Oct 9, 2017
Movie Meltdown - Episode 413
This week we are coming to you "live" from The Kentucky
Theater for the kick-off of Harry Dean Stanton Fest
and the red carpet premiere of Lucky. And we are glad to
welcome this week's special guest John Carroll
Lynch, an impressive actor in his own right as well as the
director of Lucky. We also discuss Fargo,
Zodiac, The Invitation, The Founder, the
disenfranchisement of America and the real reason people are
joining cults.
And as we get caught in an elaborate Rube Goldberg plot, we also
bring up... Frances McDormand, throwing dinner rolls, the American
success story, flashing it's beautiful lights, to play the whale to
his Ahab, the wife monologue, Grumpy Old Men, an otherworldliness,
our sense of drama, Marilyn Manson, a day or so of his regular
life, The Sopranos,matching your story to the appropriate format,
maintaining their chapterness, he plays with a lot of sentiment in
his movies... and yet there's always this fist that hits you right
in the face, Saving Mr. Banks, David Lynch, The Wire, it's funny
how it gets its hooks in you, the pure dark heart of capitalism,
face to face and moment to moment, everytime I say that line I get
goosebumps, Norm Gunderson, Partly Fiction, The Biograph and the
Bluebird, it's a search not a question, The Path, it never loses
its humanity as dark as it gets, it goes off the rails, John Lee
Hancock, a really complicated acting problem, David Fincher, Bug,
the interior journey, American Horror Story, the rhythm of the
words that he's creating, there is no debate, The Man in the High
Castle, a response to our echo chambers, there is no rod and staff,
playing 50 in your mid-20's, Joel and Ethan Coen, how do you
address those things in a way that can change minds, football vs.
theater, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Michael Keaton,
he does what most people want to do... and can't, that's his
guiding principle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, I'd lost my taste for
that individual sense of violence, the choice of living... in the
valley of the shadow of death, Nick Offerman, nostalgic and creepy
all at the same time, Twin Peaks and the Speedee System.
"I think that, over the course of time, if you're fortunate
enough to work, you slowly begin to realize, it's not about you -
at all."
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word with #LuckyFilm
For more info on Harry Dean Stanton Fest, go to: harrydeanstantonfest.org