We Hate Movies - S14 Ep744: Dick Tracy
Episode Date: June 11, 2024“When we put out our coffee table book of Disgusting Shit Boys, he’s the cover…” - Steve on “The Kid” On this week’s episode, the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza continues with a hilar...ious convo all about one of the more ambitious comic adaptations of all time, Dick Tracy! Should Beatty really have starred as the titular Dick while also directing this thing? How incredible are all the matte paintings, Sondheim songs, and loud-AF costumes? Is there something in the drinking water in this town or what, what is with all the freaks? And how much chili does Tracy consume in this movie? PLUS: One of the worst things to ever exist, Tracy Zooms In, is discussed at length. Dick Tracy stars Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Glenn Headley, Charlie Korsmo, James Keane, Seymour Cassel, Michael J. Pollard, Charles Durning, Dick Van Dyke, Kathy Bates, Dustin Hoffman, William Forsythe, Ed O’Ross, James Tolkan, Mandy Patinkin, R.G. Armstrong, Henry Silva, Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Catherine O’Hara, Estelle Parsons, and Madonna as Breathless Mahoney; directed by Warren Beatty. This episode is brought to you in part by Rocket Money! Stop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney dot com slash WHM. That’s RocketMoney dot com slash WHM. RocketMoney dot com slash WHM. Be sure to pick up your tickets for our summer time WORLD WIDE DIGITAL EVENT where we’ll be talking all about the action classic SPEED! Early bird tickets are still available for the next couple days, so head over to Moment dot co slash We Hate Movies and get your tickets now— and don’t forget to bundle in your ticket for the Q&A After Party that’s going down right after the show that night! Can’t make it to the live show? No problem! The show will be available for replay for a full TWO WEEKS after air. So you’ve got 14 days to check out the show after it happens! Make the WHM Merch Store your one-stop shop for all your We Hate Movies merch-related needs! Including new SHEENPRIL, Night Vision & Too Old For This Shit designs! Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
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This week on We Hate Movies, we're back in business and ain't it grand indeed.
We're talking Dick Tracy.
I'm Andrew Juppin.
Steven Seda.
Eric Face.
Big Face.
And we hate movies.
Big Face.
Hello, everyone, welcome to We Hate Movies.
Thank you for tuning in, as always.
That's right.
This week, it's a long time coming.
1990s Dick Tracy directed by Dick Tracy himself, Warren Beatty.
Hold on.
I think we have Beatty, we have Dick Tracy zooming in right now.
Oh, yep.
Hello, how, how, how, excuse, do you know that Warren Beatty's a son of a bitch?
Sir, uh, are you connected through Ethernet? The Wi-Fi, I think, is, uh, I did,
this is a phone call. I would like a pepperoni piece. I would like onions on it.
Wait, where, we got Warren Beatty on the line, Dick. Let's hold on a second. Where, what? Where
am I? Was, did the lady bring lunch yet? Uh, we should say it front, we just watched, uh, what was it,
20-20-1s or 2020s?
20-something.
Tracy zooms in.
Not to be confused with the Tracy Elman
Tracy takes on HBO show.
No, this is a Turner Classic movie special
that is made by them
in order to help him
Warren Beatty retain the rights to Dick Tracy.
So he plays Dick Tracy again
as a Zoom call and character
who just criticizes the direction of Warren Beatty.
In this world, Dick Tracy,
the detective from the comics
strip showed up to
the movie set every day
and was directed playing
himself in a way
for Warren Beatty against
amazing actors like Seymour Cassell
and Al Pacino in the middle of this
was one original non-professional
I love it. It's a new world for Warren Bayton's like an old timey Italian film.
I'll say this because we always get trouble because we
have a little, we poke a little too much fun at the Marvel
movies possibly. Marvel's never done anything as
embarrassing as this. I'll say that. Nothing is more
embarrassing than this. The movie is pretty
good. You mean the zoom's in.
Zooms in, yes. Okay. As a promotional
material. I was going to say Marvel's never
done a movie as sex. No, no. They've never
done like a downy
zooms in. There's Stark
zooms in and there's R.D.J.
talking with Tony Stark like
an idiot. Oh, God, that, yeah.
I just, I mean, like,
what is, what did
what did TCM get out of the deal? Like, was
where does the money go? I
really want someone to fucking get
get into the books on this thing
see what money
what quid broke whoa
what happened you know what I bet
they got the rights
when Warren Beatty passes
and I hope it never happens
but when it does happen
they have the rights to put him out
like Lenin
in the open casket
so everybody can come by
would you go see that
like if you're in town
you're in L.A.
Oh for sure
you got a cast
you get to see the whole body
the director of Bullworth
are you insane
of course I'm going to see that
Clothes or none
I think he has like his
he probably has to dick Tracy Jackson
The suit, yeah. So not alien autopsy style, like, I would want.
You know, I saw that happen here in the city.
You saw a naked dead man?
He wasn't nude, but I saw a dead man in a glass casket.
Oh, the bodies thing?
No. When James Brown passed away, his body laid and stayed outside the Apollo theater.
Jesus.
That's crazy.
And one morning, I was on the bus going to work.
It was an accidental sighting.
It was. At the time, part of my commute was, like, subway to the bus to another train across town.
like so much of us and
there I was just sitting
on the fucking M60 going across town
passed by the Apollo theater looked
over oh there's James Brown's body it was
the day of the affair that's amazing
that's like getting the best
spot outside of a concert
and like being like
oh I got to say I didn't have to fucking pay
I heard it we would pull up the car
to the fucking adjacent parking lot of the
Saratoga Performing Arts Center and just listen to the music
for free go Dave
yeah Dave put it out
so how did he look?
Look.
Like a dead old man in a talker.
I mean, he was, you know, adorned, of course, and everything.
But he was, it's always that thing, like, when you go to a wake or something, like,
it was just a little old dead body.
Like, it was very, it was very, it was not the legendary entertainer.
It was very strange.
I hope they put the cape on him.
If they didn't, that was an oversight.
He was, like, covered in something.
I don't know.
It could have been a cape.
Senator, I cannot confirm the existence.
He went too hard.
He went too hard.
Put the cape over.
Honestly, the way he looks, he could have been in.
Tracey.
Yes.
Oh, man, I wish.
Everybody's experience with this movie growing up and in general.
I saw this at a friend of mine for birthday.
We went in theater.
Classic kid birthday party title.
Birthday in theaters.
We watched it and I was nonplussed.
Yeah.
I remember, actually, this was probably one of the first movies that I was like,
I was on board and then it lost me.
I do think this is a good movie, but it loses its steam.
Sure.
I saw it in theaters.
I saw it with my family.
and I liked it
like I immediately was like
this looks amazing
like I was like holy fucking shit
and I think it was because
I hadn't gone
well is Batman's at the same
the year before?
At the year before
I had not seen that in theaters
I had seen that at home
well you kind of did if you saw this in theater
I guess yes
in a way I heard it
I heard it the same way
Danny Elpin scored does sound exactly the same
it is the scraps from the garbage can
I didn't see this in theaters
I had a childhood friend who was
I was obsessed with it.
So I saw it on VHS several times.
And it honestly didn't do anything for me.
It kind of does a little bit more for me now
because as I'm older, I can appreciate set design,
costuming, yada.
That's where it really excels.
But like, I don't give for shit about Dick Tracy.
I grew up, we saw this in theaters.
I saw Batman in theaters.
For a while, we're seeing everything in the theaters with my dad.
That's awesome.
And also, like, there were kids that live,
above us that we were kind of like put with a lot in a two family house they were obsessed
with it so it kind of it leaked in I had a couple action figures here and there I did
a coloring book I believe wow really so there was some stuff going on and like I like this movie
and then like growing up I decided I don't like it now I'm kind of just like in the appreciative
phase where it's like yeah I appreciate a lot of the craft of this movie is really exciting
a lot of the the fact that he I think the best decision aside for
from all the decisions that,
the best decision is the Sondheim songs.
It is the glue that holds this movie together.
Yes.
This is like,
and I think that the problem is he as an actor,
and I think Wadonna as well,
like everyone is on 11 doing cartoon characters.
Glenn Hedy is fucking amazing.
She's great.
Rest and peace.
Like, Pacino, obviously, all these,
they're doing it.
They're getting like,
oh, it's like a 30s movie,
but if it was a cartoon, got it.
And they get in.
Right.
And Tracy is just like,
man.
And Madonna is very
like nuanced and real
and like affected and it's just not
what the movie needs. It's not for this and it's weird
I was thinking this time watching it like
you're directing it dude
like you're in it the whole thing
and you kind of seem like you're embarrassed to be doing it.
He seems like he's embarrassed to be in the big yellow coat
he's the worst part of the movie
which is crazy. It's classic hero syndrome
like the hero has to be the most boring guy
because he has to be the straight man in a way
But in this, it's even worse because, like, if, I mean, it is just, I mean, the Batman we have to talk about because if they are so similar.
The Batman of it all, yeah.
But, like, the Batman elite, with Batman at least, like Tim Burton seems like he shares some affinity with Bruce Wayne. He has some feeling. Like, and I'm sure to a degree, like, Beatty should have felt that for Dick Tracy.
I think he must, right? Like, but that doesn't show in the performance at all. Like, there's no, there's no sense of.
he is just kind of playing himself.
And, like, I guess that's always what he did for the most part.
So I get why that happens.
But, like, it becomes such a void in the beginning of a movie I otherwise love.
But he hired a great team, right?
The cinematography, the production design, like the art.
Oh, Starraro shot this?
Oh, yeah, yeah, I missed that credit.
The apocalypse now, a rainy day in New York.
You know the best stuff.
But the costume design and, you know, like, just the colors,
everything about this movie is really cool.
And he must have had some part of putting that together.
Of course, I mean, as a director, but yeah, I think I, as an actor, I've never liked him.
Even like Parallax View, which is an amazing movie.
It's great.
I'm like, you put somebody else in there, it's probably a little better.
Like if Redford was in that role?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
I just, I mean, and it's a great movie, and he does give a good performance in an amazing film.
I do think any of the big guys do a better job.
That's, I mean, you bring up a funny idea because I think his best performance is,
is Bonnie and Clyde, and that is him playing a famous, like, he can relate to that kind of
character, whereas, like, somebody who's, like, on the run and in trouble by the government,
that's not him at all.
Like, at least this, I get the feeling, because, I mean, we're going to talk about, like,
the hierarchy of the police department really doesn't matter in this.
Like, the goings and comings of the department aren't really that important.
They're all showing them, like, montage.
You got the, you got, like, the DA breathing down everyone's neck.
Dick Van Dyck.
Dick Van Dyke.
Mayor,
uh,
DA Fletcher.
And then the captain who is Charles Durning.
Yeah.
It's just kind of like,
Hank,
he's like looking after his kid for most of this.
Well,
because it also like they dress Charles Durning the same as they do all like
the flat foot cops.
So there's no like gravitas to it.
It just seems like just another one of the guys.
And to Chris's point,
his,
his parts in the movie is there's doing like a Norman Rockwell painting.
Yeah.
Right.
And I think it's just him playing like a director,
like a guy who directs the police department is essentially what he does.
And you think about like somebody.
like Seymour Cassell as Sam
Cacham, A great name.
B, Seymorcazal, it rules.
And I mean, he's doing a cartoon character.
That's what you need.
You need, like, and he's a good guy too.
So, like, and he's not into crazy makeup.
He's just sort of like, I'm kind of a dumb guy.
What are we doing, Tracy?
Right.
You just need, like, somebody is a squared jawed, like,
I could get there.
You know what I mean?
Like a...
That's true.
But maybe they want to say, maybe we're trying to say that this mob is
cartoonishly evil and it's hurting all these
regular, dagular people like Dick Tracy
and Madonna.
And the disgusting shit boy that's in this movie and Tess.
Yes.
It is, I mean, Charlie Corsemo is, if you, if we were to make, when we put out a coffee table book of disgusting shit boys, he's the cover.
He makes me fucking sick.
I'm sure he's a nice guy.
I like Can't Hardly Ways.
Sure, yeah.
But he is disgusting in this.
It's disgusting literal shit boy.
He's got grime and fucking like little drippings on his face at all times.
and it makes me wretch.
To be clear, it's supposed to be a kid
who lives in abject poverty,
so maybe we can let that go.
No, we can.
There's puddles.
Wash your face.
I feel like what does it for me is all the eating.
Yes.
It's watching people eat.
When do we eat?
Like when you're acting as like the,
I'm starving and I'm just putting it all in my mouth.
When do we eat?
I just think of the pie eating scene in Stand By Me,
and like anything from the
it branches out from there I just want to vomit
and I watch this kid eating all the shit in this movie
and I'm like I want to throw up it's disgusting watching
you shove food in your face. Macaulay was up for this
you turned it down for home alone
which is the best decision you could make
the best move his parents ever made
in his life yes and I actually
I don't think he would be terrible like
Corfo I think has more character to him
he's got some bounce to him yeah so we start
it's just it's calling to Tracy
calling to Tracy if you were aware of
if you were a thousand years old you know
what that is.
Yeah.
If you help storm
the beaches at Normandy,
you knew what was being referenced here.
And we see the kid kind of
sneaking in on a little conclave
of poker game amongst all these.
Mark Ruffalo
needs to fucking sue somebody
about the water supply in this fucking
in this town.
I don't know what happened.
Yeah.
It's a town of mutants.
It's really, I mean,
every other person is some sort of
goblin creature. Big boy new
the whole time!
Yeah, he really
needs to organize some paperwork on this town
because go through those boxes
dude, the evidence is there. And I think it's a thing done
by the cops because it's only the crooks.
True. So I think the police department's dumping something
in the water by the hideout. Maybe when they arrest
them, they like inject them with some
serum. Oh, you're tagged now
with some freak juice. Yeah, now you're prune
face, motherfucker.
That one, that's a heavy case.
That one in Little Face, I would put them in front of Congress.
Give this guy a little face.
That's what we're going to do.
Because, I mean, Chester A. Gould, the great cartoonist.
I mean, like, this is baiting.
And it's a smart move.
It's interesting.
It makes the movie stand out.
Every crook is going to look like they did in the comics.
And, you know, they're interestingly drawn.
So they have insane prosthesis on it.
But it plays well with the bright colors of the costumes.
the mat paintings.
You know you're not in the real world
and it's great.
It's a fairy tale.
I just realized
what little face reminds me of.
What's that?
Remember in society
when the dad's face
comes out of his ass?
Yes, that's what little thing.
Oh, fuck, that's terrifying.
And he walks around like that all the time.
Thank God they shoot him.
And why wouldn't you want to, you know,
arrest that guy.
Get him off the street.
You can't have an ass face.
No, you got to get all ass faces
right off the streets immediately.
I eradicate them.
No, yeah, when I was directing,
I told him I had seen this movie
called Society. I wanted to make
a less wet version of society
when I was thinking of Little Face
and also, yes, I will have a cob salad
no bacon, but extra egg if you could.
Thank you, Mr. Beatty. Thank you for zooming in.
God damn, there's so much
wrong about that. Can I get an extra thing
of croutons on the side?
But we get the rodent here who throws the cat.
Come by, little fella. Oh, God. The rodent's
great. I guess they're sort of saying
this is sort of like a reference to like the same Valentine's Day Massacre
because like other criminals come in including fucking flat top my God
the brow is a tough one too
because it's kind of like he's got an ass on his head
yeah that guy's disgusting sure I mean they're all disgusting
well they get killed and then other disgusting guys show up I mean I feel bad for
Madonna she's fucking lips manless she does fuck
a big boy at some point I'm like am I gonna get it
like whatever you have totally does that catch
Like all those weird cummies
Whatever
Has happened to these people, D-N
and R&A
Both are fucked up
I mean this could be radiation
Exactly
And I feel like you're shooting
Radiative loads into me
That might affect me
Yeah
Oh uh, Ms. Breathless Mahoney
This is your doctor speaking
You are completely infertile
I think it's because you were
fucking big boy caprice
You're actually also getting his weird
Uncle Fester humpback
Is growing on you now
it spits like acid.
It spit, that dick spits like acid
and it dissolves the ovaries.
I mean, you are, you are pregnant,
but it looks like a,
it looks like an oyster.
I don't know if it is one,
but it looks exactly like an oyster.
What came out was not human.
Put it back in.
For a friend of the show, Justin J.K.,
it's his favorite part of any movie,
it's, you know, eight, no help,
three no help. It's the brow doing it.
He's like, what about you little face?
And it's just, they show the little face.
And he goes, and then he gets shot.
It's fantastic.
Oh, man, it's really unsettling.
Yeah, a car drives through the warehouse, and, yeah, one of them is a flat top.
Billy Forsyth, baby.
Of all the, like, this dude needed the least amount of makeup.
They just parted his hair differently.
That was it.
That was it.
They just gave a John C. Riley haircut.
Yeah, that's all they do.
How about we just give you a curl, like a little perm.
How about that?
How would that do?
Oh, man.
Edo Ross is itchy as well.
Yes.
Ello Ross is, of course, voicing Agent K and the M-I-B cartoon, we're covered on animation.
30 seconds.
No more dick.
30 seconds.
No more dick.
I was a big itchy fan as a kid.
Itchy was my favorite of the whole bunch.
Why?
I don't know.
I think I responded to the glasses of the blue.
And he also was the least terrifying to look at as well.
He's the most normal looking, and he gets that iconic line.
30 seconds, no more dick.
30 seconds, no more dick.
Which is what I say when I'm about the climax.
I look into my partner's eyes and I say, 30 seconds, no more dick.
And she loves you for that.
It's gone.
No, no, it's gone.
I'm sorry.
It was no more dick.
It's gone.
Well, it's better than just mumbling through the whole thing.
Well, no, what I do is I look at my partner.
I go, look what you did to your pretty tuxedo.
I always just say,
me, they did it.
Big boy did it. Big boy did it.
I just sing Sonheim songs.
It's pretty grand, I got to say.
Thank God it's only two minutes long.
But Flat Boy, Flat Top, and Itchy just lay waste to these dudes.
And I do, I mean, like, what I love about this movie, and it happens at the end to, it's like, again, you know, not to, all franchises started because of Nolan.
saving the Joker for second.
Sure.
It's that,
that was the mentality.
It's like, oh, we'll do it
in the next one,
we'll save whatever.
All the villains are in this.
Like, you can see,
imagine if this movie
was now,
we'll do Big Boy now,
maybe Prune Face will be teased.
They'll be behind a desk.
Who is that?
Ooh, it's Prune Face.
Who's gonna be Prune Face?
They're all here,
they'll get fucking murdered
by the end of the movie.
I think that's,
if there was something
I really love about this
and why I keep on kind of
forgiving a lot of its faults
is because it is like
this maximalist.
thing that you could only get away with
in the 90s. And you can only get away with
it one time. Yeah. And it better
be a hit, you fucking idiot. I swear
to God. Which this was.
It was. And like that to me
is like having this amount of the characters
and with these faces from these
famous fucking actors
doing this. Fucking James Concho
he goes for 20 seconds to be like, fuck you
Al Pacino. Yeah. He comes in
to give Big Boy Caprice the finger and
leaves the movie in a car bomb almost
immediately. And again, we're not saving anything
for anything. We're just doing it.
This is the Dick Tracy movie that I'm making.
It's called Dick Tracy and it's got all my
shit that I want. Right. It's a singular entity.
It's not, we're not setting up a franchise.
Because literally at that point you were like, it could
just be one movie. Yes. Like it really could
just be one. And it was. And it's been 30
a lot years. But for some reason he's trying
to retain those rights. Is it to keep this
as just one movie so no one else
makes any more? He wants until he's in
the grave, dude. That's exactly what it is. Like,
I don't want to see it's sully. I'm taking Dick Tracy
to the hell with me.
him and Zemeckis got this deal
I don't know how they were just like
I am keep there is no way
you get to do anything well Bobby Zia it's full
throat it's an original it's an original premise
yeah but he bought the rights for three million
bucks back in wherever I mean that's a ton of money
back in the 90s right and he's retained it
there is on IMDB I don't know if it's to be believed
in production Dick Tracy with
just Dick Tracy project
with with
that's the zoom as a producer that's the zoom's in
it's double list
The next zoom.
Yes, it's the next zoom.
I got a feeling that'll wind up being like a posthumous producer credit.
I was going to say, maybe if we luck out this November, maybe it's Joe Biden meets Dick Tracy.
And it is somehow even more incoherent than fucking zooms in.
Well, you know how like traditionally the president always like gives an interview to like a news channel before the Super Bowl?
Why don't you do that before the Austin's like, Oscar Sunday, it's like, oh, the president's going to speak.
And it's Joe Biden talking to Dick Tracy.
Yeah.
he should i mean he didn't do the super bowl address last time so oh that's right you gotta make
good make good with the oscar exactly yeah oh man here me out at the academy awards dick tracy
isn't this great what warren who i never saw that picture uh but there is pornography so
they lay waste all these gangsters which is kind of great you see all these and it's great
because it's all these like really flashy interesting characters they're dead immediately
just totally iced uh the kid witnesses it and he makes a ton of
a noise and Flattop doesn't chase him like
I don't know man like that's your job
well he's got to stay behind to leave a message
for Tracy and they led Tracy
he led Tracy in bullets what
great penmanship or gun bullet
gunmanship gunmanship
or bulletmanship
munition ship
yeah I don't know one of those
one of those is fine munition ship
oh I'm a big dick Tracy fan
and I used to drive a munition ship
back in WW2
I know but don't you
don't you wish that we could have
scene. Big
boy Capri, take Flat Top
into his hands and become his number
two. What did you like a three-hour
movie about that too? This one's
too long as it is. This is what's
interesting about it though is like,
if you were just doing he's going after Big
Boy Caprice and then it's just like
gangsters who work for him,
the movie doesn't work.
One of the reasons why this is interesting
to look at is because they all fucking look
like that. I don't know.
Was Flat Top also
just as big as big boy the priest in the
comics or are they like underlings anyway
but they're all just cool looking
like I was born 20 years
after the Kennedy assassination so I don't know
that I know that's the thing man
I mean we should we were all born after the
advent of catalytic converters
we should ask Joe Biden because he was like
42 when this came out
so he would Mr. President you
used to have to take a mule to the grocery store
what was the deal with the Dick Tracy villain
line? I believe that they were all
like they were all like kind of separate
So this strip I'm fighting flat top
This strip I'm fighting mumbles
But to make them into this interesting thing
That makes a ton of sense
It makes it feel like a whirl
Yes
And it's a real rogues gallery
And you get to really enjoy it in one go
And yeah you see
There's an insane looking flat tub
He makes this thing
Tess and Dick Tracy are at the opera
I do like the line
I'm gonna be back I want to see how it turns out
It is so funny
I think this is a great joke
because the opera's so long, he's able
to leave the opera, do a bunch
of police work, drive all around town, come
back and still catch the ending of the
office. It's an opera that they're at?
I think it's supposed to be
a Wagner. Oh, I straight up
just thought they were at the movies.
But either way, he's
a piece of shit leaving his fucking phone on
in the theater. This thing's going,
oh, dick crazy, you gotta go in.
Dude, I was watching, yesterday
I went and saw the watchers and theaters.
and like biggest the climax part of the movie ish just the loudest cell phone ring and
it had been so long since that had happened to me I just did a come on and it turned out she was
like six feet away oh nice so you're who watches the watchers I was one of them or the non-watchers
they're answering phones I was a non-watcher that day I love the same catcher with a Dick Tracy
blah coming in there's a bunch of
dead guys down at the at the at the the whatever the docks nobody knows nobody knows who they are
that's what he says twice and they comes back and they're like yeah they took all their IDs we
don't know who they are i'm like look around like this is you know who these guys their names
are all what they look like how about a little detective work oh my god did they shoot little
face in the head so many times you can't even tell this a popped pimple yes oh wait they either
killed Little Face or the dad
from society? I really can't tell
right here. The blood is up to their
ankles as they walk in. Yeah, all of
his face is out here. Oh, God.
It finally leaked out. Oh,
I haven't wanted to pop that for years.
Oh, God, it's disgusting.
Let some of the pressure out. Of course, we have
to have the
that's going. Can you do that
again? There we go.
Yeah, there it is. Little Faces, little
mumble. You got
the press here that are like
Oh, Dick Tracy, maybe you should be
Chief of Police, and he's like, no, there's
a pretty great guy in that role already.
Run about running for mayor, Dick Tracy.
Everybody wants to suck your cock in this town, right?
Well, yes, I am running
everything, essentially, so I do
understand that, but I have to, me
and D.A. Fletcher have a little bond here.
Don't you worry about it. Sure.
Calling Nick Tracy, calling there, Tracy. A new guy in town's
wearing a yellow hat.
What the fuck? Are you fucking kidding me?
Excuse me, Pat. Hey, how's it going?
Nice to meet you, Dick Tracy.
Yeah, a big detective right here.
Just, I don't know if you know, you can see him wearing a yellow hat here.
I'm kind of the yellow hat guy.
Well, if you'll excuse me, Detective Tracy, I'll put my curious monkey over here beside.
My name is literally the man in the yellow hat.
But you're in the city.
It's my town, you understand.
And you see the coat, right?
The coat is bigger than your suit.
It's literally my name.
The man in the yellow hat.
The town's not big enough for the both of you.
Dual.
I'll have the monkey fight your.
fucking wristwatch. You want the monkey
to fight him?
Do you think that guy was ever throwing monkeys at people?
Because those things are vicious. Definitely.
He ever got into a bind, right?
The man of the yellow hat, just
throw that monkey as hard as he could.
He's got as hard as he's ready to go.
I also don't know why the man of the yellow hat
needs a descriptor. He's the guy with the
fucking monkey. Well, because he was walking around a monkey.
Well, because he was walking around
somewhere and, you know, someone came up
and they were like, well, I'm monkey man.
Oh, right. Well, this town isn't
big enough for the boat of us.
Yes, he met Jeff Patel. I can't fight monkey with monkey.
We cut to the Ritz Club here. This is Madonna. And I realize the thing
about Madonna. Madonna is just one of those people that's
too famous to be in movies, IMO. Because, like,
it stops the movie dead. You're just like,
there's Madonna. Like, I never am like,
there's Breathless Mahoney.
There's Madonna. It's just always there's Madonna. It takes you out of it.
But to me, that is the movie as well. Like, when I see Dick Trace, I'm like,
oh, that's Warren Beatty.
That's just Warren Beatty doing Warren Beatty stuff.
I do that with every Warren Beatty movie.
And with this, with like her, I kind of like her performance in this.
I do too.
When they stop, because like, I don't think it's really her that's causing that kind of thing.
It's the direction and the fact that we're stopping for the song.
Like, we want to hear the song because we have Stephen fucking Sondheim writing the song.
That is the blessing in the curse.
The songs are fantastic.
It's her scenes with Tracy with the with the fucking Vaseline all over the lens.
And it's just like.
Those are some sizzling scenes.
scenes. I do like that. You get to see your
nipples in this movie, which is in fucking same.
In this scene where she's singing, though, at least.
And, you know, I don't know,
I see what you mean, but it's kind of stilted,
like compared to the rest of the movie.
Yeah. And, you know, and Beatty's kind of
wooden. So it's kind of like,
what are we doing here? I also think that there's too much
going on with some of these side characters. I don't
think you need the lady Tess and
the kid and Madonna. You could
easily eliminate one of those characters.
The kid I can maybe see getting
rid of, but like, I think
you need the love triangle is what the movie is about i think because like focus more on it i'm not
gonna get too much into symbolism or anything but like madonna is supposed to be death like she's always
in black yeah she has got these weird fucking costumes like she is supposed like do you want to be a father
with a husband or do you want to go and keep doing this and die one day in the line of duty and
that's like that's a good and like i think he knows that i think he's very aware of that as the what
is being argued here.
And I mean, so I think she works in that
because she is supposed to be an alien figure in a way.
I just, and you made me think of it now,
and there's no reason to hide it.
But like, her being no face has always bothered me.
Blank.
Oh, blank?
The blank.
They do call her no face.
Oh, do they really?
At some point.
Yeah, that's why I just thought.
Because, again, may I direct you to the front of the episode.
I don't give a shit about that.
But you know, it was about, come on.
You don't remember.
I grew up.
I was 38.
eight years old. I picked up my first Dick Tracy
comic strip. I was riding a donkey
to the grocery store. I picked up
a little heroin from the druggist
and I went to see it. I went to
raid some Dick Tracy. It's just, I
it's, to me, just one of the dumbest
turns in any movie. And it's
like, I just, I often wonder, like, if it
wasn't Madonna playing this character,
would that have been the ending?
I like the blank only because it gives
Mandy Patankan more to do. You know what I mean?
Sure, Mandy's fucking great in this movie.
Yeah. Kee's absolutely. This huge
fucking forehead that's somehow bigger than
Mandy Patankan's forehead? And I do like No Face Blank
whatever. As a character design
That I do. I just don't like the turn. You know, I didn't
like the turn as a kid because I
was instantly identifying with the man with
no face. I never wanted a face, never asked
for a face. And then when it turned
to be Madonna, I was a little disappointed because
I was like, it was supposed to be me.
But it was a different
blonde. Re-watching it now, I was
kind of fine with it. I just think part of the problem
with this movie is the pacing is kind of
just, it's soggy.
Can I ask a question
to my fellow Star Wars expert here?
Isn't the Blank's voice,
the voice modulation,
the exact same voice modulation
for Princess Leia
in the beginning of Jedi?
As Bosch?
Yes.
The Hunter coming in with Chubach.
Don't worry.
Heaven Sholo, it's the carbonite poisoning.
Tracy, I'm going you.
You're just adding more reasons why I like it.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I think you're right, though.
So, yeah, it's the club reds she's dancing around.
we get to see the great Paul Servino's
lips manless.
Oh man. I wanted to vomit.
It's a tough look. It's people
eating things. Oasters.
The grossest thing you can eat. It just
looks nasty. One after another.
Give me four more plate of this and I'll have a hard on.
Just wait. Just do wait.
That's why he's doing it, first of all.
I guess, Approdisiac himself or whatever.
But I do appreciate the
flawlessness of this bus boy
that does the plate swap.
So he doesn't miss a single oyster slurp.
It's great.
And then Robert Costanzo is like, oh, as his number two, he's got a scar.
I love Robert Costas just a little scar on his head.
Yep, that's it.
That's scar.
Wait, he's scar?
I mean, I guess.
All right, let's put a pin in it.
If someone comes along and joins the gang that's got a bigger scar, then he's scar.
Yeah, yeah.
And then that scar can be fat guy.
So with a bifurcated face, what can I be scar?
Okay.
Yeah, you're scar now.
All right.
Then, uh, I guess you're,
Uh, what? Little belly.
Little belly.
We're just thinking about stuff.
I do, speaking of little belly, Madonna comes, she's watching him eat.
You might have I leave, it makes me sick to watch you eat, which, I mean, if it makes
her sick to watch him eat, must make her real sick to be constantly fucking this guy.
That's, I think, why she got the blank mask, because she wears that during sex, so she doesn't
see them.
There's some, there's a filter there at least.
I mean, there's that big mouth, you know.
I don't, that's all I'm going to say.
His big mouth makes him start looking like little Stevie, by the way.
Yeah, a little bit.
Like specifically when he does his silk face.
Yes.
He kind of like does his lip thing.
What's a little silly?
Little Stevie Van Zan.
Chris Ringsingson.
From East Street band when he was on Sopranos.
I never watched the Pran.
Oh, man.
He would just make this fucking face.
He should have put my lips like a fucking fish a little bit.
Like that's what Paul's, you know, kind of looks.
But he's a puss.
But going downtown, I guess that would be an asset, right?
Having that big mouth?
Absolutely.
You think this man is
It is one thing to
suggest Harrison Ford
But please my God
This man, no way
Maybe he tried it once
And it was so disgusting
To watch him try to eat
Box
That she hates
Yeah
And then he started spreading the word
He's like, no no guys
That's why we all look like this
All right
You want to look like this face
You better keep your fucking face
away from that box
No no breath
That's not the squirt
Brithet not the squirt
Oh nice
Yeah maybe
No no Brithet don't do it
Michael Douglas
has started looking
like this
eventually
Catherine
I'm slowly
turning into
a dick
tracing
criminal over
here
oh
not the squirt
got me good
yeah
this is
this dude
comes up
looks exactly
like a maniac
cop
oh yeah
and I guess
that tells you
that he's not
a real police
officer
because he's
horrendously
to form
dude and this
this you're making
this movie
in 89
like
maniac cop
was already
in the ether
I think someone fucking saw a picture of Robert Zedar
and was like, that's Crooked cop number one in Dick Tracy.
Dude, that would be the move for fucking Beatty.
Dude, you'd save money.
Robert Zadar is anybody.
Play the whole cast.
Small jaw.
Oh, handsome dick.
This is a neat turn right.
He's arrested by these fake cops.
It's going to be like a mob hit.
Some other cops sees this going down and starts to follow them.
Great Irish cop voice here.
Yeah.
Did they bring them out?
Because you know the cops aren't kidding people who look like that.
Yes.
They will take the Italians and the Irishmen,
but they will not take some of these scarred up motherfuckers.
They're not going to do that.
They say no to freak faces.
They bring them out and lips, of course, they open the car.
Who is it?
Big boy DuPont.
Who's there?
Big boy Capri.
And he's like, oh, no.
Oh, fuck.
And I'm like, how did, you were supposed to be.
be the man who runs this town if you didn't have somebody to pick whatever embarrassing real embarrassing
real embarrassing come on you were thinking about breathless too much here and your oysters
gun to his head he signs over the club writs and uh apparently and it's some it's just like one of
those nice little efficient screenwriting thing like lips ran the town he took big boy under his
wing and now it's big boy he's like you taught me that you know what i mean yep i also love
all these little uh lincoln said that all these little quotes but you're
is on fucking 12
in this movie. Absolutely. Absolutely. No, he is
tap dancing all the way to glory in this movie.
I think he's honestly the best part of it.
It's fucking great. The great thing about the
Lincoln quotes too is he's like getting it wrong.
Yes. Which is very like Biff Tannen, which is
kind of funny. But to what
you're saying, I think it's great. You establish all this
shit like a couple of lines of dialogue. Yes.
And that's the ball game. We don't need
oh, how is it that Big Boy Caprice became so
upset working under Lips Manless
and the rise of whatever the fuck.
I love Michael Man.
Not all of the movies
have to be Michael Man movies
where you see all the steps leading up to...
And it's just, you know, it's a cartoony way
for the mob to work and, you know, you could see,
you know, yeah, it's simple.
You know, it's like, you sign the deed to me,
now I run the show.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the end of that story.
There's no litigation.
No, exactly.
You're in and you're out.
Around here we see how the kid lives,
which is in a Hooverville type thing.
The shack is great.
Yeah, Dick Tracy's chasing him
because he stole his fucking radio watch,
heaven forbid.
Stop that boy.
Stop that boy!
Another guy.
I don't know.
Is this guy playing the quote father of this kid anybody?
I couldn't find it on I-N-D-B.
This cockroach, your old man.
Go suck an egg.
Apparently, this is Sam the Tramp.
I was reading about this.
He kidnaps young boys for weird reasons by the railroad friends.
He's also known as the Yellow King.
A weirdo.
Apparently people were not happy.
It was an action figure that was selling
pretty well and the
before Hitler storm Poland or
no from this film oh okay in the
90s action figures sold pretty well
and the homeless
advocates were like
that's a bad representation
homeless people you can't have that
he's not homeless he's in a shack
it's true that's his home right there number one number
two I thought he was prune face for a few
yeah that's also true maybe he's
prune face his cousin he's prune face
with lips manless his lips
it's a bad look but apparently that
It's like one of the most sought after.
They pulled it because of this.
Really?
There's only a few of them.
Oh, come on.
If you're an action figure collector, it's a big deal to have Sam the Tramp.
Yeah, you could buy a house now.
Sam the Tram.
You could buy a shack.
Interesting.
Ironically bought this house thanks to owning a toy modeled after a homeless character.
Who is the biggest monster in a movie for the monsters.
But when Tracy starts fighting him, I love this where the shack is going back and forth.
It's a great move.
We cut way out back.
We see the mat painting.
We see it from a distance.
going back and forth during this flight.
With the train going in the back.
I mean, it's just un-orgially fucking made.
I will say, I think that this is like he kind of,
and it's been a while, I guess I have to re-watch before I say this,
but I do think he out Altman's Altman for that Popeye movie.
You know what I mean?
Oh, yeah.
This is exactly what that Popeye movie should have been, like all the bright colors
and everyone looks like a fucking monster and all this shit.
You know what the problem was there?
What was that?
The 1970s.
Yeah.
The 80s or whatever that, you know, it was the Ciccate.
It was the Ciccane.
It just, it looks, that movie, I think that's a fun movie, the Popeye movie, but like, it is just a dull looking.
It's very brown.
And it should be an explosive, yeah.
Like, it just, this movie, it does what that movie wants to do.
Another Altman miss.
I mean, when he hits, he hits, but when he misses, he misses.
It's Popeye, beyond therapy, just the worst stuff you ever seen.
I'll be honest, I'm not a big fan of shortcuts.
What?
Yeah.
Oh, me and you are going to fight afterwards.
I love, because it doesn't get Carver.
Yeah, I think he does get him.
Eric, let's go grab a beer.
Yeah, let's do it.
But yeah, I love the shack going back and forth.
He knocks him out.
It's great. It's all great.
The kid, they take him to the diner at this point and we're feeding this child.
This is the first of many instances.
The entire film we see, Dick Tracy, this dude's eating chili.
He's just eating chili at the diner.
He's eating chili at his desk out of a can.
It's also that era where it's just like, hey, diner guy, what's in the pot you're making?
we don't have a lot of options
yeah it's chili or a fucking
stewed tire this week
what do you want yeah chili
you can't be eating chili every day no
I think that this is what test
true art is really upset about it's not like
oh come on Tracy what are you gonna put it
could you stop it Tracy
you smell like she
you fart my face every fun all the time
Tracy I'm sick of tired of cleaning
scutters out of your shorts
no I don't think
no I don't think we can go out tonight
got a load of chili in there
There's always a load of chili in there
That's the problem
You can't fuck any more
Because you always like I got chili belly
Well I'm in a scat play
Okay Tess
And maybe Madonna wants my fucking shit loads
It's so disgusting
I'm trying to go downtown
You farting in my fucking face
She washes my drawers
You don't test
You see your fucking skin marks
When you pull your pants down to fuck me
It's disgusting
You fucking pig
There's just so much
chili consumption in this movie
All those monsters have names.
Your new name is Skidmock.
Oh, dude, here comes Skinnock.
Detective Skinnock, that's your name.
You keep in looking like, they're going to look like Alex Jones.
I saw him in a dream.
Flat top running around the United States.
Oh, yeah, there's a mutant gangster migrant horde approaching the border.
The liberal SJWs are coming after
Big Boy Caprice again, legitimate businessman.
Turned the club Ritz around. It's a fantastic club.
Literally reinvented the entertainment industry.
He said to himself in the film, Dick Tracy.
He was up past two in the morning rehearsed that number.
And you're going to say that wasn't a good number?
Of course, we've had him on the show before,
and he's been always a very kind guest to us.
Of course, we don't really support the influence agenda,
but we do love Big Boy Caprice here
None of my children will speak to me anymore
So I'm going to try to adopt the kid
But yeah
So they're eating and this is the beginning of the kid's eating gag
They're just sort of
When do we eat?
Looking at him eat
And he's just like
I don't know, Tess, you're a girl
Why don't you watch him for a while?
Yes, because Tracy gets a call
Because unfortunately
Big Boy Caprize has decided
That Lips Manless needs a bath
no not big no way not the bad not the bad
I think that is one of your
most quoted things that's your favorite
life of this movie I just have watches me so
many fucking times and it's
in thinking about it don't you want
so it's not the bad not the bad and it's
it's the cement it's wet
he's in a box and then it immediately goes in the water
you want to give that a few minutes
I think you want to give it a few minutes to draw
you're right but I think with a man of
lips manless his girth
yeah sure it's maybe it's not
making the movements you need
to get out of the box. Yeah.
That's, yeah, that's entirely possible. But I thought the same thing,
I was like, isn't it just warshing all off
when you dump them in the river or whatever?
This is instant dry.
He's got insta dry. He's going to drown
so you're going to win.
If the point is the cement and the drowning,
you want to give the cement some time.
It just pops up right immediately.
Fuck, shit.
Overseeing part of that operation,
this is where we do see Dustin Hoffman
for the first time as Mumbles.
he looks like Sam Rockwell in this movie
It's very, it's like
If Sam Rockwell played Judge Doom
That's what Mumbles looks like
You gotta put an extra like 20-30 on him
But yeah, it's the cheeks are a little puppy
It's the sideways mouth is his kind of thing
Yeah
Yeah
Just kind of gross to look at
It's unsettling, sure
And you know he's a big actor
I'm glad he's not in it as much
You know if you could add him in more
And it'd be worse for it
I think so too yeah
And I'm glad that it's more restrained
You let Pacino do the tap dancing
Yes
Which is he's doing right now.
Oh, man.
This is my favorite thing.
I want more.
More.
It's just so good.
Like he knows anything.
It's amazing.
No, go.
You're late.
He's just like dancing around.
Oh, crap.
He's like smack in her ass and being like,
nah,
like this.
Him like doing the steps is the funny.
No, it's got to be like this.
And he's like doing like his little jazz hands.
You know what he looks like actually?
because I say he's got the hump back.
He looks like the body part
looks like the dinosaur puppet Earl Sinclair.
He's just got that big fat.
I was assume he's doing like a Richard third
the third thing with the hump.
Oh yeah, yeah, probably.
But like this whole, him just
doing an annotation of this whole thing
is this scene has been stapled in my mind forever.
It takes so long, which is not a compliment,
not a criticism at all.
Yeah, yeah.
I love how long we spend with just,
watching Big Boy.
And then, like, you got the great James Tolkien as numbers.
Yes.
Just being like Big Boy, it's after three of, I don't care.
I don't get it right.
It's so great.
And he does say, like, we are reinventing the entertainment industry here.
It's going to take some time to get it right.
That's any of the case because he slams the piano on the face.
It's like, damn, I'm reinventing the entertainment industry.
Okay.
And you're, rolling it up.
It's so great that it's like the day he got the deed sign.
The murder's still happening.
He just walks in like he owns the place.
It's your new boss from hell.
It's like, oh, fuck, he wants everything different.
Yeah, oh, yeah, I've just, I've got a lot of ideas.
How about we change things for the better around this club?
I do, yeah, many who take it as to 88 keys,
he's probably play better.
He's playing better already.
Smacks Madonna in the face because he's a bad guy.
Sure.
We're doing that.
That's how you know he's the villain.
Exactly.
Walnut to love him.
Apparently, one of these scenes, Madonna,
a flashed Al Pacino.
He's like,
what are the best days
I've ever had,
unsaid.
What is the thing?
It's something about
if you walk by me
later in my life
and I'm smiling,
it's because I'm thinking
about that moment.
Yes.
Hey.
So,
you know,
take that Beverly DeAngelo
is going to say.
Those are very nice too.
That's his last words
are about Madonna's tits.
He's leaving this world.
He's just like,
flashes above his,
all the accomplishments.
All the accomplishments.
All the accomplishments.
Oh, yeah.
Just Madonna's tits
right in the middle of it.
There they are. Here I come.
It was worth it. It was all worth it.
Well, it's going to be way less of a mystery.
Like, when Walt Disney died, his last words were Kurt Russell.
And everybody is like, well, what was that about?
But this is it, Madonna's tits.
You're just going to know immediately.
Oh, he was trying to write Kurt Russell's tits.
On the back set, on the set of the computer wore tennis shoes.
He grows a pair of tits in that movie.
No, Walt, no, no, no, no, no.
Kurt Russell was not a national socialist.
No, no, he wasn't.
I'm trying to explain this to you.
When they bring in mumbles at one point,
we're going to Dick Tracy hotlights interrogation here.
And it is funny,
like Dustin Hoffman,
like sweating horribly.
And Dick Tracy's just chugging this huge glass of water.
This glass of water that he gets out of this bear,
like water dispenser that's also a tape recorder in the top.
Excellent.
I mean,
just making this weird thing,
which you're like,
you know what?
I guess a water dispenser could have looked like that in the 50s or whatever.
Sure.
Why not?
And then later, yeah, you're right, because then you remember it later when they're
like, oh, that's the thing from that scene.
Right.
It's just smart filming.
Weirdly playing the, like, stenographer here is Kathy Bates as like this Mrs.
Green or whatever the character is.
It's such a great joke, though.
Like, it's, it's going to be like, right, blah, blah, blah.
And like, she's trying to do that.
And then at the end of the scene, Tracy's like, you got that?
And she goes, what?
It's just fantastic.
I mean, like, yes, you're going to have Kathy Bates in the movie, give her something to do.
And what is plenty.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, she does nail it. It's very funny, but I mean, man, the fucking
the Kathy Batesness of it all. Like, give me some more
Kathy Bates. There's Catherine O'Hara blinking you miss her in this movie as well.
I guess I missed her. She's, uh, one of the, she's at the, when they do the big like
five families meeting scene, she's the lady at the table. Yeah.
That's cool. Um, but so, uh, what do we got here? Oh, this is, oh, so he comes for
Madonna right here. And this is the, this is the nipples. This is the,
aren't you going to arrest me? It's a weird, like, he's
leaving and then it's like say
there's a sexy lady
right here let's talk to her for a second
aren't you grieving for lips manless
I'm wearing black underwear yes
because what they like rest big boy
here or whatever they do because the walnut
connection from the docks
yes yes plus what they think
they got out of bumbles they got him or whatever
and then this is enter crooked
DA Dick Van Dyke
hell yeah he's like you don't have enough
and none of this is going to stand up you have to
release him and they do and so like he dick tracy's whole thing is he wants breathless mahoney to
yes give a statement on the record and and you know say that big boy is responsible for everything so
there's a witness that can you know and i mean these scenes are written fun where it's like yeah are
are you trying to arrest me's like wearing a dress like that's a good way to get started and it's
like but it's just the baitiness of it all just does not it's so close but not there right she does
have a great line here though where she goes
I sweat a lot better
in the dark which is a response to him
being like well bring you downtown and put you
under the lights or whatever yeah that's a sexy
line it's not too bad
I'm not saying Madonna
does not have sex appeal of course
okay just checking
but the stiffness in the performance
a little bit but you know
I think she's she's fine
what's her I mean like is it desperately
seeking Susan that's the big one
that's I mean that's a big one
popular one. I think her best one
I've said this when we talked to Justin
about it, but a dangerous
game from Abel Ferrarah.
She's really fucking good in that. It's her and Harvey
Cytel and the guy who
got shot it to become a beverage of his cop.
Oh, uh, he's in everything.
I'm not going to think of his name, but yeah.
Oh, no, I've never seen that. I've seen
very little of her acting, I guess, you know,
being as critical as I am, maybe I should doubt
that back. Bond fan? Of course you like her in that one.
That's what I was about to say.
You know, Madonna playing
fencing opponent in Die Another Day.
Well, the thing is, in Die Another Day,
everyone is terrible. Yeah, that's true.
Top to Bada. She doesn't stick out.
Well, I guess a little bit because you have the
I guess so bang,
another thing. I guess a bang.
That song sucks. I mean, that is, it might be the worst
Bond song. I don't know. I'd have to look at the full list.
Top 5 for me for sure. But it's a real fucking stinkeruny.
So, yeah,
Tess gets stuck watching the kid
all night, like while he does detective work.
And this is, dude, Dick Tracy at his shittiest boyfriendness right here,
where he's just like, oh, thanks for sitting here the whole night watching him, Tess.
You're one in a million.
Bye now.
You know what I mean?
Like, that's a real fuck you.
It's kind of like speaking of bond.
It's like a bond and money penny thing kind of.
Yes.
Except like they are sort of.
They're supposed to be something.
Yes.
Like she goes to, I mean, I guess it's probably him like blowing off.
Like, well, you do, Tess, you work for a garden.
Okay.
Let's fucking leave it alone.
Fine.
I will get my captain to look after the kid.
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Charles Durning will do it instead or whatever.
The kid getting his like becoming Dick Tracyified is kind of a funny little.
I'm trying to get the suit and he's got to like pull him back in and talk to him like,
if you don't want a suit, don't want a suit.
But if you want to, you like pick out the one you want.
So now he's like, oh.
He's dressed like a really flashy newspaper board.
He grabs the kid like, listen, you can wear red, you wear blue.
See the fuck away from yellow.
You understand me?
You understand me?
All yellow.
You understand me?
I know I'm canary yellow.
You stay away from canary yellow, mustard yellow,
the whole fucking yellow spectrum.
There's a monkey man in the ocean right now
who thought he would play with me about this.
Him and the monkey are out and gone.
I made that monkey into pizza.
The man in the yellow hat
don't work at the zoo no more.
The man of the yellow hat works at the bottom of the Mariana trench.
He works in an aquarium now.
Big boy, can I borrow your,
the bath thing real quick
I know we've had our ins and outs
that thing looks really well
Real efficient machine
Real efficient machine
We should start doing that
Yeah who's first
We'll draw straws
You don't get to pick the straws
Uh uh no no no no I get to pick one
Because that's how you draw them
But so as he's taking the kid
I guess back to his house
By the way we should say the kid is
Always under threat of being sent to the orphanage
That's like his whole thing.
That's why he doesn't want to wear the suit.
You know, it's funny there's like, what?
There's a moment of like the, oh, when itch he's pretending to be.
Yes, the social services.
Yeah, he's like, as a single man, you can't just take a kid off the street and live with them.
It's so fucking funny.
I love that in performance.
It's just the high voice.
It's true.
Yeah.
But so he's getting ready to put the kid in the car and there's a drive-by shooting that happens.
And this is kind of great because like the kid like gets this bloodlust immediately.
He's like, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Let's go, Tracy.
Let's find these guys.
almost died more yeah
did you catch one of the
the flat foots here no
Star Trek's column meaning
because like he says something like
call this end of the chief or whatever and he's like
yeah got it Tracy
oh yeah dude
give me a short list of all the Irish actors in Hollywood
got it I was going to say
Patty the one with the green suspenders
wasn't enough for the Irishman
really you had to bring a legit dude
in there I guess
the yeah like this is a
Like so Big Boy has an issue where he can't kill Tracy because he'll be the top suspect.
Oh, right.
And like that's kind of keeping him there.
There's this, I don't know, when is the graveyard scene with Dick, Dick Van Dyke?
It's such a weird scene.
It's to reveal that he's working with.
And he's just like, I guess because Fletcher is trying to get out of the deal.
Yes.
But he's like, no, you're going to keep on doing it.
You're got to keep on being with Tracy.
And I say so.
You are out when you are dead.
When you are dead, that you are.
that you are out.
I own you.
It's really great
Pacinoing right here.
And also,
I think this is the
closest it gets
to any Tim Burton shit.
What with the existence
of a cemetery right here?
Exactly.
But the shot's very cool
of like the four of them
approaching the one guy
and you're like,
who's this figure?
Yes.
And then out of the shadows
as Dick Van Dyke
as the Deke.
I remember because I had that dick.
That was a page
of the coloring book.
It was Dick Van Dyke
in the graveyard
looking so on.
Oh, that's a weird edition
of all the scenes
you could have little kids
color.
Well,
this is for your,
black crayon.
It's just that.
There is the crazy
scene where so it's like Dick Tracy's doing
some detective work and he
is just at his desk looking at photos
and in comes breathless
Mahoney with like a bottle of champagne
trying to sort of seduce him right here
and this is this was one of the times
where I was like this was for children
like when she is on all
four's ass up
face down on this fucking desk.
I mean that's one thing I like about this movie.
It proves you could do a big bright
beautiful comic book movie and make it sexy.
Yeah, sure.
Seam hot to you.
Boy,
yo, yo, yo, y, o'oy, o'y.
I mean, there's, you know,
there's something for everyone.
Like, some kid might get attracted to prune face,
and that could be his sexual way.
I was watching Madonna for a second.
Speaking of fruit, though,
she does some, like, fucking Nick Cage
and Faceoff thing about something about ice cream,
what kind peach, it's been dripping in the back.
I was like, oh, I miss that.
When she comes to the door and it's saying,
like, I got ice cream for you, it's peach,
and it's a little bit dripping in the back.
I was like, holy fucking.
This scene, yet again, like other scenes, begins with Dick Tracy eating chili.
So she's in the room doing all this is presenting her vagina in front of a chili smelling motherfucker.
Yeah, I want to accept this dude's chili penis into my body.
Absolutely.
Well, he was originally from Texas, you know.
I'm now just thinking of a dick that's like dripping brown.
Oh, no.
All the fix-ins.
The fix-ins.
Maybe little cheese on top.
Those scallions, brisket balls.
Oh, we have some ritz crackers.
His pheromones have been affected by the fixins.
I think that they have.
Ferramones have turned into fixen.
Okay, here's the deal.
Breathless, come over here, it's me, test true heart.
Listen, I'm tired of this.
He's never going to propose.
You can have him.
Here's the thing.
Just know now.
When he gets horny, he starts to smell like chili.
And you're going to look around like who's cooking.
And the only one who's cooking is him inside his loins.
You know how pollen explodes from flowers?
stuff like that.
It's him with cumin.
Oh, no.
It just explodes.
Every time he, he opens a door, you just smell cumin everywhere.
You're just going to want to have sour cream in your house.
It's just, it's going to help you.
Red onions.
Not the white ones or the yellow ones.
The red onions.
That's what you want.
He really likes it when you cover them in cornbread.
Oh, yeah.
Yes, Tess.
Stop it out.
Oh, Tess, do it to me.
Oh, eat it out of there, too.
Put a jalapeno in my butt.
Oh, God.
Is the kid here?
Get him out of here.
Get him out of here.
He can't hear this.
You're too young for this.
You don't understand you're young.
When you're old enough, your old Chile, he says.
Well, well, kid, what a man loves a woman
and a man has consumed in as much chili as I have.
He just doesn't, it's not enough to just have crushed tomatoes.
He just have crushed something else, you know,
and it feels good sometimes.
I do like the shot, though, of when he,
like, they're face-to-face and the champagne coop.
in the middle of the frame and she's like
desperately trying to seduce him and he
drops her earring that he found
into the coop like that's a really nicely
this movie's gorgeous but that's a great
it's a visual it's visual information
it's like you picked it up with the handkerchief
in that scene and then you see it you didn't have to
explain it nice and beautiful
and he's this is a kind of a decent moment here
Tracy kind of being a good guy where like she's
trying to kiss him and he's like there is a lady
cross town that would be very upset
or I would hurt
her very much if that happened or whatever
It's a nice line.
So I'm only going to kiss you a couple times.
Yeah, just a few times.
Some kissies.
So then he decides, well, she tried to do all this, like, let's follow her.
And we just, we're going right back to the club ritz.
And this is the big gang star meeting.
This is James Khan and everybody else in here.
I feel like James Khan presented a sketch from the makeup artist.
He said, shove that up, your ass.
And the other guy was, all right, I'll come back.
I'll do less.
All right, shove that up your sister's ass.
Okay.
shove it up with your mother's
okay
what about a fake mustache
and it's a pencil thin
one at that
a little nose something
there's some weird thing
with the face
but you know
he doesn't fit in
with these guys
and that's a good visual
descriptive
you know
I just realized it though
you know exactly
what he looks like
holy shit
he looks exactly
like Joe Piscopo
in Johnny Dangerous
yes
yeah he does
I can see that
yeah yeah big boy Caprice
he's got this new gun
shoots through schools
No, yeah, Warren, I'm very, I'm pleased to, honestly, I'm honored to be in Dick Tracey. I'm a little bit.
I know all the other guys look like Hannah Barbera cartoons. I will not be doing that. I was in the fucking Godfather with Al. I don't know why he's doing it. I have no idea.
It's the money.
It's a cool media. This is, Catherine Aher is playing Texie Garcia, which I'm sure, again, if you wrote a donkey to the grocery store in the early 20th century, you were excited that Texie Garcia was in the video.
Joe Biden sold you that donkey.
Oh, man. Taxi Garcia
favorite Dick Tracy.
That's the first word I've ever checked off.
She's a firecracker.
Donkey rods 15 cents.
I, uh, this is the beginning of prune face.
You've got a great, uh, southern gentile prude face is some reason.
I kind of like that.
Yeah, I'm totally, I mean, it's R.G. Armstrong, who knows?
Dude was a total legend.
Like, you know.
And we have the great Henry Silva as influence.
Yes.
That's terrible.
Ming Henry Silva more scary looking
Which is how do you even do that? I mean you didn't need to put anything on that guy
No exactly
That's another like Robert Zedar just come to set
You can be in Dick Tracy playing a freak
RG Armstrong also like looks like an old dog
Without makeup
But you know you made him scary
His face is melting it looks like
That's like the prune I guess I get it because it's like wrinkles
But like I was like he just looks like he's about to melt like a candle
And I mean like this is to your point about Batman 89
And you had said this letter texting, when did, when did Warren Beatty get a workprint of the, of 589?
I was wondering it.
This is exactly the scene of, I'm glad you're dead.
Yes, yeah, exactly.
But it's a little different.
I mean, I mean, it's a gangster movie staple, of course.
It is, but it's just like this big long boardroom table with a big window on the outside of the board.
It just looks so much like, let me shake your hand goodbye.
We'll be friends.
Yeah.
And of course, Dick Tracy, without a warrant, without any reason to be there, is crawling up the side of the building and everyone's on the radio like, you know, the DA is going to fucking kill you if he finds that about this.
Dick Tracy, if you're going to do a COVID, we're making off the fucking yellow jacket.
I really hope they don't hear this on that fucking watch you insist on wearing it.
If he has the jacket, I do, I kind of want to seem like pouring sweat at some point.
Just like doing all this with the heaviest jacket imaginable odd.
Totally.
This yellow seal skin coat that's 30 pounds.
Over a full suit, dude.
No, I'm on the roof.
Oh, I'm on the roof.
Oh, I'm going to die.
Once again, though, Tracy, the yellow jacket.
You can see that shit from space.
You got to take that off for the covert work, my friend.
It's important to the...
Oh, it's just so.
Give me a minute, fellas.
I should have all that chili.
Yeah, you got a 30-pound coat and 10 pounds of chili in you.
That's what Tess said, too, by the way.
She talks to us.
Shouldn't have gone all those extra kidney beans with it.
You know, Mike has a pretty nice salad as well.
They do a good chicken Caesar over there.
Did they make that with beef?
Well, if it's not red meat, dude, he don't want it.
Yeah, chicken Caesar salad.
Can you substitute the salad with beef?
Not steak, beef.
And instead of the Caesar sauce, which I do like, but you just put the chili on top of that?
Yeah, that's right.
So it's a bowl of beef, chicken, and chili drizzled all over.
Thank you for you.
Oh, so wait, the salad has a tomato in it.
Oh, perfect.
Okay, just crush all those tomatoes and then make a soup of it.
Look, we're so close to it being a chili.
There's just a few more things you need.
Can you heat up the salad?
I do like, yeah, this is, Khan just leaves like,
what do you could leave?
It's a friend.
And he goes down.
The car explodes.
Great explosion.
Great Scott is used here.
It's so awesome.
Maybe he'll have a change of heart.
Man, if I was even accepting the deal here,
I wouldn't use my own car
when I would have been.
Everything is pre-wired?
I mean, I would have taken a cab.
We'll walk up the street.
We'll wait for the cab.
I know it's bad time.
It's weird.
I mean, I was talking to,
before you got in the room,
Andrew, Eric and Chris.
It's weird that,
I mean, Puccino totally deserving
being nominated for this.
But Nicholson doesn't get nominated
for the Joker,
nor does DeVito for the penguin
or a Pfeiffer for Catwoman.
It's like this movie had a more,
an air of legitimacy to it,
that those movies did not.
Because the movie's damn to win for a shit ton of an Oscar.
Here's, no, but here's one song.
I'm telling you right now, old-ass Oscar voter to do that.
Yes, most definitely, I wrote a donkey to the market.
Now I'm going to nominate Al Pacino.
Oh, it's 100% it.
And it's Warren Beatty.
It's not some young gun that never wrote a donkey like Tim Burton.
Well, that is also, this has its roots in noir.
Like, this is a Hollywood staple is being expanded here.
And, like, versus the evil clown and the penguin mayor.
those are the people you want us to get the fucking award to
but yeah so Tracy sneaks into the club
he's spotted of course by
well now I just I'm going to keep saying no face
yeah the blank the blank yes
spotted going in or whatever and it's like oh who's this
I do like the look of the blank
it's all very cool
we don't get any of the voice mod here but we just see like
an eerie figure figure watching
dude I'd rather be I mean
of all of the monsters I agree with Eric
blank. I mean, I don't know how you're eating.
I mean, I guess...
I don't know. When we see a close-up
at the end of the movie, there's two little eye holes.
Yeah, I do love how... Maybe one's a food hole.
Oh, I see. I mean, she's a fake freak.
Yeah, that's the way. To get the chili and you just lift up the
mask. Yes, but I want to be a real freak.
Well, you don't... Yeah, but you never see her
naked. She probably has a quato down there.
Oh, sure. Yeah. That drinking the water
probably had a different effect there.
That's true. That would be something. We got to see her a little person.
Start the reactor ratless
She took off her top and there was a little person there
Half the mob is ready to start the fucking reactor dude
These fucking freaks
But yeah so they're
He gets this is what he does that cool stunt
Where he jumps on the street lamp
Yes this is Warren Bailey actually hits his face on the light post
And you can see it in the movie
He actually did his own stunt here
He did a decent amount of the stunts in the movie
I'm shocked
When he jumps on the pipe and you see the face
Like if the chin gets knocked
it's Warren Beatty hurting
himself. All right, good. Props to him. He's like Jackie Chan
all of a sudden. I believe
that's what he was going for. I think he said that in several
interviews. Now, Warren, we want you to run on this moving bus
and jump on this other running bus. If you could
for us, thank you very much. The credit should have all
the stunt mishaps like a Jackie Chan movie.
Totally. Always loved it. Was Michelle Yo in this
movie? No, that was Warren
Beatty hitting his own face. It's all
his, you know, Beatty hitting his face.
Bady falling down, him eating chili
that wasn't good. Oh yeah, dude,
big blooper there. He's throwing the chili
across the set. Is there rubber in this
Mike? Come on. Chicken, white
bean chili? Get the fuck off
my set. Did you just say Salsa Verde to me?
I will take your nuts from
you, sir. This is
where Flat Top and Itchy come
pretending to be child services to kidnap
Dick Tracy, which it's like
I thought you were a fucking professional
Dick Tracy. They just get the drop on him
so easily. The kid is
hears child service he escapes
because he's afraid of it
and watches Dick Tracy
get called out.
When child services knocks on your door,
you just put two through the door.
That's how you respond.
That's the Saw 2 model.
I mean, I do think that like,
Tracy doesn't want this getting out in the news.
Like, what was Dick Tracy doing with a kid?
You know what I mean?
Like, it just doesn't quite a lot of questions.
What was Batman doing with the kid?
Great.
More questions.
Well, there's a big event.
I mean, I assume the chief,
or maybe Sam is taking care of this case.
Who killed Sam the Tram?
Oh, God, who did it?
Yeah, that's true.
Who punched him to death?
See, that could be, it was like an accidental, Tracy didn't mean to do it,
like he punched him.
And then the dude, like, million-dollar babyed himself somehow.
He fell on a chair or something, you know.
I didn't mean to do it, but then you knocked the shack down
and let it on fire, Dick Tracy.
It should be a guy called, like, crankneck.
And he had his head's, like, laying down on the side.
He's just called car accident.
That's like a beetle juice joke.
Yeah, that's fine.
Rec.
Little wreck.
Oh, little wreck.
So they put him in a basement
The basement of Tess Trueheart's
own apartment
Which is kind of annoying
Like what the fuck out of my goddamn building
Well heaven forbid we go anywhere else in this movie
So I guess yeah back to Tess
Even though it's the basement of the building
I guess that makes it look more like an accident
If it's his girlfriend
Oh yes right
And I kind but I do also kind of get it
Because so they
Itchy and Flat Top take him
To meet Big Boy Caprice
The basement of this place
And they offer him a bribe
15K dude
And he says no
As you might expect
And he's about to take
them all in and of course but he's tied up
and they
fucking they black like they knock off
all the uh few like
valves on the furnace
and like all the steam pipes starts
shit in the basement in which fits here's a thought
take the bribe and betray them
yeah that's fine but I got a bunch
of money and then you can't prove like
no he didn't give me any money but he's too honorable
you know he just can't do it I know he's a paladin
but I do think this is smart because
clearly Tess has had this situation
before where a room with
him in, it has blown out from gas.
I imagine this has happened before.
Oh, the building's on fire. Well,
looks like it was another chilly cook-off
tonight. Well, that was a mistake.
Definitely, yeah, news tonight here. Yeah, no, it was definitely
a mistake. It was one of his classic chili
far. Well, that's what's going to
happen in the, if you had
to leave to see the dead bodies, that was
happening in the opera, was
his belly was that furnace
rattling and whistling.
Mr. Tracy, you're disturbing the
rest of the theater goers.
I just want to see how it turns out.
I'm going to go take an air shit
and then go and see this crime.
I'm going to see if the concession stand has chili.
They can hear your colon
percolating backstage.
That'll put this fire out more chili.
Just cool it off with a little fresh
chili. Just to fight chili with
chili. I'd just smother the chili with
more chili. That's how the fire goes out.
It's a different kind of chili. Makes sense.
No, this chili
doesn't have jalapenos in it, so it's lighter.
Trust me, I'm a chili professional.
I know how to put out a chili fire with more chili.
You use different chili.
Oh, cooling me down.
Ooh, some fresh cheese out of that.
That'll cool me down.
Oh, yeah, get some dairy in there.
He's just drinking sour cream, just chugging it.
Oh, yeah, that's taking my five alarm asshole down to four, three.
Oh, three, that's stable.
Okay.
Three I can go back to work.
I've always had about a three.
I haven't been past two since two.
I do love
This I think is my favorite
line, Pacino
when Dick Tracy turns down
the bribe, you dumb
dick. Oh yes.
Yes, indeedly do.
It had to do it. Why are you funny?
30 seconds, no more dick. 30 seconds, no more dick.
It is funny though because this
you know, whatever the
heat pump or whatever the water heater
is that is causing all the seat. It looks like
the Ghostbusters containment unit.
Yes, it's ready to go. And then they break it and I'm like,
Well, now they just, didn't they see Ghostbusters?
Look what, look what happened.
Did you see it? It's magic.
But the kid noticed through the window, right?
Yes, he saves him, yeah.
You know, he breaks the window, gets in there, and frees him with a glass shard.
Yeah.
This kid's lucky enough to have a nasty cut.
That's what we were teaching kids back then, yeah, right?
No pickup broken glass.
Pick up.
Work in the factory.
We're no.
$60 shift a day.
Help the cops.
all of them. And if they're in trouble, you help them out.
Maybe you get shot. So what?
He does, like, do a very
weak, like, no, save your...
Ah, fucking. Get it.
Actually, yeah, I will die, so let's
work a little faster, kid.
I really want to try the chili today at Mike.
I really, I need to get that new one.
But then, the ceremony,
the kid gets honorary
deputized under the name of the kid,
but it's actually, which is weird,
and it's all this great Charles
during, and it's like, and it's under the kid
but once he chooses his own name
he'll have to get another certificate
and that'll be permanent
and it's like
man Charles Durning
you're just getting sidled with all this
child care dialogue
in this movie Charles fucking Durning
well that's like the whole police
I mean other than the actual like
police officers
Sam Patty and fucking the captain
are all looking after his personal life
that's the whole thing
test called just in case you know
no yeah I'm near the phone just in case she gets again
he's the only one that does any actual police work
That's right. Bug Bailey does. The great bug Bailey, Michael, Michael Pollard, because he's like, I'll go on a sign, but I don't watch fucking Dick Tracy's fucking socks. I'll live above the club Brits for a couple months. Absolutely. All right. Yeah, that poor fuck. Well, bug, I mean, he, he, I don't know how he doesn't go through a similar situation as William Freakins bug in that upper, if you're just hanging out there all day. I too would light myself on fire.
It's either that or you're Eugene Toomsing
and you're starting a little paper machet
thing and eating Big Boys liver.
So I think this is pretty much right where we are anyway
when basically
Big Boy, when they raid Big Boys Club
as a kind of a front to get bug in there, right?
Yes, because we've already had the walk amongst the tombstones
and then the very next scene is Dick Van Dyke being like,
look, there's a 14-person alibi that says that he was somewhere else, Dick,
I can't help you.
Yes, so it's like, all right, you know,
I'm going to play with my own rules,
Raid Club Ritz, and it's kind of a basis
as a fake raid. There's a great, it's
your classic Simpson, your
speak easy thing where we're flipping
over the card chips into like
cigarette packs. Yes, very,
yeah, very best damn pet shop in town.
Yeah, I made the same note, yeah. I think there's
a line like, I hope they're stupid enough to think that
I wouldn't look under the table. Yes.
Yes.
But this is what, this implants bug
in the, in the office, and he's
right above there. And we get the,
this is a montage of them like doing all these bust
and everything now. And I think this, is this
back in business, are we singing back in business?
That's when big boy comes back.
Oh, I guess that makes sense. This one is
sooner or later you're going to be
sad. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And just, yeah, I love all these buss, but like
apparently, and Beatty confirmed this somewhere over
the years, there's like a two hour and 20
minute cut of this movie. I'd love to see it. I feel
like you're seeing every single bus
because it's not just like they're coming
in, arresting people, whatever. Like, mouths
are moving. There's a ton of dialogue
being spoken in all of these moments of the
montage, and I'm like, these are all deleted scenes
that you want to do. But they're also cutting certain
scenes, like, clips from
scenes that are about to come later
are also put in there. There's a scene
with Big Boy, like, yelling about
getting, um, like Dick Tracy, finding all his shit.
He's eating dinner and, and he does
that, that you see it before that scene happens
in these montage. Oh, that's weird. Yeah.
But I like these montages a lot.
Yeah. They all look very, every shot so
stylistically done. I love
Dick punching a guy out of window at one.
He does an uppercut
And it's like a Shaw Brothers movie
The dude does like a flying backflip
It's really fun because it's so high
It's even more heightened than the heightened reality
Of the movie
All that's missing out of this movie
To make it even more like a comic strip of that era
Is if they could make a giant cloud of smoke
That is the struggle
Of the fight
Yeah totally right
You have the scrap tornado
Yeah totally
Pow
Exactly super fun
And like basically
At the end of it Big Boy is furious
Because it's got a great
like you see like the money mumbles keeps bringing in his less and less and last it's it's really
great though i love uh he's sort of doing like a brady bunch reference like everywhere i turn
it's tracy tracy tracy yeah so funny i guess this before seamless like how who's feeding bug bailey up
there is does he take breaks does you go home at night i think it's a thing where it's like
this is not hot coffee it's just you're letting water like soak in the grinds yeah and then
kind of he's probably pressing it himself probably something he learned to do in the service
Like, you know, when you're in a foxhole, this is that you make your coffee.
This is what you're going to do, bugs.
You eat so much chili.
So much chili before you get up there.
And then you eat some of, you know, because chili is good two or three times after you eat it.
You just recycle that chili.
And if you're worried about the caffeine, the pain of your stomach after each chili will keep you up at night.
You will be able to do your job.
You'll be alert.
And I mean, you're going to say, oh, man, I don't know when I shit my pants up, you might.
But if you eat enough, you will.
constipate yourself. There is enough.
That's the way out is
true. That's the secrets.
The secret. God, you know how many
times I've found myself saying the way out
is through when I'm eating chills? More than
five times in my life, definitely. I do
like the idea, though, that Buck Bailey has like the
first cold brew operation.
He's getting it ready. He did it by accident.
Oh my God, this is delicious. It's more like room
temperature brew, but yeah. I don't have to use
a little bit of this and then add water? Are you
fucking serious? But there is more chilly here
because so what happens is big boy priest
when they find the coffee is dripping
down under the lamp fixture and like Pacino
does a good like look up or whatever
those faces like just call
yeah it's it's so fucking good
and then so he decides like we're going to make
a fake call about like
doing something on the south side or whatever
and Beatty or Dick Tracy
has interrupted once
again eating chili in the scene
they're back at the diner this is where he's like
what did you put in the chili today at all
tire. I don't
want to miss prune faces with
Big Boy when he figures it out.
And he has one of my favorite lines
and one of the trailer lines.
I'm rubbing it out. Yes. Oh, yes.
Yeah. We did
skip over. It doesn't matter. The kid
montage of him eating and eating
and eating. Because now he's becoming
ingratiated with Tess's life
and all their... They're becoming closer.
They're going to family. There's a great moment
which gets surprised at the end where
he's basically, you know, Tess
I think about you live it alone.
I like live it alone.
And it's like that thing
and he's about to propose to him
that he can't.
Right, that's a sweet moment.
It is.
But it's also like,
I don't know, man.
Like fucking nut up, dude.
This lady is about to get put in jail
because she's an old maid.
That's just,
1936.
Right.
That was a long.
The cops are ready.
Right.
Same guy's like,
you sure you know
want to arrest her trace?
He ain't a husband.
The dog catcher is getting married.
That's one of the best songs,
I think of all the songs
is the Live Alone and Like It song.
Yeah.
talking about, you know, I like being
alone. I just like it. It sounds like
a son-hine. It sounds like something that would be in company.
Oh, big time.
Somewhere, it doesn't matter, but somewhere around here,
before the raid montage,
the blank recruits 88 keys
to work for her.
You know, in gracious, oh, I'm going to give you all this money
every month. You're working for me now.
Give this note to Big Boy.
Yes. And I like Big Boys.
Give this note to Big Boat.
Big Boy's response.
Kevin Solo the Carbonade.
is pretty, pretty, uh, spot on, right?
What do we mean? I'm going to work with someone. You don't even know how to get
contact with me. You want to follow? Where to the piano?
Right, flat time's like, want me to follow 88 keys. Where to the piano?
Yeah. How am I going to vote? It's a man with no face.
I'm not to get in touch with the early olives. But this is the blank is kind of making
its presence known. And then, uh, basically now, uh, Tracy is about to, uh,
get murdered by
Prune Face and Influence here
because that was the trap that they
Because Bug Bailey gets the bath
right here doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And there's this weird, so Bug Bailey is getting the bath
and Prune Faces and Influencer
there, Tracy saves him
and then the next shot, Tracy
is full of Samantha. I'm like, how did
that happen? I think he
the thought was that he was trying
to trick them. They're like, oh, that's just
Michael J. Pollard, but no, he has a gun
pointed at you. Right. That doesn't really
make sense. And then the gun doesn't work because it's covered
in cement. That's a kind of a gag. It's a very
like, there's a lot going on in this one
moment. There was a moment cut out where
like it's a bigger struggle to get that guy
out of there and he gets douched by
yes, because he goes to like save
him and then the next thing, you don't even like really
see the rescue of it. You don't see the struggle of
getting him out of there. What it's like
to pull a man out of cement bondage.
Right. Probably a little tricky. It was probably, it was a little
too erotic. We had to cut something
out. To keep those Madonna
the scenes we had to cut that one.
Fuck, it's
Insta dry shit again.
Get the fucking rip.
Part of this montage
also, I think this is the Living Alone song
is Tess goes out of town
because at the
chilly tasting like a tire
scene,
they're having a big like, you know,
you're fucking not taking this desk job
and I really would like you to be up the streets.
You're always working and then like the call
comes through about the south
side thing and it's like if you get up,
motherfucker like this is going to be
bad. Is it no but what would that
that pisses her off but what drives her away
is when she sees him making out
with breathless in his house. Oh sure
yeah so I forgot about that yeah that's the peach
ice cream. Yeah Tracy's waiting around
for ice cream. Hey test you get the ice cream yet
and it's like what kind of ice cream you want
fucking peat pussy ice cream or whatever
she says. Can you eat a peach
for hours to Tracy? Well doesn't he
say something like oh it's pistachio
this is great something like that because again
riding a donkey to a grocery
store.
But I mean, like, this would piss.
I mean, this would be the end.
So, like, basically, uh, Breathless is there.
They have another one of their like, I don't know if I can testify against big
boy, yada yada.
Don't you want to frisk me?
Yes.
They make out, test sees them before the, before she comes in, waits, then comes back.
And then it's like, oh, Tess, this is just, uh, Breathless Mahoney.
She's, uh, helping me on a big case.
And I'm, if I'm watching your street urchin fucking not son.
Right.
And I watch you fucking tongue some flusies.
dude. That ice cream's going right up
your ass. And he must have
like an Art Donaldson boner
here just sticking out. Think about that
that hot chili ass Steve and you
put that ice cream in there. It's melting before it
it even gets it in there. Yeah, it's not even
getting it in there. Yeah, exactly. It's like when
Homer eats the pepper and then he tries it
and it just melts before it touches his tongue.
That's the reactor cord down there.
I do love
Estelle Parsons as
Mother True Heart, I guess.
Well, she leaves town again. I do think
the cops were going to get her because she was
going to turn 36 to be single
and you have to live with your mother at that point
or else you're huge trouble. And it's like, you know,
oh, that dick, Tracy's never going to ask you
to marry him. Also, did you see
what was going on all the bickering with Jackie
and Roseanne yesterday?
Estelle Parsons
still alive. Wow.
Has reprised that role
on the Connors for multiple episodes.
Oh, Jesus. Really great.
But I always loved her on Roseanne,
one of my favorite Estelle Parsons.
Really fun.
um something something this is when uh so like
they go to jail right 88 keys gets uh the the forger guy to forge that note
right that's hard of it basically they're about their test is missing
tracy's distraught 88 keys and the blank have a plan to get rid of tracy because also the blank
is obviously upset at tracy for choosing trust true or whatever her right uh and this is the dick
Van Dyke set up, which is
bring money to hotel
or whatever. Bring money to hotel and like, oh,
we have information on, on
maybe on tests or something to get him
to go to that hotel. Tracy's to go to the hotel.
I love Mandy Patank in here.
No way, Dick Tracy, you're not going to
blackmail me. Get that gun
down, Big Tracy. Why are you
shooting me, Dick Tracy? It doesn't
sound like Dick Van derby. I guess
it's him. It is so awesome.
Oh, right? Now you're shooting me and you're saying you're
to get away with the crime because you dick tracy is that right you don't think anyone's
going to remember my face of my name they could probably hear you dick tracy look at the old man at the
desk like what the hell's going on up there i think these two old timers are uh somebody
i think or maybe one of them is uh somebody the original flat top yeah probably we got it back
folks he's telling you he's at 98 and he's dead oh hell yeah dude
that's good
give me seven minutes
to find out
who's playing flat time
in your Dick Tracy field
this is
oh little cameo here
Mary Warrenoff
is the
social services lady
who comes to the
to get the kid
or whatever
we could have
Paul Bartel in this movie
come on
he was probably on set
and you know
they were
I think they were married
or at least
spent a lot of time together
yeah call him hair
the wig
dude
there you know
But yeah, so
Dick Tracy gets knocked
out here and is set up with the gun
after all that amazing
noise that Benet Pankan Nick.
It's so fucking funny.
Him just yell. God damn. It's great.
But yeah, so it's like
this Dick Tracy sitting in the chair.
They're kind of like weekend of Bernie's
thing here a little bit. Like putting the gun
up, like propping it on his leg or whatever.
And then like he wakes up because they like
gas him and that's how they get him there.
And Dick Van Dyke is that. He goes, that's right.
No, that's right. Tracy goes to Tess's
Greenhouse.
house. Yeah. Smell the flowers
Tracy and
go to sleep. The visuals
on that are fantastic. Yes, they're really cool.
All those shadows and flowers like that.
There's so much beautiful shit we're not talking about.
It's incredible. The train scene with him and the kid
and the way that that just goes. Oh, yes,
when the kid jumps across the tracks on
him or whatever. And Dick Tracy has this line of
like, he doesn't have a line, he has a look
on his face of like, did I just see
a kid totally cut in half by a train?
I just watched him. I'm going to prepare myself for the
worst image of my entire life.
Oh, it looks like Chilly.
Oh, this kid's destroyed corpse looks
making it awkward. You didn't think that that
would turn me off chili. But it didn't. No,
now I crave kid chili.
Take that body to the diner.
I love the newscaster. Dick Tracy is in disgrace
tonight. Of course.
One of the, there's three broadcasters
that keep showing them, but he doesn't have any lines, but you see
him. The micro machines guy is in this movie.
Really? Oh, is that right?
Now for younger listeners, there was a series of commercials where this, we would refer to him as the micro machine guy, and he would just say shit really fast.
That was a thing for a minute.
Like auctioneer culture was on fleek.
Wow, look at you.
Which is an expression that's not really trendy these days.
No, it's like 15 years old.
Got to bring the history.
Hey, hey, donkey rider here.
But now that Tracy's there, now we get back in business.
Dick Disgrace Montage.
And it's great. It's a great song. We're watching
Madonna do it. We're watching. And
what we watch is all
of Big Boys gang
harassed the town.
The town, it seems, is
populated only by the elderly.
It's all old shopkeepers.
Everyone is 68 plus. And they're all
getting hilariously beat up and it's awesome.
Everyone was a mom and pop back then.
Yeah, that's a good point. And like
without Dick Tracy there, of course,
every police officer turns
to goo. Just can't fight
nothing. Can't do a damn thing. They don't have
their fearless yellow, bejacketed leader.
They are not fortified with chili.
I just imagine like you get a cut
to Charles Durning just at his office.
Like, I don't know what to do.
I'm the captain of the police.
I don't know what to do. He picks up a gun
and he doesn't know it. He's got like my two fingers
like, what is this?
I'm biting on the barrel.
Oh, kid, what would you do? I don't know what you do.
You're at least a crazy junior.
What does the badge do? What
What does you do?
Hand cop shusha.
Just for sex stuff.
Well, yes, but also
arresting suspect.
Okay, I guess I'm doing sex stuff now.
One of the most, in all the sea
of horrendous-looking people and disgusting
food eating and whatever, one of the
grossest things in this movie, is
this laugh that Mandy Patankan's
doing? Oh, yes.
Oh, that donkeys do. It sounds like a
fucking jackass braid.
It's awful.
I can't do it.
that without choking myself so i'm glad you stepped in i started to try to do it then my throat
was like don't do it i gave up it's so good man did you've been taking some of to fucking blast
he really is i mean the dude total fucking legend obviously beloved love him uh it's new year it's new
year's eve i think is uh yeah basically new year's eve basically the kid comes to visit tracy in
prison uh and it's like i just wanted to show you my certificate biggest laugh biggest laugh
of the movie for me i chose my name and it's dick tracy junior and i would be like no
No, take a different one.
Back to formula, kid.
Well, I never agree.
Hey, I'm getting the chair.
I don't know if you know how this works.
It's actually...
I killed the DA.
It would be Richard Traceaford Jr.
I did a little thing.
You make your last name a nickname.
You know, like shortening it.
No one's ever really thought.
It's Richard Travich.
Tramovich.
Yeah, switch that when the Treveitch has got over to Ellis Island.
Do you see what I'm saying?
Don't tell anyone.
But he is as best Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy could be moved in this movie.
And it falls so flat.
Like, I'm sorry, the kid is doing it.
He's like, you want to admit?
And it's a cute Charlie Corsemo.
Charlie Corsemo, hey, had a heater streak for a little while.
This hook was the very next year.
1990, 91, each of those years, he had like three movies.
And the best of the bunch is, what about Bob?
Oh, right.
I forgot a boy and what about Bob.
Yes.
I love that.
huge
triplet of movies
here for this kid.
He had a good two years
there.
I honestly,
I love this guy
because he did that
didn't do anything
until can't hardly wait
whether on
I assume because he didn't want to
want to be a normal kid
for a little bit
because he's like
he's one of those
he's like a total genius person.
He's in those Aaron Schimberg
movies now and he's really good in them.
Yeah he went
I remember reading one
like he became like a super
accountant or something
like a super accountant or something.
Like just a super successful
like accountant or something.
It's something like that.
He got money. He got money. He paid for his school, paid for his thing. He's fine. No, no, no. No shit. He's in what movies now?
Chained for Life. I'm not sure if you've seen it. He's also the new Sebastian Stan movie. That's not the Trump movie. It's called A different man. Yes, yes. A Sundance, I think. It's supposed to be great. 824's got it. It's supposed to be a very good movie.
I think 824 also had Chained for Life or somebody else might have. I don't remember. This new movie, it's the guy who's in, oh, fuck. Speaking of A2. Under the Skin. Thank you. And he's. And he's all.
also in Chained for Life. He's the main character. Oh, is it? Oh, got it, got it. Well, that's cool. I didn't know he was back in movies. Yeah. That's pretty bad. Welcome back. Thank you, Charlie. Thanks for coming back. And they're like, all right. So, Charles Durning brings the kid to Tracy. Tracy's being brought from city jail to county jail. That's where the electric chair is. So get him over there. But you, you know, these crooked sons of bitches. Tracy's above the law. So Sam Ketchum and his other friend Pat, Pat, whatever the fuck. Are you?
Paterson. The guys are taking
him to stop
Big Boy and say clear his name. They're like
oh yeah, we're driving to the county.
I figure it'll take about eight
hours to get there. Yeah.
Oh, by the way, at the beginning of the
montage, which takes a long time,
Tess Trujart
is kidnapped by
the Black.
So how long has she been
kidnapped for a very long time?
Oh, that's a good call.
I think it's the week between Christmas and New York.
At least that.
Please give me your bucket.
It needs to be cleaned out.
Oh, these are your chicken scraps.
Okay.
It puts the lotion on the skin and puts the lotion in the basket.
So you think you're better than me.
You think I'm underneath this, I'm fucking smoking hot.
You don't understand.
Don't you hurt my fucking dog.
I look and shout, but I'm really fucking hot under here.
Was the blank, Steve, do you know anything about this?
Was that at all?
any inspiration for the question.
That's a great question. Probably it almost half to be.
That's a great question.
It's the same design.
Right, yeah. I just had that thought right now, actually.
The question's a cool little comic character.
It's so dope.
But, yeah, so she's been kidnapped and they know where,
they assume it's about, oh, no, they shake down mumbles is what happened.
They shake down mumbles.
Oh, yes.
I really love this because, again, I think, Eric, you made the point.
It's great that they don't over.
overuse him talking too much in the movie because it really works so well here where it's like
all right and like they're really putting the screws to him and he drops it and just talks like
Dustin Hoffman it's really cool it's also I love the scene starts with like we gotcha mumbles
and he's like laughing it's a leather face laugh it really is and then he starts crying
which sounds like leather face crying it doesn't take like adjust the recording they have
slows it that's yeah big boy did it big boy did it big boy did it
but then at the end he does talk like normal
he drops it yeah yeah yeah it's so good yeah i love the little
holding the tape and slowing it down what a cool move in the bear
statue water dispenser yeah so they know that 88 keys the piano man sent you up
that's the line there and but the blank calls in and it's like if you want to see test
true hatches above the club wits and it's like okay we got to stop also bring some new clothes
She's going to need it.
She had the chili farts while she was in my custody.
It's the only thing we serve in this town.
She told me to let the skid mark know the score.
Also, like a virgin.
Touched for the very first time.
Like a virgin.
Burn it up.
Burn it up for your love.
Burn it up.
Set it up for your love.
I'm a material girl.
Living in a material world.
The one you wouldn't have to change.
just die
another
it just
sounds like
it already
this used
to be
my playground
is that the
song
from Joe Pesci
his homeless
movie
I think of my
oh what is that
I know
it's
and I'll remember
the way that
you touched me
you smell like
shit in
red books
just like a guy
isn't
Brendan Fray
or else with that movie?
He's the guy.
With honors.
Yes.
There it is.
Thank you.
He sadly dies.
Patrick Dempsey.
Also.
Yes.
Strike a pose.
There's nothing to it.
In Logue.
Load.
What the fuck was the Bannador's song again?
How did that go?
You know, I'm very close with David Fincher.
Oh, my God.
With honors, that's a stay too.
Oh, God, that movie.
I'm homeless, and I'm going to teach you kids.
You Harvard kids, what it's like.
Do you know who Charles Dickens?
It's a question of not, because you're not homeless.
Is that what's going on that movie?
Dude, have you seen it?
It's a wild movie.
We definitely have to do it.
I remember liking it as a kid because I think I had a crush on some of the actresses.
Moratirney.
You're not Moratirney.
The other one.
Who's not Moratirino?
Linda Giurantino.
From Twin Peaks Firewalk with me.
In Twin Peaks, Cheryl.
No, she's the ice skating movie too.
West Wing.
Mora, it's not
more, oh, it's going to drive me crazy.
I'm going to bring it up.
She's in the cutting edge, Eric.
That's the, that she's the star of the cutting edge.
Her name is, it's driving fucking crazy.
Well, let's see if we can do it, folks.
It's the blank.
Indeed, indeed it is.
It's the blank and you draw.
Mora Kelly.
Moira Kelly, yes.
Yes, I think that was the one.
Yeah, she's hot.
And yeah, so, but so
this is when she,
we see that it's great because it's new year's eve it's the club ritz and i love alpachino
playing this thing about like i'm wrapped up in a kidnapping and i didn't do anything like
that's him the rest of the movie yeah and it's fucking hilarious it's like it's federal offense
oh my god this is get ready i don't i don't want that i don't want any part of it it's so awesome
it's so fucking so gal big boy to check the attic we also have influence and it terrifying
influence basically looks like now that henry sylva as influence looks like the dudes at
end of Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, Twilight Zone episode.
Yes, oh my God, yes, oh my God.
You're blown my mind.
That's exactly what they look like.
And he walks around like that all the time.
But he's got a little New Year's hat.
He's like, we got it.
You want to check upstairs.
And this is when you see basically that she's tied up.
Get her out of here.
I don't want to.
I don't want to.
This is Tracy's girls.
Someone set us up.
Get the guns.
Get the guns.
That Dick Tracy jumps through the fucking.
I mean,
What? Does he like a fell down?
He just jumps down.
He breaks his shins, I guess.
He's like Batman in this scene.
But for nothing, because he jumps down there,
they've left, the door is locked,
I can't get out of even.
Exactly.
And he humorous a little bit, like, hey, Pat, how much do you weigh?
I love, he's like, uh, 195.
What is it?
How much she made?
210.
Yeah, I do.
This is very loony tunes.
Like, he jumps down and sends Tracy like back up through the skylight or whatever.
Poor patio Patterson.
fucking stuck in the attic for the rest of the fucking.
Okay.
Yeah, well, that's where you put Irishman in this world.
Oh, fuck, I forgot Patty.
It's probably dead.
It's been weeks.
Can we solve that case weeks ago?
Open the safe. Oh, open the safe.
Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, it smells.
Oh, no, we got to hide this.
Turn it into chili. I'll eat it and then it'll be gone.
Does anybody have any stewed tomatoes?
You start cutting up them onions.
But yeah, what's the deal here?
When I tell you to hit the horn?
That's when the raid is going to happen is the idea, hit your horn.
This scene is burned into my memory as a kid because it's incredibly violent.
Oh my God.
It is a massive fucking shootout.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
Explosions and whatnot.
Everyone's getting nice to this.
I get the feeling this was like, Warren Beatty was like, you know, it took fucking forever to get that shot of me and Faye getting shot in fucking Bonnie and Clyde. I'd like to be on the other side of that. I'd like to be on the other side of it. Yeah. Let me see if I can get a little bit on flat top here.
Dude, Flat Top gets it so bad.
Itchy doesn't even get out of the car.
Itchy eats shit in the car.
And then Flattop kind of has one more for the road.
And you just see William Forthside just like sunny on the causeway.
Yes, exactly.
Like this dude is riddled with bullets.
There's no real squibs, but you just, you feel the impact from the sound and the way he's moving.
And you also see, I love Itchy's hand outside the window because he's dead now.
I was like, that was my favorite.
And there's a little kid.
I'm like, Itchy was my favorite.
Oh, no.
Itchy, come back.
Oh, real funny thing here.
Big boy with Tess.
They're on that, like, cart,
and he's pulling her through the really cramped quarters
talking the whole time.
God damn, that's really funny.
It's so much, you know, improv doing whatever.
He's like, I want generals, and I got short soldiers.
Believe me, this is not the way I wanted it to be.
It is, like, pulling her through this air vent or whatever this is.
And I think he says, oh.
moving, I'll put a bullet in your head
like seven times in that whole thing.
I didn't want to kidnap you, but I'm kidnapping you now.
Yes. I will kill you. I will kill you.
And so like, honestly,
much like Batman 89,
it's crazy. We're at the top of a building where
there's a bunch of gears and shit all over the place.
It's not a fucking bell tower, but it is
up high. Our villain is dragging
the heroine up the stairs. And what's that? He takes
a huge fall. Yeah, it's so strange. Wouldn't you believe it?
All you're missing is the fucking teeth clacking out of the
sidewalk. Now, Al, you can't dance
with her. Al, just trust
me, don't do that. But I dance
in every film that I'm in.
That's it. I'm doing send of a woman so I can dance.
I got to do a little soft shoot. Maybe
they went back and had to reshoot that rehearsal
because maybe the rehearsal scene earlier
was him just in a chair the whole time.
He's like, well, if I can't dance in the attic,
I'm going to be dancing at the rehearsal,
baby.
Bo, more.
You don't I realize he kind of looks like
when he's dancing, too? It's kind of like when they make
Cartman dance.
Yeah, that's his little fat guy
Shimmying around
I was speaking of human chili
Cartman is something that he's done
Oh, that's right
He's forced others to eat human chili
Right in that spooky corn episode
Right, a different episode
But there's one where he wants to get
He wants to get revenge on a kid who like
He'd somebody something must die
Yes he did some
I remember this I remember this
It's a kid who like does like the littlest slight
Against Cartman
And Cartman makes him eat his parents
He goes to their they have like
a horse ranch and he gets them and he turns a bit
to chill. He does the tight I mean he does the
tuitous andronicus thing. It is so
that was a weird episode of South Park.
An odd one. Odd term to South Park.
But yes, the blank shows up.
Everybody's here. The kid
shows up. Scott Tenerman must die. That's what he was. Yes.
The blank shows up. You can kill her.
I'm taking you down with
the run crime you didn't do.
Tracy is fighting
Bigwood. We could pick up that
pipe and kill Big Boy. We could run this
Yeah, we can run the galaxy his father and lovers.
Fuck you guys, I'm going home.
There's a, I do like when, it's kind of weird,
and I don't know why like Bainty chose to do this,
but there is like Dick Tracy gets up there
and it's a lot of big boy being like,
where are you? Why are you hiding from me?
And it's like Dick Tracy in the shadows,
like you cannot see his face.
And this is a whole movie where this other secret secondary villain
is a person without a face.
And then like all of a sudden it just cuts and there's Warren Beatty and you can see his face and I was like, why are you bothering?
If it was just Dick Tracy the whole time, who gives a shit?
Why are you doing it?
I mean, I guess they're trying to give you like a little because there isn't there a scene where the blank wears the coat?
I think the black wears the coat to go up the stairs at the, at the, at the hotel.
When they're framing.
Yes.
Yes.
And like, be like, oh, is this the blank who's doing this now?
The blank runs by up the stairs.
Yeah.
And the coat.
That's right, Dick Tracy.
You're wearing your, to your car.
characteristic yellow coat. I understand
who you are, Dick Tracy. Don't take
that gun on me, Dick Tracy.
Everyone's telling you, you can
see that code from space, Tracy.
I do, yeah,
so,
kill Big Boy, and we'll win that run the town.
The kid knocks the
blank over.
Tracy kills Big Boy anyway.
He just rushes at him
and tackles him and throws him over the
railing. You see him flipping
flying, like falling down.
in a very good fall.
Very the emperor going down the shaft.
If there was a fucking bolt of lightning
anywhere there, someone's got a suit
on their hands. Absolutely. And then
Tracy goes up to the blank and the blank.
Don't cry for me, Argentina.
The truth is I never
left. Because she shot
at this point, right? Yeah, she shot. Big
boy shoots her like four times. Right. Yes.
And now, you know, we get the close-up of the little
eyes. Yeah, it's creepy. Very, very
eerie. But yeah, we ripped the
mask off and it's it's Madonna I guess madonna she does the voice for one second and it's like
Tracy I didn't mean to do any yes yeah just in case someone didn't get just got right back from
the bathroom and like their head was not facing the screen as they sat back into the chair
was the idea just real quick what's also it's like what the motivation it's like well I know
that you're like uncorruptible but I thought maybe maybe now we take out all the criminals and
maybe we run the mafia?
That was the angle of that?
That was her idea.
It seems a little dumb.
Because you don't know anything about this character,
which is what annoys me.
I'm like, why are you doing other than like power?
But also, Eric, I mean, come on.
When the good guys run the mafia, it's okay.
But it's, well, I totally agree with that.
The real deal, real world mafia Chris Cabin,
not this candy-colored cartoon or shit.
That's fair.
But I can see the motivation in a way of a, you know,
she's a dame treated like shit.
Yeah.
more more and then it's like let me turn the tables and now i'm the boss oh 100% but to that and
i think you're totally right that's that's great don't just don't make this a surprise like the fact
that it's a twist they it doesn't allow them to setting up so like yeah sure she's a woman in
this this world of criminals she's obviously treated like currency and garbage and like likely
physically abused and whatever so i get that there's motivation there but the movie doesn't
present anything but if you really wanted to establish it i guess you know what you should have done
is started the movie with the blank doing shit.
Like make it a through line throughout the whole thing
versus appearing 45 minutes.
That's yeah, the other thing, right?
She only comes in as that character in the middle of the movie.
But if it's like we're focusing on a singular investigation in a way
and it's like this blank is messing with the mafia,
I hate the mafia too, but what's going on?
And we follow that versus that's what the problem with the movie is.
I think it's just like stuff happens and I don't know why.
Well, yeah, I think if you get the blank to do the massacre at the beginning
and trying to frame Big Boy
or lips at that point for it.
You get a little bit more of a through line.
I never minded this,
the fact that, like, it turns out it's her.
I got, like, she's such a femme fatale character
that I was like, of course she hates all these people.
Yeah, right, right, right.
Yeah.
But, like, I think there's a difference
between wanting to eradicate the gangs
and then wanting to eradicate the gangs
and so you could be the person who picks up the power
and the vacuum.
Like, I just can't make that jump
with what the movie
gives me. Well, because I think that's a
Fem Fetal thing, whereas, like, she is still, like,
there's something heartless about her.
So she does want the power. She wants that more than that.
But that never, in, like, in Nguars or whatever, that never comes
to, I want to be the head of a criminal enterprise.
Sure. I mean, I feel like somebody, again,
like, I feel like somebody like,
a Kathleen Turner or
somebody that can actually... A real actor?
Yeah, like, could do, like, a Fem Fetal, like,
kind of voice and, like, a... Sure. Again, in that...
Turner would be good. Taking it up to
11 in the way this movie is,
you'd be like, I know exactly that character.
is she's just a little too sensitive
and again like I think she's probably better
in like a lower five movie you know what I mean
like a more realistic grounded film
this movie is full of cartoon characters
that look like mutants you know what I mean like
yes yeah exactly I also kind of wonder is there like another
crop of mutants coming up to take these
guys places oh well there's there's
criminals and poor people drinking all the bad
water in there'll be some guy with an alligator head
tomorrow leather head the rack king they're all coming up
some kind of a droopy lip
I guess I'm a lobster down
Oh, yeah, a stroke man's here.
My son's bebop and rock steady.
Or I guess for this movie it would be stroke phase.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, stroke face.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, stroke face indeed.
Donkey Rider, like, that's, he could be a guy.
Donkey rider.
Take that now I'm pruned Tracy.
Donkey rider sounds like it could be a documentary Chris would watch here.
Oh, because of the fucking, yeah.
Yeah, if it's like a guy that fucks a donkey.
I see, okay.
but so like it's kind of weird
like he's saying goodbye to
Breathless Mahoney
Tess is like I guess I'll let you fuck her
while I wait outside
Oh don't worry about it Tess
She's dead
Nothing's gonna happen
Here's her
Here's her body
He kisses her
And the big
New Year's fireworks
Are going off
It's right
And credits at the fireworks
I don't know what this is
Well you know what
We got some leftover
Chili
And from the prop department
We got one more chili
It's not even a sequel set up
It's just like
The story goes
But, you know, I understand why they did it
because it's nice to give Tess that ending.
It is, yeah.
But it just felt like we just had our big, boombastic ending.
They stepped outside.
I saw the gorgeous mat painting.
The fireworks are going off.
Yeah, propose there.
Yeah, exactly.
Do the thing.
And end the movie.
Yeah.
Because this also is just sort of half-hearted asshole way to do this.
Also, you wanted to be a thing where, like, maybe he's learned anything.
So it's like, he actually gets on one knee.
The move needs to be.
He's about to do it.
Because, like, the conversation is leading that way.
And then, uh-oh, the fucking watch blows up again.
In this moment, you need it to be, I'm going to close the watch.
Crime can wait.
I'm going to do the proposal.
And that's how you end it.
Not I'm throwing the ring box that you fuck you, lady, off to another job again.
You get it, right?
Yeah, we're good.
We're good, right?
You hate that I'm still on the streets.
You've hated it the whole movie.
That's the through line of your character.
This whole movie, you don't want to marry me because I'm on the streets.
If I take a desk job, we'll get married.
oh, the end of the movie, I'm still on the streets
and you want to get married? You got it, right?
I do, I bet you this is how
he proposed to the net betting.
This threw a ringbox at her and went
out swimming and said you're one in a million.
You're lucky to have me.
Here you go. That's what this is. This ending
is, boy, Tess Truhart, you came back to
the city and boy, you're lucky you did because
now we're getting married. Remember, you're one in a million,
okay? And this is a city of eight million
so I get eight girlfriends, okay?
That's just how it works.
Tess, it's math. You could have ended up
with that son of a bitch
the man in the yellow hat
which something happened to him
I don't know I don't see him around
mouthed off anymore
took a bath maybe
chilly bath
yeah and so that's it
like he takes
their adopted child
on this police work so now
she's worried about two people
working in the choice
I'll keep getting one between the eyes
it's just such a shitty way
to end it for that character
but that is the way the movie ends
a big fat the end which I love
beautiful old school comic strip
font that they used throughout. It's very great
stuff. But that is the end of the movie.
And aside from his embarrassing
fucking weird Kevin Spacey
esk YouTube videos that he made,
Dick Tracy never aired again.
Not quite at the Kevin. The Kevin Spacey
video is like the most menacing
thing I've ever seen in my life.
Well, I just mean as far as a who could give
a shit and this is kind of sad.
Kevin Spacey doesn't seem bore.
Isn't like, what is it? Why does it happen?
And oh, yes, Dick. And I'm warning.
You're dick. No, no, you're.
So you're Kaiser and your sister.
Give it a few years, a few more Christmases.
I'm looking forward to it.
I'm really looking forward to it.
But, I mean, and since he's coming back to pictures, I mean, well, oh, sure.
We'll see him.
Peter 5-8, storming the box.
Yes.
But we'll go around the horn here for final thoughts.
Eric Siska.
Yes.
You know, I think it's a light recommend.
There's a lot to like about this, but I just feel like it gets a little soggy.
It gets a little tedious.
I started looking at my radio watch.
Ooh.
You get that?
Eric Siska, come in.
This movie's dragging.
I'll be right there, toilet.
My partner, toilet.
Are you bringing chili or what?
Oh, I'll be bringing the chili.
So, yeah, no, I think it's worth definitely seeing, but I don't love it, but I like it.
Yeah, Chris Gavin.
I really like it.
I kind of always really liked this.
The story issues aren't really, don't make, like, if we're going to talk about movies like this
that are just entertainments,
and I do think there are personal elements to it
that he picks up on,
but he just doesn't work them into a lather
the way you would want him to,
the way a Batman does do that.
Like, this, to me,
like, if we're just going to get it
on entertainment level,
this is all I want.
This is a perfect production design,
pretty good performances,
some good makeup.
Like, the story,
I do agree, like,
the Fletcher thing is the thing that bugs me.
That's the low.
The DA?
The stuff with the setting him up
and all that,
that is the stuff that drags.
for me. But to me it goes really quickly
and I have never seen a movie
of the size where I'm not bored by
a part of it at least. Maybe The Matrix.
But for the most part
like, yeah, I just enjoy everything about
this. Warren Beatty
you just got to stop directing
yourself. You gotta stop doing
that. Well, you got him, Chris.
Yeah, I think time has solved that issue.
Oh, wait, he's dead.
No, but his last directorial effort
was in 2016. I think
the shops closed up. Well, that's good.
Or, well, actually, no, excuse me, he co-directed that fucking Tracy Zooms-in video.
And I really want to know what the co-director was doing on that, like, yeah, you're doing great.
Plugging in the fucking internet connection.
Steve Sadek.
What's the wireless passion?
I guess I'm the co-director.
If you help me log in, you can co-direct this with me.
Yeah, I mean, I, I like this movie.
I don't love it.
I think, again, I've never loved Warren Biddy as an actor.
you kind of have to for a movie called Dick Tracy
where he plays Dick Tracy
but I mean again the color is amazing
Pacino's fantastic there's so much
to like here and I do think you know just as
as we're in a summer of
we're always talking about superhero horseshit
and comic horse shit I love
the idea of just taking
one property and used
the whole fucking Buffalo and just see what it
looks like in one movie and that's it
because not everything needs to be
like if there's a Green Lantern movie
I think there could have been one good Green Lantern movie
You know what I mean?
Like you could do that
You don't have to set up a five
Five year fucking plan
And all this or shit
Just see what that first movie looks like
When you use everything
And then if it works
Try a sequel
You know what I mean?
Like that's what this movie is basically doing
It's like there could have been a sequel to this
But obviously Batey was uninterested
But it's just
He just did everything you wanted to do
In this one movie
Like it or Lumpit
It is the Dick Tracy movie
And that's good
Yeah. No, I agree with that. It's not something I love. I think it's fine. I think it's, I give so many extra star points to this for the craft part of it more than what I get out of watching it, which isn't much and I don't really revisit this movie. It's beautiful. The craft here is incredible. It deserved every nomination and it should have won all of those things. It did win a few Academy Awards and whatnot. And again, just a real fucking stacked deep bench of people is really.
fun, just coming, you know, like, not even just jamming it with huge stars.
Jamming it with people like, you know, R.G. Armstrong and James Tolkien, just these, like,
you know these people, William Forsy, you know, like just cool looking character actors to play
all these fucking freaks. It's great. It was a brilliant stroke of casting by Beatty and
the casting director. Really cool. It's a light recommend. I don't, I don't give a fuck about
Dick Tracy. And I don't really give a fuck about Warren Beatty either. But that was going to do it
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A lot of filth, yeah.
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I'm entirely sure.
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There's a fun little convo there.
Absolutely.
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With what motion picture Steve Zadak?
I-Robot. Ooh, Will Smith
sci-fi motion picture. I definitely
saw in theaters. I remember
nothing about it except for one line
that's very stupid. I've never
seen it all the way through. I've seen some of it
and I'll talk about the circumstance
for next week. I thought it was pretty stupid but
it's been a while. It's an Alex
Proyas. It is. It is.
Director of knowing. Thank God.
And the crow.
And the crow also. And dark city. And dark city, which is great.
And gods of Egypt.
More stay tunes than not
with that fella. Well, that was a former
episode. God's of Egypt. Yeah, we did
do that. That's right. Yeah. That was a worst
stuff many moons
ago. Oh, geez, you're right. Yeah, so
until next week, when we return to
Alex Pryastown with I-Robot,
woof, it's Will Smith and Bridget Moynihan.
Sure. I think that might
be right. Any way, listen, we'll get to the bottom
of it. We'll tell you next week. Until then, I've been
Andrew Dupin. Stevenson, Eric Sisker.
Chris Cabin. Take it easy.
Thank you.
It's a lot of it.
Thank you.