On today’s podcast adventure, Adolfo and Mark discuss the 1957 David Lean classic: THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI!
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On this week’s show:
- Mark takes another EPIC trip to Alamo Drafthouse
- Mark’s retweet from an 80’s icon
- Jelly donuts
- Toy guns
- Korean exercise videos
- 2017 Summer Movies
- Adolfo is done with Minions
- Adolfo butchers Japanese and French
- The benefits of Netflix Disc subscription
- The slow start to Bridge
- The David Lean Trilogy
- Why William Holden was cast
- William Holden’s record breaking salary
- Why Alec Guinness thought the film was Anti-British
- Why Adolfo trusts Alec Guinness without question
- The anti-Japanese sentiment of the film
- Does the film romanticize the building of the bridge?
- The central conflict of Col. Nicholson
- Major Shears’ redemption
- Jack Hawkins: Bad Ass
- Building an actual bridge for the film
- Mark makes a Simpsons reference (SHOCKING)
- Nicholson’s ambiguous finale
- Women Bearers!
- The hokey final words
- The Hollywood Blacklist rears its ugly head
- Masterful editing for the climax of the film
FILM REFERENCES IN THIS EPISODE:
- THE GENERAL (1926)
- BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945)
- OLIVER TWIST (1948)
- WINCHESTER ‘73 (1950)
- SUNSET BLVD. (1950)
- STALAG 17 (1953)
- PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
- SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959)
- SPARTACUS (1960)
- WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
- LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
- THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)
- THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964)
- THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY (1965)
- DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
- BATMAN: THE MOVIE (1966)
- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
- THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
- THE LOSERS (1970)
- JAWS (1975)
- NETWORK (1976)
- ZOMBI (1979)
- APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
- MANIAC (1980)
- AIRPLANE! (1980)
- AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1982)
- A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984)
- BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
- FULL METAL JACKET (1987)
- TOP GUN (1987)
- BATMAN (1989)
- PACIFIC HEIGHTS (1990)
- HEARTS OF DARKNESS (1991)
- TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
- FORREST GUMP (1994)
- INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)
- MEN IN BLACK (1997)
- ALI (2001)
- HITCH (2005)
- THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS (2006)
- I AM LEGEND (2007)
- THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012)
- THE AVENGERS (2012)
- INTERSTELLAR (2014)
- JUPITER ASCENDING (2015)
- MINIONS (2015)
- FURIOUS 7 (2015)
- STRANGER THINGS [Netflix Series] (2016)
- TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT (2017)
- PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (2017)
- COLOSSAL (2017)
- LUCKY (2017)
- DUNKIRK (2017)
- ATOMIC BLONDE (2017)
- SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING (2017)
- WAR OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (2017)
- THE EMOJI MOVIE (2017)
- ANNABELLE CREATION (2017)
- THE DARK TOWER (2017)
- VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS (2017)
- BABY DRIVER (2017)
LINKS:
- The Losers (1970) - Trailer
- GI Joe Commercial
- Paths of Glory (1957) - Trailer
- Nancy Sinatra “These Boots Are Made for Walking”
- R. Lee Ermey
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