S4E46.5: True Romance

Alabama getting the final monolouge, along with winning the fight on her own, and not being rescued, would take the misogyny score down at least a point for me if we had some kind of science bases system, alas.

Tell me by how much I need to up my patreon subscrip to have yall do a Whole Plate-style bonus series on the Tarantino oeuvre with Lindsay Ellis. Seriously, genuinely, fully, tell me. I'll start saving up today. Just hearing Lindsay and November go off on MOVIE TALK together would make my entire life.

Cat Person is a short story not an essay btw

Are we still in truck season? Because I need to hear the pods reaction to Smokey & The Bandit, the ultimate truck movie and also technically a heist

Good God. Jackson Lamb is Drexl with an English accent. Damn.

I'd you want more Christopher Walken being evil and creepy, and a cast that also includes Christopher Lloyd, Andy Garcia, Steve Buscemi, and Treat Williams as the apotheosis of 'Waingro', I'd love to suggest "Things to do in Denver when you're Dead" (1995). It's not a heist film (more of a shakedown-gone-wrong), but it's got the whole 'getting the crew back together for one more job' trope and it's just a hell of a ride!

subscribed just for this one, fucking BANGER of a film

Carisa's giggle is such a delightful echo of Lucy Darling, I love it

Dreadlocked white guy in a dutch angle and no references to Battlefield Earth? I'm surprised!

I finally saw Nolan's The Odyssey this weekend and Mentor barely resembles Elvis.

Do the Prestige pls 🖤❤️

You're on point with Tarantino thinking that all exploitation is fine as long as the character gets revenge, and boy does it not work this way with the viewers. Years later I still see the gifs of Samuel L Jackson's character in Django used by open racists because no one cares that this dude was wrong. These people are just happy to see someone be openly racist on the screen

I think the reason why Dennis Hopper did a racism to Christopher Walkin was so that he would ensure a quick and easy death, rather than a prolonged and painful torture. Being a retired cop and a history buff, (as pointed out by the hosts), he would be intimately familiar with the various regional forms of racism, and probably intuited that Walkin had Advanced European Racism, and could be manipulated into a state of barely controlled rage. EDIT: Fun fact about Elvis: he would help his groupies do their nails and hair, and seemed very interested in feminine fashion and makeup.

The character of Drexl becomes a lot more clear once you realise that Tarantino wrote it for himself to play. That being said, the character's appearance was all Gary Oldman's choice.

Wait wait, Carissa Hendrix as in Lucy Darling?! Oh hell yeah.

Abi interacting with the tentacles of the polycule like a ninja school girl in a hentai movie.

Crazy pull that (as far as I'm aware) the first time Action Man was mentioned on KJB was not in connection to a James Bond film at all

Hey it's the scene they parodied in Barry, that show you should watch

Abi is going through it here as the last bastion of lesbianism. Hang in there girl 😭

Donald Trump? The Rupauls Drag Race rotating judge?

Dev saying that going on a 3 movie kung fu binge would work of them as a first date in combination with the now legendary culinary tour of Chinese meals makes me think they're trying to hint to their wife anniversary celebration ideas, lol. TBF, a full day Chinese banquet that tours the reginal cuisines of where the current kung fu movie is set sounds like a cracking way to spend nine hours. I might give that a go - all I need is someone to have an anniversary with... EDIT: Oh shit! /This/ is where that scene is from? I was doom scrolling Youtube shorts, and I found an out-of-context scene titled as "The Best Movie Comeback" and it was the scene where the guy says that Sicilians are basically black in terms of racial hierarchy. I kept waiting for the comeback, but then the short started again, and I guess they thought all that esoteric racism was "best movie comeback?"

Conchata Ferrell was great in Two and a Half Men as the housekeeper, Berta, and was also in an episode of Buffy (iirc, the one where Xander joins the swim team to investigate why they keep turning into Gil-Men and one of them is a Debut Acting Role ~25yo Wentworth Miller.)

Fun fact : I suggested this movie to a zoomer friend who doesn't like violence in movies, because all I remembered was the Sicilian scene and how sweet and cute Slater and Arquette were together. She didn't like the movie AT ALL, for some reason ^^;.

LUCY DARLING IN THE HOUSE OMG

apropos of nothing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RahyV8yATqM

I saw you guys doing this one, man its hella offensive in places. I love it but in places its rough. The "History of the Sicilan people" scene. Oldman playing that insane character. That bouncer with Oldman was the same guy from the cocaine buy scene in Boogie Nights. Playing the same character basically. Wild movie.

Always had a weird relationship with this movie as my biological dad 1- charted with the song Elvis Is Everywhere and 2 - has a scene with Dennis Hopper in the first and only super Mario brothers movie Also hottest Christian Slater is old man Mr. Robot Slater

CARISA HENDRIX, my jaw fucking dropped when I heard her name in the last episode and I am SO excited to hear her on this. She seems like such a left field but absolutely amazing guest.

Having whiplash starting this episode because I had confused this film with True Lies

Tulpas manifest physical effects (as this reveals the illusory nature of the floating world) and they are collective phantasmagorical creations the Elvis DOES NOT display corporeality nor is it shared THEREFORE the mentor cannot be a tulpa; the mentor is a mere mirage or at most a haunting ... ... ... UNLESS, resolute to see in him a tulpa, and understanding that the ideaform of Elvis is Americana in extremis and the emblem of a man who died many deaths; we must conclude that a) it is the tulpa which causes the bullet not to harm the Inamorato.and b) the tulpa is formed by him but manifested into reality to deliver her beloved by our Columbina. Thus by a reckless act of reality they are allowed a folly

Me: I’m coming over; you better not be trying to remake Wild At Heart when I get there. True Romance:

Speaking of menacing James Gandolfini, his character in Get Shorty has the same vibe until he gets thrown down the stairs by John Travolta. Sorry for the spoilers of :checks notes: 36 year old movie. Which does feature a heist. It could also be part of Hollywood season, which would be movies about movies.

Oh shit, it's Lucy Darling!

Not really a heist but would love to see you all do a companion episode to this and do Natural Born Killers. More pre fame Tarintino screenplay shenanigans also staring Juilette Lewis (only it was more heavily edited by other people)

THANK YOU Carisa for pointing out Elvis was was played by Val Kilmer. Noone had mentioned him alongside all the other 'folks we love to see' and I was wondering if we'd get to the end of the episode without anyone commenting :)

I'm surprised there was no Post Malone as a descriptor for Oldman's character.

LUCY DARLING IS ON KJB HOLY SHIT I AM FANGIRLING SO MUCH RIGHT NOW

Christopher Walken was genuinely, truly frightening in this. Right up there with his turn in The Addiction.

I feel like I have managed to figure out the plot of most famous movies by pop culture osmosis over the years of not watching most movies. This is one movie I can honest to God say I don't know anything about besides Old Man in dreads Around 22:30- I'm channeling Felix Leiter and saying "Yeah naw you can't say that" Gary oldman/Elvis thing: Elvis became famous for being a white guy who performed black music

Fully frozen in shock when the actor of the guy in the episode art was revealed. I would never have guessed otherwise, but my fucking god, IT IS

Badlands xylophone, the most casual-seeming but pretty overt racism and Elvis haunting...some 90s joints had a very specific vibe to them. Happy Chilean coup day, love and inappropriate peachy dad kisses.

Did you not realize that Tulpa Elvis is played by KJB favorite Val Kilmer?

Abi askes "Is Christian Slater meant to be hot?" To which I can only say "Does Quentin Tarintino wish he himself was hot?" Elvis Tulpa is played by Val Kilmer! (Oh that gets mentioned finally.) My friends and I were heavily influenced by this movie. We were young nerds who really wanted to be cool.

Elvis is the tulpa of EITHER cool guys OR guys who sleep with 13 year olds, and there is NO overlap.

Happy 9/11 to those who celebrate