Breakfast All Day Podcast 7/24/20
Hope springs eternal with the start of baseball season, but we’re still stuck in the on-deck circle when it comes to movie theaters openings. We talk about all of this and so much more on this week’s Breakfast All Day. Following a jam-packed news segment, Alonso, Matt and I review Dave Franco’s indie thriller “The Rental,” the always great Rosamund Pike in the so-so Marie Curie biopic “Radioactive,” and “Yes, God, Yes,” a sweetly raunchy coming-of-age comedy starring Natalia Dyer. And over at our Patreon, we recap the last two episodes of “Love, Victor” on Hulu. Thanks for spending part of your summer with us, and hope you’re hanging in there.
Re: The future of creativity
Christy,
On the subject of.
What will creative people do in isolation?
Start a new soccer team?
Is it indicative of the extent to which collective boredom has become incredibly real ?
Re: movie history
Was there a movie made about that Christmas day, in the trenches of World War One. Where the British and Germans had spontaneously decided to play a match ?
One thing that did happen. Was trench warfare poetry. Some of the Irish ones, I know whose careers ended in France as casualties of that conflict. I am motivated now to go and re-read. To figure out, if it reads any different now. Yeah, trench warfare poetry was a thing. A lot of the pieces were about nature.
All the best.
Re: the beautiful game
Soccer is.
Quite hard to fathom.
When it happens, it happens.
At the intersection.
Between poetry, sculpture and movement.
At times.
When ‘collective’ experience is rare.
Harder to do.
Maybe a game.
Is what artists want.
Re: What is it with people from California ?
Natives of the ‘big sky country’ I have no doubt get used to it. This larger than life, swashbuckling ‘leading man’. The Hollywood actor type. Intends to express something of deep emotion and gratitude. To the people and their landscape. Instead it is a bullet richochet. Intended to land on target, but instead bounces around in your imagination. This time, the folk of Montana State will tip their hats to one named Cole Hauser. The man who came from the lovely State of California.
Cole plays ‘Rip Wheeler’ on television. It does get my vote, for a review from the team on ‘Breakfast All Day’. The character of ‘Rip’ is this brawny livestock management professional. Who takes no nonsense. Invented by the author Taylor Sheridan. He wrote the series named ‘Yellowstone’. Cole Hauser in describing his acting role however, only takes a short amount of time. To pay his hommage to the Rocky mountain State. And at the same time, leave you wondering. ‘Yellowstone’ is recorded on film by Ben Richardson. Who shot a movie for Taylor named ‘Wind River’ too. ‘Yellowstone’, Cole explained on the release of season three. Is the first time we have seen of the State of Montana on film, since ‘A River Runs Through It’. Thirty years ago, with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins.
Re: Mystery resolved
I puzzled to myself. Was Anthony Hopkins in the movie about fly fishing? Made by Robert Redford. I know I am getting old and forgetful. Am I getting that old? That forgetful?
Then I understood. The talent that movie actors have. Giving you warm praise on the one hand. Leaving you baffled on the other. Jim Harrison was an author who lived in the western landscape. He did write a story once that was translated for the screen. It was named ‘Legends of the Fall’. Released in 1995 and directed by Edward Zwick. It wasn’t filmed in Montana, but in Canada. A distance away too from Bozeman city. Where the story in ‘Yellowstone’ takes place. The film by Edward Zwick did not have fly fishing in it (it did have ‘Brad Pitt’ who played Tristan Ludlow, and Hopkins who played his father).
The truth is. You can always rely on your leading man. He may not have the right information. However, combined experience in stage craft and charm. Means that he will often muddle through and make it look convincing. In any case, Cole’s performance opposite the other cast members is one that I enjoyed. And the writing by Sheridan too, was something that added another dimension. It reminded me of an old review that Christy had once carried out. Into a film based on a story of Taylor’s too. Named ‘Hell or High Water’. It is reassuring to see that these projects are still being made in America. All the best.