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Starting point is 00:01:31 in his inglorious bastards but also James Bond kind of bag. Not too shabby, gang. Gang, gang. First of all, I want to say a big thank you to our friends at Pripur. For cutting down these highlights, assembling the reel that you see before you.

Starting point is 00:01:50 It is, you know, it's an operation. They are an elite unit. of bloodthirsty mercenaries who want to cut shots shouts out to Ed Wilde by the way this movie looked incredible so yeah big props to Prepper also hey if you're listening

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Starting point is 00:02:25 on a madcap World War II era adventure how are you feeling what did you think feeling good I'm feeling really good I can say pretty confidently I think that's probably the most fun World War II based movie I think I've seen

Starting point is 00:02:39 hondo p and 100% it takes us in an area where we're maybe not as familiar with because granted they said this just became public knowledge in 2016 which is wild that it was classified for as long as it was yeah but I'm happy

Starting point is 00:02:55 that it was because you get to see this sort of mission and I think the way that it was framed or the way that it was executed made it seem like this rag tag band of underdogs which I really appreciated and I liked that we don't get to

Starting point is 00:03:11 see a lot of stuff based in this sort of time because normally when you see World War II stuff it's from the American perspective or it's like something that's like heaped in like the throes of the Holocaust itself never a mission to get America into the war

Starting point is 00:03:28 and like this is the thing that seems like such a crucial part in helping stop the war but is so little talked about which is kind of surprising I feel like this movie is pretty important yet undervalued and I'm happy that it exists

Starting point is 00:03:42 I thought all the performances are really good Henry Cavill definitely giving a different type of performance that I'm accustomed to I think I primarily have seen him in things like The Witcher and Superman where he's like fairly stoic so seeing him have a little bit of charm

Starting point is 00:03:54 was a lot of fun. Alan Richardson stole the show every scene that he was in. Love that dude. My God, that man is ripped. Oh, my. Yeah, man. It's crazy. And like, you watch Reacher and you're like season one, you're like, man, this guy is huge. And then you see him past that and you're like, he's even huger. I know everyone loves that show. I've not seen it. Reach is really good.

Starting point is 00:04:16 Okay. And he is really good on it. And he's a totally different vibe of character. Like, Alan Richson, like, has a fun reign. he's super diverse yeah and uh and he's it's funny to see him in interview i feel like in the last couple reacher videos we've done uh gregg and i have both kind of touched on the whole like you know interviews and stuff like he he seems very bubbly and fun and you know reacher obviously is a much more stoic uh not not like overly stoic but a much more reserved kind of character not a goofball certainly and here it seemed like they just let him have fun oh yeah no it's funny

Starting point is 00:04:52 I primarily know him from a show that maybe some of you guys remember called Blue Mountain State played bad and I'm like he was like the stealer of scenes in that show as well so I'm happy that he's he's having a flourishing career very curious to check that out now yeah and I thought the B-plot was also interesting and it was very much more espionage based which was still fun but yeah the the heart and the energy of most of it comes from these guys accomplishing it missions and the different woes or hurdles they have to overcome to get to the the gist of the mission and achieving that and I like the way that it was executed and curious to know how much of that stay true to form or stay true to the actual story and how much it was changed for dramatic effect yeah because yeah I'm like five guys or I guess seven plus a militia going up against like 200 is insane chief of staff to Mr. Cavill security to, assistant to and driver to Mr. Cattle. There's a whole

Starting point is 00:05:55 Henry Cavill unit. There's a Cavill Squad on this movie. Cavill Squad. Damn. I'm first in the call sheet. Yeah. I have a tent. But yeah, no. Henry Cavill just sleeping on set in a tent. Really in character.

Starting point is 00:06:11 Yes, yeah. Absolutely. Sleep on the ground with some bundled up rocks in a sweater or something. But yeah, I really enjoyed this, man. What about you? How about it? No, this was a blast. Like, this definitely felt like, and I know I've said it like five times in this video, but like it felt like Guy Ritchie in his Inglorious Bastards bag.

Starting point is 00:06:31 But in a way we're like, and hey, like I've seen a handful of Guy Ritchie joints. We watch Snatch Together. True. And, you know, people I think, you know, most directly associate him with, yeah, these rough and tumble cockney crime movies. I really like him in this mode, too. This makes me want to check out, man, from Uncle. This makes me want to check out some of his other stuff.

Starting point is 00:06:49 I can't remember if it was this or maybe like the It's confusing because he did The Gentleman And then he also did Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare So one of those got a show The Gentleman did Ah, okay See, I would watch a show based off this Yeah, this was really fun

Starting point is 00:07:08 Like I think you're absolutely correct It's like as far as World War II movies go And even Inglorious Bastards While it does have some fun elements And it does have its 70s grind house exploitation movie flourishes and even some spaghetti Western stuff in there.

Starting point is 00:07:24 It still is a thick boy and it still is like pretty dark and heavy at certain points. You know how Tarantino can take you from sardonic humor to pretty striking, shocking violence. This doesn't go quite as hard as that. You get the glimpse into the harshness when we see what Tilschweiger's up to that first scene

Starting point is 00:07:44 when he's introduced and you look inside his little quarters there and he's got the woman chained up and you see how vicious the world your in can be, but the movie isn't about reveling in that stuff. And I thought, yeah, at least as this movie presents these characters and this operation,

Starting point is 00:08:01 this does seem like the perfect opportunity to tell a fascinating, wild, you know, true life, to some extent, story that lends itself to being a bit more of a fun movie than, you know, a harsh realities

Starting point is 00:08:16 of war kind of movie. Yeah, I'm not surprised. price how brisk it was as well. I feel like the fact that we live in a day and age where it's super rare to get a World War II-based movie that's under two hours. Yeah. But it's still extremely effective.

Starting point is 00:08:30 Like the pacing was super brisk. Yeah, and it was really snappy. Like everything had rhythm. Like, I really, it felt like every department was really locked in. Like, the ensemble of the cast was on point every single person and the rhythm of the editing,

Starting point is 00:08:47 the rhythm of the dialogue, the rhythm of, you know, the music, which is very apparent in the movie, and certainly Guy Ritchie is also known for, you know, a striking, saturated kind of soundtrack. And that is an element of this movie that does give it this sort of, again, spaghetti western-ish 70s,

Starting point is 00:09:06 kind of, not quite grindhouse, but, you know, it's like a little bit fun and exploitation-y, even though it's also being kind of a direct, you know, story of this mission. And I was, yeah, surprised in a, a fun way that we did wind up spending a lot of time like at a certain point the the squad henry cavil and the team are and this is not a complaint but it almost felt like the proportions changed it's like you start in the beginning and it's like oh man they got to do this on

Starting point is 00:09:36 impossible mission so this guy's got to get his crew together uh and it's going to be all about them and a lot of it is about them and i thought it was smart to give us this prologue where we see everybody, like, you know, in top form, you know, fighting alongside each other. But, you know, to have it be so much on Marjorie and Heron as well, I thought was really cool because, yeah, you do get this war movie, but you also get these espionage, secret mission kind of flourishes, and that's alive, especially through those two characters, because they're doing a lot of the James Bond shit, and then, you know, the other, the boys are in here doing, like, the big action stuff. And so, yeah, you have this, like, military maneuver

Starting point is 00:10:14 story mixed with an espionate story and then to have Ian Fleming just around as like an incidental character as you know just part of the operation is kind of fun because yeah like you do in a roundabout way get to see Henry Cavill play James Bond even though he's not exactly playing James Bond but you're also getting to see him play a character who is a bit more wild than a James Bond who is you know a bombastic you know guy who loves action and explosions and and you know pulling off an impossible plan. You know, they're all, I bought the sort of barbarism that they're all called upon to, you know, tap into. And yeah, the tension of, you know, we need to fight our enemy who has no scruples, you know, on their level. And this has to happen off the books. And, you know,

Starting point is 00:11:01 the debate of like, should we surrender? Is there anything we can do? You know, it makes for fun tension. And yeah, this operation that I didn't know much about. But yeah, you know, you always hear the German U-boat was like a huge, you know, turning point at one point in the war, and then dismantling that is another huge turning point. And so, yeah, it's creating the opportunity for us to come in and save the day at the 11th hour, but also, yeah, to, like, dismantle this entire fleet. And if there's one thing that I was kind of surprised by, I guess, is that it is kind of straightforward in a way.

Starting point is 00:11:35 Like, there is a lot of planning, and there are things that don't go according to plan and stuff like that. But you're kind of watching the plan be executed. So, like, there isn't as heavy of, like, as script structure would call it, like, in all his lost moment where you're like, oh, shit, we're completely cooked. This is definitely not going to work out, or would it be impossible? I think, you know, you find out that the ship has been fortified, and you're like, well, that's bad. And that's kind of the biggest drop into that bucket. But even that aside, and you also have the idea of the history of, like, I know the Nazis didn't win the war,

Starting point is 00:12:10 so I have to imagine if we made a movie about this they'll probably get through it or somebody will succeed somehow so you know like that's that's an element there but it makes up for that

Starting point is 00:12:22 little that slight lessening of tension towards the end with again being so fun and so snappy and still giving you this feeling of like man these dudes had to just think on their feet and be as cunning and sly as possible

Starting point is 00:12:37 and then yeah cause a lot of mayhem and just the casting all around was really fun and appealing great ensemble of the core unit and then really great with we should pull up the IMDB because I do want to know some of these actors names. Look at some facts

Starting point is 00:12:53 and I'll pull up the... Yeah but yeah it's just to wrap it you know this was very very fun very enjoyable and I would love to see Guy Ritchie in more modes like this not to say like to pigeonhole him and he can only do this kind of thing but like

Starting point is 00:13:09 yeah this was a cool flavor like i like period piece guy richie i like you know war movie guy richie and it's an opportunity yeah to have things that are fun about something like an inglorious bastards that isn't restrained so much to being an austere history piece you know you get to have some of that fun and bombast while also telling a story that feels impossible and just the locations you know the cinematography the costuming the music the editing the cinematography there's like everything was really firing and really fun and snappy but also like everybody it feels like a really composed movie feels like really planned out while also feeling very off the cuff and very sort of in the room in the moment and yeah like so many fun characters and actors and blah blah blah who do we got

Starting point is 00:13:55 it's designed to feel on the fly i'm going to read you the well i'm going to have you guessed the rottomato score all right critics and audience so we'll start with critics what do you think critics gave this movie Critics. Oh, boy. 83%. 83%? 83% critics. Locking it in?

Starting point is 00:14:17 I'm going to lock it in. I'm going to lock it in. 68%. You know, my brain argued with itself. I was like, I could see this being a sort of mixed bag for critics. I wanted to almost say 70 something. But 68, that's okay. I can see it.

Starting point is 00:14:34 What do you think? give it. I'll give the audience in 85. 85? 87. 87. Locking it in. John's lock of the week. 92. 92. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I can see this being more of a crowd pleaser than a critic pleaser. And that makes sense because like it is a bit straightforward, especially by the

Starting point is 00:14:52 end. So you're kind of like, oh, okay, we're watching this mission basically just be kind of reworked and then succeed. You know? So like, there's not really a huge moment where like the Till Schweiger character like absolutely has them in his grasp. You just mostly watch the mission work. Yeah, no, that's 100%. You don't ever feel like they're in danger.

Starting point is 00:15:12 I feel like if we lost somebody that would add to the stakes, but it was mostly a fun ride for the most part. I didn't feel the tension of their lives in danger because they're all very efficient and very good at what they do. Yeah, and it's like I don't begrudge at that. Like, I could understand, it's like I noticed it, and it certainly is something I've logged about this movie, and I can see it being more of a problem

Starting point is 00:15:34 for different viewers than others. Whereas, yeah, all the other faculties of the movie were working well enough. Like, I guess in a perfect world, it would be cool if there was a moment if they could dramatically orchestrate. But then that's another thing where I'm like, if we check out the real story

Starting point is 00:15:48 and find out that this is largely how it went, then I'm also kind of inclined not to gripe because I'm like, well, would you rather they concoct some All Is Lost Moment for the sake of drama, or would you rather it be truer to the real life events? I have no idea which version we actually got. Or even, the one thing, it's like a, it's more of a nitpick than a criticism.

Starting point is 00:16:10 But they start the movie by saying that all of these guys are mad. But I never really felt like they were crazy. I just felt like they were good at what they do. And I would have liked to have seen some of that madness, especially like with the interplay, because it seems pretty much from the jump, a very good and efficient team. But if there is some like internal turmoil, but then I'm like, do we need drama for the sake of drama? But I also think it would have added to the tension if these guys have trouble working together. Yeah, or if you showed them

Starting point is 00:16:34 because they're, yeah, it's like because they're all mad men and they're all bloodthirsty and stuff like that. Putting them all together kind of cancels that quality out. So it's like we see them most heavily contrasted with Nazis who are, you know, the most easily hateable characters in cinema, which is why you can have a movie

Starting point is 00:16:52 like this be as fun as it is because you know, there is a certain... Yeah, so like you can get by on a lot with that in mind. but it might have helped perhaps to have them in situations where they're with more normal people or just people who provide like a real contract because I like it's fun it's yeah like I think yeah like nitpick versus criticism is kind of a good distinction because it's like I like that they're all

Starting point is 00:17:19 sort of gentlemanly despite you know the the contrast they're riding on they're all affable and and you know charming to a degree but they're also crazy and love mayhem it would be nice to maybe see them pitted against or just contrasted with other characters who aren't of that ilk so that we could maybe it depends it's like i don't necessarily need them to take these characters to a dark place right but you know you could see that contrast through something like that yeah because i could imagine these guys especially alan richinson's character having like a tough time adjusting to like post war or like outside of that context sure because this is the context we keep them in and largely they're kind of separated from everybody um and there is no need for that external

Starting point is 00:18:01 conflict because they all are on the same page about want to do the same mission. Yeah, and the violence, like, the action is, like, hard hitting, and it is very of the now in terms of, like, especially, like, the knife fighting being so, like, methodical and punchy. You know, you don't see them in too many, like, particularly, like, if this was a Tarantino film, we would see each of our heroes do something, like, real icky, I feel like, at some point. And that's one thing this movie isn't doing so much. Like, all the action is more fun. Like, it's bloody at times. But it's not like, it doesn't feel violent in the same way that certain other war movies can. Because I feel like if Tarantino did it, he'd have Alan Richardson's character do the mountain.

Starting point is 00:18:49 Yeah, like he would be crushing somebody's head. Someone would be doing something real icky with a knife or something. Like, someone would get scalped or something. He'd bite the heart. Yeah. No, 100%. And so like it does feel more like that stuff is like sort of off screen because the action we do see is like explosions, gunfire, knife fighting and bow and arrow and stuff like that, which is all cool, which is all really fun to watch and they're all really good at do. You know, it's like an interesting thing.

Starting point is 00:19:14 I can imagine a different version of this movie. I liked this version of the movie a lot and had a lot of fun. And I can think of like some folks who, you know, you know people who are fans of both just like a fun movie, but also who have a particular interest in like history. uh and and war movies or whatever i could i could see myself recommending this of like hey if you want a war movie that's like kind of a crazy based on a true story but also is actually pretty fun absolutely go check this out coming from guy richie i can see another version directed by him that it's like more rough than this is like it's weird it's interesting because i'm like this is the kind of story that makes sense to make into some degree of a crowd pleaser

Starting point is 00:19:55 you could easily make it something way harsher than that though you know and i could imagine some of those critics maybe hoping for one or a few of those you know nitpicks and or criticisms that we've addressed here yeah this is weird because this movie had personality but it was also less stylized than i thought it would be in a way like i thought it had a lot of style but it wasn't because wasn't um sherlock holmes very stylized if i remember correctly it's been the years since i've seen those films god i think i only saw the second one like ages and ages ago when it came out but but yeah

Starting point is 00:20:29 what I recall of the selling point and even the trailers for the first movie was that yeah they had this like really enhanced fighting photography so like every time Holmes is like breaking something down or they have this scene where he's like bare knuckle boxing and yeah they're doing like these

Starting point is 00:20:45 time slows down and then we like zoom in and out and we're seeing like what he sees and like yeah there's like a very strong element of like visual style or having watched like snad that has like, you know, the freeze frames and the title cards and like the cool sort of almost more punk approach to some of the formational elements like editing and stuff like that. And again, the more saturated use of needle drops. Like this has very prominent music, but it's much more restrained to a specific, it's not even 30s music or 40s, I should say, music.

Starting point is 00:21:21 It's, you know, largely a lot of stuff that feels more like a Spaghetti Western or something. like that. But he's pretty diverse. Like, I saw a movie of his, I think, the last year, I think probably two or three years ago at this point called Guy Rite's the Covenant with Jake Gyllenhaal. Okay. Really good, not stylized like he'd expect him to have. It was like a more of like a modern

Starting point is 00:21:39 day military story, but very, very good. So yeah, I think this movie like this. And he did Aladdin. And he did Aladdin. I think this all just speaks to his versatility. Like, give Guy Rite's flowers. He's great. Yeah. And I mean, he's a guy who's been through an interesting career, because

Starting point is 00:21:55 he started off, obviously, being very much in an auteur mode, and I feel like coming up along with the likes of like a Tarantino and whoever else, and has crested into making more Hollywood or more, you know, taking jobs versus, you know, this seems like something he would have been, like,

Starting point is 00:22:12 excited about getting going himself, whereas, like, certain things like in Aladdin feel more like, oh, yeah, like this is a job that I'm going to bring myself to, but, you know, like it's less of the autore mode and more of the, you know, I'm a working director mode and so this kind of feels like it matches both which is neat

Starting point is 00:22:29 and it makes me yeah curious to see more of his stuff and just fill in the blanks of his catalog both in terms of like I've never seen like lock stock or you know things like that or you know some of these other things that are a little further beyond the wheelhouse I associate

Starting point is 00:22:45 him with but yeah do we got a little trivia we good little facts and let's let's find the names of a couple of actors here because yeah the guy who played what was his name heron like he's super familiar uh as was i know i've seen the guy who played uh uh what's his name billy um camp billy um yeah babbs elucin mokin i know i yeah this guy like carrie elwis frigin uh yeah was rory canair as winston churchill tischieger who again is in inglorious bastards um freddy fox

Starting point is 00:23:23 who played Ian Fleming is in Rings of Power but he's also really funny on oh God on this what is it called? There's this show with like Matt Barry where they're like old English detain year of the rabbit there you go he's very funny on that show

Starting point is 00:23:39 and then yeah who was Camp Billy who do we got damn though like a really really stacked cast like all around all right I've been told we're in the thick of basketball season an MLB is heating up and there's no shortage of games to track.

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Starting point is 00:25:28 Jesus Christ I will show you Did you ever see I haven't seen it But have you seen men No I wanted to watch that one He's all the men and men I think that oh that's the only He's this guy he was Tom Bomb

Starting point is 00:25:43 I missed apologies to Rory Keneer I accidentally called him Tom Bomb I accidentally called him Stephen Graham in Rings of Power when he showed up as Tom Bombadil the everyone's character that they've been

Starting point is 00:25:59 wanting to have be in the Lord of the Rings stuff he's out here Rory Kinnear he's a terrific actor BT Dubs he's in tons of British stuff obviously he's the only man is the only Alex Carlin movie I think I have not seen

Starting point is 00:26:15 okay I think I'm not annihilation is a long time ago but i don't remember heck annihilation is really good or i liked it a lot i remember liking i don't remember anything that happened in it Alex pedifer he's familiar to uh yeah solid casting across his movie good for henry golding too nice to see him get to you know just be kind of a guy kind of a fun rough and tumble guy uh and yeah i isa gonzalez too like i i wasn't expecting her here but uh i thought her accent work and just her that like she had to carry a lot as, A, like the only woman on the squad, B, the femme fatale, the, you know, infiltrator, and the person who is up against the most directly, her and hair and both are sort of

Starting point is 00:26:58 the most directly exposed to, you know, danger of a personal variety. Tagline was keep calm and cavil on. I do not believe that that is true. That's hilarious. I don't believe you. All right. In real life, this is some trivia. for your ass.

Starting point is 00:27:18 One of the lesser known members of the Ministry of Ungenerating Warfare was Sir Christopher Lee. Christopher Lee was the cousin of Ian Fleming, and Fleming first suggested him for the title role of Dr. No while golfing together. Part went to Joseph Wiseman instead, but Lee ended up playing another Bond villain Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun.

Starting point is 00:27:40 Also, Lee famously used his experience in the ministry operations to educate Sir Peter Jackson when filming Lord of the Rings trilogy on the quote sound a man makes when he is stabbed in the back Wow, that's crazy

Starting point is 00:27:56 he was there? Christ Jesus that's Christopher Lee was a boss. He had a metal band Did he pass? Yes. Oh, yeah, all right he was to the Lee. He had a metal band called Charlemagne. He's in like a billion trillion hammer movies

Starting point is 00:28:12 obviously Lord of the Rings Star Wars, all that stuff. A true in the 1968 Kingsley Amos novel Amos Amis novel Colonel Sun James Bond says he once spent several months serving aboard a

Starting point is 00:28:27 Brickson trawler suggesting he was a member of the British small-scale rating force party that conducted Operation Postmaster the same operation depicted in this film and certainly we know that you know he was based on

Starting point is 00:28:42 our man Cavill with the best mustache in the the game. Henry Cavill on how he came up with his character's signature mustache segue. The facial hair was me. That was something which I just thought have some fun with it. World War II have a crazy mustache. Slightly mad

Starting point is 00:28:58 characters. Let's lean into it. That's awesome. Why not? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's like he especially is like so kind of charming and in control. I feel like a lot of the madness. That's a fun one. Yeah, Ian Fleming introduces himself as Fleming. Ian Fleming. This is a nod to his fictional

Starting point is 00:29:14 hero, James Bond, who in many films, who in many of the films in which he appears, introduces himself as Bond. James Bond. And now I'm like, are there ones where he doesn't say that? Anyway, Anders Larson, our buddy Alan Richson here, uses arrows tipped with bodkin points, which have been in use since medieval times because they are made of hard and steel, and the point is long and steeply tapered, enough that with sufficient velocity, the arrow could pierce armor plates.

Starting point is 00:29:46 and chain mail. They are the ideal arrowheads for a special forces archer. Well observed. Not bad. Easter egg. The U-96 from Das Boot makes an early appearance. That's fun. Classic naval flick. The closing credits reveal that Gus March Phillips was one of the inspirations for Jam's band. Henry Cavill was a finalist to play Bonn. You can see his audition tape online. Really? Yep. He was rejected for. for being too young. He was 22 at the time. This is the third film in which Cavill plays a Bond-type character,

Starting point is 00:30:24 including after The Man from Uncle, another Guy Ritchie joint, if I'm not mistaken, and Argyle, everyone's favorite Matthew Vaughn joint from 2024. Isaac Gonzalez had to learn how to speak and sing in German. She also had to speak Italian and French for those like couple moments where that had to happen. After Operation Postmaster, the Made Honor crew was formalized

Starting point is 00:30:50 under the Special Operations Executive expanded to a roster of about 55 volunteer commandos and renamed the small-scale rating force, 62 Commando. The small-scale rating force rated up and down the French coastline in support of SOE operations until they were transferred to

Starting point is 00:31:06 Algeria in 1942 and became one of Bill Sterling's second special air service. So viewers of the film are watching not only a mostly true story of a pretty exciting mission. They're watching a telling of the earliest origin of the famed SAS

Starting point is 00:31:22 which has influenced top tier special warfare units across the globe. In real life, the sailboat standing in for the maid of honor in the film is a German flagged gaff-rigged schooner named Ethel von Brixam. The hull is the same as the Brickson

Starting point is 00:31:40 class boats. The historic maid of honor was built on and the present owners and operators offer a 10-day sailing adventure to the public for about 580 U.S. dollars. That's pretty crazy. Alan Ritson shared

Starting point is 00:31:56 with Hollywood reporter that he expected even more gore from Guy Ritchie's film, considering that the real Larson was very passionate about executing his mission. I came into his trailer and said, here's my perspective on the action. Anders Larson had hated these Nazis. This was not just a dutiful soldier. This guy had a fucking mission.

Starting point is 00:32:12 He wanted to murder these guys. You didn't just want to kill them. He wanted hate kills. We should see malice in the knife. It should be gory. And we should expose inners as he cuts people. We shouldn't hide anything. It should all be in your face.

Starting point is 00:32:27 I was insane. He said he would think about it. I don't know how much thought he thought about it. Because I feel like, again, this is very fun. This could have been. And from Guy Ritchie, I would have even expected, like a lot more ick. But either way, Isaac Gonzalez's character sings Mack the Knife at the officer's party. while the second English version of the song dates to

Starting point is 00:32:49 1954 in the first to 1933 the original song Mackey Messer was written in 1928 in German Bertold Brecht by Bertold Brecht and with music by Kurt Weil in Dry Grochknyneper the three-penny opera in the English version in Broadway in 1933

Starting point is 00:33:11 I think that made some sense Rory Keneer has also played British Prime Minister three times including this movie the first time was the very first episode of Black Mirror which which uh have you seen that yes I've seen the I've seen it all but the last season I think yeah that first episode you you never forget actually I had maybe I did forget was it the oh is it the the pig it's the pig episode yes he's the pig guy yes I remember vaguely but yes uh yeah the national anthem is another film we played prime minister in and the second time was in a TV series called The Diplomat.

Starting point is 00:33:45 And apparently Alex Pettyfer was originally supposed to play Henry Cavill's character. And Cavill was supposed to play the Alex Petitford character. It was supposed to be Apple. And through the dialogue, we just managed to switch characters. And I think that's the beauty and what guy does. I think when you come in and there's

Starting point is 00:34:01 a spontaneity, it brings a freshness and we're all in the same boat. There's a real collaborative experience. When you're sitting there, it's not necessarily the scenes are changing, but the interaction between the characters. It's the first time I've gone to a movie and haven't done any prep. and built a character with the director and the rest of the cast. And what a fun experience that is.

Starting point is 00:34:20 Ooh, Freddy Fox, who played Fleming. His father played M. It was Edward Fox in the original bond entry, never say never again. Hero finds Tiffin's Uncle Ray Fines also played M in the Daniel Craig Films. Let's do just a couple of, oh, we only got a couple, so we, cool. We'll do these two spoilers. The Royal Navy Cruiser that first,

Starting point is 00:34:43 intercepts them when Gus misidentifies as a destroyer approaching them and then later rendezvous with the squad is a town class light cruiser and the shots aboard that ship took place in the HMS Belfast directed by Kenneth Brannock which is the surviving of the town class HMS Belfast is born on the Thames in London and is now a museum ship so we could go and get a souvenir shot glass yes the epilogue says that Gus and Marjorie were married after the events of the film Oddly, the characters have very few on-screen interactions. I noticed that, too. Although when Marjorie and Heron catch up to Gus's boat at the end of the film, they share a single fortatious glance, which speaks volumes. Yeah. Oh, my. Got those vibes.

Starting point is 00:35:30 Is there anything in this insanely long effect that is revelatory? Let's just try it out. Well, walking along the harbor, dispatching Nazi troops who weren't lucky enough to be invited to the beer, Gus March Phillips, who is wearing the leather coat in uniform, he took from a Gestapo officer, stops to accept salutes from three young troops, and replies, Guternot, mine Schmertierlingen. They called them butterflies, right? With a hearty laugh.

Starting point is 00:35:57 The troops look at each other with confusion because only one says Guten knocked when someone is saying good night for the end of the evening. One only says that when they're saying good night for the end of the evening. And in this case, the expected greeting would be more akin to good evening or gutten Aubin in German, but the reference to butterflies is even more confusing since it has no purpose in the military context belonging more in kindergarten, but Henry Hayes dispatches them with his suppressed pistol. This is a very deep joke as it refers to the origins of the word die Schmetterling derived from the Slavic and Smetana or Cream and referring to an old legend about how witches assume

Starting point is 00:36:42 the forms of butterflies to steal cream from the butter churn. Some variants of German even prefer the term Milke dieb or milk thieves for butterflies and the use may have become a legend since butterflies tend to emerge around the earliest parts of the spring and butter would be first made in the German

Starting point is 00:37:02 countryside and many such butterflies even include creamy coloring on their wings bolstering the legend among the Pennsylvania Dutch. One remedy for bewitching cream is for bewitched cream is for bewitched cream is to stab it with a knife or even shooting it with a gun. The Nazis didn't live long enough to get the joke, but they

Starting point is 00:37:18 were bewitching the maid of honor crew's objective and had to be removed from the cream. March Phillips has a brutal sense of humor and knows Germanic culture very well and now all of us do as well thanks to that very convolutedly long fact.

Starting point is 00:37:34 Hey, don't be sleepy or sneezy. No, no. See Snow White while you take some Allegra. Yeah. And I'll run. Jesus, nice. Anything else to tell the people?

Starting point is 00:37:44 No, there's a lot of fun. I'm glad we watched it, and Henry Cavill needs to do more movies. He does, man. He does. Henry Cavill needs to do some more.

Starting point is 00:37:54 Alan Richardson does some more. This guy was in Dune. Okay. I guess he wasn't in Dune. There you go. There you go. Babs Olusimokin. Good name on this man, too.

Starting point is 00:38:05 I know, yeah. There's a bunch of that guy. Oh, yeah. Who played Billy Camp? Also, is that one place, a real place? Francisco Poe that's what we'll leave off on okay Danny

Starting point is 00:38:17 Sapani played our boy Camp Billy who's in Trans Black Panther okay yeah he's in a bunch of stuff too is Fernando It must be real

Starting point is 00:38:32 This is a historical thingy Oh they changed the name They changed the name Boko I guess would be Yeah Fernando Poe was the former name historically Fernando Poe.

Starting point is 00:38:43 That's interesting. Who are you, Fernando? Don't call my name. Don't call my name. Name for the Portuguese navigator. Farniao do Poe, between 1973 and 1979 and the island was named Masias Nguema Biogo. And then, after, then-president of Equatorial Guinea.

Starting point is 00:39:07 The name Bioko dates from 1979. is in honor of politician Cristino Serrice Bioko. We did it. We did it. It's been renamed. That's why you ain't heard of it because it's not on the map anymore in that form. Gang. Gang, gang. What did you think of the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare? Would you like to see more films based on their

Starting point is 00:39:29 various operations with an even crazier-sized ensemble because apparently they got sanctioned and then they had a bunch more people on their team? Either way, let us know your thoughts. Thank you for joining us, and we'll catch you on the next one. Cheerio.

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