the stargate. Yeah.

But then we get another scene that is just so much quieter and less cool. Yeah, but for me is pure cinema. We get a little bit of the personal life of Inspector Mate, the cop who comes home and he's got kiddies and he loves you. He has three beautiful cats. Yeah. And it's just like, once again,

just observing behavior of this cop was just like quiet diligence and like dedicated to his job above all else. But he comes home and he's just like, just starts feeding his cats. And like, once again, a very blue interior. But it's just I can't explain why it's just this little quiet moment of Mate, and just seeing what his personal life is like. Yeah, he doesn't have one. Yeah, he's got his cats. That's it.

And it's very like, you know, in, it's like the contrast between the criminals are, you know, it's a much more dangerous life, but there is a, an honor, there is an honor among thieves in a lot of Noville's movies. And in a lot of them, there's not, but there is an honor among thieves in a lot of Noville's movies and a lot of them there's not, but you know, it's seen as there's no more, you're right in the saying it's

amoral and that it's very like there's no prescriptive like, you know, it's not like all thieves are evil or all like cops are good or all thieves are good or like, you know, it's very case by case and like, you know, even the chief in the spectrum general, yeah. Yeah, the head of the, you know, French, you know, internal affairs, inspected, inspector division, the guy who smokes the pipe or whatever. Yeah. Who is like, he's a very interesting character because he sort of like, he takes a matai

to, you know, he sort of like reads him, you know, puts his ass on notice because like he has the screws to him. Yeah, the chief has a very simple, very simple philosophy of the law and it's that all men are guilty. Yeah. And I really like that because like,

for portraying outlaws, he would adopt a, like an alternate ethical universe. But the moral and ethical universe that you know, people who are not career criminals live in is just being afraid of the law. Yeah, but you're afraid of the law because everyone is guilty. Like that is the view of the law towards everyone.

The law assumes that all men are guilty, which is something that will be returned to later in this movie. And in his eyes, but I don't like this necessarily Melville or any like it. No, it's like it just the point of view. It's just yeah, it's like the the chief in this universe is operating from that sub-session. And it's like, you know, it's kind of the way I see it is that the this other cop, Matei is getting slowly convinced of that.

Yes, he is. But he, by the end he is convinced of it, but there's like other things from the sides of the criminals that he doesn't know, like their friendship and all these like, these little, beautiful, like a man owes a lot of movies. Yes, exactly, exactly.

Because like, it's like, Melville, like exactly with man is just so laser focused on like men at work. Yeah. And then it's always Melville, exactly with man, is just so laser focused on men at work. Yeah. And then it's always like that criminals at work and then the people who hunt them at work. And it is very clear that there are superficial differences between the two of them,

but they're both kind of programmed. They're both kind of the same kind of guys. Yeah. Okay. The next thing I was like, if Vogel and Corey, she hears the beauty of being in the red circle, nothing has to be said between two men of honor and criminal tendencies. Yeah, they just get it. Yeah, they get each other, they found each other and they're just on the same wavelength.

For the whole episode, when his hatred, he's driving trash chopper or we go stugs track him down and drive him off the word road, pull him over and just like walk him into the woods to shoot him. Sorry, boys, you weren't counting on two two gentlemen being in the red circle.

Once again, you just know what the levels even know what's going on. He's in the trunk of the car. Yeah. And like, you know, like the goons are just getting ready to execute his new friend, but he just gets out of the car and just the trunk of the car. Yeah. And like, you know, like the goons are just getting ready to execute his new friend, but he just gets out of the car and just caps both of the full episode.

You know, subscribe at patreon.com slash chopper trap house. Shot each other. Yeah. He just knows exactly what to do. And like, it just, they don't just say help me or thanks for that. They're just nods. And there's, yeah, there's an amazing moment of like, and this happens a lot in, this happens again,

an army of shadows of like, someone who knows that they're dead, but just has like a kind of taciturn. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com slash chapo trap house. you