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2 episodes with Paul Gleason
Send us a textThis week we talk about the cult classic, The Breakfast Club from 1985! Our creator profile this week is Emilio Estevez!https://www.instagram.com/thebonsaimoviecrew/https://twitter.com/bonsai_crewhttps://www.tiktok.com/@thebonsaimoviecrewhttps://discord.gg/8jCPe8T2kT#moviereview #podcast #moviefan #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #film #nostalgia #classic #cultclassic #teenmovie
Lake View resident Paul Gleason describes what he experienced Monday night after a house explosion on West Lane, just a few houses down from his in-laws full 220 Tue, 13 May 2025 12:30:00 +0000 zL9VpgYniZ6zEP5cnNI0Yt80gOeMze2P news,wben,hamburg,house explosion,lake view WBEN Extras news,wben,hamburg,house explosion,lake view Lake View resident Paul Gleason describes what he experienced Monday night after a house explosion on West Lane, just a few houses down from his in-laws Archive of various reports and news events 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News
Today in the ArtZany Radio studio Paula Granquist welcomes director Marc Robinson and the cast of the Northfield Arts Guild production (Felicia Crosby, Maggie Muth, Jonathan Larson, and Paul Gleason) of The Glass Menagerie. This Tennessee Williams drama shares the story of a former Southern Belle, her son and daughter and their struggles to build a future. A […]
Diane and Sean discuss peak Bruce Willis and sexy af Alan Rickman in the 1988 Christmas classic, Die Hard. Episode music is, "Gruber's Departure", composed by Michael Kamen, from the OST.- Our theme song is by Brushy One String- Artwork by Marlaine LePage- Why Do We Own This DVD? Merch available at Teepublic- Follow the show on social media:- BlueSky: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD- IG: @whydoweownthisdvd- Tumblr: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD- Follow Sean's Plants on IG: @lookitmahplants- Watch Sean be bad at video games on TwitchSupport the show
Can you believe it? The detention bell is ringing for a 40th anniversary! This week, we're diving deep into the iconic John Hughes classic, “The Breakfast Club.” Join us as we reminisce about the joy and teen angst of Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, and realize as adults that Paul Gleason's Richard Vernon isn't as mean as we thought he was when we were teenagers. Was “The Breakfast Club” a defining moment for the Brat Pack? Is it the quintessential teen film of any decade? Does it still resonate with audiences today? Grab your lunch and meet us in the library... This is one detention you won't want to miss!
Dana and Tom discuss the 80s classic, The Breakfast Club (1985) for its 40th Anniversary: written and directed by John Hughes, music by Keith Forsey, starring Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Paul Gleason, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Ally Sheedy.Plot Summary: Five high school students from different cliques—brainy Brian, rebellious John, popular Claire, athletic Andrew, and outcast Allison—are forced to spend a Saturday in detention together. Initially clashing due to their differences, they gradually open up, revealing their personal struggles and realizing they have more in common than they thought.Through laughter, tension, and heartfelt confessions, they form an unlikely bond that challenges the stereotypes that define them. By the end of the day, they leave detention changed, uncertain if their newfound understanding will survive Monday morning, but forever marked by their shared experience.Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Welcome00:51 Cast and Background for The Breakfast Club02:32 Relationship(s) with The Breakfast Club10:46 What is The Breakfast Club About?13:04 Assessment of the Current YA Environment in Film14:58 Plot Summary for The Breakfast Club15:49 Did You Know?17:42 First Break18:56 Best Performance(s)25:46 Best/Favorite/Indelible Scene(s)31:06 Second Break32:05 In Memoriam32:38 Best/Funniest Lines36:18 The Stanley Rubric - Legacy40:21 The Stanley Rubric - Impact/Significance43:34 The Stanley Rubric - Novelty47:45 The Stanley Rubric - Classicness54:11 The Stanley Rubric - Rewatchability55:38 The Stanley Rubric - Audience Score and Final Total56:41 Remaining Questions for The Breakfast Club59:28 Remaining Thoughts for the Week01:04:03 CreditsYou can also now find this episode in full video on YouTube.You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast).For more on the episode, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/the-breakfast-club-1985For the entire rankings list so far, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-listKeywords:The Breakfast Club, John Hughes, 1980s film, teen movies, nostalgia, character analysis, cultural impact, movie review, film legacy, identity, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael HallRonny Duncan Studios
"Yippee-ki-yay, mfer!" Die Hard (1988) directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, Clarence Gilyard and James Shigeta. Next Time: Best of 2024
The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the kinds of movies that could never be made today. We start off with Blazing Saddles, and it gets pretty weird from there. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents
Come to school on a Saturday and take in what might be the nicest library ever disrespected by teenagers as we find the root of our early dating trauma in John Hughes's The Breakfast Club. Is Judd Nelson the ultimate beautiful bad boy, or an assault charge waiting to happen? Did no one tell these brats not to climb on the rare Henry Moore sculpture? And can we all just generally agree that teenagers suck? What we found out is that some of us have to come to terms with our horrible taste in movie men. Does that answer your question?
This month a nerd, a nerd and... another nerd get together to watch the John Hughes classic: The Breakfast Club. The Johns are joined by comedian, writer, and longtime Hold Up fan, Dirk Voetberg, to dive deep in our longest episode to date. Will the gen X-ers still worship at the altar of Hughes? And will the elder millennial muster the courage to care? Listen and find out! ALSO: Come see John Nelson LIVE! and in person performing in "The Guy Man & Maureen: The Power Sort Of Awakens", a show written by Dirk Voetberg. Performance are at Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre in North Hollywood at 8:30 pm August 23rd, 24th, 30th, 31st and September 6th and 7th. Purchase you tickets HERE.
Welcome to episode 095 of Choose Film Podcast. Grab a seat, stick some weed down your pants and don't mess with the bull or you'll get the horns. That's right we are joined by Sasha Reid to discuss John Hughes' The Breakfast Club.SynopsisFive high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.Links In Conversation Insta @sashasmomentsTwitter - @sAcHAmaaacThe Defender Trailer https://vimeo.com/849203128Creative RecommendationsThe Butcher & The RenBook by Alaina UrquhartMr InbetweenA half-hour comedy series inspired by the cult film “The Magicianhttps://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/mr-inbetween/4lPI5VghBpTiEasy AEasy A is a 2010 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Will Gluck
"Eat my shorts." The Breakfast Club (1985) written and directed by John Hughes and starring Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy Next Time: Eight Men Out (1988)
Brent, Nate, and Kate di(e)ve into the 1988 American action thriller film Die Hard starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason, De'voreaux White, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Bruno Doyon, Andreas Wisniewski, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Joey Plewa, Lorenzo Caccialanza, and Dennis Hayden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Weekly challenge #5 - “Early film of a Actor/Actress” Molly Ringwald The 80s teen movies icon, starring in films like Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and of course The Breakfast Club.
“We're playing pool with Captain Heart Attack here…” - Eric on this movie's police captain On this week's episode, we're kicking off the 2024 Listener Request Month with a dirty-ass 1970's-feeling cop movie that came out in 1989, Night Game! Why is Roy Scheider's character making such a big deal out of this gifted television set? Can that future mother-in-law just take it down a notch or two? Why is that police chief character looking like he's about to have a heart attack in every scene? Why does this movie focus so much on Roy Scheider's upcoming wedding? And is this actually a slasher movie? PLUS: Hilarious fuck-ups from famous serial killers! Night Game stars Roy Scheider, Karen Young, Richard Bradford, Paul Gleason, Carlin Glynn, Anthony Palmer, Alex Morris, Rex Linn, and Lane Smith as Witty; directed by Peter Masterson. This week's episode is brought to you in part by Bespoke Post! Get a free Mystery Gift with your first monthly shipment when you sign up at Box of Awesome DOT COM and enter the code WHM at checkout. That's Box of Awesome DOT COM, code WHM for a free Mystery Gift with your first monthly shipment. Box of Awesome DOT COM, code WHM! Be sure to catch us on tour this spring, gang! We'll be hitting Atlanta, Houston and Austin and we wanna see you come out! Head over to our tour page and get them tix! In Atlanta we're talking about Gerard Butler in Gamer, Houston is a W❤️M on Robocop 2, and in Austin we're doing another W❤️M celebrating the great Robert Rodriguez movie, From Dusk Till Dawn! Make the WHM Merch Store your one-stop shop for all your We Hate Movies merch-related needs! Including new Time Runner, Polish Decoy, ‘Jack Kirby', and Forrest the Universal Soldier designs!
Merry New Year!Trading Places, 1983. Eddie Murphy, Dan Ackroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Gleason, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy, Denholm Elliot, Jim Belushi, Frank Oz, Giancarlo Esposito, Al Franken, Tom Davis.....You're welcome.“Those men wanted to have sex with me!”
Not only are we reviewing Christmas movies this month, but Trading Places makes for the 2nd of 3 screwball comedies you will be able to find on this channel by the end of December. And like those other two, John Landis' romp tells a good story, but isn't very funny. Dan Aykroyd was established as a star, but Eddie Murphy was just starting his legendary movie career while Jamie Lee Curtis was making a successful transition from horror into comedy. Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy and plenty of others get chances to shine too in this very watchable comedy. They just didn't make us laugh. This episode isn't all fun and games either because we discussed the offensive content and we talked about Landis' involvement in The Twilight Zone tragedy. So bet a buck on the 556th edition of Have You Ever Seen as rich jerks toy with people's lives just because in the Christmassy blockbuster known as Trading Places. Well, Actually: the great R-rated laugh in Coming To America that's discussed at the 15-minute mark is early on in the film before Akeem has fallen in love with Lisa. He's just yelling about how much he loves America before someone curses at him, then he joyfully curses back. Also, Eddie Murphy won the Cecil B DeMille Award at the Golden Globes earlier this year. Also also, Paul Gleason is the VICE Principal in The Breakfast Club. Whether you believe in nature or nurture, you can believe in the quality of Sparkplug Coffee. Buy a bunch and use our "HYES" promo code to save 20% off your next order. Go to "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Letting us know what you think of our talks can be done by tweet-exing (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis) or sending an email (haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com). You also can and should comment—not to mention rate, review, subscribe, etc.---on our YouTube page (@hyesellis).
Welcome back to purgatory and happy holidays everybody!!! This week on the show it's Tron's pick which is the classic Trading Places directed by John Landis and staring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Denholm Elliott, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Paul Gleason, Jamie Lee Curtis, Frank Oz, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Cobbs, Jim Belushi, Al Franken and Kristin Holby. Thanks for checkin us out and if you'd like to find our back catalog go to podbean.com Intro & Outro music conducted By Elmer r Bernstien from the Trading Places soundtrack Revelation/The Goods/Train https://youtu.be/Is4-_-s-Asg?si=Mg2eVtqgItJ3ReXs Joy to the World https://youtu.be/372d9B50Dtw?si=SG7j7YFE1vT_rihe
Tune in for the second episode of 2 Cents Critic Merry Month, where the show is covering holiday media throughout December! This week, Arthur brings Andy (Fat Dude Digs Flicks Movie Podcasts) onboard to review and recap Die Hard, the 1988 icon of both action and Christmas cinema. Discussion topics for this episode include comparing Die Hard to the much bleaker Roderick Thorp book it's based on, the hosts' favorite minions in Hans Gruber's gang, the origin of Stockholm syndrome, and Sergeant Al Powell's uncomfy backstory. Directed by John McTiernan, Die Hard stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, De'voreaux White, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Alexander Godunov, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Andreas Wisniewski, Bruno Doyon, Joey Plewa, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Gerard Bonn, Dennis Hayden, Al Leong, Gary Roberts, Hans Buhringer, Wilhelm von Homburg, Robert Davi, and Grand L. Bush. Spoilers start at 32:45 Here's how you can learn more about Palestine and Israel: http://decolonizepalestine.com Here's how you can act to help stop Israel's genocide of Palestine: http://linktr.ee/savegaza Good Word: • Andy: Netflix's The Killer and MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards • Arthur: Carmen, In the Heights, and Bed Rest Reach out at email2centscritic@yahoo.com if you want to recommend things to watch and read, share anecdotes, or just say hello! Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes or any of your preferred podcasting platforms! Follow Arthur on Twitter, Goodpods, StoryGraph, Letterboxd, and TikTok: @arthur_ant18 Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram: @two_centscritic Follow Arthur on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/144101970-arthur-howell --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arthur746/message
Feel that carpet between your toes and get cozy as you listen to this month's episode where Austin and Big T discuss the 1988 action movie, Die Hard. Join us as we share some of our favorite moments and discuss which dialogue is the most quotable. We also talk about who gave the best performance and settle the decades-long debate: is Die Hard a Christmas movie? So tune your walker talkies to our channel and drop in on our conversation, then join us in the new year when we discuss the 1993 award-winning film, Schindler's List.Episodes are released the first Monday of every month.Write into us at layersoffilmpod@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @layersoffilmpod
BOOKSMART (2019) and THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)This week on the show is our first ever double feature during which we cover two coming of age high school comedies: BOOKSMART and THE BREAKFAST CLUB.BOOKSMART was directed by Olivia Wilde and stars Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jason Sudeikis, and Lisa Kudrow.THE BREAKFAST CLUB was directed by John Hughes and stars Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Paul Gleason.
On this episode of I Am The Wiz, Wiz reviews the 1985 teen drama classic "The Breakfast Club" starring Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and Paul Gleason, directed by John Hughes.
Katie and Bridget get Saturday detention as they re-watch the 80's classic: The Breakfast Club! It's a movie all about how no matter how different people may be, they can still find ways to get along... That is, 4 out of the 5 find ways to make out with each other while the nerd is left to not make out with anyone AND write everyone's essay! Come along as we meet the crew: Claire, a girl who really needs to learn more about the patriarchy so she doesn't end up dating her sexual assaulters(!!); Andrew, a jock who could have a promising career if he ever wanted to go on the show Dance Moms; Brian, a nerd who really should probably go to the hospital/get counseling/have anything else happen to him besides just being sent to detention (hello!?); Allison, a girl who could have really used Whoopie's help from Girl Interrupted; and Bender, a guy who should have just joined the drama club - things would have been so different for him! These 5 survive a full day of Saturday detention together while outsmarting and avoiding their dumb principal Richard DICK Vernon #showdicksomerespect. Released in 1985, it was written and directed by John Hughes and stars Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, and Paul Gleason.
Today Paula Granquist welcomes director Susan Carlson and lead actors Paul Gleason and Birch Carlson from the Northfield Arts Guild production of The Winter's Tale for Shakespeare in the Park. Northfield Arts Guild presents Shakespeare in the Park 2023 THE WINTER'S TALE by William Shakespeare Directed by Susan CarlsonFriday July 28 – Sunday July 30 & Thursday August 3 – Saturday August […]
Diane and Sean discuss the John Hughes classic, The Breakfast Club. Episode music is, "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds, from the OST.- Our theme song is by Brushy One String- Artwork by Marlaine LePage- Why Do We Own This DVD? Merch available at Teepublic- Follow the show on social media:- Tumblr: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD- Follow Sean's Plants on IG: @lookitmahplantsSupport the show
One of John Hughes's most well-know films and decade-defining teem comedy, this ensemble film was made for a million and it is still playing on cable TV. Often imitated but never remade - at lease not yet, anyway- Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall star as five high schoolers serving Saturday detention in suburban Chicago high school under the watchful eye of an assistant principal, played by Paul Gleason. Joining us this week is a special guest author and podcaster D.X. Ferris to review a Brat Pack classic. Does that answer your question? Sincerely your... The Breakfast Club
Wilfred Brimley? In Star Wars? It happened in Ewoks: The Battle for Endor! After the bloodbath beginning, join us for magic, talking Ewoks, and Brimley calling kids beggars. How will Ewoks: The Battle for Endor hold up? Host: Nic Co-Host: Matthew and Daniel Panel: Charlie Rose Directors Jim Wheat and Ken Wheat Starring: Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, Aubree Miller, Siân Phillips, Carel Struycken, Niki Botelho, Paul Gleason, Eric Walker
Wilfred Brimley? In Star Wars? It happened in Ewoks: The Battle for Endor! After the bloodbath beginning, join us for magic, talking Ewoks, and Brimley calling kids beggars. How will Ewoks: The Battle for Endor hold up? Host: Nic Co-Host: Matthew and Daniel Panel: Charlie Rose Directors Jim Wheat and Ken Wheat Starring: Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, Aubree Miller, Siân Phillips, Carel Struycken, Niki Botelho, Paul Gleason, Eric Walker
I dette vores fjerde adventsafsnit byder vi på en vaskeægte komedieklassiker. Vi skal tale om Bossen og Bumsen, der stadig er ligeså sjov, som da vi så den som børn. Så tag med os til Philadelphia sammen med Eddie, Dan, Jamie, Denholm og ikke mindst Paul Gleason i sin glansrolle som Clarence Beeks - et af filmhistoriens største møgsvin.
What movies did Allen, Scott, Rich, and Hadley pick to watch this holiday? Fatman is a 2020 American black comedy action film written and directed by Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelms and starring Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. David Gordon Green and Danny McBride serve as executive producers of the film. Gremlins is a 1984 American black comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus, and starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, and Frances Lee McCain, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of Gizmo, the main mogwai character. Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan, with a screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. Based on the 1979 novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, by Roderick Thorp, it stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia. Die Hard follows New York City police detective John McClane who is caught up in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife. Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner feature in supporting roles A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories And Other Disasters. www.wyrdrealities.net --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wyrd-realities/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wyrd-realities/support
Deck the halls with cake threats, one-liners and walky-talky man feelings. Set off the explosives powered by international friendship and glass shards of marriage with Die Hard this week. Website | Apple | Patreon | Twitter | Instagram
Welcome back to Movies that Make Us. Today, we are going back to 1985 and discussing the classic film The Breakfast Club.It's a teenage coming-of-age film directed by John Hughes starring Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. It's set on one Saturday where five high school students from different cliques come together to serve detention and throughout the day, bond together in unexpected ways. What are your thoughts on the film? We all feel the film was a little bit before our times with Tracy being 10-11 when it was released. What are your thoughts on the film? We want to hear back from you!Did you miss the video premier of this episode? Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, and then click the little bell to receive notifications when we add a new video or go live.You can also follow our Facebook page so you can receive notifications for new audio or video of our episodes. We're giving away tickets to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever so make sure you're following us for future prizes!As always, thank you for listening, and for now, we won't see you at the movies…but we will see you on November 18th, where we will see you at the Midway Tavern (21+) for Disney Trivia Night and raffle where we are raising money for American Cancer Society. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
País Estados Unidos Dirección John McTiernan Guion Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza. Novela: Roderick Thorp Música Michael Kamen Fotografía Jan de Bont Reparto Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason, Reginald Veljohnson, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, De'voreaux White, Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush, Wilhelm von Homburg, James Shigeta Sinopsis En lo alto de la ciudad de Los Ángeles, un grupo terrorista se ha apoderado de un edificio tomando a un grupo de personas como rehenes. Sólo un hombre, el policía de Nueva York John McClane (Bruce Willis), ha conseguido escapar del acoso terrorista. Aunque está solo y fuera de servicio, McClane se enfrentará a los secuestradores. Él es la única esperanza para los rehenes.
Welcome to The 80's Montage! (music, mateys and cool shit from the 80s) Your Hosts Jay Jovi & Sammy HardOn, singers from Australian 80's tribute band Rewind 80's. We take you back to living in the 80's: music, artists, TV commercials and video clips. Episode 147: The Breakfast Club - Eat My Shorts It's a ripper! Please rate, review and enjoy! Music licensed by APRA/AMCOS Theme music ©2019 M. Skerman see Facebook for links to videos & songs mentioned in this episode! Email: planet80sproductions@gmail.com Rewind 80's Band: www.rewind80sband.com Facebook: the80smontagepodcast twitter: 80_montage instagram: the80smontage Links from Episode 147: The Breakfast Club - Eat My ShortsPatreon Link With Thanks x https://www.patreon.com/the80smontagepodcast www.the80smontage.comLinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGSZUx2gXfcHeart Too Hot To Hold #jesseJohnsonProvided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupHeart Too Hot To Hold · Jesse Johnson · Stephanie SpruillThe Breakfast Club℗ 1985 A&M RecordsReleased on: 1985-01-01Producer: Keith ForseyComposer Lyricist: Lawrence ForseyComposer Lyricist: Michael FrondelliComposer Lyricist: Jesse JohnsonComposer Lyricist: Keith Forseyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHkjRRrFy5oProvided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupFire In The Twilight · Wang Chung #wangchungThe Breakfast Club℗ 1985 A&M RecordsReleased on: 1985-01-01Producer: Keith ForseyComposer Lyricist: Jack HuesComposer Lyricist: Steve SchiffComposer Lyricist: Keith Forseyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A#SimpleMinds #DontYouForgetAboutMe #RemasteredSimple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeMHC7Ih8wgWe Are Not Alone - Karla DeVito #karladevitohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTeYncx1xmIEat My Shorts - The Breakfast Club (3/8) Movie CLIP (1985) HDThe Breakfast Club movie clips: http://j.mp/1L58ywZBUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/tuLu1kDon't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6prCLIP DESCRIPTION:Bender (Judd Nelson) challenges Mr. Vernon's (Paul Gleason) authority and receives months of detention in return.FILM DESCRIPTION:John Hughes wrote and directed this quintessential 1980s high school drama featuring the hottest young stars of the decade. Trapped in a day-long Saturday detention in a prison-like school library are Claire, the princess (Molly Ringwald); Andrew, the jock (Emilio Estevez); John, the criminal (Judd Nelson); Brian, the brain (Anthony Michael Hall); and Allison, the basket case (Ally Sheedy). These five strangers begin the day with nothing in common, each bound to his/her place in the high school caste system. Yet the students bond together when faced with the villainous principal (Paul Gleason), and they realize that they have more in common than they may think, including a contempt for adult society. "When you grow up, your heart dies," Allison proclaims in one of the film's many scenes of soul-searching, and, judging from the adults depicted in the film, the teen audience may very well agree. Released in a decade overflowing with derivative teen films, The Breakfast Club has developed an almost cult-like status.CREDITS:TM & © Universal (1985)Cast: Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally SheedyDirector: John HughesProducers: Gil Friesen, John Hughes, Michelle Manning, Andrew Meyer, Ned TanenScreenwriter: John HughesWHO ARE WE?The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS:MOVIECLIPS: http://bit.ly/1u2yaWdComingSoon: http://bit.ly/1DVpgtRIndie & Film Festivals: http://bit.ly/1wbkfYgHero Central: http://bit.ly/1AMUZwvExtras: http://bit.ly/1u431frClassic Trailers: http://bit.ly/1u43jDePop-Up Trailers: http://bit.ly/1z7EtZRMovie News: http://bit.ly/1C3Ncd2Movie Games: http://bit.ly/1ygDV13Fandango: http://bit.ly/1Bl79yeFandango FrontRunners: http://bit.ly/1CggQfCHIT US UP:Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1y8M8axTwitter: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmtPinterest: http://bit.ly/14wL9DeTumblr: http://bit.ly/1vUwhH7The Breakfast Club - On-set interview with Ally Sheedy #thebreakfastclub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZES5hh2mRMThanks For Listening!
Back by popular demand, PSA Principal Authenticator Kevin Keating makes his second appearance on The PSA Pod, with more in-depth stories from his new book, Waiting For A Sign: Volume 2. This time around, Kevin dives into his unique stories involving Warren Spahn (1:15), Bert Shepard (9:25), Buck O'Neil (16:25), plus actors Paul Gleason and Charlie Sheen (23:45). Also, Kevin's incredible, close-to-home story about the chase for Aaron Judge's autograph for his sons (27:10). ***ORDER "Waiting For A Sign, Volume 2" HERE***
Special Guest Keaton Lindberg joins your hosts Chad Robinson and Russell Guest for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit The Breakfast Club (1985) [R] Genre: Drama, Coming of Age, Comedy Starring: Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy Director: John Hughes Recorded on 2022-08-17
CW (Content Warning): Suicide attempt, depression, trauma/abuse, implied sexual assault, homophobia/slurs Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought. Director - John Hughes Starring - Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Gleason
On this week's episode, we're traveling back to the 80s to break down everyone who almost starred in the HS classic The Breakfast Club! Which double Oscar-winner was up for both Claire and Allison? Which comedy legend was cast as the janitor but got replaced when he decided to play him as a heavily bearded Russian? What would the proposed sequels have looked like? And did this movie really invent the phrase ‘Eat my shorts'? Also – it's the Wet Hot American Summer/Breakfast Club mashup that you never asked for but can't possibly live without! The Breakfast Club stars Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos, and Paul Gleason; directed by John Hughes Follow the Podcast: On Instagram: @andalmoststarring Have a film you'd love for us to cover? E-mail us at andalmoststarring@gmail.com www.andalmoststarring.com
Hoje vamos de Cine Clube especial, Clube Dos Cinco, um clássico dos anos 80 dirigido John Hughes e estrelado por Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald e Ally Sheedy. Inclui também Paul Gleason e John Kapelos no elenco. Humberto e Varella vão discutir vários temas desse filme, que retrata muito bem os anos 80, pegue sua pipoca, curta, compartilhe e aproveite esse cine clube maravilhoso. Link de ingressos - https://linktr.ee/planetapodcast Link de pagamento comunidade PLANETA PODCAST SOBRENATURAL Valor R$25,00 para as primeiras 3 recorrências: https://pay.hotmart.com/J68621136R?of... Link de pagamento comunidade PLANETA PODCAST SECRETO Valor de R$15,00 para as primeiras 3 recorrências: https://pay.hotmart.com/P68615214R?of... PATROCINADORES Instagram @bloco7cervejaria CUPOM DE DESCONTO: planetabloco7 site de vendas: www.bloco7.com Insta: @odanvarella @humbertorosso @planetapodcastoficial
This week we continue a series of Abominable Snowman movies with Abominable (2006). This is Episode #356! Abominable is a 2006 American monster film, directed and written by Ryan Schifrin. Starring Matt McCoy, Jeffrey Combs, Lance Henriksen, Rex Linn, Dee Wallace, Phil Morris, Paul Gleason and Haley Joel. The film follows paraplegic widower Preston Rogers (McCoy) as he moves back into the remote cabin where he and his now-deceased wife once lived. Preston quickly realizes that a sadistic Sasquatch is stalking the woods around the cabin, but nobody believes him.
On this week's episode Will travels to Austin to stay with his pal Aaron Sudbury. But after landing and being brought back to Aaron's building, TERRORISTS take over! Will, without shoes OR socks, must work alone to save his friend from the clutches of this terror! The only person Will can talk to is IAN, long since taken off the streets for maybe doing something terrible... or just failing his physical. Either way, that's all Will's got! Will takes down the bad guys, learns they are really just thieves, and ultimately, in a showing of true love and devotion, Rescues Aaron so they can all talk about surviving that terrifying experience, but thankfully not having to - DIE HARD Directed by John McTiernan. Starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald Veljohnson, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason, William Atherton, Al Leong, De'voreaux White and many other talented people! 00:01:10- We're recording in different states! Hope that audio ain't too bad... 00:01:40: How ya been? 00:01:45- Hanks the cat is approaching the end of his days. (He has since passed. R.I.P. Good buddy) 00:08:30- Whatcha Been Watchin'? (Ian Spectacular Spider-man, Teen Titans Go!. Will- I Think You Should Leave. Aaron- Succession) 00:13:00- GUESTIONS w/ guest Aaron Sudbury! 00:20:45- Stories of Christmas past. (And Will's go as you'd expect...) 00:30:00- PITCH/FIX! DIE HARD 2 00:33:10- Will 00:36:25- Ian 00:41:40- A Winner is Chosen 00:43:00- Fun Die Hard 2 one-liners. As well as a deep dive INTO Die Hard 2 00:51:10- DIE HARD 01:10:05- Ray Review! 01:11:45- Next week. Thank You Aaron. Goodbye! Who wins the Pitch/Fix Belt!? Only one way to find out... Tune In! Enjoy! Instagram: @TheLastActionCritics Twitter: @THE_Lastcritics Next Week: Spider-Man: No Way Home
In this podcast episode we review the listener requested movie The Breakfast Club (Released 1985) starring Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy and Paul Gleason. This week, Katie, one of our listeners, joins us on the mic. WARNING: There will be SPOILERS
On this week's show, we're joined by returning guest Brian Valiquette as we yub nub our way through 1985's Ewoks: The Battle For Endor! When the hell is this supposed to be set? Why is Wicket so dead behind those eyes? Are these the stupidest villains ever portrayed in a movie? And just how many times can we fit Wilford Brimley saying "diabetes" into one podcast? Ewoks: The Battle For Endor is directed by Jim and Ken Wheat, and stars Wilford Brimley, Aubree Miller, Warwick Davis, Carel Struycken, Siân Phillips, Paul Gleason and (barely any) Eric Walker. Bad With Numbers is a weekly show about questionable movie sequels, all the way from Toronto, Canada. It's hosted by Neth Knowles, Laura Medeiros, Rodey Gozum and Megan Swaine. Theme song by Audiopop. Artwork by Laura Medeiros.
The Breakfast Club (1985) is perhaps the most iconic teen film of all time, standing simultaneously as a monument to both the sensitivity and problematic misogyny of John Hughes. Even as the film explores themes of self-acceptance, even as it hints at how joyous life can be when we transcend the stereotypes that keep society locked in place, The Breakfast Club also perpetuates some of the most problematic tropes of toxic masculinity - and the women who can't help but think that with just a little bit of tender love they can save the bad boys.The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy as teenagers from different high school cliques who spend a Saturday in detention with their authoritarian assistant principal (Paul Gleason).***If you can, please support the show on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/join/progressivepop)You can find a list of books that informed this show at(https://bookshop.org/shop/progressivepopepop)
Daniel, Ben and Tanya discuss an iconic piece of Generation X cinematic history, The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Paul Gleason, and John Kapelos.Join them as they explore the themes, quotes, characters and memorable moments that made this film POP for them. Also in this episode, they welcome 4 guests to the Sound Table; Glenn, Jay, Julian and Terry. 4 guys who grew up together and a couple who went to High School and have very specific memories of what the Breakfast Club meant to them. Extra footage from this Sound Table will eventually appear on our YouTube channel as there was a lot of great stuff that sadly hit the cutting room floor due to episodic time constraints.Sit back, suck down that 40 oz. cup of sugary-fizzy-goodness, and enjoy this latest episode of Popped!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54334782)
The Breakfast Club Welcome to The Guys Review, where we review media, products and experiences. **READ APPLE REVIEWS/Fan Mail**Mention Twitter DM group - like pinned tweetRead emails The Breakfast Club Written and Directed by: John Hughes Starring:Emilio EstevezPaul GleasonAnthony Michael HallJudd NelsonMolly RingwaldAlly Sheedy Released February 15th, 1985 Budget: $1M ($2.5M 2021) Box Office: $51.5M ($130M 2021) worldwide Ratings: IMDb 7.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes 89%Metacritic 66% Google Users 93% John Hughes has had two movies selected to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." First was "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in 2014, and The Breakfast Club was selected in 2016. First time you saw the movie? Plot:The opening credits ends with a quote from David Bowie: "...and these children that you spit on, as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through..." A voice over complaining about Saturday school: Shermer High School, Saturday March 24th, 1984. Cars are dropping off the students. Claire complains she has to do saturday school, Brian promises it's the last time, Andrews father tells him he'll loose his scholarship , Allison is dropped off without word and Bender walks in. In the library, they all settle in. Principal Vernon addresses the students, telling them what he expects from their time. Bender starts harassing the other students... Telling Claire, 'you couldn't ignore me if you tried.' They discuss the difference between social clubs and academic clubs... Like math and physics club. They discuss the complexities of wrestling, and rolling on the ground with sweaty men... Sounds familiar. Bender sabotages the library door so that it'll close. Vernon aggressively questions them as to why the door is closed...and they all agree that it just closed. After trying to rig the door open, Bender and Vernon go back and forth, and he keeps adding saturdays. Claire pleads for him to stop. The group is shown wasting time, drawing, paper football, shaking dandruff out of their hair, Brian tucks a boner, and eventually they all fall asleep. Vernon wakes them up for a bathroom trip. Afterwords, Claire describes how her parents use her against each other. Bender continues to antagonize, but they eventually even share names. Bender takes particular interest in Claire, asking how far shes been with a guy. Andrew stops him, and it briefly turns physical and Bender threatens to kill him. A brief conversation with Carl the janitor, a whistle along, and it's lunch. S:-The car claire is dropped off in is John Hughes car-The mom and sister with Brian are Anthony Michael Halls real mom and sister-Anyone ever have saturday school/detention? Any good stories?-Vernon giving Bender 2 months of saturday school... why would he want to be there that many saturdays? Though, he doesn't have a wedding band on. Andrew and Allison go to get drinks, and she finally breaks her silence, saying she drinks vodka. Andrew complains then about being good and wrestling with sweaty dudes...Unlike Tucker. Bender continues to antagonize, eventually outing Brian as a virgin...Claire pulls out sushi for lunch, Andrew has an entire grocery bag full of food, Allison makes some weird, crunchy, sugar sandwich, and Bender goes through Brians lunch the ends with Bender doing an super sarcastic Leave it to Beaver, impression of life at Brians house. Andrew notices Brians reaction and asks about Benders home... Which then gets pretty real. Ending with Andrew questioning the authenticity of his actions, and then shown a cigar burn on his forearm. He storms off, and is reflective. Vernon goes to the lounge, and they all follow Bender to his locker, which no one can explain why... Which we soon find out is weed. As they head back, they are trying to avoid Vernon, and we get the awesome 80's musical montage. (Fire in the twilight) Ending up at a locked gate, stuffing his weed in Brians pants, Bender takes off making a bunch of noise, Vernon following, ending in the gym, giving everyone else time to get back. Vernon gives a very stark view of Benders future...they leave; but in a closet, Vernon threatens Bender, and provides Bender with some perspective, giving him a free shot, which he doesn't take, and he calls him a gutless turd. As Vernon takes a slam, Bender crawls through the ceiling and crashes back to the library, stating he forgot his pencil. As the others cover for Bender, he steals a look and nearly a face-full up Claires skirt. Taking his weed from Brian, the others follow him to the back of the library to smoke. S:-Judd Nelson played this character method and didn't break, even between scenes. John Hughes almost fired him bc of how he treated Molly Ringwald off camera; though she said she was aware and was ok with it.-So Bender can say whatever he wants about anyone else, but then when its about his interpretation of his own home, that's too far? Should we feel bad for him? He's been a shit head the whole time.-What do you think about Bender? Is his life like he says or what? What is he doing today?-First time smoking weed? Brian and Claire are obviously super stoned and being silly. Andrew comes out from hotboxing in a room, and aggressively dances around, ending with screaming and a glass breaking, with Allison watching intently. Carl catches Vernon going through the restricted files. Andrew and Brian chat, and Allison finally joins in, offering that she stole his wallet. Claire and Bender discuss not throwing things away. Allison dumps her purse on the couch, stating shes always "ready to jam" because her home life is unsatisfying. Andrew tries to connect with Allison, who he reads pretty well, and she opens up to him, about her family, asking, "What did they do to you...?" like its something that happens to everyone... Very stark. Vernon and Carl talk, and Carl pegs him precisely. They're sitting in a circle, they go back and forth sharing and asking questions. Allison says she's screwing her therapist, Claire is prodded into answering if shes a virgin.... which she is. This leads to a discussion about how they're bizarre, and Andrew tells why he's in Saturday school...Taping a kids 'buns' together. And he gets very emotional. It impacts them all very deeply. Brian shares how Andrews dads intensity is like his grades, and failing shop. They move on to hidden talents, and Claire puts on lipstick with her cleavage, which Bender mocks, and the others chastise him for going after her... and he shares the differences in their christmases... Smoke up Johnny! They lament, asking if they're going to be like their parents, and Allison states its unavoidable, that when you grow up, your heart dies. Brian asks if they'll still be friends on Monday, and Claire tells them the truth that they wont be friends... they go back and forth about how shitty that is, and Brian shares why hes in Saturday school... because he was going to kill himself with a flair gun. Which they all laugh at. Which then prompts Allison to share that she did nothing to be there, she had nothing better to do. Segue to 80's musical montage. (we are not alone) S:-Any of y'all ever consider running away?-Would you say your bizarre? How so?-Tell zapping the kid in 8th grade story-Originally the dance montage was supposed to ONLY be Molly Ringwald, but she didn't want to do it alone, which then kind of spawned the 80's/Mtv dance montages. Bender is crawling back through the ceiling, Claire convinces Brian that he should write the essay Vernon asked them to write. Claire then takes Allison for a make over. Claire goes into the closet with Bender, as Allison FINALLY gets Andys attention after watching him the WHOLE TIME. Claire kisses Bender, and he offers to be something her parents use against each other. Andy complements Allison, who she states Claire did it. They all walk out together, Andy and Allison kiss, Claire gives Bender one of her diamond earrings, which he made fun of her for earlier. They share a kiss, and she leaves. Bender puts the earring in, and a voice over is heard: (voice over), Bender is shown walking across a field, he throws a fist in the air, freeze frame, and credits roll. S:-Kissing in front of the parents... Is it just me that thinks thats weird? That shit is NOT happening with my daughter. She'll sneak around like God intended. Web: https://theguysreview.simplecast.com/EM: theguysreviewpod@gmail.comIG: @TheGuysReviewPodTW: @The_GuysReviewFB: https://facebook.com/TheGuysReviewPod/
With schools starting up again, we thought it was a great time to revisit one of the best films about a school environment ever. The Breakfast Club. Relate to any of the characters of The Breakfast Club? Let us know via any of the following ways: Twitter - @backtopastpod Instagram - @backtopastpod Facebook - Back To the Past Podcast Facebook Group Email - contact@backtothepastpod.com
In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films: the 1985 teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film "The Breakfast Club" written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Emilio Estevez as Andrew Clark (the "Athlete", Anthony Michael Hall as Brian Johnson (the "Brain"), Judd Nelson as John Bender (the "Criminal"), Molly Ringwald as Claire Standish (the "Princess"), and Ally Sheedy as Allison Reynolds (the "Basket Case"), who are all teenagers from different High school cliques who spend a Saturday in detention with the authoritarian Vice Principal Richard Vernon (played by Paul Gleason). --- 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/markthepoet/message
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We talk. I drink. We laugh. About the Breakfast Club: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same. About Dr. Joy A: Joy Qualls is a nationally recognized writer and speaker. Joy currently serves as an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Department Chair at Biola University. Joy writes and speaks on effective communication, leadership, and who we are as images bearers of Christ. Joy has a passion for the local church and serving the body of Christ through teaching and consultation. Joy is married to Kevin (a Licensed Professional Counselor) and together they teach on healthy relationships including marriage and parenting. They are parents to Blakeley and Soren as well as a fur baby, Madeleine. Learn more at: https://joyqualls.com/about/ Get at us: Email - talkingduringmoviespodcast@gmail.com IG - @talkingduringmovies Twitter - @talkduringmovie Facebook: Talking During Movies
Today is the 82nd birthday of the actor Paul Gleason. You know him from The Breakfast Club. He has some of the most-quoted lines in the film. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left. This episode is also available as a blog post. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/waldina/message
Are y'all ready for this?! It's time for another Throwback Thursday edition of Stream Theory, as Ben and Ian tackle that old Chris Tucker classic you all know and love (right?), that 1997 cinematic landmark, Money Talks! Tune in to hear our two intrepid viewers try to avoid spoiling a film that has been out for 24 years (Warning: They don't succeed), as well as uncovering the awful truth about the Paul Gleason/Ben Mendelsohn conspiracy we were never meant to know about. All this and more, in this week's Stream Theory! Paul Gleason looks like Ben Mendelsohn https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322339/mediaviewer/rm41010944/?context=default Please Donate (BLACK LIVES MATTER & STOP ASIAN HATE) https://www.joincampaignzero.org/solutions https://www.naacpldf.org/support/ https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html#victims --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/2manyflix/support
We talk. We talk. We get bad internet. About The Breakfast Club: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same. About Dr. Joy A Qualls: Joy Qualls is a nationally recognized writer and speaker. Joy currently serves as an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Department Chair at Biola University. Joy writes and speaks on effective communication, leadership, and who we are as images bearers of Christ. Joy has a passion for the local church and serving the body of Christ through teaching and consultation. Joy is married to Kevin (a Licensed Professional Counselor) and together they teach on healthy relationships including marriage and parenting. They are parents to Blakeley and Soren as well as a fur baby, Madeleine. Learn more at: https://joyqualls.com/about/ Find her online: @madamspeaker Get at us: Email: TalkingDuringMoviesPodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @TalkingDuringMovies Facebook: Talking During Movies Xosuey: Talking During Movies
Praised as a quintessential piece of '80s cinema and highly regarded among the greatest high school movies of all time, the legacy of this 80’s flick had endured due to the film's eclectic cast of teenage archetypes. Writer-director John Hughes' characters weren't just derivative personalities found in the everyday, run-of-the-mill teen comedy of the day, the characters were actually rooted in genuine human problems. Working with a $1 million budget, the reflective character study was an endearing portrait of adolescence, simplistic in its approach but emotionally rich in its contrasting, multi-dimensional views of each personality. For all its cliches, the film has lasted through the generations, with newer directors calling it an inspirational work. So grab your sack lunch (or your sushi rolls) and head to biggest high school library I’ve ever seen as Tim Williams and guest co-host, Laramy Wells, mess with the bull and get the horns as they discuss “The Breakfast Club” from 1985 on this episode of the 80’s Flick Flashback Here are some additional behind the scenes trivia we were unable to cover in this episode: Bender's flinch when Vernon fakes a punch was genuine. Judd Nelson really thought Paul Gleason was going to hit him. Judd Nelson improvised the part at the closing of the film where Bender raises his fist in defiance. He was supposed to just walk into the sunset, so to speak, and John Hughes asked him to play around with a few actions. When he was done and they were finishing up, Nelson threw his fist up without running it by anyone. Everyone loved it, and it has also become an iconic symbol of the 1980s as well as cinema history. Paul Gleason played Vernon again in the parody Not Another Teen Movie (2001). Molly Ringwald had a cameo, and Anthony Michael Hall was mentioned. Sources: Wikipedia IMDB Rotten Tomatoes https://www.afi.com/news/afi-movie-club-the-breakfast-club/ https://screenrant.com/breakfast-club-details-behind-scenes-making-trivia/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-emotional-legacy-of-the-breakfast-club/550460/ Intro & Outro Music: "Total Eclipse" by Nathaniel Wyver Send us an email or reach out to us on social media to let us know what you liked, what you loved, what we may have missed, or what 80's movie we should watch next! Email - moviviewspodcast@gmail.com Facebook - Moviviews Presents 80's Flick Flashback Podcast (Fan Page) & Moviviews News & Reviews (Group Page) InstaGram - Moviviews --- 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
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan discover that there's actually an antidote to getting punched really, really hard. The cultural divide proves too much for Ryan in this wild, fantastic, hallucinatory Kung Fu epic of many names. The story is incomprehensible, the fights are nonsensical, but Steve still finds it defensible, while Ryan finds the editing reprehensible. There's no reason for this rhyme. Kung Fu Cult Master (1993) d. Jing Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung Starring: Jet Li Man Cheung Chingmy Yau Set during the Yuen Dynasty, many sects compete for possession of the two golden swords which contain the secret to dominance of the world of martial arts. The first faction, led by Shaolin, consists of Shaolin, Wu Tang, Ngo Mai, Kun Lun, Hung Tung and Wah Shan. The second is the Ming Sect, otherwise known as the Fire Sect or Evil Sect, led by branch leaders Queen of Purple Dragon, King of White Eagle, King of Gold Lion and King of Green Bat. A student of Wu Tang, befriends Gold Lion and marries the daughter of White Eagle. He is killed for the secret of the location of the missing sword. His infant son witnesses this and vows revenge on the heads of the sect. Unfortunately he has a jinx which prevents him from learning martial arts. Brian Rawnsley Things discussed in the show: Tom Clancy & Jack Ryan vs World War 3 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, John Hoogenakker) Wargames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood) Breakfast Club (John Hughes, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy) The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy) Deutchland 83 (Anna Winger, Jörg Winger, Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen) Operation Able Archer Wind of Change podcast (Patrick Radden Keefe, The Scorpions) Wong Kar-wai Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He) The Great Wall (Yimou Zhang, Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe) American Factory (documentary, Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown) The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, Allan Scott, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp) The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 (Norman Jewison, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke) Casino Royale (Texas Holdem, Martin Campbell, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench) Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay), Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito) The Lookout (Scott Frank, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode) Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank (screenplay), Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank, Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour) Godless (Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Scott Frank) Auteur Cinema The Witch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) Emma (Autumn de Wilde, Eleanor Catton (screenplay by), Jane Austen (based on the novel by), Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth) The New Mutants (Josh Boone, Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton) Love Actually (Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) The Maze Runner (Wes Ball, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) Leonard DiCaprio & Liam Hemsworth The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn) The Raid Redemption (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy) Kung Fu (NES video game) Double Dragon (video game) The Night Comes For Us (Timo Tjahjanto, Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle) The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra) Apostle (Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins) Lovecraftian horror / Folk horror Gangs of London (Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Ray Panthaki, Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati) Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, John C. Reilly, Liam Neeson) Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight, Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory) The Warriors (Walter Hill, Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright) The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre The Shaw Brothers & Hong Kong Cinema Wu Tang Mountain Takashi Miike CINEphile Video Archive in Los Angeles (Shoutout to Paul!) Ghost Spy (Image Comics, Steve Albertson, Jacob Elijah aka Oh Oozi, Puppy Grenade) Tai Chi Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Siu-Ho Chin) Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen) Dragon Ball Z ( Things discussed in the show: Tom Clancy & Jack Ryan vs World War 3 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, John Hoogenakker) Wargames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood) Breakfast Club (John Hughes, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy) The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy) Deutchland 83 (Anna Winger, Jörg Winger, Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen) Operation Able Archer Wind of Change podcast (Patrick Radden Keefe, The Scorpions) Wong Kar-wai Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He) The Great Wall (Yimou Zhang, Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe) American Factory (documentary, Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown) The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, Allan Scott, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp) The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 (Norman Jewison, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke) Casino Royale (Texas Holdem, Martin Campbell, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench) Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank (screenplay), Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito) The Lookout (Scott Frank, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode) Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank (screenplay), Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank, Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour) Godless (Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Scott Frank) Auteur Cinema The Witch (Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie) Emma (Autumn de Wilde, Eleanor Catton (screenplay by), Jane Austen (based on the novel by), Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth) The New Mutants (Josh Boone, Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton) Love Actually (Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) The Maze Runner (Wes Ball, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) Leonard DiCaprio & Liam Hemsworth The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente) Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Mary Kahn) The Raid Redemption (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy) Kung Fu (NES video game) Double Dragon (video game) The Night Comes For Us (Timo Tjahjanto, Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle) The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra) Apostle (Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins) Lovecraftian horror / Folk horror Gangs of London (Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Ray Panthaki, Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati) Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, John C. Reilly, Liam Neeson) Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight, Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory) The Warriors (Walter Hill, Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright) The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre The Shaw Brothers & Hong Kong Cinema Wu Tang Mountain Takashi Miike CINEphile Video Archive in Los Angeles (Shoutout to Paul!) Ghost Spy (Image Comics, Steve Albertson, Jacob Elijah aka Oh Oozi, Puppy Grenade) Tai Chi Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Siu-Ho Chin) Once Upon a Time in China (Hark Tsui, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen) Dragon Ball Z Game of Thrones (David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Iain Glen, Gwendoline Christie) Chinese history The Evil Cult (Ming Dynasty) Quintin Tarantino Star Crossed Lovers The Golden Lion House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang, Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau) Master of the Flying Guillotine (Jimmy Wang Yu, Tien Wu Chu, Kang Chin) Crippled Masters (Chi Lo, Sung-Chuan Shen, Chao-Ming Kang, Chiu Ho) Riki Oh The Story of Ricky (Ngai Choi Lam, Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho) John Woo (director) Johnnie To (director) Exiled (Johnnie To, Nick Cheung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng) Drug War (Johnnie To, Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang) Dirty Gambler genre of Hong Kong crime cinema Jackie Chan Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris Willow vs. Wicket (Star Wars) vs. Leprechaun Mel Gibson vs. Cancel Culture Tom Cruise vs. Keith Raniere Zoroastrians (Persia) Cult of Mani (Manichaeism) - The Gospel of Mani aka the Book of Giants The Book of Enoch 300 (Zack Snyder, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham) Next week: Any Given Sunday
For our first winter holiday-themed episode, we’re looking at everyone who was almost cast in the action classic Die Hard! Which famous crooner passed on John McClane? Which action legend was considered for Holly? Which Jurassic Park actor turned down a role? And would you rather win an Oscar or have lunch with Alan Rickman every day for a month? Also – Amy Jo can never look at the dad from Home Alone the same way again, and we find the one element that Die Hard is missing: a live bear! Die Hard stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, William Atherton, De’voreaux White, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Alexander Godunov, Robert Davi, and Grand L Bush; directed by John McTiernan Follow the Podcast:On Instagram: @andalmoststarring On Facebook: @andalmoststarringHave a film you’d love for us to cover? E-mail us at andalmoststarring@gmail.com www.andalmoststarring.com
It's part two of our Christmas chronicles and we saved the best for last: DIE HARD! The 1988 blockbuster put Bruce Willis on the map, was Alan Rickman's first movie ever, and, after nearly ten years of muscled-up bloody madness, redefined what action movies can be. We dive into all of that, plus key scenes featuring classic 1980s Guys like William Atherton and Paul Gleason, Jan de Bont's cinematography, and the genesis (or at least modern popularization) of the everyman action hero. And yes, James has a convincing argument for why this is a Christmas movie too. We also discuss the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme and the idea of Christopher Walken doing an Irish accent, which leads into a discussion on English actors doing American accents for movies and how long it took for Bryne to realize that Christian Bale wasn't American. Plus, we *finally* officially rule on spoilers and how long people have until a spoiler is no longer a spoiler. Spoiler alert: it's probably shorter than you think. We also talk about Hallmark original movies and who we'd play in them, and why parents should give their children reasons when they say "no" to stuff. Follow us on Instagram and twitter: @goincommandopod Email the show: goincommandopod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Jason Connell and Bryan Beasley break down the classic movie and talk about Bruce Willis becoming a star, the XMAS movie debate, and 80's douchebags.Synopsis: An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.Director: John McTiernanWriter: Roderick Thorp (novel), Jeb Stuart (screenplay), Steven E. de Souza (screenplay)Cinematographer: Jan de BontCast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Alan Rickman, Paul Gleason, De'voreaux White, William AthertonComposer: Michael KamenRecorded on 12-12-20Connect with the show!https://www.instagram.com/Lets__Talk__Movies/Connect with us! https://www.instagram.com/MrJasonConnell/https://www.instagram.com/BryanBeasleyPhoto/ https://www.JustCuriousMedia.com/
This week we run back the Christmas movie, Die Hard, from 1988! Join us as we discuss our favorite Christmas songs, wearing sweatpants to important events, enunciation lessons with Jason, under appreciated workers, and what happens when hostages unionize. As a bonus, Jason tells us what Die Hard would sound like with Tombstone dialogue. As always, we deep dive into the movie, read some ratchet reviews, talk about the WTF Moment of the Week, and sadly run down the RIPs.WebsiteInstagramTikTokTwitterFacebook
This week, the Mapcap Crew are joined by Wally Hipolito (@wallyhipolito) of the Off the Stoop Podcast to chop it up about 199'7's Money Talks, starring Chris Tucker in his first headlining role. Directed by Brett Ratner, the film co-stars Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Gerard Ismael, Elise Neal, Michael Wright, Paul Gleason, and Paul Sorvino. Reporter James (Charlie Sheen) brings petty crook Franklin (Chris Tucker) to justice, but as Franklin is being taken to jail, he is unwittingly drawn into a violent prison break. The police pursue Franklin, mistakenly thinking he killed several officers, so the fugitive turns to James for help. Figuring he has stumbled upon the story of a lifetime, the journalist agrees to prove that Franklin is innocent. Unfortunately, things don't go smoothly, and both men find themselves on the run. THE MADCAP MOVIE REVIEW PODCAST IS NOW AVAILABLE on iHeartRadio! https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-madcap-movie-review-73613658/ Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-madcap-review/id1529062717?uo=4 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38VJgh6RCx8WBGVozY4KoR Listen on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-madcap-movie-review Listen on Google: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZGRiNzM5Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Follow the Madcap Crew CL: @CLtheMainEvent Derek: @Jaded80sBaby Shawn: @ShaolinShogunMA Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @MadCapPod LIKE us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/madcappod The Madcap Movie Review Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and more! Subscribe, rate and review! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/madcappod/support
The host of the Ren Pod Morgan returns to the show to talked about the latest movie rumors, breakdown a classic from the 80’s and talk have some fun movie conversations, even some sad ones as we discuss how this might be the end of the movie theater experience. Follow me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/braulio_show/Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/braulioshow1Send me your emails: brauliosshow@gmail.comCheckout my website and show notes: brauliosshow.podbean.com Follow Morgan:Twitter: https://twitter.com/morganlbrooksInstagram: https://instagram.com/morganl_brooksTwitch: https://twitch.tv/hiddentimelordTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJkKUsks Full notes below!Intros - Morgan rejoins, MCU Rewatch, recap the MCU up to this point.Movie Rumors -Natalie Portman says “Thor Love and Thunder” will be based on the Mighty Thor novel where Jane gets cancer.Doctor Strange to appear to appear in Spider-man 3SONY wants Tom Hardy to appear in Spider-man 3Disney+ rebrands old marvel movies as Marvel Legacy filmsDisney+ also ads MCU Chronological orderPixar’s Soul being moved Disney+ from a November release dateMain Show Discussion -MCU 5th film in chronological order review Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman Movie theaters closing down again due to the pandemicMost movie being delayed to 2021 and 2022 and the impact of the movie industry2000’s or Earlier Movie Recap -Movie: The Breakfast Club 1985 Starting: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally SheedyIMDB summary: Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought. Tech Corner - Hi, Speed iPhone 12 Announcement for October 13th expectations.Gaming Corner - NoneFan Questions - None
Mamma Mia! It's our second episode and we are talking about the A*Teens! Join Alec, Casey, and Liz as they discuss the debut album "The Abba Generation," Alanis Morissette look-alikes, Paul Gleason's career, early 2000's fashion, dancing in cups of coffee, and much more! Check out our visual companion on Twitter @yamilykethis, Instagram @yamIlykethispodcast, or our Facebook fan page. Tune in every Thursday for new episodes.
Diana will never stop pointing out that in an unprecedented move for the podcast, Polina's pick Not Another Teen Movie (2001) is one Polina has never seen. It is later explained Polina just wanted to finally watch and talk about this movie Diana often references. What follows is the origin story of Diana's crush on Chris Evans. Polina reads from Roger Ebert's review of the movie. Treat yourself to our sponsor Frankie & Myrrh's selection of aroma therapy products and at the same time support our show. Use “HAPPILY1” to save 20% and orders over $40 get free domestic shipping! After breaking up with his girlfriend, Priscilla, a popular jock, Jake Wyler makes a bet with his friends, that he can't make 'ugly girl' Janey Briggs into prom queen. After spending more and more time with Janey, Jake really starts to think whether he wants to keep the bet on or not. Stars Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly, Eric Christian Olsen, Mia Kirshner, Deon Richmond, Eric Jungmann, Ron Lester, Cody McMains, Sam Huntington, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Lacey Chabert, Samm Levine, Cerina Vincent, Beverly Polcyn, Ed Lauter, Paul Gleason, Mr. T, Molly Ringwald, Randy Quaid, Josh Radnor, and cameos by Melissa Joan Hart and Sean Patrick Thomas. (from IMDb.com) Find other amazing podcasts by searching #ladypodsquad on Twitter, Facebook, and all the social media platforms. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @HEAMCast, like us on Facebook @HappilyEverAftermath, and e-mail us at contact@heamcast.com.
Remember the movie the Breakfast Club? The vice principal in that film, monitoring detention for Molly Ringwold and Judd Nelson was an actor by the name of Paul Gleason, aka V.P. Richard Vernon. Once at the crap table, I got hot with the bones, and principal Vernon spotted me chips to keep me throwing the dice. It was the movie the hangover before the movie was even written. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-cordan/support
Ô saudade dos anos 80! Filmes que passavam na Sessão da Tarde sem censura e que fizeram a alegria da garotada. Se é que vocês me entendem. No QueIssoAssim de hoje, Brunão, Miotti e Baconzitos relembram todos os detalhes do clássico Trocando as Bolas, com Dan Aykroid, Eddie Murphy e Jamie Lee Curtis. Senta aí, dá o play e vem rir com a gente! FICHA TÉCNICA DO FILME Mandem cartinhas e coisinhas para nós:Portal RefilCaixa Postal 4450CEP 70842-970Brasília-DF Seja um Patrão do Portal Refil Patreon Padrim Picpay ASSINE O FEED Feed iTunes Google Podcasts
En este episodio Gabriel, Rafael, Mark y El Watcher continuan la serie de episodios enfocados en las películas que estrenaron en sus años de nacimiento conversando sobre The Breakfast Club, película protagonizada por Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall y Paul Gleason y que fue escrita y dirigida por John Hughes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cultura-secuencial/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cultura-secuencial/support
Episode NotesReel ReviewAs heard on this episode:The Breakfast Club: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same. | HuluScream: The sleepy little town of Woodsboro just woke up screaming. There's a killer in their midst who's seen a few too many scary movies. Suddenly, nobody is safe, as the psychopath stalks victims, taunts them with trivia questions, then rips them to bloody shreds. It could be anybody... Sidney, the quiet high school beauty with an ugly past... Billy, her faithful boyfriend with a frustrated sex life... Tatum, her cute best friend with a answer for everything... Casey, the lovely blonde who knows her thrillers... Geeky Randy, the scary movie fanatic... Stuart, the wild partier... Gale, the overeager TV reporter... even Dewey, the syrupy-sweet police officer. The only hope is to stay one step ahead of this crazed slasher--know your trivia. The clues are there; are you good enought to see them? | Hulu
Given that it’s a Quarantine type of scenario, it felt appropriate to do a movie episode on the '80s staple The Breakfast Club - which also is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. The teenage movie of five high schoolers spending a Saturday in detention is a very simple plot but has a lot of ways it can go. Jack and Kev go through different categories to evaluate its strength and weaknesses, decide where it ranks in John Hughes’ filmography, and whether or not it’s a classic.
We've gone a little off-piste with this week's Deeper. After our SIMPLE triple bill we couldn't think of a better way to spin-off than to discuss the crowning glory of a movie about a bunch of kids confined in detention. The Breakfast Club is directed written and directed by John Hughes and stars Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estavez and Paul Gleason. Don't You (Forget About Me) was written by Keith Forsey and Richard Schiff, performed by Simple Minds and worshipped as an 80's anthem ever since. Please review us over on Apple Podcasts. Got comments or suggestions for new episodes? Email: sddpod@gmail.com. Seek us out via Twitter and Instagram @ sddfilmpodcast Support our Patreon for $3 a month and get access to our exclusive show, Sudden Double Deep Cuts where we talk about our favourite movie soundtracks, scores and theme songs! On next week's episode we feature a triple bill of BOSS movies with Matt Brothers from the Spocklight Podcast!
This week we ran back the 1985 hit, The Breakfast Club, by John Hughes! Join us as we relive a Saturday spent with Claire, Andrew, Brian, Allison, and Bender. We also recast the movie for a 2020 remake! InstagramTikTokTwitterFacebook
The Plotaholics wrap up this 80s-centric January with the film that many consider to be the quintessential 80s teen flick: The Breakfast Club. Has there ever been a movie that has inspired more callbacks--from dancing in the library to "what about you, dad?"--than this one? Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy round out an ensemble cast with representatives from every high school character-type you can think of--the rebel, the crazy one, the jock, the brain, and the popular girl. Bryan was up all night driving before we recorded this episode, so things take a couple of weird turns. The Plotaholics spend time talking about the under-appreciated 90s kids' show, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills and what role Thankskilling alum, Wanda Lust, would play in an adult reboot of said show set in Illinois. There is table-top RPG talk (Shane is playing Monster of the Week from Evil Hat Productions and loving it) and Funko Pop talk (Bryan found Angel from Buffy!). It's everything you've come to expect from a distraction-heavy episode of The Plotaholics Podcast, including one Plotaholic's heart-breaking revelation that he is, in fact, a Millennial. Enjoy The Breakfast Club!Support the show (https://plotaholics.com)
It is that time of year when the snow falls (if you live in the proper climate), and you cuddle up with your loved ones with egg nog (eww), hot chocolate, or apple cider to watch a Christmas classic as the epilepsy lights flash on the artificial tree in the corner. Yes, kiddies. Cuddle up and watch the Christmas Classic (with no question), DIE HARD! The 1988 story-driven, yippie-ki-yay motherfu$king classic that launched Bruce Willis from TV leading man (Moonlighting was such a great series!) and into the stratosphere as an action film juggernaut at a time when action heroes were named Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme, and Norris! This is also the film that brought the amazing Alan "Professor Snape, Metatron, Hans Gruber" Rickman into our loves. Die Hard is outstanding. It's so great that the Plotaholics spent a good bit of time talking about all other kinds of craziness before getting into the meat of this film. It's so good we needed to throw in the filler! There is very little to complain about here.Oh yeah. We went there. Prepare to Die Hard to the greatest Christmas movie of all time!Random Topics of Conversation:Our national cinematic history is full of examples of leading men and women who started their acting careers in a specific genre of film and made the crossover. This episode discusses Bruce Willis (obviously), but also Robert Downey Jr., Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Heath Ledger. We also speculate on Robert Pattinson's forthcoming turn as the caped crusader in Matt Reeves's The Batman.Shane admits to having a weird and unexplainable crush on Kristen Stewart (K-Stew, if you're nasty). He blames this affinity on her role in the Jesse Eisenberg vehicle, Adventureland (also starring Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig).The guys spend an inordinate amount of time coming up with scenarios for 10 Things I Hate About You fan-fiction. Also, what if Adam Sandler was an Avenger? Or what if all of Adam Sandler's characters were cast as different Avengers? About a month ago, Steve Carrell told Ellen that he thought a better idea than a reboot of The Office would be taking the cast of The Office and rebooting other shows. His suggestion: Cheers. The Plotaholics offer some of their own suggestions: Star Trek, Third Rock from the Sun, The Wonder Years, and so forth.Finally, what makes a Christmas movie a Christmas movie? And is Die Hard a Christmas movie? We finally get around to the advertised content at around 33 minutes in, so feel free to skip ahead if you are a curmudgeon who dislikes shenanigans and revelry. Support the show (https://plotaholics.com)
This is Blacklisted Cinema, where you are encouraged to talk during the movie. The movie this episode is Abominable a 2006 American monster film, directed and written by Ryan Schifrin. The film stars Matt McCoy, Jeffrey Combs, Lance Henriksen, Rex Linn, Dee Wallace, Phil Morris, Paul Gleason and Haley Joel. Friend of the show Damien Glonek of Living Dead Dolls - 31 Nights of Halloween movie review of Abominable. https://horrorjunkie13.blogspot.com/2019/10/31-nights-of-halloween-horror-night-7.html Trailer for our fan film Predator Recall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gj8b6JULpM Subscribe to us on itunes rate 5* @ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blacklisted-podcast/id1058504075?mt=2 PodOmatic http://blacklisted.podomatic.com/ Stitcher http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/blacklisted?refid=stpr Google Play https://play.google.com/music/m/Imonfnjs7535svy3wtwdx7rhbpa?t%3DBlacklisted_Podcast IHeartRadio https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-blacklisted-podcast-30972563/ Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/01L8OZCsaKQZrN2Lm2vb22 Or wherever you steal your free podcast.
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.In this episode the guys discuss this John Hughes classic for their #TeenDrama genre. The topics of school detention, character archetypes and stereotypes come up, along with the dated material and how it could be redone if a remake were to occur. Also reliving memories from middle school and high school, the boys go deep with some thoughts of the "fears" the characters in the film have. We hope you wont forget about us and enjoy those #feels! We are the Reel Feels Podcast, every other Wednesday we'll bring you a new movie with all the feels you can handle. We'll laugh, we'll cry and possibly restrain the frustrations to curse the heavens. But what you can count on is three guys sharing their love of cinema with you. Please leave us a review and share your "reel" feelings. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ReelFeelsPodcast Email: reelfeelspodcast@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReelFeelsPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReelFeelsPodcast/
Welcome to 1.21 in Flux, our movie discussion show about movies from the past. Some will be classic films, others obscure and occasionally fun bad B-movies.This episode is about The Breakfast Club. It's directed by John Hughes and stars Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald & Ally Sheedy.patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: https://twitter.com/Mild_Fuzz facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mildfuzznetwork Audio: https://mild-fuzz-movies.pinecast.co/ THE VAULT: https://mildfuzztv.weebly.com/the-vault.htmlUK Merch store: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/mild-fuzz-tv/ US Merch store: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/mild-fuzz-tv-us
Welcome to 1.21 Overload, our monthly movie discussion show where Peter and Matt discuss a film that one of them love.This episode is about Christmas action classic 'Die Hard.' It's directed by John McTiernan and stars Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason & William Atherton.patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: https://twitter.com/Mild_Fuzz
Episode 107 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Liam, in our November tribute to John Hughes is The Breakfast Club from 1985. Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same. This and previous episodes can be found on iTunes and Stitcher Radio as well as: Playerfm acast.com/stinkingpause stinkingpause.libsyn.com podcast.party/podcasts/the-stinking-pause-podcast Follow us on Twitter @StinkingPause email: thestinkingpause@gmail.com #Podpals #PodernFamily Thanks for listening Scott, Liam and Paul http://stinkingpause.libsyn.com/
A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal walk into school… No this isn’t the beginning of a joke, it’s the opening of John Hughes trend-setting 1985 dramedy, The Breakfast Club. (starring Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy). Join us in episode #16 for a memorable Saturday detention at Shermer High School. SHOWNOTES The Breakfast Club - Criterion John Hughes - Director Sixteen Candles (1984) The Breakfast Club (1985) Pretty In Pink (1986) Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) Uncle Buck (1989) Emilio Estevez (as Andrew Clark) Anthony Michael Hall (as Brian Johnson) Judd Nelson (as John Bender) Molly Ringwald (as Claire Standish) Ally Sheedy (as Allison Reynolds) Paul Gleason (as Richard Vernon) John Kapelos (as Carl) A Charlie Brown Christmas dance All Psych episodes featuring cast members from The Breakfast Club Judd Nelson Season 4 Episode 13 - “Death is in the Air” Molly Ringwald Season 6 Episode 6 - “Shawn Interrupted” Ally Sheedy Season 3 Episode 16 - “An Evening With Mr. Yang” Season 4 Episode 16 - “Mr. Yin Presents…” Season 5 Episode 16 - “Yang 3 in 2D” Season 7 Episode 15 - “Psych: The Musical” Anthony Michael Hall Season 7 Episode 14 - “No Trout About It” Season 8 Episode 2 - “S.E.I.Z.E. the Day” Season 8 Episode 4 - “Someone’s Got a Woody” John Kapelos Season 7 Episode 10 “Santa Barbarian Candidate” Season 8 Episode 6 “1967: A Psych Odyssey” This American Life (episode 526, Act Three) Molly Ringwald and her daughter watch The Breakfast Club together for the first time. Music Don’t You Forget About Me - Simple Minds Fire In the Twilight - Wang Chung We Are Not Alone - Karla Devito I’m The Dude - Keith Forsey The “naked blonde” joke that Bender tells himself (while in the ceiling) never had a punchline. Additional Movie references David Margulies As The Mayor in Ghostbusters William Atherton As Walter Peck in Ghostbusters As Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and Die Hard 2 As Professor Jerry Hathaway in Real Genius
There's no better place to start than at the beginning – so, for the first episode of Die Hard With a Podcast, we're taking a look at the making of Die Hard. For a film with so many incredible stunts and huge explosions, it's hard to believe it's based on a book – or is technically a sequel to a 1960s Frank Sinatra flick. On this show, we go from acquiring the rights to the story, crewing up the film, writing the script, casting its stars, and rolling at the Fox Plaza building in Los Angeles. Learn why Die Hard was fully expected to flop, why Bruce Willis's salary was so controversial, and how exactly they pulled off Hans's fall from the 30th floor. As we kick off this limited series, let us know what you think! Drop us a line at diehardwithapodcast@gmail.com, or visit our site at www.diehardwithapodcast.com. 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But now, I’m starting on a new project about something else I love. I can’t recall exactly when I became a die hard Die Hard fan. I think my story is probably pretty typical; falling in love with the movie as I watched it at home on VHS, or badly censored on TV. I do remember that when I moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to take an internship on the Fox lot, I never got over my excitement at driving past the Fox Plaza building – Nakatomi Tower – every day. I got a gray sweatshirt and a red Sharpie to make my own “Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho” costume for my Christmas party. I attended the Alamo Drafthouse’s “Nakatomi ‘88”-themed screening in San Francisco. And yes, I became one of those annoying drunks who’d go on at length about why Die Hard is a Christmas movie after a couple of cocktails. After yet another friend asked me for quick notes on whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie in order to settle an office debate, I sat down with a (couple) glass(es) of whiskey, rewatched the movie, and hammered out a four-page, fully-cited essay on the matter. (Which you can read on the website.) Yes, this is how I spend my Friday nights. But the fact that I did that made something abundantly clear: I love Die Hard. I have a lot to say about it. And I want to share it. So here we are! This podcast is going to have nine episodes that each explore different aspects of the movie. We’ll look at action movies of the 80s, we’ll look at our heroes and villains, how women and minorities are portrayed, and why Die Hard is so popular again. There’ll also be a BONUS episode… You can find out more about that in just a minute. So, before we dive in, a little housekeeping. Die Hard With a Podcast will release every other Thursday, wrapping up right before Christmas. If you want to get in touch... Email Website Twitter Facebook Instagram Finally, if you like this show, kick me a buck or two on Patreon. Patreon helps to offset the cost of doing this show, so unless you have a vault with $640 million in bearer bonds you can open up for me, pledge a little bit on Patreon. Patreon There are some cool bonuses you can get, like stickers, ornaments, and the bonus episode – and you can even help decide what you want the bonus episode to be on! So check that out, and pitch in if you can. And if you can’t – the best thing you can do is just listen and tell your friends. Leave a review on iTunes – that helps put this show in front of more people, so everyone can get in on the Die Hard love. All right, on with the show. For our first episode, I thought what better place to begin than where Die Hard began? So: this is the story of how Die Hard got made. The novel Die Hard doesn’t seem like one of those movies that started out as a book – there’s a lot of explosions in the movie and all – but it did. In fact, it started out as a sequel, to both a book and another movie. In 1966, writer Roderick Thorp wrote a novel called The Detective. It was an adult take on the cop genre, with the main character, private investigator Joe Leland, taking on a gritty case of supposed suicide that leads him to uncover murder and corruption. The novel was turned into a movie of the same name in 1968 by 20th Century Fox. The film starred Frank Sinatra as Joe, and the film did decent box office while Sinatra’s performance was well reviewed. Over a decade later, in 1979, Thorp wrote a sequel to The Detective with the express intention of turning it into another movie for Sinatra. The book was called Nothing Lasts Forever (which sounds more like a James Bond movie if you ask me). In it, now-retired Joe Leland goes to visit his daughter – not his wife! – at her high-rise office in Los Angeles at Christmas. While he’s there, terrorists take over and… a lot of the rest is the same is the movie. Kinda. We’ll get into that on another episode. Anyway, it’s kind of like how author Michael Crichton wrote The Lost World expressly to be made into a sequel to the movie Jurassic Park, or Thomas Harris wrote Hannibal to be a made into a sequel for the Silence of the Lambs. (You’ll come to find out that Silence of the Lambs is another favorite movie of mine…) Buying the rights According to Thorp, future Die Hard associate producer Lloyd Levin showed the book Nothing Lasts Forever to future producer Lawrence Gordon. Gordon took one look at the cover, with a burning skyscraper and circling helicopter, and said, “I don’t need ro read it. Buy it.” So, 20th Century Fox bought the movie rights to this novel, too. Now, Die Hard was actually produced by Silver Pictures, the production company founded by mega-producer Joel Silver in 1985. 20th Century Fox ended up being more of the distributor. (At some point in the early 80s, before Silver Pictures picked it up, the rights to Nothing Lasts Forever were actually owned by Clint Eastwood, who had intended on starring in the movie himself.) Joel Silver was just coming off of a hot streak of iconic 80s action movies like Commando, Lethal Weapon, Predator, and Action Jackson, and he was able to pull from the talent behind those movies to put Die Hard into production. The crew Silver offered the gig to the director of 1987’s Predator, John McTiernan. Back in 1985, McTiernan had turned down directing Commando, and he almost turned down Die Hard, too. In fact, he tried a couple of times to turn it down. McTiernan said the material was just too dark and cynical for him. (And if you’ve read Nothing Lasts Forever, you’ll totally get it. That shit is bleak.) Eventually, he came around because he came up with a plot change that would “lighten things up.” “The original screenplay was a grim terrorist movie,” he said. “On my second week working on it, I said, 'Guys, there's no part of terrorism that's fun. Robbers are fun bad guys. Let's make this a date movie.’ And they had the courage to do it.” So instead of terrorists, McTiernan’s bad guys would be pulling off a heist. “I liked the idea of imagining what would happen when one of those Baader-Meinhof types got tired of fighting his and others’ political battles and decided to show them what a criminal is,” he said. McTiernan also changed things up with inspiration from an unlikely source: Shakespeare. The original story took place over the course of three days, which was way too long. Now, borrowing from the structure of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the entirely of the plot would transpire over a single night. To hammer out the story, writers Jeb Stuart and Steven de Souza were hired. Jeb Stuart wrote the original script, and Steven de Souza was responsible for a lot of the on-the-fly revisions that would take place during shooting. Die Hard was Jeb Stuart’s first film credit if you can believe it, and after Die Hard he later went on to write Another 48 Hours, Fire Down Below, and the really really amazing The Fugitive. De Souza had previously written 48 Hours, Commando, and The Running Man, and he would go on to write Die Hard 2, Hudson Hawk, Ricochet, Beverly Hills Cop III, Street Fighter, and Judge Dredd. Basically, these are the guys to go to for action thrillers. The cast But who to go to to be the star of this action flick? Contractually, because Die Hard is technically a sequel to The Detective, the role had to be offered back to Frank Sinatra… who was 73 years old at the time. Fortunately, Sinatra decided he was “too old and too rich” to be running around making movies anymore. By not going with an older gentleman as the lead, the filmmakers were now free to explore new options for the lead role. Jeb Stuart describes how he discovered the core of the film: "I had no idea how to make this into a movie," he said. After getting into an argument with his wife, Stuart said he got into his car and took off. "It's in the days before cell phones and literally the minute I got on the highway, I knew I was wrong and knew I had to apologize," he said. He wasn't paying attention to the road and ran into a refrigerator box. "I went through it at 65 miles per hour and, fortunately, it was empty," he explained. "I pulled over to the side of the road, my heart was pounding and I thought, 'I know what this movie is about!' It's not about a 65-year-old man... It's about a 30-year-old man, who should have said he's sorry to his wife and then bad shit happens." He went home and wrote 30 pages of the script that very night. Hopefully he apologized to his wife first. When it came to casting the role of the now-renamed John McClane, the filmmakers seemed to try every male movie star in town. The part was offered to… Sly Stallone, Don Johnson, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Clint Eastwood (as already mentioned), Burt Reynolds, Robert De Niro, Charles Bronson, Nick Nolte, Mel Gibson, James Caan, Paul Newman, and Richard Dean Anderson (yes, MacGyver!). These actors ran the gamut from musclebound he-men to more sophisticated sorts. “When I first started working on it, they were talking about Richard Gere,” said John McTiernan. “The part was very buttoned down. He’s wearing a sport jacket, and he’s very suave and sophisticated and all that stuff. It was a sort of Ian Fleming hero, the gentleman man of action.” But what all those actors had in common was they all turned the role down. Going to Bruce Willis was seen as a desperate move in the film industry. After all, he was a *sniff* television actor, not a movie star. Willis was currently on the show Moonlighting, which was a comedy-drama about two private detectives. He had been in two movies by then as well, Blind Date and Sunset, but neither had been hits. Still, Willis was a charismatic, charming actor. Demographic data from CinemaScore, an entertainment polling and research company, said that Willis was popular with audiences. And once again, producer Lawrence Gordon stepped in to take decisive action. Bruce Willis tells it himself: “I know that Larry Gordon was instrumental in me getting the job. What’s that expression? Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan? Well, a lot of people take credit for my appearance in the first Die Hard, but Larry Gordon was really the guy. He lobbied for me. And then got them to give me an outrageous sum of money for acting in the film.” It really was an outrageous sum of money. Willis was paid $5 million – more than almost any other leading man at the time. (Dustin Hoffman got $5.5 million for Tootsie, and Stallone got $12 million for Rambo III.) But multi-million dollar paychecks were usually reserved for only the biggest names in the business. Even then, the figures were only in the $2 or $3 million range. A TV actor getting this kind of payday sparked a legit panic among studios. In a New York Times article titled, “If Willis Gets $5 Million, How Much for Redford?,” writer Aljean Harmetz calls it “equivalent to an earthquake. The map of movie-star salaries must now be redrawn.” In response, Leonard Goldberg, president and chief operating officer of 20th Century Fox got a little testy. He told the New York Times for that article, ''Die Hard hinges on the lead. We had a very exciting script and a team of producers who delivered Predator and Commando. We reached out for Bruce Willis because we thought we had the potential of a major film which is a star vehicle.'' But even after all of that, the reason Willis could even take the role came down to his Moonlighting co-star, Cybill Shepherd. Shepherd announced that she was pregnant – and because the pregnancy couldn’t be written into the show, Moonlighting producer Glenn Caron put the show on hiatus and gave everyone 11 weeks off. At last, Die Hard had its star. Casting the villain to McClane’s hero was less fraught, but still a bit of a gamble. The role was originally offered to Sam Neill, but he turned it down. Then, in the spring of 1987, casting director Jackie Burch saw Alan Rickman playing the dastardly Valmont in the Broadway production of Dangerous Liaisons – a role which earned him a Tony Award nomination. Rickman was known for theater, but, at the age of 41, had never done a movie. When he was offered the role of Hans Gruber, his instinct was to turn it down. He didn’t want to be a terrorist in an action movie. Rickman said (no, I’m not even going to attempt doing Rickman’s voice here): "I didn’t know anything about L.A. I didn’t know anything about the film business… I’d never made a film before, but I was extremely cheap. I read [the script], and I said, 'What the hell is this? I’m not doing an action movie.' Agents and people said: ‘Alan, you don’t understand, this doesn’t happen. You’ve only been in L.A. two days, and you’ve been asked to do this film.'" Of course, in the end, Rickman accepted the role. Rounding out the cast were Bonnie Bedelia as John’s wife Holly, Reginald VelJohnson as Sergeant Al Powell, Paul Gleason as Deputy Police Chief Dwayne Robinson, William Atherton as reporter Richard Thornberg, James Shigeta as Joseph Takagi, De’voreaux White as limo driver Argyle, and a whole mess of big tall dudes as Hans’s gang of robbers. While Hans is supposed to be German, Alan Rickman is British, and his right hand man Karl, played by Alexander Gudunov, is Russian. The rest of the crew was portrayed as more… vaguely international. That’s because there were chosen more for their intimidating look and height – 9 of the 12 were over 6 feet tall. And they certainly didn’t speak German – most of what they said in “German” was pretty much gibberish. As a final bit of casting trivia, there are three Playboy Playmates in Die Hard. Kym Malin (May 1982) is the woman discovered having sex in the office when the terrorists arrive. Terri Lynn Doss (July 1988) is the woman who hugs someone at the airport. And Pamela Stein's November 1987 actual centerfold is the one on the wall of the under-construction building hallway. The set Speaking of the under-construction building hallway – we have to talk about the set. Now, back in 1975, Roderick Thorp saw the movie The Towering Inferno, and dreamed about a man running through a skyscraper chased by men with guns. It’s what led to the high-rise setting of Nothing Lasts Forever, and eventually Die Hard. If you’ll remember, the cover of the book, with the building on fire, was what convinced Lawrence Gordon to buy the rights, after all. Call it coincidence or good luck or a sign of things to come. But 20th Century Fox was just wrapping up construction on their new office building, a brown steel-and-glass building at 2121 Avenue of the Stars in Century City, which would be named Fox Plaza. Or, as we know it better: Nakatomi Tower. It was production designer Jackson De Govia’s idea to use the building as Die Hard’s location. Getting to use the building required extensive negotiations with Fox. They had to agree to no daytime filming, and no explosions (whoops). According to McTiernan, "We had to periodically run downstairs and apologize to the lawyer beneath us, saying 'we're about to fire machine guns; will you excuse us?'" The scene where the SWAT team’s armored vehicle knocks over a stair railing in the front of the building caused months of negotiations alone. But in the end, Die Hard got its location, and Fox not only got to showcase its shiny new headquarters – in fact, a lot of early promotional material featured only the building, and not Bruce Willis – but they charged themselves rent for the building’s use. That’s actually pretty common in the film industry. The bookkeeping in the movie business is… interesting. The interior of the building was still incomplete, so any shots you see of under-construction offices were actually shot in the unfinished parts of the building. Other sets were constructed at Stage 15 in the regular studio lot. Using the half-finished areas allowed McTiernan and cinematographer Jan De Bont to place fluorescent lights in the ground and have half-finished structures in the foreground. The maze-like feeling of the offices and hallways was deliberate. Jackson De Govia said, “When I first read the script, I saw a jungle maze. It reminded me of the book High Rise by J.G. Ballard, in which a modern building becomes a tribal battleground. I wanted to make a building where that kind of action could take place. When the building is a jungle, people revert to utter realism, which is savagery… There are entire sequences where McClane moves through the building not touching the floor, like a predator in a jungle.” Although you might think so with a quote like that, De Govia didn’t work on Predator with McTiernan. De Govia had previously worked on a variety of movies, including Red Dawn, so he did have some experience with everyday folks fighting terrorists… De Govia did carry a visual element from McTiernan’s Predator to Die Hard, though: both Schwarzenegger and Willis crawl through waterfalls during the action. You see, the lobby of the Nakatomi Corporation’s office is a dead-on copy of the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house Fallingwater, complete with stone walls and, uh, falling water. De Govia was inspired by Japanese corporations buying up American institutions – something that was freaking out Americans in the late 80s. He created a backstory where Nakatomi bought the actual house and had it reassembled in their lobby on the 30th floor of the building, waterfall and all. Directing style Now, putting McClane under waterfalls, into ventilation ducts and elevator shafts, under tables, and swinging him from firehoses certainly play to that guerilla-jungle spirit of Die Hard’s set. But the problem with a maze-like set is making sure the audience knows where everyone is, and where the action is taking place relative to the other players. Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, analyzed Die Hard for Rolling Stone magazine. He said, “John McTiernan’s direction is an amazing piece of intricate craftsmanship. What a lot of filmmakers have trouble communicating is a sense of geography. For instance, one floor of a building under construction looks a lot like any other floor. But McTiernan put in little things, like a Playboy centerfold hung up by a construction worker. At first it seems like a visual joke, but it’s really there to identify that floor, so when Willis encounters it again, the audience knows exactly where he is. Many directors also shoot action very sloppily – they shoot up close and cut around a lot and put in all these big noises to distract you. But in Die Hard, you know where every character is every second of the movie. Things are going by at a fast clip, but you’re never lost.” This kind of dynamic but geographically-clear directing was McTiernan’s signature style, already on display in his previous film, Predator, as Arnold and his crew battle a literally invisible alien in the South American jungle. McTiernan is known for helping the audience understand the relative locations of people and things within a space by using as few cuts as possible; instead, he keeps rolling as he pans the camera from something on one side of the room to the other side of the room. For example, in Die Hard, when the building’s alarm goes off and the henchman in the lobby acknowledges it, the camera moves from the alarm on the right to the henchman on the left, without cutting – just like you’re there yourself, turning your head to see. You can tell he’s sitting just to the side of the blinking alarm. Similarly, McTiernan will rack focus from something in the foreground to something in the background, or vice versa. Again, this creates a feeling of depth within a single shot and allows the viewer to follow where things are with their own eyes. It avoids confusion, and is in a way more efficient as you allow the audience to track things themselves instead of having to explain things every time. Connecting these shots with a moving camera also keeps things, well, moving. The camera roams around, taking in the shot in a natural way, the way your own eye would. The objects and people within the frame are arranged to guide your eye (and therefore the camera, as it mimics the movement of your eye) from one thing to the next, leading you to discover important clues to the story. McTiernan says, “The camera isn't just moving for the sake of keeping it moving. The camera is an active narrator in a thriller. The camera has to tell you how to evaluate every piece information you get and put it into context.” McTiernan was able to achieve this kind of visual storytelling with the work of his supremely talented cinematographer, Jan De Bont. De Bont was born in the Netherlands and had quite a body of work already; McTiernan was already fascinated by what was considered “European-style” camera movement, and had particularly admired De Bont’s work with director Paul Verhoeven in The Fourth Man. McTiernan was trained in this so-called “European style” of filmmaking, and it fits right in with what we’ve already discussed about his style. You see, not only do McTiernan (with De Bont) move the camera to naturally create a sense of geography, they also enhance emotion and tension with “unmotivated moves.” By moving the camera (tilting, panning) and zooming in on someone’s face, they heighten their expression. It’s just like when you’re in an uncomfortable or tense situation, and the first thing you do is look at everyone’s faces to understand how they’re reacting, so you can know how to react, too. Production Die Hard’s principal photography began on November 2, 1987. The film had a surprisingly low budget of $28 million – it’d more than double that for the sequel. Once everything was in place, things had to move fast – 20th Century Fox wanted to release the film the very next year. That lead to a lot of making shit up as they went. A lot. The script wasn’t even entirely done when they began shooting. The heart of John McClane was still a bit of a mystery. Sure, they knew Bruce Willis was not going to be playing McClane like he would have the hardened cop Joe Leland from Nothing Lasts Forever, but there was still something missing. It wasn’t until halfway through shooting that Willis and McTiernan realized that John McClane simply doesn’t like himself all that much. You know that moment where John argues with Holly in her office at the beginning of the movie, and he bangs his head on the doorframe after she walks out? That was a reshoot done way later, once they’d clued in to what makes McClane tick. McClane’s sarcastic humor was also the result of on-the-fly rewrites. Bruce Willis said about shooting, “I remember that the script was in flux. It would change and they would rewrite scenes and we would come in and there'd be new scenes. I'll give you an example. The second biggest line in Die Hard was 'Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs…' That line was written while I was in this mock-up of a ventilator shaft, trapped in there, I couldn't come out. In those days, a cell phone looked like a shoe box, they were enormous. And someone had to hand me a phone with Steven de Souza, the writer for the rewrites on Die Hard, and he'd tell me a line, they'd turn the camera on, we'd shoot it.” There’s some debate about whether or not the biggest line in the movie was the result of improv or not. In a 2013 interview with Ryan Seacrest, Willis said that “Yippee-kay-yay, motherfucker” was “just a throwaway. I was just trying to crack up the crew and I never thought it was going to be allowed to stay in the film.” Then again, writer Steven De Souza recalled the creation of that line a little differently. “Bruce and I grew up watching the same TV shows,” he said. “Roy Rogers used to say ‘Yippee ki yay, kids.’ So it had to become ‘Yippee ki yay, motherfucker’ in the movie. That line was from me. Whenever you think you’re writing a line that’s going to catch on, it never does. A lot of people, cough, Sylvester Stallone, cough, think they can invent them. The line you think is going to catch on never catches on and the audience decides what is the takeaway line.” Damn. De Souza shading both Willis and Stallone at the same time… Aspects of Alan Rickman’s Hans Gruber were yet to crystalize, too. The filmmakers wanted John and Hans to have a “mano a mano” meeting somehow, before the final showdown. When De Souza learned that Rickman could do a “good” American accent (which… No disrespect, but I think good is up for debate…), he put it together with the fact that up until this face to face meeting, John had only heard Hans, and speaking with a German accent, over the radio. So, Hans, searching for his detonators, runs into John… and pretends to be a hostage named Bill Clay who has slipped away. To stay on this scene for just a minute longer: there’s a bit of a “controversy” where it’s not explicitly explained how John figures out that Hans is only pretending to be a hostage. How would John know not to give Hans a loaded gun? Well, in an earlier scene that was cut from the final film, everyone in Hans’s gang synchronizes their watches – and they’re all wearing the same watch – something McClane, as a cop, would have noticed as he searched the bodies of the bad guys he’d already snuffed. Steven De Souza says, “When Bruce offers the cigarette to Alan Rickman, Bruce sees the watch. You see his eyes look at the watch. That's how he knows that he is one of the terrorists.” So supposedly this is some big plot hole caused by the cut scene. But if I can interject for just a second – and I can, it’s my podcast – I think that’s bullshit. It’s not a plot hole. We don’t need it spelled out for us how John figures out that Hans is one of the terrorists. John’s a cop, and clearly a good one – I mean, he’d survived that far into the movie, he’s gotta be pretty skilled. The audience can fill in that he caught something we didn’t. He can be smart; he can know things the audience doesn't know. He can notice the watches, or he can have a gut feeling, or he can just have the common sense to not hand a loaded gun to a perfect stranger in a really dangerous situation. Anyway. When it comes to plot holes, there is one in Die Hard that is easy to miss, but is, in fact, logically inconsistent. Up until two weeks before the end of shooting, filmmakers still didn’t know how the gang was going to try to escape. They decided that the gang’s plan would be to drive away through the chaos of the inevitable disaster scene in an ambulance that was hidden in the back of the box truck they used to drive into the building. Not a bad plan… Except for the part where they don’t bring the ambulance with them at the start of the movie. If you look at Hans and company arriving at Nakatomi Tower in their truck, you can see the truck is way too small to contain another vehicle… and besides, it’s not there behind the men as they wait to unload. Whoops. The stunts But then, we’re not coming to Die Hard to pick apart its continuity. We’re here for some action! Die Hard employed 37 stuntmen, under stunt coordinator Charlie Picerni. Stunt doubles were used for many of the action scenes – this is Die Hard, not Mission: Impossible, after all. Things always have the potential to go disastrously wrong, and there were a few on-set accidents, but fortunately none were too grave. When McClane goes down the ventilation shaft, you can see him fall – and that wasn’t on purpose. The stunt man was supposed to grab the very first ledge within the shaft, but he missed – and editor Frank Urioste kept his fall in the final film, cutting back to McClane catching himself on a ledge way below the one he was supposed to grab. One of Die Hard’s stunt performers is actually a Technical Academy Award-winner for his Decelerator System, which is a cable system that allows stunt performers to “fall” more safely from a higher height, and to be shot from any angle. Ken Bates explains his invention: “When we did Die Hard, I started using a device called a Descender, to do controlled falls. In other words, we do a controlled fall from anywhere up to 105 stories. The fall is controlled because you’re descending on a small cable. If the film is undercranked, it looks like you’re falling.” Bates clearly knew what he was doing with his Decelerator System, since he was the one who acted as Rickman’s stunt double during his fall from Nakatomi Tower. (He also doubled Bruce Willis when he leapt off the top of the building with a firehose.) Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman did perform a couple of stunts of their own. John McTiernan recalled, “The first time we got to the point in a scene where you would insert a stuntman, I told Bruce he would only have to take it up to here, and he then could go sit down. He said, ‘No, I want to do it.’ And all of a sudden, you saw that New Jersey street kid in him come out. It’s not that he did anything dangerous, but it was a side that he had not shown us before.” Bruce Willis explained why he was so game. “I think doing my own stunts whenever possible adds a lot to the production value of the film… John can get the camera close, because he doesn’t need to disguise the stuntman. But on a personal level, it satisfies the little boy who still lives in me who gets to shoot guns, kill the bad guys and be a hero while doing jumps and falls and swinging from ropes.” McClane famously ran around Nakatomi Tower without shoes on, but Bruce Willis got a little more protection. He was given a pair of rubber feet to wear – they make him look a little hobbit-like, since they had to slip on over his own feet. You can see them in the scene when McClane jumps off the edge of the roof as the FBI shoots at him from the helicopter. McTiernan and weapons specialist Michael Papac also dialed up the intensity of the stunt weapons for added realism. As in most movies, the firearms in Die Hard are real weapons that have been modified to shoot blanks. But these blanks were specially handcrafted by Pacpac. McTiernan wanted the muzzle flash to be exaggerated and the sound to be extra-loud. He got what he wanted, but not without a price. When McClane shoots a terrorist from underneath a conference table, the gun was in such close proximity to his unprotected ears that the bangs gave Willis permanent hearing loss. Willis said, “Due to an accident on the first Die Hard, I suffer two-thirds partial hearing loss in my left ear and have a tendency to say, ‘Whaaa?’” The deafening blanks got to Rickman, too. Every time he fired his gun, Rickman would flinch. McTiernan was forced to cut away from Rickman’s reactions so his expression wouldn’t be caught on film, but you can see one of them right after Hans shoots Takagi at the beginning of the movie. The most famous stunt in the movie is Hans Gruber’s fall from the window of Nakatomi Tower. We’ve already discussed how stuntman Ken Bates was able to pull off the actual fall, but it’s the beginning of the fall, where we see Hans’s shocked face in slow motion, that makes it so heart-stopping. That, of course, is actually Alan Rickman falling, although from not quite as high a height. "John McTiernan had to talk Alan into doing that shot because even stuntmen will generally not fall backwards – they like to see where they're going," said visual effects supervisor Richard Edlund. For Hans’s fatal fall, Alan Rickman was to be dropped from 25 feet in the air, with a blue air bag below him and a camera above him to capture his expression. The camera was shooting at 270 frames per second to capture Hans’s plummeting face at a rate ten times slower than normal. Rickman was understandably apprehensive about the stunt. It didn’t help that, legendarily, the crew told him they’d give him a countdown of three, two, one, go – and drop him on “Go” – and instead… they dropped him on one. Rickman wasn’t exactly happy with the crew for that surprise bit of acting motivation, but miraculously, they convinced him to do a second take. Ultimately, the crew’s prank (?) worked – the first take is the one you see in the film. Release and reception Die Hard wrapped in March 1988, just four months before the film was set to be released. As the filmmakers got to work on post-production, the studio did not exactly demonstrate a lot of faith in the film. As mentioned earlier, the early publicity didn’t even have Bruce Willis on it; the poster featured the Fox Plaza building as the star of the show. The advertising campaign for the film was short, too – especially by today’s standards. In contrast, I think I saw the trailer for Mission Impossible: Fallout in front of every movie I saw for at least two years before it was released! Everyone seemed worried. Test audiences rated the movie poorly, and “had no interest in seeing [Bruce Willis] dart around a skyscraper shooting terrorists.” The New York Times summer movie preview doubted Willis was “enough of a movie star to carry the film,” and Newsweek’s David Ansen was even more harsh, saying Willis was “the most unpopular actor ever to get $5 million for making a movie.” Film critic Roger Ebert gave it a mere two stars, and criticized the stupidity of the deputy police chief character, claiming that "all by himself he successfully undermines the last half of the movie." 20th Century Fox was convinced it had a flop on its hands. The movie was released on July 15th, 1988, in only 21 theaters in 20 cities, where it earned only $600,000 its first weekend. But then… audiences liked it. They loved it. They kept coming back. In the second week, the movie expanded to 1,200 theaters across the country. After Die Hard opened wide, it started out in third place at the box office, taking in $7 million. From there, strong word of mouth took it to the top, where it lived in the top five for ten weeks. It only dropped into sixth place in October. Die Hard finished its theatrical run with $83 million domestic and another $57 million worldwide – completely making up for that $5 million paycheck Bruce Willis got. It was the seventh-highest grossing movie of 1988. It also enjoyed a long, successful run on home video – something we’ll talk about later in this series. Not only was Die Hard a financial triumph, it received Oscar nominations for editing, visual effects, sound and sound editing. And it turned Bruce Willis into a star. The kind of star who’d later join Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone – the very action stars he essentially replaced – in opening up a chain restaurant themed on Hollywood celebrity. And so, that’s the story of how Die Hard got made. There are certainly parts I’ve missed, or pieces of the story that have changed over time. Filmmaking stories sometimes take on the quality of oral histories, especially when the resulting film becomes a legend. Throughout the rest of this podcast series, we’ll explore why Die Hard has become so celebrated among action movies, 80s movies, movies in general. I’m excited to invite you to the party with me. Come out to the show, we’ll get together have a few laughs… Anyway, thank you for joining me. Happy trails, and yippee-kai-yay, motherfuckers.
AMAZON PRIMEFighting Temptations (2003)Advertising executive Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding Jr.) loses his job and his girlfriend after his many lies about his background and education are discovered. Soon after, he returns to his small Georgia hometown to collect an inheritance from his Aunt Sally (Ann Nesby). To receive it, he must lead the church choir to victory in a gospel competition. With the help of childhood friend Lilly (Beyoncé Knowles), now a beautiful singer, Darrin gets the choir ready to perform.Ghostbusters (1984)After the members of a team of scientists (Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray) lose their cushy positions at a university in New York City, they decide to become "ghostbusters" to wage a high-tech battle with the supernatural for money. They stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, a doorway that will release evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters must now save New York from complete destruction.Ghostbusters II (1989)After saving New York City from a ghost attack, the Ghostbusters -- a team of spirit exterminators -- is disbanded for demolishing parts of the city during the battle. But when Ghostbuster Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) learns that spirits have taken an interest in his son, the men launch a rogue ghost-chasing mission. The quest quickly goes awry, landing them in court. But when the ghosts turn on the judge, he issues an order allowing the Ghostbusters to get back to work.Jerry Maguire (1996)When slick sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) has a crisis of conscience, he pens a heartfelt company-wide memo that promptly gets him fired. Desperate to hang on to the athletes that he represents, Jerry starts his own management firm, with only single mother Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) joining him in his new venture. Banking on their sole client, football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Jerry and Dorothy begin to fall in love as they struggle to make their business work.Big Top Pee-wee (1988)Playful Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) operates a fantastical farm with talking animals and hot-dog trees. One day, after a giant tornado hits, Pee-wee finds a circus has landed in his yard. He befriends the manager, Mace Montana (Kris Kristofferson), and develops a crush on a trapeze performer (Valeria Golino), even though he already has a fiancée (Penelope Ann Miller). Pee-wee tries to excite the town about the new circus, but most of the residents want it gone and harass Pee-wee because of it.What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother (Darlene Cates), who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio), who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen), Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky (Juliette Lewis).HULUAny Given Sunday (1999)Four years ago, DAmato's (Al Pacino) Miami Sharks were at the top. Now, his team is struggling with three consecutive losses, sliding attendance, and aging heroes, particularly 39-year-old quarterback Jack "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid). Off the field, DAmato is struggling with a failed marriage and estranged children, and is on a collision course with Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), the young president/co-owner of the Sharks organization.The Bone Collector (1999)Policewoman Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) is in hot pursuit of a serial murderer whose calling card is a small shard of bone extracted from each of his victims. Unable to decipher the cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, Amelia calls upon quadriplegic forensic criminology expert Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) to help. With Amelia acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together disparate clues, hoping they will learn who the next victim is.Sixteen Candles (1984)With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha (Molly Ringwald) faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake (Michael Schoeffling), but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, Samantha must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted (Anthony Michael Hall), the only boy in the school, unfortunately, who seems to take an interest in her.Unbreakable (2000)A security guard, having been the sole survivor of a high-fatality train crash, finds himself at the centre of a mysterious theory that explains his consistent physical good fortune. When news of his survival is made public, a man whose own body is excessively weak tracks him down in an attempt to explain his unique unbreakable nature.NETFLIXUnforgivenWhen prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald (Anna Thomson) is disfigured by a pair of cowboys in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, her fellow brothel workers post a reward for their murder, much to the displeasure of sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), who doesn't allow vigilantism in his town. Two groups of gunfighters, one led by aging former bandit William Munny (Clint Eastwood), the other by the florid English Bob (Richard Harris), come to collect the reward, clashing with each other and the sheriff.Groundhog DayA cynical TV weatherman finds himself reliving the same day over and over again when he goes on location to the small town of Punxsutawney to film a report about their annual Groundhog Day. His predicament drives him to distraction, until he sees a way of turning the situation to his advantage.The Breakfast ClubFive high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.ScarfaceAfter getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.Black PantherAfter the death of his father, T'Challa returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. When a powerful enemy suddenly reappears, T'Challa's mettle as king -- and as Black Panther -- gets tested when he's drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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In this podcast, Travis Dotson and Brit Rosso introduce the concept of the "Bad Apple" as it applies to the business of wildland fire. To do so, we take a close look at one of our heroes, Paul Gleason, and some decisions Paul made back in 2000 on a fire some of you may have never heard of. For more on the topics of Bad Apples, Paul Gleason, and this mystery fire, be sure to check out the Spring 2018 Issue of Two More Chains.
We're stuck in detention this week with John Hughes' 1985 cult classic teen dramedy The Breakfast Club. Starring Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, The Breakfast Club was a critical and commercial success upon its release, catapulting its cast to super stardom and earning itself a cult following along the way, but why?
Ali and Jon revisit another classic 80s comedy, 1983's Trading Places. Is it going to be problematic?* Jon attempts to understand how the final plan works. Ali attempts to understand why the 80s still hadn't figured out not to do blackface under any circumstances. Both want eggnog from Denholm Elliott.Trading Places was directed by Vic Morrow's murderer, and stars Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy, Paul Gleason, Belushi the Lesser, Former Senator Al Franken, and his much less controversial comedy partner, the late Tom Davis.*What do you think?
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My attempt to find some correlation between Die Hard and It's A Wonderful Life. They said it would be impossible, challenge accepted! John McClain, a New York cop visiting Los Angeles for the holidays stumbles upon a band of would-be terrorists who take over the building of his wife's employer. Only true fans consider Die Hard a Christmas movie. Headshots and maniacal Germans; it’s not exactly the true definition of a holiday movie. The movie is rated R but so is Love Actually and we love that raunch-laden film. Try to sell Diehard to a family undecided on what to watch after dinner and unwrapping present and you're sure to be outvoted and stuck with watching the same ol’ classics from the early age of black and white film. Classics such as A Christmas Carol (1938), Scrooge (1935), and A Miracle on 34th Street (1947) are the instant go to movies for the genre neutral family dynamics. These are grade A movies with wholesome storylines that really bring forth the true meaning of Christmas and goodwill to all humans. Not to be left off this list of ol' timely classics is It’s A Wonderful Life (1946). A film about a man, George Bailey played by James Stewart who had his lifelong dreams and ambitions derailed by his duty to family, friends, and an unpromising future. But besides the obvious differences of technicolor, guns, and Paul Gleason, Die Hard is no less the feel-good holiday movie of It’s a Wonderful Life and should be on the must-watch list of every family who celebrates Christmas. So, if you're the only hope standing between a boring evening of watching feel-good movies of the 1940's, I urge you to stick to your guns and put your foot on grandma's neck. Give that old gal a sip of whiskey and walk her to that favorite and have her enjoy some holiday action with Bruce Willis as the Cowboy Who Saves Christmas for all.
"When I was growing up, if we wanted a jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub." Eddie Murphy may have been a name on “Saturday Night Live” but he wasn't a film star. Luckily, when John Landis wanted to cast him as Billy Ray Valentine in Trading Places, Murphy had just appeared in 48 Hrs., proving he had the charisma for the big screen. Without that success, Paramount Pictures was unconvinced. But it worked out and young Murphy became box office gold. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we kick off 2017 with a series celebrating several of Murphy's 80s classic starting with Landis' 1983 film Trading Places. We talk about how we find the film hilarious but quite astute with its portrayal of the commodities market and how the story is equally relevant today as it was upon its release. We discuss some of the elements with which we struggle. We look at the comedy stylings Landis brought to the film, pulling from Laurel & Hardy, Preston Sturges, Mark Twain, even the Three Stooges. We look at the actors – including Dan Aykroyd, Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott and Paul Gleason – and what they bring to the table. And we revel in the wonderful score Elmer Bernstein adds to the film, bringing doses of Mozart's “The Marriage of Figaro” into the folds. It's a really fun film and a great way to celebrate both Christmas and New Year's. We have a great time discussing it so check the movie out then tune in to the show! Film Sundries Watch this film: iTunes • Amazon Script Transcript Original theatrical trailer Original poster artwork The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Flickchart Letterboxd Trailers of the Week Andy's Trailer: Alien: Covenant — "We've discussed this whole franchise on the show and likely will discuss this one at some point. There are definitely problems with some of the films, and I definitely had issues with Prometheus, but it's still an interesting entry as a prequel. Ridley Scott's newest entry looks like he's really amping things up some more and while I'm excited, I'm also hesitant to get too excited. Let's just say my curiosity is definitely piqued." Pete's Trailer: War for the Planet of the Apes — "Andy Serkis is back to not win an acting oscar because he's doing mo-cap I guess. The last Apes film ended up at 12 on our list, a solid showing for the Film Board's general bucket of crap. This one looks like more stops have been officially pulled, even if they've avoided pulling them all. And yes, they put the words of the film's title in Woody's mouth in this trailer: 15 demerits."
"When I was growing up, if we wanted a jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub." Eddie Murphy may have been a name on “Saturday Night Live” but he wasn’t a film star. Luckily, when John Landis wanted to cast him as Billy Ray Valentine in Trading Places, Murphy had just appeared in 48 Hrs., proving he had the charisma for the big screen. Without that success, Paramount Pictures was unconvinced. But it worked out and young Murphy became box office gold. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we kick off 2017 with a series celebrating several of Murphy’s 80s classic starting with Landis’ 1983 film Trading Places. We talk about how we find the film hilarious but quite astute with its portrayal of the commodities market and how the story is equally relevant today as it was upon its release. We discuss some of the elements with which we struggle. We look at the comedy stylings Landis brought to the film, pulling from Laurel & Hardy, Preston Sturges, Mark Twain, even the Three Stooges. We look at the actors – including Dan Aykroyd, Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott and Paul Gleason – and what they bring to the table. And we revel in the wonderful score Elmer Bernstein adds to the film, bringing doses of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” into the folds. It’s a really fun film and a great way to celebrate both Christmas and New Year’s. We have a great time discussing it so check the movie out then tune in to the show! Film Sundries Watch this film: iTunes • Amazon Script Transcript Original theatrical trailer Original poster artwork The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Flickchart Letterboxd Trailers of the Week Andy's Trailer: Alien: Covenant — "We’ve discussed this whole franchise on the show and likely will discuss this one at some point. There are definitely problems with some of the films, and I definitely had issues with Prometheus, but it’s still an interesting entry as a prequel. Ridley Scott’s newest entry looks like he’s really amping things up some more and while I’m excited, I’m also hesitant to get too excited. Let’s just say my curiosity is definitely piqued." Pete's Trailer: War for the Planet of the Apes — "Andy Serkis is back to not win an acting oscar because he’s doing mo-cap I guess. The last Apes film ended up at 12 on our list, a solid showing for the Film Board’s general bucket of crap. This one looks like more stops have been officially pulled, even if they’ve avoided pulling them all. And yes, they put the words of the film’s title in Woody’s mouth in this trailer: 15 demerits."
In this week's episode we celebrate Christmas by talking about our the most festive of Christmas films, Die Hard. A movie that has become a tradition to watch during the Yuletide Season. We are joined by regular guest Clive Ashenden, from The A-Z of SFF podcast, and screenwriter Stuart Wright, the host of the Britflicks podcast to discuss about what makes Die Hard such a great film. Movie Heaven Movie Hell is a show where filmmakers Simon Aitken (BLOOD + ROSES, POST-ITS, MODERN LOVE) and Keith Eyles (FEAR VIEW, DRIVEN INSANE, CROSSED LINES) go through the A-Z of directors. Simon and Keith talk about their favourite and least favourite film from that director's body of work. You listen to The A-Z of SFF and Britflicks on iTunes. You can follow Stuart Wright on Twitter at @Leytonrocks. Like our Facebook Fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/MovieHeavenMovieHell You can follow Movie Heaven Movie Hell on Twitter at @MovieHeavenHell You can find Simon Aitken's work at http://www.independentrunnings.com You can find Keith Eyles' work at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ4up3c883irE6oA2Vk0T7w
The 99% becomes the 1% and the 1% becomes the 99% in a comedy classic about seeing how the other half lives. Trading Places (1983) stars Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Paul Gleason and yes, fits our holiday theme criteria because we like to stay festive here on the Mothership. Join the Invasion of the Remake Podcast in discussing the financial themed comedy and remaking it in a strikingly similar, but very different modern world where the divide between the rich and the poor is greater than ever. Don't worry, we bring the funny too. Lots and lots of funny. Give the gift that keeps on giving, US, by telling your friends about the podcast and where to find us. iTunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Tune In Radio, Audioboom, BluBrry, Libsyn, YouTube and all the best podcast providers. Spread the love! You can also give us the best gift of all by leaving a positive review and a 5-star rating over iTunes. Naughty or nice, we want to hear from you. Your ratings and reviews help others find the show. There "earballs" will thank you. Follow us on Twitter: @InvasionRemake Like and share us on Facebook: Invasion of the Remake Email us your questions, suggestions, corrections, challenges and comments: invasionoftheremake@gmail.com Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Joyous Kwanzaa, Happy Hanukkah, Fictitious Festivus, and a wonderful Life Day if you live on Kashyyyk.
Ikke siden Jar Jar Binks i "The Phantom Menace" har en person i en film fået en podcaster så meget op i det røde felt i De Gnavne Filmnørders podcast. Vi har set 80er-filmen "The Breakfast Club", som mange husker med glæde. Det gør 50 % af DGFN også. Den anden halvdel af os havde enkelte små problemer med især en af personerne i filmen. Om det var Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson eller Paul Gleason: ja, det bliver åbenlyst meget hurtigt i vores podcast. Forvent at lytte til brok, arrighed, surhed, ærgrelser og ikke mindst en lillebitte smule had, efterfuldt af et svagt glimt af lys og håb for enden af tunnellen, i vores snak om "The Breakfast Club". God fornøjelse.
A Vakfolt podcast első évadjának második adásában John Hughes Nulladik óra (The Breakfast Club) című 1985-ös filmjéről beszélgetünk. A főszereplők Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy és Anthony Michael Hall. Az adás egy három epizódos tematikus blokk első felvonása. Linkek David Blum cikke a New Yorkerben a Brat Packről. Atomic Robo képregény A Hamilton musical szereplőinek előadása a Fehér Házban. (Ráadás: Obama és Lin-Manuel Miranda közös freestyle-produkciója.) Vakfolt címke a Letterboxdon András a Twitteren: @gaines_ Péter a Twitteren: @freevo Emailen is elértek bennünket: feedback@vakfoltpodcast.hu A főcímzenénket és a végefőcímünket az Artúr zenekar szerezte, akiket megtaláltok a Facebookon és a Twitteren is.
This week, we’re watching TRADING PLACES, directed by John Landis and starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliot, and Paul Gleason.The usual bet? Prepare to commit MASS MOVIECIDE!
Título original Die Hard Año 1988 Duración 131 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Director John McTiernan Guión Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza (Novela: Roderick Thorp) Música Michael Kamen Fotografía Jan De Bont Reparto Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Reginald Veljohnson, Paul Gleason, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush, Wilhelm von Homburg Productora 20th Century Fox Género Acción. Thriller | Terrorismo. Secuestros / Desapariciones Sinopsis En lo alto de la ciudad de Los Ángeles, un grupo terrorista se ha apoderado de un edificio tomando a un grupo de personas como rehenes. Sólo un hombre, el policía de Nueva York John McClane (Bruce Willis), ha conseguido escapar del acoso terrorista. Aunque está solo y fuera de servicio, Mc Clane se enfrentará a los secuestradores. Él es la única esperanza para los rehenes.
Original Air Date: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. On the final WHM Summer Rerun of 2014, the guys look back at one of the all-time fan favorite episodes on Ewoks: The Battle for Endor! This show marks the first appearance of Wilford Brimley on WHM and is the second of three times the guys have ventured into the Star Wars universe. Brimley hates that rabbit. The rabbit hates Brimley. The guys don't entirely hate the movie. Ewoks: The Battle for Endor stars Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, Aubree Miller, Siân Phillips, Carel Struycken and Paul Gleason; directed by Jim & Ken Wheat.
Greg and Rob discuss: Celebrity deaths (Paul Gleason and Aaron Spelling), What Ever Happened To? (Jason Priestley), a Jerry Lewis update, Louie Anderson's surgery, Jaleel White's rumored suicide, the Paunch bad luck (Lewis, Louie, etc.), trying to watch Tom Green's new show, an Eliza Dushku update, and LoveFilm.com's poll of the most irritating film characters. 24 minutes - www.paunchstevenson.com
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