Kill James Bond! - S4E27: Bob le Flambeur

Episode Date: November 28, 2025

In this precursor to the French New Wave, an old Gambler in 50s France gets mixed up in a scheme to heist 800 Million Francs from a casino. ----- Friend of the show Bella, a refugee evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021, is raising money for her gender confirmation surgery! Anything you can give would be hugely appreciated! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/team-bella ----- Check out friend of the show Mattie's new book Simplicity here, or wherever fine graphic novels are sold! ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. In our home, we talk a lot about how insane everything feels, and agonise constantly over what can be done to best help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza facing the full brunt of genocidal violence. My partner Rebecca has put together a list of four fundraisers you can contribute to- all of them are at work on the ground doing what they can. -Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine https://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla https://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also https://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 -Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thamra-cultivating-resilience-in-gaza ----- 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/ Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the every app account

Hello and welcome to another episode of Kill James Bond. I am November Kelly. I am joined, as always, by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon. Bonjour! Hello, saloo. Bonjour to the monde. Another French episode, you get to hear our French inflicted on you again, because as part of robbery season, I thought I'd go back to 1956.

And a really early, a movie that prefigures a lot of the French new wave and a movie that imitates a lot of kind of American gangster movies and heist movies and tries to like bring them into Europe and into France. And the film is Bob Le Flaumbert. Yeah, there's some fun DNA of future heist movies in this one. which I quite like. Absolutely. I mean, in itself, it's not a bad movie, certainly, but it looks its age in a lot of ways.

Yeah. So just the heroine. Yeah. Yeah. We'll get to that. I mean, this was also some adverse conditions movie club in the sense that I had to look around a fair bit to find a print of this that was more than 144 of God's own pixels. And even then, it was, it's a struggle.

But... Yara Fiddledi D, I always watch movies legally. Yeah, we all watch this completely legally. We all pay like 165 euros for the Criterion Collection DVD, not even a Blu-ray, a DVD. That's so fine. Also, another reason why I picked this is that this is, we're back in the kind of teenage movie minds for me. Like this one I watched as part of like, oh, I got to learn about film.

And I love all these French New Wave movies. I love VivaVee. I love Breathless. I love Bond of Par. So I want to see where they kind of came from. And I want to go back a bit and see the kind of 50s movies that made people make movies like that in the 60s. Okay.

And so the last time I saw this, I was a teenager. And it kind of holds up, to be honest. Yeah, it's decent. It's all right. I will say 56 is this makes it the earliest movie we've ever seen. Really? Does it really? Wow.

Okay. This is a record-setting KJB episode. I've never thought to track that. The oldest movie. I can do Metropolis. We'll do some... Oldest movie. We'll go back and do some like expressionist movies.

Yeah, second point. Just to put my cards on the table here. Now, one of these was my fault, but we had to delay recording twice. And in between then and now, I've watched all of the Twilight movies. And I remember them so much more readily than Bob the Flambour. It's kind of become lost to the... mists for me, unfortunately. Yeah.

So the other thing about this movie is that it's directed by Jean-Pier Melvin, who also did Army of Shadows, which we're going to do at some point, The Samurai. Is that a sequel to Evil Dead? Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. In many ways, it's sort of a free quarter evil dead. But yeah, just very, very talented director who would go on to make movies significantly better than this, and this is decent.

But so we catch him in sort of a, you know, early stage here. I mean, you can tell that he takes himself seriously, though, because his, he's being credited just as Melville in this. Yeah, mononym. Yeah, mononym, fully yourself, honestly, I don't know who would. We begin, much like Frupier with narration, with the monologue, explaining that, so if you're not familiar readers, Montmartre is an area in Paris. you may have seen John Wick get kicked down it. Yes.

Before John Wick was using it as a kind of like whole body ski slope, it used to be kind of a shithole, sort of a demi-monde, and in particular the area next to it, the Pigal, used to be like Paris Soho, in the sense of like topless clubs and stuff like that. It's got like a seedy area of Paris. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. I mean, it's got a big fucking basilica on top of it,

But, you know, down the hill where John Wick got kicked into is, like, a bunch of topless bars and stuff. Well, you get sort of reference to that even because, like, the tracking show has been like, it can be heaven or, and then you see, like, a funicular descending down the hill. You're like, oh, hell. And he's signed descending on a really nice suit getting kicked down that finicular. Yeah, you see John Wick's roll past. That or hell thing. I never imagined descending to hell via finicular. That's quite fun there.

Like an updated version of car and the boatman is just like running the finicular. You've got to have coins to pay the finicular man. The problem is I know myself. There's like a 40% chance I would get on that finicular just like to see. Just to be honest. Here on the ferryman only speaks rematch. Yeah. So that all hell bit is really funny because it's in the sort of.

It can be your angle. In the mode of like American film noir of being like, you know, through these dirty streets, must go a man, etc., etc., right? But it looks quite nice. Genuinely, I'm looking at these nice, wide streets. Yeah, like, it's genuinely. It kind of doesn't hit when you're looking at it, because it looks lovely. Yeah, and it's just like, truly, this is hell.

Yeah, 1956, half the carbon in the atmosphere has not yet been released, and they're like, it's hell here. And it's like, you've no idea! Yeah, yeah. And so we get a street scene, a night scene in hell with a... A young woman, and remember when sailors used to actually dress like Popeye rather than whatever tactical bullshit they have going on now? Yeah.

They used to make you, if you're in the Navy, wear a little fucking pork pie hat and some bell bottoms. And now they barely even do that. So you could do tap dancing routines? Exactly. Yeah. Like in Hail Caesar. Yeah. But so it's late at night, this woman is like buying, like, Pompreet or whatever, and

she gets, like, harassed by these sailors. And again, this is meant to give you a sense of, oh my God, you know, Maumatra, it's a dangerous, it's a bad place, she's so vulnerable. And, but she, she ends up, like, going with this sailor who has the worst, like, American French accent in the business. This is really funny. Bonjour, baby! It's really good. I love this guy. Yeah.

This apparently works on French women, I guess. Well, I didn't speak French, but I do kiss that. That way. And also at the same time, we meet our hero, Bob Le Flambour, Bob the Strawberry. Bob. Bob. Bob Le Frambois. And he's shooting craps, and might not say, at this hour, it's like 6 a.m., man.

What the fuck are you doing? You get the sense he's at the end of a long night of gambling. Yeah. And as he loses, he's like, you know, I'm going to go to bed, right? Does not go to bed. Goes to next casino. Next casino. Next casino, yeah.

Also, Bob Blomber, he looks like shit. He looks like a man who's been up all night losing all his money, which I appreciate. He's not a kind of like grizzled, like, oh, I'm down on my luck, but I'm still really handsome and my hair is good. He's like, no, this man looks like Graham Linnehan got kicked through a hedge, right? He looks real bad. Maybe not that bad, but like, yeah. He goes to the second casino, which is like a kind of, I can only describe as a kind

of scar gambling room. Like, it's all black and white check. Crazy, like black and white checkerboards on every wall, like squares six inches by six inches. Insane looking. The Scar Casino? That's so good. Yeah, when you put down the chips, you have to pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. Bastards.

Tom Ridgewell's in there looking real sad. Loses again and is like, all right, now I'm actually going to bed. Goes out through the restaurant, this is in back of, because this isn't even a proper casino. This is just a gambling room in back of a restaurant. Completely empty restaurant where a guy is playing the vibraphone. And I had to be told what a vibraphone was, and this is it apparently. It's diagetic as well. It's almost literally like the diagesis joke where he's like, you know, you hear the vibraphone

music and goes past and there's a guy actually playing. Goes out into the street, I was away home. Back when the street cleaning was just a truck that pissed water all over the street, which I was very taken by. It'll get clean. Happens upon this young woman. He sees her being driven away by this American sailor. On a moped as well.

Yeah. And at this point, the cops pick up Bob, not in a kind of like formal capacity, but more pleasure than business. And his old friend is chief inspector, inspector Zenegada of the inspector detective Frank Dreven. His friend is cop. His friend cop, his friend cop, picks him up. His friend cop, commissaire Ledrew.

who, I have to say, is not really a Zenegata in this. He's sort of an inverse Zenegata. He's trying not to catch him. Yeah, he doesn't want to do any police work, not because he's lazy, but because he and Bob have this kind of chummy relationship. Reverse zenegata, the Attic Zinnig. Yeah. They sort of subvert your expectations a bit, because when the cops pick him up, they pick

him up in a sort of a cop fashion, right, with the car and everything. And then they just give him a lift and a cigarette. Like, they take him home, because they're old mates, which is an interesting time period as well for this movie, because in 1956, old cops and old gamblers would have been either in the resistance together or collaborating together. Of course. I hadn't thought of that. And depending on which one of those you take, that's an interesting sort of unspoken

thing in this movie is all of the like kids, the young people, were like born sort of either during or immediately after the war and Bob and his cop friend are the ones who are sort of old enough to have actually lived it as adult. In fact, the cop says Bob saved my life once and now that you say that November

perhaps that he means in the war we also hear that Bob used to be a bank robber but that was 20 years ago and like he's just he's reformed he was a pre-war bank robber I feel like yeah I feel like if you go through World War II you sort of do the great reset on your, like, personal relationships.

Like, we're probably fine again now. You do get to re-respeck your character, all of your, like, skill points come back. If you are a pre-World War II bank robber, and you exist in a world where Joseph Stalin also exists, you've got to feel real bad because I'm like, fuck, man. Look at what I could have achieved. Yeah.

That's what pre-war bank robbers are doing now, is I running the fucking Soviet Union? I've got to step up my game. The grind set, you know? But so, yeah, he takes Bob home, and Bob's apartment is really nice. He's got a big view of the basilica. Gambling's going well. This is hell, right?

This is disgusting, awful department. My amazing apartment, I'm like, damn, I've got to take up fucking gambling. I've got to become La Flambour. From the movie La Flambourne. He really became La Flambourne. And as he's meant to be going to bed, he gets a knock on the door in the middle of the night. from a criminal associate, Roger. Roger.

Roger. Who is like, I need your help, I need to leave town in a hurry. This isn't Roger, this is Mark. Is it? Fuck, okay. Yes, Roger's a good guy. Okay, fine. You can remember them because Roger, Roger is his mate who looks like Vladimir Putin,

and Mark is the villain who is tall. Yeah, okay. Does he meet Roger before Mark? I don't believe so. Um, but, Mark, so he goes, so he's, it's, yeah, so he gets a knock in the door in the middle of the night, and, uh, it's, it's his, like, associate, not friend, Mark, um, who is, uh, like, I need, I need money to leave town because I'm in trouble with the cops. Yeah. And we see Bob is gonna do it. He has like a cash draw to kind of, like, dispense to the needy.

Yeah. It's like, whatever, in his role as kind of elder statesman of the kind of demi-monds is like, sure, what, would, what, would you? you in trouble for? And Mark says, oh, I beat up my girlfriend too badly. And you see that Bob, woke Bob, sort of respect to him. Yeah, woke Bob was like, nah, man. Well, specifically Mark is a, Mark is a pimp. I hate the pimps. He doesn't like him. Yes. He beat up his girlfriend who he was like pimping out as well. And so, so woke Bob, Bob Louoc, uh, he throws him out. He's like, get out. I don't like your type. Get out of here. I don't like, don't like pimps. Get out.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. He's like told him to stop pimping before. And he won't do it. Mark won't stop pimping. Pimping ain't easy. He can't stop him. But try something else, man. Try something easier. But after he throws about four... I think Bob's position is that pimping is too easy. Yeah. Bob immediately starts drinking after this, which is quite funny, like six in the morning. He's just like, ah, time to start drinking. He's been woken up by Mark and then sort of like has a day cap, I guess, of champagne, which, hell yeah. Hell yeah. And then... Then plugs his phone back in.

Yeah. Clugs his phone back in, yeah. Well, he's got a charge in. Get a phone call from his friend, Roger. Paolo. This is Roger. This is Roger. This is Roger.

Who the hell is Roger? There's too many fucking aliases around here. Roger is the safecracker who looks like Putin. Paolo is the young guy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Gets a phone call from his younger friend, Paolo. French Shear Leberf.

Shia Leboeuf. Yes, yes! That's who he looks like. He is French Shea Leboff. Yeah, he's French mutt from Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. He tries to... He tries to... He tries to...

He tries to prank Bob by doing... Shia with cheese. He tries to prank Bob by doing like a woman's voice and Bob clocks him. And it's like, I told you, next time just put like a handkerchief over the phone, which I'm gonna try next time, see if that helps. Yeah, yeah, he crank calls him, yeah. But they go out the next slide, Bob and Paolo. He's like, I told you, you've got to resonate like back of your... The front of the mouth, yeah.

Giving a bad advice. Resonating as the back of the mouth is very French. You've been watching the guy who's ripping off Seattle Voice Labs, who doesn't know what he's fucking doing because he stole their curriculum. No, except no invitations. Tacoma Voice Labs? Authentic Seattle Voice Labs only. Yakima Voice Labs?

Yeah. The provisional Seattle Voice Labs. Provisional Seattle. You're listening to Yakima Voice Labs. I'm sounding really right now. Yeah. Yeah. So they go to this cafe, the heads or tails.

They're gambling again. Yeah. Bob's just losing all the time. And Bob complains about this. He says, like, I've got no luck at the moment. If I played hopscotch, I'd lose. Yeah. Which I like.

And we also see that Paolo is kind of like modeling himself on Bob a bit. He is. Besides doing a woman's voice, he's kind of an auto-bobophile in that he's kind of like, he's got Bob's hair cut, he's kind of got the same suit as Bob, he's standing a bit like Bob, you know? Like the other people in the scene are kind of like, I get it, you know, like he needs someone. The Shempai-Kohai relationship. God, what a poor.

French Shempai. In French Japan, the relationship is a huge between an old man and a younger. What the fuck is it? He really is. He is. He's like a mentor, it's like a mentor protege type thing. Just getting mentorship to become more of a broke dip shit. That's really funny.

Yeah, it's a modern apprenticeship in failure. The mentor that makes you worse. Yeah, I think I've had some of those. But they see across the bar that the woman that he saw... The reverse mentor, the Rotnam. Say you do the fucking reverse bit. Rottenham Common. He sees the woman from last night across the bar.

Yes. And he goes up and confronts her. Yeah, my notes say, I invented a new detector du nonce, he'll say beep, beep, beep. She do be looking unimaginably young, though. This woman looks like 14. Yeah, she looks about 14. It's crazy.

Yeah. And he's like, he does play off of this in the sense that he's like, you're too young to be doing this. He threatens to spank her, which I believe is. intended to be like because you're a child not because you're horny, you know. She walks in with Mark and Bob like warns him away.

He's like, get the fuck away. And he tells her off he tells her, he tells her, you've got to watch out, you're in Montmartre, like these pavement Romeo's, especially you use, which is delightful. It sounds like a great album. And says these pavement Romeo's are dangerous. You need to get out of Montrecha

or you'll end up fucking walk in the streets. Come over here to us. And it's protective as well, although we see that Paolo is looking at her. He's giving her like sort of sissette, chase her eyes. He is eye. One thing I do, Palo is also meant to be young, so it's not meant to be as bad, but still, anyway, the script in this, my French is basically non-existent, right? But it's, I'm told, it's in a very distinct kind of Parisian, like, street kind of vernacular of the time.

Sick. Through which I learn that the French of 1956 for Sugar Daddy as a concept is or was Papa Gato. Okay. Which. Yeah, the cake father. The cake father. My cake father. Terry Branchett.

It's a very different movie, you know. I know it was you, Fredo. So, he like, the three of them comprise a dramatic triad. I also think I would really enjoy the slang in this if my French were better. So he kind of takes them both under his wings as a kind of older dip shit, right? Because we see that Bob, he exists as a... gambler now, not a good one, and it's kind of living on the reputation of he used to be something. He used to be like a bank robber, right?

In fact, when we're with the cops earlier, after they drop him off, one of the other cops asks not Zenegata about this. And he's like, yeah, he basically invented modern bank robbery in France. He was the first one to use fast cars for the getaway, which no one had draws off before. Roger says later on that if he invented the concept of the getaway car, and I guess like up until that point, bank robbers dropped the bank, and they just leave. Stood still Just stood teapost and record

It's like hail a fucking taxi or something Get on the tube It was ridiculous Walk away Amble, sidel You know I mean There's a little bit of like

Dramatic because as I'm reading about Bob Laflamber Like this is like an important movie Because it invented the jump cut Or something like that Yeah Yeah basically Sometimes you know

If you go early enough back You need someone to invent the idea of the getaway driver. They just hadn't thought about it before then. You're telling me that small domino, Bob Laflomba, Big Domino, YouTube video essayist? Gotta be. Basically. Wow.

Because if you look at it most of the time, it's not cuts. It's wipes, like Star Wars. So, speaking off, we do a vertical wipe, which is crazy, crazy work. Yeah. And Mark has been called in to Commissaire Zenergata's office. And the first thing Zenergata does is like... He's like... Two-air nicked sunshine.

Yeah. Slap the fedora off his head, which was the worst thing you could do to someone in the 50s. It was. It was. He's also the only one wearing a hat in the office, so I do write down me when I wear my fedora to the no fedora's office. And so, LeDrew never taking a cigarette out of his mouth while he's talking, because Frenchman class, is like, all right, we could arrest you for the pimping and the beating up your girlfriend,

right? Or you could turn informant for me. And so if you don't want to get nicked for that, you're going to have to give me a lead on something big. And when Mark protests that he doesn't know anything, LaDrew, the cop is like, I don't care. Get me something. You know, just find out or you're, you know, going to prison. Yeah. And the next morning, Bob goes to pick up his fucking enormous car.

This thing is like, it's like a fucking limousine. It's like a two-tone convertible. It's massive. It's like a, I think it's a Chevrolet, Bel Air, conversable. Yeah. And I do know down at this point, driving the sickest, widest car you've ever seen. Oh, this is hell. This is hell, probably.

I'm in hell. It's going to be hell when you try and fucking park it. As he's driving around, he sees Anne again, getting kicked out of her apartment. Merely for not paying rent. This is why we need French A-Gorn. Yeah. Yeah. Hold on a second.

To come and stop the ship. I think we do have an affiliate. French for ACORN. Wow, okay, I'm not saying that. Oh, no. French for ACOR. Um, but so he picks her up. Yeah.

Fair enough. And she's, she's kind of childlike, but she's also kind of gammon, you know, in the sense of, um, like, precocious. Oh. A-I-I-N-E, A-N-E, I-N-E. Fucking hell. The phonetics are all over the place than I want. G-A-M-I-N-E, where it's like kind of boyish, kind of precocious, it's like a flapper thing from the 20s.

Anyway, point is, she's like, oh, my landlady kicked me out just because I didn't pay any rent, jerk off motion. Quote-unquote. Like, that's a fucking crime these days. Yeah. What am I gonna do? She's not even really that upset. She's pretty blasé about all of this stuff. She's like, yeah, I guess I'll just.

We gather that she can, like, she stays with guys. She goes home with guys and then she just kind of sleeps here and there and it's whatever, right? It's kind of, it's a little bit manipulative to be like to this obviously feeling protective older man, like, oh, I guess I'm just going to have to just stay out on the streets or find some like unsavory young man. She's like, my plan is to do this for a few years and then I'm going to become the West Coast editor of Vanity Fair. a vanity fair. Yeah. I'm gonna out of her for a little bit. He of course takes her back to his apartment.

There's a stylish little bit of like slang, right? Where he, he says, you know, as you'll remember, it's number 36, like the key, and she doesn't get what he means. 36 Key Desofev is the address of the like Paris CID. It's like the police headquarters. So it's like, he would know that. It's like he lives in like, fucking new. East Scotland Yard kind of fine.

So he takes her indoors. Again, it's another fucking, like, wipe. Vertical wipe. Vertical wipe. It's the same direction to do that. It's weird to wipe that way. And you see that Bob is kind of a compulsive gambler because he has his slot machine closets,

the closet in which he keeps a little slot machine, which he just plays with his own money. Just going to quietly do a bit of slots. Hey, there's nothing wrong with that. I'm just realizing. I'm just realizing. I saw this movie and Kruppier roughly contemporaneously, there was a non-zero chance that I believed when I was 15 that adult men just kind of had a slot machine closet.

If that's one of the things that you have when you grow up, yeah, you're like slot machine closet. Right. Next birthday, I'm gonna go, Hobbsy's on a slot machine. Going, yeah, absolutely. Just I need a closet to keep it in. And crucially, nothing else in this closet. It's not like, you know, storage and then the slot machine.

It's like, no, I keep my slot machine in here, and I, like, gamble compulsively on it. But so, he, like, he offers her to, you know, stay in his flat in a way there's, you're not, I think, meant to know at this point whether or not Bob is like, sort of covetous of her sexually, right? And what is up with my vocabulary, is it like? You don't get that impression from him. No. All three of them, Bob. It's more your dad.

You're more Martre dad looking out for you. Crime dad. And like, Bob and Paolo and Anne go out gambling the following night. They play poker, and weirdly, this is poker that isn't Texas Holden, which is one of the things that really dates it, is this was before the sort of, before you'd refined what poker meant in most settings. This is interstitially with this is also where we get the conversation about Bob inventing the getaway driver.

And it's interesting because... It's the transporter from the movie The Transporter. Yeah. One of the other cops sort of accuses him of like, imitating American crooks. Because this movie is imitating American gangster movies. And there's a bit of a kind of cinematic repost to this in that one of the, and in fact, it's literally the inspector is like, yeah, but we had the Bonneux gang first, right? Who were a gang of sort of anarchist bank robbers in the 1910s who kind of did invent

getaway drivers and did things like, used like repeating rifles in bank robberies and it completely like outgunned the police. Wow. So yeah, you know, it was crazy. You used to be able to do that anyway. You should be outgun the police. Imagine that. No.

I mean, you can. It would just be kind of hard, I suppose. Yeah. But so again, it's the sort of cinema and crime linkage there of French new wave, or sort of like prefiguring the new wave, imitating American directors that is imitating like early French filmmaking, right? It was derivative of it. And so it's interesting to tie those two things together.

We also have some of the most chaotic sound editing in the game in this movie. What what what what is this? I don't know. I don't know. This does this. Tell me why. I think the reason why is it's meant to try, it's trying to convey, I think, a bunch of different really loud bars next to each other or kind of playing over each other.

But the way that it chooses to do that is a bunch of really disjointed music that's a bunch of really disjointed music that. starts and stops and then starts into something else. Yeah. It just makes it quite difficult to follow. They meant to do like a J or an L cut and then just like fucked it up, I guess. They're like, these people can't even fucking edit. I hadn't even invented sound editing, but whatever. They were waiting for the French guy who invents editing to show up.

He shows up pretty soon, to be fair, but like. Yeah, Michelle editing. Jacques Rivette. So, Paolo is very, very into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Paolo's just like, would you like to have sex with me? and it's like, yeah, all right, cool. So they go back to Bob's and they fuck.

Yeah, Bob almost walks in on them and sort of like notices that they're in there and like leaves them to it, which again is the kind of like avuncular thing. Yeah, when he sends the two of them off together, they're like, you're not coming home, he's like, I never sleep before 6 a.m. And his name's another casino he's going to go to.

Yeah. I'm going to go, be Bob the Flambour. Bob's like, I will be home at this time. My house will be empty until then. Yeah. What am I called? Bob the sleeper. Shut the fuck up. I'm heading.

Leaving a string of onions on the doorknob. So he runs into his... Big bowl of condoms and some snacks. Oh, he's got a madmo as well in that. Doing the, like, thing of, I'd rather you do it at home where I know you can be safe. But so he runs into Roger, his like, same age as him, friend. And at this point, it starts looking like French criminal still game. And he's like, I've lost all my money gambling.

again. Then the only solution to this is gambling. Yeah. And Roger says, but wouldn't that make you a compulsive gambler, some kind of flomber, if you will? And Bob's like, yes, come with me to the racetrack. We're going to bet it all on a horse I have a good feeling on. Yeah, he's like, I'm going to bet all of my remaining money on this horse. This horse. Upon which we learn that the French do horse racing insanely wrong. I mean, all horse racing is insanely wrong, like Morally, but like, yeah, yeah, yeah. They, they do it with like a buggy, like a, you know, the jockeys on a sort of two-wheel. Yeah.

Yeah. And it's literally like, fucking crazy. Why, I don't know why you would do that. I love to bet on the fucking quadriga, you know? Kind of old school, kind of Roman. Yeah, very Roman. Bob bets, Bob puts it all on red and wins. Yeah.

And obviously, deduces from this, he's on a heart streak. Yeah. double your net worth now or whatever, like how many times your net worth? Yeah, let's drive out to Doeville, which is on the coast, it's in Normandy, and we just go to the casino there. So they drive to Dover. You will never drive to Doeville in a fucking Chevrolet convertible. It hurts my heart. Well, the front of the fucking Chevrolet is in Doeville. Meanwhile, the back's just leaving Paris. And as they go into the casino, Roger bumps into a crew pier, he recognizes.

From the film, Crupeer, yeah. He's there being Sigma, denying that he's transgender. His name is Jean the Crupeier. And Roger's like, oh, cool, man, can you, have you got anything to set up the rest of the movie? And Sean's like, yeah, you know, the safe downstairs has a lot of money in it and could be easy to heist.

And then Roger's like, oh, cool, I'll remember that. Okay, if you see this time. That'll help me out later on. We'll remember this. Good exposition, thanks, buddy. It's got 800 million francs, which he refers to as 800 big ones, which I think a big one's a thousand.

personally. That's like five pounds. I don't know how much that is. Yeah. Yeah. So while Paolo is sort of like, while Paolo is hosting in the apartment of his gambling sensei.

Why do you have a gambling sensei, dude? Roger tells Bob this. On Grindr, your place, my place, the place of my sensei. We're going over at my fucking sensei's house. Using my sensei's dojo as a pussy palace

If somebody took me back to an apartment that nice I'd probably fuck him Yeah honestly it is a really love it What if they told you it was their senseys Would that like diminish it or in house? I'd be slightly disappointed But I don't know if that would change things I think you'd have some questions about the relationship

With the sensei And whether or not this is like kind of it's like You know Rude to do to the sense I think that would structure my answer to the question, will you fuck me again? Yeah. Like you took me to an old man's house last time.

So like, I'm going to have to think of a house. The only people who have the fucking houses these days. You basically have to. Okay, we can bring this back. This is what we're missing. We need to have, we all need to have Senses so that we can host, right? That's the only possible solution. There needs to be a system of patronage once again between older and younger games.

My, my, when I, when I had a Sensei, never let me use this house. to fuck. Ridiculous. You were asking so much as well. Yeah. So as Bob gets in the car, Roger tells him, and the radio shifts immediately to Bob's getting an idea music, which I really like. By the way, Bob loses all of his fucking money.

Yeah, yeah. He doesn't make the horse. And he's like, oh, I really need a lot of money. There's a lot of money in the casino, you say? In the safe. Yeah. Interesting. It could be robbed by me.

Bob La Robber. Hmm. Could me feel like, Bob La Robber. And if we see that he's quite excited. I didn't even know if that's French. I don't think so. He kind of, his whole affect changes a bit. He goes from kind of like, worn down gambler.

Yeah, he promises Roger, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna gamble again until we rob the casino. Yeah. No gambling while I'm stealing. Like, you got, that's smart. That's so smart. You've got to compartmentalize. You've got to be like, I'm doing this now. Okay.

I'm not gonna think about that. He's switched on. He can't even use the slot machine in his slot machine closet. No. He comes home, and he sees the bed kind of obviously fucked in, and Paolo has left him a note, which is, I assume, just says, like, old or washed. And is moving in with Paolo. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like, I mean, but he seems not discomfort. It's like young love, you know? They're like of an age where it's not weird, right? We hope. Ostensibly. Yeah, we hope. So he goes and he puts the fucking.

crew together. They're putting the crew together montage, which this invented maybe. The first thing that they need is they need somebody to be the executive producer of this crime. And so they go to this guy, jocke, and they're like, look, we need between 10 and 12 million.

If we can do the crime in Wales, we can get you a tax break. And like, we need so much for marketing. And like, can you please read the script? You've had it for like three months. Can you please just give me a yes or no on this? Even the sensei needs a sensei. You need a kind of like,

Heist landlord to front you the money for the thing. And this guy, McKimmy, is like, okay, but I want half. And this is like, obviously bullshit. And as they say, you're not putting up anything except money, right? We're the ones who are going to be actually doing it. And it's like, I don't care. Give me the fucking money. It's like, fine, whatever.

They also strong arms, Jean, because they're like, Jean, the Crupeier. We need you to provide us a floor plan. to the casino and to sabotage the safe security message. But what they do, yeah, what they do is blackmail, right? And it's 50-50 in the sense of like carrot and stick, right? You get 500,000 francs or we blackmail you. And if this is just like... Carrot, nice.

To be inside man from the movie Inside Man, it's just this could have, if he sort of very briefly, Roger turns into Don Logan Brackett's French, you're just going to have to turn this opportunity, we. Are you gonna do the fucking Bulo? Carrot versus stick? Easy choice, carrot every time. Yeah, it sounds good. Do the fucking, do the fucking Bulo.

Why should you be u-rah? They drive around the outside of the casino with a sketch artist, which is the funniest possible job to have on a heist crit. And that guy's job is to sketch the outside of the casino, like, plan. even sketch artists I think sketch artists might kind of be like the stone cutters in a lot of ways like if you think about like

how the fuck has the sketch artist made it so that they are an intrinsic part of the legal process like how is that the career that has now been like buoyed up by the fact that every courtroom you need a guy to do a caricature of the fucking defendant I don't know but given how many artists I know

even how many artists I know out of work I want to see like I want to see courtroom renderings where the sketches are like other things. I want to see like furry, furry artists do like courtroom sketches. So like the defendant is just like a sexy fox for some reason. Furry Luigi Vanjero.

Four-body core-room. Corroom art is like full-body commissions available just destroying like anti-courtroom sketches. The defendant just has massive insults injury really. Courtroom defendant sketched giantess war.

So, Crookie Jean, who looks alarmingly like French Kevin Pollock, first of all right. If I remembered what happened in a movie, I'd be right with you. He's like, he celebrates for this because he gets half the money up front. And he's like, okay, I'm gonna go to the jewelry place from the descent and buy my wife and a gigantic bracelet engraved with a full confession to the crime I'm about to do. out to do. Yes. Yes. Jean buys his wife, Suzanne, some beautiful jewelry.

And she's like, where the fuck did you get this? And he's like, oh. What the hell did you get back some out of jewelry? Don't worry about it. Yeah, it's like the heaviest bracelet in the world. Paolo is also involved because Bob sees Paolo talking to Mark. And he's like, hey, stay away from Mark. He's the villain of the movie.

If you need a job, come and join in our heist. Okay, you're involved in the heist now, Paolo. They also hire one Hispanic man. And you can tell he's Hispanic because they ask him about going to sound America and he is introduced with the Spanish guitar still. Hell yeah. This movie is so old it was still racist against Spaniards. But so Bob and Paolo go out again that evening.

And I get 1950s French woman dysphoria, right? Because she's like dancing in a nightclub. Paolo is like smitten. All the extras are beautiful as well. and I'm like everybody's getting lung cancer but so Paolo everybody is

Paulo and Anne Shag and then afterwards he's like I love you and she's like well why don't you give me a big gift to prove it and at this point

Paolo's like I am about to win the Brian Cox Memorial Award in Intelligence absolutely okay I will give you a big gift because I'm going to rob the big casino

and I'm going to do it for you and might not say you were going to do that anyway He was. The classic gift re-gifting, you know. Now, that's just smart, being like, it's for you that I'm doing this, actually. Incidentally, I note that the band in this nightclub where they start out, the only P.O.C. in the movie so far, with one exception, the drummer, who is a white guy with a Hitler

mustache. What is it with us and bands with a Hitler in them? In 56! That's crazy to be trying to get away with it now. You couldn't get away of it now. Hitler playing in a jazz band That's all black and Hitler Like It's the last place they'll look And like that drummer The drummer is injured

And they're like, okay, I know one guy But I only know one guy I'm famously racist And so is the last place They've looked for me He's laying low right now You know Hey Adolf

It's your cousin Marvin Marvin Hitler Sad you sound You know that new sound? You were looking at all. Listen to this. Yeah, guest appearance from session drummer

Adolf Hitler in this nightclub. He was legendary, though. Part to drum when one of your hands is like extended upwards at a 45 degree angle all the time. We call it the Octung break. It's going to get sample later.

It's going to be very important in early hip-hop. So their fucking heist landlord checks in on them again and basically he makes them audition for their own fucking job that they brought to him he makes them like prove that like Roger can crack a safe which he does. I would want this assurance to be fair

like I'm kind of with him. It's cool though they rehearse it they like have a six minute window to get to the safe and they mark out the vault outside on the grass might not say can we have heist outside today sir? They do explicit parallels to war films as well, because in the briefing scene, Bob is like, you ever seen those, you ever seen like commandos getting briefed? Well, that's us, you know? I also, fantastic goon energy from one guy.

Big Joe. I love Big Joe so much. He is the most. They do. They've got a mighty Joe. That's all I want. Yes. Perfect. They also do something that later heist movies do, which is that they have a speculative flash forward where they're like, this is how Bob envisioned the plan would go, and then they show everyone rolling up and Roger cracking the safe, and it all goes well. It's like, oh, cool, you can see a later heist film DNA.

That's smart, actually, yeah. No masks or nothing either. Like, a bunch of guys will just walk into the casino with guns. It's like, in 1956, there's a bunch of Lugas and 1911's kicking around still because it was the war two seconds ago. It's not like they have CCTV cameras, and then they're going to, like, describe these guys to the police, and the sketch artist is going to draw it,

and they're going to be like, this is a wolf with a huge dick. What the fuck are you doing? They're going to draw of it and be like, this is what every single bloke looks like now. He accidentally described the suspect to the furry Vora artist. Yeah. And like the suspect was really small and there was like, there was a giant succubus with him. It's like, no, no, it wasn't. I just, I just don't think that's true.

The main characteristic of the suspect was huge round belly. Like that's the only thing. You'd be able to tell the suspect anywhere because he was like slapping his belly a lot. He was burping quite often as well. like... The word plap was written around the suspect in a way that seems unusual, yeah. No good, no good. So Roche builds a contraption, right?

And the contraption is gonna help him crack the same. What he's done is he's got, previously he was cracking it with a stethoscope, great, classic. This time he's now gotten a oscilloscope that does nothing, but he just likes it and he's just bringing it along. This is why autism is important. The average heist was 60,000 pounds on like special interest, I don't know. That's gotta be true. Yeah, and like a loudspeaker, so like you can hear the clicks and clacks and so on.

We get one million shots of dog, like the heist landlord's dog, who is just having a great time in this movie. Yeah. He's a great actor. He's having a wonderful time. You gotta have him. You gotta have him for the heist. I'm getting the team together. Yeah.

Dog. You need a heist mascot. You actually do need a mascot, yeah. mascot, yeah. Yeah. We see that this, this contraction works. Roger's like, I've got it down to like four minutes. You see.

By tomorrow, it's going to be down to like two. Meanwhile, back in Montmartre at the club, at the club, where it works, it's like completely dead, which means all of the beautiful 1960s French women are dancing with each other, which go off. And Mark comes in because Mark is like, Mark has been threatened again by the cops and he's like, I got to find some leads on something. I get some information or something. Mooching around and runs into Anne and seduces her pavement Romeo style

in a very kind of sleazy way. And we see that she's not un-into this. She's kind of compelled by this. So she goes home with him and predictably fucking tells him everything, of course. Yep, absolutely. Yeah, just like blapsed right away. Yeah, Brian Cox Memorial Award in the time of this again. This guy, the croupy.

Paolo probably likes me more because, like, he said that he's going to rob the casino. Yeah. Yeah, he says he's going to buy me like, oh, damn. Some jewels or something. He's like, where would Marco's like, where would he get the money for that from? She's like, oh, he's going to rob the big casino. He, of course, immediately, like, is going to go to the cops. Yeah.

And figures out a second to, like, oh, I probably should have said that. Oh, maybe I shouldn't. Yeah. She goes to see Bob and she says, I want to prove I'm a good girl. My notes say, I'm always saying this. And she says, I fucked up big time. I told him everything. I told them everything.

It's a secret kill squad. Bob hits her. This looks real. Asshole. Yeah. He strikes her across the face and this looks, it looks like he really hits that actress. It's either of very good stunt coordination. But he's like, fuck.

It's really, it's like of a sort of period of masculinity where the distinction was slapping versus punching a woman in terms of acceptable forms of domestic violence. right. But yeah, so as he is doing this, Mark is going from like bar to bar, like sort of looking for a phone to call the cops with. Yeah. Meanwhile, Jean has also told his wife, Suzanne, everything, a third Brian Cox Memorial Awarded Intelligence. Stop. So this guy. Yep. And she's like, ah, okay, well, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, Lady Macbeth this shit. We're going to play both sides. So we always come out on top, right? Yeah, so they try tipping off the cops, and we see that LaDrew gets the tip off that the casino is going to get robbed, and he's like, okay, you got to find out who's going to do it.

You think Guy Ritchie invented this like multipartite, it's all falling apart at once, plot? Absolutely not. So, Paolo comes in, and Bob's like, I told you, never speak to women. Yeah, he does. He goes, like, never confide in women. Don't trust dames. And you're cucked by Mark. You're cucked by a pimp who is now gonna sort of like grass us up to the cops. So Paolo, kind of doubly, triply insulted by this, is like, I'm gonna find him. Yeah.

Yeah, I will use violence. Yeah, exactly. He walks past one million bars, all of which are playing different music. He goes past one bar that is playing klezma music. And I'm like, oh yeah, the Klasma district, of course. What's Klesma music? Um, uh, like traditional Jewish music, like a lot of fiddles, um, cool. But it's like, it's like, weird, weird, weirdly sort of out of place amidst all the jazz.

Um, anyway, the Jean and her, and his wife show up in their shitty little car and ask around for Bob to try and blackmail him and miss him, of course. Mark finds a phone, which is in the, uh, like, it's sort of a phone booth, but it's really just like a big head receptacle that he like puts his entire head. head and neck into. I love these so much. This is he sort of like 50s art deco style. Fantastic.

Yeah. Just in time for... He calls the cops and the cops like, hello cops. And then Paolo shoots him dead. Yeah. Bang, bang. In the back. And like, no one in the bar seems to notice.

So I guess Paulo must have like pressed L3 before he did it. Average sort of Montmartre experience at this point as well. Just like, and then square to just assassinate him. him and then everyone else was just like, it must have been the wind. Yeah, and reverse denigada on the phone being like, must be in the wind. That's crazy. Just like maybe it's just the phone call that makes you collapse instantly. Hello?

But so, monsieur, monsieur. La Druis is now suspicious enough. Moshi, Moshi indeed, because he's suspicious. Wait, no, that's not. No. He'd be so confused if you call the French police and they said Moshi, Moshi, Moshi, Moshu-Mu-Mish. French, in Japan. The Xenegata-Lupon relationship is assumed whenever a policeman and a criminal work together.

You'll mind if a white boy speak a little Japanese, but he's French. Hmm. That's pretty good. Moshi, moshi, soteer, Desi. Pali or soussaint-Japanese, poor Louis. Oh, God. So, the cop is like, I have a pretty big inkling of who's behind this, and I don't like it. I'm gonna call Bob and invite him to dinner.

to dinner in the 1950s Parisian Chinese restaurant that plays the Stardue Valley music. Great, cool. I don't know why he makes that decision, but he does, and you will never eat at the 1950s Parisian Chinese restaurant that plays the Sardu Valley music, which is a real shape, as far as I'm concerned. Yeah. And then, so he has dinner with him, and then in reverse sounding, I was like, look, Bob. Yeah, it's like, look, Bob, we heard that someone is going to rob the big casino, we heard it might But you heard it's someone that fits this description in your hands on a sketch.

And Bob's like, is this, is this a stolfo from fake apocrypha? What is going on? What is this? Why did you? Who's your sketch artist? You gotta get hired someone else. And he's like, no, but don't rob the casino. Don't do it.

He tries to talk him out of it, generally. And LaDrew's like, our intelligence suggests that you are watch and broke and owned. And that means that you're likely to be planning to commit robbery. and it's like, don't do it because I'll have to fucking arrest you. And I don't want to because we're besties. Yeah, we're besties. It's a good bull on a stolfo because the only four picture I can remember is the fucking Amy Kloberchal one.

Oh, fucking God. Meanwhile, Bob was like, I don't know what you're fucking talking about and leaves. I need to curate who I follow on Blue Sky, but... And is speed-running Momatra, just like, like Bob warned her about at this point. Yes. Yeah. She is like now sort of destitute, uh, fucking.

Well, so Bob leaves her key. Bob leaves the key to his apartment with, uh, the lady who runs the bar, Yvonne. And it's just like, look, if, if, uh, if Anne comes by later, let I have the key to my place, right? Um, and so we get a little getting ready montage. All the cops are getting ready and all the crims are getting ready because Bob's going to fucking rob this casino. By the way, the Drew, the one cop, he's not getting ready by, by sort of briefing his team, he's getting ready by going to different places looking for Bob to try

and talk him out of it, which is so gay and so sweet. You took your boy out for a lovely Chinese meal, one Chinese meal, and now you're looking for him to try and stop him from doing a crime. And of course he misses him, right? Like Bob and the heist crew leave for Doeville. Bob is wearing the weirdest shaped bow tie in the world. Yeah. And the plan is, Bob is the scout, right? He's going to go in, he's going to hit a bunch of people with baseball about really fast. He's going to go in and he's going to like, scope it all out, make sure it's all good, get the nod from Jean the Crupeier, who, unbeknownst to him, has already turned him in and is not going to do shit for him. And then if it's all good, like he's, if

it's bad, he's going to come out and leave or get arrested, I guess. If it's not, then five, exactly, 5 a.m., I guess, the rest of the heist crew go in and they robbed a safe. Yeah. This is... Bob goes in there at 1 a.m. It's an okay idea, but he's in there... By the terms of the plan, he's in there for four hours doing nothing.

So he immediately is like, oh, I'll tell you what I could do to kill some time while I'm in here. Bit gambling. Yeah. I could gamble. This is the moment he truly became Bob Leflambour. Mm-hmm. It's really, this was a plan that you took to a guy to approve the plan and the financing for the plan. And what you said to that guy was,

we are going to rob a distillery with Bob the alcoholic. We're going to put Bob the gambler in there for four hours to kind of like look around. If we rob the trap house with Bob the crackhead, we can't lose. Is that what a trap house is? I have not known what a trap house is for so long. It is, yes, it is. And I've been too afraid to ask.

Strictly speaking, this is more like robbing a stash house than a trap house, but yeah, a trap house is where you do the drugs and a stash house where you keep the drugs and the money, right? Okay, so... Now, El Chapo, he was the drug lord, right? I was about to ask him, what is the Chapo? Yeah, so it's got to be the trap house

where you do the El Chapo drugs. Chappo is, like, Mexican Spanish slang for, like, shorty, effectively. That was the nickname of El Chapo, Joaquin Guzman, who was one of the, what, like, the most powerful drug lord in Mexico and is now in prison in America. Okay, thank you.

So a Chapo trap house would be a trap house presumably operated by or containing Chappo Guzman, which is, I think, unlikely to happen because he didn't really interact with the kind of surface level of the business once he was, you know. That makes all the sense. And where exactly is the Comptown? Like, is that on like a highway route maybe that I could attend? It's actually up the Thames. It's one of the, they go past it on the bone race, actually. Okay.

Yeah. It's near the ancient mountain village of Femboys. Yeah. And it's because if we don't skip fully automated luxuries, case of space goodness and the future is and will be trash. No, God, no mass. So, ADHD. Attention, attention deficit disorder was not well understood in 1956. No, no.

And occasionally, when you have that, you struggle with task switching, right? You don't mean to snub people or be rude, but you get locked in on something. So real. Also, gambling addiction, not well understood in. We see, and I like that the movie tells us that it is unfortunate that he gambles and he wins. He wins, yes. This is what's really fatal. That's what reels him in.

And what's also fatal is that he just keeps fucking winning and winning and winning for like four hours and doubling down. And it's so tense because he also starts playing Shaman Defoe, which as we know from the very first episode of this podcast, is a game of luck. And he just winning more and more. And my notes say, Jesus Christ, Bob, because he wins so much money. And there's like, let it ride, baby. And I'm like, you fucking nationalist. Bob, Bob, Bob, I mean, the other thing is like, if you're doing this, Randy, your sticks. But also, if you're doing this, why wouldn't you go all in on every hand?

Because you're about to rob the place and make it back. Well, what are you, Mr. Beast? You can't just go all in on every fucking hand. What if you get a good hand? He fucking manages. And like, the other thing is, the casino does, this casino doesn't use chips. It uses plaques, which is more kind of traditional in France. And the size of these fucking plaques, they are bringing him these huge fucking casino chips.

It's like a dinner plate. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like these are stacking up and stacking up and stacking up. So it's to the point that there are too many in front of him to gamble with. So they're having to like take them away and store them for him just so that he can keep gambling. and he keeps fucking winning

straight nine every time casino staff are like sweating like fucking fucking everyone in the room is like like hands on head looking at it he's just crushing it

it's unbelievable if you've ever noticed that there's no clocks on a casino floor the reason why is to trap any budding robbers in a Bob Leflomber situation I don't know if it's 5 a.m.

He's just waiting luckily he does have a watch and he's like Finally, he locks, she sort of, like, gets out of locking in, and after Checkers Watch, it is 457. Fuck, shit. Shit, is it. It's a real essay due next morning type situation. I was like, all right, I did cash all of this out.

Yeah, he's just immediately, like, immediately. So people are like, could I get this cashed like now, like now, like right now, like quickly, like, yeah. And we see the heist crew, of course, ready setting up. We see that the cops are ready and setting up. And as they go in, because Bob is not quick enough to stop them, merely quick enough to get to the door to see this happen. The French cops have like, you know, goofy French submachine guns, which I love. And we see one of them like throw his lit cigarette in the street before like running out and to, you know, to like arrest them. And a gunfight breaks out.

Yeah. A really poorly shot gunfight because we hadn't worked out how to do that guy. Yeah, that's not one of the things just film invented, unfortunately. No. Before the lads even set foot in the casino, the cops. just, like, shoot at them, and Paolo is shot dead. Palo gets got. Yeah, I mean, it's a way of interdicting an armed robbery still used today. It's how, like, you know, the fucking Met Police Fly Squad, you know, kill people this way,

is on the way into an armed robbery. And so, Paolo is killed, yeah. Bob sees this happen. That suggests to me that the thing to do is to store the guns in the place you're going to rob and go in and collect them, rather than go in with the guns. Exactly. Godfather style. Oh, is that the Godfather?

Ah. Yeah. Well, yeah, he leaves the god in the bathroom. Oh, I've never seen it. Oh, you got to watch the Godfather. Oh, we'll do the Godfather. Well, we'll do the Godfather. Well, if it's crime season, we should.

It's kind of crime. It's not really crimes. And it's got a lot to say about masculinity. But it is, it is mob season, yeah. We have a lot of high sports. Mob season, maybe a separate season, but so, Bob cradles a dying Paolo in his arms. Paolo just straight dies, says nothing profound. Yep.

Yeah. here, I guess, is that crime doesn't pay, but gambling every so often, really does. Because the cops are like, well done, dipshit, you're under arrest, and at that point the casino workers bring out piles of cash, just huge

comedic piles of cash, and loaded into the cop car, which is very funny. There's shock to find there's gambling in this establishment. Yeah, armed robbery, you'll get like five years, very funny. And Bob's Like, Bob and Roger are like, well, technically, conspiracy law doesn't exist, right? Because it's a movie.

He didn't rob anything. He was just kind of in there. At best you've got as like aiding and abetting, which is like one year and he, and I bet he can afford a really good lawyer, so he might just get acquitted. And Bob goes in the back of the police car, having seen his like protege shot to death in the street like a dog, goes, yeah, I might sue for damages. If I play my cards right Not that broken up about Palo

that's not that stuff No Not that sad about Anne either I guess She's just living in Bob's apartment now She's just like yeah come good Yeah Yeah and he's got shit loads of money

Kind of all worked out for Bob A little bit Yeah Yeah it's one of those weird 1950s movies A lot of the American movies That it's based on I like this too Where the tone of the ending

is kind of all over the place right? And that it wants to be like, you know, gambling is this sort of horrible, compulsive thing that can sort of make you sort of lose your senses. But it's also what kind of keeps you going. So it's impossible to say if it's bad or not. And ultimately it all works out. It's a little bit like when Dev and I reviewed Perfect Blue and the ending of Perfect Blue is just like, and then everything was fine. So, oh, okay, cool. Yeah. It's all fine. It's all good. It's literally fine. Don't even worry about it. It's so okay. And the movie just fucking ends.

Like, it doesn't spend a lot of time tying it up like a more modern one might, you know? No, no monologue, nothing. And just like, and that's Bob. Yeah. Bob has flombard his last flambay. And Paolo is fucking dead. Yeah. Mark, Mark is dead and is living in Bob's apartment.

Thawed. Yeah. See it. Sosh. Sorted. Movies over. Easy. Bosh, movie's over.

What do we think? I had a really good time of this. Genuinely. I liked it. It's a good movie. Like, 56, obviously. You know, you raise an eyebrow going far back as 1956 to see a movie, but pretty good. Genuinely, pretty good.

Yeah. Yeah, I really enjoy it. Well, this movie's almost 75 years old. Yeah. God, yeah. It's a bit kind of rudimentary in places, but I think it's as much a technological limitation as anything else, because if you watch, like, Army of Shadows, which we will, that's going to be a tent pole for war season.

Let me be absolutely clear about that. Army of Shadows is a like beautifully shot movie with like, it feels modern in a way that this really doesn't. They haven't invented movies being good yet, I guess. So yeah, I'm fond of this. I think it's an interesting bridge of American culture to post-war French culture. It's one of the things that's partially responsible for stuff like Breathless or Bonaparte that I really like.

And I hope you enjoyed. I hope you enjoyed us listening to it. But we don't have to describe this in a sort of subjective. No, not at all. We have a system scientific. He's appell the system of scum. Yeah. It stands for slots, cramps,

uh, roulette. What? S-C-U. Uh, money. Yeah, we'll get back to you on that. Yeah.

It's certainly money. How smami on a scale of... Money. To set is this movie? I think the opening monologue of like, It can be your angle or your devil is like fairly... Fairly smarmy, not terribly. The dialogue, I think, if we could understand it better, we would rate smarmia, right?

Like, judging from Papagato, it's meant to be pretty, pretty kind of like heavily slanged. That's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think so. So I think it would be much, much, smart here if I could speak French. But as it is, I was relying on subtitles, so I'm not sure. Is there a, is there a Mama Gatto? Mammont Gatto.

God, I hope so. Mammon Gato, the one who makes those Madelins in Tesco? Mamont Gatto, hit my line. The Bonn, Mama. Yeah, for real. Three, four? I would go, I'd go four on this, I guess. Yeah, okay.

It kind of like, it's pacey, it whips along pretty fast. but um yeah cultural insensitivity i mean other than those uh those black guys who are in a band with hitler um who don't have any lines guys really yeah yeah it's making them seem racist to be associated with hit professionals like you know yeah they're just like where the fuck did you get this guy the saxophonist is like look the drummer broke his hand we've got to get someone Hitler's the only drummer are in town in the moment just could he shave the mustache no He will not... Very well, but he's the best jazz drama in the fucking business, all right?

Yeah. I'm sorry. Don't get him started about the Jews, okay? He's got that tremor. He's just... He's already doing it. Is that insensitive? Temp agency Hitler, where the agency sends him and they're like, there's like a covering

note that's like, just don't, he's got a thing, right? Just don't bring up. Yeah. Like, you know, he is quite anti-Semitic, unfortunately. we've spoken to him about it but he, you know It's a protected belief now It's fucked up

But it's a protected The EARC really shouldn't have Really shouldn't have decided that He's only got one ball as well But you can't You can't like You have to make reasonable adjustments for that Yeah

Different drumming store maybe I don't know Cultural insensitivity I mean it heavily omits Because it's meant to be a diverse area That's part of the point of why the sound editing is so chaotic because Ampli, it's also like, this is, this is hell

because, like, Montmartra and Pigal is meant to be, like, it's meant to be diverse, and it's fucked up that the most diversity in terms of, like, speaking characters you get is a Spanish guy with one line who he introduced with a flamenco guitar. Like, yeah, that's racist. That is racist, that's the hands-down racist.

Yeah, two is a mission. So, three, four. Three, four? Three. I'd go, I'd go, I'd go, it doesn't include any, like, active racial slurs that I remember, which for 1956 is,

This is honestly remarkably good. Yeah, they don't even slow the Chinese, which everyone was doing this one. Okay, three. Yeah. If you go back to fucking Euro spice season, a remarkable amount of those movies featured the Chinese appearing halfway through.

Yeah. How do you have a Chinese restaurant, no Chinese characters? Anyway, a question I'm also asking of the bank job. Unprovoked violence. It's a woman harmed. Women harmed. Do we want to include that here? So misogyny?

Can't both? I think we can be unfair and get it on both, because it is both. We don't normally do that. We normally pick one to fire that under... Ah, we're not a misogyny. Put it under misogyny then. So in that case, the unprovoked violence is going to be pretty low because Bob, he is planning an armed robbery.

He is. But he does specify to his guys beforehand not to shoot anyone. That's very true. The guns are just sort of persuasive effect, really. Yeah, that's true, actually. He goes out of his way to avoid doing that. Mm-hmm. I mean, the kind of the commando comparison, he does kind of knowingly send him into something

that he knows is dangerous and get one of them killed, right? He does. And the police violence is portrayed as being kind of like completely natural consequence of like, well, how else are you going to stop an armed way, right? That is very true. It does not question the police on that whatsoever. It does not. It does.

There is an implicit judgment of policing in the sort of like, you take a sort of dangerous pimp and sort of turn him into an informant so that he avoids any consequences. but he does get killed doing that. So, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Bob himself is, it's kind of playing into the same kind of narrative of back when crooks used to be gentleman, right? Of like, he's chivalrous. He is sort of protective of women and protective of younger criminals, even if they get killed, it's, you know, whatever.

And I think as much as it does complicate those things, it's still got to be relatively low, right? With the exception of the police violence, which is just fine. Three, two? I do three. I want to give it, weirdly, in some ways, that's a credit to it, right? Because this is the thing, as much as it's an objective scientific scale, right? This is depicting unprovoked violence in a way that uses it to maybe subvert some of your ideas of Bob or of the cops, maybe. So, yeah, three.

And then misogyny. Well, we have a slap on screen, it's not good. Yeah, violence against women. There is also, we didn't mention it, but a fairly lecherous shot of Anne on dressing. And there's, we see Anne naked, we do not see Paolo's hog. Anne as a character is, is kind of written to be like, what if a woman was kind of like sexual property, but because she wanted to be, because she was just kind of into it. Yeah.

Which, and I'm not going to say that that isn't a kind of thing that you can be as a woman, but like, if that's the only woman besides sort of like aged bar owner that you're depicting, Yvette, who with Bob has like a respectful relationship, which I do like, but it's not much depicted. I don't know how old Anne is supposed to be, but I am slightly creeped out by the fact that she does look like a child. I mean, in France in 1956, you have to imagine that the age of consent was probably like alarmingly low. I don't have that number off the top of my head No, I would be concerned if any of us did

But like I You know, I think you have to factor that into all of the decisions That this movie makes about portraying her as an adult Which is uncomfortable It's the French Well, start at 12 and start going down As you go further back in time I think There's yeah

So there's like two named women Only one of whom has any agency and her agency mainly is to disclaim her own agency, which is the oldest fucking trick in the book. And, you know, it's like empowering to have a female character who's like, I actually love this shit, right? And if you don't sort of question that in any way, then that's just awful.

Being written by man, five? Yeah. Yeah, I would do five for this. Do we maybe want to give it five and then take one off because Bob hates pimps? Bob is at least not a fan of beating up women. But it was, it was the nice young man that you was hanging with. He's still like, he's still hang out.

hang out with Mark. He was going to like give him some money until he found out that he beat up his girlfriend slash employee. Put her in the hospital. Yeah. Yeah. He's neutral. I don't know. I don't say. I would say. Five. He's kind of, he's, he's broadly tolerant of the existence of pimps. He just disrespects them. Um, yeah, five. That gives it, that gives it a total score of 15, which is pretty solid, actually. I mean, considering it's the oldest film we've done, it's all. It's on a par with like a Daniel Craig Bond or like a solid man from Uncle like that that is pretty good

same as Charlie's Angels full throttle weirdly um now of course we do have to award two I think Brian Coxman three I've got three down here Anne Paolo and John Paolo and John this movie's looking like Leonid Brezhneff

you know like we're just sticking the fucking medals on that yeah but no other medals stitches yet to Brian Cox Memorial Award in Intelligence Jackets Sacking Trophy Room

Infinity copies of one medal I've been awarded this so many times Me with the Didn't Kill Yourself Award to be quite honestly So

That's what's up Bob La Flambour Pretty decent movie I would say Yeah, very good Yeah good movie I had a good time Important movie

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