Upstream - S2E2.5: OSS 117: Lost In Rio

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

Long-time listeners may recall that for S1E3.5 we talked about 'OSS 117: Cairo, nest of spies'. Well with Abigail jetting off to Vidcon we have taken the time to invite along dear friend of the show Mattie Lubchansky to talk about its' sequel!  This is a movie that comes SO fuckin close to being one we can unreservedly recommend, but sadly it fails Hebdo's Gambit a few too many times. You can find Mattie at https://twitter.com/Lubchansky find their comics at https://thenib.com/ and support them on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Lubchansky Find bonus episodes at our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/   Find us at https://killjamesbond.com and https://twitter.com/killjamesbond

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I didn't know what you called it. It's a new slurry of invented for the non-binary people. And what I've done is I've gathered together the Midnight Society, absent Abigail, who is currently in Los Angeles doing whatever people do in Los Angeles, like oxygen tank parties or whatever. Yeah, thanks, Ryan. I'm a scooter that you rent off the street. I believe it's what you do when you're whatever. Yeah, thanks. Writing a scooter that you rent off the street. I believe is what you do when you're there.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's right. And I've got the gang, including Matthew, back to talk about the sequel to OSS Sondisette, Cairo Ness of Spies, OSS Sondisette lost in Rio or Rio de la Reporte du French. They did another one. They did a whole as other movie.

It's an yeah. Yeah, they did. That's that's that's my review of it immediately as well. It's another movie I can almost recommend it. It's it's a film that I can say, hey, maybe you should see. However, there's some caveats. If you're not familiar with the series, it's like OSS Sondisette, OSS 117,

is a French pulp spy series of novels. I actually predate James Bond, I believe. Yes. But so Jean-Dujardin and Michelin Avichus, Hazanna Vichus, fucking, made this movie that was like extending that as a parody of Euros by movies. We made an episode on it.

We had a lot of fun. It's a good movie. The joke is he's a huge piece of shit. And he's a buffoon, right? And now we're back in the year 1967. And let me tell you immediately on board, like this movie opens. It's opens with such a fucking bagger.

That's so good. Yeah. The whole soundtrack is so good. The second I turned it off, I actually went on completely called and did not even know what it was. You're just like, watch this movie. And I said, okay.

And I turned it on. And fucking four seconds in, I was messaging you guys. Like, this is the best movie I ever fucking seen in my life. This is the best, the winning sequence. I never said it. And they were like, and they were like, wait, hold on. They were like, this rules.

Uh-oh. Yes. Because we begin in Ishtad in a very funky sort of appriscate. And Jean-Tijada has, you bell bonnie ser de la bat, or as a son de set, enters like, chin first in the ugliest fit I have ever seen in my life. And we just have an incredible, and we just have like an extended dance sequence,

which kind of goes off, because the music is really good. Yeah, so in the previous one, they used a lot of camera techniques to sort of ape the original series of these movies, which are in like the 50s through to the 70s. Yeah. So like things like all of the night time scenes were clearly filmed during the day and just filtered blue. Yeah. All of the driving has like back projected on it like early bonds. In this one, they've discovered the art of having a split camera and holy shit. If they love to put eight cameras on one screen and it looks so good.

It's a great effect for a couple of jokes also, like that phone joke later in the movie is so good, very like Mel Brooksy. Yes. But I mean, the opening of this actually is quite reminiscent to me of the Austin Powers films, which I don't know if you've seen or not. But it was, We've seen, but we're maintaining an embargo that we don't wanna talk about. You don't wanna talk about them in law, okay.

Ma'am. It's just very reminiscent of the opening, the opening numbers in the song of the Austin Powers movies, but in a good way, it doesn't feel like we're getting off exactly. But it's like's like, I know this kind of thing. I know where I am. Yeah. And he's, all of these women are admiring him. He's done to probably show them a magic trick. Whereupon, uh, six guys burst in from a different racist movie. Yes. We got to talk about a series of jokes that will continue throughout every

every single part of this movie which is just every so often this will come back. I just want to show something. It feels like it's like it's almost funny. You can see what they're trying to do here. And the idea is OSS Sondiset is like because he's like James Bond. He's a man with a lot of enemies, he has, uh, he has wronged a guy called Mr. Lee and Mr. Lee is constantly sending goons after him to kill him. Now, all of these goons are Chinese and they all do the racist accent, all of them. Yes. And let me tell you, the movie makes a great deal of hay out of this because later on when

he's held at gunpoint by one of these guys, you better, or as I said, cannot fucking understand him. And I wrote down, I don't, like, I'm not quite sure what the joke is meant to be here. And I think this is going to get to a point that we'll get to throughout this movie, which is, Matt, what was the name you came up with for this? Hebdo's gamble. Yes.

The Charlie Hebdo gamble, which is, am I being racist or am I being ironic and making fun of racism in a way that actually makes a European piece of shit for thinking that I'm racist? I keep wanting to make this movie, like I keep wanting to give it charitable interpretations and be like, okay, the joke is that they're doing the accent because the accent made no fucking sense in old movies.

And it was totally incomprehensible. And it was just like purely a racist thing. No, it is just, they do the right thing. Yeah, because the thing is it's layered on top of an actual funny joke, which is he kills a guy and the rest of the movie, guys keep showing up, be like, you killed my brother. And then every guy, he kills his brother, so there's a good after him.

It's very funny. Like, that's a good, like, Zucker brother's ass, sort of gag, but then they're like, and guess what also they have racist accents, and that's extra funny because we are French. I was thrilled to learn what the French equivalent of the, like, breakfast Tiffany's racist Asian accent is, which is apparently a heavy list. Yeah, I was wondering about that because the subtitles that I had on kept doing the other

like the breakfast Tiffany's one with the RSVL. It's transcribed that way, yes. Like the L on the R swap, yes. Yeah, whoever did the, you know, translations in art, it's not, you don't want it's not like a one-to-one thing and you want to get the spirit of what's being said translated, right? Yeah. So it's, yeah. So it's someone that's racist in both languages figured out how to do it. Yes.

Yeah. I just did a strict translation. You just be like, why are all these Chinese guys who incidentally have lists trying to kill OSS on dessert? Yes. So we get a gun fight between OSS on dessert and perfect. I'm actually going to perfect gun. Let's set the fucking scene, right? Yeah, so we get a gun fight between Osset, Sondice, and Perfect gun fight. And there's a fight.

Perfect gun fight. Let's set the fucking scene, right? Because he is doing close-up magic to a group of Asian women. Yes, yes. Unclear which kind, they're all sort of wearing various, various things, and then a bunch of like Chinese guys all burst in. It's written as that they're all Chinese.

There's a lot of them that aren't, but that's fine. Yeah, playing Chinese guys, they'll burst in. They shoot at him and he stays perfectly still with his gun in like the fucking Roger Moore shooting position. One on that one side. Right, now, yes. Yeah. Just stays completely still, keep shooting.

He has killed half of the women himself because they keep running in front of it. They all get killed in the crossfire. It's just him and one of the orb hooked up to his belt for the magic trick just like sticking out. And then the image is him standing in a pile of corpses of all the women that he was with. It's very tramp, like he won this gunfight every single person but him in the room is dead. Yeah, everyone except him and the like one woman that counts as and he like looks at her

across this room full of dead bodies and he's like, wow, we almost had a catastrophe there. And it's like that's a better joke at the Bond movies expense than like any of the like self graduation it's done to itself for us. Like, you kill a lot of women, James Bond. I like this a lot better. Anyway, there is also very racist

and we have to like reintroduce that at this point where he has sex with this woman. Oh yeah. How do I... A functurally. Yeah, the equivalent is in the first one, the way they do this basic scene is that he goes to a sex with a woman and she insults him and he goes,

no, I don't want to do it anymore actually. This is very rude of you. Whereas in this one, they're both complaining about like these mobsters have burst in to try to kill him. And she goes, For him, it's a racist thing. Yeah, for her, she's complaining about like the communists. So she's like, damn reds and he like, fucking correct. So he's like, damn yellows. And she goes, no.

And then they have sex. Yes. I thought they were going to repeat the joke from the one I really liked from Cairo where they pan up when they start having sex and then pan back down. He's just like, pumping. But instead they do it with CGI birds, which not as funny, but I'd rather they would be fan of all the, all the sex pan jokes, like the ones in fucking top secret.

Where no matter what has happening, it fans across to a fireplace. There's a lot of wet there's skydiving. There's a lot of top secret in this movie. There's a lot of sort of likes, I. There's a lot of sort of like Zachary Rehmels. But so we go to, I'm sorry, I want to also bring up another of the first movies, Pan Jokes, because it went at pans across from them having sex over to a fireplace, and it just like also edges onto like a mirror, and you can see them having sex, and like the camera just panickedly pans very quickly back a little bit. So really enjoy. But yes, when we get back to Paris and we have a series of probably my favorite scenes in the movie, the office bit is great. We go to Huvelle's office in the French intelligence

agency and he has this like enforced bonnet me where every person he speaks to is like they immediately start laughing about nothing. Yes. They have this great conversation, which is just it devolves into them saying the names of other dudes. It's really hard to explain this one, but it's really good. Yeah.

They also pull off the rare trans jokes that works, or it's not a trans joke, it's a cross dressing joke. But what I mean is they dodged the trans joke in that he sees this woman talking to a couple of guys and he's like, hey, how's it going buddy? Incredible disguise, indistinguishable, would never have known you this guy. And because she's played by a cis woman when she just goes, oh yeah, cheers.

It really lands, Huge man of it. Congratulations to the film for getting in that one thing, that one tricky thing, right? Followed by 4500 tricky things later that it does not. Yes. Yeah. So he, he, he goes to me, Armour, who's like his M. We, we get a scene that sets up something later, but it sets us on a happens off screen where he's one of the guys he talks to is like, look at this. Blueprints for a perfectly ordinary head low, but it looks like a duck.

And he goes, amazing. What else is it do? And they're like, nothing else. And then they ask him to guard it. And he realizes he has to leave the room. So he just folds the blueprint, up, puts it in his jacket. And it is not mentioned for an hour of screen time.

Yeah, he just pockets it. Just pockets the blueprints. Go see his M. The M scene rules, because what's happened is that there is a Nazi professor from Zimmer who has fled to South America to Brazil, where he is running luchilebray events again. Does this movie know the difference between Mexico and Brazil, or is it making fun of movies that don't sort of question?

But Fond Simil is trying to blackmail France with a microfilm listing all of the French collaborators. And you get this perfect Hubert line where he's like, oh, I can see why it's a microfilm. Must be a really short list. That's the only thing he's looking. He's like a true believer. And you see I'm on like fidgeting with his desk for like slightly too long in a way that

like very heavily implies the collaborator with the nuts. And he goes, okay, so are we going to like, are we going to kill him and take the list? And it's like, no, we're going to pay him. We're going to pay him off. We're going to like allow ourselves to be like, go to Rio de Janeiro. Here is your silly code name, no, we're gonna pay him. We're gonna pay him off. We're gonna allow ourselves to be like, go to Rio de Janeiro. Here is your silly code name, Noel Flontier. This is gonna be fun about it. He's like, who comes up with this fucking name?

Yeah, and the joke is it's a guy with an even sillier name, Ludovic Flaton Shah. I don't want him on over my head. No. So he goes to Noel Flu El Flontier. His cover is a photo journalist, by the way. He goes to Rio and we get the scene of he arrives at the airport and three different people start following him again. Yes. This is a real problem for me, but I really like it. I like these scenes, but also this is the

first movie again. They did this like shot for shot, basically comes to the airport. You different guys each start following. Yeah, but this time it's split cam, baby. You get like eight shots of him walking and they're all identical. Movie, they're going to add one camera for that scene. And the next movie, it's three cameras. That's right. One for each guy. Yeah, he gets into a cab. And would you believe it? The cab driver is another one of our recurring Slavy racist Chinese guys. Yeah. Yes, and we have to do the the racist thing again when he tells him like you killed my you killed my brother Angostas and and now you're gonna die and you can't understand him He gets shot the Chinese taxi driver gets shot by my favorite guy.

The best-running bit of fucking movie by a mile to me is bit fucking goes. CIA agent in Brazil. Build tremendous. Build tremendous. This is wrong. Build tremendous. Yeah. And that's like a perfect observation of the way that French movies named American characters. They were all called shit like this, like build tremendous. And so Bill gets him in the car and Bill's French is truly, truly atrocious. Hello, I'm on view Uber. I'm on the Suci of Aikishinwa. That's me from the start.

You know, I was going to do this actual audio of me in parents trying to order food. They do the thing with that, like, both laughing too much, but the whole time, he's just insulting him. You stupid son of a bitch. Because he best English isn't good enough, he just kind of like nods along, he's like, ah, yeah. It's really good. Yeah. There's also one fucking like, there's one line where he tells him about von Zürnling, something like, yeah, so what, like the CIA's interested in South America now. All of his lines are so fucking good because they're all just like me at the start and then like into cart with him. He's like, Zoodle or Hubert, you fucking cocksucker.

I got a major. I'm too be drawn. My ass lick in cocksucker motherfucking son of a bitch. That's the character. That's it. That's this whole deal. Yeah, it's perfect. It's what Americans are like. Yeah.

So those racist against Americans, which gives it like negative cultural and sensitivity points, because it's being racist against people who it should be racist. So Bill drops them off at his hotel. And he immediately falls into into a honey honey pot with this woman named Carlotta, who he thinks is going to have sex with him. And then she just leaves his fire the window,

which I like a lot. We also see another recurring joke from the first one, which is he gets way too into his cover. So after she's left, he gets a phone call that's like, oh, I said, Sonny set, he's like, no, this is no flauntier. Also, also that scene with Carlotta sets up another joke that doesn't pay off for a fucking hour, where she says I'm going to slip into something more comfortable. Yes. And the next time he's in the thing, you're right. He responds to it. It's like an hour later. It's really fucking like multiple days in midia.

Also, the scene where he meets her, like he's at a fucking pool at the hotel. He's about to do a high jump. Oh yeah, he's like, his walk around the pool. Like, first of all, he's sucking his chest in so hard the whole way around it's so clear. Every single woman is looking at him. They all get their own little mini camera across the whole thing. He gets up there and then he can't do it because he remembers a time that he was a trapeze artist and fucked up. Yeah, he killed his like, he's the same Max Dorian's Robin, the boy wonder. Yeah, that's right. It does. He fucking does. I really like that they just

introduce this from nowhere. I just it's perfect. Just go with it. It's like it's almost identical. The scene that they show later when they're on top of Chris Thurdeemer spoilers for the end of the film. When they're up there, the scene that you see is almost identical to the one from the from like Batman and Robin, almost identical looking. Oh, yeah. That's crazy. Perfect. Great. And he meets Coloura because he's like a sleep on a fucking sunbird and she rings out her

hair onto him. Yeah, she says, I'm sorry, I have a club who said you, like I have splattered you. He's like, oh, it's, yeah, it's like I splattered you. He's like, oh it's, yeah. Like, she's like, I splattered you and you can see like a genuine second for him to gin up being horny. He gets that he's earnestly like a little mad but he arrives at horny by way of confusion. He's just like, actually, you know what they say about when it's bad a man. And it's really good just. Yeah, it's mad a man. Yeah, it's mad a man. Yeah, it's mad a man. Yeah, it's mad a man. Yeah, it's mad a man. Yeah, it's mad a man.

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So they go to have sex except she runs out on him. He gets the phone call which he hangs off on. They call him back a second later. And I like, listen, we know it's fucking you. There's also, I hate to continue. There's also like a really strong character moment for him when he opens the door to see that she has clearly fled and he goes, who could have kidnapped her?

Like he just cannot comprehend. She could just left on him. Anyway, my fault. So they call him back and they're like, okay, bring the money that you've brought to pay for this film, this microfilm, to price the redeemer, the cork of ador. You'll know us when you see us. And this sets up a great fucking gag because he goes to the thing.

And because he does not spy him when he sees them, every single person he passes, he like gives the nod or like passes slightly too close to on the way up there. And I really enjoy it. It's perfect. Yeah. No one meets him. And we get some a great little bit of soundtrack and some great physical comedy because he goes and he looks at over the city and then gunshots ring out and he is physically chased from the scene by squibs. The squibs, the volume of squibs just like physically is so fucking incredible. Yeah, they're machine gunning like everything around him. Going back to get his jacket and camera and briefcase individually. While not getting shot while the squibs are 100% of the area around him.

So it's the whole time in like that like half crouch. He's like, oh boy. It's the whole way down the fucking street to a car, which pulls up to him and goes, get in and he like looks at it for bit and goes, I don't know, I think that's something called. And then we finally see the two guys that have been shooting at him. And it's a pair of fucking luchadors wearing suits and luch masks. Yes, it's great. Yeah, but you know what isn't perfect, is this next scene? I don't know if you call the names of the luchadors. Oh, fuck, I didn't write it down. Xantrax and blue devil. And that's a, that's fucking a santo and blue demon right there.

So again, a very deep cut. But okay, so you get in the car. That we get this scene. Yeah. And it's at this point that I realize what I've done is I've invited Matthew Luchansky, my dear friend, also Jewish to watch an anti-Semitic movie with me. I am very dramatic. It's a yeah. So the two guys who are holding him with us.

Did this with your husband as well? Yes. We're not good dancers. We're not good dancers. And the thing is, right, as a general rule to the listener, to any pun, if we invite you to the Uncle James Bond as a guest, say no. That's right. Save yourself because what we've asked you to watch through no prior knowledge of our own because I had fucking forgotten this about the movie will just turn out to be like laser

targeted to hurt your feelings. So the one gag that we get in the scene that's funny, I think, is that none of them can remember his codename, right? So they call him like double one seven or seven one seven one thousand and seven and that's fine. That's good. That's funny. But we meet the guys who are holding him at gunpoint. They take him to a little house and they go we're the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, would you like to work with us? And he immediately bursts out laughing at the idea. Yeah, you've seen a Jew. We're normally doing like sort of like this motion.

Yeah, my... That's literally the joke that he does is... He believes that Jewish people are physiognomy, like physiognomically distinct enough that a Nazi would be able to tell them apart and therefore it would be a bad idea to hunt Nazis. He's like, Jews hunting Nazis, that's crazy. When Assad never did that. Yeah, it's not great. The whole scene is full of him just straight up doing anti-semitism.

Yes, and every more sad agent now being like, all right, don't get mad, we need to work with this guy. You can sort of tell what the viewpoint of the movie is, you should feel embarrassed for him, you should be cringing, which it does very effectively. Like, after he says any of this shit, there's always this long shot of the back of his head and the two guys he's speaking to just Staring at him, but it's like okay sure, but at what price this is there was a thing that

Really stuck out to me is like when he's naming the list of how you can tell a Jew from when you look at one of us And he's just like rattling off physical features of Jews. And this is where the gamble do Hebdo really fails. Yes. But he does say, you can tell from our fingers, which is really stuck in my brain, the idea of a Jewish finger. Like what does that mean?

And do I have to... Yeah, what do you guys think? I'm showing my fingers at the camera. I've got no opinions. Thank you. The thing is that the Hebdo Gamble here is that this is a thing so ridiculous that no one could believe it, but it doesn't make sense because people... Yeah.

He could have said horns, right? It was just waiting for that to show up. Like it was just saying real like, you know, the others and Zod shit, I don't know. Yeah, for sure. And I this gets to another problem with this movie, which is that none of us, as you may have been able to tell by the intro on native French speakers

or even learned French speakers. And we don't have a lot of cultural exposure to the kind of references that this movie is making. And this leads to a problem, which is, I think if you make this movie, or any kind of movie that you want to like explore racism in France, you can be like, actually, you don't get it, you don't understand. You think this is just a racist joke. It's actually a sly ironic reference to a totally innocent piece of French culture, you know, a beloved comic that ran between

1948 and 2002 called Le Juif, or whatever. Astro, it's in the US. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And just because that puts me on the back foot because I don't fucking know the racist thing, I'm like, oh shit, really? Okay, well, I mean, maybe I gotta reassess here. The whole scene has the effect of if you're doing like the bit, you're like, look, I don't care if you're white, black, yellow, and you don't say purple. Oh, yeah. You're like, and you're just like the list of that is like,

really, you're a metaphor. Do you know what you're doing? Or are you aware of the purple? Yeah. Like, the miss nothing. I remember like right after the stuff that happened with Charlie Hebdo in 2014, was it? 15, whatever it was? Yes. Yeah.

There was a lot of talk about Charlie Hebdo and racist or not. And actually at the nib we got a lot of cartoonists like talk about it, including a lot of Native French people who are not white and all the white people are like, oh, it's actually like this slide. Irony, they recise me. And then all the Africans living in Paris that we got to like talk about were like, no, it's fucking racist. What are you talking? It's just racist from guys. Yeah, say that the set requires a clarity of the first snow. You can sort of wander into this into this smoke screen, I think,

of being like, oh, it's ironic. And we also get the other big problem that I have with the racism in this franchise, which is, as we saw in the first one, the point of Uber is that he's a buffoon, right? He's a moron. He believes things that no one could believe that are antiquated, but he's borderline racist. That's the thing.

I've read an interview with John Tujada, the time of the first movie came out where he says, you know, it's making fun of the kind of movie star of that time where it's macho, it's homophobic, it's borderline racist. And the important part of that borderline is that he's not personally malevolent. And so he stays in the house in the Mossad Agents house having met Dolores, this very attractive female Mossad officer who he has been asked to work with and whom he has already sort of misogynistically

patronized. And then he comes to apologize to her. Right, and he says, I know I've been, yeah, what's the word? I wonder the other guy shouts through the door. What do you see me? No. Which I will be relying on,

because that's kind of this movie in a nutshell. Really is. I'd also like to clarify, he doesn't come out to apologize to her. like, that's kind of this movie in a bath in a nutshell. Really is. Yeah. I also like to clarify. He doesn't come out to apologize to her. He's waiting in bed and then she goes good night and leaves and he goes, wait, hang on. That's not how this is meant to go and follows her out. Yeah.

He's not coming to apologize. He's coming to secure pussy. Yeah, but he's he is apologizing in order to secure pussy. But he says like, you know, I'm like, indelicate and it puts her in the position of excusing him where she goes, it's okay. I know that you don't like, you didn't mean any of that stuff in a malevolent and a nasty, you're just a moron.

And that's better for me somehow. These are the words coming out of my mouth as a character and that's what I feel. I will say also for in terms of the clarity of purpose thing to bring up the the embargo to Austin Powers movies is in those movies, it's kind of making the same point where it's like, look at how these movies and how these movie stars acted at the time, whatever, but then it takes them out of time and everyone constantly is being like, you're an asshole, you know, like it's and that works, I think, marginally better.

Just sort of be like, if you take him out of his environment where this is acceptable, it's fully insane almost immediately. Yes. And I mean, the movie actually just says the thing that I was going to feel really smart for saying, which is that like, it's not as bad to be racist if you don't mean it. Like, if you say the thing by accident, and you're embarrassed by it, then it's okay to like believe the thing

in the first place, or it's not as bad, which I don't know about that one. The song, accidental racist taught us. Many of those years ago. Oh my God. Yeah, this is the French version of accidental racist. So, so, so, to Laura Sunhey have to work together, but she's mad at him. So she just leaves him to work on his own style leads.

And we get it, we're going to see. And yet another thing. Okay, we get a scene. This scene. Okay, so he's in the hotel. He goes back to his hotel. He's trying to get her to go back to his hotel. She's like, I'd like to get some work done. He's like, there's a pool. What do you mean?

We could do it in the afternoon. Yeah. He goes back there and is approached by two Chinese gentlemen who have got guns under piece of paper. And they go, you have killed my brother, et cetera. In the taxi. Yeah. Once you're's just, it's, it's just, it's just behind him and he just gets into it and then they both follow him and we get a scene that is so what he does here the effect you're supposed to get is that he is provoking using racism yes ironically to provoke the Nazis into laughing to make the two Chinese guys kill them hopefully killing everyone in the. So he gets up. What he actually just does is be racist for like a minute of screen time. He says like looking almost directly into the camera says a series of progressively more absurd racial slurs. This is another moment where either the translators doing a lot of work because I know

I can't, I don't speak French. I know a little bit of French from it's a pretty close. There's a lot of things there just seem like the translator was just adding a bunch of extra shit, but maybe I'm wrong. No, it's it's it's pretty literal like what makes sense to me, which was fun. Yeah, just comparing them to like various fruits and stuff. Yeah. Yes.

The one thing I want to highlight for this is that the two actors playing these Chinese agents, their expression work throughout this fucking scene, it carries the whole fucking scene for me because these two guys, I enjoyed it so much that I went IMTV and found out their fucking names. So Jean-Claude Tranin and Bing Yin fucking unbelievable work. Oh yeah. With the expressions in this scene, it's so, so good. Not to both sides this, but the Nazi actors are pretty good too, because they really sell kind of

like not getting what he's doing, but being drawn in by the racism. And it's like racism. In a friend time. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, like I said, this is like, it could have been really good. It's just a very, very fine needle to thread, and it does not do it even closely. So he does, he provokes the two to shoot at each other. And then we get a scene which genuinely is really funny, and which I really do like, which

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Having had this revelation about Nazis, you guys? Of course, Germans, and he goes to the West German embassy and he's up to the front desk and is like, so do you got a list of ex Nazis living in this? So fucking good. And again, just stare back. It's so, because there's two Germans at the front desk. One of them is working the front desk

and the other is filing something behind him. And the expression of the latter guy, as he turns around, is perfect. Everyone in the background, and every fucking scene in this is doing like a hundred percent. It's something. He's doubling down. He's like, the club, social, some sort of like social down.

The club do not see. Yeah, he gets a really good like the embassy guy goes, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. All Germans and not Nazis and he goes, yeah, I've heard that theory. Just a little German living in Brazil in the 60s. Yeah. So he takes the loris to meet Bill tremendous. And she tells them that she has found Fond Ziml's son, Heinrich, who is living with a hippie commune on the beach. There's this is the one drop that I actually got from this largely because I needed like

eight of Abigail. But there is one drop when he she goes back to meet him and he's just like in a bar talking to some women and she's like how have you done? And he's like you tell me first because after all I may well be an agent, but I'm first and foremost French and the little Hmm noise that she makes took me the fuck out so here it is. I'm a certain sister but I'm super mean in French. Just yeah I think that's a bit more of a frosty. Hmm. Just, yeah. Yeah, you are, man. And she's like, all right, I did like a bunch of real spy work

and I found out that it's a guy named Bill Tremendous has been working with the Nazis and he goes, having, as we know, done fuck all, goes, ah, the same conclusions I've come to, however, slight advantage to me because this is Bill's card. Yeah, let's go talk to him at his office. Let's just go to his fucking office. They go in and I love to do a podcast episode where I just like regurgitate jokes and go, these were funny, but like there's a fair way he puts off.

Both feet up on Bill's desk and there's just utter silence for like five seconds and he just quietly takes them back down. We see that Uber and Bill both do not understand hippies. Uber gets this great line, change the world, the world's fine as it is, why change it? It's working really well for us. And we also get a bit of the movie sucking itself off, right? Because so you may be familiar with the concept of Jewish humour, this movie is not, this movie is familiar with the phrase Jewish humour. Sometimes it is. Yeah. He tries to like understand what Jewish humour is, to which his

conclusion is, this is also the last line of the movie, just to really stick that knife in at the end. It's when something's not funny and not about sausages. Which in itself is not funny. But he's trying to explain this concept of irony to himself. And Dolores goes, oh, you're managing quite well in your own style, which is just like, fucking, don't write a good review for your own movie in the movie. That's all that line is there for us to be like, ah, see, it is actually ironic because it's not funny, but it is. Or is this one happens that you don't have enough Jews in your country as you

lose complete sight of this shit? And maybe they should have less collaboration with the Nazis. And they would have a funnier movie because more Jews would have written it. Just my thought. The long tail of La Faire Dracus is this joke in this movie. Yeah, that's something to be said for the the sheer crime of this movie making the single like most sympathetic character a Mossad agent.

Yeah. Yeah. To be like, okay, I guess you're my protagonist. Trying to activate me to make Alia. They're doing. Yeah. So they go to the Favela where the hippies live. And they have this conversation,

which is clearly the key point of the whole movie. There's not one thing this movie is really good at is little touches, right? So it does, it does those quite well. We're ahead of this, like there's some kids playing, some black children run up the stairs past. He like towsles his hair and then wipes his fucking hands afterwards. I like that as little, oh, you racist motherfucker. Yeah. It's, it's the little things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Because then we have the big conversation, which is, she asks him about Brazil. And, you know, it's a dictatorship. How do you feel about that?

And he goes, it's not a dictatorship. Dictatorship is when everyone wears like, you know, rubber boots and gray overalls, communists. And she says, well, what do you call a country that has a military head of state with total power, secret police, one TV channel, total censorship. He goes, France. Got a good joke. Got him. I'm fine.

Got him. Yeah. The goal is France. Yeah. And he's right. France is like three quarters dictatorship until like the 70s. So that's fine. I guess you can kind of tell it was like in there to be in the trailer.

It feels a bit self-satisfied, but go off, I guess. It's a good thing. So they meet Heinrich and they meet the hippies. All hippie-seen, I really enjoyed. Yeah, they're happy. He seems good. When they go down to the beach and they meet all of these fucking hippies, he comes up with this plan that he tells her do, and she just goes completely rogue and deals with it herself. And she just like pins high and rich to the ground, and he goes, we didn't agree on this. And she's like, yeah, but it's happening anyway. And you can tell he doesn't know what to do.

It's just like just sort of watching it like as if he's a participant, but not entirely. And like obviously, he's like, yeah, I'll fucking help you find him. My dad's a Nazi fuck that guy. And you're like, how dare you say that about your father? Like, saps him. Yeah, but we see that here's some sort of like quasi-fascist views about hippies. You know, they first they disrespect their hair, then their father's, then their country. And he sits down on the beach and he explains to them, listen, you know, it's,

it's nice to be on vacation. What are you going to do next year? 1968. I mean, yeah, so the hippies around it's 68 because it's really good line, which is, uh, it's not 1968 year of youth. The real world is waiting out there and the real world goes to the barber. It's very funny because it's seen is so obviously making fun of him for having like a retroactive view of this thing that is going to be proven wrong but very soon.

But I can feel it approaching that thing you were saying Alice about before when you were talking about it, about the sort of regressing into this guy becoming and telling it is, telling it like it is guy. Right? Like this is. Yeah. So that's a very soon. A guy being like this fire brandy sort of like, like watching all in the family because you think Archie Bunker is right. You know, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Because I think this is a thing that I've thought about before I was talking about it on the group chat with you guys as I was thinking about Jean Hunt. Right. Jean Hunt is a character. He's like a detective chief inspector in a couple of shows called Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.

Who became this like cult hero. And the original point of him was look at this racist homophobic, misogynist piece of shit. And I worry that if you make a character who has those traits and you portray as likable and redeemable, you have to be very careful because otherwise very quickly it can turn into, look at this guy who's telling it how it is. That's what happened to Jean Hunt, that's why they made a whole second series. And that's, I fear,

what's going to happen to OSS Sondu Set in particular since they gave the third installment, which I haven't seen, but which is set in Africa, to France's worst fail son, Nicolabedo, son of Gibello, who massive piece of shit personally. So I'm sure it's great. Reserving judgment, but you have a scene at, but assuming it's not great, and especially considering the name of it is, in English, from Africa with love, but in French, alert Rouge en Afrique Noir. Not good. Not ideal.

This is another thing, right? I think a lot about, so someone said being called borderline racist, right? Is that like in France, for white French people, where the border of borderline racist is, is drawn slightly differently. Yes. I think the vibe in particular is like using the phrase afrique noir, right? Black Africa is borderline unacceptable to that generation of French white people. Whereas the equivalent in English, like I guess you might say

like darkest Africa or something like that. You'd say darkest Africa. The dark continent, something like that. That's way out there. Even so well in the fucking pale. I think I have a very quick anecdote from when I was in Paris a few years ago where we ended up staying in a house of like a friend of a family, a family friend of a friend of ours had like a apartment that he let us stay in for a night because we get one night in Paris overnight.

And he was giving us like a little tour of the neighborhood and he's like a lifelong, bored and bred, pre-eation. And just making conversation, my partner was like, oh, the city must have changed a lot since he were a kid because he was an older guy. And he just looks at us and like sort of like, like he was saying to me like

Oh, this is the story I like to go to which is like oh, it was great until the blacks and Arabs moved in and just like keep going out the Conversation and I was just like I cannot fucking imagine a scenario and which by the way, I'm with My partner and our friend both of whom are not white right and he's just like And the way in which he just so casually tossed off this, like, insanely racist thing to me was just sort of like, he's getting a big argument with him for some reason. But like, I was just so, for a couple of minutes, just so shocked that like, a person thinks that's an appropriate thing to say to a person

that you just met, wild to me. It's unfuckable. Yeah, I guess a lot of the ways in which in particular British people are racist is directly traceable to the British Empire. Same with the French Empire, same with like African colonies and like Congles and then Indochina much. Makes me go to any market too, actually. Yeah, it's, so the, I've never seen it basically is that she spots the, he's, he sees topless women and she goes, yeah, I'm going to head on out. You can stay here if you'd like though.

And he goes, you're trying to ditch me, she's like, no, of course not. And he goes, yeah, I didn't think you would, which again is just a little like fuck you, dude. He takes a massard and he gets into a bisexual wall. He takes a massard as a matter of fucking course. Like he's there. He's just taking photos of like various hippie women posing on the beach. And like while he's like rotating his camera film while he's like resetting his camera, someone walks up to him, this one, and then just like hands him a little tap of LSD and he just puts it in his mouth immediately and goes, so what was that? And she's like, LSD and he goes, sit down and then starts talking about his camera again. And she walks away and he's like, oh, okay.

Yeah, because he gets too into his cover again, much like the poultry in OSS one. Like he does not know what he has just taken and it hits him when he's halfway through the performing a lecture to these kids. I found a fucking campfire. There's also a great bit in the campfire scene where he's like, they try to pass him a joint and he goes, no thanks, I've got one, it takes like a cigarette app, it's very good.

To me, just so oblivious. Yeah, second he likes. He has sex with a lot of women and one dude and that dude haunts his dreams and So the guy the guy like fingers him right that's like explicit because he gets sort of cold feet partway through and he's like listen Don't make don't draw any conclusions from this like a finger up about one thing and so he literally is just like I like what's happening right now, but don't tell anyone. I love what's happening But so smash cut to him sitting in the plane seat the next morning,

a changed man. It's like still in his suit. He looks like normal. He's clearly pushed himself back together, but he's sat down and he goes, strange. And they've taken Heinrich with them in this in this plan. They're going to to meet his father's contact in Bracilia. They have to take the plane. But the plane is of course being flown by another Chinese guy who does the classic bond thing of, you know, this plane will be a grave.

I'm going to parachute out, have a nice time. They crash the plane. You like crash land. Playfully explodes. Like it goes behind a mountain and explodes. And then so they have they have to survive in the plane. You like crash the land. It explodes. Like it goes behind a mountain and explodes. And then so they have they have to survive in the jungle and we get some more discussion of anti-Semitism. And he really, you know, gets to confront what he thinks about Jews and what he thinks

about Jews. There is there is one thing, I'll give it credit for, right, which is the one deeper layer of meaning that it's making here that I can identify is he cut the joke is he can't tell Jews and Muslims apart, right? And so he says, you know, you got to have been it's a strange religion with the no sausages and the veils. And she goes, wait, you can't tell like Jews and Muslims apart. And he's like, we see that's part of why people don't like you. She's got to be correct about these stuff. And that's like, that's not the part I like.

The part that I like is identifying like a lot of Islamophobia as re-heated anti-Semitism. But it's just the same thing, but sort of like lightly tweaked. But so he badly alienates her, and when they have to cross a crocodile filled river, the whole crocodile debacle is fucking perfect. I can talk about the fucking crocodile thing for an hour. This is the problem with this animal. Right, is that like, there's so much of it that I want to say, go and see it, because it's really funny.

And I'm just like retelling the jokes that it has in it. And then the other 30% of it is, there's a fucking the finger thing, you know? The other 30% is just like, again, it's the fucking satire requires clarity for the first time in the top. Yeah. It's like, it's for fucking satire, quite as clarity for the tank top. It's like, this is a really good film, but it could do with reading the fucking tank top. But they decide not to attempt to forge this river full of crocodiles.

In doing so, they go to a set that's just like a little bit of river and Hineric, Hineric strips completely to a nude and just goes into river a bit like I'm just gonna wash myself here and a crocodile attempts to slither towards him in the manner that crocodiles don't chest. Like, somehow. Perfect. Yeah. And because he is alienated, Dolores and Friedrich. And so he just ends up trying to cook and butcher this crocodile by himself on a big spit

getting like covered in blood the whole time. Meanwhile, Friedrich, I just like fucking eating berries. They're just like lying around a campfire having a genuinely lovely time. Like pans across the with this fucking entire crocodile spinning on a barbecue spit. It's like why would I cook? It's cooking too slowly. It's really good. It's really good.

So they do it like with one bound Jack was free thing, which is they are now in Brazil, which I appreciate. Yeah, this is really good. There's a throwaway line where it's like, wow, I'm, I'm, it was so handy. You had the plans of that pedal, it's just a shame, we weren't able to build the duck head. And he's really mad. They didn't get to build the duck. He's so pissed. He's so fucking mad about it. He's like, the duckhead we're taking too much time and he's like, the boat's difficult. The duckhead's just a duckhead. I don't see why you can, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. So they get to the hotel and they just do it all.

Free took ranges for them to go to a costume party. And we see one of the sort of like redeeming features of OSS, on the set, he loves costumes. So immediately out of nowhere makes a perfect Robin Hood costume. Yeah, you see him spot a dress on a mannequin and like he looks over to it and he goes like, all right, we'll meet back here in one hour in costume. And like you imagine you're like, okay, so she's gonna wear the costume, but she comes out dressed as like a maid. And it pans across to him and he has taken that dress

and perfectly transformed it into a Robin Hood costume. And she goes, how did you do this? And he just goes, I so. And then we get another great bit because he's like still been making fun of like how bad his fucking code name is no L Flontier, no L means Christmas and And he tries to like make up with her because France and Israel are out like worked against a little flower

And he says But it's a kind of the no L. It's a Christmas present and he makes himself laugh so much that he has to go and call his boss From the hotel to tell there's so much that he has to go and call his boss from the hotel to tell. There's so much business in the lobby of this hotel. There's just like so much like the scene goes on forever because I keep adding new bits like that and just him laughing for 10 minutes. It's like it's I'll be honest to you. I identify very strong with making a joke for doesn't land so you leave the event and call a friend to tell them about the joke.

Yeah, that's what this podcast is. Yeah, this guy, I wrote this guy's a podcast. It's cool. And like he's on the phone of his boss and he goes, oh hang on, I've got to go as an artsy in the lobby. And like they walk in a frame and it's free-drinking and artsy costume. He goes, ah, my apologies, it's just my friend free-drinking. Yeah, yeah.

Who claims that he got this costume as a rental because he got their light and he tried to jazz it up a bit with an arm band with a smiley face on it where the regular Nazi art man would be. Everything else is like photo-perfect, right? There's a little skull on the head. It's like a full Nazi dress uniform and then just... It's the most smiley way to the end. And then the next, the next shot is the three of them

in the back of the taxi on the way to the thing. And Dolores is furious. Dolores is absolutely fuming. So we get to the party. And Dolores goes, do you think this is a trap? He's like, no, probably not. And every motherfucker in there is wearing a non-smileyface SS uniform.

There is a guy in SS uniform doing a German version of the Gulf on Ipanema on the stage. It's really good. And then she passes each one, she passes, goes, I fucking, like, I laughed so fucking hard. We see Fontaineble, who immediately identifies, we have a special guest for this tonight, James Bond. Yeah, the bit from Spectre 2021. He does what I think is a French political joke. He might be doing Shiraq.

I'm not sure. He's like, you know, the fourth Reichs of Pirate Dream, and I'm going to do that. What we're going to do is the fifth rake. Um, and at this point, a swastika picked out and fucking lights, like lights up behind him. Shove is. And they immediately captures them. He goes right, lock them in my office. And sadly, we get the reveal that Heinrich, he pulls off his hippie mask. He pulls off his hippie hair and he pulls off his smiley face Nazi armband to reveal a normal Nazi armband to me and goes, I'm not Heinrich, I am Friedrich. And we won't... No!

The fucking armband joke was so fast. It's a really good thing. Yeah, they put him in that basement, right? And like, and fucking like, you bears looking around is like, oh, I got a plan here, because he sees a half open vent and then a step ladder underneath it and he's like, I've got a plan. We're gonna have about a half an hour before and then it just walks straight in.

And he's like, I was impatient, I wanted to see my guest. And we see that they tie a bird down to a table and Vontignal extracts the microfilm from his chest where he had concealed it. And one of my favourite gags in this movie, he goes, what are you doing? I'm opening my safe. Why don't I remember this? Because of this, this, this truth, this memory serum, and then it cuts back to mid wall black and white, and they do the same scene again in a different tense, but he's like, exactly word for word. Why won't I remember this? Because of this memory? Like every line is the fucking same. I'd say the cut. And the microphone is just like

just below his skin, like, apparently. Yeah. They extract from microfilm and fucking simulgas. All that best-age and stuff was hogwash, but you know that didn't you? And it goes, fact that you've had, and he looks so earnestly upset by that. He's like genuinely hurt. My, all of my favorite bits are like the, the slight insults to you there were like fucking bond which is like with like brush it off for you. It takes it so

Who has finally slipped into something more comfortable which is a Nazi He's a guy. I see much more comfortable. I'm not a uniform. Yeah Fucking leather Nazi level. So, so Uber escapes and he has to wrestle one of the luchadors and this, this also cuts to another great arm band joke, which is he tears his shirt off and under that with his bare chest he's also got a Nazi. This will be the episode I have to screen cap it's so good. We get it. We get.. We get so

Heinrich dies. Friedrich dies unfortunately. The Laura takes Friedrich hostage in with a gun. She's just like, all right, untie him and immediately both both loose to us untie him. Don't even wait for anyone to say anything. They just untie him. He sits up, walks over to them, takes the gun out of her hand and goes goes I'll take this from here and clearly accidentally Shoot's hyena who forced to the ground dead and it's just a perfect sign that's for like three seconds and I like did you shoot him and he's like no Like well who else did and he's like I saw who did but I won't say I'll just stand around while he books it. It's very good. Yeah.

We get a fucking shoot out, very long shoot out where one of the luchadores is just like throwing everything within an arms reach at him. And I wrote this is also how I fight. And we get the luchador fight between the two of them. Then we get, chase the baby, film during the day of them, then, then we get chasing, chasing baby, film during the day in blue filtered a perfect and the fucking back projector driving like this is this is a perfect scene to me. He's still trying to hit on her.

He doesn't understand why she's not into him and she's like because you know, you're an idiot, you're childish, you're full of your own superiority bordering on racist is what she says to him. And again, I got some questions about where we draw that fucking border. It's the clip of Bernie Sanders from 2016 going like shaking his finger. I don't think so. I don't think so. But so they they pile out at igwa's who falls where she she reminds him right take him alive and then he chases him to the falls and they both go over show a lot of the show. It's a really good bit. The falls audio is so loud. He might run into how's the dark alone the Nazi is such a good little

visual gag too. It just looks so fucking stupid. Everything on it, the chase is so good. Every single time this fucking every time Zimil is running, he does at least one little like hop while he's going every single time. It's really funny. They catch him and he tries to hold him at gunpoint, but they can't hear each other over the sound of the falls and and you bear as yes, another flashback to his time as a trapezoid. Yes. Because if it's a vertigo, and they both fall over, and then they wake up in the hospital. Another perfect scene. This scene, perfect. At least on every gag lands. From now to only leave the location,

every joke is perfect and good. Yeah, they're both sort of like hospitalized. Uber has like an IV stand, volunteer, has a walker, and we get a like achingly slow chase. And they're both doing different. It's due with walks. Like they're like, yeah. Physical comedy, the top not too good. I mean, that's the one thing the French are good at, right?

Like they can figure that out. Yeah, for sure. Mimes and such. Yeah. The other stuff, it's the problem. They're both chasing each other so fucking like agonizingly slowly, but the music is just like a real chase season It's like, and then it does that thing like fucking nowhere. It cuts to a wide shot of the two of the moving slowly with no musical Such like, I think I was back in it like

They make it to a fucking elevate. It's called the Eiffel Tower. It's a bit more, for some of the escapes in the Eiffel Tower. It's a bit more, um, and you have to go back and do some detective work and this leads to the gag that made me laugh the hardest in the whole movie, which is,

Oh, it's straight. He goes to the nurse and the nurse is like, well, he's been making some phone calls and he tries the thing where, if you've written on like a notepad, you can like trace over the remaining sheets to see the impressions of what was written before. And he does that and he just traces it

to reveal that he was written down I heart-signed swat. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.

I can't. She just tells him where he's gonna be,, which is going to be the statue across the Redeemer, sets him up with some clothes in the car. The old gardeners clothes and the old gardeners gardeners gardeners gardeners gardeners gardeners gardeners gardeners gardeners gardeners gardeners. Take a perfect convertible on a tuxedo with a ruffled shirt. He sees him like Zimmer escaping and he like gets his head caught in the fucking elevator.

And this nurse who is like somehow still horny for him despite the fact that she's just seen him get his head bumped in an elevator twice. Go, he's like, do you have any spare clothes around? And she's like, got the old gardeners clothes, but I don't know if it would suit you particularly. And it cuts him in like a perfect, tuxedo George Layson, be style ruffled the whole way up. Oh yeah. It's like, it's not my first choice, but it'll do.

And at the end of the scene, she's like, the old gardener's car there, I suppose. And it can't be converted. We get the funniest use of the sort of like multi-camera thing, which is he goes, okay, I'm gonna make some phone calls to clear this up. So he calls Dolores to tell her meet me at Bill's office. Then he calls Bill and then each of them

call for her. And they all get split screens. They're all talking over each other. One of them's not like a big field radio and a 10. It's like bigger than his head. It's like, Oh, I'm, and then after all of this cross talk, they all hang up on each other radio in a 10. It's like bigger than his head. It's like, you're like, and then after all of this cross talk,

they all hang up on each other and he turns to the Nelson goes, Yeah, let's do this right, Clive, you. Yeah, and all of these like showing on screen at the same time with the split car has put his fucking power. It's something straight from naked gun. It's really good.

He feels himself so hard that he's like, while he's driving, he stops and overpass to take a photo of himself by the car. We see that he's been getting like weirdly serious about his photography too, because that's his cover, which I like. Yeah, like in the first one where he gets like super into the poultry market in Cairo. Yeah, so he goes to Bill's office where he finds that Bill, his surprise, has betrayed him, that the CIA are working with the Nazis. That's weird. Captured the Loris. I know.

Prasion, what? That's wild. What's funny is that they still have to have a line that like expiates America because when Carlotta comes in she's like, because it goes like the CIA you're supposed to be against America's supposed to be against the Nazis. And Carlotta goes, well America's not the CIA. And it's like, okay. This sort of implements its foreign policy really, but whatever. They both Carlotta and Bill are killed. And Dolores has rescued via the timely intervention

of another Chinese man. And he makes time for him. He kicks the gun over for him to kill Carlotta by promising to investigate the possibility of a Nazi is right. A whole man for Nazis. Is it incredible? There's no one else in the world. Not see.

He's like in between like in between all the secret services and this guy's brothers, you're never going to get us second of privacy from here on out. So, so we go to the big crystal redento statue, the Corcovado, where we see Von Zemel who does not want to be taken alive and he does a perfect merchant of Venice. If you prick us, do we not bleed about being a Nazi? It's a projected class. It's really good. I don't know how I feel about this. It's such a fucking bitch perfect thing.

Because he's just like, does a Nazi not bleed? I've been up people. The note here is clearly like turn up the Shakespearean actor to maximum. I think it works because he's doing the really over the top German accent and wearing like a literal SS uniform. I think that's so good. I think the satire is pretty clearly laid out there, but if he was not, you'd get it. Yeah.

Jerry, which, so much you there is just like, it's beautiful. But what are you doing? He literally goes to the door is he's like, why can't we make a not a lasting piece between that season? Impossible to know. He shoots the gun out of out of Zimba's hand as he's attempting to finally put it into itself. Zimba, like looks down at the gun on the ground, looks back at Uber and then turns and likes it into the statue with one little hop as he

got. Yeah. And so Uber has to overcome his fear of heights and his his trapeze accident, which he does out on the arm where he catches von Zima after going, no, no, it was just an ordinary trapeze accident, which is a great one. That's a fun, I mean, it looks almost identical to the ending of North by Northwest, where it's like the mad painted city behind them while they're on like the styrofoam statue. Yeah.

The map, I'm so glad you brought the map paintings. I forgot to mention them. It's so good. Like that, their commitment to doing this in the old style like every shot is very simple There's no like like fucking camera arm movement or anything like that Yeah, the fidelity to like how the old movies looked is actually very impressive. I'll say yeah Oh, yeah, because you design all the little touches like that So he he captures once emal who is dead is implied, you know, he's gonna be sent to Israel put on trial and killed

He retrieves the microfilm with a list of French collaborators and there He captures someone's animal who is dead is implied, you know, he's going to be sent to Israel put on trial and killed. He retrieves the microfilm with a list of French collaborators. And then in the most sort of fucking cowardly decision of the movie, he and Dolores kiss. Yeah, bullshit. Why? Why? She articulated perfectly all of the reasons. And she, her line is like, why I don't understand why I'm doing this. You have successfully undercut the entire movie satire by having them kiss at the end.

Where the fucking tank top learn to read. I don't get it. It's fucked. And then we get, we get sort of a pre-credits scene I can only describe. And as he goes to see our mark, I do like that they make explicit the collaborative and they make him they make us a some some of the set complicit in it as well where he talks to our mark his boss and is like you know I thought I saw your name on that list. And he's kind of waffles and he goes wow it was a very it was a historical period to be alive and you know anyway how would you like the Legion of Honor?

So clearly pies them off with the medal. Yeah. And then we end with an actually very dense if racist pun about how he wants to pick his own cover name if he's going after Michelle Lee and you know if you're going to get in Lee you'd cover too because Lee sounds like Ed. And then we end with the fucking Jura Shima. It's when something's not funny and not about sausages, fine. And that's the movie. Week final line, but,

so I very much do like, is throughout the credits, you get like a little slice of all the photos that you've ever taken throughout this trip. And they all suck. They're all so bad in that fight. And they all are so bad. And more than half of them are just of women's asses. You're trying to get an upscirt shot.

Seems like. Yeah. There's one that's just so clearly like some women you've passed on the streets feet. He's taking a picture of. There is there is also after that, there's also a little video of him in front of the skyline in the harbor riding a duck. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that was also phenomenal. I like the duck paddler bit. I like that half of that humor was off screen. I think it'll be weaker to show it. This is almost a good moment. And that is so close, but the Ebedo gamble just fails multiple times. What do we have to say in closing about OSS on this that lost in Rio? It's so fake enough.

I would recommend it to someone with a big asterisk. Big? Up the asterisk and absolutely. Great final, like great fucking any quote. How do you feel about Abby? I love it.

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