Podcasts about belloq

In today's episode, we take a look at all of the unproduced episode ideas from Season 3 of Young Indiana Jones by examining resources from Lucasfilm! Over the years, there have been many stories that were considered for the next great Indy adventure, which included exciting encounters with characters such as Belloq and Abner Ravenwood. Join us as we review and explore the history of it all! Opening music excerpt was composed by Frederic Talgorn and is titled "Paris, 1908 (unused score)"

The movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Joshua and Ian seek adventure and history while seeing Indiana Jones be a sexist pig who always has the right answer to every archaeological mystery. Here's hoping your ears won't melt at the end of this episode. http://www.crackerclassics.com https://www.patreon.com/crackerclassics

What if 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' was recast in 2021?Swinging into the summer, Nick challenges Cory and Cass to recast the original Indiana Jones adventure, setting in modern times in 2021!Will they be able to find the right cast, especially when Cory admits to hating the movie, and Cass has only now just watched it?! Hit play to find out!Thanks for listening; If you feel like supporting us, this is where you do that!BuyMeACoffee Check out or other content here. LinktreeStarring:Cory Williams (@TheLionFire)Nick Growall (@NickGrowall)Cass Elliottt (@take5cass)Editing by:Nick Growall (@NickGrowall)TIMESTAMPS:(00:01:29) Intro(00:02:54) What We've Watched(00:07:56) Critic Stats(00:09:41) Year in Review: 2021(00:15:04) Twin Movies & Hidden Gems(00:19:13) Why We Chose The Movie(00:29:08) What Changes?(00:32:26) Who Should Direct?(00:38:54) 30 Seconds or LessMAIN CAST:(00:46:25) Marcus Brody(00:50:59) Toht(00:57:11) Sallah(01:04:10) Belloq(01:09:41) Marion(01:17:24) Indiana Jones(01:27:26) Final Cast

A perfect film. Corrye's all-time favorite movie. It's also arguably Steven Spielberg's best. The Chumps pluck out the pulpy storytelling decisions, the douchebaggery of Belloq & Toht, the genius ad-libbed lines & choices, the lovable Karen Allen, and everyone's ideal best friend, Sallah! Plus: Luke goes down an internet rabbit hole and discovers something about the golden idol at the beginning of Raiders that you'll never "not see" once you notice it....and Corrye counters, by pointing out several revelations that Luke never picked up on. AND: we preview a Martin Scorcese Jesus film, and express concerns about a direct sequel to The Thing.

Sorry for the delay guys, Belloq stole our episode for the Nazi's and we had to wait for Indy to get it back for us! Those f*cking Nazis. If you didn't already know we're reviewing Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Grab your hat and whip and join us on an action packed adventure!

Go Go Power Rangers! After the mega success of the TV show in 1993, the powers that be (Zordon?) decided we all needed a Power Ranger movie, thus The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie was born and we saw Kimberly, Aisha, Tommy, Adam, Billy, and Rocky flip for us 10,000 more times on the big screen! Really this is just a long drawn out tv episode where a new baddie (Ivan Ooze!) comes to town to destroy human civilization and it's up to the Power Rangers and their nifty animal/bot alter egos to save the day! Sweety was obsessed with this show as a kid and had a biiiig ladyboner for all things Yellow Ranger! We'll talk about why we think kids loved this show so goddamned much, how we liked that this illustrated to little girls that women can kick ass (though sadly the damsel in distress act was still relied on heavily!), and we discuss what your choice of Power Ranger says about your personality.  And we were today years old when learned that Ivan Ooze was played by the same actor who played Belloq in Raider's of the Lost Ark! What a career! 

Hello everyone and welcome to the evening show on Euradio ! We'll be here with you until 7pm, bringing you plenty of European news, music and culture in English and French. So, whether you are stuck in traffic, relaxing on your couch or getting ready to go out with some friends, join us on our music trip across Europe. We are happy to have here at the Maison de l'Europe in Nantes the singer and composer Rachel Fandi and the director and dramatic interpreter Peter Léma. On a saisi l'occasion de la manifestation Les Rencontres de Sophie qui s'est tenue le 19 et le 20 mars derniers, pour parler de peuple et de philosophie. Les Rencontres de Sophie sont des rencontres, des tables rondes, et des débats de philosophie organisés par l'Association ​​PHILOSOPHIA chaque année. On a le plaisir d'accueillir comme invitée Céline BELLOQ qui a collaboré à la préparation de ces rencontres de philosophie.

The show goes off there rails from the first minute to the last as Garrick, Doug and Lee discuss Game of Thrones, Renfield, and some crappy PIG movie. The Foo Fighters make a movie and Spiderman Presales are though the roof! Take cover-- Bob Hoskins out lives his gangster movie and Belloq takes a dagger from a young Brosnan in the video store this week!TALES FROM THE VIDEO STOREA podcast about the movies you have never heard about and….. Well the decay of the video store era, good 80s movies and all the other stuff that we don't have NOW!The filmmaker, the film archivist and the film lover converse each week about great films that you must see that you may have missed if you were/are not exposed to Independent and Alternative Cinema. It gets raw, funny, informative and sometimes very serious. Between their over the top personalities and their unpredictable openers this hour long podcast is worth checking out!!!Websitehttp://videostoretales.comPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/videostoretalesApple iTuneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tales-from-the-video-store/id1436130060Spreakerhttps://www.spreaker.com/show/3112390?fbclid=IwAR3Y7qtIZ-MX5RwhULoUalojORH3piE7cKSlf-xNdUexwwy2ZIuuiYxbRecYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6bAKbgk8KCQnWicerpzKg?view_as=subscriberOur Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/talesfromthevideostore/Our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/241930069812546/?source_id=261465671140460Sponsors LinksGolden Ticket Cinemashttp://www.gtcinemas.comThe Spot Toys & Comicshttps://www.facebook.com/thespottoysRidge Journalhttp://ridgejournal.comTable Rock Creative - Video Marketing - Full Audio Video Marketing Firmhttps://www.tablerockcreative.comJABBERWOCKY RPG CreationsFantasy RPG's for 5e Platform

Class description Urban Legend: “Chazal say that if you make three shiddukhim, you'll go to Olam HaBa!” An Unlikely Story: “The location of the Beit HaMikdash is because of a beautiful story about two brothers!” Street Torah: “Covering your head with your hand is no substitute for a yarmulke!” Folk Etymology: “The word ‘yarmulke' comes from the Aramaic ‘yerei malka,' fear of God!” Don't Know Much About History: “Rashi wrote in Rashi script!” Misunderstood Text: “The Gemara says that women are feeble-minded!” Stranger Than Fiction: In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Belloq recites part of “Brikh Sh'mei.”

At the risk of sounding redundant, we thought we'd never have a guest want to target this week's film, Raiders of the Lost Ark.  @KevinGootee and @KevinIsrael_NJ would've sworn this would've stayed on the bulletproof list but here we are.  Blake Fulton is our second listener winner and decided to wake up and chose violence with his selection.  Our THIRD Indiana Jones film now completes the trilogy but can Blake truly do the impossible and convince Kevin and Kevin this film should stare right into the open Ark of the Covenant?  Or do our plucky hosts kick his argument right into airplane propellers?You can also subscribe to us on youtube (it really helps!) if you want to see our cute faces and great teeth.  DM us to get some sweet GTSC stickers!Don't forget, you can find us on all podcasts platforms: apple iTunes, Spotify, google, spreaker, stitcher, iheartradio, castbox. You name it and we're on it! And you can also see our handsome yet smug faces on Youtube as well. https://guttingthesacredcow.com/where-to-listen-see-us/ Hello to our new friends! We love it when you click "subscribe", like us on social media, and most importantly when you tell your friends/family about our podcast. Looking to sell your product, advertise your services, or raise brand awareness? We'd love to help you and we can be reached at guttingthesacredcow@gmail.comThank you ALL for continually shouting us out on social media, we love when you do that as well as leave us those 5 star rating and 2-3 sentence reviews. Guttingthesacredcow.com is where you find us every day giving YOU those movie quotes, movies news, THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN, and more!  Social media for the gang: @KevinGootee on Twitter, FB, IG. www.kevingootee.com@kevinisrael_NJ on twitter, FB, @Kevin_israel_comedy on IG www.kevinisrael.com

We Make Books is a podcast for writers and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, and concerns for us to address in future episodes. We hope you enjoy We Make Books! Twitter: @WMBCast  |  @KindofKaelyn  |  @BittyBittyZap Instagram: @WMBCast  Patreon.com/WMBCast   Episode Transcript (by TK @_torkz) [Upbeat Ukulele Intro Music] This is We Make Books, a podcast about writing publishing and everything in between. Rekka is a published Science Fiction and Fantasy author, and Kaelyn is a professional genre fiction editor. Together, they'll tackle the things you never knew you never knew about getting a book from concept to finished product, with explanations, examples, and a lot of laughter. Get your moleskin notebook ready. It's time for We Make Books. Kaelyn: So it’s funny you picked this when I was still studying history, that was something we always had to consider. Is this group, is this person part of determining where they fit into historical context as determining do they have agency? Can they act on their own behalf? Structure is what keeps someone in place; agency is what allows them to act freely. Rekka: Where would you put Odysseus, in this context? K: I would make Odysseus a failed attempt at agency. R: [laughing] K: Well, maybe failed agency isn’t the right--because he is displaying agency. He’s trying to do something, and he’s having to frequently overcome obstacles. That said, those obstacles are things that keep happening to him, rather than him directly engaging. R: Right. K: So it’s a little bit of a, uh. R: Weird example. K: No it was a good one, I liked it. R: No it’s a good example but it’s not a good role model for agency in your novels. K: Odysseus isn’t a good role model for a lot of reasons. R [laughing]: That’s just one of them. K: [laughing] R: Be the person who ties yourself to the mast, rather than give in to the sirens. Actually fuck it, give in to the sirens. It’s 2021, let’s just go for it. K [laughing]: That’s a very bad--I feel like 2020 was the year to give into the sirens. [laughing] R: Yeah, but what is 2021 but 2020 persevering? K: No, we’re slowly defeating it. We’re claiming some agency for ourselves. R: I am still in this room. K: [laughing] R: I have always been in this room. How are we defeating anything? K: I think I was born in this room. R: Kaelyn, have you and I met for smoked meats in a restaurant? K: We haven’t. R: Right. So, nothing has changed. K: Yeah. R: Have we hung out in a library with random strangers at the same table? K: No. Some of whom are handwriting books. R: Yeah, no. This is not happening. So today I called you here to talk about agency. K: So in that scenario do I have agency? Because I made the decision to join you. But-- R: But--are you allowing this topic to happen? Or are you actively engaging in the expression of our ideas? K: Oh both. R: [laughing] K: Definitely. R: Once you get past some of the other, like, identify your theme, and helpful advice for writing like that-- K: Strengthen this character arc, you know, the really nice vague feedback. R: The really helpful, helpful specific feedback. You might also end up hearing that your character needs more agency in a scene, or in the story overall. And as with the others, this can be really helpful advice. If you know what it means. K: Yeah um, it I think falls into the category of frustratingly vague advice that is absolutely rooted in important context. R: But it’s also really true. K: Yes, yeah. R: Which is just the worst part. There’s nothing worse than vague advice that is also correct. K: It is vague advice, but I think when you’re dealing with things like ‘work on your character’s agency,’ ‘strengthen this arc,’ ‘identify the themes in your story,’ those are big picture things. So. Definition—as always love to start off with that—uh, agency in general, the definition is “an action or intervention, especially as to produce a particular event.” Acting, essentially. Taking action. Doing something. Trying to influence the outcome. R: Not just action but pro-action. K: Yes. For characters in books, agency is basically when a character can make choices and act on their own behalf. R: What is it about agency that gets turned into a secret agency that acts against aliens, or whatever--I’m just playing around with etymology here-- K: [laughing] R: But how’s that word get turned into that meaning? K: The way I always took that was that an agency is meant to act on behalf of a group of people or towards a certain end. So, if we wanna take S.H.I.E.L.D. - R: Okay. K: So agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Their job, their directive, is to protect Earth from large-scale global threats. Everything they do, every action they take, is to further that outcome. Real world example: the CIA, Counter-Intelligence Agency. They have a very specific job. It’s to try and out-maneuver, out-intelligence if you will, foreign and domestic hostile powers. R: Okay so the word is not trans-mutated in any way, in the way that it’s applied to an organization. It still means taking proactive action toward a goal. K: Yeah, so I did look up the definition of agency in that regard: “a business or organization established to provide a particular service, typically one that involves organizing transactions between two other parties.” R: So like, a literary agent. K: There you go. Here’s a good example, the Environmental Protection Agency. R: Mhm. K: Their directive, their job is to protect the environment. What do they do? They organize, they create scenarios, be they either laws or policies or transactions even, that further their goal of protecting the environment. R: This is a group of people that are acting for one goal. In our writing, when we talk about agency, we’re generally referring to character agency. As in we have a main character, they are serving as our POV - point of view - and think of that term as the window through which you experience the story. Your viewpoint into this story and this world. So, everything that this character chooses to do is how you experience the story. So by acting on a desire, they create tension as to whether there will be an obstacle that they can overcome, whether they make a decision to do something that frightens them a lot, or whatever - you get to experience that tension. So if this character goes with the flow - K: [laughing] R: - how much tension do you get to experience? K: Yeah so what this means when you get this feedback, ‘I need you to work on your character’s agency here,’ is that it means the character is being very passive. They’re being more reactive than proactive. Oh I’ve got a good example: Twilight. R: Bella is a classic example and often referenced example of a character who doesn’t actually do much. And this is part of that Mary Sue criticism that gets used in the wrong places a lot, but in this case what we’re talking about is Bella is a bodysuit for you to crawl into, and see this world. K: Well Bella is almost worse than that. In some cases Bella is an object. She is sort of a MacGuffin that furthers this story. Something I always like to trot out is, if this character weren’t here, would things go that differently? R: [laughing] K: Now, in Twilight yes they would. Because a lot of conflict, a lot of the story, whatever, does center around Bella, but it is more just the fact that she exists than anything else. If she were a particularly tasty cow that all of the vampires also wanted to eat, well - that’d be a different story too. [laughing] R: Yeah, that’s a weird one. K: No, but if she were something like a magic ring that lets the vampires turn back into humans or something, you could possibly just sub her in with a magic ring. And a lot of those story elements could still happen. R: So is your character interchangeable with an inanimate object? K [laughing]: My favorite one, ever, that I promise I’ll stop on this side note - Indiana Jones. R: Mhm. K: - is completely irrelevant to the first movie. If he weren’t there, everything would go exactly the same way. That said, Indiana Jones has agency. R: He is trying. K: He’s trying. He’s not doing the best job, but he’s trying. Um so, you can have a character that maybe if they weren’t there things would progress as normal. My whole point is Indiana Jones, regardless of whether or not he not only shows up, exists, the storyline with Marion and getting the Ark of the Covenant, we still end up with the Nazis opening the Ark of the Covenant on a remote island. R: Just turns out it was a bad idea. [chuckles] K [laughing]: Just turns out you shouldn’t go poking around in these things. R: Yes. And that had more to do with Belloq being his agency to, as he put it, take whatever Indiana Jones had, and possess it himself. K [overlapping]: Yes. R: And then him not being able to resist looking in the Arc. Now, had the Arc made it to Hitler, would Hitler have known how to use it? I mean, he studied all this stuff. It’s very possible that he might’ve put it to more diabolical use, rather than just frying himself as Belloq did. K [overlapping]: Yeah. Yes. Um, you know, in Twilight, the character that has agency there is not Bella, it’s Edward. R [overlapping]: Mhm. K: He’s the one who’s making all the decisions, he’s the one who’s making the choices. He chose to stay and pursue Bella. He chose to let her know that he was a vampire. He chose to eventually make her a vampire. R: Mhm. K: Bella is a thing that all of this is happening to. R: The prize to be won. K: Yeah. Bella’s a very passive character, and there’s points in the story where she does make decisions, but the choices then are even things that are forced upon her. R: Here’s an example of not, apparently, including much agency in your character, and still having an incredibly successful book series. K: And movies. R: So as with all advice- K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: - feel free to break the rules and have a smashing success and good on you. K: There is an exception to every rule to be sure. But, as you kinda said right at the get-go, one of the biggest criticisms of Bella is that she is an empty skin suit for the reader to crawl into and make themselves feel as though they are the star of the story. People who have agency don’t feel like that. It’s part of character development. If Bella were making a lot of choices and decisions and stuff, you’d have readers going “Well that’s not what I’d do, why would she do that, that’s so ridiculous.” And then you distance yourself from that character because you’re establishing them as a fully realized person. R: Right. K: Rather than the empty skin suit slash object. R: Right. Now, Big Lebowski. K [laughing]: Oh God, that’s a good one, okay! Um, God I haven’t watched that movie in forever, I love that movie. R: So he starts out, he gets up, he goes to the grocery store, he gets the ingredients for his White Russian, he drinks half of it there, he goes home. K: “Where is the money Lebowski?” [laughing] R: This has happened to him so far. Somebody mistakes him because he shares a surname with a very rich person, and they walk into this very shabby home and somehow think that they’ve found the right place. Now he isn’t gonna do anything about it. K: Yeah. R: He goes on with his life. He just is kind of sad about it, but his friends convince him - K [overlapping]: Yeah. R: - that he needs to do something about it. K: Except the guy pees on the carpet. And that carpet really tied the room together. R: It really tied the room together! But he is not going to act until he’s convinced by his friends to act. K: This is another thing with agency. It’s okay for characters to be sort of passive and have things happen to them. That’s what starts the story- R [overlapping]: Mhm. K: - going. You don’t, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of stories out there with someone going “I woke up this morning and decided to do this thing.” R: Mhm. K: Or they start out with a quest, or they come up with something on their own. [overlapping] R [overlapping]: You’re in media res, so you’ve already gotten to the point where they want something. K: Yeah. But typically even if we pick up within that point something had to happen to them a lot of times beforehand, for them to want to go get the magic ring that lets you turn back into a human. R: Yeah and often you find that the character starts off trying to do a thing that isn’t the thing they decide they need to do in the end. I mean that’s kind of part of the whole character arc, is deciding what it is they really want. The Dude really wants a nice comfy life with his White Russians - K: And his bathrobe. [laughing] R: And the rug that ties the room together. K: Yeah. R: So it bothers him enough to complain about it, but not enough to act on it. Then he is cajoled into acting upon it. And he goes and finds himself embroiled in a large plot, where things kind of continue to happen to him. K: With movies you can watch a series of strange events unfold, because there’s the visual component that - often these are comedies. It’s almost slapstick. We’re just watching this person who all he wants is to go bowling with his buddies, sit in his bathrobe, and drink White Russians. And he ends up getting pulled into this bizarre situation. R: Being sent to have a physical ‘cause turns out he’s gonna father a child, and also toes get cut off - K: You want a toe? I’ll get you a toe next week. [laughing] Lebowski is a rather passive character. He doesn’t have a ton of agency. That said, once he gets involved in this he does make decisions even if they’re just ‘I want to get out of this alive.’ R: Yes. And he observes clues and he starts to put things together that probably they expected him not to do. They really thought that he would just kinda take the fall for things, or just go along, get paid, go home, and return to his life. K: Yeah. By the time he gets to the end of the story, his motivation is something between ‘I need to figure this out’ and ‘I’m not letting this random guy who got me tied into all of this get away with it.’ Does the Dude have agency? Sometimes, a little bit, if he can get the energy and motivation together to feel like it, which is by the way very in line with his character. R: Yeah. K: It is very typical with books to start out with characters just living their life. People by nature are passive. But you ever notice that when someone says “I’ve decided to do this thing,” it’s usually an announcement. It’s usually like “I’ve decided to change jobs.” “I’ve decided to buy a house.” “I’ve decided to ask this person to marry me.” It’s a decision you make to take action. Whereas most of our lives are just kind of us living our life, yeah after I’m done here I’m gonna have some soup I made, I’m very excited about that. I’m deciding to have soup. Is that agency? I don’t think so. You know in your day-to-day lives, agency are things that you’re trying to act for your benefit. I’ve decided to buy this house, because I worked very hard and I think this is a good investment and I think I’ll be happy and comfortable here, and this will improve my life a measurable amount that I want it to. R: Mhm. K: When characters act with agency, you know a lot of times they’re in situations that are not normal day-to-day things. There aren’t a lot of books out there about someone’s decision to work really hard, save money, and buy a house. R: Well that’s the first 25% of a book, that 25%, that storyline is gonna go away, or be severely altered. K: That house is haunted as hell. [laughing] R [overlapping]: Mhm. K: For a character to have agency, they have to do three things. They have to be able to act in their environment, which means that if you said a character, let’s say a human being, and you put them on an alien planet where literally everything is made of gas, that character’s not gonna have any agency because they can’t do anything. R: Right. K: But not only is everything made of gas, but the lifeforms that live there physically cannot communicate with the human, or have no interest in doing so. R: Right. K: So that person can’t interact with their environment; they’re not gonna have any agency, they have to just sit there and wait for something to happen. R: Unless the plot of that story is ‘how do I get to the point where I can talk to these aliens?’ There have been many Star Trek episodes like this, where you can’t communicate with the other aliens and the plot is ‘how do we find common ground?’ So, the decision to do so is agency, but the human who says “Well, all these molecules are just too far apart, I guess I’ll just sit here.” K: [laughing] R: That character has no agency. K: So the second thing is a character has to be able to make meaningful decisions. So, in the case of our character sitting on the gas planet, they’ve gotta make the decision of ‘I’m gonna find a way to gather all of this gas and condense it into something solid that I can use to my benefit.’ R: Right. K: They have to have a way to work towards their own benefit. Even if it’s not working towards their own benefit they have to be presented with situations in which they can make a decision. Even if it’s ‘the army’s invading, there’s two sides of this city, we’re only gonna be able to fend them off from one, we have to evacuate the other.’ The character making the decision of ‘okay, we’re gonna evacuate the east end, move everybody into the west end, and here are the reasons that we’re doing this and that’s why it’ll give us a better advantage.’ That’s displaying agency. The third thing is the character’s ability to affect the story. And this is different from making decisions. This is where Indiana Jones fails. R: Right, right. K: Because he doesn’t actually affect the story really. Sure, he’s got some wacky hijinks, he shoots a guy who just wanted to have a nice sword fight - R: Cracks a whip. K: Cracks a whip, somehow hitches a ride on a submarine, you know, things happen. R: If it wasn’t for Sallah he wouldn’t have even made it halfway through the movie. K: Exactly. Is he entertaining? Absolutely. It’s a delight. But he doesn’t do anything that changes the outcome of what’s happening. So, this is different than making a decision. Because a character needs to have an impact on the story. If you erase them from the story and nothing changes, that’s not a good character. R: You have some characters who maybe aren’t the decision makers, but if they’re the person with the special skill, or you know they’re the person with the strength or the fortitude to go ahead with the story that the other character doesn’t have, and you end up with a nice balanced team-up of brains and brawn. Obviously if you take the brawn out of that story, it is going to affect the story. Now, take Indiana Jones out, and you definitely have a very different movie. K: Absolutely, yes. R: Sometimes the character is required for the tone. K: Like a swashbuckling adventurer. R: Think of Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China. K: Okay. R: He’s not actually the hero of the movie. At one point a big fight scene starts, and he shoots his gun in the air and ends up knocking himself out when the ceiling falls on him. And for the greater portion of this fight scene he is prone on the ground. He’s almost like the story’s style, but he’s not the story’s main active character. K: Yeah. R: You know there’s parts where yes, they need him because he’s tough and he can fight, but so can the other characters. There’s a lot of characters doing a lot of stuff in that movie, and Jack Burton - you would notice, if you saw it and they removed him and then you watched it again, you would definitely notice his absence. But does his absence change the story? Would his friend have not gone to rescue his girlfriend? He definitely would have. And he definitely would’ve done it without Jack, but he talked Jack into helping. It’s interesting how many stories we enjoy end up with characters who draw a lot of attention to themselves, like Indiana Jones, like Jack Burton, without actually making a huge difference in the plot of the film. Or, I’m saying film ‘cause we like to use movies as shortcuts. But um - K: [laughing] R: How does this work in a book? Let’s go back to our favorite, Gideon the Ninth. Gideon kinda doesn’t have a clue what’s going on! K: Gideon is a little bit of a passive character. R: Yeah! But it’s delightful [laughing], just like Indiana Jones and Jack Burton. K: She gets dragged along on this adventure, which we find out is basically one giant series of death traps. She doesn’t know why she’s there. She’s there to serve as a lens of the story for the reader, because the other main character that we’re introduced to here is of course Harrowhark. R: Harrowhark has a lot of agency, and it’s all off the page. K: Because Harrowhark can’t be bothered to tell anybody about it. And, if she did, if she was the point-of-view character in that first book, we would have no idea what was happening. We need all of this to be told to us through the lens of Gideon, who is more like us than, like, Harrowhark. R: Yeah. Right. K: Of course by the end of the book you know this changes; we’ve learned some things, we’ve solved some mysteries. But Gideon is sort of a passive observer. Yes, she’s poking around, she’s talking to people, she’s gathering information, but really she can’t do anything with it until Harrow tells her what’s going on. R: And she’s only there because Harrow has made her promise to go along on this venture and then she’ll get the thing she wanted in the beginning, which she was pretty close to succeeding except Harrow was the obstacle. So Harrow said, “Do this thing with me, and then I’ll give you what you want.” And so Gideon goes along specifically for that purpose, and how much more passive can you be than just being like ‘if I just tap my foot throughout this book, I’ll get to the thing I want.’ K: Yeah. She literally just wants me to sit in a room and do nothing. R: Harrowhark has even said “do not speak to anyone.” K: Yeah. Don’t talk to anyone, don’t do anything, stay in this room, be here when I get back. R: So of course, the plot happens because Gideon’s like uhh you don’t tell me what to do. K [laughing]: Yeah it’s not agency so much as annoyance. R: Two people who can’t stand each other so why would one do what the other one wants. K: Yeah. Exactly. R: That is kind of the plot of Gideon the Ninth, but in the most delightful way that I just made sound as flat as possible. K: You’re right, because Gideon serves the purpose of one: as I said providing the reader with context and perspective, but two: also, she’s awesome! R: Yeah. K: And we like watching her swing this giant sword around, and be muscle-y - R [overlapping]: Yeah, flex for the other people in the book. K [overlapping]: Yeah. R: And also like look at people and go “There’s something wrong with you” [laughing], you know? K: Yes. Yes. Um, be the perspective of ‘This is all really weird, how am I the only person who sees that this is all really weird?’ R: Mhm. K: So. Um, yeah, so that’s a good example of characters who are passive but are compelling. So if you’re thinking to yourself ‘well, if that’s a thing that’s allowed, why do I need to strengthen my character’s agency?’ Because it depends on the story you’re telling. And it depends on what you’re trying to do here. If you have a character who is supposed to be your main character, your protagonist, they’re supposed to be leading the charge, and what they’re doing is they’re tripping from event to happening back to other event, just sort of letting stuff happen to them rather than doing things themselves, that can get really boring to read.  K: The second and third book in the Ember in the Ashes series, there’s a character in there named Helene. And - I won’t ruin too much for anybody who hasn’t read these, and full disclosure I’m still finishing the fourth one - in the second and third books especially, Helene is running around putting out fires. She is desperately trying to manage an unmanageable situation. At the same time though, she’s trying to figure out ‘how do I solve this bigger problem that I’m trying to face? How do I mitigate these circumstances?’ I was so excited whenever it was one of her chapters, because that was the thing that I thought was most interesting, was watching her just get things heaped on her. Every time she turns around something else bad is happening, that is just one more thing she’s gotta deal with. So was she displaying agency? In the second book I would say not as much, by the third book we’re certainly getting there. But, it’s still compelling because the way she is acting on her own behalf is not necessarily for herself maybe, but for other people. R: Okay. K: Watching someone deal with and try to mitigate overwhelming circumstances, I would say, is a form of agency. Even if they are just running around putting out fires. R: Trying to survive - K [overlapping]: Yes. R: - this moment, as opposed to having a plan for the next two weeks to six months - K [overlapping]: Yeah. R: - toppling the empire, etc. It’s okay if they’re just trying to get back to normal. K: Yes. Or, just trying in the case of Helene, just trying to make sure her family’s safe. Let’s start there. That’s small step number one, I’ve gotta work on that. Okay small step number two, now I’ve got a deal with the residents of this city. Now I’ve gotta figure out how I’m gonna deal with this other maniac, and there’s all of these forces and factors that she can’t really do much about. But she can make decisions. R: Right, so in an earthquake, a character obviously isn’t going to defeat the earthquake. K: I defeated an earthquake last week, Rekka, I don’t know what you’re talking about. [laughing] R: Okay. In a typhoon, Kaelyn’s not gonna go punch a typhoon. K: No no, earthquakes are far more punchable than typhoons. R: Right. So you can trust that Kaelyn’s gonna go check on friends and family, uh, Kaelyn’s going to act in ways that clearly are important and have great meaning to her personally, even if they’re not going to fix the fact that there’s a typhoon, or the fact that you know FEMA’s gonna have to come in and that sort of thing. So what about characters with examples of great agency? Like the Quest plot. Is that agency or is that ‘this wizard told me I need to go do this thing’? K: Well okay so I will, we can talk about the Quest plot and then I’ll give you what I think is a good example of someone who has agency and, I’m going to put them into the same story, which I know we’ve been talking about this series a lot, Shadow and Bone and the Six of Crows. For those who haven’t read or watched it, hopefully you know that one is a trilogy, the other is a duology, they’re separate storylines but the Netflix series collapsed them both into one. R: So go read the books anyway, because Netflix made some choices. K: So the first trilogy Shadow and Bone, Alina Starkov is a very, a little bit of, especially for the first book, a passive character. You know she discovers she has this power, and she is tasked with solving this big problem because she has this power. She does start to display agency in the story but if things had just progressed along that sort of Quest storyline - you could argue that it even does a little bit because ultimately there is a problem that she is the only one that can solve. R: Mhm. K: So, is that agency? Well, the way she goes about handling it in the story, breaking away from the wizard character and trying to decide to do this her own way is certainly displaying agency. R: Right. K: Conversely, in the Six of Crows, we have the character Kaz, who is sort of your underworld rogue-type but not in a charming way. I would actually say he’s quite the opposite of charming. He’s very stoic, very serious, very no-nonsense. But Kaz makes a lot of decisions to try to accomplish goals and to better the lives of him and his friends. There’s some revenge scenarios here, but in the revenge scenarios it’s reclaiming things that were taken from him. R: Right. K: There’s friends to liberate, there’s people to try to help and better their lives, there’s people they encounter along the way that get into bad situations. He is a character with a lot of strong agency. Even before we meet him, we can see everything he’s done, everything he’s worked towards to build himself up to a point where one day he can maybe do this one thing he’s trying to get to. I would say he’s a great example of somebody with a lot of agency. R: Right from the start. K: Yeah. R: So he’s got a plan, and this plan is the focus of the story. K: Yes. Of course, wrenches get thrown into it, because - R: Just in terms of Luke Skywalker just wants to escape the farm life, that’s his desire at the start. But what he ends -- I mean he does get that, but it turns into a much bigger story. K: Katniss Everdeen from Hunger Games. Does she have agency? She is mostly reactive. She only volunteers because her sister got picked as tribute. R: But she’s volunteering to protect her family, which you might say is proactive decision. K: At the same time though, if Katniss had not volunteered, would any of the subsequent events in the story have happened? No. Her decisions are impacting the story. That said, she is very manipulated a lot through this entire story. R [overlapping]: Oh yeah. And I think that’s just the way that as a character, we express that just ‘cause you’re a hero doesn’t mean you can’t be fooled, you can’t be misguided, you can’t be manipulated as you said. I thought that was incredibly different from anything I’d read of an adventurer-hero story, because you realize a hero doesn’t always make the right decisions. K: Yeah. I have a lot of mixed feelings about that book series as we’ve discussed in this - R: I’m not saying I’m happy with the way it ended, but that definitely opened my eyes, and I think influenced me. As a result, my characters definitely made decisions that they thought were sound, or they thought were motivated correctly, or were the right thing to do or whatever, that end up making more of a mess. K: Yeah. Now that said, with Katniss one of the things I will say bothered me a lot in this, and this is I think a product of trying to shoehorn motivations into areas where it doesn’t already exist, Katniss is -- there’s a scene, it’s much more pronounced in the movie but it is in the book -- where they’re at District 13. And they’re all sitting in this bunker and it’s ‘let’s talk about a time Katniss has inspired you, she’s this symbol. She is the Mockingjay.’ I don’t know if this was on purpose, I don’t know if this was the intent, but I couldn’t come up with a better way to just be like this character is almost inconsequential to what they’re doing. They just need her to stand heroically in front of people. I really think that a 16-17 year old girl was probably not the sole motivation for overthrowing an entire super-oppressive government, but. [laughing] R: Again, I am not going to jump in front of a train for this book series - K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: But I could see the development of a character who stands up to the government on TV that the government requires everybody to watch. K: Yes. R: Like this is a program that the government is putting in front of people’s faces because they want people to know that people will pay for their past transgressions, until they deem that they’re done. And Katniss says, “No. It’s not gonna be one survivor, I’m not going to kill the person that I grew up with because I need to survive; we’re both going to survive” and that turns into a big moment- K [overlapping]: Yes, it did. R: Also she honors the person from the other district with whom she’s supposed to be competing, but they all see her treat Rue like a human being, which is not something that you get from this government. K: There’s these tiny acts of rebellion. But I would say that it’s all undone by the fact that she doesn’t actually want any part of this. She wants to go back to her life and be done. Now that’s, I would argue, not agency, because what she’s having to deal with is the fallout of decisions that she made for survival, rather than because she wanted to make a statement. R: No I understand that, but I’m saying again with the hero doesn’t always make the right decisions, also, person who makes a couple decisions where other people can see them suddenly find themself turned into this bigger than life character - K [overlapping]: Yup. R: I felt like that was part of the character arc, coming to terms with being this person everybody now expected her to be, and sometimes needed her to be, in order for them to go on. K: I found book Katniss a very grating character, I didn’t - R: You are not the only one, I have heard this plenty of times. K: I didn’t like her much but one thing I appreciated about her was how much she just wanted to be left alone. [laughing] R: Yeah! I mean, we can all relate to that. K [laughing]: We can all relate to that. It’s just like, I get it. I don’t really like you that much but I totally get it. She’s capable, as you said, she’s a fast thinker, but she’s not a leader. In fact in the second book they have a whole plot going on behind the scenes that she doesn’t know about until the very end, because everybody looked at her and went ‘I don’t think she’s gonna be helpful here.’ [laughing] R: Yeah. K: We would be better off just doing this on our own. R: Yeah. K: And I really appreciate the writer’s acknowledgment of that. [laughing] But again, in the second book she is reverted back to a very passive role, this stuff is just happening to her. Even more so than in the first one. R: And then it continues in the third book, where they take her on this SWAT team adventure, and she’s just like ‘what the fuck’s going on?’ K: Yeah ‘cause they’re gonna go shoot all of this war footage of her. But then, she does make the decision ‘I’m going with this because I wanna get us into the Capitol, so that I can go kill the president.’ R: Right, right. K: So there we do have Katniss with agency, with a plan. R: Mhm. K: How important do you think plans are to characters having agency? R: This is a really good question. We’ve just described a lot of main characters who don’t really have a plan. K: No, no. R: And who are all highly successful IPs. Sometimes I think figuring out the plan can be the character’s arc. They know they want something. They try and fail and try and fail, and it’s because they don’t know how to go about it, or there’s something that they need to let go of or gain in order to figure out the best way. You know like a heist movie. K: I swear I was just thinking of a heist movie. [laughing] R: The plan is happening all along. K: Yeah. R: And it’s the reader watching it, and being misled about things going wrong that it turns out were part of the plan anyway because there’s always that aspect of the heist that you don’t hear about ‘til the end, and you get to watch it again and go ‘Oh now I see!’ K: ‘Yeah that guy was in the background the whole time.’ R: Yeah so obviously in that case the plan is not the plot. The reveal is the plot. The red herrings are the adventure, I don’t know. Sometimes a character figuring out what they want is the plot. K: Mhm. R: The idea I think is that the character starts with a sense of the way things are right now are not good. K: I think there’s a lot of this in anime. I’m thinking of Inuyasha right now, did you watch that? R: No. You’re gonna have to talk Sailor Moon if you’re gonna keep me on your level. K: Okay, let’s talk Sailor Moon. Let’s talk the original anime run, where they really fleshed out a lot of the episodes, and remember at one point they’re trying to track down the seven rainbow crystals. You know Sailor Moon becomes Sailor Moon not by choice, she just is. R [overlapping]: Yup. K: And she’s got a talking cat that tells her to fight demons. R: And yells at her for not doing her homework. K: And at the same time, she’s not only gotta find these other sailor scouts, and identify them and get them to accept their fates and roles but because this is anime everyone’s like ‘Ah yes! This is what I was meant for the whole time!’ In the first season of the anime they’re tracking down these seven rainbow crystals. So they don’t necessarily know why they’re tracking them, and at one point Tuxedo Mask has one and they’re like that’s fine, he can just hang on to it. R: [laughing] K: They’re just like well we don’t want the bad guys to get these. We don’t know why. But then we find out, oh no wait, it turns out we actually need all of them. R [overlapping]: Yeah. K: Why? Well we’re not sure yet. Okay now we know why we need all of them. And, oh crap, there’s the princess! And why do we need the princess? Because the princess can wield this power that’s going to defeat Queen Beryl. The agency there I think is - well first of all accepting and embracing ‘hey this is something I have to do.’ But also then incremental goals. And sometimes your plan changes. Sometimes it turns out that Sailor Venus is not the princess. R [overlapping]: [laughing] Yeah. Yeah. K: It’s actually Sailor Moon. [laughing] R: Yeah, well, certainly couldn’t be her. Look at her. K: No, no, I mean she looks nothing like that other princess that she looked exactly like. [laughing] R: With the same hairstyle and everything. K [laughing]: Yes. R: The importance of grace in a person’s identity is apparently paramount. But yeah, the idea of a plan changing with new information I think is overlooked, because we like our stories in small parcels. K: Yes. R: But something like, for example a manga that’s gonna go on in theory indefinitely - K: [coughing]Naruto.[/coughing] Sorry. R: You’re going to have to introduce new information that’s going to change the course of the plot, and make the characters do something that maybe they wouldn’t have done before, or something they hadn’t considered, or just go off in a different direction because they need a new costume. K: And by the way this is why a lot of not just manga, but comic book series and even ongoing long-running television shows, have story arcs. R: Yeah. K: Manga especially you will see broken out into the such-and-such arc. R: Mhm. K: The this arc, they actually title them and they’re considered collections. R: Yeah. The introduction of new information can help pivot the story in a way that, like the characters might not have made that decision based on the way that they were starting out or proceeding at any given point in it. Having a plan is good, but maybe it doesn’t matter what it is. [laughing] K: But I think having a plan is a baseline that gives characters agency because they can make decisions to try to achieve the end results of that plan. R: Trying to stay on the track. K: Yeah. Again I’ll refer to the character of Kaz in Six of Crows. What’s so compelling about his character is he is a planner. He’s one of those guys who’s thinking of every possible contingency. He’s trying to stay two steps ahead of rivals and archnemesises - nemesii - R: Nemeses. K [overlapping]: Nemeses. I like nemesii. And that’s why we see him act so clearly with so much agency because then on top of that, we also learn that he is a person who’s very knowledgeable and very in control of things. You need a guy who can do this? He knows the guy who can do that who owes him a favor. He runs a casino, so all he’s doing is collecting information and favors and stuff to be traded in later. R: Okay. What about competence porn? K: Competency porn in general - if you’re not getting it from just saying, this is: somebody who’s always on top of things and always two steps ahead, and then it’s like all is lost, haha, no it’s not! See, I took the magic human ring from their pocket a long time ago, and now we can all - R [overlapping]: Going back to the heist kind of plot we described, like Danny Ocean - K: Yeah. R: - was an extremely competent person who was never out of control at any point. K: And even when we were left to think that he was out of control, that he was gonna derail this whole thing because of Tess, it turns out no, she was part of the plan the whole time. R: Yeah. K: So how do you have a character that has a lot of agency, can show forward thinking, without making them insufferable? R: We’ll start with casting George Clooney. K: Yes, yeah. All things are forgiven if it’s George Clooney. R: [laughing] K: Once you realize you can’t get George Clooney, what do you do? You have to make the character a person. Everyone works with somebody who, a situation will pop up and you know that no matter what you do, they are going to act irrationally because of something that happened prior. Everyone has a family member that won’t eat a certain thing, no matter how you prepare it, and the reasons that they won’t eat it are completely irrational. Everyone has the friend that just is constantly late, or changing plans last minute. These are X factors, these are things that make us human. And building a well-developed character who’s, even if they are hyper competent and they have planned everything out, still has to deal with base urges and moments of irrationality that are going to make them act in a way that maybe isn’t furthering the plan. But, they’re still showing agency when they do it. So for instance, you know the character standing at the thing and it’s like ‘okay I’m supposed to be following this guy who’s got the thing, but holy crap, there’s the guy who killed my brother! He’s walking that way, but I need to follow the guy who has the MacGuffin, because we need the MacGuffin, but this might be my only chance. He’s getting on a plane, I might never find this guy again.’ And decides to leave and go - it’s still agency, he’s still making a decision to his benefit, but at the cost of something else. R: Unless he figures out how to do both. So, as an editor, obviously you can’t name names - K: [laughing] R: - but what has been your experience with writers being told that they need to add agency to a story? K: Frequently confusion. R: Confusion because they don’t know what the heck that advice means, so they needed this episode. K: The thing is that if you have a completed book, a lot of times I think that you think your character is doing the best that your character can. I haven’t had to have that conversation a lot, but the times that I have weren’t the story as a whole, it was isolated to individual areas of the story. And a lot of times I framed it as ‘character So-and-so needs to make a decision. They need to do something. They need to stand up for themself. Or they have this thing that they know, they need to act on that, or they need to tell someone about it so that person can act on it. When I find areas where I’m like, I need this character to display a little more agency, is typically when - I’ll be honest with you, a lot of times it’s when the story stalled out a little bit. R: But is that a result of the character not behaving with agency? K: Well frequently when we get the character to act a little bit more on their behalf or make some decisions, it takes the storyline back up. R: Yeah. K: Weird, huh? [laughing] R: Funny how that happens. K: This all goes back to what we’re talking about here of going ‘why is it a big deal if my character’s passive?’ Because that can get boring. R: Yeah. And part of this is that we need the energy as a reader from that character’s desire to get from point A to point B, whether that’s an action or a target or an emotional state or whatever. That carries us along through the book and that makes the pages turn, versus the character just milling about with their hands in their pockets. K: I’ll leave us with this thought. I find a lot of times that characters who lack agency are typically not well-developed characters. And I’m not talking about in a certain scene, I’m not talking about the weird spot where the story’s stalling out a little bit, I’m talking about pervasive through the entirety of the story. A lack of agency is frequently coupled with a character that maybe isn’t that well-developed and whose arc, yes I’m tying in other vague advice to this, but whose character arc maybe isn’t that well fleshed out. Because if you have a well-developed character, you should know in your head what they would do in certain situations. You should know how they would act. If the character’s personality or development is ‘I will sit in this place, watch everything happen, and wait for it to be over,’ well, maybe that’s not a character you should be writing an entire book about. [laughing] All of this ties to everything else. All of this has to do with the other major things about books: themes, character arcs, plot, and place. Because characters who are well-developed shouldn’t need a lot of nudging to help themselves. R: Right, so if you have a character that knows what they want, sometimes this meandering comes out of the writer not quite sure how to get to the next thing, and might I suggest you just cut the scene and go to the next thing that is actually sometimes exactly what it needs. K: You brought up a very good point. I think a lot of times when, especially if it’s not pervasive if we’re dealing with an individual scene, it’s more a product of the writer struggling in that area. Either not knowing how to get us to the next place we need to be, be it physical or otherwise, or not having a good understanding of what’s gonna continue to happen in the story and either not wanting to write themselves into a corner, or not having a good way to continue. R: Yeah. And so then they get stuck in that character-introspective moment where they’re staring out the kitchen window, thinking about lots of stuff without acting in any way. K: It’s okay to have quote-unquote “downtime” for characters. It’s okay to give them some time where they need to think and regroup. I would say that is even displaying agency, that’s a planning portion. I’m not saying that every character at all times in your book must be active and must be doing things to further themselves to a goal. What I am saying, however, is that if they’re not doing anything through the course of the book, or if there are big chunks of it where we’re kinda going ‘whaaat’s going on here?’, that’s a larger problem. And one is easier to fix than the other. [laughing] Anyway, so, that’s agency, and that’s kinda what I have to say about it. That’s all I have to say about that. R: I doubt that very much. K: Well, that’s all I’ll say for now then. R: Yes, ‘cause we are over time. For me, if I get the feedback that my character’s lacking agency, I take a good look at what’s happening. And as Kaelyn said, if my character’s not a force that is causing things to happen in this story, or if there’s unnecessary downtime, or if there just isn’t a character arc, ‘cause sometimes I get this feedback for short stories. K: Mhm. R: And so that’s a good easy way to figure out like ‘oh, right, I don’t have a character arc. This character goes and observes a thing, and I’m trying to make commentary on the thing but I’m not actually having the character affect any change on the thing.’ Then it’s not really agency, it is the character observing the world around them and having an opinion about it, which isn’t the same as having a character arc. K: Yeah. R: If that happens in a novel, it’s more excruciating because it’s a lot more words that you’ve put time into. I rewrote SALVAGE, the first 60% that I rewrote, the first time I rewrote the first 60%, was because of an agency issue. K: Mhm. R: My characters start out the book; they’re stuck on the island, and all I did to change it was change the way they were planning their stuck-ness. K: [laughing] R: They’d been there the same amount of time, they were the same amount of frustrated, they were in the same amount of danger and having to make sure that nobody noticed them that shouldn’t notice them. But, in the second version, there’s a heist. Versus the first version where there’s a lot of watching the clock. And which one would you rather read? K: Exactly, yeah. There’s certainly an argument to make -- I think, a strong argument that I would say is borderline law -- that watching characters act with agency is far more engaging than watching them as passive observers. R: Yep. K: Unless it’s Twilight, and then you’re just gonna sell a billion copies of basically a weird choose-your-own-adventure, but not really. R: Yes. Well, not all our characters are as beautiful and attractive and wonderful and captivating as Bella, so we’re just gonna have to give them agency. K: She doesn’t know how beautiful - R [overlapping]: Right no of course not - K [overlapping]: No of course not, no - R: The plot is her finding out that people find her attractive. K: And she smells really good. [Both laughing] R: A fine vintage. Okay. K: Twilight is one of those things that like, I wonder if 150 years from now when we’re all dead, and they look back at this and go like ‘God, people in the earlier 2000s were weird.’ R: I mean, you could say that about most ages I think. K: That’s true. Yeah. R: There’s plenty of evidence throughout history of humans being just freakin’ weird. K: Context is everything, but. R: Yep. K: Yeah, so anyway, that’s agency. R: It is. Go get some, and give it to your characters. K: And always agency on your own behalf, you as a real life person always get to have. R: Yeah! I mean, especially when you’ve been locked inside for a year and a half. It’s about time to get some agency. K: Yup. R: So if you have questions or comments, or you still don’t know what agency is or what to do with it when someone tells you you need more, then you can @ us on Twitter and Instagram @wmbcast, or you can go back to some of the other episodes we talked about; they are all at wmbcast.com. We would love if you would leave a rating and review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And also we are super grateful to all our patrons at Patreon.com/wmbcast who support the costs involved in making these episodes for you. So if they are helpful, and you have the cash and the agency - K: [laughing] R: Please head on over there. K: I see what you did there. R: Oh yeah, you like that? Thanks. K: I did, I did. So thanks everyone, we’ll see you in two weeks!

It's the end of season six, and absolutely everything happens while no progress is made! First up, the race is on to save a stranded Starfleet Captain who the "Defiant" has made radio contact with in "The Sound of Her Voice". After that, the charge to invade Cardassian space is on, but the Federation will be up against automated turrets and a Pah Wraith in "Tears of the Prophets"! And after that, it's our season 6 wrap! Also this week: lack of theater nerds, big Belloq energy, and the Inverse People! [Timestamps: "Voice": 01:17; "Prophets": 45:28; wrap: 01:25:55]

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 94, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Diamondbacks 1: The method of telling a diamondback snake's age by counting segments of this is not always reliable. rattles. 2: Like most boas, diamondback snakes are viviparous, which means this. they give birth to live young. 3: Of 8, 16 or 28, the length in feet of the longest diamondback ever recorded (not counting Randy Johnson). 8 feet. 4: Slither on over to Sweetwater in this large state for its annual roundup of diamondbacks. Texas. 5: The diamondback belongs to this subfamily marked by sensitive receptors between each eye and nostril. pit vipers. Round 2. Category: He's My Vice President! 1: Schuyler Colfax. Ulysses S. Grant. 2: Nelson A. Rockefeller. Gerald Ford. 3: Hubert H. Humphrey. Lyndon Johnson. 4: Calvin Coolidge. Warren G. Harding. 5: Hannibal Hamlin. Abraham Lincoln. Round 3. Category: College Football Coaches 1: Tom Osborne won 255 games at this univ. and 3 elections to congress from the state (you win 255 games and you'll get elected, too). Nebraska. 2: The eyes of this university are upon Mack Brown and have seen him win more than 150 games. Texas. 3: Knute Rockne lost just 12, but won one for the Gipper and 104 more at this schooi. Notre Dame. 4: Knute Rockne lost just 12, but won one for the Gipper and 104 more at this schooi. Notre Dame. 5: On August 28, 1999 he began his 34th season as Penn State head coach by defeating Arizona, 41-7. Joe Paterno. Round 4. Category: European Vacation 1: While in Rome, it's possible to stand with one foot in each of these countries. Italy and Vatican City. 2: Landmark from which you can see the following views: [1] [2] [3] [4]. the Eiffel Tower. 3: In this Czech capital, you can visit a home where Mozart composed part of "Don Giovanni". Prague. 4: To see his "Night Watch", head to the top floor of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Rembrandt. 5: While Mom's at Christiansborg Palace in this city, Dad may head down the street to the Erotic Museum. Copenhagen. Round 5. Category: Like A Rolling Stone 1: After this archaeologist dodged a boulder in a 1981 flick, Belloq took from him everything he could steal. Indiana Jones. 2: "Once upon a time" this king of Corinth was sent to Tartarus and had problems with a mobile rock. Sisyphus. 3: The Skipper on "Gilligan's Island" probably knows that another name for this small fish is the stone roller; didn't you?. a minnow. 4: The "tears" of this Hawaiian volcano goddess are actually bits of flung molten rock with no direction home. Pele. 5: You got nothin' to lose in this game with 15 white and black "stones" that mercifully end up on the bar after being "hit". backgammon. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

In today's episode, we discuss which villain should be considered Indy's greatest foe! In this ultimate character study, we share our list of the top ten most challenging villains Indy has ever faced. Then, we debate our two picks, Belloq and Mola Ram, while also playing devil's advocate to argue for the other eight characters we considered. Opening music excerpt was composed by John Williams and is titled “Uncovering the Ark”

The Trylon’s playing movies we already recorded on earlier in the pandemic, so we’ve changed the rules for a short Non-’Lon Series on movies we HAVEN’T seen and may never see at the Trylon! Jason kicks us off with RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), a seminal action-adventure ah hell, you know what RAIDERS is. It’s 40 years old in 2021, so we’re putting on our goggles and giving it a close contemporary read. Of course, we all kinda gush about it (and simp for Karen Allen [really hope she doesn’t get cancelled, we kinda put all our eggs in one basket this ep]), but we also really pick apart what the movie’s really saying about the archetypes and tropes it famously dug back up. What it says about how our heroes embody our virtues, what happens when both of those things change, and which parts of our national identity we choose to cling to through our shared myths. 3:53 - Aaron’s fine, fine summary 8:07 - Jason’s thoughts 12:37 - Cody’s thoughts 16:30 - Harry’s thoughts 20:56 - Aaron’s thoughts 37:46 - Indy, Belloq, and “shadowy reflections” 46:33 - Why we build heroes and what we choose to remember about them 56:35 - The complicated (i.e., gross) Indy/Marion relationship and their general dynamic 1:04:39 - Douglas Slocombe, texture, and what we see in RAIDERS 1:11:29 - From ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE (2021) to RAIDERS 1:13:50 - How the way RAIDERS came together influences what we think of it today 1:17:20 - Harrison Ford is hot Humphrey Bogart forever 1:21:21 - The Year of the Simp: Karen Allen 1:26:49 - Cody’s Noteys (Indiana Knowns) Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/ Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. You can guess where the outro music came from. I don’t need Walt’s shambling corporate corpse breathing down my neck.

Brett Stillo (Five Minutes of Trouble and Five Minutes of Banzai) is back and wonders whether Belloq is essentially the same character as LaCombe. Chris is triggered by Brad's feathered hair, and Tierney has hot goss about the behind-the-scenes shenanigans. 

Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992) is a “Say No To Drugs” version of The Seven Samurai. Chappy (Louis Gossett Jr.) and a collection of World War II pilots invade Peru to stop drug dealing Nazi guy who played Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Everyone in the cast is someone you recognize, with the […] The post BMFcast Extra 163 - Aces Iron Eagle III first appeared on Bad Movie Fiends - The BMFcast.

In Episode 47, S09 E04, A blackmailer meets a messy end but which of his victims killed the Dane? What does it have to do with hugging frogs? Will Culley ever have any friends? I don’t believe it! Chao!

"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?" Episode 13 is finally live and after a brief break, we're coming back hard with the classic Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark! Listen to Eric and Joe gush over Harrison Ford for a majority of the runtime (kidding... sort of) and talk about this iconic film! So grab a beer that has Steve Austin's name on it or a German beer you just can't pronounce, and hang out with us for an hour. Maybe grab your most valuable treasure as well and hide it from anyone you know named Belloq. As always thanks for listening, and leave us a movie or beer suggestion if you'd like!

This week on Parking Lot Critiques, Jeffrey and Andy discuss Steven Spielberg's timeless adventure movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The hosts had so much to say about this iconic film and left the discussion feeling they had more still to say. Their conversation went in several different directions, ranging from praise for the film's beautiful music and engaging action scenes to a piercing examination of Belloq's villainy and Indiana's flawed heroism. A seamless blend of grand movie magic and B flick fun, Spielberg's film is a classic neo-swashbuckler with an oft-ignored spiritual core. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Released on June 12, 1981, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Harrison Ford introduced a new kind of hero in professor, archaeologist, and fedora-wearing adventurer, Indiana Jones. They also launched one of the greatest and most beloved franchises in movie history. On this episode, Tim Williams and guest co-host Jeff Tinkle share their memories of this 80’s classic and what they picked up on after re-watching it more recently. Show Notes: Here are some additional behind the scenes stories we didn't get to talk about during the episode. When Brody first goes to Indy's house to discuss the mission, Jones is dressed the way he is because he is entertaining a young woman in his bedroom. The script originally planned to show her before moving to the next scene, to give Indy a more worldly persona (like James Bond). However, her appearance was cut, as Steven Spielberg thought that being a playboy did not fit Indy's character. Most of the "body blow" sounds were created by hitting a pile of leather jackets with a baseball bat. The scene where Marion puts on her dress and attempts to leave Belloq's tent was improvised as was the entire plane fight. The script called for Marion to shed her conservative Egyptian garb and don a revealing dress to heighten the tension when she and Indy are fending off snakes as they're sealed in the Well of Souls, but the script didn't include why she ended up in the dress. In order to get her into the dress, Karen Allen and Paul Freeman improvised the scene where she hides a knife with the older clothes she takes off to try to seduce Belloq and escape, thus giving her character a plausible reason to be in the dress. Allen thought it would also be a good idea to callback to the drinking game scene that introduces her character in the beginning of the movie. The film was originally given an R-rating because of the exploding head at the end. They didn't want the picture to be rated R, so they added layers of fire in front of his face to make it appear less graphic. After viewing the film's rough cut, Lucas's then-wife and frequent collaborator Marcia Lucas noticed that there was no emotional closure, because Marion did not appear at the ending. Although Marcia is not credited in the film, her suggestion led to Spielberg re-shooting the final exterior sequence on the steps of San Francisco Hall, which Karen Allen called Indy and Marion's "Casablanca moment". Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison wrote a script during shooting breaks on the location of this film. Mathison was there to visit her then husband, Harrison Ford, and Spielberg dictated to her a story idea he had. That script was eventually called "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial". Sources - IMDB.com and Wikipedia Send us an email or reach out to us on social media to let us know what you liked, what you loved, what we missed, or what 80's movie we should watch next! Email - moviviewspodcast@gmail Facebook - Moviviews News and Reviews (Group Page) InstaGram - Movivews --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/moviviews80sff/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moviviews80sff/support

In today's episode, we begin our first character study by talking about the character of Belloq. We discuss his role in Raiders of the Lost Ark, his impact on Indiana Jones, and why he is one of the most intriguing and interesting characters in the film. Opening music excerpt was composed by John Williams and is titled “The Fist Fight / Flying Wing"

In this episode we drink Belloq (and a couple bonus brews in the middle), then we talk about Geometry Wars Galaxies, Rocket League, and The Walking Dead: The Final Chapter. Lastly we tell you good stuff about good stuff, as always. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grandrapidians/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/grandrapidians/support

In the season 2 premiere, brothers Phil & Warren fly to Cairo for a deep dive into the action-adventure classic "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Topics include: Indy's origins & the Lucas/Spielberg team up (2:30), the dated effects & the stunts (8:30), the stars of the picture and how Harrison Ford was cast (12:55), stats & accolades (19:25), best scenes & lines (24:55), recasting the movie today (34:45), a Big Bang fan Theory (43:30), and the film's legacy & lore (45:50), plus much more.

In the season 2 premiere, brothers Phil & Warren fly to Cairo for a deep dive into the action-adventure classic "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Topics include: Indy's origins & the Lucas/Spielberg team up (2:30), the dated effects & the stunts (8:30), the stars of the picture and how Harrison Ford was cast (12:55), stats & accolades (19:25), best scenes & lines (24:55), recasting the movie today (34:45), a Big Bang fan Theory (43:30), and the film's legacy & lore (45:50), plus much more.

Dante Basco (Lost Boys, Hook, Avatar: The Last Air Bender) joins host Rob Paulsen to talk about starting as a breakdancer in San Francisco to acting on film and voice acting. Plus, Zuko takes a spin as Belloq from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

We finally get to Alita: Battle Angel" after weeks of promising we would. Was it worth the wait? Find out! We drink an American Pilsner from Deschutes called "Da Shootz!" and a stout from Hoof Hearted called "Belloq." Episode Timeline: 0:00 - 9:54 Intro & "Da Shootz" 9:55 - 22:40 Flick Picks 23:14 - 41:25 "Alita" (No Spoilers) 41:34 - 51:45 "Belloq" 51:46 - 1:02:47 "Alita" (DANGER ZONE) 1:02:48 - END "Hot & Bothered" + Shout Outs Make sure to screenshot what you listen on and post it in your Instagram story and tag us for a shoutout!

This week, we talk about about incorporating cinematic-type villains into your campaign, and whether it's possible to do them justice. Question(s) discussed: 1. Can an RPG pull off a self-defeating villain (i.e., Jafar from Aladdin or Belloq from Indiana Jones), without being too disappointing for the players? 2. How do you pull off a supernaturally-recurring villain, where the players can't kill the villain until they complete a series of tasks? Can you set up the villain's defeat as a satisfying mystery or would it just boil down to a bunch of skill checks? Contact us: InterPartyConflict@Gmail.com Visit our blog: www.interpartyconflict.com Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/InPartyConflict Or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/InterPartyConflict/ And join our Discord: http://bit.ly/interpartydiscord

In our first regular episode for 2019 we cover the latest news that have been doing the rounds, Official IndyCast correspondent Mitch Hallock discusses whether Belloq is actually a hero, Ron Phelps has an Indy/Disney report, Ron Longo talks Indy trivia, Indiana Mic and John Penman discuss their Indy influences and we have more of your great emails!

In our first regular episode for 2019 we cover the latest news that have been doing the rounds, Official IndyCast correspondent Mitch Hallock discusses whether Belloq is actually a hero, Ron Phelps has an Indy/Disney report, Ron Longo talks Indy trivia, Indiana Mic and John Penman discuss their Indy influences and we have more of your great emails!

In our first regular episode for 2019 we cover the latest news that have been doing the rounds, Official IndyCast correspondent Mitch Hallock discusses whether Belloq is actually a hero, Ron Phelps has an Indy/Disney report, Ron Longo talks Indy trivia, Indiana Mic and John Penman discuss their Indy influences and we have more of your great emails!

In our first regular episode for 2019 we cover the latest news that have been doing the rounds, Official IndyCast correspondent Mitch Hallock discusses whether Belloq is actually a hero, Ron Phelps has an Indy/Disney report, Ron Longo talks Indy trivia, Indiana Mic and John Penman discuss their Indy influences and we have more of your great emails!

This week Amy and Paul uncover 1981's rollicking Indiana Jones adventure Raiders Of The Lost Ark! They ask if Indy is actually a good archeologist, find out whether Belloq really ate a fly, and discuss what makes the film's action sequences so irresistible to kids. Plus: Indiana Jones superfan Guy Klender shares his wealth of Indy knowledge, and talks about his work on the Raiders fan remake. What do you think the film The African Queen is about? If you haven't seen it, call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your best guess! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts.

Indiana Jones and Marcus Brody fly to Venice where they are greeted by a Belloq convention and Dr. Elsa Schneider, who, it turns out, is a woman! Filmumentary master Jamie Benning is as shocked as we are. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/indianajonesminute Join us online at: http://www.indianajonesminute.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1011918448897040/

Before he was the US Ambassador to Kim-Jong Un, Dennis Rodman had a dream of being a big Hollywood actor. The path to victory? A movie where he fights tigers, exploding babies, references that aren't related to basketball and U.N.C.L.E. Oh yeah, JCVD is there too. Double Team is silly in the same vein as any Cannon/Chuck Norris joint. There's a reason that major action movies died for almost 20 years (thanks Fast & Furious franchise) and this movie may have been a huge part of that decline. JCVD led the 90s in super awesome punching bad guy films and here in 1997 film-goers were willing to say "I've had enough of that". A plot that doesn't make any sense, horrific editing, and too too too many basketball related jokes just put them over the edge. The action sequences are about as "over the top" as you can get. There's truck jumping, tiger's packing heat, exploding babies, foot knives, a machine-gun toting, horse-mounted loon, Belloq as head of CONTROL, under-water lasers, combustible swimming pools, human basketballs, and death nannies. Its crammed pack with so much bonkers action that its hard to keep up. Come for the "plot", stay for the bananas action. It's a 7 pointer!

Indiana Jones and company are greeted at Pankot Palace by Chattar Lal, a well-dressed, well-educated man who makes a comment about Indy's appearance, setting off Gerry's Belloq detector. Guest Sean German at least likes his tie.

Get out your bullwhips and fedoras, Citizens! This episode is all about child endangerment and giving divine weapons to the Nazi’s. That’s right! We’re talking about Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in the classic Raiders of the Lost Ark. Joining us on this adventure were Andrew Hawthorn & Anthony Murphy from the excellent podcast No Time For Heroics. These guys are awesome and we can’t thank them enough for being so patient with us as we dealt with the audio gauntlet that was Skype in this episode. We encourage you to add No Time For Heroics to your podcast ‘pull list’. Check out No Time For Heroics on iTunes, Stitcher or your favorite podcast app. Twitter: @noTime4Heroics Facebook.com/HeroicsPodcast   We will return in two weeks with our review of Superman II.    eMail: reelcomicheroes@gmail.com Twitter: @reelComicHeroes Facebook.com/ReelComicHeroes Instagram @reelComicHeroes Our show is available on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher.  Use the hashtag #PodernFamily to find more great podcasts.

Screaming crazy using all my breath / Opening the Ark was probably not the best / Ryan DiGiorgi likes my swiftly oozing face / Evan Jacover thinks that Belloq's a mental case.

Guess what? The rules surrounding the Ark are super hard to figure out. But with the help of Evan Jacover and Ryan DiGiorgi, we might come close to convincing ourselves we've almost figured out something like one of them.

Something that we thought was impossible happens, and it signals Belloq's downfall. And we do not mean Ryan DiGiorgi and Evan Jacover from Hello from the Magic Tavern joining us.

Nazi soldiers take Jones into custody and tie him and Marion up in Malta for some reason. Then some other Nazis lift the lid off the Ark to reveal . . . our guest Chris Eliopoulos!

For once Belloq makes a speech that works to his advantage, to the point where our guest Chris Eliopoulos thinks René is the hero of the movie.

Blow up the Ark? Blow up the girl? Blow up the Ark but not the girl? Blow up most of the Nazis but not guest Chris Eliopoulos? We should have thought this out more.

The Ark is carried through a desert canyon. That's it. But somehow our guest Chris Eliopoulos was still interested enough to stay.

We were all excited to peek inside the Ark before the ritual Belloq talks Dietrich into, but then Chris Eliopoulos showed up and distracted us.

As Indy beats up a couple of Nazis for their clothes we learn how to write our own deleted scene, how to get a hat, and how to get canonical with help from our guest Heather Antos. Bonus: Dengar!

Indy completely misses a lesson in manners as Belloq drapes his jacket over Marion's shoulders. He also misses Katanga's and his first mate's classic I Found Him/Where/There routine. Then Heather Antos or someone who looks a little like her joins us on the U-boat to get yelled at in German. Bonus: Rest easy; Indy's hat is FINE.

As Indy and our guest Heather Antos watch from a hiding place, Marion takes a swing at Dietrich, plays along with Katanga's bluff, and allows Belloq to reclaim her.

The moment we've all been waiting for. We finally get to the hero of the movie: Omar! Unfortunately, the moment is clouded by Toht managing to get even creepier, and the only one more disturbed than Tom is the Ark. But it's okay; Jamie Benning is here to explain the sense of deja vu we're all feeling.

Indy chases the truck on a Wook-- uh, horse, Belloq's worst nightmare comes true, and our hero starts brutally killing people. Look out, Andrew Hawthorn! Look out!

Let's get this Nazi party started right! The Ark caravan revs up to begin maybe the greatest sequence in cinema history. Unless you're the guy who has to drive sitting next to Toht. Andrew Hawthorn returns with tips for safely handling your Ark shipment.

God blows up a tower, Sallah rolls with his friends not being dead, and a truck arrives in five-four time. Bonus question: Can our guest Andrew Hawthorn read our minds?

Take one adventure junkie, one no nonsense heroine, and a u-boat full of nazi's to make Raiders of the Lost Ark! Introducing Indiana Jones for the first time, he goes from the amazon to Egypt to find the lost Ark of Covenant. In this cast, we discuss poison dart air strikes, Greg questions the items Indy decides to take on a trip, and Paul get obsessed with Belloq's new clothes! All that plus we imagine what happened to Aladdin. Become a patron at thiswasrad.podbean.com, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and listen and rate us on ITunes!

That circle theory from last week culminates in the most dangerous circle of all. But you know, we don't SEE Otto Von Bluto get killed so it's possible he just went toe-to-toe with that propeller for the full twelve rounds. Andrew Hawthorn from the No Time for Heroics podcast joins us, wearing a splatter-proof poncho.

Rufus Rumpushauser emerges for fisticuffs, Pete helps Tom with his German, Gerry unearths a lost line of dialogue, and Dietrich puts his dogs up as Wolf Kahler gets more love from our guest Brett Stillo.

Well, if Indy's going to be stuck in the Well of Souls for the rest of his life, we might as well actually look around and learn about Egypt. Good thing we brought Egyptologist Dr. Eric Wells (of the Soulses) with us!

Spielberg finally gets his Bond on, Marion is resilient as ever, and it turns out it's totally worth it to bring John Brueggen with you to the Well of Souls even if he does ruin your snake-in-shoe fetish. Warning: This episode contains not only snakes, but an ear worm.

Gerry is crushed to learn that movies are often not technically accurate. Pete ruins the entire movie by pointing out the nightmare detail you never noticed. But we should be okay since our guest is John Brueggen the snake expert, who has the perfect gift idea for the Belloq who's taken everything!

Indy and Sallah pack up the Ark in an appropriately magic crate, Belloq and Toht have bro time in the desert, and our guest Jamie Anderson confirms that there are in fact Indy moments in real archeology, just not the destroying everything kind.

Belloq puts on a brave face with Toht's return, and God wins over science in how to make an Ark glow. Meanwhile, it turns out neither Tom nor Gerry paid attention in Sunday School, and Pete and our guest Jamie Anderson are hallucinating cats.

Whether or not Belloq is drunk, he's still maybe getting somewhere with Marion. Then Toht ruins everything, still obsessing about dresses. Also, who is Toht and what's he wearing? All these questions lead our guest Jamie Anderson to warn us against falling down the wiki EU wormhole.

Indy and Sallah think this massive stone sarcophagus lid looks like it would be good for smashing, and Belloq doesn't know what he's drinking or where it comes from, but with our guest Jamie Anderson, we try to help him figure it out.

Who's playing whom in this tent? And seriously, why DID it have to be snakes? And even the presence of a level-headed archeologist like our guest Jamie Anderson can't keep the Well of Souls from becoming the Well of Carbonite.

Tom is right there with Marion, falling under Belloq's spell. Unless she's not. Love, deception, and charred snake are in the air as our guest Doris Weiss coaches us on how to watch Raiders in Germany.

Marion must be into Belloq because she dismisses the chaperone and hides a knife so it doesn't make him nervous. Also, Gerry finds snakes at the DMV and Tom gets homework from our guest Doris Weiss!

Marion slips into something a little less comfortable and no one, not even our guest Reed Cavanah, handles it any better than Belloq, who at least slaps on cologne.

Raiders Minute 62: Rabbit Rabbit. How big is this desert? Where are we? And is Marion in a living nightmare? Our guest Reed Cavanah helps us evaluate Belloq's first-date skills. Bonus: Gerry says "rumpus" and "mischief."

What does God need with a light show? Why is Belloq digging in the wrong place? How is Indy so smoking hot? Our guest Kevin Maher invokes the Blues Brothers to help us understand.

Indy hides a staff from Tom in plain sight as our guest Kevin Maher from Kevin Geeks Out joins us on our decent into the Map Room! Bonus(?): Pete and Gerry sing their favorite Egyptian dig tune.

Gerry's connection, like a bowl of dates, is slathered in poison sauce, but Pete lays down a nice groundwork for him to harmonize over, like a regular Indy and Sallah. And Prof. Christy Porter re-returns to help us pass final judgement on that monkey.

Gerry questions the art of sneaking, Pete doubts eyepatches, Tom defends a telescope, and with the help of guest Paul Sullivan we manage to work in references to Blade Runner, Shogun, The Bourne Identity, Doctor Who, Barry Lyndon, Apocalypse Now, and Ben and Jerry's.

All around the world, kids love to celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks, cookouts, and saving Indiana Jones from a bar filled with gun-toting mercenaries. Meanwhile, returning guest and sister from another mister Christy Porter would like to get to know Belloq a little better.

Does burying a $100 watch in the sand for a thousand years mean you're missing the point of archeology? Our guest Steve Kreuch would tell us, but he's busy tracking down monkey guns and phantom burps.

An archeologist walks into a bar and meets Belloq, who makes fun of Indy's monkey. Our guest Steve Kreuch is on hand to swipe at a Nazi's ear.

Death surrounds our Skype connection, but our guest Scott Rosann helps us revel in the joys of being old men who love talky scenes. Bonus: Gerry feels sad.

Indy can't even possess an apple without it being taken away, and he and Brody share a joke about the protection of antiquities.

Are Belloq's well-chosen friends chasing Indy into the water, or is this all a carbonite fever dream?

Enter Belloq, who takes Indy's prize, his gun, and his whip??

Episode 28 "Rene Belloq" In this episode we discuss the character "Rene Emile Belloq" from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Greatest movie ever made? Harrison Ford's most iconic role? We break it all down. In fact, we go through every scene. Just two nerds throwing down about Raiders and we had too much fun. Sallah. Belloq. Marion. That dude that isn't thirsty and burns the hell out of his hand. Yep, we cover it. Throw us a download and we'll throw you the whip...trust me. hanks for listening!  Show is hosted by Mike and Trent. Contact us: harrisonfordpodcast@gmail.com   GOMP is part of the Dorktown Network of podcasts.

(A REPOST OF A CLASSIC INTRODUCTORY EPISODE THAT TIES INTO THIS WEEK'S NEW EPISODE.) Brent and Brice (a.k.a. the New Devil Twins) and their friends, the Auxiliary League of Neighborhood Kids, were a minor thorn in our collective "liberry" side through most of my time working there. They were mostly known for hogging up our computers, My Space chatting to one another from a mere three feet away and their habit of printing reams of video game cheat codes which they always acted shocked about having to pay for. But when the thermostat controls of our building began receiving extreme and unauthorized adjustments, their names were among those that turned up on my short list of Merry Prankster Suspects.

Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune) plays the role of Belloq for this 'Sacred Cow' discussion of Steven Spielberg's action-adventure classic "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Plus, the Top 5 Films of 1981 and Michael's reflections on the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. This episode is presented by Squarespace.com. :00-1:40 - Intro, Promos 1:41-32:18 - Review: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Music: The Lumineers, "Stubborn Love" 34:11-36:29 - Squarespace 36:41-52:07 - Massacre Theatre / Polls / Notes 52:08-1:00:07 - TIFF 2012 Recap Music: The Lumineers, "Ho Hey" 1:01:14-1:07:50 - Donations 1:08:05-1:51:34 - Top 5: Films of 1981 1:51:35-1:54:18 - Close BONUS CONTENT - Dance Scenes Feedback MUSIC - The Lumineers NOTES - Massacre Theatre winner: Mark Dancer LINKS - Michael Phillips - Tufnell Park Film Club - Frankie Manning teaching the Lindy Hop - Stroszek "Chicken Dance" - Late Live Show Meetup - Dialogues of Archibald Macleish and Mark Van Doren - Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee - Top 5 Films of 1981 SPONSORS / PARTNERS - Squarespace: Use code FILM9 - Fandor.com/Filmspotting - The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith- iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brent and Brice (a.k.a. the New Devil Twins) and their friends, the Auxiliary League of Neighborhood Kids, were a minor thorn in our collective "liberry" side through most of my time working there. They were mostly known for hogging up our computers, My Space chatting to one another from a mere three feet away and their habit of printing reams of video game cheat codes which they always acted shocked about having to pay for. But when the thermostat controls of our building began receiving extreme and unauthorized adjustments, their names were among those that turned up on my short list of Merry Prankster Suspects.